#anti the cw live action powerpuff girls!

[queenladonna]

THANK YOU, GOD! We’ve WON!! 🙌🏽

[gch1995]

I’m 25 going on 26 now, and I grew up loving the classic Powerpuff Girls cartoon series when I was a kid. Even now when I rewatch it as an adult, it’s still a cute and funny cartoon, especially now that I’m old enough to recognize all of the adult jokes. Like, there’s no way it was a coincidence that Professor Utonium’s despicably dishonest, greedy, lazy, manipulative, selfish, and sleazy former roommate from college was given the name Professor Dick Hardly by accident.

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup actually are pretty relatable little girls who have believable flaws and insecurities. They make believable bad choices for little girls. Those issues actually get dealt with seriously, rather than just being brushed aside as no big deal with no negative consequences. They are still endearing and sympathetic in spite of their flaws.

While he had a few OOC moments of bad parenting in some bad episodes here and there, generally speaking, Professor Utonium from the classic Powerpuff Girls is actually one of the best dads in cartoons that I’ve ever seen, which is sadly pretty rare in most cartoon sitcoms, even the ones that are actually aimed at a children audience.

Most cartoon dads are abusive, lazy, neglectful, selfish, and stupid oafs. Granted, those type of dads in cartoon sitcoms can actually be entertaining and funny to watch when they are actually being well-written as shitty and slow-witted, but still essentially well-meaning people in regards to their families, such as S1-S8 Homer Simpson from The Simpsons and even S1-S3 Peter Griffin from Family Guy. However, the entertainment quality of those shitty, but well-meaning cartoon dads was mostly lost when the writers flanderdized their negative traits to the point of making Homer and especially Peter downright despicable with little to no redeeming or sympathetic qualities much of the time anymore. They went from being shitty, but essentially well-meaning parents and husbands to downright bratty and spoiled man-children who were much more intentionally abusive, childish, cruel, neglectful, petty, and selfish in regards to their families and others around them with little to no sympathetic or redeeming qualities much of the time anymore, and that’s one of the biggest reasons why The Simpsons went downhill in quality after S8, and why Family Guy went downhill in quality after S3.

Nonetheless, even as they were originally written on their shows pre-flanderdization when they were still well-meaning, but misguided parents and spouses, cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin, weren’t good dads on the whole. There were still plenty of recurring plot lines and/or gags of them being abusive, lazy, neglectful, reckless, and selfish. Back in early seasons pre-flanderdization, it was more forgivable, though, because they also still had their fair share of kind and selfless moments with their families, and their shittiness as parents wasn’t intentionally abusive, malicious, premeditated, and selfish in nature, which balanced them out enough to still be entertaining and likable characters in spite of their flaws.

Realistically speaking, though, dads like Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson would be better off having their kids taken away from them by CPS. Their good qualities and lack of malicious intent, particularly in earlier seasons pre-flanderdization, would still not hold up as legitimate excuse as to why they should be allowed to keep their kids. Bart would have bruises all over his neck, fractures in his neck, and he could possibly be killed if Homer strangled him hard enough to actually break his neck and/or cut off his air supply long enough in real life just once. Meg, Chris, and even Stewie would not only be injured, but actually outright killed in real life from some of the abuse and neglect that Peter and Lois put them through in later seasons of FG. All of these kids, especially Meg, would have serious self-esteem issues for the rest of their lives because Peter, Lois’, and Homer’s abuse and neglect of their kids went beyond just a pattern of being physical in nature, but emotionally and verbally abusive as well.

So yeah, Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson are really not good fathers who you’d ever want to deal with for a parent in real life, even pre-flanderdization. The major reoccurrence of the abusive, bumbling, idiotic, lazy, drunken, neglectful, and selfish dad trope in cartoon sitcoms is exactly why I really love Professor Utonium from the classic PPG cartoon. I don’t necessarily mind it in absurdist cartoon sitcoms when it’s done well as a trope, but I’m also getting tired of mostly just seeing bad and stupid dads in cartoon sitcoms, and not enough good ones.

For the most part, the OG Professor Utonium is a great dad who goes above and beyond to make sure Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are happy, healthy, disciplined, and safe. He’s usually the parent most of us wish we could have in real life, if we don’t already. It’s refreshing to actually see a good dad in an animated sitcom for once.

Professor Utonium in the classic PPG cartoon is generally a very kind, loving, selfless, and supportive dad to girls. However, he also knows when he has to discipline them and be strict without ever being mean about it. He gives them good advice. He’s very selfless, and even though the girls are superheroes with superhuman abilities, he’ll still risk and/or sacrifice anything to protect them when they’re unable to protect themselves with their powers, including his own life. He didn’t need to be the stereotypical cartoon sitcom abusive, bumbling, dumb, and neglectful dad in order to be funny either. He was funny because he could sometimes be overprotective of the girls, and he could sometimes embarrass them by calling them sickly sweet terms of endearment and telling embarrassing stories that he shouldn’t have about them in public. He was socially awkward. These are relatable flaws in parents that even the best ones have.

While the girls don’t have a mother, Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane were very brave, kind, and intelligent strong women who were good role models.

Also, the Professor did many activities with the girls and chores around the house that get gender-coded as “mother’s work.” Some of these things include begrudgingly playing dress up as Bubbles to make her happy when she was playing PowerPuff Girls with Buttercup and Blossom on a rainy day inside of no crime when he saw that she was upset that no one wanted to be her, cooking, cleaning, and actually sitting down to talk with the girls, listen to them, emotionally support them, and give them advice. He’s also not afraid to be openly affectionate, doting, and emotional with the girls. There’s just not enough good dads in cartoon sitcoms, which is why I really like Professor Utonium from the OG PowerPuff Girls cartoon and movie. He mostly defied all the bad dad stereotypes, and was a really great one to the girls more often than not.

The main villains from the classic PowerPuff Girls cartoon are incredibly entertaining, especially MoJo JoJo. Him was always the creepiest to me because he was the most devious, insidious, and manipulative one. All of the psychological abuse and manipulation he put the girls and Townsville through was always the scariest to me when I was a kid because out of all the villains on the show, the torment that he wreaked upon the girls and Townsville by brainwashing them, gaslighting them, and/or exploiting their fears and insecurities often was played as dead serious with really scary results, especially in early seasons of classic PPG. While Him had a few human moments here and there, for the most part, he was pretty consistently played off as being seriously scary and dangerous.

