#minions gru icons

[smilesedits]

[elcinebenes]

[alienzzzs]

some dm epic face icons i made ^^

might do more but feel free to use these as pfps :)) hehehe (if u want)

[piosplayhouse]

I sent one of the people writing Kim Dokja poll propaganda a heartfelt ask requesting they change their icon to minion kdj so we could be matchies and they never replied :-(

I think they thought I was trolling maybe but I'm sad because I actually did ask my roommate (ORV fan who I have to see in real life every day) which minion they thought Kim Dokja would be and they agreed with my headcanon (that he would be Stuart (Stuart was the one that gave birth to a minion baby during Minions Rise of Gru)). I thought it would have been really cool to see both of them as minions but I guess it wasn't meant to be

[funnyfooddatabase]

Kung Fu Tea Minions Minions Mischief Slush

Drink

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: September 2022

Location: Kung Fu Tea

To promote the Illumination movie Minions: Rise of Gru, Kung Fu Tea created the Minion Mischief slush.

The slush, which was tropical passionfruit-flavored along with a layer of blue milk to evoke the Minions' iconic overalls, came in a special Minions-themed cup.

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Images courtesy of Kung Fu Tea and Silent_Duelist on Twitter.

[calpalsworld]

I’ve seen a lot of misinformation spread around with people calling Minions by the wrong name. I think its about time someone from the Minions community speaks up and gives a simple comprehensive guide to minion characters. Contrary to popular belief, it is not always easy to identify every single minions! Some minions share the same appearance, or the same name. For example there are two Jerrys and two Carls! But it is truly unacceptable to misidentify the most recognizable minon characters, as they are unique individuals with interesting personalities!

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THE TRIO

The most important minion characters are the trio of Kevin, Bob, and Stuart! If you cant identify these three you really should check yourself! 

KEVIN

Kevin is identifiable for his height, tall hair, and leadership! He is one of the most determined and heroic minions. He is arguably the main character of Minions, and he lead the quest to find a new evil master after the minions century-long unemployment (in M1).

BOB

Bob is identifiable for being tiny and bald, and the sweetest minion of them all! He also has heterochromia. He is a product of the quirky cute craze in the early 2010s, but is honestly written pretty endearingly in recent movies. He had a corruption arc where he became the king of England (in M1). His teddy bear is named Tim, not to be confused with the minion Tim, who I mention later.

STUART 

Stuart is identifiable for having one eye and combed hair.... Oh dear, how do I say this. He is an arrogant.... floozy..... And he frequently shows his minion butt on screen. He also has a bit of an artistic side and can play any type of guitar. Notably, he, along with Dave, are the only two minions to never have been turned into a purple “Evil Minion” (in DM2).

OTHER MAJOR CHARACTERS DAVE

Dave doesn’t stand out very much visually and personality-wise, he is your standard minion, but he is very iconic! He has two eyes, is an average pill-shape, and has combed hair. Along with Stuart, he was never turned into a purple minion. He is also one of the only minions to never quit their job, along with one of the Jerrys (in DM3). He is also a little bit of a floozy like Stuart. 

MEL

Mel is identifiable for his one eye and friar-type-hair. As the current head of the Minions, he is the one who rallies the minions to speak up with their grievances (in DM3), which inevitably causes them to rebel and temporarily quit their jobs. Despite this, he sees Gru as a father-figure and loves him very much. He is a very complex character and one of my favorite minions.

OTTO

Otto is EXTREMELY identifiable (if you misidentify him I honestly dont know whats wrong with you). He has a very wide and tall shape, has a tiny sprout of upright hair, and has braces. He also has an extremely-fast-paced speech pattern. Sadly the narrative is rather mean spirited towards him, as all the other minions and Gru are easily annoyed at his presence. Despite being an air-head and making mistakes for the sake of plot, he tries his best to right his wrongs and deserves better! 

