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7	* RaceAgainstTheClock: One episode had the girls forced to solve a series of riddles set by [[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed "Him"]] within the time limit set for each riddle. They had to succeed or, otherwise, the Professor would have to pay... [[spoiler:[[ExactWords for the pancakes]] he ate at "Him"'s restaurant [[PunnyName "Otto Time"]]. It was all a bet between "Him" and the Professor]].
8	* RainRainGoAway: "The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever". Also the title of a story in issue #66 of the comic book.
9	* RashomonStyle: In one episode, the Mayor is kidnapped by Mojo Jojo and blindfolded. The girls save the Mayor and beat Mojo Jojo, but can't stop laughing after. The Mayor asks why. The girls each tell the story of how they saved the day today differently, accompanied by {{Art Shift}}s. What they neglect to mention? [[spoiler: The Mayor [[TomatoSurprise was naked]] all along]].
10	* ReflectiveEyes:
11	** Done in the climax of "Octi Evil" as a feuding Blossom and Buttercup wonder who will save Bubbles. When they are interrupted by her screams for help, this happens again, but they smile to show they're putting their differences aside for their sister's sake.
12	** Done in "Abracadaver" as Blossom is being hypnotized.
13	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Blossom gives one to Buttercup after Buttercups acts ungrateful after getting a bath:
14	--> '''Blossom:''' You know Buttercup, ''you'' may be clean but your attitude still stinks.
15	** She's pretty good at giving these. One of her best examples is after the first time she defeats Princess.
16	-->'''Blossom''': Because you're just a spoiled brat. And being a Powerpuff Girl isn't about getting your way, or having the best stuff, or being popular or powerful. It's about using your own unique abilities to help people and the world we all live in. And you, little girl, have done nothing worthy of the name "Powerpuff".
17	** The Professor gives a [[{{Pun}} big]] one to the Mayor on ''Toast Of The Town'', calling him out on his childish behavior:
18	-->'''Professor Utonium''': Wowie zowie indeed! Have you no shame? A grown man your age gallivanting around like a little child, not doing what you're told! [[{{Manchild}} "Mayor wanna this! Mayor wanna that!"]] You, Mr. Mayor, are nothing but a baby! A big, big, ''big'' baby!
19	** The Zen master from "Makes Zen To Me" gives one to Mojo Jojo when he wants to take over as the master.
20	-->'''Master''': You came seeking only violence. You were impatient. You would not look inside yourself. I could only guide you; the journey was yours to make. I did not fail you nor the teachings. You failed yourself. And another thing: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking You're not a monkey, you're a chimp. There's a difference]].
21	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Brick of the Rowdyruff Boys, as he's colored red to contrast with Blossom's pink.
22	** Earlier, in "The Rowdyruff Boys", Mojo Jojo briefly gains these at the start of his VillainousBreakdown mentioned below.
23	* RedOniBlueOni: Buttercup and Blossom. Their personal colors may not match this trope, but their personalities sure do.
24	* RedScare: We are given one of these in the musical episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey".
25	* ResurrectedForAJob: HIM brings the Rowdyruff Boys back to life to defeat the Powerpuff Girls.
26	* {{Retool}}: At one point, CN tried marketing a line of the series with an overstyled grown up versions of the girls. [[StillbornFranchise It sank just as quickly as it begin.]]
27	* ReunionShow:
28	** 2009's "Powerpuff Girls Rule", a PPG special made three years after the show ended, featuring nearly every main character within the series, as well as all the original voice actors.
29	** The 2014 special "Dance Pantsed" also brought back every actor for the characters used.
30	* RhymingWithItself: In "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey", this trope is rather JustForFun/{{egregious}} when the PPG join in Professor Utonium's "Freedom Beef" song, as they rhyme "peace" with itself rather forcefully, directly after rhyming "powers" with itself.
31	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Bullet, the superpowered baby squirrel.
32	* RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold: In "Telephonies," the Gangreen Gang makes prank calls to various different Townsville citizens. Lil' Arturo convinces Professor Utonium, he just won a ten-million-dollar sweepstake and asks him to remain on hold, which Professor does for the rest of the episode, despite Arturo hanging up.
33	* RightHandCat: Subverted in "Cat Man Do", where [[spoiler: [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the cat was the mastermind]]]].
34	* RockOpera: "[[ShoutOut See Me,]] [[Music/TheWho Feel Me]], Gnomey".
35	* RoguesGallery: Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, The Gangreen Gang, Him, Princess Morbucks, Sedusa, The Rowdyruff Boys (to a lesser extent), and The Amoeba Boys (if you consider irritation to be roguish). Mister Mime (the alternate personality of Rainbow the Clown) has also appeared in the background.
