The him episodes are just 1. Make the girls hate each other. 2 make everyone hate the girls Or 3. Make the girls hate themselves. He’s like an abusive relationship
he has the power to fight physically, but choose to take the psychological route because he knows that while the powerpuff girls are powerful, they are still children......
The episode where the girls go 50 years into the future has always stuck with me. As a kid it was the first time I realised that sometimes the good guys just lose and can’t do anything about it. Seeing the town so obliterated as well, scariest ppg episode in my book. Was so happy they could go back in time
i dont remember seeing that one when i was a kid & its a good thing. i found the scene where townsville says it’s their fault. my brother & i r twins & i got the whole series box set 4 our birthday two years ago! i shouldve bought it when it came out back in 2009
That episode traumatized me as a kid. I was just considering seeing it now for the first time since early childhood and the mention of it gave me goosebumps lol.
MY THEORY: The PPG didn't accidentally go back in time. HIM just realized that they wouldn't be able to put up a fight, which would no longer be any fun for him, so he used his reality warping powers to turn back time. HIM doesn't really care about winning. He's a sadist that enjoys seeing people suffer. If everyone's already defeated, there wouldn't be anyone left to defeat. So he went back to a point in time where everyone was happy just so he had a chance to crush their spirits again.
my head cannon is they never went in to the future that was all gaslighting to force the girls to never take a day off to never relax because if the do everything and everyone will die as far as they know so him won incredibly messed up considering there kids
I heard that popular theory that HIM is the Proffesor's gay brother. He doesn't even wanna mention his brother by name. I don't think there's any merit but it's a cool theory!
As someone who grew up with REALLY high expectations placed on her as a child because she was smart, I definitely feel this even to this day. I *still* have a fear of failure and anxiety over tests. Dude, whoever made this episode captured those feelings perfectly.
As an adult, I now can feel so, so awfully bad for the girls when they realise that the town falls to shambles without them That is just way too much responsibility for 3 kindergarten-ers
There’s also another Him episode where he manipulates Bubbles into drawing negative things; and another one where the girls are under a timer trying to solve his riddles. Great discussion!
Him Diddle Riddle is definitely a great episode, and really shows off just how evil HIM really is. He plunged the entire city into chaos, fucked with the girls nonstop and almost killed entire bus full of kids just to win a bet, with Professor Utonium no less. HIM gives zero fucks. lol
Looking back, I think the drawing episode is actually really smart. You can use drawing as an outlet, and then you can either simply cope with negativity through drawing or bolster the negativity. It's hard to explain But it hits hard how the episode is basically about what happens when you lean too far into negativity and let it corrupt your outlet
I was always scared of sedusa because of the episode mommy fearest. I was never exposed to the idea of “bad parents” (at least to that extent) and seeing someone who was supposed to be their caring mother be so terrible genuinely scared me.
@@ynlizard5297 Are elder gen z this aggressive? gosh I’m gen z and I’ve never seen someone so unnecessarily rude for no reason at all. looking back it’s not that scary but again I was a very young innocent and sensitive child. I guess ageism is getting worse now.
@@ynlizard5297 you people who constantly bring up shit like "gen z" and "millennials" in EVERY goddamn topic are essentially another version of the annoying girls who thought their zodiac signs or hogwarts house were their entire personality. i swear reading your reply made me lose some braincells from how dumb it was. do you feel superior because you were less sensitive than others as a child? do you feel better after winning a competition - that nobody was participating in - against a child?
@@ynlizard5297I'm genuinely glad you grew up with non-abusive family, then, because a lot of us millennials (and those younger) have generational trauma from boomer and gen x parents. My grandparents and mom are ridiculously emotionally abusive and some of these Him episodes really ring true to the helpless feeling of having to hurt people you love.
It's easy to see the devil allegory with HIM, but I also see a lot of Pennywise/IT in him. Especially in Powernoia, he even uses an actual spider form which is the closest thing to IT's true form as humans can perceive in the movies and book.
I always thought Him was basically Slaanesh from Warhammer (basically a cenobite, but as an evil deity and foundational force of the universe). The crab theme, the dual gendered voice, that flamboyant but at the same time unspeakably evil mannerisms...
I didn't think he was a allegory of satan for "HIM" maybe a villain of unimaginable unspeakable Power but chooses to be a manipulative mastermind that even other villains shit their pants more than the First time kids seeing "HIM" or inspirations for a eastern European dark god named chernabog
There was also one episode in particular where HIM had the Professor as a hostage and forced the girls to solve his riddle within time or else the Professor "will pay". The joke being that this was all a bet for a free breakfast but in all seriousness this is how I see it, he successfully kidnapped the professor, forced the girls into playing his game following his rules, and he eventually won because the girls were off by a minute. All of this for a free breakfast which leads me to think it was playing with the "deal with the devil" theme meaning if he wanted to HIM could've actually claimed the professor as his reward.
