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{{quote|I'm onwy thwee!|Manny after putting a cookie in Greg's console.}}
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'''Emmanuel "Manny" Heffley''' is the younger brother of [[Rodrick Heffley|Rodrick]] and [[Greg Heffley]] who is constantly pampered and spoiled by his parents. As the youngest child of the [[Heffley family]], he plays a major role in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series]], having appeared in all of the main series books to date.
| Male
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!Actor
![[Connor and Owen Fielding]]
2009-2012


[[Dylan & Wyatt Walters]]
He is played by identical twins [[Connor and Owen Fielding]] in the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid film adaptations and triplet brothers [[Dylan & Wyatt Walters|Dylan and Wyatt Walters]] in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017 film)|Long Haul movie]]. He is also voiced by [[Gracen Newton]] in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021 film)|animated adaptation]]. He is the main antagonist of [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever|Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever]].
2017-present
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==Appearance==
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Manny looks like a small kid with three hairs, and rabbit-like teeth and wears a white shirt, black shorts, and white shoes. He is the youngest and shortest [[Heffley family]] member. In [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017 film)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul'' (2017 film)]], Manny has curly red hair, a blue shirt, and beige shorts.
 
 
{{Quote|Ploopy!|--Manny Heffley, said as a slur against his family}}
{{Quote|Bubby!|--Manny Heffley, the way Manny says brother}}
'''Manuel "Manny" Heffley ''' is [[Greg Heffley|Greg]] and [[Rodrick Heffley|Rodrick]]'s younger brother, and is the major antagonist in all of the series as well as a major antagonist for the second half. In the movie, he is played by twins Connor and Owen Fielding. Manny is loosely based on Pat Kinney, [[Jeff Kinney]]'s younger brother.<sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wiki:Templates#Articles needing improvement|confirmation needed]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup>


==Personality==
==Personality==
Manny Heffley is a selfish and spoiled kindergartener. Greg believes that their parents treat Manny like a prince, 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 Snurples|"The Snurples"]], which according to a newspaper sets kids back in social skills and language development (Manny starts speaking gibberish). 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 has imaginary ones and uses these to get out of trouble and get extra food. Despite his seemingly air-headed exterior, Manny has shown that he can be very cunning, deceitful, manipulative, and intelligent 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 and change his password. He has also locked out the entire family from watching any TV shows except for his personal favorite cartoons. He also has been shown to speak Spanish, in The Long Haul.
Manny Heffley is a selfish and spoiled toddler who, if he does not get his way, will do things such as removing all of the electricity in the house except for his room, as shown in [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever|Cabin Fever]]. Greg believes that his, [[Rodrick Heffley|Rodrick‘s,]] and Manny’s parents treat Manny like a prince, 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 Snurples]]," which according to a newspaper sets kids back in social skills and language development (Manny starts speaking gibberish). 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 has imaginary ones and uses these to get out of trouble and get extra food, etc. Despite his seemingly air-headed exterior, Manny has shown that he can be very cunning, deceitful, manipulative, and intelligent 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 and change his password. He has also locked out the entire family from watching any TV shows except for his personal favorite cartoons. He also has been shown to speak Spanish in [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul|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 [[Cabin Fever]], where he shuts off all the lights as well as the air conditioning to every room except his own just because he wasn't taught how to tie his shoes. This caused the entire family to suffer in cold weather and starvation until Greg finally discovered the scandal.
Manny has also been characterized as extremely uncaring and holds powerful grudges that have endangered the family on multiple occasions. One of these is shown in [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever|Cabin Fever]], where he shuts off all the lights as well as the air conditioning to every room except his own just because he wasn't taught how to tie his shoes. This caused the entire family to suffer in cold weather and starvation until Greg finally discovered the scandal.


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-CDs 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.
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 that his mother borrowed from the Spanish library. He also has an extreme ability to learn new things and abilities, which again, is shown when he learns to speak proper Spanish after just a few hours. In [[The Deep End]] when Susan allowed Manny to put the last piece in the puzzles, he uses this knowledge at the end of the book to steer the RV into the gap of the broken bridge allowing everyone to leave [[Campers' Eden]].


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.
The fact Manny is able to learn perfect Spanish, change Greg's password and the parental lock, kill all the lights except for his room, build a house using only scrap wood and a toy toolbox, and steer an RV to fix a broken bridge is quite surprising for a child his age, meaning he is quite intelligent but however, 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.
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 daycare, 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.
Manny also gets anything and everything he wants, and his parents trust his lies to Greg and Rodrick, so they end up getting grounded, even though Manny deserves it.


