History WesternAnimation / KimPossible

''Kim Possible'' is a Disney animated series. It aired from 2002-2007. It features a FieryRedhead ActionGirl, her blond male {{sidekick}}, and a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection -- TheyFightCrime, mostly a sleek and sexy woman with long black hair who turned to crime ForTheEvulz because she was bored being a hero... [[WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego oops, wrong show.]]

''Kim Possible'' (2002-2007) was a Disney animated series. A FieryRedhead ActionGirl, her blond male {{sidekick}}, and a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection -- TheyFightCrime, mostly a sleek and sexy woman with long black hair who turned to crime ForTheEvulz because she was bored being a hero... [[WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego oops, wrong show!]]

The premise is, at first glance, an interesting cross of ''Series/{{Alias}}'' and ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (with a little bit of ''AustinPowers'') - high school head cheerleader plus awkward male friend and naked mole rat stop global {{supervillain}}s. The series has a post-modern take on many aspects of both ActionSeries and HighSchool {{dramedy}}.

A big hit for veteran creators and executive producers Bob Schooley and Mark [=McCorkle=], for whom this is their first (and only) original creation for Disney. They had previously worked on ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' and several other series, and in their early careers wrote for ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''. They also penned the Disney live-action movie ''SkyHigh''.

The series was produced by Chris Bailey (Season 1) and Steve Loter (Season 2 on), with character designs by Steven Silver. All these talented folks previously worked on the short-lived ''ClerksTheAnimatedSeries''. Loter was previously in charge of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'', and has worked on ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong''. Silver has designed characters for a broad cross-section of popular modern series, and is counted as a major art influence on the predominant webcomic ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''.

The show was originally taken out of production after 65 episodes, for reasons which are subject to debate (although it's been generally accepted that Disney policy discourages shows from going past 65). Capped off by the truncated DisneyChannel Original Movie ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So The Drama]]'', in which Kim and Ron move beyond JustFriends and into an OfficialCouple, it was {{Uncanceled}} for an additional 22 episodes following a massive campaign to continue production by the show's fans - that, or a German syndication deal requiring more episodes. It re-premiered in February of 2007.

The series ended again with a second GrandFinale in September of the same year with the conclusion of Season 4, and with all the producers packing up and moving over to {{Nickelodeon}} to create ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''.

Oh, and this series has named these tropes:
* SickAndWrong
* GiveGeeksAChance

'''Tropes:'''

Kim Possible (2002-2007) was a Disney animated series. A FieryRedhead ActionGirl, her blond male {{sidekick}}, and a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection -- TheyFightCrime, mostly a sleek and sexy woman with long black hair who turned to crime ForTheEvulz because she was bored being a hero... [[WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego oops, wrong show!]]

!!''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' provides examples of:

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* AbdicateTheThrone: Prince Wally, to become President.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: In "Gorilla Fist", [=DNAmy=] to Monkey Fist.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: "A Sitch in Time"
* AccidentalAthlete: How Ron becomes a running back.
* AccidentalPublicConfession: When Ron and Kim (sorta) show up to ask Monty Fisk for help in finding a ninja who stole an artifact, Monkey Fist does a Type 2 and tells them that he was the ninja.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: "Ron Millionaire"
* ActionDressRip "Trading Faces"
** "October 31st" does this in a ShoutOut to JamesBond.
* ActionGirl: Kim, Yori, even Zita when she needed to be, making Ron ask "Are all girls like this, or just the ones I know?"
** Both Kim and Yori double as The ActionGirlfriend.
* ActionHoggingOpening
* ActorAllusion: The Fearless Ferret episode was a cross-spoof of the 60s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Will Friedle was the voice actor for ''Beyond'''s Terry [=McGinnis=].
** This [[Series/SmartGuy isn't the first time Tahj Mowry's played a kid genius on a Disney show.]]
** Also, Chris [=McDonald=] (Hego) voiced {{Superman}} on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' with Will Friedle.
** In "And The Molerat Will Be CGI", Monique, played by Raven-Symone, gossips at a table with Kim, Bonnie and teen idol actress Heather, played by Anneliese Van Der Pol, who plays Chelsea Daniels in ''ThatsSoRaven''. Monique and Heather can really relate to each other.
** During a scene in ''The Cupid Effect'', [[ItMakesSenseInContext while ad-libbing a love note to Wade's Mom]], Señor Senior Sr. (Ricardo Montalban) casually tosses in a line about chasing the wealth of the world " [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan 'round perdition's flame]]".
* AdamWesting: Adam West appears as "Timothy North" aka The Fearless Ferret, as mentioned above.
* AdiposeRex: King Rodingon, who was replaced by King Wallace in the episode "Royal Pain".
* AdrenalineMakeover: Over the entire fourth season, Ron slowly worked toward becoming cool enough to be Kim Possible's boyfriend. In the finale, when a threat downs the girl who can do anything, the sidekick steps up and embraces his Monkey Kung Fu.
* AnAesop: Most every episode. Sometimes subverted, sometimes [[AesopAmnesia forgotten]] from a previous episode.
** Hilariously so in the second episode to feature Gill as the villain:
-->Normally I would say we learned that mistrust and paranoia were bad...except those were the things that saved us.
** And a deliberately warped one in the episode on healthy eating. Ron delivers the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle "I learned something today" speech]] to camera (and gets the wrong moral, telling us to [[FantasticAesop stay out of mutagenic mad-science chemicals that will turn you into a monster]] instead of eating healthy food), while a growing crowd behind him [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall wonders who on Earth he's actually actually addressing]].
* AesopAmnesia:
** When will Ron ever learn that being popular just isn't him and that he should believe in the friends that actually like him for him?
** Kim learns that her brothers can be helpful and not just nuisances at least twice, and to disregard peer pressure from Bonnie a good few times.
* AffablyEvil: The Seniors, especially Senor Senior, Sr. He treats his villainy as more of a part-time hobby than anything and doesn't seem to be a bad person at all. Ron says that Sr. is a bad man with good manners.
** [=DNAmy=] is the sweetest, kindest, sociopathic geneticist you could ever hope to meet. She's not a bad person...she just wants to pervert nature and science to create life size abominations unto all things good. Or "Cuddle Buddies" as she likes to call them. Actually, Cuddle Buddies are an homage to Beanie Babies, and she just fell in love with them to the point where she started creating them.
* AffectionateParody: The show itself sets out to do to JamesBond movies what Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}} did to horror films. One episode however was a spoof of the old ''Series/{{Batman}}'' tv series, with AdamWest playing...wait for it, Timothy North, the [[AdamWesting eccentric actor]] who really believed he was the Fearless Ferret.
* AirGuitar: Motor Ed and Drakken do it a few times in the show in the episodes which have Motor Ed. [[VerbalTic Seriously.]]
* AirVentPassageway: Kim, Ron, and Rufus use air vents to get ''into'' places, such as Ron's panic room in 'Odds Man In' and The Bermuda Triangle in [[TheMovie 'So the Drama']]
* AlienAbduction: Drakken is abducted by TheGreys once, and the Lowardians snatch both him Drakken and Kim.
* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler:The Lorwardians invade Earth to get revenge for being tricked by Drakken and beaten up by Kim.]]
