Michael Hopcroft Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 I don't think anyone has ever even considered the question of what the Powerpuff Girls would be like when they grew up. In most eyes they are eternal kindergartners. But just as a thought Experiment I'm wondering what a "fifteen years later" Townsville campaign would be like with the Girls as grown-up scions of Earth's superhero community. Blossom is, in addition to her superpowers, a singular tactical and strategic genius. That genius probably applies to science, technology, and other areas as well. Plus she has the charisma and acumen of a born leader. All of this would well suit her role as one of Earth's most well-known and iconic superheroes. What Blossom is to tactics, Buttercup is to getting down and fighting. Fifteen years of experience would enable her to combine unscientific brawling and punching with numerous "dirty fighting" techniques. She might not have the patience for formal martial arts training, but if she does develop the discipline she becomes even more dangerous and versatile. Her one problem is a tendency to be a "loose cannon" -- while she still doesn't kill, at least intentionally, she will (if left to her own devices) resort to force when other means of resolving a situation might be wiser (punching the alien dictator in the face instead of trying to reason with him about the impending invasion, for example). Bubbles would still seem to be flighty and carefree. That's the surface, one she carefully maintains in public. Inside, her emotional nature is giving her fits. Bubbles feels as much as she thinks. Her emotional instincts are usually spot-on, and years of experience with his sisters has made her a natural peacemaker. But she still tends to be insecure in the conclusions she reaches even when they are correct. She's hard to truly provoke, but if you do watch out -- when she loses control she becomes infuriated and hard to calm down. Much of their Rogue's Gallery will still be around -- older, wiser and more dangerous. A grown-up Princess Morebucks, in full control of some of "Daddy's" businesses, should be enough to frighten anybody. Mojo Jojo's monomaniacal hatred of the Girls would continue to drive him to attempt grand scheme after grand scheme, and Him would continue to play a dangerous game that only he comprehends or knows the rules to. While the Girls would possibly be Earth's most prominent superheroes, they probably wouldn't be the only ones. But no villain makes a scheme for global conquest or destruction without somehow taking the Girls into account. They are that powerful, and their reach is that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") I don't think anyone has ever even considered the question of what the Powerpuff Girls would be like when they grew up. You'd be very, very wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") by Shono on deviantart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Nice though that is, I don't see grown-up Bubbles dressing quite so immodestly. She may be emotional, but that may if anything make her more shy when it comes to "showing herself off". Lengthen the skirt a little bit (similar to Blossom's) and replace the cleavage window with something lacier and more concealing and you'd be a little closer to how I would see Bubbles. Buttercup is closer, though. Tight, concealing, allows for a full range of motion without embarrassing panty-shot accidents. Reinforces her image as the one you really don't want to mess with. Perhaps what Blossom is wearing might include a utility belt of sorts with small tools (and she might have developed something that lets her carry tools really tiny and then expand them when she needs to use them). You don't always have to tear off the door of the vault -- sometimes cracking the lock or drilling a small hole to let air in is more advantageous.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") They would be built on more than 250 points. A LOT more than 250 points. They were kicking the crap out of grown up supers on the show, while displaying the full range of FISS/Supes type abilities. As grown-ups, they'd be world class iconic megaheroines, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starblaze Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Nice artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") They would be built on more than 250 points. A LOT more than 250 points. They were kicking the crap out of grown up supers on the show, while displaying the full range of FISS/Supes type abilities. As grown-ups, they'd be world class iconic megaheroines, imo. I think you would need at least 600-700 points to build the Girls as grownups. Blossom, with her ice/fire powers, possibly even more. Bubbles would have an interesting build for a power. She would have a sort of Empathy power, possibly modeled as Telepathy. But it's not really telepathy, but just being really, really good at reading people. People give millions of tiny clues in their body language, their tone of voice, and even their pulse and respiration that show what they are thinking and feeling, and Bubbles can read them all. The limitation is that she has to be able to see them -- it won't work even if the subject is out of sight around a corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasha Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") I think you would need at least 600-700 points to build the Girls as grownups. Blossom, with her ice/fire powers, possibly even more. Bubbles would have an interesting build for a power. She would have a sort of Empathy power, possibly modeled as Telepathy. But it's not really telepathy, but just being really, really good at reading people. People give millions of tiny clues in their body language, their tone of voice, and even their pulse and respiration that show what they are thinking and feeling, and Bubbles can read them all. The limitation is that she has to be able to see them -- it won't work even if the subject is out of sight around a corner. OOohhh Telepathy based on Intelligence/Perception instead of Ego. Probably limited to "Surface Thoughts only" and Empathy. It might be interesting to allow her to use all of her normal senses (ie Hearing to hear the stress in the voices, their heartbeat etc). If she's super perceptive perhaps she also has Danger Sense based on those minute clues that the environment gives before something bad happens. A bunch of little clues that something bad is going to happen to the area she is in. Honestly, I don't remember the PPG's Powerset beyond the basics. You just sparked a bunch of ideas. So I thought that I would riff off that last post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Also Dexter and the Justice Friends will be out there doing their thing. maybe Dial M for Monkey. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") why are they still using the powerfuff team name whouldn't at least one of them want to change it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") by Shono on deviantart why are they still using the powerpuff team name whouldn't at least one of them want to change it? In those outfits "powerpuff" takes on a whole other meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") The RowdyRuff Boys would be one hell of a menace after becoming RowdyRuff Men... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Nice artwork. Here is another version of them also by Shono And this one is by tjota also on deviantart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") hard to believe I wrote this 8 years ago I've been on here a long time IRON AGE POWERPUFF GIRLS Its 12 years in the future the power puff girls are 14 years old though physically there 18 (they came into being aged around 4 years old and that was what was legally decided as there age). Things have changed a lot in the city of Townville It all started on the annual celebration of the girls birthday 3 years earlier when the mayor was killed by a rampaging Fuzzy-Lumpkins no one knows where fuzzy got the high tech ordinance but he managed to keep the power puff girls out of the picture long enough to end the mayors life and seriously wound Miss Bellum. Miss bellum replaced the mayor with much popular support And continues to help Townsville remain the happy vibrant city it was under the previous mayors time in office. Exploiting the rich biodiversity of monster island, Townsville has become a world center in biotech research but the money that flows into the city from its lucrative licensing agreements (the city acquires the monster specimens following attacks and then trades it to biotech companies on promise of a percentage of revenue). Because of this the city has spent a fortune on developing infrastructure which has drawn in more people and business even with the fear of monster and super villain attack the cities comprehensive insurance policy makes most citizens feel safer. But this influx has a darker side it has also brought more crime more drugs and more dirty dealings and the bio tech industry has lead to an explosion of dangerous super villains Mayor Sarah Bellum is always accompanied by her assistant and prodigy Ms. Teri Haus seems to be the perfect foil to Sarah bellum capturing the child like joy of the previous mayor with ms vellums intelligence and skill. But Ms. Haus has a secret agenda secretly she runs the largest criminal organization in Townsville running vice and drugs through out the city her biotech enforcers keep her rule as law and with her inside track at city hall she stays one step ahead. As for the girls Following the mayors assassination Blossom sank in to deep depression blaming her self if only shed been quicker or smarter fuzzy would never have succeeded. She became more and more withdrawn eventually Professor Neutronium sent her to see a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist said unfortunately due to her superhuman metabolism he would be unable to proscribe anything to help her but he did know someone at a biotech company who might be able to help. Blossom met with the scientist in secret and he provided her with a powerful drug everything she could have wanted it made her smarter think faster and quashed her depression the problem was she felt 10x worse when she didn't have it. she was hooked. on the supply from the lab of this untested illegal drug and desperately tries to hide the fact from her sisters. Even more worrying is that the biotech company the scientist who provided the drug and her psychiatrist are all working for Mojo Jojo who knows what fiendish plan he has in store to the now hopelessly addicted blossom. Meanwhile buttercup has't really changed she's still a throw her self at danger stomp first ask questions later kind of girl her dark brooding Goth side is in full effect everything she wears is dark emerald and black Riot Grrrl chic. But she is also masking a secret her true submissive nature she always liked strong dominate men who could make her do what they wanted. Deep down she always wanted to find some one who could subjugate her she fought all the harder at her disgust at the pathetic specimens she found that was until she was ambushed by HIM when she and dragged to a disturbing dungeon dimension with a different laws of time she spent almost a month there suffering every manner of twisted perversion her sisters rescued her and trapped HIM in his dimension possibly forever. With the speed of there rescue blossom and bubbles never really discovered the difference in time to this day they believe she was only there a few minutes at most but butter cup secretly craves the feeling of total helplessness and fights to find some one who can do the same to her again Bubbles has matured a lot still the cute one but her resilience and raw courage and determination have finally gained her sisters respect. Though many in the city where surprised when she came out her work as a gay rights activist has been extremely potent in changing attitudes she is involved with ms Teri Haus. Who bubbles considers the great love of her life (think Lois Lane superman) of course if she ever discovered Teri's secret it would destroy her completely. The professor has been finding the last few years very difficult with his perfect little girls going through puberty threes no way to describe the difficulty of going through the growing pains of 3 teenage daughters with pre-crisis superman level super powers to turn a man prematurely