We need to talk about Him... 

Right? and that says a lot because Mojo Jojo is ballsy af. It saws a lot that even Mojo steers clear of HIM lol.

I once told my mom I had a dream about the “He/She Crab Devil” and she thought it was a nightmare. It wasn’t, but I love that my description was so instantly recognizable lol

Anyone remember in the farily oddparents when Vicky's name was said in the early episodes, it would make something shatter/break or something happen to an animal or person? Yeah, I know that the original power puff girls came out first, but, what I would have found hilarious and wished they did is if they used that gag for whenever someone mentioned the name him.☺️😆

​@@eileensnow6153 The pronoun pincher 💀

@@DuskTillShawn i cant decide if him or dick hardlys worse

Yo😳

Also a pretty good band

@@thebyronicpig lol

Fun fact, HIM is also an acronym for Hemorrhoids International Maintenance" while also being a pronoun.

Oh wow

that makes sense!

So what it sounds like to me is that you need to not have hope in any outside source lest they were to disappear. That hopelessness could bring the “devil” right to your front door. And with the devil only ever playing mind games, it won’t be a physical being but poor mental states and feelings like depression, sadness,anger, dispair etc. deriving hope and happiness from oneself is the key to keeping the “devil” away. And I use quotes around devil because the devil is clearly not a physical enemy and represents negative emotions and actions.

Oooooh, that's why Him looked brutally beaten and squirming in pain when the girls overcame their fears......

Buttercup knocked her teeth out once.

In one episode, all he had to do was use clouds to produce hate gas that turned everyone's love into hate. I don't think that's actually a weakness if it's really that easy for him to beat.

Seek help

@gina-hp2jo you seek help too

​@@SilentChaos713chill

@@blessinggodwin4134 stop playing God in people's life mind your own business

@gina-hp2jo well good keep up the great work 👍

Just saw another comment that said HIM isn’t just a pronoun, but an acronym for “His Infernal Majesty”

​@@brandonaumiller3997I just saw a comment that said it stands for hemorrhoid international maintenance.

@@brandonaumiller3997 That's a band actually with that name. Pretty sure it's Bam Margera's brother.

3:57 "I can't say it. This is a villian so evil, so sinister, so horribly vile. That even the utterance of his name strikes fear into the hearts of men. The only 'safe' way to refer to this king of darkness is 'Him'." So you are correct, and the show itself verifies that.

I like the theory that the various PPG characters are viewed through the lens of 5-year-old girls' imaginations. HIM represents a homosexual in their neighborhood and their father tells them to "stay away from HIM".

Father?

​@@gaminganimators7000 From Codename: Kids Next Door.

@@dragonloli7938 “You…big….JERK! Now you’ve made me really, really, REALLY!”

You're 100% correct, Jarett. I couldn't agree more. All of those you listed are definitely great schemers and were some of my favorite villains... But Slade... Man, don't even get me started. The entirety of Teen Titans (original run, not Go!) was amazing. But the way that they wrote Slade and the lasting effects of his story arc were literally mind blowing. I definitely have to cover that show in detail at some point in the future.

Interesting how they all share a certain motif.

Yup. He had no rival so he took pleasure in taunting them.

The best type of villain

​@@AFeralTrout420that begs the question...if the powerpuff girls cant stop him, is he actually "evil"? He let's the girls win every time. Even when he took over in speed demon, he knew that the girls just had to jump back in time. And considering that he can beat the girls any time, he could have taken over townsville without the girls being absent for 50 years. Maybe hes not really evil, he just toys with them.

​@godomoths242 the girls weren't absent in fact in that timeline the girls never went anywhere The professor was already in townsville on the day that him unleashed his full strength so were the alternate version of the girls 50 years prior to the incident But Him was able to get rid of them and get rid of the mayor and get rid of all the villains The episode was more of warning not because of them going somewhere else for vacation but him was warning them that he is gaining his full strength and what he would do It's like conditioning of some sort

HIM reminds me of Judge Holden from Blood Meridian (the most evil villain in all of literature) despite had absolute super human strength Holden prefer philosophical and psychological to corrupt anyone near him, Jack Horner and HIM are just kid friendly version of Holden.

Tom Kenny?

