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The series' heroines are Blossom, "commander and the leader," who often acts the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]; Bubbles, "the joy and the laughter," whose personality is very similar to that of her namesake from ''[[Jabberjaw]]'' (but not quite a [[Dumb Blonde]]), and Buttercup, "the toughest fighter," and the tomboyish [[Action Girl]] with a bad temper. Their simian [[Arch Enemy]] Mojo Jojo wears a helmet to cover his enlarged brain and speaks in a manner [[Intentional Engrish for Funny|reminiscent of bad anime dubbing]]. Aside from the obvious [[Anime]] influences, most of the series' supporting characters are drawn in the style of ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'' (not surprisingly, as the creator of the show worked on that cartoon).
 
Warner Bros. released an [[The Movie|animated feature]], ''The Powerpuff Girls Movie'', in 2002 (which sadly bombed at the theaters due to bad marketing from Warner Bros, though it does have the honor of being the only Cartoon Network series to have a theatrical movie). An [[Anime]] version, ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'', hit the airwaves in Japan on July 1st1, 2006. There is also, off the record in the [[Web Comic]] world, a popular fancomic based off the series called ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]''.
 
Reruns still air on Boomerang.
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* [[Ambiguously Human]]: It's never specified if The Gangreen Gang are humanoid monsters or just bizzare-looking teenage boys.
* [[Animated Series]]
* [[Animesque]]: The above-mentioned "bad anime dubbing" style of speech that Mojo Jojo uses, the fact that [[Image Song]] is one of the tropes listed below (and that the "Supergirl" music video had both English and Japanese subtitles on it, but no other languages), and the fact that it often seemed an ill fit for the American [[Animation Age Ghetto]]--it—it was only ''natural'' that it would [[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z|become a true anime]] one day! Of particular note is the episode "Substitute Creature", in which the girls repeatedly go into overblown mangaesque [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]]s.
* [[Art Shift]]:
** In "Get Back, Jojo", while Mojo Jojo is traveling through time, the art becomes pencil sketches.
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* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Mojo Jojo and maybe HIM.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: All. The. Time.
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: A variation -- invariation—in one episode, the Gangreen Gang occupies city hall while the Mayor's away and use his hotline to sic the Powerpuff Girls at Fuzzy Lumpkins, Mojo Jojo and HIM, who are all [[Villains Out Shopping|having days off]]. Although the Powerpuff Girls never catch on to the fact that the Mayor's an impostor, the villains quickly do, tracking down the Gangreen Gang and delivering a(n) (un)righteous smackdown onto them. The Narrator is forced to declare that "[[So Once Again the Day Is Saved]], thanks to... Fuzzy Lumpkins, Mojo Jojo, and HIM?"
* [[The Big Guy|Big]] [[The Lancer|Lancer]]: Buttercup.
* [[Big No]]:
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* [[The Collector]]: Lenny Baxter in "Collect Her".
* [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Both the Powerpuffs and the Rowdyruffs.
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: DC Comics--70Comics—70 regular issues (including one reprint and the movie adaptation), plus two issues of Cartoon Network Starring (their first two comic appearances), 21 appearances in Cartoon Network Block Party, 3 appearances of Cartoon Network Action Pack (Rowdyruff Boys stories--thestories—the boys appeared in four issues) and four volumes of reprinted stories. Series creator Craig McCracken drew and co-wrote the first CN Starring issue.
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
{{quote|'''Buttercup:''' Wow, where did you get that giant match?
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{{quote|'''Hotta Watta:''' For I don't give a--
'''Mojo Jojo:''' Watch your mouth! }}
* [[Cute Kitten|Cute Kittens]]s: In the episode "Catastrophe", in which the Powerpuff Girls have to find one of the kittens for a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant monster]] in order to help him leave Townsville alone.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: a more sinister version of the theme song's origin exposition music plays when Utonium's college roommate Professor Dick creates imitations of the Powerpuff Girls.
