- Or, hes just very, very gay.
- The girls protect Townsville from gigantic beasts that could have come from the Mushroom War in Adventure Time. They might be the ones standing between Townsville becoming an inhabitable wasteland.
- This also explains why the Mayor is still in office despite his incompetence.
- The other cities shown in The Powerpuff Girls are actually city-states that have their own methods for defending themselves.
- Chemical X may have been caused by the Mushroom War as well.
- Both Mike, the Powerpuff girls, and Finn and Jake were all able to change reality through their imagination. Their abilities could also have been caused by the nuclear fall-out, as could the ability of people to create imaginary friends in Foster's Home.
- We never see the imaginary friends of adults except for Madame Foster in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , but we do see that teenagers create dangerous creatures they use to attack each other. The adults may be using their friends to protect the town so they can go about their business as usual and pretend that life has not drastically changed.
- To finish up the theory, it isn't the terrifying monsters that finished off the city-states. It's the rainicorns, who humanity could not believe was evil. That was why the dogs went to war with them, because they were trying to protect their best friends.
- It also would explain all the monster attacks and how all the monsters get cleaned up from the area. Foster's crew comes by, scoops them up, and has them locked up in those cages in their backyard.
...and Monster Isle is sitting right next to the largest reservoir in the world. The constant leaking of chemical X into the environment would explain why there are so many giant monsters, which attack Townsville due to its proximity, while other places (such as Citysville) are relatively safe.
I mean he was a Bratty Half-Pint who always misbehaved in class and he was really smug.
The City of Townsville is constantly under attack by monsters as though no other city exists to attract them, but the nearby Town of Citysville seems to be more densely populated. Despite this constancy of assault, the same citizens remain in the area.
It appears to be constructed entirely out of prefabricated structures, because skyscrapers are hollow when torn apart, and even when completely destroyed (as in the case of the Dynamo mecha), it is very rapidly rebuilt. Useful when throwing monsters against the PPGs to train their skills.
The Mayor is highly incompetent and does not appear to actually perform any executive duty at any time, with Ms. Bellum representing most of the legwork in the city. In fact, her name Sara Bellum references the cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for motor control. Sara Bellum appears to be the only competent member of the entire society, suggesting that she is one of the observers of the government program.
It is a widely-known fact that the Powerpuff Girls are the product of Chemical X. Given this, the military would long have taken control of the Chemical X supply and produced more Powerpuff Girls. THAT, or the entirety of the city is a testing site.
The Town of Citysville is a more realistic metropolis, with damage to the city having real monetary impact and taking significantly longer to repair. The transfer of Professor Utonium to Citysville appears to have been some kind of social experiment to see how the outside world would react to the Girls. Naturally, the government negotiated with local leadership first, to treat their presence as nothing SUBSTANTIALLY out of the ordinary. The experiment failed, most likely due to the Girls' reckless use of their powers combined with the intolerance of the city populace and local government. This is why testing in Townsville continued.
My theory is that Him couldn't manifest himself out of his realm before the Girls came along. The girls' emotions are probably more potent than that of normal humans' because of their superhuman nature. Watch "Octi Evil" again. Him didn't toy with Bubbles because he could: he needed the energy created by Bubbles' depression and Blossom and Buttercup's anger to manifest himself. At the end, he couldn't even manifest himself directly: he had to destroy Townsville through Octi. Octi/Him's explosion wasn't caused by Him losing his cool and ragequitting: Him wasn't prepared for the massive flux in positive energy caused by the girls reuniting.
And why do people know his true name? Remember the past versions of the Powerpuff Girls in "Seed No Evil"? He has likely used the above method before, but on the predecessors of the girls. "Speed Demon" can be explained as the chaos caused by the Powerpuff Girls' disappearance and probable ensuing chaos giving Him more power than ever, to the point where he no longer needed the Powerpuff Girls' emotions to manifest himself in reality. Basically:
- Him needs the girls' negative emotions to manifest himself
- Him preys on the girls not For the Evulz, but to create more emotions to feed himself with
Therefore, I guess that if the Powerpuff Girls somehow dispose of the town's Holding Out for a Hero attitude like they did in one episode and then disappear, Him would be gone for good.
