The Powerpuff Girls' Respect Thread!

I'll be listing feats in 7 categories strength, durability speed, energy projection, breathe & superscream, team attacks and other, enjoy and feel free to add.

Strength

(skip to 3:50) Feats include swimming in lava, lifting a giant meteor then melting it with heat vision and lifting a submarine.

Mojo Jojo turns his observatory atop the volcano into a floating weapons platform. Blossom grabs it and after swinging it a few times to build momentum and tosses it far out into space.

After a particularly unpleasant chain of events, the girls launch Mojo Jojo in the general direction of the Townsville city jail. Seeing that Mojo is going to land outside of the prison, Bubbles quickly pushes the building several meters to the side managing to make Mojo land in his very own prison cell. Quite the good feat, even if it is cartoonish.

The Rowdyruff Boys attack the girls by throwing a bus(Bubbles), plane(Blossom) and ship(Buttercup) in their : general direction. The Powerpuffs manage to catch all of the aforementioned projectiles and put them down without harming the passengers of the vehicles.

The Girls go out into space(for some reason wearing spacesuits, even though they can survive in space unaided) and smash into pieces of a large asteroid destroying it on impact.

Buttercup launches a giant eye monster out of earth's atmosphere. It flies beyond the Moon and keeps going without signs of slowing down.

Blossom hits a skyscraper and the higher section of the building falls, so she has to grab it and put it back in place before going back to fight a monster.

Strength cont.

Buttercup has to out lift Big Ben, a superbrick. Big Ben starts by lifting a car, then an elephant, then a castle. Buttercup replies lifting a bus, a blue whale and a small skyscraper. This frustrates Big Ben who tears off and lifts the top of Mt. Everest, but Buttercup goes and lifts him while he is still holding Mt. Everest's peak.

Blossom has to stop a meteor rain that according to Major Glory could destroy all of Earth. She does this by freezing the largest meteor that she then breaks with carefully calculated force, which results in the frozen fragments of the larger meteor colliding with and destroying the smaller meteors.

Durability

During their monster fighting escapades, the girls are frequently hit so hard that they are launched beyond Townsville, smashed through several buildings or smashed WITH buildings. Considering that they have been manipulated into fighting each other a number of times and that they can definitely take hits from opponents with their strength levels (like the Rowdyruff Boys), their durability seems proportional to their strength.

Butch smacks Buttercup through several skyscrapers, she's unfazed afterwords and itching for a fight.

When the Girls discovered a gap in the train tracks close to them they had no other choice then to use there own bodies as a substitute in order to keep the train from falling to its doom.

They are bulletproof to such a degree that they are willing to stand still and let two robbers shoot them with machine guns until the rogues run out of bullets. Blossom: "Bitch please"

Being bullet proof is kind of small beans so I'll again mention the feat in which they take a swim through a volcano and into the planets core in order to help build Mojo Jojo's Lab.

Buttercup takes a direct hit from a monster with a powerful breath weapon capable of smashing through half a dozen buildings in a single shot, this direct hit leaves Buttercup unscratched.

Eye Carumba, the monster of the episode, turns out to have a substantially powerful disintegration eyebeam that annihilates entire city blocks and whole rivers with each shot. Bubbles and Buttercup are repeatedly hit with these beams without taking any damage beyond being knocked around.

The Mayor of Townsville launches a number of nuclear missiles from a nearby military facility and when the girls stop the last missile, the Mayor causes it to detonate when they are holding it with an extending boxing glove he calls The Equalizer. After the boom, Townsville is a wreck and the girls are covered in soot, but apparently unhurt. The Dog was not okay.

The PPGs took a dip in acid for several seconds during which the block of concrete to which they were tied to is completely corroded. After being taken out, the girls look a bit bruised, but nothing major and Blossom comments "What do you know? Acid can't hurt us!"

Pretty cool. I have to make one of these for Ben 10 at some point

Heat Vision

The PPGs have good control over this power. For example, they can fire these lasers with enough accuracy to remove the bread crust from a pile of sandwichs without causing any damage to the sandwich's (or anything else).

