Chick Hicks is a former racer in the Piston Cup Series and a sports commentator in the Cars franchise. He appears in the first and third movies. He is voiced by Michael Keaton, who also voiced Ken in Toy Story 3.
Personality[]
Even to his own minions, Chick Hicks is extremely rude, arrogant, and self-centered, and loves winning like Lightning McQueen was at the start of the film; however, these traits are more exaggerated in Chick Hicks and often make him more ridiculous or obnoxious. Chick Hicks always brags about winning, and he's also sarcastic and intimidating. Having lived all his career in the shadow of the King has made him bitter and devoid of any sense of fair-play which makes him resort to cheating his way into winning by knocking other racers out of the race. He even intentionally bumped into and caused the King to crash, despite the fact that he was going to retire anyway.
Chick Hicks largely serves as a parallel to Lightning McQueen. They are both racers who dream of getting at Dinoco, which represents the peak of success. Lightning McQueen, however, learned to accept that helping others is more important than fame and fortune after choosing to concede the Piston Cup to Chick so he can help the King finish his last race. Chick Hicks, on the other hand (despite having won his first Piston Cup by cheating), never learns the lesson that there is more to racing than just winning and let his selfishness, arrogance and anger be his downfall. Chick Hicks serves as an example of what Lightning McQueen would have become if the latter had gotten too caught up in his selfishness and arrogance.
During the events of the third film, despite being a reporter, Chick Hicks still remains an unpleasant and selfish bully. He mocks Lightning McQueen for being no match to Jackson Storm and once again shows that he lets his anger and arrogance control his actions. He even brags to the audience about the Piston Cup he won and presents his trophy next to him, which also shows that he is still rude, even proclaiming himself as a Piston Cup winner and "Champion for the Ages". This helps cement Chick Hicks as a truly irredeemable character who only cares about himself, especially the trophy he won and also show that he learned nothing from his mistakes from the first film. This means he doesn’t care if he cheated to get the cup and doesn’t care if cars got injured along the way as he purposefully injured cars to do so.
Trivia[]
- Chick Hicks never appeared in Cars 2 for the film series.
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