The Powerpuff Girls / Tropes A to B

The Powerpuff Girls (1998) Trope Examples
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A

• Absent Animal Companion: In the episode "Pet Feud", Professor Utonium creates the perfect pet named Beebo. Beebo is the main focus of the episode, and at the end of the story all inhabitants of Townsville get one, but they are never seen or even mentioned again afterwards.
• Absurdly-Long Limousine: This was a recurring element of the show. An enormous white limousine that is several windows long and takes a few seconds to cross the whole screen is always the Mayor's ride of choice in times of leisure. He rides in the back.
• Accidental Good Outcome:
  • The Girls themselves were created when Mojo Jojo shoved Professor Utonium into the bottle of Chemical X, causing it to drip into the concoction, which gave them their superpowers. Less beneficially, however, the explosion of Chemical X also gave Mojo his intellect and he became a genuine threat.
  • In "Oops, I Did It Again", Professor realizes that almost everything genuinely useful he has built was done by accident after he unintentionally makes sloppy joes through his own clumsiness. He feels ashamed of the fact that he rarely creates anything good on purpose, but he comes to terms with it by the end when he has an Opinion-Changing Dream about what would've happened if the creation of the Girls had gone according to plan; his life wouldn't have been as exciting.
• Accidental Misnaming:
  • The girls would sometimes encounter people who call them the Powderpuff Girls or something similar.
  • Major Glory in particular not only calls them by that name, but he also uses "Sugarpuffs" twice. He also calls the individual girls "Butterdish", "Caboodles", "Blaze'em", and "Bless'em".
• Action Girl: Not just the Powerpuff Girls, but some female villains appear in the series.
• Actor Allusion:
  • A less direct one, but "Octi Gone" has Mojo Jojo dismembering and kidnapping a "friend" of Bubbles and then threatening her by phone. Sound familiar from Roger L. Jackson?
  • The Smiths are a family with a son voiced by Christine Cavanaugh, a mother voiced by Kath Soucie, and a father voiced by Jeff Bennett. Just like Dexter and his parents.
  • Stanley Practice and his wife Sandra Practice are voiced by Daran Norris and Susan Blakeslee, respectively; Cosmo and Wanda. Their designs show this too, Stanley wears green while Sandra wears pink.
• Added Alliterative Appeal:
  • Each of the Powerpuff Girls' names starts with a B and contains a double consonant. The Professor even says he chose Buttercup's name for no reason other than having already given her sisters names that start with a B.
    • Temporary fourth Powerpuff Girls Bunny and Bullet also fit the naming scheme.
    • The Rowdyruff Boys (Brick, Boomer, and Butch) have names that start with B, but lack the double consonant.
  • From the episode "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" a newspaper's headline reads "Powerpuffs Powerless to Pinch Pocket-Picking Pin-Pushing Predictor!"
  • Also, from the episode "Powerpuff Bluff":
    Blossom: Put down that priceless porcelain poodle, you punk!
    Criminal: P-P-P-Powerpuffs?
    Blossom: Precisely!
• Aesop Amnesia:
  • If Blossom's vision of a world ruled by her involving women calling all the shots and men only being allowed to do housework in "The Powerpuff Girls Rule" is any indication, she forgot the moral of "Equal Fights" about how gender equality does not mean being sexist towards men.
  • Lampshaded in "Too Pooped to Puff", where the Mayor (and possibly everyone else in Townsville) learn to defeat the giant monster without the Powerpuff Girls' help, but end up forgetting the point of the episode while it's still airing.
    Mayor: You taught us a valuable lesson today. Although I can't quite remember what that was...anyway, have fun cleaning up the mess.
