The Last Donnycorn is the 1st episode (and 40th episode overall) of Season 2 of the 2016 Powerpuff Girls series. This is the show's 1st half-hour special. It aired on Cartoon Network on March 3, 2017.
Synopsis[]
Donny comes to the girls for protection when he's hunted by a robotic unicorn. After narrowly escaping, he reveals he accidentally released evil unicorns from a magic mirror upon Unicorn Land and needs their help to save his dimension.
Plot[]
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
- Blossom
- Bubbles
- Buttercup
- Donny
- Unicorn Terminator
- Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse
- Joeicorn
- Petercorn
- Tanyacorn
- Stanicorn
Minor Characters[]
- Unicorn Coach
- Donny's buddies
- Donny's Mother
- Axel
- Gretel
- Unicorn Guards
- Unicorn Coalition Alliance Brigade
Trivia[]
- This is the 1st episode to air in 2017.
- This episode aired on the same day the Steven Universe episode "Tiger Philanthropist" premiered.
- The Town of Citiesville from the original 1998 series episode "Town and Out" was mentioned in this episode. This the 1st time it was mentioned, and it will also do later on in Small World: Heart to Heartstone.
- This is the 1st 22-minute long episode or double-length special of the reboot.
- This is the 1st episode in which the title card of mixed colored signature.
- This episode marks Donny's 1st (and only) appearance in the 2nd season. Until he reappeared in the Season 3 episodes "Total Eclipse of the Kart" and "Man Up 4: The Donnyest Game."
- At the 1st scene when Donnycorn need their help, the girls are in their everyday dresses in the bed, not their pajamas.
- This episode had a few Terminator movie references:
- The Unicorn Terminator is an obvious reference to the titular character portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- He also says to Donny, "Hasta la pasta" which is one of the Terminator's quotes from Schwarzenegger's 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
- Petercorn vaguely resembles Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
- "Bubbs & Donny Get the Mail" was aired on the same day as this episode.
- This is the first episode to use the song's end credits and a remix of the reboot's opening theme song "Who's Got the Power?" and the closing theme song.
- This is the 1st episode that has the 2016 Cartoon Network Productions exploding boxes logo, and this is the first time the 2010 version of Cartoon Network checkerboard logo is used as the production logo.
- This episode marks the longest time the girls have been unconscious in the reboot.
- The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn (V2) DVD is named after this episode and includes it.