#( about && hudson mcqueen. )

[roe-and-memory]

i think doc sometimes tells lightning that during training he can talk about dinosaurs all he wants. it’s the easiest way to get him motivated to practice AND its the biggest autism moment ever. allowing his beast of a 19 year old son to talk about dinosaurs freely for an extended period of time while ALSO driving around? its lightnings DREAM. doc takes it super seriously too. he sits in the passenger seat of the practice car and takes down notes in his notebook, gives his kid his full attention, and mentally applauds himself for saving cal and bobby 3 hours of their time listening to their friend talk about jurassic park.

lightning spends the whole practice time just. not paying attention to the road? he could drive blindfolded if he really had to, he knows the track around willy’s butte like the back of his hand, but also doc is shocked that one person can talk so much and pay attention to the road so little, yet still not crash the car. lightning just loves infodumping you cant blame him!!!

#cars 2006 #lightning mcqueen #cars fandom #cars headcanons #memory’s headcanons #doc hudson #guys trust me hes autistic #just like me fr #i fucking love dinosaurs #pixar knew what they were doing when they canonically made him love dinosaurs #there is nothing neurotypical about that boy

[planerot]

Radiator Spring residents ranked on how trustworthy they are in the kitchen

(All these are intended to be humanized headcanons, but can be interpreted however you like. Also, quick content warning for food and a brief allusion to mold)

Flo - She literally owns a diner, (I did some googling and turns out, even though it's called Flo's V8 café, it's a diner. The disneyland website describes the IRL version in car's land as a 'Route 66-inspired diner' ) she makes the best food in town no questions asked. She's the one who makes everyone in Radiator Springs their birthday cakes and dinners each year, and has their favorite flavors and foods memorized by heart. If she catches wind that someone in town in feeling under the weather, that person will have a big pot of soup delivered to their doorstep before the end of the day. She is also very good about keeping her workspaces extremely clean due to the health and safety standards that come with running a diner. 10/10, she is the best by a very large margin.

Doc Hudson - During Doc's earlier years, back when he was still racing, he was a very mediocre cooking. He made stuff that was incredibly bland, boring, stupid easy, or a combination of all three. After his accident and moving to Radiator Spring, he was kind of forced to learn to make more interesting meals after eating nothing but mac and cheese, sandwiches, breakfast foods and other such things for a month straight and growing positively sick of it (because we all know his self isolating ass would NOT want to accept any invites to eat or, god forbid, risk accidentally socializing while at Flo's when he was fresh off a life changing crash). He, overtime, forced himself to learn how to actually cook and thus accidentally became one of the most talented cooks in Radiator Springs, second only to Flo.

Guido - He spent a lot of time in a tightknit, small Italian village, living with Mama Topolino, I feel it's very likely he picked up some tips, tricks and recipes during his time there. The vast majority of what he knows how to make is Italian food, but so long as he has a recipe, I think he could make anything.

Luigi - Basically the same as Guido. Only reason I put him below Guido is because he doesn't have the basically super human reflexes and motor control Guido has, thus making him more prone to spills and mess in the kitchen.

Red - The issue with writing any headcanons for Red is that he's more a gag then an actual character. I did a bunch of digging on his wiki page and all of it can be summed up to 'He likes flowers, is a firefigher and incredibly sensitive'...so I worked with that best I could. I think he'd be pretty decent at cooking since firefighters usually take turns cooking for their team, so anyone in that career usually has to learn to cook something actually edible. Red likely learnt how to cook during his very early days of firefighting before he moved to Radiator Springs. His dishes are definitely simpler, but that doesn't mean he can't make some very tasty, filling dishes. He takes enjoyment in serving his food to others and absolutely will burst into tears if someone insults his cooking.

Lizzie - Lizzie is the stereotypical baker grandma. A lot of the recipes she makes are pretty old, but that doesn't make them damn tasty. Her memory issues make baking a bit harder, but she still manages just fine. Baking helps keep her up and moving, even if it's only in her kitchen

Sally - She's never really had a knack for cooking and does her best from what people have taught her through the years. She can make a lot of really good pasta dishes, but other then that she doesn't really excel at anything.

Sheriff - Incredibly average. He's more the type to get food from Flo's or buy prepacked stuff then he is the type to actually make himself anything. When he does actually bother, all the stuff he makes is pretty good but absolutely nothing to write home about. He's more the type of person someone asks to pick up groceries for a meal then actually make the meal.

