Acer and Grem were two tertiary antagonists in Pixar's 2011 film, Cars 2. They are the rejected and forgotten lemon cars, who worked for Miles and Professor Z to reject back to the car world.
Background[]
Description[]
Acer Pacer was been a outcast to the car world, while Grem Gremlin was mocked for his design throughout their years. Until somewhere in 2011 where they joined on the group "Lemons" to revenge and reject back to the world, so the modern cars will be mocked like they were once before. As the members of the Lemons, the two become partners, working for Professor Z and Miles Axlerod.
Physical appearances[]
Acer was a beat-up green colored AMC Pacer with brown eyes, while Grem was a rusty, and dented orange AMC Gremlin with dark greener eyes.
History[]
It is not known who were Acer and Grem were, but used to be once like other cars prior in the 21th century, but to their species, AMC Pacers and Gremlins were poorly designed lead to been mocked, insulted and called in names, they along with the other mocked cars, later being dubbed as "Lemons", the "World's Biggest Loser Cars".
Prior up leading to the events of Cars 2, Acer and Grem joined in the group of outcast cars based of the four each species of "Lemon" cars, Pacers, Gremlins, Trunkovs and Hugos, all lead by Sir Miles Axelrod, a former gas guzzler lead to as a business car, along with his second-in-command, Professor Z, an Zündapp Janus and the group's weapon designer.
Appearances[]
Cars 2[]
They first appear at the end of Leland Turbo recording for Finn McMissile and killed the agent. They show his corpse to Zündapp and chase McMissile on the oil rig and then on battleships. One of the ships sends a torpedo at Finn and Grem, believing him dead, announces to Z that they got him.
They then appear at Tokyo and assault the American agent, Rod Redline. Thanks to Mater's intervention, Rod sends him the information chip without his knowing it and lets himself be captured by the two lemons. In their secret lair, Grem activates the wave camera on Rod and Acer tries to get him to confess to whom he gave the information. They find out that Mater has them and kill the agent.
Hidden in the stands during the first race, Grem and Acer blow up several racers and are ordered to kill Mater, however they fail after a fight against Finn that they thought to be dead. The two ones stalk Mater to the airport and chase him with McMissile on the take-off runways but fail again to kill him.
The next time we see Grem and Acer is in Porto Corsa, Italia. On a catwalk, they continue to blast racers with the camera, which delights Acer. As McMissile runs to stop them, the two had anticipated and the agent is captured by helicopter.
During the last race in London, Grem and Acer tied up Mater, Holley and Finn inside Big Bentley. They laugh as they explain that they have to kill Lightning McQueen who still wants to use Allinol to compete. But for some reason they don't know, the camera didn't work and Z orders them to go to plan B. Knowing that Mater would go and rescue McQueen, they placed a bomb in his air filter in order to detonate him once he got to the pit. The professor in charge of detonating the bomb is out of Lightning's reach, as he was taken away by Mater. Grem and Acer go away to kill them themselves but Holley, in flight, collides with them and the two lemons jumps in a tavern. The customers, furious by the chaos they have caused, beat them up. It is unknown what happened to Grem and Acer afterwards, though it is possible that they were eventually found and arrested in London for their numerous crimes, such as crushing Leland Turbo, torturing Rod Redline and sabotaging the World Grand Prix.
Relationships[]
Mile Axlerod[]
Professor Z[]
Trivia[]
- Acer and Grem were the only characters to be voiced by two actors from Chicago Illinois.
- Along with Professor Z and Miles Axlerod. They are playable in Cars 2: The Video Game (along with Gunner Acer except for Grem's other version), even though they are villains. However, it could be that they are part of the simulation.
- Acer is the more light-hearted and talkative than Grem while he is the only one speaking to Professor Z.
- Grem is painted orange, with black hockey stripes. He has gray mirrors and headlights, as well as a black grille. Grem is modeled on a 1974 AMC Gremlin. He has a top speed of 91 mph, and a 0-60 of 17 seconds. His engine is a 232 c.i straight 6 with one-barrel carburetor, with 90 horsepower. His license plate reads WREKD, short for "wrecked". It is the same of Tyler Gremlin's.
- Acer is a 1975 AMC Pacer, as his hood states and his name originates from. His top speed is 99 mph, with a 0-60 of 16 seconds. His engine type is a 232 c.i straight 6 with two-barrel carburetor, with a horsepower of 120. Acer is painted light green, with some rust along his undercarriage. His license plate reads FSHBWL, a reference to "fish bowl," the nickname that was given to AMC Pacers. Among other inscriptions, Acer's tires read "Road Hug - Rack And Minion."
- Grem uses Fat Tony's quote in The Simpsons episode The Real Housewives of Fat Tony ''Smile for the Camera'' while he began to torture Rod Redline. However, Grem and Fat Tony were voiced by Joe Mantegna.
- Acer and Grem seem to have a friendship with each other, as they are almost always seen together and make sure they are by each other's side. However whether they actually care for one another or are just using each other for their own goals is hard to determine.
- Their fates are currently unknown, but likely they got arrested for their crimes.