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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.
Achilles
Category: Move
Bad Habit: Not warming up for exercise Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Rumor has it he has a soft spot in his heart for his long lost sister’s advice, as well as in his pulled muscles. Figure out what that advice is and you just might get him to stretch after all.
Bio: This “dashing” hero was once a championship runner winning the 50-yard dash, the 500-yard dash and even the 15,555-yard dash. But it’s not a “stretch” to say he wasn’t too smart when it came to warming up and cooling down his muscles. His failure to stretch made his muscles and tendons tear.
Powers: He can trick you into not stretching or warming up.
His Master Plan: He wants to prevent everyone from doing proper warm-ups so they get injured too.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: As little as 10 minutes of warm-ups helps gets muscles ready for action and can help reduce injuries, and cooling down for five minutes is really cool for your muscles, too.
Bruiser
Category: Social Bad Habit: Bullying
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Talk about bullying with a responsible grown-up.
Bio: Bruiser wanted to become a championship speller, but at his school spelling bee, an “i” before “e“ dashed all of his dreams. Now he’s just an angry kid and no one wants to be his friend. When he isn’t threatening to beat up other kids, he uses the Internet to harass people anonymously—plus, no one will know it’s him when he misspells something!
Power: Bruiser can find your weakness and make your life miserable. There’s no escaping his campaign of pain!
His Master Plan: Torment and bully everyone—in person or online.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: If someone is bullying you talk to a responsible adult immediately. If you’re the one bullying, remember that might doesn’t make right. It doesn’t make any friends, either!
Cereal Killer
Bad Habit: No time for breakfast
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: He actually loves a balanced breakfast, but can’t remember the last time he had one.
Bio: A former cereal box mascot for Lucky Lion Krisps, you’d think this guy would know the importance of a good breakfast, but all his success went to his head. Then one day he got so busy that he stopped eating breakfast altogether.
Powers: Cereal Killer can make you forget to eat breakfast! Watch out for ensuing confusion, dizziness and…um…what was I saying?
His Master Plan: He wants everyone to skip breakfast, just like him.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Eating a good breakfast in the morning can improve improves grades and mood, not to mention it’s the most important meal of the day, Habit Heroes!
Control Freak
Bad Habit: Video game, TV and Internet addiction
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Deactivate all his electronic gadgets by turning all his TV monitors to the Habit Hero Channel. Bio: The only son of a wealthy businessman, Control Freak has used his super smarts and vast knowledge of gaming to nearly gain control of the entire town. Even though he’s his imagine is on signs everywhere no one seems to have met him in person, making him a big mystery.
Powers: Control Freak imprisons his victims by encouraging them to overuse their technology devices, which causes them to fall into a zombie-like state.
His Master Plan: Draw the entire population of the city into a massive media convention he calls “ConQuest” so that he can hypnotize them all and turn the world into his own personal video game.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Turn off that computer and get out in the sunshine Habit Heroes!
Captain DeLay
Bad Habit: Procrastination
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: “To Do” lists terrify him. If you show him one, he trembles with fear and covers his eyes.
Bio: Captain DeLay never met a deadline he couldn’t avoid. Once upon a time, he was an old-time army captain who was kicked out of the British military for goofing off. He even invented a time machine to dodge his responsibilities!
Powers: He zaps people with his Distract-O-Ray to keep them from accomplishing whatever they’re doing, especially if it’s something important.
His Master Plan: Captain DeLay wants everyone to relax and never get anything done. He’s annoyed by people who are responsible and will stop at nothing to distract them.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Finish the not-so-fun tasks first, then go out and play Habit Heroes!
Drama Queen
Bad Habit: Gossiping
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: If only she knew how hurtful her words could be, maybe she wouldn’t say bad things about people anymore.
Bio: Her motto is “if you don’t have something nice to say about somebody, sit next to me!” She delights in the power of destruction with her terrible talk. The wrong word from Drama Queen in person or online could spell your doom!
Powers: Drama Queen uses the power of her words to make people do things she wants them to do. She’ll say anything to get you to like her.
Her Master Plan: Cause drama, trauma and verbal chaos everywhere.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Don’t say anything hurtful behind someone’s back, Habit Heroes. Gossip can ruin relationships and damage reputations—including your own.
Duchess of Doom
Category: Mood Bad Habit: Too much negativity
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: The Duchess hates humor. If you can get her laughing, she won’t be able to stop.
Bio: No matter what happens, this negative thinker looks on the stormy side of life. She even started a band called The Gravediggers that never plays anything but downer songs with titles like: “Waste of Time,” “Bad Things: Good People,” and “Downer’s Delight.”
