Megamind/Characters

Megamind

Voiced by Will Ferrell

• Affably Evil
• Alliterative Name
• All of the Other Reindeer: Part of the reason for his Start of Darkness.
• Antagonist in Mourning: After accidentally killing Metro Man who isn't dead all this time.
• Anti-Hero
  • Classical Anti-Hero
• Anti-Villain: Type I.
• Arch Enemy: To Metro Man. By public standards at least.
• The Atoner: After the end of the movie he becomes a hero to the people as a means to work off his many life sentences.
• Autobots Rock Out: Megamind is a huge music fan.
• Badass Biker: actually Minion in disguise, but may apply to Megamind as well.
• The Bad Guy Wins
• Bald of Evil
  • Bald of Awesome
• Beard of Evil: Megamind himself sports a damn nice goatee.
• Because Destiny Says So: Another part of the reason for his becoming a supervillain. Or so he initially believes.
• Being Evil Sucks: Megamind slowly but steadily realizes this.
• Benevolent Boss: Even after becoming a villain, he treats Minion more like a friend than a servant, and is genuinely hurt when Minion leaves after an argument.
• Blue Skinned Space Hunk
• Camp Straight
• Card-Carrying Villain
• Character Title
• Classic Villain
• Crazy Prepared
• Cruella to Animals: "OH! I'm shaking in my custom Baby Seal Leather Boots."
• Determinator
• Ditzy Genius
• Enfant Terrible: Subverted. He was destructive even as an infant, with a knack for "creating objects of mayhem", but he wasn't malicious about it.
• Even Evil Has Standards
• Evil Genius
• Evil Is Sexy: Certainly thinks so.
• Evil Is Stylish: You know the difference between a villain and a super villain? Presentation!
• Evil Laugh
• Family-Friendly Firearms
• For the Evulz
• Freudian Excuse
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Glamour Failure: His holo-watch allows him to look like anyone it scans beforehand. However, he, apparently, forgot to waterproof it. It also shuts off if he bumps it by accident.
• Graceful Loser
• Green Eyes
• Heel Face Turn
• Hell-Bent for Leather
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Minion, since infanthood.
• High Collar of Doom: Even on his pajamas.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: In the Cold Open of the movie.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Naturally, anyone ostracised by society at large nearly their entire lives would be pretty affection-starved. Especially evident when Roxanne first hugs him. See Post Hug Catatonia below.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain/Not So Harmless/Redemption Promotion
• Inferiority Superiority Complex
• Invisibility: His car.
• Ironic Echo: "Ollo."
• Large Ham/Evil Is Hammy
• Last of His Kind
• Lean and Mean
• Love Redeems: His growing relationship with Roxanne is what moves him toward his Heel Face Turn.
• Mad Scientist
• Master of Disguise
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine boy to Roxanne's Masculine Girl.
• My Brain Is Big
• Nerds Are Sexy
• No Infantile Amnesia
• Noble Demon: Roxanne clearly isn't impressed with Megamind's torture devices and death traps; not just because she's seen them all before, but because she knows he wouldn't really harm her with them.
• Obviously Evil: Two words: "Black mambaaaaaaaaaaaa".
• Post Hug Catatonia: His stunned reaction when Roxanne hugs him heavily implies that it's the first hug he's ever experienced.
• Only Friend: Minion.
• Puppy Dog Eyes: The rain scene. Dear God, the rain scene...
• Raised By Prisoners
• Rubber Forehead Alien
• Screams Like a Little Girl
• Socially Inept
• Spikes of Villainy
• Then Let Me Be Evil
• Took a Level in Badass/Let's Get Dangerous
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid
• Victory Is Boring
• Villainous BSOD: After Roxanne dumps him.
• Villainous Crush: On Roxanne since before the events of the film, as confirmed by the filmmakers' commentary.
• Villain Protagonist

Metro Man

Voiced by Brad Pitt

• Alliterative Name
• Broken Ace
• The Cape (trope)
• Dreadful Musician
• Enemy Mine
• Faking the Dead
• Flying Brick
• Friendly Enemy: To Megamind.
• Genius Bruiser: Played with. In the Prequel comic, Megamind makes their rivalry out as Brains vs. Brawn. Yet his flashback shows that he's not the Dumb Muscle Megamind indicated he was; but even so, his scenes as Music Man seem to hint that he can still be bit of a ditz.
• Human Alien
• I Just Want to Be Normal: He's tired of being the Hero just because it's expected of him, so he fakes his death and goes into hiding so he can be left alone to do his own thing.
• Kryptonite Factor: According to himself, his weakness is copper. Turns out, he was lying. What his real weakness is, if he has any, is anyone's guess.
  • Weaksauce Weakness
• Lantern Jaw of Justice
• Last of His Kind
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Turns out to be fake.
• Punch Clock Hero
• Retired Badass
• The Rival: Megamind has viewed him as this since they were young boys.
• Slave to PR: He's the person society wants him to be, not the person he wants to be.
• Smug Super: Started off as one. He grew out of it.
• So Proud of You: A hidden Metro Man to Megamind, though the latter never hears it. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
• Stepford Smiler: He's revealed to be a Type A as a superhero.
• Stripped to the Bone: Supposedly.
• Super Speed
• Super Strength
• Time Stands Still: Revealed to be one his powers.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are

