The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
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| The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby | |
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| Author(s) | Dav Pilkey (credited as George Beard) |
| Illustrator | Dav Pilkey (credited as Harold Hutchins) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Captain Underpants series |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
| Publication date | February 5, 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Preceded by | n/a |
| Followed by | Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers |
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.
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[edit] Plot summary
Bill and Mary Hoskins are pregnant with their first chilld. They book opens with the expectant parents rushing to the hospital, ready for their baby to be born.
Elsewhere, Deputy Dangerous and Danger Dog drain Captain Underpants of his superpowers by using the Deputy's "Super Power Taker-Awayer Ray 2000." The Trademarked device steals the power of the superhero and converts it into a liquid which Deputy Dangerous and Danger Dog are about to consume when the police arrive. Danger Dog drinks half of the juice and the two manage to escape just in time.
Back at the hospital Mary Hoskins gives birth to a baby boy, Billy Hoskins. When giving the baby the "spank of life", the attending doctor accidentally sends Billy flying out of the window into the bucket of super power juice Deputy Dangerous is stealing. Billy drinks the juice, causing him to gain super powers. Deputy Dangerous orders Billy to "give it to him NOW!", resulting in him being beaten up by Billy and (along with Danger Dog) apprehended by the police. A nurse arrives to ensure that Billy was alright after his fall and diapers him. He then flies himself and the nurse back to the maternity ward to be reunited with his parents. He then spanks the doctor in revenge for nearly killing him.
Thanks to Danger Dog's superpowers, he and Deputy Dangerous escape from the "City Jail for Bad Guys and Dogs" to their secret lab on top of a mountain. 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 "Heat-Seeking Dish" that drains the powers turns on. Instead of transmitting the coveted superpowers of Captain Underpants to Deputy Dangerous; the "Danger Crib 2000" transmits the poop, turning him into a small turd (albeit with limbs, a face, and the same cowboy wardrobe).
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 Deputy 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 want to keep "Safety Dog", but the Landlord who stepped on Deputy Doo-Doo earlier worries that Danger Dog might go pee-pee on and stain the carpet. However, he changes his mind when they put a diaper on him and rename him Diaper Dog.
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 on Mars, 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.
[edit] Characters
- Billy Hoskins/Super Diaper Baby is the book's protagonist; 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 antagonist 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.
[edit] Sequel
On the last page of the book, an advertisement for a sequel titled Super Diaper Baby 2: Invasion of the Potty Snatchers - The Third Graphic Novel can be found. The book took longer than anticipated to be released due to Dav Pilkey taking care of his terminally ill father. On the back page there was a picture of the book with the words The Third Epic Novel" by George Beard and Harold Hutchins. The long-awaited book was finally published on June 28, 2011, named The Third Graphic Novel.
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