It is quite common for the right half of two-button computer mice to be designed to look like a Minun, although the left half is never a Plusle. This is not solely because Minun are literal electric mice – many other pokemon also fit that description – but also because one of the most common uses of the right-click is to delete unwanted files, just as a Minun deletes objects from its environment.
Minun have been called the anti-Arceus, for they are the two confirmed exceptions to the law of conservation of mass; Arceus creates matter, and Minun destroy it, and it is thought that they do so in equal proportions so that the world's size can remain more or less the same. Yet there is no obvious logic to what the Minun destroy. They are the most odious of household pests, responsible whenever a precious game or heirloom turns up missing, yet only target items small in size and too disused to be noticed. In battle, they use their tails to dissolve enemy attacks, yet few have the flexibility to protect themselves completely, and they refuse to use it on physical attacks for they fear permanently crippling other pokemon. At times, a swarm of Minun acts completely different from their normal behavior and becomes an outbreak of pure destruction, deleting everything in sight until the ground opens up beneath them and swallows them whole; many of the most dramatic changes in the natural history of the pokemon world, and a few mysteries of human history to boot, have at times been explained that way.
Yet most Minun are trainable, for although their logic can never be understood, it can be altered. From dangerous garbage to out-of-control nuclear reactors, humanity has benefited dramatically from Minun's ability to obliterate waste.