The Greatest Him Moments of All Time!!

Apr 20, 2006 01:18

Alright, kiddos! In order to celebrate my latest Him regression, I've decided to write a nice, long, illustrated entry homaging...



Under the cut, because I'm not a complete asshole.
If you read this, please comment. I spent most of the day writing it.
Because I'm a loser.

The most important thing to mention is that Him is the greatest villian ever because instead of being all occupied by taking over the world, he's really just interested in completely fucking with people's heads. He'll take over or destroy the world if given a chance, and he wouldn't mind killing the Powerpuff Girls (he really does not like them very much) but he's really in it just for the fun of it. I think slowly driving someone entirely mad over a period of years would be his greatest idea of fun. Especially if it was the girls. Haha.

Now, Octi-Evil deserves special recognition, because, aside from the bloody kick to the head in the opening credits...



+12 points for blatant bloody violence in a kid's cartoon

... this is Him's FIRST APPEARANCE EVER. Which is awesome. Now, there's some nonsense with a snake beast that no one really cares about, but suddenly and unexpectedly, we are full-frontal with this:



"The only safe way to refer to this King of Darkness is... Him."

Smack dab, there he is. We get Him in all his make-up-clad, thigh-high-boot-wearing, lobster-clawed, creepy glory. (Obligatory props to the twirly beard.) The Narrator is terrified and refers to Him as the "King of Darkness." Of course, as soon as Him speaks (his first words being "Ooooooh, snake beast...") you nearly pee yourself with fangirlish glee. He also writhes horrifyingly on the couch for no apparent reason. And then, just as suddenly, you get to his first ever, super-mood-swing:



He's so angry his apartment exploded!

If your pants aren't already pee-soaked from his high pitched, echoing, drawn-out girly-voice, you'll certainly need a change of pants when you hear his deep angry-evil voice! He also flies in this episode for some reason...



I'm winning I'm winning I'm winning I'm winning

I'm not sure why, because he turns into a blur and then never really goes anywhere. But, really, he can do whatever he wants. I guess he was just happy from all the winning. It's worth mentioning that he picks on Bubbles from the beginning. What a jerk. What a sexy, sexy jerk.

He shows up in Telephonies but the only thing really worth mentioning is the, like, entire conversation in evil-Him-voice (*swoons*). Oh, and this flagrant ass-shot:



Skirt? Shorts? Skort? The world may never know.

The kink boots are replaced by runners and leg-warmers and that is sad. The girls also refer to him as "the evilest of evil" and "the cruelest of cruel" and seem pretty terrified when they hear he's kicking up shit. (Even if he isn't really kicking up shit.) I am still perplexed as to how the girls just broke into his house though. Where the hell does he live? (lol pun)

So, not long after that we have Tough Love which opens up with a very naked Him:



He's pretty angry for some reason...

He's pretty ripped for... oh, nevermind. I'm still weirded out by the fact he's spying on the girls while in his bath. Or is it the Professor he's watching? (*cough*) Anyway, it's good to know that not only does he talk to his rubber duck, but it hatches evil schemes for him. The real question, however, is why Mr. Quackers just disappeared after this episode. Still, the fact that Him can make water boil when he's angry is pretty fucking cool. You have to admit, brainwashing the girls' loved one's into killing the girls is a pretty damn good plan. Even if it was the duck's plan. Now, just for creepiness factor (and a shout-out to you Prof/Him slashfans out there):



The lick heard 'round the world!

Yeah, what's with this licking the Professor thing? I would've loved to be a fly on the wall of that writer's meeting. "Okay, so then Him licks the Professor. We'll just draw this out, for like really long. Six or seven minutes maybe. No, seriously, it'll be completely awesome. No, we won't have any problems with it at all. Why are you looking at me like that?" And while we're on the topic of Tough Love, the absolutely perfect wrist flick must be mentioned:



FABULOUS!

This episode is also awesome because Him doesn't get beaten. The girls just kick the shit out of everyone in town, and he goes "Huh. Well, fuck it. I'm going home."

Him makes a brief, but significant appearance in Birthday Bash. Even the villians are terrified of him, especially when he mocks their stupid intelligence. ("And apparently thinking isn't your strong suit!") He's only screen for about 8 seconds, but in that time he manages to actually control the minds of all three girls and the Professor...



"Or the strange looking gift we didn't notice..."

... set out a crazy giant pinata that destroys a few houses and all the girls' birthday presents (PURE EVIL, I tell you)...



This just complicates the yellow eyes/ green eyes debate

... and says possibly the scariest line ever, "Why destroy when I can torture?" (Although, admittedly, "with tooth decay" followed that statement.) Er... moving on!

