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Less than Hero is episode # 1.09 b of Brandy & Mr. Whiskers.

Brandy is holding a food drive for the less fortunate, in which Lola Boa is squeezing fruits to make juice, Ed was keeping inventory and Brandy was greeting people and giving out the food. Mr. Whiskers comes up and speaks with Brandy. He requests he be able to help out because he wants to be useful. But the only job Brandy can trust Mr. Whiskers with is holding a sign, which makes Mr. Whiskers depressed because he would just be doing the dirt’s job. Brandy explains that Mr. Whiskers always ends up screwing things up, which Mr. Whiskers realizes is the truth and he goes off depressed, though when he leans on a sign and knocks over a stack of coconuts, which scare Lola Boa which causes juice to go into Cheryl and Meryl’s eyes, the food drive begins to fall apart and Brandy gets angry with Mr. Whiskers and she sends him away. Mr. Whiskers then begins to walk throughout the jungle, depressed because he doesn't have a good purpose in the jungle, though when a comic blows into Mr. Whiskers face, after he requests he be given a sign, he notices something that he believes will give him a purpose. Upon reading the comic, in which he sees a superhero rescuing a woman from some thugs, Mr. Whiskers believes his purpose is to sell comics, though he shortly after changes his mind and decides that he will become a superhero. Mr. Whiskers then goes and dresses up in a superhero outfit and he calls himself Captain Fruity. He then goes and rescues a family of creatures from a pack of jaguars by tossing fruit at them until they runaway. Mr. Whiskers, ecstatic that he now has a purpose, runs back to Brandy to tell her, but she already knows and she doesn't care. Since they live in a low-crime part of the Amazon, she expresses that there isn't much of a need for super heroes. Mr. Whiskers refuses to believe that and he goes around the jungle throwing fruit at people for frivolous crimes, such as snoring or using improper grammar, which eventually makes the jungle denizens mad and they talk about how much of a menace Captain Fruity is. Brandy tells Mr. Whiskers that he is no good at being good, which makes him depressed. However, another comic blows in on a gust of fate and upon reading it Mr. Whiskers sees a picture of a super villain, and he decides to become one himself. Mr. Whiskers proclaims himself Dark Sith Fruity, and then goes around the jungle tossing fruit at everyone for practically no reason. They eventually grow weary, and news of his actions come to Brandy. Lola Boa suggests that they all dress up as super heroes and give him a taste of his own medicine, though Brandy refuses to go that far and while Lola Boa, Ed, Cheryl and Meryl all dress up as super heroes, Brandy refuses and she just goes as her. Mr. Whiskers, however, planted a trap for them and they all fall for it, though upon Mr. Whiskers' evil comments Brandy apologizes and she explains that she was wrong to say what she did, but Mr. Whiskers isn't evil and he knows that he isn't. Mr. Whiskers then becomes saddened and confused and he goes off to think, and another gust of fate blows a comic book into his face and he looks and sees an annoying, mess-up sidekick. The comic hero tells the sidekick that every hero needs a sidekick who screws up all the time. Mr. Whiskers becomes ecstatic upon hearing the news, as he now has a purpose. But when jaguars come to attempt to eat the trapped Brandy and her friends, Mr. Whiskers appears and tells Brandy that he learned his lesson, and the jaguars attack him. However, Mr. Whiskers bends over to pick up a rock, which causes a jaguar to slam into the tree, causing fruit to fall and trip the other jaguars, which causes one jaguar to drop the rope and Brandy and her friends fall on top of the jaguars, knocking them out. Mr. Whiskers is embraced by his friends for being who he is and later that day Mr. Whiskers is retiring his fruit so that he can be himself from that point on, though when he hears Brandy singing while putting on a facial mask for the night, he decides some things are too cruel and the episode ends with him attacking Brandy with fruit.

The episode title is a reference to "Less than Zero".

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