Powerpuff Girls Reboot Includes New Voices – You Decide If They Sound Like Your Favorite Super-Young Superheroes
Cartoon Network seems to have listened to its not-so-young audience about bringing back their beloved show. Hence a Powerpuff Girls reboot has been scheduled to air from next year. However, besides the Narrator/Mayor, everybody else will be getting a new person to voice their characters in the popular cartoon series.
Cartoon Network has been facing tough competition lately from other popular networks like Nickelodeon, Disney and many others. What was once the sole domain of Cartoon Network now has many new players and countless other characters vying for attention. Powerpuff Girls was one of the most popular animated sitcoms of the channel, and it seems the network is reviving the same in an attempt to rein in its once loyal viewers and with them, hopefully their children.
Though time has passed, the Powerpuff Girls haven’t grown in the series. They are still the adorable two-feet high girls. These girls were and still are so little, the majority of the characters with average height have had their faces hidden when the camera angle zoomed-in on the girls.
Hence to ensure the girls had age-appropriate voices, Cartoon Network decided to opt for new voices for the reboot. Amanda Leighton from The Fosters will voice Blossom, Kristen Li will voice Bubbles, and Natalie Palamides will be voicing Buttercup. To allow its audience to get a feel of their voices, each of the girls recorded a short clip, which was uploaded by Cartoon Network via Twitter.
First look at The ALL-NEW Powerpuff Girls, debuting on Cartoon Network in 2016! Actress Amanda Leighton is … https://t.co/zUu4CQ7Gzy
— Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) June 8, 2015
First look at The ALL-NEW Powerpuff Girls, debuting on Cartoon Network in 2016! Actress Kristen Li is the v… https://t.co/rMWoU95WRB
— Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) June 8, 2015
First look at The ALL-NEW Powerpuff Girls, debuting on Cartoon Network in 2016! Actress Natalie Palamides i… https://t.co/Hi96S3ETNh
— Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) June 8, 2015
Apart from these new girls, not much has been altered. The storyline doesn’t change and the girls simply reprise their roles as super-cute superheroes that save the day in their own adorable but no-nonsense way.
The original Powerpuff Girls debuted way back in 1996, ran successfully for 78 episodes, and ended abruptly in 1998, despite being popular at the time. The girls faced such iconic villains like Mojo Jojo, HIM, Lenny Baxter, Amoeba Boys, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Gangreen Gang and Sedusa. The Girls even had to fight their evil doppelgängers, The Powerpunk Girls, Rowdyruff Boys, and even muscle-bound Fake Powerpuff Girls.
Way back when the Powerpuff Girls were popular, the storyline would be quite similar in most of the episodes, but the show gained a very large fan-base owing to the sweet-talking, mild-mannered girls who would always respect their elders and yet possessed a plethora of super-powers. The series even had an standalone movie, The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed, which was aired on Cartoon Network as a network-only special in 2014.
While it’s great to see companies trying to revive popular shows, it’s clear, Pepsi isn’t the only one attempting to bring back stuff from the ’90s.
[Image Credit | Cartoon Network]