Him disappears for a bit after this, but only because he was planning his GREATEST SCHEME EVER. No doubt, Speed Demon is the best episode ever, apart from Meet the Beat-Alls. NOT ONLY does he take advantage of the fact that the girls disappear by killing the Mayor, driving all of the townspeople insane, taking over the world and causing his own little Himpocalypse...



"Coming baaaack now? Remeeeeember?"

...but he just up and turns into this crazy, gigantic, muscle-clad, pure evil beast-thing!...



((Captions have been replaced by rabid lust and massive drooling))

The claws! The boots! The evil, glowing eyes! The pointy teeth! The... the... the pecs!! Nothing has ever been better than this. Nothing. Did I mention he killed the Mayor? Not to mention destroyed the souls of everyone else. And when the girls show up, he's just squeeing to gloat about it. They beat the crap out of him but it doesn't do a thing. He just grins and turns into an evil mega-Him. This has probably one of this best Him-rhymes in the show, as well. ("Don't you know the faster you go, time slows down?") The end makes no sense, as according to the theory, they didn't "travel" through time, they just went slower than everyone else while the world went normal speed for 50 years, so they couldn't just go back in time by going fast again. (And going to space? What the fuck?) This makes me think that Him may have just been totally fucking with their minds and set up the whole apocalypse scenario to make them think everyone hated them. But then why would he just let them go back? Just wanted to ruin their vacation? I like the Himpocalypse idea much better.

Again, Him disappears, for like a whole season. Though it'd be pretty tough to come up with an encore to that. But, when he finally comes back, it's worth the wait. Meet The Beat-Alls is my favourite episode, for the simple fact that not only is it a really clever take-off on the Beatles with tons of visual Beatles gags, but almost the entire dialogue is taken from Beatles lyrics. And Him is in it. Yeah. Come to think of it, this episode isn't exactly a stand-out Him episode, but the absolute Beatleness of it makes it awesome. The Him factor is just icing on the cake. Still, this dramatic leg-cross-woe-is-me action is priceless:



What a drama queen

I was tempted to animate it just to show how bloody hilarious it really is. I guess this is his throne room. I imagine he has this red dimension he can go to, where he keeps his floating throne, and he goes there to rant about the Powerpuff Girls. You know, when his bath is being repaired and stuff. That or his giant TV screen is this colour when it's switched off. It's also worth mentioning that Him is really big in this episode...



Why does he not just crush them with his MIGHTY CLAW?

... Oh, and he has acidic spit. Yeah, I don't get it either.

So, then we're into Season 4, which as a whole is probably the best season. In All Chalked Up, Him decides to go after Bubbles again, only now he's a butterfly. I'll bet you didn't think his voice could get any higher. But it can. Oh, how it can.



No, seriously, nobody suspects the butterfly

Bubbles was pretty stupid for not realizing this was Him all along. He didn't even bother to change his head. So, he manipulates small children into doing his bidding for awhile, and people almost get eaten by evil chalk monsters. Bubbles is so horrified she goes into complete shock for a good twelve minutes or so. Him shows up to gloat, and Bubbles still doesn't get that he's evil. Not until he changes back into his normal form and manhandles her, that is:



"It was YOU who drew monsters!"

He likes to play the blame game, that Him. But Bubbles is having none of it. She beats the chalk monsters and Him's so angry that angry lines come out of his head! More angry-voice yelling, which I love.

Just TWO EPISODES LATER, we're treated to yet another full 30-minute Him episode, Him Diddle Riddle. (Even the episode has "Him" in the title, so you know it's gotta be good.) This episode has just about everything. Evil Him scheming, mind-fucking (er, figuratively), clever rhymes, Him turning into random objects and even subtle ProfHim slash. (I mean, if you're in to the sort of thing.) Him cosplaying as a train conductor was neat...



I like that he still has his kink boots on

... but the real highlight of this part of the episode was this riddle, which was so good I need to interrupt everything to post it:

In the ear of corn, you will find
Happiness, joy, and the ties that bind
Squirrels store nuts and birds sing songs
But in the cave of eternity, everyone's wrong!
On the limb of the tree, there's a monkey who's free
And there he will give you something for me

Yeah. This has something to do with ice cream. But Him bouncing around while reciting this is what really makes it. Blossom referring to Him as "evil dude" is pretty awesome, as well. However, the part with the scantron machine always gets me...



Why is his voice so fast during this part?

It's been awhile since I've filled out a scantron answer sheet and not thought of this and burst out laughing in the middle of an exam. Oh, Him. He screws with Ms. Keane a lot, considering she's not in the show that much. The end is priceless for a variety of reasons...



