Dick Hardly

"I'm glad you came, girls. I need more Chemical X!"

- Dick Hardley when his lies were found out by the Powerpuff Girls.

Dick Hardley was a one-shot character in The Powerpuff Girls and the main antagonist in the episode "Knock it Off."

Biography
He was an old college roommate of Professor Utonium. Though Utonium initially considered him a friend, Dick always took advantage of him and unlike the former only sought financial profit in science. His first name may be a pun on the fact that he is, well... a jerk.

One day, when Hardley paid a visit to the Utonium residence, he believed the girls were worth a great deal of money, but Utonium demands Hardley to leave when he realizes how greedy he is. The next day, Hardley offers the girls a ride home from school and asks for the ingredients. The girls then takes a flask of Chemical X from Utonium's laboratory and passes it to Hardley. He then made his own clones of the girls, starting a business and selling them and obtaining fame and money. He gradually gets more and more greedy as a result, and treated the clones as nothing more than selling products, using minimum materials and Chemical X so that they would fall apart and he could continue selling more copies. At one point, his employees mistakenly created a seemingly perfect version of Buttercup, and he had her melted down for her Chemical X.

When the girls confront him about his stealing, he ingests the rest of the Chemical X to attack the girls, growing into a giant monster, who defeats the Powerpuffs easily. He then starts to drain the girls of their chemicals. Utonium comes and proposes Hardley to take him instead, offering to be his slave for the rest of his life, but he ignores his pleas and decides to take them both. However, when the clones see how much the Professor loves his daughters, they rebel against Hardley, who never showed any love to them and only used them to make money. Utonium escapes with the Girls while Hardley is killed by his numerous creations.

Despite being a one-time character, he is one of the most evil villains in the series and sometimes considered as cruel as (if not more cruel than) HIM. He is also the only one to actually defeat the girls, as he would have killed them if it wasn't for his clones rebelling against him. Finally, he is also one of the few villains to die.

Trivia

 * Dick's last name happens to be a pun on the word "hardly."
 * Though only a one-shot villain, he is considered to be the most evil Powerpuff Girls villain of all.