History Headscratchers / ThePowerpuffGirls2016

* If Sapna knows she turns into a giant spider whenever she feels love, why did she agree to go on a date?

*** [[https://storify.com/creatrixtiara/emily-brundige-s-apology-re-the Except no. It isn't. It isn't "about trans issues" and there is no "commentary on gender". Anything in the episode that came across as such was unintentional. And they must SOME understanding and respect for trans issues because they've apologized for how "hateful and stigmatizing" the episode came across and how they lied about it being about gender identity.]] Any troper who read the YMMV page knows this, but I'm going to assume the above was written before the writers admitted their mistake.

*** [[https://storify.com/creatrixtiara/emily-brundige-s-apology-re-the Except no. It isn't. It isn't "about trans issues" and there is no "commentary on gender". Anything in the episode that came across as such was unintentional. And they must SOME understanding and respect for trans issues because they've apologized for how "hateful and stigmatizing" the episode came across and how they lied about it being about gender identity.]] Any troper who read the YMMV page knows this, but I'm going to assume the above was written before the writer's admitted their mistake.

*** [[https://storify.com/creatrixtiara/emily-brundige-s-apology-re-the Except no. It isn't. It isn't "about trans issues" and there is no "commentary on gender". Anything in the episode that came across as such was unintentional. And they must SOME understanding and respect for trans issues because they've apologized for how "hateful and stigmatizing" the episode came across and how they lied about it being about gender identity.]]

** WordOfGod actually confirmed it before the episode even aired. The producers were trying so, so hard to hype up how supposedly "brave" and "important" the new show was going to be, and they specifically called upon "Horn, Sweet Horn" as an example of that, 'specifically' introducing it as an episode about gender identity. And it's easy to see in the episode itself, with lots of jokes about gender ("Wait, what's the difference between a colt and a filly?") and the...shall we say, "imagery" involved in the Mayor's bizarre "pickle museum." Where the largest pickle is shattered. By the episode's metaphorical trans character. The "pony" who identifies as a "unicorn," who turns to the Professor to help him transition. There's definitely commentary on gender happening in this episode... The problem is that literally every last bit of it's hateful and stigmatizing. It's an episode 'about' trans issues written and produced by people who clearly don't 'understand' or 'respect' trans issues.
*** [[Except no, it isn't. https://storify.com/creatrixtiara/emily-brundige-s-apology-re-the]]

* Neither of them said that it would make Hope go back into the box, only that the spirits would go back into the box.

** Oh never mind, it's airing tomorrow anyways.

** Oh never mind, it's airing tomorrow anyways.

* Why was this shown even made?

* Puffdora's Box already aired? Where??

* When Hope told Bubbles the phrase they have to get the spirits to say to make them go back into the box, wouldn't she have had to have said it? Why didn't she go back in the box?

** Because there's no real point to them being referenced. The memes are just shoehorned in so the creators can seem hip and with the times. Even in the context of a [[BizarroEpisode Bizarro Episode]], what reason was there for Bubbles to say "Yaaaaas", or to have Blossom reference the "literally can't even" meme? Sure, they might make sense in a certain light, but there's still no reason for them to be there. Plus, they made 5-year-olds twerk. That's a reason in and of itself, in my opinion.

* I have to ask: ''Why'' is everyone mad that the show references memes? The No Me Gusta one I can get, but the ones in "Painbow" kind of fit (at the very least) into the [[BizarroEpisode type of episode]] it was.

** They removed her since she worked for the dimwited Mayor. That's it. They believed her to convey the wrong message since she was under the Mayor, thus not being "compatible" for the continuation.

** The LampshadeHanging of the MaleGaze her facelessness represented was probably part of it (although you CAN see her face briefly in the 10th anniversary special of the original series.) Because really, [[SarcasmMode that's such an outdated trope! Also, who'd want to have a character who's smart, competent, yet stuck in a job that appears low-level on paper (a PA) but actually does most of the work, and apparently be perfectly happy with it?]]

** The LampshadeHanging of the MaleGaze her facelessness represented was probably part of it (although you CAN see her face briefly in the 10th anniversary special of the original series.) Because really, [SarcasmMode that's such an outdated trope! Also, who'd want to have a character who's smart, competent, yet stuck in a job that appears low-level on paper (a PA) but actually does most of the work, and apparently be perfectly happy with it?]

** Because she was "sexy," I'm guessing. A woman drawn with hugely, hugely exaggerated curves and literally no face. And if that's the case, then, sure, I mean, I see what they were getting at, but they didn't have to 'remove' her entirely to address it.

** WordOfGod actually confirmed it before the episode even aired. The producers were trying so, so hard to hype up how supposedly "brave" and "important" the new show was going to be, and they specifically called upon "Horn, Sweet Horn" as an example of that, *specifically* introducing it as an episode about gender identity. And it's easy to see in the episode itself, with lots of jokes about gender ("Wait, what's the difference between a colt and a filly?") and the...shall we say, "imagery" involved in the Mayor's bizarre "pickle museum." Where the largest pickle is shattered. By the episode's metaphorical trans character. The "pony" who identifies as a "unicorn," who turns to the Professor to help him transition. There's definitely commentary on gender happening in this episode... The problem is that literally every last bit of it's hateful and stigmatizing. It's an episode 'about' trans issues written and produced by people who clearly don't 'understand' or 'respect' trans issues.

** WordOfGod actually confirmed it before the episode even aired. The producers were trying so, so hard to hype up how supposedly "brave" and "important" the new show was going to be, and they specifically called upon "Horn, Sweet Horn" as an example of that, *specifically* introducing it as an episode about gender identity. And it's easy to see in the episode itself, with lots of jokes about gender ("Wait, what's the difference between a colt and a filly?") and the...shall we say, "imagery" involved in the Mayor's bizarre "pickle museum." Where the largest pickle is shattered. By the episode's metaphorical trans character. The "pony" who identifies as a "unicorn," who turns to the Professor to help him transition. There's definitely commentary on gender happening in this episode... The problem is that literally every last bit of it's hateful and stigmatizing. It's an episode *about* trans issues written and produced by people who clearly don't *respect* trans issues.

** Because she was "sexy," I'm guessing. A woman drawn with hugely, hugely exaggerated curves and literally no face. And if that's the case, then, sure, I mean, I see what they were getting at, but they didn't have to *remove* her entirely to address it.

* So... they said they removed Ms. Bellum because she went against the message they were trying to convey. How, exactly? What was so terrible about her that required her to leave the show completely? I always thought she was a pretty strong and cunning woman in the original series.

* Why is Cartoon Network seemingly airing the new episodes out of order? The previews made their new HardLight powers seem like the Girls had never used them before, but the seventh new episode (introducing Packrat, who ''also'' seems to have been previously introduced) has them already using them as if they'd been practicing for a while, but the seeming-introductory episode for them (which very clearly takes place at night) still hasn't been aired.

** They might have been going for the allegorical approach.

* I might be missing something, but why are people saying that Horn, Sweet Horn (The episode about the pony who wants to be a unicorn) talks about gender identity?

** To answer your question, it was always meant to be a continuation of the original {{WesternAnimation/Powerpuff Girls}} which depicts the girls as being Elementary Schoolers. Right from the start.

* The use of Bubbles's old model during the flashback in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLVA7zUdRvU this preview]] was no doubt a CallBack to the original show, but does this mean that the whole reboot is either a continuation of the original show or is it set in a new universe regardless of that model?