After all, how old are Minions?

Since they appeared in “My favorite evil” (2010), from Illumination and Universal Pictures, the Minions arouse curiosity among fans of the franchise — so much so, that the characters presented as Gru’s little yellow helpers gained their own stories on the big screen, with two self-titled films released in 2015 and 2022.

With clumsy attitudes, the characters gained the public’s affection also for their cute appearance and their own dialect, which took shape through the voice actor’s voice. Pierre Coffincreator and co-director of the original trilogy and the duo of derivatives released under the title ‘Minions’, who lent his vocal skills to 899 little creatures in the titular film.

In the franchise, it is also revealed that the Minions are always in search of a master, dedicating their existence to serving the most evil villain of the moment and, in ‘Minions 2: The Origin of Gru’, a film set in 1975, it is revealed that they They already helped Gru in his evil adventures, even though he was just an 11-year-old boy.

Still, before Gru, they served several other villains in fiction and reality, some of them being historical figures such as Napoleon Bonapartea French military leader who lived between 1769 and 1821, or even famous characters, such as the most famous vampire of all time, the Count Draculawhich appeared in 1897 written by Bram Stokerraising the question: after all, how old are the Minions?

As old as the dinosaurs

In ‘Minions’, it is possible to see them also follow an Egyptian pharaoh, a caveman and a Tyrannosaurus rex, the latter being the oldest being presented as leader of the little yellow creatures. This genus of dinosaur lived around 60 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period, making this the minimum time that Minions existed on Earth.

Still, the portal ScreenRant theorizes that the characters are even older, existing 3.8 billion years ago, surviving since life was discovered on the blue planet, since, in the same film, it is shown that they evolved in the ocean from single-celled creatures to fully formed Minions as they appear today.