What would happen if Lex Luthor beats Superman? From this idea was born Megamind, the new animated movie from Dreamworks. The main character is a hyper-evil who remains alone after defeating the hero.

The Dark Side always had its adepts: the super-evil characters are the most interesting in a movie and now even the creators of animated films know it. After Despicable Me, another villain is the protagonist of a 3D film: it is Megamind, blue-color skin and a skull as huge as his ambitions.

Megamind is an alien who has been put into a spaceship in order to be saved from the destruction of its planet. Together with him though arrives on the Earth another child who will become Metro Man, the superhero of Metro City.

There is nothing left to do but being bad and become Megamind, a mind so big that cannot even beat his rival, not even continuously kidnapping Metro Man’s girlfriend Roxanne. However, one day things change…But what can a villain do when he remains alone?

Between tributes, citations and parodies in this movie we find the moment in which the museum of Metro Man is inaugurated, a clear homage to Flash: in his comics, in fact, a museum is build in his honor. Roxanne is named after Roxanne Simpson, the reporter of Ghost Rider, and the prison for Gifted Youngsters is obviously a parody of X-Men’s school for Gifted Youngsters.