History Headscratchers / DespicableMe

* When Gru finally got the shrink ray by using the cookie robots to break into Vector's vault, he panics when his badly programmed cookie robots close up the hole in the wall made to get inside. Doesn't Gru realize he could just use the shrink ray to shrink Vector? Then Gru could just walk out the front door. Instead, Gru chooses to hide from Vector and escape through the ducts.

* Why would someone called Victor (which is Latin for WINNER) adopt the alias Vector, which awesomeness-while it certainly is a clever name - far fewer people would get?

** Hattie had already demonstrated a mercenary attitude toward her business during her first interview with Gru and a complete lack of concern for the girls' well-being. Even ''after'' finding out about Gru's little StealthInsult at her expense, it's entirely possible she just gave the girls right back to him in exchange for another paycheck. After all, depending on how she filled out the paperwork on "Mr. Gru" the first time (wasn't Gru his ''first'' name?), she could probably get a second payout for what was essentially the same adoption. Besides, judging by the sheer number of pictures of other girls she has hanging on the walls of her orphanage (indicating she's usually able to get kids adopted out pretty quickly), Margo, Edith, and Agnes seem to have been problem cases to her and she was likely happy to have them off her hands for good this time.

** There is a sitting room area/compartment inside Gru's car, where the girls sat just before going to Vector's house to sell cookies. Jerry and Stuart probably sat there with the shrink ray to guard it on Gru's orders while he and the girls were gone. As for returning to the house, Gru purposefully let the girls in first so that he can deal with sneaking back in Jerry, Stuart and the shrink ray in a discreet way so that the neighbours wouldn't see them.

--> '''Vector:''' ''Unpredicatable!'' Oh yeah!

** I'm only revealing the secret because I don't want that little weasel getting unfair credit. He never stole the Pyramid of Kheops. Instead he had a replica built behind his house, spray-painted it blue, and then ground the original pyramid into sand-sized particles (using his patented Barnacle Blasters to quickly degrade the stone blocks into grit). Surely you noticed the surrounding dunes were a little higher than they should be? This way he gets all the credit for the theft, then can hold the fake for ransom, then double-cross the Egyptian government with his ersatz tomb.

** My guess is that it invert gravity pull. So on Earth the now gravity push is enough to send him in space. On the moon it's barely enough to make him float some meter over the ground.

*** This troper only wonders why some of them didn't have three.

** Hattie had already demonstrated a mercenary attitude toward her business during her first interview with Gru and a complete lack of concern for the girls' well-being. Even ''after'' finding out about Gru's little StealthInsult at her expense, it's entirely possible she just gave the girls right back to him in exchange for another paycheck. After all, depending on how she filled out the paperwork on "Mr. Gru" the first time (wasn't Gru his ''first'' name?), she could probably get a second payout for what was essentially the same adoption. Besides, judging by the sheer number of pictures of other girls she has hanging on the walls of her orphanage, Margo, Edith, and Agnes seem to have been problem cases to her and she was likely happy to have them off her hands for good this time.

** Most likely, she's in the orphanage business for the long green; and judging by her apathetic approach to Gru during that first interview (even snarking about his resume being too long), whoever's supposed to be monitoring her isn't doing a very good job of that either. She probably shuttles girls through her institution into dubious adoptions at an appalling rate.

** Hattie had already demonstrated a mercenary attitude toward her business and a complete lack of concern for the girls' well-being. Even ''after'' finding out about Gru's little StealthInsult at her expense, it's entirely possible she just gave the girls right back to him again.

** Judging by the fact that she let someone with a shady background adopt the girls (his resume should have been a massive red flag), Ms. Hattie probably didn't care what happened to the girls after they were adopted out. I'm guessing stuff like the ballet classes were there to give a possitive image, and it would be easy for her, as the person in charge, to use fear to keep girls from blabbing. Even after being adopted, I'm pretty sure that even Margo would have very little wish to talk about her time at the orphanage, and the issue would never come up.

**** A social worker came and visited in one of the shorts on the Blu-ray (on separate disk for DVD). That indicates that either the girls were never officially "unadopted" or Gru adopted them back.

** It's likely Hattie's orphanage has some kind of institutional sweetheart deal with the studio/school where the girls take their lessons (so the lessons aren't that expensive after all), and in addition to being a convenient gathering of potential customers for the cookies, it's also a great way to market the girls themselves. (Think the kid's cute and wish you could take her home with you? Hattie may just be able to arrange that for you.) It's likely she gets paid for every girl she gets adopted, so the many quickie adoptions she's arranged through this deal more than pays for whatever nominal fee the dance instructor's studio/school is charging her.

* Vector has no air tanks in his suit, and however rich his father is, there is no way he could launch a rescue mission immediately (that is if he would intent to rescue the loser at all). Are we to assume that right after his dancing number Vector died a slow, agonising death of suffocation?

* Gru asks one of the minions "How's the family?". ''Minions can have families?''

**** Really? When I was in Girl Guides, we had boxes of cookies to cart around.

*** Wouldnt the force of a quickly growing elephant break the box?
**** Indeed, it would. It would probably injure the elephant slightly, but it wouldn't get stuck inside.

**** The mommy and daddy minions were both guys (based on their names), and it also seems that maybe all the minions are guys (again, based off of the names.)

**** Unless the dance school teaches Miss Hattie's future minions agility and coordination to prepare them for mastering fighting skills later on.
***** You, sir or madam, deserve some kind of a prize.

** Whether or not the Bank of Evil controls ''all'' the other banks, it's likely that it's the only bank cartel large enough to be capable of funding anything as big as Gru's moon shot. Consider also what happened to that carnival barker who tried to scam Gru out of his money with a rigged game, and then realize that Gru, for all of his deadly weapons that can annihilate whole buildings, is afraid of the bank manager! In all likelihood, the Bank of Evil's security forces are better armed than Gru or any of the other super-villains they finance are; and if they're also using those weapons to defend the more "legitimate" banks fronting for their operations, woe to any petty criminal who [[MuggingTheMonster made the mistake of taking up bank robbing at what he didn't realize was one of their bank branches]]. One of the silver linings to the CrapsackWorld of ''Despicable Me'' is that it probably doesn't have very many bank robbers or other petty criminals in it anymore...

**** "Bank of Evil: Formerly Lehman Brothers." Besides which, bank robbing is risky business for a (relatively) small reward; probably not enough to finance a moon shot on its own.

* How was the moon able to return to its normal orbit by the end of the film? Even with that orbit appearing placing it closer to Earth than it would be in real life, which I'm willing to accept, we see it being propelled up past the clouds by Vector's escape pod, and then we here an explosion offscreen as it reaches its largest size...and when we cut to it again, it's back to the way it was. How could it have gotten that far away from the Earth again when it destroyed the escape pod with its ever-increasing size?

* How did Gru and Nefario meet?