In the world of animation, Illumination is quickly solidifying itself as a top animation studio among
Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks... Their first feature film Despicable Me was a smash hit that
ran away with the box office and introduced us to…the Minions. Love them or hate them,
the Minions skyrocketed Illumination into stardom and they started making plenty of films.
Films need villains and sometimes those villains can be extremely powerful… Or, in some cases,
surprisingly weak. But today, we want to find out how they stack up against each other.
I’m Caleb with WickedBinge and this Illumination Villains: Weak to Powerful.
With that out of the way we can start with the weakest of our characters
and move our way down to the most powerful of them all.
The weakest villain on the list is Mike from the film Sing!.
Mike is one of the contestants in Buster Moon’s contest, where he is an egotistical
mouse who plays music on his saxophone. Mike is the weakest for a laundry list of reasons,
firstly, his best skills aren’t really all that much to look at, he is an expert at cheating at
cards and can play the saxophone. His only other major skill was his singing ability,
and even that isn’t really helpful in a fight. Not to mention his small size,
need for special vehicles and general unlikability, he’s definitely bottom of the list.
Next up on our list is Aloysius O’Hare from Illumination’s version of The Lorax.
O’Hare is the owner of the O’Hare Air company and a greedy one at that. Now, because of his status
as mayor and the owner of a massive company he has a massive amount of power in this small town.
He controls just about everything including security and has a massive amount of money
at the same time. The issue comes from the fact that he is not a physical threat in the slightest
and doesn’t seem like the smartest guy in the world either, hence why he has to rank here,
despite his immense political power.
The next villain on our list is Sergei from The Secret Life of Pets 2.
Sergei, despite being the main villain of the film isn’t really that prevalent. He’s
a circus owner who owns the white tiger cub Hu and threatens him when he doesn’t perform.
Now, he’s a skilled leader, and has a pair of highly trained Circus Wolves to guard him,
but beyond that he doesn’t really show many skills. He seems to be of average strength,
speed and endurance, and while he has a few weapons in his repretoire,
none of them are really worth mentioning. Sergei is a very average human and that’s
what keeps him in this spot, because he lacks any supernatural ability or special technology.
Old but not out, up next is Dr. Nefario, hailing from the Despicable Me Franchise.
Dr. Nefario is a longtime supervillain who’s been working in creating special weaponry for
many years. In the first Minions movie we see that he created the Freeze Ray in the 60s
and since then he’s worked with Gru on making hundreds of weapons.
He has a genius level intellect and can create just about anything. However, due to his age
he can’t be ranked as more powerful because he has severe hearing issues, creating Fart Guns
and Boogie Robots instead of what is asked. But, if Nefario created all of Gru’s weapons,
he has such a repretoire of items that he can out invent nearly anyone here, hence his ranking.
From The Secret Life of Pets 2, up next on our list is Little Sergei. Little
Sergei is Sergei’s pet capuchin monkey that accompanies him throughout most of the film.
Unlike the other pets he doesn’t speak or emote much beyond regular monkey habits,
which while weird, implies that he’s dumber than the other pets. Despite this, he is still
acrobatic, athletic and speedy, much more so than other pets we see throughout the films.
However, despite his acrobatic prowess, he can’t really rank anywhere else on this list.
The next character on our list is Herb Overkill, hailing from Minions. Herb is a very smart man,
an inventor by trade and the husband of villain Scarlet Overkill. He is the one who invented every
one of Scarlet’s gadgets, including, assumedly, her rocket dress. He’s even shown to be an expert
in torture methods and how to extract information although this doesn’t work on the minions.
However, Herb is not a physical threat, at least not by the typical metrics
and his skinny frame makes him a general push over if it wasn’t for his intelligence.
Up next on our list is Ozone from The Secret Life of Pets. Ozone is a stray alley cat and
Snowball’s right hand man throughout the first film. Ozone, being a cat, has all the
traits one would associate with one, he is highly athletic, has a lot of agility and jumping power,
sharp claws and teeth and helps lead the Alley Cats and the Flushed Pets. His thin frame also
makes it hard to catch up to him when he starts running. The problem arises because
he is a cat and therefore is pretty easy to handle due to it’s small frame and general thinness.
