What Are Minions?
I think everyone knows who or what the minions are by now. They are a creation that will live in our hearts for many generations because of their unbelievable cuteness.
Regardless, here is a description:
Minions are small yellow creatures featured in Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 (they are definitely the most memorable characters in both films). They are shaped rather like tablets and can have either one or two eyes.
They are naïve and impulsive creatures with little self-control. However, their wide-eyed wonder and innocence have endeared them to viewers all over the world. People can relate to them in one way or another and can’t help but smile or laugh at their antics. They can be pests at times but bring plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.
Gru, unlike most evil masterminds, loves the minions, and they have a great relationship because of this. His genuine appreciation for their hard work helps endear us to his character too.
He also knows each of them by name. But don’t worry, if you don’t know them all by now, take a look below and learn them for yourself.
1. Dave
Dave is a two-eyed minion who is a lead character, especially in Despicable Me 2. He is one of the smart minions who is loving, kind, and, of course, very funny. He and Stuart are very close to Gru, as shown when they come to Gru’s rescue when he is captured and stuffed in the boot (trunk) of agent Lucy Wilde’s car.
He loves playing video games with Stuart. He also loves ice cream—the ice cream party is a great clip!
Another great clip of Dave is from Despicable Me when he fires his rocket launcher out of excitement. He of course gets a punch in the arm for this, and the way he hangs his head shows his remorse, but it is such a great scene.
He is also the easiest soft toy to find in stores at the moment because, let’s face it, who doesn’t love Dave?
2. Stuart
Stuart, a one-eyed minion, is playful and funny. He loves playing video games with his best friend Dave. Above, you can see him on the left, acting nonchalant until he gets the final laugh.
A great clip is when he is with Dave meeting Silas Ramsbottom for the first time.
“Ha ha, bottom … ha ha ha ha.”
Stuart and Dave are the minions Gru paints purple at the end of Despicable Me 2 to get into Eduardo’s compound to attempt a rescue mission.
3. BOB
Bob is shortest and bald minion with two eyes of different colors (green and brown). He carries around his stuffed teddy bear called Tim and loves playing with it. He is kind of childish and immature; he finds love in everything. Bob is also known as King Bob. In Minions, he is one of the minions in trio of the Kevin’s journey. He accidentally wins Scarlet’s challenge by swallowing the ruby in Villain Con.
4. Jerry
Jerry, a two-eyed minion, is short and plump with spiky hair. He is a very sensitive guy, as we see when Kevin teases him for being a coward. He also gets scared easily as shown in the scene when he hears strange noises.
He’s also musical. He loves to play the guitar, as he does on the minion beach after he is abducted, and he sings a caring lullaby to the girls when Gru asks him to look after them.
He is the first minion we see abducted.
5. Carl
Carl is a small one-eyed minion with a short buzz haircut.
He is fun-loving and enjoys his time with other minions. He likes to skateboard and loves making noises.
He is the minion you see in the fire scene: “Bee do bee do …” He breaks into the room with Josh to help put out the office fire. He also is seen when Gru calls Dave and Stuart at the ice cream party. He is spraying Stuart with a fire extinguisher.
6. Kevin
Kevin, another two-eyed minion, loves to tease others, as you can tell when he teases Jerry for being a coward. He is often seen in golf attire, so he must love the game.
He isn’t the smartest of minions—when Jerry is abducted, he just waves goodbye. This is hilarious though! Also, when it is his turn to be abducted, he grabs the cat, poor thing!
He is transformed into an evil minion via PX-41 serum after Phil.
7. TIM
Tim is a tall two-eyed minion with a sprout hair cut. He is usually dressed conservatively, perhaps because he is a bit more mature than the other minions. In Despicable Me 2, he is bald and wears a tie.
Tim is one of the minions who was asked to buy Agnes a new unicorn with Mark and Phil. (You can see the scene below. He is the tall minion standing in the middle when Gru summons them). He is the one who tried the massage chair, which he loved, and soon afterward in the same scene, he joins in singing “Copacabana” with Phil and Mark.
