Songs used: 0:57 George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone (Instrumental) 2:36 Connor Spiotto - The Villain I Appear To Be 3:48 Hank Jones - Arigato 5:23 Hans Zimmer - Giant Blue Head [Megamind OST] 6:32 Hans Zimmer - If Only Metro Man Was Alive, Pt. 1 / A Plan [Megamind OST] 7:33 Disney Vevo - A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Piano Instrumental) 9:11 Hans Zimmer - Roxanne's Theme [Megamind OST] 11:10 Bill Evans - My Foolish Heart 14:36 Hans Zimmer - Tightenville (Hal's Theme) [Megamind OST] 15:27 ameba - 1k 16:30 Toby Fox - Ghost Fight [Undertale OST] 17:25 Hans Zimmer - Tightenville (Hal's Theme) [Megamind OST] 18:23 Hans Zimmer - Metro Man Ceremony [Megamind OST] 18:52 Toby Fox - Fallen Down [Undertale OST] 20:22 Kanye West - Power (Instrumental) 21:14 Hideki Taniuchi - Boredom [Death Note OST] 22:27 Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love 25:44 Hans Zimmer - Metro Man's Flashback [Megamind OST] 27:21 Bo Burnham - Are You Happy? (Instrumental) 29:22 atlas - Internet Persona's 30:55 Hans Zimmer - Metro Man Remembered [Megamind OST] 32:27 Hans Zimmer - Being Good Has It's Perks / Defender of Metro City [Megamind OST] 33:50 Hans Zimmer - Metro Man Remembered [Megamind OST] 35:09 Toby Fox - Home [Undertale OST] 36:21 Hans Zimmer - Metro Man Day [Megamind OST] 38:03 Kensuke Ushio - LIT [A Silent Voice OST] 40:25 potsu - Green In Blue 41:52 Toby Fox - Fallen Down (Reprise) [Undertale OST] 44:32 Anna Meredith - Be Yourself [Eight Grade OST] 45:31 Catherine Feeny - Mr Blue

That trope of characters being devastated over not being able to beat their rival hits so hard because its so much more relatable than being the hero.

As far as metroman knew, the city was never in any real danger with megamind. So quitting wasnt that bad. But when titan came along it got more complicated

As a wise man once said “With great ability comes great accountability”

Metroman was selfish for doing what he did, but if I learned anything through therapy that it's okay to be selfish sometimes. You shouldn't always carry the weight of others and cause yourself harm. Doing sacrifice for someone is admirable, but it should not be expected of you.

I think "Megamind: The button of Doom" is worth discussing here. After becoming a hero, Megamind's first instinct is to throw away everything about his past identity and basically become Metroman 2. It's not until that fails that Megamind realizes that he can be a hero without having to occupy the role Metroman abandoned, he can be himself.

Metro man became music man because it's the only job his super Powers doesn't help him with it He can finally grow of his own talent and do something he isn't good at and grow of his own exercise

There is actually a very clever example of how Metroman's actions had negative consequences, It is the moment that actually hints the twist of Metroman bailing out. When Megamind uses that copper sphere to try to defeat Titan, it failed because Megamind was using false information that was given by Metroman.

16:27 The main difference between megamind and hal there, Is sure while megamind might go back to being a villain, he doesn't try to terrorize Roxanne herself for it, he doesn't try to force it, he accepts it and largely moves on. Even after being told no repeatedly, Hal just couldn't accept it, couldn't take no for an answer.

Metroman was right in wanting to quit. Metroman's method of tendering his resignation was wrong. Metroman has talent in music, just lacks a lot of training that he could've had if he hadn't been superheroing. ...you deserve more subs.

I love how they portrayed that Megamind never really wanted to be a villain. He wasn’t evil. Because you can see it in the way he talks to Hal. When he goes to confront Hal only to figure out Hal has been stealing things from the city, he says “I can’t believe you. All your gifts, all your powers and you squander them for your own personal gain?!” And he says the line like he’s really offended at the selfishness of Hal, even though as the villain that’s what villains do. But it’s not what Megamind does.

