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.
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!
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.)
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.
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.
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.
And as a result made an absolute mess out of what Christians actually believe about death and the afterlife (and you, John Milton, don't think I've forgotten about you)
So I remember this was already brought up and there was a Twitter post saying that the minions didn't serve Hitler.
Then the implication was that meant Hitler wasn't evil or something.
This is just what I saw, I hate Hitler, I hate Nazis and I have never watched a movie with these minions.
My daughter is 1 so I'm sure I'll see all the minion movies soon.
Correction: Apparently these minions were frozen during the 1930s and 1940s.. Good save to a Twitter post that didn't think of the implications
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
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.
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
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
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
He also says the antichrist will be a "self-described protector who promises peace, safety, and an end to technological risk" and sites Greta Thunberg.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Meanwhile the Nazi officials feared that Catholics may cause a civil war if they didn't put just the right amount of pressure on the Vatican. And Protestants tried to become the official state church of Nazi Germany.
Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews?
I think you should take some history lessons. Being Jewish wasn't a religious definition for the Nazis, we're not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here. And it's not like Catholics were more (or less) antisemitic than Protestants.
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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They were specifically locked in a cave in the 40's so they couldn't help our least favorite painter
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.
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!
I absolutely believe they made that happen specifically in response to these kinds of memes.
Why would minions help Jackson Pollock
It's been established by the newest movie that there were other tribes of minions
Yeah but what were they doing during the 30's?
First they came for the minions...
That’s true.
Canonically they were conveniently living in that ice cave during that time period.
But it's now been established that there were other tribes of minions
I don't really keep up with minion lore...
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Unoriginal AND proven false by the source material (they were conveniently stuck in an ice cave)
Too convenient if you ask me.
Almost as if someone with advanced knowledge of the universe arranged for that to happen.
Checkmate, Atheists!
Are you talking about Nazi occult shit because we may need a BPRD.
Minions and monsters retcons that as it takes place in the 1920s
I was about to say this is established lore and one of the funniest retcons in media out there
They fixed that theory by isolating them in Antarctica
That explains why the Nazis were so interested in Antarctica
I never noticed that, but it does fit and come as a relief.
You haven't seen the latest movie. There are apparently many tribes of Minions, including some that were in America in the late 20s to early 30s.
That’s probably the case
Why do you think Hitler killed himself? Imagine thousands of minions in the bunker with him all chanting 'ba-na-nah'.
Isn't there like a toungue in cheek comment about that in the movie?
The cop-out was that they happened to be frozen in a glacier during WW2.
Minions for Elsa (she was punishing them). Frozen takes place at the same time as WW2, but in a location not affected by WW2.
https://fictionhorizon.com/when-do-frozen-and-frozen-2-take-place-in-history/
Shortly before WW1 at best according to this link
It says that the first one is set in the 1840s and the second one three years later in the late 1860s...
If you're implying that I can't read and neither can the author of the article, then then then then
Nope, I'm just confused by the article
I think their outfits and tech fit a late 1800s world. No airplanes, but I bet they had zeppelins
I didn’t realize WWII happened twenty years before the US Civil War! You learn something new every day.
And now they work for Israel?
The US is pretty villainous and funding Israel; my money is on USA minions.
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.)
It's made in Hollywood so probably? Lol
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.
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.
All religion is fanfiction.
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.
demonology was 1000% constructed by autistic monks
And as a result made an absolute mess out of what Christians actually believe about death and the afterlife (and you, John Milton, don't think I've forgotten about you)
That explains why most boomers love minions memes.
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.
I think they were frozen in ice during that period
They were too busy helping the British systematically starve millions of Indians.
PS: There were no good guys in WW2.
So I remember this was already brought up and there was a Twitter post saying that the minions didn't serve Hitler.
Then the implication was that meant Hitler wasn't evil or something.
This is just what I saw, I hate Hitler, I hate Nazis and I have never watched a movie with these minions. My daughter is 1 so I'm sure I'll see all the minion movies soon.
Correction: Apparently these minions were frozen during the 1930s and 1940s.. Good save to a Twitter post that didn't think of the implications
That’s why Germany lost
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
yet
sad face
Maybe they were in the Deep South around the 1800’s
They were no doubt involved with banana republics. Can't forget the Khmer rouge so so many evil things they did
...Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge
Thank you for that correction, my mistake
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.
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
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
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
I decided not to use the word supervillain, but I was certainly thinking it loudly
Hold on, I need to check deflock and make sure the cameras don't form an alchemy circle
Goddamn it I didn’t even then about that
I'm pretty confident Putin is the number one backer of
immortalityage 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
No no, he thinks anyone AGAINST AI is with the anti-christ. Particularly Greta Thunberg
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
He also says the antichrist will be a "self-described protector who promises peace, safety, and an end to technological risk" and sites Greta Thunberg.
Why are you letting Stephen Miller off the hook?
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
They’d be buying Teslas and spy glasses.
In a list with Netanyahu and Putin, complaining about glasses is a bold choice.
Nazis? Hmmmm, I didn't like their mining policy, very polluting!
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.
Bibi Buddies.
I think they'd have split into groups, some with the Nazis, some with the British empire, some with the Japanese Imperial army...
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
I'd rather the minions be responsible for killing Hitler than the asshole that got all the credit in the real world.
Maybe there was a villain worse than Hitler is some way?
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.
Do people not know what a villain is?
Someone who lives in a village?
You're thinking villager. A villain is a dried seed pod, used as a spice.
You're thinking of Vanilla. A villain is a maned animal that lives inside an enclosed motortruck for transporting goods
No, you're thinking of a vanlion. Common mistake. A villain is actually a large, luxurious country house or estate.
Wrong again. You're thinking about a villa. A villager is a sex toy, usually at least roughly penis shaped that pulsates rhythmically.
Your thinking of a vulva, a villager/villain is an instrument you strum lovingly to make it hum beautiful sounds.
You're thinking of a violin. A villain is the person you buy chocolate and flowers for on February 14th.
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
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.
What about the Hirohito and Britains Colony Garrison Minion divide groups?
Only 731 of them served hirohito
Japanese are always ine step ahead
The Japanese were worse
Dangit... I am hoping that isn't in the Minions timeline, I guess? Ugh.
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.
Meanwhile the Nazi officials feared that Catholics may cause a civil war if they didn't put just the right amount of pressure on the Vatican. And Protestants tried to become the official state church of Nazi Germany.
I think you should take some history lessons. Being Jewish wasn't a religious definition for the Nazis, we're not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here. And it's not like Catholics were more (or less) antisemitic than Protestants.
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.
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
the religious cleaning from the comie was an horor for sure.