Vector (Despicable Me)

Victor Perkins, otherwise known as Vector, is the main antagonist of Illumination's 1st feature film Despicable Me, a cameo character in its 2022 prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru, and the main protagonist of the upcoming short of his same name.

He is a young, nerdy, aspiring supervillain and the son of Mr. Perkins, as well as the first villain to antagonize Felonious Gru. Vector's actions are a driving force for Gru's arising heroism and the adoption of Margo, Edith, and Agnes. Despite being a genius in mechanics, strategy, and inventing, Vector is socially awkward and mischievous. He is also very arrogant and boastful, as he often takes time to 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 Gru promised.

Vector has a good connection with his father, as Vector and his dad were seen having fun in a picture together when Vector was a child. As an adult, he still maintains a good relationship with him, as his father often brags about his talents but was harsh on him for losing the shrink ray to Gru. Regardless of this, Vector is still determined to make his father proud of him.

Initially, he was friendly to Gru, despite being a villain who stole a pyramid (which made most other villains look lame in comparison to Vector). 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, which led to his defeat due to trying to run away from Gru and disregarding the moon getting bigger.

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

Why He Rocks With Both: Direction and Magnitude

 * 1) He's one of the movie's strongest comic reliefs that manage to have a true level of witty comedy and goofy charm, in comparison to the Minions doing dumb and random, albeit comedic, things for the sake of being funny in the same manner that The Rabbids are.
 * 2) Everything he says and does is hilarious, making him an extremely fun villain to watch.
 * 3) His character design is very fitting for his character as a nerdy, comical, over-the-top supervillain nobody can take seriously. Especially his dumb-looking bullhead haircut and the dorky-looking glasses that helps out his trait as a socially awkward person.
 * 4) His byname "Vector", as he said, is a mathematic term, which makes the nickname perfectly fit his levels of high intelligence, regardless of his buffoonery and mishaps.
 * 5) He is one of the many great examples of a very well-written comedic villain. As he manages to be both, a "joke character" for everyone to laugh at (i.e 'Butt-Monkey' & 'Laughably Evil' territory) and still capable of being a (mostly) effective villain at the same time.
 * 6) * Since he is a "villain", he is a good example of a villain who doesn't need to be intimidating to be a great villain, but he should still be capable of directly affecting the plot as Vector does that by putting a hindrance on Gru's conquest for getting the moon with the shrink ray, and then capturing the girls during their play for Gru to face, making that an awesome moment for him and more entertaining moments from Vector being a goof.
 * 7) * His motive for his antagonistic behavior is that he wants to impress his father since he runs a super-villainous business and expects Vector to be a respectable villain instead of being viewed as incompetent or lame. He does manage to impress villains everywhere.
 * 8) ** Uniquely, Vector was the first person who wasn't a rude jerk to Gru despite being an aspiring villain, while he was an awkward showboater Gru couldn't stand; he was initially kind and outgoing to him, the turning point was from Gru freezing his head, making Vector's pettiness and the start of their rivalry quite understandable.
 * 9) He may behave like an immature, smug, and dramatic goofball, but he's whip-smart and quite an impressive villain in several instances. As he has shown to keep a ton of gadgets, weaponry, and brilliant skills & actions that effectively competes with the already highly intelligent Gru, all while he stole the latter's already stolen shrink ray.
 * 10) * He had the intellectual capacity (and magic tech) to steal a real-life pyramid and disguised it as his own blue-colored pyramid, and then replace it with a convincing inflatable copy of an actual pyramid.
 * 11) * The system from his fortress is very advanced and smart, and his shark is very keen on its intruders, which made it tough and a challenge for Gru and the Minions to steal anything from Vector, making him quite resourceful when he knows what's going on. As he managed to foil Gru's attempts to steal back his shrink ray in competent ways, and Gru desperately needed the girls to sell "cookies" as a part of Gru's deceitful plan.
 * 12) * Even though Gru was able to steal the shrink ray back thanks to the girls, Vector managed to find out where the girls do their play and hold them hostage for the moon Gru managed to obtain.
 * 13) Jason Segel does a good job voicing him, giving him a level of humorous charisma for a quirky young adult like Vector.
 * 14) He is such a legendary character, he got a diehard fan of Vector that dedicates to making countless humorous videos and vines in honor of Vector himself.
 * 15) He has provided a ton of great and incredibly humorous quotes, a few of which include.
 * 16) * “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”
 * 17) * “Ahahahahaha! Maybe you'll think twice before you, freeze someone's head! So long Gru!! Hahaha!”
 * 18) * “Oops you've missed me!”
 * 19) * “Adorable, ahahohoho!”
 * 20) * “Hah!! Hey Gru! Try this on for, size! Hahaha!!”
 * 21) * “Booyah!”
 * 22) * “You got shrunk tiny mouthwash!! Take that! Your done been shrunk!”
 * 23) * “Gru? Gra- Hahaha! Don't, don't make me laugh, no. PS: he's not getting the moon and P.P.S: by the time I'm done with him he'll be begging for mercy!! Ok bye.”
 * 24) * “Aaah! Curse you tiny toilet!!”
 * 25) * “Oh poop”

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite being a super genius and a mastermind with plenty of highly intelligent backup plans for his villainy, he is also cocky, cowardly, and has an extreme side of arrogance as a show-off and a rich-spoiled brat. All of which has led him to do more harm than good.
 * 2) * He tends to boast about his plans and he didn't find anything wrong with the cookies he ate when he saw electricity in the cookie robot he ate.
 * 3) * His decisions and social ineptitude have led to cause several problems for himself, prior to his fallibility. Examples of these include:
 * 4) ** He ignores the rapidly-expanding moon rolling around his escape pod in order to stop Margo from leaving. Even after it knocks him out of the pod, he doesn't learn. He climbs back into the pod, laughs triumphantly, and is promptly steamrollered by it.
 * 5) ** He nearly got himself killed off when he held onto Margo and also used his Squid launcher to shoot Gru before the Moon slammed into both of them, which they both managed to survive by Vector grabbing the edge of his hovercraft and Margo nearly dying as Gru made sure she was safe (resulting in Vector getting crushed by the inflating moon, which broke his vehicle and sent him into space).
 * 6) ** He even ended up on the moon due to disregarding what the girls were trying their best to tell him about the moon inflating, which impacted the weight of his vehicle, and eventually ascending back into the sky.
 * 7) ** While it was done hilariously; when he got a hold of the shrink way, he lied to his dad about not playing with it, and shrinking his own supplies was very ridiculous of him to do, shrinking his own toilet led him to get sprayed in the face by the water that came from it.
 * 8) * 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 of saving the girls, Vector panicked and used the escape pod to get away, not having any guts to fight back.
 * 9) Despite all of his villainous and competent actions, he's more of a laughable goofball than a true villain as he claims to be.
 * 10) He sometimes comes off as annoying, too over-the-top, or unlikable to some viewers.

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