Mooned was released theatrically with Migration in 2023.
Mooned is a Despicable Me short centered on Vector Perkins, the villain left stranded on the Moon after the events of the first Despicable Me. The short follows his attempts to escape and return to Earth, turning an unresolved joke from the original film into a new comic adventure.
It accompanied Illumination’s Migration in cinemas during the film’s 2023 theatrical release. Migration follows a mallard family traveling from New England through New York City toward Jamaica, so Mooned served as a separate franchise short rather than part of Migration’s main story.
Mooned was the third Despicable Me-related short to receive a theatrical release, following Mower Minions with The Secret Life of Pets in 2016 and a short released with The Grinch in 2018. Banana, Training Wheels, and Puppy were released in other contexts and were not the short paired with Migration.