If it wasn’t for being a cat, he might actually be a much more palpable threat.
Coming from The Secret Life of Pets franchise, Snowball ranks next on our list.
Snowball is a schemer, a manipulator and a general nuisance who is the leader of
a group of abandoned pets that live in the sewers. He is a born leader,
a powerful manipulator and skilled in martial arts. His sharp but unassuming teeth
prove him to be a threat and he can use them to carve things that help him, such as keys. However,
there is one major issue and you can probably see it already, but Snowball is a small bunny rabbit,
that’s the long and short of it, he is easy to take and move as well as throw around,
if it wasn’t for his size, he would be much higher, but as it stand, this is where they are.
Coming next on our list is Carlos, leader of the easter chicks from Hop. Carlos is a chick, a
baby chicken who has been working with the Easter Bunny for quite a while. The thing about Carlos is
he is a very small creature who’s strength comes from manipulation and general leadership skills.
When you realize that he’s not much of a physical threat you realize he’s not much of a
threat at all. Because, his cockiness and general unlikabilty makes him easy to manipulate himself.
That is, until he becomes a giant chick-bunny hybrid, in which case he becomes intensely strong,
highly durable and much bigger. The size bonus is a definite plus, but this form seems to be
only temporary and as such, we can’t say that that raises his standing too much.
Another Suess villain, The Grinch from Illumination’s version of The Grinch. While he
is the main protagonist of the film, he is still a villain, much like other characters on this list.
This version of the grinch is less maniacal but still just as evil, albeit, less skiled than other
versions. The Grinch is intensely smart, as shown in his chess skills, however, his intelligence is
only above average and not genius level, and even his scheming and inventive abilities are heavily
outclassed on a list like this. He’s also shown no fighting skill, and he’s also not in peak physical
form, which means in most cases, he’s outclassed by other people on this list, hence his ranking.
Up next on our list is Victor “Vector” Perkins from the first Despicable Me movie. Vector is the
main antagonist of the first Despicable Me film and is the son of the bank owner Mr. Perkins.
Vector is sort of a spoiled brat, having acess to a lot of money and items thanks to what his
father owns. He’s also shown to have high intelligence, a highly strategic mind and
plenty of tactical thinking skills. However, despite his wide array of weaponry like the
Pirahna Gun or the Squid Launcher, he is socially awkward and physically weak for the most part,
showing that his biggest strengths are his mind, and that can be easily decimated.
Next up on the list is Scarlet Overkill from Minions. Scarlet was one of, if not the strongest
and most infamous villain of all time by the point of the first Minions movie. So much so
she’s the headliner at the villain convention the movie takes place at. Scarlet has a genius level
intellect, enhanced strength, speed and durability as well as supreme hand-to-hand fighting skills
that are nearly unmatched in the film and on this list. This doesn’t even touch her abilities when
it comes to gunmanship, marksmanship and gadget usage. She’s remarkably smart, even able to
become Queen of England, sure, by the end she is defeated but she is very nearly unmatched,
although she is defeated by a very young Felonious Gru so we sadly, can’t rank her any higher.
The next villain on our list is Jimmy Crystal from Sing 2. Jimmy is a large anthropomorphic
arctic wolf who runs Crystal Entertainment. Jimmy is a powerful individual due to his authority,
his high intelligence and his wide array of manipulation skills. He’s also a physical threat,
being immensely strong, surprisngly so, especially when considering the world Sing takes place in. He
can psychologically manipulate those around him, is heavily intimidating and extremely charismatic.
It’s also assumed he has sharp claws and teeth he could use in a fight and his brute strength
is also much greater than some of the others on the list, hence why he ranks here on our list.
