History Fridge / ThePowerpuffgirls

* I used to think Him was the best villain on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' because, come on, how many 5-year-old girls have {{Satan}} as a regular member of their RoguesGallery? In fact, I often wondered why Mojo Jojo was considered their ArchEnemy and main threat (unlike on ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'', where Him is promoted to BigBad, with Mojo reduced to a rather HarmlessVillain). Recently rewatching several of Him's episodes coincidentally right after TheMovie made me realize how much more evil and threatening and even cool Mojo is as a villain compared to Him. First of all, ItsPersonal with Mojo, which goes much farther towards ArchEnemy status than how powerful you are. Second of all, Mojo is actually much more successful at {{manipulati|veBastard}}ng the girls than Him, who repeatedly underestimates their ability to conquer the anger or fear he relies on to destroy them and then helplessly laments "[[EvilCannotComprehendGood But you were supposed to]]..." The girls always eventually beat Him at his mind games, but Mojo's mind games actually ''succeed'', so the only way they can defeat him is by [[ShutUpHannibal brute force]]. It's a scary thought, but Mojo Jojo is actually more evil and manipulative than {{Satan}}.

* In "Equal Fights", three women who have been victimized by [[StrawFeminist Femme Fatale]] air their grievances; one had her store robbed by her, the second was a police officer whose arm was broken by her and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the third claims Femme Fatale stole her hairstyle]]. It doesn't seem like a big deal but it is likely Femme Fatale did steal her hairstyle as a way to throw the police off track if they went looking for her by framing another woman for her crimes. Which is also another way Femme Fatale is a hypocrite.

* In "Equal Fights", three women who have been victimized by [[StrawFeminist Femme Fatale]] air their grievances; one had her store robbed by her, the second was a police officer whose arm was broken by her and [[ArsonMuderAndJaywalking the third claims Femme Fatale stole her hairstyle]]. It doesn't seem like a big deal but it is likely Femme Fatale did steal her hairstyle as a way to throw the police off track if they went looking for her by framing another woman for her crimes. Which is also another way Femme Fatale is a hypocrite.

* That Professor Utonium was such a BrattyHalfPint as a child. It has been recently discovered that gifted children often develop asynchronously, and can be WiseBeyondTheirYears in some areas and act their age in others. In fact, Mojo makes the same misapprehension many make, that the gifted child necessarily has to be the polite, well-behaved {{Nerd}} who spouts {{Technobabble}} on cue.

* More sad/morbid fridge brilliance but, in some cultures the number four is equated with death or evil or bad luck. Bunny was the fourth powerpuff girl. Make of that what you will.

** They took that concept and made it into a movie called "The Purge"!

** Maybe it was a throwaway joke since Mange and Spore are obvious parodies of "Spawn" and the unnammed demon is a parody of Malabogia, the demon who gave Spawn his powers in the first place.

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* In the episode Get Back Jojo, Mojo Jojo goes back in time to off Professor Utonium in the past to negate the Powerpuff Girls' existence. But Mojo was created in the same lab accident as the Girls, so if he succeeded, he'd also negate his own existence and cause a GrandfatherParadox. For an evil genius, Mojo's pretty dumb to have overlooked that.
** In the movie he calls himself a monster, and his family calling him one probably caused a bit of confidence issues, so he probably cares less about living and more about not having the girls anymore.
*** Wait... [[FridgeHorror So Mojo hates the Utoniums to the point of]] ''[[FridgeHorror murder-suicide]]''?
*** Goodness, talk about RevengeBeforeReason [[UpToEleven taken too far]]...
*** Technically not though; he wouldn't have to deal with Chemical X so he'll be like any ordinary monkey. I mean, its unlikely for the Professor to LITERALLY CREATE Jojo.
*** Grandfather paradoxes are not limited to preventing your own birth or causing your own death in the past. Anything you do in the past that would prevent you from traveling back into the past is a Grandfather paradox, including preventing yourself from becoming unnaturally smart and being able to build the time machine you used to travel back.
* Of course, one of the more obvious cases of Fridge Logic is this: How can the girls even pick up things if they don't have any fingers?
* The girls have a tendency to cause a lot of collateral damage while fighting crime--an episode in which they move to another city has its mayor [[WhatTheHellHero call them out on]] blowing up a bridge (which will cost millions of dollars to fix) just to catch two bank robbers--but nobody in Townsville seems to complain about this. Why? Well, "Mommy Fearest" shows them cleaning their bedroom in just a couple of seconds, and "Paste Makes Waste" ends with them patching up the city, so it's possible they speed-clean any places/buildings/doors/etc. they damage after each battle is over.

* For that one time Him made Professor Utonium PAY!!! [[spoiler: ...for breakfast]], not only did Him attack the girls' unqustioning faith in their father, Him proved that they can fail even when trying desperately to protect their only parent. After all, [[NightmareFuel imagine what could have happened]] if it ''wasn't'' a question of a [[spoiler: ''food'' [[DealWithTheDevil bill]]]]

* In Los Dos Mojos, Bubbles [[spoiler: gets amnesia after being hit in the head with a steel beam while fighting Mojo Jojo on a construction site and]] becomes convinced she is Mojo Jojo. As a result, she goes to his observatory and ambushes him as he comes out of the shower, throwing him out ''onto the top of his head, while he's not wearing the helmet that protects his exposed brain.'' Um.

