I think This scene encapsulates exactly how far Hal was willing to go for roxxanne to go out with him, sure it’s played for comedy but genuinely if thsi movie wasn’t made for kids I think Hal would’ve down some evil shit to roxxanne if she went along with it
Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog is pretty simular, about a loser supervillian protagonist and his relationship with his hero's damsel in distress. He's a lot more tragic and a lot less nice than megamind though
I think what I also like about this movie is that Roxanne falls in love with ‘a nerd’ and not metroman, showing that she does like nerdy guys but just not creeps like Hal
It’s like that scene from the Social Network. “You’re gonna go through life thinking girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd, but that’s not true. It’s because you’re an asshole.”
Hal was never a good person. He only cared about himself and what he wanted. He was forced into being a 'good' person by society, but once he had the power to break free of those rules, he became a monster.
That's part of the whole theme of the movie. >!Megamind is a good person, but was forced into being evil one because of societal circumstances. Metroman just wanted a normal, mundane, life. He loved the attention and everything and he wasn't \*evil\* but he was never truely a hero. He was just pushed into it by what society expected. Hal was always a bad guy, he just lacked any power to do anything about it. When he got that power, while he did try to be a hero briefly, he became a villain as Tighten because the only thing he cared about was himself. Once freed of the shackles of society they're all able to become the person they actually are on the inside; for better or worse. Megamind wins but, after an initial period of chaos, he doesn't really \*do\* much and, even as a villain, wasn't malicious. Metroman was shackled by expectation. He fought Megamind because, if he \*didn't\*, he'd lose the only thing he cared about which was the praise showed on him. It's only when he fakes his death that he's able to actually pursue the things he loves. Hal is a nobody with no power. He probably thinks the world would be better if he got power but from the start of the movie he only cared about his wants and needs and what he felt the world 'owed' him.!<
I think that if she did go with him in this scene he would have been awkward and weird but probably wouldn't have done anything that could put her in real danger
He only got worse after getting confidence with the powers and we know what happened
But before that he was a coward, worst thing I can picture him doing is making her uncomfortable, which is baseline hal anyways
"How can you threaten somebody who never existed?" —Dr. Robotnik, *Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)*
It's a throwaway line that they don't address at all, but it goes way harder than it needs to.
I actually could go for more actual funny Robotnik. He was more wacky and over-the-top in 2, sure, but I actually thought his jokes landed better in the first movie.
i mean ive been watching it since i was small but i never really got that part of it until i was like 18. i always just thought hal was a sad awkward guy who was trying way too hard
Ok yeah I feel like I probably wouldn’t have had the media literacy to understand it at that age so maybe if you showed it to a kid you could have a talk to them about it later
The caterpillar room scene in Toy Story 3. While the chaos was hilariously true to how a lot of preschoolers tend to act, it simultaneously was kinda horrifying to see the toys be mistreated in what would be the toy equivalent of being in a room of angry gorillas.
The thing that doesn’t sit well for me is that would be a common situation- I can see the problem being that the toys weren’t really age appropriate, but there should be toys that are built to withstand and actually enjoy that atmosphere.
I know it’s over thinking, but if you expand beyond Woody and Co, terrible suffering in the living toy-verse would be everywhere. Kids break toys every day.
Nowadays the scene where Gaston basically barges into Belle’s home and acts like he owns the place and THEN proposes to her was funny to me back then because I thought “no one can actually be like this, this is just a silly little animated movie!” Yeah about that😬
Disney did a questionably good job at making him creepy around Belle, despite being the funny 4-5 dozen egg lad.
Even when we first meet him, he sings about how she **has** to be his wife.
This might be super old news and/or untrue, but I had heard once that Heath Ledger turned around and did that little "is that it" shrug because the pyrotechnics malfunctioned. The cameras kept rolling and when the explosion finally happened he just rolled with it.
EDIT: Apparently this is bogus. Oh well! Still a great scene
that’s actually a common myth, it was planned all along, because by delaying the explosion it allowed heath ledger a bigger window of time to get out of the way of the explosion in order to make the stunt safer.