OTHER NOTABLE CHARACTERS JERRY AND JERRY

YES they are different characters. YES they both have the same name. It happens in real life too, deal with it. Jerry (left) likes to play golf. Jerry (right) is one of the only minions to not temporarily quit their job, along with Dave. Just wanted to clarify this.

TIM

Tim looks the same as Kevin, but they are NOT the same character. Tim commonly dresses up as a Father when he goes on undercover missions (he does it in DM1 and DM2.) He is also one of the minions who appears in the iconic credits sequence of DM1, along with Carl and John.

TOM

For those wondering who the Maid minion is, his name is Tom. Some media accidentally mislabeled him as Phil, but Phil is actually the one who dresses up like an infant and gets inflated (in DM1). DONT BE LIKE THESE FOOLS. DONT CONFUSE THE BABY MINION FOR THE MAID MINION.

(image of Phil moments before the incident) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many more minion characters! But these were the ones I felt like are most iconic and important to the plot! Please learn your facts and stop incorrectly identifying minions! Thank you!

[eiichiro]

of course there's better shonen than mha but if you were for real you'd just watch them all instead of stuff like dr gru, minions icon

bnha sucks

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Some random opening weekend predictions for animated movies for the rest of the year and maybe some 2025 ones, too...

THE GARFIELD MOVIE - Somewhere around $30m-45m. The only thing we can kind of base this on is the live-action GARFIELD from 2004, which did okay at best, wasn't really all that big back then. Whereas this is all-animated and much more recognizably Garfield & co., which I think will help it open above your typical post-COVID outbreak animated movie. It's the first all-new animated picture since KUNG FU PANDA 4, though not the first kid-friendly movie, as IF will open the weekend before it. Still, it's Garfield. Well-known, decades-old character. I guess the only other comparison here would have to be THE PEANUT MOVIES, which opened w/ $44m back in fall 2015. So yeah, somewhere in that ballpark.

INSIDE OUT 2 - Over $100m. The first INSIDE OUT opened with $90m back in 2015. Adjusted, that's definitely higher than $100m now. Anxiety was a huge hit upon the teaser release last fall, too. Could be a Grogu-esque character for the film that gets everyone in droves to check it out... So yeah, easy $100m opening. Will sit up there with THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE ($146m) and SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE ($120m), as grand champion animated openings post-March 2020. Could even make a play for the record, which currently belongs to the 2019 LION KING ($191m). If we don't want to count those kinds of CG movies, then... INCREDIBLES 2, with $182m.

DESPICABLE ME 4 - Over $60m. MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU opened to a great $107m back in 2022, being the first movie in this franchise in five years (it had been delayed from its original planned summer 2020 release date), and it also helped that the DESPICABLE ME franchise was over ten years old by that point - the first movie having turned 10 in July 2020. I think that definitely helped MINIONS 2, and out of nowhere came that whole meme with people dressing up in fancy suits to see the movie. That's a sort of thing that can't be engineered, and can't happen again... Thus, I expect DESPICABLE ME 4 to perform a little more closely to DESPICABLE ME 3 (that opened to $72m back in 2017) and open above $60m. Could be anywhere between that and $80m, really. Maybe higher, if there's something of a nostalgia rush for it like there was for MINIONS 2.

TRANSFORMERS ONE - Over $25m. Tricky, given that this is an all-new take on Transformers and all-animated no less. I'll compare this to fellow Paramount animated film TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM. That movie came off of two live-action takes on the characters (released in 2014 and 2016), and prior to that there was a single animated movie in 2007 that made an okay amount of money, and there were the three live-action movies from the 1990s, the first of which being iconic... MUTANT MAYHEM opened with $28m last year, so I expect a similar turnout for TF ONE. Especially coming a year after RISE OF THE BEASTS (opened with $60m). With no footage out yet, it'll have to make a real impression the way MUTANT MAYHEM did in order to not get fully dismissed as "Oh, a TRANSFORMERS cartoon now?" Keep in mind, the first SPIDER-VERSE got that kind of reaction in 2018, and opened w/ $35m.

