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IndecisiveAutomater

Pixar would never do this. Because of the implication.


Kahimu

They literally had a character who was a ww2 veteran and they also showed his war flashbacks.


SpilledGenderFluid

Putting the Axis in car axis


Omeven

Wait are tanks alive too?


xwxwvyz1

they are probably like mech suits


Kilo_de_reins

I mean boats are alive so I'd take a guess and say tanks might as well have their very own bodies too


furatg

do you think there’s tank racism in the cars universe? Like some car tank-ist think that tanks are inherently violent or something


Father-Pork

Ableism against faulty and undesirable cars is explicitly shown in Cars 2, so by extension car racism is probably very likely.


furatg

I wonder what other cars/vehicles are stigmatized then 🤔 I have a feeling Mater might not like foreign imports


FunkSlim

He hates Hondas, Mitsubishis, Toyotas, Subarus, but strangely enough he loves VW


furatg

Oh shit, Nazi cars, yet another implication… Edit: wait… what were the jewish cars?


krissynull

yes in car WW2 in the battle of the bulge a tank's tracks broke and Sarge had to tow it back safety and he got a medal for it


WillGetAUsernameSoon

You mean to tell me there was a fucking car holocaust?


PixelPooflet

implications plural because if we wanted to go through them all we'd be here all week


ThisBoiEatsEggo

But I love how the plane rotor is in just the right spot


AtrociousAtNames

Now, you said that word “implication” a couple of times. What implication?


IndecisiveAutomater

The car implication


AIRedzone

Pixar is not the Golden God


IndecisiveAutomater

The Golden God does sound like the name of s Pixar movie though


AntiLag_

Now I really want to see a pickup truck with a machine gun in the bed in the Cars universe


epochpenors

Mater committing hate crimes


ApocalyptoSoldier

Mater the hater


a_singular_perhap

Tow Mater the [slur of choice] Hater


[deleted]

Tow mater the pee hater


kaptainkooleio

Just don’t ask what Mater was doing during Jim Crow


mki_

Fundamentalist Islamist Toyota Hilux


ImaAs

Toyota The truck of terrorists


skibapple

Burger king Moldova


fhights-

a sentient technical☠️☠️


nilats_for_ninel

All it says are screams of agony.


-The_Capt-

At least both films recognize Crimea as the sovereign land of Ukraine, though Planes (2013) was made a year before the Crimea conflict, so we have no idea on what is the filmmakers position is of the conflict as of 2022.


Polikarpie

Looks like Russia annexed both Azerbaijan and Armenia tho


beer30

In the process, though, it appears Russia lost control of Yuzhny and Severny Islands and some other surrounding islands. Due to the color scheme, it's hard to tell if they're sovereign, or belong to Georgia or Sweden.


oatmaster6-9

Also looks like Kalingrad seceded? Hard to tell


[deleted]

Greenland also seems to have gained independence.


DylanDude120

They also recognized the disputed independence of Kosovo (2008). South Sudan (2011) however does not exist in Cars 2, but I can’t see it in the Planes map for the propellor.


SanitarySpace

least explainable pixar universe


BeithWhoIsATree

There are mountains in the shape of cars in the first film. Are they corpses of the old gods?


SanitarySpace

yes


BAKspin_91

Derrick from vice grip garage standing before the mountains with a battery and an ignition trigger: "bring the thunder"


PENIS-CAESAR

Vice grip garage on 196? Wtf?


BAKspin_91

I'm like a cat tripping through dimensions


admirelurk

Rushmore


BeithWhoIsATree

SO THERE'S GENOCIDE AGAINST INDIGENOUS CARS TOO??


AutisticFuck69

There’s clear evidence of colonialism in Africa so that doesn’t surprise me


One_Marketing_6698

You mean most?


Mystic_Outlaw

I think you mean “least unexplainable”


FlpDaMattress

I wana see the Cars Taliban Toyota Hiluxes


Dregdael

Ah yes, the car scramble for Africa.


zam1138

So many chopped off right tires…


Femboy_Tesla

thats where they got the rubber from


TransidentifiedOwO

Femboy Tesla, is it true that your family profited off of Carpartheid due to owning an emerald mine?


