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'''Megamind:''' [[Evil Is Hammy|PRESENTATION!]] }}

 

 

 

Produced by [[Dreamworks Animation]].

 

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]]''").

 

* [[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.}}

** The Spider-bot in "The Button of Doom" short whimpers like a dog when Megamind tells Minion that he can't keep it, too. Minion even calls to it exactly like one.

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Part of the reason for Megamind's [[Start of Darkness]].

** Funnily enough, due to the terminology and the Act of Union in 1707, he is right regarding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_England that last one.]

* [[And Starring]]: Brad Pitt gets the "And" credit.

* [[And This Is For]]: Titan does when fighting Megamind.

{{quote| '''Titan:''' {{spoiler|This is for stealing my girlfriend!}} This one's for Space Dad making a fool out of me! And Megamind, this one's for Space Stepmom! You ''lied'' to her! }}

* [[Antagonist in Mourning]]: Megamind after unexpectedly killing Metro Man {{spoiler|who was not really dead.}}

** Also inverted, since he's in the protagonist's role.

** [[Classical Antihero]]

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Metro Man, [[Punch Clock Villain|not that he actually dislikes him]].

** Megamind finds {{spoiler|Titan}} had been committing crimes, with stolen bank money, stolen safes... and a stolen bicycle.

** "There is no easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no queen of England!"

** And another is {{spoiler|Metro Man knowing that if he retired, Megamind would wind up taking his place as Metro City's defender}}

* [[Beard of Evil]]: Megamind himself sports a ''damn'' nice goatee.

** Also, the people of Metro City: {{spoiler|Yay! Titan has defeated Megamind! We finally have that new hero we've been wanting to... what's that? Titan's ''worse'' than Megamind? ... [[Oh Crap|Oh. Crap.]]}}

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Megamind in his disguise as Bernard with Roxie.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The main cast are based upon characters from the [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] comics. Megamind is a [[Composite Character|mixture]] of Brainiac and Lex Luthor (with Superman's origin), {{spoiler|and by the end of Button of Doom has developed Batman-like characteristics}}, Metro Man is Superman himself, and Roxanne Ritchi is Lois Lane. Hal Stewart is Jimmy Olsen with the caveat that he has always hated Superman, whereas his name is a mash-up of [[Green Lantern]]'s Hal Jordan and John Stewart {{spoiler|and when he becomes Titan, he takes on aspects of Superboy-Prime.}}

* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Megamind is imprisoned there once in a while, serving out his 88 consecutive life sentences, only to waltz his way out and continue with his evil plans.

* [[Chair Reveal]]: Megamind invokes this during his kidnapping of Roxanne.

* [[Character Title]]

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Megamind's invisible car and his dehydration gun.

* [[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.

* [[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!"

* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Megamind and Metro Man.

** Though Roxie and the real Bernard not only didn't go to school with Megamind and Metro Man, they didn't go to school with each other, either. Metrocity is big enough to have multiple schools, though.

** In addition, Megamind and Metro Man went to a ''special'' school for young geniuses.

* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: Megamind has a [[Pit Trap]] full of alligators, a disco ball, and disco music.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Megamind to Metro Man {{spoiler|Later Titan takes Megamind's place}}

* [[Evil Is Cool]]:

** {{spoiler|Titan decides to be a villain for this, even more so than Megamind.}}

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: [[Invoked Trope|Megamind certainly thinks so]].

* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Metro Man. Turns out, he is tired of being a superhero and wanted to be a musician instead.}}

** {{spoiler|Minion later does this just for the heck of it after taking a nasty blow that breaks his water helmet. Megamind lets Minion have his fun before plopping him in the fountain right next to him.}}

* [[Faster Than Light Travel]]: How fast is Metro Man? {{spoiler|In the ''nanosecond'' between the concentrated solar blast and his "death", he gets a skeleton from a "nearby" nursing school, puts his cape on it, comes back to the observatory to lauch the skeleton, and then gets away}}.

* [[Feud Episode]]: At one point, when Megamind is {{spoiler|dating Roxanne while disguised as Bernard}}, he and Minion have a falling out and break off their lifelong friendship.

** In the scene where {{spoiler|Hal gains Metroman's powers}} he's wearing a shirt that says "Bite Me" with a vampire smiley face. What happens when you get bitten by a vampire? According to a lot of versions of the myth {{spoiler|you gain superpowers and turn evil.}}

** Not long before {{spoiler|he quits the superhero thing}}, Metro Man says in his speech to the people of Metro City, "and at the end of the day, I often ask myself: what would I do without you?"

