This Near Pure Good was headlined on November 2025.
NOTE: This page is only about Megamind's depiction in the first film from 2010 and the 2011 short The Button of Doom, as his depiction in Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate and Megamind Rules! has not been voted Near Pure Good, and thus, only the original Megamind's info should be put here.
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Here's my day so far: went to jail, lost the girl of my dreams and got my butt kicked pretty good. Still, things could be a lot worse. Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't. How did it all come to this? Well, my end starts at the beginning... The very beginning!
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~ Megamind's opening monologue.
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Megamind: You dare challenge Megamind?! Tighten: This town isn't big enough for two supervillains! Megamind: Oh, you're a villain, all right — just not a "super" one! Tighten: Oh, yeah? Well, what's the difference? Megamind: PRESENTATION!
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~ Megamind (actually Minion) challenging Tighten to a showdown.noicon
He was Metro Man's self-proclaimed nemesis until Metro Man went into retirement. When Tighten supersedes him as a greater evil, Megamind quits villainy to save Metro City, and subsequently becomes Metro City's new protector.
While he was a villain in the first act of the movie, he was actually shown to be quite honorable and less antagonistic than he seems. He does frequently abduct Roxanne as part of his schemes, but never comes close to hurting her directly. He also treats his best friend Minion with respect.
His threats to Roxxane like feeding her to crocodiles were all bluffs, and he never really wanted to go through with them.
Even as a supervillain, Megamind mostly commits vandalism, and although many people are scared of him, he is played for laughs.
Even after taking over the city, he was never shown hurting anyone and all he did was cause mischief with his brainbots, proving that he was never really a villain out of malicious intent. This also proves that he is not a tyrant.
Though Megamind intends to defeat Metro Man and is delighted by his success after numerous defeats, he eventually mourns Metro Man's presumed death.
He even visited the Metro Man Museum and started saying sorry to the statue of Metro Man, stating that he didn't mean to destroy him. While he does take it back and claims that he actually did mean to destroy him, he genuinely thought that his plan would fail like the rest of his plans.
While dating Roxanne, he makes repairs to the city, returning the artwork he's stolen and cleaning the trash from the city.
While arguing with Minion, Megamind openly states that he doesn't want to be the bad guy anymore and was sadden when he left him.
He lets Roxanne leave peacefully instead of forcing her to love him and did not become envious and upset unlike Hal.
When he learns that Hal began misusing his powers to steal things and to win Roxanne's heart, he is disgusted by Hal's behavior and calls him out for using his gift of power for his own personal gain.
He goes to Roxanne for help, saying she's the smartest person he knows who can help him, despite her often getting in the way of his plans at times.
He tries to convince Metro Man to come back and help save Metro City when he learns that he is still alive. When Metro Man rejects the idea, he is let down and willingly returns to the prison.
After seeing Roxanne kidnapped and taken hostage by Tighten, he decided to take responsibility for his actions and breaks out of jail to rescue her.
He made amends with Minion and felt remorse for how badly he had treated him and also for lying to Roxanne.
He calls out Hal for having a petty excuse to villainy and for bringing his misery for himself.
He saved Metro City from Tighten's destruction.
After he defeats Tighten, Megamind feels remorse and makes amends to everyone for his past evil actions and now assumes the role of Metro City's new protector, using his Brain-Bots to repair all of the destruction he and Tighten have caused.
Megamind: The Button of Doom[]
He and Minion make further attempts to reform themselves by selling nearly all of their villainous creations so that they can focus on being heroic. However, they had to reluctantly get all of them back when they were abused and after that, he would only use them for noble reasons.
When he and Minion inadvertently reactivate Mega-Megamind, a prior creation with his personality purposed to defeat Metro City's resident hero, he eventually comes up with a plan to successfully destroy it before the robot causes too much damage.
He catches Damien and his friends using the dehydration gun on their parents, and rehydrates them so the children can be punished for their misbehavior.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
Despite shedding his villainy, he still retains his arrogance, jerkiness, and can occasionally do questionable things such as disguising himself as Bernard to date Roxanne, freezing Roxanne's landlord to get into her apartment (with no indication he was unfrozen afterwards), and rudely mimicking a guy when he didn't buy his death ray.
He can be mischievous at times, like when he showed sadistic joy in rehydrating the parents so Damien and his friends could get a far more severe punishment.
His blunders can cause problems, such as him blowing up a building without realizing people were still in there, or even endangering people in his chase from Tighten.
Trivia[]
Previously, he was considered Inconsistently Admirable, but it was later decided that NPG was more fitting for him, as he eventually lost many of his villainous qualities.
However, Megamind gains significantly more corrupting qualities in Megamind: The Doom Syndicate and Megamind Rules!, such as becoming even more narcissistic, lazy and selfish, seemingly reveling in his past villainy with one of his old villainous plans potentially resulting in Metro City being permanently rotated 180 degrees (while reveling in this as well), being a huge jerk to Minion to the point where Minion temporarily left him and frequently belittles him after he came back, and performing questionable deeds in the majority of the episodes despite showing remorse for every one of them. However, the sequel and the series are of ambiguous canonicity because they retconned Megamind's backstory and DreamWorks has a record of having inconsistencies with their franchises, meaning pre-sequel Megamind still qualifies as NPG, while Megamind in the sequel and series doesn't, despite being the only version to reject being corrupted.
He is one of the four redeemed DreamWorks villain protagonists to be Near Pure Good, the other three being Mr. Wolf, Diane Foxington and Zhen.
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