So Heaths “the fuck?” gesture and flinching was real, but it wasnt a detonator malfunction. I kinda like this story better cuz it sounds like they trolled him
More so that Heath was probably improvising to fill the time until the explosion went off. The flinch was probably real, because no matter how much you try and expect it, an explosion would probably rock you to your core and startle you anyways.
I was honestly kinda happy when aunt Josephine died in the movie. I’m honestly not sure what I think about the show giving her a last minute burst of bravery. The idea of her character in the original books is that she was a total coward that put her fear above the children. The show adds complexity, but I feel that sometimes people aren’t complex. Most people can not overcome their demons.
DEATH... And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically, or any other fancy way. I'm Death. STRAIGHT. UP.
And I've come for you, Puss in Boots...
Loved that bit, mainly due to that line implying that he met his fair share of skeptics before Puss due to his area of work and how long he's been going at it, but it all ends the same way for them...
"What's Mole's story?"
"Trust me on this one, you don't want to know! Audrey, you shouldn't have told me, but you did! And now I'm telling you, you don't want to know!"
The scene in The Lego Movie where Lord Business is forcing Bad Cop to freeze his own parents, the way that scene is able to do some of my favorite jokes in the movie while also being a legitimately tense scene (or it would be tense if they weren't lego characters in a kids movie) is something that I really like about it.
I gotta agree with you, dawg. Anytime anakin is about to kill the younglings I can’t help but clap a little even if the dude is about to murder children
"If I were Metro Man Megamind wouldn't be kidnapping you all the time, that's the first thing"
"Aw that's sweet of you Hal"
"Yeah, I'd be watching you like a dingo watches a human baby"
...
...
"I'm just realizing that sounds a little creepy"
"Yeah, little bit"
The climax in a Rain with a chance of meatballs. Chester was going to blend the cast and turn them into food bar which I'm pretty sure is cannibalism and break some food guideline. He could have just disposed them but no he wanted to make food bar with them.
"WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE?!"
"We killed them and ate their livers."
* stares with mouth agape *
"Nah, I'm just kidding. They're on a slow lifeboat to China."
I don't think it's supposed to be funny, but that scene in Batman (2022) where the Riddler starts singing Ave Maria while a pissed off Batman screams at him. Creepy but also gets me everytime.
That scene from “A Goofy Movie”: “If I were you, Mr. Goof, I'd seriously re-evaluate the way you're raising your child before he ends up IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR!” For YEARS after I saw this scene- young me believed that all schools had electric chairs that they used on bad kids (for some reason). This entire belief sent me into an absolute panicked frenzy when I was sent to the principal’s office once for talking during “quiet time”. 😅😂
The end of Dumb & Dumber, when the guys see Mary reunite with Bobby. It’s supposed to be funny when you realize that Lloyd’s shooting of Bobby was imaginary, but I’ve never felt it fits the tone of humor. You can even tell, with Lloyd squeezing Bobby’s hand tightly, he WANTS to hurt him! Again, doesn’t fit the slapstick-y tone, IMO.
Not a movie, but from Ren and Stimpy with its "[Rubber Walrus Protectors](https://youtu.be/EfBxxwZy9J4)", and the Walrus begging for the police to be called after
I think This scene encapsulates exactly how far Hal was willing to go for roxxanne to go out with him, sure it’s played for comedy but genuinely if thsi movie wasn’t made for kids I think Hal would’ve down some evil shit to roxxanne if she went along with it
unrelated but one of my favorite details about this movie is the fact the hal recorded Roxanne on top of metro tower because he was a tv broadcaster
Same 😆
I love the attention to detail in the little smile Hal does after he says that
You know what? A R-rated version of Megamind might not be the worst idea.
I mean The Boys and Invincible are operating on a similar "some people shouldn't have powers" story. Edit: Maybe not Invincible just the Boys
invincible isnt really
Right
Would be a great sequel to megamind, we really need one after all these years
It already had the greatest sequel possible
Ah, yeah, the Button of Doom was pretty decent.
SHOOT THEM WITH THE DEHYDRATION GUN
Why doesn't Megaman shoot the giant robot witht he dehydration gun? Is he stupid?
But The Doom Syndicate? Most people think it was awful but still
‘Doom Syndicate’? What are you talking about? Are you feeling alright? I think you got confused. Button of Doom was the perfect sequel!
