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* LimitedSocialCircle: Surprisingly enough, while she's certainly popular enough around school, in the cheerleader club, and around the world, she only really hangs out with 2 people, Ron and Monique. In "Motor Ed", she's left with literally nothing to do when Ron made other plans instead of hanging out with her.

* BerserkButton:
** In "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E3TwoToTutor Two to Tutor]]", she did ''not at all'' appreciate being called "little missy", getting an AffectionateGestureToTheHead and [[NotNowKiddo being dismissed by Granny Crockett and her Texan security chief]].

* WomenAreWiser: She's usually comes off as the more reasonable and grounded one when compared to sidekick and best friend, Ron. However, [[NotSoAboveItAll she is prone to the insecurities of a teenage girl and her A-type personality can cause problems, leaving it to Ron to balance her out.]]

* DudeMagnet: Many guys find her attractive. Just ask [[MellowFellow Josh]], [[DumbBlonde Brick]], [[BoyBand all four of the Oh Boyz]] and [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Ron]].

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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Once built a doomsday machine when forced to by Drakken out of a mish-mash of spare parts, which actually works somehow.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: ''Repeatedly''. Kim [[LampshadeHanging even notes that he's prone to "big-headedness"]].
* AffectionateNickname: Ron calls Kim "KP."
* AllegedlyDateless: He's overly concerned with social rankings and considered a loser by his school peers. Yet he seems popular among girls such as Yori and Kim (the latter of whom eventually becomes his girlfriend), along with Zita, and a crush by another cheerleader.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ron is treated with a lot of disrespect by his high school peers, the only exception being Kim. Though despite that, his peers approve of his relationship with Kim (they actually ''cheer'' when they finally get together.) He loses their disrespect all together when he becomes the star running back.
* AloneWithThePsycho: In "Monkey Fist Strikes", he's trapped alone in the Fiske mansion when the archeologist [[EvilAllAlong reveals his true colors]] and the Kim with him is revealed to actually be Wade's Holo-Kim. At the same time in Larry's house, the real Kim learns that Fiske is a master of Monkey Kung Fu and puts two-and-two together.
* AloofBigBrother: Initially, Ron was less than enthusiastic about having a new baby sister, but quickly came to {{invert|edTrope}} this trope.
* AmazonChaser: His major love interests are [[ActionHero Kim]] and [[{{Ninja}} Yori]]. It's even lampshaded in [[Recap/KimPossibleS2E9VirtuRon Virtu-Ron]], where Ron and his crush, Zita, are [[InsideAComputerSystem trapped in an computer game]], and Zita leaps into action to rescue other players who have been captured by the VillainOfTheWeek.
-->'''Ron:''' Are all girls like this, or just the ones I know?
* AnimalMotifs:
** According to the Animology, Ron represents a sloth, specifically a ''pink'' sloth.
** Outside of Animology and a huge {{Irony}}, Ron goes on to gain significant ties with monkeys.
* AnimalTalk: Naked mole rats, mutant roaches, and monkeys.
* {{Animorphism}}:
** In "Return to Wannaweep", he dives into the muck pool that re-mutated Gil and comes out as a humanoid beaver.
** In ''Kim Possible: Legend of the Monkey's Eye'', he [[TakingTheBullet moves in the way of Monkey Fist firing the titular artifact at Kim]], [[ForcedTransformation turning him into a monkey]] until he's turned back at the end of the game.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny:
-->'''Ron''': All right so time is running out. But I will not panic KP.\\
'''Kim''': You are panicking, aren't you?\\
'''Ron''': Totally.\\
'''Kim''': Why do you do this to yourself?\\
'''Ron''': Kim, procrastination is one of the few skills I have mastered. ''Oh look! TV! ''
* BadassAdorable: When he [[LetsGetDangerous gets serious]] he can be formidably cute.
* BadassDriver:
** Both in "Tick-Tick-Tick" and in ''So the Drama'' he proved quite able in outrunning pursuers on his scooter, [[WhatAPieceOfJunk in spite of much mockery in regards to its top speed]].
** In "Royal Pain", he ably evades the Knights of Rodeghan's satellite laser while riding a go-kart.
* BadBoss: During the period of time when he was evil, he made sure to emphasize to Shego that only ''he'' would reap the benefits from world domination and preemptively threatened her with a shark tank to keep her from snarking at him like she typically did with Dr. Drakken. It actually got Shego to clam up and do as she's told.
* BadLiar: Ron is an ''atrocious'' liar. In ''So the Drama'', he exhibited every symptom of bluffing as they were being described by the Texan poker player and when Kim confronted him about Eric, and the three times he lied to Kim ("The Fearless Ferret", "Overdue" and "Gorilla Fist") she figured out that something was wrong, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper such as when he started piling lies on top of each other to keep Kim from finding out about Yori and Yamanuchi]] due to having been sworn to secrecy about it earlier.
* BalloonBelly: In "Animal Attraction" and "Grande Size Me" he gets bloated due to ignoring Mr. Barkin's nutritional advice.
