Megamind

Megamind is the titular main protagonist of the .
He starts out as a villain, and has always lost to his archenemy Metro Man, but when Metro Man fakes his death, Megamind creates a new hero to battle in his place named Tighten, but Tighten turns out to be evil and kidnaps and tries to kill reporter Roxanne Ritchi (who Megamind had feelings for). Megamind, with the help of his sidekick Minion and the Brainbots, saves Roxanne and Metro City from Tighten and becomes a hero. A disguised Metro Man congratulates Megamind for what he has done.
He is voiced by who also played Ted Shackleford and Reggie in Strays, Buddy Hobbs in Elf, The Man Upstairs in The Lego Movie, Ron Burgundy in the Anchorman film series, Brennan Huff in Step Brothers, and the Mattel CEO in the 2023 live-action film Barbie. In , Megamind Rules! and the tie-in video games, he is voiced by , who also voiced Lord Hater in Wander over Yonder, Lightning McQueen in Mater’s Tall Tales, and Bloo in Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
==Biography==
===Megamind===
====Origins====
In the beginning of the film, Megamind and Minion (as infants) were sent away by Megamind's parents (who were presumably scientists) in a space pod to escape the destruction of their home planet by a black hole. During the journey to Earth, another space pod flew by, with a baby Metro Man, who was also sent away to escape from the black hole threatening his home planet (which, coincidentally, seemed to be a rival planet to Megamind's). Both pods land in Metro City, but results vary: while Metro Man's pod landed in the home of a loving, and presumably wealthy, couple who raised him as their own son, while Megamind's pod landed in the Metro City prison, where the prisoners raised him. The prisoners teach little Megamind all about right and wrong (mostly wrong) using "Baby Super-villains" CDs, DVDs, and cards. During their childhood life, Metro Man was popular among the kids while Megamind was ridiculed due to his appearance and brilliance, while also due to the fact that Metro Man was the more favorable candidate, which would eventually lead to Megamind becoming the villain he was and Metro Man's rival.
====Feud with Metro Man====
The feud between Megamind and Metro Man remain constant until one day Megamind kidnaps news reporter Roxanne Ritchi and lures Metro Man into a trap near an observatory, where Metro Man becomes weakened by the copper lining inside the observatory before Megamind's death ray destroys the observatory, leaving nothing for Metro Man to be left as a skeleton with his cape. Upon witnessing this, Megamind revels in his victory against Metro Man and takes over Metro City to himself. Though at first, Megamind feels good of his victory, but later on, he feels isolated and depressed, as he finds his villainy with no meaning without anyone to stop him. He does this after several days of committing crimes with no one to stop him.
====Creating a New Hero====
While attempting to destroy the museum dedicated to Metro Man, Megamind disguises himself as its curator Bernard to prevent Roxanne from finding him. It is then Roxanne made a comment that inspired the disguised Megamind to create a superhero to battle against him. Deciding to keep things back in balance again for the good of Metro City, Megamind creates a serum containing Metro's Man powers, coming from Metro Man's DNA found in his old cape. He intends to inject the serum to a person worthy enough to defeat him and continue the greater good. Just before he could do so, Roxanne sneaks into his lair with her cameraman Hal Stewart, intending to find out what Megamind's plans are. The resulting chaos ended up with the serum accidentally injected into Hal, who would later inherit all of Metro Man's powers. Taking the opportunity, Megamind heads onward to Hal's apartment, disguises himself as Hal's "Space-Dad", training him to become a hero for days. During the training, Megamind gives Hal his superhero name "Titan" to which Hal misinterprets as "Tighten". At the same time, Megamind develops a relationship with Roxanne under his Bernard disguise. Unfortunately, unknown to Megamind, Hal himself also has feelings for Roxanne, intending to use his own powers to win her heart for himself, as he believes that being a hero means to get the girl for himself rather than doing the greater good.
As Megamind continues his date, he starts to lose interest in villainy, causing Minion to leave him after a fallout, feeling somewhat betrayed after Megamind says some nasty things to him. Later on a dinner date, Megamind's Bernard disguise falters away, leaving Roxanne to dump him and causing him to forget where he left his invisible car that contains the same defuser gun that injected the powers to Hal. Deciding to continue with his plan, Megamind waits for Tighten to arrive and fight him, only to seek him out again in his apartment, where Megamind discovers that Tighten has decided to use his powers for nefarious purposes, when he sees that Tighten stole large sums of money, an arcade video game, ATM machine, bike, and electronics. Tighten then reveals that he originally tried to become a hero for Roxanne Ritchi, and found out about "Bernard" and her relationship, and now wants to establish a partnership with Megamind, but the latter, outraged by seeing his "hero" turning out to be a selfish person, refuses and instead goads Tighten to fight him by revealing his "Space-Dad" and "Bernard" disguises.
