Powerpuff Showdown

"Powerpuff Showdown" is a one hour-long crossover special between the original 1998 Powerpuff Girls series and the Powerpuff Girls reboot series. The episode is written by writers of the original series Amy Keating Rogers, Randy Myers, Craig McCracken, and Genndy Tartakovsky. The episode is set air on November 18, 2018, to commemorate the original series' twentieth anniversary. The episode features Cathy Cavadini, E.G. Daily, and Tara Strong, reprising their roles as their 1998 Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.

In the episode, 2016's Mojo Jojo creates a dimensional portal to team up with his 1998 counterparts to destroy the entire Powerpuff Multi-verse, in which the 2016's Powerpuff Girls enter the 1998 City of Townsville and meet and team up with their counterparts.

Plot
The story starts in the 2016’s City of Townsville, in 2016 Mojo Jojo’s volcano lair where he comes up with a plan to finally destroy the Powerpuff Girls once and for all: travel to a alternate universe, team up with his dimensional counterpart, and destroy the entire Powerpuff Multi-verse. Just as he was about to enter the portal, The (2016) Powerpuff Girls shows up. They try to stop him, but Mojo Jojo escapes into the portal, causing the Powerpuff girls to follow him.

As they reach the end of the portal, they landed in the (1998) City of Townsville. There was no sign of the Mojo Jojo from their world, but they ran across and meet their original dimensional counterparts (voiced by Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, and Elizabeth Daily) who quickly dislike their 2016 counterpart and think they’re one of HIM’s tricks, three man impersonating them, or one of the leftovers of Dick Hardly’s Powerpuff Girls Xtremes. At first the two Powerpuff Girls teams fight each other, punching and kicking until the 2016’s Powerpuff Girls explain to the 1998’s Powerpuff Girls that the Mojo Jojo from the 2016’s world has travel to their world to team up with their Mojo Jojo to destroy the entire Powerpuff Multi-verse including both their worlds. So the two Powerpuff Girls teams trust each other (except for the Buttercups after they insulted each other during the battle) and team up to defeat the Mojo Jojos… before bedtime.

Meanwhile, the 2016’s Mojo Jojo has arrived to his counterpart’s volcano lair and he quickly team up with him to destroy the whole Powerpuff Multi-verse by setting black hole bombs on all the Townsville Halls in the universe. Meanwhile back in the 1998’s Powerpuff Girls’ house, as the 2016’s Powerpuff Girls admire their counterparts bedroom, both teams try to figure out how to defeat the Mojo Jojos until the Professor comes in and becomes confused and faint after noticing that there are six of them (two sets of them). When the girls explains to him that their doubles are from a alternate dimension and the Mojo Jojo from their world is here to team up with their Mojo Jojo to destroy every powerpuff girls world in existence, that's when the Powerpuff Hotline ring and The Mayor and Ms. Bellum call to inform them that the two Mojo Jojos are placing their device in Town Hall. Both the 1998 and the 2016 Powerpuff Girls head towards Townsville Hall.

As the 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls arrive in Townsville Hall, The Mayor and Ms. Bellum were shocked to see six of them and the girls fly off to take the device but they are attacked by drones leftover by two Mojo Jojos to attack them, the 2016 girl including their aura forms are too weak for them to fight, so the 1998 girls do it by themselves by destroying the drones and then deactivate the bomb.

Then the girls take the bomb back to the Professor’s lab so the Professor can examine it. Then the 1998 Powerpuff Girls teach their rebooted counterparts how to fight harder with their arms and legs by entering the fight simulation chamber, however despite their attempt to use their arms and legs without using their aura powers to fight against the training virtual monsters, the 2016 girls are not good enough to combat them and the 1998 Powerpuff Girls shows them how it is done and 1998 Bubbles shouts at them that this is how they should have done it, which the 2016 Blossom ask her 1998 counterpart if 1998 Bubbles is sometimes like this, which she tells her that on rare occasions she is, but then the 1998 Professor calls the girls to come quickly to his lab, he tells them that the bomb are connected with three (four in Japanese version) other black hole bombs and are set to go off in one hour, one in the 2016’s world, one in a Z dimension (Japanese version), one in the prime (pilot) dimension, and one in the Dance Pantsed dimension. And they’re all located in every Townsville Hall. The two PowerPuff Girls teams have to put their differences aside (except Buttercup) and work together and deactivate the other bomb to save the other PowerPuff dimensions. The Professor gives them an invention that will allow them to travel to different dimensions as the Powerpuff Girls from 1998 and 2016 head to the 2016 PowerPuff Girls world and before they head out to stop the Mojo Jojos, the 1998 Professor wishes them good luck.

