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• csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They were specifically locked in a cave in the 40's so they couldn't help our least favorite painter

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  • ajmaxwell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They served Napoleon, then got chased into a cave where they served some Yeti’s for awhile until the payment 70’s when they accidentally killed the Yeti leader and were forced out. Then they found Gru as a child.

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    • BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ackchyually Kevin got tired of living in the caves and recruited Bob and Stuart to help him find a villain to serve under which turned out to be Scarlet Overkill. She was crazy and the minions then stumbled upon Gru near the end.

      The yeti thing happened while the rest of the minions stayed behind in the caves.

      …I watched both minions movies on a long plane flight recently. They were surprisingly decent!

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  • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I absolutely believe they made that happen specifically in response to these kinds of memes.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do minions have to do with Jackson Pollock

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  • Calfpupa@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but what were they doing during the 30’s?

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    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      First they came for the minions…

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  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s true.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s been established by the newest movie that there were other tribes of minions

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1/5

  Unoriginal AND proven false by the source material (they were conveniently stuck in an ice cave)

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  • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Too convenient if you ask me.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Almost as if someone with advanced knowledge of the universe arranged for that to happen.

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  • ericdavidmorris@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was about to say this is established lore and one of the funniest retcons in media out there

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  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Minions and monsters retcons that as ot takes place in the 1920s

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• Midnight1938@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They fixed that theory by isolating them in Antarctica

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That explains why the Nazis were so interested in Antarctica

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  • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never noticed that, but it does fit and come as a relief.

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  • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You haven’t seen the latest movie. There are apparently many tribes of Minions, including some that were in America in the late 20s to early 30s.

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    • Midnight1938@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s probably the case

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• Ramsesder13te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Canonically they were conveniently living in that ice cave during that time period.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it’s now been established that there were other tribes of minions

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    • Ramsesder13te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t really keep up with minion lore…

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Our concept of evil has changed overtime. In Dantes Inferno the people at the bottom of hell aren’t the people who killed the most, it’s the people who are most famous for betraying others. One of them is there because he stabbed the Hitler of his era in the back to protect democracy.

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dante’s Inferno is also effectively fanfiction of a socialite without any real ecclesiastical value. He wrote in the vernacular, instead of Latin, which was what made it accessible and popular.

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    • VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All religion is fanfiction.

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    • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And as a result made an absolute mess out of what Christians actually believe about death and the afterlife (and you, John Milton, don’t think I’ve forgotten about you)

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• wador@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t there like a toungue in cheek comment about that in the movie?

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  • Shayeta@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The cop-out was that they happened to be frozen in a glacier during WW2.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Minions for Elsa (she was punishing them). Frozen takes place at the same time as WW2, but in a location not affected by WW2.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And now they work for Israel?

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  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The US is pretty villainous and funding Israel; my money is on USA minions.

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    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos are all unapologetic James Bond villains.

      In fact, they might be even more ridiculously evil than the Flemming and movie villains. Ernst Blofeld is arguably more reasonable. (Blofeld, on whom Felonious Gru was based.)

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  • ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s made in Hollywood so probably? Lol

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• iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe they were in the Deep South around the 1800’s

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also helped pol pot. We’re no doubt involved with banana republics. Can’t forget the Khmer rouge so so many evil things they did

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    • Nutteman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge

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    • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For sure. They were part of Operation Paperclip and went to work for H. W. Bush who sent them to South America as CIA operatives after WW2. They became close friends with G. W. Bush during that time and followed him to the White House, which is how they met Dick Cheney.

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do you think Hitler killed himself? Imagine thousands of minions in the bunker with him all chanting ‘ba-na-nah’.

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  if minions were real who do you think they would follow today? Trump? netanyahoo? Sam AltMan? Putin?

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they’re using mass murder to solidify their own power… It just feels too pedestrian

    But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He’s the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus

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    • cmbabul@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He’s probably the closest thing to a Bond style supervillain that exist, if alchemy were real he would be trying to create a global transmutation circle to sacrifice humanity and gain immortality

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    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No no, he thinks anyone AGAINST AI is with the anti-christ. Particularly Greta Thunberg

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    • Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why are you letting Stephen Miller off the hook?

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    • 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He also says the antichrist will be a “self-described protector who promises peace, safety, and an end to technological risk” and sites Greta Thunberg.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’d be buying Teslas and spy glasses.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In a list with Netanyahu and Putin, complaining about glasses is a bold choice.

      Nazis? Hmmmm, I didn’t like their mining policy, very polluting!

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  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They seem to be wowed more by flash than anything, and the villains don’t seem to be particularly competent or bright. That rules out Larry Ellison and AIPIC.

    Various congressional Republicans, Elon Musk, or Javier Milei.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bibi Buddies.

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• 456456@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They were too busy helping the British systematically starve millions of Indians.

  PS: There were no good guys in WW2.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought they actually addressed this in one of the first 2-3 movies. I could be wrong, I only watched them once and barely remember.

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think they were frozen in ice during that period

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• Maroon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think they’d have split into groups, some with the Nazis, some with the British empire, some with the Japanese Imperial army…

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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• Deniz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there are shit tons of videos what the minnions did in ww2 or their history in general tough it would be cool to see minions actually working for villains but its is a child movie and they cant merchandize adolf hitler or stalin

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  • Sirius006@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yet

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    • dregan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sad face

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• cuerdo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or catholic priests…

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  • glasratz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meanwhile the Nazi officials feared that Catholics may cause a civil war if they didn’t put just the right amount of pressure on the Vatican. And Protestants tried to become the official state church of Nazi Germany.

    Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews? I think you should take some history lessons. Being Jewish wasn’t a religious definition for the Nazis, we’re not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here. And it’s not like Catholics were more (or less) antisemitic than Protestants.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t understand the whole hating the Jews thing.

    Had they not killed Jesus, his story would be worthless. They made him a martyr. They’re responsible for making Christianity in the first place

    Oh wait now I understand.

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    • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hating a minority is a theme showing up in politics, every time a society had a downturn.

      Jews were scapegoats, they were generally seen as greedy and thrifty. So when the economy went to shit, the workers blamed an ethnic group associated with being successful business people.

      The hate for Muslims went up a lot in the aftermath of the 08 crisis. Although the reasons for problems tends to be greed among the elites, they also tend to control the narrative. And will throw a minority under the bus to save themselves

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  • bigmamoth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the religious cleaning from the comie was an horor for sure.

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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was a period of Great Minion Divide, where half of them supported Hitler and the other half Stalin. It worked out well until 1941 and then things got… complicated.

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  • MrChewy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about the Hirohito and Britains Colony Garrison Minion divide groups?

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only 731 of them served hirohito

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That explains why most boomers love minions memes.

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• ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s why Germany lost

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• TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They were obviously a few in the bunker with hitler, probably meant to hand him a banana but accidentally gave him his gun. Probably not worth mentioning in the movies

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d rather the minions be responsible for killing Hitler than the asshole that got all the credit in the real world.

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do people not know what a villain is?

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone who lives in a village?

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re thinking villager. A villain is dried seed pod, used as a spice.

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• MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Japanese were worse

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• Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe there was a villain worse than Hitler is some way?

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• AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From what little I could understand in the movies I think the minions tend to have somewhat of an upper limit on evil? Like they’re fine with stealing and destroying property but seem genuinely scared when people are murdered, so I guess no they wouldn’t be Nazi. Not to mention how generally chaotic and hard to manage they are, not exactly dictatorship friendly

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• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dangit… I am hoping that isn’t in the Minions timeline, I guess? Ugh.

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