The Speed Demon episode was nightmare fuel as a child. The whole episode really, but what really got me was the teacher just standing there, completely detached and ruined. Those eyes. It was truly terrifying.
Omg my 6yr old started watching and at first she was scared of HIM like she said "turn it off, i no like him" 💀 Now she loves the show and sings the theme song word for word 😂
I was debating showing it to my daughter but she’s 4 and gets scared earlier. Been wondering if she’d like it or not. We may have to give it a shot lol
I was maybe 4 years old when watched PPG even tho i saw creepy HIM but still liked show a lot, it shows that new generations are weak pussies who afraid of some cartoon.
Yes, special relativity if I remember correctly from physics. Time dilates as you approach the speed of light with a specific equation, however, the girls going back in time is not supported by the theory (it’s impossible).
Speed Demon has stuck with me since 1999 and it has given me vicious night terrors as a kid. I think it also might have been a base for some of my nightmares. That episode was one of the first times my tiny peanut brain was introduced to existential terror and that an enemy could be an unbeatable lovecraftian abomination. The fact that the narrator outright says His name can't be said just cues us all in on how incomprehensible of a monster he is. Ah...I miss renaissance era Cartoon Network......
I don’t understand how the hell they were even allowed to show this kind of stuff to us. Like did no one stop to consider some of this could be WAYYY too intense for little developing brains?
My mom has always hated HIM for reasons I've known since I was a kid, yet he never really got to ME for some reason. I think it was mostly the voice and supernatural powers that disgusted my mom, yet it didn't stop either of us from enjoying PPGs.
I remember watching the episode All Chalked Up on reruns as a kid while my mom was in the room and I could definitely tell from her face that she was weirded out by HIM.
I'm convinced Him is not a demon or Devil or anything we can really compare to.... I think he is an eldritch being beyond comprehension. Something like IT.
There is one episode where Bubbles hears the professor saying that he needs to make new ones. He was talking about their birthday cakes, but Bubbles thought that he met her and her sisters. There is a scene where they try to prove how great they are and there is a very heartbreaking moment where the professor is walking away and Blossom said. “I love you… dad.” That is the only time you hear Blossom call him dad instead of Professor. It made the scene even more sad. A somber violin tune would have made it even more impactful. It didn’t need it. Even though the episode ruins the surprise by saying be revealing to the viewer they were cakes, I felt Blossoms pain. I almost cried. It made me want to hug a cartoon character! The knowledge that the cakes are what needed to be redone it makes it funny when the clown there for the birthday party suggests eating the previous cakes, and the Power Puff Girls thought the professor was going to eat them. I know people that love Him. All of this makes him a great villain.
Speed demon got the PPG cancelled for a while to the point they had to soften HIM's character and the series overall. Rumor is parents complained to the network about the episode being too dark and inappropriate for kids.
What's crazy is that I was introduced to Him in the episode "Hey Riddle Riddle." (I got the episode on DVD from a cereal box.) So the tone shift for me was real.
HIM was on a whole other level I wonder if they tried toning him down in that one episode where he and the Professor made a wager that made it seem like HIM was gonna kill the professor if the P.Girls couldn’t solve his riddles in time but in the end it was just the professor betting on the girls winning to get a free meal from a diner HIM runs lol
The devil was a prominent character in a lot of kids cartoons of the late 90’s and early 00’s - I believe cow and chicken had a devil character, power puff girls, hmm atm I’m drawing a blank but I remember seeing that entity portrayed in many different episodes of those two specifically
@@cdogthehedgehog6923I mean the devil showed up in episodes of the Simpsons and Futurama, Rocko's Modern Life, animaniacs, and reruns of various looney tunes and Tom and Jerry and the like. Not to mention the various comics appearances of characters like Mephisto, which brings to mind the various demons in Spawn (which also got a show), along with Etrigan in the Justice League cartoons. Then in live action you have all the Buffy and Charmed and Supernatural stuff... I could probably find a lot more if I looked. Honestly I don't think it's that unreasonable to feel like you saw demon characters somewhat regularly. Never much cared for the "if you can't think of the exact names of all the examples of the top of your head that means you're wrong" mindset.
Funny enough, I've been binging PPG for the past few weeks since seeing it was on Netflix. Even after just 2 seasons in I found myself thinking "man, this show was kinda dark" several times. But the wiring is so good even the darkest of themes is handled very well. It's part of why PPG, and other shows from that era, stand the test of time to this day.
HIM is still my absolute favorite character on this show. Not only is he incredibly powerful but also the other villains are terrified of HIM. You know how twisted and evil you have to be to do something like that?
It's looks like the episode of Jimmy neutron send in the clones when evil Jimmy did that to everyone and instead of being nice and polite. They were mean, cruel, and also evil.
The episode with the Power Puff Girls traveling at the speed of light to go into a terrifying deminsion with a scary red guy in charge sounds eerily exactly like season 4 of Stranger Things despite Stranger things coming out decades after The PPG.
