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[[File:despicable-me-002_9694.png|frame|''One big ([[Big Bad|Ba]][[A Worldwide Punomenon|d!]]), happy family.'']]
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''If you take it personal that's okay.
''Watch; this is so fun to see,
''Oh, [[Title Drop|Despicable me]]!"''
Unfortunately, a younger villain, Vector ([[Jason Segel]]), steals the shrink ray Gru was in the middle of stealing, and he needs to get it back. That's when Gru notices how willing Vector is to let orphans selling cookies into his house and ... [[Unsound Effect|lightbulb]]! Gru proceeds to adopt the three orphans: Margo, Edith, and Agnes ([[Miranda Cosgrove]], [[Dana Gaier]] and [[Elsie Fisher]]) to carry out his [[Evil Plan]]
Can Gru [[Defrosting Ice King|learn the importance of family and how to be a good dad]]?
A sequel, predictably named ''[[Despicable Me 2]]'', was released in 2013, followed by ''[[Despicable Me 3]]'' in 2017. In 2016, Gru's yellow minions got [[Minions (film)|their own movie]], which was a [[Prequel]] of sorts to the first film.
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== A-E ==
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* [[A Bloody Mess]]: The incident with the iron maiden. {{spoiler|Of course, it turns out to be grape juice.}}
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Gru's response to a Minion making a mocking shadow puppet of him in the credits.
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* [[Adorable Evil Minions]]: Aww... just look at the little guys above!
* [[Adult Child]]: Gru and Vector are not true adults, Gru has [[Freudian Excuse]]s and Vector still toys with his superweapons. Gru will become a true adult after the movie.
* [[Adult Fear]]:
** {{spoiler|Having your children kidnapped by a villain obsessed with [[Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods|fish and squids]].}}
** Your kids being taken away ''period,'' by someone in the foster-care business.
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: Edith
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Gru, although the "awesome" isn't apparent at first.
* [[Bamboo Technology]]:
** 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'' "based on the macaroni prototype!" This still doesn't get a [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] reaction, however.
** {{spoiler|Also, the spaceship for the moon mission is made out of whatever they could find to build it, after the bank stopped funding them.}}
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Vector finds out Gru's button the hard way when he {{spoiler|kidnaps the girls.}}
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Although Vector is presented as Gru's primary antagonist, the ''true'' villain of the film is arguably {{spoiler|Vector's father, Mr. Perkins, who finances his exploits and obviously has a great deal of control over him.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: Gru, until his [[Heel Face Turn]] at the climax while saving the girls from Vector.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]
** If you know Spanish, even a few words, you'll know what Gru actually calls Miss Hattie when he tries to flatter her. {{spoiler|She later buys a Spanish-English dictionary and finds out he says, basically, "Your face looks like a donkey." A ''male'' donkey.}} Bonus in that he actually asked her if she spoke Spanish implying that he knew what he was calling her.
*** In the Latin American dub (the one used in Mexico) what he says is that {{spoiler|"She has the figure of a Tololoche". She later claims to have investigated the word.}}
*** The Spanish dub has Gru call Miss Hattie "rucio", which is an antique word for "donkey".
** The minions' language seems to be mostly nonsense, but every time they give someone something, it sounds as if they say "para tú," which means "for you" in Portugese. There's also a scene near the beginning of the movie (the one with the water cooler) where a minion says "espera" ("wait" in Portuguese and Spanish).
