Though he is the most-brilliant supervillain the world has known, Megamind the least-successful. Thwarted time and again by heroic Metro Man (Brad Pitt), Megamind is more surprised than anyone when he actually manages to defeat his longtime enemy. But when he gets a visit from his old childhood friends the bad guys, he is in the shock of his life when he finds out that they have retired and what's worse is that they have a kid. But that was the least of his problems, without Metro Man, Megamind has no purpose in life, so he creates a new opponent, who quickly decides that it's more fun to be a bad guy than a hero.