MoJo JoJo was an egomaniacal asshole hellbent on destroying the PowerPuff Girls and world domination, and on a few occasions, he actually came close to succeeding. On a few occasions, he genuinely was more scary than camp evil. But he still had a lot of humorous, human, fallible, and relatable moments, too. My favorite MoJo moments are the ones where he is making jokes, irritably going grocery shopping to get eggs, getting too frustrated by the girls antics and childish behaviors and reactions to actually go through with his plans to destroy them at certain points, and getting angry and jealous enough to actually destroy the alien/robot invader from another planet who was destroying Townsville in all the evil ways that he always wanted to himself. He was highly intelligent at coming up with clever schemes and inventions with all his science and technology to take over the world, destroy Townsville, and/or destroy the PowerPuff Girls. However, his arrogance, impatience, and impulsivity always doomed him to fail to succeed in the end, though he did come pretty close on a few occasions, especially in the 2002 prequel origin story movie, and he did actually get to rule the world in “The PowerPuff Girls Rule the World!” Surprisingly, he actually was a kindhearted ruler who did good things, but then he gave it all up and went back to being evil because he got bored.

Originally, MoJo was a well-intentioned extremist who wanted to create a utopia ruled by primates where they would never be controlled or rejected by humans again. As much as Professor Utonium’s irritation with JoJo for being a destructive chimp lab assistant was completely justified, it’s also hard not to feel kind of sorry for Mojo Jojo and understand where he’s coming from in his motivations to become evil, particularly in the 2002 prequel movie because originally all he really wanted was to be loved by his owner, too. He understandably felt rejected when Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup became the center of his universe instead. Of course, that doesn’t excuse him for choosing to respond to the Professor’s rejection by becoming an arrogant, evil, cruel, hateful, hypocritical, domineering, manipulative, petty, selfish, and vengeful villain going on a quest for world domination, attempting to commit homicide several times, probably committing voluntary manslaughter of citizens several times that we didn’t see on screen when destroying Townsville all those times, turning the rest of the world into dogs to try to take over the world, and trying to destroy the girls. However, you understand why Mojo became the villain he did with his backstory. He’s relatable. Occasionally, he does have some genuinely sympathetic moments where he’s actually willing to be friendly with the girls, team up with them, and do the right thing.

HIM was just the personification of evil for no other reason than the fact that he was satan. While MoJo was a complex, human, and relatable anti-villain with his origin story as the Professor’s lab chimp, who gained genius-level human intellect from having Chemical X splashed on his brain, and then chose to become evil after feeling rejected by the Professor when he saw how he pretty much forget about him once the girls became the center of his universe instead, HIM was evil, manipulative, and hateful for no other reason than the fact that those traits were a part of his nature as the very embodiment of evil. Many times, a fictional villain being portrayed as one-dimensional with no sympathetic qualities or relatable motivations will annoy me, but with HIM being evil just because that’s who he is, it actually works because he is literally Satan. There doesn’t need to be a deeper sympathetic story behind why he is evil. Committing crimes, wreaking havoc, corrupting people, manipulating people, turning people against others, exploiting the fears of others, and deceiving others for his own amusement is just who he is, and in the early seasons of classic PPG in particular, that made him really scary to me when I was a six year old little girl watching the cartoon on TV.

You get the idea...The classic PowerPuff Girls was a fantastic cartoon, particularly the first four seasons. Granted, there was some series seasonal rot going on in the writing in S5 and S6 after the 2002 prequel movie, and Craig Mcracken and Gennedy Tartakovsky’s departure from the crew. Like, the characterizations of the characters and/or storylines in S5 and S6 felt comparably flanderdized, ooc, immature, inconsistent, pointless, shallow, and underwhelming at certain times to fit the plot, such as in the episodes “Keen on Keane,” “Pee Pee G’s,” “Seed No Evil,” “Reeking Havoc,” “Toast of the Town,” “Say Uncle,” “City of Clipsville,” “”Bubble Boy,” A Made Up Story,” “Mo’linguish,” and “Simian Says.” Even the good episodes of S5-S6 still didn’t ever reach the same level of greatness of the ones from S1-S4. However, the seasonal rot in the classic PPG cartoon of S5-S6 after Craig McCracken and Gennedy Tartakovsky’s departure still wasn’t nearly as bad as the seasonal rot on The Simpsons after S8, Family Guy after S3, and SpongeBob SquarePants post S3��S4 ish, so I’m still willing to consider most of S5-S6 of classic PPG legit canon.

However, it sounds like the 2016 PPG reboot fucked up everything that was originally good about it to go for a more slapstick comedic feel without substance without consistency, depth, and intelligence. Now, I hear that the CW is making a live-action TV show spin-off of the PowerPuff Girls being jaded and resentful young women who’ve given up crime fighting as result! No, no, no! Why? Why does the CW keep making dark, nitty, and gritty live action teen soap operas out of beloved childhood cartoons?

Yeah, the original PowerPuff Girls cartoon and movie had dark moments. The girls could be bratty and make bad choices sometimes. However, it was still very much a fun show about normal little girls born with superpowers, which they chose to use to defend their father, their city, and on some occasions, the whole world, from crime. No one ultimately forced them to be superheroes for everyone in the classic PPG cartoon and movie. They chose to do it because they had brave and selfless hearts. There was ultimately no obligation for them to be superheroes in the classic PPG cartoon and movie. Sure, they got tired of fighting crime at times, but they still ultimately enjoyed doing it when push came to shove. They weren’t weighed down by the darkness of the world, hatred, and resentment. They still were relatively normal little girls with happy, peaceful, and normal lives of little girls whenever they weren’t fighting crime after the events of the prequel movie about their origins. That’s what made the PowerPuff Girls classic cartoon so special.

By turning Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup into jaded young women, who have given up on being superheroes because they’ve grown resentful of “losing the normal childhood to crime fighting” that they basically are shown to have in the original series for the most part in their spare time aside from having superpowers that they chose to use to fight crime to defend their dad and Townsville from, anyway, where is the fun in that?

