Femme Fatale is a minor antagonist in the animated series The Powerpuff Girls who was voiced by Grey DeLisle.
Appearance[]
Femme Fatale is a tall, fair-skinned woman with an hourglass built, with long straight blonde hair and wears red lipstick. She has periwinkle-blue eyes, though they are concealed when wearing her blue eye mask, resembling the upper part of the female sign, with the blue design printed on her full white bell-bottom jumpsuit resembles the lower part, thus completing the design. She completes the look with a pair of plain, white heeled ankle boots.
Biography[]
Femme Fatale is a bank robber, master thief and misandrist who only steals Susan B. Anthony coins since all other forms of money have men on them (at the time of the series at least). She hypocritically and cowardly claims feminist arguments to justify her crimes despite not knowing even the simplest facts about Susan B. Anthony, the activist who voted illegally in 1872. With shoddy reasoning, wrapped in some lies, she sways Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup to her warped view of feminism so she can continue to rob banks, viewing it as rebelling against feminine injustice. Despite her misandry, her speech to the Powerpuff Girls and the designs on her costume, Femme Fatale is equally cruel to women. She stole Susan B. Anthony coins from a female bank teller, broke the arm of a police woman and (supposedly) stole the hairstyle of a teenage girl. Femme Fatale is additionally quite disparaging when acknowledging Princess Morbucks (calling her "that little brat") and Sedusa (calling her "the chick in the underwear"), even though both are far more dangerous than her, due to having skills or equipment which go beyond that of a street-level bank robber.
At the end of the episode Equal Fights, she’s promptly defeated and taken to jail after the Girls tell her who the suffragist Susan B. Anthony really was. She has blonde hair and blue eyes (resembling the aforementioned teen girl, albeit without acne or braces) wears a white jumpsuit with multiple blue stripes, a blue mask which conceals her eyes and white boots. After being defeated by the girls and taken in prison, she was seen in a prison uniform and a matching prison cap, complaining that horizontal stripes make her look fat.
Abilities[]
Despite her claims of being a Master Thief, Femme Fatale has no actual extraordinary skills or abilities beyond being a brazen bank robber and persuasive orator. Her typical means of robbing banks involves threatening others with her weapon, which she is never seen actually firing.
Episode Appearances[]
Season Three[]
- Equal Fights (debut)
Specials[]
- The Powerpuff Girls Rule (non-speaking cameo)
"Horizontal stripes make me look fat."
Books[]
Gallery[]
Click here to view the gallery of Femme Fatale
Trivia[]
- "Femme fatale" literally means "fatal woman" in French.
- When she is wearing convict stripes at the end of Equal Fights, we find out that she has blue eyes and she complains that the horizontal stripes of the uniform make her look fat.
- While Femme Fatale raises a good point in that female superheroes tend to be less popular or revered than male ones and that several heroines like Supergirl and Batgirl are basically just extensions of their male counterparts (Superman for Supergirl and Batman for Batgirl), there are plenty of female superheroes besides Wonder Woman who are not intended as gender-flipped versions of male ones, such as Starfire and Raven (coincidentally also voiced by Tara Strong).
- A similar-looking character is seen as the pick-up clerk of a donut shop in the episode Cop Out.
- The symbols on her outfit and weapon are based on the symbol ♀, which stands for Venus, coming from the mythology goddess Aphrodite, and extending into the meaning of the female sex.
- She is one of five female villains to have been featured in the 1998 series.
- Manboy, a villain from the 2016 reboot series is loosely based off Femme Fatale.