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Published: 2011-11-23 00:19:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 11706; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 22
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*Warning for slight gore, injury and car angst*Grem and Acer (c) Disney-Pixar
Not faring well in the pub brawl, a very dented-up Grem and Acer are trying to figure out how they'll limp their way home, since Acer is missing a wheel and Grem's shocks are destroyed.
Grem has suffered a badly caved-in door, which is not unlike the injury he inflicted on Rod Redline, and his roof rack now looks a little like his mentor Professor Zundapp's. Half his grille has been shattered, exposing his air intake (?) behind it. He has a real danger of losing that eye if he doesn't seek medical attention, which neither car is likely to receive if they go on the run.
Despite the way this looks, Grem isn't angry at Acer, they're just arguing as usual. This may have been drawn with considerable sympathy for them but the intention was not to make villains look heroic. Grem and Acer did some awful stuff in the movie and showed no remorse, but when they were surrounded in the bar and about to be beaten, they exchanged this pitiful look that suggested they'd been bullied and beaten many times before.
*Update* 4-21-12: So now there's a "Crash Damage Grem" Quick Changers diecast, complete with caved-in doors and the saddest, most pitiful little expression ever. Mattel depicted the crushed-in doors far better than I did, with the hockey-stick stripes actually bent inward.
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I know, really? They're adorable! The "bullied lemon cars holding a grudge against the world" theme was really an interesting direction to take for the Cars movies. (That's in no way excusing their actions, as they did some truly terrible stuff, but then again we are talking about characters who live in a fictional world populated by living cars.)
Thanks; this is my all-time favorite drawing. I know there's more than a few perspective errors and Acer's too short but I still like the way it turned out.
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I thought that was an interesting take in the Cars movie as well. It made me feel pretty sympathetic for all the lemons and "run-down" vehicles since there treated like they are unwanted and garbage which is actually how some old cars are treated in reality.
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That was one of the worst beatings of my entire life! I'm still recovering from it with Acer, we got a lot more injured then you think. We'll be fine though but we're still on the run. My eye burns severely but I'd rather be free of the spies then have my sight.
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Awwwww that was such a sad scene when they got beat up 
Mater: *runs to the bar despite Finn and Holley telling him not to and tries to defend Acer and Grem in case the cars in the bar try to hurt them anymore* aww you guys look so hurt, don't worreh tow maters here ta save ya! Can ya drive? *moves his tow hook around in the air a little and wonders how he'd tow them if they both can't drive so just hugs them*
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Yer right even tho dat last part I don't got much money's and not sure how much dat weird stuff costs, I tried it once at da cozy cone and blech! It was nasty! Don't tell Mcqueen though, anyway I realleh do wish I coulda saved em but I had a bomb in ma air filter so no time fer dat plus I didn't even have a clue dey went in dat bar howd dey up dere? Dey were da ones holley said she stopped from chasing us but didn't give meh anymore details! Pacer and gremlin I'm here at da bar for ya now so can either of of ya drive or will I have ta tow ya both separately? *moves my tow hook giggling* we better get outta here before dese guys try to hurt ya anymore, you poor lil lemons didn't deserve dis, no lemon does not even professor z so like what was said below can ya people please leave dem alone I'll get em outta y'all's hair now if you'd be so kind and let meh instead of tryin to stop meh
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*realizes it's safe so tows Grem out while gently pushing Acer to a safe location* it'll be alright fellers I'm here for yall, man yall look horrible!
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Really, though! They did some utterly despicable things but there was still that sense of pity for them, I guess because they were just that mistreated their entire lives.
And even before Cars 2 came out and we only had the movie trailers to speculate on, I actually predicted Mater would try to help them in the end. I could really see him doing that if he actually had had the chance, towing them to safety because that's just his nature to help out any car down on his luck.
"Hey there, now, fellers, it looks like ah got here a lil' too late but ah'm startin' tuh see this is all a big misunderstandin'. Now if ya'll'd be kind enough tuh let these poor lil' Lemons git on their way, ah'll skeedaddle 'em outta here 'fore yah know it, an' the next round's on me!"
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(Me: btw hun I see you got my message a little messed up, I was trying to role play, sorry if that was confusing)
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Aw, thank you I'm doing fine now but I have a few more injuries, missing teeth then I had before, just perfect. I won't be doing anything for awhile as I got a lot more injured then that picture shows, I actually lost one of my tires. It's good to know someone cares about us though 
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I agree, and I wouldn't be shocked someday if an official Disney-Pixar book has them turning to the good side. The Lemons are the first truly evil villains in the Carsverse -- in the first movie, Chick would do anything to win, including cheating and hurting other cars, but he wasn't the type to kill anyone and when he crashed the King, it was an accident. The Lemons have actually killed other cars, though it's not clear whether Grem and Acer are directly responsible for any deaths.
Ironically I can see them serving as "good-guy goons" -- fighters -- for C.H.R.O.M.E., but it's just as easy to imagine them turning back to the dark side if they felt their contributions weren't appreciated.
