The Powerpuff Girls can be this trope depending on the episode. Unlike other examples, this is balanced out in some episodes as the girls do learn from their mistakes and better themselves.
- One of the more infamous examples happens in the episode "Mime for a Change". A freak accident involving a truck full of bleach turns Rainbow the Clown into Mr. Mime, who begins to drain Townsville of all color and sound. The girls managed to return the town and Rainbow to normal, but when he thanks them for bringing him back to his senses, the girls beat him to a pulp and send him to prison even though it was painfully clear he was Not Himself. Uniquely, this is an Enforced Trope moment: According to Word of God, they originally wanted to give him the Pet the Dog ending everyone thought he deserved, but Executive Meddling refused to let the "bad guy" be a Karma Houdini (they evidently didn't know the meaning of Split Personality) — so the staff deliberately invoked Esoteric Happy Ending as a public Take That! against said executives. The issue apparently got cleared up as he is seen attending the girls' birthday party in the later episode, "Birthday Bash".
- In the episode "Major Competition", a new superhero named Major Man stops crimes before the girls can, but they eventually discover he's a fraud who sets up crimes in advance. Their plan to expose him? Hire a giant monster to attack the town without him knowing and force him to confess. The girls even managed to get away with it.
- In the episode "Ploys R Us", the girls awake to find their room filled with toys and discover the Professor has been robbing the toy store while sleepwalking. Instead of trying to prevent it, the girls take advantage of his nighttime strolls and have him steal toys for them while pretending to investigate the thefts. Eventually, the professor catches on to the girls's scheme and with the Mayor's help, tricks them into confessing. The girls again apologize for their actions and, while they're offered to keep the toys as they were all paid for, they reject them as they know that they didn't deserve them, and the toys go to the Mayor instead.
- In "Moral Decay", Buttercup suddenly develops an obsession with money and starts knocking teeth out of villains to get more of it from the tooth fairy. While what she does is pretty selfish, her sisters don't try to talk to her about this. They instead organise for every villain in Townsville to beat the crap out of Buttercup, gloat about it and then Buttercup's money has to go towards paying her dental bills. Blossom and Bubbles are painted as in the right, while only Buttercup is painted as in the wrong.
- In "Gettin' Twiggy With It", Mitch tortures the school pet hamster Twiggy. While his behavior is seen as abusive, the Powerpuff Girls don't try to just take Twiggy away the first time. Instead they gleefully threatening to feed him to the now mutant Twiggy, and have him chased on a hamster wheel to flee for his life. Ms. Keane even frames the Powerpuff Girls as the good guys for this behavior.
- Arguably, the worst instance in this would be "Powerprof.", where the Girls trick the Professor into fighting Mojo Jojo so the Professor can retire from being a superhero, since they believe telling him themselves would be "too harsh". It should be noted that the worst the Professor had done to them was just call them pet-names, unintentionally spill an embarrassing secret, and doting on them while they fought crime together. So their solution is to practically have him get assaulted by the arch-enemy who has had a history of trying to kill all four of them. The Narrator even frames the Girls as the "heroes", and only gives them credit while omitting the Professor's input.
- Buttercup from The Powerpuff Girls (2016) is depicted as being right usually, but she's completely okay with beating up other people, even if they did nothing to bother her. She also calls Silico "messed up in the head" after he tells her and her sisters his sad backstory. In "Little Octi Lost", we're supposed to be rooting for her when she loses Octi. She originally was going to just hide him because Bubbles lost a kickball game, but Packrat ended up stealing Octi. Bubbles had a completely good reason to be pissed at Buttercup for what she did, but Bubbles is presented as in the wrong, and Buttercup's presented as in the right for trying to hide her sister's most prized possession for a minor mistake.
