The Rowdyruff Boys

The Boys

**Rowdyruff Boys** (names **Brick**, **Boomer** and **Butch**) are major antagonists in the *Powerpuff Girls* franchise. They are the male but wicked counterparts of The Powerpuff Girls created by Mojo Jojo. They were enhanced by HIM. Although they are have powers stronger and better than the girls, they are very easily targeted weaknesses. Eventually, these ruffian kids made their lives' mission to kill (not just to defeat) the Powerpuff Girls. They were created via flushing arm pit hair, snails, and a dog tail down a prison toilet.

* **Note**: The Rowdyruff Boys aren't killed in this timeline, therefore appear in more episodes.

## Episode Appearances

* The Rowdyruff Boys
* Schoolhouse Rocked
* Birthday Bash
* Daylight Savings (cameo)
* Cootie Gras
* Bought and Scold (cameo)
* Moral Decay
* Divide and Conquer (cameo)
* All Chalked Up (cameo on the playground)
* Film Flam (cameo)
* Forced Kin
* Shotgun Wedding (cameo)
* The Boys are Back in Town
* See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey
* Pee Pee G's
* Boy Toys
* City of Clipsville (Cameo as teenagers)
* Bubble Boy
* A Documentary (Cameo)
* Girls Gone Mild (Cameo)
* Bang For Your Buck
* Live & Let Dynamo (cameo)
* Oops, I Did It Again (Cameo as Vile-of-the-Wild Boys)
* A Made Up Story (cameo)
* Custody Battle
* Sun Scream
* Mizzen in Action
* Roughing It Up (cameo)
* The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!

## Members

### Brick

**Brick**, nicknamed the **Master Masher, King of Crushing, The Duke of Destruction, Reigning World Champeen ,** or **The Bludgeoner**, is the red eyed, redheaded and long-haired leader of the Rowdyruff Boys. He has a red hat and is the bossy, stuck up member of the team, as well as the brainiest out of all the Rowdyruff Boys, all of which is similar to Blossom, the leader of the Powerpuff Girls. Violent and cocky, his hatred for Blossom is what spurs Brick on throughout the show. In his first fight with Blossom, he mocked her repeatedly, calling her a sissy and expecting her to cry in pain when she gets hit. His main ingredient is **Puppy Dog Tail**

### Boomer

**Boomer**, nicknamed the **Dumber Than The Dumbest**, is also sly and cool. He was agreeable as he had followed orders with no retorts or delays as well as had agreed when butch stated about having burritos for lunch, except when the boys triple punch the girls after catching the vehicles, as he stated he had hit them harder. He was also corrective as when he corrects Mojo that they are not babies. Boomer is clumsy, childish, naive, slightly dimwitted (but not stupid), and rude,His official special power is lightning control. Like his brothers, he is also sly and cool. His main ingredient is **Snips (Arm pit hair)**

### Butch

**Butch**, nicknamed the **Baron of Berserk** is a green eyed, black-haired tough boy, the middle brother, and sociopath. He is reckless and enjoys fighting more than anything else, like Buttercup. Butch is mostly silent was calmer, cooler, and more conformed, and often silent as he didn’t open his mouth while Brick and Boomer were agreeing with Mojo. He did not do anything except what his brothers were doing such as screaming after crashing into the pavement. He did however make a joke about burritos they apparently had, he and his brother pranked Mojo by pouring what is assumed to be Gatorade on him. Just like Buttercup, He is the group's tough member and is easily enraged. Sometimes this, and his aggression, get the better of him, making him a little reckless and stubborn. His special power is creating energy shields. His main ingredient is **Snails**.

### Buddy

**Buddy**, nicknamed the **Strong Anchor**, is sort of reckless and has no cautions for himself or anyoneelse. He doesn’t like to listen to other people and likes to do things his way. He is the male version of Bunny. He was made by Mojo Jojo to help the Rowdyruff Boys defeat the Powerpuff Girls. He also lacks any weaknesses that his brothers possess, excluding the Antidote X formula.