Speed Demons is the most memorable episode of PPG imo, I specifically remember thinking to myself how absolutely fucked it was that the professor shooed them away how Ms. Bellum weeped for the mayor
I remember being an anxious kid growing up and being nervous about horror genre art/media (save for the child-friendly horror movies and shows on TV) until I became an adult, but it's interesting how some things that I should have been scared of would r/whoosh over my head as a kid. Even though I would recognize the characters were in dire circumstances and I should be wondering how they will get out of their predicament, Powerpuff Girls somehow didn't mess with my anxiety much. I guess it's because one of the first episodes I saw was "Bubblicious", and I related to Bubbles as I was also a shy/soft-spoken kid and could relate to feeling frustrated on what people assumed I could or couldn't handle (and it's also got some dark moments and mild gore too). "Abracadaver", "Mime for a Change", and "Blame it on the Boogie" were also great dark episodes too, especially with how they portrayed Al Lusion's death and resurrection.
I think your videos are great!!! Are you going to do Samurai Jack ??? The guy who did Samurai Jack, also did Dexter's Laboratory, star wars: clone wars-- and worked on the Powerpuff girls, and was there at the start of the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy(pilot)...
That duck was very, very, VERY suspicious to me when I was a little girl. It taught me things are simply, not always as they appear , even if they are adorable. Powerpuff girls, I would like to thank HIM's rubber duck for teaching me a valuable lesson.
You should definitely do K.N.D next or Fosters Homes. They got a few episodes that were disturbing in their own way. But always love seeing Golden age cartoon network/cartoon shows.
I would have loved to see HIM in a medium that accentuates the body horror of his transformations. You could tell they were very ambitious with designing and using him in episodes, and I can only imagine what disturbance he would have looked like with a bit more detail.
That's why this was the golden age of Western cartoons. They weren't afraid of showing kids disturbing stuff and ways to overcome it. Modern cartoons don't do this and you just feel nothing, or at best an awe for good guys defeating the bad guys. This is pointless entertainment. While with disturbing cartoons you can feel engaged in struggles of the protagonists and feel the same emotions as them. You can ponder philosophical and social issues and learn something from them. It's like the Invincible cartoon, but for kids.
As a kid I always though "him" was a female who's acting like a male, and his voice give me chills coz he echo thoughout the room, I even had a nightmare of him pinching my hand with his claws lmao
i had a debate once with a guy that said HIM was suppose to be a gay archtype and that his evilness was because of that. told him if he cant tell HIM is just evil to the point he gives no shits hes a lost cause.
Him was apparently meant to be an overarching threat but after Speed Demon they got complaints from parents about how scary it was. They didn’t want to diminish his threatening reputation so they just used Him less. Him was still a huge threat but he wouldn’t be the Big Bad like they had planned
It's so crazy that Him didn't have many episodes but made a big impact on everyone like Him scared me a lot when I was a kid i literally had nightmares about Him.😊
I feel like they made him appear queer just to make him stand out more from other depictions of Satan. Usually the devil/demons are all "RAAAAAARRGGGHH! I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOOOUUUUL!!!!", with huge muscles and pulsating veins with spikes and fire, but HIM just stands out. I doubt the creator has any prejudices towards the LGBT people
For reaaal omg, I adore HIM and Ursula (who was inspired by a drag queen). Personally I love a well-written/well-designed queer coded villain as long as they’re properly evil, and not evil *because* they’re queer. That’s the difference that makes one type more fun than the other.
15:50 This is the scariest thing of all. No matter what, the future is written. We know HIM will eventually win. That is some dark shit for a kids' show. lol
Lots of good children's stories include demons and, of course, His Evil Majesty Himself, Beelzebub **evil grin** On a more "sensible" note, I'd say that this is an inevitable stage in a kid's life, when they need to lose a little naivety and grow up a bit. Also, kids just love being scared (in stories) :)
No show. The Devil's name, well, one of them anyway; including "Him" in the Powerpuff Girls' show; is "officially" Beelzebub, or Satan (there are others)
HIM is the best villain of the ppg verse and he was done dirty in the reboot. There's a comic where he used flowers to manipulate the entire city into only wanting beauty. Yet he wasn't nearly as creepy as the guy who had an obsession with ppg merchandise to the point where he kidnapped the girls themselves
First thing I've learned from the PowerPuff Girls in *_years:_* When you make Buttercup snap, consider yourself dead. They really know how to give R-rated stuff a G rating...
As a bisexual male, I need to say that HIM is the reason of my transphobia when I was young. I know, probably that was not the intention but here we are
As a straight person who was never indoctrinated to hate almost anything and therefore have a normal judgment, I always liked Him, sometimes I forgot that he was a weird transvestite haha
I remember all these episodes, strangely i was never afraid of any of them as an 8yo the first time watching them, but youve shown how what went on with HIM and his powers are downright messed up. Sure he became a queer icon who everyone loves but imagining him using his abilities irl would be terrifying
Just found your channel. Dig what you've got going on so far 🤙🤙 wasn't really a disturbing show in the creepy sense but I'd be interested to hear a breakdown of Invader Zim like this
The him episodes are just 1. Make the girls hate each other.