** [[spoiler: "So payback's the sitch!"]]
* AliensAndMonsters: Considering the characters in the show, the Lorwardian invaders and the monsters made by the {{mad scientist}}s are just icing on the cake.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Subverted in an episode where Kim and Ron need to enter a dog show to gain access to a thief's home. Rufus needed to be taught how to act like a dog.
* AllJustADream "Rewriting History"
** ...OrWasItADream
* AllUpToYou
* TheAllegedCar: The Roth SL Coupe (a.k.a. the Sloth) Kim's father gives her, initially.
-->'''Kim:''' What a piece of--\\
'''Mr Dr P.:''' [[CurseCutShort History!]]
** Ron's scooter also qualifies.
* AlmightyJanitor: "Job Unfair"
* AlmostKiss: Way too many in Season 4 when Kim & Ron were about to kiss. Wade, Monique, and Bonnie were just a few of the people who interrupted would be kisses between Kim and Ron. WordOfGod admitted it was an intriguing gag.
* AlphaBitch: Bonnie Rockwaller.
* AmazonChaser: Ron seems to have a thing for women like this. He even {{lampshade}}s it.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Bonnie Rockwaller. Heck, she could just be a tanned white girl. They never say.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Some of the animals in the show exhibit intelligence higher than normal for their species. The best example being the TeamPet Rufus.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Adrena Lynn's DeathCourse.
* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Cousin Larry.
* {{Angrish}}: Dr. Drakken falls into this whenever he is mocked by his assistant.
* {{Animorphism}}: Kim was turned into a monkey, and Ron was turned into a beaver (though not at the same time).
* ArcWelding: In his second episode, Monkey Fist revealed that he had his body modified to gain more monkey-like features. In [=DNAmy=]'s second episode she reveals she was the one who made those modifications.
* {{Area 51}}
* AristocratsAreEvil: Lord Monkey Fist is an actual [[EvilBrit British]] noble.
* ArmsDealer: Jack Hench's [=HenchCo=] operation is a straightforward (if somewhat toned down to fit the KP universe) example. May also describe a few other characters, such as Cyrus Bortle auctioning off his [[EmotionBomb Moodulator chips]].
* ArtShift: The episode "Virt-U-Ron" featured a blockier style of art to show that they were in a video game.
* ArtEvolution: Monique went from have black dot eyes, to white eyes with pupils by the second season.
** Also, the characters had more movement in the first two seasons than in later ones. The animation also got smoother as time went on.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "Rufus vs Commodore Puddles" plus The Dimension Monster and "Gronde"
* AwesomeMcCoolname: You have three guesses on this. The first two don't count.
* BackStory: Shego was a superhero, till she [[StartOfDarkness got fed up]] [[EvilIsCool with that]]. Kim set up a website for odd jobs until a typo from someone in trouble started her on hero work.
* BadBoss: Gemini's secret headquarters is full of [[TrapDoor trap doors]] that he uses to dispose of {{Mooks}} [[YouHaveFailedMe who have "failed" him]], or just argued against him.
** One of said {{Mooks}} where GenreSavvy enough ''not'' to sit on the offered chair. It didn't help though but point for the effort.
* {{Badass}}: Kim, chiefly. Also, Shego, Dr. Director and number of others.
* BadassBoast: Whether claiming to know sixteen styles of kung fu or listing some of her impressive accomplishments, Kim likes to do this, usually in a breezy way.
* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Kim's Nana Possible used to do much the same sort of thing that her granddaughter does now, and still indulges in it on occasion.
** [[AffablyEvil Senor Senior Sr]] is a legend of extreme sports.
* BadassFamily: The Possible family. Also Shego's family, who are a team of superheroes.
* BadFuture: ''[[EvilOverlord The Supreme One]]'' [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]] and rules it from her [[EvilTowerOfOminousness citadel of Doom]] in Shegoton, formerly Middleton in ''[[TheMovie A Sitch in Time]]''.
* BadVibrations: Done numerous times, including D N Amy's [[Franchise/JurassicPark dinosaur]], [[Franchise/JurassicPark complete with a vibrating tub of nacho cheese]].
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Kim watching Rufus in the episode "Adventures in Rufus Sitting". Kim and Ron watching Hana in the episode "Oh No! Yono!".
* BareYourMidriff: Kim showed this off with every outfit she had in the first season. The animators eventually dropped the LimitedWardrobe and by the end of the series it was all but gone. Her last midriff outfit to go was her classic mission outfit in "Clothes Minded".
** {{Lampshaded}} by Kim's father in the aforementioned episode. When he hears that Kim is in the market for a new mission outfit, he gives her a very large, cumbersome suit of PoweredArmor to wear.
-->"It's been my dream to see you save the world ''without'' baring your midriff."
** Why stop with Kim? There's Bonnie and the rest of the cheerleaders, and few background female characters are like this too.
* BasementDweller: Frugal Lucre.
* BatmanColdOpen: Half of the teasers in the show. The other half were often related to a subplot relating to Kim's personal life that lead into the rest of the episode.
* BattleAura: Ron's Monkey Powers, The Go powers.
* BattleCouple: Kim and Ron. Albeit Kim is by far the more "combat effective" of the two, but the series does make it a point that she definitely works better with Ron than without him. [[spoiler:Although it seems the two fit this trope fully by the end of "Graduation".]]
* BattleTops: The Spinning Tops of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Averted}} in "The Truth Hurts" when Kim, under the influence of a truth ray, admits to picking her nose when nobody's looking. Played straight most of the time: the character might get dusty, muddy or soaked with water, but only a few moments. It's most obvious when Kim and Shego land in a mud bath in "Mad Dogs And Aliens", but are back to being spotless at the next scene change.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: In the episode "Big Bother", Yori told Kim Possible that Ron Stoppable was her destiny. Of course, this [[WMG/KimPossible could be her way]] of saying IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Shego to Drakken.
* BerserkButton: ''A Sitch in Time'': [[spoiler:"YOU'RE the reason I moved to Norway? You're the reason I've been eating MEAT CAKES?"]]
** Also Wade, after Team Impossible [[spoiler:spikes his computer when he attempts to hack them. He comes back later in the episode in person to deal with them. "Nobody, ''nobody'' spikes my system!"]]
** "THIS IS THE LAST STRAW! YOU TOOK...AWAY...THE BENDY STRAWS!"
* BetweenMyLegs: This shot shows up fairly often, usually on Kim or Shego.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Drakken]] and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Ron]] are quite dangerous when they stop acting silly and [[LetsGetDangerous actually try]]. Lucre was also a surprisingly effective villain even with his lame gimmicks.
* BigBad: [[MadScientist Dr. Drakken]] and [[TheDragon Shego]] are the primary antagonists, and the ones that get closest to their goals.
* BigEater: Ron Stoppable and Rufus.
* BigNo: Twice in Season 4, the later is followed by DisturbedDoves. Ron has a couple throughout the series (including a truly epic one in "A Very Possible Christmas" (Season 2, episode 16), but Kim lets one out in "Trading Faces" (Season 4, Episode 3) that frankly sounds halfway between a BigNo and a Tarzan yell.
* BigOlUnibrow: Doctor Drakken.
* BilingualBonus: The same episode Ron has to take care of a sack of flour, the Stoppables adopt a daughter whose name means [[StealthPun "flower"]] in Japanese.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Bueno Nacho restaurants.
