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Dr Nefario is a fictional character and one of the secondary characters (the other being The Minions) in Illumination Entertainment's franchise of Despicable Me computer-animated comedy film. Created by Sergio Pablos, Dr Nefario is an elderly, mildly overweight stereotypical mad scientist, who wears white lab coats, boots and goggles and is almost bald. He is crazy about scientific inventing, but by being selectively deaf Dr Nefario sometimes fails to create what Gru; his colleague asks him to make. However, he regards Gru's family as his own and is loyal to them and can always play an important assistant role at the crucial moment. Dr Nefario first appeared in the first Despicable Me movie in 2010, in which he assists Gru to shrink and steal the Moon, his second appearance was in Despicable Me 2 in 2013 in which he unknowingly helps the main antagonist fight Gru. Dr Nefario is also planned to feature in the upcoming Despicable Me 3 in 2017.

Personality
Dr. Nefario is one of Gru’s closest friends as he has been working with him for years, having a very high respect for him although at times he doubt Gru’s choices and motives. Dr. Nefario’s actions are often driven by his lust for villainy as that is one of the main reasons he and |Gru are working together.He is also quite eccentric and might seem odd at times as his hearing problems put him in rather unexpected situations. He has proven to be a loyal companion as he threw away the opportunity to be a part of one of the biggest villainous plans in his time in order to save his friend Gru.

Plot
 Dr. Nefario’s Role in Despicable Me 

Despicable Me: When Gru returns home, Dr. Nefario informs the supervillain that someone else stole the Pyramid of Giza. Nefario also attends to the plan of stealing the moon by making gadgets like Cookie Robots. The Cookie Robots are created by Dr. Nefario and used by Gru to get the shrink ray. The shrink ray is required in order shrink the moon in order for it to be a suitable size to steal. The only problem is that he needs to steal it from Vector. Vector is the main ant agonist of Despicable Me. He is a super-villain and the son of Mr. Perkins, the owner of the Bank of Evil. Gru later calls Miss Hattie to return the girls to the orphanage due to them becoming an obstruction to their plan in the stealing of the moon. Gru continues the plan and Nefario notices that the effect of the Shrink Ray will loose effect. He warns Gru about this, naming it the Nefario Principle. At the end Dr. Nefario videotapes the girls’ dance recital at Gru’s house and is later seen dancing with Gru’s mother.

Nefario Principle: The Nefarious Principle is a physical law which is fundamental to the limits of what a typical high-powered Shrink Ray can do with respect to the object that it acts upon. Nefario claims to have come up with this principle soon after the discovery that the shrunken objects in his lab are returning to their original size in time scales that are longer for less massive objects, for example: after being shrunk by Vector, Gru’s ship eventually returned to normal size before the Minions, and when the moon is shrunk the Nefario Principle could be seen effectively as causing the moon to revert back to its actual size and mass, despite being near the Earth and had been shrunk only mere moments ago. It is more likely he named it after himself because of the Nefario name. He also made the name up on the spot also knowing he did it for himself.