[gch1995]

I’m 25 now, and I grew up with the OG PPG cartoon and movie. I still rewatch it sometimes because it’s such a sweet and funny show, particularly the first four seasons. There were some instances of flanderdization, humor, and storytelling choices in S5-S6 of classic PPG after the first movie and Craig McCracken and Gennedy Tartakovsky’s departure that I didn’t like, but they weren’t THAT bad on the whole, especially when compared to the bad writing in long running cartoon sitcoms like SpongeBob Squarepants after S4 ish, The Simpsons after S8, and Family Guy after S3, which have lasted for far longer than two seasons past their original expiration date when the writers became lazy and ruined the characters and storylines with bad writing when they ran out of ideas. So the most part, I’m willing to give S5-S6 of classic PPG a pass for not being as good as S1-S4. There were still a handful of decent and nice episodes in S5-S6 of classic PPG that were mixed in with the bad, even if the good ones of S5-S6 were still never as good as S1-S4.

Haven’t watched a full episode of the 2016 PPG cartoon reboot, and I never will because from all the clips and reviews that I’ve seen of it on YouTube, the writers sacrificed too much of the charm of the original cartoon characters and storylines coherency, complexity, consistency, intelligence, likability, and relatability of the original characters and storylines in favor of cheap, immature, and forced stereotypical slapstick comedy.

However, I bet the new “dark, nitty, gritty, and realistic” live action CW spin off of PPG will be even worse than the 2016 cartoon reboot. Like, I loved the original PPG cartoon and movie, but why can’t show-runners and networks let the franchise RIP, rather than continuing to milk it dry for all the cash its worth in their laziness? Can’t they come up with new ideas? It’s the same thing with SpongeBob, The Simpsons, and Family Guy.

Yep, I’ve heard the news! And it sounds awful. No one ever wanted this.

[lilisouless]

Dear CW

-The pilot had to be filmed again

-The lead actress had to walk off for unrelated reasons BUT her fans are happy she won't be there

take-the-hint

[juniaships]

My OCs as gritty live action

- Jora is now a bitter young woman who hates everything and everyone and numbs the pain by drinking or getting into illegal street fights. Also she is skinny for some reason

- Lani is now the Sexy Nerd and...that's about it

- Regina is a total Rich Bitch who looks down on the common masses because she's a wealthy white girl - she's also in a forbidden relationship with Antauri *NO*

- Rosslyn: "It will be, when it fits a woman."

- Kendrix is constantly given a pass for her shitty behavior without a single bit of self awareness

- Mikayla is a filthy degenerate who has sex with everyone

- All the canonically dark skinned girls will be played by a lighter skinned actress

- Odette (who is Afro-Polynesian) will now be played by a Hispanic actor because brown people are interchangeable

- Niya's family are Islamic terrorist

- Kaysha gets for man pain/replaced by a new white female character who is STRONG

- Jetta is the only one with common sense and points out how garbage the show is; however in universe everyone hates her

- Piper and Rhea are just there, despite Piper being a chi expert and martial artist on par with Elemental Masters, and Rhea being a talented dancer & moral support; also they're both ghetto

- Characters like Sonic, the Ninja Turtles, The Loonatics or aliens will all be played by hot actors, bare-minimum makeup or 90s grade CGI

- Ben is just the stupid childish idiot Himbo with zero redeeming qualities & makes fun of Jora yet expected to be her final love interest

- Penny's adopted parents are extremely abusive

- Lenora Rose (Janus Lee's dead wife) comes back to life as a darker Anti Heroine

- Marion is nonbinary and that's their entire character. None of their interests in cartoons and puppetry and learning to be a mage, nope their the token enby character. Also their codename is Snowflake.

- Aster wouldn't exist or their status as enby is nonexistent because you can't have more than two

- Beatrix the Butterfly is mentioned in passing as a lesbian or her being lesbian is just her entire character. Also she dies because she's too nice

- No woman over 40

- A triangle between Kevin/Rhea/Cole because that's exactly what we need

- Kudzu & Maestro Mortis would have redemptions while Odette never gets redeemed or dies

- The Power Rangers are now a part of the Plumbers because separate teams don't exist

- Also common tropes like magic and cartoons are constantly mocked and not even clever

- Penny and Kendrix would wear provocative clothes despite being 13 and 14 years old

- Penny secretly works for her father Paine, also she dates Axel despite the latter being 18 years old

- Everything is set in high school despite character being college- age, homeschool, adults, or living in different towns

- Vanessa's postpartum depression is given one episode and one episode only

- Also her role gradually declines as she becomes The Mom

- Or her only trait is that she's religious

- Also Kendrix's anger issues are left untreated or seen as quirky

- Zane x Jetta gets ruined by Zane becoming fully human in the dumbest way possible, because robo/human pairings are way too taboo

- NO FUN ALLOWED

- Other canon characters are background noises yet end up becoming way more popular amd likable than the main protagonists

- All the female villains are Sexy, Woobified, Monsters, no subtlety or nuance

- POC characters slowly fade into the background leaving white/whitepassing characters all the attention

- The older white men are Trump Supporters or the show forces politics in every scene with no nuance

- Aerin's platonic relationship with Shadow is now a romance; also she's the reincarnation of Maria Robotnik

- Grown up child heroes resent losing their childhoods because as you know, saving lives amd being good role models are BORING

[boobstracted]

i was mad at the bubbles casting for the ppg reboot and made a whole list of people i would have preferred and then i accidentally deleted it and forgot who i put on there in the first place and the only name i can vaguely recall is johnny sequoyah (who was really good in that show 'believe') and now i'm sad they didn't cast her. she's 18 so she'd be a bit younger than the others, but i feel like they could've made that work somehow. shduifshidu sorry for ranting. i was just #smad

omg never apologize for ranting! i completely get your anger, i’m in the same place? i could list about 2038942304 other actresses (that are white and blonde) and 290348204832942094 many more actresses that are bipoc and amazingly talented for the role of bubbles before EVER thinking of dove cameron. but johnny is super talented rom what i remember!!! if you ever remake that list, send it my way, i’d love to see it!!

[gch1995]

I’m not going to watch either way, but I’m honestly wondering if they are actually going to make Mojo a CGI chimpanzee with a mutated genius level brain and a maniacally redundant speech pattern, who’s hell bent on world domination, committing crime, and destroying the PowerPuff Girls, or just make him into a hot white guy Villain Stu with a tortured soul.

Granted, in the classic PPG cartoon Mojo Jojo did have a bit of a tragic villain origin story as the Professor’s mutated lab chimp. He chose to become evil after the girls became the center of his former master’s universe because he mostly got ignored, and then became jealous afterwards. Yeah, he was a shitty lab assistant to the Professor, even after his brain got mutated with Chemical X, and I can’t totally blame the Professor for getting frustrated with Jojo, and preferring the loving, sweet, super-powered, and well-meaning little girls he created over his destruction-prone lab chimp because that’s just human nature. However it is sad when you think about the fact that, initially, all Jojo really wanted was Professor Utonium’s attention and love, which he mostly got denied, particularly after the girls were born, and that denial of love and feelings of rejection are what inspired him to make the choice to become a villain hellbent on destroying the PPG and world domination.

