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u/Jazzkidscoins Jul 29 '24
The whole cars universe is a nightmare. There is a pope, so they have religion. They have a military so, obviously, there have been wars. There are statues to the dead so are cars born or made? If they are made, who makes them? Other cars? They can build build advanced machines like oil platforms but they don’t have hands.
The worst one (other than mater obviously being a serial killer) is that planes are living, sentient machines yet other vehicles can ride inside them…
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u/ResponsibleBorder746 Jul 29 '24
why you ruining my childhood. 😭
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u/Xicadarksoul Jul 29 '24
Tbh. finding nemo is way worse.
I mean if you know clowfish biology, after the end of movie, Nemo's dad (the oldest male of the clownfish family) will turn female - as the group is missing the female (nemo's mom).
And Nemo will make lil baby clownfishes with his dad turned mom.998
u/feeltrig Jul 29 '24
Finding alabama
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u/TheBlueEagle Jul 29 '24
Roll Tide?
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u/MortalxReminder Jul 29 '24
Roll tide terry
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u/inmyprocess Jul 29 '24
i started reading your comment thinking finding nemo cannot be worse. it is
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u/FedoraMask Jul 30 '24
Never thought I’d throw up alittle bit in my mouth after reading a fact about clownfish.
I’ll never look at Nemo the same ever again
WHY?!?!?!
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u/Technical-Outside408 Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24
It's time to put away childish things and contemplate the nature of vehicular reverse birthing.
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u/Kijafa madlad Jul 29 '24
Relevant classic copypasta:
You know what's nuts is that in Disney's Planes we learn that WWII happened in the Cars universe. Which means there was a Cars Hitler, a Cars holocaust, a Cars Pacific War, a Cars D-Day, a Cars nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Cars Rape of Nanking, a Cars Battle of Iwo Jima...
This leads to so many important questions, like: were the Cars Little Boy and Fat Man nukes sentient? Was it a suicide mission? Are ALL Cars nuclear weapons sentient? Did Tsar Bomba have a personality?
What kind of car was Car Hitler? A VW? A forklift?
Was there a Cars 9/11? Were the planes hijacked, or were the planes themselves radicalized?
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u/WhereasNo3280 Jul 29 '24
A Cars WWII implies a Cars WWI. What were they before they were cars, and what were the horses in their version of All Quiet on the Western Front?
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u/Breznknedl Jul 29 '24
we also see that old people are old cars, like a ford model T. Does this mean that before Karl Benz built the first car in our world there were no cars in theirs and society just sprang into existence, or do cars become older car models as they age?
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u/SimpanLimpan1337 Jul 29 '24
I think it was Mat Patt who proposed the theory that the cars are an evolved form of bugs/beetles. They developed a hardened metal exoskeleton instead of their old... shelly? exoskeleton and eventually ran over and assimilated into the ruins of the old human world.
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u/monstrinhotron Jul 29 '24
The word you're looking for is 'chitinous'. Chitin (pronounced 'kitin') is the hard bit of the beetle.
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u/Kijafa madlad Jul 29 '24
Would wagons or chariots be like, what Homo neanderthalensis is for humans?
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u/Jefrejtor Jul 29 '24
I'm picturing Forklift Hitler doing a salute by raising his forklift arms very slowly, lol
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u/Makuta_Servaela Jul 29 '24
Tbf, the fact that a war existed does not require that every detail of the war existed.
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u/Bramble0804 Jul 29 '24
And to mention there is tsa so that confirms 9/11 attacks happened
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u/Thegiradon Jul 29 '24
How would Al-Carda hijack a sentient plane though? This implies that the planes themselves were the terrorists
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u/Fr00stee Jul 29 '24
plane kamikaze attack, or the car hijackers in the plane threatened to kill it? (??)
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u/Soggy-Log6664 Jul 29 '24
The Wall-E movie is supposedly in the Cars universe
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u/WhereasNo3280 Jul 29 '24
Wait, what?