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: There are two villains, one of them (we have as the main character) was a #1 supervillain, but there is also another supervillain who has stolen a pyramid; which has replaced this villain with the other. At the end, {{spoiler|The villain sends the villain to the moon for apparent asphyxiation and possibly replaces the villain with well... himself.}}
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: The Minions. Loyal, adorable... {{spoiler|and can be shaken and used as a glowstick.}}
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* [[Book Ends]]: The television anchor reporting on the theft of the pyramid ''and'' the return of the moon.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: When the girls have fulfilled their dreams of being adopted, they start to enjoy their exciting new home all until Dr. Nefario {{spoiler|calls Miss Hattie to take them back. The little girls beg Gru for this not to happen, but (convinced by Nefario) lets them go. They ''hate'' Ms. Hattie and would like to be with Gru instead.}}
* [[Brick Joke]]:
** {{spoiler|The anti-gravity minion. [[Rule of Three|''Three times'' ]].}}
** {{spoiler|Also, the incident under Bilingual Bonus above.}}
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** One Minion tries ballet after watching the girls try it, only to be punched in the face in response by another Minion. At the end, the second Minion tries it out and gets the same response from the first one.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Vector as a villain: he likes to wear gaudy tracksuits and use mostly ineffective guns that shoot out some form of aquatic life to do his villainy. Yet he manages to steal the Pyramids of Giza! {{spoiler|Possibly a subversion as it is revealed that he has help from his father.}} To be fair, {{spoiler|the Squid Launcher ''did'' work and have its uses. Until Gru electrocuted him.}}
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]:
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** Later, during Gru's videoscreen presentation to the bank director, the girls start clowning around. Edith and Agnes find the freeze ray, and Edith says "Freeze ray!" just before turning Gru's entire body (minus his head, arms and butt) into an ice cube.
** Subverted in the sequel when Lucy tells him he's giving up the element of surprise, then tases him ''before'' smugly announcing "Lipstick taser!"
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]:
** Gru regularly does things just to be a dick. Take parking his giant car at the bank. He finds a parking spot, but pushes back the car behind him a little. Then he rams the one in front, then the one in back, then repeats until he has moved several cars out of position, both wrecking them and giving him more space than he could ever need.
** He gave a child a balloon animal ''just so he could pop it''.
** Arguably all villains in-Universe. They have their own ''bank''.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** Gru's "Light bulb..."
** "Eh..." says Gru's mother.
** Vector's "Oh yeah!"
* [[Chain of People]]:
** {{spoiler|At the climax of the film, Margo starts to plummet from several hundred feet, and Gru himself falls trying to catch her. The Minions form a [[Chain of People]] to save ''both'' of them.}}
** Occurs earlier in the movie on a smaller scale {{spoiler|while Gru is stealing the shrink ray}}. Although it was kind of accidental here.
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Played straight with Agnes. Mostly averted with the offbeat, macabre Edith and the cynical Margo.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The minions' {{spoiler|ability to form human chains rapidly}}.
* [[Children Raise You]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Agnes. And it is ''cute''.
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* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: The recital on the exact day Gru needs to launch his rocket.
* [[Cool Car]]: Gru's giant smoke-spewing and road-hogging airship/tank makes Hummers look inconspicuous and eco-friendly.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: {{spoiler|Even by the standards of the Bank of Evil, it turns out. Can there be anything more evil than an Evil Banker who used to run [[Take That|Lehman Brothers]]? And is using his position to promote his own worthless son over the solid efforts of a real villain?}}
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Villains ride roughshod over the planet. A rare foiled plot has newscasters declaring "Good triumphs for once!" Even {{spoiler|the orphanages}} are run by [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]], and the only villain who fails his [[Karma Houdini]] is {{spoiler|the relatively harmless Vector}}.
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]:
** {{spoiler|The credits have the Minions come on screen and attempt to stretch themselves off the screen and into the theater, testing the limits of the 3D effects. One Minion succeeds in launching himself off the screen and into the booth where he begins making shadow puppets.}}
** There's also a mobile app which allows movie-goers to get a translation of just what the Minions are saying during the course of the credits. The translation provides a hilarious [[Take That]]:
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'''Minion #2:''' [''not amused''] Sir, you've made a mockery of our noble contest. }}
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud voice almost all the minions.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Believe it or not, {{spoiler|Gru. The trailers make him out to be an exceptional villain, but in the film, he's kind of incompetent and far too nice to be an effective villain.}} It takes {{spoiler|Vector kidnapping the kids}} for his true potential to show up. Dr. Nefario lampshades this quite a few times.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: While Vector is playing with the Shrink Ray in the bathroom.
