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|dislikes = [[Professor Zündapp|Professor Z]], getting damaged, putting innocents in danger, lemons, being tortured
|dislikes = [[Professor Zündapp|Professor Z]], getting damaged, putting innocents in danger, lemons, being tortured
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{{Quote|'''Acer:''' "Hey, what's so funny?"<br>'''Rod "Torque" Redline:''' "Well, you know, I was just wearing a disguise. You guys are stuck looking like that."|Rod insulting the lemons.}}
{{Quote|'''Acer:''' "Hey, what's so funny?"<br>'''Rod "Torque" Redline:''' "Well, you know, I was just wearing a disguise. You guys are stuck looking like that."|Rod insulting the lemons.}}
'''Rod "Torque" Redline''' is a minor character in the [[2011]] [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]]•[[Pixar]] animated film ''[[Cars 2]]''. He was an American secret agent who is responsible for finding out information about [[Miles Axlerod|a mysterious mastermind]] leading a group of lemons and passing it on to [[Mater]] before being captured and is a heap of scrap amid his death.
'''Rod "Torque" Redline''' is a minor character in the [[2011]] [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]]•[[Pixar]] animated film ''[[Cars 2]]''. He was an American secret agent who is responsible for finding out information about [[Miles Axlerod|a mysterious mastermind]] leading a group of lemons and passing it on to [[Mater]] before being captured and is a heap of scrap amid his death.
- “Acer: "Hey, what's so funny?"
Rod "Torque" Redline: "Well, you know, I was just wearing a disguise. You guys are stuck looking like that."” - ―Rod insulting the lemons.
Rod "Torque" Redline is a minor character in the 2011 Disney•Pixar animated film Cars 2. He was an American secret agent who is responsible for finding out information about a mysterious mastermind leading a group of lemons and passing it on to Mater before being captured and is a heap of scrap amid his death.
- Rod "Torque" Redline is considered by many as the greatest American spy in the world. Recruited after the Cold War for both his brains and brawn, Torque is a tough-as-nails Detroit muscle car with a mastery of disguises. In his latest deep-cover operation, he obtained vital information about the plot to sabotage the World Grand Prix. So Rod plans a rendezvous with his British counterparts to share his discoveries at the World Grand Prix welcome reception in Tokyo, Japan. But with the bad guys hot on his tailpipe, Rod is forced to ditch the intel early and with the first party guest he sees — a rusty American tow truck named Mater.[1]
The scene where Rod was tortured by the lemons and eventually killed was claimed by some to be inappropriate for a film that was made to include young audiences. John Lasseter mentioned that while he knew the point, he thought that the film should have it so to explain how dangerous the electromagnetic pulse generator is.[2]
Nathan Stanton, who was the story supervisor of Cars 2, mentioned that while he knew the scene may be horrifying, he thought that just getting one little piece of it into one of the film's scenes would still include one of the tones a spy movie normally has.[3]
Dave Mullins, a supervising animator, said along with Lasseter that when they were developing the scene, it was darker than in the final film, with reactions from several members at Pixar.[4] To make the scene not so violent, they "backed off tremendously," which included making Rod "tough".[2]
Rod Redline is renowned for his ability to stay calm under pressure. Being cool and brave, Rod had to try and make sure that he completed his mission of finding out secret information, even knowing that he could get killed if he was to be found out by the lemons. He also kept a smile while tricking the lemons with his disguise, though not when he met with them, and he even at one point made an insult about them.
Rod is painted dark blue, and has blue eyes, along with black lining on his sides. To add to that, he has labels saying "G4 DXR", and chrome rims on his tires that have five spokes. One of the spokes on his front left wheel carries a hidden gun. His model is made up of both a 2005 Ford Mustang GT, Saleen S281 and a Dodge Challenger R/T, and is also said by the Meet the Cars book to be a 2006 Deringer DXR.[5] On his back is a license plate that reads "M1911A1", which is also used to name a kind of gun.
When around the lemons, Rod uses a disguise that represents an AMC Gremlin that is painted ochre with a green stripe and brown eye coverings.
Rod in his Gremlin disguise.
Rod's interrogation scene has been criticized as surprising or even inappropriate. In an interview, John Lasseter said that the scene was necessary to explain efficiently and visually the working and high danger of Lukas' camera.[2]
It also enabled to get in the movie a certain tone of the spy genre. Story Supervisor Nathan Stanton said that while "watching spy films, where your character is basically tortured and it can be a really horrifying scene, I remember thinking if we could just get five-percent of this in one of our scenes, [...] if we could just get a little of this in what we want, it would be great. It would go a long way."[3]
Both Lasseter and Supervising Animator Dave Mullins mentioned that the scene as it had originally been conceived was much darker and crueler, and that several people at the studio reacted to it. They say in consequence that they "backed off tremendously." Lasseter mentions that the changes included making Rod a "tough guy".[2]
Rod, in disguise, taking a look at the lemons' machine, while Finn McMissile takes pictures of it.