36	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: HIM
37	* RuleOfThree: The episode "Super Zeroes" with the line, "Better heroes, huh?" (Said by the Professor, the Mayor, and even the MonsterOfTheWeek itself!)
38	* RuleSixtyThree: The Rowdyruff Boys.
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42	* TheSandman: The Sandman appeared as a being who just wanted some time to sleep, but kept being called to put to sleep children from every region before he could. So he magically put everyone into an eternal sleep so as to give him time to get some shuteye. He is able to get plenty, but the girls are able to enter his dreams through their own and convince him to return to his job.
43	* SavingTheWorldWithArt: The nefarious Mr. Mime is restored to a happy-go-lucky clown after the girls put on a concert of how "Love Makes the World Go Round". [[SubvertedTrope And then they beat the crap out of him anyway just for the heck of it]].
44	* SayMyName:
45	** "Helter Shelter" [[BookEnds begins and ends]] with the Professor doing this to Bubbles when he finds out she's an animal hoarder and when she releases a bunch of critters from the zoo. He apparently ''shouted it so loudly that Bubbles heard him in outer space''.[[note]]Sound can't travel in space, so it must have been pretty darn loud.[[/note]]
46	-->''"BUUUUUUBLEEEEEEES!!!!"''
47	** Bubbles screams out the Professor's name after [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents he blabbed about]] [[EmbarrassingDampSheets her bedwetting secret in]] "Powerprof."
48	-->'''''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis PRO-FES-SOOOOOOOR!"]]'''''
49	* ScantronPicture: Him once gives the girls such a test in a challenge, and although Blossom and Buttercup take the test seriously, they fail as a result. Bubbles passes, and it turns out she filled in the bubbles in the shape of a flower.
50	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Mojo Jojo after [[YokoOhNo Moko Jono]] is revealed to be [[spoiler: a chimp from the zoo]].
51	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Princess Morbucks.
52	-->'''Princess:''' I have the most powerful power there is! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Cold! Hard! Cash!]]
53	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls Rule after having victory literally swept from under his nose.
54	* SecondPersonAttack: Used and abused; in certain cases, the viewer can suffer the virtual effects of getting punched and kicked DOZENS OF TIMES IN A ROW.
55	* SecretPetPlot: Played for laughs in "Helter Shelter". After being lectured about bringing home so many animals, Bubbles brings home a whale, which she and her sisters make an attempt to keep hidden from the professor before settling with flooding his lab due to the whale starting to dehydrate.
56	* SecurityBlanket:
57	** Bubbles' doll Octi.
58	** Buttercup's blankie in "Cover Up".
59	** Blossom's hairbow in the comic book story "Bow Jest" (issue #20). It's Bubbles, of all people, to light a fire under Blossom's butt about it.
60	* SeriesContinuityError: In the 2014 special, Bubbles has Blossom's Ice Breath and the Professor's motivations for getting into science are altered. To be fair, Blossom's ice breath became fire breath in the first episode she used it (and Bubbles demonstrated fire breath in at least one episode) and Utonium may have been sidetracked from his goal of creating superpowered girls by the StableTimeLoop in his adult years.
61	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Mojo Jojo. In one episode, he's left in charge of an adult education English course, and the whole town starts talking like this. Society comes to a screeching halt (even ''bank robberies'' cannot be finished because the robber and the teller start arguing with each other this way).
62	* SexySecretary: Sara Bellum.
63	* ShadowDiscretionShot: Parodied in "Collect Her" -- we see shadows of children ripping open the comic book guy's collectors items.
64	* ShaggyDogStory: "Him Diddle Riddle."
65	* ShootingSuperman: In "Stuck Up, Up and Away", a group of bank robbers attempts to shoot the Powerpuff Girls.
66	* ShoutOut: So many, it has its own page! See [[ShoutOut.ThePowerpuffGirls here]].
67	* SickeninglySweet: The ShowWithinAShow "The Wondrous World of Whimsical Willy" from ''Neighbor Hood'' revolves around an absurdly cutesy and saccharine kids show that features horses with happy meters, maids making happy stew, talking squirrels, and all hosted by a clowny man who throws on happy and sad masks.
68	* SickeninglySweethearts: Professor Utonium and Miss Keane in "Keen on Keane".
69	* SigningOffCatchPhrase: So, once again, the day is saved, thanks to The Powerpuff Girls!"
70	* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Apparently most kaiju in the series, and possibly some villains.
71	* SingleTear:
72	** Buttercup cries one in "Little Miss Interprets" when she and her sisters think that the Professor wants to abandon them.
73	** Robin during the song "Signal In The Sky" in "Super Friends".
74	* SissyVillain: '''HIM''' dresses like a transvestite and acts rather effeminate (at least until he gets angry).
75	* SixthRanger: The girls ''try'' to create one with Bunny. [[TheDitz It doesn't really work out.]]
