The Permanent Naughty Plaque is an item from The Powerpuff Girls. It is an alternative counterpart plaque of Santa’s naughty list for anyone who are so naughty and beyond redemption as eternal punishment which, unlike the other list, meaning they’ll never get any presents from him for life.
Appearance[]
It is an enchanted, tall yellow and red plaquette with the underlined word “NAUGHTY” inscribed in enormous dark-red letters, with five names below it:
- Bill McCracken
- Ryan Faust
- Adolph Schicklgruber
- Stephen Fonti
- Princess Morbucks.
The upper edge of the plaque’s frame is carved in the shape of The Devil’s Head.
History[]
It is the day before Christmas Eve in Townsville, and the students at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, including the Powerpuff Girls, are all anxiously awaiting Santa Claus’s annual journey. When the Powerpuff Girls discuss their requests to Santa, Princess comes upon them and declares that, since her father is rich and can buy her any material goods, her desire to be a Powerpuff Girl is what she has requested from Santa.
However, the Girls tell Princess she will not be getting her wish from Santa and will instead only be getting coal since she is most definitely naughty, citing her actions in previous episodes and her overall personality as proof.
The Powerpuff Girls gave Princess proof like when Princess bought the city and legalize crime, hired Mojo Jojo to try to destroy Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup, gave them a bomb for their birthday, teamed up with Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and HIM and went on a crime spree, and tricked their friend Robin Snyder into stealing and then tattled on her. To this point, Princess furiously refuses to believe them, but when her servants become afraid to answer when she asks them if it is true, she decides to investigate. While everyone else in Townsville (even Mojo Jojo) gets their houses prepared for Santa’s arrival, Princess flies her private jet to the North Pole and sneaks into Santa's workshop. When she finds his documents, to her dismay and horror, she finds out she is the only child in the world who is on the naughty list (which is a Post-It note).
In response, she erases the headlines of the lists and switches them around, making it now look like she is the world’s only nice child and that everyone else is naughty.
During Christmas Eve, Bubbles wakes up after hearing Santa come and goes downstairs to get an early look at the presents, but is devastated when she not only finds no presents under the tree and the milk and cookies untouched, but also lumps of coal in her stocking. She then gets suspicious when she finds coal in Blossom and Buttercup's stockings as well and then, using her x-ray vision, sees all the other children in Townsville have no presents and untouched milk and cookies and have also received coal as well. She wakes up her sisters and tells them of this strange occurrence. The Girls decide to confront Santa, thinking he must have made a mistake.
However, as soon as they get outside, they are suddenly attacked by a now-superpowered Princess, who gloats over the fact she has now gotten what she wanted. She then says she is going to go tell Santa that the Girls are coming to destroy his workshop and ruin Christmas forever for branding them naughty.
The Girls chase Princess all the way to the North Pole, trying to deter her progress on the way until the four of them eventually crash through the roof of Santa’s workshop, destroying the whole place.
Santa, who is exhausted and disheartened by a night of delivering coal to everyone and the delusion of all the children in the world being naughty, comes in on their battle and Princess tries to convince him not to listen to the Girls.
However, he has a hard time feeling he should not since he already knows the Powerpuff Girls are really good people and always save the day from danger, to which the Powerpuff Girls happily confirm and knowing the truth.
Frustrated, Princess Morbucks then unleashes her ultimate villainous breakdown right in front of Santa, insulting him and threatening to have her father demolish the workshop and have a massive parking lot built over it unless she is given what she wants, even at the cost of making all the other children in the world so miserable and going as far as to cap off her ultimate rant with the insult of calling him “Santa Clod”, which leaves Santa Claus and the Powerpuff Girls completely horrified.
Realizing the deception that Princess Morbucks deliberately tampered with his lists, Santa furiously rips up the Post-It note and declares he doesn’t need a list to know who is truly naughty and nice because he knows better.
Declaring this to be the last straw, Santa is left with no other choice but to put Princess’s name on the Permanent Naughty Plaque as eternal punishment, meaning she’ll never get any presents from him for the rest of her life. Horrified, heartbroken, and enraged by this, Princess angrily flies off to tell her father on Santa, only for the latter to strip her of her superpowers. He then says he shall rectify his mistake of giving all the children coal, but upon seeing his reindeer running around scared and his sleigh's destroyed as a result of the battle, realizing he’ll not be able to do so.
Fortunately, since the Girls can fly so quickly, he asks them to deliver the presents. The Girls happily agree to do so, dropping Princess off to jail on the way. After finishing the job, the Girls return home to bed, but they do not stay asleep for long because it’s now Christmas morning and open presents with the Professor. As the narrator says at the end, Christmas is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls.
Trivia[]
- Three names on Santa’s Permanent Naughty Plaque have the last names “McCracken”, “Faust” and “Fonti”. This is a reference to three of the series’ creators, Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust, and Steven Fonti.
- The third-to-last name of “Adolph Shickelgruber” is what Adolf Hitler’s name would have been if his father had not changed his own several years before the infamous Austrian-German dictator was born.