Find out how many birthdays Gru celebrated during the events seen in the ‘Despicable Me’ franchise films
With the release of ‘Despicable Me’ (2010) in theaters, audiences were able to meet Gru, a supervillain who wants to commit the crime of the century, and to do so, he hatches a plan to steal Earth’s only natural satellite, which is none other than the Moon! Even though he has an arsenal of weapons, war machines and an army of little yellow helpers, the task is not easy, which makes him adopt three little girls in order to make his mission easier.
However, while putting his project into practice, he meets the villain Vector, who, upon discovering Gru’s ambition, makes it his own, doing everything — including putting Margo, Edith and Agnes in danger — to be the first to appear in the headlines for stealing the Moon, leading Gru to have to decide between being the greatest criminal of the last 100 years, or being the father of the trio of adopted sisters.
Bald, tall and with a big heart, Gru ended up winning the affection not only of Margo, Edith and Agnes, but of everyone who could follow the plot, causing the story to be transformed into a franchise of four original titles and two spin-offs, where various moments of Gru’s life are addressed.
Among these is the character’s childhood, a brief period of which is shown in ‘Minions 2: The Rise of Gru’, thus allowing us to discover Gru’s age when he meets the Minions and estimate how old he is in all six films produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures.
This because, in the second film of the prequel to the original work, which takes place during the year 1976long before he became the master of evil, Gru is a 12 year old kid who sees the expulsion of the leader of the Vicious 6 group as an opportunity to become a supervillain, since he could join the formation. However, Gru’s plan is thwarted when something happens and he becomes a mortal enemy of the greatest evil gang of the moment.
In this way, by doing addition and subtraction calculations, and taking into account the year in which each story is set, it is possible to estimate the age of the character in the other films, since “Minions (2015)” is set in 1968, making Gru 8 years old during the events of the plot and 46 years old at the beginning of the Despicable Me franchise, whose first film was released in 2010.
It is not revealed how much time passes between one animation and another of the original title, but, taking into account that the director Chris Renaud told Deadline that the characters will never age, it is possible to estimate that there is no time jump greater than two years between the debut film and “Despicable Me 4”, a plot that hits theaters next Thursday, the 4th, introducing the new member of Gru’s family, his youngest son, Gru Jr., the result of his relationship with agent Lucy. Watch the trailer!
Source: Recreio