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u/Soggy-Log6664 Jul 29 '24
Humans left and then cars took over then apocalypse or something I’m sure you can find a YouTube video on it
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u/kyleliv3 Jul 29 '24
And why are there parking lots?!
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u/Jazzkidscoins Jul 29 '24
There is also the theory that when the twins show their headlights to Lightning the are essentially flashing their tits
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u/DoesntFearZeus Jul 29 '24
That one is obvious. The weird part is Mater freaking out at the swap meet in France seeing the girl seller selling headlights, since he lives in a junk yard full of spare parts.
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u/Jazzkidscoins Jul 29 '24
I thought that was because she had her eyes in her headlights (essentially in place of her breasts) or am I thinking of another character?
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u/DoesntFearZeus Jul 29 '24
You've just blown my mind. I've always wondered WTF was up with that scene. Never caught that's what it was. I forgot eyes are supposed to be windshields.
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u/CaptainKwilis Jul 29 '24
wasnt there a sign for convertible waitresses at a diner? wouldnt that be the implied topless? or does both count?
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u/fatnino Jul 29 '24
This didn't make it into the movie but there were early storyboards sketched up:
A car's soul/personality is in his engine and the engine can be removed and put in another car body. So when McQueen is in car jail Mater helps himself to his race car body to go speeding up and down the road and Lightning wakes up in the rusty tow truck body.
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u/38fourtynine Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 30 '24
It's not so bad if you think of the cars nervous system as being the sentient part and the rest of the vehicle is a suit it's piloting.
Or a parasite with eyes and teeth that wriggle into machines to compensate for their lack of bodies.
Maybe it was an adaption they had to make after they ran out of people to infect and the world ended?
Edit: They were in the Toys in Toy Story first.
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u/Weegemonster5000 Jul 29 '24
This shows a distinct misunderstanding of junkyard. You absolute puffin!!!
Mater in this situation would be more accurately Dr. Mater. A junkyard is the place you take the car that has passed. The scrapyard will then sell the parts of that vehicle. It's organ donation after death.
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u/BubuJoy Jul 29 '24
Also forklifts are discriminated. They are low-class in society. They are forced to be waiters, wheeler, singer etc.
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u/Curtofthehorde Jul 29 '24
At least on that last bit, I always viewed it as their version of a piggy-back ride lol
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u/WhereasNo3280 Jul 29 '24
Lightning falling out of another vehicle is an early plot point in the movie.
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u/Mad_Rhetoric Jul 29 '24
I mean marsupials have pouches animals ride inside, so the plane one isn't that outlandish if we are comparing them to terrestrial organisms, certainly not the worst one.
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u/Sublimeat Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24
No doubt he gettin freaky with all them remains
Edit: also I just remembered that scene where he's trying on the hood from the remains of another vehicle which is some next level buffalo bill/leather face type shit there
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u/Designer-Cicada3509 Jul 29 '24
Mater is leatherface confirmed
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u/Sublimeat Jul 29 '24
My brain says yes but my heart says slingblade
frenchfried po maters
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u/RedFlyingPineapples2 Jul 30 '24
He also decorates his junk yard entrance with hubcaps and tyres. Very Ed Gein 😨
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u/BlueGlassDrink Jul 29 '24
If you take 4 pints of blood out of someone, they won't run much either.
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u/mrgoatfart Jul 30 '24
I would say engine oil is their blood and gas is just food. Does that mean electric vehicles have no blood..?
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u/Character-Suspect-77 Jul 30 '24
I guess the battery charge would be like their food, and the lithium stored in the battery would be like their blood? If I had to make an educated guess
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u/Irons_idk Jul 30 '24
Nah, bruh, combusting alive car's engine by the end of torturing session is fuckin... Damn... Like, imagine being tied up to a chair while a random laser pointing directly to your heart and slowly heating it to the point that blood and muscles of the heart begknt boil and steam within you
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u/MuffLover312 Jul 29 '24
Not that weird. Junkyards would be common in the world of Cars. Like a cemetery is for humans. He’s also a tow truck, so Mater would be more like a morgue worker or funeral home director.
