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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Several episodes were directly or indirectly distilled from PPG print material:
** "Stray Bullet", from comic book story "Squirrely Burly" (issue #1).
** "All Chalked Up
** "PowerProf.
** "Substitute Creature
** "Neighbor Hood
** "Lying Around The House
** "Simian Says
** "Deja View" (comic issue #50) was intended as a season 5 episode, but was shelved due to being overbudget (half of the ep was to be in CGI) and having a tight deadline. Like "Neighbor Hood"/"Remote Controlled," the story outline was given to DC and made into a comic.
* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: Toyed with. The cartoon was originally conceived as "The Whoopass Girls
* [[Anvilicious]]: The Aesops of every episode that has one are very obvious and heavy handed. It got worse as the show went on
* [[Ass Pull]]:
** In "Insect Inside", Blossom produces a giant jar to contain a mass of cockroaches. Lampshaded in a later episode where she pulls out a giant match, which she claims to have gotten [[Continuity Nod|from the same place]].
** During "HIM Diddle Riddle
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boY3sUhePQ0 Mojo Jojo covering] Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" in the PPG Rule episode.
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** From [[The Movie]], we have [http://www.youtube.com/user/Bradwizard8#p/c/662AC054FA2B9336/0/IfyNOPZNaHQ the whole freaking score album.]
** Ahem. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ZFeViTl4g Buttercup (I'm A Supergirl).] That is all.
* [[Badass Decay]]: The first episode Him was introduced, he was presented as a hellish almighty powerful being so fearsome we can't even say his name, and was pretty solid [[Nightmare Fuel]]. By the last time we see him in the show, he's turned into just as much of a feeble joke as any other villain.
** Though somewhat justified as Him draws power from evil
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: At the start of the episode "Catastrophe", the girls are shown at a ceremony where they are rewarded with a bronze statue and "Powerpuff Day". The ceremony is soon interrupted by a monster searching for his cat, who the girls leave to deal with. The ceremony is never mentioned again throughout the episode. ▼
▲** Dick Hardly: In "Knock It Off", while inspecting the production of the Powerpuff Girls [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]], Dick Hardly finds a perfectly accurate Buttercup among them. Dick's reaction? He reprimands one of his [[Mooks]] for not cutting back on the sugar and tells him to melt that particular Buttercup copy down for its Chemical X.About Dick Hardly, he was so evil that the writers saw it fit for him to be the only human in the entire show to actually die! And other than the Gnome from "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey", he was the only villain to be [[Killed Off for Real]], ''period.''
* [[Crack Pairing]]: Each girl has her own popular, cracky pairing in the fandom: Bubbles x Him, Blossom x Mojo, and Buttercup x Ace - though the last one was actually canon [[Precocious Crush|for one episode]].
* [[Crazy Awesome]]:
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** The ending theme.
** The children's song about Ms. Keane from "Substitute Creature".
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Rowdyruff Boys were intended to be one shot villains, but they garnered such huge fan support with tons of fan art to even a [
** Bunny, the fourth Powerpuff Girl that Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup made, has some love from the fan-base, probably due to her episode being an ''absolute'' [[Tear Jerker]]. She's even mentioned in [[Bleedman]]'s ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]''.
** The Powerpunk Girls
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Sedusa, Femme Fatale, and Ace of the Gangreen Gang [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|for some female fans]].
* [[Freud Was Right]]: Entire episodes like "Members Only" and "The Boys Are Back In Town" are ''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|beyond disturbing]]''.
* [[Girl Show Ghetto]]: Averted
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Japan absolutely cherished the PPG. So much so that [[Demashita!
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
*
** In "Boogie Frights", Jerome (voiced by [[Kevin Michael Richardson]]) said "Chill the frag out!" Richardson would later voice ''[[Lobo (web series)|Lobo]]'' who says "frag" a lot.
* [[Ho Yay]]: In the episode called "The City of Clipsville," Professor Utonium is about to marry Ms. Bellum. But then when he takes off her veil to see her face, it turns out to be {{spoiler|Mojo Jojo}} who reveals that he has always loved the professor. This is also a serious example of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Him, mainly in his earlier appearances. Sometimes Mojo Jojo, particularly in the movie. Also the Gnome in "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey."
