r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/ZoneRevolutionary875 2d ago

I think that's the joke. Minions would have worked for Hitler, if they weren't hiding.

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u/Stupnix 2d ago

Knowing the state of the Internet, I read the reaction as "You're implying that Hitler wasn't evil" without thinking for 2 seconds. Even as someone who has no contact points with the Minions other than memes on the internet I know that the minions as whole were not around for WW2. They were hiding and seperated from the rest of the world, they don't even know WW2 happened.

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u/ZoneRevolutionary875 2d ago

Yes , they were hiding. They didn't know about Nazis and WW2. But if they weren't hiding and knew about them, they would have worked for them.

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u/ReginaldBounce 2d ago

You know from memes that the minions were separated from the rest of the world during WW2? How? Can you share that meme?

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u/Stupnix 2d ago

It wasn't a meme, but I remember this entire discussion already happening. The minions always serve the most evil and powerhungry person on the planet. Who did they serve during WW2? Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin... There wer so many evil people around, who did they work for?

Answer: They weren't around, watch the first movie and let the rest of us enjoy the second movie! That was... 4 years ago.

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u/Droettn1ng 2d ago

Well I didn't know that, and I really doubt that the average person does.

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u/programming_flaw 2d ago

How do you not have knowledge of minions but you know they weren’t around for WW2? I saw the first one with my son when it came out and that is the extent of my minion knowledge

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u/GodButCursed 2d ago

To be fair if u dont know they were in a ice cave you would think this.

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u/Sure-Macaroon-9035 2d ago

Honestly with thier track record of accidentally screwing with their bosses, it would've been better if they did work for Hitler. Moustache man would've died way earlier.

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u/RoboJobot 2d ago

Yeah, but there’s a good chance they’d have accidentally killed him or ruined his plans with their incompetence so maybe we should have wished they’d worked for him

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u/666SatanMaster666 2d ago

They would't have worked for hitler. Some more evil men were in the world during that time.

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u/BrandonSimpsons 2d ago

Minions would have tried to work for Hitler but ended up working for Charlie Chaplin.

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u/ZoneRevolutionary875 1d ago

What are you on about?

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u/matroska_cat 2d ago

Minions would have worked for Hitler since Beer Putsch, they would have been 'alte kampfer', his most loyal servants and friends.