Despicable Me introduced these small, Twinkie-shaped, banana-loving henchmen called minions in 2013. Now they have become everyone’s favorite.
Ever since they won our hearts in the first Despicable Me movie, the cute little yellow critters have invaded pop culture over the last few years and whether you’ve seen or not, you’ll know the Minions. They are Adorable, They are Loveable and they are here to stay !!!
Here are some 101 fun facts about them !!!
A minion has only three fingers in each hand.
They are either one-eyed or two-eyed and always wears metallic goggles for no specific reason.
In Despicable Me, All the minions are voiced by only ONE person co-director Pierre Coffin.
Technically they are multilingual as their language Minionese is a mix of Spanish, English, Russian, Korean, Italian etc.
Good minions are yellow in color and evil minions are purple.
This is still unknown if they have a gender and how do they reproduce.
There are only 48 possible design combinations, of Hair, Eyes, Build, and Height for all the Minions
In both the films, there are only 5 natural hairstyles for them including bald.
An average minion is about 105 centimeters tall.
All tall minions have sprout-cut hair while those who have one eye are rarely tall.
They have Standard English names like Bob, Stuart, Kevin etc.
All of them wear blue overalls with Gru’s emblem on the front, black gloves on both hands, and black shoes / . Minions don’t like their questions left unanswered.
Evil minions are immune to flame thrown, guns, axes, police cars and even bombs.
Even the evil minions love bananas.
The name Gru is taken from the Russian Military Intelligence agency GRU which stands for Glavnoye Razzvedyvatel’noye Upravleniye. It is largest Russian Intelligence agency, six times larger than SVR (former KGB).
“The Minions” movie plot is an Origin Story, showing their evolution from Yellow Single Cell Organism to their today present Adorably Cute Nefarious State
Minions enjoy fine arts. Minions love spitting, frog legs, bunnies and building things.
There is an app that translates minions dialog.
Each of Gru’s daughters matches up perfectly with his top three minions. All three matches up size wise to Margo, Edith, and Agnes. They also have similar personality types to their counterparts.
The Minions’ language may sound like gibberish, but many of their phrases will be recognizable.
“bapples” for Apples ; “para tú” for “for you” ; “la boda” for “marriage”; “hana, deul, set” for “one, two, three”; “Banana” is banana ; “gelato” is ice cream; “Bi-Do” for I’m sorry; “Muak Muak Muak” for Kiss Kiss; ect…
The Minions were originally envisioned as giant “Orc-like brutes”, but over time they got smaller and smaller in a bid to make their master Gru more sympathetic. “The easy way (to do that) was to actually have him surrounded by incompetence.
We all know of dogs that look a little bit like they could be a cross between two different species. They are either ferocious or cute enough —Kyle is a cross between a bulldog and piranha.
The minions cannot be tortured due to their unusual shapes and abilities.
Gru looks like an Emperor Penguin, which fits him because Emperor Penguins take care of their children.
The poster for Despicable Me 2 apparently contains more than 10,400 individual Minions.
The producers of Despicable Me casted only actors who could improvise comedy lines (such as Steve Carell and Russell Brand).
Despicable Me was originally titled Evil Me.
Dr. Nefario (comes from the word nefarious) means villainous and very wicked.
The diamond featured in the first trailer is a parody of the Pink Panther diamond.
French art director Eric Guillon is creator of the Minions. He came up with the concept for the scene-stealers on the first Despicable Me, and the creatures are now the official mascots for studio Illumination Entertainment.
There is a mobile game featuring minions called Minion Rush.
Bob is the shortest minion.
Both Dave and Stuart had crushes on Lucy Wilde.
Dave, Jerry and Carl are the minions featured in Minion Rush.
Steve is the first minion to be seen naked. He removes his overalls and gets into the water at the beach after the abduction.
Who voices Kevin, Bob , Stu and the Minions? It’s none other than Pierre Coffin, the French animator who co-directed both Despicable Me films and Minions. For the latter he reportedly voices 899 different Minion characters.
Wonder what their language is called? (Yes it has a name!), well, it is called Minionese.
Bob suffers from heterochromia iridium, making his eyes two different colors.