- It could go further. Chemical X is the remains of an Eldritch Abomination. When the Professor used it to create the girls, it created a counterpart. Him is the evil inherent in the Powerpuff Girls made manifest. It merely takes the form of what they consider to be Satan-the actual devil is busy doing his job, and has no concern for the Powerpuff Girls.
- Surprisingly enough, this theory has some supporting evidence. In the episode "Super Zeroes", Buttercup thinks she will be a better heroine if she becomes Spawn. We see her getting her powers from a Satanic entity who looks nothing like Him.
- He didn't need to. As seen in The Movie, Townsville was a Crapsack Town already, and His goal has always been primarily to cause misery and despair for the sake of it. So, he got what he wanted all while keeping his claws clean. Then the girls showed up and began changing it for the better, so he had to get actively involved.
- Mixed in with a Can of Whoopass. Dead bodies aren't required. Some
carbonsugar andmundane mineralsspice andwatereverything nice is all you need if you have the recipe right. The business regarding souls can be avoided with a proper upbringing. Yes, there's still Cloning Blues issues, but they still handled it better.- If only Ed and Al knew that... None of the things in the 2003 anime would have happened, then...
- Keep in mind, it's a lot easier if you don't care whose soul you get. It's getting back someone specifically who died that's the hard part.
- If only Ed and Al knew that... None of the things in the 2003 anime would have happened, then...
- Then... What was in the toilet that Mojo created the Rowdyruff Boys from?
- Cause you knew it would happen sooner or later.
- Yeah, and she's Mayor Mayer.
- It was a punch.
- You know, the other ingredients weren't that nice, too.
- 'Nice' is in the eye of the beholder. I bet a lot of people would be endeared by gifts of books and fish. Had Buttercup not thrown in the last punch, Bunny probably would've just been an outdoorsy type with a fondness for mackerel.
- Now Bunny is a Stealth Aesop for not punching babies? Cool!
- You know, the other ingredients weren't that nice, too.
- Using actual spices might have helped.
- Real sugar instead of artificial sweetener may have helped too.
- Frankly, I think it waa the Bad "Bad Acting" that ultimately caused the biggest issues.
- There's a place in Australia called Townsville
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- It'd explain the weird monsters.
- This is unlikely, since Pokey Oaks has an American flag in its garden and the episode "Femme Fatale" clearly shows that the currency used in Townsville is the US dollar.. The most likely answer is that there's more than one place called Townsville, much like in the real world, there's a Perth in Australia and another one in Britain.
- Or, it's a world where America somehow took over Australia.
- Nope. The AWSM has an Australian hero called Down-Under-
ManMate.
- Don't you mean Sandy Claws?
- Well, duh.
- Easy reason to move to Japan. Japan is continually attacked by giant monsters. Obviously the country convinced them to move there to deal with the problem.
- Somewhere else on the wiki, this was confirmed and the development team said they asked Bleedman to help it.

- I believe the same theory...though personally I'm more of the opinion that the Powerpuffs aren't part of Aku anymore, rather being new beings created from Aku's body instead (or in other words their his sisters.)
- My take is that Samurai Jack takes place in the same universe as the Powerpuff Girls. Since Aku would been destroyed by the end of Samurai Jack, the entire post-apocalyptic future didn't happen. All that's left of Aku is some power-granting black goo that was somehow discovered by Professor Utonium, who labels it "Chemical X" and unintentionally creates the Powerpuffs with it.
- My theory is that when Aku is truly defeated by Jack, He splits into two things; A black borderline-magical ooze and an entity of pure evil. After all, the original destructive force that was Aku was not evil (unless you would consider a fire burning through the country evil) until the arrow was launched at it.
- His Infernal Majesty.
- Or His Internal Majesty.
- The Bad Future where the girls' absence is shown to give Him the oppurtunity to take over the world and reduce it to a blasted wasteland inhabited by twisted, insane wrecks seems to contradict this.
- Unless he knew they had been sent to the future, and did this knowing that they would go back and changes things, even more dedicated to their duty.
- Or, as there was no explanation given as to how the girls got back to their own time, maybe they never actually flew fast enough to slow time in the first place; it was all an illusion created by Him to test them. Also, maybe Bubbles is targetted the most because, well, because Bubblevicious can happen.
- Speaking of Speed Demon: Him said the reason he won was because the girls weren't there to stop him. Keep in mind, Him has been around for possibly centuries, and the girls were born recently. Why didn't take over before? If this is the case, it would why.

