This Pixar Cars Theory is Disgusting and Totally Possible

Pixar's Cars has no people...or were they there all along? It's horrifying, but the clues all line up. Kim Horcher and Ray Carsillo (Host, EGM Reviews Editor) break it down.

"While I enjoy Pixar’s Cars franchise, I have some significant issues with the movies and the overall universe that the sentient cars live in. Today I want to address something beyond my well-publicized disagreement over eye placement; this is more philosophical and physiological. I’ve been giving the issue some thought, and I’ve come up with a theory. A horrific, disturbing theory....*"

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KIM:

RAY:

[gnome_farmer]

i wanna a see a car get in a car and drive it.

[taqu]

OR, maybe smart, self-driving cars developed consciusness and singularity and eventually basically trapped the humans inside the cars in some way and started to use them as fuel or power, Matrix-style. The humans probably aren't conscious anymore, but the cars create new human life by some semen extraction and insertion process that occurs when the cars bone, and its transferred into new baby cars. I don't know, I just came up with that, but I kind of like my theory more. :D

[DjBassWolf]

You know why?
Because it's a movie for kids.

[Samuel]

Cant we just use the possibility that the world of cars is a world where there were always cars and there were NEVER humans?

[dontmakelemonade]

someone's over thinking a children's film.

[brotherjustincrowe]

The Pixar guys themselves say their doors can't open because their brains will fall out. I'm not kidding.

[k]

Arguably there are no remnants of human culture in Cars.  All of the cultural objects are shown as being by and for vehicles.  In Planes, even World War II occurred, but apparently as a fight between vehicles.  Why not?

[dinomash]

Late for my two cents, but Cars is a parallel universe on its own

[eon]

love this theory. it's like soylent green meets the matrix. they should turn it into a dark mirror episode.

[JosephJonesJRJ]

Not everything needs an in-universe explanation. It's a cartoon. (Responding to theory itself, not NA's coverage of it.)

[Stiffkittens]

This has got to be the MOST screwed up thing I have ever heard!!

They have windows, doors, mirrors etc because they are supposed to look like CARS!! Next this guy will be saying actors should have their facial features and hands removed!

[TOSStarTrek]

Do not have the hate for Cars some people do

[kierenstudios]

Basically, it's kind of like The Matrix. People are trapped in a virtual reality (or a different perspective on life) that they do not realize.

[cjhs]

You Guys Should Really Watch The SuperCarlinBrothers Theory About This, it Makes a Lot More Sense Than This 1

[darklight]

i dont find it disgusting. i like the idea of having a metallic outer shell. but not a car/vehicle form.

[brandonstinson]

The theory where Cars, Monsters Inc, and The Incredibles are stories in the Pixar world. its more plausible because there are comic books of The Incredibles in Finding Nemo.

[EmmaSpAce]

the connected universe theory will limit future pixar artists and that disappoints me

[josiahnelson]

Anyone else watching this two years later?

[jfournerat]

Another possible theroy is that in the cars universe there were once humans who lived and coexisted together with the sentient vehicles and had no grudges with each other and lived in peace. Then something cataclysmic happened either a nuclear war or climate change which wiped out most of the human population with only the vehicles surviving due to being immune to radiation and adaptive to the changed climate although in the case of a nuclear war many vehicles were still killed by the blast. Being horrified at the deaths of their friends and neighbors the sentient vehicles rebuilt the world to what it was before the crisis and adopted many of the humans culture and things to honor their memory. The reason why humans aren’t mentioned in the movies is because the sentient vehicles don’t want to reminded about the horrible traumatic things that they witnessed including the deaths of their friends and neighbors at public happy events like racing although the humans are still mentioned in history books and by those who knew them.

[okperson]

I'm sad they didn't put the cars killing humans theory