Balthazar Bratt

* Mutant
* Human Adult
* Human Young
* Leader of Sonic Decepticon Music Band (former)

### Fate

He struggled for a moment, then released the blade, allowing Depth Radien Charge to stab him and laughing maniacally as the resulting explosion appeared to kill him.

> "*I've been a baaaad boy!*"
> ― Bratt's catchphrase.
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> "*Balthazar Bratt: (last worlds) I was your assignment, and you failed!
> Depth Radien Charge: Raw energon! Right through your twisted spark! Take it! Take it straight to the pit, you SICKENING PIECE OF SLAG!*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt's last worlds, as he struggled for a moment, then released the blade, allowing Depth Radien Charge to stab him and laughing maniacally as the resulting explosion appeared to kill him.
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**Balthazar B. Bratt**, or simply known as **Buzzard Bratt the Mutant Vulture**, is the major antagonist of Illumination's 8th feature film *Despicable Me 3*. He was once the star of a television show before it was cancelled due to his puberty. Bent on getting revenge against Hollywood for ousting him, he plans to get rid of the iconic studio by making it float away into outer space. He is also Clive's boss and the arch-nemesis of Felonious Gru.

He was voiced by Trey Parker in the movies and TV series, who is best known for co-creating the hit animated comedy series *South Park* and as well as voicing Kim Jong-il in *Team America: World Police*. When disguised as Lucy Wilde, he was voiced by Kristen Wiig, who also played Mrs. Hattie in the original film, Madame Hagfish in *SpongeBob SquarePants*, Katinka Ingaborgovinananananana in *Zoolander 2,* Cheetah in *Wonder Woman 1984,* Herald in mother! and Sharon Fishman in Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar.

## Appearance

As a child, Bratt was an adorable child of small stature and wore a purple blazer with shoulder pads and a white shirt underneath, he also wore purple parachute pants and black and white shoes. He also had a thick head of black medium length hair styled into a mullet.

As he was going through puberty, he got taller with a growth spurt and developed facial hair and acne on his face.

In the present day, Bratt is a tall, slim, and athletically built man with fair skin. He now has a thick and bushy black mustache, and his hair is a bit longer but also has a bald spot. He wears an updated version of his original outfit but added several hidden features into his clothes such as his shoes turning into water skis and his outfit turning into a paraglider. He also has one gold earring and is seen holding his keytar a lot. Bratt is also mostly seen blowing a bubble out of bubble gum which he did frequently on his TV show as well.

## Personality

Balthazar Bratt was nothing more or less than a pure megalomaniac with complete egotism. He is a purely selfish who thinks almost only on himself and only on his actions. In addition to being an egotistical megalomaniac, Bratt is an extremely ruthless and destructive individual who shows no mercy towards his enemies especially when he attempted to destroy Hollywood and mostly, he enjoys wreaking havoc and destruction as revenge on them for canceling his *Evil Bratt* show and decimating his career. And given the fact that over three decades have passed since *Evil Bratt* was canceled, it's likely that just about everyone involved in Bratt's show ending has since retired and moved away from Hollywood, making his revenge hit people who've done nothing to him, meaning that his so-called "tragedy" was never valid in the first place.

Yet, Bratt sees no evil in his actions, which means that he is a pretentious and delusional individual who had lost faith in the world, and he is also extremely vindictive and cruel, as all he wanted was to destroy Hollywood as revenge for canceling his TV show. In addition to this goal, Bratt sought what all supervillains sought; to gain world domination after he destroyed Hollywood. In addition to his dangerous, megalomaniacal, violent, and evil personality, Bratt is a man who lost his time: Stuck in the past, he always lives in the bubble of himself, which means that he always likes to listen to music from the 80s (such as the songs "Bad" by the late Michael Jackson, "Take on Me" by A-ha, or "Into the Groove" by Madonna, to name but a few), why he always acts like a man in the 80s.

Bratt is also an extremely puerile, manipulative and cunning individual; for example, when he uses his skills of mastery of disguise, Bratt can pose himself as an obese jewel expert to steal the DuPont Diamond from Paris and also impersonating Lucy Wilde, succeeded in manipulating Gru and kidnapping the girls.

