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Well, thank you! Gru : [Sees Edith near his iron maiden] No, no! Stay away from there! It's fragile! Gru : Well, I suppose the plan will work with two. Edith : [Inside the iron maiden] Hey! It's dark in here! Edith : [Spits out a straw] It poked a hole in my juice box. Gru : You got to be pulling on my leg!

Perkins his plans, using pictures on an easel]. Gru : I fly to the moon, I shrink the moon, I grab the moon, I sit on the toi-let what? Gru : Sorry. Could you, uh, excuse me for just one second? Gru : [to Agnes] Did you brush your teeth? Let me smell. Gru : This is literature? A two year old could have written this! Gru : [Answers cell phone] Hello, Mom.

Sorry, I meant to call, but Gru's Mom : I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. Gru's Mom : That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful? Gru : Just so know, Mom. I'm about to do something. It's very very big. Very important, when you hear about it, you're going to be very proud.

Gru's Mom : [Sarcastically laughs] Good luck with that. Okay, I'm outta here! Nefario : [a minion drinks from a bottle, starts floating] We've been working on this for a while now. It's an Anti-gravity serum. Nefario : I meant to close that. He'll be alright, I'm sure.

Gru : Do the effects wear off? Nefario : [looking up at some minions floating on the roof] Uh No, they don't. Gru : It's like my heart is a tooth, and it's got a cavity that can only be filled with children.

Gru : Light bulb! Gru : [after giving Vector the moon] Now the girls. Vector : Actually, I'm holding on to them a little longer. Gru : No! Vector : Oh yeah! Perkins : You don't have it? And yet you have the audacity to ask the bank for money? Gru : Apparently. Margo : You gave us back. Gru : I know, I know, and it is the worst mistake I ever made. Gru : In terms of money, we have no money.

Gru : Listen close, you little punk! When I get in there, you are in for a world of pain! Vector : [laughing sarcastically] Ooh, I'm really scared! Agnes : [smugly] He is gonna kick your butt. Gru : I hate that guy. Gru : So, good night, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite. Because there are literally thousands of them. At first he showed a dislike of children being easily irritated by Agnes , Edith and Margo.

He was self-centered and in the beginning, as he only adopted the girls so that he could get the shrink ray which he intended to use to shrink the moon so that he could steal it. Gru is also rather cruel and even sadistic at first and enjoyed using his Freeze Ray , which is his signature weapon often freezing people just for the sake of it.

He is rather warm with his allies, such as Dr. Nefario and also treated his Minions quite well interacting with them and calling each one of them by name he can also understand their language instead of just treating them like slaves. However, he also said that he had no intention of giving his minions a raise, though this never caused any protest in them. As time went on, Gru started to enjoy spending time with his three adopted daughters and in the end he grew to genuinely love them, putting aside his dream of stealing the moon and risking his life to rescue them from Vector.

Nefario disapproved of the fact that Gru's warmer side is starting to reveal itself and sent the girls back to the orphanage. Though Gru didn't attempt to stop Miss Hattie from taking them he is clearly upset about them leaving and later said that giving them up is the worst mistake he'd ever made. He also did his best to get to their dance performance after stealing the moon and is upset when he discovered he is too late. Gru also has a tendency to say "lightbulb" whenever he has an idea.

He speaks in an unusual accent probably east European which, according to Steve Carell, was described as "a mix of Ricardo Montalban and Bela Lugosi".

When asked about his accent by Ellen DeGeneres he said he was from Albuquerque, New Mexico and asked Ellen not to push this topic any further. At the end of the first movie, and throughout the rest of the series, Gru has turned into a softie and became a lot more sweeter, gentler, and friendlier person after adopting Margo, Edith, and Agnes as his own daughters. Gru returns home only to learn of the theft of the Great Pyramid of Giza from Dr. With his pride badly wounded, Gru assembles his Minions in his underground lair.

He then reveals his long-time planned, most epic heist; the theft of the Moon. Gru heads to the Bank of Evil to obtain a loan from Mr. Perkins , the bank's owner. While Gru waits for his audience with Mr. Perkins, Vector , another villain, annoys the former by showboating and displaying his Piranha Gun. When Gru finally gets to face Mr. Perkins, he asks for funding to build the rocket which is necessary for his plan to steal the moon.

Perkins refuses to give him a loan unless Gru presents the SR Additionally, during the meeting, Gru finds out from Mr.

Perkins that it was Vector who stole the Pyramid of Giza. As a furious Gru leaves the bank, he freezes Vector's head with his freeze ray. During a testing of the shrink ray in a Facility in East Asia, Gru steals it and flies off on his ship. However Vector steals the shrink ray from Gru mid-flight. Gru tries to shoot Vector down with guns and then with missiles, but fails.

Vector then blasts Gru's ship with the shrink ray as payback for the latter freezing his head. This causes the ship to shrink, forcing Gru and the Minions to ride the miniaturized ship home. Gru attempts to retake the shrink ray from Vector's lair only to be thwarted by its defensive systems, and Vector's pet shark.

Gru sees three girls, Margo , Edith , and Agnes , trying to sell Vector cookies, and Vector lets them in. Gru plans on using the girls to steal the shrink ray back and contacts Dr. Nefario and tells him to build a bunch of Cookie Robots for the theft.

