Why do Minions need to wear glasses?

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In the Despicable Me series and the Minions movie, all the Minions are wearing two-eye covering and one-eye covering glasses, depending on the set of eyes they have. See below image.

Image of three minions in joy

  1. Why do they need to wear these glasses all the time?
  2. Do these things have any effect on their eyesight?


Best Answer

From my own answer to similar question on sister site:

In Despicable Me 2, It is shown that minions have bad eye-sight. Without glasses, minion's vision is blurry. When because of, a purple minion, one of the minions lost his goggles, he was not able to see properly. So that appear to be reason behind wearing goggle.




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Why does some Minions have one eye?

The more obvious reason why they have one or two eyes is that it is used as a plot device so that the Minions can be distinct to movie viewers.

Do Minions have eyes?

There are 3 different shapes: small and plump, medium, tall and thin. There are two different eye types: one eye and two eyes. But did you know that tall minions only ever have sprout hair and one-eyed minions are normally small.

How many eyes does a minion have?

They have one or two eyes, and their irises are almost always brown (except for Bob, who has one green and one brown eye). There appears to be no other difference between the two types beyond the number and colour of eyes, and their height.

How do Minions reproduce?

Additionally, the director confirmed that Minions cannot reproduce or divide themselves in any way to create more Minions.



Why do minions wear goggles?




More answers regarding why do Minions need to wear glasses?

Answer 2

Minions wear safety glasses because they are engineers.

Answer 3

Minions originally mean workers, workers for the Devil. Since the minions are on Earth and are workers, they are shown with a typical workers attire. Dungarees, tools, boots and here, safety glasses. Also the look really cool other than the conventional big round too cute eyes look for animated characters.

Answer 4

I think the glass for protecting their eyes, because minions has no eyelids they can't close their eyes, to protect their they need a super glass

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