people who consider themselves “intellectuals” look up to megamind because he is the ‘highests being of intelligence on our planet’, but he always roasts those people over the internet

Definitely! Megamind mispronounces words and his best friend struggles with spelling; that particular kind of smug ‘intellectual’ classism isn’t going to go down with him at all.

It’s interesting to me that, even though Megamind prides himself on his intellect, he never really uses it to make other people feel stupid. 

He calls the people of Metrocity ‘mindless drones’, yes, but that seems to be based on them being so obsessed with Metro Man–he calls them ‘softheaded groupies’ first; his real complaint is with their blind worship of Metro Man.

When he thinks Minion doesn’t understand the definition of ‘melancholy’, he doesn’t mock Minion, but just phrases it different for him: “unhappy”. 

He does the same thing for Hal, with the word ‘unfathomable’; when he says “you’ve been blessed with unfathomable powers!” and Hal says “what kind of powers?”, he starts to repeat the word ‘unfathomable’, then quickly and seamlessly changes to rephrasing it for Hal instead: “it’s without fathom”. And he does it without acting superior at all.

Roxanne finishes work early; decides to go for a walk home the long way around rather than run into Hal. In her random street walking, she stumbles upon Evil Lair. What does she find there? This popped into my head and I would love to see what you do with it if you don’t mind, I’m sort of obsessed with your writing *smiles shyly*

Ahh thank you so much! 😀 I will definitely save this story prompt; it’s basically pure wish fulfillment for Megamind!

I’m curious, what does “setpenre-set” mean? Am I missing a ridiculously obvious reference to something here? Because that’s definitely a possibility with me.

Not super obvious! It’s ancient egyptian– setepenreset means “chosen one of Re and Set”. I’ve always been fascinated by ancient egypt; it was one of my earliest special interests, and it’s still one of my recurring special interests. 

Set and Re are egyptian gods. Set is the god of chaos and outsiders (and my favorite of the ancient egyptian pantheon) Re is the god of the sun, and the head of the pantheon. They’re best friends–when all the other gods turn against Set, Re continues to support him, and Set repeatedly saves Re’s life by killing the demon Apep, who seeks to destroy the sun each night.

“Setepenre” (’chosen one of Re’) was also the name of both an egyptian princess and a prince; the fact that it’s a unisex name pleases me as a nonbinary person.

I put a dash between “setepenre” and “set” to emphasize Set, as he is my favorite, and because it looked more visually pleasing to me.

As a related side note, my icon of Megamind is a photomanipulation I created out of a picture of the ancient egyptian Bust of Nefertiti.

I can’t stop thinking about “old, new, borrowed and blue” and what’s going to happen when they finally do go to the wedding and meet Roxanne’s family. Like…what if her mom actually *likes* Roxanne’s mysterious new boyfriend and thinks they’re well matched? Because he’s clearly an intellectual dweeb and WAY more her type than that Wayne fellow…

Ohhh, writing Roxanne’s family’s reactions to her “new boyfriend” is going to be quite fun! 😀

So I had an idea for a Megamind and twilight crossover. If I write it it will come out ridiculous, but if you write it, I know that it would be fantastic. My idea is that instead of him landing in the prison, he lands somewhere near where the Cullen’s are staying and Carlisle or Edward finds him. And they raise him. Not just those two, but the whole family. And whether edward had found bella by then would be up to you. But I think all the family dynamic would be so cute. Think about it maybe?

Ah, thank you! I’m flattered you thought of me! I’m not really very fannish about Twilight, but if I ever get the urge to write another Twilight fic, I will definitely keep this idea in mind!