The Minions are 10,400 cuddly, accident-prone, small, and yellow humanoids that you want to hug all day, to the point they became Breakout Characters.
Margo gains some tendencies in the sequel when she gets her first crush. Much of her behavior around him is so awkward it's impossible not to love.
Base-Breaking Character: The Minions are either the best or worst parts of the franchise, based on how much (or how little) you enjoy their brand of physical comedy. The fact that they have spawned many copies only adds fuel to the fire. Some of the many, many people who dislike the Minions primarily do so due to their insane and borderline omnipresent status in pop culture and advertising, the increasing focus as the franchise goes on, and their bizarre status as a symbol of out-of-touch seniors on social media, but find them to be entertaining or at least tolerable within the first movie or earlier appearances in general.
Japan is obsessed with the Minions so much that they made their own Minion-themed area inside Universal Studios Japan, where the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem ride often gets 200 minute wait times. Japan also made them and Agnes appear in an episode of Inazuma Eleven.
The Minions are also massive in the Philippines, and there are even claims that some of the gibberish they mutter is actually Tagalog.
The franchise is also big in South America. In the countries on that continent, whenever a new Despicable Me film comes out, it will usually top the box office for at least three weeks. The Minions spin-off is also the highest-grossing film of all time in Chile.
It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: The Minions are a source of bile in various circles for all of the popularity and overuse they have gotten. In Minions and in Despicable Me 3 they were accused of ruining the franchise and stealing the spotlight that should have gone to Gru and the girls.
Magnificent Bastard: Dr. Joseph Albert Nefario is the brilliant Mad Scientist who works alongside Felonious Gru in his villainous escapades. Assisting Gru in most of his greatest schemes through use of Nefario's strategic and technically sound mind, Nefario constructs cookie robots, a massive rocket ship out of scrap metal, and other ingenious inventions while steering Gru into staying on the path of evil. Eventually growing to care for Gru's adopted children, Nefario helps Gru save them repeatedly from harm, and even when Nefario betrays Gru and joins with El Macho to help him dominate the planet, Nefario returns to Gru's side when El Macho threatens Gru and the girls, Nefario taking down El Macho personally and reuniting with Gru as allies once more.
Moe: The three girls are adorable Heartwarming Orphans, especially Agnes, because she's the youngest and the most innocent.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Due to her short hair (at least compared to Margo and Agnes), deep voice and general tomboyish behavior, it can be pretty easy to mistake Edith for a boy.
Wolverine Publicity: The Minions. They appear in most of the merchandise and marketing over Gru himself, who is the main character of the films.
Woolseyism: Norway and Denmark managed to find a seamless Pun-Based Title for the series, naming it Grusomme Meg/Mig.
appear in an episode of Inazuma Eleven.