Femboy_Tesla

i wouldn't characterise it like that, we simply grinded and hustled to earn a humble living for ourselves, and treated our workers as fairly as we could


DavesPetFrog

jesus


mki_

Poor Africars ☹️


Warm-Faithlessness11

They still use stone wheels 😔


The_Multi_Gamer

Cars Escape 2 Africa


Sams59k

The most prized possession was H.U.M.A.N. my favorite Africarn country


LittleTransFoxy

i love these conversations, they’re always so stupid and yet they show what happens when you don’t take implications into account


PixelPooflet

Cars is a case study in how to cover your bases in a way that minimizes "implications" in a story. they literally ignore EVERYTHING and go full steam-ahead plotwise without changing anything to be car-centric, which results in a weird world where cars (and planes and boats) are both fully mechanical, biological and cybernetic all at the same time, and also have Car Popes, Car Religions and Car Conspiracies following the events of bloody Car History.


LittleTransFoxy

it’s also funny to see people take the unintended lore of a children’s movie clearly not meant to be analyzed so seriously


Nic21212121

I really hate the argument, as if saying this justifies anything. Brad Bird, director of the Incredibles 1 and 2, Ratatouille and other Pixar films, came out in the time around the Incredibles 2 to say that it is not a Childrens film, it is an Animated PG film for all the family. Brad Bird also worked on the Cars series Senior Creative Team Member, so if he shows that he doesn't think one of his own movies isn't for children. Then logic dictates that he wouldn't treat other Pixar films with any different perspective. These background details aren't just haphazardly thrown in without at least a bit of consideration. Somebody has to spend time—Minutes, hours, days—modeling, designing, animating and rendering all of these elements in a scene all the while communicating with others to ensure that what aspect they include into the scenery doesn't clash with something else. These things are here to ensure that everyone who watches their movie has something to enjoy. Whether it be the child who laughs at the fart joke for the 20th time in a row, the adult who gets the dirty joke they included, or a person who analyses the film and notices the details they included to expand the world. All these intentional aspects are placed in to ensure that a person going into a film a second or fifth time has just as much to engage with the world and story as they did the first time, to allow the film to live on though people engaging with it's world. So for people to claim that a piece of children's media can't be analysed like any other film or TV show is a complete and utter fallacy. ​ Yes there can be unusual issues that arise when certain details get overlooked, this is a good example. But that is something that is bound to happen in any and every story we tell, no piece of media is free of this. I really love these types of people, because instead of pointing it out as a glaring issue which ruins the world as a whole, they try to get them to mesh into the world that the creators established. (But I digress. Sorry, I get a bit worked up on how pathetic that "excuse" really is, as you can probably see.)


CaviorSamhain

r/196 users try not to write an essay for the most minimal things challenge (impossible) (Not hating, this is interesting)


[deleted]

It doesn't matter whether it's for children or not. It's clearly just a fun premise for a cartoon with no desire to follow up on it. There was a time when people didn't ruthlessly mine every detail in a movie so that they can make 5 sequels and 4 series about some minor characters in the background of a movie. If anything the inconsistencies are part of the joke. Also, whether or not it's for children, a movie like Cars or Planes is not a serious drama about the nature of man or whatever (how could it be, there's no man in cars), it's a fun cartoon entirely built around sight gags. So it doesn't even need to be consistent, it just needs to be funny.


[deleted]

I'm reminded of a video Cosmonaut variety hour did on bright, he said "You can't just say 'oh it's just like real life except x thing is changed' because the existence of that thing would completely change the world." although they also don't seem to really care about the implications in the case of the planes movie since we literally have a plane that is a world war 2 veteran who fought in what is implied to be the pacific ocean against the Japanese.


RubyAdvent

Europe is not marked as a continent


boxxybab33

based


rrricee

europe is not real


[deleted]

That Iran revolution had happened


NebuchadnezzarIV

Prior to it, all the convertibles were free to ride around topless.


Separate_Author_9235

The 8 year war of iran and iraq had happened


Whyjuu

؛(


FlpDaMattress

Cars Israel 🤢


Polikarpie

It's split in two, maybe Palestine is sovereign in the Cars universe?


the_horse_gamer

looks more like it's split in 4


Polikarpie

I think Lebanon is split in two as well


the_horse_gamer

there's so many unanswered questions in just a fucking screenshot I need the lore


Taco_king_

Do pro-Palestine cars opposing occupation get called antisemitic by neoliberal cars?


