User:LancedSoul/sandbox/Sir Miles Axlerod

Sir Miles Axlerod is the hidden main antagonist of the 12th Pixar film, mh:awfulmovies:Cars 2. He is an oil baron, inventor of Allinol, brainchild of the World Grand Prix and secretly the leader of the Lemons criminal group. He is a filthy rich oil tycoon. However, he appears to have decided to use his powers (and trunkful of money) to make the world a better place. He is voiced by Eddie Izzard.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) First off, there was no reason to make this oil baron Range Rover the main villain of Cars 2. The film already had a vile and dark villain in the form of Professor Zündap, who is actually a fairly decent and enjoyable villain who steals the show everytime he appears onscreen. But then the film's plot twist in the third act reveals that the TRUE mastermind was Miles Axlerod, a far less memorable and charismatic villain with one of the most ridiculous motives in any animated and Pixar films.
 * 2) He is cruel, greedy, murderous, corrupt and torturous for the characters, especially to Mater, who blames him for leaking the oil at the promotion party event.
 * 3) His car engine to mysterious mastermind's engine isn't exactly the same and makes no sense by Mater's reasoning. How can it relate to mysterious mastermind's engine? Yes, they are villains, but how is that possible in the case?
 * 4) We never explain what happened to him after being arrested for crimes by the police.
 * 5) Much like almost all of the characters in Cars 2, he has underdeveloped, but unlike Finn and Holly (who were actually awesome), he isn't really likable character, since he was the worst Pixar villain.
 * 6) * On the subject, his plans of creating a fake alternative fuel solely to sabotage it and make the idea of alternative fuel look bad is not only ridiculously impractical and convoluted, but it also comes off as especially pointless due to the film's implication that alternate fuel isn't even being used that much yet.
 * 7) While Eddie Izzard does a great voice performance, for some reason, he is just wasting his talents.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Like all the other characters in the film, he has a very nice design which actually looks pretty friendly and is pretty faithful to a real-life Range Rover.
 * 2) As previously stated, Eddie Izzard does a great job voicing him despite wasting his talents.
 * 3) Sometimes, he can be likable at the beginning of the movie, but that's not saying much.

Trivia

 * There are several easy-to-miss signs that foreshadow Axlerod's true nature and evil plot:
 * During his interview on the Mel Dorado TV show, Axlerod eagerly says that oil costs a big fortune, hinting his greed, and saying how alternative energy is the way for future and no one would have to use gasoline by the end of World Grand Prix, hinting he's not really supporting the usage of alternative fuel and that his invention of Allinol is actually engineered gasoline.
 * While speaking to Mater at the party in Japan, Axlerod's eyes widen at the sound of oil leaking when he quickly says that Mater had leaked oil. This implied that Axlerod realized he had leaked oil and blamed it on Mater, in order to hide the fact he's not truly an electric car.
 * This comes back to light when Mater realizes that Axlerod had leaked oil while realizing that Axlerod is the Lemons' mysterious mastermind.
 * After the first race in Japan, Axlerod defends that Allinol is safe and it didn't cause the racecars' engines to explode, though Allinol did cause the engines of the racecars to explode due to being engineered by Axlerod to blow up when coming in contact with the electromagnetic pulse emitter.
 * Before the race in Italy, Axlerod tells the press that he went to court and had his scientists confirm that Allinol is safe. This is said to be a lie as Axlerod would not be willing to go court to justify his fuel and that he only told the press his fuel is safe so his minions can inflict more harm to racecars during the race.
 * During the Lemons' meeting, Axlerod's rearview mirrors can be seen and his dark green paint job is lightly visible underneath a pale green padding.
 * After a major crash during the second race, Axlerod rushes to speak to the press; hinting that Axlerod had to quickly change into his public persona so he can discredit the usage of Allinol in the next race.
 * Before he discredits the use of Allinol, Axlerod says he cannot risk the lives of the racecars without sounding completely concerned. This foreshadows Axlerod does not truly care about what happens to the racecars if they use his fuel and was even willing to murder Lightning McQueen for when he decides to use Allinol just to prove the safety of alternative fuel. It also foreshadows that Axlerod does not truly care about the lives of anyone, but his own as he was forced to deactivate his own bomb just to save himself.
 * When speaking to McQueen before the race in London, he tells him he has hopes of him winning and expectations of him proving that Allinol is safe. This implies that Axlerod wants McQueen to participate in the race just so he can be killed and prevent him from backing out in order to find Mater whom Axlerod's minions had managed to capture.
 * When Mater and McQueen arrive at Buckingham Palace before Axlerod is exposed, Axlerod looks shocked to see McQueen and Mater as the latter informs Queen Elizabeth and Scotland Yard he knows who is sabotaging the World Grand Prix. Axlerod had planned to kill both Mater and McQueen for interfering with his plans and looked shocked to see them still alive when they arrived at Buckingham Palace.
 * When Mater points out that Axelrod is the one behind the terroristic attacks during the racing event, the latter responded by doubting the claim, in which he chuckled while doing so. This shows that he was trying to hide his plans from being exposed to the public once someone suspects him about them.
 * The original villain of Cars 2 was intended to be a Russian car named Zil. However, as Sir Miles Axlerod proved to be more popular among the producers, Zil was scrapped and Axlerod became the main antagonist while most of Zil's traits were given to Professor Zündapp.
 * During his circumnavigation around the globe, the jungle he wound up in 36 days later was in Paradise Falls, which was from a previous Pixar film mh:greatestmovies:Up.