* BlackBestFriend: Monique, Wade to some degree.
* BlackSheep: Shego.
* BlandNameProduct
* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: The Cheese Building (made of Wisconsin Swiss), The "History of Cheese" book, The Cheese Fountain, etc.
* BondVillainStupidity: Lampshaded in "Animal Attraction".
-->'''Senor Senior Sr:''' A proper villain always leaves his foe when he's about to expire.\\
'''Senor Senior Jr:''' Why?\\
'''Senor Senior Sr:''' Well, it would be bad form just to lull about, waiting for it.\\
'''Senor Senior Jr:''' Why?\\
'''Senor Senior Sr:''' Tradition!
** Falsetto Jones notably subverts it to watch the DeathTrap in action, even after Kim asks if he's going to leave, to the point he was a one-shot villain ''because'' of his competence.
-->'''Kim:''' Alright, but I warn you, you're breaking with villain tradition here.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: When Ron is fretting over an EldritchAbomination after his baby sister Kim tries to assure him of the number of times they have [[DwayneJohnson smacked down]] the BigBad before.
* ABoyAndHisX: Ron and his naked mole rat.
* BoyBand: The Oh Boyz
* BraggingThemeTune
* BrainlessBeauty: {{Subverted}} with most of the characters, though most notably by [[HotScientist Vivian Francis Porter]].
* BrattyHalfPint: Cousin Shawn, later Artie Smarty.
* BreakoutCharacter: Shego & Drakken. They were just meant to be one of the many villains in the show. Shego was simply Drakken's sidekick; Her color scheme was chosen because green and black are "villain" colors and she didn't even have her superpowers. Drakken was more pushy, and aggressive then he turned out to be post-Season 1. They soon became main characters and arguably the ''mascots'' of the series (Besides, y'know, WesternAnimation/KimPossible, Ron and Rufus.)
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "The Ron Factor", Kim stops the opening credits to ask the audience. "Wait, You Want Ron?" Given how this was Steve Loter's first episode as director, that's a considerable bit of irony, since under his direction Ron would take the spotlight away from the show's title character.
* BreakTheCutie: You'd think Drakken would have learnt after he, Killigan and Monkey Fist tried to do this to a five year old Kim. Nope, after getting thoroughly trounced Drew wants another shot at it. Monty and Duff on the other hand learn their lesson.
* BrilliantButLazy: Shego is considerably more competent than any of the other villains, but shows no real initiative and spends much of her time lounging around reading magazines.
** Also one possible [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpretation]] of Ron -- [[CowardlySidekick usually bumbling]], but able to [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass come through when it counts]].
* BringIt: Kim's attitude in a nutshell, to the point of imitating [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]] more than once.
* BrokenAesop: In "The Twin Factor", Kim describes a [[MindControlDevice mind control chip]] as "ferociously unethical". [[HypocriticalHumor Later, she uses it on her brothers while babysitting.]]
** The morality of mind control goes right out the window when Kim's own father brainwashes her. Or the previous episode where Shego having her MoralityDial switched to good is a...um, good thing.
** "Low Budget" includes the discovery that Kim's favorite brand, Club Banana, is an offshoot of (and sells similar wares to) Smarty Mart, the UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} {{expy}} she looked down on. This doesn't affect her adherence to the latest Club Banana fashions at all. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Smarty Mart's boots are black, Club Banana's are onyx.]] [[HypocriticalHumor There's a difference!]]
* BrotherChuck: Star quarterback Brick Flagg showed up here and there, but he sort of vanished after a while. Although his no longer appearing was ''eventually'' justified at least for the last season, he graduated by then. He wasn't exactly the brightest bulb when off the football field, and it was mentioned that he'd ''finally'' graduated after being held back a few years. (He even votes for one of his opponents during the school election. Not that it mattered much.)
* BrownNote: Singing "Rock-A-Bye Baby" [[InstantSedation instantly puts Rufus to sleep]].
* BuffySpeak: Despite a few affectations, the slang used by teenagers in this show is either semi-contemporary or totally fabricated. They used the BuffySpeak less and less in later seasons, which lessened the [[ForcedMeme cringe factor]] of a few of them.
*** Ten reference points for nailing SarahMichelleGellar's voice.
-->'''Kim:''' We have to time this so that hovery guardy thing doesn't see us.
* BuildingSwing
* BullyHunter: She doesn't actually set out to do this, but Kim does beat up on Ron's bullies twice, including ''A Sitch In Time'''s CrowningMomentOfAwesome/[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]] against Drakken, Killigan and Monkey Fist. Also, [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]] breaks down crying when it looks like Kim's going to thump her.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Several of the scientists Kim helps out in her adventures. The prize has to go to Dr. Freeman from "Car Trouble," a charmingly childish and eccentrically unfettered scientist who created a house full of funny AIs just so he could have off-kilter conversations with them. In his first few minutes has a dance party with his ''toaster'' (an advanced AI, but still). Then Drakken breaks into his home. This does not immediately stop the dance party - in fact, in general he doesn't seem to mind being kidnapped at all. He eventually proves too kooky for Drakken to use mind-altering technology against, so he has to resort to trickery to get the guy to do want he wants.
** Nearly all of the villains count, some more than others. Before he was fired for [[TotallyRadical refusing to shave his mullet,]] Motor Ed was "widely regarded as the most brilliant mechanical engineer in the country." ''[[TheDitz Motor]]'' ''[[SurferDude Ed]].''
* BurnBabyBurn The end of "Stop Team Go".
* CampStraight: Senior Senior Jr.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin': Good luck doing something even morally ambiguous in the ''Kim Possible'' world. Unless, of course, your name is Cyrus Bortel.
** Lying is also a considerable no-no.
*** Unless you are not Kim.
**** Kim gets away with quite a bit if you think about it...being a bit of a jerk to Bonnie (though she so totally deserves it, seriously she does) and Ron being examples.
* CaptainErsatz: Team Go are a pretty obvious Ersatz to Marvel Comic's PowerPack, which logically makes Shego a villainous version of Katie Power.
** Also ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', considering the group's use of themed colors, they inhabit a "Go Tower", and the fact that the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' show was pretty popular at the time.
* CaptainObvious: Ron Stoppable at his sidekick best.
* CardboardPrison: {{Lampshaded}} in the fourth season, when people keep breaking Shego out of prison while leaving Drakken to rot.
* CatapultNightmare: Ron in "Ill-Suited".
* {{Catchphrase}}s: "She/I can do anything!", "What's the sitch?", "No big", "So not the drama", "Sick and wrong", "Boo-Yah!", and Drakken's "You think you're all that, Kim Possible! But you're ''not''!"...
* CatchphraseInterruptus: In the second season Ron uses his "That would be so cool if it wasn't going to hurt us" phrase twice, but gets interrupted both times: first by Wade and another time by himself.
* CatsAreMean: Princess the Robo-Cat and Sassie the Puma.
* CantYouReadTheSign: Ron offers Kim and Monique a pickle in the Club Banana store. Monique points out the sign "No Food, Pickled or Otherwise".
* CastingGag: In "Steal Wheels", Ron and Felix become good friends. WillFriedle and JasonMarsden are good friends in RealLife.
