Kid Gru's drawing and macaroni sculpture of a spaceship seem rather normal things a child would do with their time, until he actually builds a working, unmanned rocket out of street items "based on the macaroni prototype!" This still doesn't get a "Well Done, Son" Guy reaction, however.This cements him as evil, but only in a petty sort of way. Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: When Gru is first introduced, he's shown making a balloon dog for a little boy who is crying over his dropped ice cream.But then it turns out that Vector stole it and Gru didn't even know about the pyramid being stolen until Dr. Bait-and-Switch: The movie opened out with the Giza pyramid theft with a news reporter questioning who was behind this before cutting to Gru, leading the audience to believe that he was the one responsible.Giving her some grandkids is the only thing Gru ever does that earns his mother's approval. Babies Make Everything Better: Well, children, anyway.Vector's marine life guns are a particularly extravagant example. Awesome, but Impractical: Much of the technology used by Vector or Gru.His attempts to get attention are even more pathetic. Vector is the same as Gru, wanting to be numero uno.Doctor Nefario assures him he is still number one when he talks to him. Gru doesn't just want to be a villain.Ascetic Aesthetic: The general look of Vector's designs, compared to the more archetypal camp comic book villain look to Gru's designs.Artistic License Space: Gru's Moon mission takes only a couple of hours from takeoff to landing, despite involving an actual orbit of the Moon, a round trip that normally takes a week at best.The issues are partially addressed in-universe as the Moon begins to re-expand - Vector falls back onto its surface instead of it falling to crush him (again!), and then the rockets on his ship fire, though the Moon continues growing in size and destroys his ship in atmosphere, yet somehow regains size in space at its original orbital point and not the upper atmosphere. The moon shrunk down would still weigh as much as the full-sized moon (7.3477 x 10^22 kilograms), so Gru could not carry it, and it being so close to the Earth would cause a variety of gravitational problems. Artistic License Physics: Shrinking the moon will not decrease its mass (though it is implied the shrink ray Gru stole nullifies an objects mass once the effects start wearing off, the object regains its original mass).Gru's plane doesn't look particularly well-engineered either. Artistic License Engineering: Vector's "plane" doesn't even have wings, and pulls in the shrink ray through its engine and the support strut that's too thin for it.Anachronistic Orphanage: Gru originally adopts the girls from "Miss Hattie's Home for Girls", a classic Orphanage of Fear.Villain Opening Scene: All the movies begin showing the villain's heist, with the exception of the first Minions movie.Even Balthazar Bratt, the most dangerous of the villains, gets along well enough with his robot assistant. Vector has his father, El Macho has his son and pet chicken, and Scarlet Overkill has her husband. Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even ignoring Gru's fair treatment of the Minions prior to his Character Development, each villain has shown to have genuine care for their relatives and/or sidekicks.Color-Coded Characters: Both the heroes and the villains have their own color schemes to set them apart.The third film is about sibling relationships.The second film is about romantic relationships.The first film is about parent-child relationships. ![]() Central Theme: Family and The Power of Love.There's also a scene near the beginning of the first movie (the one with the water cooler) where a minion says "espera" ("wait", in Portuguese and Spanish). They call ice-cream "gelato" (Italian), say "kanpai!" ("cheers!" in Japanese) when toasting one another, and in several scenes where they give someone something, it sounds as if they say "para tú", which means "for you" in Portugese. Bilingual Bonus: The minions' language is mostly nonsense, but includes a mish-mash of words borrowed from other languages.And apparently yet another will open at their Singapore park in approximately 2024. Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem : A ride based on the film which opened in 2012 at the Orlando Universal Studios, followed by a duplicate being opened at the Hollywood park in 2014, then another duplicate being opened at the Japan park in 2017, and finally another duplicate being an opening day attraction at their Beijing park in 2021.Sleepy Kittens (2010) - Defictionalization of the book Gru reads to the girls.Despicable Me: The World's Greatest Villain (2010).Despicable Me: My Dad the Super Villain (2010).Minions: The Rise of Gru (July 1, 2022) - Another prequel following Gru as a kid and his Minions in The '70s.
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