REFERENCE: The Women of 'PPG'

I have a softcore Miss Keane pic coming up so I finally got a good reason to rewatch The Powerpuff Girls and snap some reference from my DVD box set. Out of all those great Cartoon Cartoons made in the '90s/early '00s, this one is IMO the best of the best. Seeing how it had so many of the talented people behind the first two seasons of Dexter's Laboratory, PPG had great potential right from the start. To be honest, it didn't really let down until the last two seasons when the original creator had left the show and the remaining people were starting to run out of material, which resulted in the show becoming more self-aware (cute and funny but caused a loss of excitement).

Most of the unfunny episodes of the later seasons tend to center around the Mayor, who went from a lovable doofus to a retarded manchild. I was also never a fan of the majority of season 4 where they experimented with double-length episodes as it just made the show lose some of its usually tight pacing. Still, I'd say that three strong seasons (1–3) and two average-to-good (4 & 5) out of six is a pretty good achievement. Even better, CN apparently greenlit a seventh season but the creators decided to end the show to avoid it getting completely dried out. Even though we never got to see that episode centered around the evil Powerpunk Girls from an alternative universe, I'm happy that they pulled the plug off the show rather than let it become a franchise zombie.

Anyway, enough with my ramblings, have some reference – all the combined screencaps were made by yours truly:


Miss Sara Bellum

 

Miss Keane

 

Femme Fatale

Sedusa

Multiple characters