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Main Characters of the fanfiction "More Than Human". For the original cartoon, see here for The Girls and here for The Boys.

The Powerpuff Girls

As a Trio

Sugar, spice, and everything nice

These were the ingredients chosen

To create the perfect little girls

But Professor Utonium accidentally

Added an extra ingredients to the concoction—

Chemical X

Thus, The Powerpuff Girls were born

Using their ultra-super powers

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup

Have dedicated their lives to fighting crime

And the forces of evil

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• 100% Heroism Rating: The townsfolk (save for Princess) are still very grateful for their many years of heroism, and almost everyone at school loves them to the point of them earning the title of "The Untouchables”. Despite this, there are several students who seem to dislike Bubbles, like the Cheerleaders.
• The Ace: Aside from having superpowers, they each excel at a particular school subject:
  • Blossom is smart enough to be in AP classes, and she still gets through those effortlessly. As if that wasn't enough, she's also an excellent dancer.
  • Bubbles has a Beautiful Singing Voice (just ask Boomer), and excels at honors chorale.
  • Buttercup is the star athlete of the school, and is the most resilient of the trio when it comes to sheer strength (as the monster that tried to swallow her whole in chapter 1 could've attested to if it were alive)
• Action Girl: While they're less active now due to the monster barrier the professor is setting up for Townsville, that hasn't made them any less proficient when someone needs a whoopass.
• Adaptational Intelligence: The original cartoon still made a point to show that, for all their superpowers, they were still little girls. Here, they've matured into brilliant young women, especially Blossom. However, Bubbles still be a little Book Dumb, while Buttercup is Brilliant, but Lazy.
• Adaptational Heroism: The original show's 20 Minutes in the Future clip in The City of Clipsville featured them as shallow stereotypical girls during their teenage phase, who would rather hang out with the boys than solve crime. Here, they're every bit as heroic as they were in their childhood years, only not being as active due to the Professor having developed a monster barrier and most of the villains having retired.
• Artificial Human: One could say they're... more than human.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Due to their differences in taste and morality, most of their dialogue involves them arguing, with some insults thrown in for good measure (especially from Buttercup, though you'd be surprised at how good Bubbles is at delivering comebacks) However, if you dare hurt one of them... See Berserk Button below.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Zig-Zagged. While they do gradually fall for their Evil Counterparts, it's for different reasons than them being bad (and before they Took a Level in Kindness they didn't even want to be near them).
• Badass Adorable: One day, they're fighting some Eldritch Abomination, the other, they're doing cute poses for shoe ads.
• Barrier Maiden: If they leave town even for one day, the town becomes a nest of chaos and crime. Enter stage left: The Rowdyruff Boys
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Zigzagged, as Blossom is all of them, but in a sense, Bubbles is the beauty since she's the most preoccupied with her looks, Blossom is the Brains, and Buttercup is the Brawn.
• Berserk Button: If you put one of them in danger, prepare to suffer the unbridled ire of the other two. Brick learns this the hard way when he risks Bubbles' life to stop HIM's Fog of Doom.
• Boys Have Cooties: All three girls have at least one instance of saying or thinking this, mostly after one of the Rowdyruffs has done something stereotypically masculine, such as Brick's Macho Masochism, Boomer's inability to take hints, and everything about Butch.
• Brought Down to Normal: They suffer this during the fight against Mojo Jojo in chapters 8 and 9, owning to the latter's Antidote X ray.
• Cain and Abel: A romantic version. They're the Abel to the Rowdyruff Boys' Cain. (Although Buttercup is hardly an Abel)
• Daddy's Girl: While they sadly don't hang out as much anymore due to his constant working, The Girls adore their father and dote endlessly on him.
• Damsel in Distress: In chapter 9, they're Brought Down to Normal by Mojo Jojo's Antidote X ray, forcing the boys to take the reins and save them. Buttercup is not happy.
• Eye Beams: They can all fire beams from their eyes. It apparently takes a lot of Chemical X to use them.
• Good Counterpart: To The Rowdyruff Boys. They're what The Boys might've become if they hadn't been born Tyke Bombs, and what they are on their way to becoming now.
• Good Is Not Soft: Applies to all three of them. Time hasn't made them any less lethal.
• Fingerless Hands: Most references to their limbs imply this part of their anatomy hasn't changed. "They just had to keep on their toes—So to speak"
• Loved by All: Townsville Mall even has a specific announcement just to thank them for their hero work.
• Mirror Character: When at their worst, some of the boys' more negative qualities are clearly visible in them. It's Downplayed, though, as they complement these weaknesses with a genuine desire to do good.
• Morality Pet: Despite starting off as enemies, they gradually become this to the Rowdyruff Boys, often being the angel on their shoulders when they're confronted with a decision. God help you if you hurt any of them while they're around.
• Ms. Fanservice: They're not labelled "The Untouchables" for nothing. Just looking at their shoe ads is enough to make any boy infatuated.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: As shown in their Establishing Character Moment, time hasn't changed their dynamic one bit: Bubbles is still the "nice", Buttercup is still the "mean", and Blossom is still the "in-between".
• Positive Friend Influence: Being their Morality Pets, they're a surprisingly effective version of this to The Rowdyruff Boys.
  • Beginning in chapter 6, Brick's Chronic Hero Syndrome is often initiated by Blossom being in physical or emotional distress; and his date with her in chapter 9 is the nicest he's ever been in the story. He also doesn't swear as much anymore when he's around her.
  • Boomer jokingly Lampshades this trope in chapter 5 when he tells Bubbles she's making a better man out of him. As of chapter 8, this change seems to have stuck with him, and he seems to be trying to quell his Blue-and-Orange Morality by mirroring Bubbles' decisions.
  • While he initially doesn't like it much, Butch's first shot at vulnerability comes when Buttercup confides in him about her feelings regarding her and Mitch's break-up, and from that moment on, he shows himself to be a very supportive friend to her, cheering her up when she's down, calming her down when she's angry, and, as of chapter 12, giving her space when she needs it.
• Power Trio: While they can be a One-Man Army when they need to, they're always strongest together.
• She's All Grown Up: They've matured into quite stunning young women. The professor couldn't be more proud.
• Thicker Than Water: While no longer the main focus, their sisterly relationship is as strong as it always was.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Zig-Zagged. All three of them have started developing some rather Anti-Heroic traits since meeting The Boys, and Buttercup and Bubbles are now Accomplices By Inaction regarding their knowledge of Evil, Inc.. However, the Rowdyruffs' influence has arguably benefited their characters as well.
• Women Are Wiser: Due to their upbringing, they have all grown with less destructive values than The Boys, and they collectively serve as their Morality Chain.
• The Worf Effect: Unlike in the original show, here they struggle with every single major monster attack that invades the city (often needing The Boys' help to defeat them). Justified, as the Professor's invisible monster barrier has been keeping most of them away, and only the strongest ones are able to surpass it.

Blossom

Blossom is the "commander and the leader" of the Powerpuff Girls, still sporting her signature red bow. An AP student, she also does a lot of volunteer work and is the head (as well as the best dancer) in her dance troupe. To a lot of people, she's a perfect girl, and she aspires to use that image to set a good example for others. She is the calmest and most rational of the group, although she tends to get angry easily when the Rowdyruff Boys are concerned.

She has been forced/persuaded a few times to be a dance partner to Brick, often arranged by Mrs. Morbucks.

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• 100% Heroism Rating: Out of the three girls, she's the one that gets called for autographs and photos. She's also the target of most paparazzi.
• Adaptational Intelligence: She was already Wise Beyond Her Years as a kid in the original cartoon, but was still prone to childish or Idiot Ball moments, and her teenager self was portrayed as a bit of an airhead. This work shows that she grew into a a complete Child Prodigy who's obsessed with knowledge and finding ways to better herself.
• Aggressive Submissive: Although she is usually cold and at times bossy, especially towards the boys and her sisters, she becomes a lot more demure when she talks to potential love interests, something that is very noticeable when she dances with Kris and Brick at Prom.
• All of the Other Reindeer: At school, her status as a superhero has caused her to be seen as "unapproachable", and she doesn't help her case much with her super high standards regarding... everything. As a result, she feels out of place at Princess' party.
• All Women Are Prudes: She's the most prudish of The Girls, as Bubbles notes when picking a dress for her at prom. Sadly, she's also the target of most of Butch's Male Gaze and lusty remarks.
• Always Lawful Good: Any unlawful action (especially if it's done by her sisters) is enough to turn her into a walking, rambling Aesop regarding morality. Sometimes to the point where she's good just on principle.
• Amicable Exes: With Kris, due to It's Not You, It's Me, as he loved her too much and she just couldn't love him back.
• Attention Whore: While she will instantly get on the defensive if you imply she's this (as Brick soon learns), she holds her public image in very high regard, and is always the one to conduct interviews for the press.
• Arch-Enemy: Early in the story, her and Brick acted like the other was vitriol. The pair discuss this briefly in Episode 8, where they seem to have reached Friendly Enemy territory.
  Blossom: “I help people. It’s what I do. I’m a good guy.”
  Brick: “A good guy. One who helps out her mortal enemies?”
  Blossom: “If you still consider yourself one of my mortal enemies, then apparently yes,”
• A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Downplayed, as despite not sharing the leadership role with her sisters or The Boys, they do share the spotlight in almost equal terms.
• Badass Bookworm: When she's not out saving the world (or at school), she can be found roaming the bookstore or the museum.
• Badass Pacifist: While not to the extent of Bubbles, she loathes needless violence, and often prefers to discuss things through (unless she's dealing with mindless monsters). This drives her at odds with the more confrontational Brick, especially when it comes to his way of disciplining his brothers.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Brick. It starts in chapter 3 when they dance together, and it only gets worse overtime. The "Belligerent" part is toned down a bit in later chapters, but still pops up from time to time.
• Berserk Button: She's usually a calm and mature person, but even she has her limits:
  • Don't imply her actions are anything but altruistic.
  • Don't disobey her while on a mission, and don't ignore her when she's criticizing you. Butch smashes both buttons during his first monster fight and she smashes his face in return.
  • During the first three chapters , Brick was a walking, talking example of this for her, and his mere presence was enough to send her into a barely concealed rage.
• Betty and Veronica:
  • Being a Tsundere, she's the Veronica to Cindy's Betty.
  • She's also the Archie to Kris' Betty to Brick's Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's often very kind and patient, but push her buttons enough and she will show this part of her. When Butch would rather attack a monster straight on instead of using his special ability to protect Townsville, she gives him a brutal verbal breakdown followed by a punch to the face when he doesn't listen.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Or rather "Badly Hidden Big Ego, Well Hidden Depths". She tries to be humble about her beauty and achievements, but her sense of superiority often shines through during conversations. At the same time, she bottles up all of her negative emotions and insecurities, as she considers them petty and undeserving of time.
• Big Sister Instinct: Loses it when Brick puts Bubbles' life in danger to stop HIM's Fog of Doom. It takes a while for her to talk to him afterwards.
• Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: Unlike Brick, who isn't afraid to drop the F-Bomb every once in a while, Blossom's insults are rather... weak.
  Blossom: “‘Parasite?!’ I’m the parasite?! More like pest control! And I know a cockroach when I see one!”
  Brick: “Are you serious?! Did you seriously just call me a cockroach?!”
  Blossom: “I don’t care if it sounds stupid! I’m really angry right now and you’re a very irritating person!”
• Black-and-White Morality: Her general view on good and evil, and she stands by it with a passion. In the beginning of the story she immediately distrusts and demonizes the Rowdyruff Boys because they had been evil the last time they met. As the story moves forward, her relationship with Brick slowly but surely breaks her entire worldview.
• Break the Cutie: Brick's rejection in chapter 9 drives her to tears. It also takes a huge toll on her confidence.
• Breath Weapon: Her ice breath from the original show is still a thing here, though she hardly uses it in battle anymore.
• Brutal Honesty: Engages in this frequently, due to her status as The Perfectionist.
  Blossom: (to Brick) So why come back at all? It's not like anybody here missed you.

