Megamind: The Button of Doom is a 2011 animated short film released on DVD/Blu-ray with Megamind on February 25, 2011, starring Will Ferrell and David Cross.
Plot[]
For their first day on the job as the new protectors of Metro City
after defeating the deranged villain Tighten (Hal Steward's misspelling
of "Titan"), Megamind and Minion are selling off their gadgets from
their evil lair to the citizens for good purposes (such as the Boot
Wheel of Death being sold to a soccer mom, who intends to use it for
practice with her soccer team and the Flamethrower being sold to a chef,
who intends to use it for cooking his meals). All of their items get
sold (except for the death ray which Megamind used to "kill" Metro Man
in the original film). As for the De-Gun (Megamind's weapon of choice
used for a number of different destructive functions) it gets sold to a
boy named Damien, who accidentally uses it (in its dehydration mode) on
his mother and turns her into a cube. Megamind tells Damien to soak the
cube in water to get her back to normal, but unknown to Megamind, Damien
decides not to do it and instead revels in his freedom from his mother.
After the auction is over, Megamind reveals a suit he created that
contains all of Metro Man's powers, which he will wear to protect Metro
City.
Minion finds a seemingly harmless button that had also not
had been sold. Not knowing what the button does, Megamind pushes the
button, and it reveals a giant robot called the Mega-Megamind, which
Megamind put his evil self in. The robot thinks that Megamind is Metro
Man, and starts attacking him. Megamind fights the robot with his new
powers, but is defeated. He and Minion hide in the Invisible Car.
Megamind decides that they should live in the car from then on, because
he programmed the robot to not stop until the hero (and his assistant)
is destroyed. Minion reveals that he still kept the Spiderbot, a robot
that Megamind wanted to throw away, suggesting that Megamind should try
to be a hero his way rather than try to do the job the way Metro Man did
it. Megamind plans to lure the Mega-Megamind to a spot where the Death
Ray shoots (the old observatory to which the real Metro Man was lured in
the original movie). However, Minion realizes that he cannot activate
the Death Ray because the control buttons were broken. He then tries to
find the Death Ray remote control, but Megamind does not remember what
the remote looks like, so Minion tries all the remotes. Megamind, trying
to hide, eventually is found by the Mega-Megamind (because Minion
accidentally played rock music on the Spiderbot). Minion finally finds
the correct remote and activates the Death Ray. Megamind and the
Spiderbot get off the robot, using the robot's wrist-mounted shooter
just before the robot explodes.
The duo then recover the De-Gun
from Damien, who not only has refused to re-hydrate his mother but also
used it on the parents of several other children, who are all now having
a party to celebrate no longer having to do as they are told. Megamind
then re-hydrates the parents with a glass of water to ensure that the
children will face punishment for their actions, much to the children's
dismay. The short ends with Megamind and Minion seeing a signal in the
sky (an obvious spoof of the Bat-Signal) and riding off in the Invisible Car as they are called to action.