### Bully

Bully, nicknamed the **Baddest Boy** is a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable. He acts as a tyrant to others, except for his brothers. While he likes to portray himself as a strong bully, he respects animals and doesn’t like to harm them. He is the male version of Bullet. He was made by Mojo Jojo to help the Rowdyruff Boys defeat the Powerpuff Girls. He also lacks any weaknesses that his brothers possess, excluding the Antidote X formula.

### Blizzard

Blizzard, nicknamed **The Doomsday** is a person who can’t keep his temper under control. He honestly enjoys expressing his emotions in an evil way, like in a way to Bliss. He is Bliss’s male counterpart and was made by Mojo Jojo to help the Rowdyruff Boys defeat the Powerpuff Girls. He also lacks any weaknesses that his brothers possess, excluding the Antidote X formula.

### Beau

Beau, nicknamed the **Daredevil**, acts like some sort of daredevil for the Rowdyruff Boys. He always enjoys taking risks and doesn’t care if he gets badly injured as he thinks “it’s part of the game”. He also likes playing sports like basketball and soccer. He is incredibly uncaring and destructive. He is even shown to be extremely naive and gullible.

## Powers

The Rowdyruff Boys have many powers and abilities that they all share, including:

* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Speed**
* **Superhuman Durability**
* **Superhuman Stamina**
* **Energy Tracing**
	+ (Red for Brick, blue for Boomer, green for Butch, purple for Buddy, brown for Bull, purple for Blizzard, white for Beau)
* **Flight**
* **Heat Vision**
	+ (colored red)
* **Ability to breathe and survive in space**
* **Energy projection**
	+ in their respective colors
* **Super senses**
	+ smelling, sight and hearing
* **Night Vision**
* **Tornado Generation**
	+ in their respective colors
* **Fire generation**
	+ (in their respective colors) {Brick and Boomer can generate fire through their mouth}
* **X-ray vision**
* **Limited Invulnerability**
* **Immunity to extreme cold and heat**
* **Supersonic screams, waves and bursts**
* **Sonic Booms**
* **Teleportation over short distances**
* **Super strength punch**
* **Inferno**
	+ Spontaneously catch on fire.
* **Copy Cat:**
	+ multiply.
* **Aqua Velvie:**
	+ Transforming into a puddle of water.
* **Atomic snot rocket:**
	+ A snore combined spit which causes an explosion.
* **Itsy Bitsy:**
	+ Shrinking to microscopic size
* **Electric Boogaloo force field:**
	+ intensive break-dancing which generates a highly output energy force field (in their respective colors).
* **Three-Card Puffy:**
	+ a card trick
* **Optomertron**
* **The Penny Pincher**
* **Call of the Wild**
	+ Imitating the roar from a beast
* **The Matrix:**
	+ imitating movement performed by the character "Neo" from the movie "the Matrix"

## Combo Moves

* **Icey Fiery Wolf**
	+ The boys combine to create a dog of pure water
* **Starburst Ray:**
	+ A triple attack from side to side and front.
* Morphing into a ball that can be used for either defensive or offensive purposes.
* **Spinning Daze**
	+ A twister of light that can catch and move even the heaviest of objects.
* **Cherry Bomb**
	+ They do a series of poses, hold their hands, and a red and white energy bubble surrounds them, along with the coming down to earth quickly, followed by a large fuse and explosion.
* **2-Tornado**
	+ Boomer and Brick
	+ Brick and Butch
* **Wing Plan R:**
	+ Brick’s hat, Butch’s belt, and Boomer’s arms positioned to hold the belt while launch.
* **Fast Ball Special**
	+ Boomer' roll in the shape of a ball and Brick or Butch throws him.
* **Fireball:**
	+ Brick uses his unique Fire Breath ability on Butch’s hands, then Butch throws the amazingly hot flames at an opponent.
* **Cosmic Cannon Ball:**
	+ The boys run in space and "fall", approaching each-other, and combining to form a ball.
* **Ballistic Barrage:**
	+ The boys run towards their opponent, jump off any nearby walls, fly into the air, and dive down delivering punches to their opponent until they’re drilled into the ground.
* **P-Bomb:**
	+ They connect together and outlines in blue, green, and red come out like incredibly strong hypersonic waves.
* **Attack Pattern Alpha Omega Atari**
* **Atomic Twister:**
	+ Creates an unusually strong and destructive tornado.
* **Super-Spin:**
	+ The boys' discovered this new and unique ability while they were "mixed up."
* **Reflect Pattern Omega**
* **Mega Blast Beam:**
	+ It generates a huge, focused beam of pure energy at the target.

