Here are a selection of tropes that apply to the playable characters in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion.
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Characters present in the original game
Ben Tennyson
Home Series: Ben 10
Voiced By: Yuri Lowenthal
- Jack of All Stats: His well rounded stats make for a character players can immediately pick up and play.
- Palette Swap: One of Ben's color swaps resembles Albedo, his Evil Counterpart from Ben 10: Alien Force.
- Prop Recycling: The models for his alien forms are taken from other Ben 10 games.
Vilgax
Home Series: Ben 10
Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore
- Attack Reflector: His down special allows him to reflect projectiles with his shield.
- Mighty Glacier: Pretty slow in movement and attack speed, but hits really hard and has a lot of range.
- One-Winged Angel: His Punch Time Explosion makes him turn into his true squid-like form from the Grand Finale of Ben 10: Alien Force.
Blossom
Home Series: The Powerpuff Girls
Voiced By: Grey DeLisle (original), Cathy Cavadini (XL)
- Breath Weapon: Her infamous Ice Breath neutral special, which can combo into itself infinitely.
- Distaff Counterpart: Her alternate costume turns her into her Rowdyruff counterpart, Brick.
- Kill It with Ice: Her neutral special has her breathe ice, freezing anyone in front of her.
Bubbles
Home Series: The Powerpuff Girls
Voiced By: Tara Strong
- Distaff Counterpart: Her alternate costume turns her into her Rowdyruff counterpart, Boomer.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Bubbles' neutral special and up air both have her screaming loudly.
Buttercup
Home Series: The Powerpuff Girls
Voiced By: Tara Strong
- Distaff Counterpart: Her alternate costume turns her into her Rowdyruff counterpart, Butch.
- Ground Punch: Buttercup's down special has her punch the ground, knocking enemies away.
- Playing with Fire: Befitting her inspiration, Buttercup's neutral special has her throw out a chargeable fireball. Her Limit Break also has her fly around the screen breathing fire.
- Shotoclone: She has a fireball for her neutral special, an uppercut for her up special and a series of kicks that moves her forwards as her side special.
Mojo Jojo
Home Series: The Powerpuff Girls
Voiced By: Nolan North
Dexter
Home Series: Dexter's Laboratory
Voiced By: Tara Strong
Monkey
Home Series: Dexter's Laboratory
Chowder and Kimchi
Home Series: Chowder
Voiced By: Tara Strong
- Acrofatic: Despite his fat body, Chowder is somehow capable of jumping multiple times in the air.
- Adaptational Badass: Chowder never displayed anywhere near this game's combat capability in his home series.
- Ascended Extra: In Chowder's home series, his pet fart Kimchi very rarely did anything more than sit in his cage. Here, he follows Chowder around all the time and even contributes with a few attacks of its own. He's even considered important enough that the character is called "Chowder and Kimchi" rather than just "Chowder".
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When Ben encounters him in the Story Mode, he's been corrupted by the Remote Control, forcing Ben to fight him.
- Fartillery: Kimchi is a living fart who Chowder throws at opponents.
Flapjack
Home Series: The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Voiced By: Yuri Lowenthal (original), Thurop Van Orman (XL)
- Counter-Attack: Flapjack's down special has him start giggling. Should any opponent dare to attack him during this time, he'll respond in kind by furiously tickling them.Flapjack: Tickle, tickle, tickle!
- Edible Ammunition: He throws candy as his neutral special, and uses a candy cane like a boomerang for his side special.
- Fragile Speedster: He's very fast, but incredibly light to compensate.
Captain K'nuckles
Home Series: The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Voiced By: Nolan North
- Mighty Glacier: He's slow, but quite strong to compensate.
Mac and Bloo
Home Series: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Mac Voiced By: Grey DeLisle
Bloo Voiced By: Keith Ferguson
- Adaptational Badass: Since their home series was a comedy show, they never got to display anywhere near the combat capabilities they do here.
- The Dividual: Despite being a duo, they're treated as one character in-game and always stick together for attacks and movement.
- Mighty Glacier: They're slow, but they hit really hard.
Billy and Mandy
Home Series: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Billy Voiced By: Quinton Flynn (original), Richard Steven Horvitz (XL)
Mandy Voiced By: Grey DeLisle
- Assist Character: Their side special throws Irwin out in front of them, dealing damage to whoever he hits before disappearing.
- The Dividual: Despite being a duo, they're treated as one character in-game and always stick together for attacks and movement.
Grim
Home Series: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Voiced By: Neil Kaplan
- Mighty Glacier: He's not that fast, but his scythe grants him lots of range.
Numbuh One
Home Series: Codename: Kids Next Door
Voiced By: Yuri Lowenthal (original), Benjamin Diskin (XL)
- Brainwashed and Crazy: His first appearance in the story has him working for Vilgax, having been corrupted by the remote control. After Flapjack and K'nuckles Beat the Curse Out of Him, he reverts back to normal.
