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This article is about the creatures. They are characterized by their childlike behavior and their language, which is largely unintelligible. Many other Minions are mentioned by name in the films and other media in the franchise. They were created by art director Eric Guillon, who worked on several Illumination films. The Minions are small, yellow capsule-shaped creatures with round gray glasses. While shown as somewhat absent-minded and having very mischievous streaks, they also possess exceptional engineering abilities, being able to design and construct spaceships and playthings for Gru’s adopted daughters, particularly the youngest, Agnes.

Minions, the 2015 animated feature film, shows that they have existed since the beginning of life on Earth. French, English, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, and German. Since British media and telecommunications enterprise Sky Group was acquired by Comcast in 2018, Minions have been advertising mascots for Sky Broadband and decorations with themes of Minions can be seen in Sky’s retail shops. Since the release of the Despicable Me films, the Minions’ popularity has been rising. NBCUniversal properties, including Universal theme parks, NBC primetime TV series and an Xfinity remote control. Minion versions” of the Simpson family appeared at the end of The Simpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror XXV”, which aired on October 19, 2014. The Minions appeared in three episodes of Family Guy.

In “Inside Family Guy”, which aired on October 23, 2016, Peter Griffin gets to take part in his true passion of weaving sexually explicit tapestries featuring the Minions. In 2015, the village of Minions, Cornwall in the United Kingdom built a road sign paid for by Universal Studios featuring Minions. In October of that year, they removed it due to safety concerns that resulted from people stopping their cars to take photos although villagers have campaigned to get the sign put back up in another location. On April Fool’s Day 2016, Google created a button on its Gmail service that sent a “mic drop” along with a GIF image of a Minion. The Minions appeared in an advertisement for the Cinemark theater chain, in which several Minions try to change a lamp while another Minion mocks them.

The mocking Minion drops the replacement lamp during one of his laughing fits so the others stick him in the socket so that his eye can serve as the lamp. The ad promoted the chain’s claim that they had the brightest 3D projection system of any theater chain. In Brazil, Minions were used as a reference to nickname the most devoted followers of politician Jair Bolsonaro, called by supporters of the left, in an ironic and offensive tone, “bolsominions”. The Minions were voiced by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, and Jemaine Clement in the first film. Coffin voiced Kevin, Tim, Bob, Mark, Phil, and Stuart, Renaud voiced Dave, and Clement voiced Jerry.