SR-6

SR-6
Information
Type	Weapon
Ability	Shrinks any object its beam comes into contact with.
Appearances	Despicable Me Home Makeover
Other info	The effect is temporary, depending on the mass of the object.

“	Hey Gru, try this on for... size!	”
	— Vector

The SR-6, more often referred to as just the shrink ray, is, as the informal name implies, a prototype shrink-ray device designed by a top-secret East Asian laboratory. The weapon can shrink any object to the size of an apple.

Mechanics

The SR-6 shrinks something to a constant size; possibly the only person to take note of this is Dr. Nefario, and by observing the objects that had been shrunk by the SR-6 in Gru Labs, he discovered that the shrunk state of an object isn't permanent. Nefario discovered that the greater the mass of the object, the faster the shrunken item grows back to normal size. This is an effect called the Nefario Principle, named after Dr. Nefario who is the first to describe the effect properly.

The SR-6 may use a radioactive material to power it. In order to fire the shrink ray, one must either press a button on the ray itself or another button from a control panel.                    

Plot

In order to pull off the theft of the Moon, Gru needed the SR-6 to shrink the satellite. He manages to locate the shrink ray by the time the Pyramid of Giza is stolen.

He initially steals the SR-6 from the top-secret testing lab on a East-Asian island. As Gru is flying away from the test site, Vector hijacks the SR-6 from Gru's ship. Gru's ship ends up being shrunk. Gru subsequently attempts to retrieve the shrink ray from Vector's fortress, only to be totally pummeled by its defenses.

Gru, after witnessing Margo, Edith and Agnes get into the fortress with ease by selling cookies, decides the adopt the girls in order to retrieve the SR-6. Gru uses the trio as a distraction in order to have his Cookie Robots disable Vector's defenses, cut into the latter's vault and retrieve the shrink ray. Gru successfully retakes the SR-6 and then uses it to (temporarily) shrink the Moon.

Later Margo and the Minions use the SR-6 to shrink weapons, in preparation of the arrival of a social worker from Miss Hattie's Home for Girls.

Gallery

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Margo,Edith,and Agnes carrying the SR-6

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The Cartoonized Sr-6

Vector holding SR-6.

Trivia

• The lab in which the SR-6 is tested in appears to be run by North Koreans. Not only is the location close to an area resembling Korea, but on Heitor Pereira's site, the music that plays during the theft is titled "Korean Lab Heist".
• In 2013 McDonalds made a happy meal toy with Jerry holding a tranluscent green whistle designed to look like the shrink ray.
• SR-6 likely stands for "Shrink Ray Number Six".
• in Minion Madness, a SR-6 replica you can see on a wall.