Good day, which is to say good morning, or afternoon, or night depending on where you are situated on this planet named Planet Earth relative to the Sun. Today I, Gitaxian_Probe, so named after the card whose effects are tripartite; that is to say, you look at your opponent’s hand, referring to the cards the player adversarial to you is holding in their physical hand or hands which are by default hidden, it replaces itself, which is to say that you draw a card after its resolution for a net gain/loss of zero cards in your own hand, again referring to the cards you have in your hand which are by default hidden, and you may pay one U, which is to say blue mana, produced typically by an Island but also by miscellaneous lands, artifacts or creatures, or two of your own life points, of which you have twenty at the beginning, that you may spend two of to cast the card for free, that is, without expending any sort of mana whatsoever to cast it, shall explain to you who read MtGSalvation, this forum on which I am writing this post that is dedicated (as you and I, the readers and writer, respectively, most probably are) to the trading card game Magic: the Gathering, invented by Richard Garfield, which is also the first trading card game in existence, which is to say that it is the first game involving cardboard cards being used as representations of spells by which you may build a deck of at least 60 around a central strategy, why Mojo Jojo, the main and most famous villain of the titular Powerpuff Girls of which the show The Powerpuff Girls is named after, is aligned with Temur – that is to say, of the five colors Magic: the Gathering is based around, namely white, blue, black, red and green, and their corresponding traits, by which I mean all five colors have themes and traits associated with them, and as a presumed player of Magic: the Gathering I assume you are at least passingly familiar or acquainted with and I shall elaborate no further on them for the sake of the brevity of this post, which is to say its shortness and conciseness of which I wish to assure, Mojo Jojo, the mentioned character on which this thread’s explanation is about, is predominantly aligned with the colors blue, red and green.
It is true that Mojo Jojo’s characterization is inconsistent within the show The Powerpuff Girls, which is to say it varies wildly from episode to episode depending on the writer or even the writer’s mood, which is to say even two different episodes written by the same writer may contain vastly different portrayals of Mojo Jojo’s motives, actions and mannerisms. For instance, Mr. Mojo’s Risin’, the episode where Mojo Jojo acquires through deceit the Powerpuff Girls’ powers could be considered within the Magic: the Gathering color pie, that is, the aforementioned five colors as arranged onto a pie chart which thereby makes them resemble a pie, as “Grixis,” or the color combination associated with blue, black and red. In that episode, Mojo Jojo uses deceit (UB) of the Professor using guilt (R) as well as enthusiastically crafted machinery (UR) to convince him to give Mojo Jojo a copy (UB) of the Powerpuff Girls’ powers, through which he then settles his vendetta (BR). This inconsistency is for the very simple fact that the Powerpuff Girls is a children’s show, which is to say its primary purpose is to amuse small children, who are usually not familiar with notions of characterization or consistent internal logic behind actions, and Mojo Jojo’s actions, as dictated by the writers, have the primary motive of creating a plot, or a sequence of events with a definite beginning or end, by which they shall amuse said small children for monetary gain.
However, in the Powerpuff Girls Movie, which is to say the big-budget, critically acclaimed albeit commercially unsuccessful, which is to say it made a net loss to the producers when it was released, we see a greater consistency, as the movie forms one cohesive story, instead of multiple disparate stories sequestered or separated each into 10-minute animated shorts, shows a much more straightforward motive for Mojo Jojo’s actions because of its linearity, which is to say it comprises one cohesive story, thus forcing the writers to create one underlying rationale for Mojo Jojo’s actions, without which the movie would make little sense. Mojo Jojo, in what is a direct reference to the acclaimed Planet of the Apes movie, recreates the same accident in which he was doused with Chemical X, thus endowing himself with superhuman intellect, intentionally in all the monkeys of Townsville Zoo, which is to say he grants the otherwise non-sapient monkeys superhuman intellect on par with his own, to create a “Planet of the Apes,” which is to say a society where superhuman intelligent monkeys such as himself shall rule over the relatively weaker and less intelligent humans. Unlike a mono-Black villain, that is to say a villain with the color alignment B, he does not enslave or brainwash said monkeys – he grants them the same level of intelligence as him and expects them to follow him out of primogeniture, or the fact that he preceded them and was the direct cause of their newfound intelligence. He wants his tribe to rule, which is consistent with the canonically mono-Green villain Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen’s characterization, which in layman’s terms means that the two of them share the same basic motives and their plans and methods only differ because of the differing settings they were written in. In addition, his uplifting of primates is consistent with a UG ethos, that is to say mission statement, of uplifting and improving upon nature, that is to say he is granting primates, who are already physically superior to humans, superhuman intellect, or intellect greater than humans, thus marking them as both physically and cognitively superior to humans and thus more fit to rule the Earth. At the climax of the film he proceeds to destroy, which is to say demolish or steamroll, all of the artificial markers of human society to replace it with his own, an RG action to be sure, which is to say it involves the destruction of artificial society for the purposes of regrowth. And of course, his personality is very UR – that is to say, he is aligned with both rationality (U) and his own instinctive emotions (R) and uses both in a manner befitting a “mad scientist” of which the canonically UR Izzet League are themed after.
I believe that Mojo Jojo is an example of a villainous Temur character, at least in his portrayal in the Powerpuff Girls movie. While it is true that he is inconsistently characterized as either UR, RG or even simply BR (like in all the episodes where he is a bank robber), this is because Mojo Jojo is a villain in a children’s show and is intended to fill the intentionally vaguely defined role of “bad guy.” Being a standalone movie, The Powerpuff Girls Movie portrays a much more cohesive characterization for the monkey.
At heart, Mojo Jojo has a Simic motive. He claims a natural right to rule (G) because of his intellectual superiority (U), and grants his tribe (G) superhuman intellect (UG) so that they can claim humanity’s role as the dominant species for themselves (G). This is consistent with mono-Green villain Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen’s desire to exterminate and rule over all non-Elf creatures.
In addition, he has a penchant for ape-like, mindless destruction of human society and civilization (RG) and a fervent verbosity through which he communicates his superhuman intellect through (UR). (Side-note, he’s also an example of an intelligent Gruul character. Eat your hearts out!)
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It is true that Mojo Jojo’s characterization is inconsistent within the show The Powerpuff Girls, which is to say it varies wildly from episode to episode depending on the writer or even the writer’s mood, which is to say even two different episodes written by the same writer may contain vastly different portrayals of Mojo Jojo’s motives, actions and mannerisms. For instance, Mr. Mojo’s Risin’, the episode where Mojo Jojo acquires through deceit the Powerpuff Girls’ powers could be considered within the Magic: the Gathering color pie, that is, the aforementioned five colors as arranged onto a pie chart which thereby makes them resemble a pie, as “Grixis,” or the color combination associated with blue, black and red. In that episode, Mojo Jojo uses deceit (UB) of the Professor using guilt (R) as well as enthusiastically crafted machinery (UR) to convince him to give Mojo Jojo a copy (UB) of the Powerpuff Girls’ powers, through which he then settles his vendetta (BR). This inconsistency is for the very simple fact that the Powerpuff Girls is a children’s show, which is to say its primary purpose is to amuse small children, who are usually not familiar with notions of characterization or consistent internal logic behind actions, and Mojo Jojo’s actions, as dictated by the writers, have the primary motive of creating a plot, or a sequence of events with a definite beginning or end, by which they shall amuse said small children for monetary gain.
However, in the Powerpuff Girls Movie, which is to say the big-budget, critically acclaimed albeit commercially unsuccessful, which is to say it made a net loss to the producers when it was released, we see a greater consistency, as the movie forms one cohesive story, instead of multiple disparate stories sequestered or separated each into 10-minute animated shorts, shows a much more straightforward motive for Mojo Jojo’s actions because of its linearity, which is to say it comprises one cohesive story, thus forcing the writers to create one underlying rationale for Mojo Jojo’s actions, without which the movie would make little sense. Mojo Jojo, in what is a direct reference to the acclaimed Planet of the Apes movie, recreates the same accident in which he was doused with Chemical X, thus endowing himself with superhuman intellect, intentionally in all the monkeys of Townsville Zoo, which is to say he grants the otherwise non-sapient monkeys superhuman intellect on par with his own, to create a “Planet of the Apes,” which is to say a society where superhuman intelligent monkeys such as himself shall rule over the relatively weaker and less intelligent humans. Unlike a mono-Black villain, that is to say a villain with the color alignment B, he does not enslave or brainwash said monkeys – he grants them the same level of intelligence as him and expects them to follow him out of primogeniture, or the fact that he preceded them and was the direct cause of their newfound intelligence. He wants his tribe to rule, which is consistent with the canonically mono-Green villain Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen’s characterization, which in layman’s terms means that the two of them share the same basic motives and their plans and methods only differ because of the differing settings they were written in. In addition, his uplifting of primates is consistent with a UG ethos, that is to say mission statement, of uplifting and improving upon nature, that is to say he is granting primates, who are already physically superior to humans, superhuman intellect, or intellect greater than humans, thus marking them as both physically and cognitively superior to humans and thus more fit to rule the Earth. At the climax of the film he proceeds to destroy, which is to say demolish or steamroll, all of the artificial markers of human society to replace it with his own, an RG action to be sure, which is to say it involves the destruction of artificial society for the purposes of regrowth. And of course, his personality is very UR – that is to say, he is aligned with both rationality (U) and his own instinctive emotions (R) and uses both in a manner befitting a “mad scientist” of which the canonically UR Izzet League are themed after.
At heart, Mojo Jojo has a Simic motive. He claims a natural right to rule (G) because of his intellectual superiority (U), and grants his tribe (G) superhuman intellect (UG) so that they can claim humanity’s role as the dominant species for themselves (G). This is consistent with mono-Green villain Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen’s desire to exterminate and rule over all non-Elf creatures.
In addition, he has a penchant for ape-like, mindless destruction of human society and civilization (RG) and a fervent verbosity through which he communicates his superhuman intellect through (UR). (Side-note, he’s also an example of an intelligent Gruul character. Eat your hearts out!)