the anti-blackness of the live action powerpuff girls.

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[@art_juice1014]

It's crazy how they made the professor in the live action an abusive controling dad when he was a good representation of positive masculinity and an intellectual character. Bro was a single father who was cooking, cleaning, working and loved his girls. Even when born with super powers and having a responsibility for saving the town he made sure to let them know "at the end of the day you're my little girls." And ofc the cw shoved all that down in a blender, and on top of that made him black💀 cuz apparently black fathers are always neglectful, aggressive, and abusive

[@sarahtelles1931]

Its like the CW only has dark story mode

[@my23bear]

"Crazy" aka the term used to stigmatize people with mental illnesses.

[@viktorhollywood5210]

Well I think black people can be bad guys. So no problem here for me

[@T.JacobMain]

Mfs literally made the show generic af

[@itsjayh]

@@viktorhollywood5210 he was a good guy originally Why would you make him black then make him an asshole

[@SpookyGhostHippy]

If they wanted a toxic character instead of making it professor they literally could’ve brought dick back he was literally the embodiment of how they written professor In this live action

[@SpookyGhostHippy]

And funny how they cast the more aggressive power puff girl as a black girl they knew what they were doing

[@repeatedecho]

God like it was so frustrating to see how the writers changed the ppg girls and the professor into racial stereotypes. How did they not connect that making Blossom, considered the more intelligent of the sisters, Asian. Do they not realise that making the smart one of the sisters Asian literally makes her into the smart asian stereotype. Not to mention Buttercup and the professor. They did the professor so wrong. Why make the professor, a genuinely positive male character void of toxic masculinity, into an abusive man. Making him black just adds insult to injury by making him into an abusive black dad stereotype. Oh and of course they had to make Buttercup, the most masculine and aggressive one of the sisters black 🙄. Considering the god awful script they had for the show, I'm 100% positive that the people making this show made the characters racial stereotypes on purpose.

[@SydneyTamar2003]

I was so glad that they threw that live action away cause it was a trashfire. Threatening to leak nudes? Abusive professor? Colorists casting? No thanks. And i read that script too and it said that diablo cody had a part to write in. The same diablo cody that did juno and Jennifer's body!?

[@SGR403]

I thought people liked Jennifer's body?

[@SydneyTamar2003]

@@SGR403 I actually do like Jennifer's body. I just think that ppg was a miss of a project for her to work on

[@lunarialoonatic]

Juno wasn’t awful

[@SydneyTamar2003]

@@lunarialoonatic I never said it was. I like juno too, I was just surprised she had took part in writing the ppg live action script

[@sleepygeekyandreadytodream...y]

i didn't realize they changed the races of the professor, blossom and buttercup. I 'guess' it makes since one of the lines from the leaked script is bubbles saying that ppl " 'white-washed' the girls in a cartoon" referring to the original show (which is just a wild thing to add). but yea turning the professor into a stereotypical black abusive dad, stereotypical smart asian kid and stereotypical angry black girl (which as a black girl i do not fit this stereotype at all) was a choice, a choice that was part of the list of bad choices that was this show.

[@nitrofairywing1541]

It's ironic how they had that line in the show, but look at how they did they did the casting, how they wrote the characters themselves...a mess

[@minaonice9716]

tbh i feel the popwepuff girls could be rebooted properly if the people making the reboot were actually good at writing and cared for the show (and also were poc tbh)

[@NYCTOSEE]

What really angers me about the professor is that there was already a character in the original show with these motivations, and his name was Dick Hardly. He was literally the professor’s abusive ex-lab mate who attempted to recreate the girls for a quick buck and also attempted to MURDER THEM. Why not just use him?? He’s already a super underrated villain.

[@keketherealmvp7568]

Right? The way they described the new professor does sound like Dick Hardly (I think they knew what they were doing with that name lol). Dude, when I tell you that episode gave me nightmares; that man was evil but he’s also a perfect representation of what they (and CN) tried to do (profiting off shitty remakes of the Powerpuff Girls).