## Main Abilities

Aside from having the same powers that the girls have, the Rowdyruff Boys, have special abilities of their very own; such as:

* **Ballistic Barrage:** Seen in “The Rowdyruff Boys”, the boys run towards their opponent, jump off any nearby walls, fly into the air, and dive down while delivering punches to their opponent until they’re drilled into the ground.
* **Growing**: Whenever the boys get kissed by the girls, they grow bigger, stronger, tougher, more dangerous and more powerful. This was only used once in "The Boys are Back in Town" and it will most likely never be used again because all the Powerpuff Girls need to do is not kiss them again.
* **Afterburner**: The boys can emit thick, toxic gas through their farts which increases their speed. It can also temporarily blind and suffocate the girls, as seen in their self-titled debut episode. In order to use this ability, they must have inhaled Burritos or a similar substance of the same magnitude.
* **Sonic Pulse Wave**: As seen in *"The Boys Are Back In Town"*, the boys can produce a hypersonic wave that can knock the girls away.
* **Rowdyruff Megablast**: As seen in their return episode, the boys can produce an energy blast by creating a whirlpool of pure energy. the girls can do this too but while the boy's energy is bright green, the girls' energy is bright blue.
* **Rowdyruff Mega Roar:** All three boys roar and cause massive earthquakes on the ground and somehow in the air. Strong enough to make the entire planet shake.

## Weaknesses

The Rowdyruff Boys have several significant weaknesses that they all share. Due to the boys' being having a higher tolerance for damage than the girls, they are almost impossible to defeat in head-on combat, this is proven in their first encounter where they were the only ones that could defeat the Powerpuff girls in a fair fight, these weaknesses must constantly be exploited by the Powerpuff Girls.

* **Clumsy & Gullible**: Sometimes during battle, the boys can be clumsy (awkward in movement or in handling things/done awkwardly or without skill) and gullible (easily able to trick or fool)
* **Girl Kisses/Cooties:** While they have superpowers, the Rowdyruff Boys are still little boys and fear girl kisses due to cooties. If the girls do land a kiss on the boys, then it will cause them to become dizzy and paralyzed long enough for the girls to defeat them. They are immune to girl kisses thanks to HIM’s anti-cootie vaccination in “The Boys are back in Town”
* **Threatening of Masculinity:** While it doesn't have the same effect on the Boys as the kisses did, this is undoubtedly another big weakness. Due to their enormous size and immunity to their previous weakness in "The Boys are Back in Town", they were nearly unstoppable. However, after Buttercup forces Butch to bite his tongue, he begins to shrink. Blossom then deduces that their size will diminish whenever their masculinity was threatened. With that, the girls emasculate the boys from pulling down their pants to treating them like babies. It is unknown if this weakness still exists.
* **Love of Destruction:** In the episode "Boy Toys", the Powerpuff Girls agree to form an alliance with Princess to use her weapons to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys. The girls don't actually cause any harm to the boys even though they aim their weapons at them, (a tank, plane, and boat.) The boys are awed at how much destruction the weapons cause and soon take advantage of each of them. The boys aim the weapons at each other and end up enjoying playing with them so much that their own laughter subdued them. (But they were not really defeated, they just could not move because they had so much fun.)
* **Individuality:** If the boys or girls are separated, they are easily defeated. All three of the girls can only work together and all 3 of the boys can only work together or else they will never be able to fight and win. This is shown when Boomer is ordered by Brick to get sweets. The Powerpuff Girls spot him after stealing sweets from another boy and the three girls easily defeat Boomer. His injuries included a black eye, missing teeth, messy hair, and torn clothes.
* **Antidote X:** Presumably, the Rowdyruff Boys share the same weakness to Antidote X that the girls have, as they were also created using Chemical X.