Fillmore - 100% more a baker then a cook. He first picked up baking to make weed brownies and ended up really enjoying the whole process. His recipes are very hit or miss though since he likes trying to make his desserts more healthy in some way. Sometimes this means they just taste a little off, and sometimes this means they taste like he just tossed sugar and cocoa powder in a bowl with some dried hay and baked it. He is also a hazard in a kitchen since he sometimes he gets munchies while high and will completely forget stuff in the oven, thus leading to multiple fire alarm scares.

Ramone - God bless his heart, but this man can barely cook. Flo has tried to teach him, but he just cannot seem to quite get it, often burning things, adding to much seasoning or accidentally forgetting ingredients. He loves spending time with Flo in the kitchen, so he gets relegated to vegetable peeling or pot stirring, which he very happily does because it means he gets to hang out with his amazing wife. The one thing he does excellent at is decorating. It took him a couple tries to get the technique down, but he is an amazing cake decorator, his years of painting cars meaning he has a scarily steady hand and very keen artistic eye. Flo always lets him decorate the cupcakes/cakes when she makes them for people's birthdays and they always turn out gorgeous.

Sarge - The issue with Sarge is that he refuses to toss anything out. He isn't good at cooking at all. That man does not give a shit how black his scrambled eggs are or how his chicken wings could probably be used as bricks, he will eat them. Whenever someone asks why he eats obviously terrible food, he just says something about how this is nothing compared to how terrible food was in the military. He's grown an iron stomach and hates wasting food even when it would probably be better for his health just to toss out the suspiciously fuzzy loaf of bread.

Lightning - He has mostly lived his adult life living off of fast food, microwave dinners, canned soup and whatever he can eat when people invite him over for dinner. He could probably be a very competent chef if he was taught how to, but he is a bit to embarrassed to admit it to someone else.

Mater - Do not let him near a kitchen he WILL burn it down. For the love of god he is clumsy as fuck and will somehow seriously injure himself or anyone if left to his own devices. He likes the idea of cooking for himself and his friends, but in practice it usually ends with either a fire, a hospital visit, or some horrid combination of both.

#god this is such a long post sorry about any typos #it's a bit hard to proofread a post this large #flo #doc hudson #guido #luigi #red #lizzie #sally carrera #sheriff #fillmore #sarge #lightning mcqueen #mater #pixar cars #cars fandom

[jackalsprey]

Yeah, sexy ships are great. Healthy cute ships are awesome. Ships that are both are the best.

But then there's those father-son relationships that seem incredibly antagonistic and like they low-key hate each other, but they actually have a lot of love for each other and help each other out and force them to take care of themselves by insulting them ("Jesus Christ, you reek, go take a shower" and "When the hell is the last time you ate something other than that shit? I don't buy groceries for nothing") and are just - "look, I may not always act like it, but you are my dad/son and I'll do anything for you. You can go fuck yourself though."

#tf2 #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #one piece #sanji vinsmoke #one piece sanji #one piece zeff #red-foot zeff #lightning mcqueen #doc hudson #pixar cars #DOC AND LIGHTNING #SANJI AND ZEFF #SCOUT AND SPY #YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

[memoryhallows]

i know literally nobody asked but i need to talk about something i find very Odd with the cars fandom here on tumblr

and that is - your use of real life people in the cars universe.

darrell and bob are fine, theyre actually canon and important to the storyline (but its best to keep in mind that they have very specific and prominent real life counterparts which you should obviously be very conscious about when headcanoning and writing)

but where my issue comes in is how some of you treat dale jr’s cameo in cars as if it was gospel, and how it somehow means to you people that dale sr was not only in the cars universe - but also died in the cars universe.

i personally dont see junior in the cars universe, i think it was a silly little cameo and thats it. i dont think its appropriate to write about real life people.

especially, when Some of you (i wont name names), actually WRITE FANFICS ABOUT DALE SR’S DEATH. THAT IS WEIRD. i dont think you guys understand how strange that is, to be writing about a real mans tragic death for an animated movie that his SON made a CAMEO in. this seriously rubs me the wrong way, do you not SEE how strange that is??? a real life human being lost his life racing and some of you are using it as a chance to WRITE a FANFICTION about how it affected the “piston cup racers”.

there have been.. so many moments in the history of nascar that you could be writing about that dont involve a real human being getting killed, why is this specific one the one that so many of you fixate on? stop headcanoning real people. keep sr out of your headcanons because why are we all of a sudden so casual about putting random situations and experiences on real man that died 😭 that is such odd behaviour 😭

plus i dont think many of you realize the effects this had on not only his family, but his fellow racers — one racer and his entire family was quite literally sent DEATH THREATS for “killing” him. its a horrible situation that you should NOT be writing about.

