Vector Perkins

**Vector,** real name **Victor Perkins** is the main antagonist of the 2010 Illumination film Despicable Me and a cameo character in its second prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru. He is the son of Mr. Perkins who plans to vindicate his title as the world's #1 supervillain by taking over Gru's plan to steal the moon.

He was voiced by Jason Segel.

## History

### Despicable Me

Vector is first seen when he talks Gru about himself which is before Gru is asked to see Mr. Perkins. After the talk with Mr. Perkins about the plan to steal the moon, Gru leaves the bank as well as freezing Vector's head due to him stealing the Great Pyramid which cause people to say that the other villains are lame.

By the time Gru and the Minions stole the shrink ray, Vector takes the shrink ray as well as telling Gru to think twice before freezing someone's head. Gru and the Minions tries to get the shrink ray by shooting at his airship, but Vector outsmart him by using the shrink ray to shrink Gru's ship. After that, Vector escapes.

When Gru tries to infiltrate his fortress, Vector defeats him several times over, all with his stuff. However, when Vector lets Margo, Edith and Agnes to order cookies from them. he unwittingly inspires Gru to adopt the girls and use them to get the shrink ray back. By the time Gru adopts the girls, Vector is seen playing with the shrink ray in his bathroom before getting a call from someone about the shrink ray and preventing Gru to foil his plans. After that, Vector talks to his toilet saying it's a little tiny toilet before getting attacked by it.

When Gru and the girls arrive at Vector's lair, he had the girls to distract him by selling cookies which are actually cookie robots which shuts down Vector's security, allowing Gru and his Minions to steal it back from under his nose. At the bank, Vector founds out from Mr. Perkins that the shrink ray is currently in Gru's custody, and the girls were involved in Gru's plan to steal the moon but despite this, Vector said that he does not blow up his opportunity of lifetime due to the fact that he has his latest weapon called "Squid Launcher" as well as telling his father not to worry since the moon is as good as theirs.

When Gru finally is able to steal the moon, Vector tries to hitch on Gru's rocket with his Squid Launcher (which he mentions before), only to be thrown off and fall in a power line after Gru electrifies its exterior before proceeding to successfully shrink the moon. Despite this, Vector infiltrates the girls' dance recital and kidnap the girls offscreen. Gru found about this and race off to Vector's lair.

At the lair, Vector tells Gru to give him the moon and then talk which made Gru to do it, only for Vector decide to still have the girls and attempt to kill Gru with his missiles. After seeing that Gru outsmarted him this time, Vector escapes with airship in order to get away from Gru as possible. Gru tries to stop Vector himself but however gets help from Dr. Nefario and the Minions which also caused Gru to realize that the moon will get big. As the moon started to get big, the girls tried to warn Vector about the moon (despite the latter kidnap them and being Gru's enemy) but Vector didn't listen which cause the moon to move the ship a lot. When Gru tries to catch Margo, Vector prevented him from doing that and tries to attack Gru with the piranha gun, only for the moon push Vector as well as rolling him around which caused the moon to hit the button for a backup propulsion system, launching the ship into space, before it explodes, leaving Vector to be on top of the moon. After that, it shown that Vector is still alive and had his helmet on as well as finding out that he is now on the surface of the moon which caused him to say "Oh, poop." Vector is then last seen dancing on the moon during the ending of the film.

It's unknown what happened to Vector since its possible he starved to death and not to mention, he is not mentioned or seen in Despicable Me 2 or Despicable Me 3.

### Minions: The Rise of Gru

Vector does not appear in the film given that the film itself serves as prequel to the Despicable Me films but however does make a cameo when his father (Mr. Perkins) shows a picture of himself and Vector (which is also the same picture from the first Despicable Me film) which caused Gru to say that Vector looks weird before Wild Knuckles tells Mr. Perkins to not listen to Gru.

## Personality

Despite being a genius in mechanics, strategy and inventing, Vector is socially awkward and mischievous as well as also arrogant and boastful, and often takes time to congratulate himself and revel his achievements.

Vector also gets along well with his father as shown on a picture of them having fun when Vector himself was a kid as well as when Mr. Perkins boosts about his talents but harsh on him for losing the shrink ray to Gru, Vector says he does not blow up his opportunity of lifetime due to having his latest weapon the "Squid Launcher" in order to defeat Gru as well as telling his father to not worry.

While Vector was nice to Gru at first, he later developed a grudge against him for freezing his head and stopped nothing to humiliate his newfound rival. Vector also can be sadistic, laughing, and cheering at his evil things or when he thinks he outsmarted someone.

Despite being the number 1 villain for a short while he claims to be, he is clearly a coward. When Gru got past his missiles and punch his pet shark for the love to save the girls, Vector panicked and used the escape pod, not even trying to fight Gru back.

## Appearance

Vector is always shown wearing an orange and white tracksuit which can convert into flight suit enabling the owner to fly and a fully functional warm up suit. His appeal is often mistaken for pajamas by Anges, much to Vector's annoyance.

Vector also had a pudding-bowl haircut, brown eyes, brown eyes and a sharp nose. He also wears a large black glasses.

## Trivia

* Vector is the very first main antagonist of an Illumination film because Despicable Me is Illumination's first feature film. He is also the first antagonist of the entire Despicable Me franchise.
* Despite not being mentioned or seen in Despicable Me 3, In the Blue-Ray/DVD release of the film, there is a special feature called "The AVL Files" which comes with a female voice describing facts and profile of the characters in the series. Vector is still declared stranded on the lunar surface, and if seen through telescopes at night, is still visible as a roaming orange dot. This confirms his survival beyond the first film, and only mention of him after that.
* During the scene where Gru tries to get inside Vector's fortress, Vector is shown having a Nintendo Wii.
	+ Speaking of that, Despicable Me: The Video Game was actually released on the Wii and the scene would also predict Nintendo and Illumination making a Mario film (despite the Mario franchise has nothing to do with Despicable Me).

* The word "Vector" is a scientific noun that describes an entity of having variable directions and magnitude, which is referenced with his quote, "I'm committing crimes with both direction and magnitude."
* It is possible that his favorite animal is the shark since he was holding a small toy shark in the photograph of him and his father when he was a child. This implies that his fascination with sharks started at a young age. He also had a pet shark as well as watching shark documentaries when at home, likely as an equivalent to people watching pet care videos for their pets.
* He bears a resemblance to Oliver Tree, which has become a very popular internet meme.
* Vector appears to be a caricature of Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft).
* His defeat is different in the video game as he does use the shrink ray to claim the moon instead of Gru, but he uses a machine on his rocket to enlarge the moon to its original size and then have Vector stranded on it.