Gru, Despicable Me (PG, 2010) But even though Gru is a complete supervillain, his love for three adopted little girls transforms him into a super dad. This is a fabulous salute to adoption and love. And family—in whatever form it appears—wins the day.
Voiced by American actor Steve Carell, he has appeared in all five films in the series. Gru is a grouchy, quick-witted and cynical former supervillain, who serves as a secret agent in order to fight other supervillains.
Despite these traits, Gru was shown to be good friends with Dr. Nefario and also treated his minions quite well, interacting with them and calling each one of them by name instead of just treating them like slaves, despite a few moments where he can be occasionally gruff with them.
Soon after, Gru adopts the girls in order to exploit Vector's love of cookies and steal back the Tim (Despicable Me) demeanour. Agnes clings onto Gru's leg in a gesture of playfulness and heads to her new home cheerfully.
The trailer for Despicable Me 4 reveals that Gru and Lucy have a baby boy, implying a time jump in the franchise. Gru Jr. in Despicable Me 4 confirms that the franchise lacks a defined sense of continuity.
The Minions in the "Despicable Me" movies speak a fictional language known as "Minionese." Minionese is a playful and gibberish-like language created for comedic effect. It consists of a combination of various languages, sounds, and gibberish, making it unintelligible to the audience.
Gru seems to be very wealthy, as indicated that he pays each of the minions wages, and there are over 10,000 minions. Although, it is also indicated that much of his money comes from the Bank. However, his source of income in Despicable Me 2 is unknown before he became an agent of AVL.
Now, according to official sources and fan measurements, Gru is estimated to be about 14 feet tall (4.27 meters). This figure becomes particularly interesting when you think about the world he's designed to inhabit.
He hates children, being easily irritated by Agnes, Edith, and Margo. He is self-centered, pompous, and vain, and he only adopts the girls so that he can break into Vector's vault and steal the shrink ray to advance his agenda.
Gru was also constantly bullied by other students and one of these events made him afraid of ever asking a girl for a date, leaving him traumatized. This trauma is probably the reason that made him become evil eventually. Baby Gru watching his brother leaving him.
He seems to dislike his father due to facial expressions and body language when held by him and is also the youngest of Gru's four children, and is the only one who is not adopted.
Lucy is sent out to recruit Felonious Gru, the former no. 1 supervillain and bring him back to the AVL headquarters. Initially requesting the ex-villain to come with her, Lucy is forced to subdue Gru by zapping him with a lipstick taser and shoving him in her trunk.
The plot also involves a new family member for Gru and Lucy: their baby boy, Gru Jr. The 'Despicable Me' franchise has been a global phenomenon since its debut in 2010.
As their name suggests, the Minions are servants who seek the most evil people to serve. They have an obsession with bananas and apples, referred to as 'bapples'. They speak their own language, "Minionese," which is actually a mix of many Earth languages.
Gru (Steve Carell) and Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) are still married, and she wants to be a real mom, although she cannot say “no” to the couple's three cute, adopted daughters: Agnes (Nev Scharrel), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Margo (Miranda Cosgrove).
In 1918, after the Russian Revolution, an official agency was formed called the Registrupravlenie (RU), in English the ''Registration Directorate'' and in 1942, this agency became officially known as the GRU under the Soviet leadership of Joseph Stalin.
They are depicted as being roughly one-third to one-half the height of humans but they were later revealed to be 3 feet 7 inches (1.1 m) tall. They have one or two eyes, and their irises are almost always brown (except for Bob, who has one green and one brown eye).
Marlena Gru is Felonious Gru's widowed mother from Universal•Illumination Despicable Me franchise. She was married to the supervillain Robert Gru and gave birth to her twin sons Gru and Dru, but they later got divorced, due to her husband's tradition of being a villain.
