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Have any of you ever dreamed of working for the greatest supervillain of all time?!
~ Scarlet Overkill introducing herself.
Don't you "Scarlet" me, you backstabbing little traitors!
~ Scarlet getting angry over Kevin, Stuart, and Bob's "betrayal".
They took everything from me! My castle! My reputation! Things look bleak, baby, I'm not gonna lie! But now, at least, I have my CROOOWWW-
~ Scarlet before she gets frozen by Gru.

Scarlet Overkill is the main antagonist of Illumination's 5th feature film Minions, a prequel to the Despicable Me franchise.

She is one of the most powerful supervillains of all time, being a stylish, ambitious, and powerful criminal mastermind who is determined to dominate Britain. She is also the wife of Herb Overkill as well as the former boss-turned arch-nemesis of Kevin, Stuart, and Bob. She is the former ex-boss of the Minions before they have Gru permanently as their boss since he was a kid before he also grew up.

She was voiced by Sandra Bullock. In French, she was voiced by Marion Cotillard (who's also played Mal Cobb in Inception, the 2015 version of Lady Macbeth and Talia al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises).

Personality[]

Scarlet is a witty, humorous, domineering, authoritative, and influential woman. Her backstory about how she became a villain inspired many people to follow in her footsteps. According to Tina Nelson, she started out as an average little girl with braces and pigtails. But by age thirteen, she built a criminal empire. She likes to be overconfident and boastful about her interesting gadgets invented by her husband, such as her trademark Rocket Dress. She also knows some skills of martial arts, and she can apparently use them immediately, which is shown when the villains tried to take the ruby from her in Villain-Con.

As implied in the bedtime story for the Minions, she was necessitous, penniless, insolvent, and abandoned when she was a child, so she determined to become the most arrogant and villainous queen of all in order to be respected by everyone who ever doubted her. Because of this, she is also very elegant, grateful, and impressive to those who support her and speaks diplomatically in public. When the Minions work for her, she appears to be very thoughtful and tender to her allies. Though she occasionally cannot bear the Minions' childishness.

Sometimes, she can also be cunning, mean and cantankerous when someone mocks or betrays her, even if it was accidental. Despite being cunning, her arrogance (and her past, which makes it seem as if she fears betrayal) makes her blind to the fact that Minions really didn't betray her. She can even be very hypocritical when the Minion tribe showed up to her when she was fighting Kevin; she was willing to kill all them too for being Minions even though they had nothing to do with her conflict with Kevin, Bob and Stuart.

Appearance[]

Scarlet has a short, flat pointy nose and short, round, bushy black hair with curls at the bottom of her sides, and green eyes. She wears a strapless red dress, long black gloves, a black choker around her neck, red lipstick on her lips, black pantyhose, and tall black high heels. Sometimes, the bottom of her red dress becomes a giant rocket that she likes to fly around in.

Powers and Abilities[]

While Scarlet is powerless, she is a skilled fighter. Her dress can turn into a giant rocket, giving Scarlet the ability to fly, and can also function as a shield. Her rocket dress also has access to weapons as well.

History[]

Scarlet's introduction[]

Scarlet is known for being the "world's first female supervillain". She attends the 1968 Villain Con as its trademark public speaker in search of new henchmen, setting up a challenge of whoever steals her ruby gets the job, which a trio of Minions win after Bob accidentally swallows the gem. She first appeared at Villain Con as a giant shadow behind a wall, telling everybody that it feels so good to be bad, making everyone cheer. Scarlet then turned her dress into a rocket and flew out through the wall as a dramatic entrance.

She ends up taking the minions back to her palace in England and introducing them to Herb, her husband. As she shows them all her stolen loot, she tells them of her plan to steal the British crown to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and become the new Queen of England. She then tells them a rather threatening bedtime story about a lonely and abandoned wolf becoming a villain and taking in three little pigs and sending them to steal a crown from her, but they fail, so she kills them. This makes evident the pressure she puts on the minions; if they failed the mission, she would kill them.

Back Stabbing Little Traitors[]

Later in the news, it is mentioned that Bob has been crowned King after taking out Arthur Pendragon's sword in the stone, allowing the Minions to get hold of the crown. However, feeling betrayed after hearing about this, Scarlet angrily travels to the Buckingham Palace to kill them, stating how she had planned everything to steal the crown. To appease Scarlet, Bob abdicates the crown to her. Although Scarlet says to the press that she's touched by the Minions' action, she sends them to an underground dungeon to be tortured, saying that she still hates them for their presumed betrayal and for stealing her turf.

