is why he needs all the love

setepenre-set:

so much of this movie is Megamind attempting to re-frame his history in a way that makes it less horrific.

‘clearly it was time to move on’ he says as his homeworld is pulled into a black hole and he’s sent alone into the universe.

‘no big deal’ he says as the golden pod knocks him off course and sends him into a prison instead of a family.

‘I loved it’ he says about his career in supervillainy as the prison bus pulls away from the schoolhouse and child!Megamind’s face crumples.

‘things could be a lot worse’ he tells himself as he’s falling to his death.

and it is only at this point, when he is falling to his death, that he is finally like

‘no. no they really can’t’

‘things can’t get any fucking worse’

‘this is shit. everything is shit’

but

the tone that he admits this in is still so

dismissive

like

yeah, everything is terrible for me, but it doesn’t really matter, because it’s just me and I don’t really matter

Megamind is a natural pessimist clinging desperately to false optimism as a coping mechanism

it’s not a good coping mechanism, really.

but it’s what he’s got to work with.