So somebody posted this on bSky and I played the video before reading the text so I didn't realize it wasn't a porn parody until about halfway through, after which I stopped watching it cuz, y'know...why?

Side note: I do find it hilarious everyone's comparing this to Velma instead of the actual terrible cartoon reboot The Powerpuff Girls got...I suspect because everyone forgot that it happened.

Everyone wants to forget that PPG reboot because of the animator's self-insert dating a 5-year-old. 😱

Why the hell are they claiming ownership on this dumpster fire? 😆

fear not for it is up on the ghost archives and archivetube.

WB can't stop you from making other suffer

https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/VjbEfm1N7TM

Honest to god I chuckled at least thrice while watching it. I gotta be put down.

There was a leaked pilot script if you're interested

It was taken down unfortunately

To be fair the reboot is remember for the self insert and twerking scenes

Or the girls twerking with a panda

EDIT: Reupload of the script here. Fuck your mother CW.

I personally don't mind racelift in reboots. I sometimes feel a bit of dissonance at first, but then it usually clicks into place, and if the reboot itself is good, it's good. But openly bragging about de-whitewashing is as cringe as openly whining about it.

Honestly not surprised that it didnt take off, but I'm not gonna bother watching this. I'm not curious enough to see how much this sucks.

The PPG reboot is like one of the first examples of like a bad modern reboot. With the whole thing feeling much more childish than the original and random things being changed or censored to "update it". Wierd attempts at being hip and current with the smartphone memes and terrible dialogue.

WB was pretty dang early on the reboot bandwagon.

Okay this has to be a joke. theres zero way that any of this is real.

I love the super patronizing line, "Buttercup became a REAL hero!" Yes, we get it, rescue workers are brave and unappreciated.

I still find it creatively bankrupt that they gave all of the girls the most stereotypical life choices as adults. Yes, the smart one is a scholar, the girly one is a slut, and the tomboy is a firefighter; a stereotypical "manly" career. If they wanted to subvert the the original, "whitewashed" cartoon, they could have at least played off on the idea that their personalities and interests changed as they matured, which is very common amongst children.

I don't know, I'm overanalyzing a canceled CW show now. That HBO's Powerpuff Girls animation was a way funnier idea than this abomination.

I'm so sorry. It's real. We lived through some crazy shit, and dodged some real ones.

I watched it, very bad the trailer.

Fortunaliy, we are in a universe that Warner cancel proyects, so, we glad that the series was cancelled.

But, some good proyects like Coyote vs. ACME was cancelled unfortunaliy, but we glad that Warner cancelled a bad series that never was launched.

Warner is making some good choices lately. I think people are gonna be happy with The Day the Earth Blew Up, so that's a good decision on their part to resurrect it. But yes, this PPG reboot was definitely one that needed to be canceled.

true.

Hopefully the new Looney Tunes movie will be to be the best animated movie that Warner did in this 2025.

Recalling the a time Powerpuff Girls were divided, it was in Fusion Fall they Buttercup was missing in a fight with Mojojo I think. She got amnesia which was a bad time due to the Fuse. It was Cliché, but that was reason they were not able to stop them. It was worth reason for a mission to beating a couple of monsters to clear the area for them to have a picnic to help their family.

I know right, but they still greenlight projects like Velma and Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League

I saw it thinking it was a parody. When it got removed for copyright, I knew it was the real deal.

I think Warner Bros puts out things that are bad on purpose just to do the numbers on social media. They've turned ragebait into marketing strategy more than any other entertainment giant.

This being cancelled probably has more to do with the CW getting sold off than them deciding it was terrible.

I swear to god every new iteration of Las Supernenas it's so horseshit that it makes the last one look better in comparison. It almost feels like a curse. I heard people shitting on PPGZ and prefering the original, On the Dance Pantsed Special and prefering PPGZ, THE HORRIBLE 2016 reboot and prefering the Dance Pantsed Special and now I'm seeing people saying this made the Reboot look good.

I thought this was a comedy sketch or a parody but no. This is real. We have diverse powerpuff girls and a black professor utonium. I’m not sure if it’s a race swap or this is just a new dimension. But regardless we did not need a live action powerpuff girls reboot.

This entire thread kind of confuses me because WB supposedly put this project on ice before it could officially air (probably one of the few times I'm glad modern WB-Discovery cancelled a project well into production). Yet people seem to be reacting to it as if it's a rage-bait show that WB-Discovery still plans to shove in our faces, "Velma"-style.