#cars 2006 #pixar cars #cars 2 (2011) #cars 3 (2017) #lightning mcqueen #doc hudson #sally carrera #like im sorry this was so unprompted but i cannot stay silent about this anymore some of yall r Weird #like please think about what youre doing for a second before you go start writing about shit like that #it is ODD AND STRANGE.

[champmorado]

IM LOSING MY MIND

doc hudson and lightning mcqueen matter SOOOO much to me,,,,, the found family father-son of all time ever

#THE LETTERS ALL BEING ABOUT MCQUEEN.... DOC BEING HAPPIEST WHEN HE WAS TRAINING MCQUEEN.... #WHAT IF I EXPLODED #i kinda hate my dad lol so i just cling onto fictional father-son duos #pixar cars #cars fandom #doc hudson #hudson hornet #lightning mcqueen

[martianbugsbunny]

Love this scene because it shows that while Lightning is cocky, he’s not lazy about his craft. He’s an asphalt racer; he’s not going to be staking his career on dirt tracks, but he’s still been out there all night trying to figure out how to take the turn the way Doc did.

#lightning is the character ever #in the 90th percentile for personal growth and meaningful progress #he is such a slay #also the way he fanboys about doc is so cute #but the way he doesn't just idolize doc he actually gives a darn about him once he understands? #hello??? #their mentor-protege/father-son relationship is everything to me!!! #lightning mcqueen #doc hudson #cars #pixar #disney

[disneyprincessabby]

So I just noticed something

In Cars the tie-breaker is at the Los Angeles International Speedway, which is also the same track McQueen crashed on in Cars 3…

I doubt it means anything but it’s a little after midnight and I’m starting to over analyze the movies again 😅

#lightning mcqueen #pixar cars #jackson storm #sally carrera #doc hudson #cruz ramirez #cars #cars 3 #cal weathers #cars fandom #strip weathers #sarge #disney #mater #sheriff #coincidence?? #maybe #idk man #it’s late I should be asleep #but instead I’m overthinking about cartoon cars

[thedragonemperess]

Sheriff really went "I can fix him" and Lightning really went "I can make him worse" and for some reason I am 100% sure it was actually the other way around

#marankton speaks because why not #cars stuff #cars movies #pixar cars #sheriff cars #lightning mcqueen #this post is about doc hudson btw

[abvndonedbydisney]

[ lando norris, cis man, he/him. ] ✧･ﾟ is that [ HUDSON MCQUEEN ] who just stumbled into town? rumour has it that they’re the [ TWENTY-ONE ] year old child of [ LIGHTNING AND SALLY ] from [ CARS ]. i’ve also heard that they’re [ DARING ] but [ COCKY ] and have [ 1 ] sibling. i could almost swear i heard [ FERRARI - JAMES HYPE ] playing when they appeared.

full name: hudson mcqueen.

nicknames: none.

gender: cis man.

pronouns: he/him.

sexuality: bisexual.

age: twenty-one.

date of birth: october 9th.

zodiac sign: libra.

aesthetics: tbd.

parents: lightning mcqueen and sally carrera.

siblings: one open sibling spot.

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘.

the world would one day know hudson mcqueen’s name, that was one thing he was sure of. he was born to famous racecar lightning mcqueen and sally carrera, the two decided to name their son after doc hudson. he grew up in radiator springs and was extremely close to the other children of the cars there. life was a bit on the slow side save for the times he would watch his father or tourists would come through their little town. hudson ended up spending a lot of his time re-watching old races and spending time racing himself through the bluffs, this passion for racing easily sparking up. his parents were a bit apprehensive when he told them that he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, but they supported him no matter what.

following in his father’s footsteps, he was able to get his foot in the door to the world of racing due to who he was the child of. but even though he was essentially a nepotism baby, he was pretty damn good at racing. he loved the thrill of racing, but the most addictive feeling was the joy and exhilaration he would feel after winning a race. it was easily one of the best things in the entire world. he ended up making a name for himself as a rookie in his career, even breaking some of the records that were set by his father. while he felt like everything was going his way and he enjoyed racing in america, his true dream was to eventually be able to race in the european circuit. even though it felt like a lofty dream for a while, he ended up lucking out.

through connections he made back home through luigi and guido, he ended up obtaining a sponsorship with ferrari and ended up getting whisked away to europe. the dream he thought was impossible was becoming a reality. although amid all his wins, he started to become a bit self-absorbed and cocky. it was difficult not to allow all the newly garnered attention and fame to go straight to his head, almost as if he had learned absolutely nothing from the stories he heard about his father’s early career. but despite the change in his attitude, he always found time to return to radiator springs in his off-season. it was the one place that truly grounded him. he did everything he could to share his wealth and time with the people who always believed in him before he became a famous race car.

𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.

kids of mater.

kids of ramone and flo.

his sibling who he has always been extremely close to.

#seperate.intro #( about && hudson mcqueen. )

[roe-and-memory]

i really love thinking about the potential of lightnings childhood. we have no idea what happened, but its up for interpretation, and i think thats great.

neglect - a common headcanon - seems to make so much sense for him. he hates help, he hates being told what to do, but also hes so lonely and in such desperate need of approval and validation that he’ll take the harshest words as long as theyre coming from someone who, at the end of the day, will give him at least one pat on the back for doing something right.

i think this, as we all know, is a major part of his character, but the idea of doc, taking this kid thats been so awfully treated his entire life - who isnt used to affection or any kind of positive attention, who hates being bossed around because he thinks he knows better and can be trusted more than other people would - and essentially finding a midway point so he can be lightnings crew chief in a way that both introduces the idea of gentle help (telling him when to pit, etc etc) and doesnt infringe on lightnings fear? hatred? of being told what to do and how to do it? its perfect. it introduces to this kid with severe abandonment issues the idea of sometimes needing or even just wanting help, and helps him change for the better without forcing him to immediately conform to the idea that oh, he HAS to need help.

lightnings previous crew chiefs are so much different than doc, because while doc takes the time to get to know lightning, to discuss ways they can work together to get around these issues he has while also being able to enforce proper rules within the sport, his crew chiefs before never did this. they didnt get to know him personally, they didnt care. they just knew he didnt listen and had a flaring temper, and it was never really that fair to lightning that they didnt give him a chance. obviously, not all blame is on them, because as much as they didnt put the effort in to find a groove that worked for their driver, he also didnt try to put this effort in (although, really, as an 18 year old with issues surrounding this job that are KNOWN it was never really his job to be the one to initiate finding a solution - hell, he probably didnt even know what the issue was.), he was ALSO the one to fire these people, so they’re both at fault for this in a way.

but, again, i love thinking about this whole childhood thing because not only is doc opening up the help that lightning was always consistently refused to the point he believed he just didnt need it - that all those times he wanted help when he was young was really just him being dramatic - but hes also opening up the option for Family that lightning never had either. doc takes all the awful morals that lightning taught himself (or that harv taught him) because he had no one to teach him the true ones, and flips them around. he becomes the father lightning never had and the guidance that no one had ever given him. god i love found family guys theyre literally father and son

also nobody imagine how silly the first time doc ever ruffles his silly ass sons hair is. lightning freezing because oh, no ones ever done that before, and doc being like ? how badly do i need to kick the shit out of your parents? that is like the most average father appreciation Ever wdym ur dad didnt do that to you at least Once.

#cars 2006 #cars fandom #lightning mcqueen #pixar cars #cars headcanons #memory’s headcanons #cars 3 (2017) #doc hudson #i could talk about them for HOURS #pixar making a canon father and son found family is the best thing to ever happen to me #like they knew.. they knew im insane #i went from being an angst writer to a hurt/comfort writer #found family changes a man

[argumentativeaxolotl]

Random Human AU Cars headcanons that probably don’t make any sense before I go to bed bc I can.

Lightning McQueen:

- Has accidentally called Doc “dad” before

- Has accidentally called Strip “dad” as well

- Bro can literally not stop moving- like he will not sit still and he tries so hard

- He has the shortest attention span ever if it doesn’t have to do with his friends or racing

- He actually really enjoys American Football and plays a modified version with Mater sometimes

- He was an orphan growing up

- Bro would 100% go apeshit feral if he lost a game of Uno

- Loves carnivals

- Dog person

- Forgets he’s rich sometimes and he can make his own decisions about money

- His love language is hugs and gifts

- He bought the Hot Wheels of his car and continues to buy every variation

Chick Hicks:

- Bit other kids as a child

- Filled water guns with lemonade and shot at people’s eyes

- Daddy issues(actually this is canon isn’t it?)

