The Villains of Habit Heroes

As Innoventions prepares to shut down as part of the oncoming Epcot remodeling project, let's take a look back at one of the more notorious exhibits of its twilight years: Habit Heroes.

Opening in early 2012, Habit Heroes sought to tackle health problems and bad habits in the form of anthropomorphising them into cartoon supervillains with all the subtlety of Captain Planet's rogues gallery. The attraction featured four villains: "Control Freak"; a blue gremlin child with a mecha representing television and gaming addiction, "Snacker"; an overweight fairy representing the dangers of fatty foods, "Lead Bottom"; a fat wrestler representing how you need to get out and exercise, and "Sweet Tooth"; a woman in latex who wants to cram cupcakes down your throat.

Artist: "god i wish that were me"

Of course, putting a ton of emphasis on obesity and sloth in a 15 minute interactive experience culminating in getting the fat wrestler to dance was met with immediate backlash over fatshaming and within about a month or two, it shut down for retooling, replacing the human supervillains with more generic looking monsters and even put out some Marvel comic tie-in for it.

The website for the original Habit Heroes featured a wide assortment of ill-conceived supervillains and I managed to preserve these profiles during the initial shutdown.