In one instance Bubbles showed the ability to fire lasers that changed trajectory in mid-flight to enter the exhaust port of a giant disco ball being used by monsters-under-the-bed to block sunlight and keep Townsville in eternal night. Though I am fully aware of the fact that this is a SW homage/joke, the feat is still there.

In terms of power, there are two good feats performed jointly by all three PPGs. The first involves the vaporization of most of an asteroid after a combined eyeblast of several seconds. Buttercup also melts down the meteor in the PPG's Movie(video in the OP)

Another impressive showing of PPG heat vision involves the vaporization of an entire lake in less than two minutes (the time frame is provided explicitly by in-episode dialogue).

To finish, it is worth commenting that when Bubbles was wearing thick glasses and she fired her heatvision through them, the beam was amplified enormously and turned into a wide-beam blast that vaporized in one shot a giant ant that had been shown to be impervious to the normal intensity eyeblasts of her sisters. Ref: Bubblevision (S3E4 I)

Other Energy Attacks

Electricity

Blossom builds up static electricity and then releases a lightning bolt against a Chemical X-powered Princess, who uses a spin effect to deflect the lightning, which ends impacting and electrocuting Mojo Jojo.

A while later Blossom does something similar to release enough electricity to trigger a thunderstorm.

Finally, Bubbles uses a different kind of electric attack, which concentrates energy in the tip of her arm until an electric orb appears. This orb can then be thrown and upon impact will unleash its concentrated energy. Boomer managed to deflect this electric orb with an energy construct shaped like a baseball bat.

Fireball

Buttercup rubbed her arms together to generate friction, which allowed her to create a fireball which she threw at Princess. Considering that she didn't seem to use any special power to do this, this is a feat that the other PPGs likely could replicate, but I am not aware of any other instances of fireball throwing elsewhere in PPG canon.

Energy shockwave

Prior to the Rowdyruff Boys' resurrection in The Boys Are Back In Town (S5E6), the girls battled several giant monsters and, during this fight, Bubbles showed a unique move. By clapping her hands together, she released a powerful AoE shockwave of blue energy that defeated two of the giant monsters in one strike.

Bubbles' superblast

During the episode Los Dos Mojos, an amnesiac Bubbles who believes herself to be Mojo Jojo fights her sister. At the end of the battle, Bubble's goes super saiyain(best description I can think of, honest) and blasts Blossom and Buttercup with a particularly powerful energy attack that knocks out both PPGs for several minutes.

Power punches

The Powerpuff Girls are apparently able to generate energy auras around there fists in order to increase there striking power. This move was first used by Buttercup in the episode Bubblevicious (S1E9 I).

A variation of this ability is seen during Nuthin' Special (S6E9 I), when the girls punch the ground and cause cracks to spread towards a target structure that explodes when the cracks in the ground reach it.

Hand Blasts

Though not used as often as heat vision, the PPGs have also often shown the ability to fire from their hands energy beams. Sometimes these beams are the colour of the energy trails that the PPGs leave when they fly around, sometimes they are white and sometimes they are jagged and lightning like. In terms of destructive power, the hand beams lack the high end feats of the heat vision, but are still strong enough to do damage to other PPG's and bust through buildings.

Atomic Snot Rocket

The PPGs only use this in Nuthin' Special (S6E9 I), but seems to be based on one of the special moves of the Rowdyruff Boys. The girls spit an energy charged snotball that detonates explosively upon impact.

Speed

(skip to 2:30) Good running and flight speed from the PPG's also some good strength and durability feats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qBuAhRXluh0

Mojo Jojo shoots Buttercup with a "Liquid electron ray" and Blossom sees the beam fly past her. Since she is aware of the nature and purpose of the ray, she starts moving fast, manages to out fly the beam and tackles her sister out of the way. The beams probably not FTL, but this is still a good hypersonic reaction feat.

While racing back home from school, the girls reach the speed of light and keep pushing. As a result, they travel to an alternate future time in which Him has corrupted Townsville and their loved ones are zombie like shades of themselves. After having a nervous breakdown, the girls repeat their feat of the beginning of the episode, break the time barrier and travel back to their past.

