The Minions Were Cinephiles, Not War Criminals

You can breathe easy now. The Minions, yes, even the new ones, did not work for Hitler. Minions voice actor, creator, and director Pierre Coffin has clarified this to Polygon. Canonically, the silly yellow guys have aided villains including Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte, as the Minions were created to serve the world’s most evil villains. “I think they were in that cave,” Coffin says when asked where the Minions were between 1939 and 1945. In Minions & Monsters, we meet a new group of Minions in 1927 — different from the bunch that ends up working for Gru — who are determined to channel their chaotic energy into making a monster movie. Instead of fearing an impending global conflict, they are on set, munching on crafty that consists solely of bananas. “So the Minions that we know from Minions 1 were stuck in the cave. These ones, I don’t know where they were, but they were not part of the Big History,” Coffin continued. Got it. Now what about all these other dictators …