  Blossom: (while signaling out dancers) Kelly, extend your arm! It looks like a dead fish!
• Can't Take Criticism: At least from Brick. Regardless of how right he is. As of chapter 8, however, she's much more open to hearing him out.
• Character Catchphrase: “Language”, or some variation thereof. Especially prevalent with Buttercup, Butch and Brick.
• Character Development: She mellows out a lot as the story moves forward, both to her sisters and The Rowdyruff Boys. Her Black-and-White Morality also takes a massive hit upon warming up to Brick, and her Tsundere attitude has been somewhat phased out as well, though it still pops up from time to time.
• Child Prodigy: Is she ever. She's in AP classes and is an otherworldly dancer who also happens to have exceptional leadership skills. She's also a superhero.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Her Fatal Flaw. She feels her powers make her responsible for the well being of everyone in Townsville, so naturally, whenever someone gets hurt, it's all her fault. Brick tries to help her get over it in chapter 10A.
  Brick: You can't save everyone.
• Class Representative: She fits the trope to a T: She's smart, poised, caring, and has a tendency to stick her nose in where no one wants it.
• Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: During Princess' party, she has to act as the Only Sane Man to Buttercup and Bubbles, who keep getting distracted and messing around.
• Control Freak: While not to the extent of Brick, she always feels better if she has complete control over something, and is the most invested in keeping The Boys under surveillance.
• Damsel in Distress: In chapter 9, she and her sisters are rendered powerless by Mojo Jojo's Antidote X ray. She tries to defy this trope by attacking Mojo regardless, but she still has to get saved by Brick at the end, much to her embarrassment and secret delight.
• Dancing with Myself: Does this often to think and vent her frustrations.
• Death Glare: And a surprisingly effective one, which isn't easy when your eyes are pink.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: The training regime she puts the dancers of her troupe through is compared to that of a Nazi. However, it's soon downplayed when compared to Brick's manner of disciplining his brothers.
• Enemy Mine: With the Rowdyruff Boys, until she stops regarding them as enemies around Episode 7.
  • In chapter 3, she joins forces with Butch and Boomer during a monster invasion. Brick joins the team as well in chapter 6.
  • She attempts this with Mojo in chapter 9 when they were both trapped in his Robo Jojo, but the chimp wasn't as reasonable.
• Extracurricular Enthusiast: Becomes an issue when tasking her with guarding Brick, to the point where Ms. Keane simply gives up and lets her off the hook.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: Blossom usually gives a curtsy at the end of her dances.
• Everyone Has Standards: Drill Sergeant Nasty as she might be, she's absolutely horrified at Brick's brutal beatdown of Butch when the latter disobeys him, though she eventually comes to understand his reasoning behind it.
• The Finicky One: Her moral standards surpass those of anyone else on the team, and she is also the most vocal about them.
• Fatal Flaw: Her Chronic Hero Syndrome and her bottomless ambition. The Professor is worried that the excessive sense of responsibility might've taken a huge toll on her social life and mental stability, to the point where she forgets her own birthday because she's busy planning a public event.
• Fiery Redhead: Has shades of this at times, although this aspect of her personality is mostly present when dealing with The Boys.
• Foil: She's this to her Evil Counterpart Brick; Both are intelligent, cunning, powerful, and no-nonsense leaders to their respective teams, though while Blossom believes her mental and physical superiority makes her responsible for everyone's safety, Brick is unashamed about always looking out for number one, as he didn't choose his powers. At the same time, they both have an arrogant, self-righteous side to them, though Blossom has the decency to try and hide it, even if she's unsuccessful in doing so and ends up coming across as an Insufferable Genius.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible sister to both Bubbles and Buttercup, although a little more towards Buttercup, who is always disobeying her orders and has a Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Genius Bruiser: Downplayed now that she's not as active as before, so she can spend most of her free time studying, but she will go back to kicking ass if she has to.
• Go-Getter Girl: Textbook example. She gets straight A's in all her subjects, while also being a crime fighting superhero who partakes in dancing charity events on occasions.
• Good Counterpart: To Brick, of course. Even she shudders at how alike they are, despite having opposing moralities.
• Good Is Not Soft: She is nice when in her teenager mode, but when she's dealing with perceived potential threats to her town, she will not hold back her punches, both metaphorically and literally.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: She never swears. EVER. Not even around her sisters.
  Blossom: "(Brick)'s such a supercilious... RGH!"
  Buttercup: "Go ahead, say it. 'Say he’s a bastard, he deserves it.'"
• Grin of Audacity: A master at this, which pisses Brick off to no end, to the point where he once got himself enlisted in AP classes just to wipe it off her face, which wasn't even close to worth it.
• He's Not My Boyfriend: Has several moments of this regarding Brick, starting as early as chapter 1 (where they absolutely loathed each other).
  Blossom: "Just keep me company until Brick shows up again,"
  Robin: "Tell me you’re joking."
  Blossom: "Huh? No! I don’t mean we’re here together, I mean I’m trying to keep an eye on him!"
• The Hero: All the Girls are heroes, but Blossom lives for this trope.
• Heroic B So D:
  • Has a brief one when Kris almost dies during the school shooting while she was too far away to save him. It's the first time we see her teenage self allow herself to cry in public.
  • And yet again when Brick rejects her in Episode 9. Though she tries to rationalize it, she takes it so badly that she starts sobbing and has to take a day off school.
• Holier Than Thou: Brick accuses her of being this, and he's not wrong, but she's never malicious about it, though.
• Hypocrite: She complains a lot about how much she hates being around Brick, which is rich considering she's the one who has been stalking and hassling him since his return while acting on baseless (but correct) speculations of him still being evil.
• I Am Not Pretty: Downplayed; She's modest about her appearance, but she does internally take pride in her looks (although she adamantly refuses to be a Lust Object for Butch or anyone else). As of chapter 12, the only person she wants to look attractive in front of is Brick.
• Ice Queen: Has shades of this, although she keeps her icy demeanor mostly towards potential love interests and the Rowdyruff Boys (especially Brick).
• Iconic Item: Her signature bow, of course.
• The Idealist: While never to the extent of Bubbles, she genuinely does believe that Humans Are Good, and her distrust of Brick was mostly due to the latter Not Helping His Case.
• The Ingenue: Has shades of this. She refuses to show much skin, is awkward around boys, and is hesitant around sexual situations such as when Brick is walking around shirtless and she looks away.
• Insufferable Genius: As Buttercup will gladly tell you, she might be annoying but there's often a point to what she says.
• Irony: Considering how many boys she's rejected for not being up to her standards, her getting absolutely broken by Brick's rejection (which, as far as she knows, was for the same reason) is tragically fitting.
• Ironic Name: The one named "Blossom" is the one who folds the most when in a teenage-filled environment.
• It's All My Fault: Due to her pesky Chronic Hero Syndrome, she usually has this reaction when something is amiss. When Mike gets kidnapped, Blossom confesses to Robin that she feels responsible for not being able to save him, despite Mike not being her responsibility.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Harsh as she is with Brick, her criticisms of him are on point, as he's secretly working in JS. Inc.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • Buttercup's "The Reason You Suck" Speech in chapter 2 makes her realize how much of a Drill Sergeant Nasty she's been towards her sisters.
  • Seeing Brick save Kris in chapter 5 shatters her entire view of him, and she tries to soften up towards him from then on.
• Jerkass to One: One can't say she's nice to the other Rowdyruff Boys, but Brick is the only one she's borderline abrasive towards (initially out of genuine hatred, later on out of conflicted feelings and insecurity).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be extremely harsh while doing her work (even towards her sisters), and can also be quite nosey and annoying regarding her morals, but it's never without reason, and she's also extremely altruistic and generous.
• Kick the Dog: She deals with Brick's rejection of her by increasing her Drill Sergeant Nasty tendencies towards her dancing troupe.
• Lady of War: Unlike Buttercup and Bubbles, she's a highly graceful Ojou who, while gentle mannered, isn't afraid to freeze her enemies in place before shattering to bits on one punch.
• The Leader: Type II with some hints of Type I. Becomes a Type III during the search for Mike.
• Leg Focus: Butch thinks she has nice legs. Brick tries to pretend he doesn't agree.
• Lethal Chef: She's never allowed to work in the kitchen besides handing out the ingredients.
• Lonely at the Top: Says this trope word for word in chapter 3, regarding her intelligence and sense of superiority.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has the longest hair of her sisters, and is probably the second most feminine of them as well.
• Motive Misidentification: When The Boys arrive, she's quick to assume they're in town to cause trouble, based on their experiences when they were kids.
• Morality Pet: To Brick as of chapter 6. She's the only individual in the world whose feelings he actually cares about. Most of his Pet the Dog moments are unintentionally triggered by her in some way.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's not an "untouchable" for nothing (Just ask Butch). Even Brick can't deny it. She's quite modest about it, though.
• Nice Girl: While a tad arrogant, she's an immensely altruistic young woman who truly wants the best for everyone around her, and she tries to cut the Rowdyruff boys some slack when they start showing heroic attributes.
• Not Good with Rejection: While she does everything in her power to avoid resenting him for it, Brick's rejection only makes her go full Tsundere on him to compensate, even intentionally dropping his books on his feet instead of handing them to him.
• Not So Above It All: Happens a lot during awkward or tender moments with Brick, from mispronouncing words, to (almost) making a misstep during dancing to giggling uncontrollably at his digs. Also downplayed with the teenage drama she unwillingly engages with when she's jealous of him. See Grin of Audacity and Kick the Dog above.
• Older Than They Look: According to Brick, her bow ages her down a lot, which becomes a problem when trying to enter a club.
• Only Sane Woman: The most mature out of her sisters, and she knows it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While it's normal for her to engage in Tranquil Fury when reprimanding someone, when she starts Suddenly Shouting, you know shit's hit the fan. ^note language!. It happens in chapter 2 while in a heated argument with Brick.
• Ojou: Of the Ice Queen variety.
• The Paladin: She's a paragon of good among the Townsville folk, and is extremely determined to protect and care for it.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: As much of a pacifist as she is, she came close to bashing Brick's face in when she believed he had taken advantage of Cindy.
• The Perfectionist: This aspect of her has only increased overtime, and it mostly shows at school, with her superb dancing and her above average grades.
• Pink Means Feminine: She often wears pink and is quite feminine and graceful.
• Proper Lady: Downplayed, as she's still an Action Girl, but she mostly dresses like a 40-year old woman, is as chaste as a teenage girl can be, and dislikes swearing and needless violence.
• Rage Breaking Point: After weeks of passive-aggressiveness, she finally loses her temper against Brick during an argument in chapter 2, surprising everyone.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She puts on a front as an Innocent Fanservice Girl, but she really is this. She loses all sense of assertiveness when asked to star in a lewd magazine, becoming a Shrinking Violet and developing a sour attitude for the rest of the day.
• Rightly Self-Righteous: While Brick starts off thinking otherwise, it's soon made clear her self-consciously heroic persona is 100% warranted, and she's overly proud of herself for it.
• Sincerity Mode: Despite being a Tsundere, she has instances of this:
  • In chapter 3, after Brick's new car is wrecked during a monster fight, Blossom expresses her condolences even though she still hates his guts.
  "I'm sorry, Brick."
  • In chapter 5, she sincerely thanks Brick for saving Kris during the school shooting, being too emotional to remember their big fight a few days prior.
• Shrinking Violet:
  • Becomes this when subjected to High School-related public events like parties, as she's generally somewhat socially awkward. Exaggerated when around any potential love interest like Kris or Brick (when she's not being a Tsundere towards the latter), especially when dancing with them at prom and at the club respectively.
  • She inexplicably behaves this way after being asked to pose for a lewd magazine cover, fumbling around her words and apologizing constantly instead of lecturing the men who made the request like she would've usually done. She looks back on this as a massive moment of weakness for her.
• Smug Super: Downplayed, but she can get rather smug with Brick during discussions. One such occasion irritated him so much that he almost put his plan in jeopardy just to erase that shit eating grin from her face.
• The Smart Girl: She is both academically inclined and is responsible for making many of their battle strategies.
• The Spock: Has shades of this, though she's much more emotional than Brick.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Despite loathing him with every fiber of her being, she can't help but feel sorry for Brick after his Humiliation Conga in chapter 3.
• Team Mom: Excluding her inability to cook, she tends to hold herself responsible for the well-being of the family.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Downplayed compared to Boomer, but her experience with romance is extremely limited, so she constantly has to take references from magazines or Bubbles when thinking about her next move.
• Token Wholesome: The only one of the Powerpuff Girls who doesn't object to the Professor making them wear wetsuits at the beach.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Like in the original show, she tends to struggle with this due to her rigid moral values. This puts her at odds with both her sisters and especially the Boys.
• Took a Level in Kindness: As she starts falling for Brick, she gradually loses her Tsundere attitude towards him.
• Troubled Fetal Position: When Brick rejects her in chapter 9, she ends up sobbing in this position, unprofessional as it may be.
• Tsundere: She has some shades of Type B, being kind and courteous most of the time, but more cold to people like the Rowdyruffs, especially Brick.
• Women Are Wiser: Comes off as more level headed than Brick in most of their interactions, which is saying something considering Brick's own personality. Eventually Zig-Zagged, as she learns quite a few things from him as well.
• What The Hell Heroine: Buttercup tears into her in chapter 2 after she gets tired of her Holier Than Thou attitude regarding their investigation of the boys.
  Buttercup:: "For the past month you've done nothing but bitch and moan and you keep telling me and Bubbles to 'keep an eye on them' while you go off to all your stupid advanced classes and your dance practices and even when you've got the same lunch as me you leave me on guard duty for both of them!” Buttercup hissed, gesturing wildly at the messy cafeteria. “You get one guy, one guy switched over to all your classes because you want to 'keep an eye on them,' and suddenly you're the fucking victim, you're sooooo upset, never mind that Bubbles and I have been doing it for the past month and your guy isn't the one starting food fights in the fucking—"
  Blossom: "That's enough." (Buttercup takes in a breath and resumes cleaning) "I'm sorry."
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: If the relationship between Brick and Blossom could be summarized into one trope, it would be this.
• Will They or Won't They??: With Brick, though at this point it's all up to him.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: Self-imposed. Despite the Professor's advice, Blossom is dead set on being a complete Child Prodigy, though it has undeniably damaged her social life.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: While she's modest about it, she seems to be the most popular girl in the school because of her beauty (just ask Butch). However, she tends to cover up and cares very little about physical beauty.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Chapter 9 sees her finally going on a successful date with Brick, after which she's left happier than she's been in a long time. Then she goes to school the following day and Brick rejects her for reasons she can't understand, leaving her a blubbering mess.

Bubbles

Bubbles is the "joy and the laughter" of the Powerpuff Girls with her signature blue color and blonde pigtails. She is the most trusting of the group and is very kind and gentle. She used to be a cheerleader at her school until she was forced to make a decision between Choir and Cheerleader. She is an excellent singer, which captured Boomer's heart.