There’s an irony in the fact that Mojo inadvertently had a hand in creating the girls and giving them the superpowers that allowed them to become the PowerPuff Girls by pushing Professor Utonium into the Chemical X when he was stirring up the concoction to create the girls. Yet, MoJo is often the villain who wants to destroy the girls the most.

However, I feel like they are going to take away what originally made MoJo hilariously camp and silly in his evil in the original cartoon, so that they can make this live action reboot more “dark” and “realistic.” The thing that the CW doesn’t seem to get is that MoJo was actually still a pretty complex and relatable villain on the original show, really the most well-developed one, in spite of being hilariously arrogant, clumsy, impulsive, and short-sighted. No, he wasn’t excused for his crimes, and he didn’t ultimately redeem himself in the end because he got bored being good. Yet, he was still a very entertaining character with a lot of sides to him.

apparently this new powerpuff girls cw show cast someone to play mojo jojo's kid and umm...... i have some questions

[thecncitygirls]

Okay so the CW is making a live action Powerpuff girls....

Where they're now disillusioned 20-somethings....

It's either going to be really awesome and full of depth or really lame and full of immature angst

[xdarkeningkrystals]

I refuse to watch Powerpuff, I'm just gonna hear about it from Tumblr just I like I did with the Trainwrecks The Originals and Legacies.

[gch1995]

I just listened to ShadowStreak read the leaked live action script of the pilot for the CW PPG live action revival, and these were my reactions throughout it:

I know, I know...They’ve gotten every main character in the Utonium family completely wrong. It makes no sense. It’s full of a bunch of horribly awkward, cliche, and stupid dialogue, forced “Woke” lingo, mature topics that have no place in the PowerPuff franchise, and stereotypical representation. However, as much as I want to smack the writers on the head with something hard for writing this garbage, it also just sounds like such a godawful fanfic that I can’t help but laugh my ass off...I know it’s horrible, but it’s so horribly wrong that it’s just laughable...

I’m in my mid-twenties now, and I grew up loving the original classic cartoon, particularly S1-S4. I loved how strong the family bonds between the girls and Professor Utonium as a family were generally portrayed and the entertaining villains like Mojo and HIM were always great. This live action reboot sounds so awful and ridiculous that it’s just laughable, though. Yeah, it’s laughable, but not because it has any well-written jokes or clever humor. They’ve turned PPG into a horrible young adult soap opera that seems like a parody, but I’m sure the writers thought it was completely brilliant.

I’m sure it’s not going to be much better when it’s revised, if it’s anything like with the writers of the CW Winx Club live action reboot. I hope it fails. I really do. How could anyone be proud of having written this garbage script? How? I’m pretty sure that I’ve read fanfics in the PPG fanfic community written by thirteen year olds that are far better than this!

[bubblesbenson]

Screw Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier.

I think the most depressing thing about that leaked Powerpuff script was that it was written by 2 adult women. What the fuck happened there. How do 2 adult women come up with something THIS intrinsically misogynistic and anti-feminist

[queenladonna]

God, the desperate way I want that “Powerpuff Girl” show The CW is making to be scrapped before it starts! 😩

They’re going to do with them what they did to the Archie Comics characters: Make them edgy, over-sexualized them (at least they’re supposed to be adults in this, but still), offended by everything to fit the vibe of today; ruin everyone in general, but probably especially their dad, who will now be Evil & Abusive™ (because it’s The CW).

I’m fucking fuming about this show, it’s gonna be an abomination.

[sage-nebula]

could u explain what u dont like about the new ppg show ? i always like hearing ur thoughts on things

Where to begin?

I haven't liked the premise since the get-go. To begin with, the idea that "superheroes but jaded and cynical" isn't revolutionary anymore, it's overdone. It would subvert expectations more to tell a story that's not like that. The days when all superhero stories were bright, colorful, and hopeful stories is long since done. Between Nolan's Batman trilogy, Watchmen, and The Umbrella Academy, we have enough of "superheroes once had hope but now are jaded and messed up adults" to last us a lifetime. Side note, but The Umbrella Academy also did "former child superheroes are now messed up adults" too, so even that aspect isn't unique to this Powerpuff Girls live-action show. If anything, it's like The CW saw the success of The Umbrella Academy and wanted to take their own shot at it, and they just decided to mess up an existing franchise rather than a.) find a comic series already doing something like that, or b.) create something entirely original and actually take a risk. Riverdale just isn't cutting it for them anymore, I guess.

To that end, the entire idea of taking Powerpuff Girls and making it cynical, jaded, and making the Girls complete messes as adults is the complete antithesis of everything the original show was. I'm not saying that you can't ever stray away from the source material when making an adaptation, nor am I saying that they can't handle mature themes with the Girls as adults (or teenagers if they had decided to go that route). Given the difficulties with finding good child actors, plus the difficulties with those actors aging even if the characters themselves don't, I completely understand why they wanted to age the characters up (especially since the primary audience for The CW is teenagers, so giving them older characters to relate to is probably for the best). But you can do that without ruining the central ideas that the original show had, which were that these Girls are superheroines who love being superheroines, whose town loves them back, who have a loving father who does everything for them, who sometimes make mistakes and need to find their own way through things but ultimately are positive figures and role models for girls everywhere. These Girls loved each other, loved their family, their town, loved their roles as superheroes, loved their friends, and that love was always what saved the day. And sure, sometimes the show could be campy and cheesy, but this was a superhero show with anthropomorphic creatures as villains and, well, kindergarten aged superheroines. It didn't need to be realistic and gritty, that's not ever what it was about.

So to know that the show was always going to mangle these characters and the themes of the original for something that is honestly trite and overdone left a bad taste in my mouth even before I saw the bits of the pilot script that were leaked. But seeing what was leaked, what do I hate about it? Well:

I hate that only Buttercup was cast as black when she is known as being "the toughest fighter" and therefore the most aggressive and violent of the three, since that's a racist stereotype of black women (see: the angry black woman). I also hate that she's not only queer, but also hyper-sexualized in her queerness as well, since that goes into more racist and also homophobic stereotypes (both in that she's hypersexual and also that she's the least feminine and most aggressive, so CLEARLY she's a lesbian, am I right?)

