Okay, so, back to my evolutionary biologist. Personally, I believe that these 400 other Minions are the offspring of the first three, and here’s why: Though the exact number of Minions is never said in any of the films, in 2013, production company Illumination revealed that Gru commands 10,400 Minions, which means the Minion population has grown in the last three billion years, which means that it had to start somewhere, and the best evidence we’re given as to where it started was with those three little single cells about 3.7 billion years ago (which is when life first appeared on Earth). This sequence suggests one of two things: that either those first three Minions are the progenitor Minions, giving birth to those others or those approximately 400 other Minions - I counted - were offscreen the whole time. At the end of the sequence, when their latest boss is leaving the water for life on land, a flurry of Minions join the main three. Over this sequence, the three Minions evolve to gain eyes, flippers and mouths. For reference, I sent Chamary the following clip from the beginning of the 2015 film Minions, which shows Minion evolution all the way back to the primordial ooze, where three single-celled Minions follow bigger and badder organisms, constantly in search for the best boss to serve. The scientist helping me out here is JV Chamary, an evolutionary biologist and Forbes science contributor, who authored the book 50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know. This single response came from a character designer from Despicable Me named Carter Goodrich, who joked that, to get more Minions, all it takes is “a few clicks on the keyboard, I imagine,” and while I appreciate the reply, that’s hardly the dirt I was looking for.įortunately, I had a Plan B: Ask a biologist what my options are for Minion reproduction, and then watch all the Minions and Despicable Me films to see if I can conclude an answer to my question, given the evidence presented. I gave it the ol’ college try, though - I sent out a flurry of emails, all of which were ignored but one. So when I wondered to myself recently, How do Minions reproduce?, I knew I’d never get an official answer. This happened with Kool-Aid when I asked them if the Kool-Aid Man was the pitcher or the liquid it happened with Red Baron when I asked why they named a frozen pizza after an American-murdering fighter pilot and it happened with Disney when I asked them to comment on Kermit and Piggy’s abusive relationship. A costume in Minion Rush (Referee Costume) may be a reference to him.I’ve been down this road a few times, so I know how this kind of thing goes: I email just about everyone I can think of that’s officially involved with a property, and despite a valiant effort, my question is completely ignored.Judging from this, while what John goes afterwards can be a projector of the movie, it's possible that Gru is watching. When John is launched by the cannon, some negatives can be seen during his flying.Gru laughed when John walked away after playing the puppet imitation of his quotes.Though, it could've been possible that his hat fell off. When John is in the unknown area, his hat is gone.When John walked away Gru laughed off his puppet imitation of him. Back to Work! Back to Work! Back to-' but then he didn't noticed that Gru walks and noticed him then he gets caught by Gru and walks away.

He does hand puppets but when doing his hand puppet impression of Gru, First he said: 'Wank! Wank!' Then the Bird Puppet and he played The Puppet Gru which he said: 'Hello, I am Gru. Then he ends up being in an unknown world. Then, he is shown being shot out of a cannon by two other minions, although he later crashes through the screen. Tim and Ken keep on fighting so he tells them to stop but then he left after he is annoyed for them not stopping despite saying 'Stop! Stop!'. However, John's patience and understanding only goes when he starts to sense foul play, often leading him to take matters in his own hands.ĭuring the end credits, he appears measuring which minion can go the farthest. John is known to be the voice of reason and fairness in many situations, as exemplified by his acting as referee as Carl and another minion's contest to reach as far as possible off the ledge.

He is dressed as a referee during the credits. John is a one eyed minion with combed hair.

One eyed minions name