Zoinks❕💥

(This got way longer then I thought it would so read if you want to)

2002: The Powerpuff Girls movie, it shows the origin of the Powerpuff Girls.

This newspaper gives the date, Wednesday July 3, 2002 placing that year for when Ace is 17 and oh look! Our first mention of Gorillaz (and not the only reference to Gorillaz in the movie) If you get a higher quality photo of this then I did you can actually read the whole article about them going to do a show in Townsville’s music festival. I believe there’s a high quality picture on the Gorillaz wikia in Ace’s gallery. I don’t know when the Townsville music festival was but the news article mentions that tickets go on sale Saterday.

My guess is that the music festival is where the band and Ace first meet somehow.

It can be assumed that most of, if not all episodes of PPG takes place in 2002 seeing as the girls never move on from kindergarden, so that places all episodes with Ace here too. (Though in season two it is implied that a year has passed a few times. They are still in kindergarten though)

Later in the year, but with no clear place in the timeline, the comics show the Gangreen Gang singing in front of a crowd (Unfortunately I don’t have that comic yet) So this shows us Ace taking an interest in music.

Christmas rolls around in ‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas and we see Ace is on the nice list.

I feel like it’s safe to assume that Ace is 18 now, but I don’t know his Birthday.

2003: This is where the reboot of PPG SHOULD be taking place timeline wise, but that show has 2016 technology and is clearly set in 2016. Due to them not knowing how to keep any facts at all and repeatedly throwing it’s own continuity away I am deeming 2016 PPG as non-canon. There’s no where to put it that makes sense, 2003 doesn’t work because setting, 2016 doesn’t work due to age, how school works, time itself.

Nevertheless, The one instance in that show that Ace is there and it isn’t a cameo he’s in a talent show, so even though I’m not counting this show in at all it’s interesting to note that.

2009: This is where things get complicated, so, in Fusion Fall, Buttercup loses her memory in a fight with Mojo Jojo and the Gangreen gang find her and start helping her. Ace is now 24-25 years old and looks like this.

Then, Buttercup now known as Belladonna and the Gangreen gang start a band together, we know Ace plays a Guitar because his idle animation has him do an air guitar movement. 

Their band is super popular and many NPCs all over the game talk about loving them. This has caused the Gangreen Gang to stop committing crime.

Then an sentient alien planet named Fuse threatens to destroy the world. Dexter, from Dexter’s Laboratory accidentally sends someone to 2019 where the world is just straight up, irreparably destroyed, and all that’s left is a few people holding a failing resistance while nearly every Cartoon Network character is MIA and assumed dead.

So, the person sent to the future returns to the past with the tech that the future developed too late and they start using it in the past back in 2009 to turn the tide of war.

So back in the past Heroes and Villains have all teamed up. So what Fuse does is steal items from people to make fusion clones of them, and the tech from the future takes defeated fusions and imaginary energy (related to the imaginary friends from foster’s home for imaginary friends and is a counter weapon against Fuse) and makes a Nano, a tiny friendly copy of whoever the Fusion was a copy of.

Mojo Jojo has sent his underlings to search for Buttercup because literally everyone is worried sick and they are all desperate to find her. Someone finds her hanging out with Ace and she has all her memories back. But even though she has her memories back she doesn’t go to see her family or help in the fight.

There is a Nano of Ace but you never get to see the Nano, the only evidence of the Nano is that Ace needs to give up a guitar string so Dexlabs can use it to improve the Nano.

Later, at Christmas, Chowder from Chowder shows up and has a bunch of Knishmas presents (yes, Knishmas) and they all got stolen. One was stolen by Ace who gives it back as soon as he’s questioned, and Buttercup gets mad at him. The present was for Grim from Grim Adventures. It’s food though so Grim is unable to eat it. There is no option to just give it back to Ace.

So that whole ordeal ends and Ace didn’t really participate in the fight at all but! He did make a Rock Band and that’s important because now him joining Gorillaz makes a lot more sense.

2018: Ace is 33-34 years old and joins Gorillaz, I think we all know how that goes. But now it’s not so out of left field because Ace was established as a musician and Gorillaz was established as being in the same universe. (and even going to Townsville) 

Also I feel confident in saying the Ace is an actor can ALSO work in this because if I remember correctly in universe the Powerpuff Girls get a TV show based off of their exploits (They also get a ton of merch, and that’s part of the plot of an episode) and Ace seems the type to 100% play himself on the show.

Who better to play himself than himself? Dude just gives of a loves to act vibe every once in a while in the show. Plus he’s good at acting on the show because he’s experienced it for real. He’d probably give good tips to the kid actors playing the PPG, though the real ones would probably drop in once in a while to make sure Ace isn’t causing trouble or lying about details.

I’m glad this is still funny even though Phase 6 is out and it’s slightly different than what I initially suggested

Everyone’s talking about how the new mythical pokémon looks a lot like Mojo Jojo and other ppg similarities so I thought… It’s crossover time!