Gru's mom is not as bad as you think we first get introduced to Gru's mom while he's driving and gets a call from her instantly it's obvious that she's very disappointed in grw and mean to him as she rubs it in his face how more successful villain than him stole his pyramid and laughs at him then Gru seeking validation from his mother tells her about this huge scheme he has planned and how when she sees it she'll be very proud of him and she's just like yeah right this first piece of evidence definitely does not
support my point but just wait this part will make sense in a little bit the next time we see his mom is when GW is a little kid watching the moon landing inspired wanting to go to the moon and telling his mom one day I will go to the moon and she just crushes his little dreams calling him a monkey we then watch as grew never gave up and continued to prove to his mom that he was capable of reaching the moon but as grw showed each step of his process like his drawing of the
rocket and his prototype she's just like eh she does not care it's not until he shows her his real actual functioning rocket that she goes from chilling to sitting up gasping and all just to say Eh this part is actually important in the first part of the puzzle to this insanely complicated woman there's no doubt she was genuinely impressed with this rocket we watch as this woman showed no emotion to his drawing and prototype but then this time she literally sits up in gas which would have to mean she had to be lying to GRE
when she said Eh this time the question is though why would she lie why would she not show her kids support for this amazing accomplishment sadly though there's still not enough evidence to add to the complexity of this woman in the next scene Gru's mom visits his kids to show them baby photos of guu and for the first time in this movie she seems kind of sweet and questionably good with kids this seems confusing because we just watched as she was the meanest person ever to Gro and then she just does a 180 sitting here
all cuted up with his kids Reminiscing on baby photos of guu then we get a glimpse to the loving side of Gru's mom as while she's going through his baby photos she has the biggest smile on her face and talks about grew in such a loving manner also not to mention the fact that she documented his entire life unlike the other scenes there's a lot to unpack here first off why is gr's mom so good with his three kids heavy emphasis on three because his mom couldn't even handle being a decent mom to One Singular
Gru this makes me feel like Gru's mom had some resentment towards Gru for some reason because she obviously doesn't hate kids we'll figure that out a bit later in the third movie but for now I want to talk about the fact that she documented his life no Mom who hates her kid takes pictures and creates a memory book for their kid not to mention talk about the photos while geeking out so hard this part confirming that even though we just watched some pretty bad examples of his mom being awful there's actually a part of her
that cares for grou I did leave out one part though that kind of makes her look bad so while his mom is showing the photo of Gru in his Sunday Best Margot was like he kind of looks like a girl and she goes yes an ugly girl which honestly sounds so mean and either she just has a very sarcastic sense of humor or it's deeper than that anyways the next time we see gr's Mom is after the whole Gru saving his girls from Vector situation and the girls do their recital for GR in his house
and his mom comes to join first off the fact she cames holds volume but the dialogue this woman spits changes everything she says I'm so proud of you son you turn out to be a great parent just like me which sounds rude until she fixes it and says maybe even better this is probably the first time ever gr's mom has ever told Gru she was proud of him and this may not make total sense right now but I want to point out that the one time she finally told him she was proud of him it
wasn't for a villainous act I mean he literally stole the moon in this movie and she never even brings that up but it's proud of him for being a great dad I really want to touch on this a bit later as I think it's very very important but for now in the second movie she just has a cameo where she attends his wedding it's not that important but it's nice that she showed up for that let's finally now get to one of the most important movies for figuring out gr's mom Despicable Me 3 and this
movie Gru finds out that he has a secret brother so he goes to confront his mom and by the way I want to focus real quick on how his mom is constantly fronting with men in this scene we watch as she swims with these dudes and it's hardcore flirting with them not to mention she also flirts her Dr nefario and in Rise of guu she has this new Guru which we can tell from Context Clues they are obviously messing around this actually believe it or not is a very important clue in this investigation but first
let's Lear about gr's Dad so after grew confronts his mom at first she freaks out and we find out that she lied to him all this time and tells Gru that his dad died at disappointment when he was born which she could have definitely came with a better excuse for his death but anyway turns out her lying was a part of the agreement because shortly after gin's twin brother were born his mom and father got divorced and they each took one kid and I guess his mom got second choice which I think instantly created a
toxic mindset for his mom about Gru first off now it's a competition on whose kid is better not only that but anytime grw does something bad she's going to think what if I had the other kid would he be different while she does make a snarky remark obviously I got second pick I truthfully don't think this would be any reason to hate your kid 100% And I think his mom just has the most toxic sense of humor that she uses to deal with pain as you can tell talking about this to grw genuinely made her
upset another thing I want to focus on about this scene is his dad from just this photo gw's dad looks identical to him and when we see an actual self-portrait of his dad later this Dude Looks Like Gru's twin so this definitely can explain why his mom trees grew the way she did sometimes it may not be intentional at all but every time she looks at Gru she can't help but see her divorced husband and being constantly reminded of everything about that man including the split up speaking of them splitting up I actually have a
