Outsider fanart you love

[mentalguru]

Basically any fanart by people not on these boards that you love.

I love this baby!Megamind piece it's kind of sad as well as sweet and adorable too. A christmas piece with the warden giving him a present:

browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=baby+megamind#/d352c3i



I kind of want to adopt Megamind, or if I'm more truthful, have my parents adopt him and have him as a (much) younger brother. He's so adorable and it's so sad he didn't have a real mum or dad! About the closest to that could be considered the prison warden. -sighs-

[pitbulllady]

Awwww....that is so sad and sweet at the same time, that this kid would grow up surrounded by some of the most vicious criminals, and the closest thing he had to a parent was this gruff old warden. I have to wonder about things from the warden's perspective, you know, like many parents would feel when their kid goes astray and they don't know whether to blame the kid, society...or themselves, but they never stop loving their kid, no matter what.

I can't HELP but to compare this movie with Monsters, Inc. with one of those "what if" thoughts, as in, what if Pixar had created that movie from the "villain's" perspective, from Randall's? How different would he be perceived if we got to see HIS childhood and past and see why he became what he did? I can't help but to think that if Pixar had made Megamind, instead of Dreamworks, the lead character would have remained an unrepentent, evil villain throughout, someone who was really menacing and threatening to poor Ms. Ritchie, using her as his pawn, and he would surely have gotten some awful comeuppance at the hands of the movie's shining hero, all for the laughs of the audience.

pitbulllady

[mentalguru]

Megamind is such an adorable kid. I kind of want to be a big sister to him while he's at school too. It's generally thought the warden might be the reason he was even in school though. And during the movie he did seem like someone who'd maybe been disappointed in Megs a bit too much. But in the end when he gets tied up so Megamind can bust out and save the day he's pretty happy LOL.

Speaking of which here's another piece here of him as a kid, with his only friend, Minion his fish. Awww.

zims-lost-soul.deviantart.com/art/Me-and-You-Against-the-world-191783964


Plus a funny one here, where Megamind is utterly failing to wrap christmas presents properly lol:

madjesters1.deviantart.com/art/MM-Megamind-s-first-christmas-189086563

[pitbulllady]

I'd left a comment on the DA page of the artist who made the second one, actually. I've actually known more than a few really intelligent people who absolutely suck at doing really mundane things, like working a non-electric pencil sharpener, and the more technology they are surrounded with, the more they suck at doing ordinary things. I for one cannot gift-wrap anything worth a darn and am very greatful for the invention of gift bags! I always dreaded Christmas for the sole reason that I'd have to wrap presents, and most of the time, to avoid handing people what looked like a brightly-colored piece of garbage, I'd take them to school and get one or more of the students to handle that little detail so I wouldn't have to. My father, who has a degree in Accounting and is no idiot by a long stretch, has similar issues with folding clothing. It's really painful to watch him try to fold a dress shirt; you'd think he was trying to solve one of those complex Chinese puzzles or something!

Speaking of clothing and somewhat OT, though, I did find a post on the MM Livejournal where someone had put up a screen cap of that end credit scene where Minion is doing the laundry, complaining that his boss needed to remember to empty his pockets, wherein the real Bernard is rehydrated...in the washing machine, no less...and one can see Ms. Ritchie's Little Blue Dress hanging up in the background ;D . In addition, most of the clothing in the laundry basket appear to be hers. Yes, the rabid fangirl in me did some ecstatic backflips at that point, and I was like, "well, it sure didn't take those two long to start shackin' up!" Now, I can't find that post again to save my hide, darn it!

pitbulllady

[mentalguru]

I SUCK at wrapping presents too. It's just one of those talents my mother utterly failed to pass onto me. On the odd occasion I get lucky but otherwise... uh no.

But yeah, MM could probably BUILD something to wrap presents for him, but never could himself I think. But maybe as his first proper christmas say with a girlfriend he wanted a stab at it. And minion of course is also there to help with the obvious and easier solution.

Whoever came up with the idea of gift bags was a genius.

I think Minion is adorable too in general and like MM said "you fantastic fish you".

I'll try and find that post for you at some point. If it helps there are tags in the livejournal itself for both the ship. Maybe I'll even luck out with clicking 'Benard' as a character.

I kind of also at some point do fanfic for this movie. I also have an idea for an ATLA fic with it, with MM's appearance as a baby helping Zuko overcome his fears a little about being a father. (Since he too his the redeemed guy on the show, as is his Uncle when we take into account the hints of the past on the show.)