I am well aware of what they did to my favorite character of the OG Powerpuff Girls, Buttercup, in this failed pilot, though. Between this, Velma, and other woefully-misguided attempts at even understanding left-leaning audiences like Dustborn, it is easy to see why the United States is in the absolute STATE it is in today. This stuff not only fails to reach its target audience, they make easy LOLcow content for right-wing grifters on YouTube to point to and say "See?! They are trying to replace us/kill masculinity!" or "THIS is why angry women can't write good stories!" Sadly, I think it's gotten to the point where even the original Powerpuff Girls would be subjected to culture wars if it had came out today (it is true that the original show allowed impressionable young boys like me to become at least more open-minded to more feminine-looking action shows like Cardcaptor Sakura and Totally Spies), so at least we can rest easy that, outside of this leaked script and pilot episode, this newer bastardization of a classic, admittedly-violent children's cartoon never saw the light of day to add fuel to that annoying fire.

I used to think that, but after they kept doing it, getting poorer, getting kicked out of AT&T and now looking shaky at Discovery, basically having a hand in killing comics... Well... I now think it's being done for other reasons now.

Man, it’s been a hard time these last 10 years. People are reactionary because it’s a learned response, like being in prison and punching anytime something comes near your face. It’s gonna take a long time before people can trust again. It’s gonna take a lot of good will from these corporations, or just wait for them to be replaced.

There is good content out there. It’s coming out slowly. Sonic 3, Hundreds of Beavers, and Frankie Freako make me hopeful, as well as a lot of content here on Newgrounds, that there’s a new happy horizon of content out there.

But yeah, this could’ve happened, and we hate that it could’ve happened.

It really is sort of a dangerous rabbit hole to fall down to, following reactionary content all the time until it literally affects how you vote (and, in the US's case at least, even affects the price of groceries). The only solution I've found for now is to, as best as each website allows me to, block and ignore what I deem to be "culture war" content, and avoid websites that reward political rancor with their algorithms in the first place, which unfortunately means I have to avoid ALL mainstream social media sites (even BlueSky) for the sake of my sanity, limiting myself to mostly just looking at fun art and animations on Newgrounds and niche art forum sites. So far, all this really means that I am still absolutely blindsided whenever someone brings up some weird conspiracy theory they heard on X or Facebook, and make sure it affects my life in some way even though I personally left those websites years ago and SHOULD be blissfully unaware of the constant drama of the terminally online.

Describing reacting to content you don't agree with (or at least were told not to agree with) like some sort of Pavlovian response is honestly a good way to put it.

I should check Hundreds of Beavers and Frankie Freako, but of course I have already watched Sonic (movie) 3 due to that particular entry being based on my first childhood Sonic game, Sonic Adventure 2. If I haven't mentioned it enough here already, also check out the Oscar-Award-winning Flow and In the Shadow of the Cypress, both of which managed to beat the likes of Pixar and Dreamworks for the Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short, respectively. The animation industry may, in fact, be healing if even the Academy Awards (notorious up until recently for being heavily biased towards Disney in particular and seeing animation as a "kiddie" genre) demands more good storytelling that actually moves the art form forward.

I think it has always been mostly the case, though, that the best, most creative stuff of each year seems to come out of nowhere and blows us away, while stuff that does get a ton of advertising ends up being overhyped and inevitably disappointing, even it certainly doesn't disappoint the parent company's shareholders in box office sales.

Understandable. We already have the mixed-up 2016 reboot of PPG, and the fact that we almost got an even more controversial and misguided reboot, and the only reason it likely didn't happen was because WB-Discovery sold off CW are something, really emphasizes how little WB has always understood the appeal of the original show and how unfair it is that people who seem to hate both the original show and its generation of fans hold the exclusive IP rights.

As for the "reactionary" stuff, I also think for those that have not gone full-on "xenophobe" (yet), they're dealing with a cognitive dissonance with companies like WB and Disney that, in their early childhood at least, seemed reliable at giving us entertainment that finds a perfect balance between artistic merit and actually being marketable, but nowadays seem to be failing at making something that people find entertaining OR makes any practical business sense while no-budget indies are making the really good stuff, throwing off everything we ever knew about the supposed upsides of capitalism, or naive beliefs that artistic visions can survive executive meddling and risk aversion. As a result, we have to learn to actively seek more genuine and well-written entertainment after getting so used to being spoon-fed quality by the big companies in the past.

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I'm glad you're dealing with it in your own way and trying to keep a healthy attitude. No need to get angry all the time! And I'll def check out both of those films. I've been meaning to check out Flow. 😄