Queen Scarlet[]

During the coronation ceremony (attended by many of the Villain Con villains), Kevin, Stuart, and Bob try to apologize, but accidentally collapse a chandelier over her, almost killing her. An enraged Scarlet survives and orders them to be executed, refusing to accept that it was an accident. Kevin manages to escape, but Stuart and Bob end up being captured by the villains. She sends a message to Kevin through the news threatening to kill both Stuart and Bob if he does not come by dawn. Finally seeing that Scarlet is not the type of master that the Minions want to follow, Kevin decides to take action to rescue his friends and defeat Scarlet for good.

Final Battle and Defeat[]

The next morning, Scarlet and Herb settle a large number of explosives in order to murder Stuart and Bob, and Scarlet takes Bob's teddy bear as a memento, much to Bob's dismay. Fortunately, a giant Kevin arrives at the rescue by using a hydrant to stop the explosions. Upset by this turn of events, Scarlet furiously faces the gigantic Kevin and just as the Minion tribe that has just arrived in the middle of the fight, she attempted to kill them too even though they had nothing to do with what happened between her and Kevin. Kevin then angrily hits Scarlet across five buildings, saving his Minion friends. However, Scarlet furiously rises and fires a nuclear lava missile to Kevin and the Minions, but Kevin grabs it and swallows the missile to save his tribe, and Scarlet tries to get away from the situation with Herb, but are stopped by Kevin, attempted to take them with him. They both shield themselves when the missile is about to explode inside Kevin's mouth. However, Kevin manages to escape the explosion and shrink back to his normal size while retrieving Bob's teddy bear, much to the other Minions' delight.

New Master[]

Wounded from being shoved through buildings, Scarlet and Herb show up again during Kevin's knighting ceremony, stealing the Queen's crown by their account. They attempt to escape, but they end up being frozen by young Felonious Gru, who takes away the crown from her hands, much to her fury & unaware of Gru but only knowing him as a little penguin of taking her crown. Spotting Gru, Kevin sees that he has found a new potential master, so he and the other Minions follow Gru. Scarlet is now upset that she is done for, but Bob gives Scarlet the little crown originally gifted by Queen Elizabeth to his teddy bear out of pity before leaving, after which they are prisoned for good when Gru froze them both & presumably arrested for their crimes.

It is also unknown if she or her husband were still alive by the time the events of the first Despicable Me came around considering that she would be 83 years of age. However it is clear that both of them grew old in the present & retired from villainy as Gru takes over their position as number #1 supervillain & when he's grown up but ended up being a hero afterwards. This means that she was born in 1927, if the first Despicable Me film happens in 2010.

After-Credits Scene[]

Scarlet and Herb appear in the after-credits scene, dancing and singing with the rest of the characters. However, they are scared off by an arriving Tyrannosaurus.

Quotes[]

A girl's gotta make a living.
~ Scarlet's first words.
Doesn't it feels so good to be bad?
~ Scarlet's introduction.
When I started out, people said a woman could never rob a bank as well as a man. Well...times change.
~ Scarlet Overkill, explaining her past.
And so help me, I never wanna see another one of your goofy, bug-eyed faces EVER AGAIN!! [hearing more Minions chanting her name] What?! Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
~ Scarlet Overkill annoyed to see other Minions and about to kill them when they had nothing to do with her conflict with Kevin .
Scarlet: Child, give me that back.
Young Gru: No, I don't think so.
Scarlet: You have no idea who you are messing with! I am the greatest supervillain of all time!
Young Gru: [chuckles] Oh,
were you? [laughs]
~ A young Felonious Gru taking the crown from Scarlet.
Are you really going to allow that little penguin to make off with MY CROWN?!! Oh, Herb.... I'm done. [Bob gives her the little crown meant for his teddy bear] For me? Awwww....
~ Scarlet Overkill's last words and realizing that she's finally been defeated.

Trivia[]

  • Scarlet is Sandra Bullock's first and so far only villainous role.
  • Scarlet is the first female main antagonist in the Despicable Me storyline along with Belle Bottom, since Vector Perkins, El Macho, and Balthazar Bratt are all male.
    • She is also the first female Illumination villain overall.
  • She is the ex-boss of the minions before they had Gru who never betrays & tries to kill the minions at all even when they displease him by their incompetence.
  • It's said that she has no ill will towards the Minions, genuinely touched by the gift of the tiny crown, and simply wanted to hurt them to prove a point.
  • She is the Despicable Me antagonist who doesn't know Gru but only for one short time when he froze her.
  • Scarlet Overkill makes a cameo appearance in Minions: Rise of Gru on Stuart's lunchbox.

Navigation[]

           DespicableMeTitle Villains

Gru's Family and Servants
Felonious Gru | Minions (Purple Minions) | Dr. Nefario | Dru Gru | Robert Gru

Villain Con Villains
Scarlet Overkill | Herb Overkill | Nelson Family

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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