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* [[Cute Kitten]]: Much to Gru's disdain.
* [[
* [[Dance Party Ending]]: {{spoiler|In-canon, even. Interrupting an excerpt from Swan Lake... with what? Something contemporary? A gratuitous rap remix? One better: ''Disco''. Which Gru turns out to be adept at.}} It's the [[Bee Gees]]' song ''You Should Be Dancing'', complete with Gru mimicking [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Margo
* [[Defictionalization]]: The Sleepy Kittens book [http://www.amazon.com/Sleepy-Kittens-Despicable-Cinco-Paul/dp/031608381X/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b can now be found on Amazon]. Doesn't come with the little brush though.
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Look, Gru, the point is, there are a lot of newer villains out there. Younger than you, hungrier than you. ''Younger. Than you.'' Like that young fellow out there."
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: The main character.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
** [[Word of God|The filmmakers say]] that Vector's technology was meant to look like an iPod in contrast to Gru's Cold War-era aesthetic.
** Gru's "pep talk" in the third act hits a little too close to home. {{spoiler|He's basically ''firing'' the minions and telling them the "company" is shutting down. It got better, but still.}}
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** Vector [[Austin Powers|wears a loud, ridiculous orange suit, has a dorky hairstyle and glasses, does hip-thrusts when he's excited...]]
* [[Don't Split Us Up]]: [[Averted]]; siblings in foster care are often separated. {{spoiler|Even more of an aversion because the junior novelization says the girls "aren't technically sisters, but they spend all their time together."}}
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Victor... Er, Vector
* [[The Dragon]]: Dr. Nefario, to Gru.
* [[Dramatic Pause]]: Parodied.
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** Gru's archnemesis, Vector, strongly resembles [[Dexter's Laboratory|Mandark]].
** The Bank of Evil manager resembles The [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] from ''[[Dilbert]]'',evenly blended with [[Marvel Universe|The Kingpin]].
** Miss Hattie strongly resembles [[Harry Potter
** Gru also shares many characteristics with Anton Ego from ''[[Ratatouille]]''. Both characters are pale, brooding, wear black clothing, have long thin limbs, have long pointed noses, and [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|are villainous characters who turn out to be good guys all along]] by the end of their respective films. Critics have pointed out similarities between Gru and [[Batman|The Penguin]] and [[Austin Powers|Dr. Evil]] as well. Also [[Phineas and Ferb|Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]]. See [[Fan Nickname]].
** The personalities of the Minions are very similar to those of [[Raving Rabbids|The Rabbids]], but their appearance hews a lot closer to [[Mega Man Legends|Servbots]].
** Gru's mom looks almost exactly like Granny from ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' -- they even both know martial arts!
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* [[Fake Crossover]]: Japan only, with [[Inazuma Eleven]] in this [[Eyecatch]] set [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZRNJ8AeO2I seen here] and a trailer for the JP release of the movie [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIfjgAKtUDc seen here].
* [[Fake Video Camera View]]: At the end. It's notable in that they actually used a 1920x1080 resolution marker in the bottom corner.
* [[Fat Bastard]]:
** Mr. Perkins
** Miss Hattie, to a certain degree.
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* [[Fun Size]]: Anything hit by the shrink ray. {{spoiler|Temporarily.}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Vector prefers to simply steal desired items from people (''viz.'' Gru) who actually have the talent and skill to get them, since he knows it's easier than doing it himself. He does manage to get the Great Pyramid on his own, though. The second he has the moon, he ''immediately'' tries to kill Gru.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** Just what exactly is in that baby bottle?
** The scene after {{spoiler|Gru and the minions steal the Shrink Ray,}} Gru actually runs out of the house in his underwear, points back at the door and screams, "We did it!"