76	** In "Powerprof", Professor Utonium designs a power-rangeresque suit that lets him become one.
77	* SkywardScream: Bubbles performs a BigNo in "Mime For A Change".
78	** The comic book story "Steal A Meal" (''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkBlockParty'' #26) has the girls doing a tearful BigNo upon learning that after all the breakfast cereal in town had been stolen the only thing left was oatmeal.
79	** Four words: '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8Ws-_qX6U ''WHO ELSE WANTS SOME??!!!'']]'''''
80	** "Parent teacher conference!? [[BigNo NOOOOOO!]]"
81	** '''''[[SayMyName "BUUUUUUUBBLEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!"]]'''''
82	* {{Sleepwalking}}: The episode "Ploys R Us" had Professor Utonium sleepwalking and the girls using this to get him to steal toys for them. [[spoiler:Eventually, it turned out the whole thing was a plan by Utonium and everyone in Townsville to test the girls' honesty.]]
83	* SlidingScaleOfSeriousnessVersusSilliness: The show surpassed even its sibling ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' in how all-over-the-scale it was. Episodes could range from straight, even surprisingly dark superhero fare (''Speed Demon'', ''Power-Noia'') to outright comedy (''Mo'Linguish'') to [[AnAesop Aesop-driven]] kids' show (''Substitute Creature'') and any combination in-between.
84	* SmartBall: Done [[RuleOfFunny for laughs]] when [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment out of nowhere]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} the Mayor]] determines that the riddle about where freezing and boiling meet is a set of coordinates for where HIM has the Professor, or [[FridgeLogic there's an ice cream truck on fire]].
85	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In Cartoon Network's "Staylongers" interstitials (spoof of "Survivor"), Blossom is the only female member of the "[[Creator/CartoonCartoons Cartoon Cartoon]]" tribe.
86	* SnakeCharmer: A small-time villain, Salami Swami, used his flute in the episode "Slave the Day" to control long sausages.
87	* SnapBack:
88	** Towards the end of "Slumbering with the Enemy", Mojo Jojo douses the Powerpuffs with the Antidote X to remove their powers. They're back to normal without explaination in the next episode.
89	** Mojo Jojo is turned into a dog twice. No explanation is given as to how he turned himself back into an ape.
90	* SneakingOutAtNight: Ima Goodlady (who is actually a disguised Sedusa) makes the girls go to bed. Shortly after she leaves the room, the phone rings, so the girls leave through the window to fight crime. Unfortunately for them when they come home, [[CaughtComingHomeLate Sedusa is waiting for them]], and she's not pleased.
91	* SolveTheSoupCans: "Go to a place where it is freezing and boiling at the same time! [[AC:You have 45 seconds!]]". And who, of all people, solves it? [[spoiler: The Mayor!]]
92	* SoapPunishment: "Curses" has Ms. Bellum inflict this on the girls when they swear in front of the Mayor. Later in the same episode, the girls wash the potty-mouthed monster's mouth with soap after Professor Utonium explains to them that it is wrong for them to swear.
93	* SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved: TropeNamer. Frequently played with in that the girls are not always the ones who save the day and some episodes end with no clear resolution.
94	* SpaceIsNoisy: The few times the girls go into space, they can communicate with each other just fine.
95	* SpearCounterpart: The Rowdyruff Boys, Brick (red color scheme), Boomer (blue color scheme), and Butch (dark green color scheme) to the Powerpuff Girls, Blossom (pink color scheme), Bubbles (cyan color scheme), and Buttercup (green color scheme).
96	* SpeedSmartsAndStrength: There's Bubbles as the fastest (particularly proven during her race with E-Male in the episode, "Members Only"), Blossom as the ChildProdigy, and Buttercup as the toughest fighter.
97	* SpoiledBrat: Princess Morbucks whines until her father lets her have her way.
98	* SquashedFlat:
99	** In the episode "Down 'n Dirty" Buttercup gets slapped between the hands of a cyclops. When he opens his hands, Buttercup is flattened by them.
100	** In the episode "Mask Scara", the titular villain slaps Bubbles and Buttercup into a face press, flattening them together so that Blossom has to unstick them.
101	* {{Squick}}: In-universe. In the episode where the Professor sets out to study Fuzzy Lumpkins, the monster mistakes a pile of mud and manure for a female of his own species, retreats into a cottage with it and leaves a "Do Not Disturb" sign hanging from the doorknob. Deeply disturbed by that sight, Utonium destroys his notes and begins reassuring himself that the episode's events never happened.
102	--> '''Utonium''': "On a side note, never speak of this incident again".
103	* SssssnakeTalk: Snake of the Gangreen Gang speaks with a lisp, appropriately enough.