* [[For Your Own Good]]: Minion's excuse to stop Megamind from {{spoiler|dating Roxanne.}}

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

* [[The Glomp]]: {{spoiler|Roxanne to Megamind in the final scene.}}

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

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: When {{spoiler|Minion disguised as Megamind is [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]}}, the screen momentarily goes black, before cutting to Roxanne's reaction.

* [[Graceful Loser]]: Megamind. He is used to getting beaten by Metro Man and is cool with that, especially if he is always jailed in a [[Cardboard Prison]]. A cardboard prison whose population he considers his ''family.''

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Megamind}} himself in the second half of the film.

* [[Held Gaze]]: Twice, once between Megamind {{spoiler|disguised as Bernard}} and Roxanne after Bernard has "rescued" her from Megamind, and again with Megamind and {{spoiler|Metro Man when Roxanne and Megamind discover him alive.}}

* [[A Hell of a Time]]

{{quote| '''Megamind:''' If only my parents could see me now.<br />

* [[Heroic Fatigue]]: {{spoiler|Metro Man gets so tired of being a hero all the time he fakes his death.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Megamind and Minion, since infanthood.

** [[Ben Stiller]] has a bit role as Bernard.

** Minion is [[Kung Fu Panda (Animation)|Crane]]!

** Hal is [[How to Train Your Dragon (Animation)|Snotlout]].

* [[High Collar of Doom]]: Megamind just loves 'em. He even has one on his pajamas.

** Even his supposedly standard issue prison uniform has a high collar.

** Megamind's parents too, so it doubles as villainous and a piece of his culture.

* [[Holding Both Sides of the Conversation]]: Megamind has a disguise hologram that makes him look like a normal human. At one point he's in a situation where he has to pretend to be both simultaneously. There's a "fight sequence" between the two, where Megamind ends up repeatedly switching back and forth between his normal appearance and the hologram, all the while opening and closing a door over and over to give the appearance that that two are fighting each other.

* [[Holding Out for A Hero]]: The people of Metro City, to the point where it's practically a deconstruction; they're so used to relying on a hero that when the hero's no longer there, not one of them is brave enough to stand up to the villain. And then the villain gets bored with the fact that no one's standing up to him. And when someone finally kicks the villain's ass, they all flock to accept this newcomer as their 'hero' without actually stopping to consider whether he actually ''is'' a hero, and not a ''worse'' villain. {{spoiler|And of course, the whole mess started in the first place because the hero was so sick of everyone expecting him to solve all their problems that he just gave up.}}

* [[In Medias Res]]/[[How We Got Here]]: The beginning of the film is a [[Book Ends]] to the final battle with Megamind falling to his apparent death, with the rest of the film being a flashback.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Megamind's greatest insult is pointing out that, while Titan might be a Villain, he's not got enough ''style'' to be a ''[[Super Villain]]!''

* [[Institutional Apparel]]: Until he gets his supervillain costume, Megamind, from babyhood on up, has nothing to wear but a prison issue orange jumpsuit (like all the other prisoners).

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Roxie is widely believed to have a romance with Metro Man, who, despite [[Human Alien|looking human]], is an alien. {{spoiler|Later, it is revealed that this no more than a rumor: [[Subverted Trope|Metro Man is just "not her type"]]. And then, [[Double Subverted|she falls for Megamind]].}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Ollo."

** "Hey, my kid can't see!"

** After being kidnapped and held in Megamind's "deathtrap", Roxanne notices the spider (and pronounces it properly, of course). When Megamind tries to pretend it's part of the deathtrap, he pronounces it "spee-ider", which seems to be an attempt to make it sound more evil and exotic. However, the "Button of Doom" short has him referring to the "Spee-ider-bot", so apparently that's just how he says it.

** Megamind isn't oblivious to this. When disguised as Bernard, Megamind begins to say "shool", but quickly says "school" properly.

* [[Jerkass]]: {{spoiler|Titan.}}

* [[Just Eat Him]]: {{spoiler|Sorta. Megamind's giant head made of thousands of brain bots ''does'' chew and chomp Titan, but it seems to be for show.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Megamind, though Metro Man is not far behind him in the pork rating, and they both provide great [[Ham to Ham Combat]]. [[Averted]] with {{spoiler|Titan}}. He is not much for posturing.

