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MonsterTalk

Minions, Mobs & Myrmidons

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

From ancient Greece to modern movies, monsters and villains often get their assistance from mindless mobs of maleficent minions. Are they simply plot devices, or do minions tell us something about the real-world role of the follower when loyal obedience is valued more than heroic ethics? In this episode of Monstertalk, David Perlumtter and Cait Mongrain join us to discuss Minions, Mobs and Myrmidons. Read the episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In the children's animated film series,

0:26.7

Despicable Me, the villain Grew is assisted by a horde of nearly identical

0:32.2

disposable servants called minions.

0:35.6

This type of character, the faceless rabble whose powers derived from sheer numbers,

0:40.9

whose identity is cloaked in the overwhelming banality of numerical superfluousness,

0:45.0

whose own goals or as unexplored as their fashion sense.

0:49.0

These are minions. Their plight is as old as literature. And in this episode of

0:54.4

Monster Talk we're going to peel off the domino masks and identical black and white

0:58.2

striped shirts and learn a little bit more about this unsung backup band of villainy.

1:06.0

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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A giant hairy creature, part 8, on that.

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In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

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It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. More. Monster Talk.

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