2 make everyone hate the girls
Or 3. Make the girls hate themselves. He’s like an abusive relationship
He's like a god-tier gas lighter.
he has the power to fight physically, but choose to take the psychological route because he knows that while the powerpuff girls are powerful, they are still children......
Or 4. Make the girls do nigh impossible activities to save the professor.
For paying for breakfast.
Him is like a gay character
@@Guntherson220yeah, just ask Adam and Eve like when he lied to them about the forbidden fruit.
The episode where the girls go 50 years into the future has always stuck with me. As a kid it was the first time I realised that sometimes the good guys just lose and can’t do anything about it. Seeing the town so obliterated as well, scariest ppg episode in my book. Was so happy they could go back in time
i dont remember seeing that one when i was a kid & its a good thing. i found the scene where townsville says it’s their fault. my brother & i r twins & i got the whole series box set 4 our birthday two years ago! i shouldve bought it when it came out back in 2009
That episode traumatized me as a kid. I was just considering seeing it now for the first time since early childhood and the mention of it gave me goosebumps lol.
MY THEORY: The PPG didn't accidentally go back in time. HIM just realized that they wouldn't be able to put up a fight, which would no longer be any fun for him, so he used his reality warping powers to turn back time.
HIM doesn't really care about winning. He's a sadist that enjoys seeing people suffer. If everyone's already defeated, there wouldn't be anyone left to defeat. So he went back to a point in time where everyone was happy just so he had a chance to crush their spirits again.
my head cannon is they never went in to the future that was all gaslighting to force the girls to never take a day off to never relax because if the do everything and everyone will die as far as they know so him won incredibly messed up considering there kids
I wasn’t scared
HIM is an acronym, not his pronoun in this context. HIM is His Infernal Majesty. And he's def, to this day, one of my fave villains lol
Well, technically it's both
I heard that popular theory that HIM is the Proffesor's gay brother. He doesn't even wanna mention his brother by name. I don't think there's any merit but it's a cool theory!
@@karlabrink6011 how did his brother become a devil with lobster hands?
Tbh, I always hated HIM
Dunno if it’s the hyper flamboyance, how grating he is as a person, or what.
never knew it wa san acronym. i always thought it was censorship, because you couldnt say "the devil" in the 90s
him manipulating blossoms dream and making her teacher say her only worth as a child was her intelligence, was. INSANE.
As someone who grew up with REALLY high expectations placed on her as a child because she was smart, I definitely feel this even to this day. I *still* have a fear of failure and anxiety over tests. Dude, whoever made this episode captured those feelings perfectly.
These episodes really hit different as an adult. I can't believe younger me thought the apocalyptic Townsville was tame. Great video.
As an adult, I now can feel so, so awfully bad for the girls when they realise that the town falls to shambles without them
That is just way too much responsibility for 3 kindergarten-ers
What the ? Dude I was horrified by that episode when I was a kid
@stinky9067 so?
@stinky9067yes they r human
it was the most disturbing to me as a kid
There’s also another Him episode where he manipulates Bubbles into drawing negative things; and another one where the girls are under a timer trying to solve his riddles. Great discussion!
Him Diddle Riddle is a great episode!
Him Diddle Riddle is definitely a great episode, and really shows off just how evil HIM really is. He plunged the entire city into chaos, fucked with the girls nonstop and almost killed entire bus full of kids just to win a bet, with Professor Utonium no less. HIM gives zero fucks. lol
Looking back, I think the drawing episode is actually really smart. You can use drawing as an outlet, and then you can either simply cope with negativity through drawing or bolster the negativity. It's hard to explain
But it hits hard how the episode is basically about what happens when you lean too far into negativity and let it corrupt your outlet
@@LegionIvorythat’s why he’s the best you never know what’s gonna happen
him diddle riddle! my favourite
I was always scared of sedusa because of the episode mommy fearest. I was never exposed to the idea of “bad parents” (at least to that extent) and seeing someone who was supposed to be their caring mother be so terrible genuinely scared me.
@@ynlizard5297 Are elder gen z this aggressive? gosh I’m gen z and I’ve never seen someone so unnecessarily rude for no reason at all. looking back it’s not that scary but again I was a very young innocent and sensitive child. I guess ageism is getting worse now.
@@ynlizard5297 you people who constantly bring up shit like "gen z" and "millennials" in EVERY goddamn topic are essentially another version of the annoying girls who thought their zodiac signs or hogwarts house were their entire personality. i swear reading your reply made me lose some braincells from how dumb it was. do you feel superior because you were less sensitive than others as a child? do you feel better after winning a competition - that nobody was participating in - against a child?
