The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
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The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is a children's novel by Dav Pilkey
(though it credits him as "George Beard and Harold Hutchins"), and is a spin-off of Captain Underpants
.
Deputy Dangerous and Danger Dog gain super powers by draining them out of Captain Underpants using the Deputy's "Super Power Taker-Awayer Ray 2000 TM". However, the police arrive just as Dangerous is about to drink the juice. Danger Dog drinks half of the juice and the two escape.
Back at the hospital, Mary Hoskins gives birth to a baby boy (Billy Hoskins, Jr.). When giving the baby the "spank of life", the attending doctor accidentally shoots the baby out of the window into the bucket of super power juice Deputy Dangerous is stealing. The baby drinks the juice, causing him to gain super powers.
The duo escapes to a secret lab. Deputy Dangerous invents the "Danger Crib 2000", which can transmit superpowers from babies to his brain via satellite. They send it to the Hoskins family under the pseudonyms "Deputy Un-Dangerous" and "Safety Dog". Billy poops in his diaper one minute before the transmitting time of midnight and his mother removes him from the crib to give him a very nice bath, just as the machine turns on. His poop is transported to Deputy Dangerous, so that's what he turns into.
The next morning, Deputy Dangerous invents the "Robo-Ant 2000" so he can take over the world (He asks Danger Dog's opinion, but instead Danger Dog coins the name "Deputy Doo-Doo", much to the Deputy's dismay). Instead of helping, Danger Dog goofs off by changing signs around. Billy hears the robot and decides to stop it. Billy is defeated by Doo-Doo and is taken to a Nuclear Power Plant to kill him. Danger Dog saves Billy, while the Ant loses balance and falls into the power plant instead. Danger Dog takes Billy home. Bill and Mary keep "Safety Dog" as a pet, overriding the landlord's worries about carpet stains by putting a diaper on him.
Meanwhile, back at the power plant, radioactivity causes Deputy Doo-Doo to grow into a giant, and he resumes rampaging through the city. Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog fly out to stop him, but Diaper Dog notes that they shouldn't touch the now-radioactive Deputy Doo-Doo. Instead, they trick him into attacking himself, and they wrap him up using a giant toilet paper roll (taken from the top of a building called "Bob's Toilet Paper Co."), and remove him to the planet Uranus
.
On the way back to Earth, they stop by at a Starbutts
, and decide to take some Super Power Juice back to Earth, and they go to the laundromat where Captain Underpants is held captive. They restore his powers, and all is right with the world.
Dav Pilkey
David "Dav" Pilkey was born on March 4, 1966, is a popular author and illustrator of children's literature. Dav Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He also uses the pen names, George Beard and Harold Hutchins...
(though it credits him as "George Beard and Harold Hutchins"), and is a spin-off of Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey is a series of American children's books about two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and the aptly named superhero they accidentally create by hypnotizing their principal, Mr. Benny Krupp...
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Plot summary
William (Bill) and Mary Hoskins, expecting their first child, rush to the hospital.Deputy Dangerous and Danger Dog gain super powers by draining them out of Captain Underpants using the Deputy's "Super Power Taker-Awayer Ray 2000 TM". However, the police arrive just as Dangerous is about to drink the juice. Danger Dog drinks half of the juice and the two escape.
Back at the hospital, Mary Hoskins gives birth to a baby boy (Billy Hoskins, Jr.). When giving the baby the "spank of life", the attending doctor accidentally shoots the baby out of the window into the bucket of super power juice Deputy Dangerous is stealing. The baby drinks the juice, causing him to gain super powers.
The duo escapes to a secret lab. Deputy Dangerous invents the "Danger Crib 2000", which can transmit superpowers from babies to his brain via satellite. They send it to the Hoskins family under the pseudonyms "Deputy Un-Dangerous" and "Safety Dog". Billy poops in his diaper one minute before the transmitting time of midnight and his mother removes him from the crib to give him a very nice bath, just as the machine turns on. His poop is transported to Deputy Dangerous, so that's what he turns into.
The next morning, Deputy Dangerous invents the "Robo-Ant 2000" so he can take over the world (He asks Danger Dog's opinion, but instead Danger Dog coins the name "Deputy Doo-Doo", much to the Deputy's dismay). Instead of helping, Danger Dog goofs off by changing signs around. Billy hears the robot and decides to stop it. Billy is defeated by Doo-Doo and is taken to a Nuclear Power Plant to kill him. Danger Dog saves Billy, while the Ant loses balance and falls into the power plant instead. Danger Dog takes Billy home. Bill and Mary keep "Safety Dog" as a pet, overriding the landlord's worries about carpet stains by putting a diaper on him.
Meanwhile, back at the power plant, radioactivity causes Deputy Doo-Doo to grow into a giant, and he resumes rampaging through the city. Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog fly out to stop him, but Diaper Dog notes that they shouldn't touch the now-radioactive Deputy Doo-Doo. Instead, they trick him into attacking himself, and they wrap him up using a giant toilet paper roll (taken from the top of a building called "Bob's Toilet Paper Co."), and remove him to the planet Uranus
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus , the father of Cronus and grandfather of Zeus...
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On the way back to Earth, they stop by at a Starbutts
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
, and decide to take some Super Power Juice back to Earth, and they go to the laundromat where Captain Underpants is held captive. They restore his powers, and all is right with the world.
Characters
- Billy Hoskins/Super Diaper Baby is the book's protagonistProtagonistA protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
; he is a newborn baby who gains Captain Underpants' powers.
- Danger/Diaper Dog is the Hoskins' pet and Super Diaper Baby's sidekick.
- Deputy Dangerous/Doo-Doo is the main antagonistAntagonistAn antagonist is a character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...
of the book. He invents the Danger Crib 2000 to steal Super Diaper Baby's powers, the Robo-Ant 2000, and owns the Ye Old Underwear Laundry. He becomes a piece of poop due to a mishap in one of his attempts to steal Super Diaper Baby's powers and grows huge when he gets dumped in radioactive waste. After he is defeated, he is dumped in Uranus.
- Billy Hoskins - Billy's father.
- Mary Hoskins - Billy's mother.