Buttercup Utonium

Buttercup Utonium
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Member of	Powerpuff Girls Derbytantes
Affiliation	The Mayor Ms. Bellum Bullet Robin Snyder Barry Mackerbocker Maylyn Jaylyn Bobbysuzeraelyn
Occupation	Superhero Kindergarten student Elementary student
Goals	To fight crime and the forces of evil Being a good student
Father	Professor Utonium, creator and adopter
Mother	None
Sister(s)	Blossom Utonium Bubbles Utonium Bunny Utonium Bliss Utonium
Uncle(s)	Eugene Utonium
First appearance	WAC: "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" (1995)
Played by	E.G. Daily (1996-2014) Kelly Metzger (2008-09) Natalie Palamides (2016-19) Yana Perrault (2021) Lindsey Alena (2021)
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Buttercup Utonium, better known mononymously as just Buttercup, is a child superhero and one of the three titular characters in the Powerpuff Girls animated franchise. Her voice was originated by E.G. Daily.

She is a member of the Powerpuff Girls, which also includes her other fraternal triplet sisters, Blossom and Bubbles. Together, they live with their father, Professor Utonium, in the city of Townsville, which they have become the official protectors of.

Utonium created the girls—albeit accidentally—while trying to create the perfect little girl with a mixture of "sugar, spice, and everything nice." He then accidentally added the extra ingredient of Chemical X, which created three little girls around the age of five-years old; complete with special powers such as being able to fly, super strength, and shooting lasers from their eyes.

Character description

Buttercup is a young girl sporting a lime green dress with a black-centered stripe, along with white stockings and black Mary Janes. To signify her tomboyish, rough nature, she has short black hair in a flip.

In the original series, she is portrayed as a 5-year old girl who attends Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, whilst fighting crime alongside her sisters Blossom and Bubbles.

Appearances

TV series

• What a Cartoon!
  • 1.1 "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins"
  • 1.22 "Crime 101"
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • 3.4B "The Ride of the Valkyries" (poster)
• Powerpuff Girls Z
• Steven Universe
  • 2.3 "Say Uncle" (mentioned)
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
• Teen Titans Go!
  • 3.40 "TTG v PPG"
  • 4.1 "Shrimps and Prime Rib" (photo)
  • 8.24 "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary" (no lines)
• Powerpuff unaired pilot

Movies

• The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Specials

• Twas the Fight Before Christmas
• The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!
• Dance Pantsed
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
• Cartoon Network Special Edition: NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest 2023 (no lines)

Shorts

• "Team Building"
• Come and Learn with Pibby! (no lines)

Comics

• The Powerpuff Girls (DC Comics)
• Cartoon Network Magazine
  • #1A "Pickle Party"
• The Powerpuff Girls (IDW Publishing)
• The Powerpuff Girls: Super Smash-Up!

Biography

The Toughest Fighter

Buttercup, along with Blossom and Bubbles, was created in Professor Utonium's laboratory basement, when he wanted to artificially create the perfect little girl to be his daughter by mixing up a bowl of sugar, spice, and everything nice, but accidentally added the mysterious black vial of Chemical X. In reality, the accident was not the Professor's fault, but the result of his trouble-making lab assistant monkey, Jojo. The Chemical X caused an explosive chain reaction and out came not one but three little girls, each with their own superpowers. Jojo, meanwhile, had also been affected by the blast, causing his brain to expand above his head, along with increased intelligence which allowed him the power of speech. Even though Mojo had caused the accident, he grew resentful of the immediate love the Professor showed the girls, leaving the Utonium residence behind to begin a path of supervillainy. Both Professor Utonium and the girls blocked it from their memories soon after.

Buttercup Sells Out

In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode "The Grim Adventures of KND," when the Kids Next Door arrives, Billy exclaims, "Hey! You're not the Powerpuff Girls!" Later in the episode, Buttercup and her sisters are some of the characters who exploded out of the Delightful Reaper.

In the Steven Universe and Uncle Grandpa crossover episode "Say Uncle," Buttercup is one of the names on Uncle Grandpa's list.

In the OK KO Let's be Heroes special "Crossover Nexus", she's one of the Cartoon Network characters Ben 10 transforms into.

Development

Buttercup was created by Craig McCracken.