** Also Minion, in his {{spoiler|fake death scene.}}

** In ''The Button Of Doom'' short sequel, Minion mentions an "amnesia bomb" among Megamind's old schemes. Megamind doesn't remember that one.

* [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]: Titan. {{spoiler|Megamind wanted a superhero to fight. Unfortunately, the bullet hit the ''wrong'' candidate.}}

* [[Love Redeems]]: {{spoiler|Megamind's reason to do a [[Heel Face Turn]].}}

* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: {{spoiler|Roxanne unknowingly falls for Megamind masquerading as Bernard.}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Megamind. Death rays, dehydration gun, robot army, need we say more?

* [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]]: Apparently the Tesla coils come from a shop in Romania which specializes in super villain needs.

* [[Malaproper]]: Megamind

* [[Man Child]]: Hal. {{spoiler|Then [[Ascended Fanboy|he]] [[Deconstruction|gets]] [[Psychopathic Manchild|superpowers]].}}

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Megamind, thanks to a special watch.

* [[A Match Made in Stockholm]]

** {{spoiler|Megamind has an F in evil as well. He never kills anyone. He treats his battles with Metro Man as a game. He has no intentions of enslaving the populace. He wants ''nothing'' but to engage in banter-filled battles and it's implied he only does it ''to get closer to Roxy'', which might be why he always fails - he wants to ''impress'' Roxy. When he becomes a ''good guy'', however...}}

* [[Mobile Suit Human|Mobile Suit Fish]]: Megamind's sidekick is a fish-like alien creature in a large robot mecha-suit. See [[Shout Out]] below.

* [[Motion Capture Mecha]]: Megamind has one.

* [[My Brain Is Big]]: As you can see in the picture.

* [[Necessarily Evil]]: Megamind decides to become a villain after he understands that the position of [[The Cape]] has been filled by Metro Man, who needs a [[Foil]].

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: [[Megane|Bernard]] and Megamind.

** Even "kill" is averted with Megamind saying "Minion, if I live I will kill you" when the defuser gun needs to warm up just like the death ray. Although he probably didn't mean it literally.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: From the second trailer, this looks like a comedic "wimpy villain vs [[Jerkass]] celebrity superhero" premise. This is, however, just the first act, and even that is not quite what was expected.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: {{spoiler|Titan does not want to rule Metro City - he wants to ''destroy'' it.}}

* [[One Dimensional Thinking]]: Megamind (Minion, actually) drives his hover-bike straight away from the sky scraper that has been thrown at him and Roxanne instead of turning left or right to get out of the way.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Minion and Roxanne.

* [[Our Hero Is Dead]]: Metro Man is killed, leaving Megamind without a [[Foil]]. {{spoiler|Subverted in that he was not really killed, he just wanted to retire.}}

** Megamind has to outfly the fireball caused by a tanker exploding.

* [[Ow My Body Part]]: "Ow! My giant blue head!"

** In one scene, Megamind completely alters his appearance (and size) with a hologram... while Minion simply throws on a curly blonde wig and pink apron.

* [[Peek a Boo Corpse]]: Metro Man. {{spoiler|But it turns out it was fake.}}

* [[Picked Last]]: Megamind was always picked last in school during the brief time that he tried to fit in as a normal kid. He was even picked after [[Exaggerated Trope|the cross-eyed girl with the broken leg]].

* [[Pillow Fight]]: Except with sacks of money. Complete with a slow motion of Megamind getting knocked silly.

* [[Please Wake Up]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|Minion}}. Megamind is not fooled.

{{quote| '''Megamind:''' What a drama queen!}}

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: When Megamind runs into Bernard at the Metro Man museum, Bernard (who is known to be an "expert" on Megamind) thinks that Megamind is just some cosplayer.

{{quote| '''Bernard:''' Wow, that's a pretty tasteless costume, Megamind's head is '''not''' that grossly exaggerated.}}

{{quote| '''Titan:''' This'll be the last time you make a fool out of me!<br />

'''Megamind:''' I made you a hero. You did the fool thing all by yourself! }}

* [[Reset Button]]: [[Averted]] but [[Lampshaded]] when Megamind {{spoiler|disguised as Bernard}} admits he looked into it, but the science was impossible.

* [[Retired Badass]]: {{spoiler|Metro Man.}}

* [[The Rival]]: Megamind has viewed Metro Man as this since they were young boys.

* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: [[Double Subverted Trope|Double Subverted]], {{spoiler|While it's certainly played straight with Megamind , Titan is an unrepentant [[Jerkass]] and even throws it back in Roxanne's face when she tries to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] the trope.}}

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Megamind. [[Lampshaded]] by Roxy ("Yeah, like that.")

* [[Screw Destiny]]: The running theme of the film. Megamind never learns what his parents meant for him and spends his life trying to live up to what he ''thought'' they said. {{spoiler|Metro Man becomes tired of being a superhero just because everyone expects him to be on and quits to become a musician. Titan refuses to be a hero just because Megamind demands he be one.}}

* [[Sealed Evil in A Duel]]: {{spoiler|The reason Metro Man decides to fake his death. To him, superheroing had become an endless cycle of the same battles with Megamind over and over.}}

* [[Seen It All]]: Roxanne Ritchi When it comes to Megamind's dastardly plots and deathtraps.

** Metro Man is gray around the sides, much like [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]] and [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]].

** Megamind's invisible car is a reference to [[Wonder Woman]]'s invisible airplane.

* [[Sissy Villain]]: [[Averted]]. Megamind is not so much a sissy as he is a [[Large Ham]], though he still [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]. Even ''then'', [[Rule of Funny|only when the joke calls for it]].

* [[Slasher Smile]]: {{spoiler|Titan, when using his eye beams, once when melting the Megamind mannequin, and again when he's about to do the same thing on the real Megamind.}}

* [[Smug Snake]]: Megamind. {{spoiler|Or maybe he was never meant to be a villain}}.

* [[Smug Super]]: Metro Man in his youth begins this way with the winking and smirking and intentionally showing up young Megamind, but by the time he is grown up? He is genuinely nice and heroic, {{spoiler|even to Megamind. Turns out he was burned out from being forced to be a superhero}}. At the end of the film, {{spoiler|he is proud that Megamind took over for him.}}

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Poor lonely Roxanne.

* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]]: No-one seems to be alarmed by the fact that a child, even [[Rubber Forehead Alien|an alien one]], is growing up in a prison.

* [[Soft Water]]: Played with. {{spoiler|During the finale, Megamind is falling to his death and knows that water will not break his fall. However, he dehydrates himself into a cube, which ''does'' let him survive the fall, and rehydrates upon contact with the water.}}

** {{spoiler|A hidden Metro Man to Megamind, though the latter never hears it.}}

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Just about [[Public Domain Soundtrack|every song in the film]], excluding the original score, is played via one of Megamind's sound systems.

** {{spoiler|The DVD subtitles also change their spelling of the name from that point on. It's also used in at least some, if not all, of the tie-in books related to the film.}}

* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: On Megamind's outfit, as well as his lair and machinery. Including a spiked up Segway. At one point, {{spoiler|Roxie}} hugs him in such a way that she should by rights have torn her arm open.

{{quote| '''Warden:''' ''(tied up)'' Good luck!<br />

'''Megamind:''' ''(happily giggling)'' We're gonna die!<br />

* [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]: Megamind, disguised as Bernard, spends some time on the elevator with Roxanne as the Metro Man Museum is about to blow up.

* [[The Unfettered]]: {{spoiler|Titan. Which makes him much more dangerous than Metro Man.}}

** The film was originally scripted as a live-action, R-rated, adult comedy. Megamind would have been called Master Mind, and Metro Man: Uberman, and Minion replaced three clones of famous historical figures. The studio did nothing with it, so it was brought over to [[Dreamworks Animation]] as a children's film instead.

** Played with in-universe during Megamind's flashback. His pod is initially on course for a palatial mansion, but is knocked aside by Metro Man's, sending him to a rather different destination.

* [[What Have I Done]]: {{spoiler|Megamind damns himself for creating Titan, who turns out to be a unstoppable engine of wanton destruction.}}

** Megamind and Roxanne Ritchi's response to {{spoiler|Metro Man faking his death to pursue a career as a musician, turning his back on the Titan situation.}}

{{quote| '''Roxanne:''' {{spoiler|... and you gave control of the city to ''him!'' ''(indicates Megamind)'' ''([[Beat]])'' No offense.}}<br />

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Megamind's entire campaign against Metro Man. He explicitly says in the comic prequel that he considers every lost battle as simply an opportunity to study his potential weaknesses. He explicitly states when fighting Titan that every defeat is an opportunity to learn and do better next time.

** Also, the "observatory" plan counts on {{spoiler|Megamind knowing that Roxanne would give away his position, and pretending to act shocked at the reveal}}.

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

* [[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".