Manny Heffley

### Supposed MEHs or Worst Acts

Cutting the power to his family's house, which would've caused them to freeze to death, not to mention he stole all the food in the house meaning they would have also starved to death.
Launching a jellyfish into the water so that people would likely be infected.

### Supposed Crimes

Negligence
Attempted familicide (unintentionally)
Destruction of property

### Type of Conflicting Evil

Jerkish Sibling

**Manny Heffley** is a major character in *Diary of a Wimpy Kid*.

## His "Evil" Ranking

### His "Villainous" Deeds

#### In General

* He's shown to be a nuiscence throughout the story.
* He's massively spoiled by his parents.
* He never truly gets punished for his crimes, making him a Karma Houdini.
* He is truly a coward, as he has no problem with making his family’s lives miserable but he easily gets scared of a boy his age pretending to be a vampire.

#### Books

* He cuts the power to his family's house during a blizzard, causing his siblings and his mother to nearly freeze to death.
	+ Additionally, he claimed to have done it because he was never taught how to tie his shoes.
* He ruined Greg's gaming console by putting a cookie in the disc drive, and trying to justify it by saying he's only three.
* Additionally, he locked out Greg from his *Net Kritterz* account and wasted away all of his stuff he had from the game. After that, he changed the parental controls of the TV, so he can only watch his favorite shows.
* Called Greg a "Ploopy" for no reason, which caused trouble for his siblings. In fact, when Greg later karmatically called him a Ploopy, he made a big scene in front of everyone at the church.
* He caught a box jellyfish at Isla de Corales, which is considered dangerous do to being very deadly. He also indirectly caused the resort's pool to close, along with Greg getting into trouble with a group of kids that blame him and his family for causing the pool's closure.

### Why Isn't He Actually Villainous?

* His worst acts massively relies on fridge horror.
	+ It is widely ambiguous on whether he knew that cutting the power to the house could get his family killed, and he could have not understood what he was doing.
	+ He isn't even aware that running around nude was inappropriate.
	+ Him causing the resort’s pool to close was an accident, and nothing says he wanted to actually harm people with the jellyfish. For what the story shows, he simply wanted an exotic pet.
* His other bad deeds are bog-standard jerk behavior.
* One of the primary reasons why he can't be NPE is that his "evil" deeds hardly ever go beyond mischievous behavior and as a result they are not taken 100% seriously in-story.
* He genuinely cares for his pet pig.
* He does care for his family despite everything, as he helps them to have a good vacation, shows admiration for his older brothers in later books, and even the embarrassing nickname he gave to Greg was implied to have been a way to show affection.
* While he's mostly a jerk overall, he is shown to be heroic at times like committing a Goodness Zone crossing in *The Deep End*, where he managed to stop the family's RV from being swept down a river without any pragmatic reason.