H.J. Hollis is a minor character in the 2017 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Cars 3 and the main antagonist of LEGO Pixar: Bricktoons episode "Trust Yer Ol' Pal, Mater". He is an Next-Gen Piston Cup race car sponsored by N2O Cola, bearing the number 68. He is the replacement of Parker Brakeston, the previous N2O Cola racer.
Background[]
Physical description[]
H.J. Hollis is a Next-Generation race car. He has a green and purple livery, with the number 68 painted on his roof and doors in white with a thin light-purple outline. He uses Lightyear racing tires like every other Piston Cup racer and his rims are black. He has green eyes. On his hood the logo for N2O Cola can be seen. "N2O" is colored green with a purple outline while "Cola" is in white with a purple outline. On his doors the logo can be seen additionally with "Cola" appearing above the 68. His spoiler is purple and has wings.
Personality[]
In the film, he is serious and calm, when he is racing, he was also friendly with the other next-gens. Later in Bricktoons he became more antagonistic and selfish to race against Lightning McQueen and also made a crash to all racers and as well after his defeat he becomes a coward. It is not known if his BrickToons portrayal is canon to the Cars universe, however.
Appearences[]
Cars 3[]
After Jackson Storm win his first race at the Cooper Canyon Speedway in 2016, the N20 Cola team decided to fire Parker Brakeston and hire a new racer called H.J. Hollis for the mid season. He is one of the six next-generation rookie racers who debut at the Motor Speedway of the South. He finishes 4th at the Grandol Oil Co. Raceway, 6th in the Mood Springs Sputter Stop 350 at the Georgia Super Speedway, 8th in the Bumper Save Gears and Glory 450 at the Heartland Motor Speedway. He later appears in the Los Angeles 500 at the Los Angeles International Speedway.
In 2017, he raced at the Florida Super International Speedway the Florida 500 and later he crashes when Cam Spinner caused that crash, after the crash, he returned in the second half of the race. He starts in 3rd position and finishes the race in 4th position.
LEGO Pixar: Bricktoons[]
In "Trust Yer Ol' Pal, Mater", he was at the 400 Invitations sponsored by Vitoline. He appears with Flip Dover trash-talking, mocking and laughing to McQueen in the race, he was in first place and proclaimed the the cup is for him. At the final lap, he and Flip crashed into each other and the other racers crashed into them. After McQueen made his jump similar to the first Cars film, Lightning wins the race and gives a lesson to Hollis.
Trivia[]
- Hollis is a Next-Gen 2017 Race Car SB
- In two races he was 4th place.
- In three races was 6th, 7th and 8th.
- He replaced Parker Brakeston in 2016
- H.J. Hollis is the second background Piston Cup racer to evolve to a major speaking role in the Cars franchise, the first being Todd Marcus.
- In LEGO Pixar: BrickToons, H.J. Hollis has an antagonistic role and is shown to be a bit of a jerk, being heavily willing to win the race and shown to have a short temper when he got beaten by McQueen. It's unknown if this is canon to the Cars franchise or not however. Hollis is also loosely similar to Chick Hicks:
- Both were shown to be rocky and were willing to win the race so badly.
- Both lose their temper when failing to do so, caused a huge crash.
- Both are race cars with green paint jobs.
- Coincidently, Hollis' number 68 actually has the numbers with their sides switched from Chick's signature number 86.
- Due to him only having a minor background role in the film, he lacks sufficient characterization.
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