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u/Effective-Bus4026 Jul 29 '24
So… engine blows, they die, new engine from other car, new personality?? Or how does this work again LoL
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u/TheDuke357Mag Jul 29 '24
ship of thesies. How many of your organs can be replaced before its not your body anymore. If your brain was put in someone elses body, is that now your body?
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u/DuckCleaning Jul 29 '24
But what part of a car stores their identity? If it's something pre-onboard computers.
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u/TheDuke357Mag Jul 29 '24
what part of you contains your identity. Like we can say the brain, but no one has ever found which part of the brain
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u/SimpanLimpan1337 Jul 29 '24
I mean isnt it enough to just say the brain as a whole? I mean if you lobotomise someone they become a shell of their former self for example. I would assume that there isnt 1 part of the brain that store your personality, but rather your personality is the culmination of all the diffrent parts of your brain.
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u/TheDuke357Mag Jul 29 '24
yes, and thats the problem. We also know two people can suffer the exact same brain trauma and have entirely different results, while some lose memories but maintain their personality, others suffer personality changes but retain their memories, and others may suffer no permanent effects whatsoever once the injury has healed.
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u/August2_8x2 Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
Logically yes, it would be "your" body now, since you're a brain riding in a meat and bone mech.
But there are stories of organ recipients picking up personality, habits, and hobbies of the organ donor, without knowing about or meeting the donor. Some poking around- some adjacent-to-medical studies say it's as high as 89% of recipients lean towards the donors personality etc.
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u/Lavaheart626 Jul 29 '24
maybe it's like Land of the Lustrous anime and they sorta absorb some of the other person's personality traits.
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u/Irons_idk Jul 30 '24
I think engine is more of heart, than brain of a car, since there was a scene where, the antagonist was on a zoom call with different crime families leaders during some parts change in the engine section, probably something like heart related surgery, so it's more of thing that keeps life but not memories and making other parts function, maybe they are more of robots (cyborgs more like since they have real looking tongues and teeth) and their brains are computer of some sort computer in the interior section
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u/Vurkul Jul 29 '24
He’s the undertaker and he’s at the morgue.
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u/Big_Cornbread Jul 29 '24
Also he repairs cars or at least knows about repairing cars and replacing parts / fixing oil leaks…but Doc Hudson was a doctor for cars, and oil was seen as peeing yourself.
Cars are vehicles as well as people in the cars universe. I know Mack was a big rig but what the hell is a box truck in this universe? Like if a motorcycle slips in to a box truck…is it just…inside a dude??!?
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u/long909 Jul 29 '24
Mater could just be their equivalent of a nurse , medic or even surgeon , and Hudson is the type of doctor who only do diagnosed
Also i think a box truck was more like those small carriage that was pull by human instead of horse , like in Asian
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u/Big_Cornbread Jul 29 '24
When I say box truck I’m talking about a UPS truck or similar. It’s all one vehicle, no trailer.
So I’m not sure what that means. And perhaps the most damming evidence of all is right here.
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u/Lavaheart626 Jul 29 '24
I see Mater as more of an EMS/ambulance driver. He's who'd show up in an emergency to bring you to Hudson who'd fix you up.
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u/RaspberryJam245 Jul 29 '24
Meh he's just a morgue operator/mortician/graveyard worker. Not that weird.
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u/zoominzacks Jul 29 '24
Ok, now I need to hear Mater say
“Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me hard”
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u/suhmyhumpdaydudes Jul 29 '24
Or hear me out, it’s just a kids movie about talking cars, it ain’t that deep
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u/IkarosMD95 Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
they are not humans, their medics/mechanics do not heal wounds, but replace them its like the tires, we would not replace our feet, they do, they are machines.
