The Giant Fishballoon Monster is a villain in The Powerpuff Girls. He appeared in the episode "Uh Oh Dynamo".
He was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
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The Giant Fish Balloon is a giant red puffer fish with a dinosaur-like tail and an oval body, looking like an actual balloon. He has seven (or six) eyes and large fangs. He is also covered in giant spikes that go all down his back and tail. His lips resemble that of a balloon's mouth.
True to its name, the monster can expand his body and sucks air to inflate himself, which he possesses an incredibly powerful strength in fully-inflated state. He can also briefly inflate bigger to cause his spikes to explode like a sharpnel and destroying anything around him.
However, due to its inflatable-like characteristics, he is somewhat vulnerable to sharp objects, especially his lip, which revealed to be his only weak point (in regards to his rather strong body when inflated). The star-shaped bowling signs that end up hitting his lips easily pop holes in it, which causes him to deflate and fly away off like a balloon. This may also be a reference to deflating a balloon by cutting off or puncturing the knot, without causing it to pop.
History[]
When the Giant Fishballoon Monster appears from under the water he tried to ruin all the people of Townsville's fun and games. The girls tried to stop him but he proved to be too strong, injuring them in the process. Soon he goes on a rampage by destroying Tokyo Townsville. The girls used the Dynamo to stop the evil giant fish balloon before he got defeated by pointy wheels shaped like ninja stars.
The Fishballoon Monster also appears in the music video for Signal in the Sky, a The Powerpuff Girls themed song by The Apples in Stereo. His role in the music video is similar to his lone episode appearance. The Fishballoon monster peeks out of the water and begins terrorizing the city of Townsville.
He steps on citizens, crushes cars, destroys a monorail bridge, body slams the city hall to smithereens, breathes fires in surrounding buildings and makes an attempt to attack the band who perform the song. He manages to get his fin through the window but can just barely touch a member of the band. It is right then and there the Powerpuff Girls come to save the day as the monster is chewing on a chunk of the building. The girls start punching and kicking him before one final knock down makes him collapse on the ground, defeated as police cars surround him.
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- He is one of the only monsters to not resign on Monster Isle.
- In the episode "The City of Frownsville", The Giant Fish Balloon was seen crying. Later in the show, he was seen laughing when Lou Gubrious slipped on a banana peel. The Girls however, never fight him in the episode.
- Although he is not a main villain, he was treated as such in the episode "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!" where he was featured along with the rest of the main villains, trying to get the key to the city.
- His physical appearance slightly changed in the episode "The City of Frownsville". In this appearance, he was shown to have yellow eyes instead of white, his fins were brown instead of orange, and his spikes were a dark shade of orange instead of the usual white.
- It is possible that he is an entire species as seen in "Uh Oh Dynamo" where a tiny Fish Balloon creature summoned the Giant Fish Balloon from the water to attack The Powerpuff Girls.
- In Powerpuff Girls Z, he makes a short cameo appearance along with the original Powerpuff in the final episode.
- The sound effect when the Fish Balloon deflates was possibly recorded directly from deflating an actual balloon, rather than a pre-made artificial noise.
- The monster's design is based on Godzilla, Gamera, Titanosaurus, and Anguirus altogether; as seen in it's bipedal stance, it's tail, it's spikes, it's fins, and fire breath. The tail's crystal spikes are based on the tail crystal spikes that SpaceGodzilla has.
- Being an inflatable creature, it is somewhat ironic that the Fish Balloon instantly deflates when sharp objects hits him, but seems to be unharmed to fires and explosions resulting from the destruction, and the fact that he himself breathes fire.
- In reality, balloons and inflatables would usually burst if exposed to heat or fire
- Note that the three holes from the bowling sign stars grow into one large hole the moment the monster deflates and fly away.
- Throughout "Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!", he ranges in size from about the size of Big Billy to kaiju sized.
- At times he more closer resembles the smaller relation.
- When the girls and the villains are attempting to grab the key to the world, his fin is no taller than the likes of Princess Morbucks, Lil' Arturo and The Amoeba Boys.
- When human sized he is shown capable of hand to hand combat against the girls and the other villains.
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