Vector Perkins

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This Antagonist was Headlined on July, 2020.

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Evil-doer

Full Name

Victor Perkins

Alias

Vector

Vector Perkins

Origin

Despicable Me

Occupation

Supervillain

Inventor (both formerly)
AVL Prisoner

Powers / Skills

High intelligence
Technological genius
Inventing
Flight suit
Piloting skills
Manipulation
Advanced technology and weaponry
Marksmanship
Shocking durability
Access to immense financial resources & inside information through his father's company

Hobby

Creating guns that shoot out aquatic animals.

Playing video games and eating junk food.
Buying and eating cookies (particularly with coconut).

Goals

Vindicate his title as the world's no.1 supervillain by succeeding the heist against Gru and to steal the moon (succeeded, but then backfired).
Impress his father by reclaiming the moon for themselves to succeed the heist in order so they receive everything they want and get filthy rich.
Keep the girls hostage as revenge for being his distraction of letting Gru take the shrink ray & for making his father mad at him.
Stop Gru from rescuing the girls (all failed).
Escape from the moon and get back to earth to exact revenge on Gru (but landed on Mars).
Escape from Mars (both succeeded).

Crimes

Grand larceny
Smuggling
Attempted murder
Breaking and entering
Kidnapping
Extortion
Abuse of power
Assault and battery
Fraud
Animal cruelty
Child endangerment
Conspiracy
Stalking

Type of Villain

Arrogant Supervillain

“	I'm applying for a new villain loan. Go by the name of "Vector". It's a mathematical term. A quantity represented by an arrow with both direction and magnitude! Vector. That's me. Cause I'm committing crimes with both direction and magnitude. Oh yeah!	„
	~ Vector introducing himself to Felonious Gru.

“	Oh poop...	„
	~ Vector meeting his defeat after he gets stranded on the moon as well as his last words in the film.

Victor Perkins, better known simply as Vector, is the main antagonist of Illumination's 1st feature film Despicable Me and a cameo character in its 2022 prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru.

He is a young, aspiring supervillain and the son of Mr. Perkins, the president of the Bank of Evil, as well as the first villain to fight Felonious Gru. Vector's villainous actions become a driving force Gru's turn to heroism and his adoption of Margo, Edith, and Agnes.

He was voiced by Jason Segel. In the videogame adaptation of the film, he was voiced by Jason Harris Katz.

Personality[]

Despite being a genius in mechanics, strategy, and inventing, Vector is socially awkward and mischievous. He is arrogant and boastful, and often takes time to congratulate himself and revel in his achievements. Vector can be quite deceitful as well, as he procrastinates on safely returning the girls when Gru simply surrenders the moon as promised.

Vector gets along well with his father, as both are seen having fun in a picture together when Vector was a kid. As an adult, he still maintains a good status with him, as his father boasts about his talents but was harsh on him for losing the shrink ray to Gru.

Initially, he was friendly to Gru, despite being a villain. However, he developed a grudge against him for freezing his head and stopped at nothing to humiliate his newfound rival. To that end, he stole the shrink ray from Gru and use it on his ship, put him through an ordeal with his traps when he tried to steal it back, and kidnapped the girls Gru came to love as his own to get the moon, only to not release them after Gru kept his part of the bargain.

He can also be sadistic, laughing, and cheering at his evil-doings or when he thinks he has outsmarted someone.

Despite that he has become the number 1 villain for a short while as he claims to be, he is ultimately a coward. When Gru got past his missiles and shark for the love to save the girls, Vector panicked and used the escape pod to get away, not having any guts to fight back.

Appearance[]

Vector is always shown wearing an orange and white tracksuit which can convert into a flight suit enabling the owner to fly and a fully functional spacesuit. His apparel is often mistaken for pajamas by Agnes, much to Vector's annoyance.

He has a pudding-bowl haircut, brown eyes and a sharp nose. He also wears large black glasses.

While unconfirmed, it's possible that Vector looks younger than he really is, given how he was likely circa five or six years old in 1976 yet looked like if he were in his late 20s or his early 30s in 2010.

History[]

Despicable Me[]

When Felonious Gru first encounters Vector at the Bank of Evil, he does not seem like the type of guy who would be competent enough to steal an ice cream cone, let alone the Great Pyramid of Giza, as his boasts only irritate, and his latest invention, the Piranha Gun, falls flat. Even when the bank manager, Mr. Perkins, confirms it, Gru only reacts with disbelief and plans to steal the moon to mend his broken pride. However, with the right tools, though, Vector proves to be a significant threat to his own plans to steal the moon.

