History Recap / ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP6

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is by far one of the darkest episodes of the series due to the production of mass-produced sentient clones that are abused and killed, as well as the fact that Dick Hardly is killed at the end by his creations (thus making his death one of the only permanent villain deaths in the series). Not to mention the horrifying imagery and uncanny art.

* PapaWolf: Utonium was willing to let Dick Hardly push him around even in the present, but drew the line and kicked Dick out when he started about merchandising the Powerpuff Girls.

* ADickInName: Dick Hardly [[{{Understatement}} is not a nice man.]]

* WingdingEyes: Dick Hardley gets the classic dollar sign-eyes when he sees the Powerpuff Girls and realizes the fortune he could make with them.

* ShoutOut: One Bubbles clone responds to Dick saying he's the master of the Powerpuff Girls Xtreme by saying he's "[[Film/ANewHope Only a master of evil]]".

* PunchClockHero: Dick Hardly was using the Powerpuff Girlz X-Treme to fight villains only so he could make a fortune.

-->'''Blossom:''' That-that...Professor Dick!

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During the Professor's flashback, he and Dick are both using telescopes at night. The Professor uses his to stargaze while Dick uses his to [[MaleGaze spy on some women at a nearby pool]]. From the moment we meet him, we know Dick is a shallow sleazeball.

** The girls fail to realize Dick Hardly is up to no good when he convinces them to help him create more Powerpuffs, despite the fact that they clearly heard him call them “things” earlier, and were there when he tried to convince the professor to turn them into a gold mine.
** Professor Utonium was also like this back in college, never noticing what a douche-bag Dick really was. He quickly comes to realize Dick's true colors when the two meet again in present day though.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Dick Hardly calls the Powerpuff Girls things, angering Utonium. Dick even refers to the Girlz Xtreme as 'its' every now and then. This certainly ties into Dick's complete absence of empathy.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Dick Hardly makes it seem like he makes to his own Powerpuff girls to sincerely help the world when all he actually wants is cash. Even when the Professor agrees to make Chemical X forever to let the girls go, Dick doesn't go through with it! All and all proves he has no heart whatsoever.

* KilledOffForReal: Dick Hardly and all his Powerpuff knock offs that were still at the factory. The remainder likely died due to having a lifespan that could be measured in hours.

* OneWingedAngel: Dick Hardly becomes a monster once he swallows the Chemical X. It's even {{Lampshaded}} by Dick himself.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It’s never revealed what became of the Powerpuff knock offs that were not at the factory when it blew up. They are never seen again after this episode. Then again, it was stated they each only lasted for a couple of hours.

* SidingWithTheSuffering: The Powerpuff Girlz Xtreme obey Dick Hardly and start to take Professor Utonium away. They don't help the Powerpuff Girls (who are locked up in a chamber) until the Professor [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove tells his dying daughters that he loves him]]. The Powerpuff Girlz Xtreme then realize that [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Dick has never given them any kind of affection, so they start to attack him]], and several other clones release the girls and the Professor.

* EmotionalPowers: The episode shows that the girls possess them in a sense. After having their Chemical X drained, and being left almost dead, when Professor Utonium embraces and weeps over his children, [[ThePowerofLove absorbing his love for them resurrects them]]. As opposed to Dick's knock-offs who he shows no love for whatsoever, each of which melts down and falls apart after a few hours.

* DecoyProtagonist: The Girls act as the main characters as usual for the show in the episode, however, after Dick Hardly turns into a OneWingedAngel and tries to kill them to harvest their Chemical X, the Professor arrives and saves them with ThePowerOfLove, while Dick is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed by his own creations]]. In a way, the Professor is the ''real'' protagonist of this episode, as Dick Hardly was his so-called good roommate from college and the episode follows the Professor's realization that his college friend was EvilAllAlong from the beginning when Dick announces in front of the Professor to exploit the Girls for profit to the climax when the Professor catches him trying to kill the Girls and comes to their rescue with the help of Dick's defective creations.

* YouFool: Dick says this to the Professor as he TakesAThirdOption by killing the girls ''and'' taking him as his slave.

* DisneyDeath: The Girls almost die after Dick saps all of the Chemical X from their bodies. Thankfully, they're healed by a devastated Professor.

* LosingYourHead: As a PPG knockoff (who resembles Bubbles with Buttercup's hairstyle) living in Egypt says "I think they're asking for a hiney-whooping!", her head comes loose from her body and rolls away.

* YouFool: Dick says this at one point.

--->'''Blossom clone''': Get out, before it's too late.

* ThePowerOfLove: What allows professor Utonium to brought healed his girls.

* ADickInName: Dick Hardly [[{{Understatement}} is not a nice man.]]
-->'''Blossom:''' That-that...Professor Dick!