Gerald (Cars)

Gerald is a colleague of Fletcher that visited Radiator Springs in his debut appearance, Cars: The Video Game. He is a British race car with a shy personality, usually depending on Fletcher to speak for him.
== Background ==
=== Personality ===
Gerald usually backs behind Fletcher and gives Lightning a shy look, but seems more confident around El Guapo. Various use of wise terminology can suggest him being highly intelligent.
=== Physical Appearence ===
Gerald appears to be a Jaguar XK-E, known as a Jaguar E-Type in his home country, mixed with the Toyota 200GT. His front end, especially his headlights, also resemble a Triumph Spitfire or Triumph GT6, though the headlights also have a bit of Lotus Europa. He is painted a dark purple, with the number 4 painted on his doors, surrounded by a white circle. His license plate reads "Gerald".
=== Powers and Abilities ===
Gerald is the lightest car in the franchise, even lighter than the pitties, meaning he can easily slip out of any opposing clutches as if he is the one causing it. Him being practically weightless also results in the existence of a glitch where if the player slams their brakes and makes Gerald run into them, Gerald will flip over and start "ice skating" forwards until the game flips him back up.
== Biography ==
=== Cars: The Video Game ===
In story mode, Gerald "hopped across the pond" to Radiator Springs with Fletcher to compete against Lightning. However, the two quickly got into a rivalry with two Mexican cars named El Guapo and Papo. Gerald appears as an opponent in Radiator Cap Circuit, North Desert Dash, Radiator Springs GP, and Tailfin Pass GP. He is not playable. However, Mods exist which make him playable.
He can later be found at Flo's V8 Café not too long after Lightning returns from his first Piston Cup race, striking up a competition between him and Fletcher, El Guapo and Papo. They get into an argument about who has better rims, with Gerald appearing to side with Fletcher. He then competes in a race through the desert area east of the courthouse.
He is not seen again until Radiator Springs Grand Prix, where he is one of the competitors, alongside Lightning, El Guapo, Fletcher, and Chick.
=== Cars: Mater-National Championship ===
In Cars: Mater-National Championship, Gerald appears as a minor non-playable character that is first seen as an opponent in the North Willy's Butte race. He is not involved in the cutscene, so it is presumed that he was recruited to join the race.
He can later be found as a competitor in Ornament Valley Airport, and again in Luigi and Guido's Team Relay 3, where he is on an opposing team with Fletcher and Yuri. Gerald also appears as an opponent in Canyon Run.
=== Cars: Race-O-Rama ===
Gerald does not return in the 2009 video game Cars: Race-O-Rama, but a name string for him has been found in the coding. Like in the previous two games, he has been made playable through modding.
== Trivia ==
* In the PC version of Cars: The Videogame, his model is shaped slightly different, his side window is different, his headlights are larger, and his hood is taller. He also has differently-colored eyes, one is normally brown, and the other yellow.
* All of Gerald's voice clips were re-enacted in Cars: Mater-National Championship, likely because they sounded too similar to those of Count Spatula, who was also re-enacted.
* His icon in Cars: The Videogame depicts him only as a Jaguar, without any Porsche traits.
* According to his physics file, Gerald is one of the lightest cars, meaning if the player were to brake directly affront a CPU-controlled Gerald, the opponent would slam into them, flip over, and "skate" forwards, and then the game will automatically flip them back up and they will continue as normal.
* In all versions of the first game except the Xbox 360, Gerald's icon has various details not even his artwork has, such as two steel bars coming up from his bumper and slightly different headlights.
* Gerald appears to be a Jaguar XK-E, known as a Jaguar E-Type in his home country, mixed with the Toyota 200GT.
* Triumph Spitfire or Triumph GT6, though the headlights also have a bit of Lotus Europa. He is painted a dark purple, with the number 4 painted on his doors, surrounded by a white circle. His license plate reads "Gerald".
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