Bubbles often acts as a Devil's Advocate between the Girls and the Boys and was revealed to have a crush on Boomer herself, finally giving him a True Love's Kiss.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: She falls into this after learning of Boomer's job at JS Inc, as her love for him ends up overcoming her sense of responsibility. In chapter 12, the guilt starts catching up to her after meeting his co-worker Penny and realizing she'd been blocking that thought from memory all along.
• Action Girlfriend: Especially to Will, who isn't superpowered like her. After getting together with Boomer, she often engages in Battle Couple with him.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Even when frustrated, she can't help but giggle at some of Boomer's silly puns. As of chapter 6, she laughs at all of them.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Since she's matured between the original show and this work, most of her immature and Jerkass Ball moments as a kid are nowhere to be seen here, and she's characterized as a complete sweetheart.
• Amicable Exes:
  • She is this with Mike, and it's implied she's on good terms with Pablo and Sanjay as well.
  • Subverted with Will, with whom she's no longer on speaking terms with.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Confesses her love to Boomer while she's Brainwashed and Crazy and they're both encased in a dark magic sphere.
• Animal Lover: Keeps this trait from the original show, to the point of squeeing when she sees a cute critter.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: While she's not any younger than the others, she's this for Blossom and especially Buttercup, and she knows it. She plays this trope up on several occasions when Buttercup's Big Sister Bully tendencies rise.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted with her and Boomer. While she gradually falls for him (and does fantasize about him fighting for her honor at times), she never gets used to his evil streak, and fully wants him to be a good person.
• All-Loving Hero: She only wants joy and happiness for even the meanest of her peers, and believes in redemption and forgiveness.
• Almost Kiss: She comes close to one with Boomer in chapter 5 after his apology concert at the Townsville High End-of-Year Rock Band Concert before one of the bands cut in on their moment.
• Apologetic Attacker: She feels bad when she has to kill monster babies.
• The Baby of the Bunch: While she's much more perceptive and emotionally mature than she lets on, this is clearly her role not only amongst her sisters, but amongst The Boys as well.
• Badass Adorable: Coupled with Beware the Nice Ones. She is implied to be the "cute" girl of the group, but she's as cute as she is badass.
• Befriending the Enemy: The first of the Girls to do this when she sings along to Boomer (her target)'s performance of Complicated by April Lavigne.
• Battle Couple: With Boomer as of chapter 7; He will not leave her alone.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Her most noticeable skill, and the initial reason Boomer falls for her. She's ridiculously humble about it as well.
• Berserk Button:
  • While she has no problem with self-defense, she loathes the notion of Pay Evil unto Evil, which puts her at odds with Boomer early on.
  • Downplayed as it will not make her angry so much as it will make her cry, but she hates when people imply she's an easy girl or a "slut". When Boomer accidentally implies it, she gently but firmly puts her foot down to ensure it doesn't happen again.
• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Hayley's Veronica to Boomer's Archie, although Hayley soon steps aside without any fanfare.
  • She's also the Archie to Boomer's Betty to Will's Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Bubbles is usually very patient, but when she snaps, watch out. Brick learned this the hard way when he accidentally put her in harm's way.
• Big Damn Kiss: Gives one to Boomer in order to drive away the fog possessing her in chapter 7, sealing their Relationship Upgrade.
• Book Dumb: Downplayed. While it's likely due to the stress of her situation with The Boys, she's often shown struggling with school subjects. It didn't stop her from graduating, though.
• Blue Is Heroic: While she's allegedly worn every color under the sun, she often wears blue. She's also arguably the second most heroic powerpuff.
• Break the Cutie: She undergoes this from chapters 4 to 5 as she struggles with her feelings for Boomer and her crumbling relationship with Will, breaking into tears on two different occasions.
• Cheerful Child: Because of this, she is one of the first ones to really begin to get close to the Rowdyruffs, including Brick.
• Companion Cube: Octi, which she still uses as a security object, despite being in high school. She refers to it as her First Love in chapter 9.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Never to the extent of Boomer, but still applies.
  • Briefly becomes this in chapter 4 when Boomer starts hanging out with Hayley at prom, and she engages in a brief Operation: Jealousy by kissing Will and dancing with Mike when in front of him.
  • In chapter 5, she realizes she was more angry at him hanging out with his ex than his stunt with the cheerleaders.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Downplayed; She's more perceptive and mature than she lets on, but she enjoys playing this role when around her frineds, and especially at parties.
• Covert Pervert: Innocent as she seems, and she initiates most of her more third-basey moments with the more insecure Boomer, who notes her to be an excellent kisser. She also sounds dejected when Boomer asks for a break from their make-out session in chapter 11A.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: One of her special abilities it to stun her enemies with her powerful scream. It's not as pleasant as her singing, to say the least.
• Cuteness Proximity: Happens any time she sees a Ridiculously Cute Critter, which factors in Buttercup's prank against the school.
• The Cutie: No wonder Boomer fell for her.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: She plays the idealist with Buttercup when the latter is feeling crass. When Brick enters the picture, she repeats the role when interacting with him.
• Daddy's Girl: When Buttercup kisses the professor and says she loves him, Bubbles does the same thing just to remind him that she loves him more.
• Desperately Craves Affection: She wants to feel loved when around people, and handles rejection and insults very badly. The main reason she ends up falling for Boomer despite his flaws is the unconditional love and attention he gives her, contrasting Will's more aloof demeanor.
• The Ditz: Can show signs of this at times, though it's implied she plays this role on purpose, as she's far more perceptive than she's given credit for.
• Dumb Blonde: Subverted. While she is naive and fun loving, she's extremely knowledgeable when it comes to emotional matters.
• Drama Queen: Downplayed; she can sometimes make a big deal of mundane/minor issues, but she's often right to be worried. She throws a hissy fit anytime Will forgets something related to them or prioritizes his friends over her, but it happens so frequently that you can't blame her for it.
• Extreme Doormat: Despite being miles stronger than him, from chapters 1 to 4, she's this to Will.
• The Fashionista: Bubbles has at least six formal dresses. In chapter 7, she states she sports a different type of makeup for every occasion.
• Foil: To her Evil Counterpart Boomer. They're both energetic and optimistic blonds who Desperately Crave Affection, but Bubbles is a genuinely kind-hearted and surprisingly mature, contrasting Boomer's Stepford Smiler and short-sighted tendencies.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: During their interactions, she can be the “responsible” to Buttercup's “foolish”, although the roles can switch depending on their mood.
• Friend to All Living Things: She's extremely nurturing and protective of animals, keeping and caring for all the goldfish and pigs from Buttercup's prank in chapter 10.
  • After offering to give Buttercup advice on dating friends:
  Buttercup :You don’t count. You make friends with rocks and trees, Pocahontas.
• Genki Girl: She's got a quirky and cheerful streak, which she plays up for the cuteness factor.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her signature hairstyle.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Especially Octi, although she has a lot more.
• Girly Girl: Is the most overtly feminine out of the girls, being a former cheerleader who's very affectionate with her boyfriends.
• Good Counterpart: To Boomer, of course.
• Granola Girl: Has shades of this, most noticeably through the fact she's a vegetarian.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and easily the kindest character in the series. The author explicitly used this trope to summarize her in her journal.
• Hidden Depths: She puts on a childish front for fun, but she can also be quite motherly and perceptive, taking social cues and improvising responses. This is mostly shown through her dynamic with the more genuinely childish Boomer.
• Hypocrite: On occasion. She even notes this on several occasions.
  • She internally admits how contradictory it was for her to want Boomer to apologize for his Pay Evil unto Evil tendencies while simultaneously giving him the silent treatment, ensuring that he won't be able to apologize.
  • She admonishes Boomer for burning the cheerleaders' uniforms after one of them called her a slut in chapter 5, but giddily records and makes a GIF out of Buttercup beating some punks up after one of them casually spanked her in chapter 10A. Seems she approves of Pay Evil unto Evil when her sister does it. Or maybe groping is Serious Business for her.
• The Idealist: The most idealistic of the Chemical X group, which allows her to bond with The Boys early despite their past.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Brick seems to think so. He's wrong, which almost gets her killed by HIM
• Inelegant Blubbering: Sometimes does this when she cries. One such example is when she's crying into Will's shirt in chapter 2, eliciting an awkward response from Will, who couldn't understand what she was saying.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She's not that innocent, but her eyes are ocean blue, and she's the most naive of the team.
• Is This What Anger Feels Like?: Has had a few moments like this, including getting angry at Brick at the beginning and with Boomer whom she has gotten mad at a number of times, mostly for hurting other people or for trying to steal her away from Will. She also had one when Brick accidentally puts her in danger and she shoots laser eyes at him.
• It's All My Fault: She tends to have this attitude when people are angry at her, even when the situation was out of her control, such as when Will gets mad at her for saving him from Boomer. She becomes more assertive later on, especially after becoming Boomer's girlfriend.
• Lady and Knight: with Boomer as the knight of course.
• Little Miss Snarker: She's not as "little" anymore, but her tongue can be quite sharp; especially when pitted against Buttercup, Brick or Princess.
• Morality Pet:
  • For Boomer; while usually not hesitating to hurt others he thinks deserve it, the mere thought of disappointing her is enough for Boomer to rethink his choices. As of chapter 11A, Boomer's morality completely revolves around Bubbles'.
    Boomer (while presented with a tough choice): Hmmm. What would Bubbles do?
  • She is this to a lot of characters, including Brick, who in chapter 10 is only convinced to try and make up with Blossom due to Bubbles' encouragement.
• Nice Girl: She's as sweet, bubbly, energetic and caring as can be, and hates tension and drama more than anything else. Not even Brick is exempt from her niceness, and the two have somewhat of an Odd Friendship.
• Omniglot: Not to the extent of Blossom, but she charms Mrs. Morbucks when she speaks French, Spanish and Japanese to her in a single conversation. She doesn't know Chinese, though.
• Parental Substitute: Played With. It's clear she's no longer just a Love Interest to Boomer; she's also become a maternal figure to him, and he almost emulates her actions in persuit of her approval. Due to her nurturing nature, she subconsciously plays into this role without even realizing it.
• Plucky Girl: She's very brave, optimistic, and excitable, on top of having superpowers.
• The Pollyanna: For this girl, the glass is always full, contrasting Buttercup.
• Prone to Tears: While she doesn't like being seen in a bad mood, every significant person she's met has seen her cry at least once. She always bounces back when this happens, though.
• Proud Beauty: She knows how pretty she is, and loves to flaunt it to everyone, always with the appropriate dress.
• Sand In My Eyes: She doesn't like crying in public, and often uses terrible excuses when she's caught with puffy eyes. Kim knows better.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts:
  • Was implied to have been this with Will before the events of the story. It becomes a bit more one-sided after she leaves cheer, though.
  • She's just as prone to PDA as Boomer, much to Butch and Buttercup's chagrin. It gets to the point where the former has to postpone her meetings when they're around, since too much affection is vomit-inducing for him.
  Harry "We'll go to Butch's for some bad movies—"
  Butch: "Wait, wait, no, we can't do that, Barbie and Ken are celebrating her birthday at our apartment tonight, and nobody wants to be there for that, trust me."
• Skewed Priorities:
  • During a monster fight, the first thing she does is go home to change from her homecoming dress.
  Bubbles: "I know this is going to sound so stupid, and petty, and, and so, so girly, but do you have any idea how much I spent on this dress?"
  Boomer: "Uh—"
  Bubbles: “Not just money! The time! All the shopping I did, all the dresses I tried on? The hairstyle I had to figure out to go with it? The accessories and makeup? I am going home, and I am pulling on a pair of ratty old jeans, and this dress isn't going to see one second of a monster fight because it is the result of weeks of shopping and a lot of indecisiveness and some artistic arranging and a good hunk of cash! I don't care how stupid it sounds! I am not going to risk ruining it!”
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Although this hasn't been seen in this work, one of her powers in the show is her ability to talk to animals.
• Spoiled Sweet: She buys excessively expensive dresses for single occasions, loves to be pampered by her boyfriends, and excitedly accepts a free shopping spree from Mrs. Moorbucks as a birthday gift. That said, she's still a complete sweetheart, and will gladly give it all away for those she loves.
• The Tease: In chapter 6, she's this for Boomer, playfully hitting on Brick to make him jealous and flirting with him to no end.
• Temporarily a Villain: Due to being Brainwashed and Crazy by HIM, she becomes the Final Boss of chapter 7.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Buttercup's Tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: In chapter 7, she became the only Chemical X user to date to strike Brick and get away with it.
• True Blue Femininity: Her default color is blue (although she's worn almost every color under the sun) and is the most feminine of the sisters.
• Tsundere: Type B towards Boomer after she starts falling for him.
• Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Subverted, as Boomer never gave up on her, but the moment she starts developing feelings for him is the moment he decides to stop flirting with her.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Other than the fact that she literally has massive eyes, she holds a very optimistic view on the world, to the point where she blocks any negative feelings from her head, such as Will's jerkassery or Boomer's profession. She overcomes the former in chapter 4.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend:
  • Goes berserk on Boomer when he threatens Will.
  Bubbles: "I don’t care what you say to me, I don’t care what you do to me, but if you start on anybody I love, I swear I’m going to make you regret it! So don’t touch him! Don’t you dare touch him, okay?!"
  Boomer "Bubbles, I didn’t—"
  Bubbles: "OKAY?!"
  Boomer: "Okay, okay."
  • After getting together with Boomer and learning of his deal with Him, she also vows to protect him at all costs. Yes, she's willing to fight Satan for her boyfriend.
  Bubbles: (in her mind) Let Him come. He can bring it. Let Him try. He won't take Boomer from me. I won't let Him. I swear to God, I swear, if He lays a hand on Boomer, if He so much as touches a single hair on his head, I swear I will make Him regret it."
• You're Cute When You're Angry: Boomer avoids her anger regarding Ashley's incident by citing this trope. She knocks him on his ass in return, (which doesn't make him take her any more seriously).

