Minions fever is sweeping the nation. Their first solo outing pulled in the second-best opening weekend for an animated film ever with $115.2 million.
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Two of their biggest fans may be this father and son wearing the Minions’ signature blue overalls and goggles. Reddit user Bob_F37T spotted the duo on Sunday riding the subway: either on their way to see the movie or their way back hom after seeing it.
His post has generated over 5,000 upvotes on the popular website and over 3 million views on Imgur, where the image was uploaded.
Minions are yellow henchmen, who have existed since the beginning of beginning, evolving from a yellow single-cell organisms into beings who have only one purpose: to serve the most ambitious villains. After their masters were destroyed, they decide to isolate themselves from the world and start a new life in Antarctica. Sometime in the 60s, the lack of a master drives them into depression, so bravest minion and two other volunteers set out to find a new one. They arrive at a villain convention, where they compete for the right to be henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, a stylish and ambitious villain determined to dominate the world and become the first female super-villain.