## History

### *Youth*

During his youth, Balthazar Bratt was a popular child actor that played his own self-titled, live-action television show "Evil Bratt" in his self-titled series in 1985, which revolved around him performing various evil deeds such as robbing banks, defeating armies, destroying cities, and anything else. Although the series was beloved by kids worldwide, during the show's third season, Bratt hit puberty and experienced an unexpected growth spurt, along with pimples and facial hair, causing the series to fall from popularity and was canceled soon afterward, leading to Hollywood rejecting him. Having his reputation and career destroyed by his fall from grace, Bratt immediately turned to a life of crime, bent on destroying Hollywood.

### Despicable Me 3

After his turn to villainy, Balthazar Bratt quickly rose to the top of the Anti Villain League's most wanted criminal list and fought with them on various occasions, particularly with Felonius Gru, an ex-supervillain and the AVL's newest member as well as his partner/wife, Lucy Wilde. Bratt, along with his robotic sidekick Clive (who was also in the television series), robs an ocean liner transporting the world's largest diamond, the Dupont Diamond, using his rapidly-expanding bubblegum to turn the ship airborne. Bratt then gets into a fight with Gru, and, after disarming each other, begin "dance fighting", although Gru seemingly knocks him out. As Gru prepares to turn the diamond back to the authorities, Bratt gets back up, stating that he was only pretending to be knocked out, and blows Gru away using a sonic keytar, publicly humiliating him in the process. Before Bratt can get away, numerous AVL agents swarm the liner, forcing him to escape. As punishment for failing to capture Bratt, both Gru and Lucy are fired from the AVL by the new and overly harsh director Valerie Da Vinci.

After escaping Gru, Bratt poses as an overweight jewel inspector to gain access to and retrieve the Dupont Diamond from a museum in Paris. The next day, Bratt's diamond heist makes the first page of the news, infuriating Gru. Later, Bratt trains for "the big day" and watches an episode of his television series in which Evil Bratt attacks a city (could be New York because the Statue of Liberty was seen in the episode) with a giant robot and uses his expanding bubblegum to cover the city in bubblegum and use his diamond-powered splash-damage laser to float the city into space, with Bratt planning on doing the same thing to Hollywood as revenge for them canceling *Evil Bratt.*

To get his old job back, Gru plots to steal the Dupont Diamond back from Bratt with the help of his twin brother Dru Gru (who believes them to be stealing it as an act of villainy, not heroism). After making it to Bratt's bedroom, they narrowly avoid waking him up and alerting him before he wakes up himself and continues working on his giant robot. After Dru accidentally alerts Bratt to their presence by nearly choking on his expanding bubblegum, Bratt confronts the brothers, surprised there are now two of Gru. However, he delights at the thought of destroying Gru twice but Gru throws the gum at Bratt, sticking him to the wall while they quickly take the diamond and narrowly escape his fortress thanks to Lucy who had followed them and they return to the mansion with the diamond.

Once at the mansion, however, Gru and Dru get into an argument over how the former wants to return to the AVL, while the latter wants to continue their family's villainy tradition, ending with both disowning each other and Gru storming out.

Meanwhile, Bratt disguises himself as Lucy (tying up and gagging the real Lucy, and stuffing her in the closet), takes the diamond back and kidnaps Margo, Edith, and Agnes (along with Agnes' new pet one-horned goat Lucky). Gru is about to leave out the door when he finds Lucy in the closet and she frantically tells him that Bratt took the girls. Gru spots the plane flying away and rushes to Dru who is still sulking from their argument. But learning that his nieces have been kidnapped by Bratt, Dru immediately drops his anger at his brother and he, Gru and Lucy board his hovercraft and fly to Hollywood to stop Bratt and rescue the girls. On the way there, they nearly collide with the aircraft that the Minions built (to escape from prison), and the Minions decide to follow them.

At Hollywood, Bratt's giant robot self-replica emerges from the ocean and begins attacking the city, shooting his expanding gum all over the city as several people run in terror. Edith demands Bratt to release her and her sisters, and Bratt complies by casually placing the girls (and the goat) on the ledge of a building to give them a perfect view of the destruction he is causing. After shooting enough of the gum, Bratt uses the robot's diamond-powered splash-damage laser cannon to begin separating Hollywood from the ground to let it drift off.