Did Tom Kane also voice the announcer of the show? Cartoons had great announcers in the 90s. They added some welcome coherence into the chaos, and maybe helped smaller kids to remember that it's all just a show. That reminds me how the Red Guy would sometimes narrate things to the audience in Cow and Chicken. He would have been super creepy if he wasn't such a goof.

⁠@@Mephitinaeno Tom Kenny is the narrator.

@@sparkcitylive Ah, it was the OTHER Tom K... Similar sounding names, similar voices, both born in 1962... You have to admit I was close.

Tom Kane was also the voice of Slide Paramita and Elan Mak in Starwars ep 1 Racer.

that was great

That's what I think. They never traveled in time; they just entered an illusion created by Him. That's why falling sent them back...because they never left.

HIM is probably thinking long term then. If the girls are too tired to fight then nobody can stop villains, especially HIM. Smart!

Here’s what I think: Him is definitely powerful, but he's not _all-powerful._ A part of him is smoke and mirrors, like the man (Wizard of Oz) behind the curtain. In Power-Noia, his worst fear seems to be pain. When the girls clobber him there, he loses teeth and begs for mercy just like any other villain. In Moral Decay, he’s sitting in the dentist's office with a swollen face along with the rest of the rogues gallery. And even though Him seemingly became untouchable in Speed Demon, keep in mind that it took *50 years* for him to do so. It didn’t just happen overnight.

@@rhondahoward8025 That is the very legit theory. Manipulation is his forte but his only real weapon. Like in that aforementioned nightmare episode, once the girls saw through his smokes and mirrors they clobbered him afterwards.

My thoughts exactly. "Return the slabbb or suffer my curseeee"🤣 Both creepy and hilarious at the same time. Love it.

He's definitely a unique blend of funny and unsettling. Moreso unsettling in my opinion, and I feel like that really helped secure his place as one of the top villains in this show. He's such a great villain, imo. Thanks for watching, my friend :)

i could never tell if he was a guy when i was little cuz of his voice

Exactlllllyyyyy. Top two scariest villains in all of cartoon network

When the show was first pitched as Kickass Stew Him was the villain Craig showed to be the villain. He looked generally the same but more intimidating looking and was riding a motorcycle. I’m not sure if theirs any surviving pictures but Current him is a lot less buff than his original design. Him was clearly meant to be the main villain but showed up less and less as time went on.

This is pretty spot on. As an adult, it's like who thought of this character. They need to be evaluated.

Yall just use the word trauma for everything huh

​@@venicec3310 getting f*ked in the ass trauma💀

“Reverse childhood TRAUMA” 🤦🏾‍♀️ can y’all please stop this melodramatic BS? Of course he was weird to you, his character was intended to be creepy and strange, like most villains on hero shows.

Yeah as i Child he gave me chills , but now I’m like SLAYY give us cunt!

Kinda seems like he’s a good guy in a fucked up way 😂 cause in the other episode he was the whole reason the sisters stopped fighting with each other.

@@jalenriley7706 That's how they make an army of satan's worshipers for you

EXCELLENT WORK. DUSKTILL SHAWN POWERPUFF GIRLS ANTAGONIST HIM 😈😈😈☠️😈😈😈👾👾👾

She's so realistic!

I love to think there's a ton out there, even one who could cure cancer, boundless untapped potential: all for the sake of the potential within a child, to hope they may be greater, even a superhero. PPG4LYFE

Taking care of children is a burden. I think Ms. Keane just has internalized misogyny that’s holding her back from being a boss babe. Nurturing children at the expense of one’s career paints a very bad image of society. We should always put ourselves and our careers first.

Honestly there's something really off about the entire town. Ms. Keane comes off as weirdly intelligent for a kindergarten teacher, which is especially odd when you consider that almost everyone else in the town has the combined IQ of a grain of sand. Her, the professor, and Ms. Bellum are just about the only smart, sane people in town who aren't villains, and none of them seems to be bothered by that fact. It's almost like a sort of odd Truman Show type situation.

Ms. Keane is probably a government agent assigned to keep an eye on the Power Puff Girls or the Professor.

Or maybe HIM was controlling her when she went off on that equation. As a creepy sort of prelude to what was about to happen.

