The Amoeba Boys

The Amoeba Boys is an American animated series created by Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for Cartoon Network, focusing on the amoeba boys from The Powerpuff Girls.

Premise
The show's titular protagonists is The Amoeba Boys, who are three of the many criminals in The city of Townsville, a town protected by the Powerpuff Girls, Blossom Bubbles and Buttercup.

Main characters

 * Bossman (voiced by Roger Bumpass) is the leader of the Amoebas. He is the most cunning and intelligent of the trio, though he is by no means a genius. He can be quite aggressive and violent when provoked but generally tries to avoid confrontation when possible.
 * Junior (voiced by Rachelle Beinart) may be the smallest of the Amoeba Boys, but what he lacks in size, he more than makes up for in sadism. He delights in causing pain and suffering, often coming up with cruel and unusual ways to torture his victims. His favorite pastime is to capture small animals and torture them for his own amusement, often dissolving their limbs off one by one or subjecting them to other gruesome fates.
 * Slim (voiced by Dave Wasson) is the most laid-back and easygoing of the group. He enjoys the simple things in life, such as lounging around and eating normal food. He loves music and can often be found humming or singing to himself.
 * Blossom (voiced by Cathy Cavadini) is the tactician and self-proclaimed leader of the Powerpuff Girls. Her personality ingredient is "everything nice", her signature color is bright pink, and she has long red-orange waist-length hair worn in a ponytail with a red bow and a pink hair clip with a red heart. She was named for having spoken freely and honestly to the Professor shortly after her creation as shown in The Powerpuff Girls Movie. She is often seen as the most level-headed, intelligent, and composed member of the group and also strong and determined. She is also a master strategist and apt planner. Her unique power is freezing objects with her breath as seen in the episode "Ice Sore".
 * Bubbles (voiced by Tara Strong) is the "softest and sweetest" of the three. Her signature color is blue, her personality ingredient is "sugar", and she has blonde hair in pigtails. Bubbles is seen as kind and very sweet but she is also capable of extreme rage and can fight monsters just as well as her sisters can. Her best friend is a stuffed octopus doll she calls "Octi", and she also loves animals. She exhibits the ability to both understand multiple languages (mostly Spanish) and communicate with various animals; her unique powers are projecting powerful sonic screams, and creating a shockwave of thunder with a single clap from her hands.
 * Buttercup (voiced by E. G. Daily) is described as a "tough hotheaded tomboy". Her personality ingredient is "spice", her signature color is green, and she has short black hair in a flip. She loves to get dirty, fights hard and plays rough; she does not plan and is all action. Her unique powers are to curl her tongue, creating a whirling green tornado, and creating fireballs by rubbing her hands together 'till smoke comes out which forms a flaming ball that she throws at an opponent. McCracken originally wanted to name the character "Bud" until a friend suggested the name Buttercup. According to The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Buttercup really dislikes the name she was given.
 * Professor Utonium (voiced by Tom Kane) is a scientist who works in his home in the suburbs of the City of Townsville, and the Powerpuff Girls' creator and father. A stereotypical scientist, his general attire is a white lab coat and black pants. The Professor once housed a chimpanzee named Jojo (later to become Mojo Jojo) as a lab assistant who proved to be reckless and destructive. While the Professor was stirring his perfect girl concoction, Jojo shoved him, causing him to accidentally break a flask containing the mysterious "Chemical X" which spilled into the formula, thus creating the Powerpuff Girls. The Professor is a genius in many fields of science, has shown knowledge in fields such as physics, chemistry, and biology as well as being a skilled inventor. Aside from his role as a scientist, he acts as a parent to the Powerpuff Girls. Although he apparently did not legally "adopt" the girls, everyone who addresses him calls him "their father" and they as "his daughters". The Professor can be strict, easily manipulated, and overprotective at times, but still retains his caring fatherly image. In the episode "Keen for Keane", the girls set up Professor Utonium and their kindergarten teacher Ms. Keane on a date for Valentine's Day, resulting in the two temporarily becoming an item.
 * The Rowdyruff Boys are the evil male counterparts of the Powerpuff Girls created by Mojo Jojo using a mixture of "snips, snails, and a puppy dog tail" and a radioactive toilet water in his cell in Townsville Prison. The Rowdyruff Boys are essentially violent bullies who have the same powers as the Powerpuff Girls, with their own techniques as well. They were ultimately destroyed when the girls kissed them. After being resurrected by HIM, the Boys' hairstyles become noticeably spikier. The Boys wear long-sleeved shirts with a black stripe in each, black trousers and black, low-top sneakers with white laces and white soles.
 * Brick (voiced by Rob Paulsen in the series): Blossom's equivalent, he is the short-tempered, self-proclaimed leader of the Rowdyruff Boys. He has an abrasive and rash attitude, which often causes conflict with his brothers. His signature color is red, and he wears a backwards red baseball cap compared to Blossom's bow. He also originally had bangs, which were replaced with long spiky hair when he was revived.
 * Boomer (also voiced by Paulsen in the series): Bubbles' equivalent, he is a loud-mouthed dunce, as opposed to Bubbles' naïve sweetness, and has been known to like disgusting things. After his resurrection, Boomer is shown to be the least intelligent of the boys and he is often bullied and bossed around by his brothers. Boomer's hair parts in a curved fashion like Bubbles', but is longer and spiky on each end, in a wings haircut.
 * Butch (voiced by Roger L. Jackson in the series): Buttercup's equivalent. After his resurrection, Butch becomes more hyperactive and overly excited. Butch's hair is spiked upwards, abandoning his previous cowlick from his first appearance. He also shares Buttercup's small triangular hair parting.
 * Mojo Jojo (voiced by Roger L. Jackson) is a mad scientistanthropomorphic chimpanzee with great intelligence, who speaks with a Japanese accent in an overly exaggerated and repetitive manner. As the Powerpuff Girls' archenemy, Mojo Jojo was Professor Utonium's reckless laboratory chimpanzee, Jojo, before Professor Utonium created the Powerpuff Girls; the same accident that created the Girls gave Jojo his super-intelligence. He has green skin, pink scleras, sharp teeth, and wears a white glass dome-shaped helmet that covers his oversized, protruding brain. He wears white gloves and boots, a blue suit with a white belt, and a flowing purple cape. Despite his high intelligence, his plans often contain flaws that he overlooks, and he rarely has much success against the Girls, as their superpowers are too much for his inventions. However, he is a master at manipulation and trickery, often fooling the Girls into thinking he has changed despite their constant encounters. Mojo lives in an observatory atop a dormant volcano located in the middle of Townsville's municipal park.

