We want the BBC to take action against Dreamworks for them STEALING minions from Doctor Who!!!

In the Doctor Who episode Underworld Part 4, which was in the 15th season of the popular television show, the Doctor meets a race of aliens called the Minyans. These aliens bear a striking resemblance to the Minions from Dreamworks' films Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2 and Minions despite the Doctor Who episode being released over 32 years before Despicable Me and the first cinematic appearance of Minions. The Minyans and Minions have many similarities including their yellow domed heads and their names. This is an OUTRAGE and it shows how UNIMAGINATIVE the team behind Despicable Me was. It shocks me that in this day and age a creative youtuber can have a copyright claim placed on a review of a movie or video game, but this disgusting avoidance of copyright has been allowed to go on for FIVE YEARS!

I suggest that Bob Baker and Dave Martin, the writers of Underworld Part 4, should be given all creative rights to Dreamwork's Minions and that Dreamworks should pay the BBC 10% of all profit made on Minion based products, including merchandise and the Despicable me movie franchise, to the BBC as compensation.

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