Megamind: Difference between revisions

* [[All-Star Cast]]: It ''is'' a Dreamworks movie after all.

* [[Analogy Backfire]]: Titan tells Roxanne that [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|her idealism is unrealistic]], and that beliefs such as goodness being found in all people are as fictional as the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and [[Critical Research Failure|the Queen of England]].

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

* [[And Then What?]]: The premise of the movie. Megamind [[Punch Clock Villain|never expected to be able to actually kill Metro Man]], and the rest of the movie comes from Megamind trying to figure out what to do next.

* [[Credits Gag]]: Clean out your pockets, Megamind.

* [[Cruella to Animals]]: [[Kick the Dog|Baby Seal]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|Leather Boots]].

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: At one point, Megamind and Minion are walking to "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC, which gets cut off by another song right as they get to the first instance of 'Hell' in the song. Then it's [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] when Minion fiddles with the boombox's controls, trying to turn it off, and it switches back to the song and the word 'Hell' is almost the ''only'' word heard before switching away again.

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Roxanne is a parody of this; she is so used to being kidnapped and rescued that she is not fazed by it anymore. {{spoiler|However, she really ends up being in danger by the end.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Roxanne Ritchi. Helps her get through each kidnapping by the hands of Megamind until Metro Man comes to rescue her, [[Mundane Fantastic|as usual]], and she can go on with the rest of her day.

* [[Death Ray]]: How Megamind {{spoiler|supposedly}} kills Metro Man.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: At one point Metro Man's heart is described as "an ocean inside of a bigger ocean".

** "Metro City City Hall".

* [[Designated Victim]]: The role Roxanne has been given in the conflict between Metro Man and Megamind. She responds to this with [[Deadpan Snarker|little more than exasperation]].

* [[Determinator]]: Being so fully invested in the "proper" dance between heroes and villains means that Megamind never thought his plans had a chance of succeeding anyway. So he's been losing to Metro Man repeatedly over the course of his life, 100% failure rating... yet he's never let that be an excuse to give up, but instead let it encourage him to get more creative. Near the end, Roxanne reminds him of this, saying it's his best quality - and convincing him to wade into a hopeless situation once again.

** {{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.}}

* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: Megamind's dehydrator and defuser/infuser guns.

* [[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.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Hal, although {{spoiler|we do not see the fiery aspect until he has powers and is destroying the city [[For the Evulz]].}}

* [[For the Evulz]]: Subverted by Megamind; he ''is'' a [[Card-Carrying Villain]], but sees his wrongdoings as a form of self-expression rather than an end unto itself. {{spoiler|Played straight with Titan, who obviously enjoys causing mayhem with complete impunity.}}

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

* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]: When Megamind and Metroman are bantering at the beginning of the film there are one or two frames where {{spoiler|Metroman has disappeared from the observatory and can be seen behind Megamind.}} This actually leads to a continuity error when you realize {{spoiler|that during the [[Time Stands Still]] sequence later, Megamind is clearly in a different part of his speech.}}

** Quite appropriate for a film with [[Fight Club|Brad Pitt]].

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

'''Minion:''' I'm sure they're smiling down from [[Hell|Evil Heaven!]]. }}

* [[Heroic Build]]: Both Metro Man and Titan are absurdly well-built and muscular. Since Titan becomes this way after gaining his power, it can probably be justified as part and parcel of their superpowers.

* [[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]]!

** For the civilians, {{spoiler|Titan defeats Megamind, but then he says that they aren't ''free'', just "under new management"}}.

* [[Hot Scoop]]: Roxanne Ritchi, no surprise as she is [[Truth in Television|a TV reporter]]. She is also obviously [[Hot Reporter|easy on the eyes]], as both Titan and Megamind can attest.

* [[How We Got Here]]: The movie begins with {{spoiler|Megamind falling out of the sky, then goes into a flashback as Megamind remembers his life. The time in between the beginning and ending points of the flashback must've been only a few seconds to Megamind.}}

* [[Huge Holographic Head]]: Made of thousands of appropriately colored glowing brain bots.

* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Minion is so pleasant throughout the entire film, that it's highly likely that he went along with Megamind's evil plans less because of being evil and more because it seemed to make his master/friend happy.

** {{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...}}

* [[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.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous English Chanting]]: When Megamind is donning the Black Mamba(aaaaaaaaaa).

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

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The real Bernard appears in two scenes. One has him acting cold towards Roxanne and mocking Megamind's "costume" before being dehydrated, and the other has him {{spoiler|rehydrated by Minion and getting whacked by his stick.}}

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

{{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! }}

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[Shooting Superman]]: Played with. After {{spoiler|discovering that Metro Man is still alive, Roxanne begins throwing stuff at him, larger items each time. They smash harmlessly against his head, and naturally he doesn't so much as blink.}}

** Though it MUST be mentioned that Megamind's "Space Dad" disguise is meant to look like Marlon Brando as Jor-El.

*** While notably using the speech mannerisms of [[The Godfather (Film)|another famous Marlon Brando character]].

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]:

{{quote| '''Metro Man:''' Copper... drains... my powers!<br />

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: {{spoiler|Titan}} tells Megamind that with [[Brains and Brawn|his power and Megamind's "big-headed-ness"]] they could rule the world. {{spoiler|Megamind refuses.}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Robert Downey Jr. was originally supposed to star. They wound up with [[Will Ferrell]] instead.

** The "Art of" book includes some of the things that never made it to the final cut, including a supervillain group, a giant lava monster, and concepts for Minion where his gorilla body was made from a real gorilla.