Lightning McQueen

* Cars 2-Spies Wanted
* The Little Cars

**Lightning McQueen** is the main protagonist in the Cars series.

## *Cars*

Lightning is a red racecar sponsored by Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment ("With Just a Little Rust-eze, you can look like Lightning McQueen!").

He is #95 in the movie, and at the beginning of the movie, he is racing his first Piston Cup race in Nashville, Tennessee, and is winning.

At the end of the film, he lost the race out of good intentions, and got a new paint job, but still sponsored by Rust-eze, although at the beginning of the film, he wanted a Dinoco sponsorship.

## *Cars 2*

This time around, Lightning is racing in the first ever World Grand Prix to determine who's the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours, and hilarious surprises.

Number 95 Lightning McQueen is still a hotshot racecar, but his rookie days are past him. Now a permanent resident of Radiator Springs, Lightning has become a bona fide worldwide celebrity as winner of four Piston Cups.

After his latest win, Lightning returns home to enjoy life in the slow lane for a while with sweetheart Sally, best friend Mater and the rest of his Radiator Springs family. His off-season is unexpectedly cut short when Mater inadvertently prompts Lightning to enter the World Grand Prix, a high profile, three-part exhibition race that will take him around the globe.
With a fresh custom paint job and real, working headlights, Lightning sets off to Japan, Italy and England with Mater in tow for the adventure of a lifetime. But competing against the fastest cars in the world tests more than his racing skills when Lightning realizes his wide-eyed best friend may not be the pit chief nor ambassador he needs to navigate the unfamiliar international terrain.

## Quotes

* "*Ka-chow!*" - Catchphrase
* "*I'm faster than fast. Quicker than quick. I am lightning!*" - *Cars*
* "*Oh, Kori. There's a lot more to racing than just winning. I mean, taking the race by a full lap... Where's the entertainment in that?*" - *Cars*
* "*No, no. I wanted to give the folks a little sizzle.*" - *Cars*
* "*And am I sorry I don't have a crew chief? No, I'm not. 'Cause I'm a one-man show.*" - *Cars*
* "*Yo, Chuck. Chuck, what are you doing? You're blockin' the camera! Everyone wants to see the bolt.*" - *Cars*
* "*Now, back away.*" - *Cars*
* "*Ow! Whoa, team! Where are you going?*" - *Cars*
* "*Oh, OK, leave. Fine. How will I ever find anyone else who knows how to fill me up with gas? Adios, Chuck!*" - *Cars*
* "*Oh, whatever.*" - *Cars*
* "*I love being me.*" - *Cars*
* "*Yes, yes, yes! Lightning McQueen here, and I use Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment, new rear end formula. Nothing soothes a rusty bumper like Rust-eze. Wow! look at that shine! Use Rust-eze, and you too, so that you can look like me! Ka-chow!*" - *Cars*
* "*Mater?*" - *Cars*
* "*Holy Porsche! She's gotta be from my attorney's office.*" - *Cars*
* "*I'm a precision instrument of speed and aerodynamics!*" - *Cars*
* "*Pch. Crazy grandpa car, what an idiot.*" - *Cars*
* "*No Mater, I gotta finish this road, and I have to get out of here.*" - *Cars*
* "*Whoa, whoa, easy now, Mater. Do you know who you're talking to? This is Lightning McQueen. I can handle anything.*" - *Cars*
* "*It's good to be home, everybody.*" - *Cars 2*
* "*I know Doc said these things were just old cups... but to have someone else win it just didn't feel right, you know?*" - *Cars 2*
* "*Thank you so much for having us, Sir Axlerod. I really look forward to racing. This is a great opportunity.*" - *Cars 2*
* "*I'm coming for you, Storm.*" - *Cars 3*
* "*I decide when I'm done.*" - *Cars 3*
* "*This is my last chance, Cruz. Last! Final! Finito! If I lose, I'd never get to do this again!*" - *Cars 3*
* *"If you were a racer, you'd know what I'm talking about, but you're not! So you don't!" - Cars 3*
* "*No, but I can't go out on the track and do the same old thing. It won't work.*" - *Cars 3*
* "*I'm gonna keep racing. But before that, I got something I want to do.*" - *Cars 3*
* "*Miles Axelrod! Why did you crash is on the world grand prix racers is on the Allinol?!*" - *The Adventure Begins of Cars Story*
* "***How DARE YOU TRY TO THE BLOWUP OF THE A WORLDGRANDPRIX RACERS?!***" - *The Adventure Begins of Cars Story*
* "*You cannot win, Miles Axelrod!*" - *The Adventure Begins of Cars Story*
* "*Mater was telling the truth!*" - Cars 2 Lights & Sounds Lightning McQueen, unused. He did say it in the actual universe sometimes.

### (TAOC&F: The Movie: Final Race) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)

* "*Go take care of stupid tow truck and cut that out right now!!!*" - *(TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*
* "*We’re not safe ‘til his head is mounted on my wall! I say we destroy the trucks!*" - *(TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*
* *"til he’s dead, good and dead, Destory the trucks!" - (TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*
* "*We’ll rid Rusteze pitties, lemons and stormtroopers of this fired racers. Who’s with me?*" - *(TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*
* "*You Don't Be SURE A MY BROTHER!!!*" - *(TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*
* "***I FREAKING** **LOST THE MISSING RACE FOR DINOCO LIGHT 350 AT MOTOR SPEEDWAY BECAUSE ALL OF YOU SUCK!!!!!!!***" - *(TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*
* "*BOSS DONT YOU UNDERSTAND YOU ARE DUMB! MICHAEL NEEDS TO BE FIRED NOT ME IM THE BETTER RACER ON THE TEAM! YOU GASTON!!!!!*" - *(TAOC&F: The Movie) (if Lightning McQueen was a mean racer)*

## Appearance

CarsCars 2Mater and the GhostlightCars: The Racers Return