I hate that Buttercup threatens sexual assault against Blossom (leaking her nudes) to wake her up.

I hate that Bubbles is apparently a cocaine addict, or was one at some point.

I hate that Buttercup uses "triggered" with air quotes and is apparently some kind of anti-SJW caricature.

I hate that Professor Utonium is portrayed as an abusive father when he loved those Girls more than his own life in the original and, as stated, did EVERYTHING for them.

I hate that there's a whole scene where the Girls talk about his sex life.

I hate that Ms. Bellum is reduced to just being the Professor's abused girlfriend.

I hate everything that was done with Mojo Jojo, both in how he was split into two human characters and how apparently he created Chemical X but the Professor took credit for his work.

I hate that this adaptation made Professor Utonium into an abusive father, abusive boyfriend, and hack scientist who steals the work of others and then cast a black man to play him.

I hate that Blossom apparently killed Mojo and that's why the Girls are exiled from Townsville (or at least not able to use their powers there or something).

I hate that the Rowdyruffs are apparently in this mess somehow (Butch is mentioned at one point in the script as hating Bubbles).

I hate that they belittle the cartoon as being something terrible in this pilot by having Bubbles say that the Professor "sold their rights" to make the cartoon that "whitewashed" them (I get that she's trying to say it made their image look more pure, but considering the actress is literally white, her claiming to be "whitewashed" is fucking hysterical and just goes to show that the writers are trying to use social justice language without having a single idea of what it means). Basically, "the cartoon sucks, our show is better" when that couldn't be FARTHER from the truth.

I could go on. I always knew I was going to hate this show but the racism, the homophobia, and the complete degradation of everything the original show stood for is so much worse than I could have imagined. I thought we couldn't sink lower than the rebooted cartoon on Cartoon Network, but boy, was I wrong. Apparently they are retooling the pilot, but given that they said their reason for doing so was that it was "too campy and not grounded in reality" my hopes still remain in Hell (where they were originally but yet somehow it still ended up worse than I could have thought). All I can say is that I hope this trainwreck gets canceled before it ever airs. I doubt that will happen, but that's what I'm hoping for anyway.

[prousterinhernest]

Oh god, I need to talk about that Powerpuff Girls script

So, do I ever actually post here? No. Has a part of my childhood been re-opened, stepped on repeatedly and run over with a car? Yep. So to spare my poor mother from the many rants about this script and her repressed memories of a young me just watching the show on repeat, I’m here to talk about it from a script perspective.

I’m so glad this is the main thing I use my degree for. To spare us all, I’m shoving this in parts because I’m so glad they shoved this script into a five act structure to make this easier for me.

So let’s start this off with the ten minute teaser at the beginning. Apparently, this all starts in 2003 with a seven-year-old Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles. They’re flying through the sky, and okay, I’ll give them some nostalgia factor for this. However, I’m saying this now - this reads like an animation script. This is live-action, and instead they’re really using the description of “cotton candy clouds”? Please, stick to whether you want it to be live-action or animation. Please.

Also, their dresses are described as impractical and it’s like... Guys. You’re already starting to describe the dresses as impractical for seven-year-olds. You know what else is impractical? Seven-year-olds destined to fight crime. 

Blossom is described as the leader, go-getter and goody-goody. Now, from what I remember - yeah that does describe Blossom. I’m really coming from a place of a person who’s memories of the show are only kinda coming back after 20 years so, if I get anything wrong then someone - please tell me.

Buttercup’s the scrappy, scowling tomboy - not even described by the narrator with that one. Instead, the narrator is just like she’s the tough one and a “hard-ass” and I wouldn’t describe a seven-year-old as a hard-ass. 

Then Bubbles. Poor, sweet innocent Bubbles, who always was my favourite as a child and what have they done to you. She was the sweet and cheerful one, most of the time - according to the narrator. And you know, I’ll accept the dialogue for the seven-year-old Bubbles saying woot. It was 2003, but you know, woot is not a word I’ve heard in ages. I know I’m fixating, but then she immediately after this mentions how the Professor mentions efficacy and you know what, I don’t think a seven-year-old would say the word efficacy and I just have a lot of issues with Bubbles dialogue in this script and this is just the start.

So they’re flying, they’re fighting a giant three-headed-pegasus monster but in my head, I’m just seeing that weird giant three-headed-dragon thing from My Little Pony and I don’t know why but we don’t see it much because you just know the writers were only thinking about how the producers will react to this, I see that “(don’t worry)” in the script and I know they’re just worrying the producers about the budget. 

Which is why we get a short-ass fight and then immediately after we get a flashback to 1996. To when they were created. Note: They weren’t born, they were created to be the age of 7 in 1996 and yet they’re still that age in 2003. Am I being pedantic? Yes. Is that bothering me a lot? Oh god yes.

Also Mojo Jojo is two people and just make him a monkey you cowards. I know you managed to get Gorilla Grodd in The Flash, so just do it. Instead, we’ve got Dr Joseph Mondel, who’s Utonium’s science partner. He’s there when they’re born and supposedly he and... Drake, are close. 

“Couldn’t have done this without you Mojo,” you are a liar Professor. You are not the man I remember you to be good sir. 

Then Professor Utonium gets his happy life, also with a hot girlfriend - why did you date Sara Bellum? I recall her being married to her work? Heaven forbid we have a single father being a good figure for his children. Right, CW? I’m so glad that we got Sara Bellum being reduced to becoming just Drake Utonium’s girlfriend (for now).

Next we’ve got them saving a bank from Fuzzy Lumpkins, and you know what? We don’t need this scene. I only hear the narrator and you should not be relying so much on the narrator because has no one told you show don’t tell? Because I’m pretty sure if I relied on a narrator for a show like this, my lecturers would have gutted me like a fish.

Mojo, who is still tragically not a monkey, is apparently sick with envy. He wanted to be like Elon Musk, and I say this again, he wanted to be like Elon Musk and how dare you insult Mojo Jojo in this way. But yeah, he was forgotten by Utonium once Utonium went famous and his son is now an obsessive Blossom fanboy. I wish I was joking. But this is no Jojo-joke. (I’ll show myself out, don’t worry).