Gru, Dru, and Lucy arrive at Hollywood to see Bratt's robot attacking the city and Dru realize Bratt's plan due to having watched *Evil Bratt.* The Minions parachute out of their aircraft and onto the expanding gum and desperately try to pop it (by using chainsaws, gardening forks, lightning rods on umbrellas and even TNT), but it is too strong and sturdy. While Lucy rescues the girls, Gru and Dru shoot Bratt's robot with several missiles. Unfortunately, they prove to be ineffective and Bratt has his Bratt-pack (modified Evil Bratt dolls) bring down Gru and Dru's plane, and the two brothers leap out of the aircraft before it crashes and then explodes. Dru uses the suction on his spy suit to land on the robot's chest plate (without Bratt noticing), while Gru lands hard on the ground, knocking him unconscious. Seeing the unconscious Gru, Bratt begins firing his laser towards him, but before the beam can reach Gru, Dru destroys the robot's generator, causing it to collapse.

Whilst trying to search the wreckage for his brother, Gru comes face to face, being accused by an enraged Bratt, and before he can use his keytar to blow him away, Gru proposes a dance fight and Bratt complies setting the music to Madonna's *Into the Groove.* After a brief dance fight, Gru snatches Bratt's keytar without him noticing and uses it to both blow him away and similarly humiliate him to how Bratt had previously done to him, leaving Bratt floating away in his gum while naked, and he was cornered by AVL helicopters. While Bratt is arrest by the AVL agents, Gru desperately searches through the robot's wreckage for his brother, only for Dru to pop out from behind him and hug him from behind his back, to Gru's extreme joy. Gru, Dru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, Agnes, Lucky, and the Minions all celebrate their victory in stopping Bratt once and for all.

## Quotes

### South Park

> "*Dr. Claw: Ah, the simple pleasures of code-breaking, yes. Bratt, would you pay our friend a visit?*
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> Bratt: Right away, Doctor Claw.*"*
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> ― Dr. Claw to Bratt.
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> "*Well that's where you're wrong lad, I'll be having that. Your ball is now my ball. Yes! Now run along, lad.*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt.
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> "*All systems A-OK.*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt
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### Headquarters of Ultimatum (TV Series)