theory about that here's where his mom theory is really about to open up now unfortunately gr's mom gives no explanation whatsoever about why her and gr's Dad divorced but that's okay cuz I'm an overthinker so later in the movie we learned that gr's Dad was also a super villain a legendary super villain and raised Drew gw's brother with the main purpose of following his legacy then you have Gru's mom who never really pushed GW to be a villain and just wanted him to live a normal life from this it seems like they both had different
parenting Styles and wanted different lives for their kids so they decided it was best to split up while that's a theory it seems like the most logical reasoning from a small information that we got knowing the reasoning behind the breakup is very important and it honestly reminds me of Koco gr's dad chose being a villain over settling down and starting a family of gr's mom also he robbed her raising her other kid just to make that kid into a villain leaving her no choice but to try to save one of her kids from that villainous
lifestyle which we know she failed at but we'll touch more on this later the reason I say this reminds me of Koco is because in KOCO Miguel's family absolutely loveed music until Hector left his family to pursue music which then resulted in his wife Elda to associate music with heartbreak and betrayal resulting in the family Banning music from ever being played or heard I think the same thing applies here gr's Mom associated being a villain with betrayal and heartbreak and of course she got the son who was obsessed with being a villain this is the
exact reason we never see his mom supporting him like I said earlier the only time she ever said she was proud of him was for being a great father and not for stealing the literal Moon so I think Gru's mom thought By ignoring his little villainous Antics and constantly talking down on him for not being a good villain it would demotivate him into quitting pursuing something else but sadly it just motivated him more to prove her wrong Gru is very stubborn and I don't think she realized this also I'm sure watching grew become a villain
created a fire of Rage within her not only does grew look identical to his father but now he trying to become a villain just like his father and like I just mentioned Gru's mom and dad got divorced so grw could have a normal non villainous life just for him to become a villain this has to feel like a huge slap in the face and this explains why even when gr's Mom was in awe of his rocket she had to force herself to say eh because she felt if she supported his villainous axe the divorce was
all for nothing now gr's Mom definitely could have done better at rerouting Gro from his villainous Axe and a healthier nontoxic way but I think she had a hard time dealing with these villainous actions and it instantly brought out a mean side to her which resulted in her being mean and not thinking deeply about how to handle it as she could have just had a loving conversation with him but maybe that would have been unfair to not allow G to be a villain so it's a tough situation but we do know now that all gr
really needed to be a good person this whole time was love and words of affirmation because once he got his loving kids he actually became a good person so truthfully all she had to do was be there and love Gru but who knows if that young kid would have given up his dream that easy at that time I think after 30 something years of being a villain he was in the best place mentally to understand that he didn't really want to be a villain anymore as no matter how big the scheme was it never filled
the void the way love did we also need to dive into what this woman was going through mentally at the time as well we always see grman flirting with guys but never dating anyone new this further shows that the breakup had some long-lasting effects it seems gr's mom lost trust in men and since then has just messed around with guys to help with the loneliness are moving on process but in the end of the day she's terrified to commit to something serious again I mean it's been 46 years since the divorce and even if you
don't believe my theory her reaction when grw confronts her shows that even still this affects her heavily so imagine when it was a fresh brand new divorce Gru's mom was a single mother heartbroken lost trying to fill the empty vote with man after man and lost her other kid she didn't know what she was doing at all and she was mad at the world especially at gw's dad another thing toxic about the divorce is that they were never able to see each other after so they just had to bottle up all that anger and had
nowhere to put it so I'm sure sometimes it was directed towards grew unintentionally and it seems she use very toxic humor to cope with this as well sometimes now truthfully even though gr's mom was deal with a bad hand she could have been there more as a mom there's no doubt about that she definitely wasn't ready to be a mom but I truthfully think she cared for Gru but was so deep in depression she was unaware of a lot I mean half a time we see this woman she is sinking herself deep into a hobby
or dozing off this woman is always trying to escape her mind but even then this woman has never missed a big event for greu document his life as a kid showed up to be a grandma took him to villain con and minions even though she hated that stuff just because grew probably begged her allowed the minions to live in her house and in her own weird way tried to stray him away from being a villain to help better him but sadly just motivated him to continue being a villain I don't think Gru's mom is a
great mom cuz even I don't believe that but I do think it's good to deeper understand why someone was the way they were and I like to think if gr could someone watch YouTube this would have been a really good therapy session for him I don't know I don't know maybe I'm just over thinking overthinking really hard and I haven't thinking in a while so it's it's my brain hurts a lot it's it's pulsing right now it's it's throbbing