- Cat person

- Frighteningly good at card games like Casino “house always wins” levels of good. Like bro will somehow know what your cards are without even looking at them

- He put rocks in snowballs

- Alcoholic

- Loves anything horror, gorey, and True Crime

- He’s notoriously bad at getting people gifts, like seriously bro is not allowed to buy anything for anyone for Christmas or their birthdays that’s how bad it is(someone usually gets it for him)

- He probably has a huge gambling problem

- His love language is giving gifts

- He gives gifts as a form of apology because he’s shit at words

- Literally the best mustache in all of cars- like he keeps that thing at top condition 101% of the time

- He never actually finished school because his dad forced him into racing as soon as he could

- Probably had rabies at one point and somehow survived

- If you somehow manage to become a good friend of his, he’ll actually be super chill w/ you

- Rich as FUCK

Strip Weathers:

- Legally adopted Cal after his parents passed away(or sumn idk)

- Has several scars on his arm from the crash during the tie-breaker race

- He, Tex, Lynda, and Cal were practically inseparable after the crash

- He and Tex are literally the bestest of buds like they are homies to the MAX

- He doesn’t hold any ill-will against Chick even if he should and is allowed to

- The “Boy Scout” of racing(think Superman or Captain America)

- He listens to “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X while working with his horses. Cal cringes every time.

- He never swears unless he’s serious about something or is extremely upset or concerned

- He almost fainted when he met Doc for the first time, almost immediately asking for an autograph

- He has a ranch full of horses and enjoys horse racing as well as car racing

- Received an apology gift of both cologne and a miniature trophy from Chick

- He let Chick sign his cast after the crash

- He’s tried to teach Lightning and Bobby how to ride horses with Cal’s help. It did not go well

- He wanted to be a doctor for a little while before switching career paths

- Racing is literally in his blood(he comes from a very VERY long line of racers)

- Weirdly good at writing. Like for no reason.

- He heavily fanboyed over Doc when he was younger

Doc Hudson:

- He loves Lightning as his son

- He thinks of Sally as a surrogate daughter

- Unironically says “back in my day” whenever he’s telling a story

- He owns a shotgun and it’s hidden away in his house, far away from Lightning(who keeps trying to find it with no luck)

- He knows the most shit out of everyone and all their backstories. Bro hears the gossip and goes “nice”

- He loves watching fruit dissection videos on YouTube for some reason

- Bro is great at knitting. Like seriously. Give him ten seconds and you’ll have a whole ass sweater with a theme and everything

- He is an alcoholic(especially after his crash)

- Never got married or had children… until Lightning and Sally lmaooo

- He nearly started crying tears of joy when Lightning called him dad the first time

- He has several large burns and scars on his legs and lower back from the crash(like shit is really bad dude)

- His favorite movie is the original ghost busters

- He is a cat person

- He is a neat freak at heart yet gave up trying to clean out his garage because of all the bad memories

#cars 2006 #human lightning mcqueen #humanized cars #chick hicks #headcanon #lightning mcqueen headcanon #chick hicks headcanon #humanized chick hicks #doc hudson #strip weathers #humanized strip weathers #humanized doc Hudson #headcanons #humanization #I’m really tired lmao #it’s like 1 am #i’m very tired #lmaooo

[mistahsaumi]

Cars AU idea

So i just had this idea pop in my head a few days and i need to get it out before it rots me any further

I was thinking about how despite knowing everyone in Radiator Springs for a few days, Lightning still grew really attached to everyone (Specially Mater, Doc and Sally) and afterwards they're basically his found family for the rest of the franchise, then i thought, what would have happened if he arrived to Radiator Springs earlier than 2006, what if a 13 yr old Montgomery McQueen- was raised by the RS Townies?

So one of my headcanons for Lightning is that his parents weren't the greatest, not abusive but more neglectful, dad was always traveling for work and while his mom was there, she never really gave him the love and care she was supposed to. It's also why i think he's so indulging in the fast life in the first movie is because the whole world loves him and everyone's eyes are on him, but he still desires love and friendships that are more personal rather than just distant admiration.

So one night, Monty just decides to drives away from home, and drives with no sense of direction, just anywhere, and then ends up in Radiator Springs almost the exact way he does in canon, getting chased by Sheriff, knocking everything in sight, he doesn't destroy the road, but he's much more panicked because he's in his adolescence and his flight instincts are so high, and he gets more hurt by the barbed wire because his body isn't as strong yet.

