#I LOVE THE MEGAMIND MOVIE

[cassketti]

Bernard balls (nerd)

[bridoesotherjunk]

Tell me I'm wrong.

[dymitre]

I was looking through all of your art when I saw your megamind fanart, could we get Bernard for it? Please?

oh my god I had forgotten this piece! 😭😭😭😭

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

43. Megamind (2010) -- defs more than my eighth watch

[r4t-g0d]

Draw Megamind? (-(?

just in time for my annual megamind rewatch (bonus minion and bernard)

[happybird16]

We're all just going to collectively pretend that Megamind 2 doesn't exist right?

[prettyb0ycvnt]

fun aiden fact my mother has banned me from watching megamind because of the time i watched it seven times in the span of a week. i made her watch megamind with me every day of a week!!!!! and this was over a year ago and i am STILL banned from watching it in her presence </3

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

Images that go hard

[opal-inna]

I was thinking of Megamind’s theme of heroes being made instead of born and the parallels between Megamind and Hal.

You can see how Megamind is trying his best, but Metroman is more privileged, so Megamind gives up. He had always had bad luck, compared to Metroman, so he thought it was his destiny to be a villain. So when Hal seemingly has everything delivered to his doorstep, it’s destiny that wanted this to happen. Megamind believes that it’s up to forces greater than him that make heroes or villains. And Hal had all the gifts Megamind hadn’t, and he chose to use them for evil.

But then I looked deeper into it. I compared Hal with Megamind. Both of them were social outcasts. Both of them were nerds. Both of them were in love with Roxanne. Both of them were rejected by her. And both turned to villainy when things didn’t go as they had hoped. In a dark twist of fate, one could recite the famous cliche  “we’re not so different, you and I!”.

But obviously, they are so different. So what sets them apart?

Both of them wanted approval, but Megamind seeked acceptance from society and Hal sought to win love from another person. Both of them had a skewed idea of how human relationships work and both tried to follow in Metroman’s footsteps to get there.

But obviously, they failed. Because it’s not how it works. Again, they’re similar in this department.

And then it hit me.

Both of them tried to imitate Metroman to gain something- gain approval in their example. But you can’t just win someone’s approval, it’s up for them to decide whether they give it to you or not. And you may only get it by being genuinely good yourself. Even if both chose villainy, time and time again, Megamind proved himself to be good and Hal proved himself to be evil.

Here’s what I found so far.

Hard work

Megamind had worked hard and it gave him no results, so he thought it was meant to be. He put a lot of effort into creating devices that were supposed to imitate Metroman’s powers. Hal had everything given to him, which made him feel entitled to everything he desired. 

Humility

Both of them had been rejected and degraded. But Megamind had enough humility to reflect on himself. He didn’t blame Roxanne for rejecting him (albeit the scene where she tells him to apologize and Megamind misunderstands and turns it around is hilarious). Rather, he blamed his status as a villain. Though he didn’t blame his choice to become a villain, but his destiny to be one- “Villains don’t get the girl”. However, Hal had an advantage of a status of a ‘hero’- one given to him, not the one he chose. He feels entitled to her love, so when she turns him down, he blames her. He played his part of being a ‘hero’, but she didn’t play her part of being a prize. She broke the rules.

Megamind had also reflected on what Roxanne told him. He corrected his mistakes, cleaned up the city and returned what he stole. He didn't have to, but he did it to make her happy and made an effort to be actually good.

And Hal has been actively gaslighting and lessening her, just to protect his ego.

Relationship with Roxanne

Obviously, I also had to include their relationship with Roxanne, and oh boy.

I know I’ve talked about it for the entire time, but I need to go in depth, because it’s a whole thing. Bcos Hal didn’t just have had his powers handed to him. He was also privileged even when it comes to their relationship with Roxanne. Hal had lots of time to form a real connection and friendship with her, but he chose to treat her like a prize he could win if he played the game right.

Megamind was doomed from the start, because he’s a villain. Yet when given a chance, he showed her his true self, became vulnerable with her and they shared each other’s nerdy passions. Though under another person’s skin, he showed her his soul and they formed a genuine bond. Megamind proved to be a better person, because he showed her true respect, valued her for her positive traits and just treated her as a person. 

[starleska]

just finished watching Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate and i have some thoughts!! please do take this with a grain of salt as i'm just one person; i absolutely do not want to rain on anyone's parade!! if this is your favourite movie, don't worry about the gripes of some stranger on the internet 🥰