When Gru first steals a shrink ray from an East Asian facility, Vector steals it from him in turn, evades all his efforts to shoot him down, and to add insult to injury, uses the shrink ray to shrink Gru's aircraft, leaving him and his two Minions to putter home in defeat.

When Gru tries to infiltrate his fortress, Vector defeats him several times over, all with the push of a button. However, when he lets Margo, Edith and Agnes to order cookies from them, he unwittingly inspires Gru to adopt the girls and use them to get the shrink ray back. When they deliver Vector's cookies, Dr. Nefario's cookie robots emerge and shut down his security before giving Gru and two minions access. However, the bots accidentally seal the entrance, and the three nearly fail while dodging Vector's senses.

Later, after learning from Mr. Perkins (revealed to be his father) that the shrink ray is currently in Gru's custody, Vector tries to hitch a ride on Gru's rocket with his Squid Launcher, only to be thrown off when Gru electrifies its exterior before proceeding to successfully shrink the moon.

Undeterred, Vector infiltrates the girls' dance recital and abducts them, intending to ransom them for the moon. When Gru discovers the ransom note from Vector, he heads over to Vector's fortress and turns over the moon as promised. However, Vector procrastinates on the deal (likely to spite Gru), instead attempts to kill Gru with missiles, and flees in his escape pod with both the moon and the girls after Gru knocks out his pet shark and makes short work of his security, as Gru launches a rescue with the help from Nefario and the Minions in their aircraft (which has grown back to its original size).

Nefario reveals that the shrink ray's effects are temporary and that the object will return to its original size based on its mass, meaning they have little time left. Vector soon loses control of the ship due to the heavy mass while Gru and his minions manages to rescue the girls. As the moon rolls around, it hits the button for a backup propulsion system, launching the ship into space before it explodes, leaving Vector stranded on the surface as the moon returns to its normal size and orbit. Despite being horrified to learn that he is now stuck in the moon's surface for who knows how long, Vector (with an elastic space helmet) is last seen dancing to "You Should Be Dancin'", only to be joined by a Minion who floated away from the Earth after drinking some antigravity serum earlier.

It is very likely that Vector is either still stranded on the moon or has starved to death, as he is never seen or mentioned in Despicable Me 2 or Despicable Me 3.

Minions: The Rise of Gru[]

While he doesn't physically appear in the film, a picture of Vector as a child (the same seen in the first Despicable Me film) is seen when Gru and Wild Knuckles pose as a grandfather-grandson duo to fool Mr. Perkins. Gru comments on how weird he looks.

Other Media[]

Minion Rush[]

Vector appears in the video game Minion Rush. Somehow, he ended up in Gru's Lab and appears as a villain there. Gru orders the player to defeat him. When Vector appears, the player's Minion must dodge his big drones, and tap on the smaller drones to hurl them back at him. Vector will be defeated after taking several drone strikes or if he fails to defeat the minion for some time.

Trivia[]

Vector is Jason Segel's first villainous role.
Vector is similar to Scarlet Overkill, the villain of Minions, another film in the Despicable Me franchise, as they both kidnap major characters in the climax, except Vector did not plan to kill the girls like Scarlet planned to do with Stuart and Bob.
Vector's cameo in Minions: The Rise of Gru has led some fans to debate what his true age really is, as the photo of him seen in the film is the same one seen in Despicable Me. At best, Vector was around five or six years old in the photo when Gru at that time was ten years old, but the second Minions film takes place in 1976 whereas Despicable Me takes place in 2010, though Vector looks like someone in his late twenties or in his early thirties in that film. More confusing is the fact that Mr. Perkins implied in the first film that Vector's youth was one of the reasons he favored him over older villains than Gru, further suggesting that the age gap between Gru and Vector is far more than four or five years.
His defeat is different in the video game as he does use the shrink ray to claim the moon instead of Gru, but he uses a machine on his rocket to enlarge the moon to its original size and then have Vector stranded on it.
Despite being the main antagonist of the original film, Vector has only 7.5 minutes of screen time, as the film's centered around Gru's exploits and the girls. Because of this, Vector appears to have bottom popularity below the sequels' and prequels' villains, or even other antagonists like El Macho..
He is similar to Syndrome from The Incredibles.

External Links[]

Vector Perkins on the Despicable Me Wiki
Vector Perkins on the Villains Wiki

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