* BattleCouple: With Kim. He's generally the distraction until the GrandFinale, where he comes to surpass her in combat by deliberately invoking his mystical monkey power for the first time.
* TheBeastmaster: Ron doesn't like all animals (see WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes), but he seems to have more luck with turning them over to his side than Kim. Even the villains' attack animals respond to this.
* BerserkButton:
** [[spoiler:Future Shego]] learned the hard way that forcing his family to move away and keep him from Kim was a very bad idea. Even worse than [[FelonyMisdemeanor destroying Bueno Nacho]].
** Disrespect to Bueno Nacho in general. "Grande Size Me" has him furious that Barkin said Bueno Nacho is not something to eat everyday, so he decides to eat nothing but Bueno Nacho from then on to prove him wrong. Likewise he wasn't pleased with Drakken when he used Bueno Nacho for his evil plan in ''So the Drama", legitimately scaring the villain when he forced him to remember his name.
* BestFriend: He is this to the titular character Kim Possible.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: There's a ''reason'' why Warmonga and Warhok are the only villains in the show explicitly confirmed to suffer CharacterDeath.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The boy eating 'nacos' and talking to a mole rat is ''not'' to be trifled with.
* BeYourself: The main theme of various of the episodes in which he stars in such as “Ron the Man” and “All the news”, coupled with his main motto ''Never be normal!''.
* BigBrotherInstinct:
** He's an only child for the first three seasons, but early in the fourth season, his parents adopt a baby Japanese girl named Hana. Ron at first refers to her as "the intruder", but then the "fraternal instincts kick in" and he quickly grows extremely attached to her.
** "Oh No! Yono!" has Ron with a real fear that he might lose Hana due to her being unable to defend herself against Yono (as he was supposed to train her in martial arts, but he "couldn't get her to turn a page in a book" and nobody told Ron straight out he was to train her). [[spoiler: However, with the "Flippie Dance" moves [[WaxOnWaxOff she learned]], Hana gets enough agility and athletic training to not just beat Monkey Fist but evade Yono.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: To Hana. He's dedicated to teaching her everything she needs to know, even how to turn a page.
* BigEater: It's implied that he spends most of his pocket change at Bueno Nacho. Taken to extremes during "Grande Size Me."
* BirdsOfAFeather: He shares some of his geeky interests with Mr. Dr. Possible, like their love for ''Captain Constellation''.
* BookDumb: To further contrast with Kim, he's a poor student. It's played for drama in the final season when he's afraid their grade differences will mean college separation.
* BrilliantButLazy: "Grade Point Average: you care, I don't." Yet with a simple shift in morality he's building weather machines and doomsday devices that put Drakken's best to shame.
* BrutalHonesty: Ron usually blurts out whatever is on his mind, so he tends to give uncomfortable or awkward truths straight without being sensitive or sparing any feelings, even (maybe even ''especially'') Kim's - albeit because he's tactless and doesn't get why people hide things, rather than because he's ''trying'' to be direct. This becomes even more of a RunningGag after they start dating: rather than say her hair looks good after it's been wrecked by a supervillain, he's more likely to obliviously muse about how he's ''supposed'' to tell her that without actually doing it.
* BullyHunter: A crucial part of the backstory behind his friendship with Kim. On their first day of preschool, Kim first meets Ron when he stands up for her against some playground bullies (a de-aged Drakken, Killigan, and Monkey Fist).
* ButtMonkey: A RunningGag is his pants falling down or ripping, or getting lost somehow.
* CasanovaWannabe: In "Crush", he tries to be smooth and ask out a lot of girls to the dance, but ultimately gets rejected.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** "That is [[SickAndWrong sick and wrong!]]"
** "Booyah!!"
*** Which morphs into an EvilLaugh when his SuperpoweredEvilSide kicks in.
** "That would be so cool if that wasn't gonna hurt us/the last thing we were ever gonna see!"
** “Bon Diggity” for things he finds awesome.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ron grows from a useless goof loser to something of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who ''can'' get the job done.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Not to the extent of Kim, but he occasionally shows superhuman abilities, like cutting a tree in half with a single kick in “Exchange”.
* ChickMagnet: Many girls have found him attractive. Just ask [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Kim]], [[NiceGirl Tara]], [[GamerChick Zita]], and [[YamatoNadeshiko Yori]]. He also had some ShipTease with [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]].
* ChildhoodFriend: While it's mentioned early on that Ron and Kim have known each other since early childhood, the movie ''A Sitch in Time'' actually shows their first meeting, on the first day of kindergarten. They're PlatonicLifePartners right up to ''[[SeriesFauxnale So the Drama]]'', where they undergo a RelationshipUpgrade to ChildhoodFriendRomance.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Kim. He has been her best friend since preschool and according to a comment Kim made, it took them at least twelve years to become a couple.
