Finn McMissile

Finn McMissile is the tritagonist of Pixar's 12th full-length animated feature film .
He is a sophisticated spy car who has a lot of high-tech spy gadgets and is also Holley Shiftwell's associate. During the events of the film, they were inspecting the World Grand Prix's numerous terroristic incidents, which were enacted by the Lemons.
He was voiced by , who also played Lord Redbrick in and Hoagie Newcombe in .
==Biography==
===Cars 2===
At the beginning of the movie, Finn is trying to get onto a mysterious oil rig. He then finds out that the internationally wanted evil scientist known as Professor Z is leading the suspicious operations in there and that he and his minions have an incredibly dangerous weapon. Unfortunately, Finn gets discovered and is forced to escape the oil rig without getting enough information about Professor Z`s plans. After Finn starts speeding off on the water, he gets chased by professor Z's minions because they don't want there to be a witness about their plan with the camera. trying to ensure Finn doesn't get away, one of the boats launches a powerful missil. Right before the explosion, Finn quickly gets underwater to avoid contact with it; after he activates his underwater mode, he lets four extra tires float to the surface of the water to trick his chasers into thinking they nailed him.
Later on, Finn and his assistant Holley Shiftwell mistake Mater for an American spy car because earlier, Rod "Torque" Redline secretly placed a device containing secret information onto Mater's body. The group then agrees to have a meeting tomorrow in Tokyo, where the first race of the World Grand Prix will take place. However, Mater is attacked by Professor Z's thugs during the race, but Finn saves him. At the airport to Italy, Mater and Finn are once again attacked by Professor Z's minions, but they manage to escape from them. Finn then requests Mater to help them stop Professor Z's plans. At the Italy race, Finn, Holley, and Mater all get captured by Professor Z and are tied up in Big Bentley. They are only moments away from being crushed to death by the clock's gears, but they manage to get away just in time.
The last race of the WGP then starts, and Mater finds out that Professor Z and his lackeys are going to make Lightning McQueen the next victim of their electromagnetic pulse emitter, so Mater goes to warn McQueen. Finn finds out that a bomb has been planted in Mater's air filter as part of a plan to kill McQueen. He tries to warn Mater about it just as he is about to meet up with the others. The army and the police, along with Finn, arrest Professor Z and order him to deactivate the bomb. He says that only the one who planted the bomb can deactivate it. It is later found out that Miles Axlerod (the former oil baron who sponsored the WPG in order to promote his new renewable green fuel Allinol) is the true leader of the Lemons and he was planning to ruin the reputation of all green fuels and have cars rely on fossil fuels instead, which would have made him and the Lemons incredibly rich since they have many untapped oil reverses in their possession.
Back at Radiator Springs, Finn and Holley go to visit Mater and ask him if he would like to join them on another spy mission, but he does not agree to, saying that he is in exactly the place he should be. Accepting his decision, they agree to stay in touch. 
===Cars 2: The Video Game===
In the opening cutscene of the game, McMissile has been captured by Professor Z and the Lemons, but Mater saves him just when a Lemon is about to burn him to death with a flamethrower. The Lemons then chase Mater and Finn around the oil rig, but they manage to escape, with Finn tricking most of them into crashing into each other. Professor Z tries to escape in a helicopter, but Finn and Mater make a big jump and reach him. It is then revealed that this was actually a spy mission simulation at C.H.R.O.M.E (short for Command Headquarters for Recon Operations and Motorized Espionage), which is an international spy-training center. Later, when Mater invites Lightning's friends and racing rivals to try out the simulations for themselves, Finn responds to Holley's objections by saying that Mater's friends are their friends as well.
Finn also appears as a playable character in the game, along with his alternate paint job, Finn - Union Jack.
=== Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure ===
Finn also appears in the Cars-inspired levels of Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure.
=== Disney Infinity ===
In Disney Infinity, Finn appears as a cast member in the Cars Play Set, assigning the player various missions. He can be unlocked as a toy box townsperson by opening a character chest.
=== Cars: Fast as Lightning ===
In Cars: Fast as Lightning, Finn is the third-to-last unlockable playable character. When he is unlocked, McMissile's Pad will be unlocked as will his track.
