60 Fun Facts About Megamind

Who voices Megamind in the 2010 film?

He also voices the character's hologram disguises, which are left uncredited on screen.

Which comedian voices reporter Roxanne Ritchi?

The character is a parody of Lois Lane, and the film became the biggest hit of her career.

Which A-list actor voices Megamind's nemesis Metro Man?

He leaves the hero business to chase a music career, and shows up in disguise at the museum reopening.

Who voices Hal Stewart, the cameraman Megamind accidentally turns into a superpowered menace?

His character has an unrequited crush on Roxanne, which is what makes the new powers go so wrong.

Who voices Minion, the talking fish who has been Megamind's sidekick since childhood?

The Arrested Development actor returned for the 2011 short but not for the 2024 revival, where Josh Brener took over.

Which actor, first suggested for the title role, ended up voicing the museum curator Bernard?

He also served as an executive producer on the film.

Who was attached to voice the title character before dropping out over 'scheduling conflicts'?

He was busy being Iron Man; the film went to a Saturday Night Live alum instead.

Who voices the Warden who keeps locking Megamind up?

He is a familiar comic-book-movie voice, having played J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man films.

Who directed the film?

He is better known for the Madagascar films and voices the penguin Skipper; he also voices Lord Scott and a prison guard here.

In what year was the film released?

It opened in the US on 5 November and topped the box office for two weekends.

Megamind and Metro Man were sent to Earth as infants when what destroyed their home planets?

They arrived in Metro City at the same moment: one landed in a mansion, the other in a prison yard.

Where was baby Megamind raised after his pod landed on Earth?

Metro Man, by contrast, was raised in a rich mansion, and the two attended the same school.

Metro Man claims his powers are weakened by which metal lining the observatory roof?

It turns out he faked the weakness because he was tired of being a hero.

Megamind apparently kills Metro Man with a death ray powered by what?

He lures the hero to an abandoned observatory by kidnapping Roxanne.

After faking his death, Metro Man reinvents himself under what name?

He hides out in the old schoolhouse the rivals attended and refuses to come back even to fight Hal.

What does Megamind's dehydration gun turn a person into?

He uses it on Bernard, and later on himself to survive being thrown into the stratosphere, rehydrating in a fountain.

Megamind creates a new hero to fight using DNA taken from whom?

He meant to inject a worthy candidate but hit Roxanne's cameraman by accident during a scuffle in his lair.

Megamind trains Hal while disguised by hologram as which persona?

The look spoofs Marlon Brando's Jor-El from Superman, and the voice spoofs Brando's Vito Corleone.

Whose identity does Megamind borrow to go on dates with Roxanne?

His hologram watch fails mid-date and she rejects him.

How does Hal finally give away that the 'Metro Man' confronting him is really Megamind in disguise?

Megamind's trademark mispronunciations betray him, and he is hurled into the stratosphere.

Megamind's costume and showmanship were deliberately evocative of which rock star, per the commentary?

The two rivals are styled as opposite kinds of showman, one glam-rock villain and one Vegas headliner.

Metro Man's costume and showmanship were designed to evoke which performer?

He is a parody of Superman with a Vegas-era swagger.

Megamind's character is a parody of which pair of Superman villains?

The big-brained blue alien is a mash-up of Superman's chief scientist foes.

Hal Stewart's name references two characters from which comic-book franchise?

Hal Jordan and John Stewart are both bearers of the power ring.

Before it was Megamind, the film went through which two working titles?

Writers Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons returned as executive producers on the 2024 series.

Which filmmaker, brought onto Megamind late as a consultant, suggested the opening fall-to-his-death scene?

He came aboard very late in the process and went on to a much bigger role in later DreamWorks films.

How many minutes of finished animation did the consultant persuade the filmmakers to cut?

Cutting finished animation is unusually expensive, which shows how much weight his opinion carried.

Who composed the score?

The soundtrack came out on Lakeshore Records three days before the film opened.

Which Guns N' Roses song plays over the final battle?

The film's needle drops lean heavily on classic rock, from AC/DC to Michael Jackson.

In which country did the film have its world premiere, a week before the US release?

The US release followed a week later, on 5 November 2010.

Which studio distributed the film in US cinemas in 2010?

DreamWorks bought the rights back in 2014, moved them to Fox, and they now sit with Universal.

