Megamind: Difference between revisions

[[File:megamind_2395.jpg|frame|Who says villains can't rock out?]]

* [[All Animals Are Dogs|All Robots Are Dogs]]: The Brain-bots act like a big group of puppies when not carrying out an evil plan--they swarm over to Megamind at the start while Minion says they missed him, play fetch with wrenches and Megamind frequently refers to himself as "Daddy" regarding them (much like most pet-owners do).

** {{spoiler|Titan picks up an entire skyscraper and flings it at Megamind at one point, crushing several other buildings and carelessly knocking it into another as he turned it}}. If it wasn't made explicit that the city had been largely evacuated by this point, thus making these ''all'' [[Conveniently Empty Building|Conveniently Empty Buildings]], we'd have to assume this movie's body count probably hit quadruple digits.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: In a weird reversal, Metro Man's parents are hinted to be very uninterested (his father doesn't even look up from his newspaper when he's ''flying'' as a baby), while Megamind's "parents" (the prison inmates) treat him warmly like family, despite teaching him [[Broken Aesop|Broken Aesops]].

* [[Freak-Out]]: {{spoiler|Hal/Titan}} does ''not'' take well to all of his [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]] being pushed at once.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: When Titan is about to use his eye-beams -- namely, when he gets ''really pissed off''.

* [[Licensed Game|Licensed Games]]: Not only was it cross platform, it was also touted as a ''sequel'' to the movie. Also, apparently Dreamworks has decided to use the supervillain group idea mentioned in the ''What Could Have Been'' entry below, in the games.

* [[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.

* [[Punch Clock Hero]]/[[Punch Clock Villain]]/[[Not a Game]]: Megamind and Metro Man's battles had their rules -- their battles are more like a game than a true fight. Megamind is upset when {{spoiler|Titan}} stands him up for a staged fight after he calls him out, and Megamind quickly learns that {{spoiler|Titan}} has no use for "rules" -- he is a murderous thug. In a nice touch, {{spoiler|Titan}} has been playing a video game instead of showing up for the fight. As Megamind chews him out, the video game ends. For the rest of the scene, GAME OVER is displayed on the TV.

** There's also the different disguises Megamind takes on. Being the Warden at the start (a good guy who stops/contains bad guys) might even be a type of foreshadowing. He's Bernard when he's exploring the world of normal people, the prejudice stripped away for a while<ref>and more could be said about his battle with himself when he's trying not to expose the deception to Roxanne</ref>. He's the Jor-El type when he's trying to pass on what he knows about being a hero (proving that he understands ''both sides'' of the game). And it's no coincidence that when he begins his most heroic effort ever, he looks {{spoiler|''exactly'' like Metro Man}} - or that it's Roxanne who frees him from the disguises twice, first forcing him to confront what he's doing and later allowing him to claim his destiny on his own terms, rather than in the shoes of someone else.

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The trailers made ''[[Megamind]]'' out to be a lot zanier with a lot less angst and totally dumps the romance factor. It forgets that [[Megamind]] spends a good chunk of the film as Bernard. As well as this, it makes Metro Man out to be more of a glory-hound jerk than he really is - and a lot more important too. While Metro Man IS important, it's his absence that drives the plot, not his presence.

* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: {{spoiler|Titan to Roxanne}}.