> "*Emperor N. Shroud: Balthazar Bratt, it is time.
> Bratt: Yes, my emperor.*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt's first lines.
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> "*Ah, slag!*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt's curse lines.
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> "*Balthazar Bratt: Lord Valor, you know what to do?
> Lord Valor: Yes, commander.*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt to Lord Valor.
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> "*Doctor George Claw: Ah, my happy little band. Eager to begin another glorious MAD day, are we?
> Balthazar Bratt: I sense great fear in you, Gerald the bulter. You have hate. You have anger. But you don't use them.
> Doctor George Claw: Yes, I have no doubt you are. But I have more important duties for you. Anna, Abby and I have detected a large store of Energon cubes in Headquarters of Ultimatum. Hicks, Mutaro, Shorud, Davy and Eilender will build a refueling station there. Bratt, A.R.E.S, Cryptor, Kamikazi and Constantine will assist us.
> Anna Hirano: Don't trust tall, dark, and creepy.
> Constantine: If I get the chance to kick me some HQ Troopers' butt along the way, who cares?
> Robert Hicks: And how may I serve you, royalty?
> Joseph Davy: Yes, what if we do?
> Doctor George Claw: You both will construct a jamming tower at these coordinates, disrupting HQ communications. Planning for the future. Now, go!
> Constantine: On our way, boss.
> Robert Hicks: As you command, my queen.
> Doctor George Claw: Oh, I do wish he'd stop calling me that.*"
> ― Doctor George Claw to MAD troopers about Balthazar Bratt to Gerald foreshadowing the latter's transformation into Gerald Gasket.
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> "*Doctor George Claw: A horrid traitor and a deposed Dr. Claw, yes. We are an unlikely pair. I will consider your fate after my restoration. Computer, process voice recognition command.
> MAD Computer: Doctor George Claw, confirmed.
> Doctor George Claw: Open cell, summon platform. [his cell opens and a platform floats to him] The wise tyrant always ensures his prisons are designed for his personal escape. [to himself as Doctor George Claw leaves]
> Balthazar Bratt: And the wise horrid traitor always makes sure he's carrying a handy infiltration kit.*"
> ― Doctor George Claw to Balthazar Bratt.
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> "*George Claw: Arg! The Headquarters of Ultimatum defeat Malevolent Agency of Destruction!
> Balthazar Bratt: Great!*"
> ― George Claw to Balthazar Bratt.
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> "*Balthazar Bratt: Well that's where you're wrong lad, I'll be having that. Your ball is now my ball. Yes, now run along, lad.
> Sid Gasket (from Horrid Henry): Hey! That's my line!*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt.
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> "*Balthazar Bratt: But, sir. The enemies is here!
> George Claw: Yes, fool! Now, run along, lad. MAD Troopers, prepared to attack.*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt.
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> "*Doctor George Claw: Balthazar Bratt. I ordered you to build me a mutant army, and you give me this?
> Balthazar Bratt: No, no. Don't you see? It swims, flies, and knows tae Kwon do. It's a triple threat. And it quacks?
> A.R.E.S: Can it, Bastard Bratt. This is the last time you mess up.
> Balthazar Bratt: Mess up? But look at you, Rahzar. You're twice the robot, uh, man you were before.
> Doctor George Claw: No, Balthazar. I have a more suitable fate in mind. You have failed me too many times.
> Balthazar Bratt: No! I mean, please, Dr. Claw. I've got plans, huge plans. Mutant pigs and rhinos...
> Doctor George Claw: Pigs?
> Balthazar Bratt: And rhinos. What are you doing? No! The mutagen? You can't. I wouldn't be of any use to you as a mutant. Please, don't.
> Doctor George Claw: I am not a man of idle threats. But, you are no leader of Sonic Decepticon Music Band, forever.
> A.R.E.S: Heh, bet you'll end up a bigger freak than me, Bastard Bratt.
> Balthazar Bratt: There's nothing wrong with idle threats! Yes! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. [The mutagen vials on the collar breaks and Balthazar Bratt started to mutate.]*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt is turned into the Mutant Vulture by Doctor George Claw.
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> "*Oh, no! Look at me! You turned me into vulture freak!*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt as the Mutant Vulture.
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> "*A.R.E.S: Well, look at you, bastard bird. I'd cook you into roast chicken right here, but Dr. Claw has other plans for you.
> Doctor George Claw: I have one last mutant I want you to create, or I will tear off your wings like the lowly bird you are.
> Buzzard Bratt: Yes, master Shredder. Thank you for your generosity.*"
> ― Doctor George Claw to Buzzard Bratt.
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> "*Balthazar Bratt: Thank you could save the universe, HQ Agent? Don't make me laugh!
> Depth Radien Charge: I have no time for you, X!
> Balthazar Bratt: Like you had no time for Starbase Rugby? You had friends there, as I recall - tasty ones too! YEEEEEESSSS!!! NOW RUN ALONG, LAD!!!
> Depth Radien Charge: You want an amusing, creep?!
> Balthazar Bratt: Oh, pathetic! YOU'VE BEEN A BAAAD BOY!
> Depth Radien Charge: SHUT UP!!!
> Balthazar Bratt: Face it, gunman! You can't win!*"
> ― Depth Radien Charge fights Balthazar Bratt
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> "*Buzzard Bratt: Okay. We're failed, boys.
> Doctor George Claw: Lose!
> Gadget: The great South Park Fans awaits, Dr. Claw. Prepare to be reformatted.
> Doctor George Claw: Oh, goodie! We are loser! Later, haters!*"
> ― Doctor George Claw, Buzzard Bratt and his armies are loser in Last Day of School.
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> "*My Emperor N. Shroud and I will going to Mega City to get all the HQ and once. Depth Radien Charge have been a baaaad boy!* "
> ― Balthazar Bratt to Emperor N. Shroud.
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> "*Jackson Gasket: Bratt meet Doctor Claw, the Leader of MAD.
> Dr. Claw: Well, well, look who's back?
> Bratt: Help!*"
> ― Jackson Gasket and Bratt meet Doctor Claw.
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### Despicable Me 3

