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[[File:Powerpuff_Girls.jpg|frame|From left to right: [[Beauty Brains and Brawn]]]]

[[File:Powerpuff_Girls.jpg|frame|From left to right: [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]]]

{{quote| ''Sugar... spice... and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create [[Artificial Human|the perfect little girls]]. But Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: [[Applied Phlebotinum|Chemical X]]! Thus, the Powerpuff Girls were born! Using their [[Flying Brick|ultra-superpowers]], Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup have dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil!''}}

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** Also, under any circumstances, do not come between the girls and their candy. Mojo learned this the hard way and was practically beaten to an inch of his life as a result.

** [[Card-Carrying Villain|Mojo Jojo]] does ''not'' like having his ideas stolen, as the alien invader in "Forced Kin" learned to his sorrow.

** 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)...]]

** 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.

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{{quote| [[Crowning Moment of Funny|ALL I EVER WANTED WAS SOME CEREAL! *Sob*]]}}

* [[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.

* [[Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs]]: The aforementioned cereal itself.

* [[Chromatic Arrangement]]

* [[City of Adventure]]: The City of Townsville.

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* [[The Documentary]]

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: "Mojo Jonesin'". "When dealing when Mojo Jojo, just say no-no!"

* [[Dope Slap]]: Ace of the Gangreen Gang often does this to his [[Yes Man|yesss man]] Snake, but with a punch rather than a slap.

* [[Dope Slap]]: Ace of the Gangreen Gang often does this to his [[Yes-Man|yesss man]] Snake, but with a punch rather than a slap.

** Brick does this or an [[Offhand Backhand]] to Boomer, if he says something stupid.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The end of "Twisted Sister".

** "A Very Special Blossom" ending with Blossom sentenced to 200 hours of community service.

* [[Drunk With 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]]''.

* [[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":

{{quote| '''Museum tour guide:''' I'm going to show you how prehistoric man [[Bamboo Technology|used woolly mammoths as dishwashers, and pterodactyls as record players]].<br />

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** When Mojo Jojo and HIM get into an [[Eviler Than Thou]] contest to decide who is a better father for the Rowdyruff Boys: "The day is doomed, thanks to the Rowdyruff Boys." It also changes the usual pink-and-hot pink heart background for a black-and-white crossbones and skull one.

** 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:

** 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:

{{quote| '''Narrator''': So, once again, the day...is saved! Thanks to... ''(Mojo, Fuzzy, and Him appear on screen)'' ...Mojo Jojo... Fuzzy Lumpkins... and ''Him''...?}}

** In the episode where Mojo kidnaps the Narrator; he does the usual bit...then asks them for a ride home.

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* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: Bubbles and Blossom.

* [[Freak Lab Accident]]: Hilariously [[Lampshaded]] when, in an attempt to create a fourth Powerpuff Girl, the sisters re-create the circumstances of their origin by ''elaborately pretending'' that they're adding the Chemical X to the pot by sheer accident, complete with [[Bad Bad Acting|awkward dialogue delivery]].

* [[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.

* [[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 With 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.

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* [[G-Rated Drug]]: "Candy is Dandy".

** Chemical X (or something similar) for the normal kids in "Mojo Jonesin"

* [[Gross Up Close Up]]

* [[Gross Up Close-Up]]

* [[Hanna-Barbera]]: Made the pilots and seasons 1 through 4. Cartoon Network Studios took over for the movie, the specials and seasons 5 and 6.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Mojo Jojo in [[The Movie]], including:

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* [[May the Farce Be With 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]]

* [[Metronomic Man-Mashing]]

* [[Mid Air Bobbing]]: The girls are the queens of this trope; they even do it in unison.

* [[Mid-Air Bobbing]]: The girls are the queens of this trope; they even do it in unison.

* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Professor Utonium and several others in one episode.

* [[Minor Flaw Major Breakup]]: In "Keen on Keane", Professor Utonium ends up breaking up with Ms. Keane because [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|she owns a cat]]. In his defense, the last cat that the professor had spent any prolonged time with turned out to be an evil mastermind that tried to make him jump off a building.