Coming up next on our list is Dru Gru from Despicable Me 3. Dru is Gru’s twin brother
and someone who wants to live out the dream of his family’s villany. Dru seems to be in
the same physical state as Gru, meaning he has the same strength, speed and endurance, but you
couple that with his wealth and his heavy usage of different weapons and it becomes obvious that
the twins aren’t made the same. However, where Dru stands worse is his lack of personal achievement,
we know that Gru has stolen hundreds of things, including the moon and stopped the likes of El
Macho. Dru’s only real contribution as far as we’re aware is helping stop Balthazar Bratt.
But, despite all this, Dru’s wealth does make him quite powerful,
hence his ranking, if we had seen more of him, he may rank higher.
Moving on the bronze medal of power… Next up is Felonious Gru coming from the Despicable Me
Franchise. Gru is the main protagonist of Despicable Me but that doesn’t mean he’s a
good guy, he’s still a villain by every sense of the metric. Gru is also not someone to mess with,
being the protagonist he’s beaten more than his fair share of villains and he has a wide array
of abilities and weaponry up his sleeve to accomplish this. He is said to have
near genius-level intellect, a high amount of strength and agility that is nearly unmatched
and enough weapons to take out an armory. From his classic Freeze Ray to his iconic Shrink
Ray and his array of ships and cars he is able to take out the competition in most cases and
considering his villainous activities started at a young age he has gained a repertoire of skills.
Using his minions he can break into heavily fortified locations, manages to steal the moon and
defeat some of the most respectable villains of all time like El Macho. Gru is immensely powerful
when he’s able to work at his full potential, sadly he’s not always at said full potential.
The Silver Medal of Power is up next… Which goes to the spoiled child star turned man-child
Balthazar Bratt from Despicable Me 3. Bratt was a child star who never grew out of the 80s,
becoming a supervillain like he was in his TV show, where he stole things using tech based
on things from the 80s. Bratt is interesting because he is shown to be highly intelligent,
has access to thousands of tools and tech and is even a master of disguise.
His disguises were enough to convince people he was Lucy Wilde, up to the point even her
own family was convinced. He’s also shown to be a skilled hand-to-hand combatand,
extremely agile and speedy, so much so he almost outpaces Gru. He is immensely powerful when it
comes down to it, he even outperforms Gru on this list, because Gru can’t beat him by himself.
Finally, we get to the gold medal of power. We have El Macho from Despicable Me 2. Eduardo Perez,
better known as the supervillain El Macho is one of the most well-known and infamous villains in
the world of Despicable Me. Even in his old age he was proven to still be a threat, even after
gaining a substantive amount of weight. In his younger years he was intensely strong, durable
and fast, able to eat glass and drink snake venom and in his current state he’s still shown
to be manipulative, highly intelligent and quite charismatic. All of this comes to a head when he
drinks down the PX-41 serum which turns him from a short and stout ex-supervillain to a large purple
monstrosity that outshines most of the characters on this list. In this enhanced form he has almost
unmatchable strength, the ability to get hit by heavy grade weapons and walk it off and manages to
keep his intelligence to some degree. He earns his spot because of PX-41… and definitely deserves it.
But before we get out of hare, we do have quite a few Sinner Medals to hand out.
Earning our Darwin Medal is Carlos, who thought that chicks would be able
to take over easter if he took out the Easter Bunny, which just wouldn’t happen.
Taking the Envy Medal is also Carlos, for the reasons listed above,
he was so envious of the Easter Bunny he was preparing to kill him
Stealing the Greed Medal is Sergei,
who cares more about his bottom dollar than anything that happens to his animals.
Taking our Lust Medal is Mike, because he dropped pretty much everything including his
safety to be with that mouse girl. The Pride Medal also goes to Mike,
who is an egomaniac who thinks he’s the best of the best beyond belief
Our Wrath Medal goes to Ozone, who absolutely despises pets, and attacks Max because of that
Finally, our Gluttony Medal goes to El Macho, no fat jokes here, but he does
expect visitors to finish the entirety of a chip and guac sombrero, so you know, there’s that.
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