As part of the tests which the asshole superheros try to use to discourage the PPGs from joining their boys only club, there is a superspeed competition in which Bubbles has to run one lap around the world against cyborg speedster E-Mail (who we are informed, can do that in seven seconds precisely).

E-Mail starts with a head start, since Bubbles is distracted by Major Glory firing sparks to signal the beginning of the race and her sisters have to tell her to start running, but she manages to catch up easily enough. After going through some random jungle, Egypt, the Amazon, Easter Island and the Chinese coast, Bubbles politely asks whether they are supposed to arrive together or if this is one of those things in which one of the competitors is supposed to win. After being answered in the affirmative, she easily outruns the speedster, smashes through the Great Wall of China and reaches Mt Everest four seconds after leaving,

Since Earth's planetary circumference is slightly above 40000 km, doing a lap around the world in seven seconds puts E-Mail's speed just short of mach 17000. In contrast, Bubbles half assed four seconds trip (in which she wasn't even trying until the final third of the lap or so) leaves her around 10000 km per second. Great running speed!

When Mojo Jojo kidnaps and takes the role of the Narrator, he forces the PPGs to fight each other to death. During this battle, there is one instance in which Buttercup visibly dodges Bubble's heatvision just inches from her face.

Which reminds me, while reading this has anyone take a look at the Japanese version of powerpuff girls. I enjoyed this one for the the few episodes I got to watch and was wondering how the anime compares.

More Speed

'Twas the Fight Before Christmas Special

Long story short: Princess Morebucks travels to the North Pole and alters Santa's list to make him believe that she is the only nice girl in the world. So she gets superpowers and everyone else gets coal. The Powerpuff Girls discover this midway through Christmas night and have a fight with the now superpowered Princess as they travel to the North Pole to set things right.

Upon arrival, Santa realizes what has happened and depowers Princess, but finds himself unable to right the wrong because the battle between Super-Princess and the PPGs scared away his reindeer, smashed his sleigh and generally made it impossible for Santa to get things done in time. So he asks the PPGs to handle the present distribution for him and gives them the sack. And they complete the whole thing in part of a night.

Which, as we all know, is a pretty nuts speed feat.

The Powerpuff Girls Movie

During the final fight against Giant Mojo Jojo, MJ starts firing his giant hairs machine-gun style at one point. Blossom, in order to protect that really annoying Talking Dog that shows up every now and then, is forced to use superspeed to deflect away those giant hairs to protect the doggie. More of a durability feat then a speed feat, but still worth mentioning.

TORNADO SPIN - SPIN VORTEX

Though not a true power as such (more a matter of spinning very fast to generate tornado style vortices with the color scheme of the PPG that generates them), this move shows up often enough and has sufficiently interesting uses to deserve some attention.

Large Vortex - Suction

This maneuver is first shown when Buttercup uses it to absorb a gas monster and sends it to outer space with the tornado, again in the special 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas, where Buttercup uses this suction effect to slow down the superpowered Princess Morebucks. .

Tornado Spin

Discovered when all three sisters create one of these and cause extensive damage to Townsville as part of the ongoing effort to determine Buttercup's unique superpower

Small Vortex - Drill

Used by all three PPGs in the episode Power Noia (S5E2) in which they drill underground using this move and then erupt from the top of the body of the monster they were fighting, apparently having drilled their way through the critter's body from the bottom up. Nasty, but still cool.

Wow, impressive! You've put a lot of work into this ^_^.

@Aiden Cross: Thanks! I'm only half way done too, but I'll finish it tomorrow.

Only thing that bothers me, is the fact you'd need to go through episodes just to see their more impressive showings and even in some of those anyway the girls should have died, should have been more consistent rather then being all over the place....but anyway nice.

Superbreath

The ability to generate gale strength winds by blowing hard is something that all three PPGs can do. It is used simultaneously by all three girls to push around the cloud formed after they vaporized the water of Townsville's lake, again to temporarily disperse the body of a giant gas monster and once more in 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas when Blossom uses it to create a giant wave that she then freezes to slow down Princess in their running battle towards the North Pole.

Freeze Breathe

Blossom's unique PPG power is a rather powerful freeze breath, Blossom's freeze breath first manifests during Ice Sore (S1E8 II) and from the start it is shown to be rather powerful when she 1) turns her schoolyard into a snowfield in the middle of an intense heat wave and 2) freezes a giant asteroid later in the episode.