I'm a little worried about what that menu says

... they nearly killed themselves for a $7.95 breakfast? And why does Him work in a diner? And did the Professor just wander in? And he completely didn't realize the hazards of letting Him fuck around with his kids? Did Professor seriously just put free flapjacks ahead of the safety/lives of his little girls? And he's only angry about the flapjacks? Despite the disturbing lack of parentage in this episode, I stumbled on this screenshot which proves that Him, too, can be adorable:



Isn't he just lickable? ...No?

Still, the best part of this episode can be summed up in four words: VAT OF BOILING SHARKS!!

Although technically this is the last season 4 Him episode, I consider Power-Noia to be of the same season because it was shown something like a year before the actual season 5 started, and it wasn't complete crap. The beauty of this episode is that Him doesn't really show up until the end, but you know that he's behind all the crazy shit that's going on. You'll notice this is yet another mind-fuck episode. I just can't figure out why his voice has a new layer that's like three octaves higher than his old one. Now, the art-deco Hell was pretty cool...



It's like being trapped in a Piet Mondrian painting!

... and turning a class into zombies and having them attack their classmates is pretty creepy (even if it was just a dream)...



Yeah, my kindergarten was like this too.

... especially when they all of a sudden look like tiny Hims...



This is, like, the 3rd awesomest thing ever

... but nothing, NOTHING, is scarier than evil toys:



His smile starts to engulf his eyes at some point

And then, just when you think the girls have won, Him shows up as some sort of crazy evil monster, the likes of which we've never seen before. Fighting ensues.



+25 points for turning into a giant, hermaphroditic, three-headed centipede monster

And in the end, Him beat up the girls and took over the world. Shut up, that's what happened.

So, overall, that was a pretty sweet episode. Which is good, because after this, Him only showed up in Seasons 5 and 6, more commonly known as "When Powerpuff Girls Turned to Shit." Still, if you isolate the actual Him moments of these seasons, you'll see that, in general, they are still gold. Just everything around it is pure crap.

Depressingly, Him's next big idea is to (blech! blagh!) bring back the Rowdyruff Boys in The Boys Are Back In Town. Now, this starts out pretty cool, as Him seems to have moved from his little pink cave to some sort of crazy hell encompassed by a giant TV screen that plays real-life loops of disasters and small children eating watermelon...



Note the eyes carved into the rock. And the, uh... farm. Him farm.

He also apparently has a million videos of the Powerpuff Girls, which he can bring up all at once. Which is kind of creepy. His James Bond villain entrance is pretty cool...



And they seriously don't realize who it is until he turns around

... but the rest of the episode is pretty much a thirty-minute endorsement for woman abuse. Still, you gotta feel bad for these kids when you realize they now have Him as a father.



Boys! What did you do with your hair! Don't make me come down there!

That's a pretty disturbing concept. In fact, it was the concept used in the next Him episode, Custody Battle in which Mojo and Him fight over who's the boys' real father. Honestly, I don't think I'd admit to that. Pretty much the only thing worth even watching in this episode is when Him mind-controls some scientists into hurling the Earth into the sun, and then just stops it from happening by lifting his claw:



Idiot. He could've killed Mojo AND the fucking Rowdyruff Boys.

He doesn't even look at what he's doing. He's that powerful. The rest of this episode is completely and irredeemably stupid. And I think Mojo and Him get married at the end or something.



It's even legal in Ontario!

Him also shows up in some other season 6 episodes, but they're really not worth mentioning. Attempt to retrieve said episodes may cause irreversable vomitting. Don't say I didn't warn you.

There was no real final episode to the Powerpuff Girls. Just a sort of depressing fizzling out. However, after the utter shit that was seasons 5 and 6, no one really cared. It was sort of like shooting an old dog that had one leg and barked blood. However, there was something of a long-lost episode that was talked about for ages, and then shown in Canada, but not anywhere else! See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey was a rock opera episode about an evil gnome. Seriously. And it was right awesome. Him was in it briefly but, goddamn, was his singing voice ever sexy. Wahaha. Also, he apparently has the ability to harness the power of the cosmos...



It's like one of those George O'Keefe paintings

...and blow shit up!! (I still can't figure out why the gnome just ripped his shirt off halfway through, though.)



Kapooooow! Pooow!

So, that's pretty much it. The pure, unadultered mindfuck awesomeness of Him. Now you understand how fucking great he is. You may begin worship immediately. Actually, I'm thinking of starting a Holy Church of Him.

FUCKING 2-YEAR-LATER UPDATE: I've turned commenting off on this post because of all the idiots requesting that send them ancient old episodes I don't even have anymore. Anyone requesting said services will have their spine forceably removed from their dorsal cavity.
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