Kabuto: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Character

|image = KabutoArt.png

|make = [[Kyoku|Kyoku Jitsu]]

|gender = Male

|eye color = Green (''[[Tokyo Mater]]'')<br>Brown (''[[Cars 2]]'')

|paint color = Grey, black, yellow, red

|occupation = Tuner<br>[[Tokyo]] drifter

|home = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]

|crew = [[Ninjas]]

|performer = [[Mach Tony Kobayashi]]

|first = ''[[Tokyo Mater]]''

|latest = ''[[Cars 2]]''}}'''Kabuto''' is a spoiled and obnoxious drifter that resides in [[Tokyo]].

In ''[[Tokyo Mater]]'', Kabuto encounters [[Tow Mater|Mater]] when the latter accidentally touches his paint, upon his arrival, and challenges him to a drift race, that takes them all the way to the top of [[Tokyo Tower]]. The winner will be crowned king of all drifters, but the loser will be stripped of all modifications. During the race, Kabuto taunts Mater for not being able to drift so easily compared, and tries to lose him, by summoning his [[ninjas]] to attack Mater. However, [[Lightning McQueen]] (who suddenly came into the story after Mater announced that he was there too) immediately takes out the ninjas, only for them to find out that Kabuto is nearly at the tower. Soon, Mater catches up to Kabuto through a pipe that McQueen sends him through with a fireball, and the two of them race up to the top of the tower. Furious and determined to win, Kabuto knocks Mater off the tower, but is shocked to find that Mater had got to the top with his hook, thus winning the race and costing Kabuto his modifications. Now having become "stock", Kabuto is left humiliated by his own ninjas.

===''Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales''===

In ''[[Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: The Video Game]]'', Kabuto makes an appearance as a supporting character in the Tokyo Mater set of minigames.

In ''[[Cars 2]]'', Kabuto appears during Mater and McQueen's visit to Tokyo in time for the [[World Grand Prix]], first while they are driving through the streets, and later at the welcome party held at the [[Tokyo National Art Center|National Art Center]] with [[Yokoza]], [[Komodo]], [[Chisaki]], [[Harumi]], [[Suki]], and [[Ichigo]]. Here, he is sporting his modifications despite their removal in ''Tokyo Mater''.

*The [[:wikipedia:Kabuto|kabuto]] is the name of the traditional samurai helmet, of which Kabuto's design bears resemblance to.

*In ''Cars 2'', his eyes are brown, but in ''Tokyo Mater'' and on his [[Mattel]] [[1:55 Scale Die-Cast|die-cast]], they are green, creating an error. In real life, brown is the most common eye color among East Asians, which could have to do with the change.<ref>Moyer, Nancy. [https://www.healthline.com/health/eye-health/eye-color-percentages#percentages "Eye Color Percentage for Across the Globe."] Healthline (2019).</ref>

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{{Cars Toons}}{{Cars: Race-O-Rama}}{{Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales: The Video Game}}{{Cars 2}}