henchmen

Another term for "minions" to prevent confusion with the movie Despicable Me. Followers or underlings of a powerful person. Only use when there is more than one. They are usually clones of each other and genderless in nature. Their gender should not be counted towards the number of boys and girls.

This tag is still unofficial, so it may be changed to back to minions if there is little to no confusion; or underlings if members have issue with -men being at the end of the tag.