** The way Vector [[Gun in My Pocket|acts while wielding]] the Shrink Ray seems a bit...[[Compensating for Something|over-enthusiastic]].
** As Vector describes a vector as something with ''direction'' and ''magnitude'', he starts hip thrusting.
** [http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/198/0/5/Find_The_Minion_Kiss_by_Damon1515.jpg This]{{Dead link}}. And one smacks the other away a second later. The same two minions can be seen kissing in the background of another scene...except it's the ''other'' who starts it.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Gru wears underpants with smileys, as seen in their escape from Vector's fortress.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Twice from a robotic arm when breaking into Vector's lair, once later on, and a fourth one at the end..
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* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Three of them.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Gru and done in a powerful and believable way.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Gru spends most of the film relying on technology to do his dirty work; in almost every case, it doesn't work properly, doesn't work well enough, or isn't what he needed or wanted in the first place. {{spoiler|And then he takes on heat seeking missiles, followed by a shark. Bare handed. And doesn't break a sweat}}.
* [[High-Speed Missile Dodge]]: Gru pulls this off very impressively. Not only are the missiles in question heat-seeking, but he ''jumps over'' them and even runs '''on top''' of one.
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* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Dana Gaier looks a lot like Edith.
* [[Jerkass]]: Vector. Full stop. Also a little bit of the barker at the carnival when Agnes tries to win her plush.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Gru runs on this trope.
== K-O ==
* [[Karma Houdini]]:
** {{spoiler|Miss Hattie. The worst person in the movie simply goes on her way at the end.}}
** {{spoiler|Not quite as glaring, but Mr. Perkins is the closest thing the movie has to a [[Big Bad]] - and then he's never mentioned again after his involvement in Vector's schemes is revealed. One assumes he just kept on running the Bank of Evil.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Gru's [[Establishing Character Moment]]. {{spoiler|No, he didn't have to stop and make a balloon animal for the kid who just dropped his ice cream, only to pop it... but it [[Rule of Funny|was funny]].}}
* [[Licked by the Dog]]: Sort of. When he shows up to adopt the girls, Edith and Margo look less than excited when they see him. Agnes, however, scampers across the room to cling to his leg.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Notice how the [[James Bond]]-worthy soundtrack in the initial stages of Gru's villainy turn into something out of [[Iron Man]] {{spoiler|to mark his [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: At the climax of the film, {{spoiler|Gru pulls all kinds of crazy stunts to rescue the girls from the clutches of his rival Vector.}}
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* [[Looks Like Orlok]]: Gru: he is bald, has a hooked nose, a hunched back, and a trenchcoat.
* [[Love Redeems]]
* [[Lucky Translation]]: the scene with the cookie robots, which actually are boogie robots, is rendered very well in the Italian dubbing of the film. They have been renamed "Bisco robots", where "bisco" is short for "biscotto" (cookie), and then revealed as Disco robots, a joke that works as well, if not better, as the original English language pun.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Gru's Villainmobile can do this.
* [[Made of Iron]]: While trying to get into Vector's base, Gru gets repeatedly hit with stuff, bitten, and ''missiled''... but suffers no visible damage other than comically blackened skin.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Doctor Nefario.
* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Gru's elderly mother takes martial arts classes, and manages to kick a punching bag (along with the martial arts instructor) across the room!
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]:
** One of the original teaser trailers showed none of the major players. Odd, for a start-up studio. It showed the opening sequence from the movie that revealed the pyramid to be stolen. It implies that it was Gru who did this. It was actually Vector.
** The first two or so trailers released told audiences ''nothing'' about what the film was about... not even the premise. Later trailers made it seem like the girls were dropped off at Gru's doorstep, when he actually adopted them as part of a scheme.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Various villainous schemes are described by a [[Large Ham]] talking head on [[MSNBC]] with abrupt camera pans...[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann|wonder who that could be...]]