Buttercup

The tough girl of the group known for her confrontational, almost aggressive nature. She dated her best friend Mitch, although they broke up before the story takes place. Mitch revealed that all of her friends had a crush on her and that he disliked how Buttercup was at times too shy to announce their relationship, making him wonder if she was ashamed of him.She was, surprisingly, the first to get close to Butch on a personal level, which resulted in them becoming friends.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: This story brings out the darker side of her, though she's still a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at worst. This is due to a combination of her estrangement with Mitch and his gang and serving as Butch's punching bag. As the story moves forward and she starts rekindling her relationships, her mood improves.
• Allergic to Love: She really hates public displays of affection, and often gags at Bubbles' lovey-dovey dynamics with her boyfriends. That doesn't mean she doesn't have loved ones, though.
• Anti-Hero: She is generally kind, even looking after a lost child she found in the mall, but she is a lot colder and less approachable than her sisters. She also maintains her friendship with Butch, even after the latter reveals his job to her.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She shows this side of her to Bubbles and Blossom on multiple occasions, as long as nobody else is around.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: She used to be the lead singer in No Neck Joe (Mitch's band) before her breakup with him. After Boomer helps them mend their friendship, she tries it out again and soon wins everyone over again.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Butch, obviously, a notable contrast when compared to her relationship with Mitch.
• Berserk Button: Anything involving boys and flirtation is not appreciated. Mitch revealing to her that the gang were attracted to her is the reason they fell apart in the first place. Butch exploits this in Episode 2 to provoke her into a fight.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's often quite cordial, but fuck with her and she will reveal herself to be this. Butch notices this early on and uses it to his advantage.
• The Big Girl: Implied to be taller than Blossom and Buttercup.
• Black-and-Grey Morality: She internally agrees with the notion that everyone is inherently evil to a degree, which allows her to maintain her friendship with Butch even after he tells her about his job.
• Blood Knight: Like Butch, she enjoys fighting and bleeding a bit too much, though unlike the Rowdyruff boy she mostly keeps said feelings to herself.
• Boyish Short Hair: The only time she had long hair was when she was dating Mitch, who liked to run his hands through her long hair.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: She's a brutal fighter who's biggest injury was dealt in the form of a breakup.
• Butch Lesbian: Subverted; she's actually straight, but Butch loves to accuse her of being an Armored Closet Gay to get a rise out of her.
• Butt-Monkey: Butch spends most of chapter 2 trying to provoke her into a fight, and does things like doodle giant boobs on a picture of her, throwing food at her during lunch time, and ripping the shirt off her back while she was in the middle of a crowd. The last one is her Rage Breaking Point, and she beats the shit out of him immediately afterwards.
• The Confidant: In chapter 6, Butch confesses his job at Evil, Inc. to her, and she eventually chooses to keep it to herself since she secretly agrees with Pay Evil unto Evil. It's a Downplayed example, as he does so just to spite Brick, and not out of genuine trust towards her.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: As punishment for damaging the town during the fight with Butch, the professor makes her cook her way through a recipe book on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays... and buy all the ingredients herself.
• Covert Pervert: In chapter 11, it's revealed that the idea of getting felt up in the forest was an intriguing one for her, and when she and Butch do it, she's so aroused that she almost sleeps with him afterwards.
• The Cynic: She is the most cynical out of the three.
• Daddy's Girl: One of the few people she's openly affectionate towards is The Professor. She kisses him on the cheek in chapter 1, tries to be gentle around him because she knows how overworked he is, was revealed to have cried in his arms after her breakup with Mitch, and accepts his old car as a birthday gift in favor of Mrs. Moorbucks' Cool Car.
• Deadpan Snarker: The wittiest of all the girls, especially when pitted against Bubbles or Butch, who both fight back.
• Defiant to the End: The reason why Butch develops an interest in her is because of her resilience, which he discovers when she keeps on beating on the monster of chapter 1 even as her sisters are downed and she's worn and beaten to a pulp. He gets proven right during their fight in chapter 2, where they basically tear into each other with neither of them willing to stop.
• Defrosting Ice Queen:
• Determinator: When Butch takes off her shirt, she goes through incredible lengths and collateral to beat the ever-loving crap out of him.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Blossom considers breaking a Citiesville punk's arms in retaliation for groping her this. Butch disagrees.
• The Dreaded: One of her key insecurities. While everyone respects her as a fighter and as a hero, everyone fears her a lot for her Hair-Trigger Temper and abrasive attitude.
• Even the Girls Want Her: When the boys tell Butch about Buttercup, he is told this almost word for word.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • In chapter 2. She hates Butch with a passion, but she's horrified when she realizes she's accidentally blinded him in a fit of rage. She's even more horrified when Brick stops their fight by beating him to a pulp, and later removing his powers so that he doesn't recover from the pain.
  • The only reason she maintains her friendship with Butch after he tells her of his affiliation with JS.Inc is because he assures her that he doesn't hurt innocent people.
  • She breaks a guy's arms for groping her, but she draws the line at breaking in the hospital to shatter all his teeth (at Butch's suggestion).
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: Her breakup with Mitch absolutely broke her for a few weeks, arguably hurting her more than any physical injury she's ever sustained.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Inverted, while Blossom is a Lethal Chef, Buttercup's cooking skills are incredibly competent, something she takes immense pride in.
• Foil: To her Evil Counterpart Butch. They're both masculine bruisers with short hair who love a good fight, but Buttercup often fights for protection and self-defense, while Butch fights for pleasure. Furthermore, Buttercup often shows a general disdain towards anything sexual, while Butch is a sex maniac.
• Freudian Excuse: Her abrasive and moody attitude in chapters 1 and 2 mostly stems from her ugly breakup with Mitch.
• Friends with Benefits: Allows Butch to fondle her in the woods in chapter 11 under this reasoning.
• Girliness Upgrade: When they were together, she went shopping for prom dresses with Mitch, although she pretended to be aloof about it.
• Girl's Night Out Episode: After Buttercup and Mitch break up, the girls have a horror movie night after they trimmed Buttercup's hair, all to comfort her.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes little to piss her off, especially if you flirt with her.
• Heartbroken Badass: chapter 6A showcases just how Mitch's breakup broke her.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Deconstructed when she dated Mitch. She only allowed herself to act sensitive to Mitch when they're alone, but her insistence on putting on a tough front in public made him believe she didn't care for him (when that couldn't have been farther from the truth), and is what eventually drove them apart.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She's an extremely skilled chef. It becomes not so hidden after chapter 12.
  • She also has a Beautiful Singing Voice, as Butch discovers in chapter 8 when she sings with Mitch's band again.
• Important Haircut: In a prequel chapter, Buttercup cuts off most of her hair after she breaks up with Mitch because Mitch really liked running his hands through her hair.
• Inelegant Blubbering: After her relationship-breaking fight with Mitch at the end of chapter 6A, she ends up doing this while crying in the Professor's arms.
• Informed Attractiveness: In-Universe, Butch is shocked and disappointed that she's in league with Blossom as one of the untouchables. Mitch's gang all disagree. Ironically, Butch himself would end up falling for her later in the story.
  Mike: “So Buttercup might not float every guy’s boat, but for a lot of the guys in the room, she’s definitely worth losing your left nut over.”
• Innocently Insensitive: The day she and Mitch broke up, she spent most of their last day together (before he went out on a trip) playing video games with Harry's nephew Stinky instead of hanging out with him. Before she knew, the day was almost over.
• Irony: The most tomboyish, unromantic of the girls was the first to be in a serious relationship. She's also the best cook of the three, and the first to warm up to her Evil Counterpart.
• It's All About Me: As part of her way of dealing with her breakup, she spends most of chapter 1 being concerned with her own wants and needs rather than the town's. She plays baseball at Princess' party instead of watching over Butch, and she leaves the No Neck Joe in a huff because Boomer replaced her as the singer when she was there to protect everyone else from any potential harm the boys might do.
• It's All My Fault: She blames herself for Butch's near-death experience in chapter 10, because she didn't stop him when he wanted to help her with her mission while he was already hurt. When Butch finds out, he reassures her that it wasn't anybody's fault but his.
  Butch: "You know it ain't your fault what happened to me."
  Buttercup: "It was a little."
  Butch: "Don't be a dumbfuck."
  Buttercup: "I should've told you to stay put."
  Butch: "If you'd said that and expected me to listen to you, then you would've been a serious dumbfuck."
  * Jerkass Has a Point: She's right to call Will a Jerk Jock, and that Bubbles is way out of his league.
• Jerkass Realization: Has a subtle one when Mitch calls her out on being an aloof girlfriend. Sadly, she's too angry at him for the lesson to stick, and she instantly snaps at him and leaves. Later in chapter 8, she apologizes to him for it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When she's in a sour mood it's best to not approach her, but she's generally reliable, kind-hearted, and has some standards.
• Kick the Dog: In chapter 7A, she deals with her breakup with Mitch by forcing her sisters to see a particularly brutal scary movie just to get off on their reactions.
• The Lad-ette: The most overtly masculine of The Girls. She's arguably more masculine than Boomer as well.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She's a hit now, think later kind of fighter. The best example of this is when Butch takes her shirt off and she goes flying after him.
• Lethal Chef: She's the most skilled fighter and also the best chef of the three. It's not a good idea to taunt her while she's in the kitchen.
• Little Miss Badass: Could apply to all the girls, but moreso her.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: When they dated, she was the masculine girl to Mitch's feminine boy. It's in fact her obsession with being tough and masculine that drives him away when his feelings are hurt.
• Mask of Sanity: Downplayed, but she's clearly more emotionally disturbed than she lets on, and she also hides her view of the world (and Butch's profession) from her sisters.
• Mistaken for Gay: Played for Laughs in chapter 8, where Butch's jokes make Julie briefly think she's a lesbian. Buttercup quickly shuts this down.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: She might be ruthless, but she does not stand by innocents getting harmed, even if they're assholes.
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Buttercup gets mad whenever someone implies she might not be able to handle something, such as when Blossom seriously asks her if she can handle looking after the Rowdyruff boys by herself.
• One of the Boys: All of her close friends are boys. When she breaks up with Mitch, her friends go with the relationship and she is left alone.
  • Her friends still wanted to be friends with her, she was only put off after learning that they were all crushing on her, and did not view her as just One of the Boys, and she avoids them. They later bury the hatchet.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: An internal believer in this, which often drives her to conflict with Blossom.
  • Highlighted in chapter 2 during her fight with Butch where she breaks some of his teeth, beats him to a bloody pulp, and blinds him in one eye. It should be noted, however, that she was horrified at the latter action.
  • While on a mission in Citisville, she breaks a punk's hands after he spanks her. She beats up his friends too for laughing along with him.
• Perpetual Frowner: She tends to smile the least out of all her sisters and her smirk is actually her signature look.
• Pet the Dog: After Bubbles takes the blame for her hidden green dress, she gives her an extra piece of chocolate mousse as thanks.
• Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: She dislikes wearing long dresses and typically "girly" clothing. The only time she considered wearing a formal dress was when she bought a prom dress with Mitch.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Blossom's blue.
• Sadist: One of the darker personality traits (that Butch picks up on rather quickly) is that she actually seems to enjoy beating her enemies and making them bleed, be them monsters, humans or other superpowered beings. That being said, she doesn't enjoy inflicting pain on everyone, only villains and jerks, and you really need to piss her off for her to go hard on you.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: She did this for Mitch, buying dresses, growing her hair out, dressing more feminine, and using conditioner.
• The Smurfette Principle: The Smurfette in her group of male friends.
• Swallowed Whole: By the Godzilla-like monster in chapter 1. It proves to be the creature's undoing when she blows it up from the inside.
• Supreme Chef: On top of her punishments for trashing the city in her fight with Butch, the Professor makes Buttercup cook dinner every night for weeks, eventually leading to this.
• Title Drop: Does this in chapter 3:
  “I get it. All that shit you said yesterday, about fighting, and the pain, and spilling blood, the rush, the god-like superiority over everything when you're winning and the push to be... to be something more than human when you're beat to shit and your body's feeling weaker than one...”
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Bubbles' (and Blossom to a lesser extent) Girly Girl.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In Episode 1, she's portrayed as far more mean and abrasive than in the original show, implying she went through this during her teenage years. However, it's soon revealed she's moody because she's dealing with a nasty breakup that also took away her friends. Butch entering the equation and Boomer stealing her place as Mitch's lead singer and lead guitarist doesn't help with her mood at all.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Mellows out in chapter 3 after she and Butch start bonding. As of then, her demeanor has only improved, even making amends with Mitch in chapter 8.
• Tsundere: Buttercup is a type A for sure, displaying very little affectionate emotion, even when spending time with her boyfriend. Her inability to show affection in public is what eventually leads to Mitch and Buttercup breaking up.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • To her sisters, as the monster in chapter 1 learns when it endangers them.
  • To her father. He's one of the few people to whom she has shown her sensitive side; and, in chapter 11A, she turns down a Cool Car in favor of his The Alleged Car birthday gift. She's a Daddy's Girl alright.
  • Believe it or not... To Butch. She confides in him regarding her current feelings towards Mitch, keeps the knowledge of his job to herself, saves his life when he's hurt at the Vortex, lets herself cry in front of him (which we've only seen her do before in front of her father), and lets him fondle her breasts in the forest (which she definitely hasn't done with anyone before)
• Unkempt Beauty: Compared to Blossom's elegance and Bubbles' cuteness, this is Buttercup's niche.

The Rowdyruff Boys

As a Trio

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• The Ace: Aside from being the best field agents at JS. Inc, each of them has their own special abilities:
  • Brick excels at all school subjects, dance, art, memorization, strategy, aircraft design, leadership, good looks, photography, manipulation, cooking burgers... Actually, it would be easier to list the number of things he DOESN'T excel at: Being in control of his own feelings, being heroic and charitable and smiling.
  • Boomer is an excellent singer, and can play any instrument you throw at him like a fiddle. He's sort of a subversion, since he earned those abilities as part of a Deal with HIM as an attempt to stand out.
  • Butch is a Downplayed version. While combat-wise he's on par with Buttercup, and he excels at determination, it becomes clear as early as episode 2 that he doesn't stand a chance against Brick, who wipes the floor with him after his Berserk Button gets pushed. It doesn't help that he's mostly The Slacker.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the original show's 20 Minutes in the Future clip in The City of Clipsville, they're portrayed as aloof bad boys (which is the reason The Girls get interested in them in the first place) Here, while they're still bad, they're more like Anti-Heroes.
• Adaptational Intelligence: While Butch and Boomer are still constantly referred to as idiots, they've completely outgrown their childish bullying and lack of self preservation in the original cartoon. Exaggerated with Brick, who is now characterized as a Child Prodigy who's as smart as Blossom.
• Adaptational Protagonist: They were mere Villains Of The Week in the source material, even if they were promoted to the rogue gallery in Season 5 and 6. Here, the spotlight is evenly split between them and The Girls.
• Affably Evil: By their own admission, they're still villains, but are far more easy to get along with than their Enfant Terrible selves in the original show, and their willingness to Go-Karting with Bowser with The Girls as of chapter 3 shows this side of them as well.
• Always Someone Better: Subverted with Butch, who seems to be on par with Buttercup, and Implied with Boomer, who defeats a Brainwashed and Crazy Bubbles once, but Played Straight with Brick, who seems to be the strongest of all the Chemical X users, if his "fight" with a giant Eldritch Abomination on chapter 3 is any indication.
• Anti-Hero: They've been assisting the girls in protecting Townsville whenever there's an attack since chapter 3, but his doesn't stop them from each having their own flaws that stop them from being considered actual heroes. Emphasized on chapter 11A, when they briefly replace the girls while they're away on a party, and they decide to remove their powers to make the ordeal more challenging, which does not end well for them.
• Anti-Villain: Their Evil vs. Evil dynamic with JS Inc, as well as their Anti-Hero tendencies while in Townsville, makes them far less villanous than their portrayal in the original show, especially when compared to its other main villains, whose characterization remains mostly the same.
• Artificial Humans: Their origin story hasn't changed. Brick likes to pretend this makes them superior.
• Attention Whore: All three of them display traits of this to a varying extent, owning to being superpowered beings in a world of humans:
  • While there's nothing that bothers him more than unwanted attention, Brick himself admits he enjoys the spotlight a little too much. His priorities while deciding who to take up for a date at prom lie on who's going to serve as the best compliment to his image.
  • Boomer is unashamed about his love for the spotlight, and Bubbles suggests his obsession with Avril Lavigne stems from a desire to be popular. Gets worse when it's revealed his musical prowess comes from a Deal with the Devil made with the intent of having something to stand out from his brothers. As of chapter 8, the only attention he cares about now is Bubbles'.
  • Butch gets called this word-for-word by Buttercup for his numerous stunts pulled to prove to everyone he's the craziest guy out there. He is.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While still villains, they're far more heroic than the likes of Mojo and HIM, especially when their Character Development comes into play.
• Badass Normal: As chapter 11 shows, they can be just as effective when off their X, owing to their training at JS.Inc.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Boomer is Beauty, Brick is Brains (though he could qualify as all of them), and Butch is Brawn.
• Being Evil Sucks: Their many years of villainy under Mojo, HIM, and JS Inc clearly hasn't brought either of them any long-lasting happiness, and Butch and Boomer know this deep down, but Brick still stubbornly adheres to his original values.
• Berserk Button: Hurting their respective Good Counterpart Powerpuff Girl is enough to send them into an Unstoppable Rage.
• Birds of a Feather: With each Powerpuff Girl, as they soon discover.
• The Bus Came Back: Which kickstarts the plot. They had jumped town five years before the events of the story, only to show up in Townsville High with no prompting.
• Came Back Strong: After their training at JS Inc, they're as tough as ever (which is saying something).
• Character Development: Shown explicitly with how they deal with The Girls' missions. In chapter 1, they all sit and watch while The Girls defeat a giant monster, and show a Pass the Popcorn attitude towards their plight. When another monster attacks on chapter 3, they assist but for selfish reasons; Butch is bored and wants to test his new powers, Boomer wants to get on Bubbles' good side, and Brick is upset with the monster for destroying his Cool Car. In chapter 5, they all help save the school from the gunmen with little to no prompting, though they're rather casual about it. In chapter 6, they all take down the JS fighter together (although Brick has an ulterior motive as he has a personal investment in the craft). In chapter 7, 9, 10 and 10A, they all assist The Girls in foiling Mojo, HIM and Sedusa's evil plans without any prompting whatsoever. By chapter 11A, they've officially become the Girls' temporary replacement. They sure have come a long way from being a simple Villain of the Week in the original show.
• The Dreaded: Everyone is scared shitless upon their return (and for good reason). Even Blossom's voice wavers unintentionally when she interrogates them.
• Dumbass No More: Their Stupid Evil tendencies in the original show is nowhere to be seen in this incarnation, though Brick references it as Old Shame In-Universe.
• Evil Counterpart: They're what The Girls might've become if they had chosen to stay under Mojo Jojo in the 2002 movie.
• Evil vs. Evil: According to Butch, all of their targets are bad people who've done worse things than most others. The ambient at JS Inc implies this is the case with Brick's The Coup as well.
• Eye Beams: Like The Girls', they're a particularly brutal attack. Brick's can apparently One-Hit Kill a Godzilla-type monster if he's pissed enough.
• Heel–Face Turn: One of the tags for the fic in AO3 is "The Boys start of terrible but maybe they'll be less terrible by the end of the story." None of them are quite there yet, but they're all certainly AntiHeroes by chapter 10A.
• Hired Guns: And damn good ones at that.
• Fingerless Hands: Like The Girls, this aspect of their anatomy hasn't changed.
• Freudian Excuse: While it's not directly addressed in the story as such, growing up with Mojo, HIM and Penny has definitely left an impact on their mental stability compared to The Girls and The Professor.
• Girls Have Cooties: They've mostly outgrown this and are now more quick to chat or go on dates with them, but all three of them have insensitively left their first girlfriends for either being too clingy or just not up to their standards (or because they're in denial about their feelings for someone else), and their innate sense of superiority that comes with having superpowers makes them come across as chauvinistic, which is intentional in Brick's case. overplayed in Butch's, and unintentional in Boomer's. In Chapter 1, Brick mocks the Powerpuffs by channelling his 5-year-old self and calling them "whiny little girls".
• Go-Karting with Bowser: As of chapter 8, they have no qualms with sharing lunch with The Girls and casually hanging out with them.
• Informed Attribute: A big deal is made about them being Professional Killers, though they're never shown actually killing anyone while in Townsville, even when they're completely justified in doing so (ie. the school squatters). The only one who attempts this is Boomer in chapter 2, though even then, it's unknown if his flaming football would've actually killed Will or simply knocked him out.
• Lack of Empathy: While generally perceptive (especially Brick), they have a pretty big problem understanding other people's feelings (and their own).
• Men Can't Keep House: Penny laments when renting their appartment that they (especially Butch and Boomer) might wreck it. By the time the Girls visit, the place is noticeably messy, with the exception of Brick's room.
• Mr. Fanservice: All three of them quickly gain popularity among their female peers due to their attractive appearance. Boomer takes advantage of this the most, while Butch often overshadows it with his deliberately repulsive personality and Brick plays hard to get.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Made clear in chapter 1: Boomer, being the one to cause the girls the least grief, is the "nice". Butch, being a deliberate prick to everyone he meets, as well as getting into Blossom and Buttercup's nerves the most, is the "mean". Brick, being The Aloner and generally keeping to himself, but being rather rude when forced to interact with someone, is the "in-between".
  • As of chapter 10, with Butch taking a level in kindness and Brick being the only one who still clings on to his evil ways, the former's place as "the mean" has definitely been taken by him. Well done, Brick.
  • Things get even more complicated when Boomer starts letting his darker side manifest in regards to his relationship with Bubbles, while Butch learns to cut Buttercup some slack, meaning that now Butch is the nice and Boomer is the mean.
• Not Afraid to Die: To a frightening degree. Having died once already, they seem to have lost all semblance of self-care, even when they're off their Chemical X. On top of his Macho Masochism, Butch seems nonchalant when told he had just been disembowelled, to the point where Buttercup reacts more than him; and Boomer never loses his carefree demeanor even as he's being choked to death by Sedusa after being Brought Down to Normal.
• Obligatory Swearing: All three of them use curses regularly in their everyday lives, though Butch can hardly go a full sentence without dropping an F-bomb.
• Professional Killer: Their job at JS Inc. They're sometimes asked to "take care" of people.
• Reformed Bully: While they're still evil to a degree, they're no longer pointlessly cruel and nasty towards everyone (except Butch, but even then it's much less pronounced than in the source material).
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: They have the luxury of JS Inc credit, but the way Brick sees it, Butch and Boomer spend most of it on frivolities. Granted, they are on vacation, so their higher-ups already had this in mind.
• Siblings in Crime: Enforced by Brick, who got his brothers into Evil, Inc. in the first place.
• Sociopathic Hero: Even at their most heroic, they suffer from a notable Lack of Empathy towards the average civilian, and their Casual Danger Dialogue while fighting menaces shows they're not as invested in protecting the town as one would expect.
• Spear Counterpart: Brick to Blossom, Boomer to Bubbles, and Butch to Buttercup.
• Teens Are Monsters: Downplayed. They're teenagers and villains, but are far more layered and complex than other examples of this trope.
• Terrible Trio: One of the tags for the fic in AO3 is "Pretty much every terrible tag is because of The Boys". Indeed, most of the fics' drama begins once they enter the picture.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Compared to their portrayal in the original show, these versions of the boys are shown to have matured into more Affably Evil teenagers with whom you can at least have an amiable conversation with.
  • Their redemption is one of the main focus points of the work; especially when it comes to their relationship with their Morality Pets the Powerpuff Girls.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Zig-Zagged. Though unintentionally, their bond with the girls have definitely left a less than stellar impact on their moral compasses, which makes sense considering The Boys' own morality. The positive impact The Girls have on them is far greater, though.
  • Brick gets Blossom to go clubbing and ride his Cool Car, convinces her that having superpowers doesn't make her responsible for everyone in Townsville's well being and drills some holes into her Black-and-White Morality with his mere existence. This is presented as a positive thing, as her Chronic Hero Syndrome is one of her Fatal Flaws. The Professor even thanks him for it.
  • Boomer's brief Unrequited Love Switcheroo with Bubbles in chapter 4 motivates her to go into a brief Operation: Jealousy with Will and Mike which she instantly comes to regret. She also becomes an Accomplice by Inaction when she finds out about his job and her love for him overcomes her sense of responsibility.
  • Butch enables Buttercup's Blood Knight and Hair-Trigger Temper tendencies and encourages her to Pay Evil unto Evil regarding the Citisville gang incident. He also puts a lot of weight on her shoulders by telling her about their job at JS Inc, which takes a toll on her morality.
• Tyke Bomb: Unlike the Girls, who were created to bring love and security to the world, this trio was literally created by Mojo to kill and destroy.
• Villain by Default: Blossom's initial view of them, which is understandable due to their criminal record and the suddenness of their return.
• Win Your Freedom: Brick got them freed from Him after he decided he was ready to leave. However, Butch and Boomer are technically still his underlings in all but name, so it can't be said they're free per se.

