Manuel was secretly a superhero. Although it wasn’t all that super. I mean, yeah, he was mannequin man, and he could become completely still, and everyone would ignore him. Not a great superpower, because he couldn’t fight or fly. But he could go somewhere, stand still, and no one would notice him. He could listen to things and report them to other superheroes or the police. You would think villains would notice a guy just standing there, but they didn’t. Except for Captain obvious, but nobody ever believed the frustrated Captain obvious so he eventually quit the league of villains.