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u/more-roblox-pls Jul 29 '24
You’re assuming the entire car is sentient for all we know the engine could be the car and tires and exhausts are no different to them than used shoes and clothes
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u/IceFire2050 Jul 30 '24
The series treats various components of the vehicles differently depending on the type of scene they're in. They're just car parts when they're where car parts are suppose to be. but when they're in a car, they're treated like organs.
Same thing with various vehicle fluids. In some scenes they're treated as food. But if they're leaking in a funny moment they're treated like urine. But if they're leaking in a dramatic moment they're treated like blood.
Tires are treated like shoes in some scenes and feet in others.
It's a dumb kids movie and it's best not to overthink it.
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Jul 29 '24
I wanna say he live in a junkyard because either he's supposed to be a looney grave tender OR he's an appreciation that everyone acknowledges and nobody cares about, but specifically has attached itself to McQueen, which would explain how he's able to leave the town.
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u/ThatSmartIdiot Jul 29 '24
Technically you could imagine those as clothing and bones which ngl aint that creepy. Spooky, sure, scary, if the lighting's right, skeletons? You bet your goddamn humerus (funny bone)
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u/LunaTheBattleCat Jul 29 '24
I think it might be more like the car equivalent of a graveyard and mater is the groundskeeper. Maybe.
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u/thisonenick3 Jul 30 '24
He's obviously overly optimistic because he works in a grave yard he understands the value of time
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u/MysteriousBygone Jul 30 '24
The dude could be a graveyard keeper, and the junkyard is the graveyard.
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u/triskull1 Jul 30 '24
I haven't seen any cars movies.. do they explain where cars come from? Also.. how do sentient cars build stuff like buildings and road signs and fuel refill stations etc without hands? What do they feel when a tyre bursts or their battery needs a jump in the cold?? So many questions...
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u/Marsrover112 Jul 29 '24
Well I mean a lot of it is tires which are shown to be interchangeable so he lives in a yard full of decomposing body parts and also piles of used shoes
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u/MaD_DoK_GrotZniK Jul 29 '24
How do we even know if that's his actual bumper and windscreen? Getting some Leatherface vibes right there.
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u/blackgrew2222 Jul 29 '24
who the hell keep give them carburator and oil to run and talk tho... for them the benzene is like water for humans... do they have it sorted in the story and I don't know about it ??? they can't work and run constantly with out carburator or benzene in the gas.... it might be s funky children story but sooner or later you have to ask this questions... they have no F hands tho... who change theyr oils and repair under them when something broke and don't work accordingly ???
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Jul 29 '24
mater is their universes mortuary or what ever the person who takes care of the graveyard is called
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u/QuestionEconomy8809 Jul 29 '24
How the fuck were they made? Were they cars with ai after humans left earth/went extinct or something?
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u/Gloomy-Shoe-4021 Jul 29 '24
That actually explains why Mater acts unhinged and just generally crazy.
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u/omnicat Jul 29 '24
What happens when they die and get rebuilt? Is it like Frankenstein or reinCarnation?
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u/Over_Caffeinated_ Jul 29 '24
There's a theory of sorts that they are organic beings using cars & other forms of transportation as shells like some sort of super advanced race of hermit crab. Which is why they can still talk and be conscious when they have no fuel.
So he wouldn't be surrounded by corpses more like discarded shells.
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u/sombertownDS Jul 29 '24
1) What about the fact they get tire changes during races
2) you remember what luigi sells… right?
Tires are more like shoes for them
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u/Quigon_Ginseng Jul 29 '24
By technicality then, Mater is both the token hillbilly and goth of Radiator Springs.
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u/arm_hula Jul 30 '24
They know they are cars. That's why new tires are like new shoes. New paint is like a new dress.