Brick

The leader of the Rowdyruff Boys and Blossom's counterpart. He sports a red baseball cap and his signature color is red. Like Blossom, he is extremely intelligent and an amazing dancer. He is the most rational of the Rowdyruff Boys but his temper has been pushed too far a few times, including the time he had yet another argument with Blossom that escalated to a shouting match.Brick works for the mysterious JS Inc. and greatly dislikes their forced vacation. It's been revealed that he has helped JS Inc. create new technologies from studying remnants of fights left by Mojo Jojo and various monsters. He also seems to be extremely dedicated to the company and he works hard to make any connection he can get for them.

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• The Ace: He's even better than Blossom at certain subjects, much to her chagrin.
• Actually Pretty Funny: He lets out an endearing chuckle when Blossom acts like a Nervous Wreck over accidentally eating cake from his plate.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Brick in the original cartoon was somewhat of a moronic Know-Nothing Know-It-All who acted like a playground bully with superpowers, and was Street Smart at best, and even as a teenager he seemed to be kind of a lazy, laid-back bad boy. this teenage itineration of him makes him more of a direct Evil Counterpart to Blossom, being book smart, calculating, meticulous, and showing superb leadership skills.
• Anti-Hero: Starts as Type V and moves to a Type IV. Is in the process of becoming a Type III.
• Anti-Villain: Despite being the most overtly evil of the trio, Brick ultimately does more good than bad throughout the story, and his "villain" label doesn't really go outside his work at JS, which is implied to be more like Evil vs. Evil.
• Aloof Ally: When working with The Girls to save the town. Unless it's Blossom who's in danger, then he gets really invested. Go figure.
• Aloof Big Brother: Technically, he's not the older brother, as all three of the Rowdyruff Boys were born at the same time, but his "seniority" over Butch and Boomer and his being more overtly mature than both of them make him this in spirit.
• Asshole Victim: Due to generally behaving like an absolute prick, it's hard not to cheer at his many Humiliation Congas.
  • A notable example is his bland new new Coil getting obliterated just after smugly (and violently) denying his brothers their seats in it.
  • In chapter 7, he gets blown across the street by a possessed Bubbles. Considering it's his fault she's was in that situation in the first place, he definitely had it coming.
    Butch: “He kinda deserved that,”
• Attention Whore: He admits that he likes attention, most noticeably when he goes to Prom and the only reason he hasn't shown this too much is because he doesn't see the point of looking for attention while in Townsville.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: As much he hates to admit it, his love for Blossom is genuine, and goes beyond mere hormonal teenage attraction.
• Bad Boss: He treats Butch and Boomer like minions instead of brothers, and he's not a very forgiving boss.
• Badass Boast: He often finishes his arguments with Blossom with one of these.
  Brick: “I do what needs to be done to keep my team in line.”
  Blossom: “He's your brother, and what you did was inhumane.”
  Brick: “Except I'm not human. I'm better.”
• Being Personal Isn't Professional: His reasoning for his Jerkass behavior, which he reserves for those whom he doesn't have anything to gain from (that is, most people).
• Being Evil Sucks: His 18 years of villainy haven't brought him any sense of purpose. Blossom (his former living Berserk Button and current Morality Pet) is probably the best thing that has ever happened to him since his brothers, and he doesn't want to acknowledge it.
• Being Good Sucks: In chapter 11A, he sees just how tedious The Powerpuff Girls' vigilante job can be.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Blossom.
• Big Bad: Subverted. Blossom views him as this, (and so does he), but his Chronic Hero Syndrome constantly gets the better of him, much to his chagrin.
• Big Damn Heroes: More times than he'd like to admit.
  • He obliterates a giant monster rampaging through the town. As Blossom notes, though, it's Downplayed as he only did so when the monster destroys his brand new Cool Car.
  • He saves the school from a group of gunmen. This time it's more accentuated as he personally saves the lives of both Cindy and Kris with nothing to gain from it. Even Blossom sincerely thanks him for it.
  • He destroys the giant JS. Inc probe menacing the heroes. Downplayed again as he mostly did so as a response to Darius using it against him.
  • Subverted during the fight with HIM's Fog of Doom. He thinks he's being this when he traps it inside Bubbles' body (under the belief that her Incorruptible Pure Pureness will starve it), but, due to Bubbles' conflicted feelings towards Boomer he turns out to be wrong. In a way, his actions end up saving everyone once Bubbles seals her and Boomer's relationship with a kiss, but everyone treats it as a Kick the Dog moment from him.
  • In what's perhaps his most selfless act yet, he saves Blossom from Mojo Jojo's self-destructing Robot, despite it being a detriment to his original plans of interrogating the chimp.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: His general worldview. Every human being on Earth is inherently evil in his eyes, and those who claim to be good are just lying to themselves.
• Break the Haughty: His many Humiliation Congas starting in episode 3, ending with his brothers casually inviting The Girls to their evidence-filled apartment, make him angrily lament that he's not in control of anything anymore.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He really wants to be HIM, but ends up being more like The Gangreen Gang.
• Big Brother Bully: Exaggerated, as he acts like a Drill Sergeant Nasty Bad Boss to his own brothers.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl:
  • The brooding boy to Cindy's gentle girl.
  • While Blossom isn't exactly "gentle" with him, they still share this dynamic, especially in the chapters following 9.
• Brought Down to Normal:
  • In chapter 6, he briefly experiences extreme amounts of pain when shoving his hand into the Antidote X infested JS. Inc fighter's innards.
  • In chapter 8, he and his brothers get infected with the Amoeba virus, and he experiences what it's like to feel completely powerless for the first time. He isn't happy about it, since it's his first time getting sick.
• Butt-Monkey: Gets forced into Extreme Doormat situations by Mrs. Moorbucks and Darius on several occasions, gets kidnapped by Sedusa and trolled by his own aunt and other succubi, his surrogate father trolls him continuously, his brothers repeatedly ruin his plans and annoy the shit out of him, his Cool Car gets wrecked twice, and he's generally given no respect from his directors at JS save for the deceased Cole.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Tries his best to be this, though he has too many regrets and redeeming qualities to be able to qualify.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Averted in chapter 1 to 3, where he doesn't lift a finger during the monster fights (until they affect him), but played straight starting from chapter 5, as he's unable to turn a blind eye to other people's suffering, try as he might. Even his love rival Kris isn't exempt from this, even though Brick is implied to have saved him mostly for Blossom's sake.
• Can't Take Criticism: Which is why Blossom and Darius get on his nerves so much.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Does this when infected with the Amoeba virus, much to Blossom's annoyance.
  • Mentally does this on several occasions when embarrasing himself in front of Blossom.
• Cultured Badass: An artist and a dancer that appreciates literature and other cultured activities.
• The Cynic: He is always fighting with Blossom because of this.
• Deadpan Snarker: When he's not invested in a particular subject, this is his default attitude, and to Blossom's annoyance, he's damn good at it.
  Brick: (to Blossom) "Braids? What are you, five?"
  Bubbles: "I think they’re cute."
  Brick: "Says the girl who painted her jeans on tonight. Good to see you putting your artistic skills to use!"
• Death Glare: A master at these. It works on everyone (Except Bubbles and Julie, who soon learn his bark is worse than his bite).
• Dirty Coward: His brothers and The Girls see him as this for putting Bubbles in danger in a failed attempt at defeating Him's fog. He maintains that it was a Necessarily Evil but he internally believes it as well.
• Do Wrong, Right: He often gives these speeches to the other villains he encounters (often to try and recruit them for JS. Inc), regarding their mindless obsession with defeating The Girls instead of putting their intellect to good use.
• Dragon-in-Chief: This is what he aspires to be regarding the situation with JS Inc, especially now that Darius is in charge. However, Darius isn't stupid, and knows how to use his power to keep Brick at bay, making Brick little more than a Hypercompetent Sidekick until he can fully take down the place.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He works for Cole, but has always been pursuing his own goals. Any attachment he had with the JS board goes away when Cole is killed.
• The Dreaded: He's this to almost everyone (including his brothers), and clearly revels in being regarded as such. It gets worse when people witness him at his deadliest.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Played for Drama when he beats the shit out of Butch after his fight with Buttercup.
• Easily Forgiven: Though she likes to tease him about it, Bubbles holds no grudge for him almost getting her killed by Him's Fog of Doom, and tells him to apologize to Blossom about it, since she is holding a grudge.
• Extreme Doormat: Ironically, after she helps him acquire a new client, he spends most of the story being forced to cater to Mrs. Moorbucks' wishes, such as bodyguarding her daughter and dancing with Blossom. Not even her using him as a guinea pig for her experiments gets him to stop following her around.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Penny is the only person to whom Brick drops his The Stoic mask and adopts his more pouty teenager self.
  • His gradual love for Blossom is real, to the point where he's willing to compromise a mission to save her life in chapter 9.
  • While he regularly treats them like crap, he has enough Pet the Dog moments to show that he does care for Butch and Boomer. Same applies to Buttercup and Bubbles, though to a much lesser extent.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He's absolutely disgusted by Butch's pointless violence and blatant sadism, if only because it raises unwanted attention towards them.
  • He removes Butch's powers after beating him so that he still has to suffer from his injuries, but he still waits for his blinded eye to heal first.
  • He also shows some remorse towards some of his Kick the Dog moments, (especially towards Blossom) and is disgusted with himself when he hears his rejection of Blossom drove her to tears.
  • He clearly feels guilty when he risks Bubbles' life to get rid of HIM's black fog, and again when he accidentally disembowels Butch while trapped in a vortex. He still refuses to directly apologize to either of them, though; rationalizing the former decision and blaming HIM for the Latter.
  • While it's likely to avoid attracting any unwanted attention, he also avoids killing people while in Townsville, and often opts for non threatening methods of getting his way, such as Slipping a Mickey into a prison guard's coffee.
• Evil Is Petty: Sits out his AP exams just because he and Blossom shared classes and he wasn't on speaking terms with her at the time.
• Evil Redhead: Not as "Evil" as he would like to be, but definitely a lot meaner than the other redhead in the story.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice apparently goes deep whenever he's trying to intimidate someone. Blossom can't help but tense when he does this.
• Evil vs. Evil: His Evil Plan against JS. Inc seems to be this. After Darius takes over, he becomes more of a case of A Lighter Shade of Black.
• Faux Affably Evil: He knows how to put a polite front in front of his clients, but is really an uncaring Jerkass. Deconstructed when interacting with other students, as while he does like getting in their good graces due to his love for attention, he's also prone to moody outbursts that permanently damage his image, which he responds to by pretending he doesn't care about it.
• Flying Brick: Bonus points for being actually named "Brick".
• Genius Bruiser: He shares all of his courses with Blossom, all of them upper tier subjects.
• Hates Being Touched: Not that anyone is brave enough to touch him
• Hates Small Talk: If it's not for the sake of professionalism, he won't bother putting a polite front.
• Hidden Depths: His burger-cooking skills are one of the few abilities of his that isn't useful to his profession in any way, and it's also the only one he doesn't directly flaunt to everyone else.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Downplayed. His heart is definitely not made of gold, but most of his My God, What Have I Done? and I Am a Monster moments are shown through his thinking process, and he never states them out loud.
• Hypocrite: He accuses Butch of dealing with criticism poorly. While he's correct, Brick himself is also prone to flying off the handle when someone scrutinizes him.
• I Am a Monster: He wants to be a Card-Carrying Villain, but this is really how he feels.
  • When discussing his past with HIM, he internally accepts of Blossom accidentally calling him a bad person in chapter 8.
    Blossom: “Why'd you want to leave (HIM)?”
    Brick: “Wouldn't you?”
    Blossom: “Yeah, but I'm...”
    Brick: (sincerely) “But you're good.”
• I Hate Past Me: He hates the Stupid Evil tendencies his five-year old self was prone to. Author on Board applies here, as she has also stated she disliked the "DumBrick" portrayal.
• Ineffectual Loner: Is quickly approached by Bubbles, much to his chagrin.
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: Invoked and Downplayed. The moment he arrives in Townsville, he isolates himself from the other students due to seeing himself as intellectually superior, but he quickly becomes an Ineffectual Loner thanks to Bubbles and several fangirls.
• Irony: For all his claims about being his only boss, he spent most of his life being coerced, convinced or forced to attend to other people's needs in favor of his own (examples being Mojo, HIM, Cole, Darius, Penny, Ms. Moorbucks and the Professor). In fact, other than his supposed The Coup against JS, he's never been without a higher up. Buttercup even Lampshades that he's kind of a whore.
• It's All About Me: He uses his "superior intellect" to boss his brothers around constantly, and only cares about his wishes when it comes to his plans surrounding JS. Inc. When it comes to prom, he only cares about his image, and makes a point to see his date Cindy as just an asset to help with it.
• I Work Alone: He often performs his JS. Inc missions with his brothers, but if he's personally invested in a subject, he will not allow any assistance.
• Jerkass: After Butch mellows out, he takes his spot as the most unlikable Rowdyruff. The author even refers to him as "an emotionally stunted dickbag". You know you've sunk low when Bubbles calls you an asshole (even if she was Brainwashed and Crazy at the time).
• Jerkass Has a Point: His hostility and arrogance might make him insufferable, but his arguments are often quite solid, even leaving Blossom without a comeback on occasion.