This movie is on the surface just "Nobody is born evil and everybody can be good" but underneath it its social critisism of the finest degree

A well thought out and presented exploration of the characters and motivations. Just on a side note, Roxanne can be seen shifting her understanding of Metroman and Megamind by the way she dresses. Red at the start as a Metroman fan. Purple in the middle of the movie as she gets confused by her feelings. And Blue at the end as she understands Megamind and who he wants to be.

I really love how Metroman is such a strong allegory for a lot of content creators/influencers' mental health, and I do hope that some people really do or have taken the lesson seriously to heart. It's fine to be yourself and be able to appear to your audience as imperfect and as a regular person. People should always take care to handle their mental state before trying to please an audience or things might not end well for anyone.

I think Metroman had all the entitlement to drop his life as superhero, the dependency of Metrocity citizens to Metroman made them "weak" as you said, and something that I think is rather interesting it's that, at the end, the citizens just put the role of hero to Megamind, they don't care who stands in the podium, they just want to have someone "supirior" than them to protect them, they don't care who Megamind was in the past, the thing is that they completly forget about Metroman and they just move into their lives with a hero again. Either that or I'm just spilling bullshit, anyways, great review!

this movie is genius, instead of making metroman the usual egotistical villain, they made him a character, similar to megamind, both believe they are the roles they have to play, but metro man realized he can be a man of his own, choose his own dreams and life.

4:18 I like how you can see metroman disappear for a brief moment because he did the super speed scene

As a wise child in Pokémon once said, “Change your perspective, and the reality changes”. Love how deep both this video and this movie goes!

'plastic love' is such a fitting choice for that metroman segment

One thing i like is that metro man,probably during their first fights even,realizes that megamind was never a "villain" and moreso a guy just trying to find his purpose and having fun with it. He knew mega would never really hurt anyone,and even believed he would change into a hero without the forced villain act he puts on.

Aww man No Roxanne analysis Great video overall, looks like you put a lot of work into it!

27:24 I have a somewhat opposite problem, I'm surrounded by people with worse lives then me, wither it be abusive parents, depression, anxiety, addictions etc. Then there's me, I'm just over here being perfectly normal not having anything really that bad happening in my childhood, I feel like I'll never be able to "fully" get them even when I try. I think I came to this realization when my girlfriend told me that she had DID from childhood trauma and would starve herself constantly, To this day I still have no proper way to respond to that that doesn't feel half-baked, even though that was 2 mouths ago all I was able to say was because I've never lived though any of those things and I'm just here always either Happy or bored because I have little to be sad about. I never had a "bad" childhood and I never will so having a full understanding of what the people around me are going through will just be beyond my reach.

Well as others said: Metroman chose to be selfish for once and his way of quitting was wrong. But honestly can one really blame him? Both their roles were thrust upon them and they were taken for granted. Sure he should have told the people...but then again we see the reaction that he is getting from Roxanne who actually was more than just an adoring fan, so how would literally everyone around him have blamed him for choosing himself for once. And what could he have possibly said to "Why did you let this happen by choosing yourself?" Metroman is in a horrible position, he was priviliged sure, he enjoyed it as much as the next person would´ve. But he was constantly just push to fulfill expectations of others. And for him failing expectations would have also meant serious harm to others. So even the option of "running away" from that responsibility is probably too little to grant him peace of mind. More than Megamind he doesn´t get to choose when to stop. Horrible things would always keep on happening, with or without supervillains. So who to choose to save or to get hurt? Honestly the most reasonable thing for him would have been to lie, that he can´t deal with earth problems anymore because he has to...defend earth...from aliens...somewhere. And then just vanish and do his music unbeknownst to others. I honestly see no way for actual honesty for him here. He is pushed into a life of solitude simply by the way he was born, more alien to this planet than Megamind ever was.

I can't get over how insightful this video is (and the film of course). Bravo!