* ChainedHeat: "Bonding"
* ChaoticStupid: Shego, when she gets excited about destroying the world, descends into this in "Car Alarm".
* CharacterDevelopment: Kim quickly goes from a [[AwesomeEgo narcissist]] with a touch of {{Jerkass}} (or at the very least [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] and bossiness) and your usual roulette of [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld teen issues]], to a less self-absorbed, more tolerant and compassionate young lady. Ron grows from a useless goof loser to something of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who ''can'' get the job done. Steve Loter [[GrowingTheBeard grows a nice beard]].
* CharacterTitle
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Cheerleading plus "sixteen styles of kung fu" (so she claims when she threatens Ron) means Kim can take on {{supervillain}}s and is feared by henchmen everywhere.
** Bonnie weighs 105 pounds. Kim comments that a jet pack couldn't handle the weight of the two of them, yet Kim can effortlessly carry her. This could be considered somewhat plausible, however, as they are cheerleaders, and have to carry a lot of weight quite regularly.
* ChekhovsGun: The finger trap from "The Ron Factor".
* ChekhovsGunman: Warmonga appears in an early episode in the final season, and then becomes one of the main antagonists along with Warhawk in the GrandFinale, "Graduation".
* ChewToy: Some see Drakken and Ron (seasons 1-3) as this since they never seem to catch any breaks.
* ChezRestaurant: Chez Ron from "Two to Tutor" and Chez Couteau from several episodes.
* ChickenWalker: The giant robotic flamingos.
* {{Chickification}}: Brought up from time to time regarding Kim and Shego, not all agree. %%Now keep it at that and DON'T elaborate.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Kim and Ron had been best friends since Pre-K, but they didn't openly acknowledge they had deeper feelings until ''So The Drama''.
* ChristmasEpisode: "A Very Possible Christmas".
* ChunkyUpdraft: Ron's Monkey Power.
* ClarkKenting: Hego. Bonus as Christopher [=McDonald=] voiced {{Superman}} in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' with Will Fredle.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Classy 'N' Crass]] : She's well-mannered, impeccably groomed, gorgeous, and stylish to a fault. He's lazy, slobbish, has ears like two open car doors, is forever about two fashion trends behind, and smells like overripe fruit.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Kim practically went insane when Ron went off with Yori. Everyone else [[EveryoneCanSeeIt could tell]] she was jealous.
* ClingyMacGuffin: The Nano Tick and the Centurion Bracelet.
* CloningBlues: "Kimination Nation".
-->'''Ron:''' An imitation clone? I hate it when the bad guys cut corners.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Kim and her original action uniform.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The Battlesuit, so powerful in fact that the writers had to work hard to get rid of it. Kim briefly wonders if her regular duds have some sort of luck to them.
** According to the official site, Shego's energy blasts were originally generated by some kind of mechanism in her gloves. However, the second season {{retcon}}ned her green glow into a superpower she got from an alien spacerock.
* CollapsingLair
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: Kim and Paisley's collections of Cuddle Buddy toys. Both are put in the shade by [=DNAmy=]'s: she uses mad [[LegoGenetics genetics]] to make living cuddlebuddies.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The RunningGag of Ron's pants dropping.
* ComicallySmallBribe: Kim and Ron need to get into a dog show using Rufus as a "dog" but the judge does not see the made up breed Rufus is supposed to be. Ron attempts to bribe the judge with five dollars to get the judge to look past the lack of breed in the rulebook. Much to Kim's surprise, the bribe works.
* CompilationMovie: "A Sitch in Time".
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Ron, more often than not. Biggest moment probably being from ''So the Drama'', where both Ned and Rufus try to warn him of Bueno Nacho being "Evil", only for him to react to their lack of bendy straws.
* CompressedHair: It takes no time for Kim to fit her hair under a helmet or into a ponytail, even when a gadget pops one on her head.
* ConspicuousCG: The Diablos and The Lorwardian Tripods.
* ContestWinnerCameo: Josh and Katlyn in Season 4.
* ContextSensitiveButton: {{Lampshaded}}. "These controls are supposed to be intuitive!"
* ContinuityNod: More than one might expect, especially given the producers admitted approach of [[SnapBack "Continuity by accident"]]. (Changed in [[UnCancelled season four]].)
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Several of the villains are so GenreSavvy that they indulge in BondVillainStupidity and hold tightly to the VillainBall simply because that's how these things are done, most prominently being Señor Senior Senior and occasionally Shego.
* ConvectionSchmonvection
* CoolCar: The Sloth, once Kim's brothers customise it for her. Over the fourth season, it gained rocket boosters, missiles, submarine capability and finally flight. Also, SADIE from "Car Trouble".
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Interestingly, Drakken's two plans that came closest to succeeding involved becoming this, first over Bueno Nacho, and the second over Hank's Gourmet Cupcakes ([[ContinuityNod everyone associated Dr. D with shampoo for some reason]]).
* CousinOliver: Hana
* CrazyPrepared: The military has regulations on how to deal with giant poodle attacks. The amount of gadgets our characters have falls into this on occasion:
-->'''Mr. Dr. P:''' You wore rocket skates to graduation?\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, you never know...
** (This doubles as a ContinuityNod: He was caught without them at the start of the previous finale.)
* CreditsPushback: Season Four.
* {{Crossover}}: Kim and crew appeared in an episode of ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' and {{cameo}}ed in an episode of ''{{Fillmore}}''. Kim appears for a few seconds in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''.
** The crossover with ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' indirectly links WesternAnimation/KimPossible to ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' and ''TheProudFamily''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ron. Full stop.
* CurseCutShort: See TheAllegedCar example above and the ShoutOut to ''{{Shaft}}'' below
* CymbalBangingMonkey: The Tempus Simia.
* TheDanza: Tara, voiced by Tara Strong.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Shego.
* DarkActionGirl: Shego.
* DarkHorseVictory: "Return to Wannaweep": both Kim and her school antagonist Bonnie lose a cheerleading contest to a guy dressed as a shark from another school.
** Also Kim and Bonnie in the school's talent contest, losing to Ron clowning about to stall for time while Kim escaped from Drakken's DeathTrap. "Proving once again that quantity wins over quality", remarks Barkin.
* DawsonCasting: Parodied in "And the Mole Rat will be CGI". Heather and Quinn are 28 but play high-schoolers Kim and Ron.
* DeadpanSnarker: Shego. Constantly.
** Also Monkey-Fist: "Take a picture. It'll last longer." (said menacingly to a child-hostage staring at him.)
* {{Deathtrap}}: Practically OnceAnEpisode, the Villains leave our heroes to their own demise, except in the case of one aversion. Otherwise it's {{lampshaded}} fairly often.
* DeepImmersionGaming: "Virt-U-Ron".
* {{Defictionalization}}: Purely unintentional...[[WildMassGuessing probably]], but there has been a great deal of positive response to Taco Bell's new Beefy Nacho Burrito because after ten years they finally caved and made a real life Naco.
* DenOfIniquity: In one episode, Ron stumbles upon a room full of Drakken's henchmen sitting around taking a break.
* DescriptionCut: "The Twin Factor". What is the BigBad {{supervillain}} more likely to do with a MindControl chip?
