#dick hardly

[mic-rophone]

I must do art fight but the powerpuff girls call to me.. expect more stupid stuff like this-

[maltodekstryna]

goodnight to everyone except those who consider HIM more evil than Dick Hardly

you better don't go to sleep, just rethink your behaviour

[rammy]

if you're a CN-adjacent character with a dick joke name raise your hand real high

[simplysedusa]

On one hand, I want to throw away the whole multiverse concept and just give the Powerpunk Girls a creator from the canon universe (*coughDickHardlycough*) so I don't have to complicate things for my fic(s).

But, on the other hand, a multiverse as a concept/trope is very popular at the moment and it's still cool if I implement it right.

[thepowerposter]

Complete Monstober Day 21: Dick Hardly

This, folks, is the face of evil! Making your world's version of the Devil look like a saint by comparison takes a lot of skill! Here's his TV Tropes entry:

One-shot villain Dick Hardly is a former colleague of Professor Utonium defined by his greed. Seeing financial profit in Utonium's daughters, Dick manipulates the girls into giving him samples of Chemical X and mass produces crude replicas of the girls that deteriorate easily. Displaying his callousness towards his sapient creations by ordering a perfect replica of Buttercup melted down for its excess Chemical X, Dick traps the real Powerpuff Girls and slowly, painfully drains them while boasting that he could kill the girls and have Utonium as his slave at the same time. With no charm or comedic traits to his name, Dick was a monster even before drinking Chemical X.

[humaudrey]

In the comics, we see that the Powerpunk Girls are created in an alternate universe by Oppressor Plutonium.

And while there's nothing inherently wrong with that, I'd like to propose another idea that does away with the alternate universe route to keep things simple by giving them a creator who exists in the Powerpuff's universe.

My suggestion? Dick Hardly. He's one of the few scientists that manages to get his hands on Chemical X and due to his ineptitude, him accidentally creating the Powerpunk Girls could be plausible (plus he was already making counterfeit Powerpuffs for hire/profit).

I just imagine him in his office or whatever, cleaning his desk (maybe to impress a woman), and he hurriedly throws away some salt packets, a half empty, expired bottle of vinegar, and every other vulgar thing he'd might have lying around. Maybe a glass vial of Chemical X falls out of his lab coat and into the trash can and then BOOM! The Powerpunk Girls are born!

But he hates them! They're nothing like the originals, they're mean, selfish, rebellious, with a dangerous destructive tendency, and he has no problem reminding them about their failures, that they're failures. They're toxic assets ("At least the rejects are obedient"), but he needs the muscle so he keeps them around as his lackeys. The Powerpunks hate the comparisons, and their resentment toward the Powerpuffs begins to form, as well as their weird, complicated relationship with their...boss. Sure, they can't stand him either but it'd be nice if they were treated with some respect as individuals of their own right.

They witness Professor Utonium pleading with Dick to let his girls go from afar. Before anything can be done, Dick meets his demise (or does he? 😉) while the Powerpuffs get their perfect, happy ending. This leaves the Powerpunks wanting closure, leaving their thoughts on Dick to be even more convoluted. Are they angry that the Powerpuffs ultimately caused the death of their father or are they angry that the Powerpuffs beat them to it? Not even they know.

They flee from Townsville, away from anything related to Dick or those girls, living a carefree, crime ridden, crazy life of their own. Years later, they're approached by a certain someone who hates the Powerpuffs just as much as they do and are in the market for three new superpowered siblings with a insatiable appetite for destruction, since the last trio before them defied him.

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

[welcometogrouchland]

ANOTHER SKETCH DUMP! Featuring more of me playing with lineless art. Batman reborn era trio (dick, damian and steph) I miss you...when will you return from war. Also featuring Steph designs bc I've seen ppl dissatisfied w/ her current look, some good mom Talia, and Jason Todd poetry club. Duke is confused not that Jason would start a poetry club but that he'd have such mid poetry opinions. (ID in Alt)

[violent138]