* In "Buttercrush", Buttercup (who is in kindergarten) gets into a relationship with Ace of the Gangrene Gang (who is [[VagueAge at least]] a teenager). Granted, it's revealed at the end that [[spoiler: Ace was just using Buttercup so that she'd stop her sisters from beating up him and his gang]], but it's still ''a teenager dating a five-year-old-girl!''
* At the end of "Criss Cross Crisis", everyone was switched back to their original bodies, [[spoiler: that is except for Bubbles and the Narrator. Considering there was still one pair that swapped bodies, could this mean there are still other people and animals that haven't been switched back?]]

* I used to think Him was the best villain on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' because, come on, how many 5-year-old girls have {{Satan}} as a regular member of their RoguesGallery? In fact, I often wondered why Mojo Jojo was considered their ArchEnemy and main threat (unlike on ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'', where Him is promoted to BigBad, with Mojo reduced to a rather HarmlessVillain). Recently rewatching several of Him's episodes coincidentally right after TheMovie made me realize how much more evil and threatening and even cool Mojo is as a villain compared to Him. First of all, ItsPersonal with Mojo, which goes much farther towards ArchEnemy status than how powerful you are. Second of all, Mojo is actually much more successful at {{manipulati|veBastard}}ng the girls than Him, who repeatedly underestimates their ability to conquer the anger or fear he relies on to destroy them and then helplessly laments "[[EvilCannotComprehendGood But you were supposed to]]..." The girls always eventually beat Him at his mind games, but Mojo's mind games actually ''succeed'', so the only way they can defeat him is by [[ShutUpHannibal brute force]]. It's a scary thought, but Mojo Jojo is actually more evil and manipulative than {{Satan}}. ~ @/{{Lale}}

** "Stuck up up and away"? In this episode alone she defeats herself ''twice''. First at the bank robbery, she tries to handle the robbers to prove to the PPGs she could join them, only to further validate their rejection at her joining. Later, she tries to annihilate them, then taunts Blossom, who has been playing peacekeeper the whole episode, convincing her that Princess is too spoiled for the olive branch. With that, she promptly fights back and uses her ice breath to shatter her suit.

* Yes, being afraid of spiders is no big deal... to you or me. To a character like Buttercup who prides herself on her toughness and invulnerability, the reality that she might have even a little fear of something as mundane as bugs (shared by her sisters, but ranked insignificant next to the fears exploited for them in "Power-noia") is devastating. Devastating enough to make her feel powerless ("I can't fly!"). ~ {{Lale}} (I've been re-watching this show a lot lately.)

* In "Supper Villain", the grass in the Smiths' yard is a dingy brownish green, while the grass on the Professor's lawn is a nice vibrant shade of green. For Harold Smith, the grass ''really is'' greener on the other side.

* In "Supper Villain", the grass in the Smiths' yard is a dingy brownish green, while the grass on the Proferrsor's lawn is a nice vibrant shade of green. For Harold Smith, the grass ''really is'' greener on the other side.

* At first, "Cop Out" seems to sadly vindicate that PoliceAreUseless when the police fail to save the Powerpuff Girls from the vat of acid (the girls are okay anyway). But the whole thing becomes a brilliant lesson when one looks at the scope of the story. The whole thing started because Officer Brikowski was fired and [[NeverMyFault wouldn't own up that it was less about the girls "stealing his job" and more to do with his laziness]]. Perez and the other officers, on the other, were proactive in arresting Brikowski and trying to save the girls. Turns out, the episode ''does'' make a point: the Townville Police prove that trying to help (even at the possibility of [[EpicFail failure]]) is better than doing nothing at all.

** "Twas the Fight before Christmas"? Yeah, shouldn't have [[BullyADragon bullied Santa claus]].

** "Stuck up up and away"? In this episode alone she defeats herself ''twice''. First at the bank robbery, she tries to handle the robbers to prove to the PPGs she could join them, only to further validate their rejection at her joining. Later, she tries to annihilate them, then taunts Blossom, who has been playing peacekeeper the whole episode, convincing her that Princess deserves no second chances.

** "Twas the Fight before Christmas"? Yeah, shouldn't have [[BullyTheDragon bullied Santa claus]].

* In the movie, the Professor names the girls and gives reasonable explanations behind them....except Buttercup's (it also began with "b"). Buttercup is the most abrasive of the three, what with her bad attitude and greater chance of hostility (just ask [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Fuzzy Lumpkins]]). In reality, buttercups look harmless, but they can do some crazy shit to you upon consumption and can even end up killing you (see ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'''s [[NightmareFuel/{{Undertale}} Nightmare Fuel]] page for proof).

* It didn't matter that Rainbow the Clown apologized. The Powerpuff Girls did something most kids' cartoons were scared to do. The Aesop of the episode was that being sorry does not make something alright. Especially since his entire justification was "I'm not pretty anymore, so I'm going to commit evil". Heck, it was no more punishment than they eked out for other badguys, or even the opening credits. -@/DCHorror

** The girls didn't see Rainbow get bleached, all they saw was an insane mime.If they saw the bleaching they probably wouldn't have beat him up.