Tag: megamind

Noticed you call him Syx. Whered ya get that?

(( Oh XD well I read it once in a fanfiction as his name ages ago and it stuck in my head. I’ve read a lot of the different ideas of given names for Megamind but never liked any besides Blue. Syx was sort of catchy to me though. Also spelling it that way gave me the idea that it wasn’t a normal name but could be an alien one.

So I went with the idea that he had an unpronounceable alien name that he and Minion remembered. When he could talk and asked about names he offered them his real name. As certain sounds are difficult to hear and say if you aren’t native to a language and I assume even more so if that language is alien, the only part of his name they could pronounce was the middle syllable

Thus they were really trying their best to honor him and call him correctly… but they often defaulted to Blue… and in the end, he still ended up with an embarrassing name that sounds like he was named a number and a color. Thus all the more reason for teenage rebellion and yelling at Warden that his name is Megamind now and he won’t answer to anything else. Over the years he came to terms with it. Only his close friends and uncles know his real name though. ))

Locations Project!

its-pronounced-metro-city:

This is an open project for everyone to participate in as they like! Just let us know which location you want to make your personal baby!

Note that some locations are listed twice, this is due to the flexible nature of the city itself.

Claimed

  • Metro City General Hospital – Tentatively Dani’s
  • Metro City Zoological Park and Arbor – Roki
  • Metro Lighthouse and Pier – Spider
  • Metro City Beach – Spider
  • Metro City University – Kay
  • Metro City Community College – Kay
  • Metro City Prison for the Criminally Gifted – Spider
  • Metro City Ley Lines – Roki Completed!
    • Not technically a location proper but important

Unclaimed

  • Metro City Public High School
  • Metro City Public Junior High School
  • Metro City Public Grade School
  • Metro City Public Library 
    • seen briefly in the movie
  • Shipping and Warehouse District 
    • Largely abandoned, where Megamind’s lair is
  • Observatory
    • Abandoned, on top of a tall hill across from the shipping district
  • Metro Man Museum
    • For early-movie canon
  • Megamind Museum
    • Post-movie canon
  • City Hall and Reflecting Pool 
    • Museum lies across the reflecting pool from City Hall regardless of which hero’s museum it is
  • Metro City Tower
    • Both reconstructed post-movie and before destruction pre-movie
  • Downtown Metro City
  • Hilltop Park
    • Where Megamind and Roxanne went biking

Other Locations That Probably Exist

  • Private schools
  • Muse’s homes
  • Local businesses (there’s a pet store’s storefront seen in the movie)

(( I’ll write up everything relevant to my Megamind’s lair, but as there is more then one in the city it’ll be open for the others to carve out their areas too. Luckily the district is large. XD I can say right now mine is pre movie enough that his lair isn’t the one from the movie, but the set up is similar. ))

Hal Head Canon

(( Megamind cares about the city, but sees the corrupt and broken police and justice system as something to be thwarted rather than worked within. Part of how he cares for his city is be taking measures against the criminal elements in the poor and broken down areas of the city. Bushing down normal gang activity, protecting local shops that sell things the community needs like cheap food. Supporting low-cost housing. Helping his Uncles set up businesses that are willing to hire ex-criminals.

All this comes back around to the fact that Hal lives in a very poor neighborhood. Whether or not people fully know that Mr. Blue the kingpin that protects their area is Megamind, the area is still a very Megamind friendly area. His Uncles make sure of that. In these neighborhoods, there is far more respect and praise for those who fight the system that crushed them. 

So Hal, living in that environment. Poor and spirit broken. It’s no wonder that he idolizes the blue man who fights against the system and the man. After all the only reason Hal even contemplated being the hero was to win the ‘prize’ not because he idolized Metro Man. ))