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| The Powerpuff Girls | |
 The Powerpuff Girls with Professor Utonium |
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| Format | Animated series |
| Run time | 30 minutes (15 minutes per episode) |
| Creator(s) | Craig McCracken |
| Starring | Cathy Cavadini E.G. Daily Tara Strong Tom Kane Tom Kenny Roger L. Jackson Jennifer Hale Jennifer Martin Jim Cummings Jeff Bennett Kath Soucie |
| Country | USA |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Original run | November 18, 1998 – October 1, 2004 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
The Powerpuff Girls is an animated series starring three little girls with superpowers who have dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil. The series was created by animator Craig McCracken, and first produced by Hanna-Barbera for Cartoon Network.
The show began as a project for Craig McCracken's college class at California Institute of the Arts in 1992, titled The Whoop-Ass Girls. Spike and Mike premiered the short at their Festival of Animation. They then funded a fully drawn color short, "A Sticky Situation," that also featured the Amoeba Boys. In 1995, they were renamed to the more TV friendly Powerpuff Girls as a few more episodes and new antagonists, "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" and "Crime 101," appeared on the What-A-Cartoon! show. A full-length TV series was aired in 1998. The Powerpuff Girls Movie was released in 2002.
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Characters
The Powerpuff Girls
- Blossom (voiced by Cathy Cavadini): Red-haired, pink-eyed, and dressed in pink. According to the theme tune, she is "the commander and the leader" (aka the bookish, drill instructor-ish one).
- Bubbles (voiced by Kath Soucie in the What-a-Cartoon! episodes and Tara Strong in the series): Blond-haired, blue-eyed, and dressed in blue. She is "the joy and the laughter" (a.k.a. the spacey one).
- Buttercup (voiced by E.G. Daily): Black-haired, green-eyed, and dressed in green. She is "the toughest fighter" (aka the violent one).
They live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA (not to be confused with Townsville, Australia). They were created by Professor Utonium, who was attempting to make the perfect little girl by combining sugar, spice, and everything nice, when (courtesy of his assistant, Mojo Jojo) he accidentally knocked a glass of "Chemical X" into the mixture.
The girls are super-cute and super-powerful. They have abnormally large eyes and no fingers or toes.
They also have many super-powers similar to those possessed by Superman. Including:
- Super-strength.
- Ability to fly.
- Super-speed.
- Ability to project a variety of energy blasts.
In some cases, they utilize special team maneuvers to take down their foes, such as Ferocious Fiery Feline (the girls combine to create a cat of pure fire).
Others include:
- A triple attack from side to side and front.
- Spinning around fast enough to create after-image doubles.
- Turning into a ball to save people or strike them out.
- And a twister with devastating after-effects.
There was a fourth Powerpuff Girl named Bunny (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh), who was brown-haired, purple-eyed, and dressed in purple. When the three original girls couldn't handle all their crime-fighting activities any more, they decided to create a new Powerpuff Girl themselves, but she didn't turn out exactly as planned. Bunny appears to be mentally challenged.
Townsville Citizens
Friends and allies of the Girls include:
- Professor Utonium: A scientist who creates the Powerpuff Girls in this series.
- Ms. Keane: Teacher of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten (voiced by Jennifer Hale)
- Mayor of Townsville: An empty-headed mayor who is referred throughout only as "Mayor". In one episode where he was forced to run for re-election as Mayor, he ran with the campaign slogan "Vote Mayor for mayor!". (voiced by Tom Kenny, who also serves as the show's narrator)
- Ms. Sara Bellum: Mayor's very competent assistant, the statuesque redheaded person, whose face is always just out of shot. (most likely a reference to the initial appearance of redhead Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man.) She is named after the cerebellum. (voiced by Jennifer Martin)
Enemies of the Powerpuff Girls
- Mojo Jojo: A mad scientist monkey. (voiced by Roger L. Jackson)
- Fuzzy Lumpkins (voiced by Jim Cummings)
- The Gangreen Gang
- Princess Morbucks: A spoiled little rich girl. Her name is a play on Daddy Warbucks from Annie (voiced by Jennifer Hale)
- The Rowdyruff Boys: Male versions of the Powerpuff Girls made by Mojo Jojo
- Sedusa
- Him: A mysterious, super powerful, red-skinned, and effeminate devil. His voice and character were inspired by the Chief of the Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine.
The girls also frequently combat a wide assortment of giant monsters, all of which seem to visit Earth solely for the purpose of demolishing Townsville.
One-time villain appearances include:
- Femme Fatale
- Abracadaver
- Roach Coach
- The Smiths (their next door neighbors)
- The Dooks of Doom
- The Boogie Man
Furthermore, a group of unsuccessful bank robbers is often seen suffering the consequences of their deeds.
Major Man came to Townsville trying to take the girls' place but it was discovered he was nothing but a big fraud and the girls made him leave Townsville.
Miscellaneous
- The Amoeba Boys: The harmless pack of amoebae who first appeared in the "World Premiere Toons" "Crime 101," are somewhere in between enemies and friends. That is, their crimes are as primitive as their species (they considered stealing a discarded orange to be their greatest crime ever), and they have some ties with the Powerpuff Girls.
Episodes
- Main article: List of episodes on The Powerpuff Girls
78 episodes in 6 seasons, and 1 self-titled movie called The Powerpuff Girls Movie, have been made. In The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Jody Irwin, one of Juniper's best friends claims there are over three hundred episodes. However, no more episodes have been planned. An anime version of this series, Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z is being planned. There was an hour-long Christmas episode "Twas the Fight Before Christmas", where Princess switches Santa's naughty and nice lists.
The Powerpuff Girls in other languages
- Arabic: الفتايات (simply 'The Girls', although in show they tend to be called 'الفتايات الخأرقات ' 'The Amazing Girls')
- Chinese: Literally: "Flying Tiny Female Cops"
- Traditional Chinese: 飛天小女警; fēi tiān xiǎo nǚ jǐng
- Simplified Chinese: 飞天小女警; fēi tiān xiǎo nǚ jǐng
- Finnish: Tehotytöt
- French: Les Super Nanas
- Hebrew: בנות הפאוורפאף (B'not Ha-Powerpuff - "The Girls of Powerpuff")
- Hungarian: Pindúr Pandúrok (Literally "Tiny cops")
- Icelandic: Stuðboltastelpurnar ("the energetic girls", literally "the energy-ball girls")
- Italian: Le Superchicche
- Latvian: Detektīvmeitenes (Literally "Detective girls")
- Japanese: パワーパフガールズ(Pawāpafugāruzu(Powerpuff Girls))
- Polish: Atomówki (Literally "Little atomic girls")
- Portuguese:
- Russian: Крутые девчонки (Krutie Devchonki, literally "Kick-ass Girls")
- Spanish:
- Latin America: Las Chicas Superpoderosas
- NOTE: Originally (in the "World Premiere Toon" times), they were called "Las Chicas Coquetas" which roughly translates to "The Fashionable Girls" or "The Flirty Girls." This was changed before the series started(the first season originally aired as "Chicas Coquetas", reruns were re dubbed) .
- Spain: Las Supernenas
- Latin America: Las Chicas Superpoderosas
- Swedish: Powerpuffpinglorna
- Croatian: Supercure (lit. Supergirls)
See also
- List of episodes on The Powerpuff Girls
- The Powerpuff Girls Movie
- Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
- Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, a fan-created comic
External links
- Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls page
- The Powerpuff Girls at the Internet Movie Database
- The Powerpuff Girls at the Big Cartoon DataBase