* TheChosenOne: He ''is'' the Monkey Master.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Ron marches to the beat fo his own drum and generally does some very odd things. He also has exhibited several instances of TheCuckoolanderWasRight where he will come up with some off-the-wall supposition about what is actually happening, which other characters will scoff at.
* CluelessChickMagnet:
** He didn't realize Tara liked him until after she was dating Josh and only because Kim told him.
** He didn't realize Yori liked him ''in that way'' until after their final meeting in the third season when she kissed him on the cheek and again, because Kim told him. He does actually question why girls aren't just more direct in telling someone they like them.
** As for Kim herself... the way she put it was that it took him "twelve stinkin' years" just to kiss her.
* CoolBigBro: He was initially aloof to Hana when she first came but quickly grew to love her. He's now an attentive, caring, and supportive brother.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: The Loser (unpopular underachiever) to Kim's Cool Kid (popular overachiever). They eventually have a RelationshipUpgrade.
* CoolLoser: He's not stupid, he's not a klutz (outside the pants thing), and he doesn't lack in social skills. He's often confident and he knows how to hit on the ladies-- they just reject him anyway. In addition, he's just as much a hero as Kim. The problem is possibly that he's rather lanky, which makes him look younger than he is (until he gets his great new hairstyle) and extremely dorky. In season 4 this is inverted as he's slides closer to BigManOnCampus after joining the school football team as the new star running back, though he still gets a lot of flak from [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]] and [[DrillSergeantNasty Barkin]] (mostly the former).
* CowardlyLion: His fears do not stop him from helping Kim. He may be afraid for his life, but he's still going in screaming to save the world. Kim's cousin admits this as why she decides to look up to Ron after a period of looking up to Kim.
* CowardlySidekick: Most of his action is running away and screaming. He even has a panic room.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Starts appearing in "Sink Or Swim," and pops up more and more often, usually shown when Kim was unavailable or incapacitated for whatever reason. [[spoiler: In the grand finale, he saves Kim's life (and the world) by using his monkey powers, which some fans likened unto [[Anime/DragonBallZ a Super Saiyan transformation]].]]
* CulturalRebel: Subverted and downplayed. Ron is of Jewish descent and does partake in Hanukkah and Kosher meals, but he also loves Christmas dearly.
* TheCutie: Cute, endearing, rarely hurts others? Yes, Ron's a [[GenderInvertedTrope rare male example]] of this trope.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Kim, but he has his moments. Doesn’t help that most villains [[EvilIsHammy make it way too easy]].
* DefenceMechanismSuperPower: From the moment he got his Mystical Monkey Powers, they came and went in times of dire situations. This was lampshaded in "Team Impossible". It wasn't until [[DieOrFly the moment when Kim was in mortal danger]] that he achieved full control over it.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: The second main focus after Kim.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While under the influence of the Attitudinator, his solution to get rid of Cousin Shaun after years of pent up frustration and torment is to retool his trike into an [=ATV=] that turns into a massive plasma catapult and ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill blast Shaun apart with it]]''.
* DistressedDude: Prone to being captured ''a lot'' by villains, usually due to his association with Kim.
* TheDreaded: Not normally, but his SuperpoweredEvilSide scares everyone, including the unflappable Shego. When Ron was briefly turned evil again in "Stop Team Go", cue a simultaneous OhCrap from Kim and Shego, and Ron mowing down Wego clones with contemptuous ease.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite being an important factor to Kim’s success, he gets no recognition for helping her saving the world (not even Kim seems to receive much recognition for it) and the villains are prone to forget his name.
* DumbBlonde: Subverted. He's a poor student, but a natural at cooking and learned a lot about survival at camp. He was also the one to figure out that Dr. Drakken had taken over Bueno Nacho.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Was normal at first and then he gets [[IKnowKungFaux Mystic Monkey Powers]] in ''Monkey Fist Strikes''. After that he enters this area off and on until the GrandFinale where he learns to control it completely and because of that, from that point on he clearly outclasses both Kim and Shego put together in terms of combat ability.
* EndearinglyDorky: He's a huge dork, and often an awkward and clumsy sidekick, but his loyalty to Kim and his unabashed optimism make him adorable. He's the TropeNamer for GiveGeeksAChance, as his popular and beautiful friend Kim eventually develops feelings for him. Kim admits that Ron is weird, but she likes that about him.
* EpicFail: More than a few.
** Jumping fences leads to him ripping his pants. Making two such jumps without ripping his pants was a major achievement.
** His attempts at mundane Monkey Kung Fu lead to hurting himself or losing his pants.
** During the "Big Bother" EggSitting assignment, he lost "Sacky" after ''two hours''. By the end of the episode, he's bought all of the flour at Smarty Mart and is at Sacky ''MCMXXXIIII'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint (The proper way of writing it would be MCMXXXIV)]]. He went through ''1934'' bags, and still got an F- because the last one was ''sugar''.
* EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas: Despite being explicitly Jewish, he's still a massive fan of the Christmas holiday, spending nearly every year celebrating it at the Possible home.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: While under the effects of the Attitudinator his skin turns blue and he starts wearing a fictional villain's costume for the rest of the episode.