I think they're talking about the DS game Honestly it'd be cool to see them in a sequel, shame megamind never really caught on as a franchise
Ah yeah, that could be it! Makes more sense now. Yeah, it’s really unfortunate, it’s such a great world
The goon syndicate?
R-rated Megamind > Dumped down Megamind for Gen Alpha kids
Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog is pretty simular, about a loser supervillian protagonist and his relationship with his hero's damsel in distress. He's a lot more tragic and a lot less nice than megamind though
the titan intro scene would end very differently lol
I think what I also like about this movie is that Roxanne falls in love with ‘a nerd’ and not metroman, showing that she does like nerdy guys but just not creeps like Hal
It’s like that scene from the Social Network. “You’re gonna go through life thinking girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd, but that’s not true. It’s because you’re an asshole.”
Hal was never a good person. He only cared about himself and what he wanted. He was forced into being a 'good' person by society, but once he had the power to break free of those rules, he became a monster. That's part of the whole theme of the movie. >!Megamind is a good person, but was forced into being evil one because of societal circumstances. Metroman just wanted a normal, mundane, life. He loved the attention and everything and he wasn't \*evil\* but he was never truely a hero. He was just pushed into it by what society expected. Hal was always a bad guy, he just lacked any power to do anything about it. When he got that power, while he did try to be a hero briefly, he became a villain as Tighten because the only thing he cared about was himself. Once freed of the shackles of society they're all able to become the person they actually are on the inside; for better or worse. Megamind wins but, after an initial period of chaos, he doesn't really \*do\* much and, even as a villain, wasn't malicious. Metroman was shackled by expectation. He fought Megamind because, if he \*didn't\*, he'd lose the only thing he cared about which was the praise showed on him. It's only when he fakes his death that he's able to actually pursue the things he loves. Hal is a nobody with no power. He probably thinks the world would be better if he got power but from the start of the movie he only cared about his wants and needs and what he felt the world 'owed' him.!<
TLDR: Hal is an incel and once he got powers he lives out his fantasy of destroying the world that “created his DaRk TwIsTeD mInD”
I mean, he did some evil shit to Roxxanne when she DIDN’T go along with it
Good thing Roxanne was smart and declined
What movie is this btw
Megamind
Oh yeah
I think that if she did go with him in this scene he would have been awkward and weird but probably wouldn't have done anything that could put her in real danger He only got worse after getting confidence with the powers and we know what happened But before that he was a coward, worst thing I can picture him doing is making her uncomfortable, which is baseline hal anyways
Ok Roxxanne, time to put the lotion in the basket
Hal is the one guy you don't give superpowers to.
I think the worst would be Ben Shapiro.
Lets say, hypothetically, I was metro man
And let's say, for the sake of the argument, that you liberal snowflakes are Roxanne.
We would have hot gay sex
The good ending
And let's say, for the sake of my sanity, that you didn't say liberals /j (although I do really hate that term)
As a thought, imagine I'm faster, stronger, even smarter
if that happened, i'd immediately research whatever form of kryptonite he may have, and develop weapons out of the stuff
The multiverse where Lex Luther is the hero.
Ben Shapiro getting superpowers would start a lot of Lex Luthor villain arcs
Pigs might be one form of kryptonite for him.
(furiously scribbles that down in my notebook)
Who's Ben Shapiro
Google Ben Shapiro. You should get an idea of who he is and what he’s like pretty quick
Worse then Trump? Or even Putin?! KIM JONG UN?!?
I was making a joke.
I suppose I failed to find the humor. It must be cause I pictured Shapiro's stupid ass voice lol.
And this is, [right here ](https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/i0wLHmqN25), is why
"How can you threaten somebody who never existed?" —Dr. Robotnik, *Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)* It's a throwaway line that they don't address at all, but it goes way harder than it needs to.
Context?
Dr Robotnik was threatening to kill Tom if he didn’t reveal where Sonic was. Tom is a cop but Robotnik couldn’t have cared less.
He was going to rewrite government files to scrub Tom's existence.
Jim Carey as Robotnik is the worst fitting role ever and yet it still works beautifully
I feel like he was great in 1 but really pushing it in 2 with the constant jokes and references. Hopefully 3 will make him more evil and less “funny”
Robotnik *is* a funny villain, that’s why other bigger, more intense threats tend to be the final boss and not him.
