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[[File:Powerpuff_Girls.jpg|frame|From left to right: [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]]]
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One of [[Cartoon Network]]'s most popular original series, originally called "The Whoopass Girls" by creator [[Craig McCracken]] (they were created with "sugar, spice, everything nice," and a can of Whoopass) before it got picked up by the network during [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]. ''The Powerpuff Girls'' centers around a [[
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 ''[[
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!
A [[The Powerpuff Girls (2016 series)|TV reboot]] of the series was made in 2016, with many changes from the original series (setting, comedy, characters, even the main girls' voices were recast).
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== A-I ==
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[
** "So we have Blossom, Bubbles, and, hmmm, Buttercup because... it also begins with a B."
** Also Bunny and Bullet. Also note the double letter in each name as well.
** Also, the Rowdyruff Boys: Brick, Boomer, and Butch.
** Also, from the episode Powerpuff Bluff:
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'''Criminal:''' P-P-P-Powerpuffs?
'''Blossom:''' Precisely! }}
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: If Blossom's vision of a world ruled by her is any indication, she forgot the moral of "Equal Fights".
* [[Agony Beam]]
* [[Alphabetical Theme Naming]]: All three girls have names beginning with B. This even extends to temporary members (Bunny, Bullet) as well as both sets of [[Evil Counterpart|evil counterparts]], the Rowdyruff Boys (Brick, Boomer, and Butch) and the Powerpunk Girls (Berserk, Brat, and Brute).
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The show has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYexfaVDtrM a couple] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdFAO6U6VRQ&feature=related opening] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627075930/http://nicoviewer.net/nm13169305 and] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMF6-6Zvq8M ending] songs in Japan. Most of them were written by Power Puff Soul, a band of singers who joined together for this series, and one of the members includes [[Megumi Hayashibara]]!
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: The Gangreen Gang. [[Visual Pun|They're green, and they're a gang]].
* [[Amen Break]]: The theme song.
* [[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]]
* [[Art Shift]]:
** In "Get Back, Jojo", while Mojo Jojo is traveling through time, the art becomes pencil sketches.
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* [[As Himself|As Themselves]]: "The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever" simply focuses on them playing in their room, pretending to be... The Powerpuff Girls. Subverted as they all switch roles and even dragoon the very annoyed professor into playing Bubbles. Watching them run around singing their own theme tune turns the adorable [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Alliterative Family]]: Buttercup was named pretty much to allow for this.
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Attack Pattern Alpha]]: "Attack pattern Alpha Omega [[Atari]]!"
* [[Badass Family]]: In the episode "Powerprof."
* [[Badass Normal]]: Mojo Jojo brings down the Powerpuff Girls with Antidote X during their [[Slumber Party]], and the Girls' classmates subdue him with a [[Pillow Fight]].
* [[Bad Future]]: In "Speed Demon".
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** There was a variation of this trope in "The Boys are Back in Town." All three girls are squashed into a hockey puck and smacked around by the Rowdyruff Boys.
** This trope also occurred in a "Got Milk" promo, when Buttercup throws Lil' Arturo into the rest of the Gangreen Gang like a bowling ball.
* [[The Beatles (
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** "FUZZY! You can throw away my things, and I don't mind the hay on the floor, and the chicken wire's a nice touch, and I kinda like that beat-up old flivver. But no one, I mean no one, wears my mayorin' hat! Now give it back!"
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** The entirety of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EuPr6K_bW8 "Bubblevicious"] is dedicated to Bubbles going on a rampage after her button (being treated like a baby by everyone, even her own family) is pressed one time too many. She calms down at the end, [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|but then Mojo zaps her with a laser (again)...]]
** An easy way to tick off all three of the Powerpuff Girls is to endanger the life of the Professor.
** Fuzzy Lumpkins and "trespassers", a term he defines very broadly. For example: He shot at a leaf that happened to drift onto his lawn.
** Marianne Smith when anyone tries to disrupt the dinner she is hosting.
* [[Berserker Tears]]: A sign that you have pushed Bubbles too far.
