Heroine's Journey of Megamind
Megamind, one of the most underrated and unappreciated animated movies in the 2000s. With How to Train Your Dragon coming before, and The Croods after, one could argue this period was the peak of DreamWorks Animation, but that is beside the point. In today's blog I would like to connect the plot of Megamind and specifically the character Megamind's journey to the Maureen Murdock's Heroine's Journey. While it is quite a strange comparison, I really do think Megamind's story correlates to the Heroine's Journey incredibly well. We begin at the separation from the feminine, and to be honest, this will probably be the weakest comparison of blog. If we change feminine into Megamind's sense of good, to please and protect others, and masculine as his evil and rebel side, this step begins to make sense. When Megamind was young and in elementary school (called "Lil' Gifted School For lil' gifted kids, which was built right next to a prison where the youn...