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[[File:megamind 2395.jpg|frame|Who says villains can't rock out?]]
{{quote|'''Megamind:''' Oh, you're a villain all right. Just not a ''super'' one.
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Not to be confused with ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' (despite the protagonist's blue-ness as well as the fact that the [[Heel Face Turn|villain's]] name is "''Mega'' Mind" and the hero's name is "Metro ''[[Something Person|Man]]''").
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Hal towards Roxanne, at least initially. He's inappropriate and awkward enough with his advances to make Roxanne very uncomfortable around him. {{spoiler|And then he gets superpowers, which does ''not'' help with this.}}
{{quote|'''Hal:''' If I were Metro Man, Megamind wouldn't be kidnapping you all the time.
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** Later:
{{quote|'''Megamind:''' You don't know what's good for bad.}}
* [[Bad to the Bone]]: The [[Trope Namer]] song is used in the movie, to great effect, as well as several other [[Badass]] themes (like "Welcome To The Jungle", "Highway to Hell", "Back In Black'' and [[Ozzy Osbourne|"Crazy Train"]]).▼
* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]]: [[Invoked]] by Megamind, who learns from experience that supervillains can not exist without superheroes.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Megamind. Do not deny it.
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* [[The Chew Toy]]: Bernard.
* [[Classic Villain]]: Megamind combines many iconic traits of comic book villains.
* [[
** Roxie starts in red, but switches to purple once she has fallen for Megamind as Bernard, and dresses in blue once she supports Megamind openly.
** Megamind's eyes are green to represent his envy of Metroman.
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** Comes to a head when he discovers that {{spoiler|Metro Man is still alive. His reaction: ask the ethereal shade what messages he brings from beyond, and ''poke his face'' to see if he's incorporeal.}}
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Deconstructed with Hal, who has all the dogged determination but lacks a few of the required qualities.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]/[[That Man Is Dead]]:{{spoiler|Titan tells Roxanne never to call him Hal ever again. He is Titan from now on.}}
** {{spoiler|Metro Man calls himself Music Man after faking his death, so that he doesn't have to change the M on his costume.}}
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Both Megamind and Metro Man come from one. As a bonus, it turns out they are from the same star system.
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* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Subverted. He was destructive even as an infant, with a knack for creating "objects of mayhem", but he [[Children Are Innocent|was not malicious]] [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid|about it]].
* [[Entitled to Have You]]: A big part of what makes Hal so creepy.
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: "There is no Easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no queen of England!"▼
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Hilariously invoked with {{spoiler|Titan}}, who's angry at Megamind for, among other things, "lying" to [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Space Step Mom]].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Want to defeat your arch-nemesis and rule the world? Go knock yourself out. {{spoiler|Want to ''destroy'' the city because of [[Who's Laughing Now?|all your bottled-up resentment from a lifetime of rejection]]?}} Not cool. At least, Megamind knows how to take "no" for an answer.
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* [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]/[[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Fights between Megamind and Metro Man involve a lot of this. When duking it out with {{spoiler|Titan}} for the first time, Megamind tries it on his new enemy, but realizes he is too bull-headed and spiteful for this kind of duel.
{{quote|'''Megamind:''' Now it's time for some witty back-and-forth banter! You go first!
'''{{spoiler|Titan}}:''' [[Angrish|RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH]]!
'''Megamind:''' Okay, look, I don't really know where to go with that! }}
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Roxanne.
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* [[Moses in the Bulrushes]]: Megamind's parents (and Metro Man's parents) sent their children off in escape pods to escape their planets being pulled into a black hole.
* [[Motion Capture Mecha]]: Megamind has one.
* [[Murphy's Bed]]: Hal is trapped inside his Murphy Bed twice in quick succession, first when he is knocked into it by his front door, and secondly when he is hit over the head with the "Forget-Me Stick".
* [[My Brain Is Big]]: As you can see in the picture.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The spider ''[[Canis Latinicus|Arachnis deathicus]]''. Which Megamind had [[Blatant Lies|totally planned to threaten Roxanne with]].