Powers: When she strums a minor chord on her electric guitar, she can make you feel so down you just want to crumple up like a used napkin.
Her Master Plan: She wants to bring everyone “down” to her level—below sea level, that is.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Constant negative thinking creates physical stress, ruins relationships and just makes everybody batty!
The Fungus
Category: Food Bad Habit: Eating rotten or expired food
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: The Fungus only thinks he doesn’t like fresh fruits and veggies. If you can get him to try one with a tricky name – like spaghetti squash — maybe he’d realize what he’s missing!
Bio: The Fungus never met a fresh fruit or vegetable that he liked and his bad eating habits have come back to bite him! One day the moldy veggies in his fridge attacked him and transformed him into a monster!
Powers: He shoots mold from his fingertips onto unsuspecting victims.
His Master Plan: He wants to turn everyone into a giant fungal creature, just like him.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Eat lots of your favorite your fresh fruits and veggies but throw away raw foods that are spoiled or damaged, and always check the expiration date on dairy products. They will give you a healthy heart and body!
The Glutton
Bad Habit: Overeating and eating too fast
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Slow him down and he just may find that he eats less and can actually taste what he eats!
Bio: The Glutton has a big appetite for life—and more! Not only does he overeat, he wants to take you down with him. He runs a chain of greasy spoon diners and Cheezy Greezy Hot Dog Carts where his customers are as over-stuffed as his porkchops.
Powers: Pure brawn and influence. He likes to throw his weight around. He gets what he wants by tricking people into speed-eating contests.
His Master Plan: The Glutton is driven by excess and greed. He wants everyone to eat as many of his greasy hotdogs as they can!
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Slow him down and he just may find that he eats less and can actually taste what he eats!
Bio: The Glutton has a big appetite for life—and more! Not only does he overeat, he wants to take you down with him. He runs a chain of greasy spoon diners and Cheezy Greezy Hot Dog Carts where his customers are as over-stuffed as his porkchops.
Powers: Pure brawn and influence. He likes to throw his weight around. He gets what he wants by tricking people into speed-eating contests.
His Master Plan: The Glutton is driven by excess and greed. He wants everyone to eat as many of his greasy hotdogs as they can!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Watch how fast you eat and how much. Eating slowly is much better for your digestion, and more is not always better, even when it tastes good!
Category: Mood
Bad Habit: Throwing temper tantrums
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Hothead just needs to try approaching things in a calm, centered way so that his emotions and frustrations don’t get out of control.
Bio: Hothead blows his top when even the slightest thing doesn’t go his way. This helps explain why he doesn’t have any friends. If he’d just calm down and talk about his feelings, he’d be a lot happier.
Power: Hothead can make you flustered and confused when he’s enraged.
His Master Plan: Make everybody mad, including you!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Having a bad temper can cause you a lot of unnecessary stress, which can lead to serious physical and emotional problems.
Hothead
Category: Mood
Bad Habit: Throwing temper tantrums
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Hothead just needs to try approaching things in a calm, centered way so that his emotions and frustrations don’t get out of control.
Bio: Hothead blows his top when even the slightest thing doesn’t go his way. This helps explain why he doesn’t have any friends. If he’d just calm down and talk about his feelings, he’d be a lot happier.
Power: Hothead can make you flustered and confused when he’s enraged.
His Master Plan: Make everybody mad, including you!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Having a bad temper can cause you a lot of unnecessary stress, which can lead to serious physical and emotional problems.
Ice Cappuccino
Bad Habit: Too much caffeine
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: He has a serious weakness for water but hasn’t yet experienced its soothing effects.
Bio: Known for his hit singles “I Whip My Foam (Back and Forth)" and “Ice Ice Coffee", this rapper loves caffeinated drinks, which keep calcium out of his bones and teeth. He likes to pump up his energy with sodas, coffees and iced lattes until he comes crashing down in a heap of exhaustion and crankiness.
Powers: When he’s had a sugary or caffeinated drink, Ice Cappuccino can talk super fast.
His Master Plan: He wants everyone as addicted to caffeine and drinks loaded with sugar as he is.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Soda is the leading source of caffeine for kids. Caffeine affects bone mass, can make you anxious and can upset your stomach.
Insecura
Category: Mood
Bad Habit: Lacking self-esteem
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: If Insecura just got a little positive reinforcement, maybe she’d realize that she’d feel better about herself.
Bio: Despite being very smart and having a lot to offer, Insecura suffers from so many self doubts that she wonders sometimes if she is even breathing! Most of the time she hides, certain that nobody likes her.
Powers: Insecura’s low self-esteem is like a storm cloud of negative feelings. Don’t let them rain on you!
