‘And when, asked a minion, might these changes kick in?’.
‘I was wary of her when she first started as the minion of our group at work but we became close through our appreciation of food and sarcastic wit, which no one else quite understood.’.‘If the United Kingdom is as bad as you teach your minions, then you have no reason to live here.’.‘In his defence, it could be argued that a party leader ought to run up bigger expenses than his minions.’.‘Is that what you'd do if you wanted to command your minions in the good fight?’.‘Minor minions also decided to get in on the act of being totally dumbfounded as to what to do.’.‘I am also making friends with everyone else, all the minions, so they can be on my side when it goes wrong.’.‘Probably more to the point, he was in charge, and didn't want comments from any minions who might happen to notice.’.‘Probably he did, but Henry VIII won instant popularity for beheading his father's minions.’.‘His secretary held all calls and his minions kept the noise down.’.‘She wakes up at 5am, says her prayers and plans how she will do it and to which of her minions will be assigned the most gruesome task.’.
View the full definition in the Macmillan Dictionary. “History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power – bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.” Some well-known minion groups in popular culture include the Flying Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, the Imperial Stormtroopers in the Star Wars franchise and, of course, the widely recognized yellow Minions from the Despicable Me films. Minion characters are often a group of nameless individuals that lack clearly defined personalities in a work of fiction. Minions do the bidding of the villain, often carrying out evil or dangerous plans intended to harm or discourage the hero. The minion archetype – sometimes called the henchman – is usually associated with the villain in a story, book, movie, television show or play. Other common character archetypes in fiction include the hero, the mentor and the trickster. Archetype characters have specific traits and actions that are repeated over and over in stories to give them more depth. An archetype is a model character that is used as an example of typical behaviour. In fiction writing, the minion is a common character archetype. Though the word minion was first used to describe a favourite or an agreeable darling, over time the word has come to have a more negative meaning. Minion is a noun that refers to someone who does whatever a more powerful person commands.