==Appearance==
==Quotes==
*Manny looks like a small kid with three hairs, rabbit-like teeth and wears a white shirt, black shorts and white shoes.
*"'''BUBBY!'''"
*In The Long Haul Movie, Manny has curly hair, a blue shirt and beige shorts.
*"'''BWAH HA HA!'''"
*"I'm ownwy thwee!"
*"I'm sowwy, bubby."
*"Wood you wike some chokwits?"
*"Bubby thowed wock at big window."
*"Ploopy!"
*"Pour my dwink, Ploopy!"
*"Wipe my heinie ploopy!"
*"QUACK! QUACK!"
*"[[Tingy]] says your going to have an accident."
*"[[Snake Road]]."
*"Busted."


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*In addition to calling Greg and Rodrick "Bubby",  Manny also calls other characters he doesn't like or gets mad at a "Ploopy".
* 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. However, this is the only time he's been suggested to be an age other than 3, as in later books and the films he's suggested to be three.
*Manny appears to be less spoiled in [[Cabin Fever]] than he is in other books.
*In Rodrick Rules, Greg says that even though Manny drives him crazy, Rodrick has been using Manny instead of Greg to help sell chocolate bars for his school's fundraiser since he started to talk which Greg is grateful for.
*He may have meant to call Greg, (and possibly Rodrick and others he doesn't like) a poopy, but couldn't pronounce the word right and instead resorted to calling it a "Ploopy", similarly to the "Bubby" incident. He cried when Greg called him "Ploopy," as Manny considers it a real insult.
*In the online version, Manny is allergic to peaches. Greg also implies this in [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth|The Ugly Truth]].
*In spite of his intelligence, in the few instances when he's shown speaking, (except the Spanish instance in The Long Haul), he talks like a typical kindergartner, such as when he says "I'm onwly thwee!" . In multiple books, his being unable to pronounce brother correctly so as to pronounce it "Bubby", and his taking to calling Greg, (and possibly Rodrick and other characters he dislikes as well as possibly calling Rodrick "Bubby" as well), a "Ploopy" as a kind of curse word of his.
*The only members of the family who do not appear to like him are [[Aunt Cakey]], [[Greg Heffley]], and [[Rodrick Heffley]].
*Manny is known to break, spoil, or sell Greg's things.
*Manny is quite smart, as he knows how to change the password to both Greg's Net Kritterz account, and the TV parental locks so he can watch whatever he likes, whenever he likes. He can also speak perfect Spanish and the Snurples language fluently and relatively quickly.
*With the proper calculations, the year Manny was born is presumed to be 2006.
*Manny loves [[Bitter Apple Spray]], so he probably likes sour and bitter food.
*Manny collaborated with Donald Rumsfeld and Osama Bin Laden in 2000 and 2001 to set the scene for 9/11 and later the illegal invasion of Iraq
*According to [[The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary]], the main reason the producers picked twins was that they felt that twins would be easier to work with (on account that there would be a backup should one refuse to cooperate).
*[[Susan Heffley]] (Their mom) made something called ''No Pants After Dinner, ''also stating that he needs potty training. Greg is partially to blame for Manny's inability to be toilet trained as he scared Manny by making up the "Potty Monster," thus making Manny afraid to use the toilet.
*Manny seems to be fond of keeping random animals as pets. In [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul|The Long Haul]], he is attached to [[Pig|The 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 and forgets about it.
*He is one of the smallest characters in the Wimpy Kid series as he is only smaller than [[Frank Heffley|his father's]] and [[Susan Heffley |his mother's]] head.
* He may be modeled after [[Igdoof]]'s little brother.
*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 it says that he was 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. However, it is also possible that Greg used the five years thing as an expression but in the book Hard Luck in a flash back Greg mentioned that he was 8 years old when Manny started calling him bubby. Now that Greg is 12-14, Manny would therefore be around 4-7.
*Manny got brand new things when he was a baby, like pacifiers, and his bed looked even newer than [[Rodrick Heffley|Rodrick]]'s.
*In the online version, Manny is allergic to peaches. Greg also mentions this in The Ugly Truth.
*Jeff Kinney said that he gave Manny his name because he originally didn't know it was short for Emmanuel. Rather, he thought it was meant to be an ultra-masculine name. "So, I wanted to have this tiny boy have this over-masculine name".
*In "The Last Straw", it is strongly hinted that Manny was a high ranking Nazi in his previous life. Some say that he was Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels, but most clues point to him being the incarnation of Dr. Joseph Mengele
*Manny barely appears in [[Double Down]] and only makes a few cameos.
*Manny is favored by [[Susan Heffley|Susan]], Frank, and Gramma Heffley, thus making him favorited by the most relatives.
*Manny's hairstyle is very similar to Greg's.
*The only members of the family who do not appear to like him are [[Aunt Cakey]], [[Greg Heffley]] and [[Rodrick Heffley]].
*Despite spoiling him, it's even hinted that their father [[Frank Heffley|Frank is]] frustrated with babying Manny. As depicted in [[The last straw]], when he throws away all of Manny's pacifiers and eventually his old blanket, [[Tingy]].
*Manny serves as one of the main antagonists in [[Cabin Fever]].
*Manny is quite smart, as he knew how to change the password to both, Greg's Net Kritterz account, so Greg can't log back in, the TV parental locks so he can watch whatever he likes, and also learned Spanish and the Snurple language fluently relatively fast.
* Manny loves Bitter Apple Spray, so he probably likes sour and bitter food.
* Manny also gives Greg two nicknames: Bubby (affectionate) and Ploopy (derogatory)
** According, to the first [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]] book, Manny started calling Greg Bubby since he couldn't pronounce "Brother."
* Greg states that Manny is a tattletale and has been telling on him since he could talk. He also told his parents what wrong deeds Greg did before he could talk.
*He is fluent in Spanish.
*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.)
*He makes a lot of money because he gets paid for the [[Rodrick Heffley|older]] [[Greg Heffley|Heffleys']] swearing, using the potty, and selling his own drawings. Therefore, Greg describes him as "rich."
*Manny has an ongoing rivalry with Stuart Little for who will be the overlord of the Earth. In response to Stuart Little initiating the Armenian Genocide, Manny imprisoned, shot, and starved all the Tartar Muslims on the Crimean Peninsula in 1944
*He can't pronounce his R's, and Greg couldn't when he was preschool age either.
*[[Aunt Cakey]] seems immune to his whole act as she despises children.
*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 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.<ref>In an Igdoof comic, Igdoof's little brother resembles Manny.</ref>
*It is likely in [[Rodrick Rules]] that [[Manny]] told [[Mom]] not to give his big brothers money.
*Manny is selfish and blames Greg and Rodrick, saying "Bubby did it!" to tattle on Greg, even in instances where Greg didn't do anything wrong.
*Manny likes [[Susan Heffley]].
*Manny is the main inspiration for Big Brother in George Orwell's "1984"
*Mom and Dad always trust Manny's lies; Mom to an extent where she will never blame him for anything he does wrong.
*Manny got brand new things when he was a baby, like pacifiers, and his bed looked even newer than [[Rodrick |Rodrick]]'s.
*Manny is very rich, because he blames Greg and then he gets payed 1 dollar, like when Manny says that Greg says a bad word, like "stupid", "jerk", and other words, and he is beloved by [[Susan Heffley]], and he gets a quarter just for going to the potty. People pee 8 times a day and he did that for around 1 year, so he must have over $500. Even Manny blamed his older brothers for what he did, so he must have $600+. Well, it was said he can afford his education, so he must have many thousand dollars, but not over $50,000.


