Despicable Me: The Animated Series

***Despicable Me: The Animated Series*** (sometimes marketed and commonly referred to as simply ***Despicable Me***) is an American animated television show that is based on Illumination's film and media franchise of the same name. The series was produced by Meledandri Studios, DiC Studios PLC, and Universal Television Studios and distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios.

## Characters

### Main

* Felonious Gru (or Felonius Gru) (voiced by Dave Fennoy): - The grouchy and bossy but heroic supervillain who speaks within a Russian or a non-specific East European accent. He is the son of Marlena, the twin brother of Dru, the adoptive father of Margo, Edith, and Agnes, husband of Lucy, the boss of the Minions, and the best friend of Bender.
* Minions (voiced by Pierre Coffin in all films and the theme park attraction, Chris Renaud in the first two films [except spin-offs and attractions], James Arnold Taylor in the 2010 video game, and Jemaine Clement as Jerry the Minion in the first film): Gru's small, yellow, comical henchmen who have one or two eyes. The Minions speak a language that Coffin created by mixing gibberish with words from many languages, including French, English, Spanish, and Italian. Although seemingly nonsensical, the English-sounding words are dubbed for every country, in order to make them recognizable. It is shown in *Minions* that they have existed since the beginning of life on Earth, and desire above all else to serve the most terrible of villains. In the short film "Banana", the Minions are revealed to have an uncontrollable craving for fruits, especially bananas. Mentioned in the films and other media are Stuart, Kevin, Bob, Mel, Otto, Ken, Mike, Dave, Jerry, Carl, Tom, Phil, Tim, Mark, Jorge, and Norbert.
* The Girls: Three sisters, whom Gru adopts to further his scheme in the first film and gradually comes to love.
	+ Margo (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): The mature oldest sister. In the first film, among the trio, Margo was the most suspicious of Gru initially; but came to trust him at the end of the film. She is something of a protectress to her sisters.
	+ **Script error: No such module "anchor".** Edith (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): The tomboyish middle sister; the first to enjoy Gru's eclectic possessions, when adopted by him. Practices martial arts in the second film.
	+ Agnes (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): The happy-go-lucky youngest sister, and the quickest to trust Gru in the first film. She is presented as an innocent, against her more worldly sisters, and has a strong love for unicorns. In the third film, she "adopts" a one-horned goat whom she names Lucky after mistaking him for a unicorn. Even after learning he was a goat, Agnes continues to love Lucky.
* Lucy Wilde (voiced by Hynden Walch): A cunning secret agent who has teamed up with Gru to hunt down an extremely dangerous super-villain. She loves one-upping Gru with her quirky gadgets and has perfected her own form of martial arts by combining jujitsu, krav maga, Aztec warfare, and krumping. After 147 dates, she marries Gru and becomes the girls' mother.
* **Script error: No such module "anchor".**Dr. Nefario (voiced by Russell Brand, JB Blanc in the video game): Gru's hearing-impaired inventor and partner-in-crime who speaks with a British accent. He seems to have a romantic interest in Gru's mother, Marlena. He is planned to join Gru, Lucy and the Girls to meet Dru in the third film, but absent from the film having accidentally frozen himself in carbonite, similar to that of Han Solo from *Star Wars*.
* Hilarious Dru Gru (voiced by Roger Craig Smith): Gru's charming, happy-go-lucky long-lost twin brother, who is also in the super-villain business. Dru looks just like his brother, only he has blonde hair and wears white attire. He is Lucy's brother-in-law and the adoptive uncle of Margo, Edith, and Agnes.
* Marlena (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): Gru and Dru's mother. Her neglect of Gru's ambitions is identified among the main reasons why he became a supervillain. In the denouement of the first film, she admits to him that he is a better parent than her. Marlena later makes a silent cameo appearance in the second film at Gru and Lucy's wedding. In the third film, Marlena reveals to Gru that after she and Gru and Dru's father divorced, they promised to never see each other again and they each got to take one son with them, with Marlena saying that she got "second pick".
* Fritz (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): Dru's courteous, well mannered butler who speaks with a British accent. He takes Gru, Lucy, and the girls to meet Dru at his mansion in Freedonia.
* Silas Ramsbottom (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): Director of the Anti-Villain League in the second film. The Minions (and Gru) make fun of his surname. In the third film, he retires from the AVL and is replaced by Valerie Da Vinci as the new Director of the AVL.
* Valerie Da Vinci (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): A ruthless member of the Anti-Villain League who replaces Silas Ramsbottom as Director in the third film. She fires Gru and Lucy due to them failing to capture Balthazar Bratt.

* Bender Borison (voiced by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_): Gru's best friend and boss of the She-Minions.

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