The Powerpuff Girls

Wouldn't that be "A Very Special Blossom," where Blossom steals golf clubs for Professor Utonium and frames Mojo for it?

Anyhow, from what I'm hearing about this PPG reboot, I don't think they're going to bring back Femme Fatale. Not ever... (Not even as a hero.)

edited 14th Feb '16 7:30:21 AM by Aldo930

Well we don't want to have any SJW talk in an Action comedy show right?

edited 14th Feb '16 9:13:43 AM by NegaKingKix

Well the way I see it, what appeals to the social-justice-minded community isn't a show that addresses the justice itself, which is likely to get a "Eugh, you're doing it wrong"; rather it'll be a show about relationships and how to make them healthier, with a theme of "There's room for all kinds of people!", since that gets cheers of "REPRESENTATION!"

But The Powerpuff Girls is all about violent justice by the obliviously privileged. I feel that half the time the whole joke is how everyone has to rely on such entitled little brats to save the city from crime and terror. I don't recall when they served jail time, but there was that time the Girls helped Mojo Jojo commit more crimes just so they could get rewarded with more candy, and there was that time Buttercup knocked out others' teeth on purpose and stole them to get more money from the tooth fairy, and likely more that I've forgotten... What about that "realistic" city that didn't appreciate their antics?

I think the point of all that is that the PPG are characters, with flaws and such.

I honestly don't believe that the PPG reboot will ever do an episode like "Moral Decay" or "Candy Is Dandy."

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On SJW shit: Without getting into discussions that would admittedly get the whole thread locked, what makes Steven Universe "SJW" isn't at all really present in PPG, and from what we have from the short clip won't really be present in PPG Next. What progressive-ness-isms that are there in SJW come out of the show's themes of life and death and love and birth (and peace and war on the planet earth). It's a fundamentally feel-good show, and it usually addresses the heavy topics with various clever though rather blatant metaphors.

PPG isn't really a show about any of that stuff. It's rather blunt actually, in the way that while it's intentions are more or less good when it wants to be mean it's really, really mean and when it wants to be cringe it's really really cringe and when it wants to go under the radar it flings itself over the radar. It's a part of the show's charm. In light of that though, I doubt the writers would try talking about actual progressive topics beyond "girls can kick butt too just as well if not better than guys can", since that's pretty much the extent that the show was successfully able to get away with.

Honestly you could argue that the Johnny Bravo episode with the pick up artist was more progressive than PPG, mainly because PPG wasn't really about that. Accepting that these young girls could whoop ass was just apart of the premise, not any particular theme.

FYI, I was only joking to how bad it's gotten lately! God, let's drop it.

At this point we shouldn't be worried if the writing staff is straight outta Tumblr (which sounds like a rap album...) - we should be worrying if it's going to suck or not.

Heh, the concern in this The Mary Sue article is that the new cartoon may have barely changed at all.

I get that cartoons (cough Steven Universe cough cough) have been able to do a lot over the past few years, but I doubt PPG Next is going to touch any of it with a fourteen and half foot pole. Mainly because they still need to struggle with actually replicating the show before they can do anything as drastic as actually building on it and doing something new with the IP.

Should they redesign the PPG to be more noodly-armed or something? Is that what they want?

That just might work. It'll be even better than it was before because the art style changed.

The year is 20XX. Ever cartoon character has noodle arms. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The peasants are living in poverty. In the monasteries the showrunner monks just levitate and draw award winning noodle armed character designs on lone hand, and write award winning noodle arm based screenplays on the other. The award season metagame has gotten to the point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so they Rock Paper Scissors to decide the winner. As such, the RPS metagame has as such evolved to similar theoretical levels of perfection.

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Some of the stories were more "honest" in their attempt to strike a moral, like "A Very Special Blossom." The one where Buttercup starting punching out teeth for the tooth fairy also had a certain anti-greed aesop to it (though her comeuppance being that all of the crooks and villains beat her up instead made it a bit more tongue-in-cheek), but yeah, a lot of the episodes had a Spoof Aesop at best, or were just a bunch of stuff that happened. Like the controversial end to the episode with Rainbow the Clown, where they beat the shit out of the clown despite him being apparently cured of what was making him evil.

To be fair, it might have been a lot less apparent to the girls than what it was for us.

IIRC the clown appears free and happy in later episodes, so I'm imagining the situation eventually cleared itself up.

Now, the Sandman episode, now I thought that was too mean spirited on its villain. Basically the girls damn him to an eternity of working nonstop without ever getting any rest. And it didn't even have any funny twist to the resolution to make up for it.

edited 15th Feb '16 6:45:09 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

I liked the end of the clown episode because i thought it was a nice twist on Easily Forgiven. Same with A Very Special Blossom, since she did go to jail in the end.

Even if Rainbow the Clown was cured, he still did bad stuff and he's still gotta pay for it.

Plus he was kinda creepy to begin with anyway so

Creepier than that kid?

There's no creepier PPG character than Lenny Baxter. No, not even Him.

Isn't Lenny Baxter the kid who kept eating paste?

edited 15th Feb '16 1:25:24 PM by TargetmasterJoe

No, he's the Powerpuff Collector.

I never forgot Lenny, ever since I first saw that episode when I was a little kid.

He was that creepy.

edited 15th Feb '16 2:16:47 PM by wehrmacht

And then they decided to use him for a trivia segment on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.

...maybe that was his community service?

oh my god i remember that

...damn it's been a really long time since i even heard the term cartoon cartoons