• An Aesop: The whole point of the "Equal Fights" is that feminism isn't about giving women deserve special treatment, but about giving women the same opportunities and choices as men while making them full citizens with the same rights. The episode introduced Femme Fatale, a Straw Feminist villain who convinces the girls that they should let her go, as both crimefighting and crime itself are male-dominated fields. The girls are so taken with Femme Fatale's teachings that they start acting completely nasty to all of the men in Townsville (even boys their own age)—including the Mayor and Professor—whenever they're asked to do something. Eventually, Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane, the girl's kindergarten teacher, help bring the girls back to their senses by pointing out that they weren't being mistreated by the Mayor and the Professor—the men were legitimately asking for their help after they did a fair share of the work. The girls, taken aback, claim that women have to "look out for each other," at which point three women (one a bank president, one a police officer, and one a Valley Girl) enter and ask if Femme Fatale was "looking out for them" when she robbed the bank, broke the officer's arm, and copied the last woman's hairstyle. Then Miss Keane and Miss Bellum tell the girls with their encouraging and motherly words that even if there is injustice, they have to protect everyone (including men and boys). Finally, the girls themselves deliver a speech to Femme Fatale about Susan B. Anthony, who Fatale claims is her hero. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup explain that, after Anthony was arrested for voting in the nineteenth century, the judge considered simply letting her off because she was a woman and, according to both him and popular thought at the time, not capable of handling the pressures of a prison sentence; Anthony instead demanded that she be put in jail, as she had broken a law.
• Affably Evil:
  • Mojo Jojo. A diabolical, card-carrying, power-hungry supervillain, yet such a classy, suave, and friendly guy. He shows good manners, even to the humans that he hates so much, and even manages to make friendly conversations, with the Powerpuff Girls, when they're not fighting, and he also respects them as rivals. In fact, Mojo even once went babysitting the Powerpuff Girls, and cooked food for them.
  • As for HIM, it's Depending on the Writer. However, sometimes, he's a comedic villain, who only does stereotypical villainous things, and not an actually truly evil one.
  • Big Billy from the Gangrene Gang. He's got such a friendly nature and personality, unlike the other members of the gang who only pretend to be nice to achieve their goals. He also once befriended the Powerpuff Girls for saving him. He'll also try to cheer people up with toys.
  • ALL the villains were this in the end of "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey", where they were getting along with the innocents, and singing with them about that everyone should get along.
• Affectionate Parody: The episode "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" is one of Rocky and Bullwinkle. It even had June Foray (the voice of Natasha) as the episode's villain.
• Agony Beam: Used by Mojo Jojo on the girls in "Bubblevicious".
• All-CGI Cartoon: The 2014 special.
• Alliterative Family: Buttercup was named pretty much to allow for this.
  Professor: "So we have Blossom, Bubbles, and, hmmm, Buttercup because... it also begins with a B."
• Alphabetical Theme Naming: All three girls have names beginning with B and the Professor even says it's the reason behind Buttercup's name. This even extends to temporary members (Bunny, Bullet) as well as both sets of evil counterparts, the Rowdyruff Boys (Brick, Boomer, and Butch), the Powerpunk Girls (Berserk, Brat, and Brute) and the girls in the dream sequence where they were normal (Bertha, Beatrice and Betty).
• Alternate Personality Punishment: In the episode "Mime For A Change", Rainbow the Clown is transformed by a bleach spill into the evil Mr. Mime. The Powerpuff Girls manage to transform Mr. Mime back into Rainbow, then they beat up Rainbow and send him to jail even though he was Not Himself.

• Amazing Technicolor Population: The Gangreen Gang. They're green, and they're a gang.
• Ambiguously Brown: Sara Bellum, who is implied to be a Latina because of her tan skin.
• Ambiguously Human: It's never specified whether The Gangreen Gang are humanoid monsters or just bizarre-looking teenage boys.
• ...And 99¢: In "Collect Her", Lenny pays $ 17.99 for one of the items he bought for his collection.
• "Anger Is Healthy" Aesop: In the episode "All Chalked Up", Him manipulates Bubbles into venting her frustrations of Buttercup into giant chalk monsters that attack the school.^note  Buttercup took issue with Bubbles drawing on the playground since she was getting in the way of a dodgeball game, so she destroyed her chalk as retaliation. Him tries to manipulate her even more by telling her how good it must've felt to let all that anger out and that she should do it again, and she agrees with him, resulting in her changing the expressions of the chalk monsters and decorating them with cute and funny pictures. Him exclaims why she isn't showing her anger like she did before, to which Bubbles says that she is but in a positive way, and humiliates Him by saying he looked better as a butterfly while drawing the wings and antenna on him.