Father
Home Series: Codename: Kids Next Door
Voiced By: Nolan North
- Playing with Fire: He primarily attacks his opponents by roasting them with fire.
- Technicolor Fire: His Palette Swaps change the color of his fire to go with the rest of his body. It can be yellow and red, blue and white, orange or black and white.
Samurai Jack
WHA-CHA!
Home Series: Samurai Jack
Voiced By: Keith Ferguson
- Counter-Attack: His down special has him get into a battle stance, during which any opponents who attack him will get struck with a swift slash from his sword.
- Close-Range Combatant: His gameplay revolves around getting close to his opponents to deal damage with his sword.
- Clothing Damage: His PTE has him rush forward, leaving a trail of slashes which happens to rip off his shirt.
- Lightning Bruiser: He hits hard and moves quickly. His only flaw is his lack of a projectile, but his sword's range more than makes up for it.
- Shout-Out:
- One of his colour schemes bears a resemblance to The Bride.
- One of his victory quotes is "You must defeat my dragon punch to stand a chance".
Captain Planet
Home Series: Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Voiced By: Yuri Lowenthal
- All Your Powers Combined: His PTE creates two tornadoes consisting of water, wind, fire and earth, before bringing them together and blowing them up with heart.
- Big Damn Heroes: He appears near the end of the story mode to save the other heroes from the TV remote's wrath.
- Expy: Of Captain Falcon of all characters, possessing similar neutral airs, up airs, and even the same knee strike for a forward aerial (although Planet's trades the sweetspot for consistent damage throughout).
- Guest Fighter: He's the only character who's not a Cartoon Network original, his show having predated said network by two years.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Time to recycle these eco-villains!"
Characters added in the console versions
Ben Tennyson (Young)
Home Series: Ben 10
Voiced By: Tara Strong
- Composite Character: He's the ten-year old Ben, but Cannonbolt uses the design of his Alien Force and Ultimate Alien counterpart.
- Mighty Glacier: Oddly enough, yes. Despite being a small kid, young Ben actually has some of the strongest attacks in the game, but said attacks are also among the slowest in terms of both starting lag and endlag.
- Moveset Clone: Subverted: you'd expect a younger version of Ben Tennyson to play similarly to the main one ala Link and Young/Toon Link, but the two actually have completely different movesets.
- Palette Swap: One of Young Ben's color swaps resembles Albedo, teenage Ben's Evil Counterpart from Ben 10: Alien Force.
Kevin Levin
Home Series: Ben 10
Voiced By: Yuri Lowenthal
- Mighty Glacier: Kevin's attacks are slow, but they hit really hard and he's one of the only characters capable of stunning opponents with a single attack (in this case, his down smash).
- Promoted to Playable: He goes from a boss in the 3DS version to a full playable character in the console versions.
Him
Home Series: The Powerpuff Girls
Voiced By: Unknown
- Final Boss: He will always be the final opponent of XL's arcade mode, and he has a special intro when fought under these circumstances to hammer it in.
- Promoted to Playable: He goes from an Assist Character in the 3DS version to a full playable character in the console versions.
Hoss Delgado
Home Series: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Voiced By: Nolan North
Toiletnator
Home Series: Codename: Kids Next Door
Voiced By: Quinton Flynn
Aku
Home Series: Samurai Jack
Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore
- Assist Character: When summoned in the 3DS version, he turns into a dragon and breathes fire everywhere.
- Beam Spam: His neutral special has him shooting lasers from his eyes.
- Eye Beams: Once again, his neutral special.
- Long-Range Fighter: Given his large size and slow attacks, his preferred playstyle is to hang back and blast his opponents with lasers rather than risk getting close and getting hurt.
- Mythology Gag: His alternate costume is based on one of his conceptual designs.
- Playing with Fire: Aku's forward smash has him breathe a stream of fire in front of him.
- Promoted to Playable: He goes from an Assist Character and a boss in the 3DS version to a full playable character in the console versions.
- Scary Scorpion: His down special turns him into one.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He uses some of his many forms in his attacks:
- He becomes a bat in the air, granting him multiple jumps.
- His down special has Aku become a scorpion and deliver several strikes with his stinger.
- He becomes an octopus for his up special, leaping into the air with a spin of his tentacles.
- For his side special, he changes into a bull and charges at any opponents in his way.
- His PTE has him become a dragon, before breathing fire all around the stage.
Scotsman
Home Series: Samurai Jack
Voiced By: Nolan North
- Mighty Glacier: He's slow, but hits hard and has good range thanks to his sword and gun-leg.
Johnny Bravo
Home Series: Johnny Bravo
Voiced By: Neil Kaplan
- Lightning Bruiser: Is a heavyweight with all the hard-hitting attacks that implies, but is surprisingly quick in terms of movement speed.
- Promoted to Playable: He goes from an Assist Character in the 3DS version to a full playable character in the console versions.