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* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Mojo Jojo and maybe HIM.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: All. The. Time.
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: A
* [[The Big Guy|Big]] [[The Lancer|Lancer]]: Buttercup.
* [[Big No]]:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heNRLR2d6jo&feature=related "Parent teacher conference?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"]
** From "Mo'Linguish":
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'''Mojo Jojo:''' NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! By which I mean I cannot do it. }}
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Sedusa's [[Punny Name|Ima Goodlady]] disguise.
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Big Billy. Turns out he's a {{spoiler|cyclops}}.
* [[Bragging Theme Tune|Bragging Ending Theme]]:
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Bubbles, [[Cheerful Child|she is the joy]] [[Genki Girl|and the laughter]]
Buttercup, [[Little Miss Badass|'cause she's the toughest fighter]]
Powerpuffs save the day...
[[They Fight Crime|Fighting crime]], trying to [[Saving the World|save the world]]
[[Big Damn Heroes|Here they come just in time]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}uTWoIXKZGOg the Powerpuff Girls!] }}
* [[Broken Glass Penalty]]: One episode plays out like this - the girls throw their ball through the window of their arch-villain, who tries to use it as an excuse to destroy them while pretending to be looking for their ball. After the girls [[Priceless Ming Vase|continue to do more damage in the house]], he instead just gives them the ball back [[Get Out!|so that they will leave]].
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Issue #64 of the comic introduced the Micro-Puffs, tiny sprite versions of the girls from another dimension who show up to merely yank the girls' chains. One story has Blossom actually getting help from Mojo Jojo in defeating them. Considered canon in that all Micro-Puffs stories were written by Amy Rogers, head writer for the show.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Done by Blossom in "Los Dos Mojos"; lampshaded by Mojo.
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'''Mojo:''' (''sarcastically'') No. Really. You think? }}
* [[Cardboard Prison]]
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* [[Cat Fight]]: Miss Bellum and Sedusa have one at the end of "Something's a Ms".
* [[Cereal Vice Reward]]: Magnificently parodied in one episode. "Ridiculous Lucky Captain Rabbit King! Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets are for the youth!"
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* [[Chemistry Can Do Anything]]: Such as create super powered little girls, using sugar, spice, and everything nice... And Chemical X.
* [[Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs]]: The aforementioned cereal itself.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Both Bubbles and the mayor.
* [[The Collector]]: Lenny Baxter in "Collect Her".
* [[
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: DC
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
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'''Blossom:''' Same place I got the giant jar, silly! [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Episode 2, Season 1]], remember? }}
* [[Cowboy Episode]]: One episode is basically a normal episode of the show, but in the Old West. The girls become the Steamypuff Girls. Titled "West In Pieces," the episode was hated by virtually all the Powerpuff fan community yet it still won an Emmy (special juried award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation).
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** The class in Blossom's Nightmare in "Power-noia".
* [[Crossover]]: In 2000, Cartoon Network published a special magazine which featured a story in which the Powerpuff Girls met [[Scooby Doo]] and the gang.
** The episode "Members Only" featured [[
* [[Cue the Rain]]:
** In "Simian Says", Mojo Jojo kidnaps the narrator and takes his place, leading to this exchange:
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'''Mojo Jojo''' (narrating): That's not a bad idea!
''(it starts to rain)'' }}
** In [[The Movie]], when the girls think they've been abandoned by the Professor and are walking home, crying, a rainstorm kicks up.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]:
** ''Mommy Fearest.''
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** From [[The Movie]]:
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'''Mojo Jojo:''' Watch your mouth! }}
* [[Cute Kitten
* [[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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* [[Darkest Hour]]: The climax of [[The Movie]].
