: After losing his "Male Model of the Year" title to the "so hot right now" newcomer Hansel (Owen Wilson), Derek suffers a midlife crisis and becomes an easy target for the sinister fashion mogul Mugatu (Will Ferrell).

: Mugatu brainwashes Derek into becoming an unwitting assassin, tasking him with killing the Prime Minister of Malaysia to preserve cheap child labor for the fashion industry.

: Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a dim-witted, narcissistic male supermodel famous for iconic facial expressions like "Blue Steel" and "Le Tigre".