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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 [[Power Trio]] of little girls who fight crime in the fictional city of Townsville. These [[Artificial Human]] girls, who have no discernible fingers, toes, ears, or noses, were created when Professor Utonium accidentally added Chemical X to his mixture of sugar, spice and everything nice.
 
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 (Animation)|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! Power PuffPowerpuff Girls Z]]'', hit the airwaves in Japan on July 1st, 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 was only ''natural'' that it would [[Demashita! Power PuffPowerpuff 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]].
* [[Art Shift]]:
** In "Get Back, Jojo", while Mojo Jojo is traveling through time, the art becomes pencil sketches.
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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 (Musicband)|The Beatles]]: "Meet The Beat-Alls".
* [[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 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 [[DextersDexter's Laboratory|Major Glory and Valhallen]].
* [[Cue the Rain]]:
** In "Simian Says", Mojo Jojo kidnaps the narrator and takes his place, leading to this exchange:
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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 Asas There Is Evil]], this doesn't kill him, but it defeats him for the time being.}}
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
** During the episode where Mojo is hired to babysit the girls, the girls take a [[Took a Level In Jerkass|level in jerkass]] and beat him first with pillows, then just regularly beating him, for ''telling a bad bedtime story.''
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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 Withwith Power]]: That episode where The Mayor got tired of relying on The Girls and decided to bring his own brand of justice, riding a balloon and stopping bad guys with an extending boxing glove. It goes to his head...
* [[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 The Holy Grail]]''.
* [[Edutainment Show]]: Parodied in "Seed No Evil":
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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 Withwith Monkeys]]: Mojo Jojo's plan in the movie is to create an army of superpowered monkeys to do his bidding.
* [[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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* [[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 Withwith Flushing]]: The class hamster gets flushed down by Mitch, the schoolyard bully. In the sewer, the hamster gets exposed to chemical waste and comes back a mutated monster out for revenge.
* [[Gagging Onon Your Words]]: Buttercup has this problem when she tries to apologize.
** 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 (Animation)/Radar|multiple times]], sometimes blatantly, sometimes subtly.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted Onon Your Soul]]: Attempted in "Super Zeroes":
{{quote| '''Bubbles/Harmony Bunny:''' There! Now you're covered with Happy Stickers! Their good, sweet powers will take hold of you and make you smile!}}
* [[Girls Have Cooties]]:
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* [[Hero Syndrome]]: Major Man.
* [[Heroic RROD]]: Bunny.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]:
** 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 Aa Hero]]:
** 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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* [[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 ''[[FostersFoster'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 -- 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''.
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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 Withwith You]]: The Death Star trench run scene in "Boogie Frights".
* [[Medusa]]: Has a character named Sedusa with hair that [[Prehensile Hair|works like tentacles]].
* [[Metronomic Man-Mashing]]
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* [[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 -Universe]] example would be the crook who dressed up like Lucky Captain Rabbit King,who went through so much torment trying to get the box of cereal he forgot he was originally after the stolen jewel hidden in the box.
* [[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.
* [[MS Ting]]: In "Silent Treatment", the girls make fun of the silent movie they're watching, complete with silhouettes in front of the screen.
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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 Asas the Plot Demands]]: The girls will occasionally use a power they never showed before as a [[Deus Ex Machina]] to defeat the villain. [[The Power of Rock]] is just one example.
* [[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.
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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 Withwith Itself]]: In "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey", this trope is rather [[Egregious]] when the PPG join in Professor Utonium's "Freedom Beef" song, as they rhyme "peace" with itself rather forcefully, directly after rhyming "powers" with itself.
* [[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 (Music)|Feel Me]], Gnomey".
* [[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!)
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* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: Parodied in "Collect Her" -- 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 (Animation)/Shout Out]].
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Professor Utonium and Miss Keane in "Keen on Keane".
* [[Single Specimen Species]]: Apparently most kaiju in the series, and possibly some villains.
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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 Asas They Need to Be]]
* [[Stupid Crooks]]: The Amoeba Boys.
* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: Ace of the Gangreen Gang never takes off his [[Cool Shades|cool shades]]. Not even at night, when fighting, or when sleeping.
** The Boogie Man also does this, although he takes his glasses off from time to time.
* [[Super Speed]]:
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* [[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 -Universe]]. In the "Members Only" episode, Major Glory talks the girls through several [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen|gender roles]], asking who does various things ("Who goes to work?", "Who pays the bills?", etc) and receiving "Our Dad" as an answer each time. Then he gets to cooking and cleaning, getting the same answer. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=7nQIjHgS64M 5:12 - 5:45]
{{quote| '''Major Glory:''' So what does your mother do?<br />
'''Girls:''' (in unison) We don't have a mother.<br />
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