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EDIT FOR PROPER CONTEXT: This is the trailer for the (thankfully) canned CW reboot of the Cartoon Network animated series The Powerpuff Girls. Warner Bros. took the original video down since this was posted, confirming its legitimacy.
I had not idea they got THE Patrick S. Tomlinson to consult for the writing.
 
Good riddance that the PowerPuff Girls live action is dead. Funnier that the original also punched the 2016 one in that Jellystone cartoon because Craig asked them to do that.

Craig really has gotten the last laugh.

As a side note, its really funny how WB is deleting all traces of this leak which just makes it look more validated and more people wanting to talk about it, great work doing the streisand effect.
 
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My wife loves the original Charmed series and watches it from time to time.
This is a plot from one of the later seasons.
I'm guessing they didn't do anything with this because it would have been too generic if they tried it the way it's depicted in the trailer.
Realistically you'd have to go way darker with this as a concept if you were gonna go this route, like Batman Begins. Instead this is aimless and could be easily rewritten to be anything if you removed the PPG from it.
 
I mean, this might sound like a stupid idea, but don't Warner Bros own DC Comics?

If they wanted to do a PowerPuff Girls reboot, why not just fold them into the DC Universe? If wouldn't take a lot of work to write them into it - you can literally just plug and play with their origin story into the pre-existing setting - and then you can have crossover episodes that'll get all the nerds online talking, where they meet Batman or have Bubbles go on a date with one of the Teen Titans or whateverthefuck.

I mean, you might raise an issue of tone or the comparative campiness of the PowerPuff Girls compared to other DC characters, but I would argue that most superhero shared universes are all over the place with regard to tone anyway. The DC Universe is already home to an entire city of talking gorillas and a man who can be defeated by the colour yellow.

They're apparently publishing a Harley Quinn fart fetish comic very soon, so it's not like they'd be lowering the tone of the brand or anything, either.
 
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I mean, this might sound like a stupid idea, but don't Warner Bros own DC Comics?

If they wanted to do a PowerPuff Girls reboot, why not just fold them into the DC Universe? If wouldn't take a lot of work to write them into it - you can literally just plug and play with their origin story into the pre-existing setting - and then you can have crossover episodes that'll get all the nerds online talking, where they meet Batman or have Bubbles go on a date with one of the Teen Titans or whateverthefuck.

I mean, you might raise an issue of tone or the comparative campiness of the PowerPuff Girls compared to other DC characters, but I would argue that most superhero shared universes are all over the place with regard to tone anyway. The DC Universe is already home to an entire city of talking gorillas and a man who can be defeated by the colour yellow.

They're apparently publishing a Harley Quinn fart fetish comic very soon, so it's not like they'd be lowering the tone of the brand or anything, either.
Well Craig did almost want to do a crossover with DC in the original show's run but was turned down

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As for why I don't think WB will ever do this, WB would probably not let the original people behind the show ever touch it again and they seem to see it as a face value girly brand like My Little Pony which I think because of how the 2016 reboot removed all the edge to it and made it have less action or spunk while the live action show that got cancelled seemed like it wanted to appeal to girls that are in their teens that grew up with the show.

With how executives of these major studios tending to be actual morons, this is very likely the case in how they have no idea what to do with it, especially with how many of them lack any creative bone in their body.
 
As for why I don't think WB will ever do this, WB would probably not let the original people behind the show ever touch it again and they seem to see it as a face value girly brand like My Little Pony which I think because of how the 2016 reboot removed all the edge to it and made it have less action or spunk while the live action show that got cancelled seemed like it wanted to appeal to girls that are in their teens that grew up with the show.
Try to fit the entirety of PPG into DC canon. Or even a fraction of it. With how convoluted the universe already is up the wazoo, the worst they get is becoming fangirls of Harley Quinn.
 
Try to fit the entirety of PPG into DC canon. Or even a fraction of it. With how convoluted the universe already is up the wazoo, the worst they get is becoming fangirls of Harley quinn


See if we were talking 90s tas mad love harley quinn, that would make sense. I could see that as part of that afformenentioned crossover Craig wanted to do be it in comic or toon form.


But unfortunately THAT version of harley is for all intents and purposes dead and buried. Instead it'd be 2016 ppgs being fangirls of 2015 onwards harley quinn. The deadpool ripoff who thinks "lol sex! lol pet poop funny! Lol I so wanna bone my bestie posion ivy!"

(No seriously all that happened in the Jimmy palmiotti/Amanda conner version of harley and was the basis for the God awful show)
 
Poor Craig. First, he had to live through the awful 2016 reboot, now this hyper-ironic current_year laughingstock. That man already perpetually looks like he's got one foot in the grave, he could certainly go without one of his creations getting bastardized again. I obviously have no proof for this, but I feel that he has some warm regards towards whoever cancelled the adaptation.
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You know, the more I think about media corporations and copyright, the more dreary the idea of giving up the product of your enthusiasm, creativity and passion to the corpo machine for them to turn into a bland, recyclable, endlessly milkable commodity feels. I can't call myself a fan of cartoons like Hazbin Hotel or Digital Circus, but if projects like them help pave the way for more professional indie animation (and art projects in general), then I'm all for it.
 
I have a list of old cartoons that I do kinda want to binge again but really can't remember their titles or I ain't even sure if they were even real to begin with.
- The first one is about a red haired kid and and a girl that talks with a whale that traveling trough the world to recover old stones to uncover an ancient city while an old guy chases them.
- Second one is about a group of children that search to stop some skull-guy person from summoning a lovecraftian horror monster and fight with small cubic stones with runes on them.
- Third one looked like it was late 2000s 3d and had a psychic girl rebelling against a group of armored elites lead by bald people on a floating island.
- I know this is the thread for western cartoons but I also had memories of this was this dark and depressing spin on magical girls. It's not madoka magica, tho it's was similar, I guess? I genuinely struggle to remember anything about this one, aside of this bare description of it. Probably tho seeing any screeshot of it would help me remember it.
- Finally, I have one last to the list that I remember being unable to see past a certain episode because italy is ass when it comes to cartoons, it was a very anime-looking series about earth taking place to a series of races in order to have a wish fullfilled, it looked very anime-like and their spaceship used for the race had a rabbit portrayed on it. Also there was an alien elf with a bow.
Can anyone help me find the titles of these?
 
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- The first one is about a red haired kid and and a girl that talks with a whale that traveling trough the world to recover old stones to uncover an ancient city while an old guy chases them.
might it be this?
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- Second one is about a group of children that search to stop some skull-guy person from summoning a lovecraftian horror monster and fight with small cubic stones with runes on them.
maybe this?
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- Third one looked like it was late 2000s 3d and had a psychic girl rebelling against a group of armored elites lead by bald people on a floating island.
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Finally, I have one last to the list that I remember being unable to see past a certain episode because italy is ass when it comes to cartoons, it was a very anime-looking series about earth taking place to a series of races in order to have a wish fullfilled, it looked very anime-like and their spaceship used for the race had a rabbit portrayed on it. Also there was an alien elf with a bow.
I know for a fact this one is
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