The Powerpuff Girls is a franchise created by Craig McCracken and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The franchise consists of three series (The Powerpuff Girls, the 2016 reboot and the upcoming second reboot), an anime (Powerpuff Girls Z), three CD albums, numerous video games, a multitude of merchandise, a feature film (The Powerpuff Girls Movie), two specials (The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! and The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed) and many comic books.
Main series[]
Original continuity[]
The Powerpuff Girls Movie is a 2002 feature-length film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. Produced by Cartoon Network for Warner Bros. It was released in the United States on July 3, 2002. The film is a prequel of the television series, telling the story of how The Powerpuff Girls were created and how they came to be the defenders of Townsville.
The Powerpuff Girls premiered on Cartoon Network on November 18, 1998. The show revolves around the Powerpuff Girls: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged little girls with super powers created by the Chemical X. They are superheroines and defenders of the city of Townsville, which have to fight against crime and live a normal childhood as well. The Powerpuff Girls lasted for six seasons and was succeeded by the reboot series in 2016.
2016 First reboot continuity[]
The Powerpuff Girls is the second iteration that premiered on Cartoon Network on April 4, 2016. It serves as a reboot of the television series and is loosely based upon the original series. The Powerpuff Girls features Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup: three girl superheroes whose purposes are to reduce crime and also live a normal childhood. Unlike the original series, the 2016 reboot takes a more slice-of-life approach and mostly tells about the Girls when they're not fighting crime and living a normal life.
Second reboot continuity[]
The Powerpuff Girls is an upcoming reboot series, currently in development by Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe and Craig McCracken will be involved. The show will revisit and expand upon the world of the original show, as Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup face off against a variety of villains comprised of familiar foes and new threats.
Anime[]
Powerpuff Girls Z, known in Japan as Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (出ましたっ!パワパフガールズ Z Demashita! Pawapafu Gāruzu Zetto?, roughly They're Here! Powerpuff Girls Z) or PPGZ for short, is a magical girl anime series based on the American animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. The plot of the anime differs much from the original series. Professor Utonium was experimenting while his son Ken Kitazawa/Utonium created Chemical Z (a variant of his father's Chemical X) when a local restaurant specialty fell into the Chemical X. Ken uses the chemical to destroy an ice glacier and avoid an ecological disaster. The impact causes white and black Z-Rays to fly across the skies of New Townsville. The white lights hit Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup transforming them into the Powerpuff Girls. Those hit with the black light became the series' villains. After defeating Mojo Jojo, Mr. Mayor assigned them to be the heroines of the city. They are called to action using the cry of Ken Kitazawa's robot pet puppy, Poochi.
See Also[]
- Toy Line
- Comics
- DVDs
- Crossover