== Disney Parks ==
Finn was a meetable character at Hong Kong Disneyland during the 2011 summer.
==Personality==
Finn is elegant, nice and kind. He is also daring and extremely brave, smart and eloquent, which is almost mandatory for a spy. He knows every trick in the book and is always prepared for any kind of situation. However, Finn somewhat lacks a sense of morality against his enemies, often times he has utilized lethal methods in accomplishing his goals including killing multiple Lemons with an explosion or crushing them with an elevator.
== Powers/Skills ==
=== Specifications ===
* Top Speed: 147 mph (236 km/h)
* 0-60 MPH: 7 seconds
* Engine Type: 4.2 Liter Straight 6 with Triple 2V Carbs
* Horsepower: 290
* Vehicle type: Peerless GT
* Hometown: London, United Kingdom
=== Weaponry and Gadgets ===
Finn McMissile is equipped with more gadgets than the other spies, including:
* Four grappling hooks: Disguised as bumperettes, the hooks attach to the end of strings. They can be shot to reach an object at some distance, and are strong enough to lift and suspend Finn, giving him extra flexibility.
* Spy camera: Located in the right headlight, it can zoom in to see details and take pictures.
* Missile launcher: Located in the left headlight. It can fire small but powerful missiles.
* Digital read-outs: Located on the side mirror, the screen can receive transmissions from other spies or from his surveillance probes.
* Glass cutter: Consists of a small and very compact device, launched from the left side mirror. It attaches itself to the glass and deploys a long stick with the cutting unit at the end that cuts with a circular counter-clockwise movement a piece of glass that is then ejected.
* Magnetic explosives launcher: Located in the front wheel hubs, it launches small explosives that stick to a metallic surface and explode after a short amount of time. He has a small supply of them and these are somehow kept within his axles.
* Deployable machine guns: On both sides, hidden in the side vent.
* Deployable surveillance probes: Located in the rear right wheel hub. Very small, light, and compacted into a sphere. Finn can discretely drop one which then deploys feet and open its camera, which transmits an image to Finn's digital read-outs. They are never seen returning to him, so it's suggested that he had a larger supply of them either on other allied transporters, or has a lo more within his body.
* Oil Slick: Located in the rear turn signals. It pours oil that reduces friction and in turn weakens the control of a chasing vehicle briefly. At the beginning of the film, Finn defeats a green Gremlin with this weapon.
* Mounted quad harpoon gun: Located on his undercarriage, it is used for a similar purpose as the grappling hooks to suspend Finn, but are much more powerful.
* Deployable holographic disguise emitter: Located on the roof. The device instantaneously makes a holographic disguise all around Finn. A known disguise is a Japanese airport security guard, which is used only once.
* Wheeled motorized jack: Launched from the undercarriage. A skateboard-shaped gadget that travels to a chasing car, and then deploys its jack, overturning an enemy light enough to be pushed.
* Steel Magnet Wheels: Permits Finn to climb up the side of a steel wall. Finn also uses them to grab cars in fights.
* Hydrofoil Mode: Consists of two retractable foils on the undercarriage. Used for oversea travel once in the film.
* Submarine Mode: Used for underwater escapes and travel. It includes a breathing apparatus, side directional fins, and the rear wheels transform into propellers.
* Spare Tires: Kept hidden in the trunk, it is unknown what these are for, though possibly as replacements. He only used it once to fool Tony that the torpedo blew him up.
Finn is also a master of martial arts, which is of great help in the car to car combats.
== Character Design and Development ==
Originally, Finn was supposed to appear in the first Cars movie. In a sequence that never went beyond the storyboarding stage, Lightning and Sally went to the Radiator Springs drive-in theater where a James Bond-type film about a superspy car named Finn McMissile, dispatching "Taxis of Death" was playing. The character was then more of a parody. In Cars 2, the team wanted him to be more serious, realist, and understated.