[@burner555]

How did they got away with that name

[@NYCTOSEE]

@@keketherealmvp7568 They absolutely knew what they we’re doing with the name, lol. They even wrote in the girls literally calling him “Dick” when they were angry at him. Something along the lines of “What did you do with the professor, Dick?!” (They repeated lines like this about 4 times) Emphasizing the D in an aggravated manner

[@keketherealmvp7568]

@classicnatNY I remember that lol. When you’re a kid, you don’t think about that kinda stuff; I remember one time I found a compilation on KZbin with the girls saying it and my mom was like turn that off. Even though at that point I understood cuz I was older, I told her they’re just saying a guy’s name 😅😂. Naming him Dick was one thing, but Hardly was doing too much lol. I even thought about Sedusa being a dirty pun in itself.

[@suspiciousstar7547]

Not only did this cancelled project feel super off from the original series, the fact that they turned the Professor black only to make him ab*sive comes off as a really stereotypical move. I’m glad this was thrown in the dumpster since I definitely wouldn’t want to see them making one of the best cartoon dads become an a-hole.

[@ShonnysLab1995]

I didn’t even know they were doing a live action PPG, I’m glad it got cancelled.

[@meiday154]

Why does this sound like they were trying to do a bootleg Umbrella Academy with the professor? -An abusive parental figure with superpowered kids who is using them for personal gain. Edit bc i got pissed off and came back lol: i have no problem with race swapping, but these showrunners/producers/writers have to be more responsible with how they portray their characters of color. Its not as simple as "write a (white) character and just make them POC" as some people have claimed bc as people of color there are stereotypes placed upon us that we cant control but we are held to the perceived standard of anyway. Those stereotypes are like a shorthand for undervaluing the emotions and efforts of poc and thats not the trype of show that should be airing.

[@Darkstalker1012]

I didn’t even know there was a live-action PPG

[@SemiJuggaloNumber2]

Not anymore. Lol

[@NigeriaG]

I remember when the script got leaked it was bad and I just shut it out since then. I feel like I'm finding out a fever dream is true

[@kevonhankerson2124]

I'm glad it was canceled I felt like it wasn't necessary to make a live action PPG and also people will whine and complain about the show being "woke" so they made a smart decision to not green light the show in my opinion

[@Ranixo286]

Yeah it struck me as gross that the automatically made the agressive, vocal masculine Power Puff Girl black....not that there aren't really cool masc and outspoken Black women in the real world, but the fact that that idea of a Black woman is overrepresented and often made one note. Why cant we have a Black Bubbles? Or Blossom?

[@SuperSonicWarrior93]

I hear Craig McCracken is planning on bringing back the original Powerpuff Girls cartoon series with new seasons. A proper revival if you will.

[@littlemisstfc]

We are thankfully spared from a would be trainwreck. 😭

[@TombNGloom]

just ripped out all the personality of it, I'm not surprised look what they did too monster high 😭

[@pinksuperstar2]

There are times where trash is made into TV and get multiple seasons and then there are times when trash gets chopped before it finishes the production line CW already gets massively dragged for other shows but if they had done this, it would have been a shitshow

[@eduardopantoja9115]

I don't know, it depends on how many people hate watch it

[@mariahgilmore3256]

Hi Harriyanna!~ I love your videos and I agree with you on that whole aspect of what they try to do with PPG live action. With the professor, I was angry cause they wanted to do stereotype of a money-hungry angry black man when we all know that the professor wanted to be a father hence why he created the girls in the first place. I felt they didn't watch the show because in one of the episodes when the professors colleague came and wanted to profit off of the girls, he straight up said no and doesn't want his girls to be treated like a product and cut him off after that. He is a dad first and never put his greed over the girls. Even play pretend with them when it was a rainy day by being their blossom when blossom was playing the monster. It absolutely frustrated me how they change his personality and then add on that he's black to make a stereotype of that which was red flag for more. The second one is Buttercup. Buttercup is a tough tomboy who has anger issues and can be mean. What irritated me was making her the stereotype mad black woman which is also tearing down her character. Especially the factors that she love her family, she likes fighting crime, and also is working on controlling her punches cause girl was doing too much on the villains and needed to take down from 1000 to 20 at least. The whole change and betrayal of who Buttercup is were disappointing cause why only do that to these characters in the worst light by making them these horrifying stereotypes about black people. If you want diversity, then fine but use their true characteristics and personality and actually study the show instead of skimming it and try to make it like Riverdale 2.0. (Hell even Dove I remember said one time that she never watched the show before and was honored to play bubbles; who don't get me started on that whole character debacle and with mojo jojo situation too ) Overall, they should've never place the characters in this negative light as a stereotype or just to show their anti-blackness.