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** From "Cover Up," a floored Buttercup's pathetic "Nooo" when a rather diminutive monster marches toward her. She just let herself get beaten up because she hadn't rubbed her good-luck blanket, but when taken out of context, this clip has some rather [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Needless to say, without context, [[
** "Eat your pea, Professor!"
*** "SWALLOW IT!"
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: In the [[Clip Show]] spoofing episode, one of the "flashbacks" was of the Powerpuff Girls being bimboish teenagers who have given up crime fighting to hang out at the mall and flirt with the also teenaged Rowdyruff Boys. The whole sequence is rumored to have been a [[Take That|parody of extremely bad PPG fanfiction]]. A great deal of fans [[Irony|completely]] [[
* [[Moe]]: Bubbles especially. The other girls have their moments, too.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Dick Hardly doesn't just cross it with murdering a ''perfect'' Buttercup clone, he crosses it by absorbing the Chemical X in the bodies of the girls, ''as their father is watching them slowly die''.
** Also, once the Rowdyruff Boys started {{spoiler|throwing vehicles full of innocent civilians at the powerpuff girls}}, that's when the girls decided it was time to stop trying to fight fair against them. {{spoiler|(For contrast, the tactic the girls used in response was to look pretty and kiss said boys to overwhelm them!)}}
** Mojo
** Mitch crosses this in "Getting Twiggy With It" when he flushes the titular hamster down the toilet. It's made abundantly clear that he won't repent for what he's doing to the poor hamster.
** Him arguably crossed it in "Speed Demon" where he took over Townsville and turned it into apocalyptic wasteland. This drives Townsville citizens insane and depressed. [[Fridge Horror|And this would happen if Him would have succeeded in his plans.]]▼
** From the episode "Cop Out", there's Mike Brikowski. At first, he's just a [[Jerkass]] cop who is too lazy to do his job at worst, but he crosses a line when he jumps to attempted murder. As the Powerpuff Girls themselves note, he went from bad to worse. And it's implied that the reason he was fired (leaving his fellow police officer to face bank robbers by himself, which could potentially get him killed) wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: The episode "Supper Villain" hammers in that your average, everyday neighbor with an average, everyday family could actually be a sociopathic supervillian wannabe without anyone knowing it. ▼
▲** Him
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: At the peak of popularity, most of the show's fans were boys... not that every guy would admit to watching it in public.▼
▲* [[
▲* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: The episode "Supper Villain" hammers in that your average, everyday neighbor with an average, everyday family could actually be a sociopathic supervillian wannabe without anyone knowing it.
▲* [[Periphery Demographic]]: At the peak of popularity, most of the show's fans were boys... not that every guy would admit to watching it in public. Nowadays it seems fine to admit you watched it, though, and it was intended for all children anyway.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: The two seasons made [[Executive Meddling|without Craig McCracken]] after the show was [[Uncancelled]], due to boring plots, ungodly amounts of [[Flanderization]], and a really unfitting art style.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: "Love Makes the World Go 'Round" is a generally fine song, though the part sung by Blossom at the end is truly a triumphant example of saccharine lyrics.
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* [[Toy Ship]]: Practically every romance fanfic writer seems to have forgotten that the Rowdyruff Boys are the Girls' [[Evil Twin
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'''Bubbles:''' Ooh, ooh! I want the blond! I think he's cute!
'''Buttercup:''' Man, you're weird. }}
* [[Ugly Cute]] / [[Grotesque Gallery]]: The Powerpuff Girls Xtreme.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Er...looking back on the show, it's more than a little squicky that a middle-aged, unmarried man took the time to create three "perfect little girls"
* [[Villain Decay]]: If we look at things chronologically from the movie to the TV show, this happened to Mojo Jojo. He actually ''suceeded'' in taking over and destroying much of Townsville in the movie, but
* [[Villain Sue]]: The Alien Force from "Forced Kin"... until the end.
* [[The Woobie]]: More often than not, it's Bubbles.
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