Javier is going through a bad patch: he can hardly make it to the end of the month, his business of T-shirts with de-motivational slogans is not quite getting attention, and his relationship with Lola is slackening. The last thing he needed was for an alien to land on him and transfer his powers to him before dying.

It is based on who's life is not going too well. He can barely make ends meet with a temporary job, his t-shirt business with discouraging quotes doesn't quite take off and his relationship with Lola has been having problems for the last couple of months.