I think I love this movie a bit too much...

Meh, who cares?!

I was sceptical at first too about another movie, but I think to tide my MM cravings until the DVD I might get Despicable Me the first time I saw trailers I was sceptical, but it's really good too apparently and a good hit for the small studio it came from. So much so it's been nominated for big awards.

[mentalguru]

Roxanne/Megamind shippy stuff. There's also something a bit kinkier above it when you click it though -coughs- But you have to click it- and this one shown here is more safe for work but still great.

community.livejournal.com/megamind_movie/274748.html#cutid1

(I have seen a few people in this fandom also into ATLA, seems to be some crossover I guess since both offer humour and redemption I guess, it does seem like something which might spark certain ATLA fans interests- this is one of them, I hope she sticks around- she gave many, many great ATLA pieces before too! )

[pitbulllady]

Jan 17, 2011 18:20:36 GMT -5 mentalguru said:

Roxanne/Megamind shippy stuff. There's also something a bit kinkier above it when you click it though -coughs- But you have to click it- and this one shown here is more safe for work but still great.

community.livejournal.com/megamind_movie/274748.html#cutid1

(I have seen a few people in this fandom also into ATLA, seems to be some crossover I guess since both offer humour and redemption I guess, it does seem like something which might spark certain ATLA fans interests- this is one of them, I hope she sticks around- she gave many, many great ATLA pieces before too! )

When I click the link I get that "Must be over 18" warning, and when I click THAT(yeah, I totally tried to go there), I got a page telling me that I didn't have access to view that page, even though I'm most definitely over 18. Whose art was it, anyway? I commented on someone's art over on DA(really good stuff, so I didn't say anything "flamish" at all)that I believed this movie was superior to most of what Pixar had done, due to Pixar's jaded "Good Guys vs. Bad Guys" formula, in which the possibility of the "Bad Guy" finding some sort of redemption just isn't there. The artist got pissed, apparently, especially that I'd DARE to compare Megamind with Randall, saying that Randall was "just a jealous bastard", etc. It's sad and disturbing that people are unable to apply the same thought processes to him that they so eagerly apply to MM, all because we get to SEE the later's situation through HIS eyes, told in HIS voice, while we only see Randall from the perspective of someone else. I wonder if that person actually has gone so far as to block me from accessing their art, or what.

pitbulllady

[mentalguru]

Well MM's is definitly more obvious than Randall in that case. What was the picture though? I don't think you can ban someone from SEEING a picture, just from commenting. I'm not sure though.

Also well, I'm pretty sure now that what we see in it is unintentional- rather like the fact Sulley exiling him isn't supposed to be considered questionable. But what's canon is in the movie regardless and large secret projects under a boss prepared to get rid of anyone who stands in his way on top of a 9-5 job doesn't sound fun. But in any case we don't get to really see much of another side of Randall, and I think when they produced Monsters Inc they pretty much forgot at the time that this would have been going on in the background. (It's the whole problem with the Protaganist centered morality). It's understandable to a degree the whole business- we're supposed to sympathsise entriely with the protaganist of the movie. But the thing is we're also supposed to believe, for a moment, that they actually exist as do the other characters- so to treat them as a mere extension of the protaganist to get rid of doesn't work too well. If anything the characters have to at least consider them to be 'human' too. (So to speak).

Plus Monsters Inc is fairly... interesting since it gets the heroes hands DIRTY. Most Disney movies (there are exceptions) DON'T. At most we do get the first two toy stories maybe but they were hardly big- but when the villian dies its generally through some accident or their own undoing. Like Frollo, Disney's best villian ever created fell after a stone sculpture came to life and died. Clayton from their adaptation of Tarzan died because while Tarzan tried to stop him he accidentally hung himself on the vines and broke his neck.

Usually some other factor such as bare faced luck or another party (the hyenas in The Lion King) do the actually killing/ villian removal if any transpires. Usually. Monsters Inc instead has the designated heroes do the work themselves. Even if it wasn't precisely as clear cut as 'killing' in of itself- they were the ones who actively got rid of Randall.

Back on topic:

This is Avatar: TLA fanart and it's pretty awesome. Just the group being goofy friends.

browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=aang+zuko+friendship#/d1e8e72

[mentalguru]

Recently submitted to the Monsters Inc Club: Basically a whole slew of 'blue' characters including Sulley also has Stitch and Megamind in it XD. Megamind looks like he's just been surprised by Stitch dropping on his head though:

mentalguru.deviantart.com/#/d37t0kc