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** Go City seems weirdly insular. Kim's never heard of Aviarius, who lives in the same city as his hero foes, and Hego has never heard of internationally-infamous Dr. Drakken and is clearly (and perhaps willfully) ignorant of the high-profile crime his sister has devoted her life to. Shego, if you'll excuse this odd and tortured simile, is like a small-town prom queen who went off to the big state college: Nobody knows anything about where she came from, and none of it matters anymore anyway because she's swimming in a much larger pond now.

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** Go City seems weirdly insular. Kim's never heard of Aviarius, who lives in the same city as his hero foes, and Hego has never heard of internationally-infamous Dr. Drakken and is clearly (and perhaps willfully) ignorant of the high-profile crime his sister has devoted her life to. Shego, if you'll excuse this odd and tortured simile, is like a small-town prom queen who went off to the big state college: Nobody knows anything about where she came from, and none of it matters anymore anyway because [[BigFishInABiggerOcean she's swimming in a much larger pond now.now]].
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!!Is she a spy?


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!!She loves him, she loves him not?


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!!Finding a job for Kimberly Anne?


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***I mean, her saving the world cost money and she prolly don't get paid a lot to do that.
!!Should not have survived that, Shego.


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!!Shego's gloves


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!!Heroic OldShame?


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!!A literal killing in a ''Disney'' show?


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!!Talking to the scientists


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!!Tim and Jim, post TimeSkip


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!!Camille's nanomorphing?


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!!Odd Sibling Out?


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!!SkintoneSclerae?


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!!No Name Given?


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!!More on Shego's gloves


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!!Again, shouldn't have survived that Shego


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!!Shego's VagueAge


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!!ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow (or, rather, eyeliner)?


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!!Clean Slate


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!!Ambiguous Doctorate?


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!!The name "Hall"


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***FriigeBrilliance: Y'all would think a mad scientisit would have some unique or off-the-wall name but, instead, it's something unsuspecting. At the start of the ep, no one would have suspected her.
!!Shego crashing a plane


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!!Is Bonnie willing or no?


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!!Are they dating?


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!!Shego's solo career


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!!Loser Drakken


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!!Censoring "Chocolate Milk"


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!!Clean Slate II


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!!The Monkey Ninjas


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!!The Shared Disney Universe


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!!Shego's degree


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!!Training Ron


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!!Loser Drakken II


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!!Amy's Motives


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!!This dude keeps getting out


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!!Say my name


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!!Why come to the US, Wally?