* [[No Conservation of Mass]]: Shrunk items don't seem to retain their old mass, instead weighing what you'd expect an object that size to weigh.
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]:
** Tides would be the least of the Earth's concerns if the moon suddenly disappeared. The sudden absence (and return) of the Moon's gravitational pull would trigger earthquakes, tsunami, and volcanic eruptions. Also, having the moon gaining its entire mass, shape and size right next to the Earth's surface would definitely [[Inferred Holocaust|Be Very Bad]].
** Smaller example of the trope - the roller coaster Gru and the girls had ridden on goes ''right behind the game kiosk Gru blows away''. Let's hope the rails aren't damaged!
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* [[Oh Crap]]: The carnival worker when Gru pulls out his [[BFG|ray gun]].
** Vector when Gru {{spoiler|assaults his hideout to rescue the girls, and outwits all his traps. "He punched my ''shark?!''"}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]:
** Dr. Nefario seems to fancy himself this.
** Also Margo among the three orphans.
* [[Orphanage of Fear]]: The girl's institution is so soul destroying that it's no wonder being adopted by Gru seems like an improvement {{spoiler|and truly becomes that in the end.}}
== P-T ==
* [[Papa Wolf]]:
** {{spoiler|Gru, during the climax. }}
** A minor example occurs during the carnival game sequence, when the barker nearly makes Agnes cry.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: [[Up to Eleven|ON ]][[Crowning Moment of Funny|THE ]][[Running Gag|PYRAMID.]]
* [[Parallel Parking]]: Gru can't parallel park without demolishing ''all'' the cars on either side -- well, he ''could'', but that wouldn't be ''despicable''.
* [[Parental Bonus]]:
** One can only hope that the kids in the audience didn't get the [[The Godfather|Godfather]] reference.
** And they surely didn't get the "Lehman Brothers" joke, either.
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** A villain called Gru posing as cold-war era spy? See [[Punny Name]] below.
* [[Pinky Swear]]: "Oh, yes, my pinky promises."
* [[Product Placement]]:
** Vector has a [[Nintendo Wii]]. It's not clear if it's product placement or not, since it happens to go perfectly with [[Ascetic Aesthetic|the design scheme of Vector's house]].
** There's also Agnes' "caterpillar" that never finished its butterfly metamorphosis; it's distinctly referred to as a Cheeto.
** Also, in the scene when Vector goes through his fanny-pack to pay the girls for the cookies, he can ''clearly'' be heard saying "Ooh, Tic-Tacs!"
** The stolen Times Square screen has the NBC logo on it (although that is [[Truth in Television]]). [[Sarcasm Mode|We're sure it's just a coincidence]] that NBC, like Universal, who distributed this film, are divisions of NBC Universal. Less coincidental is the use of [[MSNBC]].
* [[Punishment Box]]: orphans who disobey Miss Hattie get put in the Box of Shame.
* [[Punny Name]]: Gru speaks with a 'Russian' accent. [[wikipedia:GRU|The GRU]] is also one of Russia's intelligence agencies. When the girls find out about Gru's underground hideout he admits he's not a dentist, but instead a secret agent.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: All the minions are this.
* [[Raised by Wolves]]: Just look at the 'living quarters' Gru made for the girls at first. {{spoiler|Two dog dishes and some newspapers, people.}}
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Gru wears a pink astronaut suit {{spoiler|by the time he gets to the moon to shrink it.}} Of course, [[Rule of Symbolism|the reason it's pink is because he washed it in the same load as the girls' pink dancing dresses]], but hey, he still wears it! He also attends his daughters' ballet recitals after some resistance that had more to do with being busy than with not wanting to be seen at a ballet class.
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** {{spoiler|Also subverted with the ''Fart'' Gun. Dr. Nefario did wonder "under what circumstances we could use such a thing" when it proves readily capable of stunning a Minion. Yet aside from the demonstration it's not seen for the rest of the movie.}}
** The {{spoiler|Boogie Robots}} don't appear during the [[Dance Party Ending]], either.
** So many, many things were introduced and then subsequently forgotten in this movie like Gru's mother's kung-fu skills and the anti-gravity serum. There are dropped Chekhov's Guns littered throughout.
