Sir Miles Axlerod

“	How did the tow truck* figure it out?!*	„
	~ Sir Miles Axlerod reading everyone's minds.

Sir Miles Axlerod is the main antagonist of Pixar's 12th full-length animated feature film Cars 2, the second installment of the Cars film series and a cameo antagonist in its 2017 sequel Cars 3.

He is an oil tycoon and explorer, CEO of Axelrod Industries, and became the manipulative leader of the lemons who intend to use their oil for profit and be the richest car in the world.

He was voiced by Eddie Izzard.

What Makes Him a Scrappy?[]

He is one of Pixar's most boring and uninteresting villains yet. He amounts to a generic evil rich mobster who wants to be the richest in the world. He lacks anything beyond that and has no characteristics to make him even remotely engaging.
- In addition, he overshadows the comparatively much more entertaining and cooler Professor Zündapp as the main villain and making him the Dragon instead.
Axlerod gets barely any screen time as a villain before the reveal and was immediately defeated in an extremely humiliating way just seconds after he is revealed as the secret Lemon kingpin. With negligible screen time alone, Axlerod was more poorly received than even other base-breaking Twist Villains. An earlier draft meant to reveal it earlier but changed to make Mater look smart.
His disguised Lemon Kingpin voice is literally the exact same as his normal voice but lower-pitched, making it painfully obvious that he was the evil mastermind all along.
During his speech, he appears to be a blue color instead of his usual black and olive green. While this was supposed to throw the audience off his scent, there's no in-universe answer for how and why he changed colors.
His motive is flat out stupid and illogical that it makes no sense for him to be evil. He basically became evil because he got himself lost due to his poor engine when attempting to circumnavigate the world without GPS and felt mocked and didn't bother trying to replace his engine even though he is one of the richest cars in the world.
His plan is dumber and even more illogical than his motive as well. Axlerod’s plan is spend loads of money creating a fuel brand and use more money to create a race solely to sabotage it, paint alternative fuel as bad and have people switch to gasoline so he can be the richest car in the world. That is ridiculously convoluted and considering how much money he would have to spend, one would doubt if he would even make a profit.
He is revealed in an embarrassing manner, in which Mater outsmarts him into giving himself out as the leader of the Lemons, and Mater is about far away from the brightest bulb, that it makes Axelrod more pathetic than anything and less of a threatening figure.
- Mater's reasons for believing he is the leader of the Lemons make no sense. Mater's explanation on the bolts on his bomb being the same as the one on the engine the kingpin has no reason on why it connects to Axelrod, and other than just basic pride, Mater has no firm proof that Axlerod was the one who leaked oil during the World Grand Prix Launching Party in Tokyo.
Axlerod is so despised that even as the film gained a warmer reception as a "So Bad, It's Good" film with multiple ironic qualities that make the film ironically good, barely anyone considers Axlerod as one of those qualities that give it an ironically good value, and still receives the same reception as he did initially as a dull and thoroughly unenjoyable twist villain.

Trivia[]

He is the icon of the Spoilers template. This is likely a reference to him having his true nature only being shown for 20 seconds in the end.
As well, Axlerod is a Scrappy, while Zündapp is his opposite, a Base Breaking Character.