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Doesn't it feel so good to be bad?
 
— Scarlet Overkill when starting her appearance in Villain-Con
Scarlet Overkill
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Information
Species Human
Gender Female
Age 41 (In 1968)
Eye color Green
Hair color Black
Occupation

Supervillain (Formerly)
Queen Of England (Formerly)

Owned
weapons

Rocket Dress
Lava Lamp Gun
Lava Lamp Machine Gun
Herb's inventions

Allies

Herb Overkill
Kevin (formerly)
Stuart (formerly)
Bob (formerly)
Dumo the Sumo
Frankie Fishlips
Mr. Spikey
Glam Slammer

Enemies

Kevin
Stuart
Bob
Felonius Gru
Minions
Queen Elizabeth II
Corgi

Spouse

Herb Overkill (husband)

Appearances

Minions Minions: The Rise of Gru (lunch box cameo)

Voiced by

Sandra Bullock

Scarlet Overkill (Born 1927) is a world-famous supervillain, the wife of Herb Overkill and the archenemy of Kevin, Stuart and Bob as well as Queen Elizabeth and her favorite corgis. She is the main antagonist of the film Minions and one of the three unseen overarching antagonists of Minions: The Rise of Gru (the other two being Balthazar Bratt and Eduardo Perez). She is voiced by Sandra Bullock.

Appearance[]

Scarlet is a tall, slim, fair-skinned woman with green eyes and black hair which had been stylized into bouffant with neck-length flips at the end. Her makeup consists of shimmering-light pink eyeshadow and ruby lipstick.

In terms of attire, Scarlett, befitting to her name, sports a red-black color scheme; she wears a thick black choker around her neck, a red strapless dress, black arm-length opera gloves, black pantyhose and black stiletto heels.

Personality[]

Scarlet is a witty, humorous, and domineering person who has the story about how she became a villain inspire many people to follow in her footsteps. According to Tina Nelson, "She started out as your average little girl; braces, pigtails. But by the time she was thirteen, she built a criminal empire." Scarlet likes to boast about her fascinating gadgets invented by her husband, such as her trademark Rocket Dress. She also knows some martial arts skills and can apparently use them swiftly, which is shown when the villains try to take the ruby from her in Villain-Con.

As implied in the Bedtime story for the Minions, she was penniless, unloved, and abandoned when she was a child, so she was determined to be villainous and become a queen. Because of this, she is elegant and grateful to those who support her and speaks tactfully in public. When the Minions work for her, she appears to be very thoughtful and tender to her allies, though sometimes she can't bear the Minions' childishness. Sometimes she is also arrogant and offensive when someone mocks or betrays her, even if it was an accident.

She also doesn't like it when one of the pets licks her face, as shown that one of the royal Corgis, licking her face. Although, it doesn't make it so much annoying to corgi anymore.

Plot[]

Backstory[]

Scarlet grew up in the streets and then a horrible orphanage where she was bullied. She became a villain at the age of thirteen. Known as "The first female supervillain," Scarlet attends 1968's Villain-Con in search of new henchmen.

The Minions[]

Scarlet issues a challenge that whoever steals her ruby gets the job, which the trio of Minions wins after Bob accidentally swallows the gem. Having taken Kevin, Stuart, and Bob to her castle in England, she introduces them to her husband, Herb Overkill, and shows them her stolen loot. She then discusses her plan to steal Queen Elizabeth II's crown in order to overthrow her. If the Minions fail the mission, she would kill them, though she merely implies such consequences in her bedtime story.

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Scarlet Overkill holds a Corgi (Queen Elizabeth ll's favorite dog)

Later during the mission, the news mentions Bob being crowned after pulling Arthur Pendragon's sword from the stone. Feeling betrayed, Scarlet immediately goes to the Buckingham Palace to threaten them, but her is disturbed by the playful dog Corgi in Buckingham Palace, licks Scarlet's face, but she throws the Corgi back on the floor, frightens the artist. And Bob gives up his crown to Scarlet. Although she expresses her gratitude in front of the media, she sends them to an underground dungeon to be tortured. During the coronation ceremony, Kevin, Stuart, and Bob try to apologize but accidentally cause a chandelier to fall on Scarlet, almost killing her. Scarlet survives the chandelier fall and orders them to be executed. Kevin manages to escape, but Stuart and Bob fail. She sends a message to Kevin through the news threatening to kill the remaining Minions if he does not surrender by dawn.

Gru, frozen Mr. and Mrs

Young Gru steals the crown from frozen Scarlet and Herb.

The next morning, Scarlet and Herb set a large amount of explosives to blow Stuart and Bob up, but a giant Kevin frees them. Fed up, Scarlet fires a missile at the Minion tribe that has just arrived in middle of the fight, only for Kevin to swallow it. Scarlet and Herb try to fly away from the impending explosion, but they end up bringing him with them. They both shield themselves when the missile is about to explode inside Kevin's mouth. Scarlet reappears alive with Herb during Kevin's knighting ceremony, stealing the Queen's crown as her own, and tries to run away. But as they run away, a young Felonius Gru stops them with his Freeze Ray and steals the crown instead, much to her fury. Bob decides to give Scarlet the little crown originally gifted by Queen Elizabeth to his teddy bear. She and Herb spent a year in jail, but ruled it utterly and escaped. She also gave up her vedetta against the Minions, genuinely touched by the gift of the tiny crown.[1]

At the end of the credits, she and Herb escape the ice cube where they are seen singing Revolution along with the other cast.

Minions: The Rise Of Gru[]

In Minions: The Rise Of Gru, there is a scene where Stuart is shown having a Scarlet Overkill lunchbox during the training montage as a reference.

Quotes[]

  • "By the way, I really like your bear." -Scarlet talking about Tim, Bob's teddy bear, when she first meets the Minions.
  • "Oh, so you're an art critic now. I DREW THAT WHEN I WAS FIVE YEARS OLD!" - Scarlet telling Fabrice about her drawing.
  • "One fateful day, the pigs encountered a wolf who had a wonderful surprise for them." - Scarlet telling Bob, Stuart and Kevin a story.
  • "Oh, it's so beautiful, so fashion-forward, so Valentino!" -Scarlet comments about her dress Herb made.
  • "HE TRIED TO KILL ME! This is no longer a coronation, it's an execution!!!" - Scarlet when she thinks Kevin tried to kill her after the Minions accidentally crushed her with a chandelier.
  • "Are you really going to allow that little penguin to make off with my crown?!" - Scarlet when she sees the Minions chasing after young Gru.
  • "Get comfortable, Minions. Get real comfortable, because this is where you're going to spend the rest of your worthless. Little. Lives." - Scarlet gets upset with Kevin, Stuart, and Bob's betrayal and leaves them to die in the dungeon with Herb.
  • How dare you! [gets hit with a ball, screams, she is attacked by a corgi who licks her face, but Scarlet throws the corgi back on the floor, frightening the artist, and the corgi whines.]


Trivia[]

  • Her last name always was Overkill, before she married Herb.
  • She makes a brief appearance in Minions: The Rise of Gru on Stuart’s lunchbox.
  • In Minions, Scarlet's age is 41, when it takes place in 1968. In Minions 2: The Rise Of Gru, She would be 49, as of Despicable Me, which takes place 42 years later, Scarlet (if she is still alive) would be around 83 and in 2024, (if she is still alive) would be 97 years old. Almost 100.
  • Chronologically, Scarlet Overkill is the first Antagonist in the Despicable Me franchise, taking place 42 years before Despicable Me.

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Main article: Scarlet Overkill/Gallery

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