Jo

**Jo**

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**Jo** is a main character of *Kid Cosmic*.

## Official Description

Jo is a member of the Local heroes. Like most teenagers, she daydreams of seeing the world but is stuck waitressing at her mom's diner in the middle of nowhere. On the surface, Jo may come off like an angsty teen, but the responsibility she takes in looking after Kid proves that she is caring and kind at heart.

## Appearance

Jo has brown skin and curly purple hair tied into a bun. She wears a white apron over a pink-and-black striped shirt, with ripped black leggings. She also has a white visor and black-and-white sneakers.

## Personality

Jo can be described as kind, caring, loyal, and curious. Albeit suspicious of unknown people, with enough time, she can learn to trust them. She usually spends her time scrolling through pictures of popular tour destinations, as she often gets tired working at the diner, like teens her age, all she ever wanted was to see the world and do something big with her life. She has shown to panic sometimes and easily get stressed out. But she does show the traits of a good leader, competent, mature, quick thinking, responsible, ability to complement the teams abilities, and headstrong determination.

Despite her levelheaded attitude however, she has shown moments of acting very excitable and with the same sort of spirit and passion as Kid does. Because of her age along with her responsibilities in working at her mother's diner, she has become a responsible and capable young lady. Due to her levelheaded attitude and tactical smarts, she acts as the voice of reason. Additionally, she's also not as secure of herself, leading her to be more cautious, grounded and realistic. In fact, her cautious nature and levelheadedness would help her balance out Kid's brashness and impulsiveness and why she would be perceived (and later become) the leader of the team.

Like all teenagers, Jo struggles a lot with identity and her place in life. While she is fond of the diners' patrons, she feels trapped in the area and feels a sense of powerlessness in her life. It would be this commonality along with the lack of any peers her age that would lead her to befriend Kid. After befriending him and becoming a hero, she changes considerably. While initially hesitant and deferential to her mother, showing a fear in disappointing her, she gains the confidence to stand up more for herself. At the same time, this also appears to be the result of a level of resentment aimed at her situation, feeling chafed by her mother's decision to move them there and her hero work allows her to act out as a form of self-empowerment.

It would be these issues that would begin affecting her in space. Now being the formal leader, she felt a greater sense of pressure along with greater anxiety. This along with her desire for more independence would lead her to being mentored by Queen Xhan. While it did lead to a boost in confidence, it also did enable a bit of her recklessness and ignored her mother's wisdom indirectly, leading her to make a number of mistakes and driving a wedge between her and her team. Nevertheless, after Krosh's betrayal and Fantos gaining the stones, Jo showed deep remorse and regret her actions, apologized to her friends and family, and proved herself as a competent leader.

## Powers and abilities

Jo, with the purple stone, gains the following powers:

* **Portal creation**: With this ring, Jo can create portals to any place she sees. Jo can use the ring to create a portal or teleport to a place or person, but this depends on Jo's ability to clearly picture what she is looking for.
* **Spatial lock:** The portals can be used to lock any object that passes through it between matter by dispelling of the portal while the object is passing it.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Kid Cosmic and the Rings of Power!
* Kid Cosmic y la Niña Gigantica
* Kid Cosmic and the Precognitive Cat
* Kid Cosmic and the Local Heroes
* Kid Cosmic and the Big Win
* Kid Cosmic and the Epic Fail
* Kid Cosmic and the Invaders from Earth
* Earth Force Enforcement Force
* Kid Cosmic and the Bad Good Guys
* Kid Cosmic and the Day is Saved!

### Season 2

* Kid Cosmic and the Other Stones of Power
* Kid Cosmic and the Pyramid Puzzle of Pain
* Kid Cosmic and the Heist of Fire and Ice
* Kid Cosmic and the Galactic Champion
* Kid Cosmic and the Feeble Fighter
* Kid Cosmic and the Soul Kroshing Loss
* Kid Cosmic and the Fallen Hero
* Kid Cosmic and the World is Saved

### Season 3

* Kid Cosmic and the Best Day Ever
* Kid Cosmic and the Secret of the Fourteenth Stone
* Kid Cosmic and the Global Conspiracy
* Kid Cosmic and the Little Spark
* Kid Cosmic and the Planet Killer
* Kid Cosmic and the Grand Opening of Planet Earth

## Trivia

* The dynamic between her and Kid is inspired by McCracken's relationship with his elder sister.
* Her name rhymes with her mother Flo and her grandmother Mo
* In her introductory special, we discover that she and her mother are not native to the area. After visting Paris for baked goods and trying to conjure a poral back home, she ends up in an urban city block. She ends up telling herself she was thinking of "New Home". This indicates that her mother moving them over to the diner and the surrounding area was actually a recent development. As such, she still subconsciously thinks of her previous living area as home. This also explains her desire to see the world, likely feeling trapped and isolated by her new situation along with the friction with her mother.

## References

1. ↑ Kid Cosmic: Powerpuff Girls Creator's Netflix Series Drops First Trailer. Comic Book Resources (January 6, 2021).
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kid Cosmic: "Powerpuff Girls" Creator Unveils Trailer for New Series. BleedingCool (January 5, 2021).