Then after, the townies realize that the car that tore thorough town was just a kid, and start to wonder what could have happened for him to end up here of all places, and they notice that he's hurt. While Sheriff does insist to put him in the impound, he eventually relents and brings the boy to Doc to check on him.

And then from there on, the familial bonding begins, it is a bit rocky at first cause let's be honest if an adult Lightning was a bit hard to connect to, then a growing pains one would probably be just as, if not more difficult, and he wouldn't be all that open initially, but they get to connect regardless. His relationships with the townies would be about the same as in canon, and Mater would have the role more akin to a crazy uncle or elder brother rather than a best friend, but their companionship is all the same, with the exception of Doc and Sally.

Doc wouldn't resent Monty at all because he isn't a racer yet, and would take on the role of a father figure for Monty much earlier, he does have some reservations about his dreams of becoming a PIston Cup racer due to his trauma, but he relents and teaches him after he spots the boy failing the turn at Willy's Butte. During one lesson, Monty lets it slip out about how his dream of racing was the only thing keeping him going and opens up about his past, and in turn Doc opens up about his past as the Fabulous Hudson Hornet as well, and they grow much closer as father and son after.

As for Sally, when they first meet, it'd kinda be how Stanley met Lizzie in Time Travel Mater (Monty sees Sally break down, he along with Mater help to bring her into town, and they form a bond.) initially the roles for both of them are reversed, Monty is kind of the one to show Sally what life outside of the fast lane is like. (It is unclear when Sally first arrived in Radiator Springs, but i'm going to assume she arrived in like 02 or 03,) They would also connect due to their similar pasts, running away from their previous life and ending up here, and eventually they would start dating. The entire town teases Monty for it and make jokes about how he's growing up so fast and how he'll be married eventually, he doesn't''t mind at all. Because he's truly happy

Then when the time comes for Monty to go to the Fast Track Racing Academy, he promises to everyone that when he goes big, he'll find a way to put the town back on the map. When he's at the acadmey, he makes sure to call his family when he can, and tells them all about what's happening. He does still get held back because of The Carl Incident but just like in canon he bounces back quick, and gets the Lightning nickname, and he does all the stuff he does as described in the Cars Origins book.

Halfway through the season after he gets the sponser of Rust-eze, Lightning gets in contact with Doc and he asks if he and his family could be his pit crew, Doc is a little hesistant at first to get back into the Piston Cup scene, but at this point he would do anything for his adopted son so he gets the entire gang minus Lizzie and Red for the races, and they kill it.

Think about it, Lightning without a crew chief and proper race training was still pretty damn skilled, but a Lightning who was trained by the Fabulous Hudson Hornet before he started racing and having him as his crew chief, let's just say the only people on that track that are genuine competition are The King and Chick Hicks. And in this universe, there's no need for a tiebreaker race in LA, because the Motor Speedway Of The South race is the finale as Lightning doesn't mess up by not taking tires, and almost truly becomes the first rookie to win a PIston Cup, if it weren't for Chick deciding to be a dick and crash The King. (Some things never change ig.) And just like in LA, Lightning sacrifices his win to help The King, giving the same It's Just an Empty Cup speech to him, which makes Doc smile all the same.

And from there, on out, the story starts to mold slightly back into what we know, albeit with changes here and there but that's a post for another time. Anyway thank you so much for reading my brainrot ideas if you're still here and i hope you guys enjoy what you read and want to see more, this is mistahsaumi, signing out.

#pixar cars #lightning mcqueen #doc hudson #Mater #sally carrera #Brainrot has been killing me #Seriously how has no one else thought of this before #AU #RS Townies raise Lightning

[pinkpinkstarlet]

guys idea

atsv cars au

miles morales is lightning mcqueen, a hotshot rookie racer in the piston cup who has an arrogant attitude and a speed that is faster than anyone else

gwen stacy is sally carrera, the lawyer who loves her little town and falls in love with the racer as he grows and changes over time

pavitr prabhakar is mater, who's a goofy and lovable best friend who ships the HELL out of miles and gwen

miguel o'hara is doc hudson, who used to be a racer but was kicked out of his lifelong passion for it after crashing in '54 and fled to radiator springs, wanting to forget about it. The arrival of miles makes it hard for him however.

and finally...

the spot as chick hicks, the competitive and cheating old racer who wants nothing more than to win, no matter the cost

question is… SHOULD THEY BE CARS OR NOT??

