When you get into a story and the characters are a total 180 from the original, yet it’s still good,
What’s the Work?
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Gru Redemption Arc is a fan made story created by Briman2000 revolving around a dark take on the Despicable Me franchise. While the story started as a meme, by the final part it is taken completely seriously and nothing is played for jokes anymore as the story is treated with the same severity as the dark events that take place in it.
What Makes Him Pure Good?
- Upon nearly being killed by Du, he chose to abandon villainy and instead put his focus on stopping him from killing any more villains. Even if he believed it to be the AVL’s fault at the time.
- He goes to Gru’s home after he’s crippled by Dru and reveals the AVL’s plans to him, recruiting him to help stop the mass murder of villains and giving him a new robotic body so he can move again and properly fight,
- He and Gru took Vector’s submarine to the AVL headquarters, during the ride he sympathizes with Gru’s loss of everything and his existential crisis.
- Though Gru himself does kill a good number of AVL agents upon boarding the submarine, Vector himself does not partake in this and only ever acts against Dru after finding out he had been manipulating the AVL. He doesn’t harm anyone at any point in the story other than Dru and even then he likely didn’t mean to sink the submarine when he used his squid launcher, especially since Gru is the one that gigantified it.
- Once it’s revealed that Dru was behind it all, Vector saved both Gru and Lucy by using his squid launcher to non-lethally take out all the remaining agents and get Dru’s attention.
- He tried to go help Gru in the final battle with his plasma gun before being shot and apparently killed.
- His influence is the only reason that Dru was defe in the first place, as it allowed Gru on the submarine and ultimately allowed Lucy and the girls to escape.
Admirable Standard
The only other hero is Gru and Vector stands out since he’s the one that gives Gru prosthetic arms and legs and allows him to go against the AVL and Dru during the second half of the story.
Corrupting Qualities
While the original Vector was a terrible person who only cared about his own glory, this version displays none of those egocentric and megalomaniac traits, instead being someone who understands that what Dru is doing is wrong and chooses to change and help Gru stop his brother’s madness. In addition to the fact that any possible past villainy was offscreen, it’s not even mentioned and has no impact on the story other than it being one of the reasons he was hunted down by Dru.
Final Verdict
Oh Yeah!