• Animated Series
• Anti-Hero:
  • Mojo Jojo. He teamed up with the Girls against an overlord because it broke his dream of ruling the world, and also saved them in the movie.
  • Major Man. He's not a hero because he wants to help people, but because he wants money and fame. He sets up a crime, and then he stops the crime to be noticed as a hero.
• Apathetic Citizens: The citizens of Townsville are so used to having the girls fighting giant monsters, that they simply ignore when one goes on a rampage. An entire episode focuses on a typical day in the life of Mojo Jojo, who does mundane tasks without anybody giving him a second thought.
  • One of Cartoon Network's Bumpers called "Born and Raised in Townsville" brings attention to this by following a "normal" Townsville citizen on his way to work as various bad things happen to him, with it ending with him telling his wife over the phone that nothing interesting happened to him.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
  • In the episode, "Equal Fights", Femme Fatale avoids capture by the girls by claiming to be committing crimes in the name of women's rights. To counter this, Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane gather several female Townsville residents to talk to the girls:
    Bank Teller: Was Femme Fatale looking out for me when she stole from my bank?
    Policewoman: Was she looking out for me when she broke my arm?
    Teenager: Was she looking out for me when she stole my hairstyle? (everyone glares at her) Well, she did!
  • In "What's the Big Idea?", Mojo Jojo having finally disposed of the girls successfully goes on a shopping spree by robbing a bank, a jewelry shop and... a DVD store looking for Director's Cuts and Commentaries. Guess he's running out of ideas.
  • In the episode, "Impeach Fuzz", when the Girls and Ms. Bellum try to convince The Mayor to take back his rightful position, they tell him that Fuzzy won't let the Girls fight crimes, has turned his office into a literal example of a pigsty, is tarnishing the image of what it is to be the Mayor, and is wearing his hat. The Berserk Button section below makes it pretty clear which one of these is The Mayor's.
  • From the episode, "Just Desserts", when Mrs. Smith shows Mr. Smith the features of the Smith Family Mini-van:
    Mrs. Smith: All terrain slash-proof white-wall tires, blinding 3000-watt headlights, five turbo jet engines for optimum speed, six liquid titanium rocket launchers, rotating laser cannon turret, and a spacious leather interior that comfortably seats a family of four.
  • In the episode, "Not So Awesome Blossom", one of Mojo Jojo's robots destroys the Museum of Fine Arts, the Opera House, and a 98¢ store.
  • In the episode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future", Madame Argentina goes to a voodoo shop and buys three voodoo dolls of the Powerpuff Girls, a box of pins, and a box of gumdrops.
• Art Evolution: The show started using digital animation time and time again throughout the fourth season, before permanently switching late in the season with "Keen on Keane". The animation was a little rough for the first few digitally animated episodes but by the final season they got the hang of it.
• Art Shift:
  • In "Get Back, Jojo", while Mojo Jojo is traveling through time, the art becomes rough looking pencil sketches.
  • "Substitute Creature", as noted above.
  • The Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets commercial in "Jewel of the Aisle" is drawn and animated in a fuller, more cartoony manner so it could realistically mimic the actual Trix Rabbit commercials at the time. Just before the commercial came on, the girls were watching Mech-Animals, an obvious parody of Beast Wars, and it was done in the same dated looking CGI as that show.
  • For the Powerpuff Girls Rule special the show switched Adobe Flash, allowing for a lot more quicker paced animation.
  • The 2014 special went full CGI, giving the show a rather unique paper-mache style look. Not only that, but gives the girls a massive re-design as well.
• Artistic License – History: In "Equal Fights" the girls claim that Susan B. Anthony demanded she be sent to prison for voting because she broke the law, but in real life Susan B. Anthony argued that she shouldn't be sent to prison.
• Artistic License – Law: Even if it does kickstart the entire plot of "Schoolhouse Rocked", there is no way it would be at all legal or even remotely safe to let a group of teenagers share a classroom with kindergartners. This holds doubly true if said teenagers have criminal records like the Gangreen Gang.
• As Herself: "The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever" simply focuses on them playing in their room, pretending to be... The Powerpuff Girls. Subverted as they all switch roles and even drag the very annoyed professor into playing Bubbles. Watching them run around singing their own theme tune turns the adorable up to eleven.
