Mel is a major character in Universal•Illumination's 2017 animated feature film Despicable Me 3, and a AVL Agent/Mega Minion in the 2024 animated feature film Despicable Me 4.
Background[]
Personality[]
Mel is the leader of the minions. He did not like going to prison and later missed Gru despite trying to go find a new boss due to Gru not turning back to villainy. In addition, he was like a villain minion who didn't pay attention to the poor and hungry minions on the street of Los Angeles at all.
Physical appearances[]
He is a one-eyed short minion with combed, half-bald and thick hair.
In Mega Minion form his goggles are longer and have a laser coming out.
Appearance[]
Despicable Me 3[]
Mel is the leader of the Minions in the film's storyline and the protagonist of the minions' subplot. Gru has retired from being a villain for years. The Minions, however, want Gru to become a villain again as he has lost his job being an agent for the Anti-Villain League but Gru declines. So a rebellion against Gru, led by Mel, is formed, they decide to leave Gru for another possible villain; except Dave and Jerry, who just enter the lab after the performance for Gru's family.
After the Minions quit Gru, they walk out and it is raining a lot. They run into Dru's butler, Fritz, in the process who asks for the whereabouts of Mr. Gru's address. Mel and the minions, still angry at Gru, act hostile towards Fritz and refuse to tell him as to where Gru lives.
Caught in the TV studio[]
The next morning, Mel and the Minions get tired of walking for the whole night, and are still angry at Gru, They were starving except for Mel, so they chase after a pizza delivery guy to steal his food. However, they trespass into a TV studio lot, which causes the police to chase after them. They decide to hide, but end up on the set for a singing competition in the process. Then, they start singing a Minionese rendition of the famous patter song, "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General" from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, The Pirates of Penzance, which they dub 'Papa Mama Loca Pipa'. The song is a hit with the judges and audience, but the Minions get arrested soon after.
Jailbreak and return to Gru[]
The Minions learn to rule out the prison. But soon, Mel (Number 001) realizes how much he misses and needs Gru, so the Minions create a plane so they can escape from the prison. They escape successfully when it was dark, but a Minion is left behind as he needs to wave light signals for the aircraft. Mel, who pilots the plane, sees Gru, Lucy and Dru, so the Minions follow them to the Hollywood and try to destroy Bratt's bubble-gum with their weapons. Eventually, Bratt is defeated, though mostly without their help, but they succeed in popping the bubbles before they could rise Hollywood into space. After this, Mel and Gru reconcile, so they go back with Gru's family along with Dru.
After Lucy settles the girls and Gru calls the Minions and Dru to sleep, Mel, along with other Minions removes their dungarees and Dru drives Gru's Airship, which Gru's emblem is replaced by a "D", to "continue the family tradition".
Despicable Me 4[]
In the film, he becomes a Mega Minion, and as a result of the experiment involving the Super-Serum, his eye is now equipped with a laser that can cut through the earth. After the microwave is destroyed, Mel helps Mike by heating his coffee with his laser, but It gets to hot until it shatters, but it gets worse because he also destroys a glass window, an igloo and a satellite, he also appears at the end credits when he gets scared and shots a laser at Gus.
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