My parents made me cry earlier and I told one of my friends about it. He sent me this video. This whole movie is his obsession right now. And now I can understand what he’s talking about when talking about this movie. Thanks so much for summing it up for me

Personally I think Metroman stopping the constant fight with Megamind would be the responsible thing to do... As Megamind's narration points out, their battles were getting bigger and more elaborate, and presumably the collateral damage would become a lot more significant. as Cinema Wins points out, the city itself was also becoming more irresponsble and more dependant on Metroman. If Metroman know that Megamind was more interested in the charade of a fight rather than the goal of the fight, it was in the city's best interest to "let" Megamind win

Notice the little flicker at 4:20? That’s metro-man’s super speed as he thinks about being a superhero!

if you ever visit germany I owe you a drink. Thank you for sharing this absolute Masterpiece. Really really enjoyed it ! The Music choice made it almost feel nostalgic I Wish you all the succsses on earth :)

I never realized this, but you know how Megamind got depressed and hopeless after “defeating” Metroman because winning had no satisfaction when it was too easy? Metroman probably felt that way every single day. Some people think Metroman was an asshole for leaving everyone behind, but honestly, as an artist, I can understand completely. Sometimes you get burnt out when others have high expectations of you and from doing the same thing over and over again. Sure, Metroman had superpowers, but does that mean the city is entitled to his service? Why exactly does he HAVE to protect everyone? Sure, with great power comes great responsibility, but I always felt that meant PERSONAL responsibility, like that a person with power should never use it to cause harm. Metroman volunteered most of his time to saving people, and he should be able to step away. If anything, it’s bad that the city is so dependent on having a hero. Would you get angry with a firefighter for quitting one day, or would you simply get someone to replace them?

This is hands down one of the best and most presently relevant analyses of Megamind I have ever come across. I appreciate you so much for this!

Always a fan of a Megamind analysis. This was really well done! I loved the focus on identity and choosing who you want to be.

13:54 to 14:32 actually reminds me of how I code. I like to code as a hobby, but when im starting a new project I generally dont look up how others say it should be done, I figure it out myself instead. I also tend to not use other peoples libraries (like matrix implementations for rendering) I just make my own. Kind of strange how a phillisophical analysis reflects my coding practices.

When "the villain i appear to be" kicked in (the jazz piece a minute or two in) i had a moment of "damn this guy knows his music!"

this video essay is incredibly underrated. i really enjoyed all the different viewpoints you gave the characters in this film and some of the questions of identity, the obligation of power and idolizing others is incredibly interesting and profound. unrelated but i really enjoyed some of the songs you used here (and Mob Psycho is great)

I have no words. This is the most insightful megamind review that I’ve ever seen! Thank you SO much for this MASTERPIECE (Also that megamind unmasked think wAS super clever if that was intentional)

4:18 If you look closely, You can actually see Metro Man blink out for a second and appear behind Megamind XD This movie had more detail then it should reasonably need XD

I've actually just noticed in that shot at 32:00 with Metroman flying towards the Observatory, he's not taking the most efficient route - he's diving down between the buildings, likely deliberately trying to be seen at every window he can on the way to his fight.

Before I watch, Hal's face in the thumbnail is my favorite quote from him. Yes, Metroman made the right decision, even if the aftermath is jarring at first, both he and Megamind were far better off, and honestly the sooner the populace in Metro City learns to be self sufficient again, the better. Other than the abrupt status quo change, Metroman made a good decision. Megamind, while not a villain anymore, would still thrive with positive attention. Plus, if there was any threat that would come later, Megamind would likely revel in being a hero, and might be even more content that way.

The idea of when you should expect someone to take action to save peoples lives is an interesting one. To put it in the perspective of the trolley problem: If you could press a button to divert a trolley from killing someone to not killing someone, you would be obligated to. However, if you needed to spend 40 or 80 hours a week pressing buttons to do so, people would generally expect you to be under some contractual terms and receive compensation with perhaps some unwritten standards of conduct, and an expectation that you negotiate your retirement rather than abandon post. That also brings into consideration whether someone else could take up that position or not, and if a state has a right to compel someone to fill that position. The more authoritarian the state, the more likely they are to say they ought to compel someone to fill that position. That tends to be an unstable way of getting the job done because no matter what method you use to compel action, an individual of free will can still refuse to do so, which is partly why tyrannies tend to collapse relatively fast in both human and animal social groups. So the best approach I can come up with is to try and provide the most favorable terms with that individual you can for them to be willing to continue, and figure out alternative solutions for problems (i.e. better track placement for the trolley, or as you mentioned in the movie's context, better designed airplanes that don't crash as often). Once you start expecting an individual to carry your society, then it becomes acceptable to blame your problems on them and do nothing to solve them yourself - a state I think far too many of us find ourselves in.

