Tumblr Rationalizes The Ever-Loving Bejesus Out Of The "Despicable Me" Minions

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Eric Lund
Nov 4, 2021 6:00 PM EDT

There's absolutely nothing the denizens of tumblr love more than over-rationalizing the lore of children's movies. This deep dive into the Incredibles, this thread on the scariness of Coraline featuring Neil Gaiman, and this lawyering of Pirates of The Caribbean all go to show that Tumblr is the de facto space for getting in too deep on movies that came out more than ten years ago. So naturally we're finally getting around to Minions.

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    Terrestrial plant - what-even-is-thiss Follow You ever think about how they made the minions immortal so that they wouldn't have to explain how they reproduce forever-lynx Follow ?? they made the minions immortal??? what-even-is-thiss Follow Yeah it's like the same 200 minions forever
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    Font - what-even-is-thiss Follow They also trapped them in the Arctic for a long time so they wouldn't have to show them working for hitler because canonically they're evil and serve the most evil master around and they're clearly ok with serving dictators because they were depicted helping Napoleon so the solution to keep hitler out of the story was just to trap the yellow blobs on an iceberg.
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    Font - what-even-is-thiss Follow So these things have been alive since the dinosaurs and are basically minor spirits or gods that exist to serve the side of evil and during that whole time they remained grossly incompetent. Does the universe in despicable me want evil to fail or win? Or are these stupid yellow sexless idiots meant to keep a balance of some kind? Because they do not seem to have a niche in any ecosystem that I know of so their origin must be divine somehow.
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    Font - wishy---washy Follow since the minions are technically the last of their kind (since they seem to not be able to reproduce) does this mean that they are a protected species? what-even-is-thiss Follow See, I don't think that they're a species. I think that they're something else. Because everything else in that universe seems to follow ordinary rules of evolution but the same however many hundred minions keep changing their appearance and not dying. I think that the minions were intelligen
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    Font - sammy-genderspikeidiot Follow Roman, my guy, are you really saying that minions are evidence of a god in despicable me lore? what-even-is-thiss Follow Not god per se but.. something. calefactionconvocation Follow Evil vs good. Evil made minions, good made them stupid yellow blobs
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    Terrestrial plant - what-even-is-thiss Follow So are you positing that maybe they came to be because of some primordial yin/yang type battle between energies in the ocean or something? acing-dyslexia Follow But they have to reproduce somehow, there are way more minions in the Despicable Me movies than the Minions movie
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    Art - soupsy-daisy Follow
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    White - ndiecity Follow there's a blueprint hanging on a wall in the first movie that shows Gru developed a way to create minions out of corn kernels official-lucifers-child Follow please i don't want to learn these things
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