Despicable me 2: Russell Brand plays Dr. Nefario’s role in Despicable Me 2, the sequel to the 2010 animated film Despicable Me. At the start of the film Dr. Nefario makes his Old Fashioned Jelly (this is the brand for a line of jellies producesd by Gru and Dr. Nefario), which is a combination of many flavours. Unfortunately Dr. Nefario’s Jam turns out to have a horrible taste. Dr. Nefario’s career path took a change when he confessed to Gru that he misses being evil and that he has found new work else where. Later on in the film, as a farewell to Dr. Nefario, from the minions, they perform a 21 fart salute and Dr. Nafario slowly rides away on his motor scooter to start his new life. Later that night, a silhouette (presumably Dr. Nefario’s) arrives at Gru’s house. Phil (One of the minions in Despicable Me 2, voiced by Pierre Coffin) opens the door and greets the visitor, but he is kidnapped and the door is left open. Soon, the Cinco de Mayo party is about to start at Eduaro’s mansion. Now that he actually worked for El Macho (the main antagonist in Despicable Me 2) The undercover super-villain has now returned to hold the world hostage, using the deadly mutagen, PX-41, to form indestructible, mindless, killing, and bloodthirsty minion henchmen. El Macho has trapped minions in a fake paradise called minion beach created by Dr. Nefario. The Minion Beach is an artificial beach located in El Macho’s Lair. it is a place El Macho and Dr. Nefario used to keep the kidnapped minions before turning them into Evil Minions. Dr Nefario makes a full appearance after Gru enters El Macho’s secret lair and explains their plan to Gru. But! He notices that Eduardo now knows that Gru and Lucy Wilde (rookie agent of the Anti-Villian League) are working together for the AVL and witnesses Eduardo taking Lucy to his lab as a prisoner. He later calls Gru, telling him everything he knows about this. When the remaining minions are attacked by Kevin, who is mutated into an Evil Minion. Kevin is then injected with an antidote created by Dr. Nefario. He introduces to antidote to the remaining Minions, which worked well, and named it PX-41 Antidote. He later turned this into the horrible jam mentioned at the beginning of the section. At the end of the film Dr. Nefario and the remaining Minions march to El Machos layer and inject all the Evil Minions with the PX-41 Antidote, converting all the Evil Minions back into normal Minions. Then as the icing on the cake Dr. Nefario knocks out El Macho using a Fart Gun. In this installment of the Despicable Me franchise, Dr Nefario plays a slightly more major role compared to his first appearance as a support character in Despicable Me. Not completely happy with Gru’s new outlook on life, Dr Nefario looks to pursue his dreams of world domination elswehere as he leaves Gru, ‘The Girls’ and the minions to start a new life. On his departure, the minions partake in a 21 Fart Guns salute, an invention from Dr Nefario, as he rides away in his mobility scooter. On the same night as his departure, an unknown silhouette approches Gru’s mansion and kidnaps the minion that answers the door; Phil, leaving the door open like a scene from a thriller movie. As Dr Nefario had been working for the antagonist, El Macho, after leaving Gru he had been kidnapping the minions and trapping them in a fake paradise. After trapping them, El Macho’s masterplan included mutating the minions into evil minions; giving El Macho an army of indestructible and wreckless henchmen.

Minions: Dr Nefario also makes a small appearance in the minions movie and is portrayed as a young man. In his scene, he has a stall at Villain-Con, a convention for super villains from around the world. He is presenting his new invention, the Freeze Ray to the crowd also including Gru as a small child with his mother. During the presentation, Dr Nefario accidentally freezes his own hand.

Quotes
Despicable Me (2010)

Dr. Nefario: We have to warn him, and FAST! [starts driving on his moped very slowly]

Dr. Nefario: And here, of course, is the new weapon you ordered. [shoots a minion with the fart gun, making him pass out]

Gru: No, no, no. I said DART gun, not... [grossed out]

Gru: okayyy.

Dr. Nefario: Oh yes. Cause I was wondering... under what circumstances would we use this?

Edith: Can I drink this? Dr. Nefario: Do you want to explode?

Gru: Uh, question. What are these? Dr. Nefario: A dozen boogie robots. Boogie! Look at this! Watch me. Gru: Cookie robots! I said cookie robots! Ah, why... why are you so... old?

Dr. Nefario: [a minion drinks from a bottle, starts floating] We've been working on this for a while now. It's an Anti-gravity serum. [the minion floats out an open skylight]

Dr. Nefario: I meant to close that. He'll be alright, I'm sure. Gru: Do the effects wear off?

Dr. Nefario: [looking up at some minions floating on the roof] Uh... so far, no. No, they don't.

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Eduardo: I'm not afraid of your jelly guns.

Dr. Nefario: Oh, this ain't no jelly gun, sunshine.

[uses the fart gun on El Macho to knock him out cold from the smell of the stench]

Gru: The highest honor awarded to Dr. Nefario for your years of service, the 21-fart gun salute! [21 fart guns fire]

Dr. Nefario: [coughs] Uh, I counted 22.

Gru: You brought the girls?

Dr. Nefario: Yes. Oh. Was that wrong?

Trivia
This section lists some random facts about the character of Dr. Nefario. The last name "Nefario" is most likely a derivative of the word nefarious, meaning "wicked or criminal", denoting his career as a mad scientist and inventor. Dr. Nefario shares a voice actor with E.B. from Illumination Entertainment's Hop. They were both voiced by Russell Brand. Near the end of Despicable Me 2, where Dr. Nefario finally knocked out a mutated El Macho with a fart gun and then posed for a picture is a homage to the movie King Kong where after King Kong fell to his death from the Empire State Building, two soldiers made almost the exact same pose for the camera. His middle name, Albert, could be a reference to the famous physicist, Albert Einstein. He met Gru when he was young after he created a science fair project that caught his attention.