Mojo Jojo

Mojo Jojo is the main antagonist of the Cartoon Network television series The Powerpuff Girls and the archenemy of the Powerpuff Girls. He also serves as the main villain of The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

He is a villainous, intelligent mad scientist chimpanzee who is constantly plotting to take over the world and/or destroy The Powerpuff Girls. Mojo is one of the more successful villains in the series, as he defeated the Powerpuff Girls in several episodes including Mr. Mojo's Rising, Los Dos Mojos, and Mo Job, and managed to rule the world in Monkey See, Doggie Do, and The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!. Diabolical, cunning, and menacing, Mojo is an evil mastermind who is determined to rule the world and destroy everything that stands in his way, including the Powerpuff Girls.

As seen in The Powerpuff Girls Movie and the episode "Mr. Mojo's Rising", Mojo was originally Jojo, the Professor's hyperactive lab assistant who always broke everything. During the event of the creation of the Powerpuff Girls, he pushed the Professor towards a container of Chemical X, causing it to break and spill into the concoction. This resulted in an explosion, which caused his simian DNA to mutate, turning his skin green and causing his brain to enlarge, growing out of his skull. It also enlarged his intelligence, giving him new emotions like envy and inferiority.

Mojo is closely associated with the Powerpuff Girls, being partially responsible for their creation and having the same creator. After Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup were created, the Professor lost interest in Mojo and forgot about him. With newfound intelligence, Mojo donned a tattered overcoat with a partially shredded scarf and a paper bag to cover his brain and ran away, setting his home up in an alley.

Spending time on the street by himself with no one to care about him almost immediately turned him cold and emotionless, providing a motive as to why he would care to destroy Townsville and conquer the world. He doesn't always do this or makes plans related to this, as in "Telephonies" he fell asleep while doing nothing but reading a newspaper (but was still beaten up due to circumstances beyond his control). Mojo is shown to have a civilian life despite his criminal activities; he is often shown walking around Townsville without any citizens running in fear, and even buys groceries legally. The girls also tend to treat him as a friendly neighbor, often coming to his house to ask for favors without attacking him (although they end up attacking him later if he has set up a scheme there).

He is responsible both for the accident that resulted in the girls' creation as well as his own mutation, as well as the Professor's desire to create the perfect little girl. He is frequently referred to as a monkey by himself and others (in reality, chimps are apes, not monkeys). Mojo is disliked by other monkeys and apes such as Moko Jono (Mojo's love interest), who think he gives them a bad name. In "Meet the Beat-Alls", he teamed up with HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Princess Morbucks to form the group called "The Beat-Alls" which was short-lived, having disbanded due to the arrival of Moko Jono who he fell in love with.

Mojo Jojo has been featured five times in the closing "So once again, the day is saved" sequence (including the episodes "Telephonies" and "Get Back Jojo"), making him the second-most frequent day-saver in the series after the girls. In "Child Fearing", Mojo is shown to be a great (and rather artistic) Japanese chef. Another of Mojo's hobbies is building ships in bottles and other scale models, such as in the episodes "A Very Special Blossom" and "What's the Big Idea?". He is also known for his unique mode of speech.

He has pale pink eyes, green skin, and black fur and wears white gloves and boots, long dark blue tunic, and a long purple cape. He also wears a white belt with a purple triangle at the buckle and a large white helmet with purple pinstripes and spots of the same color at its rim. His exposure to Chemical X led to his brain growing to a ludicrous size, outgrowing his skull, and necessitating the helmet to cover and protect it.

Later in the episode "Get Back Jojo", Jojo tried to prevent the creation of the Powerpuff Girls by going back in time and destroying Professor Utonium as a child (unaware that he himself would cease to exist as we know him). Not only did the Powerpuff Girls foil this plot, but the incident inspired the Professor to take up science in the first place, making Mojo Jojo responsible for the creation of his arch rivals regardless.

