So as anyone who knows me is aware, I have many thoughts and feelings about Megamind. I grabbed onto this silly blue boy for numerous reasons I was actively and not actively aware of and through the small (but loyal) fandom I’m now in, I have learned so much about both myself though how and why we all fell for him.
I’ve seen head canons for Megamind being Autisticly Coded that I absolutely adore and agree with and I had a few extra thoughts on it.
Mainly on one of my daily frustrations that I often get annoyed at others for then annoyed at myself and guilty for being upset. A spiral of self-doubt and reminding myself that it’s okay and that they do care. Something that I’d gone my whole life not understanding and ruined so many early friendships.
I have a great memory for anything I care about.
Most autistic people do. This is facts about things I love and people. Conversations we’ve had. Things we talked about. If it stuck in, it’s there for ages. But not so for most others I’ve ever met.
So I spend ages of my time reminding people and reminding them again. Telling them it’s okay, it wasn’t important. But it was and is and I cared about it. But it got so tiring to always remind, that I just gave up. I obviously cared more than them, or they’d have remembered too, right?
Now expand that ten-fold. Make it a memory that can recall since childhood. Since before you could talk. All the things you care about that you could remember and everyone around you forgets. You don’t know why they forgot nearly everything you cared about. Why they would lie about events you recall clearly. They must be lying after all. You’re little and you remember, so they must too, shouldn’t they?
Imagine being small and awkward and remembering so much.
And being the only one who does.
I can feel poor little Megs, what he went through so much more intense than anything I suffered through. And even after he understood that humans just didn’t work like he did, that would still be such an annoyance. A frustration.
Easier to just not try and make friends. I know that’s what I did. Until I finally found people who understood. Who could bridge the gap that the trauma of childhood had left.
Roxanne being that bridge for him. Opening a door for a world of other people who even if they aren’t just like him, are similar enough.
Megamind going to PRIDE. Meeting LGBTQ+ people who can finally show him that he’s more human than he thought. That he is a sort of normal. Meeting neurodivergent people and realizing he’s not that inhuman there either. Roxanne telling him about all the ways she never fit in either. How hard she always fought to blend in, to fake normal. How he gave her courage to be the freak she really was. While showing him he could be normal.
This is why I love my blue boy.
Autistic, Genderfluid, Pansexual, and Polyamourous.
{{ Oh Bernard was so part of the fan club. I head canon he wrote one of the Megamind books (though maybe under a pseudonym) and it’s why he was so critical of Megamind’s ‘costume’ in the museum. Though I think he’s the type to not ever want to meet the villain in person but still obsess over his origin possible hidden powers, theories, and have a forum he is part of that talks about the hero and villain. }}
As it pertains to an ask I just answered:
Megamind has a fan club and fan base in Metro City. People write fan fictions and make art. He finds this alternatingly endearing, disturbing, and confusing. Especially when they try and send him stuff. Usually in jail (which Warden confiscates) because it’s the only address they know. Hal is part of that fan club pre-movie.
At the beginning of the movie, Metro Man is addressing the crowd and he says, “The greatest honor you’ve given me is letting me serve you, the helpless people of Metro City. And at the end of every day, I often ask myself, who would I be without you?”
He’s trying to tell them. He’s hinting at what’s been going on in his head. It goes right through them, but if you look closely at his eyes, you can see the sadness. He’s admitting he’s looking for his own life beyond the title the population has given him of “hero.” He wants to know who he’d be without them.
At the beginning of the movie, Metro Man is addressing the crowd and he says, “The greatest honor you’ve given me is letting me serve you, the helpless people of Metro City. And at the end of every day, I often ask myself, who would I be without you?”
He’s trying to tell them. He’s hinting at what’s been going on in his head. It goes right through them, but if you look closely at his eyes, you can see the sadness. He’s admitting he’s looking for his own life beyond the title the population has given him of “hero.” He wants to know who he’d be without them.
I’m not active in the Megamind fandom so I’m not sure how many tears have already been shed over this but here it is for everyone to lament:
There is a very sad difference between one of the trailers and the movie itself.
In the trailer, when Megamind’s parents put him and Minion in the escape pod, his father tells him, “You are destined for greatness.” Megamind’s narration comments, “That was a lot of pressure to place on an eight-day-old.”
BUT,
In the actual movie, his father says, “You are destined for -” and then the escape pod seals. “I didn’t quite hear that last part. Destined for … what?” And then he spends basically the whole movie trying to figure out what his destiny is supposed to be.
Megamind’s ongoing existential crisis aside, here’s why I find that change super-sad.
We, those of the audience who have seen that trailer, know the entirety of Megamind’s parents’ last words to him.
{{ It’s a big downfall because it tends to drive him insane because he gets so focused on all the little details and you can’t control people… plus people, especially humans, tend to surprise him all the time. But he does become an anxious thing when he feels out of control. }}
💘: how does my muse act/react when they first realize that they had a crush on somebody?
Preening and shifting gears to himself in the best way. Not a very conscious decision on his part, he just very much wants them to like him back. So he redoubles on making his presentation flawless. This also can end up with him tripping over himself because he tries to do too many things at once, or lingering looks and seductive tones when he didn’t mean to give his feels away thus causing embarrassed blushes later.
💙: how would my muse handle seeing their object of affection falling in love with someone else?
Pain. I don’t really know how he’ll react to it now that he if far more secure in the love he has in Anna… but when he thought Roxanne and Wayne had fallen for each other when he had a crush on both of them… he decided that it didn’t matter as long as he could still be in their life one way or another. If he could only have Wayne as a nemesis and Roxanne as a kidnappee… well at least he was still something to them. Still part of their lives. But he never would have fought for their love, as sure as he was that there was no way he could never have it. How could they ever love him after all? Granted he knows he was wrong about Wayne… though that still didn’t work out for different reasons. He still really doubts Roxanne could ever love him as he is. It hurts horribly, though less so now that he isn’t alone. Still… while he will never stand between Roxanne and her seeking love… he also doesn’t want to be out of her life either. Same with Wayne… though that fall out was horribly painful.
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