Set, could you list some examples of favorite characters who all fit your ‘type’? ‘Cause that’s a good one

I certainly can!

My type is: 

The ones who are just on the edge of being villains, who are filled with self-hatred and are probably in love with someone they see as good.

Megamind

Bog from Strange Magic

Justin Alistair from These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer

Valentine Napier from Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

Darth Vader

Doc Holiday from Tombstone

Catwoman from Batman Returns

Sesshōmaru from Inuyasha

Attolia from The Queen’s Thief series

Lord Garmadon from the Ninjago movie

Yondu Udonta from Guardians of the Galaxy

Rumplestiltskin from Once Upon A Time [can only vouch for early seasons]

Severus Snape

Mi Taylor from National Velvet (movie version)

Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z

Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Hades from Greek mythology

Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit, movie version)

Iago from Aladdin 2: Return of Jafar

Hatter from Alice, 2009

(in some of these, the ‘in love with’ is only subtext, and in some the love is non-romantic)

i’m rewatching megamind i’m just thinking. in the library scene megamind is reading a book called “megamind unmasked” with his face on it. who wrote it?? why?? what’s in it???? i have Questions

I don’t really have a specific headcanon for that, but I do think it’s interesting that it’s called “Megamind Unmasked” since he doesn’t wear a mask? There’s the disguise watch, of course, but it’s implied to be a fairly new thing, and one that the people of the city don’t seem to know about, as the Warden doesn’t recognize what it is.

So as far as the public knows, Megamind doesn’t wear masks or hide his identity. So why ‘unmasked’? Is it a conspiracy theory book positing that Megamind isn’t really alien? Is it an unauthorized biography claiming to know Megamind’s true motivations, etc.? Wild speculations about him?

And I wonder, too, if it’s a local book–like, self-published, only really available in Metro City’s library?–or if Megamind is famous enough outside of Metro City that people who live elsewhere write books about him.

I don’t think the book would contain a lot of personal information about him, though, at least probably not correct personal information; remember that Megamind tells Roxanne about his childhood when she asks him to talk about something he’s never told anyone else before.

cell113:

Finished coloring the Mega-Ponies and started sketching out their costumes (as well as Minion in his steampunk horse body).

I’m actually really REALLY happy with how the water in Minion’s dome turned out, I kind of went overboard on detail because of it but it makes me super happy.

For peeps wondering, yes, Megamind does have a prosthetic horn, he made it for more precision inventing, but his long tail is prehensile and extremely dexterous, allowing him to use it almost like a mittened hand. I gave Roxanne some buckskin/mustang style markings so she’d look a bit more spunky and less bubblegum, and Metro Man is MUSCLE HORSE. It was so hard drawing him muscle-y without going overboard…

Minion’s cutie-mark wasn’t given to him by magic, Megamind made it for him as a gift so Minion wouldn’t feel like the odd-pony out. If the detail looks a little of, it’s supposed to be a swirl of pink icing coming out of a piping tip in the shape of an M as well as an almost heart, because Minion is a sweetie of many talents.

!!! MEGAMIND’S CLOVEN HOOVES!!

I love that he has cloven hooves, because of course that would be something that would instantly seem alien to horses! I love, too, that his proportions are different than theirs, with his long thin neck and legs and his bony hindquarters. And his TAIL. PREHENSILE TAIL I LOVE IT. Bald prehensile tail, and no mane! He’s so delightfully alien! And he made a prosthetic horn for inventing! Spikes, yes!! He’s such a pretty blue!

I love that you’ve included Roxanne’s beauty mark, and I love how short you’ve made not just her mane, but also her tail.

Minion’s body is so great! It reminds me a bit of a warhorse, with the armor plates on his back and his tail shaped like it’s been trimmed short and wrapped. A really good pony version of Minion’s robot body!

I like how heavy and muscular you’ve drawn Metro Man, and the way his tail and mane flow! Very fitting for his character, and you’ve gotten his smile just right! And he’s 

And I really love all of their cutie marks! They really fit their personalities, and I love that Megamind made one for Minion so that he wouldn’t feel left out!

joanhello2:

It is canon that many of Megamind’s inventions were designed by Dreamworks to look as if they’d been cobbled together from junk. At the same time, it is common (although not universal) fanon that Megamind is rich because how could somebody that brilliant not figure out how to get rich? These two are not contradictory.

IRL many illegal mind-altering drugs with high street value are actually quite easy to make. Any third year undergraduate chemistry major can do it. All they need is the right equipment and ingredients, all of which also have legal uses and are sold on the open market. So the law requires that sellers of that equipment and those ingredients report all sales to the relevant government agency, along with the identity of the buyers. When they see one buyer accumulating everything necessary to make one of those drugs, they figure this person is in the process of setting up as a dealer and they put that person under surveillance.

In the Megaverse, where supervillains exist, the government of course has a similar policy regarding the equipment and supplies needed to build basic evil inventions. So Megamind has to get those by stealth. I imagine him and Minion disabling the security cameras at junkyards and scrap metal buyers, helping themselves to what they need, then leaving cash on the counter to pay for it all because he want those businesses to survive so he can go to them repeatedly. Later, after he makes his connection in Romania and can get all his equipment and supplies new, he still hangs onto the old stuff because he has become sentimentally attached to it. Also, because he finds maintenance boring, he doesn’t bother fixing damage unless it directly impacts either functionality or presentation. You know that dent on the chest plate of Minion’s gorilla suit? Megamind could fix that in an hour or two, but he doesn’t because he always has something more important or at least more interesting to do. (Although now that I think about it, it could be that Minion wants a scar because it makes him feel tough and dangerous.)