> "*Hello Gru, how's your transition coming? You know from world's worst villain to world's worst agent?!*"
> ― Balthazar's first encounter with Gru in the movie.
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> "***Bratt**: Ooh la la. You have been duped!
> **Museum Director**: What? We have?!
> **Bratt**: Yes...by ME!*"
> ― Bratt, disguised as a jewel inspector before revealing himself.
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> "*Oh, it's too bad Gru won't be around to try to stop me. Wait, no it's not. I hate that dweeb! And you, Hollywood! This time,* I'm *canceling* you! *AND ALL THE LOSERS WHO REJECTED ME!*"
> ― Bratt seeking vengeance on Hollywood for canceling his show.
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> "*You've been a bad boy, Gru. Can you get the rest of the suitcases? Come on, girls, let's go! Let's get physical, physical!*"
> ― Bratt disguised as Lucy.
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> "*Change of plan, girls. Instead of going home... (takes off mask) **WE'RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD!** Now, that's what I call acting. Let's go, Clive. We've got a giant robot waiting!*"
> ― Balthazar Bratt kidnapping Margo, Edith, Agnes and Lucky in his getaway jet.
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> "*HELLOOOOOOO, HOLLYWOOD! I'm back and bigger than ever!*"
> ― Bratt as he attacks Hollywood in his giant robot.
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> "***Edith**: Hey, Mullethead! Let us out!
> **Bratt**: Oh, don't worry, girls! I've prepared a front-row seat for you! Once again, I win and Gru loses! Enjoy the show, girls!*"
> ― Bratt "releasing" the girls by casually placing them atop the edge of a skyscraper.
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> "*Sorry, Gru. This is gonna be a total* burn!'**"**
> ― Bratt while attempting to incinerate the unconscious Gru with his robot's lasers.
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> "*Son of a Betamax!*"
> ― Bratt when he sees the Alpha team ship approaching, then he runs away.
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> "*You've ruined everything! And now, it's time to die! Any last words, Gru?!*"
> ― Bratt's villainous breakdown before dance fighting Gru for the final time.
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> "***Bratt**: GAME OVER! [laughs evilly as he reaches for his keytar, but sees Gru holding it] Huh?
> **Gru**: Is* this *what you're looking for?
> **Bratt**: NO! [groans and yells while getting blasted away by Gru into bubble gum] NOOOOOO! CURSE YOU, GRU! Ow! Curse you!*"
> ― Bratt's last words.
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## Trivia

* Bratt is voiced by Trey Parker who is best known for he sounds like Phillip from animated TV series *The Terrance and Phillip Show*.
* In the pre-material concept art, Bratt is represented as a girl and this seems that who he was should be a woman villain.
* Despite being the overarching antagonist of the franchise, he never appears until *Despicable Me 3* and is the biggest threat to Gru than Eduardo Perez, the franchise's main antagonist, and Vector, the secondary antagonist.
* Bratt represents Dougray Scott's character Sean Ambrose from *Mission: Impossible II* when they disguise themselves as someone else the audience gets surprised.
* Bratt is inspired by the late Michael Jackson as the song he uses to accompany the first heist scene further references this.
* In Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Balthazar gets his location called "Bratt's Lair".
* In the film, several 80s songs can be heard playing when Bratt appears such as:
	+ *Take my breath* away by Berlin
	+ *Bad* by Michael Jackson
	+ *Sussudio* by Phil Collins
	+ *Take on Me* by A-ha
	+ *Into the Groove* by Madonna
* When Bratt is defeated and flies away, a billboard saying *Onions* can be seen, which is a spoof of *Minions*.
* Bratt's giant robot's interior resembles the Emotions' Headquarters from 2015 Pixar movie *Inside Out*.
* Bratt's clothing bears similarity to performing artist Prince.
* After Bratt's defeat, it is unknown what happened to his sonic keytar and his robot Clive.
* When Gru outsmarts him by inviting a dance fight (before he was defeated), he said "Oh, it is on like *Donkey Kong!*" *Donkey Kong* is an 80's arcade game, which might explain why he said that.
* It's impossible to know that Bratt can do impressions while he was in disguises such as:
	+ He speaks in a French accent when he was disguised and poses as jewel inspector to gain access and retrieve the Dupont Diamond from a museum in Paris.
	+ He speaks in Lucy's voice after tying up and gagging the real Lucy, and stuffing her in the closet, takes the diamond from Gru, before kidnapping Margo, Edith and Agnes by telling them to come, then reveals himself to the girls.