She repeats the asteroid feat in an even larger scale a couple seasons later, when she uses her ice powers to freeze an asteroid of planet-shattering proportions.

Her third major feat of ice power happens during the episode Forced Kin (S4E10) in which she freezes an entire volcano in order to fool a group of aliens who wanted to launch a heat seeking missile that would have caused chain of seismic events.

Flame Breathe

Both Blossom and Bubbles have shown the ability to breath fire. Though many of the specifics of this power are left to speculation, in terms of power Blossom was able to scorch her sisters pretty bad with hers and Bubbles managed to stalemate Blossom's freeze breath in her own single instance of using this fire breath.

Super Scream

Though Bubbles uses it most often than her sisters, all three PPGs are capable of shouting very loudly in order to release 'sonic screams' akin to those used by Banshee, the Marvel mutant, and used these with some regularity.

In terms of destructive power, Bubbles' best feats are using her superscream to push the Powerpuff Dynamo back a few hundred meters and through several different buildings.

Her second feat is using a particularly intense form of this which she called "ultrasonic bubblesound" to level much of downtown Townsville.

As for Buttercup and Blossom, their best sonic scream feats can be found in Nuthin' Special (S6E9 I), when their sonic shockwaves destroy entire buildings and toppled loaded boxcars.

Supersenses

The PPGs have enhanced sensory capabilities, particularly in terms of sight and hearing.

Microscopic vision

Shown only once when Blossom uses it to see and identify alien mind control particles hidden inside a small asteroid.

X-ray vision

A power used by all three PPGs in different instances to see inside solid objects. It is unknown if they are incapable of seeing through lead, as most other fictional users of x-ray vision (i.e. Superman). .

Superhearing

Sometimes called ultrasonic hearing, this is an ability that they use often and with consistently high levels of impressiveness. They consistently hear people calling for their help from the other side of town and even have feats of hearing things happening in Earth's surface while in outer space, such as returning from the asteroid in which they had hidden when they heard Mojo Jojo threaten Professor Utonium in The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

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Dream Control

This is one of the Powerpuff Girls actual canon superpowers, but since this is the kind of thing that rarely comes up in a match most people are unaware of this...

In this episode, the Sandman, tired and grouchy about never being able to sleep himself, puts the entire world to sleep forever with his magic sand. Once asleep, the PPGs discover that their dream selves can meet in a shared dreamscape and go find the Sandman who is tortured with PPG-controlled dreams until he wakes up and decides not to fall asleep ever again.

The dream control ability makes a non-explicit comeback when Him invades the dreams of the PPGs and starts torturing them with their worst fears in dream form, Blossom realizes after a while the identity of the intruder and after helping her sisters overcome their worst nightmares they fight Him directly. This fight ends in Him's worst defeat in the entire series, with the ultimate evil imploring the girls not to hit him anymore and ranting about how he should have been able to crush them with their fears.

Other Powers

Cloning

The PPGs first showed the ability to create doppelgangers in Forced Kin (S4E10) as part of a team maneuver, but in Nuthin' Special (S6E9 I) it was revealed that cloning is something that the Powerpuffs can use individually with an ability that Buttercup called Copycat.

Fire Aura

A power that causes the PPG's to burst into flames which burn with the respective "power color". Done by all three PPGs.

Water Morphing

This involves turning into water and transforming into a puddle in the ground. Nothing else is known about this power since it was used only once.

Self-Shrinking

Yet another thing that only is used in Nuthin' Special (S6E9 I) and apparently allows the PPGs to shrink themselves to the size of a small insect at will.

Electric Forcefield

The PPG using this power rolls into a ball, starts spinning around and an electric energy globe appears around her. No further details are known.

Thunder Clap

Though one imagines that all of them are capable of doing this, considering their strength levels, the classic Thunderclap was used just once in the entire run of the PPG cartoon. In Mo Job (S2E8 I), Bubbles attempted to stun a super-powered Princess with one of these and wrecked much of Mojo's lab equipment with the attack, but Princess successfully defended herself with a spinning energy wave of some kind.