- Not to mention the Oh-Edo Chaki-Chaki Girls.
- Why?
- Because they've got huge bobble heads, no fingers, super powers, and double-ringed irises? Although the above troper's probably referring to how Chemical X Is The New Nuke.
- They don't have double-ringed irises; according to the design tips documents from Cartoon Network, they use the spectacle to indicate where the girls are looking, probably because it would be impossible to tell otherwise
- Because they've got huge bobble heads, no fingers, super powers, and double-ringed irises? Although the above troper's probably referring to how Chemical X Is The New Nuke.
- Only if they try to interbreed with normal humans. They could probably have children with the Rowdyruff Boys or any other boys made from Chemical X.
- Although, in the case of the first movie, there wasn't something already damaging property; there is always someone else breaking the city in the series. It may be that the villains themselves are forced to create merchandise for the very heroes that jailed them.
- Could explain any inconsistencies with their powers.
- If they're ordinary girls after all, where's their mother?
- Their mother died or otherwise abandoned them, and the superhero fantasy might relate to a feeling of inadequacy (e.g., inability to save her life or earn her love). The girls prefer to live in an imaginary world where they never had and will never need a mother. Instead, they save lives daily and always manage to win, regardless of the stakes.
- On that note, Sedusa was never a villain. Rather, the girls simply set her up to be some kind of horrible seductress trying to steal their father away and take the place of their mother.
- Their mother died or otherwise abandoned them, and the superhero fantasy might relate to a feeling of inadequacy (e.g., inability to save her life or earn her love). The girls prefer to live in an imaginary world where they never had and will never need a mother. Instead, they save lives daily and always manage to win, regardless of the stakes.
- Robyn's efforts to befriend them take on a tragic tint. In the middle of play they would ignore her, "fly off," and leave her alone. Eventually, it was more than Robyn could handle.
- Bubbles: Hey, Robyn, were sorry
- Buttercup: we left you behind all the time.
- Blossom: It was never because we didnt like you. Its just
- Robyn: I know. Thats your job.
- Did Robyn accept them and stick around as that conversation might imply? Nope.
- Another point in favor of this is HIM. He isn't named by any of the characters in series, but his existence is because the girls are young enough to have mixed up the spellings of Santa & Satan
- That's actually brilliant. And it's a much better explanation than what they came up with In-Universe.

We could just say that the girls don't get older, but nobody else in Townville does either, which is where the Jeffty comparison comes in. Just like him they don't only stay five but also preserve other things from when they were really that age, but unlike him they're such a huge part of their world that instead of just having comics and candy bars stay the way they are they affect everything and everyone in town. Because it's happened to all of them nobody ever notices what's happened, any more than the stars of Jeffty's favorite radio shows ever noticed that they were still doing weekly recordings decades after the show's have gone off the air, and just like the shows new "stories" can still happen within the city all the time, but never anything that will cause a lasting major change.
This is also why Townsville has a Cardboard Prison; because Mojo Jojo/Fuzzy Lumpkins/The Gangrene Gang/all the rest of the villains were running around wreaking havoc on the city in the time period that fixed their view of what the world is like they always need to go back to doing it before too long.
Furthermore, Him, or shall we call him... Nyarlathotepp, shows an interest, even obsession, with the girls. Why would that be? Also, as a minor bit of evidence, they leave a bright, colored trail while they really push their powers to move. Finally, why was Professor Utonium unable to create a new bunch of girls in Speed Demon? He certainly has more Chemical X, that's been shown numerous times.
All of this hints that the girls are actually Great Old Ones, who were returning in the exact moment Professor Utonium performed his experiment. Science and magic mixed in an unpredictable way, and what was supposed to be monsters became heroes instead. Jojo was also caught in the blast, gaining a new level of mental awareness and inheriting a mad compulsion to take over the world. He also instinctively recognizes the girls as the only thing that could possibly oppose him.
However, the title is somewhat inaccurate, as the girls have been shown to be superior to Him/Nyarlathotepp, which Cthulhu would not be. Azatoth, perhaps? That would explain why the creatures basic nature was so easily overridden - Azatoth doesn't have a real mind, and might be overwhelmed when confronted when Utonium's hopes and dreams, perhaps even to the point of dividing into three perfect little girls...