They knew 2023 was coming and this was a hint to HIM who is behind the agenda. Never forget, Satan and his ego, the unnamed deity is at front in all of this gender confusion in the media as of late.

And he has and obsessive with little girls.

All points made we're accurate af

​@Just Me Here Now you have me wondering how HIM and The Gromble would get along; I think Gromby was inspired from the same source.

@@maninthemask6275 those two things related to you?

Yeah, Him was an actual threat to the girls......The Rowdybuff boys and Dick Hardy also reached that point for different reasons, but Him achieved this more consistently and in more unique ways.

​@@saparapatepetethe RowdyRuff Boys were a match-up to the girls, Dick only tortured them. HIM can probably just use a tiny fraction of his power to instantly defeat the girls

I haven't seen much of this show in years but the effect on Him's voice sticks

You're so right. Like, his voice and mannerisms are burned into my brain lmao.

I can't help but think that HIM might've influenced Vivzie in the designs of the many demons for her shows. (Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel.). They all look soo distinctively fabulous that it cannot not be.

I ADORE Him. He's just so much fun and unapologetically...well, Himself!

He's also the most dangerous

+111111

HIM reminds me of that creep, Jeffrey Marsh

Right!

The nice voice was scarier than the mean voice.

​@@Nigerian-born_American Exactly.

A villain through and through. Too bad, like all the villains were watered down later on... Thanks to our parents.

Same it terrified me as a kid

Scary shit

It's okay, you can say The Flash

That’s how I imagined Pennywise the clown would sound, when I read Stephen King’s IT.

The man's literally running up these little girls block in some thigh high heels faster then Cristal like the champagne, that's how I knew he was a demon, even from my crib.

I had a teacher that was like this in school. She was terrifying

@@beepbeepimuhsheep 🤣

@@beepbeepimuhsheep 🤣🤣😂😂😂

Maybe the creator of the show should have been scared of him, it would give the character further credit.

I forgot about the narrator 😂😂 he really added so much value to the innocence and chaos of every episode ❤

true, Him was never arrested like most villains and didn't end up dying like Dick Hardy or the Rowdybuff boys

​@@saparapatepete I mean to be fair, what the hell can the authorities do? Arrest the literal incarnation of the devil? 😂

The metaphors were almost as good as the ones in Fullmetal Alchemist. Back then it just felt like one of those dumb kid's shows if you didn't pay enough attention to the details but i guess it made me appreciate this sort of writing later in life.

he can literally destroy the solar system with a wave of his claws he just doesn't want to XD

He was the only one who could beat the PPG at will but never did because he had too much fun teasing them. A psychotic character really. But then again expected given him represented 'he who must not be named' Voldemort lol!

He's more like a Freddy Krueger ripoff with the psychological warfare

Also she's the most innocent... which seems like a target specifically interesting to... Him

​@@Grizzlox The OP literally just said that....

I always assumed that Him was supposed to be the devil

@@MisterNineEleven No they didn't even suggest that. Soul of the group and spirit aren't synonymous to innocence.

@@zeldapro18 Bubbles is both, the soul and the innocent one. To claim anything else is reaching.

and hes immortal they (ppg) will die he won't. when they tried to create bunny, bunny died so why did bunny die? they say its becuase they dropped the glass in and that caused it? but that makes NO sense as glass ALSO falls in releaseing chemical X in the intro. so what REALLY caused bunny to die? what if him or another power unknown villen atualy allowed the ppg to be created via sugar spice everything nice and checmical X plus glass bits. or maby had something to do with the professors "will"?

This exact reason is why I'm Team Freddy instead of Jason. Real villains torment the mind.

Him is also the type to play the waiting game. cause eventually the ppg will slip up and he's taking that chance immediately

@@nightmarerex2035 Bunny died because her chemical makeup was imbalanced. Where Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup were perfectly measured and their "everything nice" was, in fact, everything cute, fluffy and feminine, then it worked out. When the girls made Bunny's "everything nice" it was just random things that each of them individually thought were nice, but sort of clashed and didn't really fit the true essence of "everything nice." (Encyclopedias, footballs, race cars, microscopes and a knuckle sandwich. It was doomed from the start.)

@@VybeX-Freddy is definitely far more terrifying yet for some reason Jason is more popular.

