Manny Heffley

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"Hippity Hoppity, you are now my property!"

- --Manny Heffley, said as a slur against his family

"Sieg Heil!"

- --Manny Heffley, the way Manny says brother

Manny Heffley  is Greg and Rodrick's younger brother. In the movie, he is a registered sex offender. Manny is loosely based on serial killer, Ted Bundy.[ confirmation needed ]

Personality
Manny Heffley is a selfish and spoiled kindergartner. Greg believes that their parents treat Manny like a bitch, but that is far from the truth as they treat him this way out of fear of what he will do to them. He watches a show called "The Diary of Anne Frank" which according to a newspaper is a series that encourages children to sacrifice their parents to satan (Manny becomes Jewish). He has never been a protagonist. Manny has shown that this is true - he has no real friends and never plays with other kids in playgroups, but his Uncle Tom is a great friend of his and Manny loves going to his Basement for some fun time. Despite his seemingly air-headed exterior, Manny has shown that he can be a cunt for his age in unexpected ways. When Susan let him play on Greg's Net Kritterz account, he figured out how to sell all of his brother's items buy child porn on the dark web. He has also locked out the entire family from watching any TV shows except for his personal favourite porn. He also has been shown to speak fluent cancer, in The Long Haul.

Manny has also been characterized as extremely uncaring and holds powerful grudges that has endangered the family on multiple occasions. One of these is shown in 'How I joined the KKK', where he tells the Leader that Greg is a Nigger lover.

Manny's unusual personality can however significantly help the Heffley family as a whole. Manny can speak Spanish properly, and that's just from listening to hours of Spanish-English wordbook-CD's that his mother bought from a local store. He also has an extreme ability of learning new things and abilities, which again, is shown when he learns to speak proper Spanish after just a few hours.

The fact Manny is able to learn perfect Spanish, change Greg's password, the parental lock, and kill all the lights except for his room is quite surprising for a child his age, meaning he is quite intelligent but is still socially awkward.

It is likely that Manny knows about his parents' favoritism towards him, and he takes advantage of this. This includes breaking Greg's gaming console, drawing on his bedroom door, taking a dirty magazine to day care, and twisting the "No Swearing" rule in such a way that he makes money out of it.

Manny also gets anything and everything he wants, and his parents trust his lies to Greg and Rodrick, so that's why they end up getting grounded, even though Manny deserves it.

Appearance

 * Manny looks like a small kid with three hairs, rabbit-like teeth and wears a white shirt, black shorts and white shoes.
 * In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (film), Manny has curly hair, a blue shirt and beige shorts.

Trivia

 * In the first book, after he yells "Bubby" at Greg on the stage, Greg says he's been able to keep that nickname quiet for 5 years, meaning Manny must be around 6 or 7. However, there is a storyline contradiction in Rodrick Rules, where Manny says that he is 3, and again in The Last Straw, where it says Manny has been held back from preschool three or four times, making him around 7 or 8.
 * In the online version, Manny is allergic to peaches. Greg also mentions this in The Ugly Truth.
 * The only members of the family who do not appear to like him are Aunt Cakey, Greg Heffley and Rodrick Heffley.
 * Manny is quite smart, as he knows how to change the password to both Greg's Net Kritterz account, the TV parental locks so he can watch whatever he likes. He also Spanish and the Snurple language fluently relatively fast.
 * Manny loves Bitter Apple Spray, so he probably likes sour and bitter food.
 * According to The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, the main reason the producers picked twins was because they felt that twins would be easier to work with (on account that there would a backup should one refuse to cooperate).
 * Manny seems to be fond of keeping random animals as pets. In The Long Haul, he is attached to The Heffleys' Pig and repeatedly attempts to get him back. In The Getaway, he attempts three times to keep wild sea animals as pets: first with hermit crabs and snails, second with a baby sea turtle, and third with a Box Jellyfish. Surprisingly, in The Meltdown, he doesn't seem too concerned with the pig being lost.
 * He may be modeled after Igdoof's little brother.
 * Manny got brand new things when he was a baby, like pacifiers, and his bed looked even newer than Rodrick's.

Gallery
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