Belle Bottom

**Belle Bottom** is the main antagonist of the 2022 Illumination film Minions: The Rise of Gru (the sequel to Minions and another prequel to Despicable Me). She is a disco-themed supervillain and the current new leader of the Vicious 6. She is also the former minion and arch-nemesis of Wild Knuckles.

She was voiced by Taraji P. Henson.

## Minions: The Rise of Gru

Belle is first seen being chased by the Anti-Villain League due to her stealing the map of the Zodiac Stone. After making her escape, she reveals the plan to Wild Knuckles. Later, when Wild Knuckles got the stone, Belle and the other members of Vicious 6 betray him causing Belle to become the new leader of the Vicious 6.

Sometime after she became leader of the Vicious 6. she decided to have a new member by having Gru as one of the choices (although it was because Jean-Clawed thought Gru was a tiny man). When Gru arrive to the lair of the Vicious 6. Belle rejected him due to her believing that evil is for adults and not children as well as telling him that he can come back when he did something to impress her. Gru then stole the Zodiac Stone, he makes a run for it. Belle and her minions then decided to find Gru and the Zodiac Stone. Later, Belle and the other members of the Vicious Six broke through Gru's home in order to find him only to see that he's not home as well as finding out that Wild Knuckles is still alive and kidnapped Gru.

Belle and the other members of the Vicious 6 then arrive at San Francisco just to find Gru and the stone and when they arrive at Wild Knuckles' house, they realized that they're not home as well as still trying to find them somewhere else. At the Chinese New Year parade, Belle and the others finally found Gru and the stone which is also when the Anti-Villain League arrived to apprehend them. but before they can, the members of the Vicious 6 turned into animals due to the time reaching midnight. Belle then puts on the clock just to have him torn him apart (despite getting what she wants) but Kevin, Stuart and Bob manage to team up with Wild Knuckles and the fight begins. Despite turning into weaker animals, the Minions manage to fight back by remembering Master Chow' advice find their inner beast from earlier in the film.

Later after Belle manages to burn Wild Knuckles and when she and the other Vicious 6 members are about to kill Gru, Kevin, Stuart and Bob protected Gru at the last second and altogether used a powerful force shout (when Master Chow used to protect the trio earlier in the film) to repel the villains away and causing the stone to fall of Belle. Gru was able to get hold of the stone and finally defeats the Vicious 6 by turning them into rats. Gru taunts the Vicious 6 how they have been defeated by a child and changes the Minions back and rehires them. The Vicious 6 were then arrested by the Anti-Villain League for their crimes.

## Personality

Belle can best be described as rude, sassy, and immortal. She was willing to let Wild Knuckles fall to his death and takes his place as the leader of the Vicious 6. She's willing to cause complete chaos and mass destruction to get what she wanted, even destroying Wild Knuckles' house. She's also shown to be petty, evidenced by trying to have Gru torn apart by the clock even after getting what she wanted. Belle also believes there is no such thing as loyalty which is shown when she betrays Wild Knuckles.

## Appearance

Belle is a tall and slim African-American woman with curly hair styled in an afro. She wears a golden choker, hoop earrings, a leopard-printed purple coat with pink fur trim, platform boots, and a purple jumpsuit with a golden chain belt that doubles as a grappling hook with a small disco ball that functions as the hook. She also wears pink eye-shadow and lipstick to complete the look.

## Trivia

* Belle Bottom is the second female Illumination villain after Scarlet Overkill from the first Minions film.
	+ Interestingly, the main antagonists from the Minions film are females.

* Belle's appearance is inspired by Beyonce's character "Foxxy Cleopatra" from Ausin Powers.
* According to concept art, Belle's zodiac form was supposed to be a tiger instead of Svengeance before it was changed to a dragon. This is most likely either dragons being more cinematically appealing to a main villain's transformation or the fact that dragons are used when celebrating Chinese New Year.
* In some countries, Belle's name was changed to "Donna Disco" in order to fit better her disco-themed appearance.
* Belle Bottom may be an alias/super villain name. Which would mean her real name is unknown.