Here's the entry I had sent to a "Script YOur Superhero" contest hosted by a newspaper here. I was declared as one of the 6 winners. Anyway, here's what I wrote:
Lovevol
Imagine a beauty conscious giantess applying powder on her boulder-sized face with a watermelon-sized powder-puff. Then, disappearing the giantess from you imagination, concentrate on the powder-puff. Make it lemon green, add beady eyes, a smile, two pairs of limbs and don’t forget the translucent mauve wings. You have Lovevol.
Lovevol is not a failed experiment. Neither was he ever bitten by a spider nor is he from another planet sharing its name with a nifty noble gas. Lovevol was born, purely and amazingly, out of a little girl’s imagination. The girl hates seeing animals being ill-treated. So she created Lovevol to protect them. But Lovevol is not imaginary. Lovevol is real; very real and very lemon green.
Lovevol is the superhero for animals. ‘Roar chirp hiss bark, meow grunt trumpet!’ — That’s Lovevol’s way of saying ‘No need to fear, Lovevol is here!’
As for villains, you better watch out. Poachers, hunters or even the kid dipping a kitten in a puddle, BEWARE, Lovevol is watching you. An attempt to harm any animal and you will see a green swirl revolving its way towards you.
That’s another thing about Lovevol. He is never mistaken for a rocket, comet or Superman. Always seen as a green swirl, Lovevol can bounce real high. But he seldom uses his physical powers.
Why? Because Lovevol cares.
The primary attack of our often-mistaken-for-a-giantess’-lost-powder-puff superhero is his irresistible Charm attack. Lovevol is cuteness personified. He can melt the coldest of all hearts and make them give up hunting.
And if that doesn’t work, Lovevol uses his psychic Nightmare attack and the victim enters a virtual world where he is the hunt, not the hunter. He feels the way animals do when they are chased and cornered. He feels their fears, their insecurity and this makes him quit hurting animals for reasons obvious.
Lovevol also uses his Pacify, Heal and Mind-Read powers, but on animals.
If nothing works, Lovevol is forced to attack the offender. He transforms into a seven-foot beast. Fangs that would put a werewolf into shame emerges, spikes so sharp that they would make the Excalibur look like a miserable toothpick appear. Thankfully, Lovevol never has to use them; his mere sight scares away baddies.
Lovevol’s only weakness — an unclaimed blue ribbon. Well, who can resist being distracted by such a thing?
Many people fail to realize that Lovevol’s name is a palindrome and if pronounced proficiently, it sounds like ‘Love All’ — our superhero’s motto. And as his multi-animal-dialect theme song hasn’t been translated yet, you can hum any heroic tune when Lovevol appears.
Lovevol has many enemies and defeating them is not easy as there are millions of poachers, hunters, thousands of people who love practicing their football skills on puppies, hundreds of men and women who think it’s is highly in to have tiger-skins and elephant-tusks ‘adorning’ their living rooms but there is only one Lovevol.
But he will always do his best because unlike us, Lovevol cares to make a difference.
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