Weapons Vector then blasts Gru's ship with the shrink ray as payback for the latter freezing his head. | They escape through some air vents and out to the main entrance (without Vector noticing) and return to the car. After El Macho collapses to the ground, Gru tries to untie Lucy who is strapped onto a TNT-loaded shark rocket. At first, he just wanted to send them back to the orphanage as soon as he got the shrink ray, but he began to like them after spending an afternoon with them at an amusement park. However, he also said that he had no intention of giving his minions a raise. Gru tries to shoot Vector down with guns and then with missiles, but fails. Voice Eduardo offers Gru a chance to conquer the world, but Gru makes unconvincing excuses and hastily leaves with the girls. He then reveals his long-time planned, most epic heist; the theft of the Moon. On the way home, Gru and the girls stop by an amusement park called Super Silly Fun Land, which Gru sees as a chance to abandon the girls. Gru, however, still doesn't change his mind, so the Minions decide to leave him, except Dave and Jerry, who just came back from the Hawaiian party. The lab's scientists are experimenting with the mutagen PX-41, which is capable of transforming living things into indestructible killing machines. Dr. Nefario confronts Gru and tells him how he feels the girls are becoming "a major distraction" and tells him "they need to go, if you don't do something about it, then I will." He had a somewhat strained relationship with his mother who hadn't been a particularly good parent but he was determined to make her proud. Gru rescues them by securing Vector's ship using a rope with a grappling hook and tells them to jump and that he will catch them. The only bones they have are the skull and spine, it's a travesty that this didn't get to the top of the thread. Which would make him 49/50 during the events of the first film. He remains true to his word and contacts Miss Hattie and requests she take the girls back to the orphanage. Tiberius | Gru goes to Miss Hattie's Home for Girls, the orphanage Margo, Edith and Agnes are from, masquerading as a dentist and adopts them. On the seat that the girls reserved for him, Gru finds a note from Vector, who has kidnapped the girls, telling him to bring the moon. Despicable Me/Minions When he saw Margo and her little sisters go inside Vector's lair, Gru decided to adopt them so they could sneak into Vector's lair and take the shrink ray Vector stole from Gru who stole it from an Asian laboratory. Gru replies that he quit being villain for a while, so Dru shows him a multi-functional golden vehicle that Robert once used and they both drive to the town wildly. This causes the ship to shrink, forcing Gru and the Minions to ride the miniaturized ship home. Steve Carell describes Gru's strange accent as "a cross between Ricardo Montalban and Bela Lugosi. After scouring some trailers for some good images, I found this picture. ". Gru sees three girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes, trying to sell Vector cookies, and Vector lets them in. For breaking her heart, Gru encases Antonio in a block of ice with his freeze-ray. Phil, The Lorax Birthplace: Yekaterinburg, Russia. WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. Gru is a tall, bald man with a long nose and broad, powerful physique, (unlike Vector) and dress in a light grey sweater underneath a black collared coat along with a striped scarf, black trousers, and shoes. Rooster | His former personality is evil, ruthless, arrogant, sly, egocentric, hateful, tricky and intelligent. I thought sharks didn't have true bones but are cartilaginous? Dru then asks Fritz to drive Lucy and the girls to the town, and Gru and Dru go to the underground base beneath the garden in the mansion; during the process, Gru falls to the end hard unprepared. Putting him at around 6 to 7 feet which, yes is very unusual, but more realistic than 14 feet. Seeing this, Gru embarrassingly sings the birthday song to the party participants, which make the people inside amused and even take photos of his ridiculous appearance. After he's gone, Valerie furiously questions which agent failed to capture Bratt, who is the criminal AVL has been long for to catch. They escape through some air vents and out to the main entrance (without Vector noticing) and return to the car. The following day, on May 26, and with a broken heart, Gru boards the rocket and flies off to the moon, but not before one of the minions puts the ticket Agnes gave him into his space suit's pocket, despite Gru giving it back to that minion and telling him he doesn't have time for the girls dance recital. This neglectful treatment from his mother is what led him to become a villain in the first place and fly to the moon so that he could take it for himself. The vehicle is equipped with superb functions, saving them from many following critical circumstances, though Gru is quite shocked and annoyed. At the start of the film, Gru was a sneaky and somewhat cold-hearted man, who was determined to become the greatest villain in the world. Lucy then blows a water column throwing Gru to the ship - which is now floating away because of the expanding chewing gum that Bratt threw. Gru rushes to Dru who is still sulking from their argument. Friends/Allies As he walks down, he falls to the floor as he forgot the height of the ladder. Duke | Ever since Gru was young, he tried to impress his mother with his inventions to no avail (even after building a highly successful rocket, his mother is still not impressed). Adult (Info / ^Contact), New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Pollito ends up pinning down Gru, whom barely gets saved by Lucy firing her epoxy shooter at the unruly chicken. Nefario reveals that the effects of the shrink ray are not permanent and the effect wears off at a rate proportional to its original mass (which he calls the "Nefario Principle"), to put it simply, the bigger the object, the faster it returns to normal after being shrunk by the Shrink Ray.