Princess Morbucks

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Princess Morbucks

Princess Morbucks is a fictional character featured in the animated series The Powerpuff Girls. She has a reputation for being rebellious to the three Powerpuff Girls and their fans.

Princess is a spoiled, yet insecure and lonely, rich girl whose father gives her anything she wants without end. When she moved to Townsville and met the Powerpuff Girls (in her premiere episode Stuck Up, Up, and Away), she immediately wanted to become a superhero. But because she did not have any super powers or the intelligence to invent crime-fighting gadgets, she simply convinced her father to buy her things like rockets packs and a superhero suit.The Powerpuff Girls rejected her as a hero, and she has since tried to upstage them to become popular. Princess would even team up with the villains of Townsville to defeat the Powerpuff Girls. However, all she wants is to be the Girls' best friend.

In the episode "Boy Toys", upon seeing the RowdyRuff boys fight the Powerpuff Girls, she asks to join them, but is rejected for being a girl. She persuades the girls to let her help them defeat the Rowdyruff boys, but she doesn't get the results she wants. In this episode she is shown to have a warehouse containing a plane, boat, tank, and various weapons. When asked (by the Powerpuff Girls) how she acquired them, she replies "I made them! To destroy you, but that's not important right now -".

Princess was created as a humorous portrayal of a spoiled, corrupted version of the main character in the musical Annie. She is also based on Veruca Salt, hence her normal outfit and bratty attitude.

[edit] Trivia

Her name is obviously a play on Daddy Warbucks from Annie.
Her name is also a play on the phrase "more bucks", signifying her father's financial success.
Princess' name is on Santa Claus' permanent naughty list; despite this, her father says she is the sweetest child he ever had.
She was voiced by Jennifer Hale in the original English version. She also voices Mandy (a similarly spoiled character) and Sam from Totally Spies.
Vivian Hsu provides her voice in the Taiwanese dub.
When she came to Pokey Oaks on the second day of her tenure at school, a royal fanfare played and she appeared wearing a fur-lined cape, the same cape sometimes worn by Queen Elizabeth the Second of Great Britain.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Powerpuff Girls Z

Himeko (normal) with Sapphire in Powerpuff Girls Z

Princess-sama (villain) in Powerpuff Girls Z

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Unlike the original version, Princess, who was hit by one of the black lights, requires a transformation in order to activate her powers, similar to the Powerpuff Girls. In her case, the activation is made by the sound of her cat screeching, usually as a result of accidentally squeezing her tail. Despite retaining her spoiled attitude in her normal state, she is not a villain. These feeling become intensified when she transforms into a monster like the original version. In her normal state, she retains the hairstyle of the original, but sports a large afro when transformed. Her given name is Himeko, which means "princess child" in Japanese. Her last name Shirogane means "platinum" in Japanese. Platinum is a valuable, precious metal.

Spoilers end here.

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Episodes - The Powerpuff Girls Movie - Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z Professor Utonium - Mojo Jojo - Princess Morbucks - Rowdyruff Boys - Gangreen Gang Craig McCracken