Tyler Gremlin

Tyler Gremlin
Vehicle type	1975 AMC Gremlin
Color	Red, black
Occupation	Professor Z's henchman
First appearance	Cars 2
Character information Gender Male

Tyler Gremlin, also known as Tyler Trunklis, is a member of the Gremlin family in Cars 2. He assists his boss, Professor Z. Tyler is an AMC Gremlin that is painted red, with black "hockey stripes" on his doors (though they are not seen in the film), similar to other Gremlins in the film. He has a black grille and grey rims, and a license plate that reads "WREKD".

History

Cars 2

In Cars 2, Tyler is first seen watching Rod Redline being the first victim of the electromagnetic pulse camera with many other lemons.

Afterwards, Tyler is one of the many lemons that hunts down Mater in the streets of Tokyo after discovering he was in the pit garage for Lightning McQueen.

Later, Finn McMissile shows up in Lightning McQueen's pit to stop Acer and Petey Pacer from entering and attacking Mater. After Finn sprays them with foam from a fire extinguisher and starts to flee, a large number of lemons are sent after him. Tyler Gremlin is driving quietly down the road in search of Mater, but Finn uses his hook to knock over a vending machine in front of Tyler, which causes Han to wake up and suspect that Tyler was the culprit, so he and two others proceed to yell at him. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, though it is possible that Han and his other two friends made him pay for the destruction of their vending machine.

Personality

Due to growing up being ruthlessly picked on and mistreaded by his peers, Tyler developed a mean streak a mile wide. He is so spiteful and short tempered that most other cars and other vehicles give him a wide birth to avoid his rancorous wrath.

Weaponry and Gadgets

In Cars 2: The Video Game, Tyler Gremlin uses two weapons:

• Energy Leech: in the Survival Mode he uses the Energy Leech when the player los his boost.
• Missile Launcher: He uses the Missile Launcher to fire and hurt the player.

Bio

• While other boys in school had cool racing stripes, Tyler was stuck with hockey-stick stripes, and they were cheap decals to boot. Picked on in school for his goofy graphics and lack of horse power, it came as no shock that his personality got a bit menacing as time went on. The mischievous Tyler would drive without his headlights on after the dark, or chain a police officer's chassis to a lamppost. He became so salty that if any car so much as tooted their horn they would get T-boned. Most cars learned to yield to him. If a car tried to stand up to him, they'd have to hit-and-run because he always came back swinging ... just like a hockey stick.

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  2011 release with Professor Z

Trivia

• Diecast product listings refer to him as "Tyler Trunklis", implying that this was his name in the initial version of the film. It was likely changed so that every Lemon of the same family would share the same last name, the only exceptions being Don Crumlin, and Stefan Gremsky.
• On the packaging for his die-cast version, his eyes are brown, but on the actual toy, they're blue-green.
• Tyler's bio mentions how he was picked on in school for his hockey stripe design, however, Tyler does not have any hockey stripe design on his bodywork in the movie. It is possible that he removed them to avoid being picked on in school again.