• Asian Cleaver Fever: Mojo Jojo does a hibachi-grill routine while cooking for the girls when he has to babysit them. He professes to be "the best chef in Townsville", yet despite amazing the girls with knife-based stunts, they hate his food.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: So, the Mayor has lost the election, and Fuzzy is the new mayor? No problem! Win a wrestling match against him, and the mayor is mayor again! Why bother with impeachments or new elections? Who cares about what the people has voted?
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • Happens ridiculously often in Townsville. So much so, it's lampshaded at one point in "Super Zeroes", where the 50 foot monster of the week actually explains that there is an island right off the coast of Townsville where monsters live.
  • The girls become giants in the episode "What's the Big Idea" by one of Mojo Jojo's inventions and for the most part the plan^note make the girls so big that they can't do anything, even talk or walk, without doing more damage to the city so Mojo can go on a crime spree scott free works like a charm. The Professor fixes it ("I think") and returns the girls to normal ("I think"). The ending shows that he fixed the problem by making Townsville and its residents massive.
• Attack Pattern Alpha: "Attack pattern Alpha Omega Atari!"

B

• Baby Talk: In the episode "The Boys Are Back In Town", the girls use this as a means of defeating the Rowdyruff Boys.
• Badass Family: In the episode "Powerprof", Professor Utonium invents a suit that gives him superpowers so that he can help his daughters fight crime, but the girls convince him to retire from crime-fighting when he proves too embarrassing to work with due to using cheesy slang and giving away humiliating secrets. Not to say that he isn't helpful to the girls in general, as there were several occasions where he was the one who helped the girls save the day.
  • They're definitely this for having both the Powerpuffs and Mojo Jojo as a part of the family.
• Badass Normal: Mojo Jojo not only knocks out the Powerpuff Girls, but also nullifies their powers at the same time with Antidote X during their Slumber Party, and the Girls' classmates subdue him with a pillow fight.
• Bad Future: In "Speed Demon", the girls end up flying 50 years into the future, where everyone in Townsville has become disheveled wrecks who hate the Powerpuff Girls and Him conquered the world.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work:
  • A variation — in one episode, the Gangreen Gang occupies city hall while the Mayor's away and use his hotline to sic the Powerpuff Girls at Fuzzy Lumpkins, Mojo Jojo and HIM, who are all having days off. Although the Powerpuff Girls never catch on to the fact that the Mayor's an impostor, the villains quickly do, tracking down the Gangreen Gang and delivering a(n) (un)righteous smackdown onto them. The Narrator is forced to declare that "So, once again, the day is saved, thanks to... Mojo, Fuzzy and HIM...?"
  • In "Forced Kin", Mojo Jojo also defeats a giant overlord while the Girls couldn't.
• Baffled by Own Biology:
  • In the book Where is Chicken Pox?, the girls wake up with chicken pox. They don't know where their red bumps came from, and they hear the Professor saying that chickenpox got them, so they think that Chicken Pox is a villain that made them sick. They go around town asking if anyone's seen this supposed villain until the Professor explains what it really is.
  • In "Sun Scream", the Powerpuff Girls' skin peels after they're given some aloe for their sunburns. Their skin starts peeling, much to their horror, and Bubbles even think that they're falling apart.
• Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: While the three have similar powers, the girls usually invoke this trope, with Blossom being the balance, Bubbles the speed and Buttercup the strength.
• Balloon Belly: The girls and the Mayor after eating the whole candy jar in "Candy is Dandy".
• Bat Signal: The Powerpuff signal, though the only time it was used was in one episode where the girls were too busy playing with their new friend to answer the hotline.
• Bathtub Mermaid: In one episode, Bubbles brings a baby whale home, so they flood the basement and hide her there from the Professor, who had warned Bubbles about bringing animals into the house.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Although they wore space suits in "Uh Oh Dynamo" and the beginning of "Helter Shelter", the girls are perfectly capable of breathing, talking and even hearing sounds from Earth while in space.
• Be the Ball:
  • There was a variation of this trope in "The Boys are Back in Town." All three girls are squashed into a hockey puck and smacked around by the Rowdyruff Boys.
