Megamind: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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.

** {{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 [[Deadly Change-of-Heart]] followed by the revelation that he can't go back to the way it was - the rules have changed)</ref> to do more than ''play'' at normalcy, to [[Taking Up the Mantle|pick up the hero's mantle]]... then a [[Refusal of the Call]], but [[The Call Knows Where You Live|it's not that easy]], and our [[Iron Woobie]]<ref>I'm not really sure which Woobie is right for him, but this one seems most likely aside from those puppy-dog eyes and "Did you ever look back?"</ref> protagonist has to ''[[The Determinator|work]]'' [[Earn Your Happy Ending|for his happy ending]].

* [[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"}}.