Crunching, Croaking, Toilet Roll Shooters and iPonds

I haven't had time to respond to each school's villains individually this week, because I went away for a few days. However, I read all of your responses while I was on the aeroplane. Here are some bits that stood out:

Brilliant Character Names

Despicable Thorn - Sasha, Queensgate
Pandorafreek Deepshine - Sadie, St Edwards
Summer Jelly Spikes - Anonymous, Morton Trentside
Traceyfreak Uglyfeetdrip - Josie, St Edwards
Despicable Thorn - Sasha, Queensgate
Maddie Long Legs - Anonymous, Morton Trentside
General Jibbers - Ashton, Queensgate
Tubzilla - Alex, St Edwards
Tubby Mompstrosity - Josh, St Edwards
Sophie Wiggleton Fingers - Charlotte, St Edwards
Steve Stinky Trumpy Beak - Anonymous, Morton Trentside

Humour

'Tubsters habitat is a microwave; that is how he gets his food. He is always excited when someone opens the door of the microwave because he gets to eat and he normally pretends to have a disco. He has a disco by stepping on the food pot and starts to spin around and dance. When the person opens the door again Tubster uses his special abilities of going invisible whilst in he is pretending that the spotlight is on him as well as striking a pose. The family who live in the house are usually puzzled where the food has gone.' - Red, St Edwards

This is a very creative and amusing idea. It conjures up a wonderful mental image.

'He listens to old classical piano music on an iPond.' - Prashna, Lucy and Aaliyah from Manor School.

'iPond' is a very amusing play on the word 'iPod'.

'The Luminater won Lumipoo Momps Got Talent for the best spike throwing.' - Charlotte, St Edwards.

I wonder what Simon Cowell made of that!

'It builds nests anywhere, yes even on your doorstep and on people’s heads!' - Hamzah, Bridge School

This is hilarious. I'd be really cross is a lumipoo momp nested on my head. I'd better go and brush my hair ...

'Instead of making nests everywhere he always makes nests on top of peoples cars and it REALLY annoys them.' - Samantha, Barford Primary School.

This is also amusing. Imagine if you wanted to visit a friend who lived on top of a car? How would you find him or her?

'The Tubsters of Terror Prime Minister of Terror has just bought a mini Ferrari for himself.' - Humaira, Bridge School.

The idea of a tubster driving a car makes me giggle.

Alliteration

'Slimy, sickening , sneaky tentacles' - Annabel, St Edwards

Onomatopoeia 

'In class, she stuffs her face with crisps so all you can hear whilst working is, CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! How annoying?' - Chloe, Queensagate

The use of onomatopoeia ('CRUNCH') in this sentence really helps me picture how annoying Chloe's character is.

'He has the croakiest voice in the whole universe.' - Liam, Queensgate

'Croak' is a splendid example of onomatopoeia.

'Strangely he is afraid of puppies and the yap yap sound they make.' - Fatimah H, Bridge School.

'Yap yap' is a great example of onomatopoeia.

Showing as Well as Telling

'Dr. Tubster of Terror is the father of T.O.T (Tubster of Terror). He lives in the dustbin which is full of junk and rubbish. He lives in the bin because it has all his favourite junk in it e.g. banana skins and fruit and vegetable peelings.' - George, St Edward's School

This habitat really shows how disgusting Dr T.O.T. is.

'Whenever Pandorafreek Deepshine gets angry, her eyes turn blood red and her body turns as dark as the night. Once, when she was really angry, she saw an old woman walking along the street she picked her up and spun her around like a lasso then, catapulted her into to space. Sadly she is stuck there forever.' - Sadie, St Edwards

This shows how angry and nasty Pandorafreek can be.

'He has a nasty habit of chewing strawberry flavoured chewing gum and then spitting it out on the floor, he then stamps on it.' - Josh, Queensgate

This really shows how revolting Josh's bully character can be.

'He stays strong by eating chilli and Brussels sprouts and lots of fast food. (Which he steals from the drive thru on his motorbike).' - Highfield School

This is clever because the class have used their answer to the food question to also remind us how horrible their villain is.

