The Powerpuff Girls Canceled Series Trailer Is Wonderful and Weird
Sugar, spice, and everything nice: three things that were missing from the CW’s live-action adaptation of The Powerpuff Girls. Supposedly, an ordered pilot was so bad that it never saw the light of day until now.
In 2021, the CW ordered a pilot for a series that would follow the Powerpuff Girls into adulthood. The pilot starred Chloe Bennet (Blossom), Dove Cameron (Bubbles), and Yanna Perrault (Buttercup). Donald Faison as Professor Drake Utonium, their father and the scientist who created them. Warner Bros TV was set to produce, and Oscar winner Diablo Cody and Heather Reginer wrote the pilot. The series was written, filmed, scrapped, reshot, and canceled.
The CW and Warner Bros ordered a complete pilot reshoot in May 2021; Bennet exited the project three months later. Before the year was over, the project was officially declared dead. Everyone seemed to have moved on from the disaster project until today.
The Powerpuff Girls sacrificed themselves so that Ben 10 would not fall into the hands of the CW https://t.co/vMhG4uCavR
—(@octofurleague) March 6, 2025
This morning, never-before-seen footage of the pilot ordered by the CW was leaked online. The scrapped pilot footage was edited into a makeshift series trailer in a now removed Youtube video. Sources told Variety that this could have been edited by a third-party vendor hired by the CW, as the trailer did not meet their standards.
So, how does this failed series look?
the trailer for the scrapped
— hunter (@remslutt) March 6, 2025
cw powerpuff girls show has been released, sounds like the used madison’s boyshit instrumental !!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZMJC9zajT
Absolutely, wonderfully, horrendous.
Powerpuff Girls Pilot Overview
The people of Townsville adored the girls in childhood. As they grew up, Blossom became more stressed, Buttercup became more rebellious, and Bubbles became more drunk. This is not a great combination. Until one day, they accidentally murder their arch-nemesis, Mojo Dojo. Who, in this series, is not an evil green chimpanzee, but an angry human man.
The town turns against them, and they turn against each other. Blossom runs away, Buttercup becomes a firefighter, and Blossom becomes one of those mascots asking for money on Hollywood Blvd. Mojo Dojo’s son Jojo Jr. (Nicholas Podany) becomes the mayor of Townsville at eleven years old. Because that’s how our local government works, right?
Cut to seven years later. The girls return to Townsville to celebrate their birthday. Jojo Jr. and his sidekick, a ten-year-old little girl who’s never named, hatch a plan to frame Professor Utonium. Long story short, they face their fears and save the day, and now Townsville loves them again.
That’s a lot, and it’s only the pilot. Presumably, the series would’ve seen the Powerpuff Girls return to their life of fighting crime, juggling adult life and superhero life, and romance between… Blossom and Jojo Jr.? That’s certainly a choice.
Of course, we know now that this show was never meant to be.
The leak has been met with mixed reactions. Some die-hard fans have had their opinions of this series reaffirmed, glad it never saw the light of day.
But a select few find this wacky leaked footage strangely appealing. With its reputation for outrageous storylines in Riverdale, the CW has reached new levels of campiness with The Powerpuff Girls.
i would have watched the fuck out of the cw powerpuff girls show i cannot lie
— grace (@agneswickfields) March 6, 2025
However, the original The Powerpuff Girls can be streamed on Max.
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