Mojo has enough power to hold a rally, and say that Utonium stole his work and that the girls are dangerous and you know, as a concept? I’d be okay with that. I too would be worried about children with superpowers. Hell, I was a dick as a child. If I had powers? Damn son, I’d be the worst. 

But you know, he wasn’t their only enemy. They also had... puberty. God, I wish this was a joke. I really wish it was. 

Blossom, at age 17, despite how she should probably be 24 if she and her sisters were born at the age of 7 in 1996 - Yes, that’s my issue - is studying for SATs and they made it so Buttercup is cheating on her girlfriend. Thanks guys. Way to ruin Buttercup. Then we have Bubbles. Bubbles who is hungover, and forced flamingos in the zoo to drink Hypnotiq. 

I stand by my previous statement: Bubbles what have they done to you?

Also, despite Blossom being the leader and the apparent moral high-ground for the kids she doesn’t seem to be as goody-goody as she was described earlier on. I’d have thought she’d be against her siblings who are both forcing flamingos to drink and cheating on girlfriends - but no, she’s super chill with them. 

Added bonus: Buttercup doesn’t want to wear a dress because it’s compulsive heterosexuality. So, bad news everyone - dresses are completely heterosexual now. 

They go to fight Swampy, and Bubbles is literally treating everything like a TV-show and Drake has clearly been a horrible influence and Sara Bellum calls him out for it. She’s then classed as not being a member of the family, and dick move Drake. You had a good stepmother figure character but of course, she breaks up with him. (After nine years and being exclusive for seven. I... I can’t with Drake).

Next up giant squid robot appears while they fight Swampy. You know, despite there being lots of protestors, surely someone would have noticed by now that there’s only Mojo piloting that giant squid that will reek more damage than these teenagers? Right...? 

Nope, not so. Instead, there’s Blossom picking a fight with Anti-Powerpuff Protestors and Bubbles fighting Swampy, while Blossom is dealing with the giant squid robot being controlled by Mojo. Jojo’s co-piloting it and all I can think is, this guy literally has a Blossom action figure in his hand. This isn’t a crush, he’s literally obsessed. Giant squid robot destroys a building, Blossom tries to save people, ends up accidentally killing Mojo in front of his son.

On the plus side, Mojo had a monkey lab-rat partner but having a talking monkey was too real? God, I hate this.

But yeah, the Powerpuff Girls are now controversial despite the fact they didn’t kill Mojo. I mean, Blossom did accidentally, but she then got PTSD and ran away. Bubbles and Buttercup call out the protestors and the press outside their house and I just want to end this with: Just let Buttercup say Fuck.

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That’s just the teaser. I’m really sorry everyone that is just the teaser and for the sake of it I’m only focusing on the script. I don’t wanna focus on the casting yet because you know? Imagining Turk as Professor Utonium is just pain.

I’m just gonna leave this one here and I’ll talk about the trainwreck that is Act I in a little while because really. Really. 

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Most of us who grew up with the classic PPG cartoon are younger millennials or older gen Z’ers who are currently in our mid-twenties to early thirties, which probably why they aged up the girls to their mid twenties. However, I do agree about the writers trying way too hard to appeal to Gen Z’ers. Those of us in our twenties don’t talk about alcohol, drugs, sex, and social media in every conversation we have.

Can we talk about the fact that the CW actually created negative stereotypes, too, particularly in their portrayal of Buttercup and Professor Utonium in this reboot, too?

Buttercup, “the toughest fighter,” is being played by Yana Perrault, a black actress, which immediately creates the whole “aggressive black girl” stereotype. Dove Cameron, who is playing Bubbles, is white. Chloe Bennet is part Chinese, but she is white passing. You could argue that there’s a bit of the “nerdy Asian” stereotype played up in Blossom’s character being played by the part-Chinese Chloe Bennet. The fact that the only dark-skinned actress of the girls is playing the “toughest fighter” creates a negative stereotype, though.

If that’s not bad enough, Buttercup’s character is not even a positive representation of a lesbian in this version at all. She cheats on every woman she dates and/or sleeps with, and preys on bicurious ones. Also, she blackmailed Blossom by threatening to leak photos of her nudes! Just no!

On top of that, they had Professor Utonium played by Donald Faison, a black actor, and turned the character into a controlling, emotionally/mentally abusive, narcissistic, and shallow bad dad, which perpetuates the “bad black father” negative stereotype. It also sounds like this version of Professor Utonium cheated on Ms. Bellum multiple times, and slept around with a lot of women, which perpetuates the whole negative “unfaithful black boyfriend and womanizer” stereotype.

In the classic cartoon, Professor Utonium had a few OOC instances of neglectful and idiot ball parenting in some episodes that threw away his normally otherwise intelligent and/or sympathetic characterization for certain plots, twists, and storylines, such as in “Moral Decay,” “Keen on Keane,” “Daylight Savings,” “A Very Special Blossom,” and “Coupe d’etat. He could be rather naive and lack common sense on a few occasions, such as in “Mommy Fearest” and “Town ‘n’ Out.” Usually, those OOC moments were redeemable at the end of those episodes, though, because he would realize he messed up, misunderstood, or failed his kids in some way at the end, then feel guilty, and make it right. Almost everyone in the fandom pretends the segment “Moral Decay” never happened since the entire Utonium family came across as very uncharacteristically stupid and unsympathetic in that segment in order to force Buttercup into the role of the villain, and punish her in a cheaply shocking way. Plus, everything goes back to normal again after that between Buttercup and her family, and “Moral Decay” never gets referenced or mentioned in the series ever again.However, in the 2002 movie and in most episodes of the classic cartoon, Professor Utonium was a very attentive, caring, doting, kind, protective, selfless, and wise good dad to his three kids. He was proud of his girls for the fact that they chose to risk their lives to save him and their city, and he encouraged them when they didn’t believe in themselves as heroes. He treated the girls as people, rather than objects more than any other adult in the classic series.

Professor Utonium accepted that the girls accidentally got superpowers because he loved them, but he didn’t purposely set out to give them superpowers when he made them.

In the classic cartoon, Professor Utonium usually gave the girls strong emotional support, good advice, and/or taught them valuable lessons when they needed it most of the time in “Boogie Frights,” “The Mane Event,” “Ploys R’ Us,” “Beat Your Greens,” “Bubblevision,” “Meet The Beat Alls,” “Members Only,” “Not So Awesome Blossom,” and “Helter Shelter.” He built a super suit to hang out with them when they kept getting busy saving the day because he wanted to spend more time with them, and because he wanted for them to be able to have their dad to protect them in “PowerProf.”

