#i have not watched megamind rules

[th3e-m4ng0]

sorry

[jicklet]

Megamind Rules! - S01E16 “Thrilling Conclusions!” (1/2)

[nientedal]

Is it worth watching Megamind rules? I know I’m not the target, but I’m curious yet also really really nervous. I know it’s for a younger audience but I’m still very on the fence and nervous. Also, love your writing

Omg, thank you, and thank you also for asking and yes yes yes 100% it's worth watching! It got crapped on by a bunch of people who decided based on the trailer alone that it was going to suck (how fun, a movie about a guy who everyone decided would be bad despite not knowing him got a spinoff show that...everyone decided would be bad despite not watching it, lol), so there's a lot of hate out there for it. I'm assuming you've caught wind of some of that, and that's why you're nervous? But for what it's worth, I was staring at the screen like :D basically the whole time.

Some more specific notes below the cut, but the tl;dr is please do give it a chance, if you can find the time. A G-rated direct-to-stream spinoff show wasn't what a lot of people were hoping for, and there were some folks who watched it and didn't care for it. But from a writing and storytelling standpoint, I think it is genuinely good! If you go in expecting a cute kids' show with some silly jokes and social misfits finding their way forward together, and keep an open mind, I don't think you'll be disappointed-- in fact I think you may be pleasantly surprised.

Just a gentle heads-up on some stuff because I'm not sure what you've heard about the show yet, and I'm also not sure what your existing expectations are!

The show was given a shoestring budget and not a lot of time to go from writers' room to final product, and yes, there are places where you can tell. But that was always going to be the case-- Dreamworks was absolutely not going to be spending big bucks on a franchise they've barely even acknowledged in more than a decade-- and it wasn't the fault of the people making the show. And even with the low budget, I think the animation is still genuinely solid, especially in later episodes! The people who worked on it really did a great job with what they were given.

And the writing!!! Holy shit!!! My skin is clear my crops are watered etc. The original writers handled this project and they absolutely delivered. Megamind & Roxanne's whole Thing progresses and grows and blooms in a really sweet and realistic way. Roxanne & Chum have a great dynamic. (Minion's name needed to be changed for legal reasons, but the writers worked that into the show and I gotta say, as a trans person, it was really lovely to see everyone else respond to "actually, because of [spoiler], my name is Chum now" with "oh! cool okay" and just keep rolling. I love that that was modeled for kids.) The character development is tangible; we get to watch Megamind really grow as a person and come into his own over the course of the series. And the new characters are really fun-- I genuinely enjoyed Keiko and everyone else.

Even if you never watch it (it's OK if you don't!) please just know: this was not a cash grab; Megamind Rules was made by people who truly cared about this world and these characters.

It's also worth noting that Megamind Versus the Doom Syndicate (the extended pilot) recaps a bunch of the same lessons as the original movie, so it can feel a little bit "...didn't we JUST do this??" but I'm pretty sure that was because Dreamworks didn't want to rely on kids to watch a 13 year old movie rated PG instead of G in order to get context. So like, I get it. And it's still cute! But it did mean I was nervous about what the rest of the series would be like until I was laughing my ass off halfway through Episode 2. If you're nervous, you can probably skip MMVtDS.

But yeah. I truly do think Megamind Rules is worth watching, and I've been so sad about the reception it received. Thank you so much for asking about it, and not just deciding it sucks and moving on. I appreciate you.

[deeneedsaname]

Megamind Sequel, animation, and the apparently-forgotten era of CGI shows

Alright guys, buckle up, it’s time to talk about Megamind and the sequel/show!

Let’s start with the basics: two new additions to the Megamind world are coming out: a tv show called “Megamind Rules!”, and a sequel movie, Megamind Vs the Doom Syndicate. Obviously, the first thing everyone noticed was the animation quality lacking in comparison to the first movie. Then, people quickly reacted either agreeing or complaining that people were complaining, etc.

Yes. The animation is not as good as the movie, or as good as what people have come to expect from CGI nowadays. This is NOT the fault of the animators, obviously!

But I think we can all temper our reactions by remembering a few key points!

This sequel is not the grand ‘Megamind 2’ people have been dreaming of. Will Ferrell is not voicing Megamind and the animation looks funky, I know. Therefore, we can’t think of this as a movie going to theaters, but a sort of direct-to-tv/direct-to-dvd sequel. Think Cinderella 2, Ice Age Buck Wild, Aladdin 2: The Return of Jafar, etc!