-->'''Ron:''' Drakken has total mind control power?!\\
'''Kim:''' Yet another "TakeOverTheWorld" thing!\\
'''Ron:''' That, or he's gonna force people to listen to those stories about his twisted childhood...\\
''(cut to Shego with a chip stuck to her forehead, listening respectfully to Drakken)''\\
'''Drakken:''' Then, in ''fourth'' grade...
* DisabilitySuperpower: Yes, Felix is wheelchair bound after an accident. Yes, he is a badass even without the super robotics he has.
* [[MisterExposition Doctor Exposition]]: {{Lampshaded}} with Drakken.
-->'''Drakken:''' Shego, at last! [[MacGuffin Pure nanotronium]] is mine! The world's smallest, most powerful energy source-\\
'''Shego:''' A- Are you for real? I was ''with'' you. I know what it is, ''Doctor Exposition''.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Sassie the Puma.
* DoesThisRemindYouofAnything: In Episode 53, Kim and Shego are affected by devices known as "moodulators" that makes them--especially in the presence of the men--become affectionate at one minute, and lashing out at them in anger in the next.
** In "A Sitch in Time," Ron and Kim are talking about him moving to Norway and Kim's trying to reassure him that they'll still be able to work together.
* DontTellMama: Drakken's mother completely believes that he is a radio talk show psychologist.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Apparently this is so easy in Kim Possible's world that even the show's very lowest grade villains, a disgruntled Smarty Mart employee and a washed-out reality TV star, can seize control of every TV on the planet.
** At least, it's easy if you're a [[TechnoWizard Computer Genius]] like Lucre or you have access to a ''lot'' of your former show's broadcast equipment like Adrena Lynn.
* DoomedHometown: The Possible Family Home is destroyed in both Finales. Bueno Nacho suffers from villain attacks often enough.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom The appropriately named "Spinning Tops of Doom".
* DoubleDate: Kim and Ron with Ms. Go and Mr. Barkin.
* TheDragon: Shego to Drakken. In ''A Sitch In Time'', their roles are reversed, with a steroid-fuelled Drakken serving as TheDragon to Shego.
* DramaticDrop: The Flour Bag in "Big Bother".
* DreadfulMusician: Señor Senior Junior
* DressingAsTheEnemy Ron dresses as a henchman in "Odds Man In"
* DrillSergeantNasty: In Sgt. Coach form, Mr. Barkin.
** Barkin is both types, given his military background.
* DrivingTest, complete with [[DrivingTestSmashers smashers]]: "Car Trouble".
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ron gets no respect in school, despite his key role in regularly [[SaveTheWorld saving the world]] with Kim. Even she doesn't get much slack from people on the home front for all the times she's saved them all from doom.
** Ironically Drakken gets this as well. Despite the fact he's probably [[NearVillainVictory come closer to succeeding]] then any other foe, only Shego gets rescue from prison repeatedly.
* DuelingShows: ''TotallySpies'' was another "secret agent high-school kid" show about the same time.
** It actually predated ''Kim Possible'' (which began in 2002, while ''TotallySpies'' began in 2001).
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Go siblings.
* {{Eagleland}}: The show proudly portrays type A {{Eagleland}}. Witness "Hidden Talent", when Ron plays "The Star Spangled Banner"; "Rappin' Drakken" where Kim wears a USA outfit, and "Queen Bebe" where Kim dances with Rufus at Liberty Island, not to mention how it honors American soldiers.
* EasilyForgiven: "Ill-Suited" Ron is let off the hook despite lying to Kim, cheating at a major sporting event and stealing high-tech weaponry that put lives in danger. Kim forgave him and Barkin let him stay on the team. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Although he did have to do 20 crabwalk laps around the field.]] [[ValuesDissonance Though it is a stark reminder of how in Season 1 Kim was grounded just for lying.]] Although since Ron is the goofy comic relief, writer's surrogate and DesignatedHero of this particular episode he gets a pass.
** The villains, especially Drakken and Shego, live remarkably open lives given their histories of destruction, [[CardboardPrison jailbreak]] and attempts at world domination.
*** Also, consider what goes on with Drakken and Shego early in the PostScriptSeason. She gets busted out of prison on two separate occasions with no attempt to bring him along, then goes on vacation while leaving him to rot. He has his new sidekick throw her out of the lair and then capture her so she can watch [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the new sidekick beat Kimmie]]. The next time we see them after that, they're working together as usual.
* EccentricMillionaire: Senor Senior Senior (and his son Senor Senior Junior.)
* EggSitting: With a bag of flour in "Big Bother".
** Made that much funnier when one remembers that this is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Will Friedle's]] second time doing so.
* EgocentricTeamNaming: Team Go, a team of superheroes made up of five siblings (Hego, [[FallenHero Shego]], Mego, and a pair of twins named Wego). It's assumed that Hego named the group as he's the leader and seems to be the eldest, but [[MeaningfulName Mego]] is the self-centered one of the group. That is not to say, however, that Hego (who is not without his personality flaws) wouldn't do such an act.
* {{Egopolis}}: Shego did it after [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]]; Dr. Drakken plans to do this after his "inevitable victory".
* TheElevatorFromIpanema: The muzak in Jack Hench's waiting room is a rather Ipanema-like arrangement of the Kim Possible theme song.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Can you blame Drew Lipsky for opting to go by Dr. Drakken?
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Both Kim and Ron are embarrassed by home movies of their infant years.
* EmpathyDollShot: The invading Lorwardians destroy Kim's favorite Cuddle Buddy upon arrival.
* EnemyMine: The main heroes and the main villains have to team up in the SeriesFinale to save the world [[spoiler:[[AlienInvasion from the Lorwardians]].]]
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: The very German Professor Dementor doesn't quite do the nailing of all of the idioms in English.
* EurekaMoment: Ron lapses into one when Kim mentions "Homefield" in "Ill Suited".
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Dr. Drakken and Professor Dementor both have a soft spot for their mothers.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Steal Wheels" Shego objects to stealing Felix's technologically advanced wheelchair, asking incredulously "What's next, stealing candy from a baby?". Subverted in that one episode later, that's exactly what ''she'' does.
** In the Halloween episode Kim lies to both her parents and Ron to go to a party. Later when she is caught the villains remark their disappointment in Kim's choice as they are loaded onto the police wagon.
** Drakken's [[MindControl mind-controlling shampoo]] fails mostly because he has to stick to "truth in labelling" laws, and so it's called "Dr. D's Brainwashing Shampoo and Cranium Rinse" and labelled "Lather, Rinse, Obey!"
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: That Kim was jealous of Yori in "Gorilla Fist". Wade and Monique for example.
** Kim and Ron's relationship in general. When they finally do become a couple in "So The Drama", Bonnie [[AlphaBitch of course]] laughs ("It finally happened. She's dating that loser!"), everyone else ''cheers'', implying they'd been expecting it to happen ''all along''.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Mr. Dr. Possible was a college classmate of Dr. Drakken.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys, unless you're Ron. And in Season 4, that changes when he embraces his Monkey Kung Fu.
* EvilBrit: [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]] Monkey Fist
* EvilIsDumb: Except Ron... somehow. And Shego, for all the good it does her.
** Senor Senior Sr. has the occasional moment of clarity.
* EvilGloating: Draken most of all. Shego {{lampshades}} it: "Are you gloating to ''yourself''?"
