Trivia / Megamind

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Titan rants on Roxanne's naivete, claiming that "There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Queen of England!" The intended joke is clear, but legally speaking there actually hasn't been a monarch of England since the Acts of Union 1707 united the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which later joined with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom. Currently, the title of the monarch, depending on the gender, is "King/Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: For whatever reason, some people believe that Metro Man says "Thank you, Random Citizen!" in his speech. He actually says "And I love you, Random Citizen!", in response to said citizen saying "I love you Metro Man!".
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Marco Antonio Regil voices Metroman in the Latin American Spanish dub. Compared to the trope's usual disdain in the Spanish-speaking part of Latin America, Regil is usually considered one of the best examples of this trope to do a great job.
• Dueling Movies: Came out just four months after Despicable Me, another movie about a villain trying to become a good guy. The latter ended up being victorious on account of how it became one of the most well-known franchises throughout the 2010 decade.
• Genius Bonus: Metro Man says the lie that copper drains his powers. This actually makes a lot of sense, since he is an Expy of Superman AKA the Man of Steel, and contact with copper is very bad for steel due to galvanic corrosion.
• Inspiration for the Work: The writers got the concept from the following question: What if Lex Luthor defeated Superman?
• Kids' Meal Toy: Hardee's had a set of four toys from February to April 2011. There was the Hero Meter, a figure of Megamind, the Superhero Checkers Game, and the Gloriously Bad Band.
• Late Export for You: Japan didn’t get the film until 2014 when it arrived on Prime Video in that region due to the fact that by 2011, when it arrived on home video globally, the film was almost ready to start marketing for its Japanese release. However, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused the studio to head straight to Kung Fu Panda 2 and cancel Megamind's Japanese release altogether.
• Missing Trailer Scene: Megamind explained that he is evil's totally handsome weapon in the teaser trailer.
• The Other Darrin: For the video games, the film characters except for Titan got their voices replaced with normal voice actors. Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate and Megamind Rules! also replace everyone, though Keith Ferguson came back as Megamind from the video games (and even then, he still counts because he's also replacing Nolan North from DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing).
• Role Reprise: Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate and the follow up series have Keith Ferguson reprising Megamind from the video game.
• Sequel in Another Medium: The video game and comics continued the storyline from the movie.
• Stillborn Franchise: While the movie was successful and spawned two video games and a short, Jeffrey Katzenberg decided not to have future movie genre parody sequels including this franchise, Shark Tale and Monsters vs. Aliens. His reasoning being that he believed such movies wouldn't travel well overseas and would age poorly. In 2022, however, a sequel TV series was announced followed by the sequel movie Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate being released in 2024, but its exceedingly poor reception likely means it'll be stillborn yet again.
• Throw It In!: The commentary reveals that a large portion of the jokes were improv, which isn't that suprising when you get Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and (to a lesser extent) Brad Pitt together.
  • Metro City being pronounced Metrocity was due to a French screen writer, who pronounced it that way innocently, and they decided to run with it. Will Ferrell took it from there and started mispronouncing other words as well.
  • During his first fight with Megamind, Tighten was to say, "And this one is all yours!" Jonah Hill turned it into "And Megamind, this one's for Space Step-Mom! YOU LIED TO HER!!"
  • Tina Fey came up with "Girls! Girls! You're both pretty! Can I go home now?" when they were trying to figure out to cut the dialogue short.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller were approached to voice Megamind before the casting of Will Ferrell. Stiller would eventually go on to voice Bernard in the movie.
  • The "Art of" book includes some of the things that never made it to the final cut, including a supervillain group, a giant lava monster, and concepts for Minion where his gorilla body was made from a real gorilla.
  • The film was originally scripted as a live-action, R-rated, adult comedy. Megamind would have been called Master Mind, and Metro Man: Uberman, and Minion replaced three clones of famous historical figures. The studio did nothing with it, so it was brought over to Dreamworks Animation as a children's film instead.
  • The directors originally wanted to play the film out with a cover of Michael Jackson's "Bad," until they realized that nobody could do better than the King of Pop himself, and the original was left in^note Also most likely out of respect, as Jackson died during production.
  • There was supposed to be a longer chase scene at the end, but they shortened it to keep their audience from getting sick.
  • Megamind originally looked like◊ Galactus.
  • When Metro Man (who's really Megamind in disguise) chases Titan away and flies to Roxanne, Megamind would originally have revealed the disguise himself to surprise both Roxanne and the audience, but the writers figured that it made it more meaningful for Roxanne to reveal him, in a sort of "beauty and the beast" symbolism, i.e. Roxanne letting Megamind know she likes him for who he is.
• Working Title: Was originally announced as Master Mind and was called Oobermind for a while before settling on Megamind.

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