


According to Felonious Gru's flashbacks, twenty years ago, Eduardo was taller and more muscular than he is in the present day, and had longer black hair. Nefario then knocks him out with a Fart Gun.Įduardo is a very short, heavyset Mexican man with long black hair that reaches his shoulders. Gru nearly loses the battle until he uses a lipstick Taser to paralyze El Macho. 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. Just as El Macho is about to launch the rocket, one of Gru's minions steals the remote control. 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. Gru confronts El Macho on the top balcony and demands to know where Lucy is. They later return to El Macho's lair and restore all the Minions back to normal by firing the antidote at them with guns. Nefario creates an antidote for the PX-41 formula and puts it into the jelly they were making earlier. Nefario changes his mind about working with El Macho and sides back with Gru.Īt Gru's house, Dr. As a result, he tracks Lucy down and holds her captive. 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. Antonio has also left Margo for another girl, so Gru freezes him with his freeze ray.Īfter they leave, Lucy arrives at the party because she has developed feelings for Gru. However, a disgusted Gru turns down the offer and leaves with his daughters. He offers Gru a chance to join forces with him, saying that he has admired his work as a villain for years. El Macho proclaims that he will use the minions to conquer the world. 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 with purple fuzzy hair. El Macho announces that he is "making a spectacular return to evil" and brings in Gru's elderly assistant Dr. 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. 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. At the party, he notices that Gru is quite sad, as Lucy has been relocated to Australia. 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. The next day, Eduardo meets up with Gru and his daughters at Salsa y Salsa. Eduardo then looks up at the car flying away with a poopy look on face. Eduardo soon returns and they barely manage to escape. After Lucy subdues the chicken, they break into the kitchen but find nothing. That night, after breaking in, they are spotted by Eduardo's pet chicken El Pollito, who happens to be the restaurant security guard. 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. They are assigned to infiltrate the Paradise Shopping Mall and find out who it is.ĭuring their first day on the job, Gru and Lucy meet Eduardo Perez and he tells them about his upcoming Cinco de Mayo party. 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. 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.

Going into hiding, El Macho moved to America, getting married, having a son named Antonio, and opening a very successful Mexican restaurant named "Salsa y Salsa" in the Paradise Shopping Mall. No one was ever able to retrieve his body. 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. Twenty years prior to the events of Despicable Me 2, El Macho was a supervillain who had a reputation for terrorizing Mexico.