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Mojo Jojo. That is to say, he speaks in a manner that is highly repetitive and frequently says things that he has already said at an earlier point in time and is now redundantly saying again, thus causing the audience to wonder if they are hearing the same thing multiple times, for they are hearing dialogue that they have already been exposed to, for he has already said it. He does go the extra mile to deny it:
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* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: In the episode "Sweet n Sour", three cute animals - a puppy, kitten, and rabbit - are brainwashing the whole city of Townsville, except for the girls, of course, with their obviously cute faces, thus also causing a backlash on the girls due to their doubts on the animals. However, when they walk into a building which they think is a bank, they find it's a school filled with children who love the animals to near-death, thus delivering the message of how too much of something isn't always good. Of course, after the children leave, it is revealed that their receiving too much love was set up by the girls.
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]:
** In the episode "Bought and Scold", Princess Morbucks takes over as Mayor of Townsville and passes a law legalizing crime, [[Evil Plan|just so she could put the girls out of business]]. However, she apparently didn't realize that with crime being legal, she herself could be robbed as well, which is obviously one of the reasons why the girls thought of the idea of robbing her blind.
** Also, in the episode "Birthday Bash", the Amoeba Boys send the girls voodoo dolls of the girls themselves without realizing that they were supposed to keep the dolls in order to make them work.
** Mojo Jojo's first attack involved turning the world and the girls into dogs. He was beaten when Buttercup ran up the platform bit him in the behind. In another episode, he does almost the same thing, then he plays a video recording of the first event to the girls and explains that he won't turn them into dogs this time, and he installed butt armor to prevent getting bitten again. Mojo got so wrapped up on how he was beaten previously he forgot to disable or weaken the girls this time and they beat him up as usual.
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Roach Coach falls out of a building. While the Girls were shocked because they believed he was a man and they thought they'd killed him, but it turns out he was actually a cockroach in a mechanical suit, so he survived and was captured.}}
** {{spoiler|HIM sent plummeting into a [[Bottomless Pit|bottomless abyss]] by Buttercup in "Power Noia". Being a recurring villain who can survive [[As Long
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
** During the episode where Mojo is hired to babysit the girls, the girls take a [[Took a Level
** Combined with [[Minor Injury Overreaction]], the two-parter episode about a meek husband trying to be a villain and horribly failed for it... the wife was MAD and ANGRY at the [[Powerpuff Girls]] and resort to crime along with the whole family because the Powerpuff Girls ''ruined her dinner'' to protect Professor Utonium.
* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]
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* [[Downer Ending]]: The end of "Twisted Sister".
** "A Very Special Blossom" ending with Blossom sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
* [[Drunk
* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Pretty much every townsperson and the highly co-dependent Mayor are Sheep. Explicitly lampshaded in one episode, when the girls get sick of being called on to fix every little problem. They go sit on a cloud and encourage the people to work out a solution to the [[Monster of the Week]], but keep having to beat them over the heads with hints, in what is probably a direct [[Shout-Out]] to the "Burn the witch" scene from ''[[Monty Python and
* [[Edutainment Show]]: Parodied in "Seed No Evil":
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'''Narrator:''' Not wanting to overshoot this episode's educational quota, let's fast-forward[.] }}
* [[Enemy Mime]]: Rainbow The Clown's alternate personality in "Mime for a Change".
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** Many comic book stories end with the standard hearts-and-stars with the girls posing in front, but like in the show, it can be averted and subverted once in awhile. Among them was "Monkey Business" (issue #67), where Mojo's attempt to go straight and open his own restaurant keeps getting sabotaged by the girls, skeptical of his intentions. The last straw was when Blossom mistakes everybody farting (from Mojo's chili) as a gas leak, causing a frantic evacuation. Frustrated, Mojo goes back to crime, and it ends with the narrator chiding the girls in the hearts/stars panel for making Mojo evil again.
** In "Telephonies", after the Gangreen Gang continuously [[Mugging the Monster|harass]] Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Him by [[It Makes Sense in Context|making a string of very convincing crank calls that convinced the girls that the three were terrorizing Townsville, but were instead, enjoying a day off]], Mojo Jojo, Him, and Fuzzy; furious over the crank calls; form a temporary [[Power Trio]] and proceeding to give the Gangreen Gang the worst [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] of their careers, and thus promptly saving the day, making the narrator say the following line in total bewilderment:
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** In the episode where Mojo kidnaps the Narrator; he does the usual bit...then asks them for a ride home.