gray but he survived and with the girls finally almost ready to leave the roost he's getting back down too his work and his life starting dating again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestlinggeek Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Wow, freakboy. Iron Age indeed. Rusty Iron, at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") That's some serious oversharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") why are they still using the powerfuff team name whouldn't at least one of them want to change it? Maybe they're stuck with it. If the media and the public both insist on still calling them it, it maybe hard to escape the name. So instead it becomes another running gag. "It's the Powerpuff girls!" "We're the Power Company now!" DC Lawyers appear, shows papers regarding intellectual property. *Sigh* "We are NOT the Power Company." "It's just as well, folks kept calling our red phone complaining about their bills." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Here is another version of them also by Shono I like this one best. Something that needs to be considered--the Powerpuffs may not be capable of aging. They weren't born like regular girls and boys, and they're not made of human DNA. They're made of sugar, spice, everything nice, and Chemical X--which is not to say that they are something less, or other, than human; but they are decidedly not born of man and woman, which means that the same things we expect of other human children may not apply to them. There are couple of possibilities that come to mind--one is that the girls ask Professor Utonium, "Are we ever going to grow up?" and the Professor, wanting to make his girls happy, throws himself into researching the matter. After much time and effort he finds a solution, either something that allows them to age naturally, or become adolescents overnight. Alternately the Professor realizes he can't do it alone and turns to someone else for help with the problem, perhaps Dexter or even Mojo Jojo, who is likely the only being in Townsville who rivals the Professor in scientific acumen. Obviously, dealing with Mojo Jojo has its own set of complications. Another possibility is that HIM senses the Girls' desire and offers to grant their wish, and heedles of the consequences, they agree. Of course things go hideously wrong, and the Girls have to figure out how to deal with it. Then there's one more possibility to consider. Long-time HERO players (and Adventure Club readers) may be aware of the phenomeon called the Schimmelhorn Effect, by which a mad brilliant scientist is so obsessed devoted to his insane revolutionary theories that defy all known science that he is able to subconsciously alter the laws of reality so that his dangerous magnificent creation actually works. The same thing, or something like it, might be in effect with the Powerpuffs. The Professor may be so thoroughly and adoringly devoted to his "perfect little girls" that he subconsciously prefers that they remain perfect--and little. And being his creations by the power of science--and love--and Chemical X--so do they remain. Now if something were to happen to the Professor--if he were to disappear, or be rendered comatose, or heaven forbid, killed--his subconscious effect over the Girls would be gone, and they could begin to age naturally and normally. Whether the Professor's return would cause them to return to little-girlhood would depend on whether he could accept their new maturity. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") That makes me remember how horrifying whatever happened to Peter Pan is. He may think it's great to never grow up -- for a while. But when Wendy Darling and his other friends do grow up and he can't, he may realize how incomplete his life is. But, of course, for him it is too late. He's been in Neverland too long, so he will go on, forever twelve years old, forever denied the fullness of the human experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") ...or he grows up and finds himself to be Robin Williams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") There is an actually Townsville in Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Re: Robin Williams Nooooooo! to Infinity He was funny once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") There is an actually Townsville in Australia Yes. I've considered using the joke in my Champions in Australia project, by having the 4th edition Captain Australia retire and become the mother of three superpowered daughters. Not a direct homage, but lawyer friendly. Her crippled brother, the first Captain Australia, would have merged with the Cosmic McGuffin in their final battle with Entropi and zoomed off into the cosmos, thus eliminating something that doesn't quite fit into the curent official CU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom 2009 Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Yes. I've considered using the joke in my Champions in Australia project, by having the 4th edition Captain Australia retire and become the mother of three superpowered daughters. Not a direct homage, but lawyer friendly. Her crippled brother, the first Captain Australia, would have merged with the Cosmic McGuffin in their final battle with Entropi and zoomed off into the cosmos, thus eliminating something that doesn't quite fit into the curent official CU. Oh, you mean something like that Keystone of Reality* that was supposed to be somewhere in the Outback (where two different villains with a variation of the same name just might find it and bring the whole cosmic house of cards down upon us)? That particular Cosmic MacGuffin? *A.K.A. the Cosmic Locus, IMS. Major Tom 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 Re: The Powerpuff Women (or "Grown Up in Townsville") Oh, you mean something like that Keystone of Reality* that was supposed to be somewhere in the Outback (where two different villains with a variation of the same name just might find it and bring the whole cosmic house of cards down upon us)? That particular Cosmic MacGuffin? *A.K.A. the Cosmic Locus, IMS. Yeah. That's the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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