Roxanne Ritchi

Voiced by Tina Fey

• Action Survivor
• Alliterative Name
• Blue Eyes
• Brainy Brunette
• Damsel in Distress: Roxanne is a parody of this. At first she's so used to being kidnapped and rescued that she's not fazed by it anymore. However, she really ends up being in danger by the end.
• Dating Catwoman: She winds up falling for Megamind (without even realizing it). Trope is subverted when Megamind switches sides.
• Designated Victim
• The Glomp: Roxanne to Megamind in the final scene.
• Hartman Hips
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: She and Metro-Man are not a couple, though the public at large assumes they are.
• Hot Scoop and Intrepid Reporter
• Loves My Alter Ego: Falling for Megamind masquerading as Bernard.
• Magic Skirt: Her blue cocktail dress.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Masculine Girl to Megamind's Feminine Boy.
• Only Sane Woman
• Plucky Girl: In spite of not being an Action Girl, she spend the entire later half of the film trying to fight in any way she can to the bitter end when things get really serious and holds on to a faith in the powers of good at even the bleakest times.
• Seen It All: When it comes to Megamind's dastardly plots and deathtraps.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She gets to know, and falls for, the real Megamind behind the villain persona when he's under the guise of nerdy, unassuming "Bernard". They get together for real once he completes his Heel Face Turn.
• The Snark Knight: Helps her get through each kidnapping by the hands of Megamind until Metro Man comes to rescue her, as usual, and she can go on with the rest of her day.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: According to Titan, she believes that there is at least some good in everyone, in spite of her generally sarcastic attitude. He then proceeds to prove her wrong.

Hal Stewart/Titan/"Tighten"

Voiced by Jonah Hill

• Ax Crazy
• Big Bad
• Butt Monkey
• Chaotic Stupid initially, but turns Chaotic Evil and Selfish Evil.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Brutally Averted.
• Entitled to Have You: "You're supposed to be with ME!"
• Face Heel Turn
• From Nobody to Nightmare
• Hero Antagonist: Very, very subverted.
• Idiot Hero: Although less "hero" and more "idiot".
• It's All About Me
• Jerkass
• Love Makes You Evil
  • If I Can't Have You: Roxanne's rejecting him is what initiates his Start of Darkness.
• Man Child -> Psychopathic Manchild
• Not So Different: Megamind initially goes to ridiculous extremes in lashing out at the world to get attention, and ends up inadvertantly creating a much less competent counterpart.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Hal apparently thinks its spelled "Tighten".
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids: Roxanne tries talking some sense into Titan, saying that she knows there's still good in him. He simply scoffs at her that she sees good in everyone, even when it's not there.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Most people still aren't entirely sure if his name is officially spelt Titan or Tighten. While it seems that Megamind originally wanted to spell it as Titan, official printed media such as the "Art of" book, the character poster and the closing credits spell his name as Tighten.
• Stalker with a Crush: To Roxanne.
• Super Speed
• Super Strength
• Take Over the City: Never seems concerned with anything beyond Metro City.
• Took a Level in Jerkass
• The Unfettered: Which makes him much more dangerous than Metro Man.
• We Can Rule Together: In a twist, he suggests this to Megamind!
• Yandere: Again, to Roxanne.

Minion

Voiced by David Cross

• Affably Evil: Even moreso than Megamind. In fact, he quite possibly has the most pleasant personality of the entire cast.
• Badass Biker: When he's disguised as Megamind.
• Beleaguered Assistant/Sarcastic Devotee: Played with. For the most part, he takes his boss' screw-ups - and blaming for the screw-ups - in stride, but he still has his exasperated moments.

Roxanne: (to Megamind) You're plan's failing! Just admit it.
Minion: Yeah, good luck with that one...

• The Brute
  • The Big Guy
• Card-Carrying Villain
• The Dragon
  • The Lancer
• Evil Minions
• Eyes of Gold
• Heel Face Turn: Along with Megamind.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Megamind, since infanthood.
• Living Emotional Crutch: It's reasonable to assume that Megamind would've wound up far worse a villain than he did without Minion's companionship.
• Loyal Animal Companion/Non-Human Sidekick
• Minion with an F In Evil: He's so pleasant throughout the entire film, that it's highly likely that he went along with Megamind's evil plans less because of being evil and more because it seemed to make his master/friend happy.
• Mobile Suit Fish: He's a fish-like alien in a large mecha-suit.
• Morality Pet
• Nice Guy: Yes, even as a villain's henchman. And an alien-angler-in-ape-mecha-suit monstrosity.
• Only Friend: Again, to Megamind.
• Only Sane Fish
• Punch Clock Villain
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Just like his master.
• Shout-Out: His robot gorilla body is based on Ro-Man.
• Yes-Man: As described by the filmmakers: "He might suggest that jumping off a building isn't the best idea, but in the end, he wouldn't stop (Megamind); he would just race to the bottom and build a net."

Bernard

Voiced by Ben Stiller

• Deadpan Snarker
  • The Snark Knight: His most common portrayal in fanfic.
• Dull Surprise
• Jerkass
• Nerds Are Sexy
• One-Scene Wonder: Appears in two scenes. One has him acting cold towards Roxanne before being dehydrated by Megamind, and the other has him rehydrated by Minion and getting whacked by his Forget-Me stick.
• Perpetual Frowner.

The Warden

Voiced by J.K. Simmons

• Badass Mustache
• Bullying a Dragon: His taunting of Megamind at the beginning of the movie. He paid for it later.
• Cool Old Guy
• Da Chief
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is only addressed as 'warden' in the movie.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He was pretty supportive of Megamind and Minion when they went off to fight Hal/Titan.
• Parental Substitute: He's commonly portrayed in fanfiction as a father figure for kid Megamind.