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* [[No One Could Survive That]]: [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]], like so much else in the movie. {{spoiler|Megamind does not actually think Metro Man is dead, but wait, [[Subverted Trope|he is]]! Until it turns out [[Double Subversion|he is not]].}}
* [[No Secret Identity]]: Metro Man has no secret identity (which makes sense since he was using his powers ''openly'' at elementary school). This could be one of the reasons {{spoiler|he burns out, since he has no secret identity to relax in.}}
* [[
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Hal's doomed-to-fail invitation to his party,<ref>complete with wedding photographer</ref> is made worse by him moving back into Roxanne's line of sight when she tries to move away.
* [[The Not Love Interest]]: Roxanne and Metro Man were never actually involved, despite what Megamind and most of Metro City seems to believe. Roxanne explicitedly says that despite appreciating the guy, Metro Man was too "larger than life" to really appeal to her.
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{{quote|'''Megamind:''' HOW DID SHE FIND MY HIDEOUT -- uh, how did you find his hideout?
'''Roxanne:''' This is the only building in Metro City with a fake observatory on the roof!
'''Megamind:''' ''[[[Oh Crap]] face]'' ... Oh-kay. [[Tempting Fate|There's no way she'll find the secret entrance]] --
'''Roxanne:''' ''[Excited squeal]'' There's a doormat here that says 'secret entrance'! }}
** {{spoiler|Titan}} gets one himself when it looks like {{spoiler|Metro Man}} has returned to kick his ass. It turns out to be {{spoiler|Megamind using his holographic disguise watch}}. {{spoiler|Titan}} returns the favor when he [[Something Only They Would Say|manages to see through the deception]].
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* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Megamind tries cleaning up the city with the dehydrating gun, but doesn't actually pick the resulting cubes. Thus, during a sad scene, [[Empathic Environment|it starts raining]], so all the trash reappears.
** {{spoiler|Averted in the end, with Megamind's bots helping rebuild efficiently Metro City's destroyed real estate.}}
* [[The Seven Basic Plots|Regeneration/Redemption Plot]]: It'd be difficult to find a more exhaustive exploration of a character arc, from birth through raising through [[All of the Other Reindeer|rejection by the "normals"]] to the embracing of [[You Can't Fight Fate|the role "destiny" forced him into]]; the [[Love Redeems|catalyst for change]], debate over which role to accept, "wooing" of the protagonist [[Becoming the Mask|back toward the light]], unexpectedly challenging him<ref>(through a sort of justified [[
▲* [[
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Roxanne gets hit with zig-zagging flavors of this.
** Metro Man is always saving Roxanne, {{spoiler|but they never had any romantic relationship at all; he was just "not her type"}}.
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Hal, Roxie's camera-man. {{spoiler|Her rejection of him as Titan begins his [[Start of Darkness]]. It is a bad sign that one of the first things Hal uses his new superpowers for is ''peeping''.}}
** Megamind might also count initially, since it's hinted that the only reason he kept kidnapping Roxanne is [[Abduction Is Love|because he's in love with her]] (in his warped not-really-knowing-or-understanding-what-that-actually-is way) and it's his way of being close to her. Unlike Hal, however, he gets better.
▲* [[
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Minion is literally a henchman in a gorilla suit.
** During the "I'm Bad" finale, Minion is doing... The Robot.
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* [[Too Soon]]: Bernard is insulted by Megamind's "costume" in part because he just ''killed'' Metro Man. It's kind of in bad taste considering he's running around in a tribute to Metro Man.
** Bernard thought Megamind was someone dressed in a horrible Megamind costume; he wasn't insulted.
* [[Took a Level
** {{spoiler|Hal. As Hal, he is, well, Jonah Hill. As Titan, he is a muscular stud.}}
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: {{spoiler|Titan.}}
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** Also, the "observatory" plan counts on {{spoiler|Megamind knowing that Roxanne would give away his position, and pretending to act shocked at the reveal}}.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[The Incredibles]]'' meets ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Dr. Horrible]]'', with just a hint of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' thrown into the mix.
* [[
* [[Your Costume Needs Work]]: As Megamind flees the Metro Man museum, {{spoiler|which he is trying to blow up}}, he runs into Bernard, who starts deriding him for his "tasteless costume".
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