  • This trope also occurred in a "Got Milk" promo, when Buttercup throws Lil' Arturo into the rest of the Gangreen Gang like a bowling ball.
• Be Yourself: In "Super Zeroes", Steve the Monster is quite put off at the girls not being their usual Action Girl selves, stating monsters value their whoopass skills.
  Steve: Now this new bit is just not gonna cut it. (to Buttercup) Sure, you didn't have a thirst for vengeance... (to Bubbles) ...stickers with your face on them... (to Blossom) ...or souped-up vehicles — 'cause you didn't need 'em! See, even if you take away the costumes, props, and angst, you still have all the bravery and courage it takes to save the day.
• Beast in the Building: In "Helter Shelter", it's shown that Bubbles has a habit of bringing home small animals, and the Professor tells her to stop hiding these critters in the closet. This leads to Bubbles bringing home a baby whale, because it can't fit in a closet.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted in "Reeking Havoc", where several characters create a methane monster by farting after eating chili made by the Professor in a chili cook-off. Ms. Bellum, the show's Ms. Fanservice, farts as she's cutting cheese.
• Becoming the Mask: In one episode, a thief attempts to steal a cereal box from the girls that a priceless diamond managed to find its way into (long story) by dressing up as the cereal's mascot, the Lucky Captain Rabbit King. After many failed attempts, he breaks down, crying out "I ONLY WANTED SOME CEREAL!" The girls finally relent and give him the box and he immediately starts scarfing down the cereal, forgetting about the diamond inside. Three guesses what happens next...
• Berserk Button:
  • "FUZZY! You can throw away my things, and I don't mind the hay on the floor, and the chicken wire's a nice touch, and I kinda like that beat-up old flivver. But no one, I mean no one, wears my mayorin' hat! Now give it back!"
  • Bubbles in the pilot, when Fuzzy Lumpkins turns one of her pigtails into a chicken leg. The Narrator goes to great lengths to describe the hours she spends brushing and conditioning it.
  • Also, under any circumstances, do not come between the girls and their candy. Mojo learned this the hard way and was practically beaten to an inch of his life as a result.
  • Mojo Jojo does not like having his ideas stolen, as the alien invader in "Forced Kin" learned to his sorrow.
  • The entirety of "Bubblevicious" is dedicated to Bubbles going on a rampage after her button (being treated like a baby by everyone, even her own family) is pressed once too often. She calms down at the end, but then Mojo zaps her with a laser (again)…
  • An easy way to tick off all three of the girls is to endanger the life of the Professor.
  • Fuzzy Lumpkins and "trespassers", a term he defines very broadly. For example: He shot at a leaf that happened to drift onto his lawn.
    • Also if you value your life, do NOT touch Fuzzy's things, even if it is for good intentions of returning it to him. Especially not his banjo.
  • Marianne Smith when anyone tries to disrupt the dinner she is hosting.
• Berserker Tears: A sign that you have pushed Bubbles too far.
• The Bet: HIM has the Girls doing a scavenger hunt, with the threat that if they fail, then the Professor will pay... full price for breakfast.
• Between My Legs: Invoked fairly often. Craig McCracken even discusses the shot in the commentary of The Movie.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As mentioned above, Bubbles is downright vicious when she's pushed too far.
• Big Bad: Mojo Jojo is the most frequently appearing villain and most of his plans focus solely on defeating the Powerpuff Girls or at least making them unable to stop him. It helps that their origins are connected, as Mojo Jojo was mutated by the same explosion that created the girls.
• Big Damn Heroes: All. The. Time.
• Big Eyes, Little Eyes: Lampshaded when characters call the girls "Bug-Eyed".
• Big "NO!":
  • "Parent teacher conference?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
  • From "Mo'Linguish":
    Judge: You, Mojo Jojo, are hereby sentenced to teaching a knowledge extension course at Townsville Community College!
    Mojo Jojo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! By which I mean I cannot do it.
  • "Fallen Arches": Captain Righteous and Lefty confront the Ministry of Pain. The Captain lets out a big no as he runs towards Lefty who just hurt his hip. However, he hasn't reached his sidekick yet so he shouts it again.