* EvilerThanThou: While under the influence of the Attitudinator, he manages to outdo Shego, Drakken and Electronique as a villain. He proves to be more efficient at planning schemes, multitasking and using technology than Drakken, cows Shego into submission, and almost hijacks Electronique's plot while mocking her for her short-sightedness and nearly turning Kim evil twice.
--> '''Ron:''' Oh, you're going about this all wrong! You're acting like an evil poser!
* EvilIsHammy: Hoo ''boy''. Both times he gets turned evil by the [[MirrorMoralityMachine Attitudinator]], he ramps up the ham.
-->"[[EvilLaugh BoooyaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]"
* FaceYourFears: A recurring theme in the show is that Ron has to confront his fears in order to aid Kim. One of the most prominent examples is with his fear of monkeys; he has to confront them when he faces off against Monkey Fist alone by absorbing the Mystic Monkey Power that Monkey Fist used on himself. Ron's fear of monkeys is still present in later episodes, but lessened over time; in TheMovie, when ten-year-old Ron panics at the sight of a giant stone monkey, teenage Ron brushes it off while saying, "Dude, personal space."
* FatalFlaw: The moment he has any hint of popularity, he takes it ''too far''. The best examples would be when he got a new haircut and when he briefly became a millionaire. Also, by his own admission, paranoia.
* TheFool: Has elements of this, notably the "blundering towards success" part. Just call it [[LampshadeHanging The Ron Factor!]]
--> '''Ron:''' Not dumb luck, Kim! Dumb skill!
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Justified. Ron is the Responsible to Hana's Foolish because the latter is an infant who doesn't comprehend the dangers around her while Ron does.
* FreudianSlip: In ''Overdue'', when Ron searches various villain lairs for a lost book without Kim (who was stuck in library lockup at the time), Shego wonders where Kim is. Ron loudly blurts out that she isn't his girlfriend.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: In the episode "Bueno Nacho" after he is promoted to manager position at Bueno Nacho, he's forced to choose between his job or saving his friend, Kim. He chooses the latter.
* FunnyBruceLeeNoises: Most of his attempts at martial arts (except for a few occasions when [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass his Mystical Monkey Power comes to the fore]]).
* GenreSavvy: Ron is just as aware of villain clichés as Kim. Sometimes he points out that they should have expected some of the things the villains do. When he [[MirrorMoralityMachine goes evil]], this carries over, making him one of the most dangerous villains in the show.
* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: The relaxed Gleeful to Kim's uptight Grumpy.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: In ''[[TheMovie So The Drama]]'', his jealousy towards Kim and Eric's relationship is ultimately what makes him realize that he has feelings for Kim.
* GreenEyedMonster: While the series provides little to no instances, ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'' has him oozing jealously over Kim and Eric until Eric reveals himself as a synthodrone and Ron gives his love confession to Kim.
* HeroesWantRedheads: He eventually becomes an OfficialCouple with Kim, a red-head.
* HeroicBSOD: He suffers from one in episodes such as "Odds Man In" and "Graduation". In both cases, [[BerserkButton Kim being in danger]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass snaps him out of it]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: An interspecies example with Rufus, the mole rat that lives in his cargo pants pocket.
** Also, with Felix Renton, one of the few characters in the series who is closer to him than he is to Kim, to the point that Kim actually gets [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of their friendship.
* HiddenDepths: Many episodes, especially in the first couple of seasons, make it a point that Ron's self-confidence and free spirited attitude mean he rarely has an issue with the insecurities or social issues that stress Kim out, and he's often wise in the lessons Kim needs to learn in given episodes simply by way of knowing how to take things as they come - though this changes towards the end of the show. And that's before getting into the specific skills he turns out to have, like his culinary ability.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: His childhood was molded by him going to a run-down summer camp where he lived in an insect-infested cabin with the camp's chimp mascot, while the lake was clearly [[GrimyWater toxic]] and was later revealed to have mutagenic properties. There are numerous hints that his parents neglect him, but this comes out the most in his relationship with his teacher and Kim's family, which is funny until you realize he feels closer to them than he does his folks.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Whenever he gets [[LetsGetDangerous extremely serious]] in regards to fighting, he terrifies basically every other villain around him, most notably Shego when he was turned evil by the Attitudinator.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Oddly enough, he combines with BrilliantButLazy. He has the potential to be something special but doesn't work nearly as hard at it as Kim. Depending on the episode one will be more prominent than the other.
* InformedJudaism: Mentioned in the show a few times, such as in "Ron the Man" (where he talks about reading from the Torah and one of the guest stars is his rabbi) but the bit about not mixing meat and dairy obviously didn't take. He's probably not that serious about his religion because he's not that serious about ''anything''.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Especially in season 4. Ron feels like he is unworthy of dating Kim, which inspires him to step up more often.
