Why M. Adult themes require an M rating, and despite the friendly chat, some of the themes are adult. Stockholm Syndrome, if not for that, yes the rating would have been lower. Sorry.

"Do I have Stockholm Syndrome?" Roxanne asked. This was something she was scared of.

The former Metroman grinned. This would hopefully let Megamind know he had grown up, and that Roxanne would not see him as quite as big of a a jerk as she did now. "No. you don't and it's your kidnappings that are to thank for that. Before you ask, I will explain but it is to do with why I didn't show up with Titan."

"So why didn't you show up?" Roxanne grumbled. Metroman was needed and he had abandoned the call.

"Because I couldn't, Roxi. Metro City had Stockholm syndrome. I tried juggling babies to get a rise and they still loved me for it. Under Megamind's 'evil overlordship' they were free despite his stylistic touches. They'd never have abandoned their responsibilities while I was alive. It took Titan to demonstrate what they were truly scared of. It had to be Megamind to rescue them."

"You're saying?" Roxanne asked, keeping the incredulity from her voice. She was a professional.

"Come on, you'd have become Syx's 'evil' queen in 2 seconds flat, if you didn't feel it would disappoint me or if you felt you could escape from my eyes, even before he dated you in disguise. "

"She would not." Megamind protests, knowing how upright Roxanne Ritchi is.

"Mainly because you wouldn't let her, little buddy, and the one time Roxi made that offer in jest, you booked her into several psychiatric sessions."

Roxanne grimaces. "Okay, that explains that. Wayne, explain why you came to the conclusion I didn't have Stockholm and Metro City did, right now."

Metroman looks down on the couple, focuses his attention on Roxanne "At first I did think it was you, Roxi. I saw you and Blue being very flirty on the third time before my 'death' so I checked up on Stockholm syndrome. An ever present authority figure you can't get away from. One who has the power of life and death and people are on their side because there scared of what they'll do. "

"Still, Megamind tied me up and threatened me." Roxanne pointed out.

"And we all knew he wasn't ever going to carry it out after the first kidnapping, which, may I point out, he used to make sure we were away from civilians. He gave you a break and on the second time instead of screaming, you started flirting and didn't look back."

"I had to get Metroman's attention from then on." Megamind interrupts "And did so with style if I do say so myself."

"Flirting with him, on the second kidnapping?" Roxanne almost yells.

."Come on, a frequent kidnapping card! I'm surprised people didn't decide you were his girl, rather than mine, which leads back to my point about Metro City having Stockholm syndrome."

"Why couldn't we both have it?" Roxanne underlines the obvious, using both as a useful shorthand

"While you and Megs were flirty you were never on his side in that way, you always tried to persuade him to give up his life of crime, rather than join him in it. That was part of his attraction towards you. You were someone who saw him as more than a villain. Getting back to my original point, there was someone else who could take life with an instant. They were impossible to escape from. But you, you had an escape. Meg's invisible car meant for a short while you were free from the continual observation. And you started to become the Roxi I originally met.:- sharp, sarcastic, witty, judged people by their actions rather than their covers. We two supers, we were jerks but not bad people."

"I decided to test my new theory on Metroman day and so I juggled some babies. followed by what some people would consider blasphemy. They still loved me for it. I'd just used two of the hot button topics of people, children and religion. I was about to touch on politics when of course you were heading on one of your breaks where Megamind would pull your pigtails again."

"I never pulled Roxanne's pigtels. She has short hair." Megamind protests missing the metaphor, since despite his high intelligence, he is poorly socialised.

Roxanne tried not to sigh. Megamind was learning but he would miss what she thought was obvious. "He means trying to impress me in the only way you knew how, despite it being counter-productive. Which it was. And it's pig-tails. You only really got somewhere with proper dating."

"Yes, but I had to hide who I was from you." Megamind is still ashamed about that.

Roxanne has recently realised that his deception was more her fooling herself. "You put on one mask to take off another, and I do it as well. Everybody does. And if I'd thought about and really listened, I would have realised it was you earlier. Didn't want to."

Music Mahn has to bring the couples attention back to him. "Um-hrmm. Not only was I getting fed up, this brought it home to me. I have never been liked for me. People were scared of my powers. How was I to deal with this? Then I got the idea to fake my death. I probably should have brought you two in on it. But if I told you, you'd have become his evil queen. And you, you'd have let her.

"Especially since you sounded like a jilted and heartbroken girlfriend on the news. It was subtle but it was there. Most people assumed it was like this, "We all miss Metroman I miss you. (Beat) Megamind, are you happy "When it was more like this "We all miss Metroman (Beat) (beat) I miss you (beat) Megamind, are you happy?"

Roxanne glows crimson.

"Exactly you were attracted to each other and my death broke your heart. Because it confirmed Megamind was as black as he was painted. Then you gave him the idea to make a new hero. If all had gone right I wonder who he'd have chosen." Metroman's look at Roxanne is rather pointed.

"Me?"

"Come-on, what makes a hero. Bravery determination willingness to stand up for what's right." Megamind stated.

Roxanne blinks... "It would have been me."

"Fortunately your fight meant I didn't have to interfere. But Hal was a surprise and utterly unsuitable; Part of the reason I let you catch me was a guilty conscience. I had to let you see little buddy was exactly what you originally thought he was, a kid who was excluded. Still part of me wanted to get away as well. But having you catching me was more important."

"So when Megamind rescued us from Titan and his depowering..."

"The city took that to mean Megamind had finally defeated the man they were truly scared of. He was accepted immediately. They were no longer scared. They had a hero. This leads to the second problem..."

"No-one outside Metrocity took me as the super villain. But they couldn't class me as the super-hero either. Our game meant that no-one would interfere with this city. It protected it." Megamind stated.

"Now, especially with that trophy..." Roxanne said eyeing the white cape her boyfriend is wearing.

"And it won't be Megamind's cartoon villain, either." Music Mahn pointed out.

Roxanne nods. She had worked that out. Part of the reason she had been so safe was because everyone knew that she was under the protection of both supers. Now she had lost one of them. And people had previously thought Megamind was an evil villain. Now they would see him more as a super-hero.

"I'm carrying a de-hydrator." Roxanne smiles. "And this dress looks good, but it's also battle armour. Now, what if Megamind had died?"

"I don't know. I hope I'd have done the right thing, but I honestly don't know."