Balthazar Bratt

**Balthazar Bratt**, or simply known as **Bratt**, is the main antagonist of the 2017 Illumination film Despicable Me 3 (which the sequel to the first two Despicable Me movies). He was once a star of a television show called Evil Bratt before it was cancelled due to his puberty. Because of this, Bratt plans to get revenge on Hollywood for having his show cancelled by destroying it with his super sticky gum and make it float into outer space. He is also Gru's arch-nemesis and Clive's boss and leader.

He was voiced by Trey Parker.

## Despicable Me 3

In the beginning of the film, it reveals that during his youth, Bratt was the star of a television show called Evil Bratt (which revolved around him doing evil deeds) as well as being the biggest child actor in the 1980s. The show got popularity around the world. Although the show was beloved worldwide, Bratt hit puberty during the 3rd season, causing the series to lose its popularity and get cancelled as well as Hollywood rejecting Bratt. Angered by this, Bratt started to believe he was Evil Bratt and become a real villain.

Bratt and his robotic sidekick Clive (who was also in the television series) robs an ocean liner, transporting the world's biggest diamond called the Dumont Diamond, using his rapidly inflating bubblegum against the agents on the ship as well as making it airborne. Balthazar then gets into a fight with Gru, and after disarming each other, begin "dance fighting", although Gru seemingly knocks him out. As Gru tells the authorities that he got the diamond as well as having them pick it up, Bratt gets back up, revealing he was pretending to be unconscious, and blows Gru away by using a sonic keytar, publicly humiliating him in the process. As Bratt says his catchphrase from his show "I been a bad boy" as well as laughing at Gru, numerous ARL agents swarm the liner to capture him, making Bratt to escape as well as then telling Gru that their fight isn't over. As punishment for failing to capture Bratt (despite Gru having the Dumont Diamond in which Bratt wants), both Gru and Lucy are both fired from the ARL by the new, overly harsh and pompous director Valerie Da Vinci.

After escaping from Gru, Bratt poses as a jewel inspector named Monsieur Pompeux to gain access to and retrieve the Dumont Diamond from a museum in Paris in which he did after tranquilizing the employees of the museum. The next day, Balthazar Bratt's diamond heist makes the front page of the newspaper, infuriating Gru. Later, Bratt watches a commercial of the Evil Bratt action figure as well as then revealing his plan which is getting revenge on Hollywood by attacking the city with his giant robot and uses his expanding bubblegum to make the city float into outer space. Bratt is seen training for his plan as well as watching the episode where he had done the same thing to a city (which is attacking it with a giant robot and uses expanding bubblegum to make it float into space) in which he finds it great and entertainment. Bratt then tells Clive to make the plan reality.

To get his old job, Gru plots to steal the Dumont Diamond from Bratt with help of his twin brother Dru (who believes them stealing it as an act of villainy, not heroism). Making to Bratt's bedroom in which where the diamond is, they narrowly avoid waking him up and alerting him before he wakes up himself and continues to work on his robot for his evil plan. After Dru accidentally alerts Bratt by nearly choking on his expanding gum, Gru makes Dr throw up the bubble gum at Bratt, sticking him to wall while taking the diamond and narrowly escaping Bratt's fortress (although Bratt order his action figures to get the twins) in a helicopter piloted by Lucy (who had followed them suspicious of both). Gru, Lucy and Dru return to the mansion with the diamond.

Once at the mansion, Gru and Dru had an argument over how the former wants to return to the AVL and not wanting to return to villainy while the latter wants to continue their family's villain tradition, ending with both disowning each other and Gru storms out.

Meanwhile, Bratt disguised as Lucy (tying up and gagging the real Lucy as well as locking her in a closet), takes the diamond back and kidnaps Margo, Edith and Agnes (along with Agnes' new one-horned goat Lucky) as well as going to Hollywood after that. Gru is about to leave the door when he finds Lucy in a closet, and she frantically tells him that Bratt took the girls. Gru and Lucy then rush to Dru who is still mad at Gru for lying to him about teaching him about how to be a villain. But learning from Gru that Bratt kidnapped his nieces, 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, Gru and Dru apologize to each other as the heroes nearly collide with the aircraft that the Minions built (to escape the prison), and the Minions decide to follow him.

At Hollywood, Bratt's gigantic robot emerges from the ocean and begins attacking the city, shooting his expanding gum everywhere as several people fearfully and run. Edith demands Bratt to release her and her sisters and Bratt reveals that he plans to have girls (and the goat) see the destruction he is doing in which he did by putting the girls and the goat on ledge of a building. Gru, Dru and Lucy arrives at Hollywood to see Bratt's robot attacking the city and Dru realizes his plan due to watching Evil Bratt. After shooting enough of his gum, Bratt uses the robot's diamond-powered laser to began separating Hollywood from the ground to let it drift off to space. As Bratt believes that his plan is going to succeeded, Lucy rescues the girls as well as the Minions parachute out of their aircraft and onto the expanding gum in order to pop it while Gru and Dru shoot Bratt's robot with several missiles. Unfortunately, it's not enough to defeat Bratt and the villain has his Bratt bots to defeat Gru and Dru by bringing their plane down but thankfully, the two brothers leap out of the hovercraft before it crashes and explodes. Dru uses the suction of his spy suit to land on the robot 's chest plate (without Bratt noticing) while Gru lands on the ground so hard that causes him to be unconscious. Seeing the unconscious Gru, Bratt begins firing his laser towards him in order to kill him, but before the beam can reach Gru, Dru destroys the robot's generator, causing it to collapse and then destroyed.

While trying to search for his brother, Gru comes face to face with an enraged Bratt who safety exits out of his broken robot & angered by the fact everything he had is destroyed (His robot is destroyed, his dolls destroyed by the hovercraft, Hollywood is saved from going into space, Clive is deceased by the robot's crash. As Bratt prepares to use his keytar against Gru, Gru proposes a dance fight and Bratt compiles, setting the music to Mandoona's "Into the Grove". After a brief dance fight, Bratt attempts to use his keytar against Gru once again until he realizes Gru took it from him. Gru then uses the keytar to both blow him away and similarly humiliates him to how Bratt had previously done to him earlier in the film, leaving Bratt float away in his gum while naked, as the ARL helicopters swarm to arrest him while Gru goes to look for his brother again. With Bratt's arrest and defeat, Gru and Lucy got their jobs from the ARL again.

## Personality

Bratt was nothing more than a pure megalomaniac with complete egotism. He is purely selfish who thinks almost of himself and his actions which makes sense since he mostly cares about getting revenge on Hollywood for cancelling his show and rejecting him. Bratt is also extremely ruthless and destructive which is shown when he robs an ocean liner as well as attempting to destroy Hollywood. He enjoys wreaking havoc and destruction as revenge for Hollywood cancelling his show and destroying his career. And given the fact that the people involved in his show has most likely moved on or retired, this shows that Bratt's backstory doesn't excuse his actions. Bratt is also manipulative and smart which is shown when he disguises as Monsieur Pompeux and Lucy as well as almost getting away with his crimes.