@@ynlizard5297how old are you
@@ynlizard5297I'm genuinely glad you grew up with non-abusive family, then, because a lot of us millennials (and those younger) have generational trauma from boomer and gen x parents. My grandparents and mom are ridiculously emotionally abusive and some of these Him episodes really ring true to the helpless feeling of having to hurt people you love.
It's easy to see the devil allegory with HIM, but I also see a lot of Pennywise/IT in him. Especially in Powernoia, he even uses an actual spider form which is the closest thing to IT's true form as humans can perceive in the movies and book.
Worse him is Satan and It combined
I always thought Him was basically Slaanesh from Warhammer (basically a cenobite, but as an evil deity and foundational force of the universe). The crab theme, the dual gendered voice, that flamboyant but at the same time unspeakably evil mannerisms...
@@ScooterinAB I don't know squat about Warhammer but from your description it sounds spot on.
I didn't think he was a allegory of satan for "HIM" maybe a villain of unimaginable unspeakable Power but chooses to be a manipulative mastermind that even other villains shit their pants more than the First time kids seeing "HIM" or inspirations for a eastern European dark god named chernabog
No, he's literally Satan. In the full series DVD release for the show's 10th anniversary, it has some unaired test pilots and they call Him "Satan".
There was also one episode in particular where HIM had the Professor as a hostage and forced the girls to solve his riddle within time or else the Professor "will pay". The joke being that this was all a bet for a free breakfast but in all seriousness this is how I see it, he successfully kidnapped the professor, forced the girls into playing his game following his rules, and he eventually won because the girls were off by a minute. All of this for a free breakfast which leads me to think it was playing with the "deal with the devil" theme meaning if he wanted to HIM could've actually claimed the professor as his reward.
If the series had been allowed to retain its original idea and name he probably would have. The breakfast was the kid friendly version 😂
@@tanandalynch9441If it were Adult Swim 😂😂
The Speed Demon episode was nightmare fuel as a child. The whole episode really, but what really got me was the teacher just standing there, completely detached and ruined. Those eyes. It was truly terrifying.
Omg my 6yr old started watching and at first she was scared of HIM like she said "turn it off, i no like him" 💀
Now she loves the show and sings the theme song word for word 😂
I was debating showing it to my daughter but she’s 4 and gets scared earlier. Been wondering if she’d like it or not. We may have to give it a shot lol
My cousin's, 7, 9, and 13 loved it. I also loved it as a 9 year old
@@JoeRuffleryou can skip the HIM episodes.
Bar for bar?
I was maybe 4 years old when watched PPG even tho i saw creepy HIM but still liked show a lot, it shows that new generations are weak pussies who afraid of some cartoon.
They literally were originally called the whoop ass girls, and the intro shows them actually punching him so hard blood comes out
Bruh I just looked this up and I’m done 😂
@@user-jf5vc1bj7j I just searched it up😂🤣
ruclips.net/video/Qsx0uF80n8U/видео.html
That's Also In The Official Theme Song Of The Show. Buttercup Literally Kicks Him In The Nose And Blood Comes Out.
Him was one of my favourite characters, still is tbh! Happy to see him get the attention he deserves
Same, fellow Him lover✋
I kind of agree but to be honest he doesn't scare me
The math at the beginning of 'Speed Demon' explains the time dilation effect when traveling close to the speed of light.
Yes, special relativity if I remember correctly from physics. Time dilates as you approach the speed of light with a specific equation, however, the girls going back in time is not supported by the theory (it’s impossible).
Miss Keane was WAAAAAAAYYYYY too smart to be a kindergarten teacher and should've been a physicist apparently.
Speed Demon has stuck with me since 1999 and it has given me vicious night terrors as a kid. I think it also might have been a base for some of my nightmares. That episode was one of the first times my tiny peanut brain was introduced to existential terror and that an enemy could be an unbeatable lovecraftian abomination. The fact that the narrator outright says His name can't be said just cues us all in on how incomprehensible of a monster he is. Ah...I miss renaissance era Cartoon Network......
I find that reaction incredibly exaggerated.
I don’t understand how the hell they were even allowed to show this kind of stuff to us. Like did no one stop to consider some of this could be WAYYY too intense for little developing brains?
@@the-NightStar They were a child. Children are very susceptible to nightmare fuel.
@@sunshinefine1886well this cartoon wouldn't be G-rated if made today
@@FuryMcpureyYeah but most people are scared of the devil like figures, ask your self a question why maybe because he really exists and is our enemy
My mom has always hated HIM for reasons I've known since I was a kid, yet he never really got to ME for some reason. I think it was mostly the voice and supernatural powers that disgusted my mom, yet it didn't stop either of us from enjoying PPGs.
I remember watching the episode All Chalked Up on reruns as a kid while my mom was in the room and I could definitely tell from her face that she was weirded out by HIM.
You have a good mom if she hates the devil.
@@seijin4426 Thnx ;)
I'm convinced Him is not a demon or Devil or anything we can really compare to.... I think he is an eldritch being beyond comprehension. Something like IT.
