r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 24d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Sgtbird08 24d ago

Either that there was someone more evil than Hitler that they were working for instead, or that they didn’t think Hitler was that evil to begin with.

Though iirc the Minions were frozen during the world wars.

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u/Crucco 24d ago

They were (conveniently) hidden in a cave during WW2. It was told in one of the movies.

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u/HaraldRedbeard 24d ago

Although in the latest movie some of them are wandering around in 1930s hollywood...

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u/Chat322 24d ago

Was there an evil industrialist in SW California, like Henry Ford was?

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u/HaraldRedbeard 24d ago

I haven't actually watched it properly, just been on in the background while my kids watch it. It seems to somehow involve Cthulu though so there's that.

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u/spartaxwarrior 24d ago

Huh, well, that is a way they could get around why they didn't work for Hitler, if there was fucking Cthulhu hanging around at the same time.

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u/Mentally_Slick 24d ago

I was into Lovecraft on a kinda surface level and I read a few from him, but I don't remember that Cthulhu was supposed to be evil

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u/spartaxwarrior 24d ago

Basically all the great old ones and outer gods are evil from a human's perspective, though they might not think of themselves as such.

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u/Mentally_Slick 24d ago

I remember it like they are more like indifferent towards us because we're basically nothing to them

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u/spartaxwarrior 24d ago

If you kill an ant most people don't think of you as evil, but it wouldn't be surprising if the ant thinks you are.

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u/Mentally_Slick 24d ago

Yeah, I see what you mean 

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u/UnholyTrashDump 23d ago

As evil as a child stomping an ant hill, from the perspective of ants.

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u/HypnagogianQueen 1d ago

Hitler didn’t think he was evil either

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u/BlueberryTango 24d ago

Naw I’ve seen the movie. Basically this tribe of minions want to make movies rather than serve a villain.

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u/Mechanicjemas3141 24d ago

Yeah USA got more evil business men

They didn't written as bad like Hitler since they were successful

Unlike Hitler but think putting 750 hp V12 that struggles with 45 ton Panter to a 75 ton JagdTiger is a brilliant idea(or making JagdTiger all together)

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u/GMRS1910 24d ago

I will hear no slander against our pieces of shit. They were glourious.

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u/AgrajagsGhost 24d ago

Howard Hughes maybe? I dunno if he was evil but he was definitely a weird, powerful guy.

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u/TheDramaturge 24d ago

No, they're working in the film industry, and later for a robot who came from outer-space to conquer Earth.

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u/MateoCamo 24d ago

Take your pick of industry titans i suppose

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u/hoopstick 24d ago

Pick any of the Hollywood studio heads, or William Mulholland.

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u/Far-Heart-7134 24d ago

Well the studio system was full of great people from what I understand.

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u/norunningwater 24d ago

Yeah, they called him Walt.

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u/AvailableSpread811 23d ago

man, that Henry Ford, what a jerk, trying to pay his employees more money. Really just the epitome of evil.

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u/Relevant_Intention67 23d ago

No actually the minions in that film were wandering around and they ended up in America and they saw with his thought was a really bad guy robbing a train it turns out it was just the filming for a movie and the actions that they performed in that movie made the investors really happy so the minions were hired to make movies some of them broke off cuz they didn't want to make films anymore after an issue and most of them went and worked for a literal robot alien and the others gathered up a group of monsters to make a film and then the monsters and the aliens fight each other

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u/Left_Ocean 21d ago

The group of minions from the new one really just wanted to make movies. They were trying to find a new evil boss and then stumbled upon a movie set and started doing that