...Mojo Jojo! The two things that were hard for me to bear about The Powerpuff Girls Rule were Blossom's gender segregation-based idea on how to rule the world to give women all the power and stick men at the bottom, which ignores Equal Fights, and 80% of the time, every character talks at 1.5 speed because this could not be a full-hour special which would give more time for things to happen. It might fit the fast-paced tone of this special episode where the Powerpuff Girls fight the other villains in a Wacky Races-type kind of race, but that still doesn't change the fact that the sped-up audio gave me heart palpitations. It annoyed me that Mac and Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends were photoshopped into a screenshot with Mitch Mitchell and other kids from Pokey Oaks.
On to the actual plot! The Powerpuff Girls are terrified to learn that the key to rule the world is being delivered to Townsville, where any villain could use it to ruin the world as they please. The Powerpuff Girls eventually find the key in the mayor's office after it was not among the other keys on the street. Unfortunately, the power of the key becomes too much for them, and they can not agree on how to use it to rule the world. For the record, I thought Bubbles was the only one among them who had a good idea to rule the world. She wanted to give everyone free puppies, when Buttercup just wanted to watch over everyone like 1984. I liked it when The Powerpuff Girls Rule used the same style of distinct art shifts for each Powerpuff's fantasy sequence that was used in The Bare Facts when they told the Mayor their story in their own style. Mojo Jojo made this special 10th anniversary episode better to watch the second time around. When you know how he planned to rule the world, it is easy to feel bad for him during his two sad songs about how much he wants to rule the world and how good he would be at it. When the Powerpuffs beat up the villains and fight over the key again, they realize their error when everyone else in Townsville hangs their head in shame at them. They apologize and give the key back to the Mayor. The important thing is, they learned that with great power comes great responsibility. Mojo Jojo, about to leave Townsville on a bus, sees this and takes the key away from the Mayor. The Powerpuffs, Utonium, Sara Bellum and the Mayor are terrified when they see Mojo Jojo with the world key, but then the Powerpuff Girls are surprised to learn that Mojo Jojo used the key to the world to turn Earth into a utopia. He ended all wars and world hunger, cured all disease, soothed the whales, and gave everybody free puppies. He gave the Powerpuffs talking unicorns, and got the president to give everyone free electricity for life. As it turns out, Mojo Jojo had a passion to make the world a better place, and the Powerpuff Girls were stopping him from achieving that. It makes a lot more sense if you have seen The Powerpuff Girls Movie, their origin story, and you learn that Mojo Jojo started out as Professor Utonium's test monkey who caused him to spill that Chemical X in the first place and became Mojo Jojo, the big-brained monkey because of it, which would make Get Back Jojo a paradox. They are sorry that they kept foiling Mojo's evil and unorthodox plans for the greater good, and are bored that everything is fine, all the time. Mojo Jojo also soon gets bored with this and starts wreaking havoc on his perfect world. The dove Mojo had tells the girls to stop Mojo Jojo with Punchy McGee and Fisty O'Flanagan, and so they stop Mojo Jojo and keep the utopian society he created safe from him once more. Hmmm...perhaps this is why the reboot of The Powerpuff Girls has far less focus on fighting villains.
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