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[@harriyanna]

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[@michaelreilly6874]

While the idea of a PPG reboot with more diversity than the original series does have potential, I think we can all agree that the execution needs a lot of work.

[@moonhoneymami]

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[@honeybunnyk6428]

Harriyanna will you see the new total drama season since you were anticipating it? Love your content.

[@gamecitysavior2910]

The fact the you had to check that she's half black already is saying too much lol ... professor & Bella was going to be another boring biracial couple.

[@harriyanna]

the first sentence is sending me so hard rn lmaooooo

[@gamecitysavior2910]

@@harriyanna lol I bet.

[@ChasityR17]

It’s also weird that they tried to make them adults. Which leads me to believe that they wanted to sexualize them.

[@Turquerina]

I'm thanking Mother Earth for the fact that this show got cancelled. If they really wanted to diversify the powerpuff girls, they could've made Blossom black, Bubbles asian and Buttercup white. Or even make them all black, although I suspect CW would just make Buttercup the dark skin one and her sister light brights. For the corollary to the angry black woman is the resistance with masculinizing and characterizing white women to be aggressive. It's also a problem because it just falls back into the tropes of white women being fragile and demure and that's just ain't it. Empowerment looks different to every woman. If they kept the professor as is white racebending him, it would be much better representation.

[@DivestedBaddie]

They should have just kept them all white like the cartoon series and add in new characters if they wanted to go for diversity. Race-bending the girls was completely unnecessary.

[@melancholygirl7793]

Latina Blossom, white Bubbles and East Asian Buttercup was my dream.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

I noticed this AS SOON as the CW announced the show a long time ago. Blossom was the smart one (they cast an Asian), Buttercup is the tough and mean one (they cast a black girl), Blossom is the cute and sweet one (so they cast a blonde white girl). Like c'mon bro, with all the inclusiveness the CW tried to portray in their shows, I'm surprised this even got greenlit in the first place. And I knew the professor was gonna be a deadbeat dad, but I had NO IDEA he was gonna be black man. Like wtf. Maybe it's a good thing the CW Is going downhill 👀

[@MissFanCulture]

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[@harriyanna]

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[@Fudgeanimates]

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[@harriyanna]

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[@katiebailey3439]

It's weird to me how they messed this up so much given the source material. Mojojojo one of the main villains is literally a monkey that was experimented on when he was a baby; how is that not dark? I would have rather they cast either all black powepuffs or made Bubbles the black woman character. Also, there is definitely a way you could have made Bubbles into a softer adult woman without making her an influencer. I think if any of the powerpuffs were influencers, it would have been Blossum. Last thing, there's ways you can create conflict between a parent and their growing children other than making the dad blatantly abusive.

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Yes, Bubbles as a Black woman would be amazing! I'm a Black girl who has always related to Bubbles(except I don't like the color blue), so it would def break stereotypes! I disagree that Blossom would be an influencer tho, she is far too nerdy and academic for that kinda bull.

[@jourdonpatron212]

everyone gave CW the side eye when they tried to make Blossom (the smart one) part asian and made Buttercup a black girl. Plus there's already a black Powerpuff Girl, her name was Bliss. LMFAO

[@PastelPixie99]

Bliss isn't even cannon in my book since she a reboot character

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Bliss was a terrible character too tbf.

[@jourdonpatron212]

@@PastelPixie99 i mean neither is this remake to be fair.....also they original creators did say the reboot canonically takes place years after the original.

[@keketherealmvp7568]

I knew exactly what you were referencing when you said Frank Mitchell, I would love if you did a video on that cuz the show just got more and more disappointing.

