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vogon
@vogon

people over on twitter are rediscovering the fact that dreamworks wrote around who the minions worked for during WW2 by having them frozen in a cave

the funniest part of this to me is that they deftly avoided the problem of having the minions canonically bound to serve the most evil person on earth at any given time during the '30s and '40s, but then chose to thaw them out in june nineteen sixty-eight, at the peak of the vietnam war, and said "you know, it's a slam dunk that these guys work for gru and not anyone else"


nex3
@nex3

any high-budget well-known 3D animated film that's not made by Pixar is a dreamworks, no matter who made it

in fact, it goes beyond film. any major player who is nevertheless overshadowed by a single hegemonic leader in its field is a dreamworks. pepsi is a dreamworks. hulu was a dreamworks before everyone created a streaming platform. the epic games store is a dreamworks

the united kingdom of great britain and ireland is absolutely a dreamworks


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in reply to @vogon's post:

art tebbel just corrected me slightly on the minions timeline: apparently in june 1968 they thawed out, joined up with a supervillain who wanted to kill queen elizabeth II, then were abandoned two days later after one of them became king by accident and remained masterless for decades

really guys? couldn't think of anyone?

(he also points out that where dreamworks really fucked up is by saying that they canonically served napoleon, because otherwise they could have avoided the issue entirely by saying that the minions only serve supervillains)

i also think about this in the context of steven universe where the creators avoided the obvious "why didn't the gems stop the holocaust" question by establishing that world war 2 canonically didn't happen in the steven universe universe