Rainbow the Clown is a clown who entertains children at parties. After a truck with bleach hits him, he turns black and white and gets superpowers. Rainbow's evil alter ego, Mr. Mime, has the power to erase colors by touch and even render objects and animals, people, and music mute. For instance at first, he touches the bleach trucker and secondly the little boy who holds a balloon. He turned back into a very grateful Rainbow after the girls perform a song that restores Townsville's colors. He thanks the girls for bringing him back to life, but they beat him up and send him to Jail anyway.
Rainbow later reappeared in Birthday Bash as a guest at the Powerpuff Girls’ birthday party meaning that he had at least been released from prison early and was on good terms with the girls. He also appeared in Mojo Jojo's Villain Parade as Mr. Mime causing trouble in the town.
Rainbow was voiced by Tom Kenny.
Episode appearances[]
- Mime for a Change (first appearance)
- Birthday Bash (as Rainbow the Clown)
- Daylight Savings (cameo) (as Mr. Mime)
- The Powerpuff Girls Rule! (cameo) (as Rainbow the Clown)
Trivia[]
- Rainbow's alter ego, "Mr. Mime", shares the same name with a Pokémon.
- Originally, Rainbow was going to be let off the hook by the girls, but the executives wanted Rainbow to be end up being beaten up by the girls and thrown in jail because the executives held him responsible for the whole thing in the first place where he was his evil, dark alter ego, Mr. Mime. When asked about this, Craig McCracken said that the final ending is the original ending, but he would not make a gag like that in his future work due to how mean-spirited the gag was.[1]
- Mr. Mime resembles a black-and-white version of Koko the Clown, a Betty Boop character (from Fleischer Studios) deriving from the Golden Age of American animation.
- Mr. Mime's name pretty much based on Mr. Hyde from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" who is the evil alter ego of the good scientist, Dr. Jekyll. Rainbow becomes an evil black-and-white mime who hates colors and turns everybody and everything black-and-white-and-gray and mute every time he got bleached, which it also changes his personality as well.
- He sounds like Dog from CatDog.
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