You can tell that he loves to sing—he is also the policeman when the minions perform their version of Y.M.C.A.
8. Mark
Mark is a two-eyed minion with combed hair. He is usually seen dressed up as a motherly character in the films—maybe that is the reason he is the ‘mother’ unlockable character in Minion Rush.
He is one of the minions who is asked to buy Agnes a new unicorn, and this is when he dresses as a mom. He also sings “Copacabana” when they discover karaoke.
9. Phil
Phil, a two-eyed minion, is one of the three guys asked to get Agnes a new unicorn. He joins Mark and Tim in singing “Copacabana” in karaoke.
Later, in Despicable Me 2, he is seen wearing a French maid outfit and cleaning the house. He is sadly captured by Dr. Nafario in a bag and taken to El Macho’s secret lair.
10. JOHN
John is one-eyed minion with combed hair, dressed as a referee as seen in the credits of Despicable Me. When Tim and Carl compete to go to the farthest, John is the one measuring and whistling when they fight.
He is shot out of cannon by two minions and crashes on the screen. He does the hand puppet of Gru saying ‘Hello, I am Gru. Back to Work! Back to Work! Back to –’, gets caught by Gru and walks away.
In Despicable Me 2, John has two eyes and combed hair. He acts the boss of working minions while making jelly. He wears a white construction hat and instructs other minions to do things. When he is given jelly to taste, he broke the jar of jelly and scrapes jelly off his tongue with his hands.
When evil minions are sprayed with jelly with antidote on the roof of Eduardo, all turn to normal minions except John. Later Steve throws some jelly at him when he roars at Steve. He again scratches jelly off his tongue with his hands after getting back to normal.
11. Josh
Josh is a short, plump two-eyed minion. In the clip above, he enters a distance contest with Tim—Josh the the minion initially standing on the left. He is very funny, especially when he is shown scanning his butt with Stuart and Larry.
When Carl is doing his “bee-do” alarm, he makes an appearance wearing a fireman costume.
12. STEVE
Steve is cute and small minion with one eye and combed hair. He shows his feelings right away. Dave fires a rocket launcher when Gru was about to tell his plan. It hits a group of minion resulting fountain of minions. When Gru was shaming Dave Steve walks up to him and give a punch in his arm.
When Dr. Nefario’s kidnapping ice cream truck comes to Gru’s neighborhood, Steve is the one who yells ‘Gelato!’. He is the last minion to be seen kidnapped. He is awaken by Kevin at the beach and gives him a banana. Steve then removes his overalls, gets into the water and swim with his banana. He is first minion to be seen naked.
13. DONNY
Donny singing Chiquita Banana
Donny is funny. He has one eye and buzz-cut hair. He loves singing and dancing but he is sometimes stupid. When John and Paul ask him to carry the fruits, he jumps into the fruit tub and gets fruits on top of his. He then sings Chiquita Banana and dances but then he falls. He gets his head stuck in a jelly jar and he is seen like this throughout the movie.
He is also seen at the beach and gets turned into an evil minion with his head stuck in a jar. He gets reverted to normal minion and seen dancing to the song Y.M.C.A.
14. KEN
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Ken is tall minion with two eyes and sprout-cut hair. Ken works in the mail room along with Mike. He is a slacker and loves to spend his time playing video games rather than working.
When Mike turns to an evil minion accidentally and eats all the packages, Ken continues playing video games. Ken saves kittens from being eaten by Mike.
15. MIKE
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Mike is small and sweet, has two eyes and combed hair. He is an obedient and hardworking fellow. He works in the mail room along with Ken. He turns into an evil minion after being splashed with an expired PX-41 serum. He eats all the packages when Ken plays video games.
When he is changing back to normal, he almost eats a box of kittens but Ken saves them. When Mike coughs out the remaining serum in his body, the serum gets on the kitten mutating them and they attack Mike and Ken.