104	* StableTimeLoop: "Get Back Jojo" has Mojo Jojo go back in time in an attempt to kill Professor Utonium when he was a kid to erase the Powerpuff Girls from history, apparently not caring that his history would be altered as well since he was mutated in the same accident that created the girls. In the end, the girls follow Mojo and prevent him from killing young Utonium, in the process revealing themselves to the nearly unconscious boy. This was the moment that motivated him to become a professor and indulge in science, in an effort to create what he saw that day. Because of this chain of events, Mojo ends up being pivotal in the creation of The Powerpuff Girls once more, before the actual accident that spawned them.
105	* StartOfDarkness: Mojo Jojo's origin, as revealed in "[[Music/TheDoors Mr. Mojo's Rising]]" and TheMovie.
106	* StatusQuoIsGod:
107	** The 2009 special ''The Powerpuff Girls Rule'' has Mojo Jojo succeed in taking over the world and surprisingly making it into a utopia. It isn't long before he decides to turn to crime again and the Powerpuff Girls get back to kicking his butt.
108	** No matter how destroyed Townsville gets, it always goes back to normal by the next episode.
109	** Zig-zagged in "Ice Sore"; Blossom suddenly gains an ice breath power, and continues using it in subsequent episodes, even though she says she's lost it at the end of this one (and starts breathing fire instead which never comes up again).
110	** Buttercup gets anger management in "Makes Zen To Me", but she goes back to being the always angry grouch right after.
111	* StealthPun:
112	** The episode "Members Only" is about the girls trying to get into a superhero guild that only allows men. Let that sink in a bit.
113	** Two words: "Forced Kin".
114	** HIM is dressed as Santa, and has lobster claws. Also, Santa and {{Satan}} are pretty obvious anagrams of each other.
115	* StockScream: The "Howie Long" scream appears in "Paste Makes Waste."
116	* StrawFeminist:
117	** Femme Fatale in "Equal Fights", who uses feminism as an excuse for her crimes. Along with her usual physical beatdown, the Girls also give her a verbal beatdown as "real" feminists. Uniquely, Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane ''call her out on this'' before the girls defeat her, as she'd previously convinced them that harming her would harm the cause of all women.
118	** Ironically, Blossom's idea of a perfect world in "The Powerpuff Girls Rule" involves women being in charge of everything and all men being forced to stay at home and do housework.
119	* StrawHypocrite: Again, Femme Fatale in "Equal Fights".
120	* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Sometimes the Powerpuff Girls are able to defeat their enemies effortlessly and sometimes villains actually succeed in defeating ''them''.
121	* StudentsPlayingMatchmaker: In the episode "Keen on Keane", the girls try to set up Professor Utonium with their teacher Miss Keane on Valentine's Day. It works, but things take a turn for the worse when they spend too much time on the telephone, leading to the Mayor being unable to reach the girls to save the day.
122	* StupidCrooks: The Amoeba Boys want to be Townsville's greatest criminals, but they can't think of any crime worse than stealing oranges, littering, or standing on grass where there is a "Keep off the grass" sign.
123	* SunglassesAtNight: Ace of the Gangreen Gang never takes off his CoolShades. Not even at night, when fighting, or when sleeping.
124	** The Boogie Man also does this, although he takes his glasses off from time to time.
125	* SuperScream: The Girls' Sonic Scream. Bubbles uses it the most frequently, however.
126	* SuperSpeed:
127	** The girls can fly faster than the speed of light. At top speed, they have been known to bend the time-space continuum and perform TimeTravel, thus creating an AlternateUniverse where there has been no [[spoiler: Power Puff Girls to save the day for ''fifty years'']].
128	** Gangreen Gang member Lil Arturo temporarily gains this ability in "Power Lunch".
129	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
130	** In "Powerpuff Bluff" while the girls are able to defeat their impostors and prove their innocence of any wrongdoings after the mayor mistakenly arrests them? They still broke out of prison, which is still a crime as Blossom tries to point out. The Powerpuff Girls end up getting arrested again.
131	** A milder case. In "A Very Special Blossom", Blossom steals a set of Golf Clubs for the Professor for father's day because he really wanted them, and it lands him in jail. When she admits it at the end, everyone is heartbroken and argue for letting her off easy. But nope, 200 hours of community service.
132	* SurrogateSoliloquy: Bubbles conversing with her stuffed octopus Octi.
133	* SuspicionAesop: In "Substitute Creature", Mr. Green fills in for Ms. Keane. Because he's a monster, the Girls fear that [[ImAHumanitarian he's eaten Ms. Keane]] and that he wants to [[WouldHurtAChild poison the students]], so they attempt to attack him. The kids stop the girls and Mr. Green [[FriendToAllChildren says he really does love the students]]. The Girls apologize and say they've learned not to judge a book by its cover.
134	* SwissArmyTears: In "The Rowdyruff Boys" and "Knock It Off", the girls are revived from their apparent deaths by being cried on.
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