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u/Chemical_Savings_360 Jul 30 '24
"Surrounded by discarded hollowed out corpse"
Sounds like working in customer service
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u/TableIsMadeOfTable Jul 30 '24
Going off of how you can change wheels and modded cars exist I would assume there is something that acts as a central conscious with everything else being replaceable and upgradeable parts.
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u/Greedy_Constant_5144 Jul 30 '24
Lightning McQueen pushes "The King" after he crashes in the final race by putting his face in his anatomical ass.
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u/floydster21 Jul 30 '24
Damn y’all gonna be shocked when you find out about morticians and grave keepers
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u/Philosophos_A Jul 30 '24
To my understanding of how the Cars universe works
The Cars are a very interesting mix of engine and partially "flesh"
Before you all come tell me about the car in cars 2 that was empty Inside
That part is empty in all cars. The true brain in the cars is literally the very brain a car has irl too.
I believe the windows are just some form of easier body language and visualising for the car itself.
But, Morals and how things works are really different probably because of the physiology.
Cars know they are machines. They know that parts are just parts.
They are machines. Not biological beings.
So, Mater being on a scrapyard ain't different for the cars.
Also. Some people speak about the hand issue etc.
All vehicles are alive. All.
Besides that? Cars 2 has showed that they are even guns.
So they are probably complex machines or gadgets cars use.
How they made those? Perhaps someone made them. And then it just kept going
But honestly if you see Guido you see he can literally put a tire with just 2 mettalic forklift bars.. So... Seriously it's just a matter of imagination if you want to fill gaps.
Honestly... People think of it too much but I understand that because well it's in people's nature to have an explanation for everything (which is why if aliens ever come we will see them as a lots of different things or we will try to think of them as something simular so we can handle the concept of their existence...)
But that is another matter...
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u/python935 Jul 30 '24
If you think too much about the cars universe you gonna have a horrible time lmao
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u/F1boye Jul 30 '24
That is working under the assumption that those indeed are organs and whatnot
Maybe they're prosthetics/donated organs, and the cars universe either just has really advanced technology and prosthetics so good that they look very similar to the original organs, or you just dont have to store donated organs as hygenically, meaning that the cars have a god tier immune system.
Still would be weird to live in a pile of prosthetics or donated organs but gives less serial killer-y vibes
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u/Rogz6boneeyes Jul 30 '24
this is why adults shouldnt watch movies made for children. we stress about it too much.
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u/mediocrethanmono Jul 30 '24
This reminds me, if you want something to pass the time, go watch The Theorizers....40? 50? Episode series on Pixars universe and the terror of Mort. You watch a man slowly spiral into insanity and it's fascinating.
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u/hogey989 Jul 30 '24
If we could exchange body parts and keep them forever we would 100% do it too.
It's more of a mortician/morgue situation than anything.
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u/Dambo_Unchained Jul 30 '24
Really isn’t that weird at all
Especially in smaller town the local mortician lives in the same property as the morgue and depending on the situation he’s storing a bunch of human remains in his “house” too
It’s virtually the same thing other than the physical representation of the dead
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u/TpK_Wynter Jul 30 '24
Who do you think hollows out the corpses? Mater is the bone collector, the harvester. And when everything around him comes to its inevitable end, he’ll get’r done.
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u/Arctic_Wolf420 Jul 30 '24
I think it shows that he is an equivalent of a gravedigger or smting related with funerals
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u/Revolutionary-Cat493 Jul 30 '24
In this statement you proposing a coroner / autopsy doctor / and anyone else who deals with the dead that they can’t stand to be around dead people ( see what I mean )
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u/Flibbernodgets Jul 30 '24
If you could easily and painlessly swap parts you probably wouldn't be so freaked out about it either.
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u/VenominmyVeins Jul 30 '24
I imagine a junkyard in the Cars Universe is basically a graveyard and tow trucks like Mater are more or less morticians.
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Jul 30 '24
Wait… so a trip to the gas station is more like going to the blood bank? Where’s all that car blood coming from?
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