40k Warp entity? something born from collective madness but not associated with Chaos?
@@XSilver_WaterX lmao Malice real form
@@XSilver_WaterX I don't know anything about Warhammer but that sounds interesting
Well, this was the time weird cults were trying to re-ignite the Satanic Panic in the 80's so, even tabletop DnD was doing PR.
@@luckyowl6432 listen to some lore when you go to bed. I mean you probably won’t go to bed, but you’ll have time to listen to a story or 2
There is one episode where Bubbles hears the professor saying that he needs to make new ones. He was talking about their birthday cakes, but Bubbles thought that he met her and her sisters. There is a scene where they try to prove how great they are and there is a very heartbreaking moment where the professor is walking away and Blossom said.
“I love you… dad.”
That is the only time you hear Blossom call him dad instead of Professor. It made the scene even more sad. A somber violin tune would have made it even more impactful. It didn’t need it. Even though the episode ruins the surprise by saying be revealing to the viewer they were cakes, I felt Blossoms pain. I almost cried. It made me want to hug a cartoon character! The knowledge that the cakes are what needed to be redone it makes it funny when the clown there for the birthday party suggests eating the previous cakes, and the Power Puff Girls thought the professor was going to eat them. I know people that love Him. All of this makes him a great villain.
It was Bubbles who says that. Not Blossom. Just watched it last night catching up on the few episodes I never saw growing up.
Speed demon got the PPG cancelled for a while to the point they had to soften HIM's character and the series overall. Rumor is parents complained to the network about the episode being too dark and inappropriate for kids.
What's crazy is that I was introduced to Him in the episode "Hey Riddle Riddle." (I got the episode on DVD from a cereal box.) So the tone shift for me was real.
HIM's voice is how I picture Pennywise would talk if King's IT had an animated adaptation
HIM was on a whole other level
I wonder if they tried toning him down in that one episode where he and the Professor made a wager that made it seem like HIM was gonna kill the professor if the P.Girls couldn’t solve his riddles in time but in the end it was just the professor betting on the girls winning to get a free meal from a diner HIM runs lol
Oh you forgot about zombie magician Al lusion's episode, that episode too was way creepy.
yeah yeah for real! as far as i remember it was by far the creepiest one for me
Well, this video is more focus on HIM but he did say he’ll make more videos about this show, so maybe in the future he will cover that
Him was literally the devil apparently mixed with Santa Clause. Now that I think about it wouldn't that make Him into Krampus?
The devil was a prominent character in a lot of kids cartoons of the late 90’s and early 00’s - I believe cow and chicken had a devil character, power puff girls, hmm atm I’m drawing a blank but I remember seeing that entity portrayed in many different episodes of those two specifically
You say it's prominent yet you can only think of one other example lmfao
@@cdogthehedgehog6923I mean the devil showed up in episodes of the Simpsons and Futurama, Rocko's Modern Life, animaniacs, and reruns of various looney tunes and Tom and Jerry and the like. Not to mention the various comics appearances of characters like Mephisto, which brings to mind the various demons in Spawn (which also got a show), along with Etrigan in the Justice League cartoons. Then in live action you have all the Buffy and Charmed and Supernatural stuff... I could probably find a lot more if I looked. Honestly I don't think it's that unreasonable to feel like you saw demon characters somewhat regularly. Never much cared for the "if you can't think of the exact names of all the examples of the top of your head that means you're wrong" mindset.
@@cassiswyrm8121 I wasn't saying they were wrong, just funny that they couldn't think of more than one example.
The ultimate adversary
Samurai Jack's Aku was kinda like the devil as well.
That mirror to hide Bellum's face
Funny enough, I've been binging PPG for the past few weeks since seeing it was on Netflix. Even after just 2 seasons in I found myself thinking "man, this show was kinda dark" several times. But the wiring is so good even the darkest of themes is handled very well. It's part of why PPG, and other shows from that era, stand the test of time to this day.
funny how Him scares you, as a kid dumb me was oblivious to his supposedly "scary" behaviour and just thought he talks like a hairdresser
That's when you were thrown off-guard, only to find out what he really was.
HIM is still my absolute favorite character on this show. Not only is he incredibly powerful but also the other villains are terrified of HIM. You know how twisted and evil you have to be to do something like that?
Him outside of Sedusa was my favorite character from the PPG.
Just so psychologically diabolical. I hope you cover Sedusa in future uploads 😊
It's looks like the episode of Jimmy neutron send in the clones when evil Jimmy did that to everyone and instead of being nice and polite. They were mean, cruel, and also evil.
The episode with the Power Puff Girls traveling at the speed of light to go into a terrifying deminsion with a scary red guy in charge sounds eerily exactly like season 4 of Stranger Things despite Stranger things coming out decades after The PPG.
