History Headscratchers / ThePowerpuffGirls

** Depends. If you want to stay strictly to the plot then they would be 0 years old by the time of their creation. However you could easily say that they have the body of 9-year old girls, as they were born without aging up to that point.

** Depends. If you want to stay strictly to the plot then they would be 0 years old by the time of their creation. However you could easily say that they have the body of 9-year old girls.

** What attempted redesign? Are you referring to ''Anime/DemashitaPowerPuffGirlsZ''?

** In this troper's opinion, it was a half-assed message about why communism was bad. I understand what it was trying to be: a lesson about why democracy and freedom are good, but the message I got from that episode was [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop "everyone is equal and therefor it's communism and communism is bad because 'Murica."]] [[FlatWhat What.]]

* The way that they are treated compared to other {{ArtificialHuman}}s, and Mutants in general, even relatively benign ones like [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] because they are five year old children. Makes me wonder what the government will do with a bunch of flying superhumans once they're old enough to be a "threat."

* You know that episode called "Collect Her" where that [[TheSimpsons Comic Book Guy]] {{Expy}} kidnaps the girls and puts them in cardboard boxes and the citizens of Townsville have to save 'em? How come they didn't just try using their laser vision to destroy them?

* IIsn't "making crime legal" technically impossible? Crime is, by definition, something that's illegal, so legalizing crime is contradictory. Once it becomes legal, it isn't "crime" anymore and [[MindScrew therefore doesn't fall under the scope of what the law as written made legal.]] (Remember, the exact words of the law were "crime is now legal.")

** What exactly does she say that's true? "Your city belittles your talents"? Untrue. "Female superheroes aren't nearly as revered as male ones"? Maybe not fifty years ago. "Who besides you is a heroine in her own right" instead of just a DistaffCounterpart? I've seen plenty of lists made in response to Blossom's only answer of WonderWoman. "Villainy is a male-dominated field"? In fiction in general, completely untrue. In Townsville, seems to be true -- so would encouraging more women to become villains or not stopping what female villains there are make the world a better place? As Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane explain to the girls in the end, "There ''is'' injustice in the world -- that's why we have you to protect the rights of ''everyone''." Claiming women deserve to be treated equally (as Susan B. Anthony fought for) is right. Claiming women deserve special treatment is wrong, and that's all the episode claims.

* I can't believe this never occurred to me when I watched the episode the first time, but isn't "making crime legal" technically impossible? Crime is, by definition, something that's illegal, so legalizing crime is contradictory. Once it becomes legal, it isn't "crime" anymore and [[MindScrew therefore doesn't fall under the scope of what the law as written made legal.]] (Remember, the exact words of the law were "crime is now legal.")
** I wouldn't say that crime is illegal by definition. More likely, the definition they used was "nefarious acts". Legality and morality don't always mesh, so it's maybe kind of okay and probably the reason why the PPGs preventing crimes was illegal - it was a crime, but not a nefarious act.

*** ^Exactly. If the new law had literally said "Crime is now legal" then the plot wouldn't have made any sense. If crime is legal, how could the Powerpuff Girls possibly be breaking the law by fighting crime? Most likely the new law just legalized all sorts of previously criminal acts.

*** He did MindScrew people, just not the girls since they weren't around. He seems to have mentally broken The Professor, Ms Bellum and Ms Keene. Probably everyone else too. In fact since the professor seems to have forgotten how to create the PPGs Him probably made the professor forget.

** But apes haven't developed sign language on their own. They don't speak a foreign language made up sounds or gestures they're physically capable of making that humans simply cannot understand the way English speakers don't understand French or German speakers don't understand Japanese. Apes may be more intelligent than fish or mice, but they clearly do not think, act, or communicate like humans who are mute and/or deaf -- otherwise, humans could communicate with them the same way we communicate with people who speak a foreign language. If apes were as intelligent as humans, they could learn how to read and write as fast and as easily as humans do and would develop their own sign language as complex as human sign languages without our help. Yes, an intelligence boost ''would'' be necessary for an ape to do human things like speak, invent, draw, write, drive, etc. If an improvement in vocal cords would also be necessary, I easily buy that Chemical X can do that, too.

** But apes haven't developed sign language on their own. They don't speak a foreign language made up sounds or gestures they're physically capable of making that humans simply cannot understand the way English speakers don't understand French or German speakers don't understand Japanese. Apes may be more intelligent than fish or mice, but they clearly do not think, act, or communicate like humans who are mute and/or deaf -- otherwise, humans could communicate with them the same way we communicate with people who speak a foreign language. If apes were as intelligent as humans, they could lean how to read and write as fast and as easily as humans do and would develop their own sign language as complex as human sign languages without our help. Yes, an intelligence boost ''would'' be necessary for an ape to do human things like speak, invent, draw, write, drive, etc. If an improvement in vocal cords would also be necessary, I easily buy that Chemical X can do that, too.

* Princess [[VillainHasAPoint has a point]]. Why ''IS'' Mitch on the nice list? Should his utter cruelty to Twiggy and bullying of Elmer earn him a spot on the naughty list?