Minions — protagonists

“	Illumination!	„
	~ Minions introducing the logo and becomes mascots of Illumination company.

The Minions are one of the three overarching protagonists (alongside Wild Knuckles and Silas Ramsbottom) of Illumination Entertainment's Despicable Me franchise, as well as the titular main protagonists of the prequel series of the same name.

They are a tic-tac like species from an unknown breed whose only purpose is to serve and find the most powerful and diabolical leaders they could find. They are also the oldest characters of the entire series.

Their existence as made beings is noted by the final schematics in the little girls' room. It is however unknown how they came to be and who made them. Orientation Day, one of the shorts in the DVD, suggests they are made from a single strand of mutated DNA. The minions wear metal goggles accommodating to how many eyes they have, blue overalls with Gru's symbol on the front, and black gloves. Sometimes, they play with Margo, Edith, and Agnes, as in the toilet paper fight scene.

At the end of Despicable Me 3, Minions switch their allegiance to Dru Gru and move in with him when Felonious Gru retires from his supervillain status but they later return to him.

All Minions are voiced by Pierre Coffin.

Appearance

As a rambunctious bunch of simple-minded homunculi, Minions are a similar size and shape, but have unique features to tell them apart, such as height, number of eyes, roundness or secondary features such as hair, eye/pupil size or clothing.

Minions are yellow and wear black gloves, small black boots, metal goggles accommodating their number of eyes, and blue jean overall with Gru's emblem on the fronts.

Minions possess few additional physiological characteristics; with a crack and a shake, they can double as glow sticks for activities in the dark, such as going through ventilation ducts. They additionally can survive without air, as one is seen in outer space without oxygen in Despicable Me.

Though there are several hundred minions (900 in total), there are only about 48 possible combinations of height and build (short and chubby, medium, tall and thin), hair (tall buzz-cut, short buzz-cut, sprout, combed, spread out, bald), and eyes (one, two). One-eyed minions are always almost all small, although a tall one-eyed minion appears in a promotional artwork. Tall Minions are all with Sprout-Cut Hair.

Personalities and Traits

They are fiercely loyal to Gru and Dr. Nefario, their current bosses, and extremely eager to please, willingly helping with any evil plans coming from them, but at the same time they are friendly and fun-loving. Despite being relatively simple-minded, they are capable of building weapons, operating those weapons, using computers, and even driving.

Minions love bananas and apples (or "bapples", as they call them), and the mere sight of one of these fruits can result in complete chaos. They also enjoy fine arts and find anything having to do with buttocks extremely funny. There are few things these little guys do not find funny. They love trying new things and presumably they also love potatoes (they mention potatoes on occasion) They dislike being unsure of themselves, and when Gru leaves questions unanswered. Their sense of humor is somewhat childish, if not silly, laughing from the sound of bubbles in a water filter, scanning their own butt in a copy machine and when mentioned words such as "bottom".

Members

Names of notable members are bolded.

A

Aaron
Aiden
Adrian
Alan
Alex
Amir
André
Andrew
Arthur

B

Barry
Ben
Benjamin
Benny
Bernie
Bert
Bill
Billy
Bob
Bobo
Brad
Brett
Brian
Buck
Butch

C

Carl
Carter
Charles
Charlie
Chase
Chris
Chuck
Cinco
Clark
Claude
Clay
Cody
Craig

D

Dan
Daniel
Danny
Darwin
Dave
David
Donald
Donny
Doug
Douglas
Drago

E

Edgar
Edward
Eric
Ernest
Ethan
Euchariah
Eugene
Evan
Ezekiel

F

Finn
Frank
Fred

G

Gabriel
Gaetano
Gary
Gene
George
Gerald
Gilbert
Gordon
Greg
Gus

H

Harry
Harold
Henry

I

Ian
Issac
Ivan

J

Jack
Jackson
Jake
James
Jeff
Jeffrey
Jerry
Jim
Jo
Joe
Joel
Joey
John
Johnny
Jon
Jorge
Josh
Jude
Justin

K

Ken
Keith
Kevin
Kraig
Kurt
Kyle

L

Lance
Larry
Leon
Lewis
Liam
Lionel
Lucas
Luke
Lyle

M

Mack
Marc
Marcus
Manny
Martin
Mark
Mason
Matthew
Maurice
Mel
Micah
Michael
Mike
Mil
Miles
Miquel
Mohammad

N

Nate
Nathan
Neil
Nick
Noah
Nobu
Norbert

O

Omar
Oscar
Otto
Owen

P

Pablo
Paul
Paxton
Pedro
Peter
Phil
Pierce
Pudgy

R

Rafe
Raj
Rajah
Rajesh
Ralph
Ricky
Robert
Robin
Rod
Rodney
Roger
Ron
Ruben
Ryan

S

Sam
Scott
Shawn
Sonny
Spencer
Stan
Steve
Stuart
Stuart Jr.

T

Ted
Thomas
Tim
Toby
Todd
Tom
Tony
Tyler

U-Z

Vegas
Vincent
Walter
Wayne
Will
William
Willy
Zack
Ziggy

And 744 unnamed more

Holiday Minion
Leveled Up Minions
Traveling Sales Minion

Gallery

Trivia

Minions are official mascots for Illumination Entertainment.
Minions are physically invincible and immortal. In the film Minions, when Kevin, Stuart, and Bob were tortured on the rack, their bodies were able to stretch easily; throughout all three films, they've been hit by various objects on their bodies, got their head stuck in a jar, and etc., without any ill effect. For example, Bob (not the Bob appeared in Minions) was given an anti-gravity serum by Dr. Nefario, who absent-mindedly left a window open, causing poor Bob to float out of our atmosphere in Despicable Me. He was still seen alive in space at the end of the movie, but we don't know what happened to him after that.
- However, in the mini-movie, Mooned, it is revealed that he has landed on the moon along with Vector, who has called his friends in order to pick him and Vector up from the moon.
The models of the Minions are redesigned in the following films.
- The colors of their skin and dungarees are brighter.
- In the first film, Minions have slightly crooked teeth. After the second film, they have aligned teeth.
- New hairstyles or minions can be seen (bald, short-spiked, and half-bald).
- Some one eyed minions buzz cut hair is now standing straight up instead of being like their two eyed counterpart.
Minions are shown to understand English, but they cannot speak it fluently. They can however say short sentences and phrases.
Minions can survive without oxygen, as one of them floated up to outer space unharmed.
Minions are shown to be great swimmers.
- They can possibly breathe underwater, based on Kevin's response to Tina.
According to Pierre Coffin, the official population of Minions could be 900. But in the theatrical poster of Despicable Me 2, the non-canonical population of the Minions is 10, 400.
Their favorite food is the fruit, the banana, which became a recurring joke throughout the franchise.

External Links

The Minions on the Antagonists Wiki.
The Minions on the Heroes Wiki.
The Minions on the Villains Wiki.
The Minions on Despicable Me Wiki.
The Minions on Wikipedia.

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