*** The anti-gravity serum does provide several [[Brick Joke|brick jokes]].
* [[Road Runner vs. Coyote]]: Subverted. One [http://www.geekweek.com/2010/06/lyt-at-laff-some-of-the-best-for-last.html review] called this "Wile E. Coyote vs. Wile E. Coyote".
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* [[Running Gag]]: Gru popping children's balloons.
* [[Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|By the end of the film Vector ends up trapped on the moon, as he was caught near it as it was returning to its normal size and orbit.}}
* [[Sequel Hook]]:
** Yes, the setting is a [[Crap Saccharine World]] with many a [[Karma Houdini]], but imagine the possibilities now that Gru and his daughters have {{spoiler|cut off all ties to the criminal world and now can spend their time in the sequels taking the other villains down.}}
** And consider the even cooler possibility of Gru {{spoiler|apprenticing the girls in the way of supervillainy and pulling off even more epic crimes.}}
** There are tons and tons of dropped [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Guns]] in the movie.
* [[Shameless Self Promoter]]: According to Gru, the children's book he reads to the girls at the end is the best book ever written. So who wrote it? Oh yeah! Gru himself!
* [[Shark Pool]]: In Vector's lair.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Margo wears a shirt with [[Dr. Seuss|the Lorax]] on it, which also counts as a very [[Early-Bird Cameo]] for Illumination Entertainment's next film (at this point they haven't even figured out what [[The Faceless|the rest of the Once-ler]] looks like).
** And this.
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** There's also the scene {{spoiler|after the girls are taken away}} wherein Gru wakes up to find several toys (including a [[The Godfather|disembodied head]]) in his bed and screams.
** Gru's [[Establishing Character Moment]] with the balloon in the beginning is a reference to a very similar moment in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjPgt5UNUc Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train].
*** One of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hocFEDWUe7Q&NR=1 teaser trailers] ended with [[Alfred Hitchcock Presents|Gru's silhouette walking into his own outline]].
** Vector's supervillian name plus his real name (Victor) refer to ''[[Airplane!]]''.
** Gru's logo looks suspiciously like the ''[[
** The shot of Gru
** The scene in which Gru wins the stuffed toy unicorn for Agnes at the amusement park is a reference to ''[[Darkman]]'' and the pink elephant.
** The cheering control room scene matches the [[Apollo 13]] version, albeit with minions
* [[Shown Their Work]]: While Gru is listing the rules, instead of lifting three fingers for the third one, he lifts two and the thumb, that's the
* [[Shrink Ray]]
* [[Sigil Spam]]: Vector's and Gru's logos are everywhere on their houses and equipment. Incidentally, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127121031/http://www.vsmileshop.com/ take a look at the V-smile logo].
* [[Sinister Schnoz]]: A subversion, that while Gru ''is'' a [[Villain Protagonist|villain]], he's actually a [[Affably Evil|good]] [[Anti-Villain|person]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]:
** Especially in scenes in space, and ''especially'' the scene of Earth from the Moon, {{spoiler|before Vector comes into shot after being stranded there.}}
** And the very last scene, again, involving the moon.
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* [[Stock Scream]]: The Wilhelm Scream is uttered by Gru-Mama's karate teacher.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The karaoke song about "Lola Banana" sung by one of the minions in the toy store sounds [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqXtkDT9uM awfully familiar].
* [[Take That]]:
** The Bank of Evil has a disclaimer sign stating that it was formerly {{spoiler|Lehman Brothers.}}
** Also used somewhat against critics that tend to turn things into a [[Periphery Hatedom]], during the scene where Gru is reading to the kids.