Supporting characters

 * Beau (voiced by Pamela Adlon) is a teenager who first appears in the episode of the Beauhemoth. He has an obsession with inventing machines.
 * Leif Prezton (voiced by Corey Burton) is belligerent, powerful and easily provoked by the amoeba boys’ antics. He first appears in the episode BaseSmall.
 * Princess Morbucks (voiced by Jennifer Hale) is a spoiled, rich, and bratty little girl, whose partially unseen and mostly mute father allows her to finance various evil plots to destroy the Powerpuff Girls. Her supervillain outfit consists of a yellow, Powerpuff-style dress, black gloves and boots, and a tiara. Her hatred of the girls stems from her rebuffed attempt to become one of them. Her father is "Daddy" Morbucks, a large, rotund man whose face and head are always hidden from the viewer. He dotes on his daughter and usually indulges in her whims, but it is hinted that his patience is limited and Princess fears truly angering him. Thanks to him, Morbucks has access to virtually unlimited financial resources.
 * Kaput and Zosky appear in Several episodes. They are Bloodthirsty conquerors, that travel the universe, landing on planets and trying to conquer them. They are not the most able tyrants, however, and have trouble holding any planet for more than a few days, if they can even manage to dominate it in the first place. In fact, they spend as much time running for their lives as they do enslaving and slaughtering innocents. Kaput and Zösky are a dynamic, if generic, duo. Zösky is a cunning, level-headed pseudo-intellectual who always has a plan. Kaput, on the other hand, is short-tempered and volatile; his strategies always involve "crisperizing" everything in sight. Kaput is a short and dumpy little terrorizer with a brilliant red mohawk, and Zösky is a tall and thin tyrant with a set of yellow antennae. Their exploits almost always end in the same way for the two space tyrants; the two barely escape from their fates by flying off in their dumpy little spaceship, leaving a red smoke trail behind.
 * The Mayor of Townsville (voiced by Tom Kenny) is generally referred throughout only as "Mayor", although he is referred to as "Barney" by his wife in the episode "Boogie Frights". He is short and elderly with a fringe of white hair around a bald scalp and a thick white mustache. He wears a monocle over his left eye and a small top hat that “floats” just above his head. The Mayor is rather dimwitted but cares deeply about his city. He has a love for pickles and is very childish at times. He sometimes calls the girls for very silly reasons.
 * Ms. Sara Bellum (voiced by Jennifer Martin) is the Mayor's secretary, who often handles issues that the Mayor cannot handle, in a way, is finding her attractive, the camera focusing on her curves, and her face always being obscured. Her name is a pun on the word cerebellum presumably due to her intelligent and wise nature. She also proved to be a capable fighter, battling the villainess Sedusa by herself when the girls were disabled.
 * Brad is a young man who rides a motercycle (which Junior often "borrows") and works in the local pizzeria.
 * Jared Shapiro appears for the first time in Series 2. A running gag is Bossman despising him. This is supposed to be a joke on many fans hating him.
 * Duplikate appears in the episodes “Duplikation”, "The hat came back" and "That’s not Bunny". Beginning as a gifted and dedicated scientist, Kate studied years of adaptational replication and was responsible for creating highly advanced technology made to duplicate anyone or anything it scans. Kate was intending to use this creation to improve everyday living for Townsville. However her project was cancelled before a big technology auction, which her boss classified as primitive and amateur. But when Kate discovered that her boss secretly showed off her invention and claiming it as her own, she was furious and built a highly advanced body suit made from leftovers of her replicating technology, to seek revenge on her boss for stealing her work. Her suit can create exact copies of herself and she is also equipped with hi-tech bracelets which could shoot powerful energy beams which she uses as an advantage during battles. Duplikate is also revealed to have a loving husband named Phil who she reveals to greatly miss following her change into a vengeful supervillain.

Episodes
See List of The Amoeba Boys episodes

Trivia

 * The show shares a similar art and animation style with Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls, given that it was created by Craig McCracken. Episodes animated by Rough Draft tend to show this, while Toon City-animated episodes are slightly more fluid.
 * This show is considered more sillier compared to Craig McCracken's other shows due to occasional use of surreal humor. This is mostly noticeable in episodes directed by Timothy Björklund.
 * Some episodes are co-written by Steven Banks.