This is * chef's kiss *

I clicked on a random-ass video by some guy I've never even heard of, discussing a movie I liked. The video was overly long (about an hour). Watching this video was the right choice. Excellent analysis, you made me look at the movie (and possibly myself) in new ways. Thank you. And yes, this absolutely needed to be a 45 minute video; it was just that damn good.

This is so fucking good, I'm eternally grateful for this masterpiece.

One thing I like, is that during the opening fight, you can see one frame where metroman blips behind megamind.

One aspect I don't think you touch on, Metroman wasn't just having "superhero" placed upon him. Metroman's mother in the Christmas scene was being appeased by her husband. from the moment he got to earth he was a tool used to make another happy and comfortable. Metroman was free for the first time in his life when he became Musicman.

I think the venture bros mirrors alot of the stuff touched upon in Megamind

Gosh this video essay was so phenomenal and well put together. It was such an interesting watch!! Fantastic job, keep up the great work ^^👍 (And absolutely PERFECT job on the soundtrack choices 🤌)

Metroman is the equivalent of that one rap verse about rice gum, "you took your personality and replaced it with a rolex." The Rolex being his hero persona for how he actually feels.

I think it was the mentally tyring game of pulling eachother's strings until someone gives up, Megamind came with one purpose that was put by the city itself, metro was put in the hero role by himself but further pushed by Mega itself and the city, the city being clueless about it, the moment one decided to give up everything was gonna crumble, we've only seen what happened if metro gave up, but what if Mega did? would the city turn back to normal, eventually ignoring Metro and him becoming virtually useless and probably becoming a normal person? and what if the city just realized about this and left the two (three with roxie over there) rendering both as just pretenders, it was only a matter of time.

The thing is for both mega and metro mans they did not have a lifes outsides of there roles. And if fans make alternate universes, mega could have been a bilionnary genius who start a new era of technologies and metroman without the golden spoons of his parents be a freack show for his power, or be alone because he has to hold his power in becasue no body can't understand him as much mega can strugle in what they desire deep down.

OK WAIT THO 46:38 WHAT??? MEGAMIND 2??? You can't just throw that in and expect me to be calm!!! I looked it up though and it looks like that was a fan idea in like 2013 or something. I wish they made a new Megamind movie and if they did, my hope would to be bring in Psycho Delic!!

Look, I've never actually appreciated a sponsor plug before, but that was smooth, quick and made sense. I appreciate that and think it was pretty vlever

Mr. Blue at the end made me cry🥲 Thank you for an awesome video! I never noticed the parallels between this movie and Bojack Horseman. My first date ever was Megamind in theatres when I was 14 and this made me feel so inspired and nostalgic. Thanks again!

*Megamind may be the most underrated animated movie of all time.*

I love how they took the names of two greenlanterns for the final villain. (Hal Jordan, and John Stewart)

You know I've often felt that people gravitate towards the idea of a superhero out of a feeling of powerlessness. Not just the ones in comic books, this includes relying on real life identities and entities (like the government) to help solve our issues we don't know how to solve. It's very hard like the kid getting teased who runs to the teacher to fix the problem. Really, there is an inherent problem with this. It makes people focus on someone else to solve it rather than gaining competence to solve the problem yourself (lead a collective to solve it.) I used to work at a university and we would have student workers. There were amazing ones, who went on to be extremely successful. The worst one were the ones who's parents did everything for them. They were less than usless some of them learned how to work, some of their parents called when we had to let them go. Melamine was able to walk into city hall, because the people of the city had no idea how to fight him. The reliance on Metroman made metrocity useless rather than competent. The relationship was just a cancerous for for the people of Metrocity, as it was for Metroman. As a parent there is almost nothing my 3, 6, and 8 year old can do better or quicker than me, but I still have to make them do things. Because THEY need to be competent. Your assertion that it was metromans responsibility is wrong. It was society's responsibility and Metroman is only one part of that society. To put it all one one man was a huge social issue. It's why dictatorships and cults of personality often end badly. But what do I know, I'm in the hospital right now on a Buttload of drugs post (hernia surgery).

