• A trailer for the cancelled Powerpuff Girls live action series from The CW has emerged online.
• Despite efforts to remove the video by Warner Bros., some users on social media are still posting in.
• The show was cancelled, but not before attempting to make Blossom a burn-out, turn Buttercup woke, and Bubbles into an alcoholic.

A trailer for the cancelled live-action Powerpuff Girls series from The CW has been leaked online thanks to the Lost Media Busters YouTube channel, but just as quickly as the trailer saw the light of day, it has been removed from YouTube and other social media platforms.

The three and a half minute trailer establishes the difference between the Cartoon Network classic and the doomed live action series which glosses over the childhood of the super-powered trio and jumps into their young adulthood.

Here, Buttercup is woke, Blossom is stressed and burnt out, and Bubbles becomes an alcoholic. Surely, fans who grew up watching the animated series would have loved this version of the characters. Oh – and Mojo Jojo has been retconned into Mojo and Jojo, essentially a guy and his son, who are the main villains.

Unlike the leaked opening for the Deadpool film, we have a strong doubt that the leak of this trailer will ever lead to this version of the live action Powerpuff Girls being made.

While Warner Bros. has been on a tear through the internet culling every major source of the video, we have found a X account that has reposted the entire video because as the old axoim goes: cut off one head and three more will take its place.

BREAKING : Leaked video of the cancelled live-action adaptation of The Powerpuff Girls that was meant to air on The CW.
Yep, it's as bad as you think. pic.twitter.com/sIZ2d9xw7V

— Burner 🪶バーナー (@WagonnBurner) March 6, 2025

You may be saying, “there’s no way this is the real trailer for a show that was actually bankrolled, produced, shot, acted and then went into post-production.” You would be wrong, as The CW has confirmed to Variety that the leaked trailer is real.

“The reason you do pilots is because sometimes things miss, and this was just a miss,” said CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz per an IGN article.

“We believe in the cast completely. We believe in Diablo [Cody] and Heather [Regnier], the writers. We believe in the auspices of Greg Berlanti and Warner studios. In this case the pilot didn’t work. But because we see there’s enough elements in there, we wanted to give it another shot. So that’s why we didn’t want to go forward with what we had.”

The trailer sadly shows yet another failed effort to remake Craig McCracken’s action-comedy about three little girls who save the world before bedtime using comic book superhero powers. This turn at the series, nor the remake in 2016, have been able to capture the heart of the series in any way, shape, or form.

We sincerely hope they leave The Powerpuff Girls alone from now on.