  • "Get Back Jojo": Mojo Jojo lets out a frustrated "NOOOOOO!" at the end of the episode when the Narrator points out that his trip through time accidentally inspired the creation of the Powerpuff Girls.
    Narrator: So once again, the day is saved, thanks to The Powerpuff Girls! But the credit should go to none other than Mojo Jojo, who once again had a hand in helping create The Powerpuff Girls!
    Mojo: Nooooooo!
    Narrator: Yeeeessss!
  • The comic book story "Steal A Meal" (Cartoon Network Block Party #26) has the girls doing a tearful Big "NO!" upon learning that after all the breakfast cereal in town had been stolen the only thing left was oatmeal.
  • "Mime For A Change": Bubbles performs a great Big "NO!"
  • For the good example in "Knock it Off": Dick Hardly does this when his own creations start killing him.
• Big "SHUT UP!":
  • In "Los Dos Mojos", when Bubbles (who, thanks to amnesia, thinks she's Mojo Jojo) rants that she is the real Mojo Jojo, the real real Mojo shouts at her, "Oh, shut up!" before walloping her with an I-beam that caused her to lose her memory in the first place (only this time, she is cured).
  • Running Gag in "Monstra-City"; Buttercup yells "SHUT UP!" every time the people and the monsters start arguing.
• Bilingual Bonus: In "Super Zeroes" when Bubbles reads manga in translation to us. The bonus is if you understand what the shown original text is; it goes from a parody of Japanese Politeness to "Blind Idiot" Translation.
• Birthday Episode: There was "Birthday Bash," in which Mojo Jojo, the Amoeba Boys, and Princess Morbucks try to send them booby-trapped gifts while still in jail.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sedusa's Ima Goodlady disguise. She acts like a nice person in front of Professor Utonium, but is a complete witch to the girls behind his back.
• Blatant Lies: In "Getting Twiggy With It", when cornered by the girls in his bedroom, Mitch Mitchellson weepingly cries that he's never had any pets. There is an enormous habitat with a giant snake right in easy view.
• Bloodless Carnage: The girls suffer absolutely no fatal accidents whenever they get flattened by a giant rock (Fuzzy's rock in "Meet the Beat-Alls", Big Billy as a rock in "Power Lunch"), coming out completely unharmed later.
  • Averted in the introductory sequence where Buttercup kicks Him in the face, knocking out a tooth with some visible blood. And this sequence was played as the intro of the show, meaning this happened on a regular basis.
• Bragging Theme Tune: The ending theme, to be precise:
  Blossom, commander and the leader
  Bubbles, she is the joy and the laughter
  Buttercup, and she's the toughest fighter
  Powerpuffs save the day...
  Fighting crime, trying to save the world
  Here they come just in time, the Powerpuff Girls!
• Brain Monster: Mojo Jojo has his enlarged brain protected by a transparent helmet.
• Brains Versus Brawn: Blossom and Buttercup can often fall into this dynamic as The Leader & The Smart Guy versus The Big Guy. In "Three Girls And A Monster", Blossom and Buttercup keep arguing whether to defeat the monster of the episode with brute force or well-thought plans. However, neither strategy works giving the sheer size of the monster. What works instead is Bubbles politely asking him to leave the city.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Pretty much every single time the girls or anyone in general addresses the Narrator.
• Brick Joke: In "Candy is Dandy," the mayor offers to reward the girls by making them a statue or by declaring a Powerpuff Girls Day, to which they decline both. Guess what happens in the very next episode.
• Broken Glass Penalty: One episode plays out like this - the girls throw their ball through the window of their arch-villain, who tries to use it as an excuse to destroy them while pretending to be looking for their ball. After the girls continue to do more damage in the house, he instead just gives them the ball back so that they will leave.
• Bullying a Dragon:
  • A lot of people seem to feel that they can push these walking titans without consequence; a couple of young, snarky residents of the Town Of Citysville seem to forget entirely that the only thing keeping them alive is the girls' sense of right and wrong—and they push Buttercup worst of all.
  • Mojo Jojo should've known better than attempting to steal their candy. His trollface at the end of his confession was outright suicidal.

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