Character Art Director Jay Shuster summarizes Finn's design evolution as: "We started with drawings by Joe Ranft and created an English coupe with Italian touches." Finn is a Pixar in-house design. His design draws inspiration from several sports cars from the 1960s, mainly British, but also Italian. Shuster said: “We didn’t want to design Finn as a spy. We wanted him to be a really elegantly designed English sportscar from the sixties. We did this really deep search into that kind of car from that era. We took everything from all the cars we love and baked it into Finn.” Shuster said about using Italian cars for Finn's design: “We wanted to infuse a little more Italian into that. That’s why I created a rear hip, which gave that fin a place to live.”
In the Cars storyboards, Finn had imposing tailfins. While their size was ultimately greatly reduced, it remained an essential element of his design, that influenced the choice of cars used for inspiration. "The car’s name is Finn, so he had to have fins," Cars Franchise Guardian Jay Ward said.
The only car model that Pixar has named as an inspiration for Finn is the 1958 Peerless GT, a British sports car, which was the only British sports car they found that featured tailfins. According to Ward, even though Finn draws inspiration from other cars as well, the Peerless served as the basis from which the character was built.
Finn has a large resemblance with James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. In consequence, he has been widely recognized as a 1960s Aston Martin DB5, including by Michael Caine. While Finn shares similarities with the DB5, like a near-identical rear end, differences can also be seen, mainly in Finn's profile design, which is much more curvaceous than the DB5. Finn's submarine mode is also reminiscent of Bond's Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me.
The animators felt it necessary to establish limitations of what Finn could do and what gadgets he had, in order to make a more earthbound character. Shuster says he found Finn to be (with Francesco Bernoulli) the hardest design to achieve because they had to figure out where to place his spy gear. Finding how to resolve this problem had some influence on his design: Finn's side vents were modified so that machine guns could get out, and his bumperettes were made with the idea they could serve as grappling hooks. Shuster gave other details regarding how they tackled the problem: "It was decided that no, we don’t want him transforming. We don’t want body panels unnaturally unfolding or doing all that stuff… So that was the trick, designing the outer shell as though he is just a normal pedestrian car, and then we went in and found places we could have stuff unfold from."
According to Story Supervisor Nathan Stanton, the idea of having Michael Caine voicing Finn McMissile came out early in the production. John Lasseter said: “As we were developing Finn McMissile, Michael Caine always came to mind because of all those fantastic spy movies he’s done.” However, Shuster says: “For the majority of these characters I didn’t know until the very end [who was voicing them]. Honestly, they announced Michael Caine when [the character] was done and all that the animators could do to go back in and start dialing in the mouth shapes and the eye shapes.” Supervising animator Shawn Krause collected photos of Caine from his earlier spy films and based Finn's expressions on them.
== Quotes ==
==Trivia==
*Finn was originally going to appear in the first Cars movie. In a part of the film that never made it past the storyboarding line, Lightning McQueen and Sally Carrera went to a drive-in theater where a James Bond-like spy film about a superspy car known as Finn McMissile was being shown.
*Finn McMissile is an in-house design of Pixar Animation Studios. His design is, for the most part, based on the following British cars:
**His main inspiration comes from James Bond's ultimate spy car, the silver Astron Martin DB5. However, the look of the car has been slightly modified. McMissile has a different-looking grill that resembles a suave mustache, but as James Bond does, he has plenty of spy gadgets.
**The other inspiration was a British sports car from 1958 that was called the Peerless GT. Because of Finn's name, the team of developers wanted him to have fins. But when they were looking for cars to base him off on, they realized that there are only a few British cars that have fins. They then finally found a car that did have tail fins, which was the Peerless GT.
**In addition, elements from Italian and British sports cars were also blended into the design of Finn McMissile. The character art director called Jay Shuster said this: "We wanted him to be a really elegantly designed English sports car from the sixties. We did this really deep search into that kind of car from that era. We took everything from all the cars we love and baked it into Finn.
*In the Pixar film Toy Story 3, which came out a year before Cars 2, Finn McMissile made a cameo appearance on a poster in Andy's room.
*His license plate reads 314 FMCM. The "FMCM" part is a reference to his initials, while the "314" part is a reference to his voice actor Michael Caine's birthday (March 14).
*In Cars 2: The Video Game, his license plate reads 0S0 872L.
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