Why was the film's release in Japan cancelled in March 2011?

It finally reached Japanese audiences in June 2018.

What was the film's production budget?

It grossed about $322 million worldwide, so it made money but was not a blockbuster.

Megamind's $46M opening weekend was slightly higher than which earlier 2010 DreamWorks release?

It held the No. 1 spot for two weekends before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 arrived.

Megamind was the sixth-highest-grossing animated film of 2010 worldwide. Which was first?

Toy Story 3 passed a billion dollars; Megamind also finished behind Shrek Forever After, Tangled and Despicable Me.

Megamind stayed the highest-grossing film of its lead voice actor's career until which 2014 film?

It remains the top earner of Tina Fey's film career.

What grade did CinemaScore audiences give the film?

Critics were cooler: Rotten Tomatoes settled at 73 percent, with 'lack of originality' the main complaint.

Which company published the film's video-game tie-ins in November 2010?

There were three different games depending on platform, including Megamind: Ultimate Showdown on Xbox 360 and PS3.

The Wii tie-in game was titled Megamind: what?

The DS and PSP versions were called The Blue Defender, and Xbox 360/PS3 got Ultimate Showdown.

What is the title of the short film released with the DVD and Blu-ray in February 2011?

It shows Megamind's first day as Defender of Metro City and premiered on TV on Nickelodeon the next day.

In the short, Megamind sells off his old gadgets but reluctantly keeps which one?

The De-Gun goes to a boy named Damien, who promptly dehydrates his mother into a cube.

Pushing the mysterious button in the short activates an AI that takes over a giant robot called what?

The AI is based on Megamind's old evil personality and is programmed never to stop until Metro Man is dead.

Which old gadget does Minion admit he secretly kept as a pet in the 2011 short?

Riding it, Megamind lures the rogue robot to the observatory where Metro Man faked his death.

Megamind's home-video sales in 2011 made it what rank among the year's best-selling DVDs?

It sold over 3 million units and $70.4 million worth of discs, and by late 2012 5.6 million units worldwide.

The 2024 sequel, Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate, was released on which streaming service?

It doubled as the pilot for the series Megamind Rules!, which premiered the same day, 1 March 2024.

Who voices Megamind in the 2024 sequel and series?

He had already voiced the character in the 2010 tie-in video games.

In the sequel, Minion goes by what new name?

Josh Brener voices him, taking over from David Cross.

Why did Minion have to change his name in the sequel?

The offending chain is called Mr. Minion's Meatsicles, a wink at a certain other studio's yellow henchmen.

Which Doom Syndicate member is a storm-themed villain who can manipulate the weather?

She is the one who presses the button to launch Metro City.

Doom Syndicate villain Pierre Pressure is themed on what?

His power is hypnosis, and he is voiced by 30 Rock's Scott Adsit.

Behemoth, the Doom Syndicate's muscle, is what kind of creature?

The fourth member, Lord Nighty-Knight, is a shadow-manipulating knight formerly called Fright Knight.

What abandoned villainous scheme does Megamind reveal to the Doom Syndicate to keep them fooled?

He had planted rockets under the city; the Syndicate decide to launch it themselves.

Who is Keiko Morita in the 2024 sequel?

She becomes his second sidekick and launches a hero signal at the end of the film.

At the end of the sequel, Roxanne takes on which new role?

In the series she is briefly mind-controlled into villainy by Megamind's old mentor.

The sequel's mid-credits scene introduces Megamind's former mentor, named what?

He visits the Doom Syndicate in prison and becomes the main villain of the series.

Which American Idol star voices Megamind's old mentor in Megamind Rules!?

The series premiered alongside the sequel film on 1 March 2024 to mixed reviews.

When the follow-up series was first ordered in 2022, what was its working title?

The premise was always a reformed villain trying to be both a real hero and a social media influencer.

Who directed Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate?

The Celebrity Deathmatch creator also voices Polly 227, a robot parakeet Megamind builds for his sidekick.

In the sequel's opening, Megamind and his sidekick stop a criminal trio from stealing what?

For his trouble he receives the key to the city, while his sidekick feels overlooked.

Which studio produced the original Megamind?

The same studio's Despicable Me rival, Illumination, released its own supervillain comedy four months earlier, which critics kept comparing it to.