Despicable Me
| Fandom | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Despicable Me |
| Abbreviation(s): | DM |
| Creator: | Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud (Directors) Chris Meledandri, John Cohen, & Janet Healy (Producers) Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio (Screenplay) Sergio Pablos (Story by) |
| Date(s): | 2010 (DM), 2013 (DM2), 2015 (Minions) |
| Medium: | animated film |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | Wikipedia |
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Despicable Me is an American 3D computer-animated comedy film series from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment.
Canon
Felonious Gru, a supervillain who adopts three girls (Margo, Edith, and Agnes) from an orphanage. In the first film: a rival of Gru, Victor "Vector" Perkins, steals the Great Pyramid of Giza and Gru plans to shrink and steal the Earth's moon.
Minions, little yellow alien-looking guys are Gru's sidekicks through out the films. The 2015 prequel movie titled Minions focuses on them before they met Gru.
Fandom
Minions are often used as animated gifs or in memes to express emotions or feels.
Crossovers are fairly common, especially with other animated films such as The Incredibles and Megamind.
Shipping
Margo/Violet Parr has appeared in DM/Incredibles crossovers.
Fanworks
Fanfiction
- The Minion Verse by Merideath, a DM/MCU crossover where Darcy Lewis is one of Gru's daughters and the minions set her and Steve Rogers (Captain America) up.
- The Best Time of Your Life by Cinaed, podfic by exmanhater, a DM/The Incredibles crossover. "Violet approaches freshman year of college with a mixture of anticipation and dread. The dread's mostly gone once she meets Margo."
Archives & Fannish Links
- Despicable Me works at AO3
- Despicable Me & crossover works at FFN
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Resources
References
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