==References==
==Appearances==
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (online)]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010 film)]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011 film)]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012 film)]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017 film)]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown]]
*[[Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown]]
*[[The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary]]
*[[The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book]]
*[[Wimpy Wonderland]]
*[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021 film)]]


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==Gallery==
{{main-gallery}}


==Gallery==
{{DEFAULTSORT:Heffley, Manny}}
<gallery>
imageedit_28_9204631950.jpg|Manny on Holiday.
Thisneedstostop!.png|One of his drawings.
Manny.png|Manny himself.
Manny Birth.PNG|Manny,when he was born.
Manny snurples.PNG|Manny watching [[The Snurples]].
Manny the Chef.PNG|Manny as a Chef in the Do-It-Yourself Book
Manny.jpg|Manny in the movie.
Sweetie Manny.PNG|Manny locking himself in Sweetie's exercise pen to hide toys.
Owen Manny.png|Manny's book appearance compared to film appearance.
Manny watching Sesame Street.jpg|Manny watching ZOOM.
Ploopy.png|Manny saying "ploopy".
manny ploopy.PNG|"Don't Be A Ploopy" shirt.
MannyisFive.png|Manny says he's only Five.
Heffley Family in Hospital.jpg|Manny Heffley was born as Susan Heffley holds on him.
Can you tell me whatever the heck you said again.jpg|Manny shrugging.
</gallery>
For more images see: [[Manny Heffley/Gallery]]
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Latest revision as of 06:20, 27 March 2023

Manny Heffley
Manny Heffley.webp
Manny.webp
Long Haul Manny.webp
Mannyanimated.webp
Online character- Manny Heffley.webp
Manny Heffley Rowley's Journal.webp
Alias Manny
Ploopy
Pootie (online)
Gender Male
Age 3-4+
5-6 (online)
Occupation Preschool student (likely formerly)
Status Alive
Actor Connor and Owen Fielding
Dylan & Wyatt Walters
Gracen Newton
First appearance Igdoof
Last appearance Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022 film)
"I'm onwy thwee!"
—Manny after putting a cookie in Greg's console.