To put the expectations of the Megamind 2 of our dreams on this movie and series is unfair to it. This is the equivalent of a direct-to-DVD disney sequel that you didn’t hear about until I years later and were like ‘wait, there’s a Tarzan 2???’ in the middle of a drug store (that was a shocking day.) Enjoy it for what it is!!

2. The modern CGI animation consumer has been spoiled rotten. Yes, that includes lots of animation enthusiasts! Back in the day, particularly in the 2010s, ‘poorly’ animated TV shows based on a popular movie were pretty common, ESPECIALLY for dreamworks! Meet some of the examples:

Kung-Fu Panda, Legends of Awesomeness

Aliens Versus Monsters

Penguins of Madagascar

This is NOT a knock on those shows, especially on their quality. Personally, I think Penguins of Madagascar had great animation quality, especially in the later seasons. CGI animation for television is a different beast and doesn’t have the same budget as a movie. (Also, Penguins Of Madagascar show was fantastic, 10/10, no notes, INCREDIBLE music changed lives etc etc.)

Nowadays, CGI animated shows have animation quality comparable to movies, including some Dreamworks ones, such as Kung Fu Panda show Paws of Destiny, or Cars on the Road, the really fun cars short series!

3. The good points!! There is a lot to like about this! The Doom Syndicate is actually pretty cool, as they were first mentioned in I believe the art book, a video game, and an original draft of a sequel film (don’t quote me on that)

Not only that, but ROXANNE IS STILL THERE!! This may seem small, but it’s been common in the past for female love interests to be thrown away and replaced, often because a voice actress couldn’t come back (that’s part of why I loved Puss in Boots 2 so much: Kitty Softpaws had her same voice actress and was still an integral part of the plot just like the first movie) Roxanne still being part of the cast and still being with Megamind is not something to take for granted.

4. Is it disappointing that the long-awaited sequel isn’t a full-blown theatrical release? Yes. Is it disappointing that the voices aren’t returning? Also yes. However…

TL;DR - Megamind 2 and the show should be taken for what they are: a 2010s style tv series and a direct to dvd sequel respectively, this is NOT the fault of any animator, and is not necessarily indicative of quality of writing. Enjoy it for what it is!

[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 🙏💖

[kaythefloppa]

If there is any better real-life example of a monkey's paw wish than the entire existence of Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate + Megamind Rules, vs. what society was like before it was announced when everyone was begging for a Megamind sequel, then I am yet to have seen it, and my viewing experience of the former makes me doubt I'll ever see one like that again.

[thedawningofthehour]

i love ur writing so much its genuinely one of the only ones i can sit through without getting bored or just swiping through

(I've always wanted to use this meme)

For real, thank you. I'm always worried that people will get bored because I know my stuff is so slow-paced. I feel like the fact that this is written by someone with severe ADHD helps make it interesting for other ADHD people lol.

[cable-salamdr]

Reminder that Peacock are the same who made and distribute Megamind 2 and Megamind Rulez and that the second half of the first season just dropped for that— I’m imagining everyone getting subscriptions and Peacock being really excited that people seem to be coming around to the show, only for people to watch this strange Lego Show that they agreed to run instead

Everyone yesterday: Ugh, October?? I mean, it’s nice to know, but we don’t wanna wait three months— most of us are busy with school or life by then :////

Peacock:

Peacock: So guess what

[megamindsecretlair]

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SPOILER/TEASER FOR MEGAMIND RULES . . . . . . . . . . .

Okay, I admit that I haven't watched and have no plan to watch the movie and show. It's just too different of a story/characters compared to the original for me. But if you enjoy it, have fun; I'm not taking that away from you <3 With that said...I HONESTLY LOVE THIS SHOT OF MEGAROX. Ever since I was a kid I've always wanted to see Roxanne as a sort of villain to match Megamind and now, LOOK AT THEM 😭🥹💞 Still weird they're not together (or just crushing and being awkward with one another) since the first movie implied they are official

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Well uh, the new trailer for the Megamind show is here and....ohohoho boy, it doesn't look at that good.

I knew it probably wasn't going to be top-tier animation quality, but watching it gave me serious flashbacks to that Bad Guys holiday special that came out last year and a few of us know how bad that looked.

But upon IMMEDIATELY hearing the new voice they have for Megamind just turned me off and had to take a second before watching the rest of it.

But hey, at least we got this shot of Megamind wearing a beard. That’s one plus for it.

Guess that we're getting a TV movie first, Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate, then a full show afterward that's just called Megamind Rules.

It's too bad since I was looking forward to seeing what they had planned, but it seems like this isn't going to be my current cup of tea since I'm not the demographic anymore, as much as I wanted it to be.