The following day, the girls convince Gru to drive them to dance class before going to Vector's lair to deliver the large quantity of cookies that Vector ordered. After the class, the Cookie Robots are delivered by the girls and activated. The robots break into Vector's vault by hacking open the vault's door, and weld a hole in the wall from the inside. Gru and two Minions enter through the opening and grab the shrink ray, but as they are leaving they are sealed in by the cookie robots.

They escape through some air vents and out to the main entrance without Vector noticing and return to the car. On the way home, Gru and the girls stop by an amusement park called Super Silly Fun Land , which Gru sees as a chance to abandon the girls.

After being forced to ride the roller coaster with them and helping Agnes win a unicorn stuffed toy, he ends up having fun with Margo, Edith and Agnes. At his home, he fine-tunes his plan to Mr. Perkins via a teleconference, but he is interrupted by the girls during his presentation.

Perkins surprises Gru by again refusing him the loan—claiming that while he doesn't have a problem with the plan, he doesn't want Gru to do it and he still wants a younger villain to do it. Though Gru is ready to abandon his plan due to lack of funds, the girls and the Minions donate money, sell Gru's furniture, and salvage scrap metal from junkyards to keep the plan going.

While the rocket is being built, Gru has fun with the girls, having tea parties with them, allowing them to have a slumber party, telling them bedtime stories and cooking them various shaped pancakes. Nefario soon begins to see the girls as a distraction to Gru. Since the moon heist and an important ballet recital the girls fall on the same day, Gru wants to move the day of the heist.

Nefario confronts Gru and tells him how he feels the girls are becoming "a major distraction" and tells him "they need to go, if you don't do something about it, then I will. Both Gru and the girls are heartbroken. The following day, on May 26, [1] [2] Gru boards the rocket and flies off to the moon, but not before one of the minions puts the ticket Agnes gave him into his space suit's pocket, despite Gru giving it back to that minion and telling him he doesn't have time for the girls dance recital.

Gru shrinks the moon and pockets it. When he sees the ticket Agnes gave him, he realizes he has time to catch the recital. However, it has ended by the time he arrives. On the seat that the girls reserved for him, Gru finds a note from Vector, who has kidnapped the girls, telling him to bring the moon. After forcing Gru to hand over the moon, Vector goes back on the deal and keeps the girls as his captives.

This enrages Gru, who storms Vector's lair, the latter's defenses proving useless as Gru bypassed them causing the rockets to blow the gates open instead. See what you think. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

A quick search seems to imply that no one knows. It's around in the clip below:. Improve this answer. Hm, maybe it's a sensible topic, as the character has a lot of imperfections that probably will result in polemics and may hurt people's feelings if a nationality is set or defined for the character Despicable Me 3 introduced Gru relatives that lived in Freedonia. Gru might be from Freedonia. Featured on Meta. During the dance sequence, D. Minion is using a "Gru-ray disc" player, with the same color and font style on the writing as a Blu-ray disc player.

Gru's date of birth is September 28, , as shown in the state adoption file on the computer. This makes him eight years old when the Apollo 11 moon landing happened July 20, Illumination Entertainment's first feature film. Gru's profile resembles an Emperor Penguin, which is appropriate, because the male Emperor Penguin is the one that cares for its young.

The name of the main protagonist, Gru, appears to be taken from the Russian Military Intelligence agency G. It is the largest Russian intelligence agency, six times larger than the S. This may hint at Gru's own origins. The soda cup that the Carnival Barker is drinking from red with a purple stripe at the top is based on the ones used at Walt Disney World.

One of the pictures hanging on the walls of Gru's house it can be seen when the three girls first enter the house, next to the front door to the left , is a "Wanted" poster for the capture of Jesse James, a notorious Wild West gunman and bandit. The girls undercharge Vector Jason Segel when they deliver his cookies. Based on the clipboard Margo Miranda Cosgrove is holding when they pay him the initial visit, the prices of each of the box of cookies is thus: Coconutties - six dollars, Choco Swirlies - six dollars, Minty Mints - six dollars.

The Minty Mints and Coconutties alone would cost one hundred fourteen dollars, plus the cost of the Toffee Totes and Caramel Clumps, means that the girls charge of only fifty-two dollars was way below what it should have been.

For those who are really into details: Gru's first name is "Felonius". His parents were Marlena and Robert. His paternal grandparents were Joesph and Helen. Through them, he has an uncle Jeffrey and a step-uncle Steven a jungle explorer from his grandmother's previous marriage. He also has a great-uncle named John. His maternal grandparents were Henry and Madeline. Henry had a brother Helmut, who was married to Jane.

They had a son known only as "convict ". His great-grandparents on his father's side were Able and Antoinette. His great-uncle Henry's parents were a Gypsy named Yolanda, and Marcel, who was a werewolf. Yolanda's parents were Art and Lucy. His great-grandmother's parents were Elixabeth, and a soldier named Oliver.

Oliver has a daughter, Little Pony, and a son named Charles. Gru's greatgrandparents on his grandfather's side were Mathid and Francoi. Francois' parents were Charlotte and Leopolde, Mathid's parents were Sara and a mountain man named Jack. There you have it: all six generations.

Taken from the family tree chart on the wall in the hallway near the girls' bedroom. And then, there's Gru's wife and brother to add to the family tree. Universal's first fully animated theatrical movie rated PG by the M. The Minions are actually genetically engineered corn kernels.