Speed Demons is the most memorable episode of PPG imo, I specifically remember thinking to myself how absolutely fucked it was that the professor shooed them away how Ms. Bellum weeped for the mayor
I remember being an anxious kid growing up and being nervous about horror genre art/media (save for the child-friendly horror movies and shows on TV) until I became an adult, but it's interesting how some things that I should have been scared of would r/whoosh over my head as a kid. Even though I would recognize the characters were in dire circumstances and I should be wondering how they will get out of their predicament, Powerpuff Girls somehow didn't mess with my anxiety much. I guess it's because one of the first episodes I saw was "Bubblicious", and I related to Bubbles as I was also a shy/soft-spoken kid and could relate to feeling frustrated on what people assumed I could or couldn't handle (and it's also got some dark moments and mild gore too).
"Abracadaver", "Mime for a Change", and "Blame it on the Boogie" were also great dark episodes too, especially with how they portrayed Al Lusion's death and resurrection.
im so happy that youve decided to cover HIM! totally a fan of your commentary of the classic cartoons - just subbed, and can't wait for more dude!! 🖖🏾
Finally someone talks about powernoia! That episode traumatised me as a kid!
You forgot the episode with Bubbles’ crayon drawings that come to life
The episode where him is super powerful in the future is probably just what happens if nobody stops him. He gets stronger
Cable TV was more disturbing than you remember.
Man you’re giving me some ideas 👀
I just knew you'd include Speed Demon. Great video. I probably shouldn't have watched it before bed, but I'll probably be fine lol.
Probably probably
Born in 1989 here so I grew up watching Powerpuff Girls. I always assumed Him was the Devil.
Him is not a icon he’s THE icon
I think your videos are great!!! Are you going to do Samurai Jack ??? The guy who did Samurai Jack, also did Dexter's Laboratory, star wars: clone wars-- and worked on the Powerpuff girls, and was there at the start of the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy(pilot)...
I was debating it yea! I’ve been getting the itch to go back and watch it from start to finish since I never was able to when I was younger
*Broooo…* I never realized PPG was so disturbing… *You Just earned a new subscriber!!!!*
That duck was very, very, VERY suspicious to me when I was a little girl. It taught me things are simply, not always as they appear , even if they are adorable. Powerpuff girls, I would like to thank HIM's rubber duck for teaching me a valuable lesson.
HIM is like Pennywise the clown of Townsville
You should definitely do K.N.D next or Fosters Homes. They got a few episodes that were disturbing in their own way. But always love seeing Golden age cartoon network/cartoon shows.
I would have loved to see HIM in a medium that accentuates the body horror of his transformations. You could tell they were very ambitious with designing and using him in episodes, and I can only imagine what disturbance he would have looked like with a bit more detail.
bruh, 10/10 still one of my favorite childhood shows. and i remember all of these episodes, too.
That's why this was the golden age of Western cartoons. They weren't afraid of showing kids disturbing stuff and ways to overcome it. Modern cartoons don't do this and you just feel nothing, or at best an awe for good guys defeating the bad guys. This is pointless entertainment. While with disturbing cartoons you can feel engaged in struggles of the protagonists and feel the same emotions as them. You can ponder philosophical and social issues and learn something from them. It's like the Invincible cartoon, but for kids.
I watched this as it aired and I never saw it as scary. Guess I wasn't soft.
Please, please cover the episode with the zombie magician. That one scarred me for life.
I remember looking at a picture of HIM and I asked my mother to describe HIM's apperence. She said lobster claws, ruffles, and a Santa Claus belt.
Satan claws 🦞
@@phoenixplanet7090 that's a great double pun.
This show was completely unhinged and i loved every second of it.
As a kid I always though "him" was a female who's acting like a male, and his voice give me chills coz he echo thoughout the room, I even had a nightmare of him pinching my hand with his claws lmao
i always saw him as an edgy male
but know i think he is genderless because a species need reproductivity to assign genders to it
@@negate-07and it begins 😑
Get a Holy Bible and Holy water and a crucifix just in case.
Him always scared me the most out of all of the villains. He was seriously terrifying.
"Also, look at those abs. Goddamn" And just like that, this is my new favorite channel
HIM is my favorite character of all in powerpuff girls... he is so perfectly evil and its 👌🤌
Crazy how when I was a kid, I didn’t really notice any of this, now that I’m older now, it makes sense.
I've never seen HIM as the main villain. Always a background character or a refernece. I always wondered what HIM's purpise was.
The ep if PPPG that physically terrified me was abracadaver with the zombie magician 😭😭
i had a debate once with a guy that said HIM was suppose to be a gay archtype and that his evilness was because of that. told him if he cant tell HIM is just evil to the point he gives no shits hes a lost cause.
Him was apparently meant to be an overarching threat but after Speed Demon they got complaints from parents about how scary it was. They didn’t want to diminish his threatening reputation so they just used Him less. Him was still a huge threat but he wouldn’t be the Big Bad like they had planned
I love HIM. The femme-presenting chaotic queer eldritch horror we didn't know we needed.
The episode Knock it Off was also creepy! Great stuff!!