** "I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future:" The day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff grill.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: The episode "Boogie Frights".
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: The girls never act the way they're "supposed to" for HIM's plans.
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** The Rowdyruff Boys possess the same basic powerset, and Blossom's male counterpart there is named Brick.
* [[F Minus Minus]]: In the episode "Mo' Linguish", Mojo Jojo mentions that if he had control of the grading system, he would make the lowest grade a "Z" rather than an "F".
* [[Flanderization]]: Bubbles in particular seems to go from "cute" to "annoying" in later episodes.
** The Mayor went from eccentric and absent-minded to [[Too Dumb to Live]].
** Almost ''everyone'' suffered this (if they weren't a [[Brother Chuck]]) in the later episodes, but most notably were the Powerpuffs themselves. Blossom went from smart, cool-headed and somewhat bossy to a full-blown irritating know-it-all as the show went on. Bubbles, as mentioned above, had been transformed from a cute little girl to a shrill harpy by the middle, and Buttercup, if not being [[My Friends and Zoidberg]], pretty much was defined by her fighting lust. Also, the Narrator seemed to be paid by the hour to talk every five minutes.
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* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: "Criss Cross Crisis", which even gives a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Freaky Friday|original movie]] by showing that "Freakin' Friday" is playing at the movie theater.
* [[Friction Burn]]: In one episode, Buttercup creates a fireball by rubbing her hands together rapidly and throws it at a monster.
* [[Fun
* [[Gagging
** Subverted in "Moral Decay": Buttercup apologizes profusely to Bubbles after accidentally knocking out one of her baby teeth.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: If you've seen the show, you know this is done [[The Powerpuff Girls
* [[Getting Smilies Painted
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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
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Parodied in "Bubblevicious".
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'''Mojo Jojo:''' "Doo-doo-brain"? That's it! I've had it with your sassy mouth! }}
* [[Grand Finale]]:
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* [[Hartman Hips]]: Miss Keane.
** Miss Keane might be a reach since she's rather pear-shaped.
* [[Hates Baths]]: Buttercup in "Down 'N' Dirty."
* [[Hero Insurance]]: Available in Townsville, but ''not'' in Citiesville.
* [[Hero Syndrome]]: Major Man.
* [[Heroic RROD]]: Bunny.
* [[Hoist
** Dick Hardley sets such a contrast to the Professor's love that {{spoiler|his own Powerpuff Girls turn against him}}.
** The Rose Gnome from "[[Grand Finale|See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey]]" [[Exact Words|accidentally violates the terms of his own agreement]].
** Princess Morbucks in "Bought and Scold", as mentioned before.
* [[Holding Out for
** One episode was devoted to showing how the citizens of Townsville have become so used to the girls taking care of everything from invading monsters to fires to getting cats out trees that every problem is shrugged off with, "Oh, the Powerpuff Girls will take care of it". This causes the girls to go on strike.
** Reversed in "Collect Her", which had an obsessive collector of Powerpuff Girl merchandise capture the girls themselves to add to his collection. The people of Townsville paid the girls back for helping them by going to the collector's house and ripping up all his merchandise, freeing the girls in the process. Since he was a [[You Suck|fat, bald, overweight]] [[Otaku]] with no powers, there wasn't much he could do to stop them.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The D.Y.N.A.M.O.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]:
** "Meet the Beat-alls". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFLZjiYqZBs This video spells it all out quite nicely], for those who aren't too knowledgeable on [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]].
** "I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future".
* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]: Travel through the fifth dimension.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
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* [[I Can See My House From Here]]
* [[Image Song]]: The "Heroes and Villains" CD.
* [[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 ''[[
* [[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
* [[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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'''Bubbles''': What''ever'' do you mean, Blossom?