  • He treats his brothers like dirt, but he's justified in seeking control over them, since they're emotionally unstable lunatics with superpowers.
  • He's also right to call out Mrs. Moorbucks on using him as live bait to lure a horde of monsters to Townsville, an event which almost got Butch killed, even if she later gaslights him into submission.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As of chapter 6, only Blossom and Penny are able to see this side of him. As for everyone else, he's not quite there yet, but has enough Pet the Dog moments to show that he's certainly on his way.
• Kick the Dog: While he'll mostly leave you alone if you leave him alone, he can be a real pain in the ass to interact with, especially if he's in a bad mood.
  • Anytime he's rude to Bubbles or Kris.
  • In chapter 5, while he does eventually save him, he puts Kris through some unnecessary distress during the school shooting by acting like he doesn't care if he gets shot. He even dares the gunman to kill him when confronted about it.
  • He's prone to breaking his brother's toys for petty reasons. He destroyed all of Boomer's copies April Lavigne albums before leaving for Townsville, just because he doesn't like her music. In episode 5, he also makes a point to break the remote for Butch's TV after he bugs him while he's in a bad mood.
  • In chapter 10, he deals with his guilt in rejecting Blossom by ordering Boomer to break up with Bubbles. Boomer responds by telling Bubbles about his secret job.
  • As of chapter 8, anytime he's dismissive of Blossom comes across as this, considering she's taken a level in kindness and hasn't done anything to warrant it. Luckily, these moments pop up less and less as the story moves forward. The biggest one is in chapter 9 when his first idea of rejecting Blossom is to give her the silent treatment, although he ends up feeling too bad to go through with it.
• Kick the Morality Pet: Twice.
  • At prom, he gets so jealous when she sees Kris steal Blossom's First Kiss that he gives his date Cindy (who was completely infatuated with him) a Forceful Kiss as revenge and then ditches her out of anger.
  • After sharing a kiss with Blossom in chapter 9 (Allergic to Love an act which he regretted), he ignores her the following day at school to try and get over her. However, he snaps out of it soon and later rejects her in a more polite and direct way, which doesn't make either of them feel any better.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After dismissing both Cindy and Blossom's feelings on separate occasions, it's surprisingly cathartic to see him suffer emotionally from the denial of his own feelings towards the latter, only to find himself unable to confide in anyone for support due to his own stubborness and pride.
• Lack of Empathy: If you're not Blossom (or another Morality Pet of his), he doesn't give a rat's ass about your feelings or your well-being. Downplayed, as it's made clear he internally regrets some of his harsher moments, he's just unwilling to admit it.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: After multiple episodes of being The Aloner, he starts sharing lunch with The Girls in chapter 8.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: While not as ling as Blossom, his hair is implied to be longer than Butch' or Boomer's
• Love Makes You Dumb: He's a great believer in this.
• Macho Masochism: In line with his massive pride. Even if he knows better, he cannot stand the thought of any action making him look less than manly.
• Male Gaze: He is very uncomfortable when he has to practice dancing with Blossom as he glances at...certain places on Blossom's body. He also looks at Buttercup's topless chest when Butch takes off her shirt and stares at Blossom's legs while she walks up to him.
  Blossom: What are you looking at?
  Brick: My diminishing self-respect.
• Mask of Sanity: He's clearly not the Only Sane Man he wants people to see, and him trying to hide his troubles clearly just make things worse for him. As of chapter 12, his mental state is a complete mess.
• Mr. Fanservice: When they go to the beach, the girls are adamant in getting his shirt off. They succeed, much to the annoyance of Butch and Boomer, who are subsequently ignored.
• My Girl Back Home: Penny, although this is more of a brother-sister relationship. Mrs. Morbucks says that he met a girl once who wanted to dance. Whether he is close to her and is currently living with the agency, is yet to be seen.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • A Played for Laughs version happens whenever he stutters or embarrasses himself in front of Blossom. In Episode 12, he internally curses up a storm when he accidentally says "Guh" out loud after seeing her in a gorgeous new dress.
  • Hearing that his rejection of Blossom in chapter 9 drove her to tears was a brutal gut punch for him.
  • While he doesn't show it, he clearly regrets some of his Kick the Dog moments towards Blossom and the others, namely his endangering of Bubbles, his rejection of Blossom and his constant demeaning of his brothers.
• Never Bareheaded: Apparently he never takes his hat off, not even at Prom, much to Blossom's annoyance.
  Kris: Dude, thumbs up on the cap to Prom.
  Cindy: He really pulls it off, doesn't he? I couldn't believe it.
• Never My Fault: Due to his massive ego, he often rationalizes most of the harsh decisions he makes, though he's not dumb enough to believe his own lies. In chapter 8, he finally subverts this by taking accountability for getting Bubbles possessed by HIM, though he only confides this information with Blossom.
• Not So Above It All: Blossom sees the more childish side of him when he catches the Amoeba virus and has a tantrum over being Brought Down to Normal for the first time in his life.
• Not So Stoic: when he gets really pissed off, he drops his stoic exterior and shows exactly why he's The Dreaded.
• No Sympathy: He shrugs when Buttercup gets Swallowed Whole by the monster in chapter 1 (she survives), believing she had it coming for her lacklustre strategy.
• Odd Friendship: He's Birds of a Feather with Blossom, but he also has some of these.
  • With Bubbles. They're complete opposites, but after a rough start, they manage to find ways to connect while in class. Bubbles fangirls over his sketches and clearly ships him and Blossom together. She also playfully teases him for his more Jerkass moments like a mother reprimanding a rude toddler, which he somehow takes in stride, even allowing her to snatch one of his sketches in chapter 4. In chapter 9, he internally feels lonely over the absence of Bubbles in art class.
  • With Julie. While her immunity to his Death Glare annoys him, he also clearly respects her Brutal Honesty and ability to take his threats in stride.
  • With The Professor. After enduring the latter's Death Glare and resolving some issues regarding Blossom, they both quickly start bonding over their shared love for science.
• Only in It for the Money: When serving as a Punch-Clock Hero in chapter 11A, he constantly cites this as the reason for it, (even if there are others).
• Only Sane Man: Comes across as this compared to his brothers, owning to his Pragmatic Villainy and Evil Genius tendences; but it's eventually subverted, seeing as he's the only one of them who still childishly clings on to his evil ways. As of chapter 12, he's easily the most immature out of all three boys, since he's the only one who still stubbornly refuses to confront his own feelings regarding Blossom.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Brick's beatdown against Butch may have been brutal, but there's no denying the latter deserved Every. Last. Hit. Even Blossom eventually agrees.
• Perpetual Frowner: Bubbles soon notes that he's constantly in a grumpy mood. Most of his smiles are also for show.
• Pet the Dog: As Bubbles maintains, he's not that bad:
  • He allows Boomer to date Bubbles, even though he knows it might attract unwanted attention.
  • His saving of Cindy and Kris (and to a lesser extent the rest of the school) during the school shooting counts as one because he had no reason to get involved, as the gunmen had no way of harming him. Brownie points for Kris, since he was dating Blossom at the time, so Brick hated his guts.
  • Anytime he's nice to someone. Brownie points if it's Blossom
    • His date with her in chapter 10 is chalked full of these.
  • He was also relatively nice to his fellow dancer Cindy, up until he ditches her in chapter 4. Even then, he saves her from the gunmen in the following episodes, and apologizes to her for how it all went down.
  • While doing hero duty in chapter 11A, he goes out of his way to be nice to the townsfolk he has to assist, regardless of how mundane the task is. It's harder than it sounds.
  • While it's mostly to avoid causing drama, he always avoids killing people while in Townsville, and usually opts for non-threatening methods of getting his way.
  • Wishing Bubbles a happy birthday and gifting Blossom with a pair of dancing shoes.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He uses slurs in his day-to-day life, which Blossom often corrects. He also seems to regard femininity as fundamentally weak, and criticises Boomer for his default attitude, although it doesn't stop him from giving credit where credit is due regarding Blossom's achievements.
  Brick:“I don't give a hundred percent on hip movement, I'll do forty percent, tops. Any more than that and it starts looking faggy.”
• Punch-Clock Hero: In chapter 11A, he and his brothers get hired to protect Townsville while the girls are gone. It's a much more tedious job than it seems.
• Spoiled Brat: Penny likes to call him this when he complains about something despite JS Inc covering for everything he and his brothers do. Contrary to most examples of this trope, Brick often complains about being unable to work.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Reaches it in chapter 2 when his argument with Blossom regarding their morality escalates into a shouting match, with him throwing several Cluster F-Bomb for good measure. Things only get worse immediately afterwards when Butch disobeys him by provoking Buttercup into a fight, at which point Brick snaps and comes dangerously close to choking/beating his own brother to death in a rage.
  • While he manages to maintain a Tranquil Fury demeanor towards Darius, when the new JS extends his vacation to include his senior year, Brick gets so furious that he shreds his bed in his rage.
• Real Men Cook: Though he's content with ordering takeaway, he's quite good at cooking, which is one of the skills that Blossom does not share with him.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Whenever he gets angry, his eyes begin to grow red while he begins to charge for a laser attack.
• Surrounded by Idiots: How he feels about his brothers (and anyone else, for that matter). He's not subtle about it either.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The reason he's so popular amongst the students, as his personality leaves much to be desired.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a rousing one to Butch after he disobeys him yet again.
  Brick: "What did I tell you when we got here, Butch?"
  Butch: "About the drugs, man, I’m sorry—"
  Brick: "I don’t give a FUCK about your pills! It’s your actual addiction I’m talking about!"
  Boomer: (enters the room) "Here’s your Vicodin, man—"
  Brick: "Flush it. Flush everything."
  Butch: "Wait, dude, chill out, no need to get all upset, you know I’m not addicted to that stuff—"
  Brick: "I said I wasn’t talking about your fucking drugs! I’m talking about your fucking INABILITY TO LISTEN! To obey orders! Your insistence on FIGHTING when I specifically tell you NOT TO! That’s the fucking addiction I’m talking about!"
• The Smart Guy: Not only the smartest of the brothers, but possibly of the entire Chemical X team. He briefly bonds with The Professor because of this.
• The Stoic: He's not called "Brick" for nothing. His reaction to a giant monster rampaging through the classroom during an exam is to calmly move his seat away from the monster's reach and then casually leave his worksheet on the teacher's empty desk once everyone has evacuated the faculty.
• Straw Nihilist: He's the most cynical and nihilistic character in the story, and believes that all life is meaningless and that all those who don't agree are just lying to themselves.
• Token Evil Teammate: Well, all three Boys are "evil" (or morally grey, at best), but Brick is currently the only one who will admit to being a villain, as Butch and Boomer are on their way to redemption.
• Took a Level in Kindness: It's incremental, but beginning in chapter 3, he starts to soften up to Blossom. While he's still The Aloner and a Perpetual Frowner, his default attitude towards everyone else has also improved. He even wishes Bubbles a Happy Birthday in chapter 11.
• Too Clever by Half: He got through one of Him's toughest riddles to win his and his brothers' freedom, but he fails the one in chapter 7 with the Fog of Doom that fed on turmoil, which almost caused Bubbles' death when he tried to use her to drive it away, thinking that she was too pure and naïve to have any inner conflict. He didn't account for her feelings for Boomer, which had been the main source of conflict for her in the last several chapters.
• Tranquil Fury: He gets angry easily, but rarely loses his composure. Exemplified during his call with Darius in chapter 6, as he maintains a cordial tone whilst making his desire to tear the man apart clear to everybody.
• The Unapologetic: He does feel remorse for his Jerkass tendencies, but he's too proud to apologize.
  • Subverted in chapter 5, when seeing how traumatized Cindy is makes him apologize for being a dick to her at prom.
  • Subverted again in chapter 8 after seeing Blossom uncharacteristically upset, he finally apologizes to her for putting Bubbles in danger to get rid of Him.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In chapter 8, despite genuinely being grateful, he never outright says "thank you" to Blossom for taking care of him, instead asking her in a disinterested way if she wants him to make it up for her. He does in chapter 9.
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: The relationship between Brick and Blossom can be best described by this one trope.
• When He Smiles: His smile of gratitude to Blossom after she helps him win Reccardi over is what kickstarts their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: His junior year vacation was a chore to get through for him to say the least, so just when it seemed it was finally over for him, Darius wasted no time in extending his vacation for yet another year to keep him at bay. Brick was so furious that he eyebeamed his bed after the call in a fit of unbridled rage.
• You're Not My Father: Adamantly refuses to address Mojo and HIM as his fathers, and his time serving with them is regarded In-Universe as Old Shame.
• You Will Be Spared:
  • Implied this will be the case with Penny when he carries out his takedown of JS. Inc.
  • Interestingly, he also does this to the gunmen during the occupation of the school, aiming for the leader's shoe when spitting his own bullet back to him, and not using his more lethal powers to take them down.

Boomer

Boomer is the sensitive guy of the Rowdyruff Boys, much like Bubbles. As her counterpart, he has many of the same characteristics, such as blond hair, blue themes, musical talent, and the softer personality. Bubbles' ability to sing captured his heart and he began to pine after Bubbles, even though she was still with Will. He eventually gets his wish when Bubbles reveals she has feelings for him in return and they share a True Love's Kiss.He works with his brothers in the mysterious JS Inc. and they are currently attending school according to their orders to take a vacation. He was the most excited about this order.