THE WILD ROBOT - Over $30m. I sense a real hype for this one, unlike most non-sequel animated movies released over the past couple of years. And even before COVID, honestly. The trailer really, *really* made an impression. At the movie theater I work at, between co-workers and guests commenting on the poster? Yeah, I think this one possibly scores the biggest opening for a DreamWorks non-sequel since THE BOSS BABY ($50m) all the way back in 2017. The bar isn't too high, for CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, ABOMINABLE, and THE BAD GUYS grossed between $20-25m on their respective opening weekends, while RUBY GILLMAN came and went. This one, I think, will surprise.

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP - Over $10m. It's Looney Tunes, yes. It's 2D, also. I don't expect a huge opening for it, given how the tides often flow. No doubt fans and those who have been keeping track of its existence will show up. Not sure how GFM goes about marketing and advertising this one, but I'm basing this on how a lot of non-anime 2D films - whether they're based on pre-existing franchises or not - did over the past 15 years.

MOANA 2 - Over $100m. The first MOANA opened with $56m back in 2016 and legged it up to a $245m+ domestic gross. Pretty solid run in theaters... But on streaming? E-X-P-L-O-D-E-D... It continues to be one of the most streamed movies of all-time, every year. Something about it, really keeps it atop the tidal wave. The post-theatrical life for this movie is ROBUST... Thus, I think this sequel will be a massive opener.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM - Over $10m. Being an anime take on LORD OF THE RINGS, I think this will largely be ignored on its opening weekend, looked at as just "a LORD OF THE RINGS cartoon". With some diehards and animation fans such as ourselves showing up. Could be a leggy surprise thereafter, though.

MUFASA: THE LION KING - Over $30m. Whenever a sequel/prequel/whatever to a Disney remake crops up, it usually doesn't do great. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010), for example, was a billion dollar smash. Six years later came ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, which didn't make half of what the first Burton movie made worldwide. It did pitifully domestically, opening with $26m, waaaaay down from the first one's $116m opening take. MALEFICENT 2 had a similar trajectory, though not as harsh as a come down. That opened with $36m domestically, down from the first's $70m opening. I think LION KING prequel - coming off of the first, which opened with $191m - has a similar fate. It'll also have SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 to compete with.

DOG MAN - Over $10m. Basically a milder CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS. Looking at the likes of MIGRATION and such, it'll be a teens opener, probably having spectacular legs afterwards.

THE SMURF MOVIE - Over $10m. Kinda hard to gauge. A little while ago, Sony Animation did SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE in 2017, which opened with $13m. That came off of two relatively recent live-action hybrid movies. In 2025, it'll have been almost 10 years since LOST VILLAGE, so maybe that helps it? Maybe the new approach helps it? Remains to be seen, this is based on what little we know of it... But we already had three Smurfs movies in the 2010s, so it seems like it'll only do alright.

[fearsmagazine]

DESPICABLE ME 4  | Trailer & Poster

In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4.

Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, the biggest global animated franchise in history now begins a new chapter as Gru (Oscar®nominee Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Oscar® nominee Kristen Wiig) and their girls —Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan)—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad.

Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Emmy winner Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.

The film features fresh new characters voiced by Joey King (Bullet Train), Emmy winner Stephen Colbert (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live). Pierre Coffin returns as the iconic voice of the Minions and Oscar® nominee Steve Coogan returns as Silas Ramsbottom.

Directed by Chris Renaud, DESPICABLE ME 4 will be in theaters July 3rd, 2024, from Universal Pictures.

[dakotabone1213]

Personal ranking of the Despicable Me/Minions movies (1 being the best)

Please do not attack me like you're on PX41 serum, this is just my opinion ;-;

5. Minions: The Rise of Gru

Don't get me wrong, I love this movie, and it was hard having to put any of these movies at the bottom of the list, but to me at least, it's really only at the bottom because of the sort of drab and/or uncreative dialogue choice, and parts of the plot just felt a bit uncreative to me. That's really it, because I love the characters in it, it's funny, and I just love the movie in general!

