Bananaman is a parody of Superman and Batman. In the strip, Eric Wimp, an ordinary schoolboy living at 29 Acacia Road, Nuttytown (later changed to Beanotown), eats a banana to transform into Bananaman, an adult superhero. His superpowers include the ability to fly but unfortunately he is still as naive as the child he changed from; as mentioned in the comic, he has the "muscles of twenty men and the brains of twenty mussels".