'''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
* [[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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* [[Ironic Echo]]: In [[The Movie]], when the girls meet Mojo for the very first time, he says that he's a monster, to which Blossom replies that he's not a monster, because "Monsters are evil", in the final battle, they tell him that he ''is'' evil, and ''is'' a monster.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: During the episode "Down 'n' Dirty", where Buttercup tries to give up bathing:
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'''Bubbles:''' ''(hurt)'' I'm not fat. }}
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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
* [[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.
* [[
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Played with - Mojo Jojo is the main reason the girls actually exist, since he caused the Chemical X incident. The girls teasingly call him "Dad" while he stands in utter stock at this revelation. Mojo becomes doubly responsible when he goes back in time and [[Stable Time Loop|sparks the professor's interest in science and the desire to create the "three perfect girls".]]
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Key to the World in "The Powerpuff Girls Rule". The Professor lampshades the utter ridiculousness of the concept.
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** The Gnome to the girls and all of Townsville in "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey."
** Sedusa to the Gangreen Gang in "Aspirations".
* [[May the Farce Be
* [[Medusa]]: Has a character named Sedusa with hair that [[Prehensile Hair|works like tentacles]].
* [[Metronomic Man-Mashing]]
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* [[Miracle-Gro Monster]]: B.E.E.B.O.
* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]]: Ms. Keane inverts this in "Speed Demon", where she goes from a math problem with apples to Einstein's Theory of Relativity and how it pertains to potential [[Time Travel]]. It was relevant to the plot, but the class just kinda stared blankly.
* [[Mondegreen]]: Used intentionally with many, many [[The Beatles (Band)|Beatles]] lyrics in the "Meet the Beat-Alls" episode.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: The Brocolli Aliens' invasion of earth could be justified by the humanity constantly consuming his "kin", and the girls respond with a vicious genocide on the invaders. Mojo Jojo frequently attempts to kill the girls for reasons which are far harder to justify, and he gets beat up and jailed.
** In ''Not So Awesome Blossom'', Mojo issues an ultimatum to Blossom in exchange for the lives of her sisters and the Professor, an ultimatum of servitude. Blossom asks "How do you know I won't lie?," to which Mojo responds "Because you're Blossom." They must have forgotten ''A Very Special Blossom,'' where she steals a set of golf clubs to give the Professor for Father's Day then lies not only about how she got them but when cornered tried to frame Mojo for it.
* [[Motive Decay]]: An [[In
* [[Mistaken for Profound]]: Mayor is running for reelection, spouting his usual, tired lines. Fuzzy Lumpkins gets tired of Mayor's shouting to the crowd interrupting his sleep, so he yells "SHUT UP!", and people act like it's the best campaign slogan ever.
* [[
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: "The city of Townsville: a place filled with some of the most brilliant, clever, and ingenious criminal masterminds ever to hatch an evil scheme! ...Then, there's the Amoeba Boys."
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]:
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** [[Doubly Subverted]] when Mojo Jojo actually repeated one of his previous plans exactly, except for one minor detail that led to the plan's previous failure. The minor detail being to actually try to hinder the Powerpuff Girls from simply beating the snot out of him from the get-go. As Mojo Jojo starts smugly stating how ''not'' trying to hinder them, because they overcame it the last time, will make the plan ''certain'' to work this time, the Powerpuff Girls respond by simply beating the snot out of him.
** Also, HIM explicitly states that he never "gives repeat performances" in one episode.
* [[New Powers
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
** Mojo wouldn't have been able to set his plan in [[The Movie]] in motion without help from the girls.
** The first time they use the [[Humongous Mecha|Dynamo]], they end up causing more damage then the monster they were fighting, causing the Mayor to demand that they never use it again.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: In "Forced Kin" Mojo Jojo helps the girls fight an alien, only to find the alien is seemingly using all his own ideas! When the alien defeats the girls, Jojo literally goes ape and physically forces the alien to submit, driving off the threat and becoming the reluctant hero.
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** Mojo is also responsible for the afforementioned [[Stable Time Loop]].
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
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* [[Paste Eater]]: In one episode, there's a boy in the girls' class named [[Punny Name|Elmer Sglue]] who gets teased for eating paste. A mosquito tainted by toxic waste falls on the paste he was eating, turning him into a giant glue monster who wreaks havoc on the city.