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Ya I think they could become good, but maybe not so good as to join C.H.R.O.M.E. 
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awwww. poor Grem and Acer. Bo'sun will heal you to normal
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Ah! Poor Acer!
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I also thought they might have died when I saw the clip of them getting beat up in one of the movie trailers. However, as a friend pointed out, the scene was played more for laughs, like the anthro-car version of a "fight cloud" with arms and legs (or tires and fenders) emerging from the dust cloud of fighters. I doubt they looked very nice afterwards, though.
If you turn on the director's commentary on the DVD, Lasseter says he thought this was the perfect comeuppance for these two, getting beat up by the working class. That's actually pretty deep, since they got pummeled by the very folks they thought they were, working hard on the oil rigs.
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Yeah, it was kind of what I suspected and my mom thought so too (I made her watch the movie with me 
Oh, I'll definitely have to check that out! All I did was watch the movie and the Mater bonus scene thing. I agree about that...poor guys. I always felt bad for them.
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Aw poor boys 3: Even though they did a lot of bad I don't think they deserved to get beaten up. If someone had opened their heart to them I'm sure they would have not ended up like this...as with many other Lemons I'm sure. And I wonder if anyone would lend a tire to help them now in this state, certainly wouldn't want Grem to loose something as important as his eyesight
Great drawing though, interesting idea to draw them what they looked like after the bar brawl.
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I would lend a tire!! Well if I was a car... 'imagines I were' man that'd be cool..
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Thanks. I do plan to write something about them after their bar brawl but I'm not sure how it would go just yet. I could see someone helping them out but if that someone was an OC I can already hear the cries of "Mary Sue!"
They fared better than the many minions who died, but seeing them getting beaten up sort of struck a nerve because these were characters who were bullied and almost certainly beat up for most of their lives, so getting thrown into that bar was probably their worst nightmare. :<
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Your welcome 
I bet it was
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Yeah,Grem hurted Grem,but was Zundapp the one who threw his young life into the hereafter..
I think they would begin an interior analysis,leave the Lemon group,re-print their body,heal from damages,heal from bad life..And become beloved people in the society..
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Pardon,Grem hurted Rod! I lost my mind
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I thought I commented on this.. O_o
You know, I gotta admit, I totally couldn't remember what happened to these guys till I watched the movie again. Honestly they're pretty lucky I think.. considering they're badguys and the high body-count Cars 2 had.
Poor Acer, he really looks pretty cute actually, all wide-eyes and scared looking. I bet that hanging bumper is pretty painful.. <:
I really like the idea they had for Cars 2 making the roof racks into hair like that.. I thought that was a really interesting idea. Plus I really like that they made the villains sympathetic, that always seems to be a mark of a well writen movie.. when you actually kinda think "you know.. I kinda would like those guys to succeed a little.. I mean they kinda deserve to don't they?" Plus what worse a reason is there to be mocked and teased then what model car you are? It's seriously racism.
Do you think the cars in the Cars world can heal over time like humans?
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They are lucky to be alive. When I saw the movie trailer that showed the Lemons on the oil rig getting blown up, I knew there would be a high body count for the bad guys and I was worried for Grem and Acer.
Acer does have a more cute persona. His bumper was already askew from being struck with the restroom stall door, so another good hit and it could have been left dangling.
I'm intrigued by the sympathetic villains, and of course prejudice against their type exists in real life as well. When my mechanic heard I was considering buying a Chevy Citation he relayed the message to me that he'd never work on it because they were, in his words, junk then and junk now. :/
I've had many geeky conversations with other fans about it, but I think Cars could heal to some extent. Structural damage from a major wreck would require outside care, i.e. physical repair, but injuries to the eyes, mouth and other more organic parts have the potential to heal. Some cars have missing teeth but their gums are pink and look as organic as ours, so I doubt they'd have to see a traditional mechanic to have dental injuries treated, but they might need a dentist.
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I actually had a friend see this movie before I did and I made the mistake of asking him about it. He'd told me about the agent being turned into a cube and how he was totally disgusted after seeing it. He also said that the badguys got crushed too, like in the same way as a cruel irony/payback. So I went to see the movie and the agent-cube didn't sicken me at all.. that wasn't too bad but the whole rest of the movie I kept anticipating the badguys to get crushed and was really confused when they never did. Turns out, he was talking about the two cars during the street fight with McMissle that got caught up in the elevator.. wouldn't call that crushed by whatever >>
I guess you'd pick up on their personalities more if you were focusing on them. They had such little screen-time I thought that I didn't really pick up any personality in them at all.. they seemed identical. Heck I don't think I even realized that was them in the bar scene the first time.. I thought it was two random cars. XD
I think some of the best villains are sympathetic ones. I think that's one of the reasons I like the Batman movies so much, almost all the villains in that series are victims themselves. But back to what you're saying, I have know doubt that 'modelism' carries over in real life. I think that's why I commended you so much for buying your Gremm.. because anyone else probably would have dumped him just for being one.
Makes sense, I think it's common belief that the Cars cars are organic inside.. almost like an exoskeleton.