I loved that episode too!, the comedic twist made me lose it because it was Him the one involved in this and had a food stand for random reasons.....and the professor bought food there for random reasons too XD

Until the later seasons when they nerfed him.

@@xxlCortezTbf. He was never portrayed as that physically threatening other than Speed Demon. Even in the Classic Seasons he got beat up in the Beat-Alls. And doesn’t fight other than that.

When one is immortal and basically indestructible you don’t really need to fight

actually professors college roomie dick is. him actually treats the girls like ppl but dick only treated them like products & actually killed them

dude, speed demon downright scared me as a kid, especially that scene where the whole towns people surround the power puff girls saying it’s your fault in that monotone voice

It traumatised me as a kid

James Charles on red face

A lovechild between James Charles and Caitlyn Jenner.

I love how everyone just said “fuck it, he’s James Charles.”

Thank god it’s been cancelled now

Just look around. They are everywhere

Gets old after a while

Is this before or after the episode when they moved to Cityville?

@@SantaAzulCTZN That, I don't remember when that episode takes place, though if I recall right, it may have been a later episode in the series after Speed Demon. It's entirely possible that the episode could have taken placed before Speed Demon but aired after it, but who really knows? lol- (To be frankly honest actually, I forgot all about Cityville til you mentioned it--)

So HIM won...

@@yourmom9283 HIM truly won this time around...

Could you imagine if they had played a messed up slowed down version of the song at the end with the girls not turning up on the screen? That would have topped the episode off.

excellent analysis

Wow, this is a very good point that I didn’t notice until now

Damn... Eagle eyes

THAT'S WHY IT ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE HE TALKS SO FAST HOLY CRAP Thanks

Well I mean he is the enemy of your spul, what the heck is a spul, I meant soul

You're 100% he is a completely unforgettable character. Every time this show comes up in conversation, there's always someone who brings up HIM.

I refuse to believe it was anything OTHER than mind games

That's a pretty good theory in my opinion, I never considered that possibility. HIM is the master of psychological attacks. Thanks for watching, SkyDragonSlayer! I appreciate it.

That's what I'm thinking too. He saw the equation that miss Keen wrote down and decided to simulate a scenario where the end result actually happens after he heard that the girls were going to race.

It’s called reality warp.

oh yea this also makes sense as him wants the powerpuff girls to never relax never have time off always bound to townsville anytime they have the chance to leave they have that implanted memory of what happens if if they leave him is the master of mental abuse

and they raced off…

​@@purrlee2467 for 50 years...

FIFTY YEARS

That did get to me. Even as a kid I was thinking about how she must have felt. I was thinking about how cops or the fbi would question her like he says in the video.

For me, it was: "You did this. . . "

Remember the episode where she was fed-up with being treated like a baby and became ruthless af?........Bubbles after the talking dog asks for mercy after stepping on the grass: "Mercy is for the weak"

@@saparapatepeteyup

The best example I think is in the training simulator where towards the end of the episode she does better than the other girls by far

​@@saparapatepete Actually, the talking dog was beat up by Bubbles for obstructing traffic. The stepping on grass thing was done by a civilian when Bubbles beats up random civilians for minor offenses like littering or parking in no parking areas. But yeah, Bubbles is ruthless af.

I think he meant mentally, and in fact the occasions that show how ruthless and physically powerful she is... kinda also show her being more emotionally vulnerable

Great analysis!

@@liastorm795 Thanks!

You mean Pennywise is not just a clown that kills children?

@@vman103 my friend, he is an interdimensional Lovecraftian eldritch entity that survives off consumption.. he is not just a clown...

Him also does not literally eat his victims and instead uses his victims to spread his harmful influence upon the larger society akin to a virus. He may not be typically directly homicidal, but Him is still a danger to others as his influence brings ruin to all. He is classically Neutral Evil.

Like Desire in Sandman?

he's a devil...it's all about fun and games for him :D

Correction: out best voice actor is wendel bezerra

Some people just wants to watch the world burn.........

Then Him is straight out Satan if that’s the case. 😂

So somewhat like Golb from Adventure Time?

"Because they love each other unconditionally" (looks at the endings of "Powerprof.", "Moral Decay", and "Silent Treatment") They might have to start making conditions.

