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Then there's Dr. Nefario, who used to run research and development. But that was before he got himself trapped in carbonite. Now, he's just hanging around.
~ Gru narrating his AVL file for Support Force

Dr. Joseph Albert Nefario, better known simply as Dr. Nefario, is a major character in the Despicable Me franchise. He is Gru' assistant and friend.

He was voiced by Russell Brand, who also voiced Creek in Trolls, Dr. Zomboss in the Plants vs. Zombies franchise, and Mako in Under the Boardwalk.

Biography[]

Minions[]

Dr. Nefario was first seen in Minions, showing his freeze ray gun to a young Felonious Gru with his mother.

Minions: The Rise of Gru[]

Dr. Nefario is seen testing his slimy hand gun, meets Gru, and shows him where to meet The Vicious 6. When Gru steals the diamond from them, he helps him escape. After the Vicious 6 are defeated and when he starts to leave, Gru asks him to work for him, he refuses and when all the minions and Gru made cute faces at him, he decides to work for him. He tells him "You wanna see something cool?" At the end, he and Gru are last seen flying in their new ship back to Gru's place.

Despicable Me[]

In Despicable Me, Dr. Nefario is now 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 would 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.

Despicable Me 2[]

In the sequel, Nefario leaves after being unable to do evil stuff for some time. Throughout 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.

Despicable Me 3[]

In the next sequel, he is seen frozen after freezing himself in carbonite. Two minions were trying to get him out of there. The last scene shows Nefario still frozen and shows Gru sad and alone in the lair.

Personality[]

Dr. Nefario is Gru's most loyal friend, with a sense of fidelity to him and is always there for him (although he sometimes questions his abilities and motives). He is a scientist who always makes and designs weapons for Gru, albeit somewhat eccentric and hard of hearing. His deafness often makes him make mistakes, such as building a fart gun instead of the dart gun Gru commissioned him to do, to the annoyance of the latter.

Also, at first, Nefario disapproved of Gru's love for the girls Margo, Edith, and Agnes, whom he came to love as his own, seeing them as an obstacle to Gru and his plans to steal the moon, and telling him to get rid of them. He calls the orphanage pretending to be Gru so Mrs. Hattie can take the girls away, later justifying it by saying it was for Gru's "good." However, Nefario ends up redeeming himself and accepting Gru's new love for his adoptive daughters.

However, despite his redemption in the first movie, the sequel shows that Nefario cannot stand for long without doing anything villainous. Due to Gru giving up villainy, that leads him to resign and start working as an assistant to El Macho, whom he helps capture all the minions and inject them with the PX-41 serum that turns them into monsters. When he witnesses El Macho taking Lucy by force after discovering that she and Gru were working for AVL (Anti Villain League), however, Nefario returns to Gru's side.

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Vicious 6
Wild Knuckles | Belle Bottom | Jean-Clawed | Svengeance | Stronghold | Nun-Chuck

Bank of Evil
Mr. Perkins | Victor "Vector" Perkins

Others
Eduardo "El Macho" Perez | Balthazar Bratt (Evil Bratt) | Clive | Mrs. Hattie | Wild Knuckles' Henchmen | Jewel Thief | Valerie Da Vinci

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