![]() ![]() ![]() His suspicions are confirmed when Axlerod disables the bomb to save himself. Mater later discovers the story about the conspiracy after helping Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell arrest Zündapp and the lemon cars and confronts Axlerod for it. At a party promoting the World Grand Prix, he leaks oil, though he denies and pins it on the gasoline-powered Mater.Įventually, Axlerod arranges for Zündapp and the lemon cars to plant a bomb on Mater's air filter as a backup plan to kill Lightning McQueen. His supposed "alternative fuel" Allinol, was actually gasoline engineered to expand and eventually explode if hit with an electromagnetic pulse and was part of a plot to turn the world against alternative energy and have them rely on gasoline, bringing profits to the lemons and himself due to the fact that they own the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. Though at first Professor Zündapp appears to be the main villain of Cars 2 for driving the plot, it is revealed near the end of the film by Mater that Axlerod is behind everything. The DVD commentary for Cars 2 states that the climax where Mater confronts Axlerod at Buckingham Palace over the plot to sabotage the World Grand Prix came rather early in production, so the Pixar team worked backwards from there to make Axlerod the ultimate bad guy and someone else the good guy, so that when it got up to the climax, everyone could see how brilliant Mater was in figuring out the whole thing. Axlerod's name apparently originated from an old joke his voice actor Eddie Izzard once told concerning the invention of the wheel and axle. Early concepts of Cars 2 had considered a Russian car or 1967 Ford Corsair as the main villain instead of Miles. ![]()
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