The Powerpuff Girls

On the data. Three separate continuities wearing the same name, and a famous ordering trap. THE FILM IS A PREQUEL RELEASED IN THE MIDDLE. The 2002 cinema film retells how the girls were made and ends with Townsville accepting them. It came out between seasons four and five. Watching it first in chronological order sounds sensible and is a mistake: it is written for people who already know the characters, and the series tells its own version of the origin. Watch it after season one at the earliest. This is the single most useful thing on this page. THE 2016 SERIES IS A REBOOT, not a revival and not a continuation. Craig McCracken had nothing to do with it. It shares no continuity with anything else here. AND ITS EPISODE COUNT IS A TRAP. The original is counted in half-hour episodes, giving seventy eight. The reboot is counted in eleven-minute episodes, giving one hundred and nineteen. A reader glancing at the two numbers will conclude the reboot was bigger. By comparable units the original is one hundred and thirty six stories and still larger. THE ORIGINAL'S OWN TOTALS DO NOT ADD UP EITHER. The per-season story counts sum to one hundred and thirty six and the same page states one hundred and fifty two. Unexplained, and flagged as unconfirmed. SEASON FOUR IS THE ODD ONE: eleven episodes and only twelve stories, because that is where the show largely stopped running two short stories per half hour. THE STUDENT FILM COULD NOT BE BROADCAST BECAUSE OF ITS NAME. McCracken's CalArts film was called Whoopass Stew! and the girls were made from a can of Whoopass. Cartoon Network required the rename and the substitution of Chemical X. Sources date the film 1992 or 1994 and this page cannot settle it. THERE IS NO 2017 SPECIAL CALLED POWERPUFF GIRLS RULE. The tenth anniversary special of that name is from 2008, or 2009 depending on which country you were in. The 2017 thing people are thinking of is The Power of Four, a five-part story inside the reboot's second season that introduces a fourth girl called Bliss. They are on opposite sides of the continuity reset. THE LIVE-ACTION SERIES NEVER AIRED. The CW ordered Powerpuff in 2020, shot a pilot in 2021, had it retooled and reshot, and cancelled it in May 2023. The pilot leaked online in March 2025, which is the only way anybody has seen it. There is nothing to watch, so there is no row. A NEW FILM WAS ANNOUNCED IN JUNE 2026 by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, with no date, no director and no cast confirmed. Not listed.

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