Gallery

Main article: Buttercup Utonium/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Buttercup Utonium/Toys

In popular culture

WARNING: The following section contains content that may be seen as mature or offensive to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

• In the Moesha episode "The Player," Dorian teasingly asks Myles if he wants to watch The Powerpuff Girls after Myles wants to watch something different than horror movies. Myles wants to know what's wrong with cartoons and admits that "Buttercup is fine."
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Body," a pink shirt with the three Powerpuff Girls is seen inside of Willow's closet, while she panics over what clothes to wear to her mother's funeral.
• In the Everwood episode "Extra Ordinary," Amy watches the episode "Mommy Fearest" in her room, specifically the scene where the girls are shopping at Malph's and the girls each have their own favorite snack they want Professor Utonium to buy.
• In Craig McCracken's second series, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, the teenage caretaker Frankie Foster wore a t-shirt with a silhouette of Buttercup and her sisters in their trademark colors.
• In the Drawn Together episode "The One Wherein There Is A Big Twist Part II," one of the resumes that the gang skims through include a photo of Buttercup with Blossom's hairstyle and bow.
• In the Veronica Mars episode "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough," Veronica talks to Weevil's young niece Ophelia who carries a Powerpuff Girls backpack, which she wants to check if it has the stolen senior trip money. In a twist, it turns out Weevil did hide it in the backpack, but then had Ophelia hide it in the ball pit because he knew Veronica would come looking for him.
• In the American Dad! episode "The Longest Distance Relationship," Jeff and Sinbad travel through a wormhole to get back to Earth, which temporarily shapeshifts them into different stylized versions of themselves, which includes Jeff and Sinbad as a Powepuff Girl and Professor Utonium, respectively. Jeff has green eyes, making him resemble Buttercup more than the others.
• In Fox's late night animation programming block Animation Domination High-Def, there was a sketch called "HBO's Powerpuff Girls," in which the Powerpuff Girls were depicted like the characters from HBO's Girls. When creating the girls, the Professor adds a dose of narcissism. They are now in their 20s and live in New York City. Even though they try to fight monsters still, they spend more time smoking, binge eating, and dating. Buttercup specifically has given up on fighting monsters altogether.

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Baby Looney Tunes

• "Baby-Gate:" Lola plays a three Powerpuff-looking girls in a computer game called Pizza Power Challenge, having to destroy a pizza monster, but loses after being distracted by Melissa and Petunia trying to help.
• "A Mid-Autumn's Night Scream:" Lola, Melissa, and Petunia want to dress up as the Super Sunshine Girls on Halloween, but Granny leaves it to the last minute to buy their costumes which have all been sold out. Lola shows the boys a TV magazine with the Super Sunshine Girls, who instead of looking super deformed, look like realistic teenage girls.

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Mad

Main article: Mad

• "WWe Bought a ZOO/2 Broke Powerpuff Girls": During "2 Broke Powerpuff Girls," Bubbles and Buttercup are left broke and jobless in their apartment after being fired from their job as waitresses. They turn to Blossom for help and she employs them to work for her company which owns a restaurant, leaving them at square one again.
• "Taking Nemo/Once Upon a Toon:" During "Once Upon a Toon," Samurai Jack trims a bush in the shape of the Powerpuff Girls.

Robot Chicken

Main article: Robot Chicken

• "Celebrity Rocket:" During a three-second channel flip, Professor Utonium, who's spiraled on the floor of his lab, comments to the Powerpuff Girls, "All thanks to stem cell research," with the girls (voiced by Seth Green) either cheekily or sinisterly replying, "Uh huh."
• "I Love Her:" In the segment "Perfect Little Girls Who Flip The F&%$ Out," while creating the Powerpuff Girls, Professor Utonium adds cocaine to the recipe, causing the girls to go crazy and ravage the town.
• "May Cause a Squeakquel:" Mojo Jojo is thrown into jail when the Powerpuff Girls realize that the town's judicial system is unfair and doesn't rehabilitate its criminals and so they break into the mayor's office and beat him up.

Sugar and Toys

Main article: Sugar and Toys

• "It's Hard to Raise Yourself These Days:" Mojo (called Mad Monkey) takes part in a rap showdown with other knock-off cartoon characters in a segment called "Cartoon Cypher." During one of his take-downs, he tears off the head of a Buttercup doll.
• "Thirst Day Was the Worst Day:" In two Las Powderpoof Girlz segments, in which the girls are Latinas, they search for other missing Latinas. They discover that Ariana Grande has kidnapped other famous Latina celebrities and hooked them up to their booty machine to drain their buttocks to make her more Latina. The darkest skinned Powderpoof has green eyes, although she flies around with a blue streak like Bubbles.
• "Rebooty Call:" The Powerpoofs appear in a segment called "Puerto Rico, We're Not Your Sidepiece," which acts as a PSA on how to treat Puerto Rico better, instead of just a vacation getaway, which is destroying the land.
• "Revenge of the Nerfs:" In another two Las Powderpoof Girlz segments, the Powderpoofs find out that every liquid in the city has been replaced with hot Cheeto sauce, which OAC gets addicted to. They find out it is due to the blue-skinned Flavorless Gang, a parody of the green-skinned Gangreen Gang, who want to dry the Earth of its spices leaving the planet bland of flavour. They are backed by Mayor DeBlah, who they literally have in the palm of their hands, and who is as scatterbrained as his template.

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