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* [[Taxidermy Terror]]: Gru's home is full of furniture made from stuffed animals. As the girls walk down the hall, they see a stuffed lion's head. In it's mouth is a stuffed dog, with a stuffed cat in its mouth, which has a stuffed mouse in its mouth.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: The owner of the carnival game Gru takes the girls to. They have to knock over a flying saucer that's nearly impossible to hit and a direct hit can't knock down. [[Papa Wolf|Gru takes this personally]].
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]:
** How Vector deals with Gru's attempt to break into his lair.
** And how Gru deals with the obnoxious shooting gallery barker at the carnival. "Knocked ''ooooover!''"
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: The girls can be categorized as this, with Agnes as the Child, Margot as the Mother, and Edith as a prepubescent, G-rated Seductress.
* [[Toilet Humor]]:
** "I said ''dart'' gun!"
** Also a more literal example during Gru's presentation.
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** "A lit-tle ti-ny toi-let..." (pipe under toilet squirts in his face) "GAH! CURSE YOU, TINY TOILET!"
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Edith is a naughty and loudmouth kid who has a taste for weapons, although she likes to wear pink all the time, but acts pretty apathetic. Margo is an overprotective older sister of the girls who is also quite bitter, but she could qualify for being a girly girl.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The little kid in the opening sequence, who slips his leash and promptly runs up a high piece of scaffolding, avoiding the security officers who are trying to save his life and eventually falling towards the pyramid itself. {{spoiler|Good thing the pyramid was replaced with an inflatable version after Vector stole the original.}}
* [[To the Batpole]]: The entrance to Gru's underground lair.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Combined with [[Unstoppable Rage]].
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== U-Z ==
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]] / [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Adult Gru's desire to shrink the Moon and steal it as a supervillain stems from his childhood desire to be an astronaut and go to the Moon.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Villainous BSOD]]: What happens to Gru when {{spoiler|Dr. Nefario takes the girls away for becoming too much of a distraction.}}
* [[Viral Marketing]]: [[NBC]] is absolutely determined that you remember the title of this film. The judges of ''Last Comic Standing'' ended up going into mass [[Sarcasm Mode]] after the advertising department forced them to "audition" someone in a minion suit. [[Lampshade Hanging|("Nice job, whores.")]] The NBC logo also shows up prominently near the start of the film - {{spoiler|Gru stole the Jumbotron from Times Square}}.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Gru was/is this for his mother, and to a lesser extent, {{spoiler|Vector for his father.}}
* [[Weird Moon]]: As depicted in [http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID15166/images/despicable_me_movie_poster_02-550x874.jpg this poster], the moon is unnaturally large compared to its size in real life.
** Though the biggest moon in the movie was only seen {{spoiler|after it had been shrunk, moved, and put back in the sky - [[Fridge Brilliance|maybe it's not as far away as it used to be?]]}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Vector on his supervillain name and weapons, as well as how many cookies he's ordered.
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'''Vector''': Exactly! I'd like to see somebody else order that many cookies! Not likely! Name one person who would order more cookies than me!
'''Margo''': [[Crowning Moment of Indifference|That'll be $52]]. }}
* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Surprisingly subverted. Despite being a very nasty villain {{spoiler|at least until the girls enter his life}}, Gru was actually very patient with his minions. He never once yelled at them or insulted them for their antics. He was even surprisingly calm when he explained to them that the bank didn't give him the money for his latest scheme. Even when he was forced to refuse them raises, he did so in a polite manner.
* [[You!]]: Gru said this when he discovers Vector stealing the shrink ray from him.
* [[You Said You Would Let Them Go]]: {{spoiler|Vector kidnaps the girls, holding them hostage in exchange for the moon. When Gru makes good on it and gives it to him, Vector casually says he won't be giving the girls back after all.}}
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Gru ''did'' plan to use this trope {{spoiler|on the girls, but he had so much fun at the carnival with them, that he changed his mind.}}
** A very much downplayed version though: {{spoiler|he was going to leave them behind at said carnival.}}
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