When they arrive to the 2016 PowerPuff Girls world, they head towards Townsville Hall, but they notice 2016 Professor all tied up and rescue him, however it was all a trap where 1998 and 2016 Mojo Jojo were waiting for them and capture them all! And they use the drones to attack them but the girls manage to escape, defeat the drones despite that the PPG 2016 are too weak to attack them, rescue the 2016 Professor, and deactivate the black hole bomb, the Mojos head to the next dimension, and the girls followed them.

In the Japanese version, they entered the anime Powerpuff Girls Z dimension where everything is completely different from their worlds. Soon the Mojo Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls Z dimension shows up and teams up with the two Mojo Jojos to stop the two teams of Powerpuff Girls which they did and are about to finish them, until the Powerpuff Girls Z comes in rescue their dimensional counterparts,defeat their Mojo Jojo while the other 2 escape to the next dimension and deactivated the third black hole bomb. The Powerpuff Girls from 1998 and 2016 heads to the next dimension while the Powerpuff Girls Z stay in the Z dimension holding their Mojo Jojo captive.

They arrived in the CGI Dance Pantsed dimensions and as they all head to the Townsville Hall in that dimension, the Mojo Jojo from this world joins the fight using a mecha along with the other 2 counterparts and use it to attack them, as the 1998 Powerpuff girls try to defeat the CGI Mojo mecha which is too powerful for them, the 2016 Girl like before are to attack them but are easily defeated as if all hope is lost but then the PowerPuff Girls from this world appear and team up with their 1998 counterparts while the 2016 are too weak to stop Mojo Jojo. The 1998 and CGI team of the PowerPuff Girls were able to deactivate the third (fourth in the Japanese version) black hole bomb and captured all three Mojo Jojo's.

1998 Buttercup who always never trusted the 2016 girls shouts at them as she knows that she never trust them and then angrily calls them as "Weak helpless babies" this cause the 2016 Powerpuff Girls to make sad faces and become miserable as they realize that 1998 Buttercup was right that they are truly hopeless, however 1998 Blossom and 1998 Bubbles who felt pity on them and encourage them saying, "You may look weak, but when the situation is dire, your heart will get stronger and you can overcome them", this helps to boost the 2016 girls confidence.

But then Mojo Jojo from 1998 laughs and tells them that there’s still one left in the prime (pilot) PowerPuff dimension, and if that universe is destroyed, so are all of the other PowerPuff Girls universes. So the PowerPuff Girls from 1998 and 2016 heads to the final dimension while the CGI Dance Pantsed version of them stay in their world to make sure they prevent three Mojo Jojo's from stopping them.

When the 1998 Powerpuff Girls and the 2016 Powerpuff Girls arrived in the prime (pilot) Powerpuff Girls dimension from 1992 (The world that came before both the 1998 and 2016’s world), they quickly received a very unwelcome greeting from that dimensions Powerpuff Girls. The 1998 Powerpuff Girls then tells the 2016 Girls to stay put since they are not ready to fight them and tried their best to stop their prime counterparts but they are unstoppable, this cause the 2016 girls to quickly save them as they earlier understand from the encouraging speech 1998 Blossom gave them back in the Dance Pantsed dimension and instead of using their aura powers, they used their fist and hit them them so hard, it caused the Prime Powerpuff Girls to loose consciousness. The 1998 Powerpuff Girls are proud of their 2016 counterparts, as they are glad they use their fist to save them, even 1998 Buttercup apologise to them for calling them "Weak helpless babies" though it cause the Prime Powerpuff girls to lie in coma and they will have to apologize to them later after they deactivate the last bomb.

