Lemons

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Full Name

Lemons

Alias

Towtruck's Bread and Butter

Professor Z's Thugs
The Bad Guys (by Lightning McQueen)
Biggest Loser Cars (by Holley Shiftwell)

Origin

Cars 2

Foundation

Pre-2011 (possibly 2010)

Headquarters

Oil Rig

Commanders

Sir Miles Axlerod (leader)

Professor Zündapp (second-in-command)

Agents

Grem

Acer
J. Curby Gremlin
Tubbs Pacer
Victor Hugo
Vladimir Trunkov
Ivan
Gremlin Family
Pacer Family
Hugo Family
Trunkov Family

Powers / Skills

Creating deadly weapons

Criminal masterminds
High intellect
Charisma
Various gadgets and weaponry

Goals

Rid the world of alternative fuel and turn them back to gasoline in order to dominate the world and get rich (failed).

Crimes

Serial murder
Terrorism
Organized crimes
Conspiracy
Illegal use of weapons
Torture
Embezzlement
Unlawful imprisonment
Kidnapping
Theft
Stalking
Vandalism
Arson
Pollution
Smuggling
Hate crimes
Attempted world domination
Crimes against carkind
Sabotage

Type of Villains

Power-Hungry Terrorists

“	Those thugs down there were on the oil platform. If they see me, the whole mission is compromised.	„
	~ Finn McMissile to Holley Shiftwell about the Lemons

The Lemons are one the main antagonistic factions (alongside the Road Rumblers) of Cars franchise. Serving the main antagonistic faction of Pixar's 12th full-length animated feature film Cars 2 and it's videogame, and a posthumous cameo antagonists in it's 2017 sequel Cars 3.

They are a terrorist organization of lemon cars known for their several manufacturing defects that left them rejected by society, and they intend to get their revenge by discrediting alternative fuel in order to make profit out of selling oil. This terroristic group consists of 44 notable members and five notable associates.

History

According to their boss Sir Miles Axlerod, the Lemons have felt rejected by the world because of their defects during the past, an event that left them feel unloved. The film, however, reveals little details regarding how their fellow cars treated them.

As such, Miles Axlerod formulates a plan that involves forcing the entire world to abandon alternative fuel and resorting to using oil (as he still owns the largest oil reserves in the world despite his claims that he has been converted into a hybrid). To that end, Axlerod created the World Grand Prix for racers around the world and a new alternative fuel called Allinol (which is actually gasoline engineered to ignite by an EMP beam). He also plans on murdering anyone who gets in their way.

Being in cahoots with Axlerod's plot and sharing the ownership of the oil reserves, several Lemon families conspired to aid Axlerod in his plan to sabotage the Grand Prix races. To that end, Axlerod gets his right-hand Professor Zündapp to create EMP weapons designed as Prix cameras to ignite any Allinol supply during the races. Because of this, the first two races in Tokyo and Porto Cosa were disasters as many racers engaged into crashes after getting their Allinol ignited by the EMP beams. To cover his tracks, Axlerod suspends on using Allinol for the third and final race in London, though Lightning McQueen stand firm on his decision to use Allinol. Because of this, Axlerod contacts Zündapp to murder McQueen during the final race. This was witnessed by McQueen's best friend Mater, along with two British agents Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell, who end up being captured and take hostage in Big Bentley.

During the final race, Zündapp gets Grem and Acer to fire up their EMP beam on McQueen, but the latter escapes unharmed (due to Sarge switching McQueen's Allinol supply with Fillmore's organic fuel), just as Mater escapes to warn McQueen of the plot. Anticipating this, Axlerod arranges for Zündapp to place a bomb inside Mater's air filter so that he and McQueen would be killed by the explosion. As Mater runs off out of range, Zündapp ends up being chased by a freed McMissile, forcing the other Lemons to take action and catch McQueen. Though McMissile and Holley manage to defeat Zündapp, the other Lemons surround them in an intersection, preparing to wait for the imminent explosion to kill McQueen, Mater and the agents. Mater tries to talk the Lemons out of the plan by pointing out that it won't make them feel any better, but even though the Lemons agree with him, they still want him and his friends dead for their greed. Fortunately, McQueen brought in his friends from Radiator Springs to stop them, forcing the Lemons to surrender.

Mater eventually proceeded to expose Axlerod as the mastermind behind the plot by forcing him to deactivate the bomb within close range. With the plot exposed, the Lemons are arrested for conspiracy to commit crime, murder, attempted murder, and embezzlement.

Members

The Lemons are a coalition of at least four criminal families made up by cars infamous for malfunctioning. Out of the fourty-four known members listed here, at least 70% (31 out of 44) of all of the Lemons were arrested.

Commanding members

Sir Miles Axlerod (leader, arrested)
Professor Zündapp (second-in-command, arrested)
Grem and Acer (lieutenants, deceased)
J. Curby Gremlin (leader of the Gremlin Family; arrested)
Tubbs Pacer (leader of the Pacer Family; arrested)
Victor Hugo (leader of the Hugo Family; arrested)
Vladimir Trunkov (leader of the Trunkov Family; arrested)

Gremlin Family

Tyler Gremlin (fate unknown)
Don Crumlin (deceased)
Towga Gremlin (deceased)
Stefan Gremsky (fate unknown)

Pacer Family

Petey Pacer (arrested)
Fred Pacer (deceased)
Jerome Ramped (fate unknown)

Hugo Family

Alexander Hugo (arrested)
Resty (Cars 2: The Video Game)

Trunkov Family

Petrov Trunkov (presumably arrested)
Tolga Trunkov (arrested)
Trunks (Cars 2: The Video Game)

Non-Lemons

Ivan (arrested)
Tony Trihull (deceased)
2nd Combat Ship (fate unknown)
Muggsy Liftsome (fate unknown)
Karl Haulzemoff (fate unknown)
Jan Gruzilski (fate unknown)

Crimes

Crushing Leland Turbo to death (succeeded, presumably in Prague in the deleted scenes)
Torturing Rod "Torque" Redline (succeeded in Japan)
Fully sabotaging the World Grand Prix (succeeded in Japan and Italy, but failed in England)

Associates

Out of the five associates here, at least 20% (1 out of 5) of all the associates have died.

Tony Trihull (deceased)
2nd Combat Ship (fate unknown)
Muggsy Liftsome (fate unknown)
Karl Haulzemoff (fate unknown)
Jan Gruzilski (fate unknown)

Trivia

Though they are considered the darkest villains of the Cars franchise due to their willingness to commit murder, Mater sympathizes with them due to their troubled pasts (and his experience of being laughed at himself because of his antics). That said, the narrative and Mater himself make it clear that it doesn't justify their crimes. Furthermore, even some of their more ruthless members agree that it wouldn't make them feel better, implying that they commit crimes not just out of greed, but also out of resentment, though they still proceeded with their crimes and attempts to kill Mater, McQueen, Finn and Holley anyway because as J. Curby Gremlin pointed out, it was "worth a shot".
- They are also implied to have problems with acquiring the parts they need to survive.
- In Cars 3 and Cars on the Road some Pacers, Hugos and Gremlins are not Lemons, but they are background characters (Miles Axlerod makes a cameo in Cars 3 in a photo of Sterling's office when Lightning and Sterling talk about Lightning's retirament).
- Miles Axlerod and Acer are the only Lemons who maked a cameo antagonists in it's sequel Cars 3.

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