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!!Oh, so now you recognize that guy
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\n\n* In Bonding, Kim and Bonnie are stuck together by a bonding agent at the hip and Ron and Mr. Barkin are stuck together at the shoulder. Why couldn't the problem be solved by changing clothes, which both pairs obviously do multiple times throughout the episode and if the bonding was beyond just their clothes touching, why were they able to change clothes?
** I would have to watch the episode again to see if Wade provides an explanation, but the energy effects suggest that the bonding is more magnetic force than adhesion.
** In what could I suppose be considered "Fridge Awkwardness"... you gotta wonder just how they did stuff like use the bathroom or shower when stuck together like that. Then again, that might be what [[RuleThirtyFour certain sorts of fanfics]] were made to answer...
* How the ''heck'' does getting a HarmlessVillain to say your name a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?
** In the way that said HarmlessVillain never remembers your name, so forcing him to cave in and say it makes it awesome.
** "Getting a harmless villain to say your name" was exactly the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKrCs1rFRI Breaking Bad]]
** Because it's at the end of a movie that's been spent proving that he's a NotSoHarmlessVillain, as well as Ron's CharacterDevelopment of not being such a pushover.
* Why did king Wally have to go to the US to experience what democracy is like, when he lives in Europe, surrounded by dozens of perfectly democratic countries?
** It wasn't just him going to the US. He actually ran for and was elected class president.
* So, Ron suddenly becomes super-wealthy due to royalties from selling his "Naco" idea to Bueno Nacho. Because StatusQuoIsGod, he loses all of his money at the end of the episode. Question is, his money came from ''royalties'', which are continuous, not a lottery or an inheritance, which are simply one-time deals. Why isn't Ron continuing to receive money?
** Maybe he is, but off screen its being deposited in a trust fund or a bank account he can't access yet.
*** Presumably, Ron (and his royalties) is the one [[HeroismWontPayTheBills paying KP's bills]]. They just don't talk about it.
*** I think it's probably something that doesn't accumulate very fast and it was just something that Ron came up with a long time ago, so the slow accumulation built up over time.
*** The slow accumulation of ''ninety-nine million dollars?'' Even if we generously say a year has passed since the invention - which is unlikely, in-universe - and even if the naco craze died off quickly, he still should be getting ridiculous amounts of money - particularly by high school student standards - on the regular.
*** The naco ''was'' discontinued, so it was probably a fad that died down after an initial surge, but also note ''how'' Ron received the check. It wasn't mailed to him or delivered by a courier or anything remotely... how shall I put this... ''reliable.'' It was given to a (probably) teenage assistant manager at the local establishment to hand over when he happened to see Ron. And sure, he sees Ron every day, but it still took him a while to deliver it. It's possible there are more checks sitting around in the backroom that Ned has forgotten about or hasn't noticed. And it didn't seem to be an official agreement in the first place. Ron sure wasn't expecting it. If he (or his parents, on his behalf) got a little smarter about it and contacted a lawyer, they could very well find out there's more money owed to him.
* In "Blush", Kim starts disappearing a little bit more every time she gets embarrassed, and risks disappearing from existance. However, matter can't be destroyed or created, it can only be transformed. So scientifically, how could Kim just have disappeared like that?
** [[WildMassGuessing Because the mass is not being destroyed, but rather shifted from one phase space to another, which is why she's also able to maintain agency and control of her body?]] Alternatively, [[MST3KMantra it's a cartoon.]]
* Sure by ''So The Drama'' that had become pretty much LikeBrotherAndSister, but Shego stays with Drakken because....? When you get down to it, even if he does pay a lot, the stuff he's gotten her into (like the mind control incident mentioned above) is too much.
** If she is unwilling or unable to strike out as an independent operator in her own right, it's a matter of choosing which villain to work for. Drakken, for all his flaws, may simply be the best option.
*** This is exactly the case. She once works with/for Motor Ed, and realizes very quickly that not only is he no more competent than Drakken, but that he also doesn't even treat her with the professional respect owed a competent sidekick -- he literally calls her his 'moll'. She immediately dumps him and goes back to Drakken, because he might be multiple levels of messed up/incompetent, but he DOES respect her abilities.
** In addition, all the stuff he gets her into doesn't exactly reflect well on her either. It could be that by the time he'd screwed up so much she thought it worth it to look for a new boss, her own stock had dropped so badly she was stuck with him.
** Drakken might be the only villain around who's willing to put up with Shego's insolence and mockery. The fact that he reacts entertainingly to it is a bonus.
** Shego's "employment" with Drakken seems more like a part-time thing, almost a hobby. Sure, he mentions contracts every now and then, but several episodes (especially "Two to Tutor" and "Clean Slate") show that she can go on independent jobs (or just laze on the beach) whenever the hell she wants.
** Given in the GrandFinale they are [[MaybeEverAfter implied to be hooked up]], it is possible that just like Kim and Ron, Drakken and Shego were somewhat attracted to each other from the beginning, they just didn’t act on it, Shego because it’ll affect her personal image (just like how it’ll affect her image if word of her being a former superhero gets out), Drakken, because he is scared of her.
* Drakken's blue skin was most likely some freak lab accident. That's as far as we can guess.
* Professor Ramesh recognized Drakken's voice as his former college friend Drew Lipsky in "Attack of the Killer Bebes", yet never did in "Showdown at the Crooked D".
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** Do you mean "Clean Slate" the episode or just how the show seemed to put them together? For the former the show did have them dating for six months, so the ending where Kim remembers she did love Ron works. For the latter, if you watch through the series you can see a number of subtle clues. Like? Like the Franchise/SpiderMan scene in "Fearless Ferret", or "Steal Wheels", when she's jealous of Ron spending time with Felix. "Emotion Sickness" and "Gorilla Fist" has it well established by this point that she has feelings for Ron, not to mention "A Very Possible Christmas", but "Bad Boy" had Kim slyly hinting to take her on a date. Even the first season episodes had a few moments that implied them being more than just friends.

