The hold Disney Pixar has upon my childhood is honestly ridiculous. As an early 2000’s child, I was raised in the prime of Pixar and hold each film dear to my heart. So what did I do, I made a (2 part) podcast episode on the Pixar Theory. Now writing a whole post explaining the theory when I’ve already produced 2 podcast episodes on it is probably a waste of time, so instead I’m going to dive deeper into one specific part of the theory that I skimmed over in the podcast. Whatever the heck happen with Cars. This post will obviously contain spoilers for the podcast episodes so I recommend that you go listen to those first!
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  It’s a few hundred years after the human race has abandoned the earth, Wall-E is happening but not quite to the point of the climax of that movie. Instead we’re at the point where Cars have come to life. The idea isn’t that they’re crazy mutants so no need to get all freaked out. Instead we think of it as them having adopted their previous owners persona. Several of the characters are based on real life people, more specifically, NASCAR racers. The best example is Doc Hudson. The Hudson Hornet was a real car and dominated the race track in the post war years. They were revolutionary for their time and yet were only produced for four years before being overtaken by brands like GM, Chevy, and Ford. The driver that Doc is based on was Herb Thomas who drove a Hudson Hornet. This is great evidence that the cars do adopt their owners persona. This point also goes to explain how the new generation of cars continue to overtake the old ones. The entire plot of Cars 3 is Lighting McQueen trying to stay relevant and keep winning when the new generation of cars hits the track. The older the car, the sooner it’ll come to life.Â
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  To counter this point entirely, we can also assume that the cars are sort of alive. Philosophically, they have thoughts, goals, and lives, so they are alive. Biologically speaking, could they have functioning systems? It’s a complicated question that really only leads to more questions. What we do know is that cars come from more than just their humans and pre-existing. While some of the car absolutely come from that, other characters talk about growing up. England has a car monarchy in Cars 2, and we see a racers mother in the stands. So how exactly do cars, have more cars? I really couldn’t tell you exactly, but I can point out that the cars are like humans in the fact that they search for romantic relationships and have gendered washrooms. I’ll leave deciding what that means up to you.
  Overall, the Cars part of the Pixar Theory is probably one of my favourites and is by far the most confusing. If you want to learn more, obviously go listen to my podcast (part 2 of the Pixar Theory is linked below), and I highly recommend sources like SuperCarlinBrothers on YouTube!
Thanks for reading!