16. PAUL
Paul writing Gru’s CV
Paul is tall, two-eyed minion with sprout-cut hair. He is quite mean and is not funny like other minions. He is the one using computer and writing Gru’s CV when Gru talks to Ms. Hattie to get the girls. He is the second minion to get goodnight kiss from Gru.
He is seen with Donny when they were stepping the fruits and he is later seen at the beach with Jerry playing guitar after the abduction. He gets turned into an evil minion but later reverted back to normal with the antidote added jelly. He also appears in Cow in a Can and Banana.
17. LANCE
Lance placing some newspaper or magazines on a table.
Lance is small, one-eyed minion having buzz-cut hair. He loves dancing and singing. Also he is a clean freak. You can see Lance placing some newspaper or magazines on a table when Gru is surfing about El Macho on his laptop.
When the internet connection is lost, Gru calls Kevin and gets no response. Gru asks Lance where Kevin is but Lance just shrugs, pretends to fart and walks away.
He is the minion with the cloth tied around his head and carrying a bucket of cleaning supplies that appears after Phil gets kidnapped by Dr. Nefario. He notices the vacuum cleaner left on and door left open he checks outside and closes the door.
He reopens the door, cleans the knob and closes the door. He is one of the minions who don’t get kidnapped and turned in an evil minion.
18. LARRY
Larry firing missiles
Larry is small, two-eyed minion having short buzz-cut hair. He loves shooting missiles and dancing. Gru orders him to fire missiles at Vector’s ship when Vector stole the shrink ray gun from his ship which they had stolen from Vector’s place.
He is the one playing music for girls to do recital and he dances in front of the player until one-eyed minion comes and pushes him.
When minions were given jelly to taste, Larry is the first minion to taste. Disgusted with the taste, he then gives jelly to John.
He also gets turned into an evil minion with many others and comes back to normal after Agnes shoots him and others with her jelly gun. He also appears in Banana. He is the one who takes out banana from his bag.
19. JORGE
Jorge is a small minion having two eyes. He is seen dressed up as a fireman along with Josh and Carl when Gru sets his telephone on fire.
20. TOM
Tom as maid getting injected with PX-41 serum.
Tom has two eyes and short buzz-cut hair. He is seen with Stuart cleaning up for Agnes’ birthday party. They see Lucy kidnapping Gru and go after Lucy’s car. He manages to get on the back of the car and grabs Stuart by his tuffs. Later they were knocked out by Lucy with her lipstick taser. He and Stuart laugh when they hear Silas Rams ‘bottom’. When they were getting back home, he is one telling Gru to keep rowing the boat.
Tom is likely to be the first minion to be injected with the PX-41 serum and turned into an evil minion. He was tied next to Kevin before they both were injected with the serum. He is seen dressed as the maid. Gru turns him into normal minion with the jelly gun when El Macho throws Tom, the evil one at Gru during the final battle.
21. NORBERT
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Norbert is a stupid, one-eyed minion. He appears in the Minions. He is always the last one. He is the one who is naked when coming out of the ocean, soon he realizes he was naked, he immediately goes back into the water and comes out with two starfishes stuck on his body.
The narrator calls him an idiot at that moment. When Yeti chases the minions, he is the last one to run. During the credits, when minions were chasing Gru for a banana, he was the last one.
22. CHRIS
Chris is short, cute minion with one eye and short spiky hairs. He is also seen in Minions. He is a good friend with Bob.
23. DARWIN
Darwin is cute minion with one eye and center-parted hair. He appears in the short video ‘Banana’.
When Larry takes out a banana from his bag, Darwin notices and fights with him as Larry doesn’t want to share it with him.
24. MEL
Mel is introduced in Despicable Me 3, which was released on June 14, 2017. He is half bald and has thick hair on either side.
Mel is the leader of the minions who go against Gru and gets arrested and sent to prison.
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Above mentioned are the few minions whose names are being mentioned in the movies. We assume that now you know more minions with their names and descriptions.
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