@urmadiik @champmorado @c4ndytr4p @x0stormie0x @orchestra-of-demonic-screeching @ace-and-sleepdeprived @cuichichan @darksidescorner @gay-lightning-mcqueen @l0starl @primaviva @ohara-n-brown @punkeropercyjackson @ptizzy @skullghoulz @tatumis-awesome @weirdo09

#atsv #spiderman atsv #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the verse #pinkspidey’s rambles #miles morales #miles atsv #atsv miles #gwen stacy #atsv gwen #gwen atsv #pavitr prabhakar #atsv pavitr #pavitr atsv #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #miguel atsv #lightning mcqueen #sally carrera #mater cars #tow mater #doc hudson #cars au #atsv au #cars fandom #cars movie #cars pixar #pixar cars

[magnorious]

Pixar’s Cars is still way better than people give it credit for

Am I writing an essay on a kids movie that fell out of relevance after the last sequel seven years ago? Yes. Is it my favorite background animated movie to put on whenever I’m working? Yes.

It goes without saying that Pixar’s catalog is still topped by movies like Incredibles, Toy Story 2, Up, Inside Out, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, etc. Cars sat at the bottom of Pixar’s “best of” list until its sequel came out and people realized how bad Pixar movies could actually be.

But you know what? I love Cars. Is the story as deep and moving and profound as some of the others? No. But it was made with love and after what feels like the past 8 years of resounding “meh” coming from Hollywood and some of the most shameless cash grabs pretending they’re not, Cars remains my feel-good movie. It doesn’t have that classic Pixar “cry your eyes out” moment, no dead parents, no chosen ones, decently low stakes. It’s a good time, anytime.

Why I’m writing this now, though, is because of this: I knew already that the King and Chick were based off real racers, and Lightning’s “McQueen” is another homage, but I looked up if Doc was also based on a famous racer during my last rewatch and found this on Wikipedia:

Doc’s car model, the Hudson Hornet, was manufactured from 1951-1953 for its original run. In 1954, its manufacturer merged with another company and the Hornet was heavily remodeled to boost sales, only the popularity of the car never recovered. It stayed in production until ‘57. It was used in racing and that’s where Doc’s paint job in the finale draws inspiration.

But do you remember what his backstory is? 3 back-to-back Piston Cups from ‘51-’53, a crash in ‘54 that saw him rebuilt, and obsolescence upon his return.

People complain that they “didn’t need to be cars” in this movie. They’re not like the toys in Toy Story where the plot and message depends on them not being human. They’re not like the fish in Finding Nemo. They could have just been humans who drive race cars and it raises more questions than it answers.

You are wrong, Sir.

Doc’s backstory is why they had to be cars. They aren’t human because the story depends on them being machines – as Cars 3 explores more deeply. A human endurance runner can train to be the fastest, running against other humans with the same chances at success (ignoring steroids and socioeconomic opportunity). Humans aren’t running foot races against mutants or aliens where, no matter what we do, we will lose by nature of what we are.

Cars do. A car model is beholden to its manufacturing and all the complications that come with it. Cars are objects that, like toys, have obsolescence built into them. There is no “outdated” way to run a foot race.

So yes, Doc has a Tragic Backstory(tm) but it’s not just that he was some great master at the top of his game once that faded from glory like any human who got too old. He’s a car, and no matter how good he was, how many Piston Cups he won, the powers that be that made newer models with better mileage and efficiency and mechanics were always going to dethrone him.

The movie isn’t about him, though, it’s about another rookie. A rookie who lives life in the fast lane and thinks his time in the spotlight is never going to end when Doc can look at him and know exactly how wrong he is. Lightning is a race car too and, regardless of the existence of Cars 3, Lightning will also inevitably become obsolete no matter what he does to fight it.

I doubt the writers were going for this when they wrote it but that they’re machines is also a criticism of how we treat celebrities. Lightning is an entertaining story until the next shiny starlet emerges and, through no fault of his own, he’s kicked to the curb for the “new”. And that new will be cast aside for the next new and so on and so forth and the only winner is the greedy producer making money off their cash cow until they drain it dry.

Yes, the movie is about appreciating life and the things that you do have and “the friends we made along the way” but that they’re machines matters. Had they all been human, the movie would have lost half its message, and half the tragedy. If they were human driving cars, Doc wasn’t written with a disability so he could have, in theory, hopped back behind the wheel of a new car and still won against younger drivers. He’s not human, he’s a car, and he isn’t built to go as fast as newer models.

Age affects everyone, but a world made by machines that pits machines against other machines in an endurance test is inherently rigged when the machinery being tested can always improve.