- Jossed. The girls are seen playing an N64 style console in one episode (another shows the Mayor playing a blatant parody of Ocarina of Time), and Bubbles makes a reference to Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie episode.
- While we're at it, they may be also related to Red Hot Riding Hood.
- Buttercup: "Professor! Your stupid hand doesn't work!"
- Jossed; true, the mayor is a demon, but it's a completely different one.
- Based on this example, one of the characters (named The Red Comrade IIRC) did a HeelFace Turn at some point, since in Dexter's lab he is the Arch Nemesis of Major Glory while in PPG he appears as a member of the the AWSM.
- The Bad Future seen in Speed Demon is the same future Samurai Jack takes place in. After Aku took over, Him pledged his allegiance to his fellow demon and got Townsville as his "territory" in return to do with as he pleases, so long as he has Aku's permission to do so.
- Wait, in the episode that Blossom first used her ice breath, didn't she sneeze fire at the end of the episode? This doesn't count Brick out for breathing fire, just gives him the extra option of sneezing out ice storms.
- Could be that Blossom discovered that her ice breath could be harnessed as a voluntary reaction. Sneezing is involuntary, and thus could have been responsible for her sneezing fire.
- But Buttercup and Bubbles punch her in the stomach in one episode and she ends up spitting out ice accidentally. (And comments, "You could have just asked!")
- Could be that Blossom discovered that her ice breath could be harnessed as a voluntary reaction. Sneezing is involuntary, and thus could have been responsible for her sneezing fire.
- If you've played the hidden levels in the GBC Powerpuff games, Brick does indeed breathe fire. So confirmed-ish.
- Mojo Jojo: Represents gross incompetence.
- Gangreen Gang: Represents poor hygiene.
- Him: Represents chaos, corruption, and perversion.
- Blossom: Arguably the most competent of the group (with a little neuroticism). Her main villain is Mojo.
- Buttercup: The least hygienic and most tomboyish of the group, but she is still much more cultured than her main villains, the Gangreen Gang.
- Bubbles: The most innocent and naive of the trio. Her main villain is Him! (do the math).
- Don't forget Princess, with her shameless materialism and sense of entitlement.
- No, not the mayor, but their father. I mean, why not?
- For one thing, we never see her face. And another reason is that the both wear similar red clothing.
- Semen and Eggs?

- Did it? Professor Utonium is never seen teaching, grading papers or writing lectures. He seems to be exclusively a researcher. That was his Take That! against his parents (they were both professors, and he rebelled).

- Considering after said beating he starts trembling like a chihuahua and begs them not to hurt him anymore, this could actually make sense.
- I can see the Bubbles-Fluttershy, Blossom-Twilight, and Buttercup-Rainbow Dash comparisons, but I don't think they really have much in common with Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack. Bubbles isn't a hyperactive lunatic with a Motor Mouth, Blossom isn't a hoity-toity fashionista, and Buttercup isn't a cowgirl.
- It would also give Ace a reason to hate school more than "snotty teenager."
In one episode, his wife calls him Barney, while everyone else calls him Mayor or Mr. Mayor. Nobody but his wife would know to call him Barney, because his wife likely knew his name since their first date. The "Vote For Mayor For Mayor" campaign likely used the last name.
To the best of my knowledge, the Professor always had trouble with the ladies. I'm assuming he couldn't find a wife, probably because of his nerdyness or something. In fact, the first time he ever starts dating a girl in the show, it just turns out to be Sedusa, who wants him for his money/wants to abuse the girls (either way, he'd be fine with it. One way he gets a girl and loses money, the other way he indirectly abuses the girls he didn't mean to create). But because of this loneliness, he wanted to create "The Perfect Little Girl". It was an accident to add Chemical X, which is the cause of the girls' superpowers. He now can't take advantage of them because he fears their powers, and doesn't want to be beat up/killed.He still is their father, and did raise them, which is why he seems affectionate toward them. But any abusive parent can be two-faced like that.
- A pedophile? You don't mean Abusive Parents?
- Why not both?
- A pedophile? You don't mean Abusive Parents?
It's got a Space Needle-esque tower, it's a center of telecommunication and business, it's got a Japantown, it's in perfect proximity to ocean and woodland, and there's a volcano nearby. Though granted, there's only a couple of episodes where it's actually shown raining or cloudy.