* InSeriesNickname: He becomes known as "Unstoppable Stoppable" in ''Ill-Suited'', when he cheats his way onto the football team by using Kim's battlesuit. The name sticks when he begins playing honestly as the team's running-back. Due to the "mad running away skills" he [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower acquired through years of encounters with supervillains and deathtraps]], ''none of the other players can catch him''.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Sure, as Kim's sidekick and master of Mystical Monkey Powers he regularly saves the world, but he is also a dab hand at cookery, keeps a (pink!) naked mole rat as his pet, and is obsessed with trick-or-treating (the photo of him and Kim dressed up as a princess and a cowboy... respectively) and a certain Christmas animated special.
* {{Irony}}: Despite having a huge fear of monkeys, one of his two AnimalMotifs are monkeys.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He was going to pull one of this on ''[[TheMovie So the Drama]]'' if Kim had not returned his feelings and It’s heavily implied he was going to do the same in the grand finale if him and Kim hadn’t gotten into the same college.
--> '''Ron:''' After graduation you're.....you're headed to the stars and ummmm...I'm stuck on earth. But I don't want to hold you back. So whatever happens, I'm okay with it.
* JerkassBall:
** "Ron Millionaire" has him winning $99 million and becoming self-absorbed.
** "Grande Size Me" focuses on him proving his point that unhealthy foods aren't terrible, to the point where he becomes stubborn about it.
* {{Keet}}: {{Downplayed}}. He's more of a MellowFellow, but can become energetic at times more so than Kim.
%%* KidHero: Along with Kim.
* KiddieKid: A prime example would be the "Coach Possible" episode where, unlike most high schoolers, he doesn't mind hanging out at the local SuckECheeses and is horrified when the villains steal, then redress his favorite animatronic. ''"PIZZAPOTAMUS!!! [[BigNo NOOO!!!"]]''
* TheLancer: Kim's second in command (out of [[TeamPet three]]) and {{Foil}}.
* LaughOfLove: He giggled when Yori kissed him on the cheek at the end of "Gorilla Fist", much to Kim's [[JawDrop clear]] jealousy.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Evil!Ron's theme is Bach's "Toccata and Fugue".
* LetsGetDangerous: Has his fair share of moments of this through out the series, most notably on episodes that centers around him.
* LovableJock: He doesn't get the "jock" part until the last season (as the star running back), but even afterwards he still keeps his NiceGuy {{Cloudcuckoolander}} personality.
* ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: The cautious, sensitive, nerdy guy to Mr. Barkin's manly, hotheaded, military man, which becomes increasingly apparent in seasons 3 and 4, when they're partnered up more often in episodes.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Kim's Masculine Girl. She's a relentless overachiever who knows "sixteen forms of kung fu," set herself up as an international TeenSuperspy, and kicks supervillain butt. He rarely fails to back her up and has his badass moments but is an easygoing type and is much better in the kitchen than on the battlefield. We see their old Halloween costumes - Kim as a cowboy, Ron as a ballerina. Nuff said.
* MeaningfulName: His name is a play on the words "unstoppable".
** In season 4 he joined the football team as the running quarterback his abilities gained him the nickname "Unstoppable Stoppable".
** His last name also ties to the prophecy of the Yono and Hana/Han: "Loving the weapon [Han] will make it unstoppable". When Hana was adopted by Ron’s family she became a Stoppable, thus making her 'Han Stoppable' which phonetically is a play on the word "Unstoppable".
** If Kim were to marry Ron and take his last name her full name would be 'Kimberly Ann Stoppable' Aka Kim "Unstoppable".
* MellowFellow: He's a generally laid back person.
* MightyWhitey: It's PlayedWith a bit and surprisingly justified. He's the Mystical Monkey Master, endowed with the full powers of [[SupernaturalMartialArts Monkey Kung Fu.]] He's also a white Jewish-American. [[JustifiedTrope However, the reason he is the Mystical Monkey Master is because the candidates are those who are exposed to the mystic energies of the four monkey totems, being himself, Monkey Fist and Rufus, who was in Ron's pocket.]] With Monkey Fist being evil and Rufus being a mole rat, that left Ron as the only viable option by default (especially since he and Rufus broke the totems during Monkey Fist's debut episode, also where the three get endowed). Furthermore, Ron goes through a lot of trouble in order to achieve what he needed to do to become said Monkey Master, including conquering his fear of monkeys so it's a good part of his CharacterDevelopment. It's also parodied as the other ninjas are more skilled than him in the normal style while [[RunningGag he always loses his pants]].
* MisplacedRetribution: More like misplaced fear. His fear of monkeys was born from having Camp Wannaweep's mascot, Bobo, as his roommate. Bobo was said by Ron to be a very violent animal that made his days even worse. However, as Kim and Monkey Fist pointed out, Bobo was a chimpanzee (an ape) and not a monkey. Ron, being Ron, fails to see the difference.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: He is [[GeekPhysiques very thin, with virtually no muscle definition]], but like Kim, he is capable of fighting people twice his size with ease, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass when the situation calls for it]].
