Line #11 YMMV/DespicableMe3


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Could Valerie Da Vinci be a disguise of Balthazar Bratt? Like Bratt, she dresses in shoulder pads and wears purple, and given Bratt's acting abilites, it wouldn't be hard to imagine he could pull this off. This would also clear up the confusion of how Bratt learned Gru was fired from the AVL. Also shows why she doesn't appear again.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Bratt listens to the hits from the eighties while committing crimes. [[Music/MichaelJackson Bad]], [[Music/PhilCollins Sussudio]], [[Music/{{Madonna}} Into the Groove]], [[Music/{{Aha}} Take on Me]], [[Music/DireStraits Money for Nothing]] and [[Music/VanHalen Jump]] all make appearances.
3	** Speaking of Bratt, Music/PharrellWilliams and Trey Parker's collaboration [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBoSia8p0M Hug Me]] was considered enough of this to hit MemeticMutation levels.
4	* CrackPairing: Dru x Bratt, even though they have never had a formal talk with one another and [[spoiler:become true enemies after Bratt kidnapped Dru's nieces and tried to kill his brother.]]
5	* CriticProof: While the film received less favorable reviews than its predecessors, it was able to become the franchise's second highest-grossing film worldwide and the first in the main series to gross more than $1 billion overall. It was only beaten out by '''Minions''' of all entries.
6	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
7	** [[spoiler: Bratt kidnapping the girls while doing a convincing impersonation of Lucy]] is both [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments awesome]] [[NightmareFuel and somewhat scary]], but some laughs have to be had at the fact [[spoiler: that he carries out the majority of the kidnapping without a mask, meaning that he's just wearing drag when he takes off with them]].
8	** The ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' TakeThat in the opening.
9	* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Due to defeating Bratt, Gru and Lucy are reinstated in the AVL. The former has reconciled with the Minions and Dru; the latter has been accepted as a mother figure by the girls. However, Dru and the Minions decide to continue doing villainy, in the same home no less, meaning that the Gru family are technically enemies now, though he treats his antics more as an amusing annoyance than a shocking betrayal.]]
10	* EvilIsCool: Balthazar Bratt, due to his awesome tendencies and for being played by Trey Parker.
11	* FanficFuel: How exactly did Dr. Nefario end up freezing himself in carbonite?
12	* HarsherInHindsight: Lucy's struggle with motherhood is harder not only because she's new to it, but also because of her backstory which involved her parents being killed by a villain when she was very young.
13	* HilariousInHindsight:
14	** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s 20th season tackled the dangers of NostalgiaFilter. Now, [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] is playing a FormerChildStar who refuses to give up his [[OutdatedOutfit outdated look]] [[TotallyRadical and mannerisms]].
15	** A small one -- the voice actor for the previous antagonist, Eduardo Perez/El Macho, was Creator/{{Benjamin\|Bratt}} '''Bratt'''. The antagonist in this movie is Balthazar '''Bratt'''.
16	** One of the billboards in Hollywood is advertising a film called ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}''.
17	** Bratt remarking "it's on like VideoGame/DonkeyKong" prior to challenging Gru to a dance fight becomes this after Creator/{{Illumination}} announced and subsequently produced an [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie animated film adaptation]] of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', which features Donkey Kong as a major character and also features that line in it.
18	** The line about how Margo will always be 12 years old was funny enough when this movie released, but then we got "WesternAnimation/DespicableMe4".
19	* JerkassWoobie: Bratt may be an immature and arrogant {{jerkass}}, but his show was cancelled and he was humiliated simply due to going through puberty and growing "too old".
20	* JustHereForGodzilla: More than a few ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' fans are only interested in this movie because Trey Parker voices Balthazar Bratt.
21	* MagnificentBastard: [[AffablyEvil Dru Gru]] is Felonious Gru's eccentric billionaire [[PolarOppositeTwins twin brother]] with a giddy love for villainy and desire to continue their father's evil legacy. Dru effortlessly charms Gru's entire family to distract them while he manipulates Gru into training him in villainy, and even though their initial heist goes off horribly thanks to Dru's inexperience, Dru comes in clutch to save the day and personally take down Balthazar Bratt's GiantMecha when it threatens the world. Though apparently joining Gru afterwards, Dru rallies the Minions under his banner and steals Gru's own technology to become his own villain, going on to [[FriendlyEnemy face off with Gru]] for many heists to come.
