Megamind Quotes

[as children, Metro Man is given stars from the teacher, while Megamind is made to stand in a corner]
Megamind: No matter how hard I tried, I was always the odd man out, the last one picked, the screw-up, the black sheep... the bad boy. Was this my destiny?... Wait. Maybe it was! Being bad is the one thing I'm good at! Then it hit me: if I was the bad boy, then I was going

to be the baddest boy of them ALL!
[sets off a chemical explosion in the schoolhouse]
Megamind: I was destined to be a supervillain, and we were destined to be rivals! The die was cast! And so began an epic enduring lifelong career... and I LOVED IT!
[a gallery of newspaper articles appears, featuring Megamind and Metro Man's battles]

Megamind: Our battles quickly got more elaborate. He would win some, I would ALMOST win others! He took the name: Metro Man, defender of Metro City. I decided to pick something a little more humble: Megamind, incredibly handsome criminal genius and master of all villainy!

[Megamind flips TV channels in prison]
Titan: [on TV] Hey, Megamind, you and I have unfinished business! I'll be waiting at Metro Tower, oh, and just so you don't get cold feet...
[reveals a captured Roxanne]
Megamind: Roxanne!
Titan: Come on, Roxie, call for your hero to come rescue you!
Roxanne

Ritchi: Megamind... I don't even know if you're listening... but if you are, you can't give up! The Megamind I know would NEVER run from a fight, even if he knew he had no chance of winning! It was your best quality!... You need to be that guy, RIGHT now. The City needs you... I need you.
Megamind: Roxanne...
Titan: You have one hour. DON'T

keep me waiting!

Megamind: [wounded] I'm sorry... I did the best I could...
Roxanne Ritchi: I'm so proud of you.
[Megamind touches his watch, who is actually Minion in disguise]
Roxanne Ritchi: Minion?
Minion: Surprise!
[chuckles nervously]
Minion: He's the real hero!
[points at

Megamind disguised as Metro Man]

[fleeing from Titan]
Megamind: I'm calling time out! Time out! Time out!
[the chaos from the chase causes an oil tanker to explode, throwing Megamind onto the road]
Megamind: Brain bots! Initiate the failsafe!
[Titan is about to punch Megamind, when a round, hollow shell lands on top of Titan, trapping him]

Megamind: [laughs] Guess what, Buster Brown? It's made from copper! You're powerless against it! It's the very same metal used to defeat...
[Titan punches a hole in the sphere]
Megamind: ...Metro Man?
Titan: [rips himself free] You should stop comparing me to Metro Man!
[Titan throws the sphere at Megamind]

Megamind: After a few years - and with some time off for good behavior - I was given an opportunity to better myself through learning, at a strange place called "shcool". It was there that I once again ran into Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes.
[Young Megamind witnesses young Metro Man carry out astonishing feats of flying, super strength, and using his laser vision to cook popcorn for

his classmates]
Megamind: He had already amassed a gigantic army of soft-headed groupies. He bought their affections with showmanship and extravagant gifts of deliciousness. So I, too, would make this pop-ed corn and win over those mindless drones.
[Megamind builds and demonstrates a toy robot that accidentally sets fire to the popcorn he is trying to pop. Metro Man

puts out the fire and Megamind gets punished]
Megamind: That's when I learned a very hard lesson: good receives all the praise and adulation, while evil is sent to quiet time in the corner. So fitting in wasn't really an option.

Bernard: [accidentally runs into Megamind with his cart] That's a pretty tasteless costume!
Megamind: Costume?
Bernard: Megamind's head is NOT that grossly exaggerated.
[Megamind scans Bernard with his gun and sets it to the 'dehydrate' mode]
Bernard: Oh, and you even made a cheap replica of his

dehydration gun. How long...
[Megamind dehydrates him]