'Steve Stinky Trumpy Beak is evil because he steals other Lumipoos eggs.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside

Another great way of showing evilness.

'Bogey the Bogster has bushy overgrown eyebrows with a piece of cheese in it and nits and everything he needs or has lost.' - Charlotte, Manor Lodge

Food in the eyebrows is a great way of showing how grubby a villain can be.

'He also likes to read fashion magazines while he is lunching on Tig.' - Harry, Manor Lodge School

This shows how insensitive the character is. He has killed and is eating a Tig, yet casually reading as if it doesn't even matter.

'Carefully, he transforms himself into a puddle and if someone steps into the puddle he will gobble them up quick as a flash.' - Ahmad, Bridge School

Admad's work provides a good description of how the lumipoo momp's puddle feature works.

Similes

'Because of his tininess he speak like a shrunken man acting like a scurrying mouse finding some cheese that is out of date.' - Joe, St Edwards

This is a brilliant simile by a class four child. It's very detailed, which makes it hilarious.

'He sounds like a big piano being thrown down the stairs.' - Anonymous, St Edwards

Another brilliant sound simile from class four.

'His sound is like a child screaming when being bitten by a crocodile.' - Anonymous, St Hardulph's.

What a truly awful sound! Well described.

'His tongue is as long as a python.' - Anonymous, St Hardulph's.

Great simile. Suggests both length and snakelike qualities.

'He smells like a dictionary-flavoured soup with bananas from mould-a-lot.' - Brendon, Queensgate

This is a really interesting simile because it uses figurative language (i.e. expressing ideas indirectly). Because dictionaries don't have a strong smell (unless you hold them really close to your nose), I had to use other things I know about dictionaries, to imagine the smell.

'She smells of socks (that have be worn for PE) what haven’t be washed in centuries and then dipped in mouldy Stilton cheese.' - Sadie, St Edwards

Another truly vile smell.

'The Lumipoo poo smells like BBQ sauce mixed with mustard, which smells revolting.' - Liam, Queensgate

Yet another disgusting smell!

'The Tubster of Terror has red skin, which is as red as a devil. He smells like the wettest, moldiest wallpaper you could ever get. He talks like a crying baby on Broadway.' - Katie, Rosemellin School

A great selection of similes from Katie. I particularly like the crying baby on Broadway imagery.

Backstories

'He was born a bad egg. He was picked on really badly at his old school so he moved to a new school and became a BULLY. He picked on every one in sight (because of what happened in the past), later on in life they called him the DESTROYER.' - Tyler, Queensgate

This is good. Even bad people have histories and reasons for their behaviour.

'When he was little he got bullied by a girl called Tabitha and she was a really mean girl. Dave is also a bully because she was a girl and he didn’t want to be shown up by a girl again so he became a bully and he thought that no one would pick on a bully.' - Grace, Queensgate

The children at Queensgate have really thought about what makes an ordinary person become a bully.

'Strangely, he has an exceptionally high voice, because as a young baddie he was discovered snooping around inside a human’s house.  Although they were extremely frightened of Tubzilla, the humans managed to capture him inside a big helium balloon. Luckily Tubzilla had detachable teeth when he was born.  He pierced the balloon and managed to scramble out just in time; but never quite got rid of his high voice.' - Alex, St Edwards

An outstanding back story by Alex. He cunningly used the question about sound to add extra details.

'Even the bad crowd he hung around with were not proper friends; they would bully him and tell him he had no mates.' - Highfield School

I feel the above shows great insight into how bullying works.

'He is a bully because he can’t think about good things.' - Ryan, St Edwards

This also shows insight into the mind of a bully.

'Dark Raiden is 20 years old and has just graduated Dangerous Duck school where they learn you how to be pure evil.' - Daiyaan, Barford School

I love the idea of a duck school that educates lumpipoo momps on the particulars of being evil.

Distinguishing Villains from Other Members of the Species

'He only has 2 slimy, sickening, sneaky tentacles,  unfortunately the others got chopped off when he was stirring up some more trouble. They are green with purple spots on them, the DNA made the purple spots  have poisonous  liquid in  them... So be careful when a Tubster of Terror is stressed because that is when he has the ability to squirt!' - - Annabel, St Edwards

You'd definitely be able to identify a tubster with only two tentacles. The spot idea paints a vivid (and disgusting!) mental image.