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• The Ace: He can play any instrument you throw at him: Guitar, piano, cowbell... you name it. It turns out to be a part of a Deal with the Devil he made with HIM when he was younger.
• Adaptational Personality Change: The original Boomer was a complete idiot and bully who was beaten regularly by his brothers. Here, while he's still the runt of the litter as a teenager, he presents himself as the class clown who also has a messy emotional core, and the abuse he used to receive from Brick is now adapted into Butch. This shift in demeanor is implied to be due to growing disillusioned with being Hated by All.
• Affably Evil: He's an easy-going, fun-loving, and genuinely affectionate teenage boy who also happens to work at Evil, Inc. as a Professional Killer.
• Amicable Exes: While she's still mad at his commitment issues, as well as how casual he is about it, Haley still has no problem dancing with him at prom or helping him set up an apology concert for Bubbles, and she encourages her to date him. On his part, while he's quick to dismiss their relationship as "just a high-school crush" he also bears no ill-will towards her, and is still quite nice to her as a whole.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: His Keet tendencies and dry wit make him this to both Brick and Butch.
  Boomer: “Call Penny up! Tell her I've got a girlfriend! And right in time for Valentine's Day, whoo!”
  Butch: “What?! How can you have a girlfriend after one phone call?”
  Boomer: “Because I'm just that awesome, brother. Hey. Feel free to call me up if you need any pointers, man—”
  Butch: “Oh, fuck off,”
  Brick: “You know there's a difference between one date and a girlfriend,”
  Boomer: “Right, I forgot! You're the dude who wrote the book on picking up girls. Chapter five. I was right there with you, man.”
  Brick: “You know what, I'm with Butch. Fuck off.”
  Boomer: “Maybe later. Right now, I've got a date. With a girlfriend. My girlfriend. That's awesome, right? Yeah, it's awesome. Dating my girlfriend. Enjoy the sausage-fest, guys!”
• Anti-Hero: starts as a Type IV and changes to Type III.
• Anti-Villain: He really just wants to enjoy High School and live happily ever after with Bubbles. Sadly, this doesn't stop him from being a Cute and Psycho Professional Killer.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Subverted. Bubbles is an ex-cheerleader, but he couldn't give less of a shit. He does try to play the part for Ashley as a Honey Trap in chapter 3, though in chapter 5 he outright declares that he loathes all the other cheerleaders for badmouthing Bubbles.
• Aloof Ally: While he's much more enthusiastic about it than Butch, he still doesn't seem too invested in The Coup Brick is planning to pull off against JS. Inc. He tells Bubbles about it in chapter 9 out of spite against Brick, and promises her he will be done with evil after that.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Deconstructed. Boomer may be the most polite and sensitive of the trio, but that doesn't make him any less dangerous.
  • He's the only one of the siblings to never antagonize The Girls, but in chapter 2 he also becomes the only Rowdyruff to attempt to kill another student (Will) with zero hesitation or remorse.
  • Compared to the more distant and insensitive Will, Boomer comes across as the better potential boyfriend for Bubbles in the eyes of the audience, being genuinely affectionate, sensitive, funny, and (violently) protective, but as his darker side starts shining through, he loses a lot of his charm. Despite this, Bubbles still considers him to be the better choice and loves him very much, although she's clearly having her doubts.
• Badass Adorable: What else can you say about a 17 to 18 year-old superhuman who fights bad guys with an energy beam (which he chooses to mold into the form of a baseball bat) while singing Freddie Mercury's dulcet?
• Bait the Dog: At first glance, he seems like the Token Good Teammate of the boys, and is the one to cause the girls the least amount of grief. Come chapter 2, and he's... still the nicest. But with an unhealthy dose of Beware the Nice Ones.
• Beneath the Mask: He's clearly far more troubled than he lets on; he just puts on a happy and clownish façade so that Bubbles won't get mad at him. Sadly, his evil streak still slips from time to time.
• Berserk Button:
  • If you know what's good for you, don't hurt Bubbles, don't ignore Bubbles, don't be mean to Bubbles, don't put Bubbles in danger, don't dance with Bubbles, don't talk to Bubbles if you're an AmicableEx of her... Actually, don't go near Bubbles. Period.
  • On a lighter note, calling him a bad or evil person is guaranteed to sour his mood for the rest of the day.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Although he is the kindest of the group, he can be very vicious when he snaps, going so far as to cut a girl's hair off for calling Bubbles a bitch and ruining the cheerleader uniforms after they began to ignore Bubbles.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. He's not this all the time, but he knows how to pull it off, especially when it comes to those who get between him and Bubbles, like Will, Ashley and Mike.
  • Him concealing his disdain for Mike seems to be causing a rift between him and Bubbles, who fears he's hiding something from her.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: In contrast to his brothers' Black-and-Gray Morality and Bubbles' Black-and-White Morality, Boomer seems to operate by his own moral code, which, as Bubbles soon finds out, is far more complex than you'd expect. As of chapter 8, he seems to be trying to quell this by trying to mirror Bubbles', but this doesn't make it any less confusing.
• Break the Cutie: Twice. Both caused by Brick.
  • His brother endangering Bubbles' life by having HIM's Fog of Doom possess her body leaves Boomer in shock for quite a while.
  • Brick reminding him of why his relationship with Bubbles can't work out quickly causes him to fly to her house and cling to her for emotional support.
• Broken Pedestal: While she still loves him, Bubbles is slowly but surely starting to doubt her commitment to their relationship, especially as she finds out more about his job at Evil, Inc..
• Calling Shotgun: Tries this with Brick's Cool Car, (not that Brick will ever let him in).
• Camp Straight: He auditions for musicals, acts upbeat most of the time, and is overly affectionate towards the people he cares about. He's essentially an evil Ken.
• The Casanova: He has no problems finding a girlfriend, despite being enrolled for only a short time. After he falls in love with Bubbles, he begins to chase only after her, although many of the girls in school still have a crush on him.
• The Champion: Goes to extreme lengths to help Bubbles, especially when it comes to defending her honor.
• Character Development: After meeting Bubbles, he gradually becomes more committed in a relationship, for better or worse.
• Chick Magnet: Girls are always throwing themselves at him, although he only has eyes for Bubbles.
• Cock Fight: With Will. He wins.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Becomes this for Bubbles after learning of her previous relationships. Even though he quickly learns not to act like this in front of her, the thought still clouds his judgment from time to time. He even writes their names in a piece of paper before shredding it, which doesn't help in the slightest in getting their names out of his head.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: At his worst, his navy blue eyes can have this effect on people, especially when he gets mad.
• Cute Bruiser: He'll smack you in the head with a laser baseball bat if you're not careful.
• Cute and Psycho: He's an energetic and loving boyfriend to Bubbles, but insane enough to kill you if you get close to her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Loves to engage in Snark-to-Snark Combat with his brothers.
• Deal with the Devil: He made a deal with Him back when he was in his care to give him superb musical prowess, because he felt he couldn't compete with his brothers any other way.
• Desperately Craves Affection: As of chapter 8, his reasoning for everything he does is to reassure Bubbles' love for him, which is the source of his Crazy Jealous Guy tendencies. His insecurities regarding his Blue-and-Orange Morality have caused him to attach her to a motherly role. This goes back to his past: the sole reason he's going through with Brick's Evil Plan is his loyalty to his brothers. He's also the only one of them to still view Mojo Jojo and HIM as his "dads", and he clearly sees Penny as yet another maternal figure.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When Will throws a football at his head, he throws it right back. This would normally be Laser-Guided Karma, except Boomer has super-strength, so the blow would've certainly killed him had it actually hit him.
• The Dog Bites Back: When Brick tries to force him to break up with Bubbles, explaining why his relationship with her can't work, Boomer responds by snitching on his brother's plan regarding JS Inc.
• Dogged Nice Guy: He falls for Bubbles, who was dating Will at the time. Eventually Subverted in chapter 7, when she eventually gets together with him.
• Dumb Blond: Much like Bubbles, he is very perceptive but is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
• Entitled to Have You: Regarding Bubbles. From the very beginning, he internally refuses to get over her after she initially rejects him (citing their shared love for music as the reasoning), and his obsession with her only gets worse after they actually become a couple.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His love for Bubbles, regardless of what Brick says, is real.
  • Despite having lost most of his respect for him, he still feels responsible to assist Brick with his Evil Plan, and worries for Butch when the latter gets disembowelled in HIM's Vortex.
  • He reacts to Penny's brief Christmas visit in chapter 12 like an excited puppy.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Despite treating the Girls' monster fight in chapter 1 as if it were a football match, he's shocked when said monster eats Buttercup after roughing her up.
  • He considers Will to be a crappy boyfriend due to his constant dismissals of Bubbles' desires. For all his faults as a partner, he goes out of his way to give Bubbles the attention he thinks she deserves.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: He's not at the top of the Hot Guys/Doable list for nothing.
• Everything but the Girl: The moment he arrives in High School, he gets everything that he asks for... except for Bubbles. She eventually reciprocates in chapter 7.
• Extreme Doormat: Downplayed. He follows Brick around to the ends of the Earth, despite having little to no investment in any of his work. However, he's not above throwing in a few jabs at him every now and then, and outright tells him to fuck off in chapter 9 after he tells him to dump Bubbles.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Lack of Empathy: While he understands general courtesy and politeness, his lack of non-evil mentor figures (save for Bubbles) makes it hard for him to understand right from wrong, and it's the catalyst for most of the problems in their relationship.
  • Emotional dependency: bordering on Mad Love; His obsession with Bubbles quickly embodies his entire being, and, as of chapter 8, he becomes completely dependent on her, which puts his brother's Evil Plan in jeopardy. Brick even points this out as early as chapter 2.
    Brick: “Boomer. Look. Here is the problem. You get really... worked up about shit. Like, personally invested.”
• Fool for Love: As Brick feared. After he and Bubbles become a couple, he becomes so infatuated with her that he tells her about both his Deal with the Devil and Brick's coup.
• The Gadfly: Though he shares this with Butch, he fits this role the best out of the entire cast of main characters, as he always has a witty retort for something.
• Hypocrite: He's afraid that Bubbles will leave him for any of her ex-boyfriends, despite having ditched his then girlfriend Hayley for her, meaning he's asking for a sympathy that he doesn't deserve.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: In the sense that a normal life didn't seem so bad to him, which is why he enjoyed his leave to Townsville High.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: After falling for Bubbles, everything in his life becomes all about reinforcing her love for him.
• Innocently Insensitive: He really doesn't understand why Bubbles would be mad at him for shaving a cheerleader for being rude to her, and he talks about the action like it's a Birthday gift to her. He makes this mistake continuously throughout their relationship, and it hurts him to the point where his actions basically revolve around her approval.
• Ironic Name: "Boomer" is not the name you'd expect for an upbeat teenage superstar obsessed with Avril Lavigne.
• Jerkass Realization: Has a small one in chapter 12 when stalking Bubbles and Mike leads him to find out they were planning a surprise party for him (ruining the surprise in the process), and he internally realizes how toxic his Crazy Jealous Guy behavior was.
• Jerkass to One: Well, Jerkass To Four: Mike, Pablo, Sanjay, and Will.
• Keet: Especially when interacting with his love interests. He behaves like an excitable child whose enthusiasm can rival even that of Bubbles.
• Kick the Dog: He gives a Brainwashed and Crazy Mike a black eye when he attacks him. While it might sound justified on paper, it's clear he didn't need to be so harsh with him, and that he only did so because he and Bubbles were Amicable Exes.
• Lack of Empathy: Notable in chapter 9, when he doesn't help the citizens trapped in a helicopter until Blossom explicitly tells him to. Even in chapter 11A, where he stops a diner robbery with no prompting, he still has to put himself in Bubbles' shoes to fully commit to the action.
• Lady Killer In Love: As he internally points out, there are multiple girls who would do anything to get inside his pants, but he only has eyes for his Good Counterpart.
• Life of the Party: He quickly solidifies himself as this thanks to his fun-loving personality and his bizarre focus on singing Avril Lavigne songs.
• Love at First Note: After he hears Bubbles sing, he quickly starts to pine for her. Downplayed, as he himself admits his crush was initially mostly superficial; it's when she kissed him in chapter 7 when his love for her was solidified.
• Love Redeems: He really wants to fit this trope for Bubbles' sake, but it becomes difficult due to his Lack of Empathy.
  • He DOES try, though. He sticks by his promise to quit music for her sake, tries to save Mike from the succubi after seeing how distressed Bubbles is at his disappearance, and stops a Diner robbery because "it's what Bubbles would do."
• Mad Love: What his adorable high school crush on Bubbles is on its way to becoming, especially after Brick tells him he doesn't know what "love" is.
• Mask of Sanity: He seems like a Nice Guy and Understanding Boyfriend, but can be as mentally unstable as his brothers, not helped by the many years of repressing all his problems.
• Mirror Character: To Will. While he's much more affectionate than the latter, he's just as oblivious to Bubbles' feelings and has a severe jealous streak.
• Morality Pet: He's a Downplayed version of this to Brick. While he's not above insulting him and kicking him around, he lets him get away with things Butch never would, like dating Bubbles and the Will and Ashley incidents. He also doesn't underestimate his abilities like Butch does.
• Not Afraid to Die: When being strangled by Sedusa in chapter 10A, he's more worried about what music he's going to die to.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: While his retribution was overblown, it's hard not to agree with him when he says that Will and Ashley deserved what they got.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Staging a concert for Buttercup during the school's open mike night to get her to loosen up. Notable because it's one of the few good deeds he does without any prompting from Bubbles.
  • Despite hating Mike's guts, he still helps save him from the succubi. At one point he's even put in a situation where he can leave him to his fate with no immediate consequences and he still chooses to go after him, though it's somewhat mitigated by the fact that his only reasoning is "I won't lie to Bubbles".
• Pragmatic Hero: Unlike his brothers, he acts like a pretty standard hero, minus the altruism. He still has his Crazy Jealous Guy moments, but they're mostly in his head.
• Precision F-Strike: Gives one to Brick when the latter tells him to break up with Bubbles. Quickly turns into a Cluster F-Bomb when his brother doesn't stop criticizing him.
• Rejection Affection: Bubbles' rejection only seems to make him more interested in her. When she finally confesses her feelings for him, he's left shocked and unable to process those feelings.
• Serenade Your Lover:
  • Does this to Bubbles with Rihanna's "Umbrella" after her breakup with Will.
  • This seems to be his Go-to move when it comes to comforting her. In chapter 5, he does this again with Avril Lavigne's "Hot" during Townsville High End-of-Year Rock Band Concert with the band, The Galaxy Girls; and once again with "Such Great Heights" at their school's open mike night.
  • As of chapter 8, after Boomer confesses his singing prowess is part of a Deal with the Devil, the move has clearly lost its impact on Bubbles, who now is more worried about what HIM might take away from Boomer in return.
• Serious Business: Appropriate soundtrack during scenes is this for him. He refuses to react to the diner's robbery until he has set a fitting record in the diner's boombox.
• Single-Target Sexuality: While he dated Hayley for two weeks, he was never really into her, and only started knowing what love was when Bubbles kissed him. Since then, his heart has been reserved solely for her.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Gender-Inverted. While his attraction to Bubbles is kickstarted by her Beautiful Singing Voice, the reason he falls head over heels for her is her "three-sizes too big heart".
• Skewed Priorities: As he's being choked to death by Sedusa, he remains fixated on trying to change the record player, as he didn't want to die to a Soundtrack Dissonance.
• Stepford Smiler: It's made clear his bumbling exterior is just a mask to hide his insecurities from the world.
• Teen Idol: His singing talent coupled with his good looks make him popular with many of the girls at the school.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Watched a marathon of RomComs to prep for his date with Bubbles, since he's too socially clueless to know any better.
• Token Good Teammate: Downplayed as he is by no means a good person, but he's the only one of the Boys who never gets confrontational with The Girls. Most of his underhanded actions also come from a place of misguided love and loyalty rather than actual malice, and his affection for Bubbles and his brothers is genuine.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After learning of Bubbles' many ex-boyfriends, he becomes far more overtly confrontational around other Boys, due to his Yandere instincts kicking in.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Goes from merely seeing Bubbles as a simple catch for his superficial high school to-do list to genuinely loving her and striving for her happiness.
• Troubled, but Cute: He acts ditzy and goofy around other people, so it's impossible to hate him. However, boy does this kid have some issues.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Subverted. He tries really hard to act like this to Bubbles, but due to their conflicting moralities, all he can do is mimic her actions and choices, all the while not really understanding the reasoning behind them.
• Undying Loyalty: He doesn't have strong feelings about most people, but if you manage to enter his heart, he'll do anything for you.
  • After getting together with Bubbles in chapter 7, his loyalty for Bubbles is so strong that he's willing to give up his favorite hobby (singing) for her sake.
  • He might have his problems with Brick, but he's still happy to support him with his coup on JS Inc because he's family.
• Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Subverted, as he never fully gave up on her, but the moment he decided to stop making advances on Bubbles is the moment when she started to like him back.
• Yandere: Do NOT get between him and Bubbles, it will not end well for you.

Butch

The green member of the Rowdyruff Boys. Like Buttercup, he is brash and a tough fighter.He likes chasing skirts, as Brick puts it, something that annoys the girls, especially Buttercup, although he pines after Blossom the most. He became friends with Buttercup and her friends fairly early in the story and at this point Buttercup and Butch are Vitriolic Best Buds.Like his brothers, he works at JS Inc., apparently as the muscle of the company. Like Boomer, he was looking forward to a break from missions so he could spend more time with women.