[jicklet]

Megarox hug in Megamind Rules! 1.09 – "Hero For a Day"

[nientedal]

call me crazy but i really think if you haven't actually watched something, loudly hating on it and posting about your massive throbbing disappointment in the tag is pathetic. hilarious bullshit nonsense. form your own opinion instead of just swallowing what's fed to you.

it's not "Megamind 2," it's a show for ages 6 and up. give it some fucking grace or leave it alone if you haven't even had the decency to watch it for yourself.

[lady-hibiscus]

quotes that go insanely hard

even fate picks its favorites (megamind)

one day you'll decompose and i'll be there to watch it happen (turing-tested, tumblr)

stand in the ashes of a thousand dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. their silence is your answer (javik, mass effect)

i do not suffer from insanity. i enjoy every minute of it

the man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one

when the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world

nobody is coming to save you. get up.

failure is not an option. kill them all.

always an angel never a god (boygenius)

mors est misericordia mea (me)

death can have me when it earns me (kratos, god of war)

this world only has one rule: the winner is always right (some vocaloid song)

there's no light at the end of the tunnel, so it's a good thing we brought dynamite

i will go through hell singing

bury me shallow, i'll be back

i may be but small, but i will die a colossus (dark souls 3)

fear is useless and temporary

falling feels like flying until you meet the ground

why should i apologize for being a monster? has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?

the only universal language is violence and we already had that conversation (technoblade, a legend)

memento mori

pray to your God because this will be the last time he hears you

the only god i acknowledge is the one i see every day in the mirror

[ghostlightfic]

hello ghostlight community. have you ever thought to yourself, gee, i sure wish i could talk to ghostlight author kitten while hit movie Megamind (2010) plays in the background! wish no longer!!! as a celebration of 8k hits on ao3 tonight is movie night babey!!! you can come talk to me or you can just sit there and watch the movie and ignore the chat entirely!!!

major ground rules are just. Be Kind. if you are mean to me i will cry and kick you out. just be respectful and we are chill 👍 also feel free to discuss ghostlight and/or ask me questions if you want i do not bite!!! i'm a little loser!!! and i'm full of love!!!

link here! we'll be starting megamind in proooobably about 10 minutes ❤❤❤ hope to see you all there!!

[paragonrobits]

one idea i float around now and then is the idea of a villain organization that maintains a code of conduct, as an in universe reason where villains have an unspoken conduct of proper behavior and when one goes too far or does inappropriate things for a Real Villain, they fucking shut it down immediately; its inspired with things like the Flash's rogues gallery being an actual group that have killed former members that did something inappropriate for the Rogues (like throwing living people into a zombie pit for the zombies to kill in a misguided attempt to revive a zombified family member)

i've had previous ideas for the idea of a villain as a performance piece, where its a big stage of some kind, possibly to encourage people to think about various social issues through the villain doing things (not so much in a 'the villain is a revolutionary' way but in the same fashion of Captain Planet villains being horrible polluters and getting people to go 'oh damn that stuff is bad, we should watch out for people actually wanting to do that for reals'), but this isn't actually like that

these are actual legitimate villains off to do villain schemes like robbing banks, but they're a formal organization with very specific rules. they are NOT antiheroes or heroes of any kind, but they do police their own from going over what is considered a villainous line, even if in-universe heroes fight the criteria baffling, and possibly only tolerate it because the villains ensure that actual mass death or bad stuff happens.

yknow how Megamind in movie of the same name is shown going out of his way to actually not cause genuine damage because he IS a genuinely moral person deep down, but outwardly because that's part of what makes a SUPERvillain? That kind of thing, with less personal awareness

you MIGHT get some heroes who maintain friendly relationships with their villains off the clock, but its not universal; some might even have romances with the other, while others very coldly tell off their villain for even THINKING its a personal relationship. "Listen, I am NOT your friend, and I am NOT your romantic partner. The only reason I put up with you is because that's how its done; I hold back because YOU hold back and you don't actually murder people or make things worse or, I don't know, dismantle a kitten rescue shelter for evil points, but this is not a friendship and I don't owe you anything."

(this can also factor into the vibe of 'villain who gets personally attached to a hero and mistakes this dynamic for reciprocated love is outright called pathetic and in-universe you're SUPPOSED to feel the same')

so essentially, a group that organizes supervillain behavior and makes them comply by a code of conduct, so they don't step over any lines that would go too far, but they ARE still doing villain things that heroes must stop, and heroic characters may regard these as terrifying arbitrary lines and their villains actually make them really uneasy because having standards instead of morals sounds genuinely WORSE than just being callous