El Macho

**Eduardo Perez**, better known by his supervillain name **El Macho**, is the main antagonist of Illumination's 4th feature film *Despicable Me 2*, the second installment of the *Despicable Me* franchise.

## His Evil Rankings

### What Makes Him Heinous

* 20 years before the events of the story, he was a villain who terrorized Mexico and committed heists with his bare hands.
* He stole the PX-41 mutagen by using a giant magnet on the lab that was developing it, which killed several of the scientists there.
* He kidnaps nearly all of the Minions and turns them into feral monsters.
* After learning that the AVL was after him, he incriminated a rival shop owner by putting an evidence of PX-41 in his shop, which resulted in him getting arrested.
* When Gru finds his secret lair, he reveals his plan to use the Minions as killing machines so he could take over the world. This would likely cause the deaths of hundreds if he actually succeeded in spreading them across the world, and while the exact kill count isn't shown like Scarlet Overkill and Balthazar Bratt, the sheer brutality the kills would have is enough to make him heinous enough.
* When Gru seemed to refuse his deal with him to help him conquer the world, El Macho sends one of his purple minions to his house, which nearly resulted in Gru's children being killed by it.
* He kidnaps Lucy and tries to launch her into the volcano where he faked his death with a rocket.
* He uses the PX-41 and attempts to kill Gru when he failed to launch Lucy into the volcano with his rocket.
* Unlike most of the villains in the franchise who are simply treated as jokes and are rarely taken seriously, El Macho has nearly no comedic moments, being taken seriously most of the time and his goal of using the Minions as killing machines so he could conquer the world is taken very seriously.

### What Makes Him Inconsistent?

* He is very affable towards Gru, and this is never a façade, such as when he comforted Gru about Lucy when she was going to Australia and asking him multiple times to join him in his plan to conquer the world and after he refused and ruined his plan, even though El Macho tried to kill him, he says to him that they could have conquered the world together with a sad tone of voice, showing remorse in having to kill Gru as he treated him like a friend.
	+ To show more of his affability, even though he drank his shot of tequila in the most dangerous way, at least he paid for it.
* He cares for his pet chicken, El Pollito, as he hugs him when he found out he was okay after Gru and Lucy broke into his restaurant.
* He also cares for his son, Antonio, as he tried to help him when he was dating Margo.
* Despite being taken more seriously than most villains in *Despicable Me*, El Macho still has some comedic moments, such as when he took off his shirt to show the Mexican flag he had on his chest and then moving it around, the scene where he dances in his resturant and his defeat where he's defeated by Gru by using Lucy's lipstick taser before getting knocked unconscious by Dr. Nefario by using his fart gun on him.

## Trivia

* **Worst Actions**:
	+ Mutating nearly all of the Minions into killing machines so he could conquer the world.
	+ Attempting to kill Lucy by sending her into a volcano.