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** Do you mean "Clean Slate" the episode or just how the show seemed to put them together? For the former the show did have them dating for six months, so the ending where Kim remembers she did love Ron works. For the latter, if you watch through the series you can see a number of subtle clues. Like? Like the Franchise/SpiderMan ComicBook/SpiderMan scene in "Fearless Ferret", or "Steal Wheels", when she's jealous of Ron spending time with Felix. "Emotion Sickness" and "Gorilla Fist" has it well established by this point that she has feelings for Ron, not to mention "A Very Possible Christmas", but "Bad Boy" had Kim slyly hinting to take her on a date. Even the first season episodes had a few moments that implied them being more than just friends.
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** The world of Kim Possible is a [[CrapsaccharineWorld really weird place]]. Like, [[FantasyKitchenSink really weird]]. [[CardCarryingVillain Evil]] is [[WeirdTradeUnion unionized]], Hench Co. does very good business, and crime is fought around the world by [[SuperHero superheroes]], Global Justice (a super-spy organization ala ''Film/JamesBond''), and [[BadassNormal some cheerleader]]. No one recognizes Shego as a [[FaceHeelTurn FaceHeelTurned]] former superhero from Go City because there are probably teams of superheros (or something similar) protecting every major city around the world, hence why Kim and company don't recognize Hego or Aviarius -- it's just another superhero-supervillain face-off. [[CatchPhrase No big.]]

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** The world of Kim Possible is a [[CrapsaccharineWorld really weird place]]. Like, [[FantasyKitchenSink really weird]]. [[CardCarryingVillain Evil]] is [[WeirdTradeUnion unionized]], Hench Co. does very good business, and crime is fought around the world by [[SuperHero superheroes]], Global Justice (a super-spy organization ala ''Film/JamesBond''), and [[BadassNormal some cheerleader]]. No one recognizes Shego as a [[FaceHeelTurn FaceHeelTurned]] former superhero from Go City because there are probably teams of superheros (or something similar) protecting every major city around the world, hence why Kim and company don't recognize Hego or Aviarius -- it's just another superhero-supervillain face-off. [[CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase No big.]]
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** Kim is quite likely known as a world saving badass who could easily date some of the most famous people on the planet. Ron should be just as well known to the point that "normal" attractive girls might be interested but he is also a massive dork and doesn't look nearly as awesome as Kim does during their missions.


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** As someone who has been rewatching the show recently, to me, it is pretty obvious that Kim has feelings for Ron, but he, for the most part, doesn’t show in any way, shape or form that he reciprocates her feelings, making her feel [[AllLoveIsUnrequited her love for him is unrequited]]. This is especially noticeable when Ron says he knows why Kim looked upset (while trying to get her to sign the Bueno Nacho petition) and Kim reaponds with a hopeful ''"You do?"'' Once Eric enters the picture, she moves on from him. Once his true colors are revealed, she is back to square one: she feels NoGuyWantsAnAmazon. Notice when Ron confesses his feelings for her, her response is a curious ''"Oh really?"'', implying she is just surprised and happy that he likes her back.

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** As someone who has been rewatching the show recently, to me, it is pretty obvious that Kim has feelings for Ron, but he, for the most part, doesn’t show in any way, shape or form that he reciprocates her feelings, making her feel [[AllLoveIsUnrequited her love for him is unrequited]]. This is especially noticeable when Ron says he knows why Kim looked upset (while trying to get her to sign the Bueno Nacho petition) and Kim reaponds responds with a hopeful ''"You do?"'' Once Eric enters the picture, she moves on from him. Once his true colors are revealed, she is back to square one: she feels NoGuyWantsAnAmazon. Notice when Ron confesses his feelings for her, her response is a curious ''"Oh really?"'', implying she is just surprised and happy that he likes her back.
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** We've seen indications that PoliceAreUseless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better. They do better in the early fourth season (where Shego needs help from other villains to escape and Drakken remains stuck in prison).

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** We've seen indications that PoliceAreUseless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better. They do better in the early fourth season (where Shego needs help from other villains to escape and Drakken remains stuck in prison).prison until he also gets busted out).
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** We've seen indications that PoliceAreUseless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better. Apparently they do better in the fourth season (where Shego is twice busted out by other villains who leave Drakken stuck in prison).

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** We've seen indications that PoliceAreUseless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better. Apparently they They do better in the early fourth season (where Shego is twice busted out by needs help from other villains who leave to escape and Drakken remains stuck in prison).
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** We've seen indications that PoliceAreUseless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better.

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** We've seen indications that PoliceAreUseless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better. Apparently they do better in the fourth season (where Shego is twice busted out by other villains who leave Drakken stuck in prison).
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