Felonius Gru

Gru is a tall, bald man in his 40’s with blue eyes, long nose and a broad, powerful physique. He has a thick Romanian accent, and his arms and legs are notably disproportionate in size to his body. As a child, Gru had short black hair, though he likely lost it by the time he reached adulthood.

Gru usually dresses in a dark stone-grey turtleneck sweater underneath a black collared jacket with a zipper with a striped black and grey scarf around his neck, slim striped, black pants and pairs of black boots.

When Gru was a child, he wore a white shirt under a black button-up jacket, but kept his scarf. He also wore black pants, black heeled boots with laces and turquoise blue socks.

Gru is very strong and athletic, but also extremely crafty with him having cartoon logic as he is shown to be capable of dodging and leaping off several heat-seeking missiles all going at the speed of sound, backhanding Vector's shark with a single punch with the apparent force of a truck, and smashing his fist into Vector's monitor, easily cracking the screen without damaging his hand.

Apart from his remarkable agility and strength, Gru is also considerably intelligent. For example, he built a real rocket as a child, although later on his Minions and Dr. Nefario did most of his work instead. Gru is also capable of forming intelligent plans, such as his plan to steal the shrink ray from the Supervillain named Vector most well known for stealing one of the pyramids.

He lives in a seemingly normal suburban neighborhood in San Fransisco except for that his house is very gothic in appearance. He also has yellowed and overgrown plants that he only recently changed out for actual ones, a monstrous looking dog named Kyle, a massive and very fast car known as the Grumobile that runs on rocket fuel and several antique devices intended for dramatic effect including axes, maces, a crocodile couch, and an iron maiden.

At first, Gru was a cunning and somewhat cold-hearted man, who was determined to become the greatest villain in the world, likely as a way to gain his mother’s approval, as he came from a line of villains who weren’t confident in his potential. He initially showed a dislike of children as he was easily irritated by Agnes, Edith, and Margo who initially tried to sell him girl scout cookies. Eventually, Gru realized that he could use them to sneak into Vector’s heavily guarded home, making Gru self-centered in the beginning, as he originally 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 and prove his worth to the Bank of Evil, a place ran by none other than Vector’s father, Mr. Perkins. His goal essentially was to gain finances to become a legitimate villain as opposed to one constantly having to fight for recognition.

Gru was also rather cruel, dark humored and even sadistic at first. He enjoyed using his Freeze Ray, his signature weapon to freeze people just for the fun of it, most notably to steal a freshly made coffee and a sandwich instead of waiting in line at a busy coffee shop, alongside freezing Vector after finding out that he was Mr. Perkin’s son. That being said, he is rather warm with his allies, such as the mad scientist Dr. Nefario and his Minions. Despite there being thousands of minions, he calls each one of them by name and even understands their unique language. They first came to his side when he was a child in the late 1960’s after he managed to steal Queen Elizabeth’s crown from the hands of the supervillain Scarlet Overkill and her husband Herb by using a freeze-ray he had bought from a much younger Dr. Nefario. He managed to escape from the scene of the crime, with the minions happily following him and declaring him as their new boss. However, he doesn’t seem to pay his minions much. He’s even said that he had no intention of giving his minions a raise, though this never caused any protest in them as they mainly care about serving the most evil or the most loyal people possible since they were meant from their origins millions of years ago to be henchmen.

As time went on, Gru went from nearly trying to abandon the girls at a theme park to slowly enjoying spending time with his three adopted daughters and growing to genuinely love them, likely because they reminded him of the affection he himself had not regularly received as a boy. Not to mention, their personalities had a lot in common with different aspects of himself. Agnes, the youngest of the three is known for being energetic, playful, and curious, the very same kind of curiosity that was often suppressed in his youth. Edith, the middle child, is bold, ambitious, and technologically savvy, much like how Gru acts while trying to prove himself, and Margo, the oldest of the three is more cautious, intuitive, and parental, serving as a reflection of how Gru himself needed to adapt if he wished to take care of the girls and slowly move away from being a villain around the clock.

Dr. Nefario disapproved of the fact that Gru's warmer side was starting to reveal itself and sent the girls back to the orphanage where they had previously been, and even temporarily leaving Gru’s side to find another villain to work for, even though the owner of the orphanage Ms. Hattie did not take particularly good care of them. Gru let him leave with a 21 fart gun salute, partially out of respect since Nefario had invented it, and partially out of an insult that he had wanted to leave at all. Gru later deeply regretted his mistake to leave the girls, trying to purchase tickets to watch the ballet performance they had been practicing for, but it was already too late for that as he landed on the moon in his spacesuit that the girls had accidentally dyed pink when they mixed it with their leotards. After he shrunk the moon, he realized that abandoning them had been the worst mistake he ever made in his life, particularly after he saw that Vector had taken the girls in an effort to force him to give up the Shrink ray, putting them in severe danger.

He ended up aside his dream of stealing the moon, risking his life to rescue the girls from Vector, who ended up stranded on the moon, and promising that he would never let the girls go again, particularly trying to reassure Margo who had likely been given up by other foster families in the past, and didn’t want another repeat of that. Eventually, he even ended up receiving a genuine hug from Margo, as she called him her dad for the first time after he had read then all a bedtime story about a unicorn and three adorable kittens he had wrote just for them.

Gru has just finished rescuing Agnes, Edith, and Margo from Vector. With Vector safely on the moon away from any ability to come back to Earth, a ballet performance rescheduled, and the girls tucked into bed, Gru thinks it will be a peaceful night to reflect on his new life as a father. At least, until he gets a call that might change the trajectory of his life once again.