El Macho

* Eduardo Perez
* El Macho
* PX-41 Mutant

**Eduardo Perez** also known as **El Macho**, is the main antagonist of the Illumination Entertainment film *Despicable Me 2*, the second installment in the *Despicable Me* films. He was a feared supervillain known his extreme masculinity. After faking his death, he opens up a restaurant where he decides to rule the world 20 years later.

He was voiced by Benjamin Bratt.

## What makes him Magnificent?

* He was a fearsome and respected supervillain back in his day known for being "very macho", managing to be intimating, cool, and funny at the same time as he grabbed a bottle of scorpion alcohol, poured it along with venom from a snake into a glass, ate the glass, paid for it by pinning the money to the table with the snake, walked through the wall, and robbed a truck using only his head and hands.
* He faked his death by riding a shark with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest into a volcano, before surviving and pretending to be dead for 20 years.
* He stole an entire secret base using a giant magnet in order to get the PX-41 serum, which caused anyone or anything to take it to turn into large, purple, very powerful and violent versions of themselves.
	+ While he did kidnap the Minions, they were not treated cruelly while in captivity, as he kept the Minions on an artificial beach with perfect weather, a slide and plenty of food and drinks.
* He is genuinely affable and cheerful (unlike his manipulative and devious son, Antonio), as he welcomes Gru and Lucy as "part of the mall family", gives a woman he was dancing with a free gift card for his restaurant, invites Gru and his family to his party, sympathizes with Gru's broken heart, and isn't even mad at Gru when he discovers his secret lair, offering to rule the world with him and even admitting he was inspired by Gru.
* He is shown to be charismatic, as he dances with a woman and gives her a free gift card, which impressed the audience and woos several ladies.
* He managed to to frame fellow shop owner Eaglesan for the theft of the PX-41 serum which actually succeeded since the Anti-Villain League were convinced Eaglesan was the culprit.
* Although he has a somewhat humiliating defeat of being tazed with the lipstick tazer, doing ridiculous dances, and being knocked out by the fart gun, other characters have received far more undignified moments that El Macho's are tame in comparison.
	+ Not to mention, he also stares down at Dr. Nefario’s jelly guns, which contain the cure, and tells him that he isn’t afraid of them thinking that he was going to be taken down with the jelly guns, meaning he takes his defeat like a champ.
* Although he is easily the most heinous villain in scale with him plotting to destroy multiple cities across the world to rule over the rest, it does not make him too heinous as the plan is too grandiose, especially since it's only heinous enough due to two throwaway lines.

## What makes him a Baddie?

* He was a fearsome supervillain who committed many crimes, such as heists and assaults.
	+ In one case he grabbed and tossed a bartender aside for simply standing in front of a bottle of alcohol he wanted.
* He stole a secret base containing PX-41 to kidnap nearly all the Minions and mutate them to form an army of killing machines, intending to unleash them onto various cities across the world so he can cause death & destruction on a global scale and rule the remains.
* He framed Eaglesan for the theft of the serum.
* He sent the mutated Kevin to Gru's house when Gru refuses to join him, almost getting Margo, Edith and Agnes killed.
* He tried to kill Gru and Lucy when they tried to stop his plans.

## Trivia

* He is the only *Despicable Me* character to be a Magnificent Baddie.
	+ He and the 2018 version of The Grinch are also the only Illumination Entertainment characters to be Magnificent Baddies.

## External Links

* El Macho at the Despicable Me Wiki
* El Macho at the Villains Wiki
* El Macho at the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki