

Tighten goes on a rampage, and kidnaps Roxanne when she tries to get through to him. Metro Man tries to encourage Megamind to become the city's new hero by telling him that a hero will always rise to defeat evil.ĭejected, Megamind willingly returns to prison. Megamind and Roxanne attempt to enlist his help against Tighten, but he refuses to help. Megamind and Roxanne escape to Metro Man's old hideout, and discover that Metro Man is still alive, having faked his weakness and death to pursue his dream as a musician. Realizing that Tighten has no interest in justice and means to kill him, Megamind traps Tighten in a ball of copper. Angered, Tighten savagely beats Megamind in the fight. Tighten offers to ally with Megamind, but the latter deliberately reveals his disguises and deceptions, hoping to goad Tighten into fighting. Megamind learns that Tighten is now using his powers on a crime spree. Megamind arranges to fight Tighten the next day, but Tighten does not show up. After a heartbroken Tighten leaves, Megamind's "Bernard" disguise fails, and Roxanne rejects him as well. Roxanne rejects Tighten when he comes to court her, and Tighten later witnesses her on a date with "Bernard". Megamind begins to date Roxanne in the guise of Bernard, and he and Minion have a falling out over Megamind's apparent lack of interest in committing further crimes. Hal, seeing this as a chance to get with Roxanne, accepts and takes on the name "Titan", though he misspells it as "Tighten". Megamind perfects the formula, but accidentally injects it into Hal Stewart, Roxanne's dimwitted cameraman who is infatuated with her.ĭisguising himself via hologram as Hal's "Space Dad", Megamind offers to train Hal to become a superhero. Disguised as Bernard using hologram technology, Megamind talks to Roxanne, whose remarks inspire him to use Metro Man's DNA to create a new superhero to fight. Megamind decides to blow up the Metro Man museum to forget the hero, but sees Roxanne there and dehydrates the museum's curator, Bernard, into a small cube. However, he eventually becomes depressed and purposeless with no hero to fight. Overjoyed that he has finally won, Megamind takes over the city and goes on a crime spree. Once there, Metro Man collapses, claiming the copper-lined observatory roof weakens his powers Megamind then blasts Metro Man with a sun-powered death ray, apparently killing him. As an adult, Megamind, aided by his fish-like companion Minion, frequently and unsuccessfully battles Metro Man for control of the city.Īt the grand opening of the new Metro Man Museum, Megamind escapes prison, kidnaps reporter Roxanne Ritchi, and lures Metro Man to an abandoned observatory to rescue her. Megamind is bullied by everyone until he concludes his purpose is to be a supervillain, setting off a rivalry between him and Metro Man. He goes to the same school as Metro Man, who is well-liked by his classmates. Though both land in Metro City at the same time, Metro Man is raised in a mansion, while Megamind is raised in a prison. Supervillain Megamind and his arch-nemesis, the superhero Metro Man, are both aliens who were sent to Earth as infants before their planets were sucked into a black hole. A follow-up series, Megamind 's Guide to Defending Your City, was announced in 2022 for Peacock. It later spawned a franchise including three games, and a short film, titled Megamind: The Button of Doom, which released on February 25, 2011, with the film's DVD and Blu-ray. With a budget of $130 million, the film grossed over $321 million worldwide, becoming one of DreamWorks Animation's lowest-grossing CGI animated films of the 2010s. Megamind premiered in Russia on October 28, 2010, and was released in the United States on November 5, 2010, and was met with generally positive reviews from critics. It tells the story of Megamind, a highly intelligent alien supervillain after defeating his long-time nemesis Metro Man, Megamind creates a new hero to fight, but must act to save the city when his "creation" becomes an even worse villain than he was. Directed by Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, the film stars the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and Brad Pitt. Megamind is a 2010 American computer-animated superhero comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and PDI/DreamWorks and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
