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.

Villain-Con: Minion Blast: A ride based largely on Minions and its follow up which opened at Universal Orlando Resort in 2023, as part of a Minion Land retheming to the front of the park.

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.Minions (July 10, 2015) - A Prequel feature film starring Gru's yellow, well, minions, in The '60s before they met him.Since the first film it has become one of Universal's main properties, spawning plenty of films and spinoff material, including shorts and theme park attractions. The film series follows an ex-supervillain named Gru, his three adopted daughters, and a large army of Minions as they combat a variety of other supervillains throughout the decades. Despicable Me is a CGI animated film series and Universal franchise that began with the 2010 film of the same name, produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal.

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