The Powerpuff Girls are a trio of superhuman kindergarten girls created by Professor Utonium who are the title characters of the Cartoon Network series Powerpuff Girls and its anime spin-off , Powerpuff Girls Z.
Added by Lukesams as well as the accidental addition of Chemical X , due to being accidentally bumped by his then lab assistant, Jojo, later to become the evil villain Mojo Jojo. After the events of Powerpuff Girls Movie , the Powerpuff Girls "dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil.
In Powerpuff Girls Z , Peach not in the orginal series threw a rice cake into a batch of Chemical X, turning it into a new substance which would be named Chemical Z by Professor Utonium. Ken Utonium's son uses the Chemical Z to destroy a giant glacier caused by global climate change.
However, the impact of Chemical Z caused several black and white lights to appear in the Tokyo sky. Three ordinary girls, Momoko "Hyper". During the anime , the girls most often fight people, animals and objects affected by the black lights and Him's black particles.
The Powerpuff Girls are drawn with physical traits that make them exaggeratedly cute. They wear dresses with a black belt, white stockings and black Mary Jane shoes. They have large eyes, oval-shaped heads, stubby arms and legs, and, although they are able to hear, smell, touch and hold, have no necks, noses, ears, fingers, or toes often joked about in the series.
They stand 2' 3" and weigh 61 lbs. Although they are superheroes they greatly resemble seemingly harmless little girls. Whether they actually have the afromentioned features or not is not fully clear; in the episode " Criss Cross Crisis ", when the girls switch bodies with other people in Townsville, Buttercup, who had swapped bodies with Professor Utonium , complained that her hand did not work when trying to pick up the phone meaning that the girls' fingerless hands could pick things up at will.
However, in the same episode, Bubbles, in the Mayor's body, is seen using a toothbrush without trouble, and the characters who are in the girls' bodies have no issue holding objects. Additionally, Bubbles counts on her unseen fingers in the episode " Mo Job " and Buttercup snaps her fingers in "Boogie Fights". The powerpuff girls know about sex even though their like only 5 or 6 or something and pretty much every other person in the show does. Bunny was voiced by Christine Cavanaugh. Unlike her predecessors, she was created by the girls using imitation objects of those which gave the girls life artficial sweetener instead of sugar, dirt and twigs instead of spices, and what the girls considered to be "everything nice," which included "a knuckle sandwich" by Buttercup.
While she possessed the same powers as the girls and a similar color theme having purple eyes and a purple dress to match , her appearance is rather abnormal due to the use of imitation ingredients. She was much larger both in height and weight than her predecessors, had horribly crooked teeth and was noticably deformed. As a result of her mishaps, the girls send Bunny away, only to be confronted by every convict Bunny released throughout the episode. To redeem herself and save the girls, she defeats every criminal herself. However, due to the instability of her composition, she explodes at the end of the brawl, leaving behind only a piece of her dress.
Bullet is a squirrel who was given Chemical X by Bubbles in order to overcome the lethal injuries she had been given by a hawk. She appeared only in the episode Stray Bullet. In Craig McCracken, then a student in the character animation program of CalArts, created "The Whoopass Girls" as a drawing of three girls on a small sheet of orange construction paper.
The following year he included them as the main characters of his short film Whoopass Stew! Announcer Ernie Anderson, the narrator of the pilot episodes, died of cancer in before the show premiered, and he was replaced by Tom Kenny for the remainder of the series.
The show's animation director was McCracken's former classmate Genndy Tartakovsky Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack , who also directed many episodes himself. The Powerpuff Girls series debut on November 18, was the highest rated premiere in Cartoon Network's history at the time. The series consistently scored the highest rating each week for the network across a wide range of demographics—from young children to adults.
In October , Cartoon Network credited the Powerpuff Girls for its Friday night prime time ratings win among cable networks. By the end of , merchandising based on The Powerpuff Girls encompassed a whole variety of products, including T-shirts, toys, video games, lunchboxes, and dishware.
Concerning the Powerpuff Girls success, Craig McCracken has stated, "I thought it would get on Cartoon Network and college kids would watch it and there would be a few random T-shirts out there in the rave scene or in record shops. But I had no idea that it would take off to this extent. The special, titled "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! Unlike previous episodes in the series, the anniversary special was animated using Adobe Flash at Cartoon Network Studios.
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