'Tubby Monstrosity was born, well not born but created, when a Tubster of Terror challenged a Lumipoo Momp to a fight. The Lumipoo transformed itself into a puddle and tried to make the tubster slip but instead the tubster slurped up the Lumipoo and together they morphed into a duck-beaked, spike-covered hamster.' - Josh, St Edwards

A great super-villain from Josh. Not just a hamster spliced with Count Crocular, but a hamster spliced with Count Crocular, then mixed with a lumipoo momp.

Random Creativity

'He’s now an evil, vicious and violent Tubster. It loves eating everything except his imaginary girl friend called Katie - he loves her so much even though she’s imaginary.' - Tyler, Queensgate

The above is very random, but it made me chuckle.

'He has lots of sets of wings for different occasions, like a pair of casual wings, flying away wings, party wings, weird wings, wings for every times in its life.' - Koby, Queensgate

I find the idea of detachable wings very amusing and original.

'Dr Scarepants is mixed gender, and has the ability to look after the other Lumipoo Momps when they dissolve into puddles. She can scoop them up into bottles, take them back to his lab and pour it into a machine.' - Claudia, Manor School

Firstly, a mixed gender lumipoo momp is very original and poses some interesting questions. Secondly, a lumipoo momp that bottles lumipoo puddles is a brilliant idea for a character.

Alternative Weapons

Remember what I said about guns and lasers being boring? What do you think about some of these ideas?

'Unlike other LMs, he can shoot out his spikes and then regrow more.' - Ahmad, Bridge Junior School

'Its weapon is a banana and it's used for chopping heads off and she keeps them in her pink handbag. Slowly she shoots the banana in the eye. It would be horrible.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

'The Captain Tubster of Terror has teeth like razors, which can shoot out of his mouth.' - Enzo, Manor School

'Scarily he has a toilet paper shooter which shoots toilet rolls and spins round people. It shoots two at a time.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside

'Its weapon is a red, green and black pea shooter. The squidgy green frozen peas are poisonous peas.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

'He’s got a pond water gun to avoid enemy ducks.' - Koby, Queensgate

'Summer Jelly Spikes has an elastic band to use as a rope and another one with lots of nails so she can use it as a bow and arrow.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside

'Her weapon is a wooden spoon because it can creep up on you and knock you out with the wooden spoon.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside

'He has a bin lid and he uses it like a frisbee. It would hurt your body and it is made out of metal.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

'Spike lives in a nest that’s made with junk, especially with rotten brown banana skins, at the top of a cherry tree. He can poo glowing yellow, steamy smelly water bombs that shoot in the air and aim right in your face.' - Lucas and Darcey, St Hardulphs.

I really don't want to be walking under than cherry tree!

I Almost Forgot ... We Need a Scientist

We need a scientist character who injects a hamster with Count Crocula's DNA. Fortunately, George and Matthew from St Edwards both created a scientist tubsters, so I plan to borrow some of their ideas and apply them to a human:

'Dr. TOT has no eyelashes, one long eyebrow and a small smudged nose. His hair is grey, wild and wiry just like a mad scientist. He has little zigzag teeth with thin lips as grey as thunder. His ears are round like teddy bears, on the top of his head. He has feet and legs like Kangaroo’s that are springy, so he walks with a bounce.  Dr. TOT likes to wear a white Lab Coat. In his pockets of the Lab Coat are Dr. TOT’s secret potions. Every night, he puts them into the food and drinks at the supermarket. These potions make people become his servants. The only way for people to get rid of the potion is to drink cola.' - George, St Edwards

'He is also quite academic being top of several topics including chemistry, science and mathematics. All of the topics are evil, obviously, but the most evil is the science. Using his vast knowledge of science Fudgeblock puts together machine after maniacal machine to help conquer the world.' - Matthew, St Edwards

Thank you for all your ideas. I'm in the process of creating a booklet of characters, containing notes for you to use when we storyboard our plots next week.