Emmanuel "Manny" Heffley is the younger brother of Rodrick and Greg Heffley who is constantly pampered and spoiled by his parents. As the youngest child of the Heffley family, he plays a major role in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, having appeared in all of the main series books to date.

He is played by identical twins Connor and Owen Fielding in the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid film adaptations and triplet brothers Dylan and Wyatt Walters in the Long Haul movie. He is also voiced by Gracen Newton in the animated adaptation. He is the main antagonist of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever.

Appearance

Manny looks like a small kid with three hairs, and rabbit-like teeth and wears a white shirt, black shorts, and white shoes. He is the youngest and shortest Heffley family member. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017 film), Manny has curly red hair, a blue shirt, and beige shorts.

Personality

Manny Heffley is a selfish and spoiled toddler who, if he does not get his way, will do things such as removing all of the electricity in the house except for his room, as shown in Cabin Fever. Greg believes that his, Rodrick‘s, and Manny’s parents treat Manny like a prince, 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 Snurples," which according to a newspaper sets kids back in social skills and language development (Manny starts speaking gibberish). 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 has imaginary ones and uses these to get out of trouble and get extra food, etc. Despite his seemingly air-headed exterior, Manny has shown that he can be very cunning, deceitful, manipulative, and intelligent 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 and change his password. He has also locked out the entire family from watching any TV shows except for his personal favorite cartoons. He also has been shown to speak Spanish in The Long Haul.

Manny has also been characterized as extremely uncaring and holds powerful grudges that have endangered the family on multiple occasions. One of these is shown in Cabin Fever, where he shuts off all the lights as well as the air conditioning to every room except his own just because he wasn't taught how to tie his shoes. This caused the entire family to suffer in cold weather and starvation until Greg finally discovered the scandal.

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 that his mother borrowed from the Spanish library. He also has an extreme ability to learn new things and abilities, which again, is shown when he learns to speak proper Spanish after just a few hours. In The Deep End when Susan allowed Manny to put the last piece in the puzzles, he uses this knowledge at the end of the book to steer the RV into the gap of the broken bridge allowing everyone to leave Campers' Eden.

The fact Manny is able to learn perfect Spanish, change Greg's password and the parental lock, kill all the lights except for his room, build a house using only scrap wood and a toy toolbox, and steer an RV to fix a broken bridge is quite surprising for a child his age, meaning he is quite intelligent but however, 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 daycare, 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 they end up getting grounded, even though Manny deserves it.

Quotes

  • "BUBBY!"
  • "BWAH HA HA!"
  • "I'm ownwy thwee!"
  • "I'm sowwy, bubby."
  • "Wood you wike some chokwits?"
  • "Bubby thowed wock at big window."
  • "Ploopy!"
  • "Pour my dwink, Ploopy!"
  • "Wipe my heinie ploopy!"
  • "QUACK! QUACK!"
  • "Tingy says your going to have an accident."
  • "Snake Road."
  • "Busted."

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. However, this is the only time he's been suggested to be an age other than 3, as in later books and the films he's suggested to be three.
  • In Rodrick Rules, Greg says that even though Manny drives him crazy, Rodrick has been using Manny instead of Greg to help sell chocolate bars for his school's fundraiser since he started to talk which Greg is grateful for.
  • In the online version, Manny is allergic to peaches. Greg also implies 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, and the TV parental locks so he can watch whatever he likes, whenever he likes. He can also speak perfect Spanish and the Snurples language fluently and relatively quickly.
  • 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 that they felt that twins would be easier to work with (on account that there would be 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 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 and forgets about it.
  • 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.
  • Jeff Kinney said that he gave Manny his name because he originally didn't know it was short for Emmanuel. Rather, he thought it was meant to be an ultra-masculine name. "So, I wanted to have this tiny boy have this over-masculine name".
  • Manny barely appears in Double Down and only makes a few cameos.
  • Manny's hairstyle is very similar to Greg's.

Appearances

Gallery

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