Her Master Plan: Insecura doesn’t really mean to deflate anyone’s self-esteem… but she will!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Self-esteem can affect health, relationships and how well people do at their jobs later in life. So keep your chin up, Habit Heroes!
Insomnia
Bad Habit: Not enough sleep
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Mellow Insomnia out with soothing sounds and she’ll nod right off.
Bio: Insomnia loves to stay up late, throw parties that last until the wee hours and come crashing down as the sun rises. Grades, jobs and everything else get forgotten as she destroys her life with her vampire hours.
Powers: Insomnia will keep you up and boogying so late that you can’t function the next day.
Her Master Plan: Insomnia wants you to come to her party and stay there—even if it means you’ll get detention for sleeping through classes the next day.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Lack of sleep can make you eat more, leading to childhood obesity. Not getting enough sleep can also lead to, premature aging and loss of concentration…um…what we were talking about?
Lead Bottom
Bad Habit: Not enough exercise
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: He’s got a soft spot for dancing. Get him off that couch!
Bio: The “King of No Can Do” hasn’t moved off the couch since the last major earthquake. He once dreamed of becoming a dancer but his dreams were crushed under his own weight. Instead he had a career as a pro wrestler.
Powers: His big, round rear cannot be moved. His hindquarters can hide just about anything!
His Master Plan: Blubbery loves company and Lead Bottom wants your company on the couch. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep you from exercising.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Physical activity not only helps keeps you in shape, but helps relieve stress, improves sleep and improves self-esteem. Keep on moving on, Habit Heroes!
Nicotina
Category: Safety
Bad Habit: Smoking
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Build up your lung power with lots of exercise and you’ll easily blow this lady’s smoke cloud away!
Bio: Marilyn became the “butt” of everyone’s jokes when her modeling career went up in smoke due to her addiction to cigarettes. Lifeless skin and yellow teeth don’t look too pretty on a magazine cover.
Powers: Get caught in her smoke cloud and you’re hooked.
Her Master Plan: She wants to get as many people addicted to cigarettes as possible.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Smoking shortens your life by 10 years or more, and can cost thousands of dollars a year. Smoking kills. No if’s, and’s or butts!
Pierre Pressure
Bad Habit: Surrendering to peer pressure
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: He has no idea what he personally really likes or wants. Perhaps if you ask him the answer might surprise you!
Bio: A Hollywood celebrity, Pierre now uses his movie star charm to get people to do all kinds of stuff that they shouldn’t do. He says things like: “Skip school!” and “Go ahead, watch TV and forget your homework!” Steer clear of this kind of peer! It’s only a matter of time before he’ll have everyone jumping off a cliff!
Powers: He can make you give in to peer pressure and do things you’d never do, like cutting class, lying or stealing.
His Master Plan: He wants to pressure you into doing all kinds of bad things.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Stick to your principles, Habit Heroes, and do what ’s right, no matter how tough it is.
The Prescriptor
Bad Habit: Ignoring Doctor’s advice
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: He has a rash he can’t get rid of because he won’t go to a doctor. But a little doctor’s advice might be just the prescription he needs.
Bio: This medical school dropout doesn’t believe a doctor knows best. He thinks he does! Obviously what makes him feel better is ignoring medical advice — which keeps landing him in the emergency room.
Powers: The Prescriptor is very persuasive and can convince you not to listen to a real doctor’s orders.
His Master Plan: Make everyone sick by getting them to ignore their doctors.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Doctors are specially trained professionals. Always take medications exactly as prescribed, Habit Heroes.
Snacker
Category: Food
Bad Habit: Too much fatty, processed food
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Expose her to healthy snacks like fruits and veggies—fresh or puréed!. She actually likes them. She just doesn’t know it yet!
Bio: This Tooth Fairy Academy dropout never met a food that couldn’t be improved by more salt, butter or sugar.
Powers: Snacker can fly using her fairy wings as she summons any type of deep-fried, processed snack from thin air using her magic wand. Look out! She tosses fat-loaded food at her victims.
Her Master Plan: Stress as many people out as possible, then offer them fatty snacks to make them feel better!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Choose healthy foods for snacking. Some foods high in fat, like nuts, can be good for you, but just have a little bit, not lots. That way you can enjoy a tasty treat and still stay healthy.
Snaggletooth
Bad Habit: Not brushing your teeth
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: You’d be surprised what a toothbrush and a little fresh minty mouthwash can do!
Bio: This former game show host had a smile whose gleam could light the night sky! But then she became too busy and stopped brushing her teeth altogether. Now they are so rotten they frighten small children, and her breath is so foul it could choke a small pony.
Powers: Snaggletooth’s smile can scare you so badly that you drop your toothbrush and never pick it up again.