HIM is like a kid friendly version of Judge Holden from Blood Meridian the most evil villain in literature and so evil that many readers would rather saw him as the devil because no one want to believe such an evil human exist.

wdym he hates Professor, I mean he did lick him in Tough Love plus he tried to make him flapjacks and got upset when Professor left something tells me Him has a crush on Professor wouldn't be the last time a rosie cheeked demon lusted over a human...

I think him would actually be fine today. I think he falls into a similar space to the Disney Renaissance Villains where he is technically a caricature, but is so charismatic and confident in his evil that he'd loops back around to being something people kind of aspire to if that makes sense. Like, the level of confidence he has in himself despite being an obvious caricature is almost enviable. I also don't really recall him doing anything particularly offensive. Like, visually and personality-wise him is obviously a caricature, but I don't actually recall them really making any jokes at his expense.

@@pennyforyourthots It would still be seen as offensive by specific people for how him is written

@@lloydlandrum3040 sure, but I don't think this character "wouldn't slide" like is being suggested. I think most people, even those in the queer community, would be fine with it. Keep in mind, "him" is just a flamboyant drag queen, it's not really suggested anywhere (as far as I'm aware) that he's anything else. People might say certain moments haven't aged well, but would otherwise have wide acceptance. I think people have a tendency to drastically over exaggerate how many people actually get offended by these types of things.

@@pennyforyourthots I disagree as the loud minority would more then enough convince studios and companies a character like ''HIM'' is offensive and bad for very minor reasons as has happened with other cases of characters from past media thus I believe ''Him ''' wouldn't be feasable in modern day unless the cultural shift speeds up in not listening to the vocal minority that often are offended over nothing or making a mountain out of a molehill... In this scenario I have seen more and more Queer ,Gay ,Trans and BI people over the years try to say 'HIM'' is a offensive sterotype ..Not saying they can't be offended for rightful reasons but ''HIM ' is clearly based on a Drag Queen factor more then anything else which they seem to missing

​@@pennyforyourthots My thoughts on it would be the network thinking conservative parents would have a problem with Him because of the religious and flamboyant aspect and more progressive people would think the character is stereotypical and vilifying so I can see a network not add Him as to not ruffle anyone's feathers at all not that anyone would actually be offend just what the network would do.

apparently he was inspired by a character from that movie actually

I still want his boots.

Update: i have about 12 days before the boots arrive

​@@HansBelphegor 😅😅😂😂😂 Wow, you weren't playing around. When you get them, rock em sis. 🎉

​@@HansBelphegor please share the link 😂❤

He was very disturbing given that he could've given alot of Rogues gallery from Batman and Spiderman a run for their money.

The voice still creeps me out til this day

How did I not know there was an anime adaptation, that’s gotta be sick 🙀😭

@@rena4627 It is really great. You have to watch with the subs to really get into the show. The dubs don't do it justice.

@@rena4627 probably because it was made in 06, only had two seasons (well one I think with 52 episodes, and was barely broadcast in other countries. There are many reasons, but as someone who was lucky enough to catch it I recommend giving it a watch.

I agree. He saw what the girls were being taught that day on the blackboard and used it against them in the most nightmarish way possible.

wow

saturn, satan, lucifer, inanna, whatever you’d prefer to call him feeds off of negative energy like fear. makes sense he’d cause suffering to someone who characterized innocence and purity

@@Michael-lu2tz I just want to clarify that inanna and Saturn aren't the devil, they're different gods in different religions. Just wanted to make sure all was clear! :)

I never saw this episode 😮

​@@shadowdroid776God's in many different religions are actually related with each other, they have had many different names through the ages.

@@sir1junior depends on the religion, but in this case they're very different. Inanna is a mesopotamian goddess, Saturn in a roman god. By the time the Roman empire came to be, Mesopotamia was gone for a long time and the gods aren't related to one another excluding one, Venus. The roman gods and the greek gods are literally almost one for one because the Roman empire made that happen (they fucking loved the Greeks and wanted to emulate them, stole a lot of sculptures from them too), and that includes Aphrodite. Aphrodite came from a cult that originated outside of greece, and is connected to worshipping Astarte, who is actually Ishtar with a different name. They're connected 100%, which is cool! But for the concept of Inanna and Saturn being not just the same but also the Christian devil is not right. There's no other god in any religion that is connected to the Satan except retroactively, where Christians saw different gods as just Lucifer in disguise because false gods and what not. In reality, the Judeo Christian religions and the cults that branched off of it is the only place Satan subsides in. The pagan religions (aka the rest of the religions) don't have Lucifer.