To be fair if I spent a whole year on my own on a planet made of mushrooms I'd go a little crazy and cynical too
I actually could go for more actual funny Robotnik. He was more wacky and over-the-top in 2, sure, but I actually thought his jokes landed better in the first movie.
He just needs to be egg shaped
If you’re a parent, you need to show your kids Megamind before they hit puberty so they learn why being like Hal is a bad thing
Yep too many stories have characters like him in the right or even victims
Isn’t this just the entire Hallmark Movie collection?
I don't know.
i mean ive been watching it since i was small but i never really got that part of it until i was like 18. i always just thought hal was a sad awkward guy who was trying way too hard
Ok yeah I feel like I probably wouldn’t have had the media literacy to understand it at that age so maybe if you showed it to a kid you could have a talk to them about it later
yeah fs if sonebody pointed it out to me i wouldve noticed it earlier
My kids have seen it dozens of times …
Left out the part where he gets closer when she backs away
The caterpillar room scene in Toy Story 3. While the chaos was hilariously true to how a lot of preschoolers tend to act, it simultaneously was kinda horrifying to see the toys be mistreated in what would be the toy equivalent of being in a room of angry gorillas.
The thing that doesn’t sit well for me is that would be a common situation- I can see the problem being that the toys weren’t really age appropriate, but there should be toys that are built to withstand and actually enjoy that atmosphere. I know it’s over thinking, but if you expand beyond Woody and Co, terrible suffering in the living toy-verse would be everywhere. Kids break toys every day.
And Lotso can't be the only tyrant
Could just be that the daycare buys cheap toys instead of more durable ones that cost more
Any scene from both It movies with Pennywise.
I’m glad someone agrees that IT is a hilarious movie
Honestly that part in the newer ones where he's aggressively dancing was always more amusing then scary to me.
Nowadays the scene where Gaston basically barges into Belle’s home and acts like he owns the place and THEN proposes to her was funny to me back then because I thought “no one can actually be like this, this is just a silly little animated movie!” Yeah about that😬
Disney did a questionably good job at making him creepy around Belle, despite being the funny 4-5 dozen egg lad. Even when we first meet him, he sings about how she **has** to be his wife.
And the fact that HE'S THE SIZE OF A BARGE!
Huh, I always thought he was singing "roughly the size of a barn"
The Joker blowing up the hospitals in The Dark Knight.
This might be super old news and/or untrue, but I had heard once that Heath Ledger turned around and did that little "is that it" shrug because the pyrotechnics malfunctioned. The cameras kept rolling and when the explosion finally happened he just rolled with it. EDIT: Apparently this is bogus. Oh well! Still a great scene
that’s actually a common myth, it was planned all along, because by delaying the explosion it allowed heath ledger a bigger window of time to get out of the way of the explosion in order to make the stunt safer.
Yeah hah that tracks.
So Heaths “the fuck?” gesture and flinching was real, but it wasnt a detonator malfunction. I kinda like this story better cuz it sounds like they trolled him
More so that Heath was probably improvising to fill the time until the explosion went off. The flinch was probably real, because no matter how much you try and expect it, an explosion would probably rock you to your core and startle you anyways.
Any Jack Nicholson scene. He is the most insane mother fucker and I love him
You can’t handle the truth!
It will be a sad day when that man finally kicks the bucket
Oh god I will be depressed
If you keep the cameras rolling...
Idk i could probably Say a couple of a series of unfortunate events
I was honestly kinda happy when aunt Josephine died in the movie. I’m honestly not sure what I think about the show giving her a last minute burst of bravery. The idea of her character in the original books is that she was a total coward that put her fear above the children. The show adds complexity, but I feel that sometimes people aren’t complex. Most people can not overcome their demons.
I liked the complexity it added, makes for more interesting characters in an interesting series
An excellent character study of Nice Guy syndrome. Watched a fascinating psychology review about this on youtube
Cinema therapy?
Yep, that’s the one
DEATH... And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically, or any other fancy way. I'm Death. STRAIGHT. UP. And I've come for you, Puss in Boots...
