Draft:Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls)
| Buttercup | |
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| The Powerpuff Girls character | |
First appearance | "Whoopass Stew: A Sticky Situation" (1992 short)[1] |
| Created by | Craig McCracken |
| Portrayed by | Chloe Bennet (unaired CW pilot) |
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| In-universe information | |
| Nickname | "The Toughest Fighter" |
| Species | Artificial Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | |
| Affiliation | The Powerpuff Girls |
| Family | |
Ingredients |
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Location | The City of Townsville |
Buttercup is a fictional character who is a super heroine that serves as one of the three main protagonists of The Powerpuff Girls franchise. She was created by Craig McCracken and made her debut in the Whoopass Stew! short titled "A Sticky Situation" in 1992, and was later fully introduced in the animated television series The Powerpuff Girls in 1998.
She is portrayed as the tough-headed tomboy member of The Powerpuff Girls, which are a group of three superheroines. She alongside her sisters Blossom and Bubbles, fights crime in the city of Townsville as well as fighting against a plethora of villains and monsters. She is the most violent, the bravest and toughest member of the team.
She has a round oval-shaped head with black hair in a flip with a small triangular part on her forehead, abnormally large lime green eyes with peach skin, she wears a dress of the same colour of her eyes with a black stripe in the middle of it with white tights and black Mary Jane shoes. she has stubby arms and stubby legs but lacks a nose, set of ears, neck and toes.
Unlike her sisters, she does not have a unique power but her unique attribute is that she's the fastest member of The Powerpuff Girls and is the only member who can curl her tongue. In the reboot, Buttercup can create green energy constructs.
A toy line and series of video games featuring the character and her sisters have also been produced.[3][4]
Description
[edit]Main concept
[edit]Buttercup is the headstrong tomboy of the Powerpuff Girls. She and Bubbles under the command and leadership of Blossom fights crime and takes care of various emergencies in the city of Townsville. Buttercup and her sisters are frequently alerted by the Mayor through the "Powerpuff Hotline" whenever a crime is taking place in Townsville.[5] Buttercup and her sisters were created by Professor Utonium from a mixture of "sugar, spice and everything nice" when he attempting to create the "perfect little girl", and their many superpowers were granted by the accidental addition of "Chemical X". Buttercup's main ingredient is spice.[6] Each episode of the 1998 television series briefly depicts this event in its title sequence, and is further explored in the prequel The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).[7] In the original short from which The Powerpuff Girls derive (titled Whoopass Stew!), the substance that accidentally creates the girls is "a can of Whoopass", which was replaced by "Chemical X" in the television series.[8]
Voice actors
[edit]Portrayal
[edit]Appearances
[edit]In The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005)
[edit]In Powerpuff Girls Z
[edit]In The Powerpuff Girls (2016–2019)
[edit]Powers and abilities
[edit]Buttercup and her sisters all have superpowers such as flight, superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman senses, limited invulnerability, x-ray vision, red heat vision, energy projection, space survivability, and thermal resistance.
Reception
[edit]TV Guide collectively chose Buttercup, Blossom and Bubbles, as No. 13 in a list of the 50 Greatest cartoon characters of all time.[9] In the book America Toons In: A History of Television Animation (2014).[10]
The Powerpuff Girls have been regarded as representations of femininity and girl power.[11]: 144
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Animator Profile: CRAIG McCRACKEN". CartoonNetwork.com. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
voicewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ↑ Foster, Elizabeth (May 23, 2018). "Cartoon Network assembles more licensing partners". Kidscreen. Brunico Communications. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- ↑ "WB's 'LEGO Dimensions' Adds 16 Properties". licenseglobal.com. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ↑ "The Powerpuff Girls". BBC Online. January 23, 2001. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
- ↑ Lloyd, Robert (November 22, 2000). "Beyond Good and Evil". LA Weekly. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ↑ Peszko, J. Paul (July 3, 2002). "Powerpuff Girls: From Small Screen to Big Screen". Animation World Network. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ↑ DeMott, Rick (October 2000). "The Powerpuff Girls' Phenomenal Merchandising Mantra". Animation World Magazine. 5 (7). Animation World Network. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ↑ "TV Guide's 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time". CNN. July 30, 2002. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ↑ Perlmutter, David (2014). America Toons In: A History of Television Animation. McFarland. p. 271. ISBN 9781476614885. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
- ↑ Perea, Katia (2011). "Chapter Five: The Digital Epoch and the Cartoon Renaissance". Girl Cartoons: A Playful Transgression on Popular Culture's Compulsory Gender Coding (PhD thesis). The New School for Social Research. ProQuest 874973658.
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