* [[Pie-Eyed]]: The girls gain these in "Silent Treatment" when they get trapped inside a silent cartoon.
* [[
* [[The Pig Pen]]: Buttercup became one for an episode when she refused to take a bath.
* [[Poor Man's Substitute]]: Craig McCracken originally wanted Jack Black to voice the Gnome in "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" but by the time they got to production he was too busy and expensive, so they instead got Jess Harnell doing a Jack Black-like voice.
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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.
* [[Prank Call]]: In one episode, the Gang Green Gang used the Mayor's emergency phone to prank call the Powerpuff Girls into beating up [[Not Me This Time|villains who weren't doing anything]].
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Two comic book story titles: "Hell Toupee" (issue #
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Buttercup develops one on [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Ace]] in "Buttercrushed".
* [[Prison Rape]]:
** This is implied to happen to Mojo Jojo.
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** Mojo Jojo was also turned into a dog once, and left in the pound. A big burly dog woofs at him suggestively. At least it wasn't a human prisoner that time.
* [["Previously On..."]]: The episode ''Just Desserts'' is a sequel to ''Supper Villain'', which came 16/8 episodes (depending on your definition of an episode) prior. It opens with a recap of ''Supper Villain'' that begins "Last week, in the city of Townsville..." Once the recap ends, the actual episode begins with "The City of Townsville!" as per usual.
* [[Pro Wrestling Episode]]: "Impeach Fuzz," and comic Issue #18.
* [[The Psycho Rangers]]: The Rowdyruff Boys, [[Distaff Counterpart|Spear Counterparts]] later brought [[Back
* [[Psycho Serum]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: According to the episode "Super Zeroes", EVERY monster that invades Townsville is this.
* [[Pungeon Master]]: The Narrator sometimes slips into this. Especially noticeable in "Daylight Savings".
* [[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
* [[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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* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[Reunion Show]]: 2008's "Powerpuff Girls Rule", a PPG special made five years after the show ended, featuring nearly every main character within the series, as well as all the original voice actors.
* [[Rhyming
* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: Subverted in "Cat Man Do", where {{spoiler|[[The Dog Was the Mastermind|the cat was the mastermind]]}}.
* [[Rock Opera]]: "[[Shout-Out|See Me,]] [[The Who
* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, The Gangreen Gang, Him, Princess Morbucks, Sedusa, The Rowdyruff Boys to a lesser extent and The Amoeba Boys if you consider irritation to be roguish. Rainbow The Clown has also appeared in the background in his villainous mime-form post-''Mime for a Change''
* [[Rule of Three]]: The episode "Super Zeroes" with the line, "Better heroes, huh?" (Said by Utonium, the Mayor, and even the [[Monster of the Week]] itself!)
* [[Rule 63]]: Inverted with the Rowdyruff Boys.
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* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Mojo Jojo after [[Yoko Oh No|Moko Jono]] is revealed to be {{spoiler|a chimp from the zoo}}.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Princess Morbucks.
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls Rule after having victory literally swept from under his nose.
* [[Second-Person Attack]]: Used and abused; in certain cases, the viewer can suffer the virtual effects of getting punched and kicked DOZENS OF TIMES IN A ROW.
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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"
* [[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
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Professor Utonium and Miss Keane in "Keen on Keane".
* [[Single
* [[Sissy Villain]]: '''HIM'''.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: The girls ''try'' to create one with Bunny. [[The Ditz|It doesn't really work 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 [[
* [[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.
** Mojo Jojo is turned into a dog twice. No explanation is given as to how he turned himself back into an ape.
* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: "Go to a place where it is freezing and boiling at the same time! {{
* [[Space Is Noisy]]: The few times the girls go into space, they can communicate with each other just fine.
* [[Spear Counterpart]]: The Rowdyruff Boys, Brick (red color scheme), Boomer (blue color scheme), and Butch (dark green color scheme) to the Powerpuff Girls, Blossom (pink color scheme), Bubbles (cyan color scheme), and Buttercup (green color scheme).