When a racing competition called the World Grand Prix is announced, some American secret agents discover that there is a secret oil reserve located in the Pacific Ocean, being run by a group of criminal cars called Lemons. To find out more information, Rod is sent to the oil reserve as the lemons' first secret lair, bringing along a couple of gadgets such as a disguise that makes him look like a Gremlin. This completely fools the lemons, who reveal that they have made a machine that appears to be a standard television camera, but is said by Professor Zündapp to be "extremely dangerous". At the same time, British secret agent Finn McMissile is hiding on one of the oil rigs and watching Professor Z explaining about the camera. The lemons are also unable to notice Rod sometime later taking a picture of the mastermind's engine so that he can share it with Finn and Holley Shiftwell.
Rod gets involved in a battle with Acer and Grem.
Rod soon travels with the lemons to Tokyo, where the opening ceremony of the World Grand Prix is being held. Finn and his spy-agency counterpart Holley Shiftwell learn that an American spy is at the party and their job is to intercept him and receive a package. When the lemons are not looking, Rod sneaks away and searches for a place where he can meet up with Finn and Holley to give them the photo of the mastermind. Going into a bathroom, Rod takes off his disguise and turns on his tracking beacon for Holley to follow. However, Grem and Acer find him first, and start a battle, where Rod tries to use his gun to shoot at Acer, but both Acer and Grem dodge his tactics, and severely damage his bodywork. Just as Acer attempts to hit him one last time, he runs into the door of a toilet stall, where Mater comes out after experiencing the features of the Japanese toilets. Neither he, Grem nor Acer are able to notice Rod placing a device carrying the photo onto Mater's undercarriage, and Mater is immediately asked by Grem and Acer to leave. As Rod's tracking beacon is also located on the device, it leads to Finn and Holley both thinking Mater is the agent meant to meet them.
Professor Z demonstrating the basics of Allinol to Rod.
The moment Mater steals his role and leaves, Torque finds himself tied up and surrounded by angry Lemons in a warehouse as their second secret lair where his rear tires are between cylinders that prevent him from escaping, while parking boots are placed on his front tires that prevent him from opening his weapons. One of the lemons; such as Tyler Gremlin also fills him up with a fuel known as Allinol, which he expresses gratitude for at first, highlighting how it was venerated for its positive impact on cars. Zündapp overhears this and affirms Rod's assumption, but reveals that it has a minor, but detrimental, flaw: When in contact with an electromagnetic pulse, the fuel becomes, in his words, "extremely dangerous." Zündapp reintroduces Rod to the camera that he questioned him about on the oil rig with Grem manning the machine before revealing that it isn't actually a television camera. It's an electromagnetic pulse generator and a demonstration of Allinol's deadly weakness on the agent commences.
Rod before Professor Z's order.
As the Allinol in Rod's engine begins to react and his sensor bar senses danger, Acer angrily tries to get answers from Rod about the photo that he took of the mastermind, asking him if he had given it to any of the guests at the ceremony while showing pictures of the ones Rod had spoken to. Rod resists, but he has an involuntary reaction at an image of Mater, which Zündapp catches and contacts his boss about, assuring that the issue will be sorted out before it's too late. Rod could only show horror at allowing an oblivious civilian tow truck to become a target, before being killed from the spontaneous explosion of Allinol.
Despite Rod's death, his efforts were crucial enough to let Mater and the British agents fully understand the situation of the criminal conspiracy that the lemons are involved. Mater even takes the chance to finish up by exposing Miles Axlerod as the true mastermind of the conspiracy, thus resulting in Axlerod, Zündapp and the Lemons to be arrested and sent to prison for their crimes and giving full closure for Rod and Leland Turbo's deaths for good, avenging the two spies.
Cars 2: The Video Game
Rod in Cars 2: The Video Game.
Rod appears as a character who can be downloaded on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Cars 2: The Video Game, along with a version of him in his Gremlin disguise. Both require purchases to download them. Players can use him in certain events such as races, which are simulations run by Finn, Holley and their friends. Since the game takes place after the film, Rod is implied to be part of the simulations, like how the lemons are also part of the simulations. He is one of the heavy characters, meaning he does not have as much as speed as some of the other characters. However, he does have more power than some of the others.
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