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Eduardo Perez, better known by his supervillain name El Macho, is the main antagonist of Illumination's 4th feature film Despicable Me 2, the second installment of the Despicable Me franchise.
He is a former supervillain who kidnapped Felonious Gru's minions and turned them into feral killing machines with the PX-41 Serum so that they can help him conquer the world.
Past
Twenty years prior to the events of Despicable Me 2, El Macho was a supervillain who had a reputation for terrorizing Mexico. One day, El Macho allegedly committed suicide (presumably to get his enemies off his back) by riding a live shark with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest into an active volcano. No one was ever able to retrieve his body. Going into hiding, El Macho moved to America, getting married, having a son named Antonio, and opening a very successful Mexican restaurant named "Salsa & Salsa" in the Paradise Shopping Mall.
Despicable Me 2
In the present day, a highly powerful mutagen known as PX-41 is stolen (along with the secret laboratory where it is being developed) by a mysterious aircraft using a giant magnet. The Anti-Villain League recruits the former supervillain Felonious Gru (now a jelly manufacturer) to seek out the culprit along with undercover agent Lucy Wilde. They are assigned to infiltrate the Paradise Shopping Mall and find out who it is. During their first day on the job, Gru and Lucy meet Eduardo Perez and he tells them about his upcoming Cinco de Mayo party. Just as he is leaving, Gru recognizes him as El Macho and decides to break into his restaurant with Lucy to see if they can find anything suspicious. That night, after breaking in, they are spotted by Eduardo's pet chicken Pollito, who happens to be the restaurant security guard. After Lucy subdues the chicken, they break into the kitchen, but find only a jar of salsa. Eduardo soon returns and they barely manage to escape. Eduardo then looks up at the car flying away with a surprised look on face. The next day, Eduardo meets up with Gru and his daughters at Salsa y Salsa. Eduardo notices that Margo has developed a crush on his son Antonio and invites the family to the big Cinco de Mayo party at his mansion. At the party, he notices that Gru is quite sad, as Lucy has been relocated to Australia. Eduardo sympathizes with him and tells him that he has also gone through some tough times, reasoning that "there's much more to us than meets the eye." After he leaves, Gru decides to follow him and see what he is really up to. Gru eventually reaches a secret room hidden deep inside the house and runs into Eduardo dressed in his El Macho regalia, leading him to realize that El Macho truly is alive. El Macho announces that he is "making a spectacular return to evil" and brings in Gru's elderly assistant Dr. Nefario, who is now working for him. Dr. Nefario reveals that he has been kidnapping Gru's Minions and using the PX-41 mutation formula to turn them into an army of indestructible killing machines and using his inventions to steal the PX-41. El Macho proclaims that he will use the minions to conquer the world. He offers Gru a chance to join forces with him, saying that he has admired his work as a villain for years. However, a disgusted Gru turns down the offer and leaves with his daughters. Antonio has also left Margo for another girl, so Gru freezes him with his freeze ray. After they leave, Lucy arrives at the party because she has developed feelings for Gru. Upon entering, she is ambushed by El Pollito who gets a hold of her purse and shows it to El Macho, inadvertently revealing that they both work for the Anti-Villain League. As a result, he grabs Lucy and holds her captive. After the party is over, Dr. Nefario changes his mind about working with El Macho and sides back with Gru, as he had never agreed to harm him and his family. As quickly contacts him that he took Lucy, which provokes Gru to go back to save her. At Gru's house, Dr. Nefario creates an antidote for the PX-41 formula and puts it into the jelly they were making earlier. They later return to El Macho's lair and restore all the Minions back to normal by firing the antidote at them with guns. After changing all the Minions back, Gru confronts El Macho on the top balcony and demands to know where Lucy is. He shows Lucy tied to an enormous rocket and tells Gru that he intends to send the rocket straight into the same volcano where he faked his death. Just as El Macho is about to launch the rocket, one of Gru's minions steals the remote control. As a last resort, El Macho drinks an entire test tube of the PX-41 formula, turning him into a giant, purple hairy ogre-like monster. Gru nearly loses the battle until he uses a lipstick Taser to paralyze El Macho. Dr. Nefario then knocks him out with a Fart Gun it's unkown what happend to el macho aftermath however it can be assmued that he got executed off screen because his crimes.
Eduardo is a very short, overweight Mexican man with long black hair that reaches his shoulders, and a thick black mustache and beard. His legs and arms are very stubby. He has light brown skin with brown eyes. According to Gru's flashbacks, twenty years ago, Eduardo was taller and more muscular than he is in the present day, and had longer black h...
Despite being one of the greediest, most ruthless and most dangerous villains in his prime, after faking his own death and retiring from a life of crime El Macho has become a more friendlier, acquiescent, and good-natured personality. He remains a very sociable, gregarious, and interactive owner of Salsa y Salsa and has shown a degree of love for both his son Antonio and pet chicken, Pollito. Behind his complaisant and polite façade, El Macho is in possession of a deadly and destructive ambition and is more than willing to do whatever it takes to return to his lost fame.
However, underneath his confidence and calamity, El Macho also carried something of a sad and despondent side. Presumably having been forced to retire from his villainy, he had a very straightforward and genuine conversation with Gru claiming he knew the "look of the broken heart" and contemplated that he had once attempted to "drown his sorrows in guacamole".
•Eduardo was originally supposed to be voiced by Al Pacino, who is known for the roles of Tony Montana from Scarface, Michael Corleone from The Godfather trilogy, and Willy Bank from Ocean's Thirteen. This somewhat explains Eduardo's physical similarities with Pacino. However, Pacino was dropped out during last-minute changes for an unknown reason and replaced with Benjamin Bratt. Pacino's name still appears on some of the trailers.
•El Macho's home and lair has a lot of Aztec style decorations, almost sort of a motif for his splendiferous extravagance.
•The only known way to get into El Macho's lair is by dance-stepping on musical tile buttons a la' Dance Dance Revolution and Simon Says sounding the musical notes of the iconic Mexican song La Cucaracha. If the wrong button is stepped on, Indiana Jones-esque booby traps are set off to kill intruders of any sort.
•It was never explained how El Macho survived. However, it's likely he jumped off the shark and took off the dynamite that was strapped to his chest before he and the shark fell into the volcano.
•El Macho also appears as a boss in the IOS game Despicable Me: Minion Rush.
•He did not seem to be aware of Antonio being frozen by Gru, as he was not seen later in the film.
These are the characters who are referred as villains in Despicable Me universe. For other similar uses, see Category:Antagonists.
Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 animated comedy film about Gru, a retired supervillain, who joins the Anti-Villain League to stop El Macho, a new villain who has mutated his Minions. The film features the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, and others.
El Macho is the main villain of Despicable Me 2, a supervillain who kidnaps Gru's minions and turns them into purple creatures. He is voiced by Benjamin Bratt and has a son named Antonio Perez.
El Macho is a former Mexican supervillain who fakes his death and retires to America. He becomes the main antagonist of Despicable Me 2, when he tries to use a mutagen to conquer the world with his minions.
El Macho is a former supervillain who kidnaps and mutates Gru's minions with the PX-41 formula to conquer the world. He is voiced by Benjamin Bratt and has a past connection with Dr. Nefario and a son named Antonio.