## Trivia

* Dispite their lack of appearances, they are the most loved and popular villains by fans.
* They are the only villains that are never defeated by physical combact by The Powerpuff Girls
* The personalities of the RowdyRuff boys are like meaner versions of PowerPuff Girls.
	+ Brick's bossiness is equivalent to Blossom's leadership.
	+ Boomer's stupidity is equivalent to Bubbles' baby-like sweetness.
	+ Butch's hyperactive, erratic violent behavior is equivalent to Buttercup's toughness and strong fighting skills.

* The Powerpuff Girls 10th anniversary countdown revealed The Rowdyruff Boys to be number 2 of the worst villains, only behind Mojo Jojo.
* Many fans wrote letters to Craig McCracken telling him they would like to see episodes in which they and the Powerpuff Girls got paired up as couples. It might be possible he made the clip in The City of Clipsville (in which they and the Powerpuff Girls were teenagers and fell in love) in response to them and confirmed it.
* The Rowdyruff Boys do not appear to consider other villains as either comrades or competition. In "Bubble Boy", they remorselessly take over Fuzzy Lumpkins' cabin, leaving him tied up in a corner, and in "Boys Toys", they reject Princess' offer of alliance on account of her being a girl. In "Custody Battle", they show little to no respect towards HIM or Mojo Jojo. This shows that the boys don't care about anyone but themselves.
* Both Brick and Boomer were voiced by Rob Paulsen, who is famous for playing Raphael, Yakko, and Pinky, while Butch was voiced by Roger L. Jackson, who portrayed Mojo Jojo, the boys' original creator.
* An interesting note is that in their original appearance, when the boys fight the girls they are not shown to attack a specific Powerpuff, as much as the one closest to them. Whereas in "The Boys are Back in Town," they are shown to attack their counterparts more specifically. This is probably due to the fact that after their first encounter, in which each Powerpuff girl kissed their counterpart (Blossom - Brick, Bubbles - Boomer, Buttercup - Butch) and now the boys a specific grudge against said counterparts and possible hate them slightly more than they hate the rest of the Powerpuff Girls.
* The Rowdyruff Boys are unlockable characters to play in two of the three games of The Powerpuff Girls video games for the Game Boy Color when you input a special code. The games include *Bad Mojo Jojo*, and *Battle Him*. They do make an appearance in *Paint the Townsville Green*, but are unplayable. The Rowdyruff Boys appear as alternate costumes for all three of the Powerpuff Girls in *Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL?*
* *They seem to be similar to the Kanker Sisters;*
	+ *Both sides are siblings who crave destruction.*
	+ *They act as the opposite counterparts of the Powerpuff Girls and the Eds.*
	+ *They are the opposite-sex evil counterparts of the Powerpuff Girls and the Eds.*
	+ *Brick and Lee Kanker are red-headed leaders.*
	+ *Boomer and May are the blonde dummies of their own factions.*
	+ *The differences are that the Rowdyruff Boys want to destroy the Powerpuff Girls while the Kankers are obsessed of making Ed, Edd n Eddy their's.*
	+ *Butch and Marie Kanker don't have any similar traits to each other.*
* Despite never appearing again after Custody Battle, they still appeared in the Powerpuff Girls DC comics, so it’s safe to assure that they never left Townsville or was never killed off-screen.