====Plan Backfire====
As planned, Titan fights against Megamind, unleashing his rage against him, and finally manages to defeat him, berating him for "stealing" Roxanne and tricking him. Megamind initially congratulates Titan for his victory and awaits to go back to jail again, but Titan wants to kill him instead of turning him over to the authorities. Shocked, Megamind orders his Brain-Bots to initiate a backup plan: to contain Titan in a copper-based sphere. However, this fails forcing Megamind to flee while Titan himself starts to terrorize Metro City as its new villain, causing more chaos to the city than Megamind has ever done while continuing to search for Megamind. Confused about the inconsistency of the copper as a weakness, Megamind turns to Roxanne, apologizing to her for his actions on her and convincing her to find a way to stop Tighten. 
To start off, they manage to track down Metro Man's old lair, where they are surprised to see that Metro Man is actually alive, demanding an explanation for what happened. Feeling somewhat remorseful, Metro Man explains to Megamind and Roxanne that he felt tired battling against Megamind, as he feels that Megamind is having emotions during their feud. Metro Man also explained that, like Megamind, he never made a choice to decide what he wants to be in life despite his success as a superhero, and decides to retire by faking his death to pursue a career as a musician. Megamind understands Metro Man's intentions, but pleads to him to stop Titan, to which Metro Man respectfully refuses, knowing it would be against his vow to be making a choice in life. Eventually, Metro Man encourages Megamind to stand up for the greater good and fight back against Titan, to which Megamind refuses, stating that he will always be the failing villain to be. Having no more leads to stop Titan, Megamind decides to turn himself back to prison, intending to pay the price for his actions, including creating Titan.
With the supers no longer helping, Roxanne calls to Titan, trying to appease to his conscience, but Titan retorts that by denying that he has got any good in him, and instead kidnaps Roxanne and tying her up in the top of Metro Tower, intending to goad Megamind out to fight him by threatening Roxanne's life. Seeing this on TV, Megamind pleads the Warden to release him, even going so far to apologize and pay for his misdeeds, for how he deceived Roxanne and hurt his best friend, Minion. The Warden opens the gates and disables his holographic watch, revealing himself as none other than Minion. Megamind, surprised by this, makes an amusing comment, and they set off to stop Tighten. The real Warden, who was tied up by Minion, wishes them good luck.
====Redemption====
Megamind and Minion arranged a plan of rescue and action, by having the latter to disguise himself as the former to save Roxanne with the help of the Brain-Bots, as well as the former to disguise himself as Metro Man to track down Titan and verbally berate him for his actions. The plan somehow worked, although Minion ended up being stabbed by the tower's rod near a water fountain by Titan, while Megamind, under his Metro Man disguise, orders Titan to leave Metro City and never return. Titan agrees to go, but later returns after realizing that the "hero" said the word "Metrosity", something which only Megamind says, as he has trouble saying some of the simple words, such as "hello" for "ollo". Titan then calls out Megamind for fooling him. Megamind, however remains unfazed, saying that it was Hal's entitlement and refusal to move on from Roxanne's rejection that led to him going on a crime spree. Seeing that it didn't work, and that Hal still wishes to kill him, Megamind continues fighting against Titan to no avail, that is until Roxanne discovers where Megamind left his invisible car and his defuser gun the night she dumped him. She explains this to Megamind, leaving him to finally get hold of the defuser gun, but Tighten throws him up into the sky, hoping that he will fall to his death. Just as things are about to go down when Titan decides to finish off Roxanne near the water fountain, Megamind dehydrates himself into a cube, landing into the water, where he re-hydrates himself and uses the defuser gun to remove all of Titan's powers for good. Having defeated Hal for good, Megamind goes in to save Minion by throwing him into the fountain water, since fish need water to survive, thanking him for his help. It was then the citizens of Metro City cheered for Megamind as their new hero. However, because of his past, things are awkward between them at first.
Feeling good about this, Megamind realizes that destiny itself is the path he can choose for himself. Feeling capable to becoming a real hero, Megamind arranges the Brain-Bots to repair the destruction he and Hal has done to Metro City as retribution, and the Metro Man Museum gets dedicated to him. As for Hal, he gets arrested and thrown into Megamind's old cell for a life sentence as punishment for his crimes against Metro City. During a celebration of Megamind as the new hero, a disguised Metro Man within the audience silently gives his congratulations to Megamind, having known that he had some good left in him. To make things better, Roxanne develops her relationship with Megamind in honor of his actions for her. The film ends with Megamind, Roxanne, Minion, Hal, the warden, the guards and everyone in Metro City dancing to the tune of Michael Jackson's song, Bad.
===Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate===
Two days after the events of the first film, Megamind now takes on the role of defender of Metro City. Along with Minion, now called Ol' Chum, stop the criminal trio known as the Go-Fish gang form stealing a priceless fish. For his heroic efforts, Megamind is presented with the key to the city. Chum however is feeling abandoned and unappreciated in his efforts, Chum tells Megamind that he wants to be his sidekick. After being rejected, Chum states that he will look for other opportunities, which Megamind allows.
When the Doom Syndicate, a team of supervillains that included Megamind, breaks out of prison to visit him, believing that he remains a villain and that his role as a hero is part of an evil plan. Megamind knew if they find out he is not a villain anyone, he will be beaten up by them. Megamind decides to keep up evil appearances unit he find a way to stop them. The Doom Syndicate later go on a crime spree and eventually challenge Megamind to prove he's still evil by robbing a bank. Megamind tries to do this, but is aided by Keiko Morita, his self-proclaimed biggest fan, who helps him stage a fake robbery. 
Megamind with his old crew fool, reveals an abandoned villainous plot he has carried out to launch Metro City to the moon using rockets placed underground. The Doom Syndicate prepares to launch them, but Megamind stops them. Realizing that he is up to something, they vow to either start Metro City themselves or they will destroy the city. Realizing that he cannot defeat the Syndicate alone, Megamind and Roxanne track down Chum in a remodeled diner and tries to get his help. However, after realizing that he might belong more in the store than with him, Megamind regrets letting Chum go and then heads back to his lair, leaving Roxanne and Keiko behind.
The Doom Syndicate later learn his facade that night when he try trapping them in a portal-prison, where Megamind finds himself overpowered by them. He hides in an alley, feeling defeated, but is confronted by Roxanne and Keiko, who remind him that it's okay to ask others for help. Chum also returns when Megamind tells him that he is indeed his sidekick. Megamind, Chum, Roxanne and Keiko team up to face the Syndicate of Doom but fail to stop the launch. They manage to redirect Metro City safely back to Earth. Roxanne is elected the new mayor of Metro City, while Keiko launches a newly designed hero signal as Megamind feels accomplished in his new team.
===Megamind Rules!===
====Season 1====
TBA
==Appearance==
TBA
==Personality==
At first, Megamind enjoyed being a supervillain, as this was what was expected of him from most of society. He's grown this way due to being rejected and tormented by his peers throughout most of his childhood, and often got in trouble whenever he tried to fend for himself. As a result, he started to believe that being bad was all he was really good at in life, and became a supervillain. 
Despite his intelligence, Megamind is bumbling, egotistical, clumsy, and while making his life dependent on his villain status, had somewhat of a naive idea of what it truly means to be a villain. For example, he plays up his status as a villain as more of a game rather than as an actual battle between good and evil, and believed that actual villainy simply amounts to simple crimes like robberies or vandalizing public property. This his further shown after believing he has finally killed Metro Man, where he realized that without a hero to fight, he also had no purpose in life, and therefore created Tighten in order to have someone even out his villainy. 
Even as a self-proclaimed supervillain, he still showed a strong aura of morality within himself. Despite all the damage he purposefully caused to Metro City on a daily basis, his intention was never to harm any of the civilians, not even Roxanne Ritchi, who he'd kidnap regularly, or Metro Man, who he only thought to have killed accidentally. Ironically, it has even gotten to the point where the civilians aren't genuinely afraid of him, but instead rejecting him just for what they perceive him to be. He is even disgusted when Tighten refuses to use his powers for good, instead using them for his own personal gain, and requesting Megamind to join in on his evil plans.
After seeing all of the damage Tighten is causing to Metrocity, as well as his plan to kill Roxanne, Megamind suddenly has a change of heart after Metro Man suggests to him to take his place as the city's new hero, and when he finally gives a sincere apology to the Warden, who is actually Minion in disguise.
Minion then distracts Tighten and saves Roxanne while Megamind builds everything he needs to battle Tighten. Megamind then uses his disguise watch to disguise himself as Metro Man and he then saves Roxanne's life after Tighten kicks a bus at her. Megamind successfully intimidates Tighten into leaving Metrocity but he made the mistake of calling it "Metrocity" instead of Metro City which Tighten knows that there is only one person who calls their city Metrocity so he returns and battles Megamind if a quick fight where Tighten easily gains the upper hand. However, after being reminded by Roxanne where the invisible car is, Megamind makes a sprint for it in order to get the defuser gun to remove Tighten's powers. Megamind successfully retrieves the gun and tries to hide from Tighten until it is ready for use. However, Tighten finds Megamind hiding behind a car door and throws him in the air to a near certain death. Megamind then believes that this will be his "last glorious failure" but after seeing a fountain underneath him, he uses his dehydration gun to dehydrate himself into a cube and once he lands in the fountain, he rehydrates himself and grabs the defuser gun which is now ready for use and removes Tighten's powers with it. After this, he and Minion became the new heroes for Metro City and they are seen at the museum as a ceremony for them becoming the official protectors for Metro City just like Metro Man had at the start of the film with Roxanne giving him a kiss on the cheek before the credits roll.