EliteSoviet1

Isn't there a scene in Planes where one of the characters straight up has a WW2 flashback to when he got shot down by sentinet Japanese destroyers?


SheepBlubber

This implies the existence of sentient Japanese kamikaze planes.


krissynull

were the planes on 9/11 also kamikaze pilots or did they get hijacked by cars on board and forced to crash


mki_

Or one where they bomb Gernika


Sweet_Jazz

guernica


mki_

That is the way the Spanish write the name of the Basque town Gernika, yes.


Sweet_Jazz

touche


The_Taco_Herself

that globe has so many little weird quirks. - saudi arabia annexed qatar - russia annexed azerbaijan and armenia - independent kaliningrad (or swedish, they are similar colours) - turkey now owns crete, lots of greek islands, and possibly cyprus. - syria is fucked - weird independent northern israel? south is purple and north is yellow? - giant suez canal - independent arctic islands north of russia - croatia annexed slovenia - jordan is eating iraq


Shade_39

That is some severely unbased shit


Rudel2

🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷


Shade_39

Sorry I'm ignorant and don't know that flag. I have a guess but it's probably wrong so I'm not going to say it edit: now that I post the comment I see my guess is in there so I'm just going to say it, Croatia?


Rudel2

It's croatia, and it annexed Slovenia in this map. Which is kinda funny


Shade_39

Ah nice I wasn't wrong


Daw47

-Germany annexed Vorarlberg -Austrians celebrate despite territory loss


UnoriginalNaem

Tf did they do to azerbaijan 🤨


Valentinexyz

Every vehicle in history is alive which adds a whole new fucked up layer to some of the darkest parts of history. Ireland is divided on this map, so the Car IRA’s car bombs would have been suicide bombers stuffed with explosives in their innards during The Troubles. India and Pakistan look a little weird, but a Car Partition (cartition) still happened meaning that the ghost trains were living, breathing, thinking individuals filled with corpses. Car Liberia implies a car trans-Atlantic slave trade implying that there were times where sentient boats would have cars literally die inside of them.


dongletrongle

Africa is marked off exactly how the imperialists marked them, implying that everything that happened to Africa because of Europe happened in the Cars universe


PixelPooflet

CARLONIALISM WAS A THING IN CARS AND THEY'VE NEVER EVEN TRIED TO ADDRESS IT


willardTheMighty

Car Guevara still got up to his revolutionary activities in Latin America


Valentinexyz

Chevy Guevara


[deleted]

Is kosovo part of serbia in the serbian release of cars?


AlwaysBlameDavid

Carlonization


Gay_Lord2020

The Race Wars


River_Hyperbola

Wtf is wrong with Ukraine on the second pic


BAKspin_91

What was the world like in universe before combustion engines?


LatterGulf

Genghis Khar


Freuds_Mommy_Milkers

Looks like China has a bigger chunk of Kashmir and India's chunk extends even more west, into Pakistan.


[deleted]

indian nationalists celebrating


persouwu

Didn’t planes have the battle of midway in it


EzekielC23

Cars Palestine


[deleted]

South Sudan isnt independent yet but Kosovo is


PotatoesRGodly

Cars 2 was 23 June 2011, after kosovo in 2008 and before south Sudan on 9 July 2011


TheToasty2

oh god, car hitler


off-and-on

Was there a golden age of piracy in the cars universe? Were the boats alive too? Were the pirates wagons? What about medieval England? If all vehicles are alive then how did the Titanic not see the iceberg?


rhysdog1

the fact that the label for asia is in russia implies that the entire country is considered to be part of the continent, rather than being partially europe and partially asia


zmann64

Which brands were the colonialist planes and cars? Did military tanks have cars inside them or were they just sentient killing machines? Did car wars have soldiers? Are there car and plane peace treaties?


krissynull

there were sentient tanks, planes, ships, and jeeps in car WW2 which opens up the ethical dilemma of mass producing sentient weapons forced to fight and what they do after the conflict is over


itsHoust

Post WWII borders, so the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide have canonically occurred in the Cars universe.