** In the BadFuture, he bent Drakken’s hand backwards and threw him [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom away effortlessly]]. This would not have been notable, if it weren’t for the fact that this is the FutureBadass version of Drakken who was a hulking brute and fought Kim and Monique without any trouble.
** He easily fought and defeated [[TheRival Fukushima]] (who is bigger and more muscular than him), without having to tap into his mystical monkey powers. In the same episode, he cut a tree in half with a single kick.
** In ''So the Drama'' he accidentally [[OffhandBackhand Offhand Backhanded]] the Sumo ninja, defeating him for good. Later he [[spoiler:kicked Eric/Synthodrone 901 in the chin so hard, his head turned backwards. The only reason it didn’t kill him is because he is [[MadeOfIron a Synthodrone]] and was thus able to [[BodyHorror snap his neck back in place]].]]
** In the GrandFinale, he fought and defeated Warhok and Warmonga single handedly. Granted this time, he had to use his mystical monkey powers, but his opponents were over nine feet tall.
* NiceGuy: He's friendly and doesn't hold a grudge. He's more upset that Drakken can't get his name right than all the {{evil plan}}s he hatches.
* NiceJewishBoy: See InformedJudaism. He's both nice and Jewish, but the former is more apparent than the later.
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Justified in "Emotion Sickness" since Kim under the effects of the Moodulator didn't just act flirty to him but became an obsessive stalker who didn't leave him alone, forcibly kissed him against his consent, and was all-around behaving like a bipolar nutjob.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Ron is turned evil he becomes exponentially more dangerous, being able to build superweapons out of household materials to mask his plans involving the ''other'' superweapons he was building at the same time. He also hacks Kim's communications to track her rather than rely on radar and figured out how to utilize numerous inventions and contraptions in Drakken's lair to his advantage even when Drakken himself couldn't use them. Even Shego is unnerved by how scarily competent Ron can be even when his ultimate goal is simply to [[EvilIsPetty take all of the Nacos in the world]], and lampshades this the next time he's turned evil in "Stop Team Go!".
--> '''Hego:''' What happened to him?\\
'''Shego:''' I think he's evil now.\\
'''Hego:''' Oh. [[TemptingFate How bad could that be?]]\\
'''Shego:''' You'd be surprised...\\
''(Ron quickly takes out dozens of Wego Twins while [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally]])''\\
'''Ron:''' You want evil? I'll show you evil! Boo-ya-haha-ha-ha!
* ObliviousToLove: He's not particularly observant of when females have a clear attraction to him.
** He doesn't realize that Tara is crushing on him in “Sink or Swim”. To be fair, though, he was reliving his worst memories of Camp Wannaweep at that time, so he may have been a little distracted.
** He doesn’t realize Yori liked him that way, despite obviously being attracted to her himself.
** When a lovestruck Kim flirtily runs her fingers through his shirt, in “Emotion Sickness”, he is more concerned about her ruining the fabric.
** In ''So the Drama'', even after he reveals his feelings for Kim to her, when she wants to take him as her date to the prom, he has no idea what she is talking about.
--->'''Kim:''' ''(suggestively)'' You know Ron, we better hurry.\\
'''Ron:''' Hurry where?\\
'''Kim:''' ''(takes his hand)'' You’ll see.
* OfficialCouple: Becomes Kim's boyfriend in season 4.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[MellowFellow Ron is very chill, barely gets mad and is not prone in taking initiative]], the few instances in which he became truly serious were because [[BerserkButton something he cared about was in danger]], or when a MirrorMoralityMachine was involved.
* OppositesAttract: With Kim; serious overachiever and goofy underachiever. They balance each other out very well; on Ron's side, she pushes him to overcome both his fear and his laziness so he can utilize his vast potential.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Ron is a capable hand-to-hand fighter, and there are a few times he's had to save the day himself and did so just fine. However, when his teammates are [[TheAce Kim]] and [[HypercompetentSidekick Rufus]], he stands out as the weaker link of the three.
* PersonalitySwap: In the episode "Bad Boy" Ron is trying to conquer the world with Shego, at which he turns out to be [[SuperpoweredEvilSide amazingly effective]]. Meanwhile Drakken ends up making 'Cocomoo' and cookies for his henchmen.
* PluckyComicRelief: As Kim's {{foil}} he is goofy and prone to jokes.
* ProperlyParanoid: Believe it or not, some of his kooky paranoid theories are actually true. This is especially true when it comes to his freaking out over Camp Wannaweep. While everyone else balks at his claims that it's "a place of evil", every single time it's remotely involved in anything nothing good can come from it.
* PunnyName: ''"Unstoppable"''.
* RedemptionPromotion: Inverted. Both times the Attitudinator alters Ron to the Dark Side, he is ''extremely'' effective. He was even able to intimidate Shego, something which no other character in the show can do. Most notably, however, he was able to come up with a plan with the device that made Electronique's plan to turn Team Go evil to shame -- by turning ''Kim'' evil. That, almost assuredly, would've been a disaster.
