Boomubbles

Boomubbles is the het ship between Boomer and Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls fandom.

Canon
Boomer and Bubbles first meet in the Season 1 episode "The Rowdyruff Boys" in which Mojo Jojo creates evil male counterparts to the Powerpuff Girls. Boomer is the male counterpart of Bubbles, rocking a similar appearance to Bubbles. During the episode, the Powerpuff Girls try to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys by beating them up, though are overpowered by their strength. Ms. Bellum tells them the only way to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys is by 'being nice'. This leads to Bubbles kissing Boomer, which in turn grosses him out so bad he explodes. Bubbles, after kissing Boomer, expresses the fact she likes kissing; which could imply a liking to the boy.

They meet again in "The Boys Are Back In Town" wherein Him revives the Rowdyruff Boys, giving them new looks, to try and defeat the Powerpuff Girls. Him also injects the boys with a cootie vaccination, unknown to the Powerpuff Girls. The Powerpuff Girls remember how they defeated the boys previously, which leads them to have the idea to kiss the boys. Bubbles says in response to this "Ooh, ooh! I want the blonde, I think he's cute!" The kissing doesn't work, and in fact makes the boys grow stronger. This leads to the Rowdyruff Boys beating up the girls, with Boomer specifically picking out Bubbles, in turn due to the fact he is her counterpart.

In the episode "City of Clipsville" in a clip section where they became teenagers who gave up fighting crime, Bubbles is a teenage girl who finds herself having an immediate attraction to the teenaged version of Boomer. She decides to awkwardly talk to him while a monster is destroying the mall they're in. While the scene is a parody of the fanfiction people were creating at the time, it still has led people to ship them.

They continue to interact in other episodes where the Rowdyruff Boys appear, although the interactions are brief and mostly consist of them trying to beat each other up.

Fanon
Boomubbles is the most popular ship for the respective characters in the Powerpuff Girls fandom, having over 290 works on AO3. The characters are most often paired up immediately, due to each of the characters having the fandom perception being the nicest of their siblings.

Boomubbles is most often used in fanworks that include the other popular ships, Blossick and Butchercup. The ship is part of the popular trifecta of ships previously mentioned dubbed Color Code, due to the fact they have almost the same color palette with minor shade changes.

This ship is notably the least popular of the trifecta though, due to the fact that the characters are most usually background characters in fanfiction. They have the least individual content without other ships. Despite that, they are still the third most popular ship in the Powerpuff Girls fandom in general. Within the fandom, there is also the popular fanon that Bubbles affectionately gives Boomer the nickname "Boomie", although this is never stated in the show.

Fandom

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