It is unfortunate that both Doc and the King go out in wrecks (even though the poetry is nice) and the story doesn’t explore the existential obsolescence of being a machine designed to only do so well and be improved upon – even Lightning still has to wreck out of his big race in Cars 3 before he starts losing to the newer models.

But maybe having a Cars movie that does explore the existential obsolescence of a machine might have gone over kids’ heads. Or, maybe not? They pulled off some very mature themes in Incredibles with marriage problems and presumed infidelity that kids probably didn’t understand but still knew was not good for the characters.

Not to mention all the other wonderful details in this movie: The car-pun cities on all the license plates, the tire tracks in the sky and car-shaped natural phenomena, all the creative sponsoring brands on the racers.

How the “Life is a Highway” montage hits you over and over again with a straight road that cuts through the winding nature (the snaking river, the mountains sliced open to make room), industry that stops for nothing and scars everything in its path.

If you haven’t watched this movie in a while, do yourself a favor and find time to do so.

#disney pixar #pixar #pixar cars #cars

[rookie-lou]

Hear me out... what if Lightning McQueen (humanized) is already struggling with the next generation cars at the age of 25? Jackson comes into the scene after Lightning has been racing for six years. But with a twist... he never came to Radiator Springs, never met Doc. Lightning is arrogant and cocky.

Cocky Lightning meets idiot Jackson.

He pushes his old car too hard cause he wants to win against Jackson. He crashes and it puts him in a coma. For a long time. Several months. Mack is always by his side and the doctors don't know if Lightning will ever make it through - if he survives. Since Lightning once told Mack that he never met his father and always wondered what he was like, Mack starts looking for Lightning's biological father, because Mack thinks he has the right to see his son one last and first time if Lightning doesn't survive. Mack's research takes him to Radiator Springs, where he meets Doc Hudson, who according to Mack's research is Lightning's father. Shocked by the information, Doc starts to question it himself and it turns out that Lightning is Doc's son.

Doc is overwhelmed and sad at the same time that he missed 25 years of his own son. He didn't know he was a father because Lightning's mother never told him anything after their separation.

Mack tells Doc everything about his son. Doc is a little sad and disappointed about his son's attitude.

He travels to the city, to Lightning's hospital where he meets his son for the first time - his own flesh and blood. Even though Lightning is still in a coma, Doc promises him that he will be here from now on and do things right. To be the father that Lightning needs. He is there every day, holds Lightning’s hand and tells him about his life and about things Lightning is missing out.

What a shock it must be for Lightning when he wakes up and meets his father shortly afterward, who teaches him manners and kindness and shows him the fatherly love Lightning never got.

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Honestly, I think I might write this story one day. So much ideas appear in my head for this. So, if you see that one day on AO3, you know how it started, lol. XD Would it be interesting though? And if you have any ideas for this… feel free to drop them in the comments.

Edit: Maybe Doc knew about his son as he was a baby but somehow after a tragedy thought he’s dead and had to live with the grief.

#lightning mcqueen #cars fandom #pixar cars #cars pixar #disney cars #humanized cars #doc hudson #ao3 #fanfic #radiator springs

[ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense]

Damn, I have never seen that kind of enthusiasm for Cars before! Go off Ginger!! Would you like to gush about what you enjoy about the movie so much, or is this not a good time for that?

Cars is a great example of how Pixar is at its best when its characters are its focus. I find it funny that people treat Cars as inherently terrible because "it's obviously just made to sell toys" like???? Toy Story wasn't????? What????

I think people just shut their brains off at "it's about talking Cars" because them being Cars might mean your dad liking NASCAR wasn't the end all be all of cringe. People make jokes about how Pixar can "make you cry over anything" but Cars were where we drew the line?

Lightning McQueen is a solid character. He's not unreasonably terrible, just young and a bit too self centered for his own good but still confident and funny and kind. The people of Radiator Springs are all interesting and fun-their town feels just as alive as all the characters inside it and the passion everyone has for it is infectious.

Doc Hudson being the one to teach Lightning that racing isn't all about the trophy and the glory but also having to learn himself that you can learn to be a good person with an appreciation for the people around you and not have to give everything up to do it is really smart and nuanced. Mater being the first person to truly understand that Lightning is a good guy who just needs a friend that can talk to him in his language is really sweet.

The story has a powerful ending-one of those "lost but won" finales that really does leave you satisfied by the end.

Also it looks fucking gorgeous and it's soundtrack goes impossibly hard.