History Recap / ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E12SpeedDemonMojoJonesin

* NothingIsScarier: We aren't given exact details on how Townsville went from the flawed but idealic metropolis of the present to the literal hellhole in the BadFuture. During the girl's brawl with HIM, news posters mention test scores falling, interest rates rising, Professor Utonium was declared a "proven fraud", the Mayor had died at age 83 and this could have all been avoided if the Powerpuff Girls never disappeared. Considering how well HIM is thriving, it's very likely that he used his corrupting influence to accomplish all of this without the Powerpuff Girl's positive influence on the city.

'''Speed Demon''': A race home from school finds the girls breaking the speed of light and traveling to an alternate future where HIM rules Townsville 50 years without the girls' protection.

* BadFuture: Boy, and how! Without the girls, Townsville falls into ruin, the Mayor is murdered, Him takes over and plunges the world into "Heck", literally ''and'' figuratively, and everyone the girls knew and loved have gone mad.

* CurbStompBattle: The entire confrontation between Him and the Powerpuff Girls. He lets them pummel him till they exhaust themselves, then shows that nothing they have done has actually hurt him before [[OneWingedAngel turning into a giant demon creature]]. Rather than attacking in return, he calls in the tortured citizens of Townsville, who [[WhatTheHellHero call the Powerpuff Girls out for not being there to protect them]], hammering in that he has already won and they cannot defeat him.

* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Without the Powerpuff Girls to stop Him, He has taken over Townsville and likely the rest of the world. Defeating him in the BadFuture is impossible, [[NoSell nothing hurts him]], so all the girls can do is return to the present to ensure he never takes over in the first place.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mrs. Keane’s calculation about lightspeed and time travelling foreshadows what is going to happen when the girls race home.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Him goes out of his way to hammer into the Powerpuff Girls that he has already won and there is nothing they can do to defeat him. Once they realize it, they return to the present to prevent him from taking over.

-->'''Him:''' As you raced through time, the whole world went... to... '''HECK!'''
* TheJuggernaut: Him is completely invincible in the BadFuture. The Powerpuff Girls exhaust themselves pummelling Him, and their attacks do '''nothing'''. He does not even bother fighting back, he simply [[OneWingedAngel turns into a giant demon]] to show how outclassed they are.
* JustToyingWithThem: Him confronts the Powerpuff Girls to gloat about how he has taken over without them being around to stop him. He doesn't bother to hit them back when they attack Him, [[NoSell because nothing they do hurts Him]]. After proclaiming he has already won, he [[OneWingedAngel turns into a giant monster]] for no reason other than to hammer in that they cannot win.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The girls all feel this way as the townsfolk blame them for disappearing for 50 years, prompting them to launch into space screaming and race right back, returning time to as it was before. Beforehand, Blossom phrases this.
* NeverSayDie: In the BadFuture, the Mayor is clearly supposed to be dead (implicitly murdered by either Him or some other villain or criminal after the girls disappeared), but both Ms. Bellum and a poster announcing his death only state that he's "gone".

* NothingIsScarier: We aren't given exact details on how Townsville went from the flawed but idealic metropolis of the present to the literal hellhole in the BadFuture. During the girl's brawl with Him, news posters mention test scores falling, interest rates rising, Professor Utonium was declared a "proven fraud", the Mayor had died at age 83 and this could have all been avoided if the Powerpuff Girls never disappeared. Considering how well Him is thriving, it's very likely that he used his corrupting influence to accomplish all of this without the Powerpuff Girl's positive influence on the city.

* TheScream: The girls let out a cry of agony in unison over what Him showed them, causing them to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and return to the present day.
* SanitySlippage: Whatever torture Him inflicted on the citizens of Townsville in the fifty years the Powerpuff Girls were gone has taken a toll on their sanity. The professor has lost it so much that he thinks the girls are hallucinations when he sees them.

* BequeathedPower: When they realize they have been tricked, but the second batch of Chemical X already begins to wear off, the kids quickly transfer what little power they have left to the unconscious girls in order to revive them.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mojo Jojo’s behavior is very much like that of a drugs dealer; first providing the four kids some Chemical X for free to get them hooked onto the stuff, and then, when they want more, start demanding they pay him for it (by destroying the Powerpuff Girls).

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Because Him insisted on breaking the Powerpuff Girls by showing they cannot defeat him and how they failed to protect Townsville, they get the message and return to the present

* EasilyForgiven: None of the Girls hold any grudges towards the kids.

* SeriesContinuityError: The old Professor Utonium complains that he never wrote down the formula for creating the Powerpuff Girls, however in “Twisted Sister” it was shown that he had written it down (the girls used his notes when making Bunny).