In the classic PPG cartoon, Professor Utonium held a birthday party for the girls in “Birthday Bash.” He let them have a slumber party with their friends in “Slumbering With The Enemy.” He did everything to save them when he saw they were being hurt or in danger, even if it meant risking his life or sacrificing himself to keep them safe at times in episodes like “Uh Oh, Dynamo,” “Collect Her,” “Film Flam,” “PowerProf,” and “Knock It Off.”

In the classic cartoon, Professor Utonium pretended to like Citysville because he misguidedly believed the girls would be happier living a more normal life outside of Townsville in “Town ‘n’ Out” without being superheroes all the time, even though he hated it. He stressed out when their cake designs were less than perfect for a surprise party he was planning for them in “Little Miss Interprets.” He let them take time off when they were stressed or wanted to play with their friends when the Mayor called for trivial things in episodes like “Super Friends.” He took the girls on family trips and outings together from Townsville whenever they were free, and he wanted for them to relax at times, rather than constantly thinking about crime fighting in episodes like “Uh Oh, Dynamo,” “PowerProf,” and “Roughening It Up.”

Even in awful episodes like “Sun Scream,” he was looking out for their well-being on a trip to the beach by telling them not to forget to wear sun screen, and then freaked out when he saw that they were hurt and unable to move after getting sunburned. He doted on the three of them, and saw them as his “little angels” and his “babies” in episodes like “Uh Oh, Dynamo,” “PowerProf.,” “Ploys R’ Us,” “Little Miss Interprets,” “Members Only,” “Twisted Sister,” and the 2002 prequel movie, even though they were far from the “perfect little girls.” He built a giant fighting robot because he wanted to keep them safe in “Uh Oh, Dynamo.” He bought them gifts and toys in the 2002 prequel movie, “Ploys R Us,” “Birthday Bash,” and “Little Miss Interprets.” He built them the perfect pet that only needed to be fed once, but also thought to build in a failsafe to keep them safe in case they overfed Beebo in “Pet Feud.” He generally was pretty reasonably strict when he disciplined them in episodes like “Helter Shelter,” “Pet Feud,” “Twisted Sister,” and “Beat Your Greens.” He wanted for the girls to get a good education, and to do well in school.

In the classic cartoon, there was no one who wanted for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup to grow up to be good, happy, and healthy, little girls with normal childhoods as much as possible, while also letting them be superheroes on the side, more than Professor Utonium.

The classic PPG episode, “Film Flam” is actually a pretty good example of how much Professor Utonium was the antithesis of a narcissistic and shallow stage parent. He was actually pretty uneasy about signing that contract for his little girls to be in a movie with the offer from the “director” Bernie Bernstein. He went along with it at first by signing the contract because he saw how much Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup wanted to do it, and he wanted for them to be happy because they were his kids and he loved them. However, as soon as he saw Bernie Bernstein yelling at Bubbles and grabbing her jaw harshly for pointing out the truth, Professor Utonium got pissed off, and went down to the set to save his three kids. Then, when he found out that Bernie Bernstein was a fraud, trying to scam everyone to rob the bank by making a fake movie about the PPGs, Professor Utonium warned his little girls about what was going on by disguising himself to get on the set, and punched Bernie Bernstein in the face for fucking with his kids to steal money.

Yeah, Professor Utonium could be overprotective of them at times, particularly within the first three seasons, but he meant well, and he learned to ease up on them over time. Professor Utonium was the only adult in the city who pretty consistently saw Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as normal little girls, who deserved the chance to just be kids when they weren’t fighting crime.

He took care of them, protected them, and worried about their safety because he loved Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as his daughters. It was not because they made him famous by using their superpowers to save him and the city. While Professor Utonium was proud of them for being brave and selfless enough to choose to use their superpowers to save the day, he was also shown to be pretty terrified and uneasy about the girls fighting monsters, criminals, and villains on a few occasions because he also knew that, while the risk was minimal with their superpowers, there still was a risk involved of their lives in them saving the day at times. The girls superpowers and crime fighting made life more interesting for Professor Utonium in the classic cartoon. However, if any of them were ever to die in battle, he wouldn’t miss Blossom, Bubbles, and/or Buttercup because they were superheroes who made him famous, or because they made him rich. He would miss them because they were his daughters with brave,caring, cute, kind, feisty, funny, intelligent, protective, and selfless heart, who he loved. He never viewed them as products to show off to people or mass-market. He didn’t see them as just little crime fighting machines. He never forced them to be superheroes, though he did encourage them to go fight when he noticed they weren’t because they felt insecure, sad, and defeated.

In the OG cartoon what made it even more meaningful and sweet when the girls called Professor Utonium “dad” or “daddy” was that it was generally a pretty rare occurrence that came up in little moments here and there to remind the audience just how much the girls saw him as their father. Bubbles called Professor Utonium “dad” the first time after he bought her her first gift after she and her sisters were born to thank him. Buttercup called him “Daddy-o” once in the movie when he came to talk to them for the first time as a parent in the movie about being careful not to use their superpowers in public. They all referred to him as “dad” when Major Glory asked them about who did everything around the house in “Members Only.” Bubbles called Professor Utonium “dad” when she, Blossom, and Buttercup were all convinced that he wanted to get rid of them in “Little Miss Interprets,” and wanted to change his mind.

I don’t have a huge problem with the girls calling Professor Utonium “dad” or “daddy” in and of itself, but in this version it feels wrong because this Professor is a terrible parent, who doesn’t even deserve that title here. Also, it’s just creepy that the girls, particularly Bubbles, are talking about their dad’s sex life in detail...Just why? Fuck the writers of this show for creating creepy incest subtext from a cartoon that portrayed positive father/daughter relationships between Professor Utonium, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup! Fuck then for ruining that in their script to try to be more “edgy!”

This version of Blossom seems the least offensive of her sisters, but she’s also been reduced to being her sisters butt-monkey. She gets cast off by Bubbles and Buttercup when they are adults because they resent her for being level-headed and responsible enough to lead a decent career and life after high school and college, and they belittle and rag on her for still having panic attacks about accidentally killing Mojo when she was 17. Rather than trying to say anything comforting like “Bloss, it’s okay, we know it was an accident, and Mojo was an active threat who was trying to kill us at the time, anyway,” Bubbles says “You need to go to moveon.org.” It makes no sense as to why Mojo’s son has a crush on her since they barely ever even interacted in the script, anyway. 