Metroman just wants to be a guy who wants to live a normal life Megamind wants to be a hero Hal wants to be a villain They all have 1 thing in common: they want to have a choice

About Metroman and his persona. I always saw that part. My hope was that at the end, Megamind would give him the watch so he could love a normal life from time to time.

I'm glad I listened to this and I took away some really good points towards the end. Good analysis

I think it's because this movie doesn't spoon feed a simple message is why a lot of people dismiss it. Because you have actually stop and think a bit to catch on to some of it, people just move on before doing that. I would argue that since this movie predates this issue in social media, that this is proof of how this concept predates social media. Even if social media has intensified certain parts of this concept, especially for certain people. Also people wonder why I don't have social media accounts and don't do the social media thing. You can't feel like you have to fake it for your fans if you don't have fans.

It's never someone else's responsability to save your live or to justify negligence (like the plane crash example)

I want your snap to save everything idea made into a story where the big conflict is that the one person never learned how to snap and only has so long before it is too late.

I can't say any more about how perfect this movie is. But I DO wonder how Roxy wasn't hurt hugging Megamind around his spiked collar.

GREAT MOVIE + GREAT VIDEO + GREAT SOUNDTRACK + BO BURNHAM REFERENCES = ITS AMAZING

In megamind's case the evil can be stopped with a taser. So the people of metrocity are just kinda being lazy.

I- This litterally explained why I love the megamind movie so much. I can never find the correct words but Olaf found not only the correct words,but so much more than that. I didn't even notice how I watched a 47 minute video in one sitting.

46:36 EXUSE ME WHAT!? I DID NOT KNOW THAT! THAT IS AWESOME! I LOVE THAT!! It's March 16th 2022, I'm excited.

24:00 Honestly, this example is pretty spot on (And I say that as someone who follows Dream. pleasedon'tsendmedeathtreats) And I'm glade someone made this comparison. Megamind doesn't say "I love you, random citzen!" with the intent of manipulating the audience, but with genuine gratitude over the attention they give him. The same can happen with any public figure that gets their income or makes a living out of their fame; they love the idea of their fans, they are grateful, and gratitude migth sometimes make them more humble. But when does that kind of fan - idol relationship becomes unhelthy?

It was not at all metroman's responsibility to defend the people, but he definitely could have retired in a better, less harmful way. Heck, just even sitting down and having a conversation with Megamind would have helped immensely

Jacksepticeye has often talked about many things your talking about. How he, at one point, thought he himself as fake. He also pointed out how others started acting like him after they realized that acting like him 'worked'. Hes also mellowed out over the year and isn't as, just, forcibly happy nowadays. I don't watch him as much nowadays, but I can tell he's obviously changed.

RetroMan had no "responsibility" to be a hero to MetroCity. Much like how MegaMind was just forced into the role of villain and he accepted it, that's basically the same deal for MetroMan being a hero. MetroMan just came to the realization that society didn't dictate what he had to be a lot sooner than MegaMind did.

Can I just say how Metroman's costume is OBVIOUSLY inspired by Elvis? Megamind's image of a hero is white and gold and uses a white and gold costume when deciding to fight crime. He's just copying his perception of what a hero is. Metroman was just copying HIS perception of what a hero is when he wore that. Elvis Presley. He even starts singing and playing guitar at the end of the movie like Elvis. This lines up with Elvis having a secret internal struggle aswell. Don't be afraid to stand out. You might just accomplish something in your life. Not just for yourself but for other people aswell.

