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[–] 164 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They were specifically locked in a cave in the 40's so they couldn't help our least favorite painter

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  • [–] 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    They served Napoleon, then got chased into a cave where they served some Yeti's for awhile until the 70's when they accidentally killed the Yeti leader and were forced out. Then they found Gru as a child.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Ackchyually Kevin got tired of living in the caves and recruited Bob and Stuart to help him find a villain to serve under which turned out to be Scarlet Overkill. She was crazy and the minions then stumbled upon Gru near the end.

    The yeti thing happened while the rest of the minions stayed behind in the caves.

    …I watched both minions movies on a long plane flight recently. They were surprisingly decent!

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  • [–] 81 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    They fixed that theory by isolating them in Antarctica

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  • [–] 105 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    ★☆☆☆☆

    Unoriginal AND proven false by the source material (they were conveniently stuck in an ice cave)

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  • [–] 59 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Too convenient if you ask me.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    Isn't there like a toungue in cheek comment about that in the movie?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And now they work for Israel?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The US is pretty villainous and funding Israel; my money is on USA minions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos are all unapologetic James Bond villains.

    In fact, they might be even more ridiculously evil than the Flemming and movie villains. Ernst Blofeld is arguably more reasonable. (Blofeld, on whom Felonious Gru was based.)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Maybe they were in the Deep South around the 1800’s

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    They were no doubt involved with banana republics. Can't forget the Khmer rouge so so many evil things they did

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    For sure. They were part of Operation Paperclip and went to work for H. W. Bush who sent them to South America as CIA operatives after WW2. They became close friends with G. W. Bush during that time and followed him to the White House, which is how they met Dick Cheney.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Why do you think Hitler killed himself? Imagine thousands of minions in the bunker with him all chanting 'ba-na-nah'.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

    if minions were real who do you think they would follow today? Trump? Tim Apple? netanyahoo? Sam AltMan? Putin?

    edit: lesson learned, don't try to spell politicians names while high

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they're using mass murder to solidify their own power... It just feels too pedestrian

    But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He's the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    He’s probably the closest thing to a Bond style supervillain that exist, if alchemy were real he would be trying to create a global transmutation circle to sacrifice humanity and gain immortality

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'm pretty confident Putin is the number one backer of immortality age reversal research globally.

    He does all sorts of things, as is tradition among Russian Tzar's, to halt his aging. The joke is the anti aging gurus tend to die before turning 70 and it has scared every Russian leader in history when they've observed that

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    No no, he thinks anyone AGAINST AI is with the anti-christ. Particularly Greta Thunberg

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    That's what he says in public, he's said different things to a captive audience of billionaires apparently

    I think he's actually just pro antichrist and so tries to sell his positions as the opposite

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Why are you letting Stephen Miller off the hook?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'm not, Steven Miller is a creepy little piece of shit

    But capability and reach are part of my moral framework. Miller is basically a coach for the brown shirts.... He just yells at them to hurt more brown people faster. His words are vile, but they don't change much

    He lacks the influence to be in the running

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    They seem to be wowed more by flash than anything, and the villains don’t seem to be particularly competent or bright. That rules out Larry Ellison and AIPIC.

    Various congressional Republicans, Elon Musk, or Javier Milei.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I thought they actually addressed this in one of the first 2-3 movies. I could be wrong, I only watched them once and barely remember.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Our concept of evil has changed overtime. In Dantes Inferno the people at the bottom of hell aren't the people who killed the most, it's the people who are most famous for betraying others. One of them is there because he stabbed the Hitler of his era in the back to protect democracy.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Dante's Inferno is also effectively fanfiction of a socialite without any real ecclesiastical value. He wrote in the vernacular, instead of Latin, which was what made it accessible and popular.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I had a friend in college who wrote a paper that religion was started by the original nerds who needed to classify and rank which level of angel and spirit.

    I believe he argued the term "Angel of Death +2" is as equally valid as one name to the next across cultures and history.

    I still think he was right.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    there are shit tons of videos what the minnions did in ww2 or their history in general tough it would be cool to see minions actually working for villains but its is a child movie and they cant merchandize adolf hitler or stalin

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    That’s why Germany lost

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They were obviously a few in the bunker with hitler, probably meant to hand him a banana but accidentally gave him his gun. Probably not worth mentioning in the movies

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    They were too busy helping the British systematically starve millions of Indians.

    PS: There were no good guys in WW2.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe there was a villain worse than Hitler is some way?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Mussolini started the fascist movement and was doing some serious aura farming ,as the kids would say. Going for rebuilding the Roman Empire would be a serious Minion bait.

    Hitler passed him in evilness and had a penchant for ridiculous super weapons. Some of the cockups they had could have been Minion level.

    Stalin was neck and neck with Hitler for evil, murder, and conquest. However, I think by the time they turn his way, the Minions would have looked at all the purges, holodomor, etc and just decided to take a personal vacation until the CIA showes up.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Do people not know what a villain is?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Someone who lives in a village?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    You're thinking villager. A villain is a dried seed pod, used as a spice.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

    You're thinking of Vanilla. A villain is a maned animal that lives inside an enclosed motortruck for transporting goods

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    No, you're thinking of a vanlion. Common mistake. A villain is actually a large, luxurious country house or estate.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Wrong again. You're thinking about a villa. A villager is a sex toy, usually at least roughly penis shaped that pulsates rhythmically.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Your thinking of a vulva, a villager/villain is an instrument you strum lovingly to make it hum beautiful sounds.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    You're thinking of a violin. A villain is the person you buy chocolate and flowers for on February 14th.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You're thinking a valentine. A villain is a tiny encapsulation of DNA or RNA inside a protein, that will attach to certain cells or bacteria to use their systems to have themselves replicated.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    That explains why most boomers love minions memes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That was a period of Great Minion Divide, where half of them supported Hitler and the other half Stalin. It worked out well until 1941 and then things got... complicated.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Or catholic priests...

    The Church got away with a lot in WWII, the President of Slovakia was a priest and that country was the one that killed most jews proportionally.

    Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews?

    I rest my case.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't understand the whole hating the Jews thing.

    Had they not killed Jesus, his story would be worthless. They made him a martyr. They're responsible for making Christianity in the first place

    Oh wait now I understand.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Hating a minority is a theme showing up in politics, every time a society had a downturn.

    Jews were scapegoats, they were generally seen as greedy and thrifty. So when the economy went to shit, the workers blamed an ethnic group associated with being successful business people.

    The hate for Muslims went up a lot in the aftermath of the 08 crisis. Although the reasons for problems tends to be greed among the elites, they also tend to control the narrative. And will throw a minority under the bus to save themselves

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    From what little I could understand in the movies I think the minions tend to have somewhat of an upper limit on evil? Like they're fine with stealing and destroying property but seem genuinely scared when people are murdered, so I guess no they wouldn't be Nazi. Not to mention how generally chaotic and hard to manage they are, not exactly dictatorship friendly

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Dangit... I am hoping that isn't in the Minions timeline, I guess? Ugh.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The Japanese were worse

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