In the 2015 film Minions, the story reaches 1968 when Kevin, Stuart, and Bob meet Scarlet Overkill.
The film begins with a comic history of the Minions serving powerful villains across different eras. After repeatedly losing their masters, the Minions become isolated in Antarctica and grow unhappy without someone evil to follow. Kevin, Stuart, and Bob leave on a mission to find a new leader.
Their search takes them to the Villain-Con convention in Orlando, Florida, where they encounter Scarlet Overkill. The convention and its setting place this major part of the story in 1968, during the period of the space race and the counterculture era.
The date is sometimes confused with the film’s release year, which was 2015. It is also separate from the chronology of the later film Minions: The Rise of Gru, which is set in the 1970s and follows a young Gru.