Dr. Nefario



Dr. Nefario is the tetartagonist of Illumination's 1st animated feature film, Despicable Me, and the supporting antagonist-turned-anti hero in Illumination's 4th animated feature film, Despicable Me 2.

He was voiced by Russell Brand who also played E.B. and Creek.

Biography
He is shown as an elderly scientist who works for Felonious Gru. He has a hearing problem that sometimes causes him to make mistakes (such as building a fart gun instead of a dart gun). He told Gru that keeping the girls around with distract them from their plan of shrinking the moon, and persuaded him to give them up. He secretly called Miss Hattie to pick up the girls, telling Gru that he did it "for his own good". Like Gru and the minions, he redeemed himself at the end of the movie.

In the sequel, Nefario leaves after not being able to do evil stuff for some time. Throughtout the film, he was the one kidnapping Gru's minions while working for El Macho. After Gru realizes the truth and left, El Macho had Lucy taken away and sent one of the purple minions after Gru. This causes Dr. Nefario to turn back to Gru's side and fuses an antidote with the (bad tasting) jams and jellies to help turn the minions back to normal. In the end, he was seen with Gru's mother at Gru and Lucy's wedding.

Nefario also appeared in a cameo appearance in the 2015 prequel Minions, where he is seen as a young man attending the Villain Con in 1968, while presenting out his Freeze Ray, which he uses on his own hand by mistake.

Personality
Dr. Nefario is Gru's closest and most loyal friend who always comes to his rescue. He has a very high respect for Gru and even believes he is the greatest villain in the world, but he often doubts his abilities and motives. He is also quite anomalous, strange, eccentric, and idiosyncratic with rather bad hearing due to his age, but although he seemed a little odd, quirky, unorthodox, and unconventional at times, he did seem to be going persnickety and alert.

Dr. Nefario does like to be extremely productive and advantageous, as he has constantly been seen working on projects to aid in Gru's crimes, and even decides to work for someone else after Gru renounces his former life of villainy.

His accent suggests a British family lineage. Nefario seems to enjoy disco dancing and is even briefly shown doing so alongside Marlena Gru, and in the Boogie Robot scene.

Appearance
Dr. Nefario dresses like a stereotypical mad scientist. He is generally elderly, mildly overweight, and is apparently hard of hearing, which frequently gives him trouble with initial consonants. He is always seen with his labcoat, gloves, and trademark goggles, and he wears either pants or pajama bottoms with a plaid pattern. His hair (what little there is of it) is longish and faintly unruly.

In Minions, it is seen that he wore glasses in his youth, a yellow shirt underneath his labcoat, and black trousers.