** A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example in [[The Movie]], as Mojo finally sees his ultimate plan coming together, a sinister rendition can be heard.
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* [[Girls Have Cooties]]:
** In the episode "Cootie Gras" our kindergartner heroines are terrified of a boy said to have Cooties. A fact Mojo Jojo uses to keep them at bay until they get over it. Once they do, however, they leave the boy [[Covered in Kisses]], then go kick Mojo's butt.
** Also, used in the first episode featuring the Rowdyruff Boys -- theBoys—the girls' key to defeat them is to look prettily at them and actually kiss them. It worked so well the guys explode in horror. Lampshaded right after this, when Bubbles and Blossom think kissing isn't that bad, but Buttercup is shown coughing and almost throwing up in disgust.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Parodied in "Bubblevicious".
{{quote|'''Bubbles:''' *being zapped by a laser at a low level* I'm not... gonna... cry... you... dumb... doo-doo-brain!
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* [[Imaginary Friend]]: In ''Imaginary Fiend'', the PPG had to fight an [[Imaginary Friend]] who was causing trouble at school. They defeat him by imagining a friend of their own to beat the snot out of him.
** It's said that this episode served as the inspiration foundation for Craig McCracken's ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' and Mike Believe is the template for the later show's Mac.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: Keeps coming up in "Live and Let Dynamo", as the girls try to figure out which villain has their [[Humongous Mecha]], the Powerpuff Dynamo, and keep imagining what the recurring villains would really do if they got control of the Dynamo -- theDynamo—the Rowdyruff Boys would force her into demeaning acts such as picking her nose, Mojo Jojo would just criticize her cockpit and leave, the Gangreen Gang would just make prank calls from within the Dynamo, the Amoeba Boys wouldn't know what to do, Fuzzy Lumpkins would make Dynamo play a banjo, and HIM would give it an extreme makeover.
* [[Improbable Age]]: The girls are supposedly ''5 years old''.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" has several, being an obvious tribute to ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', but the one that takes the cake is delivered by Blossom, complete with [[Overly Long Gag|a humorously extended]] [[Beat]] for good measure.
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'''Blossom''': Not only are we dealing with a petty criminal, we're dealing with... '''''A tarot-ist'''''.
[5 second beat] }}
* [[Innocent Swearing]]: In the episode "Curses", the girls overhear Professor Utonium using a naughty word and start using it themselves. Many [[Sound Effect Bleep|Sound Effect Bleeps]]s ensue.
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: Strangely, Townsville Jail uses the striped suits version ''and'' the orange suits version.
* [[Intentional Engrish for Funny]]: Bubbles's narration of a Japanese manga in "Super Zeroes", despite being an [[Omniglot]]. "I am filled with solutions!".
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* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: HIM brings the Rowdyruff boys back to life to defeat the Powerpuff girls.
* [[Limited Animation]]: Definitely influenced by the style, especially in the earlier episodes.
* [[Lost in Translation]]: None of the Beat-Alls jokes work in the Swedish dub. The translator doesn't come up with any [[Woolseyism|Woolseyisms]]s, since that wouldn't be possible in Swedish.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: "Schoolhouse Rocked". The rules are there's no fighting in school. So Miss Keane suggests to the Powerpuff Girls they "play dodgeball" with the Gangreen Gang instead.
* [[Duty First, Love Second]]: "Superfriends".
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* [[Powerpuff Girl Hands]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. [[Lampshaded]] in "Criss Cross Crisis" when Buttercup switches bodies with Professor Utonium. When she tries to pick up the phone, she can't figure out how his fingers are supposed to work.
* [[Power Trio]]: The Powerpuff Girls and The Rowdyruff Boys.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Two comic book story titles: "Hell Toupee" (issue #16--also16—also counts as an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]), and "Helliday" (issue #29). Also, in "Shutter Thug" (issue #11), Blossom says "Oh...dam" after said structure collapses on said villain. And finally in "Trick Or Beatings" (#31), the girls are laying a smackdown on the Gangreen Gang on Halloween. Blossom, dressed as a witch, originally had the line "Prepare to be ''witch-slapped''!" before it was changed to a more kid-friendly line.
