The Powerpuff Dynamic Nanotechtronic Monobot Xtreme, or Dynamo X for short, is a giant robot created by Professor Utonium to help The Powerpuff Girls.
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The Dynamo is a giant robot whose appearance combines traits of the three Powerpuff Girls. Despite being much larger itself, its body proportions match those of the girls, with a large oval-shaped head and arms with no hands. It wears a red dress with a black stripe across its center, as well as black Mary Janes - modeled after the girls' usual attire. It has gray skin and solid yellow eyes. Its red hair is styled as a mix of the girls': it has Buttercup's forehead slit, Bubbles's pigtails, and Blossom's bow; only its bow is colored blue. The Dynamo has a reactive face capable of expression, although it is usually set in an aggressive scowl.
History[]
The Dynamo made its first appearance in Uh-Oh, Dynamo. After the girls defeated an incredibly strong monster, the Professor's overprotective parenting skills kicked in, causing him to worry for the girls' safety despite their overwhelming superpowers. As a result, he created Dynamo to help the girls defeat monsters. Though the girls were reluctant to use it, they eventually did so when a Giant Fishballoon monster overwhelmed them. Though the monster was defeated, the Dynamo itself did extensive damage to the city, leading the Mayor to demand they never use it again. Despite this, the Professor did not dismantle it, possibly out of sentiment, though as shown in Oops, I Did It Again, he has since realized its overwhelming drawbacks.
The second appearance of the Dynamo is in Live & Let Dynamo, where it is intentionally causing the destruction of the city. As the girls fought the machine, they wondered who could possibly be controlling it, ruling out villain after villain as to who the pilot could be. In an ironic twist, the Dynamo's pilot was revealed to be the Mayor, who had become trapped in the cockpit and had accidentally set the Dynamo on autopilot, causing its rampage.
Abilities[]
- Flight
- Laser Eyes
- Missiles
- Mechanical Chomping Bow
- Spinning Pigtails
- Metal Ball
- Rolling Metal Ball
- Mini Bee Bombs
- Ultra White Blast
Episode Appearances[]
- Monster Trouble (overall debut but scrapped)
- Uh-Oh, Dynamo (first official appearance)
- Live & Let Dynamo
- Oops, I Did It Again (flashback)
Trivia[]
- The Dynamo's appearance and concept are callbacks to the traditional Tokusatsu genre of giant monster battles from Japanese cinema and television. Its appearance (as well Professor Utonium following in an aircraft) is largely reminscent of the longrunning Ultraman series, while the girls piloting it are reminiscent of Super Sentai giant-robot battles, which was reworked into Power Rangers.
- Brambles, the merged form of Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, and Bliss, resembles the Dynamo, except the character has different back hair and is an energy projection instead of a robot.
- The Dynamo appears in Issue 1 of the crossover comic Super Secret Crisis War!, where it somehow got in the hands of the League of Extraordinary Villains (most likely from Mojo Jojo, who was a member). After an accident with Ali and Vilgax's robots serving their masters' victory, some drinks spilled onto a control panel and sent several robots to other Cartoon Network shows (resulting in the comic side stories), the Dynamo was sent to the Ed, Edd n Eddy world by this incident. It then rampaged after the Eds until they disabled it with a magnet crane.