Bruce has never known peace while watching a TV show or movie with his kids because Dick would start re-enacting scenes or demand that Bruce stay awake while perfectly mimicking actors while Jason would talk constantly explaining the plot and the characters and why this plot reminds him of [current favourite book]. Tim used to call Steph over for movie nights and they would hyena cackle their way through comedies that Alfred forced them all to watch. Damian never lets Bruce sleep (but falls asleep himself) and Bruce never realizes he's sat through the entire film. Duke loves movies, but if it's a Tarantino he's quoting all the scenes and points out specifics in his filmmaking and Bruce always gets genuinely interested so they end up replaying the movie a few times over (to the horror of anyone else present). Cass used to make every snack imaginable so she and Bruce can watch her favourite trashy films (and Bruce grudgingly admits he enjoys them). It gets even worse with the entire Batbrood together at once, but Bruce cherishes every moment.

[normal-nightmare]

Fun detail I noticed in Gotham Knights: Typically, Jason calls Dick by his last name, but when he's being vulnerable, Jason just calls him Dick. Like when Jason asks Dick about dreams.

[maltodekstryna]

find yourself someone who looks at you the way Dickhead Hardly looks at Chemical X

[humaudrey]

If we're talking about our favorites, then I'd say it's a tie between Sedusa, Princess, Dick Hardly, HIM, and the Rowdyruff Boys (and my interpretation of the Powerpunk Girls). Honorary mention to the creepy guy from Collect Her.

BONUS: From the 2016 reboot, my favorite would be Silico or Jemoire. Honorary mention to Butterfingers guy.

And now for the most question of all, what's your favorite Powerpuff Girls villains?

[stinkymicrowavedfish]

Professor is cursed to be single forever rip

[arabian-batboy]

I have seen some disclosures in the past about how fandoms force a non-existence "found family" dynamic between the characters then forcibly turn that found family into a "nuclear family" where they will make one character be the "dad" while one character is the "mom" and everyone else are siblings when that's not the case and while I definitely know what people mean by that and have seen it happen before, I feel like in the context of the "Batfamily," some people are taking it too far into the opposite direction.

Like first of all, depending on how you divide them, the "Batfamily" is made up by characters who are either literal family or just close friends/lovers, so I can understand why grouping all of them together and labeling them as one big family may sound confusing (but always remember, Wayne family =/= Batfamily)

Characters like Barbara, Stephanie and Duke (I might even throw in Tim & Cassandra, since they both were only adopted at 17) absolutely have an "unconventional" familial ties to each other and to Bruce, so I personally don't think you should be so eager to fit them all into a stereotypical nuclear familial roles, especially since all the characters I mentioned above (except for Cass) have one or two loving parents who have raised them all on their own without the help of Bruce and are still alive and present in their child's life (except Tim, whose parents canonly died a couple of years ago in-universe).

With that being said, sometimes characters just so happen to fit the bill of a stereotypical "nuclear family" in canon and not wanting to accept that because the children are adopted/not related by blood to their parents is fucked up.

And I say that mostly about Dick and Jason, who for for all intent and purposes were both fully adopted at 9 and 11 respectively (ignoring rectons that aged them up or the fact that Dick was a ward at first only because single men couldn't legally adopt in the 40's), so it doesn't matter how you go about it, Bruce is 100% their father and they are 100% his sons, no ifs or buts.

For me, I have seen too many people trying to down-play the fact that Batman is canonly a dad (maybe because they don't think its cool? Idk) by pretending that him and his literal children are just a found family or just partners and accusing anyone who refer to them as parent-and-child of diminishing this found family and forcing them into a "nuclear" family when that's not case with them.

Referring to an adult man who fully adopted a young child to raise them as his own as that child's dad isn't forcing them into a nuclear family, because he's LITERALLY their dad? That's just common sense.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

"Jason was the happy robin" this, "jason was the angry robin" that. Let's all be fully honest here Jason was the lonely robin

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

Here are some more bad guys with ponytails!

what is it with dude villains and ponytails.

hear me out here.

Lucius Malfoy in one HP movie scene had a huge fking bow in his hair, apparently Ghetsis from Pokemon canonically has one or something I saw it in the manga, Zoisite from Sailor Moon also has one, and I think Fish Eye from the same anime does too.

Like HUH. I'm not mad I'm happy give more villains ponytails please.