It's so crazy that Him didn't have many episodes but made a big impact on everyone like Him scared me a lot when I was a kid i literally had nightmares about Him.😊
HIM is truly a queer icon. I could go into the negative effects of queer coded villains, but idc in this instance, he’s perfect.
HIM is the best.
I feel like they made him appear queer just to make him stand out more from other depictions of Satan. Usually the devil/demons are all "RAAAAAARRGGGHH! I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOOOUUUUL!!!!", with huge muscles and pulsating veins with spikes and fire, but HIM just stands out. I doubt the creator has any prejudices towards the LGBT people
For reaaal omg, I adore HIM and Ursula (who was inspired by a drag queen). Personally I love a well-written/well-designed queer coded villain as long as they’re properly evil, and not evil *because* they’re queer. That’s the difference that makes one type more fun than the other.
Queer?
He's just a weird travesti XD
The Best one
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I was fascinated by HIM as a kid. They way the character was kind of androgynous really got me, I loved it.
Finally, someone covered this Cartoon
Fruity Devil is stil the funniest villain ever
Gravity Falls is another cartoon classic with fantastic dark episodes. Could love to watch your personal opinion about it. 💜
I'd love to see this too!
I'm a year late... did he make a video of it yet?
I still get nightmares when I watch the night before Christmas 😭🤚🏾 like I didn’t understand why ppl found Caroline scary
Yes the most horrifying thing the devil drag queen crab... That might be one of the funniest things I've ever said.
Glad to have a new look at our old fav shows. New takes mean more content
I forgot about this episode until i saw the throwing apples part and the memory was unlocked lol
I'm gonna watch this when i get home from work in 40 minutes
The anime version of HIM was pretty amazing as well
Man literally “gaslit” the town into hating the powerpuff girls 😂😂😂😂
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Your videos are so well done and I am definitely subbing to you. Especially because you have been covering shows from my childhood 😂
Truly don't understand how you don't have more subs. really good material mate
it's stolen tho
That pronouns line killed me 😂😂😂
15:50 This is the scariest thing of all. No matter what, the future is written. We know HIM will eventually win.
That is some dark shit for a kids' show. lol
Replacing eyes with buttons?
Well that is Coraline, another 2000s kid trauma film.
I remember at that time in Cartoon Network history it was HIM and Frieza who I thought were fab but also very unsettling 😂 it was their voices man
Lots of good children's stories include demons and, of course, His Evil Majesty Himself, Beelzebub **evil grin** On a more "sensible" note, I'd say that this is an inevitable stage in a kid's life, when they need to lose a little naivety and grow up a bit. Also, kids just love being scared (in stories) :)
Which Show Is Beelzebub From?
No show. The Devil's name, well, one of them anyway; including "Him" in the Powerpuff Girls' show; is "officially" Beelzebub, or Satan (there are others)
@@TechneMoira Oh Okay
HIM is the best villain of the ppg verse and he was done dirty in the reboot. There's a comic where he used flowers to manipulate the entire city into only wanting beauty. Yet he wasn't nearly as creepy as the guy who had an obsession with ppg merchandise to the point where he kidnapped the girls themselves
The moments when H.I.M. becomes enraged at the girls or excited over his schemes working creep me out the most. It’s actually eerie shit.
That licking of him on the professor's cheek was very disturbing to me as a kid.
First thing I've learned from the PowerPuff Girls in *_years:_*
When you make Buttercup snap, consider yourself dead.
They really know how to give R-rated stuff a G rating...
I’m upset that I binge watched these 3 uploads and it’s over 😂😂 please keep it up
I'm working on the next video now!
As a bisexual male, I need to say that HIM is the reason of my transphobia when I was young. I know, probably that was not the intention but here we are
huh...?
As a straight person who was never indoctrinated to hate almost anything and therefore have a normal judgment, I always liked Him, sometimes I forgot that he was a weird transvestite haha
18:58 AZATHOTH?!
22:43 that's some HP Lovecraft shit right there.
Manipulation is so much more disturbing that a villain who is straight up.
The nightmare episode still scares me to this day because I am deathly terrified of spiders.
This character always freaked me out as a kid even now a little bit and im 20. I never liked that his voice was so soft yet so loud and piercing .
I remember all these episodes, strangely i was never afraid of any of them as an 8yo the first time watching them, but youve shown how what went on with HIM and his powers are downright messed up. Sure he became a queer icon who everyone loves but imagining him using his abilities irl would be terrifying
Just found your channel. Dig what you've got going on so far 🤙🤙 wasn't really a disturbing show in the creepy sense but I'd be interested to hear a breakdown of Invader Zim like this
I actually was looking at Zim for a future video yesterday haha
Oooo yes Zim video please! Especially the organ harvesting episode
@@JoeRuffler you should go for it that show is something else hahaha
@@iancolpetzer5311 you already know
You're definitely going to become a big youtuber, I can feel it
It already looks like he is
HIM WAS HIM!