BubbleBoy

BubbleBoys are a species of corruption based on Argentinian email worms that target Windows computers. Unlike all other worms in 1999, BubbleBoys were the first to infect computers without an infected attachment. If the user merely opened the email in Microsoft Outlook, then they would immediately receive the virus.

Once executed, a BubbleBoy will locate the user's MS Outlook contacts and send itself to each person. Afterwards, it changes the computer's registered owner to "BubbleBoy" and the organization to "Vandelay Industries". Otherwise, the computer worm is pretty much harmless.

The message that BubbleBoys hide in is available in both English and Spanish, depending on the language of the user. The English version reads as:

From: (name of infected user) Subject: BubbleBoy is back! Body: The BubbleBoy incident, pictures and sounds http://www.towns.com/dorms/tom/bblboy.htm

Role In Battle
Staying true to the harmlessness of its real-life counterpart, BubbleBoys act as corruption support characters similar to Databrawl's Princess RAMs. They have a standard amount of health (100) and two tools: quick, but weak fists and a spawn-able force field bubble that negates all damage for both team members and themselves. Enemies who enter can still be damaged, but allies cannot.

Trivia

 * BubbleBoy's name comes from an episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld; "The Bubble Boy"