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** Two words: "Forced Kin".
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Femme Fatale in "Equal Fights", who uses feminism as an excuse for her crimes. Along with her usual physical beatdown, the Girls also give her a verbal beatdown as "real" feminists.
* [[Strong
* [[Stupid Crooks]]: The Amoeba Boys.
* [[Sunglasses
** The Boogie Man also does this, although he takes his glasses off from time to time.
* [[Super Speed]]:
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* [[Teeth Flying]]: Bad guys' teeth go flying in the opening sequence; also, one episode is pretty much based on this trope - Buttercup learns the Tooth Fairy gives you money for teeth, and starts deliberately knocking villains' teeth out and collecting them to make a huge windfall.
* [[That Cloud Looks Like...]]: Bubbles does this, including one that "looked like a cloud".
* [[The Cameo]]: Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory makes several cameos over the course of the series, including the episode "Forced Kin".
* [[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
* [[Tom Kenny]]: He narrates the show ''[[Talking to Himself|AND]]'' voices the Mayor of Townsville.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Buttercup and Bubbles.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The mayor. In one episode he ''jumped out a window'' because Bubbles told him to go save the day... while pretending to be him.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: "Collect Her" and "Down And Dirty".
* [[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
** 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]]
* [[Ultimate Authority Mayor]]: The Mayor of Townsville (though to his credit, he ''is'' elected, and even lost once).
* [[Ultimate Evil]]: HIM, as actually stated in one episode. Most of the episodes with HIM simply revolve around the girls surviving HIM's magic and psychological challenges.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Touched upon [[In
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*cut to Major Glory looking over at [[Zorro|Mucho Muchacho]] and Birdman, all three looking uncomfortable* }}
** To drive it in further, [[Death
* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]: "Get Back Jojo".
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Grubber of the Gangreen Gang usually speaks only in raspberries. The rest of the gang members understand him just fine though. Subverted in one episode, where Grubber is shown to be quite eloquent when he straightens his posture. He's also an [[Man of a Thousand Voices|expert voice mimicker]].
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** Mojo Jojo has a particularly huge one at the end of "Forced Kin" when he finally snaps after being repeatedly defeated by the alien force's [[Villain Sue]] trait of unrealistically predicting every attack. But the one thing the alien force didn't predict was Mojo going berserk and beating the crap out of it.
** Those are nothing compared to the one he has in [[The Movie]]. Up until his monkey army rebels against him, Mojo speaks in a very straightforward manner. Once it becomes apparent that the Chemical X-enhanced simians have their own plots for world domination, he flips out, and starts ranting in his trademark redundant speech-style;
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** HIM also has these, normally after the girls defeat his plans with their sisterly love. He goes from his normal, creepy voice to screaming about [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|how they didn't act like they were supposed to]]. He has an especially noteable one at the end of "Power Noia", when the girls have turned the tables on him and got him completely at their mercy, for the first time actually begging them to let him go.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]
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** The Professor's description of the time he went to the DMV to get his driver's license renewed in "City of Clipsville".
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLrldtZtRA Eat your pea, Professor.]
** The entire concept of "Beat Your Greens". What better way to get children of the '90's to eat their veggies by making a race of hyperintelligent, nigh invulnerable broccoli invade earth only to be defeated by Townsville's children banding together and devouring them all into oblivion?
* [[Wanting Is Better Than Having]]: One episode had a collector of Powerpuff Girls' merchandise who freaks out and becomes a villain when his collection is complete: there's nothing left for him to collect ''except the girls themselves''.
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Him in one episode.
* [[When Elders Attack]]: An old lady does this from the roof of an episode to a Godzilla-like monster, who promptly eats her.
* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: One episode featured a con-artist "director" allegedly making a movie about the girls. The initial broadcast of this episode was suspiciously close to the release of the actual movie. Also provides the page quote.
* [[Window Pain]]: Not only do things get thrown through windows, but driven. And the girls occasionally fly through them!
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: None of the villains have any problem attacking three kindergarten-aged girls.
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