Despite being a villain, he has saved the Earth before. When an Alien Leader had come to destroy the entire planet and force the human race to surrender their pride and bow down to it, Mojo became so stressed over the alien copying all of his plans and crushing his dreams that he brutally attacked the overlord with his fighting skills, then slammed him with a really thick bread loaf before grabbing hold of one of its legs to force him to admit that Mojo is the most evil, for which the alien eventually fled in terror, thus saving the Earth. Townsville, including the Powerpuff Girls, then praised him and called him their hero, but Mojo tries in vain to convince them that he is still an evil villain, even replacing the Powerpuff Girls in the heart-shaped ending sequence, where he tries to tell this to the Narrator.

Personality Mojo Jojo is a notorious evil genius, whose main goal is to destroy the Powerpuff Girls, crush Townsville, and conquer the world. In order to do this, he spends much of his time plotting and inventing new weapons or technology. This normally comes in the shape of giant robots or large energy/laser weapons. He is verbose, using various vocabulary to describe basic happenstances, and speaking in long run-on sentences.

Mojo Jojo is one of The Powerpuff Girls' toughest rivals, and is seen as their archenemy. Despite usually failing, he has managed to defeat them several times, or at least injure them badly. Mojo Jojo is also the most persistent villain and is determined in destroying them and ruling the world. Due to his high intelligence, Mojo sometimes discovers some of the Powerpuff Girls' weaknesses (As seen in Not So Awesome Blossom). Mojo is also magnificent and cunning, and often plays with the Powerpuff Girls' naivete.

Mojo, for the most part, does whatever he wants. He doesn't follow the rules and doesn't care what people think of him. He's also something of a loner and dislikes being surrounded by humans, and prefers not to be bothered in the middle of his experiments and plans. However, he has no problem with being assisted if the situation calls for it. Unlike most villains, Mojo is smart enough not to underestimate the Powerpuff Girls, and therefore uses his gadgets and plans to keep up with them.

Skills and Abilities Due to his gigantic brain, Mojo is extremely intelligent, especially at building hi-tech objects and weapons. He is also quite cunning, able to manipulate the Girls through their naivety and discovering their weaknesses time and again.

In the movie, when he injected himself with Chemical X, Mojo was seen to have a myriad of powers, including fire breath, shooting spikes from his hair, and causing sound waves by clapping, all until his powers got removed by the Antidote X. That is not to say that he isn't strong, however. In the episode "Forced Kin", Mojo Jojo got so enraged that he could unleash a primal fury, allowing him to defeat a villain that the Powerpuff Girls could not, using only brute force delivered by his fists and a stale baguette. During this time he appeared to be capable of flying as well. "The Rowdyruff Boys" also shows Mojo in this state.

Despite not having the same powers as the Girls, Mojo is otherwise seen being a strong, skilled, tactical, and experienced fighter. He even once defeated all the members of The Gangreen Gang by himself without moving a finger, and another time fought against them along with HIM and Fuzzy Lumpkins. He also teamed up with the other villains and eventually defeated the Powerpuff Girls in several episodes, but Mojo also fought them all by himself in "Mr. Mojo's Rising" and The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

Likes

• To take over Townsville, and eventually the world
• The Rowdyruff Boys
• Building model Ships
• Bananas
• Classical Music
• Money
• Fuzzy Lumpkins (as an ally in Telephonies)
• HIM (frankly as a friend and ally)
• Sushi
• Torturing the Powerpuff Girls
• Banana milk
• His ape army

Dislikes

• Being annoyed
• Mopey Popo
• The Powerpuff Girls (especially during battle)
• Failure
• The idea of being replaced as the world's evilest villain (Forced Kin)
• The Gangreen Gang (due to them prank-calling HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and himself in Telephonies)
• HIM (at times)
• Bratty children
• Defeat
• Princess Morbucks (Birthday Bash)
• The Amoeba Boys (Birthday Bash)
• Someone hurting the Rowdyruff Boys