Are you familiar with the tragedy of Jojo the smart?
He had once been a regular monkey who acted as the companion and laboratory assistant to the brilliant Professor Utonium. The professor was desperate to be a father and endeavored on a daring experiment to create the perfect little girls. Throwing himself into his work, the professor neglected Jojo, leaving the sensitive primate bitter and anxious. In a fit of anger, Jojo pushed the professor knocking over a vial of the strange and dangerous ‘chemical X.’ This resulted in a terrific explosion that not only created The Powerpuff Girls but also drastically altered Jojo.
The mutagenic properties of Chemical X caused the monkey’s skin to turn green and his brain grow several times in size, bestowing him an unparalleled intellect. Jojo tried to win the professor’s attention with his newfound cognitive gifts, yet the professor was too busy with his new daughters to pay him any mind. Jojo's pain, his jealousy and resentment grew into a blinding rage. He ran away and rededicated himself to using his genius to destroy Townsville and conquer the world.
Now known as Mojo Jojo, the monkey embarked on a campaign of sinister and ingenious machination so to achieve his goals of domination. And time and again the Powerpuff Girls have been there to stop him. It has made for a cruel irony that these same rivals for the professor's attention would also become Jojo’s most persistent and vexing of arch nemeses.
And yet the monkey persisted and was ultimately victorious. Mojo Jojo succeeded in finally conquering the world. Rather than ruling the planet with an iron fist as he always imagined he would, the monkey instead solved many of world's problems and proved himself a most capable and benevolent of leaders.
Alas this did little to quell the deeply seated feelings of pain and unmet need he had within him. Ultimately, Mojo Jojo became bored with the peace he had achieved and reverted to his evil ways. The world resumed to its former status quo and Jojo returned his role as a villain whose diabolical schemes were regularly thwarted by the Powerpuff Girls.
Whether or not this simian Sisyphus will ever attain that which has remained out of his longing grasp remains yet to be told…
Actor Roger L. Jackson provides the voice for Mojo Jojo; with the villain first appearing in the debut episode of The Powerpuff Girls, airing on November 18th, 1998.