* RelationshipUpgrade: She and Ron are just childhood friends for most of the series until they share a BigDamnKiss in the movie, thus becoming an OfficialCouple.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Attempted in ''So the Drama'' after 901 zapped Kim, after which he leaped straight [[InASingleBound from the ground floor to the ledge they were on]] and charged straight at him. He thought Kim was [[NeverSayDie "down for the count"]]. He immediately got clotheslined by Shego before he could get close, though.
* RunningGag:
** His pants keep getting ripped off during missions. It was iconic enough that it [[ItMakesSenseInContext helped restore Kim's memory of him at one point.]]
** Drakken has a hard time remembering his name and almost all recurring villains do as well. Only the Señors, Gill, and Monkey Fist remember his name, with the Señors still failing in one occasion.
* ScaryTeeth: When he turns blue after absorbing Drakken's evil, his teeth design changes from a simple ToothStrip to displaying each individual tooth similar to Drakken's design.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: He insists that they're "manly screams of courage."
* ShadowArchetype: As [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Zorpox]]. Ron is most of the time a follower not a leader, with a few exceptions when the chips are down, most notably when [[OvershadowedbyAwesome Kim it’s not available]], while as Zorpox he’s shown to like being [[BadBoss the boss]]. Ron is also very clumsy, rarely showing his ability on material arts outside of very few occasions, but as Zorpox he was able to dispatch an army of Wegos in what could be a matter of seconds and according to one of Kim’s comments Ron is not very good with mechanics. But based on Drakken shown to still be skilled with technology even after being turned good, and on Shego’s remarks that Drakken was never able to build doomsday devices as Ron does. It suggests that Ron might have untapped potential on that area.
* {{Sidekick}}: Kim's hero help. This is commented on often.
* SidekickGraduationsStick: It's pretty obvious that after his incredible heroics in the GrandFinale that he becomes a full-fledged partner to Kim. What makes it really amusing is that the episode in question was known as "''Graduation''."
* SidekickSong: "The Naked Mole Rap" was made up on the spot to buy time for Kim.
* SkewedPriorities: Half the reason he’s not as effective as Kim. When he gets a thought in his head that he considers important (whether or not it actually is), he has a tendency to fixate on it at the expense of all else.
* TheSlacker: Unlike his Type A partner and best friend Kim, he is content in kicking back, lazing around and relaxing. One of the reasons it makes him like Shego, is that they both enjoy relaxing and prefer to follow their more driven partners.
* SpannerInTheWorks: If there's a plan, expect Ron to ruin it, especially if you're a bad guy. This trope is lampshaded in an episode by calling it "The Ron Factor." [[spoiler:The ''real'' cause is identified as "The Rufus Factor."]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The fourth season was greenlighted by Ron's website so he has a lot more screentime in that season.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The wise guy to Kim’s straight man. Kim is a grade A student and she is more focused and serious, compared to Ron who it’s completely content on getting C and is more tolerant and easy going than Kim. He also provides different crazy perspectives to Kim’s more rational way of thinking which sometimes tend to be correct.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: He's... frighteningly competent when he's evil. He can ''intimidate Shego into shutting up and doing as she's told''.
* SupremeChef: Ron proves to be quite the formidable chef in the episode "Two To Tutor." He gathers so much attention for his cooking, he takes over the ''cafeteria duties'' and impresses Barkin. Too bad he got closed down when the health inspector [[FailedASpotCheck noticed it was Rufus]] [[DidNotThinkThisThrough serving the food]] (though it did seem like no one else was bothered).
** He also personally came up with Bueno Nacho's signature menu item, the Naco, a taco with the works topped with cheesy nachos.
* TakingTheBullet: A non-lethal version in the video game ''Legend of the Monkey's Eye''. He moves in the way of Monkey Fist firing the titular artifact at Kim to turn her into a monkey, taking the blast of energy and being transformed in her place.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Ron's main role in the team is to serve as a distraction while Kim completes the actual plan (though he also serves as a very good SpannerInTheWorks, much to the pain of many villains). However, whenever Camp Wannaweep is involved (which is surprisingly more often than one would expect), he rises to the occasion and tends to be more assertive. He's also got a pretty good affinity for animals.
* ThisLoserIsYou:
** Played straight for three seasons; "An underachiever, a social outcast, who smells of overripe fruit." That's the Pink Sloth.
** Inverted in Season 4; Record-Setting Running Back, Homecoming King, dating the head cheerleader. Yet Bonnie ''STILL'' thinks of him as a loser, even after she's crowned Homecoming Queen.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the GrandFinale. One could argue that it's a step up that he's been cultivating since the fourth season started (or perhaps even since he first got exposed to it). With his full mastery over his Mystical Monkey Power, it's clear he now outclasses Kim in terms of combat ability.
