The Beginning Of Starpuff, Part 1

**The Beginning Of Starpuff, Part 1** is the first episode of *The Starpuff Kids* series, and the first overall episode of the series. It is the first half of a two-part episode. It is notable of being the first appearance of the Starpuff Kids, the main antagonist Harlequin, and many other characters.

## Synopsis

Starlight Town is being terrorized by many monsters. While attempting to create the "perfect human", Doctor Plasmo ends up creating the Starpuff Kids: Scarlet, Tangelo, Canary, Parakeet, Sapphire, and Twilight. During a game of tag, their powers cause havoc all over Starlight Town. During their game, Harlequin shows up and kidnaps Mayor Bleak, Helen, and Doctor Plasmo, prompting the Kids to go after him.

## Characters

* Scarlet (debut)
* Tangelo (debut)
* Canary (debut)
* Parakeet (debut)
* Sapphire (debut)
* Twilight (debut)
* Doctor Damien Plasmo (debut)
* Helen Plasmo (debut)
* Harlequin (debut)
* Big Bad Army monsters (debut)
	+ Comikins (debut)
	+ Furries (debut)
* Mayor Bleak (debut)
* Lady Martha (debut)
* Ms. Milly (debut)
* Nico Miller (debut/has no lines)
* Marie Campbell (debut)
* Tommy Caldwell (debut)
* Various Starlight Town residents
* Various Starlfield Elementary students/staff

## Episode summary

The episode begins in Starlight Town at night, where a wedding is being held. Mayor Bleak is about to officially announce Doctor Damien Plasmo and Helen Plasmo husband and wife, when an army of monsters of various sizes comes to wreck the wedding. After sharing a kiss, Dr. Plasmo and Helen quickly leave the party and take a car ride back to their home for safety. However, some of the monsters followed them home and started wrecking the place. Dr. Plasmo and Helen make their way to the laboratory in the basement, where they watch in horror as a monster consistently and ruthlessly knocks objects around, one of them being a large beaker labeled "Chemical X". The contents of the beaker spilled into a large pot with six stuffed animals sitting inside. Dr. Plasmo and Helen could only watch in horror as the concoction glows an eerie blue and then explodes.

When the explosion clears, Dr. Plasmo and Helen regain their composure and are astounded to find six human-like children with big, round eyes and different hair colors. Some time during the next week, Dr. Plasmo and Helen narrate to the viewers about the children and ways they've gotten to know them. The orange-haired book-loving female in the red dress is given the name Scarlet due to red being Helen's favorite color and that it reminded her of roses, which are her favorite flowers. The blonde boy in the orange overalls, who likes to fix things, is given the name Tangelo due to him adoring the taste of the couple's tangelo fruits. The female in yellow with the brown pigtails, Canary, is named after Dr. Plasmo's favorite type of birds and the couple notes that she likes drawing and coloring. Later, while making a cake, Helen receives help from the red-haired boy in green - Parakeet - who Dr. Plasmo named after his very hyperactive pet budgie when he was a child, and that he likes green parakeets the most. The blonde girl in blue - Sapphire - is named after Helen's dearly departed cousin and that she shares most of her traits with her cousin: fierceness and displaying a "tough girl" attitude". Lastly, the couple decided to name the stoic black-haired boy in purple Twilight due to his love for nighttime and they express how they are worried about him always sitting outside every night.

For the next few days, Dr. Plasmo and Helen spend time with the kids and state that they wouldn't trade them for anything else in the world. However, the one thing about them the couple is most worried about is their superpowers (ex: flying, shooting lasers from their eyes, etc). One day, they both decided that the kids should keep their powers a secret, which has the kids asking why they need to do that. Helen states that they need to be like everyone else in order to fit in. Scarlet says that their powers are nothing to be ashamed of and that they make them special. Dr. Plasmo agrees with her that everyone is special, prompting Sapphire to respond with a bitter, "by 'everyone', you mean 'no one'." While Dr. Plasmo cuts Parakeet's meat, Helen states that the kids have school tomorrow, but they already have their backpacks before she finishes speaking and say that they're ready to go.

