(BOTH SCREAM)
Okay, this is bogus!
(CHUCKLES)
I don't know who you people think you are, but...
We are the Anti-Villain League.
Once Gru has taken on this assignment for the Anti-Villain League,
we begin to notice that...
(SPEAKING MINIONESE)
...minions are disappearing.
Very mysterious.
STEVE CARELL: It's all very foggy as to what's happening
with the minions, but they are disappearing.
And no one knows where they're going.
(YELLS)
It's very scary.
(SCREAMING)
And ultimately, the very plot that Gru is trying to crack...
Hmm.
...now involves the capturing of the minions and the transformation of them...
(EXCLAIMS FEARFULLY)
...into a force for evil.
Bah!
(LAUGHING)
Oh.
One of the first ideas that we brought up
in one of the first meetings
when we were talking about the sequel,
was the minions turning evil.
And the reaction was...
Oh, dear.
IINOIII "No! Everybody loves the minions!"
"Don't mess with the minions."
"Can't make the minions evil."
"No, that would be horrible."
Bah!
I think the idea of something cute...
(GROANS) (YELP)
RENAUD: ...becoming something monstrous
is a very appealing thought.
Ah!
(GROWLS) (YELLS)
(ALL GROANING)
Huh, you usually don't see that in bunnies.
It felt like a fun opportunity to find an aspect of these characters
that felt like evil minions.
Like, what would that look like?
The first thing that we wanted to do
was make sure that the evil minions
still looked like minions.
Just, sort of a twisted version of what a minion was.
So, we started with a minion and then we twisted the minion attributes.
The evil minions were a challenge to design.
I thought the transformation could have dramatic effect on their hair.
We wanted them to be monstrous and evil and just indestructible.
But still goofy.
You still want them to be fun. They're still minions.
So you give them the crazy hair and the underbite.
Make them a little dumb-looking.
We gave them long arms that they don't know what to do with.
And they're always chewing on it or flopping around.
They don't know what they're doing.
Let's face it, they're minions, they're still minions,
they're goofy, they're distracted.
But dangerous, a little more dangerous.
Another thing we wanted to do was
change their color, and see how that felt.
And what color is more evil than purple? You know what I mean? (LAUGHS)
We wanted something that was weird and different.
But we don't want them to be green,
that might feel too much like an alien.
Red would've been too much like El Macho.
His world is very red and fiery.
We actually brought the color because the opposite of yellow
is purple. ls purple.
Bah!
And we wanted them to be bright.
Even though they're evil, we still wanted them to be bright and fun.
It also came, ultimately, to a little bit of their voicing,
which Chris is doing a lot. (EVIL MINION EXCLAIMS)
Which makes them sound very, very stupid.
They're basically way dumber than our regular minions,
which is a lot to say about them.
One of the funniest things, was when
they first started just recording the signature... Bah!
I couldn't get enough of it.
And because it just sounds so stupid...
Bah! ...and somewhat menacing.
This is the way they talk. Blah!
Right? That's not really intimidating. Yeah, of course... Yeah.
The evil minions, they were just so fun with their underbite.
But we did want them to be really scary.
As scary as they could possibly be.
It's a very scary movie.
I don't see anything.
(SCREAMS)
I hope we don't scare people.
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
But I have a feeling everything's gonna work out okay.
Ooh lé lé.