* EvilPlan: Drakken has the tradiontional 'TakeOverTheWorld' plan but the plans get sillier
** Duff wants to create the world's largest golf course
** [=DNAmy=] steals and kidnaps to create live-sized cuddle buddies
** Monkey Fist's ambition is to be the 'ultimate monkey master'.
* EvilLaugh: This is the only thing about being a villain that Doctor Drakken knows how to do right. Also parodied by Frugal Lucre, and Senor Senior Senior's winning line "Come, son. Let us return to our lair and practice our evil laughs together."
** And how about [[SuperpoweredEvilSide "BOO-YA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"]]
* EvilOldFolks: [[WickedCultured Senor Senior Senior]] and [[BabysitterFromHell Nanny Nane]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: Subverted with Falsetto Jones in "Rufus In Show".
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: A lot of villain lairs, though Drakken is the main offender for this one.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Dr. D's Brainwashing Shampoo and Cranium Rinse".
* ExtranormalInstitute: The Yamanouchi Ninja School.
* ExtremeSportExcusePlot: An episode or two.
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used in "Car Alarm" in emphasis the Tweebs "ItsPersonal" statement.
* EyepatchOfPower: Dr. Betty Director, and her brother Gemini.
** Future Kim (portrayed as leader of Global Justice in a "Sitch in Time" [[DVDBonusContent DVD extra]]). Apparently they both wear it just to look cool; Betty thinks it gives her more respect.
* EyeScream: A mild case in "Low Budget" when Kim pretends to put on a contact lens. She pokes herself in the eye without flinching, but a single tear falls from her eye.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Senor Senior Sr. makes video messages like this, his only visible traits being [[ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes his eyes]]. Until Junior turned on the lights. Again.
* FakeBrit: Israel native Brian George as Duff Killigan.
* FakeRabies: Ron makes himself a mascot costume for the Middleton Mad Dogs, complete with foam dispensers hidden in the head. "Mad Dog foams at the mouth!"
* FakeRealTurn: The 'Hank's Gourmet Cupcakes' franchise in "Odds Man In".
* FakeStatic: Ron might have pulled this off had he not put the static crackle in between each word.
* FakeUltimateHero: TV extreme-stunt star Adrena Lynn. "How does she do it!?" Answer: she fakes it.
* FallenPrincess
* FallingChandelierOfDoom
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: With the exception of the Area 51 soldiers (who seem to be armed with M14s and M16s) and possibly Barkin's Vietnam War flashback, no one is shown carrying or using any conventional guns.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Magical objects, superheroes, mutants, aliens, time travel, ghostly possession, and Mystical Monkey Powers.
* FastballSpecial: Ron throws Rufus at Dementor's control panel in "Ill Suited", Rufus is also a functional Shuriken if the need arises.
** Also used by [[EnemyMine Kim and Shego]] in "Go Team Go" when Kim temporarily had Hego's SuperStrength.
* FeetOfClay: Will Du, the "number one Global Justice agent".
* FeminineWomenCanCook: So, naturally, it's a blind spot for the girl who can do anything, while Ron is an excellent chef. She improves at the end of the relevant episode, though {{fanon}} makes her a LethalChef, often to physics-defying levels.
* FictionAsCoverUp: It turns out that Area51 really is filled with aliens and captured spacecraft that the government is experimenting on, and the government deliberately leaked all the rumors and conspiracy theories to the public because they knew nobody would really believe it if "the truth" ever got out. Kim and Ron are understandably perturbed that that they are being asked to help keep a secret that everybody already knows.
* FingerSnapLighter: Shego.
* FirstGirlWins: Kim is Ron's first girl, and Ron is Kim's first boy. Both in the sense that they're the first ones we see meeting each at the start of the pilot, and their {{backstory}} of becoming friends on the first day of kindergarten.
* FishPeople: Gill, after his mutation.
* {{Flanderization}}: This is most prevalent with Ron and Drakken concerning their competence.
** Drakken was initially an intimidating MadScientist, even to the point of quelling Shego in Mind Games, with a touch of AbsentMindedProfessor. However, by the end of the series he is basically an IneffectualSympatheticVillain / IronButtmonkey. Although part of Drakken's problem is likely due to DiminishingVillainThreat.
** Though he did get a [[TookALevelInBadass badass boost]] thanks to becoming a PlantPerson.
** Ron went from fairly competent PluckyComicRelief at the beginning of the series to BumblingSidekick / ButtMonkey by the end of the end of the third season. In the fourth season, he began to go through CharacterDevelopment that came with his RelationshipUpgrade with Kim that culminated in a moment of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass in the last episode. True, he had a few instances of his bumbling self throughout the fourth season, it was most likely done for comedy.
* FlatCharacter: Monique.
* FlatWhat: Kim does this a few times, such as when she found out that Monique liked wrestling.
* ForeignQueasine: One episode had Ron and Rufus finding a bag of chips that belonged to the current client, whereupon they began eagerly eating them... at least until the client tells them the chips were made from crickets.
* FountainOfYouth: Drakken and Nanny Nane both have devices for turning people into toddlers.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Kim and Ron swap bodies, as does Drakken with a military private. {{Fanfiction}} provides Ron with the ManIFeelLikeAWoman Routine.
* FreakyIsCool: This is why Kim is attracted to Ron.
-->"You're weird. I like weird."
* FreeRangeChildren: Kim is only around 15 - 18 during the show's run and yet she can go anywhere she pleases from Tokyo to Peru to outer space as long as it doesn't involve romance. She sometimes drags her friends, and her two younger brothers, along too.
* FriendlessBackground: Arguably, both Kim and Ron, besides each other.
* FutureBadass: Almost everyone in the future part of ''A Sitch In Time''.
-->'''Ron:''' Why is everybody in the future so ''ripped?!''
* FutureLoser: In ''A Sitch in Time'', it's shown that Brick becomes this. Ron even [[LampshadeHanging comments on it]].
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* GadgeteerGenius: Wade and the Tweebs.
* TheGayNineties: "Rewriting History"
* GeniusDitz: Motor Ed is an unparalleled mechanical and engineering genius, so much so that Drakken has to turn to him for help when creating a doomsday vehicle. He's also an extremely ditzy rocker archetype who cares more about his mullet and cruising on some hot wheels than anything else. His plans often involve using his genius skills for some almost moronically simple goal, like stealing a rocket that could easily destroy everything for miles simply to make a hotrod to cruise down the highway with.
* GenreSavvy: Several...primarily Kim, Ron, Wade, and Shego.
** Senor Senior Sr plays this totally straight, because he learned his {{supervillain}}y in books and it's an eccentric hobby for him.
* GeographicFlexibility: Played straight, and {{Lampshaded}} in "Clothes Minded". Kim and Ron can go anywhere in the world and [[TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot be back home for dinner]].
* GhostPirate: Dr. Drakken is possessed by one in "Cap'n Drakken".
* GilliganCut: Kim trying to avoid her brothers' cold in "Sick Day":
-->'''Kim:''' I do ''not'' want to catch this.\\
[Cut to Kim in bed with a cold]\\
'''Kim:''' How did I catch this?
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals
* GiveGeeksAChance: Kim x Ron...our page image and [[TropeNamer The Trope Name]] comes from a phrase used by the creators in an interview.
