?? they made the minions immortal???

Yeah it’s like the same 200 minions forever

They also trapped them in the Arctic for a long time so they wouldn’t have to show them working for hitler because canonically they’re evil and serve the most evil master around and they’re clearly ok with serving dictators because they were depicted helping Napoleon so the solution to keep hitler out of the story was just to trap the yellow blobs on an iceberg.

So these things have been alive since the dinosaurs and are basically minor spirits or gods that exist to serve the side of evil and during that whole time they remained grossly incompetent.

Does the universe in despicable me want evil to fail or win? Or are these stupid yellow sexless idiots meant to keep a balance of some kind? Because they do not seem to have a niche in any ecosystem that I know of so their origin must be divine somehow.

since the minions are technically the last of their kind (since they seem to not be able to reproduce) does this mean that they are a protected species?

See, I don’t think that they’re a species. I think that they’re something else. Because everything else in that universe seems to follow ordinary rules of evolution but the same however many hundred minions keep changing their appearance and not dying. I think that the minions were intelligently designed.

Roman, my guy, are you really saying that minions are evidence of a god in despicable me lore?

Not god per se but… something.

Evil vs good. Evil made minions, good made them stupid yellow blobs

So are you positing that maybe they came to be because of some primordial yin/yang type battle between energies in the ocean or something?

But they have to reproduce somehow, there are way more minions in the Despicable Me movies than the Minions movie

there's a blueprint hanging on a wall in the first movie that shows Gru developed a way to create minions out of corn kernels

please i don’t want to learn these things

No one wants to talk about the fact that they worked with Napoleon means the minions canonically participated in the trans Atlantic slave trade

Finally a new observation that doesn’t have to do with corn