As they race their way to Townsville hall and deactivate the final black hole bomb, the portal from the Danced Pantsed world opened up with the defeated Powerpuff Girls from that world and appearing from the portal are the 3 Mojo Jojo's who are free from their captive thanks to 1998's Mojo's trick on his sleeve which is a laser cannon (in the Japanese version, the portal from Powerpuff Girls Z world would also open and the Powerpuff Girls Z were defeated by Powerpuff Girls Z Mojo Jojo as he too has trick on his sleeve which is also a laser cannon). The 1998 Mojo then use his cannon to zap the six girls leaving them defeated, and as the 1998 Mojo Jojo gives a speech to the three (four in Japanese version) Powerpuff Girls that this is their end. Both Blossoms from 1998 and 2016 stand up and give a motivated speech about all of them being the Powerpuff Girls; no matter how different they are, after that all different versions of Powerpuff Girls rise up and fought the Mojo Jojo's as one.

The Blossoms took out Dance Pantsed Mojo Jojo, The Bubbles took out 1998 Mojo Jojo, the Buttercups took out 2016 Mojo Jojo, (For Japanese version the Powerpuff Girls Z took out their version of Mojo Jojo), and then all of them delivered one final blow to all the Mojo Jojos. Once the Mojo Jojos are defeated, the girls forgot about the bomb as it reach zero, but thankfully the Prime Powerpuff girls after they wake up from the punch they got from the 2016 Powerpuff Girls fly up to Townsville hall and deactivate the bomb before it went off they then wave goodbye to their counterparts and fly offscreen.

After the 1998 and 2016 girls wave goodbye to their Dance Pantsed counterparts (and the Z girls in the Japanese version) as they fly back to the portal to return to their home world with their Mojo Jojo's. The 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls then bid each other farewell and thanks for their help as the 2016 girls wave goodbye to their 1998 counterparts and took their Mojo Jojo with them to their world. And before the 1998 girls return to their home world with their Mojo Jojo, 1998 Buttercup said to 1998 Blossom and Bubbles, “You know what girls, I guess those Powerpuff Girls aren’t so bad after all… Not!”, then 1998 Bubbles said to 1998 Blossom and Buttercup, "I don't know. I was actually starting to like my other dimensional me. I hope we see them again someday.", and finally, 1998 Blossom said to 1998 Bubbles and Buttercup, "Maybe, but I doubt it. Then again, who's knows. Either way, nobody can ever replace us.", they laugh as the portal closes behind them.

And the story ends with the narrator says “And so once again, the day and universe is saved. Thanks to… The Powerpuff Girls! Wow! Who knew there were so many of them?” The End.

Cast

 * Cathy Cavadini as '98 Blossom, Dance Pantsed Blossom


 * Tara Strong as '98 Bubbles, Dance Pantsed Bubbles
 * E.G. Daily as '98 Buttercup, Dance Pantsed Buttercup
 * Amanda Leighton as 2016 Blossom
 * Kristen Li as 2016 Bubbles
 * Natalie Palamides as 2016 Buttercup
 * Tom Kenny as The Narrator, '98 and 2016 The Mayor
 * Jennifer Martin as Ms. Bellum
 * Tom Kane as '98 and 2016 Professor Utonium, Talking Dog
 * Roger L. Jackson as '98, 2016, and Dance Pantsed Mojo Jojo
 * Craig McCracken as himself (speaking cameo)
 * Jennifer Fried as Prime Blossom, Prime Bubbles, and Prime Buttercup (audio archive)
 * Japanese Version Only
 * Laura Bailey as Blossom (PPGZ)
 * Emiri Katou as Blossom (PPGZ-Japanese dub)
 * Cindy Robinson as Bubbles (PPGZ)
 * Nami Miyahara as Bubbles (PPGZ-Japanese dub)
 * Colleen Villard as Buttercup (PPGZ)
 * Machiko Kawana as Buttercup (PPGZ-Japanese dub)
 * Travis Willingham as Mojo Jojo (PPGZ)
 * Masashi Ebara as Mojo Jojo (PPGZ-Japanese dub)