Helen takes the kids to Starfield Elementary, where Canary admires the drawings that are mounted on the wall in the hallway. She holds her stuffed bumblebee, Lola, close to her and worries that their classmates won't like them. Helen says that the first day of school can be scary for children, but assures them that they will be fine once they meet their teacher. In one classroom, they are greeted by their teacher Ms. Milly, who turns out to be very friendly and welcoming to the kids. One of their classmates invites them to play with them. Helen expresses her worry to Ms. Milly about how she and Dr. Plasmo are first-time parents and says that Scarlet and her siblings are special. Ms. Milly assures her that they will be okay and Helen bids the kids farewell before leaving. Several classmates want their new students to sit next to them, with one boy in particular - Tommy Caldwell - wanting Sapphire to sit next to him. Ms. Milly says that the new students can sit in the middle so that they'll be next to everyone, which makes the rest of the children happy.

Later that day, Dr. Plasmo comes to see his kids and worries if they are behaving themselves. Ms. Milly responds by saying that they are very well-behaved, much to his relief. At recess, Parakeet plays hopscotch while his siblings watch. Tommy comes up to Nico Miller and tags him, prompting the game of tag to begin. Scarlet and her siblings, who are still fairly new to a lot of things, believe Nico is being shunned from the other kids. Marie Campbell comes over to tag Parakeet, but he thinks he's being "cursed", so Tommy had to come over and explain to Parakeet and his siblings how to play tag. Marie tags Sapphire, prompting her to target her siblings and chase them around while the other kids watch. The six children begin to run faster until Sapphire shoves Parakeet with full force into the school, creating a large hole in the wall. Parakeet comes out of the rubble unharmed and chases after his siblings, even having to smash through a house in order to get to them. Their game of tag eventually reaches Starlight Town, where they unintentionally cause destruction as they go, while Dr. Plasmo and Helen take off in their car after them with the intent of trying to get them to stop.

Scarlet, Tangelo, Canary, Parakeet, Sapphire, and Twilight continue their game of tag, still unaware of the chaos they caused due to their powers. They use their powers to zip around buildings, find one of their siblings if they are hiding somewhere, all while Dr. Plasmo and Helen try to catch up to them in their car. Scarlet tags Canary near a subway, prompting Canary to chase after her siblings. She bumps into a glass globe, causing it to fall and roll into several buildings. While her siblings smash through several buildings to get away from her, Canary manages to tag Twilight, who in turn tags Sapphire shortly afterwards. Sapphire flies into a rampage in order to pursue her siblings, who decide to hide on top of one building. Sapphire tags both Tangelo and Twilight, which creates a bit of an argument between the six. Meanwhile, Mayor Bleak is astounded at the amount of destruction and his wife Lady Martha says they should take action. The kids continue to roll over each other until they crash into Mayor Bleak outside of town hall, creating a massive explosion.

Dr. Plasmo and Helen finally catch up to their children and the camera moves out to show the true extent of destruction. Dr. Plasmo and Helen scold their children for not keeping their powers a secret, but before they get any further, they, along with Mayor Bleak, are captured by three mechanical claws from a giant UFO-like structure in the sky. Piloting it is the evil tyrant Harlequin, who jokingly asks the folks of Starlight Town if they miss him since they haven't seen him in a while. Sapphire attempts to charge at him, but Tangelo holds her back. Harlequin proceeds to send out an army of Comikins and Furries to attack the townsfolk, then announces that he will rule the Starshine Kingdom before disappearing through an ominous-looking portal. Sapphire breaks away from Tangelo's grip and flies in after Harlequin. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as the six children are being taken through the portal.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of the series.
* This is the first episode to have a multicolored title card.
* This episode introduces the main characters, several Ghastlies, and the main antagonists
* This is the first two-part episode of the series.
* Since this is the first episode produced, along with "The Beginning Of Starpuff, Part 2", the animation is different than that of the rest of the series. Examples include Canary's hair being a slightly lighter shade of brown, Scarlet's shoes being a lighter shade of magenta, Sapphire's dress being a slightly more desaturated shade of blue, and Mayor Bleak's hair color being a darker shade of purple, and Dr. Plasmo's hair being a much darker shade of brown.
* This two-part episode plays out very similarly to the *Powerpuff Girls Movie*.