They’ve turned Bubbles into a shallow, selfish, and stupid bitch with a drug and alcohol addiction, who belittles her sister’s anxiety over having accidentally killed a person, uses the word “whitewashing” in the wrong context, and pawns off her engagement ring for money to buy drugs. Also, her seemingly intimate knowledge of her father’s sex life is just creepy and wrong!

I’m not going to judge anyone for sending nudes to their bf, gf, or spouse, but I never needed or wanted to know that Blossom from the PowerPuff Girls had taken nudes of herself! It’s just like I never needed or wanted to learn that Bubbles from the PowerPuff Girls starred in a porno. It’s just I hate how much these writers aged the girls up, mostly just so they could sexualize them. They aged the girls from five year old kindergarteners to 25 year old young adults, just so they could sexualize them, and it pisses me off.

I can’t believe they put Mojo the man’s brain inside his son Jojo’s pet monkey. I’m not even a big fan of the RRB at all...They were fine in their debut episode, and there were some funny jokes surrounding them in “The Boys Are Back in Town,” it was funny to see Mojo and HIM fight over them in “Custody Battle,” but if I’m going to be honest, there really was no need for them to come back after their debut episode. They are overrated as hell, and Lord knows I am real freaking tired of seeing 99% of the fanfic in the PPG section on fanfic.net being compromised of stories that are focused on shipping the PPGxRRB together on a cartoon that generally focused so strongly on portraying positive and meaningful family relationships between Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as sisters, and Professor Utonium as their dad/his daughters. Like, romance wasn’t even a major part of the classic cartoon at all.

However, I still don’t understand why the writers overcomplicated Mojo Jojo’s storyline and character so much. They made Mojo a human, turned the RRB into male PPG rip-offs, then had Blossom kill Mojo, and gave Mojo a son named Jojo, who they then had transfer his dad’s brain to his pet monkey to resurrect him.

Why not just make Mojo a CGI animated chimpanzee with a brain mutated by Chemical X, who created the RRB to get back at Professor Utonium and the girls, have him raise the RRB to be his children, and then set Blossom up with one of the boys in a whole “Will they or won’t they” instead? Yeah, the graphics might not look that great, and I never really cared about shipping the girls with the RRB. However, that sort of storyline would still make more sense than the needlessly convoluted mess they created instead.

I don't know what's worse: the fact that Buttercup being the only openly LGBT character has the highest sex drive in the cast, the fact that Buttercup being the only black woman character has the highest sex drive in the cast, the fact that Professor Utonium is abusive when all he ever was to them was loving and didn't care about their popularity and NEVER exploited them, the fact that the script writers used WHITEWASHED of all words in the wrong context, the fact that Ms. Bellum got together with Utonium, the fact that they're trying way too hard to seem relatable to Gen Z, the fact that

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I’m not going to deny that the Professor Utonium from the classic PPG cartoon had some OOC moments of negligent and/or stupid parenting, such as in “Daylight Savings,” “Moral Decay,” “Town ‘n’ Out,” “Keen On Keane,” and “Coupe’detat.” However, those moments were pretty far and few between in the classic cartoon, and usually, he would realize it when he was in the wrong at the end of most of those episodes after getting called out by the girls, then feel guilty, and make it right at the end.

In most episodes of the classic cartoon, though, Professor Utonium was a great father to Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. He was doting, kind, funny, protective, reasonably strict, selfless, supportive, and wise. Sometimes, he could be rather embarrassingly cheesy, doting, and overprotective, but he really loved his three little daughters more than anything. He did everything in his power to protect them or save them in episodes like “Uh Oh, Dynamo,” “Collect Her,” “PowerProf.,” “Knock It Off,” “Film Flam,” and “Nano of the North,” even if it meant risking or sacrificing himself to do it. He gave them great advice, emotional support, and/or taught them valuable lessons when he noticed they needed it from him in episodes like “Boogie Frights,” “Beat Your Greens,” “The Mane Event,” “Ploys R’ Us,” “Bubblevision,” “Meet The Beat Alls,” “Members Only,” “Helter Shelter,” “Stray Bullet,” and “Not So Awesome Blossom.” He hung out with the girls in his free time as their dad, and took them on family outings with him to get away from the stress of crime fighting, and even encouraged them not to worry about it every now and then in episodes like “Uh Oh, Dynamo,” “PowerProf,” “Roughing It Up,” and even in that awful episode “Sun Scream.” He was prepared to stay in Citysville because he misguidedly believed that the girls would be happier in a city that wasn’t constantly flooded with crime that they needed to use their powers to stop. Professor Utonium bought all of them a bunch of toys and books from the very first day he made them in the 2002 prequel movie because he remembered that it was their birthdays

I’m pretty sure that no adult in the classic cartoon viewed Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as people, who deserved the chance to have normal childhoods more than Professor Utonium.

Even at his most OOC in the classic cartoon, though, he wasn’t like Professor Dick Hardly, who deliberately created super-powered artificial human children for fame and fortune. He just wanted to create three little girls to raise as their dad, and spread some good in the horrible city he lived in. Professor Utonium wasn’t in it for fame and fortune. He never forced Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup to be superheroes, or controlled every aspect of their lives for his own benefits. He did encourage them to get back out there and fight when he noticed they weren’t because they were feeling insecure, defeated, or sad because he was generally a good dad, but he never forced them. Saving the day with their superpowers was something the girls chose to do after the Mayor asked them if they wanted to in the prequel.

The whole point of Dick Hardly’s character in “Knock It Off” was to be a foil to Professor Utonium’s entire character. Professor Utonium created little girls because he wanted to be a parent and raise them to spread some good in the terrible world he lived in. He didn’t have any sort of ulterior dark motives for personal gain. They were selfless. Professor Dick Hardly, on the other hand, deliberately created artificial human children with superpowers to mass market them as crime fighting products for selfish personal gain.

Basically, the writers of the CW live action pilot script have turned Professor Utonium into a watered down version of his foil from the original cartoon, Professor Dick Hardly. He provided for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup when they were growing up, pretends like he knows what’s best for them, and let’s them call him “dad.” However, he doesn’t really love them or respect them as his daughters, or people at all in this atrocious CW script for the live action PPG reimagining. They are just products to him, who he deliberately created with superpowers to force them to be superheroes, so he could make money. I hate this.

Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier while writing the CW powerpuff girls script.