Lighting McQueen

> *"Look WALL-E don't listen to Mary. I know we didn't really know each other at first but its not your fault all of this happened. If anything Im kinda glad we met. Minus the whole vengeful witch trying to take over the world or whatever."*
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## Lighting McQueen

### Allies

Mater (best friend), Sally (girlfriend), Doc Huston † , Cruz Ramirez, Jackson Storm, Radiator Springs residents, Wall-E. E.V.E, M-O, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Bo Peep, Jessie, Nemo, Dory, Marlin, Bob Parr, Helen Parr, Violet Parr, Dash Parr, Remy, Linguini, Emilie, Carl Fredricksen, Russell, Dug, Kevin, Merida, Queen Elinor, Riley Anderson, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Luxo Jr, Day and Night

### Enemies

Mary Gibbs , Chick Hicks, Jackson Storm (formerly)

### Relatives

Unnamed Parents

**Lightning McQueen** is the main protagonist of the Disney•Pixar *Cars* franchise. He is a famous race car who learns there is more to life than just racing and winning following a brief but life-changing stay in the remote town of Radiator Springs he was stranded in after getting lost on the way to California.

He is the protagonist of *Cars* and *Cars 3* and the deuteragonist of *Cars 2*. Lighting is also the deuteragonist of Wish Upon.

## Background

### Personality

At first, Lightning is self-centered and overconfident, feeling he can win the Piston Cup on his own without help from any pit crews or coach. He is so full of himself to the point where he claims he does not need any friends and cannot even get anyone's names right. Because of his attitude towards people, he turned out to be rather friendless and became lonely, which is shown when his agent Harv gave him a few tickets to give his ‘friends’, unaware that Lightning had no friends. However, he is also something of a perfectionist and will not cease to get something done right, even if it was not in his best interest to indulge in it in the first place as seen when he was tasked by the townsfolk to fix the road that he himself destroyed when he first arrived at their place. After a few grudging performances in his attempts to fix the road, he finally manages to do so. His sponsors are Rust-eze, a small company selling soothing ointment for rusty old cars, which Lightning hates. However, he transforms into a more sympathetic, understanding, and selfless character during his time in Radiator Springs on Route 66. During the final race, his new personality made him change his ways when he decided to accept defeat by forfeiting the Piston Cup so he can help Strip Weathers finish his last race, realizing that helping others is more important than winning even if it allowed Chick Hicks to win. He has since learned to enjoy making friends and treat others with respect.

### Physical Appearance

Lightning has blue eyes and primary has warm colors in his paint jobs. His car model is said to be a stock car and more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer mixed together, while the *Cars* Blu-ray Car Finder game states it to be a 2006 handmade one of a kind car.

When he is originally sponsored by Smell Swell in the *World of Cars* book, he has a red ducktail spoiler, the Smell Swell logo on his hood, and his racing number, 95, painted green on his sides, along with a thin, yellow lightning bolt.