* [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup]]: In "Keen on Keane", Professor Utonium ends up breaking up with Ms. Keane because [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|she owns a cat]]. In his defense, the last cat that the professor had spent any prolonged time with turned out to be an evil mastermind that tried to make him jump off a building.

* [[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.

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** HIM's demonic forms in "Speed Demon" and "Power Noia".

** Sedusa's giant asp-haired form in "Aspirations".

* [[Opening Shout Out]]: The "Run of the Mill Girls" from the episode "Oops, I Did It Again".

* [[Opening Shout-Out]]: The "Run of the Mill Girls" from the episode "Oops, I Did It Again".

* [[Out-of-Character Moment]]: In "That's Not My Baby!" when the girls try asking Ms. Keane to look after the baby temporarily while they look for the parents, Ms. Keane claims that she's too busy. This is actually a lie and gives the false implication that she hates children, showing the bin next to her desk full of gifts from her students.

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Betty, Buttercup's "Run of the Mill Girls" counterpart from "Oops, I Did It Again", goes back to get her schoolbooks as soon as everyone's ready to go to school, causing the rest of her family to wait a long time for her until she comes back with the books. If she had superpowers like Buttercup, she would have gone and came back in no time flat.

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* [[Parent Service]]: Miss Bellum, Sedusa, Femme Fatal.

* [[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.

* [[Pie-Eyed]]: The girls gain these in "Silent Treatment" when they get trapped inside a silent cartoon.

* [[Pieta Plagiarism]]: Done in "Mommy Fearest" with the Professor and Ima Goodlady after the latter pretends to faint.

* [[The Pig Pen]]: Buttercup became one for an episode when she refused to take a bath.

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{{quote| '''Narrator:''' Love is in the air, can't you just feel it?}}

** 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.

* [["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 From the Dead]] by [[Popularity Power]].

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* [[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''.

* [[Rearrange the Song]]: For [[The Movie]], BIS performed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhbL2HvoFBo a punk rendition of their theme for the show].

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Buttercup and Blossom. Their personal colors may not match this trope, but their personalities sure do.

* [[Red Scare]]: We are given one of these in the musical episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey".

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* [[Rhyming With 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".

* [[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!)

* [[Rule ~~Sixty Three~~]]: Inverted with the Rowdyruff Boys.

* [[Rule 63]]: Inverted with the Rowdyruff Boys.

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{{quote| '''Princess:''' I have the most powerful power there is! [[This Is Sparta|Cold! Hard! Cash!]]}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Security Blanket]]:

** Bubbles' doll Octi.

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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]].

* [[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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** Also, the Gangreen Gang. ''Literally''.

* [[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".

* [[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.

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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 By Origin Story|Batman]] was earlier shown sitting next to Birdman, meaning he would've been just off-screen for this.

* [[Unhand Them Villain]]: "Get Back Jojo".

* [[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]].

* [[Unobtainium]]: Chemical X.

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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: None of the villains have any problem attacking three kindergarten-aged girls.

* [[X Makes Anything Cool]]: Chemical X. Does whatever the plot requires that episode.

* [[Yes Man]]: Snake to Ace.

* [[Yes-Man]]: Snake to Ace.

* [[Yoko Oh No]]: The Powerpuff Girls' plan to break up The Beat-alls. "Moko Jono" is the Yoko to Mojo Jojo's John Lennon.

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Mojo Jojo goes back in time to throw Professor Utonium into a volcano as a child to stop the Powerpuff Girls from ever being created. This instead causes a [[Stable Time Loop]] because the incident is what inspires Utonium to go into science in the first place, thus ensuring the girls will be created. It never occurred to him that, if Professor Utonium ''was'' thrown into the volcano, then Mojo [[Temporal Paradox|wouldn't have been the Professor's pet and wouldn't have been affected by Chemical X, giving him his super-smarts.]]