Tyler Gremlin is a minor antagonist in Pixar's 12th full-length animated feature film Cars 2. He is a Lemon who is a member of the Gremlin Family, working with Professor Zündapp.
Personality[]
Due to growing up being ruthlessly picked on and mistreated by his peers, Tyler developed a mean streak a mile wide. He is so spiteful and short tempered that most other cars and other vehicles give him a wide birth to avoid his rancorous wrath.
History[]
Cars 2[]
In Cars 2, Tyler is first seen watching Rod Redline being the first victim of the electromagnetic pulse camera with many other lemons. Tyler was the one who fuelled Rod Redline with a tank of Allinol before his death.
Afterwards, Tyler is one of the many lemons that hunts down Mater in the streets of Tokyo after discovering he was in the pit garage for Lightning McQueen.
Later, Finn McMissile shows up in Lightning McQueen's pit to stop Acer and Petey Pacer from entering and attacking Mater. After Finn sprays them with foam from a fire extinguisher and starts to flee, a large number of lemons are sent after him. Tyler Gremlin is driving quietly down the road in search of Mater, but Finn uses his hook to knock over a vending machine in front of Tyler, which causes Han to wake up and suspect that Tyler was the culprit, so he and two others proceed to yell at him. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, though it is possible that Han and his other two friends made him pay for the destruction of their vending machine.
Trivia[]
- Diecast product listings refer to him as "Tyler Trunklis", implying that this was his name in the initial version of the film. It was likely changed so that every Lemon of the same family would share the same last name, the only exceptions being Don Crumlin, and Stefan Gremsky.
- On the packaging for his die-cast version, his eyes are brown, but on the actual toy, they're blue-green.
- Tyler's bio mentions how he was picked on in school for his hockey stripe design, however, Tyler does not have any hockey stripe design on his bodywork in the movie. It is possible that he removed them to avoid being picked on in school again.