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Buttercup develops one on [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Ace]] in "Buttercrushed".
* [[Prison Rape]]:
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* [[Punny Name]]: Sara Bellum = Cerebellum
* [[Rain, Rain, Go Away]]: "The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever".
* [[Rashomon Style]]: In one episode, the Mayor is kidnapped by Mojo Jojo and blindfolded. The girls save the Mayor and beat Mojo Jojo, but can't stop laughing after. The Mayor asks why. The girls each tell the story of how they saved the day today differently, accompanied by [[Art Shift|Art Shifts]]s. What they neglect to mention? {{spoiler|The Mayor [[Tomato Surprise|was naked]] all along}}.
* [[Retool]]: At one point, CN did try marketing a line of the series with an overstyled grown up versions of the girls. [[Stillborn Franchise|It sank just as quickly as it begin.]]
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Everything related to the town of Citiesville, most notably the girls' destruction of the bridge leading in to town to stop some robbers. The bridge was both the only way for workers to commute to Citiesville and a historical landmark, costing over three million dollars. [[Reality Ensues]], and ''hard''.
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* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Mojo Jojo. In one episode, he's left in charge of an adult education English course, and the whole town starts talking like this. Society comes to a screeching halt.
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Sara Bellum.
* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: Parodied in "Collect Her" -- we—we see shadows of children ripping open the comic book guy's collectors items.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The episode "HIM Diddle Riddle" revolves around the girls flying around town, trying to solve HIM's insidious riddles in a desperate attempt to save Professor Utonium, only to fail, and now HIM is going to make the professor '''PAY!'''... {{spoiler|full price for breakfast}}. The narrator even lampshades it, with "And once again, the day is... um... yeah..." while the girls just float there staring blankly.
* [[Shout-Out]]: So many, it has its own page! See [[The Powerpuff Girls/Shout Out]].
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** The comic book story "Steal A Meal" (Cartoon Network Block Party #26) has the girls doing a tearful [[Big No]] upon learning that after all the breakfast cereal in town had been stolen the only thing left was oatmeal.
* [[Sleepwalking]]
* [[Smart Ball]]: Done [[Rule of Funny|for laughs]] when [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|out of nowhere]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|the Mayor]] determines that the riddle about where freezing and boiling meet is a set of coordinates for where HIM has the Professor, or [[Fridge Logic|there's an ice cream truck on fire]].
* [[Snap Back]]:
** Towards the end of "Slumbering with the Enemy", Mojo Jojo douses the Powerpuffs with the Antidote X to remove their powers. They're back to normal without explaination in the next episode.
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* [[There Was a Door]]: [[Lampshaded]] several times. The girls must have racked up quite a bit of roof damage by now due to their preferred method of exit.
* [[Thick Line Animation]]: It got thicker as the series went on.
* [[The Tokyo Fireball|The Townsville Fireball]]: Usually as the result of a giant monster, although in at least one episode, the girls ended up doing more damage than the monster -- andmonster—and getting harshly reprimanded for it.
* [[Tom Kenny]]: He narrates the show ''[[Talking to Himself|AND]]'' voices the Mayor of Townsville.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Buttercup and Bubbles.
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* [[Totally Radical]]: Professor Utonium in "Powerprof".
* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Sedusa gets one at the end of "Something's A Ms".
** So does Blossom in "The Mane Event." She's unaware of it until she finds out why everyone--includingeveryone—including the monster--ismonster—is laughing at her.
** In ''Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins'', One of Bubbles' pony-tails is turned into a turkey leg by Fuzzy Lumpkin's meat gun, Which pushes her [[Berserk Button]].
* [[Truly Single Parent]]
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{{quote|''[[So Once Again the Day Is Saved]], thanks to [[The Powerpuff Girls]]!''}}
 
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