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• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • Towards Blossom, who finds his flirting absolutely disgusting.
  • Also towards Penny, to a lesser extent, though she takes it in good sport.
• Adaptational Personality Change: While the Ax-Crazy, violence-loving aspect of his character is preserved, Butch in the original cartoon was a Keet with no brains or sense of self-preservation. The hyperactive aspect of his character was adapted unto Boomer, while Butch here is more aloof and laid-back, which is implied to be due to his addiction to marijuana. Boomer's abuse at the hands of Brick is also adapted unto Butch, as is his inferiority complex. He's also added a characterization as a Lovable Sex Maniac which almost defines his character in this iteration, which was nowhere to be seen in the original cartoon (aside from a joke about him reading a playboy as a teenager).
• Adaptational Wimp: Being Buttercup's counterpart, he was on par with her in the original cartoon, to the point where she and the girls had to resort to different methods of defeating him and his brothers. Here, despite his training at JS Inc and Buttercup's lack of consistent action, she wipes the floor with him on every physical encounter they have after their first (which she was winning anyway).
• Affably Evil: Once you get to know him, he's actually not that bad of a guy. Doesn't stop him from working at Evil, Inc..
• Alas, Poor Villain: A non-lethal version when he gets accidentally disemboweled by Brick while trapped in a vortex. Even Buttercup cries at the thought of him dying. It helps that he's mellowed out a lot by then.
• Aloof Ally: He couldn't care less about Brick's coup at JS Inc, and casually tells Buttercup about it in episode 6 just to see her reaction.
• Always Second Best: He does not command attention like Brick which always makes him feel like second best. Much to his disillusionment, he's also this in regards to strength (despite being "the strong one"), as Brick is Strong and Skilled while Butch is somewhat of a Leeroy Jenkins.
• Amazon Chaser: He was originally pining for Blossom, but he quickly develops an interest in Buttercup after watching her fight (and then fighting her).
• A Man Is Always Eager: Subverted. He loves to play the part, but he confides in Buttercup in Episode 10A that he’s actually a virgin.
• Anti-Hero: Starts as a Type V and then becomes a Type IV or III.
• Anti-Villain: He can be pointlessly mean and sadistic, but he doesn't care about evil work as much as Brick, and is often content to fool around and score with the ladies.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: In Brick's opinion at least. Unlike Boomer, he's not so much annoying as he is a Troll, though Brick doesn't find his antics amusing in the slightest.
• Arch-Enemy: With Buttercup at first. Although they break out of this relatively early, he still fights a lot with her and a casual observer would think they hated each other.
• Asshole Victim: Of the non-lethal variety. What Buttercup, and later Brick, did to him was brutal, but it's hard to feel too bad for him considering what a perverted jackass he was. He gets better after this, but he still usually brings his beatdowns on himself.
• Ax-Crazy: Oh boy, is he one. Unlike his brothers and to a lesser extent Buttercup, he doesn't bother to hide how batshit insane he is. His love for causing (and receiving) pain makes him the epitome of this.
  Brick: “In case you hadn't noticed, Butch is like a walking hand grenade missing the pin. On top of being like every other dumbass teenager out there, he's brash, bloodthirsty, massively full of himself, and frankly? A fucking psycho.”
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Buttercup of course.
• Berserk Button:
  • When Brick upstages him on something, he instantly becomes more petty and aggressive, which usually leads to someone literally knocking some sense into him.
  • Bizarrely, he gets inexplicably angry at seeing Buttercup with longer hair than usual. This is because he associates it with "feminine" Buttercup from when she dated Mitch, which is a side of her that he doesn't want to see.
• Betty and Veronica: In a strange male example, he is the Veronica to Mitch's Betty.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He confides in Buttercup in chapter 3 that wishes to die gruesomely after a long and brutal fight, and doesn't want anyone to rebuild his body after the fact. In chapter 10, he comes dangerously close to getting his wish when he gets brutally disemboweled by Brick while trapped in a vortex.
• Big Brother Instinct: Despite his jealousy towards Brick, he instantly jumps in to defend him from Blossom and Buttercup in chapter 7 after his Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moment with HIM's Fog of Doom.
• Big Brother Bully: Not as accentuated as in the original show, but he has shades of this with Boomer, usually by mocking his hobbies or relationships. Boomer plays into this by playing up the Annoying Younger Sibling part to taunt him.
• Blood Knight: What drives him the most is the rush and the thrill of the fight, and he's not invested in winning as much as he is to push his and his adversary's bodies to the limit. This factor is what eventually allows him to bond with Buttercup.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Is both very loud and very strong.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He has the potential to excel at more than just brute strength but prefers to stick to his role as The Slacker because he really isn't invested in the grand scheme of things, and usually goes out of his way to appear slow and ignorant to piss Brick off.
• Brought Down to Normal: Gets his powers temporarily removed by Brick in chapter 2 as punishment for his fight with Buttercup. He spends most of the following episode lamenting this.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a bloodthirsty brute whose biggest struggle is reconciling his feelings for Buttercup.
• The Brute: He's not called "Butch" for nothing.
• The Bully: The only one of the boys to not have outgrown this phase. He's satisfied at the fear he spreads among the normal students wherever he goes, and spends most of chapters 1 and 2 harassing Buttercup to provoke her into a fight. Even when he mellows out, he's still not above threatening or taunting his peers for fun.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: He loves antagonizing people, and is quite straightforward about it too.
• The Casanova: He has no problems finding a girl to go to the prom with him.
• Casanova Wannabe: Admits to Buttercup that he's a virgin in chapter 11.
• Chick Magnet: While less so than Brick, he has a lot of girls throwing themselves at him.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Towards Buttercup. His sexual jokes are more about pissing her off than any genuine display of attraction, and he likes her for reasons outside of her beauty (which he didn't even see at first glance).
• Combat Pragmatist: He throws several empty cars at Buttercup during his first fight with her.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He gets very passive-aggressive when Brick starts letting feelings for Blossom show, complaining that he gets everything that Butch wants.
• Deflector Shields: His special ability that he carries from the original show. Buttercup remembers this the hard way when she tries to Eye Beam him in chapter 2.
• Determinator: He won't give up while he's fighting Buttercup, even as she's beating him to a pulp. It takes Brick choking him half to death to get him to stop.
• Dumb Muscle: Subverted, but he loves to play the part to annoy Brick.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite his beliefs that he feels nothing, he's shown to care a lot about his brothers. His relationship with Buttercup also evolves from bitter hatred to best friends and then some.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • As much as he loves to comment on the female body, he never goes past staring, (except when he strips Buttercup's shirt off to provoke her into fighting him), and helps her beat up a bunch of punks who groped her. He also never forces himself on anyone, and constantly asks for Buttercup's consent before touching her breasts.
  • As much of a berserker as he is, he uncharacteristically stops mid-attack when he sees there are hostages during the takedown of the school, despite him not being at risk of injury, and lets Brick do the negotiating. He also bizarrely doesn't kill any of the shooters even when everyone else is safe, opting for non-lethal takedowns and even shooting a straggler in the leg instead of anywhere lethal.
  • He considers Darius to be a massive douche, which is a lot coming from him, though he still tries to give him the benefit of the doubt when Brick accuses him of plotting behind JS's back. Brick turns out to be right.
• Evil Laugh: A particularly chilling (and annoying, if you ask Buttercup) one.
• Eye Scream: He gets blinded in one eye by Buttercup's eye beams. The twisted fucker enjoys it!
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Well, not "gold", perhaps, but he's definitely shown himself to be a supportive friend to those he cares about.
• Fatal Flaw: His Blood Knight and his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies make him more of a liability than an asset to the team.
• Friends with Benefits: His first time touching someone's breasts is when Buttercup (who's his best friend at this point) allows him to do so in the woods.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The “foolish” brother to Brick's “responsible”.
• For the Evulz: Unlike Brick or Boomer, there rarely is a pragmatic reason behind his antagonism. He just feels like being a dick sometimes.
• The Gadfly: Shares this role with Boomer, although his jokes are far more politically incorrect.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Bonus points for actually having green eyes:
  • Towards Brick. Besides the fact that his brother is the one bonding and spending time with Blossom, he's also tired of Brick always being the centre of attention and the fact that he keeps getting everything he wants, without having to work for it. It gets even worse when Buttercup kisses Brick on a dare at the end of chapter 9 after Butch had started developing feelings towards her.
  • towards Mitch as well. It's painfully obvious to him that Mitch and Buttercup are still in love, and it only gets worse when he finds out that the two of them more than likely had sex.
• Hate Sink: Subverted. He's at his most unlikeable in chapter 1 and especially 2, due to his perverted and bullying characterization, and he's the only one of The Boys to actively antagonize The Girls. Come chapter 3, and he mellows out a lot, earning him some sympathy points.
• Informed Ability: He's stated to be "the strong one" of The Boys, but after his first fight with Buttercup, his track record becomes pretty dubious. Most of his defeats are Played for Laughs.
  • Brick absolutely kicks his ass every time he gets physical with him. While the first one was justified (Butch was half blind and bruised from his fight with Buttercup), he also knocks him out cold with one punch on several other occasions when he's mad at him.
  • Though he's supposed to be on par with Buttercup, so far she has bested him on every single fight they've had, even when he plays dirty.
  • In chapter 3, Blossom punts him across the town and into a building, knocking him out (which Boomer refers to as a "hardcore roshambooing").
  • In chapter 9, Boomer (the runt of The Boys) eyebeams him in the face hard enough to knock him out again.
  • Even Bubbles gives him a hard time in chapter 7, though it's justified as she was Brainwashed and Crazy at the time.
• Irony: The Blood Knight Token Evil Teammate has the defender ability.
• It Amused Me: His unapologetic reasoning for most of his Kick the Dog moments. He gets better.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: He falls for Buttercup because she poses a challenge for him. That and he's an Amazon Chaser.
• Jerkass: He gives off this vibe when he first shows up, being an unrepentant bully, pervert and sadist. It's all a front, though; it's clear he enjoys people seeing him as one.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In chapter 10A, he calls out Blossom for using him to try and get private information on Brick. While she did so unintentionally, she later flat out admits that he was right.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: If you can get over his dark sense of humor, and twisted mannerisms, he shows himself to be a surprisingly reliable friend. He listens to Buttercup's problems and constantly offers to spar with her to help her blow off some steam.
• Kick the Dog: Being a Sadist, he's the most pointlessly mean out of all the boys.
  • Provoking Buttercup into a fight to test her resilience by repeatedly humiliating her when she was at her worst after a rough break-up is the biggest dick move he's ever pulled. Him casually saying he "just felt like it", when confronted about it doesn't help matters in the slightest.
  • His obnoxious flirting with Blossom also counts, as she's clearly uncomfortable with his advances, and he knows it but insists on it just to be a dick.
  • Casually abandoning his date Amy at prom with no way back home after getting bored with her.
  • He unnecessarily steals a motorcycle and a hatchet from some passing citizens while chasing down a mugger just to look like a slasher villain.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He almost never thinks before he acts. In fact, his brothers were more worried when he begins to act demure.
• Major Injury Underreaction: He hardly reacts to his knee being dislodged or his teeth being missing. Then there's his reaction to being sliced open.
  Buttercup: "Well. We. Um. We don't know what happened. We weren't all together. But... when we found you, you'd been... cut open."
  Butch:: "Big cut? Bad cut?"
• Male Gaze: Of the three brothers, he checks out girls the most.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Comes with being a Blood Knight. Some of his fetishes are just too gruesome to list.
• Not Afraid to Die: Buttercup is more worried about his almost death than himself, and he is quick to poke fun at his own gruesome injuries the moment he has the strength to talk.
• Pay Evil unto Evil:
  • During the attempted takeover of the school, he leaves his powers to cool down for a while in favor of stealing the gunmen's own weapons and shooting them with it. He also kneecaps a straggler as he tries to walk away.
  • In chapter 10A, when a Citisville teenager casually spanks Buttercup, he quickly signals him out to her and grabs him by the collar so she can kick his ass. Later, he also suggests breaking in the hospital so she can kick out his remaining teeth.
  • In chapter 11A, he chases down a crook while wielding a hatchet. It's made clear he could've caught him at any time but decides to tire him out first for the thrill of the hunt.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He could learn a thing or two from Blossom when it comes to basic respect. He also uses casual slurs during conversations, and unapologetically objectifies his female peers. Despite this, he never demeans or looks down on Buttercup, and genuinely respects her as a person.
• Positive Friend Influence: Zig-Zagged. You wouldn't believe it, but despite being a Toxic Friend Influence for the most part, he genuinely helps Buttercup improve in some ways.
  • He helps her make amends with her friends after her messy breakup with Mitch, and continuously eases up any passing moment of tension between them by playing up his funny and offensive personality.
  • While he enables her Blood Knight tendencies, he also helps her cool down by taking her to a remote asteroid field for a friendly (yet brutal) fight so she can blow off some steam.
• Rebellious Spirit: He couldn't care less about Brick's rebellion or JS's orders, and he's not subtle about it either.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red oni to Brick's blue.
• Rejection Affection: Less so than Boomer but still an example. Blossom rejects him time and time again, and Butch only increases his flirting. However, it's all but stated that he's just trolling her. He mellows out overtime, especially after bonding with Buttercup.
• Sadist: He's like Buttercup but without any restraint, so inflicting and receiving pain is his favorite hobby. The reason he targets Buttercup is because it's more interesting when they actually fight back.
• Shipper on Deck: He playfully ships Utonium/Bellum mainly through their interactions and his own twisted humor.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Takes Buttercup's place as the most foul-mouthed of the team.
• The Slacker: Often acts this way when he's high (and when he's not).
• Slipping a Mickey: He does this to Mrs. Andrews's coffee multiple times in chapter 3 to escape detention. It's unclear (though improbable, considering even he has standards) if he ever used them for anything else, though.
• The Stoner: Unfortunately for him, his superpowered system doesn't allow him to get high, so he smokes enough joints to knock out any regular human a day to try to quell this.
• Took a Level in Kindness: The most straightforward example of all the boys. While he keeps his twisted sense of humor, he's far more easy-going and his Jerkass façade is nowhere to be seen past chapter 10. Compare his behavior towards Blossom in chapter 1 and chapter 10A.
• Troll: Of the Sadist variety. Though he's more perceptive than he lets on, he loves to play up his most disliked traits when around people he likes, consequences be damned.
• Villain Respect: After seeing Buttercup's endurance and persistence with the rampaging monster in chapter 1, Butch earns a newfound respect for her that he reveals in chapter 3.
  Butch: “I saw that last monster fight with you and your sisters. You just kept going after that thing, hit after hit. Just let go, completely. Didn't matter what your leader said, you just... went for it. I respect that. You get it.”
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With almost everyone he bonds with, due to his abrasive personality.
  • As of chapter 3, him and Buttercup start becoming this, with the "Best Buds" part increasing overtime as their messy fights turn into friendly sparring.
  • He's also this with Mitch and his gang, although there's more "Vitriolic" than "Best Buds" here due to his jealousy for the former. As of chapter 11, it seems like he prefers spending time alone with Buttercup than hanging with them.
• We Want Our Jerk Back!: Has a variation of this regarding Buttercup in chapter 8, when she loosens up and joins in her group of friends for the band. He clearly isn't used to the more feminine side of Buttercup, and he's not sure if he likes it. He's clearly relieved when Buttercup has a tantrum later in chapter 9, and loosens her up in his own way by challenging her to a cool-down fight.
• The Worf Effect: He's repeatedly referred to as "the strong one" of The Boys, but so far he's been effortlessly knocked on his ass at least once by all five of his superpowered peers. He enjoys it, though.
• Would Hit a Girl: He actively looks forward to fighting Buttercup, and is not disappointed by the result. Most of their fights afterwards are more friendly, although they're still messy and brutal.

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