The Gangreen Gang

The Gang

## Members

### Ace

**Ace D. Copular** is the Gang's leader, and a mean-spirited, bullying, greedy opportunistic rogue. Ace's height is 6'1".

He sports a long, straight, greasy, slick-back hairdo, a scraggly mustache, an orange, cobalt-blue vest-jacket, a pair of black shades, and even fangs. He looks somewhat vampiric. When he speaks, he sounds like the typical juvenile delinquent, mean and disrespectful. He has a nasally Italian New Yorker accent. As the Gang's smartest member, Ace is the instigator of most of their antisocial activities, and he does possess a certain charismatic charm that allows him to sweet-talk people who ought to know better, such as Ms. Keane and even Buttercup in the episode Buttercrush. In Power Lunch, Ace has Cryokinesis, the ability to generate ice and snow (it was gained from eating Popsicles and Slurpees), similar to Blossom's ice breath, but a lot more powerful. In the anime, he uses cards as weapons hurling them at his opponents. He's considered to be the best looking one of the gang. In the book, "Buttercup and the Mind-Reading Juice", it's revealed that he is aquaphobic, although in Powerpuff Girls Z episode 50, ("Him's Big Plan: Part 2"), he's seen sitting in a hot tub. Ace's of Italian descent.

### Snake

**Snake** is a slippery, serpentine character who appears very sycophantic with a forked tongue, a long, sharply pointed nose, pink slitted eyes, black lips, a skinny body, a Kangol hat turned backward, an always pronounced hiss, and a snake-like voice. He's the Gang's second-in-command, but mostly this means that he is reduced to a yes-man to Ace. He does have some personality of his own, but it is usually silenced due to Ace punching him when he speaks out of line. This could imply that Snake is more loyal to his friend Ace than he is independently evil, which makes sense since he can be quite insecure. It's revealed in **Schoolhouse Rocked** that his real name's **Sanford D. Ingleberry**. In **Power Lunch**, his superpower's elasticity, the ability to stretch himself (it was gained from chewing gumballs). In the Powerpuff Girls Z episodes, Snake is known as Znake (Ivy in English) and possesses the ability to put people to sleep by rubbing their legs penetrating their nerve endings although he has some problems with Buttercup as she has a lot of protein in her fibers. In the English dub of Powerpuff Girls Z, Ivy is a female as a scene would be considered unsuitable. Ivy continued to be female. Due to his face being pointed, he is always shown facing sideways. In the book "Smashing Lumpkins" it is revealed that he weighs ninety pounds.

### Grubber

**Grubber** is the Gang's most physically grotesque member-untidy hair, enormous chin, ragged, grubby clothes, a long tongue hanging out, and protruding eyes, resembling an Ed, "Big Daddy", Roth cartoon and looks as if he has been living in a cave all his life. He also appears to be mostly mute, communicating instead through blowing a raspberry. However, he can occasionally demonstrate unexpected talents, such as playing the violin, speaking eloquently, or performing impersonations (at first, they were so obvious it was a wonder how he fooled anyone, but later he was able to do them perfectly). In **Power Lunch**, he can do loud, supersonic belches (it was gained from drinking fizzy beverages). In the anime, he has the ability to morph into anyone he wants (although he still retains green skin and purple eyes.)

### Big Billy

**Big Billy** is a hulking, fat cyclops with a shock of red hair covering the top half of his face with a single big blue eye underneath. Billy acts as the Gang's muscle. Big Billy's height is 6'11" tall.

Big Billy weighs 1014.1 pounds. Though he does at times display a childlike innocence, he mostly just does the bidding of his more savvy and vindictive friends. In the episode **Schoolhouse Rocked**, it is revealed that his real name's **William W. Williams** and that he is a Cyclops. Big Billy loves to eat and will gobble more junk than the rest of the gang. In **Slave the Day**, he was saved by the Powerpuff Girls and began following them everywhere out of sheer gratitude, but eventually, he became more of a hindrance than a help. He's the same age as Snake and Grubber, the middle-aged members of the Gang. In **Power Lunch**, he's just a rock (it was gained from eating hard candy). In the anime, he possesses super strength (although he's not as strong as Buttercup as he requires both hands to lift a car and she can lift the Professor's van with only one hand).

### Lil’ Arturo

**Lil' Arturo** is a malevolent Mexican dwarf with straight hair swept forward over one eye who looks as if he just jumped out of a Picasso painting, Lil' Arturo seems to take the most amusement from the Gang's activities. He appears to be a reference to the 1970 George Akiyama manga, "Zeni Geba,", and he sounds very much like Senor Wences. Lil' Arturo carries around a switchblade-style comb he refers to as, "Maria Conchita Teresa Rosalita." He has a rather prominent underbite. His full name is **Arturo de la Guerra**. ('De la Guerra' is Spanish for "of War." This could imply that, since, 'Arturo', is so close to the word "Art" and the equivalent Spanish word, "Arte,". his name may be a reference to Sun Tzu's *The Art of War*.) In **Power Lunch**, his superpower is super speed (it was gained from drinking coffee). He possesses this ability as well in the anime but he's not very good at using his powers. His accent had to be changed in later episodes because the producers feared complaints of Latino stereotypes.