Her Master Plan: Snaggletooth wants everyone’s teeth to be worse than hers. She’ll stop at nothing until then!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Take care of your teeth, Habit Heroes. The “tooth” shall set you free!
Sonic Boom
Bad Habit: Blasting your ears with loud music
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Lower the volume to his speakers and he’s practically on mute.
Bio: Every night this kid cranked up the volume until he totally blew out his own ears. Now he’s known as Sonic Boom,a nearly deaf DJ who’s developed the loudest amplifier ever designed.
Powers: He can make you lose your hearing by playing music through his supersonic amplifier!
His Master Plan: He wants to encourage kids to play very loud music so that they too will ruin their hearing.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Turn down the volume Habit Heroes, and get better fitting ear buds that will deliver the sound more directly to your ears.
Stinkbomb
Category: Safety
Bad Habit: Bad hygiene
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Soap. Just the sight of it makes him tremble with fear.
Bio: Because this guy won’t wash up, he’s washed up. Anyone who comes within 10 yards of him will fall victim to his force field—and that field is all dirt. His stench is so bad he makes skunks run and hide.
Powers: Stinkbomb’s noxious cloud of body odor attacks anyone who gets into range.
His Master Plan: He won’t be happy until everyone is as stinky and lonely as he is.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Bad hygiene has been known to cause breakups, lack of party invites, de-friending from social networks and spread of infections – so wash up Habit Heroes!
Stranger Danger
Bad Habit: Sharing personal information with strangers
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Immediately tell an adult if a stranger starts asking you a lot of personal questions.
Bio: Nothing is safe from this secret stealer! Stranger Danger tricks you into giving your personal information and uses it against you. Beware of gifts of candy, DVDs and games in exchange for your age, address and phone number. The only game here involves invading your privacy.
Powers: Stranger Danger tricks you to reveal things you shouldn’t.
Her Master Plan: Watch out—before you know it, Stranger Danger will know everything about you and use it to do no good!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Never reveal things to a stranger like your age, where you live or your email address - online or in person.
Stress Case
Bad Habit: Stressing out
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Stress Case relaxes once she gets moving around. If only she can get a little exercise she just might mellow out!
Bio: An ex-opera star with a real flair for the dramatic, Stress Case worries over every detail until it takes over her life. One night during a performance she was so stressed that her voice cracked and her career went down the tubes. Now she’s the stage manager at the Stressopolitan Opera House where no one escapes her high-strung ways.
Powers: When Stress Case hits a high note, she can stress you out. Cover your ears, Habit Heroes!
Her Master Plan: To make every production absolutely perfect, even if it stresses everyone out to the point of exhaustion.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Heads up Habit Heroes! Too much stress can harm your health, effect your grades and make you pretty unpleasant to be around. Remember the key to a stress-free life is to balance work and play! If you feel stressed out, talk to your parents or a teacher about it. They can help you find ways to balance school and play.
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| Went down before I could get his image, hence the composite. |
Sunblazer
Category: Safety
Bad Habit: Not wearing sunscreen or sunglasses
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: When you’re out in the sun wear sunglasses, hats and lots of sunscreen. Sunblazer hates that!
Bio: This former astronaut-turned-inventor has spent so much time in the sun that his skin could be turned into a nice leather handbag. Even though he’s a good-looking guy he refuses to protect himself with sunscreen, sunglasses or any sense.
Powers: Sunblazer has created several weapons and gadgets like his solar-powered hoverboard and UV-raygun.
His Master Plan: Intensify the sun’s effects on peoples’ skin so that they worship the sun like he does!
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Even one serious sunburn can increase the odds of getting skin cancer. So lotion up, Habit Heroes! Use sunscreen with SPF 30—or higher, if you’re as pale as Insomnia.
Sweet Tooth
Bad Habit: Too many sweets
Best Way To Defeat This Bad Habit: Like Snacker, Sweet Tooth has a soft spot for healthy snacks but just doesn’t know it yet. See if you can get her to try some!
Bio: This shapely girl may disguise her unhealthy habits, but in reality her blood sugar is so high you could bake a cake with it!
Powers: As befits her high-class style, she prefers attacking unsuspecting victims in her personal hovercraft, called “The Truffle,” and using her smokin’ hot titanium cupcake shooter to launch sugary sweets.
Her Master Plan: She thinks life is short, or better yet, short cakes. She wants it to be as sweet as possible and she wants everyone to fill up on desserts so she doesn’t feel so guilty eating alone.
Habit Hero Special Dispatch: Too much sugar can cause obesity, high blood pressure, and tooth decay . Instead of chocolate sundaes, try healthy desserts like low-fat yogurt, and add some nuts and tasty fruits!
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