22	* MemeticMutation: See this film's section on the [[Memes/DespicableMe franchise's meme page]].
23	* MoralEventHorizon: Bathazar Bratt was already a contemptible psychopath with no remorse for any of his horrid actions ([[EvilIsPetty all because of his show being canceled and his popularity being decimated]]), but he most definitely crosses the line when he [[spoiler:not only kidnaps the girls and traps them inside his giant robot, but he "releases" them by placing them on the edge of a skyscraper]]. And if that wasn't enough, Bratt later attempts to [[spoiler:''burn unconscious Gru alive with his robot's laser'' and most certainly would've killed him had Dru not destroyed the robot's generator]]. Not to mention the fact that [[spoiler:there were still ''people'' in Hollywood, people that could easily have been killed if Bratt had succeeded in bubble-gumming the city and sending it into space.]]
24	* NarmCharm:
25	** ''Evil Bratt'' invokes this trope, and is implied to be considered this InUniverse as well. The filmmakers clearly made an effort to make the show [[StylisticSuck look as fake as possible]], e.g. the "robot" is just Bratt in a paper-mache costume (his eyes are clearly visible through the mask) and the "floating city" is just a model city being awkwardly lifted past a green screen of space. Yet Bratt seems to think it's a masterpiece.
26	--->'''Bratt:''' How did this show [[AwardSnub never win an Emmy]]?!
27	** Related to the above, at one point, Bratt is shown watching a commercial for an ''Evil Bratt'' action figure. Like the TV show, it intentionally invokes this trope.
28	--->'''Boy in commercial:''' No more math! I've been a bad boy! Ha ha ha!\
29	'''Commercial announcer:''' [[RattlingOffLegal Mega-Diamond laser does not actually incinerate books]].
30	* SoOkayItsAverage: The general consensus of the movie -- It's not as good as its two direct predecessors but is not as bad as ''Minions''. For that matter, the film currently has a "59%" on Website/RottenTomatoes, which is lower than the first ("81%") and second ("75%").
31	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
32	** While the girls have their own subplots, them getting more involved into the main plot, especially since they are siblings and the main theme is SiblingRivalry, would have been an interesting matter.
33	** The trailers implied that Mel would serve as a secondary antagonist in the film by [[FromNobodyToNightmare leading the minions in an uprising against Gru]]. While Mel does convince the minions to quit after Gru refuses to go back to villainy, the minions completely disappear from the main plot and spend the majority of the film just walking around and then end up in prison. [[spoiler: Mel also does not serve as an antagonist to Gru and his family, and is in fact the first one to miss them]].
34	** Gru and Dru's mother Marlena completely disappears from the film after providing exposition about how the twins were separated. She never interacts with the estranged son she never knew, and any possible resentment either brother feels towards her or their father for their actions is never brought up. Due to [[PosthumousCharacter Robert's passing being the catalyst for Dru and Gru meeting]], there is no further exploration into her relationship with her ex-husband or why she and Robert divorced in the first place.
35	** Valerie Da Vinci, the new head of the AVL only appears in the one scene where she fires Gru (not counting Gru's ImagineSpot of presenting the Dupont Diamond to her and getting rehired). It's a real shame Da Vinci's personality wasn't fleshed out as much as Ramsbottom's was in the second film.
36	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
37	** Marlena not going with the family to meet her long-lost son Dru is never pointed out or expanded upon.
38	** The ending [[spoiler:has both Gru (with Lucy) and Dru on opposite sides of the law. Would've been interesting if we got to see more of it instead of a 2D animation closing credits.]]
39	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Balthazar Bratt could be read as this to some. While whether or not we're intended to like him is debatable, the writers have made it very clear that, because he's a villain, we're supposed to root against him. However, many fans found themselves rooting for Bratt due to how [[LaughablyEvil funny]] and [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] he is. It doesn't help that, even though his show was cancelled due to him growing up and going through puberty (i.e., something he ''literally had no control over''), we're still supposed to root against him.
40	* TheWoobie: Niko, the cheese boy, ultimately just wanted social acceptance [[spoiler:though it unfortunately causes him to attempt to push a marriage proposal onto Margo, which Lucy has to stop in order to make up for Lucy's earlier "tough love" mistake]].

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