[@keketherealmvp7568]

Another thing that bothers me about Buttercup was that they made her a greedy bisexual stereotype as well which is also harmful to Black women cuz we’re sexualized more than anybody. Also it’s a pet peeve of mine that she’s the tomboy so she HAS to be the lesbian/bi one; I honestly feel like if Blossom or Bubbles were the tomboys they would’ve had that thrown onto them. I don’t have anything against lesbians or bisexuals it’s just another stereotype in itself to make the least feminine one that and I feel that’s the only reason why they did it; I feel like ppl don’t talk about that enough. Also the fact that they casted her to be Black on top of all of this makes it even worse. I did read something on Tumblr that mentioned how Black lesbians are perceived and they explained everything properly relating to the casting of Buttercup.

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

She was a lesbian, not bisexual. But yeah. As a Black lesbian, I hate how we are portrayed as less feminine than other women. We can be feminine as well.

[@keketherealmvp7568]

Right, I’m not a lesbian myself but I’ve met feminine Black lesbians. I’m also a tomboy and straight and I’ve been asked if I was a lesbian based on that alone. I don’t think masculinity or femininity should determine’s one sexuality alone, it’s a whole spectrum.

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

@@keketherealmvp7568 I think this is why I love that the Encanto fandom generally headcanons Isabela as a lesbian. Ik she's not Black and ik Encanto isn't about being gay, but as a femme lesbian, it makes me happy to see that people validate femme lesbians and chose a female character who is both non-white and very visibly feminine to be the lesbian one, rather than assuming a character is a lesbian only because she is masculine. In fact, Isabela was the character who helped me realize that I am a lesbian, because I relate to her so much and definitely see her as one too! And I also saw an interview where Diane Guerrero said that Isabela is gay and wants to see that get explored in a sequel, which makes me feel so validated and euphoric! (i love being a lesbian sm!)

[@keketherealmvp7568]

@@imthebossmermaid3648 Love that for you, also she's very pretty

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

@@keketherealmvp7568 Thank you for your support, and yes, I agree, Isabela is very pretty! (she's what made me like girls fr)

[@nitrofairywing1541]

I had pushed this out of my mind when I found out, so I didn't remember anything about thia till this very video. It does make me like..."Why tf would you do that?" Especially of how The Profressor was in the show, he was a good parent and a good person, he cared about the girls, he showed so much love towards them, he was firm when needed, but the fact of they nade him a, not just an abusive, mean, angry money hungry a**wipe person especially to his own children, but made a BLACK horrible abusive a**wipe person and father, and also made the more tomboyish, the more masculine of the sisters Buttercup, had her played by a woman who was half black, made the very intelligent smart one conviently Aisan 🙄, Bubbles was the only one who was the same conviently, the bubbly, peppy, cute, sunshine and rainbows character🙄

[@I_always_have_been_Daniel49]

Yeah, as a true Powerpuff Girls fan, and not only an fan, but an megafan, I truly hate the CW live action PPG! But also as a Powerpuff Girls fan, I see PPG, I click.

[@clutch202]

recently told to keep my comments positive in someone else chat and I think that more so applies to my comments over here (if at all bc that's not something I have to do in the face of all these current world issues affecting BW, BP, POCs, etc.)... I apologize for being harsh or mean and will try to be careful to be less insensitive since I have been in the past. Lovely video doll you always do a great job no cap.

[@devinsauls9137]

Now I'm glad that the live action Powerpuff Girls got cancelled!

[@Keem643]

Thank you for making this video. I also grew up with watching the power puff girls that was literally one of my favorite cartoons and it was actually the first cartoon I started to draw when I was 3 years old. So I agree with you when you say it’s a product of its time. Honestly I was not here for this live action at all once I saw the leak of their outfits. First off y’all put these grown ass girls in those dresses that the ppg wore in the cartoon series the shit looked weird and was an automatic red flag. Like they could’ve made them amazing action costumes more appropriate for their age while still using the colors pink blue green. Also as for them changing professors character making him a bad guy then having a black man play that character is a no like they knew wtf they were doing. Like you said The PowerPuff Girls is a product of its time there’s no need for that series to have a live action. And if they were going to do a live action they could’ve done something similar to the anime version PowerPuff Girls Z.

[@SuperSonicWarrior93]

Yeah, thank god they killed this shit with fire! Not every cartoon needs a live-action remake anyway.

[@FunFilmFare]

CW spared us all.

