Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup

The Powerpuff Girls are a trio of superheroines who are the title characters of the Cartoon Network cartoon The Powerpuff Girls and its spin-off anime, Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z.

Origin

In the Powerpuff Girls, the Powerpuff Girls were created by Professor Utonium out of "Sugar, spice and everything nice" and the accidental addition of Chemical X (having been bumped by his then lab assistant, Jojo, later to become Mojo Jojo.) After the events of The Powerpuff Girls Movie, they "dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil."

Appearance in the Powerpuff Girls

The girls are drawn with physical traits that make them exaggeratedly cute. They wear dresses with black belts, white stockings and black Mary Janes. They have large eyes and heads, and, although they are able to hear, smell, and hold, their bodies are drawn without noses, ears, fingers, or toes. Although they are humans, they look like dolls. Whether they actually have these features is not clear; in the episodes "Criss Cross Crisis", when the girls switch bodies with other people in Townsville, Buttercup, who had swapped bodies with Professor Utonium, complained that his hand did not work (meaning that the Girls' fingerless hands could pick things up at will.) However, in the same episode, Bubbles, in the Mayor's body, is seen using a toothbrush without trouble, and the characters who are in the Girls' bodies have no issue holding objects. Additionally, Bubbles counts on her unseen fingers in the episode "Mo Job." However, in "Oops, I did it again", the Professor dreams of normal versions of the girls, each with the aforementioned features clearly depicted.

Powers

The Powerpuff Girls have many superpowers like those possessed by Superman, including:

• Super-strength
• Flight
• Super-speed
• X-ray vision
• Ability to project a variety of kinetic blasts
• Limited invulnerability
• Ability to survive in outer space

In some cases, they utilize special team maneuvers to take down their foes. These Include:

• Sonic screams
• Ferocious Fiery Feline (the girls combine to create a cat of pure fire, a homage to the "Fiery Phoenix" of Battle of the Planets)
• A triple attack from side to side and front
• Creating after-image doubles (who can also fight)
• Morphing into a ball to save people or strike them out
• A twister with devastating after-effects
• A frontal triple attack performed with a screw-like trajectory.

Bubbles

Bubbles
File:Bubbles-Octi.jpg Bubbles with her stuffed toy octopus "Octi" episode shown: "Octi Evil"
First appearance	Meat Fuzzy Lumkins
Last appearance	See me, Feel me, Gnomey
Created by	Craig McCracken
Portrayed by	Tara Strong
In-universe information
Gender	Female
Family	Professor Utonium (father) Blossom (sister) Buttercup (sister)

Bubbles (voiced by Tara Strong in the series and Kath Soucie in the What-a-Cartoon!) is a fictional character in animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. She is portrayed as having short blonde hair in two pigtails, light blue eyes, and dresses in light blue. The ending theme refers to her as "the joy and the laughter", meaning that she acts as the baby of the group (despite being the same age) and is defined by innocence, playfulness and gentle demeanor. She does, however, have a tendency to be naive, ditzy, submissive and overemotional, leading to her often being regarded, by friends and foes alike, as the group's weak link. However, she can become very independent and aggressive when pushed, and out of all the Powerpuff girls she is the most feared by Mojo Jojo after having single handedly taken him down in a fit of rage in one episode. Her special superpower is that she can speak many languages, including Spanish (speaking) and Japanese (both reading and speaking), and communicate with animals, such as cats, and most notably squirrels (as revealed in the episode "Fuzzy Logic" and again in "Stray Bullet"). She also has the Sonic Scream (although later other girls seem to be able to use a weaker version too).

Buttercup

Buttercup
File:Rudercup.JPG Buttercup with her typical mean look episode shown: "Mr. Mojo's Risings"
First appearance	Meat Fuzzy Lumkins
Last appearance	See me, Feel me, Gnomey
Created by	Craig McCracken
Portrayed by	E.G. Daily
In-universe information
Gender	Female
Family	Professor Utonium (father) Blossom (sister) Bubbles (sister)

Buttercup (voiced by E.G. Daily) is a fictional character in animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. She has short black hair in a flip, light green eyes, and dresses in light green. Referred to in the ending theme as "the toughest fighter", she is the group's tomboy. Sometimes her aggression gets the better of her, making her reckless, stubborn and too aggressive. She possesses a mean and somewhat vindictive streak not shared by her sisters. She also showed a selfish side in the episode "Moral Decay," to which she knocked out everyone's teeth for money. She has shown a softer side in several episodes, however. For example, in the episode "Cover Up", she had a soft green blanket that she was obsessed with that she would hug that gave her the confidence to be a better fighter. Her personality is similar to that of Numbuh 4 from Codename: Kids Next Door. In the episode "Nuthin' Special", her special "ability" is to roll her tongue (Blossom and Bubbles cannot do this, and nor can anyone else in Townsville) revealed. While she doesn't seem to have any special superpower different from her sisters, she is usually physically the strongest of the three girls (though Bubbles and Blossom have shown to be stronger on special occasions). In the episode "Speed Demon" it was also revealed that she can fly slightly faster than her sisters. In the "Rowdyruff Boys", she has a tremendous disdain for resorting to kissing the boys in order to eliminate them, though willingly kisses a boy ridden with she feared to be "cooties" in a later episode.

Former Team Members in the Powerpuff Girls

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Bunny hugging her sisters

• In the episode "Twisted Sister", the girls created a fourth Powerpuff Girl named Bunny (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh), who was huge, hunchbacked and at least eight feet tall and had a rather semi-articulate caveman-like voice, brown hair in a ponytail, a single tooth protruding from her mouth, purple eyes, and dressed in purple. Instead of following the recipe properly, the girls instead used imitation items of all the ingredients: artificial sweetener instead of sugar, twigs and leaves instead of spice, and everything the girls enjoyed as "everything nice". Bunny appears to be mentally disabled, and is also rather deformed. She was also extremely naive; she thought that having a gun made a person a criminal, and when she confronted two cops taking in a couple of crooks and brandishing guns, she threw the cops into jail, and started to release criminals, thinking they were good. When all the criminals in town attacked the girls, Bunny redeemed herself and beat every criminal soundly. However, she was an unstable composition and exploded during the same episode she was created, leaving behind a piece of her outfit.

• In the episode "Stray Bullet", the girls briefly added another fourth member, a squirrel with orange Powerpuff Girls-like eyes whom Bubbles had given chemical X, whom they named "Bullet". The Powerpuff Girls first meet Bullet when Bubbles rescued her from an eagle and takes her home. During the night, Bubbles feeds the squirrel a few drops of Chemical X in hopes that it will help her heal faster, which soon leads to Bullet developing powers similar to the girls'. The girls officially adopt her as a Powerpuff Girl, but eventually she returns to the wild out of homesickness. Bullet currently resides in the forests outside Townsville, where she protects the animal community, but she returns to help the Powerpuff Girls from time to time. Her color is orange. She is voiced by Frank Welker.

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