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Minions director Pierre Coffin has confirmed in an interview that no minions have worked with Hitler because they were frozen "in that cave."

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Confused why people are saying “but they would have!” as though it’s a gotcha. Like yes…they work for the most evil being on the planet. That’s the 1st thing we find out about them. If you want to get haughty about a counterfactual, explain why you’ve been buying tickets and merchandise for years

REAL TALK: I don't like the Minions... but honestly, if they made a Minions short where they just fuck with Hitler in the style of old-school WWII propaganda cartoons... it would be the BEST MINIONS THING EVER!

Because Hitler was the most evil person in history and the particular movie being referenced is all about how they worked for whoever was most evil and powerful at the time, throughout millions of years.

Every population is susceptible to manipulation, don't create an impossible standard. We thought the USA would be in a world beyond wars.

The first movie did actually establish that fact by saying that their purpose in life was to find the most evil being they could and work for them. Which is why they had them frozen in a cave for a few decades around then

The part that's not mentioned is that with their track record of accidentally killing/incapacitating their own evil masters, there's a real possibility that if they HAD worked for Hitler, they would have ended his life (and, possibly, the war) preemptively. Ads on YT show them decapitating a king!

Look, their first movie starts with them killing a T-rex, a pharaoh, a few other other masters across time, Dracula, and seriously injuring Napoleon with a cannonball to the ass. There's a precedent.

So good, did not work for Hitler because they were in an Ice Cave from 1812 to 1968. So, for any fanfic writers that want to attribute, say, The Conquistadors (Before) or The Killing Fields (after) to Minions, Good News! It's at least a little bit Canon!