[@Whatisthisgremlin]

Great, let Hollywood just RUIN the PPG even more! God this is the worst

[@katiebailey3439]

I tried to think of a good show to make a live action and all I could think of was Courage the Cowardly Dog XD. Out of curiosity, are there any cartoon shows that you would like to see a reboot of Haryianna?

[@purplemoon7361]

So glad this dumpster fire was never released, like wow….

[@isaacthemonke233]

God, this sounded like this would've been just awful. Even if the racism and colorism wasn't involved. Imagine Mojo Jojo with shitty TV quality CG and has a completely different personality. Off topic: I think because he has a similar character design to Samurai Jack (Genndy worked in both shows) I always headcanon that the Professor is Japanese Given Townsville is loosely based on San Francisco and other West Coast cities, and those cities have a big Japanese population. I also think Him was actually an experiment but was corrupted by too much Chemical X. And in the past did something so bad he was shunned. That's why they never mention Him's real name. Whenever he took power in some episodes, he only took over only Townsville, not the rest of the world. Also Fuzzy Lumpkins is a Sasquatch from Alabama. Im just gonna go ahead and drop that on the table

[@margaretlee2571]

buttercup is my favorite Powerpuff girl

[@genesistafari9006]

Likes a billion ❤

[@I_always_have_been_Daniel49]

Hey, I watched you yesterday

[@harriyanna]

hi!

[@Bala_Niranna]

it took me like a whole 10 seconds to understand what the title was even referring to. that mess of a project died and became irrelevant so quickly, thank fucking god for that

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Not to mention in addition to the angry, aggressive Black woman stereotype, Buttercup is also the most masculine out of the three girls. Why did they have to make the Black girl the more tomboyish one? Why not the more girly Blossom and Bubbles? But instead, Blossom and Bubbles are Asian and white, while Buttercup is Black. Asian and white girls are always seen as more feminine and softer than Black girls and it's just goddamn unfair. Not to mention making the Black girl the "toughest fighter" as if to reinforce the strong Black woman stereotype. So making the only Black girl the strong, masculine, aggressive, angry, mean, rough-and-tumble PowerPuff Girl! How delightful! In all honesty, making Buttercup Black is only okay if all three of the girls are made Black(and even then people still shouldn't lean into colorism by making Buttercup the darkest-skinned one, for all the reasons I've listed above). Oh, and of course the girliest PowerPuff Girl of them all gets to be the only white one. Of course. There's also lesbophobia in the show too, of course the tomboyish ppg is made into a butch lesbian and a serial cheater, both reinforcing the idea that lesbians can't be feminine(again, this wouldn't be half as big of a problem if Blossom and Bubbles were also lesbians, but ig not) AND that lesbians(especially butch lesbians) are all hypersexual cheaters who prey on women just to break their hearts. Just ew! And on top of that, this also contributes to the Jezebel stereotype and the hypersexualization of Black women too! Just a mess! Thank God I didn't sign up for this trainwreck! 🤮

[@Xilladan093]

Haha good!

[@adamkalb1]

Thank goodness CW's Powerpuff was canceled before it even started! This is what 2 years of pre-production that goes nowhere gets you. At least they got a bit farther along than Superman Lives. That movie wasted 5 years of production time rewriting the script and doing screen tests for Nicolas Cage without filming a single scene. Powerpuff was more efficient in its failed production because - at least it shot a first draft of the pilot before scrapping it and rewriting it. Former fans of Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network already have their hands full chastising HBOmax for Velma, the last thing we need right now is for Warner Brothers Discovery to also appropriate The Powerpuff Girls into oblivion by turning it into a The Umbrella Academy rip-off.

[@OpticalSorcerer]

I was SO disturbed about the "whitewashing" comment about the cartoon. It's like they wanted people to hate the reboot by having them say ridiculous stuff like that by acknowledging the differences.

[@azogaming7016]

Whats so weong tho?

[@kenjikyochi2348]

One connects with fictional characters for Who they are Not for how the Look on the outside......"The merits of their characters and not the color of their skin" 🖖

[@gamecitysavior2910]

I was watching the flight attended with Kaylee cuoco the darkest girl in the first five minutes had a attitude problem & of we can't have a straight black guy anymore which also means on black love storyline cuz no one sees to want to date her so far and he likes white guy so far ...

[@excaliber8713]

It never came out