The upcoming animated comedy Despicable Me 4 is the fourth mainline installment of the long-running and global popular Despicable Me franchise and the sixth overall film when counting spin-offs. Beginning in 2010, the franchise has since made over $4.6 billion worldwide in films alone and billions more in merchandise sales. 
The new film will be about Gru’s expanding family with the birth of his son Junior as they battle a new villain named Maxime La Mal (Voiced by Will Ferell). However, one of the most notable additions was the introduction of the Mega Minions, a group of super-powered Minions with various superhuman abilities, from super strength to flight, to elasticity, and even laser eyes.
In the film’s most recent promotional video, “Enter The Megaverse,” Steve Carell, the voice of Gru, presents a planned timeline for films based on the new Mega Minion characters that spans over the next century.
The various film titles include Mega Minions Mega Musical, Mega Minions Déja Dru, Bello a Mega Minions Story, Mega Minions Electric Gru-Galoo, Mega Minions The Gru Towers, Mega Minions Gru World Order and many more.
They even created a dedicated website www.enterthemegaverse.com to show off the fictional roadmap.
The video is obviously satire, and none of these films have actually been made. And while we can all laugh at the idea of a Minions cinematic universe, the overall idea of the video is to poke fun at the very idea of cinematic universes.
The genre popularized by the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been attempted multiple times by various other studios to varying degrees of success. From the DCEU to the Dark Universe to the Spider-Verse, not a lot has made an impact on the Hollywood landscape. Even the once-popular MCU is no longer the unstoppable behemoth it once was.
While it is definitely a fun video, it shines a light on how the idea of a cinematic universe has run its course.
Are you excited for Despicable Me 4? What do you want to see happen? Are you tired of cinematic universes? Let us know.
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