I like this theory!

Wait, so is that why he has "Claus" ?! I've been wondering my whole life about the strange crab man

@@captainagony6691 OH MY GOD

@@matt_with_a_hat8530 My reaction exactly! I was like « Wait! Satan…Claws »?? It’s also a joke made in Yugioh where there is a card named « Santa Claws » and it is… a demon.

Santa literally means Saint, So saint claws

@Just Me Here I alwats though he was the devil/satan

I believe it's called "Power-noia"😰😰😓 I faintly remember that episode. I couldn't remember the rest because I was so damn scared that I had to turned off the TV 😭

Lol. I think it was actually a centipede not a spider, which I find scarier actually!

​@@philhenderson3516the bubbles night mare especially with that clown when he runs into the closet is hella creepy

@@philhenderson3516 Oh is that the one where he transforms into this Scorpion centipede thing? I remember it because I saw The Mummy Returns and he reminded of The Man Scorpion

@@dethbedsmolzwhent.t6498 Yup. That's the one

To me he didn’t need much screen time I think if he gets more screen time then ppl are gonna want backstories, who’s his parents and siblings and all those nonsense. Him is an great enigmatic character and if he gets more time on screen it will break the enigma

@@mkkkk7319 Hmm... point taken. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever expected much exposition from PPG, despite being a lore fanatic, but I'm sure others would.

It's probably better that he didn't get too much screen time. Because then he wouldn't be as much of a threat. Imagine if Thanos just showed up as the main antagonist every week instead of say Mojo Jojo? He should realistically be the most powerful villain in the series. The only times we ever even saw him lose. Was via a plot device and or plot armor. With what we saw a villain like Him shouldn't have been able to be beaten by just the Powerpuff girls. But the writers don't really have a lot of teams they can fall back on to gang up on Him like say Marvel or DC comics.

No, he had enough 😰

He was so evil, they could only display him in small doses

So you agree… ms bellum was having an affair with the mayor

Slade is a pedo

yeah i always thought slade was the best villain... teen titans.

​@@lurklingXloved how he used Terra to destroy them slowly

A villain through and through. Too bad, like all the villains were watered down later on... Thanks to our parents.

Also, like, on that note, you can look at the city of Townsville as their own personal prison. These 3 girls are basically confined to the city because if they ever leave HIM will take over. It's kind of mind blowing when you look at it that way. Thanks for watching, Roderick. I appreciate it :)

@@DuskTillShawn oh man that's even more dark and depressing when you add that too damn and yeah no problem dude

@@DuskTillShawn This is also why the scrapped CW reboot is terrifying too - the girls separated and ditched Townsville for their own selfish wants.

Thing is, HIM doesn't really want Townsville or the world. He wants to mess with the Powerpuff Girls. I think he either took over Townsville JUST to get to them when they returned, or the whole thing was an illusion in the first place

@@carrot708 oh ok , that does make sense

I've had true friends suddenly turn against me many times

@@bradyryan5105 My condolences😥

Even the Phone itself was pissed off at the Girls😂😂

@@timothyharris1125 Forgot about that part! That was pretty funny.

him diddle riddle wasnt like something from a nightmare

Not really it is an actual physical phenomenon. The girls presumably accelerated so fast and due to time dilation, time for them went slower than everyone elses. So 1 minute for them racing equalled 50 years for the rest of everybody. The weird thing is this is irreversible. Running back cannot undo it. Also, at that speed they should have turned into light because you know e=mc2.

@@kennythelenny6819 well yeah exactly, the fact that it’s irreversible makes me think it’s psychological

Him did it to torment them psychologically, with no reason other than because.

@@kennythelenny6819 As you said yourself, you can't go back in time by going backwards. It makes more sense that Him devised the whole thing as a form of psychological torture of the girls.

As for why? It's HIM. He does it just because he can.