4. Despicable Me

Don't get mad at me please. Like I said, I hate having to put any of these movies near the bottom, and this movie is so iconic. I mean, this is where it all began! It's so creative, and it makes sense why it was so successful. I'm really only putting it here because I don't personally enjoy it as much as the other movies.

3. Despicable Me 3

This movie is really good actually. It's hilarious to me, I love Dru, Bratt, and Mel as new characters! Also come on guys, the prison scene is iconic. The reason I put it at rank 3 is because the idea of a twin brother is a bit unoriginal to me, Dru is a great character though, so that makes me forget about that.

2. Despicable Me 2

Ok, between DM 2 and 3, it was a hard choice, but this movie has such a nostalgic chokehold on me that it pushed my brain further to this decision. Plus, this movie is just very enjoyable in general! The introduction of Lucy was great (I'd definitely put her near my top favorite characters... I'm going to have to make another list aren't I?), I love the idea of evil minions (though arguably, that's about as cliché as the twin brother trope), and plus Dave is one of my personal favorite minions (how can you not love him? He's such a happy hyperactive little guy :'3)

1. Minions

Oh boy, this movie. This movie holds an even stronger nostalgic chokehold on me than DM2 does, but that's far from the main reason I chose this as the best. I see a lot of people mention that it's a pretty unnecessary origin story for the minions, but in my opinion it was executed very well. I love the 60's and 70's soundtrack in the movie, the characters are amazing, the storyline is in my opinion more creative than any of the movies (besides DM 1, I mean, that movie started it all man), and the minions are always enjoyable to have on screen. This is without a doubt my favorite movie of the DM/Minions franchise, and very possibly always will me.

That's my list :3 this is just my personal opinion. Every single one of these movies are incredible so it definitely wasn't easy for me to choose.

That is all. Thank you.

[keithcsmith]

I was always deeply involved with Minion Rush. Not only did I write (and regularly update) the core description, but I also wrote the in-game scripts for many limited-time events. Getting to put words in the mouths of such iconic characters as Gru and the girls was a pretty exceptional experience! And it came in quite handy when I inevitably needed to write the "What's New" description for said events.

[smilesedits]

[movies-series-revct]

Minions: The Rise of Gru - Movie Reaction

by Jomaira Madag

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU (2022)

My reaction to Minions Rise of Gru Remember from the first Minions where all Minions have to find their new boss? And now they have finally found one that is perfect, and his name is Gru. Gru's future plan was to be part of the Vicious 6 but gets rejected, so he stole their Zodiac stone so he can prove himself worthy, but gets kidnapped by his favorite villain that ends with Knuckles.

So Kevin, Stuart, and Bob are off to rescue him while Otto is after the stone. The main three Minions learned kung fu as they actually fought the Vicious 6, and then Gru started working with Dr. Nafario as before the first film started.

Obviously the best part of the movie is the comedy and action scenes. The animation is very polished and fresh compared to the past Illumination films. Their renders are smooth, the textures are nice, and the colors are bright. The Vicious 6 are very threatening, they really want revenge of Gru as they try to kill him and a dude that ends with Knuckles.

As what I expected, this movie of course has the purpose to be as entertaining as possible. I really like the origins of everything for the first and the second film. And uh...yeah...I guess that's all I have to say about it.

I recommend it of course, it made every laughs and action as usual to make it an underrated film like the franchise itself. What I have learned before the first Despicable Me starts for storywise is that the Minions are always iconic and funny.

[vonlipvig]

twitter keeps showing me this one tweet of a person that has the same icon i have here so it confuses me every time because it's a drawing of gru eATING A MINION A LA SATURN EATING HIS SON

[sunniesapphic]

@icyboots and i are alone in the movie theater for the 9:45 am showing of minions: rise of gru and i think that's so iconic of us

[jjflooringorlando]

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