Fire-Eating

Uh Oh Dynamo (S1E13) showed the PPGs swallowing massive amounts of fire to put out a burning building.

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Team Attacks

Starburst Ray

The girls combine their hand-projected energy beams to form a stronger energy beam, the Powerpuff Starburst Ray. This attack was used in episode Town And Out (S3E2 I), in which the PPGs used it to blow up the Citysville Bridge.

Furious Fiery Feline

Also called Furious Flaming Feline, this combo requires that the girls fly so fast that they catch fire and then combine into a cat made of fire. The PPG's can move on the ground and fly freely while in this formation.

Cherry Bomb

Two of the PPGs go to outer space, join hands, generate a cherry-shaped forcefield around themselves and then fall back to Earth, exploding with considerable force upon impact.

Plan XQ

A team combo seen in Forced Kin (S4E10) which lets the girl generate a number of doppelgangers.

Powerpuff Magablast

Used in Live And Let Dynamo (S5E16 II), the Megablast requires all three girls to help charge up an energy orb that detonates upon impact with force apparently equivalent to a multi-kiloton bomb. Despite this power, the Megablast was insufficient to cause any damage to Dynamo.

Superspin

When the PPG's were conjoined because of one of Mojo Jojo's plots. The PPGs start spinning and form an expanding orb of green energy that destroyed one of Mojo Jojo's vehicles without harming the monkey or any of the buildings that were also touched by the green energy.

Damn this is fantastic! Keep up the work.

Team Attacks Continued

Electric Ball

A nameless team combo which closely resembles the Electric Forcefield power, only this one involves all three PPGs moving in circles and rather than acting as a forcefield the energy orb shoots an electric ray towards the target of choice.

Atomic Twister

Used in Sun Scream (S6E5 I), this team maneuver was used by the PPGs to form a twister in space by spinning in circles. The twister absorbed the full power of a solar flare that would have wiped out the Earth otherwise and they dispersed it harmlessly, although the girls got sun burns as a result of doing this.

For reference, solar flares contain tens of petatons (a petaton being a billion megatons) of energy, so dispersing the power of one of these shows amazing abilty even with the sun burns as a side effect.

Razzel Dazzle

A pretty interesting team combo move that only appears in Live And Let Dynamo (S5E16 II), after all other attacks fail to stop Dynamo's rampage through Townsville. The girls start spinning around and dissolve into a cloud of glowing energy particles.

In any case, Dynamo's attacks passed harmlessly through the energy cloud and seemingly could do nothing to prevent being lifted off the ground bashed around until it stopped moving. After finishing with Razzel Dazzle, the PPGs were extremely dizzy and vowed to never again use the ability.

B-Bomb

The PPGs join hands and start to emit omnidirectional energy waves, resulting in an explosion (that in this combo's lone showing blew up Prof. Utonium's lab and the house along with it).

Cosmic Cannonball

This attack starts with the PPGs flying high above the target and then letting themselves fall, fusing into a ball as they go. The ball presumably explodes upon impact, but the attack was interrupted before being completed in the one time it was used so...

Wing Plan R

A combo where the girls use Butercup's belt as a slingshot to launch Blossom's bow (which is actually a powerful explosive!) at the enemy.

See full scene here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C9YZ9afCMQ

Misc. Powers

Super Imagination

In episode Imaginary Fiend (S2E9 I), a boy's imaginary friend becomes real for undetermined reasons and starts disrupting school poltergeist style. Since the imaginary friend is intangible, the PPGs are unable to fight it directly and are forced to use their linked imaginations to create an imaginary friend of their own (a kickass/cute/smart antropomorphic bunny) that beats the crap out of the evil imaginary friend for them.

Rock n' Roll

Episode Mime For A Change (S1E11 II) is about a clown that is transformed into an evil mime by exposure to industrial amounts of bleach. The mime develops the magic ability to drain color and joy out of things and manages to turn Townsville and its denizens (except for Bubbles) into a silent, sad black-and-white movie.

Right until Bubbles decides to use the power of music (having failed in her initial attempt to use the power of crayons) and starts a ballad that heals first her sisters and then all of Townsville. Even the evil mime is healed after Blossom blasts him with concentrated music power (?) through her guitar solo.