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Sympathetic villains have always intrigued me. Not that the sympathy and past pain condone what they do, but it makes them deeper characters. John Lasseter even referred to this in one of the interviews about Cars 2. He said Professor Zundapp thinks he's doing the right thing to protect his oil interests.
The elevator scene is confusing because Finn kills two cars when they are already unconscious and no longer a threat. If you look at screencaps, the Trunkov sedan definitely dies, because the elevator crushes his entire cab flat. The yellow Pacer, Fred Fisbowski, also takes a severe hit at the top of the elevator but his frame is completely intact, at least from the angle we could see them from. In another interview, Lasseter explained that any cars shown getting killed were turned away from the audience so their animate features weren't seen. The fact that neither car's face is seen makes me think they both may have died. Anyway, the elevator scene was never graphic, but crushing the bad guys in an actual car crusher would have been another thing altogether.
If you watch Grem and Acer very closely, Acer is less mature and over-eager (plunging into sewage tankers, shouting during Rod's interrogation, etc.) while Grem is all business and fiercely loyal to Professor Zundapp. Their profiles on the Cars site say both are deeply angry for their years of mistreatment by the rest of the world.
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Well in some movies I actually would argue that it all DOES condone what they do.. I think the lemons are actually pretty close to that myself actually.. I mean sure they killed people but their ultimate goal was just to become a corporate super-power.. after all the crap lemons are put through I would argue they deserve to be able to hold something above all the non-lemons. But that might just be the 'have been teased all through school' person talking.
Professor Z was one of the more interesting characters in the movie to me. I like that if you just see the trailer or are seeing it from the beginning for the first time.. you actually think he's the one in charge, but then you find out he's just a high ranking leader. So that was something I didn't know, are you saying Zundapp actually owns all those oil platforms?
Damn.. Fin is kind of an asshole isn't he? XD It makes sense they don't show their faces when they die.. since they just look like regular cars from any other angle (and apparently it's ok for cars to die -_>;
Yeah the elevator scene was nothing, I was actually more horrified at the first kill of the movie where the car falls off the oil platform screaming and then hits the water and has his parts float up.. I thought THAT was pretty sick. XD Not a graphic sick.. but a implied sickness of death in a kid's movie. But yeah I was afraid to see the movie when I thought that was how the badguys went.. I thought they were gonna like drop Zundapp, Acer, and Grem into some compactor at the end and crush them.. like off screen but you'd still hear their screams? *shivers* Just sounded like the kind of irony that Disney loves to do.. seeing as they crushed that agent at the beginning. (which I was also under the impression they'd show).
Acer almost has kind of a little brother-ness around Grem doesn't he? Like trying too hard to look good in front of him that he screws up worse.
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Hillarious! I'd expect the two had been used to bullying. At least they weren't arrested, but I bet they'd rather be in a Chrome cell then this.
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Oh ho ho! Wow Grem you looks like you and Acer got into more trouble then the time Grem and I accedentally blew up a bridge in... well never mind. Anyway looks awsome!
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"Accidentally," hmm, Tyler? If you say so...it's good to hear you two made it, though, and thank you for your compliments!
Come to think of it, blowing up bridges would probably be a key tactic in vehicular warfare, especially if the enemy was made up of mostly land vehicles.
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Yup, and you're welcome...
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Awww my poor baby XD Ha it looks wounderfull great detail!
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I know, I know! Acer looks so heartbreakingly sad here. :<
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Yes.... but It really does look amazing it's very very detailed and sutch :3
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As villian-ish as Grem and Acer are, I saw this picture and went, "Awww..." You can't help but feel sorry for them here because they're just so busted up. I love Acer's black eye, as it makes for a very realistic bruise, and the damages to Grem's roof rack and window look soo realisitc. I love it.
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You've got to wonder how it's going to affect Grem when he sees the damage in a mirror and sees how much he looks like Zundapp, who he might be a bit mad at for getting him into this mess.
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He likely wouldn't take it well. If he had low self-esteem before, seeing himself in his current state would probably make it even worse, and he'd be furious with Zunzapp to some extent I'm sure. I didn't notice that before, but that's a good question.
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Great pic and detail!
I like how you based their injuries off of the previous awful things they've done. That's brilliant.
Keep it up!
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Thanks! It crossed my mind that maybe Grem will develop some remorse for what he did to Rod Redline now that he has suffered the same painful injury.
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Have you written anything that goes along with this picture? It's an interesting subject. Grem is a very interesting character within himself, and it's a sin we didn't learn much about him.
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Not yet, but I do have something specific in mind for after WLGYL is done. I'm hoping for anything canon in the meantime that reveals what finally happened to them. I think they most likely did get arrested, but they might have escaped...and what then?
I agree, Grem and Acer are both fascinating characters and virtually nothing is known about their lives prior to joining the Lemons.
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I like this idea! Then again I'm a sucker for heel face turn.
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I was hoping you'd put this on dA so I can fav it here!
I appreciated the extra story and explanation as well.
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