The Powderpuff Girls

Note: This article is not about the franchise nor the characters known as "The Powerpuff Girls". It is about the misnomer/Mandela Effect given to said girls/show, "The Powderpuff Girls" with a "D".

"The Powderpuff Girls" is a constant misnomer and Mandela Effect given to The Powerpuff Girls by other characters and real life. The Powerpuff Girls, especially Buttercup, often get really irritated by other people calling them this.

Occasions[]

1998 Series[]

In "Powerpuff Bluff", a trio of criminals pretended to be The Powerpuff Girls and the leader of the criminals imitated Blossom and said, "Hi, everybody. It’s me, Blossom of the Powderpuff Girls.".
In "Major Competition", The Powerpuff Girls returned to save Major Man from a monster and upon announcing their arrival, The Narrator called them "The Powderpuff Girls", making the girls glare at him, prompting the narrator to correct himself to "The Powerpuff Girls".
In "Town and Out", The Powerpuff Girls went to down-to-earth metropolis of Citiesville, where people were less acquainted with their fantastical powers. While in the waiting room at Citiesville Hall, the guy called their names, erroneously saying "Powderpuff Girls"? The girls didn't even get mad about it as they were just excited to finally be at the front of the line.
In "Get Back Jojo", Mojo Jojo traveled back in time and saw Professor Utonium, when he was a little kid and tried to change the past so that The Powerpuff Girls would never be created. However, by telling The Professor specifically what not to do, this caused the youthful rebel to completely disobey him and create The Powerpuff Girls. When he made this decision, he told Mojo Jojo, "Maybe I'll go create me some of them crazy Powderpuff Girls you keep yapping' about."
In "Girls Gone Mild", Stanley Practice told Professor Utonium that an unnerving number of kids in Townsville are getting themselves hurt, pretending to be "The Powderpuff Girls".
In "Coupe d'etat", Professor Utonium invented a high-tech car named "K.A.R.R.", with the ability to speak. Although he was verbal, there was an error in his text-to-speech software, which caused him to address The Powerpuff Girls as "The Powderpuff Girls", which The Powerpuff Girls were not happy about. Professor Utonium nervously told them that he was working on that issue.

2016 Series[]

In "Viral Spiral", the inverse happened, when The Powerpuff Girls went into a virtual computer world and Slim correctly referred to them as "The Powerpuff Girls", only for Buttercup to correct them saying they were "The Powderpuff Girls". Buttercup tried to correct herself but only said "Powderpuff" again. Blossom noticed they were on "Autocorrect Boulevard", which was causing both parties to say the opposite variant of "Powerpuff" of what they really meant.

Outside Media[]

In a commercial for The Powerpuff Girls, which crossed over with DC's animated TV series The Superfriends, Lex Luthor erroneously addressed The Powerpuff Girls as "The Powderpuff Girls", which annoyed all three of them.
In a promo for Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, when the theme for The Powerpuff Girls was playing, someone guessed it as "the theme to The Powderpuff Girls", resulting in a buzzer noise, then the bitter girls showing up, not happy with what he addressed them as. Later, they were forcing him to say it right, and he did, but what became of him and the girls is up to debate.
In the "ER" episode, "Next of Kin", Susan Lewis and John Carter found an abandoned baby in the lobby of County General Hospital with a Powerpuff Girls hairclip. Carter erroneously addressed them as "The Powderpuff Girls" and Susan corrected him.
In a "Say What?" commercial for The Powerpuff Girls, the Mayor accidentally calls the girls as "The Powderpuff Girls" for a holiday, Miss Bellum then corrects him.

Trivia[]

Several people in real life are actually guilty of making this mistake, themselves. Generally, the average person, who doesn't know much about the show, will address them as such.
In real life, a "powder puff" is a big puffy cosmetic, that women use to apply makeup to their faces such as blush or face powder. Over the years, powder puffs have been used in media to portray characters who are meant to be weak females, which could explain why The Powerpuff Girls hate being called this so much.
- It has been seen that "Powerpuff" was meant to be a pun on this term, which is especially ironic given that The Powerpuff Girls subvert these stereotypes, entirely. However this is currently only speculation.
"Powderpuff" is also a slang term for women's flag football.