- Yeah, I believe you. *sigh* Tearjerker, much? :(
- I thought that was pretty obvious.
- Doubtful, since the Mayor is old and he was a kid in the flashback. But the little girl is Ms. Bellum's mother.
- So, how do you explain his Ho Yay with Mojo in "Custody Battle"?

- Actually, the poem that stemmed the Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice rhyme also had a verse about little boys, saying they're made of Snips, Snails, and a Puppy-Dog's tail. So they actually had the 'correct' ingredients.
- The return of Bunny, in which the girls must deal with their past mistake. Could possibly have Bunny be A Villain or a Anti-Hero.
- A day in the life of the Rowdyruff Boys.
- A crossover with Steven Universe
- An episode written and directed by Bleedman
- The 2016 Girls get knocked into the universe of the original show. Guest starring the original voice actors of the Girls.
- This also easily explains why "Him" (who's supposedly the devil himself) constantly attacks this city more than any other!

- Billy had his own prominent episode in where he tried to help the Powerpuff Girls after they saved his life. Even at the end of the episode when he's back with the Gang, it hints there's still a noble side to him.
- In "Aspirations", where they help the girls defeat Sedusa after she kicks the Gang to the curb. It's interesting to note that Ace was hurt in the same manner as he hurt Buttercup back then in "Buttercrush": toying with her feelings. Probably that flicked a switch somewhere in his brain, to see that he ended up in the same vulnerable position as his "rival" once was.
- Turning good for a while in the IDW comics. Yeah it also occurred with the other villains, but it's still interesting to consider while making this point.
- In Fusionfall they saved Buttercup after getting amnesia and formed a band.
- During 2018-2019 Ace served as the replacement bassist for Murdoc in Gorillaz, and based on comments and pictures, he seems much more laid-back than when he was a teen.
- Compared to the other villains, even the PPG think they're overall less threatening. "Just a nuisance", in Blossom's words. Of course, their villainous acts aren't comparable to a genius monkey and the Devil Himself, but it puts things into perspective when thinking what actions are "redeemable" or not.
- A lot of hints and meta surrounding the GGG seem to observe at the most that they seem homeless, maybe even orphaned?, teens that are lashing out because they have nothing else in their lives. No family, no money, not a proper home... And unlike other villains, their mutation didn't give them cool weapons, genius intellect or super-powers; they're the same old rotten teens from before, just with added deformities. That's gotta sting in the self-esteem angle, too. And we know Townsville is judgmental even with innocent bystanders as long as they don't look "right", hence how the citizens were so wary of Mr. Green. It's safe to say even without the delinquent attitude they might have been shunned by the rest of the town for their looks alone. This points stands a lot more when you see the comparison to real life gangs, and how immigrant children are shunned (Arturo is stated to be Mexican and Ace hinted to be Italian- two immigrant groups in real life that were shunned in the history of the USA).
- Buttercup is their prominent PPG Foe. Not only because of the color green and the troublemaking attitude, but it's hinted that Cuppa has this lashing-out, tomboy personality to differ from her sisters and stand-out amidst Blossom's smarts and Bubbles' sweetness. Similarly, maybe the Gang commit crimes to bring attention to themselves, because otherwise the only thing they would do is starve down the streets. But we know that under the brash exterior, Cuppa is a good girl at heart, so who's to say the Gang also aren't hidden diamonds in the rough? Life has just robbed them of opportunities where they could display their good side.
This Troper always found it strange that Maid Mary was the only one of Willy's friends to be wearing a realistic mask and body suit, when all the overs are Cleary puppets and cheap costumes. It would have made more sense if she was just a female convict with a naturally innocent-looking face.
Of course it makes sense when you remember that female mooks are rare, even in feminist shows like the Powerpuff Girls, so if Maid Mary was a real women, she would have been a supporting character in that episode.
If she was a supporting character, she would eaither have been Willy's henchman girlfriend, similar to Harley Quinn from Batman, or be the true villain behind things, the one who convinced Willy to scam the kids into giving money. Alas, there wasn't anytime for this, so Maid Mary was reduced to a normal male mook.
This actually has to parallels to criticism of the Abrahamic God and religion as a whole. That is, if Adam and Eve hadn't have eaten the forbidden fruit, there would be no suffering or sin, but at the same time, mankind would never have gained free will and we would all be like mindless sheep in some garden doing what God tell us.