* TookALevelInDumbass: He moves from BookDumb and unmotivated in earlier seasons to several moments of TooDumbToLive in the latter seasons. In ''A Sitch in Time'', he was ''smarter'' as a four-year-old.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Anything served at Bueno Nacho. Special attention goes to the Naco, which he created early in the series.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He is constantly considered a fool and harmless by villains ...at least until he causes their lairs to [[SpannerInTheWorks blow up]]. The ones who really underestimated him and paid the price were the Alien Invaders that attacked the Earth in the Grand Finale, who planned to [[BerserkButton make Kim into a trophy]]. [[BewaretheSillyOnes Big mistake.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Devotion to his girlfriend, Kim, has pushed him out of his panic room and away from a part-time job that he loved and excelled at.
* TheUnfavourite: Very subtly implied. It’s hinted that his mom may have wanted a girl and his parents later go and adopt a baby girl and change Ron’s room into a nursery relegating his room to the attic. And as a child he is dressed as a ballerina for Halloween and his mom gets him a cooking oven with pink gloves.
* UnfortunateNames: It doesn't really help that his last name is "Stoppable", and he quite lives up to it. Ron can be a bit buffoonish to the point of being a ButtMonkey. This gets [[LampshadeHanging brought up]] in Season 4.
* UnluckyEverydude: His parents [[ParentalNeglect rarely seem to be around]], their approach to moving to Norway or adopting a baby is to present him with the outcome, he can never get a date, he's constantly picked on and considered a loser (despite being the valued {{sidekick}} [[DudeWheresMyRespect to a world-saving heroine]]), '''and''' is the ne'er-do-well sidekick to the main character. It's dropped in the fourth season.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Had he not traded his swimming time with Gil's arts and crafts time at summer camp, the latter wouldn't have been so exposed to the lake's toxic water and mutated into Gill.
** It was Ron who first suggested to Señor Senior, Senior, that he turn into villainy when he and Kim went to teach him about energy conservation after his island had unwittingly sucked up all energy from Europe, as the latter already had a fine place for a SupervillainLair (only needing relatively small improvements) and lots of resources and time at his disposal.
* VerbalTic: He sometimes attaches an "-age" suffix onto certain words. "Snackage" being an example.
* VocalEvolution: His voice gradually becomes more high-pitched as the show goes on.
* VillainHasAPoint: While turned evil in "Stop Team Go", he rightfully points out that Electronique's priorities are skewered even as he [[EvilVersusEvil attempts to steal the Attitudinator from her and hijack her scheme]]. Electronique tunnel visioned on turning all of Team Go into her evil henchpeople so much that she failed to consider Kim, Ron, and Rufus as variables. After accidentally being turned evil, Ron [[UnderestimatingBadassery almost pulls the rug out from under her and nearly hijacks her scheme]], and Kim and Rufus being the only ones ''not'' hit or targeted by the Attitudinator left them able to foil the plot and turn everyone good again.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-flipped. Don't ever threaten to hurt Kim in front of him. Warhok and Warmonga found out the hard way in the finale.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: His scooter has often been mocked for its low speed, but he still managed to outrun Drakken and Mr. Barkin who were driving a hovercraft and a car respectively in "Tick-Tick-Tick" as well as the army of sprinting Li'l Diablos in ''So the Drama'', and that was before it was upgraded with Jim and Tim's rockets.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** Due to a rather traumatic experience at camp when he was young (as in being forced to ''share a cabin with the mascot''), Ron has an intense phobia of monkeys.
** He is also afraid of insects, spiders, mechanical horses (yes, specifically mechanical), ghosts and an admittingly ''very'' eerie garden gnome at his home.
** Camp Wannaweep is especially this since it is where he got his monkey fear in the first place, presumably alongside the exposure to the insects, spiders and whatever problems the camp had.
* YankTheDogsChain He never seemed to come out on top in the first three seasons. At the most extreme levels of yankage he somehow managed to get all of his 99 million dollars he got from Bueno Nacho stolen by keeping it all in his pants, leaving him with nothing (though most can't figure out what happened with the continued royalties after that payment). His luck seemed to change later on, this trope being effectually subverted at the fourth and last season.
* YouthfulFreckles: Less mature than Kim, who lost her own freckles over the years. Ironically, she spends more time outside while he's more likely to be inside slacking off.

* BuffySpeak: All the time; see catch phrase. Especially so when talking with any of the several super geniuses she knows.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Several.

* ThinkNothingOfIt: When thanked for previous acts of heroism, she responds that it was [[CatchPhrase "No big."]]

* CatchPhrase:

* BlackAndNerdy: Is he of African descent? ''Check''. Does he have advanced knowledge/skills in anything engineering-/physics-/computer science-related? ''Check''.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Anything served at Bueno Nacho.

* HollywoodDateless: He's overly concerned with social rankings and considered a loser by his school peers. Yet he seems popular among girls such as Yori and Kim (the latter of whom eventually becomes his girlfriend), along with Zita, and a crush by another cheerleader.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Tends to get rather protective of the boys she likes and dates -- like what almost happened to Bonnie in "Homecoming Upset", DO NOT mess with Ron if you know what's good for you.

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->'''Rufus 3000 Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelDorn