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Mojo Jojo is a fictional character in the animated series The Powerpuff Girls. He is a notorious, genius monkey mad scientist who lives in his lab in the middle of Townsville, USA atop a dormant volcano, and his main goal is to destroy the Powerpuff Girls. In order to do this he spends much of his time plotting and inventing new weapons technology.

Ironically, Mojo Jojo is responsible for creating the Powerpuff Girls. He was a lab assistant named Jojo, working for Professor Utonium when he caused the professor to accidentally add Chemical X to his formula of sugar and spice and everything nice. This accident created the Powerpuff Girls, but it also caused Jojo's brain to grow huge, turning him into the notorious Mojo Jojo. He wears a delicate glass dome hat over his gigantic brain.

Mojo Jojo speaks English with a Japanese accent. He has a bad habit of repeating, reiterating, and re-phrasing the same sentences over and over, continuously. In other words, he is quite redundant. That is to say he wants to make sure he wants to get his point across. He gets this speech pattern from a humorous interpretation of dialogue that is dubbed, probably from Japanese into English. It takes a longer time to say certain things in Japanese than in English. When dubbing, one wants to keep the English speaker's mouth moving for as long as the Japanese actor's mouth is moving. This can most easily be done by repeating phrases, again and again, and again. Thus a character in a Japanese movie seems to be repeating himself when listened to by English-speaking audiences. (See: Engrish)

He is disliked by other monkeys, who think he gives monkeys a bad name; when he's not doing bad things, he's also a great (and rather artistic) chef.

Funny enough, there are a few shows with Mojo saving the day, rather than the Powerpuff Girls. He usually hates to face it.

See also: List of fictional monkeys