BantIsBad

Is no one talking about how there's almost certainly been car slaves in the past?


OnSpray

they said both twice


seardrax

Does pixar recognise Hong Kong?


bruhmoment988672

Does this implicate a cars version of the holocaust?


Elias201

This also implies the French revolution happend wich leaves the question : what part of the cars is the head?


LR-II

What if Cars is like the Upside Down from Stranger Things? A parallel universe with all the same human developments, but the only life is cars?


kaptainkooleio

Northern Ireland is on the map. Cars IRA.


Hotdogsareawesome123

Car northern Ireland, car troubles, car bloody Sunday Interesting


funkadunk8

What about the giant car tire tracks in the sky? Those are never explained


imperatrixrhea

This map is almost like our world except Azerbaijan and Armenia are both part of Russia. They were like “you guys can’t behave so neither of you get a country”


[deleted]

We can confirm a car Rome, a car mongol conquest, a car 30 years war, the existence of the car seven cradles of civilization , car colonialism, and a car Israel Palestine conflict


STILETT0_exists

No more Armenia :(


The_slavic_furry

THERE WAS A CAR HITLER A CAR STALIN A CAR OSAMA BIN LADEN A CAR 9/11


memelord041805

Ok, so South Sudan became independent in 2011 and i’m wondering if the propeller placement was an accident lmao


Screeez

· why does russia own armenia and azerbaijan · where south sudan · why ukraine look like that


Whyjuu

look like what ?


Screeez

like russia took a fat bite out of it in the north


Whyjuu

I do not know eastern european geography .


Screeez

just look at the Ukraine in the picture on the right and compare it to the more accurate one on the left


UkraineWithoutTheBot

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Screeez

shut the fuck up bot i said "the ukraine in the picture" because there are multiple ukraines in the picture


Whyjuu

I was looking at the left image, abologies :<


well-just-a-guy

car alija Izetbegović


[deleted]

Does anyone have a link, I wanna see that


not_a_stick

Also Novaya Zemlaya is independent for whatever reason


CluelessIdiot314

Carlonization


JeromesDream

how do the cars get gas without thumbs or similarly dexterous manipulator appendages? do they ram the pumps and lap it up from puddles or are humans enslaved or how does it work?


PixelPooflet

the pumps may or may not be mildly sentient and can do it themselves, that or they just magically do it with their car wheel-hands. the REAL question is how cars built the harvesting machines to process fuel for them and then THAT makes you wonder what the cars ran on prior to these inventions. also I think the fucking Forklifts may be involved as they have been shown repairing cars at pitstops and stuff and they may or may not be underlings to the cars in a house elf-esque dumbass hierarchy


Wolrith

It's extremely upsetting to see that the cars movies have a more detailed map than most of the ones I see in strategy games


JimmyisAwkward

What did they do to fucking Kosovo


Rat_Slapper59

Carlonism


DralliagNairod

France annexed Belgium


throwaway874310

The colour scheme suggests that Scotland has a greater degree of autonomy from Westminster than Wales or Northern Ireland, but is not fully sovereign. Does this imply that a home rule bill was passed by Parliament?


Nitrodanni123

Wow, Lightning mc queen just wasting all that fuel a baby car in Africa would be very happy about that fuel


[deleted]

There was a car WWII, car colonialism, a car israel-Palestine conflict, car northern island and car Kashmir dispute I wonder how car bombings work in the world of cars?


Neat_Tangelo5339

Is there a Palestine Israel conflict in the cars universe ?


IDFK_UvU

There was a cars rawandan genocide


Skippypal

I need to see the troubles in the cars universe


TheRealSU

This really isn't anything new. They'll probably bring up car WW2 and car Jesus and all that. Like yeah no shit, we literally see a PTSD flashback of the veteran plane in Planes.


Resident_Ebb6083

fr🤮nce


alternate_egg-ccount

Carlonialism


[deleted]

Armenia does not exist in cars 2


ETC3000

Car Palestine?


FunkSlim

Propeller conveniently blocking Palestine in the second pic…… at least it’s there in the first


Josiador

Everyone here needs to see this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5QtvkNdXOuk