Cars Apocalypse AU

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Creators:
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Series Begun:
2024-10-08
Series Updated:
2025-07-21
Description:

Alternate Universe, diverges from canon during Cars 3 epilogue.
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"What if racecars were left totally unsupervised?"

Everyone but a very small population of cars drops dead within days after an invisible wave of pain crosses the globe, injuring most living machines beyond repair.

Lightning McQueen, Cruz Ramirez, and Chick Hicks are among the few survivors. Together, they set out to the vast and now-wild lands of north america in search of oil... and life.

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A Mad Max/TWD/TLOU post-apocalptic longform anthology series with no zombies, custom lore, canon and original supporting characters, and a fully queer main cast.

Notes:

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Covers a period of time between mid-2018 to ~2048 (on the basis that Cars 3 takes place in 2017+2018).
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Credits: original baseline idea of the AU is from an anonymous discord user in the carburetor county discord server in 2019. We each had our own takes and it branched off into a few separate AUs. One of which is mine and Non’s, which is the version depicted here.
AU inspired partly by: Mad Max Fury Road/Furiosa, The Walking Dead, and Warrior Cats.
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Major Character Death blanket warning.

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Works:
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Bookmarks:
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