Trivia

 * This episode celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Powerpuff Girls official release in November 18, 1998.
 * The plot of the episode is similar to three crossover specials from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. "Turtles Forever" (crossover between 1980's and 2003 Ninja Turtles), "Trans-Dimensional Turtles" and "Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady" (both crossover between 1980's and 2012 Ninja Turtles).
 * The Powerpuff Girls Z are in this special, but only in the Japanese version.
 * The fight simulation chamber from the 1998 series episode, Bubblevicious appears in this special when the 1998 Powerpuff Girls train their 2016 counterparts.
 * The pilot Powerpuff Girls (The Whoopass Girls) make an appearance in this episode, but they are called Prime Powerpuff Girls in this episode because Cartoon Network shows cannot used the word "a**".
 * The 2016 Powerpuff Girls and Mojo Jojo are confused when they hear the narrator during their visit in the 1998 world
 * Some of the scenes have to be re-recorded for the Cartoon Network Japan, due to the fact, the PowerPuff Girls Z are in the Japanese version.
 * The Prime Powerpuff Girls (pilot version) are voiced by Jennifer Fried through Audio archives
 * The Prime Powerpuff Girls (pilot version) remain silent throughout the segment except one line "Not so fast" when they encounter their alternate counterparts.
 * Ms. Bellum returns in this episode after the reboot series receiving dozens of angry comments from fans of the original show saying the reboot series remove Ms. Bellum for no good reason.
 * Jared is mentioned in this episode and don't appear. Bliss appears in a picture in 2016's Blossom smartphone. Bunny was seen only in a flashback with scenes from the episode, "Twisted Sister".
 * Dexter, Dee Dee, Major Glory, Valhallen, Krunk, and Monkey from "Dexter's Laboratory" makes cameo appearances in the 1998's world in this episode.
 * Craig McCracken the original creator of the original Powerpuff Girls series makes a speaking cameo appearance in the 1998's world in this episode.
 * The Talking Dog appears in this episode.
 * During the battle between the 2016 and 1998 Powerpuff Girls, the 1998 Powerpuff Girls beat up the 2016 Powerpuff Girls the same way they beat up Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and HIM in the original show's intro.
 * This special is in memory of Christine Cavanaugh, the voice of Bunny.
 * During the battle between the 2016 and 1998 Powerpuff Girls and throughout the episode, characters from both the 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls made some references of past events from both the original and reboot series.
 * "Powerpuff Bluff" - During the fight between the 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls, 1998's Buttercup believed that the 2016's Powerpuff Girls could be those three men who dressed like the Powerpuff Girls and framed them for crimes they didn't commit.
 * "Knock it Off" - During the fight between the 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls, 1998's Blossom believed that the 2016's Powerpuff Girls could be some of The Professor's old college roommate, Dick Hardly's Powerpuff Girls Xtremes who survived in the fire.
 * "Major Competition" - During the fight between the 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls, 1998's Buttercup called their 2016 counterparts, "Powderpuff Girls".
 * "Strong-Armed"- 98's Buttercup told their 2016 counterpart are so weak, 2016 Bubbles bones break so easily.
 * "Los Dos Mojos" - When 2016's Mojo Jojo meets his 1998 counterpart, 1998's Mojo Jojo remember saying that two Mojo Jojo's was too much to handle, later 1998's Buttercup recalls the episode as well.
 * "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Monkey See, Doggy Two" - 1998 Mojo Jojo told his counterpart the time he turned everyone in the world into dogs, twice. The narrator also recall the part where 1998 Mojo Jojo turn him into a dog along with everyone else.
 * "Mojo Jonesin'" - 1998 Mojo Jojo told his 2016 counterpart all the times he tried to destroy the Powerpuff Girls, one of them was the time that he tricked the Powerpuff Girls' classmates into destroying the girls for Chemical X.
 * "Meet the Beat-Alls" - 1998 Mojo Jojo told his 2016 counterpart about the time he teamed up with HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Princess Morbucks and went on a crime spree.
 * "The Rowdyruff Boys" - 1998 Mojo Jojo told his 2016 counterpart that he created the Rowdyruff Boys to destroy the Powerpuff Girls.
 * "The Powerpuff Girls Movie" - 1998 Mojo Jojo even told his 2016 counterpart the events from the Powerpuff Girls Movie.
 * "TTG vs PPG" - 2016 Mojo Jojo told his 1998 counterpart about his monkey army from that crossover epsiode. And 1998 Buttercup called the 2016 Powerpuff Girls, "babies", just like the Robin, Starfire, and Raven called them throughout that episode.
 * "The Power of Four" - The 2016 Powerpuff Girls mentioned Bliss.
 * "Twisted Sister" - After the 2016 Powerpuff Girls told their 1998 counterpart about Bliss, the 1998 Powerpuff Girls told the 2016 Powerpuff Girls a quick sad story about Bunny especially the mention of her death. The 2016 Powerpuff Girls were sad about this after hearing her story and apologies for their loss which they accept.
 * "Bubblevicious" - When the 1998 Powerpuff Girls teaches the 2016 Powerpuff Girls how to fight as harder as them in order to defeat the Mojo Jojos and save their worlds, 98' Bubbles tell 2016 Bubbles that she has to be more than just cute, she also has to be hardcore, but not too hardcore and that mercy is for the weak.
 * "Three Girls and a Monster" - After the demonstration, '98 Bubbles yells at their counterpart on how to fight the same way she yells at '98 Blossom and '98 Buttercup in the end of the episode. When 2016 Blossom asks her 1998 self if she is always like this, which 1998 says to her only on rare occasions.
 * "Geshundfight" - The part when 1998 Buttercup shouts at the 2016 Powerpuff girls for calling them "Weak helpless babies" was similar to the 1998 episode Geshundfight when she angrily shouts at the Amoeba Boys.
 * "Wrinklepuff Girls" -The 2016 mention who their Porky Oaks got destroyed.
 * There are a lot of real-life references about how fans of the original show hates the reboot Powerpuff Girls and how they feel about them:
 * 1998 Buttercup give remarks about her and sisters 2016 counterparts such as their appearance when they look similar to them but with a difference such as 2016 Blossom's tip of her bow is round, 2016 Bubbles' hair bean, and 2016 Buttercup's cowlick. She stated that their 2016 counterparts don't punch and kick hard and how weak they are and compare their aura power to Green Lantern's power. She even complains about the expression faces and eyes the 2016 Powerpuff Girls are making including the infamous meme faces, and also she doesn't like their voices when she said that 2016 Bubbles' voice is annoying, 2016 Blossoms voice is a little flat, though 1998 Blossom thinks it was close, and her 2016 counterpart sounds like a boy, which her 2016 came out to her to say the same thing (Ironically, 1998 Buttercup's voice actress, E.G. Daily also voiced Tommy Pickles from Nickelodeon's Rugrats and All Grown Up and Rudy Tabootie from Chalkzone who are both male characters.)
 * During and after the fight, 1998 Buttercup called the 2016 counterpart names, like "Powerpuff Imposters", "Powder Puff Girls" and "Weak helpless babies".
 * 1998's Mojo Jojo wonders why his counterpart's ears are round, why his cape and the purple lines on his helmet are a different shade of purple, and why is most of his outfit completely purple.
 * When 2016 Blossom asked her 1998's Blossom if they have Jared Shapiro in their world, 1998's Blossom believes he sounds like a creep and she's too young to have a crush. 1998's Buttercup thinks he sounds gross.
 * The 2016 Powerpuff Girls were shocked to see that the 1998 Powerpuff Girls still have Ms. Bellum working for the Mayor, while the 1998 Powerpuff Girls were disappointed to hear that the 2016 Powerpuff Girls' Ms. Bellum left.
 * When the 2016 Powerpuff Girls told their 1998 counterparts about Bliss as the fourth Powerpuff Girls, the 1998 Powerpuff Girls called her a rip-off of Bunny who's the real fourth Powerpuff Girls.


 * While flying to 1998 Town Hall, the 2016 Powerpuff Girls notice the 1998 Pokey Oaks is still standing and the 1998 Powerpuff Girls asked what happened to their Pokey Oaks which the 2016 counterpart explain to them that it was due to an accident by Bubbles from the beginning of the "Wrinklepuff Girls" episode from the 2016 series.


 * When the 1998 and 2016 Powerpuff Girls enter a different world they look around and talk about it's surroundings such as:
 * When the 2016 Powerpuff Girls enter the 1998 world, they felt that the atmosphere feels timeless that it might be inspired from a 60s cartoon.
 * When the 2016 and 1998 Powerpuff Girls re-entered the 2016 world, the 1998 Powerpuff Girls asked why the atmosphere feels so colorful especially when they wonder why the 2016 Professor's chin is round.
 * In the Japanese version, when the 2016 and 1998 Powerpuff Girls enter the Z anime world, they felt that the atmosphere feels different.
 * When the 2016 and 1998 Powerpuff Girls enter the Dance pantsed dimension, they wonder why the surroundings seems minimized but solid.
 * And when the 2016 and 1998 Powerpuff Girls enter the prime universe, they felt that the atmosphere is made by some student from animation school especially that it doesn't have a lot of scenery as this prime universe is based on Whoopass Girls which is one of Craig McCracken's projects in CalArts and is the prototype of the Powerpuff Girls