* GlovedFistOfDoom: Usually two-fisted.
* GloveSnap
* GogglesDoNothing: The "future" gear of "A Sitch In Time". The "future hat" also does nothing.
* GoGoEnslavement: Kim wears one of Shego's suits while under Drakken's MindControl.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Kim's usual method of dealing with villains is to make them TalkToTheFist.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Drakken's long, twisted scar on the left side of his face is ''definitely'' evil. Yup. That's how you know he's a bad guy.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Ron's boxers are either a solid color or have polka dots. It's Mr. Dr. Possible who suffers the most with his neon-heart print underwear. Drakken and Shego find a load of Dementor's stuff in the timeshare lair, including boxers with a skull motif.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Barkin mitigates his blasphemy by saying "Cheese and crackers!" The worst Drakken says is "Oh, snap."
* GovernmentConspiracy: The U.S. Government had known for a long time that aliens are real, but [[CassandraGambit purposely disseminated this fact as a conspiracy]] to make the general public believe that [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theorists]] seem like paranoid individuals and discredit the theory. {{Lampshaded}} by Ron on the questionable logic of this plan given that ''everyone'' already suspected that the U.S. Government was hiding evidence for aliens.
* GPSEvidence: twice.
* GraduateFromTheStory: The two-parter ending "Graduation" was called that for a reason.
* GrandFinale: Two: ''So The Drama'', then "Graduation". The second is a half-hour shorter, but even grander.
* GrapplingHookPistol
* GravitySucks: The Lorwardian ship falls like a rock after [[InventionalWisdom Rufus turns off the ship via the off switch]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Ron in Japan during "Exchange".
* GreenEyedMonster: Kim and Ron encounter this in the third Season and ''[[TheMovie So The Drama]]'', due to a RomanticFalseLead and a new friend with a kickass wheelchair and videogames. There was also Kim "[[BuffySpeak jelling]]" over how close Yori seemed to Ron in "Gorilla Fist".
** Kim gets jealous over Ron at almost the drop of a hat: she also gets jealous when he becomes good friends with Felix in "Steal Wheels," and gets very angry over the time he and Bonnie spend together in "Homecoming Upset" - a lot more justified that time, however, as they were dating at that point and Bonnie was doing everything in her power to run it in. To her credit she manages to direct almost all her anger at Bonnie and not Ron.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Warmonga.
* GrowingUpSucks: An element in both finales.
* HackerCave: Wade has quite the bedroom full of computers for a ten-year-old supergenius.
* HalfTruth: Eric tells Kim that his "mission" is to take her to the prom. Well, it is.
* HalloweenEpisode: "October 31st".
* {{Hammerspace}}: Ron pulls a pickaxe out of nowhere in "Cap'n Drakken". Where Kim keeps her PDA-like Kimmunicator, even in her cheer costume, is equally mysterious.
* HandBlast: Shego's "plasma" blasts.
* HappilyEverAfter: Kim and Ron. The two SealedWithAKiss series [[StockSeriesFinales finales]] make this such.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: This is apparently the reason for Shego's FaceHeelTurn (by her Lawful Stupid brother version).
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Wade, in person; broken in a late Season 3 episode.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: When Shego gets zapped with the Reverse Polarizer and becomes good.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: {{Inverted}} or used straight depending on from what angle you're watching.
* HeroicBSOD: Both Ron and Drakken have one after finding out that Snowman Hank has been cancelled.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Rufus 3000 is [[DuckDodgers The Martian Centurions]]? And [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration WORF]]?!
** A [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender certain prince of fire]] apparently went to a secret ninja school in Japan.
** The Go family: [[TheWonderYears Fred Savage as the Wegos]], [[HappyGilmore Christopher]] [[SuperheroMovie McDonald]] as Hego, Jere Burns as Mego. In the same episode, Aviarius is Richard Steven Horvitz, also known as InvaderZim.
** PattonOswalt for as Professor Dementor.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Often, especially in the episodes with Monkey Fist. The winner is ''So The Drama'''s "Sumo Ninja".
* HighClassGlass: Ron disguises himself in an outfit that fits this trope to a T as part of a ploy to lure out Team Impossible.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: Kim and Ron. Best friends since Pre-K, but became an OfficialCouple at the Junior Prom.
* HiveMind: The Bebes. The Tweebs seem to have this as well.
* HiveQueen: A strange variation. The Bebes decide to make [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]] their queen simply because she is the one person that Kim hates more than anyone else and are hoping that this will give them an advantage.
* HomemadeInventions
* HospitalHottie: Mrs. Dr. Possible
* HotScientist: Dr. Vivian Francis Porter
* HotMom: Mrs. Dr. P. {{Lampshaded}}, which led to lots and lots of FanArt...
* {{Hulkspeak}}: Ron talks this way after mutating into "Gronde".
* HumansAreWarriors: Kim, Ron, and Shego in "Graduation, Part 2".
* HypercompetentSidekick: Not Ron to Kim, but rather Rufus to Ron.
* IdenticalGrandson: In the "VisionsOfAnotherSelf" episode, {{lampshaded}} by Ron when they discover doubles for Kim, Ron, Barkin, Drakken, Shego, Dementor and finally Wade.
-->"Come on this is ridiculous!"
* IdiotBall: Ron's intelligence varies from episode to episode, and sometimes he's just flat out clutching this ball. Kim gets it a few times, too.
-->'''Ron:''' Hello, Information? I'd like the number for 911 immediately please!
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: This is Ron's reason for not getting together with Kim before they did (Kim's reason is partially this, but mainly about peer pressure). The first time this is made explicit is "Emotion Sickness", when Kim was under Moodulator influence. The second time, occurs in ''So The Drama'' and ''almost'' leads into...
** IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ron decides against telling Kim how he really feels, leaving her to attend the prom with Eric whilst he doesn't go and instead sits in Bueno Nacho feeling sorry for himself... where he learns that Drakken is using Bueno Nacho as part of his new plan, leading to the reveal that Eric is a synthodrone and allowing Ron the chance to confess to Kim, who returns his affection.
* IfIHadANickel: In "Ron Millionaire". "If I had a nickel for every time I heard that [talking about Bonnie's comment]...I could have grande-sized!"
** He then literally gets a nickel for every Naco sold by Bueno Nacho, resulting in 99 Million dollars.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Ron, on more than one occasion.
* IKnowKarate: Kim knows sixteen styles apparently... Mantis not so much.
* IKnowKungFaux: Monkey Kung-Fu, as practiced by Monkey Fist and Ron.
** There is actually a real Monkey Kung Fu, but it's obviously not what the show is referring to and does not involve {{McGuffin}}s.
** In a case of ShownTheirWork, Monkey Kung Fu is also known as Tai Shing Pek Kwar and Monkey Fist.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Kim and Duff Killigan.
* IMinoredInTropology: Evil sidekick and DarkActionGirl Shego holds a degree in child development.
* ImagineSpot: Ron imagines scoring the touchdown, heheh.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Kim's flippy waist-length hair is no impediment to acrobatics or combat and is only occasionally tied back. Shego's edges into RapunzelHair, reaching past her hips yet still [[DramaticWind blowing dramatically in the wind]]. Both quickly spring back into shape, no matter what happens to them.