Megamind seems to enjoy acting, as even his initial supervillain status was a more performance, with extravagance and theatricality he believed were needed for the role. He is able to vanish - literally, due to his disguise watch - into different personas, such as when he posed as Hal Stewart's "Space Dad," or when he was able to perfectly emulate Metro Man's charisma and banter, albeit failing just because of a vocal tic he had in certain words. The only time he isn't acting is when in the form of Bernard, as he gets close to Roxanne; his true self is also intelligent and somewhat pompous, but he is also kind, caring, and in reality shy and insecure.
==Equipment==
* De-Gun: Megamind's primary weapon. Has several settings Decompress, Debilitate, Demoralize, Decoupage, Deregulate, Death Ray, and Destroy.
* Defuser Gun: Megamind created this weapon to give Metro Man's DNA to Hal.
* Invisible Car: Megamind's primary use of transportation.
* Disguise Generator Watch/Holo-Watch: A watch-like device that can (almost completely) change the appearance of whoever uses it, with the sole exception of the eyes, who remain with the same color as their owner's.
* B.I.N.K.E.Y.: A pacifier given to him by his parents before they sent him off to Earth. Megamind also used it as a weapon as he blew up a wall on the prison when he was still a baby, used it as a teether, a torch and to power the Prototype Dehydration Gun, the laser on Minion's first robot suit and his dodgeball protecting helmet.
==Trivia== 
*The DVD commentary of the film note that his costume and showmanship are purposely evocative of Alice Cooper.
*Megamind is notably similar to Felonious Gru from Despicable Me, another aspiring supervillain who eventually quits his career and takes on a more heroic role.
*Space Dad is a satire on Jor-El, Superman's father, from the Richard Donner Superman films, as played by Marlon Brando; Space Dad is a caricature based on Brando, with an exaggerated imitation of the late actor's voice. 
* (who also voiced Alex in the Madagascar film franchise, another work by DreamWorks) and were both originally approached for the role of Megamind, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts. However, Stiller appears in a minor role as the curator named Bernard, who gets his identity stolen by Megamind. Although, he only talked in a couple scenes, including one post-credits. Ferrell still voices Bernard when Megamind disguised himself as him despite sounding different in his other disguises.
**Also in addition to Stiller and Downey Jr, , , , , , , , , the late , the late and were all considered for the role of Megamind before was cast.
*The retcon in the sequel that posited Megamind had a supervillain mentor was very poorly received. Likewise, strongly criticised was the existence of the Doom Syndicate that further contradicts his backstory and struggle with loneliness explored in the original film.
==External Links==
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
==Navigation==
fr:Megamind
Category:Cartoon Heroes
Category:Movie Heroes
Category:TV Show Heroes
Category:Action Heroes
Category:Comedy Heroes
Category:Science Fantasy Heroes
Category:Theatrical Heroes
Category:Comic Book Heroes
Category:Male
Category:Titular
Category:Redeemed Villains
Category:Genius
Category:Aliens
Category:Honorable
Category:Criminals
Category:Thieves
Category:The Hero
Category:Superheroes
Category:Jerks
Category:Inventors
Category:Creators
Category:Archenemy
Category:Nemesis
Category:Rivals
Category:Counter-Terrorists
Category:Parody/Homage
Category:Unwanted
Category:Liars
Category:Humanoid
Category:Chaotic Good
Category:Tricksters
Category:In Love
Category:Tragic
Category:Last of Kind
Category:Good Vs. Good
Category:Provokers
Category:Narrators
Category:Weaklings
Category:Cowards
Category:Scapegoat
Category:Mentors
Category:Orphans
Category:Arrogant
Category:Insecure
Category:Animal Kindness
Category:Protectors
Category:Benevolent Rulers
Category:Self-Aware
Category:Mentally Ill
Category:Successors
Category:Love Rivals
Category:Protectors of Innocence
Category:Fighters
Category:Honest
Category:Loyal
Category:Mischievous
Category:Nature-Lovers
Category:Control Freaks
Category:Friend of a Villain
Category:Master of a Villain
Category:Incompetent
Category:Virtually Resourceful
Category:Dreaded
Category:Merciful
Category:Determinators
Category:Selfless
Category:Philanthropists
Category:Optimists
Category:Nurturers
Category:Nameless
Category:Thrill-Seekers
Category:Doctors and Scientists
Category:Envious
Category:Misguided
Category:Strong-Willed
Category:Mascots
Category:Successful
Category:Big Good
Category:Anti-Nihilists
Category:Vigilantes
Category:Leaders
Category:Defectors
Category:Wrathful
Category:Betrayed
Category:Legacy
Category:Falsely Accused
Category:Rescuers