let's start with the positive!! despite what some people are saying there are things to enjoy about the film, and i think that lies in the fun of Megamind's old crew. although Behemoth looks a little phoned-in and Pierre Pressure was an easy joke, i really enjoyed the designs for Lady Doppler and Lord Nighty-Knight. the scenes they were in with Megamind were definitely the most engaging!! but that's...about where my enjoyment of the film ends. i think the film's biggest sin is the enormous amount of exposition-dumping and telling rather than showing. there were so many times where characters just...stated things about themselves, or spoke aloud why they were feeling the way they are. they're like...character notes that a writer jots down to keep track of emotional journeys. it really breaks the immersion and makes the characters feel mechanical, clunky, and a bit of a hivemind. Megamind and Roxanne in particular feel quite stripped of their original personalities, which is such a shame. then there's drastic reduction of chemistry between Megamind and Roxanne. canonically, this movie only takes place a couple of days after the events of Megamind, but the two are barely affectionate with one another to the point that it's weird. perhaps it was written as them being comfortable with one another, but at times it almost felt like there was dislike between the two of them...especially from Roxanne's side!! Megamind is hardly recognisable compared to his lovestruck counterpart from the first movie, and Roxanne's bold, caring nature seems to have evaporated. it makes it very hard to get invested in their relationship at all 💔 speaking of Roxanne, i find it such an odd choice to make Roxanne have an existential crisis about being dissatisfied with her life just a few days after the events of the previous film...you'd think she'd want to take it easy for a while! i feel this characterisation of Roxanne does her a lot of disservice, and reduces her more to plot functionality. Roxanne doesn't strike me as the kind of woman who'd be starstruck re: some kid's online following and decide she's inadequate by comparison. again, a lot of the things we love Roxanne for were just quite...absent, from this movie. you could predict what she was going to say well ahead of time, because she was just following the beats of the plot 😓 and the time-retcon...isn't it a bit weird that Megamind is a complete Internet n00b? it's one thing for him to be a bit out-of-touch with Gen Z (as he's relatable to us neurotypicals given his alien grasp on certain concepts), but he seems completely baffled by the concept of streaming and followers at all, and this movie takes place in a post-2020 timeframe. it's odd because Megamind is already established as a tech genius in the first movie, and we know he's somewhat affiliated with Internet slang by his use of LOL : ) when texting Roxanne!! perhaps this is a small nitpick that can be explained away, but it seems like a baffling choice and an excuse to write in a trendy character for the kids to relate to 😵 then, moving onto Keiko...she wasn't terrible by any means! but i wish she was more than a social media influencer to get Megamind with the times. if she's Megamind's number 1 fan, surely she would have been his fan while he was a villain...couldn't that have made for an interesting moral dilemma along with the return of the Doom Syndicate: having a child trying to follow in his previously-villainous footsteps? what about Keiko being taken under the wing of the Doom Syndicate after Megamind became a hero? 👀 those are my thoughts for now...i do hope all those talented Megamind fans will build upon these flaws in the movie and create more compelling stories from it 🙏💖

[littlefankingdom]

Okay, so I rewatched Sonic 1 & 2 last week and...

IS THIS A MEGAMIND REFERENCE?!

This is Megamind's grand battle outfit, which look similar but it's also named Black Mamba. And what is the name of Robotnik's outfit?

REDMAMBA.NIK

So, this movie, that I already loved, is making a direct reference to the masterpiece that is Megamind. Sublime.

[megamindsecretlair]

Hey girl hey. I just found your blog but I have a little something unhinged to share. Aaron Pierre can turn me every way but loose. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Welcome to my blog! I'm so glad you're here 😗😗😗

And baby 🙃 Aaron Pierre has rotted my brain I fear. The UNHOLY, unhealthy, disgusting, foul, despicable things I'd let that man do to me and I'd say thank you 🥲

He could have me fighting for my gd life and id be smiling through some drool. Like I understand men now when they say "if I die, I die". Ride me home to Valhalla bitches, let's gooooooo 🫠

[i-love-when-women]

Day #8 of watching Megamind every day before Netflix removes it after the 31st.

Yes- I have a problem. No, I will not be watching any other form of entertainment for the remainder of December.

Anyway-

The fun thing about watching the same movie, at least once, day after day is that you start to take notice of things you didn't before- or at least didn't pay attention to before.

Like Megamind's range of expressions. To be fair, all the characters that aren't background fillers are extremely expressive- bless you animators. However, there's just something so wonderfully endearing about how damn expressive this silly blue man is.

I am particularly fond of the later scenes- the rain scene and Tighten's broadcast reaction- where you can just SEE the turmoil and/or thinking going on in his big 'ole head.

While a lot of his expressions are greatly exaggerated, and maybe sometimes just a little silly, the animators really did bless us with an animated character that can express SO MUCH with just his face (especially his eyebrows).

I haven't really posted on Tumblr before, nor do I really know how to use it (aside from liking and reposting, anyway). However, I'm half tempted to make this a series. I have so many silly thoughts about this wonderfully silly movie- and no one irl to share with.

Someone please tell me you've over analyzed this movie as much as I have- or anyway movie.

[randomguyposts]

I am a huge film nerd but I think my favoirte types of movies invlove, time travel, pirates, cool charcters/ species(this includes monsters and such), aniamtion, or an intresting premice that makes you think.

Some of my favs that I could watch over and over:

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure

Back to the future

Beetle Juice

The lego movie

The lego Batman movie

Night at the Museum

Megamind

The sponge bob movies

TMNT Myutant Myahem

Most superhero movies (Marvel or DC)

etc. I have a ton that I like and awlays love seeing more!!

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what's one of your favourite movies?

The lego batman movie :) 🫶

[saytrrose]

are you a VILLAIN

SHHH NOT SO LOUD