Magic

Abracadaver (S1E5 II) is an episode about the magic zombie of a stage wizard who died in an accident caused by a little girl who greatly resembled the PPGs. Upon raising from his tomb, the zombie causes severe mayhem with its magic powers and seems to curbstomp the girls with insulting ease.

However, when it seems that he has just killed Blossom with the iron maiden that killed him, it is revealed that Abracadaver is actually Blossom in disguise, who swiftly rescues her sisters. When asked to explain how they pulled that one, they answer the Mayor with "It's magic, silly!" and giggled. This is more of an illusion than the magic most fictional characters are capable of, but still.

Bilingualism

It's also worth noting that Blossom and Bubbles each speak a second language. Blossom can speak and read Mandarin while Bubbles can speak and read Spanish, Buttercup has not shown the ability to interpret other languages. Blossom and Bubbles were apparently born(err made) with this ability, not taught.

Animal Speak

Bubble's special superpower is the ability to talk to animals. She is able to communicate with virtually any animal, in fact, in the episode Three Girls And A Monster (S3E6 I) Bubble's kindly asked a Giant ferocious monster if he would "please leave" after none of the girls could defeat it(or do any damage for that matter) and the monster inexplicably left right after being asked.

i was always a Dexter's Lab kid, but this is a cool thread.

we needed one of these in a more accessable place. kudos to you OP!!!!! @BlueComet:

also, does anyone know if the Japanese powerpuff girls is any good?

@Jorgevy: Powerpuff Girls Z? I've watched a few english subbed episodes and it wasn't bad, a lot different then the original, but still pretty good.

@BlueComet: gotta give it a try then. and once again, thanks for putting this out here

@BlueComet:That is what I was asking, must got lost with all those wall posts. I don't know how different Powerpuff Girls Z.is with most other anime that I have watched I do hope It is a least a little more serious in subject matter. I tend to like shows that at least have some sort of plot line. I just hope in does not go to dark.

@BlueComet: Spectacular job!

PPG was a great cartoon. Highly under-rated. better than S-Bob..(and I like Spongebob) Thing is..all their feats vary from cartoon to cartoon. One episode they can fly through the sun..next they can barely stand the heat of an incoming comet. McCracken has said each story was individual, and he made their power-levels whatever they needed to be for each episode to work.

Wow, great job putting all that together. I was a big PPG fan when I was a little girl... Buttercup was my favourite, 'cause she was a badass.

Cool Thread

@Strafe Prower: Thanks

@Manwhohaseverything said:

PPG was a great cartoon. Highly under-rated. better than S-Bob..(and I like Spongebob) Thing is..all their feats vary from cartoon to cartoon. One episode they can fly through the sun..next they can barely stand the heat of an incoming comet. McCracken has said each story was individual, and he made their power-levels whatever they needed to be for each episode to work.

Really? I'd never heard that before, pretty interesting though. Talk about WIS.

Good morning, sir.

I thought that I'd comment that you have plagiarized my work, down to the text of this thread, and have given no credit.

While I am not at all adverse to people using my own respect thread as the basis for theirs or even reusing those screencaps I made, I am somewhat annoyed when people who are not me claim credit for things they didn't do.

That's all.

Respek

@bluecomet: Can you re-edit your post? Some of the images are broken. I know this is old but im just saying.

Superman would still stomp the Superman knockoffs.

Bump

still great.

Nice.

I would really like to see them re-imagined as BAMFs, artistically design wise (+)

so with the a new series coming out this respect thread will need to be updated

They've got imagination constructs now. Probably not on the same scope or power of the GL Corps, but still pretty cool.

@superproherohunter said:

@gothamciti said:

These^..Lmao

Huge necro here, but... posts like this make me cringe

Why post that in a respect thread?

@shiryu: why reply to a 2 year old post?

Why reply to a reply to a 2 year old post?

@shiryu: Because I'm courteous.

nice i hope the new ppg's can improve they have potential to get better unlike ttg

@justsomerandomkid: I appreciate that.

Too bad this respect thread has been obliterated.