Manny Heffley



Emmanuel " Manny" Heffley    is Greg Heffley and Rodrick Heffley 's younger brother, and is the main antagonist of Cabin Fever. Throughout the first book, he calls Greg "Bubby", because he couldn't pronounce the word brother. In the movie, he is played by twins Connor and Owen Fielding. Manny is loosely based Patrick Kinney, Jeff Kinney's younger brother.

Personality
Manny Heffley is thought by Greg to be evil. Greg believes that his parents treat Manny like a prince. He always gets out of trouble and gets whatever he wants by showing cute or troubled looks or crying. His parents seem to spoil him, which always makes Greg unhappy because he, nor his brother Rodrick, has ever gotten as many privileges as Manny. Manny can't seem to get the concept of potty training; this is mainly because of Uncle Joe (Greg in the film) telling him to watch out for the Potty Monster, which prevented him from ever stepping into the bathroom for six months. According to the first book, Manny is a fan of the television show Sesame Street, especially the C is for Cookie sketch. He also watches a show called "The Snurples", which according to a newspaper sets kids back in social skills and language development. Manny has shown that this is true. He also has no real friends, and when his mom holds playgroups at their house, Manny never plays with the other kids. Although Manny has no real friends, he has many imaginary friends. He uses his imaginary friends to get out of trouble and get extra dessert. Manny is also very intelligent for his age. When Susan let him play on Greg's Net Kritterz account, he figured out how to sell all of his brother's items and change his password. He is also very rich because he has a swear jar in which anybody who says a bad-word infront of him has to put money in the jar and Susan also considers "stupid","jerk" like words also swear words and he has a jar in which he gets payed if he goes to the bathroom without anyone helping him,he has over $150,Rodrick seems to take loans from him,buts it unknown if Rodrick returns the money or not because Greg always says that he and Rodrick have very less money.He is also an outcast due to the fact he is scared of other kids and doesn't attracts with them,and also likes to make imaginary friends.

Appearance
Greg's illustrations depict Manny having an overbite and his teeth being spaced far apart. He looks like "a buck toothed crocodile", according to the movie diary. Manny is always depicted with a white shirt and colored shorts. Much like Greg, he has protruded hair, with three lines sticking out. Manny is about the size of a letter in Greg's journal, showing that Manny is very young and its very abnormal how Manny is the same height as Frank's head.

Trivia

 * It is possible that Manny is autistic, due to Manny not interacting with other kids even when his mother tries to get him to do so. However, this has yet to be confirmed because this can change in future books.
 * He is quite intelligent for his age as he was able to kill all the lights in the house instead of his room using the light panel,change Greg's password on Net Kritterz and change the parental control of the TV.
 * Manny also shows no care for his family as he almost killed Greg, Rodrick and Susan just because they wouldn't teach how to tie laces.
 * Manny also hides in the dresser drawer if he gets scared as shown in Cabin Fever.
 * Manny appears to be more spoiled in Cabin Fever then he is in other books.
 * Manny is known to break Greg's things.

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