You can see famous paintings like Vinci’s ‘Monalisa’ and Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ in the girls’ bedroom supposedly stolen by Gru.
Evil minions were inspired by Looney Tunes cartoon where Tweety bird turns into a monster after drinking a potion
The cell phone number of Lucy in Despicable Me 2 is an actual cell phone number.
Short film Orientation Day suggests that the Minions were spawned from a single strand of mutated DNA that transformed into one-cell organisms.
Queen Elizabeth knights Kevin as shown in Minions movie; hence he is called Sir Kevin. He is the only knight-minion or minion-knight.
Minions have only one purpose in their life, find and serve the greatest villain of all time.
Minions love singing and dancing. At times, they perform choir and cheerleading.
In total, seven short films featuring the Minions have been released: Orientation Day, Home Makeover, Brady & Gary, Minion Mayhem 3D, Training Wheels, Puppy, Panic in the Mailroom.
Bob ruled England for 8 hours as King Bob. He might be the second person after King Arthur to wield Excalibur.
The minions were inspired by the Oompa Loompas and Jawas from the original Star Wars.
Through the movies, it has been proven that minions can survive outer space. This means that they do not need oxygen and they can resist freezing.
Minions are the loyal and faithful henchmen. No wonder Gru always praises and shows his affection for them.
Minions are invincible. They don’t die even if they get shot from cannon or swallow a missile.
You crack and shake a minion; he will then double as a glow stick.
Minions love playing, especially with Gru’s daughters; Edith, Margo and Agnes. They are also good at video games, golf, ping-pong and football.
Over the centuries, they lived through various eras and civilizations; having served masters from around the world (T.Rex, Caveman, Dracula, Napolean). They are the reason of death of all their masters.
Can you just imagine a family of 899 people living together? Well, minions can! The total number of minions is 899.
They find the words ‘bottom’ and ‘butt’ and anything related to them insanely funny.
One-eyed minion are always of average height or short but never tall.
The most-viewed Minions video on the web is a ‘best of’ compilation that’s racked up 58.2 million YouTube plays. Close behind it on 58.1 million is a 14-minute rendition of ‘Banana’ to the tune of Beach Boys’ ‘Barbara Ann’.
The “evil” purple Minions were created with a PX-41 serum and were designed to be indestructible. They still share their yellow compatriots’ love of bananas and getting up to no good, though!
The Minions love to croon, and as such they’ve sang versions of ‘I Swear’, ‘YMCA’ and ‘Barbara Ann’ across the movies. YouTube is rife with fan-made covers, including ‘All About That Bass’ ‘Uptown Funk’ and ‘Let It Go’.
All Minions playing a significant role in the films are given male names.//One-eyed minions are rarely tall.//Tall minions all have the same haircut.
If minions don’t have a master to serve, they go into depression.
To promote Despicable Me 2, a blimp fashioned after a Minion was flown around the US.
They also might be inspired by the servbots from Megaman Legends since they both serve evil character and have same color scheme.
The story behind minion’s creation goes like this…They were conceived by human beings by means of a ray gun that transforms human beings into minions.
Chiquita Banana created over a half a billion stickers featuring Minions for their product ahead of the release of Despicable Me 2.
The evil Minions are purple because purple and yellow are on opposite sides of the color spectrum.
All the Minions are Male – You might have thought the minions to be both males and females due to their dressing style, but the fact is that there are no female minions and all are in fact males.
Guess who is the official mascot of the Illumination Entertainment? It is the minions!
The minions are known for their awkward disposition and a strange sense of humor so much so that it has quite become their trademark. They are kind of childish and silly in their behavior. They find even the mediocre things quite hilarious like laughing at the sounds of bubbles in a water filter, getting their butts xeroxed in a xerox machine or finding words such as bottom or butt extremely entertaining. As a matter of fact, they find anything related to butts extremely amusing.
Craze of the Yellow Merchandise. – Because of the immense popularity, the Despicable Me merchandise has boomed so much that it is a fruitful enterprise in itself.
They’re Quite Old – minions developed their eclectic language based on the fact that they’re an ancient and prehistoric race that has served various masters from around the world for centuries.
These simple-minded homunculi are smart & technically advanced as they can build and operate various weapons, use computers and even drive.