This video, not just for the summarizing of characters but the music in the background. As I've heard EVERY song in this. All these songs were my childhood and Megamind was my childhood. This video came up as people seen me as this perfect nice trans women tryin to help, which I am trying to help people but it really does put a dent in your heart. It gave me depression and ect. This video was perfect in showing identity, goals, ect. Also HEAVILY underrated for you seriously.

A masterpiece about a masterpiece.

megamind is such a masterpiece

Holy shit dude, you did an amazing job of relating this movie's themes to struggles real people will have gone through. I've been going through many of the exact struggles you mention, and I think your analysis helped me in that process. Thank you for this video.

I think that there are many forms of love. There's intimitate love, something you can't have with an audience, appreciative love, like the love you could have for an audience, or love that's based on moral beliefs (like how christians are called to love everyone). Love can be an intimate relationship, or it could also just mean that you care in a general sense. Like if you're sad because you found out one of your fans died, then that could be a sign that you have some form of "love" for those people. Obviously the way it's presented by people these days is often not right, but the idea that someone can't love the people in their audience at all, I disagree with. It's just a different kind of love than love you'd have for someone you have a personal relationship with.

It's funny that I love this movie so much that I didn't actually realize how long this video was until you mentioned it at the end.

This movie is one of my favorites of all times

Honestly I think Metro man faking his death is reasonable, the ratio of danger to effort is very lopsided to effort. He knew mega mind was no real evil villain that would destroy metro city. The big issue came when he refused to come back to help with titan, while megamind did win in the end, Titan probably killed hundreds if not more and did thousands of dollars worth of damage. He was a real threat, that really could have been unstoppable if certain things went different.

THE WAIT WASNT WORTH IT!!!!

This great and inspiring for me to make my own channel and this video rivals some the other bigger reviewers. This Is outstanding

It had been 10 years since Megamind's release when this video was uploaded?! WHERE'D THE TIME GO?! :O

The people in this comment section seem to be great people. I don't see any toxicity. It's quite a strange place. This video is a great one, especially explaining how this movie had and will continue having an influence on modern society, explaining the emotions and expression of people (see celebrities, but others as well) . This is very well explained by this video. You honestly did a great job.

“To be who you want to be isn’t advice. It’s a task.” Ohhhh I really like that quote. I’m gonna be holding onto that one. I really like your dissection of this movie as a whole! Great job!!

"Should we make that one superhero who can fight the most powerful evil our own evil fighting slave" you shoulda been the PR consultant for Lex Luthor cuz that's a much better argument than "No only I am allowed to save the world!" then we find out his idea of saving it is make everyone else HIS slaves!

I'm not even sure anymore which part of this review I like more, be insightful and intelligent commentary about identity and what it means to live up to your own sense of self worth or the music behind it. It's like goddamn you really didn't have to try so hard with the soundtrack but I adore you for doing so

finally over the hedge gets the credit it deserves

Great video, makes you appreaciate this glorious movie even more.

Must say this video was well done, well written, well received by someone simple and myself. Nice to take a break from the usual exaggerated content once in a while.

The music selection in the background was unexpectedly awesome.

Man, I would’ve loved seeing Megamind and Metroman playing Chess like Erik and Charles

that connection between metroman and mob was unexpected and really good

in the segment abt Metroman, your comparisin to the mirror of sorts is honestly pretty accurate, look at what MM is standing on/is

Interesting easter egg I noticed only recently, Hal is a sort of mix of the two most popular Green Lantern characters. Hal comes from Hal Jordan, and Stewart comes from John Stewart. Idk if the movie meant for this, but I thought that was pretty cool. Great vid btw.

Megamind reminds me of zim just a little bit. Although invader zim takes a more comedic route, they feel quite similar.

Subbed. Megamind is one of my most favourite movies, and you have done an amazing deconstruction of it.

I appreciate the choice of background music. Keep up the good work

This needs to be bigger than it is.

I love all the meanings this man can find in a stupid little superhero moive

I rewatch the movie twice a day. all the small details you didn't miss makes me very happy.