Rainbow the Clown is a minor character who appears in The Powerpuff Girls. He is a clown who entertains children at parties. Mr. Mime is his alter ego and an antagonist in the episode Mime for a Change, in which he is made colorless and evil as a result of making contact with a bleach spill. Rainbow is voiced by Tom Kenny.
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Appearance[]
Rainbow the Clown has a tall head with short pink bunches of hair at its sides. He has beady black eyes, a white face, red lips, and a red nose. He wears a rainbow-striped shirt, red pants with colored polka dots, large red shoes, and a tiny red top hat.
As Mr. Mime, he has the same overall appearance, except that he is entirely black and white. His shirt is black-and-white-striped.
Personality[]
Rainbow the Clown is a joyful clown who smiles and sings songs, delighting the children he entertains. However, as Mr. Mime, he is diabolical, making all of Townsville and its citizens colorless and silent. As Mr. Mime, he frowns and is completely silent himself.
History[]
In Mime for a Change, Rainbow is hit by a truck with bleach. He turns black and white and gets superpowers. Rainbow, now Mr. Mime, has the power to erase colors by touch and even render objects and animals, people, and music mute. For instance, he touches the bleach trucker and the little boy who holds a balloon, taking both their color and their voices from them.
Much of the episode revolves around Mr. Mime’s pursuit in making all of Townsville colorless, and the Powerpuff Girls’ attempts at reversing his actions and tracking him down. He turns back into a very grateful Rainbow after the girls perform a song that restores Townsville's colors. He thanks the girls for bringing him back to his senses, but they beat him up and send him to Jail anyway.
Rainbow later reappeared in Birthday Bash as a guest at the Powerpuff Girls’ birthday party, meaning that he had at least been released from prison early and was on good terms with the girls. He also appeared in Mojo Jojo's Villain Parade as Mr. Mime causing trouble in the town.
Episode appearances[]
- Mime for a Change (first appearance)
- Birthday Bash (as Rainbow the Clown)
- Daylight Savings (cameo) (as Mr. Mime)
- The Powerpuff Girls Rule! (cameo) (as Rainbow the Clown)
Trivia[]
- Rainbow's alter ego, "Mr. Mime", shares the same name with a Pokémon.
- Originally, Rainbow was going to be let off the hook by the girls, but the executives wanted Rainbow to be end up being beaten up by the girls and thrown in jail because the executives held him responsible for the whole thing in the first place where he was his evil, dark alter ego, Mr. Mime. When asked about this, Craig McCracken said that the final ending is the original ending, but he would not make a gag like that in his future work due to how mean-spirited the gag was.[1]
- Mr. Mime resembles a black-and-white version of Koko the Clown, a Betty Boop character (from Fleischer Studios) deriving from the Golden Age of American animation.
- Mr. Mime's name pretty much based on Mr. Hyde from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" who is the evil alter ego of the good scientist, Dr. Jekyll. Rainbow becomes an evil black-and-white mime who hates colors and turns everybody and everything black-and-white-and-gray and mute every time he got bleached, which it also changes his personality as well.
- He sounds a lot like SpongeBob SquarePants, due to them having the same voice actor.
- It could be argued the bleach damaged his brain and gave Rainbow dissociative identity disorder, making Mr. Mime an entirely different personality.
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