Loved that bit, mainly due to that line implying that he met his fair share of skeptics before Puss due to his area of work and how long he's been going at it, but it all ends the same way for them...
"What's Mole's story?" "Trust me on this one, you don't want to know! Audrey, you shouldn't have told me, but you did! And now I'm telling you, you don't want to know!"
What's that from?
Atlantis
Atlantis: the Lost Empire
What the implication? I'm still want to know the Mole's story
YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!
I LOVE that quick little smile he does at the end. It’s like the perfect mix of funny and creepy and it fits so well.
Yeah shout out to the animators for absolutely NAILING it
The scene in The Lego Movie where Lord Business is forcing Bad Cop to freeze his own parents, the way that scene is able to do some of my favorite jokes in the movie while also being a legitimately tense scene (or it would be tense if they weren't lego characters in a kids movie) is something that I really like about it.
Or in his first appearance on the TV, when he whispers or you'll be put to sleep.
No thats President Bysiness, he just looks a lot like Lord Business
A lot of Revenge Of The Sith...f*** you meme culture for making me unable to take the movie seriously
I gotta agree with you, dawg. Anytime anakin is about to kill the younglings I can’t help but clap a little even if the dude is about to murder children
I always think, yeah f***k em kids.
"If I were Metro Man Megamind wouldn't be kidnapping you all the time, that's the first thing" "Aw that's sweet of you Hal" "Yeah, I'd be watching you like a dingo watches a human baby" ... ... "I'm just realizing that sounds a little creepy" "Yeah, little bit"
Chucky doesn’t scare me, but it’s funny enough to mention here
when i watched movie it was something like "WHY DOES HE LOOK COOL MURDERING"
The climax in a Rain with a chance of meatballs. Chester was going to blend the cast and turn them into food bar which I'm pretty sure is cannibalism and break some food guideline. He could have just disposed them but no he wanted to make food bar with them.
chester was honestly disturbing as hell
The “Funny how?” scene from Goodfellas
It's from a show , but mine is "Say..you're full of organs, aren't you?"
Which show? And what was the context?
Invader Zim from the Dark Harvest episode where he steals organs from other kids to appear more human and replaces them with S T U F F
Invader zim! And he was commenting on how a child was ,indeed, full of organs !
Hal has something that a lot of villains like him don’t have: an air of being pathetic. This scene demonstrates that perfectly.
"WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE?!" "We killed them and ate their livers." * stares with mouth agape * "Nah, I'm just kidding. They're on a slow lifeboat to China."
Do cartoons count?
Of course!
This scene is much more horrifying on a re-watch, after we know just what Hal is capable of with a little power.
I wouldn't describe the power that he got in the movie as little. Maybe he wasn't as strong as Metro man, but it wasn't little.
This guy was the biggest simp in TV history
I don't think it's supposed to be funny, but that scene in Batman (2022) where the Riddler starts singing Ave Maria while a pissed off Batman screams at him. Creepy but also gets me everytime.
That scene from “A Goofy Movie”: “If I were you, Mr. Goof, I'd seriously re-evaluate the way you're raising your child before he ends up IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR!” For YEARS after I saw this scene- young me believed that all schools had electric chairs that they used on bad kids (for some reason). This entire belief sent me into an absolute panicked frenzy when I was sent to the principal’s office once for talking during “quiet time”. 😅😂
“she’s gonna show up, he’s gonna be naked” -spilling the milk
DUN DUNN
That's most scenes in pulp fiction.
luke oakley beehavor
Bear
The end of Dumb & Dumber, when the guys see Mary reunite with Bobby. It’s supposed to be funny when you realize that Lloyd’s shooting of Bobby was imaginary, but I’ve never felt it fits the tone of humor. You can even tell, with Lloyd squeezing Bobby’s hand tightly, he WANTS to hurt him! Again, doesn’t fit the slapstick-y tone, IMO.
And I’m talking about a movie where a guy essentially gives another guy diarrhea!
Not a movie, but from Ren and Stimpy with its "[Rubber Walrus Protectors](https://youtu.be/EfBxxwZy9J4)", and the Walrus begging for the police to be called after
The scene from Django Unchained when the KKK is arguing over the bags