Professor Utonium

**Professor Utonium** is one of the main supporting characters in the PPG series. He is the creator and father of the Powerpuff Girls.

## Professor Antonio Utonium

* 1998
* 2016

### Nickname(s)

* Dad (the PPGs)
* Mr. Utonium (Ms. Keane)
* Prof. Utonium
* Professor U.

## Traits

### Eyes

* Black
* Blue (once only)

## Professional Status

### Occupation(s)

* Professor
* Father

## Personal Status

### Family

* Eugene Utonium (brother)
* Blossom (daughter)
* Bubbles (daughter)
* Buttercup (daughter)
* Bunny (youngest daughter/surrogate granddaughter; deceased)
* Bliss (eldest daughter; *The Powerpuff Girls (2016)* only)

## Appearance

Professor Utonium is an overall ”square” and tall man who has a rectangular shaped head with carefully parted black hair and thick eyebrows. He is usually portrayed with black eyes, though in the episode, “Mr. Mojo’s Rising” he is seen with blue eyes in one scene. Professor Utonium often wears a white lab coat which has a pocket with pens in it, over a white shirt with a black tie. He also wears a pair of black pants and black shoes.

In *The Powerpuff Girls (2016)* series, his appearance and attire remains mostly the same, except for the art style, which changes his overall appearance to seem more “round” than square.

## Personality

Professor Utonium introduces himself as "Professor - Professor Utonium" in the *Powerpuff Girls Movie*.

He's overprotective of the Girls. He is a very affectionate and supportive father, whose pep talks often bring the girls around when they are discouraged. While he is sometimes portrayed as rather skittish, he can be firm with the girls when he needs to be, particularly when they were falling asleep in school.

Utonium is a keen golfer. His most successful inventions are those that he makes by accident - such as the Powerpuff Girls themselves, or the containment device seen in "Bubble Boy" (he says of it: "Once again, I have no idea what I did!"). Most inventions he creates on purpose usually don't work or have some great flaw. This extends to his cooking skills as well, the chilli he made for the Townsville cook-off one year resulted in a hazmat team bordering off the house.

He also doesn't like liver and onions, and neither do The Powerpuff Girls. He still however lies that he likes them to have the girls think he's a mature adult. This is hinted at in "A Very Special Blossom" and "Lying Around the House." He has a predilection for lying and whenever he lies it backfires on him, such as when he kept lying to the Girls he had a lot of work to do even though he had free time to watch a sports game.

Professor Utonium is also unlucky in love, if his relationships with Sedusa, Ms. Keane and Ms. Bellum are any indication. Sedusa wormed her way into the family circle, so that she could keep the Powerpuff Girls from interfering with her crime sprees. Ms. Keane, on the other hand, didn't like nor understand his aversion to cats; a blatant reference to "Cat Man Do." He was also *would-be* husband of Ms. Bellum.

In "Criss Cross Crisis," he swapped bodies with Buttercup.

In the episode "Get Back Jojo," it's revealed that he went to elementary school with Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane during the 1950s.

## Likes & Dislikes

### Likes

* Science
* Ms. Keane
* Blossom
* Buttercup
* Bubbles
* Mayor
* Ms. Sara Bellum
* Golf and anything to do with it
* Inventions
* The City of Townsville
* Pancakes
* Silent movies
* Ima Goodlady (he didn't know it was Sedusa in disguise)
* Acting like a jerk (in his childhood)

### Dislikes

* Liver and Onions
* Sedusa
* Mojo Jojo
* The Powerpuff Girls getting hurt
* Profanity
* The Town of Citiesville
* Cats (After "Cat Man Do")
* HIM
* Peas (in "Supper Villain")
* Parent Teacher Conferences
* Spiders
* Fuzzy Lumpkins
* The Run-of-the-Mill Girls
* When the Mayor acts like a baby
* Wrestling (shown in Impeach Fuzz.)
* Destroying his creations

## Creations/Inventions

* The Powerpuff Girls
* Dynamo (Uh-Oh, Dynamo, Live and Let Dynamo)
* Time Portal (Get Back Jojo)
* Machine that caused the everyone in Townsville to switch bodies (Criss Cross Crisis)
* Containment Ray (Bubble Boy)
* Antidote X(The Powerpuff Girls Movie)

## Trivia

* The voice of the Professor who is currently voiced by Tom Kane is based on the voice of veteran voice actor Gary Owens.
* The Professor was inspired by J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
* In the promo Whoopass Stew episode, he looked like an older version of Dexter from *Dexter's Laboratory* without hair.
* While the real last name of the Powerpuff Girls was never revealed on the show, it can be assumed that "Utonium" is their surname since the Professor *is* technically their dad.
	+ One thing that would indicate that Utonium is the girls' last name is when the Professor said, "We're Utoniums." in "Roughing It Up" when the girls got mad at Fuzzy Lumpkins and his three nephews.
* His physical appearance resembles that of Samurai Jack.
* It was revealed in "Uh-Oh, Dynamo" that the Professor is left-handed.