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Professor Drake Utonium is the overall deuteragonist in The Powerpuff Girls. He is a scientist responsible for creating the same named team.
Background[]
Biography[]
Early life[]
Personality[]
Original series[]
Professor Utonium introduces himself as "Professor - Professor Utonium" in The Powerpuff Girls Movie.
According to his past, mentioned in Get Back Jojo, Utonium started out as a terrible brat who had no interest in education, let alone science; but when three "perfect little girls" from the future rescued him from Mojo Jojo, Utonium became so obsessed with science that he eventually created the trio we know today.
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 cookoff 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.
This means, that if this took place in 1998 (the year the show released) by then he would be 30-40 years old by then.
The Powerpuff Girls Z[]
While he is very gentle and serious, Professor Utonium may, at times, act a little less mature than he usually does.
2016 TV series reboot[]
Professor Utonium's reboot appearance in the 2016 tv series reboot
So far Professor Utonium's caring nature appears to still be present.
Appearance[]
Original series[]
He is very "square" and old-fashioned. Professor Utonium wears a white lab coat with pens in its pocket and a shirt and tie, and his head is impossibly rectangular with carefully parted black hair and thick eyebrows. He has blue eyes during one scene in "Mr. Mojo's Rising". The Professor's voice is deep and thoughtful, exactly the sort anyone might expect form an eminent scientist and/or a father figure in a 1950s TV show. Utonium is 6'1" and weighs 137 lbs. In the earlier episodes (such as "Monkey See, Doggie Do"), he was seen carrying a tobacco pipe, but this was dropped in the later episodes.
The Powerpuff Girls Z[]
Professor Utonium wears a white lab coat, with pens in its pocket, and wears a shirt and tie, and his head is impossibly rectangular with carefully parted black hair and thick eyebrows. The Professor's voice is deep and thoughtful, exactly the sort you might expect form am eminent scientist and/or a father.
2016 TV series reboot[]
Appearance wise Professor Utonium is not as square as his original counterpart since all of his corners have been rounded. Otherwise his appearance remains the same. It is likely that he still wears a lab coat on practically every occasion.
Powers and abilities[]
In episode 37, when the Powerpuff Girls Z are "grounded" from using their powers for a day when they have to take a test in school, Professor Utonium fills in for them, creating an exosuit with a laser beam gun and rocket pack, calling himself "Professor Puff Z" (this is most likely based on the original cartoon episode "Powerprof." in which he also created a fighting suit but drove the girls crazy with lame one-liners during battles). He also appears to have a mecha that looks like Professor Puff Z, which he uses against the Mojo Robo. Although he seems unsuccessful at first, he is able to defeat Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and The Amoeba Boys. His main attack is the Utonoun Beam. At the end of the episode, Ken, Peach and himself call themselves "Powerpuff Boys Z" as their own self-proclaimed superhero team.
Appearances[]
Whoopass Stew[]
1998 TV series[]
The Powerpuff Girls Movie[]
2016 TV series[]
The Powerpuff Girls Z[]
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Gallery[]
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 of the Church of the Subgeniuses.
- 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 can also be be based on Dr. Thomas Light from the Mega Man series.
- Co-incidentally, Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack) worked on this show in Seasons 1-4 before he left to work on Samurai Jack in 2001.
- It was revealed in "Uh Oh Dynamo" that the Professor is left-handed.
- In the episode "Mommy Fearest", he is shown sleeping in a double bed alone, implying that he was married at one point. Since his previous wife was not seen or mentioned throughout the series, which means she could have passed away.
- It is revealed in the animated short "Ping Pong Z" that Professor Utonium has a deceased mother named Mumu, whose cremated ashes stand on a shelf in the living room; effectively making this incarnation of Utonium the first to have his mother directly alluded to.
- He happens to be non-arachnophobic (not afraid of spiders), revealed in "Arachno Romance", and doesn't know how to use a computer in "Viral Spiral", unlike his 1998 incarnation.
- The Professor's head is not as squared as his 1998 counterpart.
- He never leaves home without his lab coat.
- His best moments are dating a biologist named Dr. Sapna, defeating the Fashionistas with the power of good parenting and playing with Sprinklor in his bathing suit.
- The Professor's top inventions are Schedulebot, Transmogrifying Ray, Armsie, Sprinklor, the Gigantinator and Codename: Project Slumber.
- Little known facts are that he plays the banjo and that he keeps a TOP SECRET journal.
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