History YMMV / DespicableMe2

** Lucy has gained quite the fanbase on certain websites, with fans adoring her CloudCuckooLander tedencies, her feats of {{Badass}}ery, and her chemistry with Gru.

* AwardSnub: ''Despicable Me 2'' dominated the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards winning "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" for Miranda Cosgrove and "Favorite Mobile App," but getting shut out of "Favorite Animated Movie" by ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}''. Yes, ''Frozen'' was ''a lot'' bigger than ''[=DM2=]'' was, but still, it put a blemish on a despicable night of awards.

* AwardSnub: ''Despicable Me 2'' dominated the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards winning "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" for Miranda Cosgrove and "Favorite Mobile App," but getting shut out of "Favorite Animated Movie" by ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}''. Yes, ''Frozen'' was ''a lot'' bigger than DM2 was, but still, it put a blemish on a despicable night of awards.

* AwardSnub: Despicable Me 2 dominated the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards winning "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" for Miranda Cosgrove and "Favorite Mobile App," but getting shut out of "Favorite Animated Movie" by ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}''. Yes, ''Frozen'' was ''a lot'' bigger than DM2 was, but still, it put a blemish on a despicable night of awards.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Grucy.

* UnfortunateImplications: Eduardo and Floyd are ''really'' stereotypical, though perhaps Eduardo gets it worse. More than a few Hispanics were uncomfortable with his character's portrayal. There's also the fact that [[spoiler: these are the only non-white characters in the movie. One is an irritating RedHerring that vanishes halfway during the movie, and the other is the villain.]]
** Eduardo might have been playing the stereotypical behavior up to keep people from realizing [[spoiler: he's really El Macho]]. Cinco De Mayo isn't even a major holiday in Mexico- it's more of a Chicano thing that got promoted as a big celebration day by beer companies.
** Eduardo's son Antonio also carries many of the stereotypical LatinLover traits...though he isn't involved with his father's nefarious schemes, so that's a plus.
*** To be fair, Eduardo is portrayed as very suave and affable, willing to dispense helpful advice to Gru before his true colors as El Macho were shown. In addition, his cunning, intelligence, manipulations and sheer badassitude (especially in his younger years) bordered on the [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]] and was a far more credible threat to Gru and his loved ones than Vector, who was just an {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}.
** Gru is an absolutely fantastic dad and seems to have no problems taking care of the kids. Despite this, the movie implies that a child isn't truly happy without a mother.
** Dr. Nefario abducts and experiments on the Minions that he considers family. When he leaves Gru to find other work, he joins a villain actively working against Gru.
*** To be fair, as its already been pointed out, he did give them a nice place to stay and its uncertain whether he would view making them stronger and more dangerous as hurting them. Plus initially Eduardo wasn't originally working against Gru, he in fact makes it clear he admires him, and offers him a partnership in ruling the world. Its only when Gru turns him down that Eduardo turns him, which is about the same time Dr. Neffario switches back to Gru's side.

** There's also the small gag when the girls try to set Gru up for online dating, and he claims he looks like a bit like Creator/BruceWillis. What makes this scene hilarious is that Gru is voiced by Creator/SteveCarell, and both of the actors worked together on [[Film/OverTheHedge another movie]] in which Carell's character looked up to Bruce Willis' character.

** There's also the small gag when the girls try to set Gru up for online dating, and he claims he looks like a bit like Creator/BruceWillis. What makes this scene hilarious is that Gru is voiced by Creator/SteveCarrell, and both of the actors worked together on [[Film/OverTheHedge another movie]] in which Carrell's character looked up to Bruce Willis' character.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Much of the villains from Despicable Me [[KarmaHoudini go unpunished]]; Mr. Perkins still presumably runs the Bank of Evil, Miss Hattie presumably still runs the orphanage and neither of them appear or are mentioned in the story. The sequel instead focuses on a LoveInterest for Gru.

* MemeticMutation: "BEE-DO BEE-DO BEE-DO....."

* AwesomeMusic: "Happy" by Pharrell Williams which Gru was dancing while planning to ask Lucy for a date. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM music video]] is also awesome where it is a 24 hour video of celebrities and various people dancing and singing with the song.

** Dr. Nefario abducts and experiments on the Minions that he considers family. When he leaves Gru to find other work, he joins a villain actively working against Gru.

** Eduardo might have been playing the steroetypical behavior up to keep people from realizing [[spoiler: he's really El Macho]]. Cinco De Mayo isn't even a major holiday in Mexico- it's more of a Chicano thing that got promoted as a big celebration day by beer companies.

Mr. Nefaria abducts and experiments on the Minions that he considers family. When he leaves Gru to find other work, he joins a villain actively working against Gru.

** Gru is an absolutely fantastic dad and seems to have no problems taking care of the kids. Despite this, the movie implies that a child isn't truly happy without a mother.

* AwardSnub: Despicable Me 2 dominated the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards winning "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" and "Favorite Mobile App," but getting shut out of "Favorite Animated Movie" by ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}''. Yes, ''Frozen'' was ''a lot'' bigger than DM2 was, but still, it put a blemish on a despicable night of awards.

* AwesomeMusic: "Happy" by Pharrell Williams which Gru was dancing while planning to ask Lucy for a date. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM music video]] is also awesome where it is a 24 hour video of celebrities and various people dancing.

* AwesomeMusic: "Happy" by Pharrell Williams which Gru was dancing while planning to ask Lucy for a date. The music video is also awesome where it is a 24 hour video of celebrities and various people dancing.

* AssPull: Dr. Nefario and the [[spoiler: Super-Serum Antidote]]

* FridgeLogic: Not that this series has much logic to begin with, but [[spoiler:where was that last purple Minion hiding all this time? The berserkers don't seem to have a thing for stealth]].

* FanPreferredCouple: [[spoiler: Even though Antonio dumped Margo for another girl, leading to Margo's current "hatred" for boys, many fans have a different idea. Some fanfictions and music videos still pair up Antonio and Margo.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: In one trailer, Gru was starting to get a little PapaWolf when he thought Margo's friend Avery may be a boy, ironically, Margo gets a crush on a guy named Antonio later in the movie.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Much of the villains from Despicable Me go unpunished; Mr. Perkins still presumably runs the Bank of Evil, Miss Hattie presumably still runs the orphanage and neither of them appear or are mentioned in the story. The sequel instead focuses on a LoveInterest for Gru.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[spoiler: Even though Antonio dumped Margo for another girl, leading to Margo's current "hatred" for boys, many fans have a different idea. Some fanfictions and music videos still pair up Antonio and Margo.]]
* FridgeHorror: Gru is kidnapped and one point and stuffed in the trunk of a car. The trunk opens later and the underside is shown to have no ventilation holes.
** To be fair, this is a car that goes underwater, so ventilation holes probably would've been worse. [[FridgeLogic But how did that starfish get in there?]]