* ImNotAHeroIm: Ron's dad does this to the Mathter before a math-based brain battle.
-->'''Mathter:''' And what kind of hero are ''you?''\\
'''Mr. Stoppable:''' I'm no hero. I'm ''Actuary of the Year.''\\
* InadequateInheritor: Ron, taking on the mantle of the Fearless Ferret.
** Also, Senor Senior, Senior doesn't seem to be having much luck teaching Junior how to be a proper villain.
* InformedJudaism: Ron is supposed to be Jewish.
* InkSuitActor: John [=DiMaggio=] ''IS'' Motor Ed. Seriously.
** [[UnusualEuphemism Cheese and crackers]], Barkin looks a lot like Patrick Warburton.
* InventionalWisdom: The Lorwardian Mothership is shut down by a single button, not even code locked.
* InTheBlood: "Anything is possible for a Possible!" And the show more or less follows that idea. All the Possible family have some sort of badassness in them.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Miss Go; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because she is the exact opposite of [[DarkActionGirl Shego]] via a MirrorMoralityMachine.
* InstantExpert: Kim. Mostly confined to the first season. The crowning moment being her being able to fly a ''space shuttle'' after seeing a monkey do it first.
* InsistentTerminology: "This building is actually made of cheese."
* InstitutionalApparel: All the villains that end up in prison end up wearing orange jumpsuits.
* InsultBackfire: When Kim tries to zing Monkey Fist in "Oh No! Yono!" she [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally reveals]] that Ron's sister, Hana, is [[MacGuffinGirl "The Han"]] Monkey Fist is looking for. When he realizes this he [[FacePalm slaps his forehead]] and realizes "How Blind I've Been!"
* InsultMisfire: "Showdown at the Crooked D".
-->'''Ron:''' ''(To Mr. Dr. P.)'' Don't let him call you a lackwit!
* InvoluntaryDance: Happens when Kim and Ron end up hypnotised and end up being ordered to dance by Señor Senior Junior.
* IronicInversion: "Job Unfair".
* IronyAsSheIsCast: ''Hidden Talent'' reveals Kim cannot sing high notes. In fact she is truly atrocious at it. Christy Carson Romano, her voice actress, is in fact an accomplished singer as she demonstrates at the end of the episode.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY:
-->'''Kim:''' ... Miss... [[MeaningfulName Guide]]?\\
'''Miss Guide:''' "Guh-''DAY''", dear.\\
'''Kim:''' Uh, g'day to you too.
* IslandBase: Drakken and The Seniors.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: "Queen Bebe": Kim sees that the robotic villains, the "Bebes", no longer respond to radio interference like they did in "Attack of the Killer Bebes". [[FridgeBrilliance This makes sense,]] as because the Bebes (and Kim) are moving at hyperspeed, a hypersonic emision would be much slower, and as such would not have the same effect.
* ItsPersonal: "Car Alarm". Jim and Tim emphasize the upgrades to the Sloth are because Motor Ed outran them.
** Done doubly in "Team Impossible". Kim has had it with the so-called heroes and is wiping the floor with them and them some. Ron is basically eating popcorn, then Wade shows up in the flesh, because they spiked his computers, and he is ''really'' mad.
* JoinOrDie: Gemini tries to force Ron Stoppable to join his terrorist organization of WEE by threatening him with a laser.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Team Impossible; went from just being [[PunchClockHero punch clock heroes]] who wanted Kim to stop saving the world so they could get paid for it, and basically straight to trying to [[NeverSayDie permenantly end her heroics.]]
* JustFriends: Kim and Ron, for Seasons 1-3.
* KarmaHoudini: The Oh Boyz treated everyone like crap, especially their long-suffering manager. At the end of the episode, only the manager is punished for abandoning the Oh Boyz.
** Also, there are no repercussions to Cyrus Bortel for building (and in one case auctioning off) [[MindControlDevice "ferociously unethical" behavior control devices]], or to Jack Hench for [[ArmsDealer knowingly providing henchmen and supplies to villains]].
* KeepAway: Rufus after eating the MacGuffin becomes the object of frequent tossing about.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show has never been fully released on DVD outside of Germany.
** As of October 2010, Disney has released the first two seasons in the US, but exclusively via the Disney Movie Club.
* KirbyDots: The Krackle effect accompanying Shego's glow power.
* KissingDiscretionShot: Kim and Ron in "Mentor of Our Discontent", much to the disappointment of fans.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: The moodulator leads to Kim and Ron's kiss in "Emotion Sickness".
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* LaserGuidedKarma: A good example happens to Bonnie. [[spoiler: It is revealed that she was the only senior in Middleton High who wasn't graduating because she missed an important quiz on the last week of school, forcing her to attend summer school.]]
* LaserHallway: Kim's first mission involved the in-universe mother of these. More appear throughout the series.
* LastMinuteHookUp: You could say the ending of TheMovie was that for Kim and Ron.
** Also for Drakken and Shego, after giving them a case of HeIsNotMyBoyfriend in the GrandFinale.
* LastNameBasis: Inverted with Shego. Her last name is "Go", but she has "She" in front because she used to be good and a part of a team with her brothers, and she was [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the girl of the team]]. It's also possible their names relate to their first names, but they're never given. {{Lampshaded}} by Ron in "Go Team Go".
* LaughablyEvil
* LawfulStupid: Hego.
* LegoGenetics: [=DNAmy's=] creations are an example, as are Drakken's customized clones.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Kim, Rufus, Shego, Killigan and Monkey Fist all have their own themes, which made for an interesting climax in "Adventures in Rufus-Sitting", when the theme switches to whoever has the ball (well, molerat) at the time.
** Rufus' is the backbeat from [[{{Callback}} Naked Mole Rap]].
* LesCollaborateurs: Bonnie Rockwaller is an instructor in one of Shego's re-education centers in ''A Sitch in Time''.
* LessEmbarrassingTerm: Professor Dementor responds to Ron's comment about the "dress" he's wearing by shouting "It's a HOUSECOAT!"
** Wade: [[SciFiGhetto "Don't call it sci-fi, it demeans the genre!"]]
* LethalChef: The school lunch lady fixes unrecognizable glop most of the time which may or may not be considered food. Kim also starts as this, and fan works tends to bring this to physics-defying levels, despite the fact she actually improved considerably at the end of the episode.
* LeParkour
* SugarWiki/TheLittleBlackDress If you know the show, you know the one.
* LimitedWardrobe: Many, many characters are guilty of this. (Bonnie wears her cheer costume an awful lot for someone supposed to be fashion-conscious.) Got better in Season 2 when the animators give both Kim and Ron got new rotating outfits. Ron was eventually returned to his jersey and cargos because the crew didn't like the "bowling shirt".
*** Bonnie lampshaded this on Season 1 (Episode 16) with the line "Kim Possible, you are such a loser! I mean you wear that same outfit like, every day!"
* LockAndLoadMontage: The peultimate episode has Kim suiting up in battle armor, then picking up Ron in her CoolCar, like she is going to vape Drakken for keeps. Turns out it's for a puma in a tree.
* LoonyFan: Cousin Joss Possible (for Kim), later Frugal Lucre (for Drakken).
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* MadeOfIron: Everyone, the most notable being the time when Shego got kicked from the roof of a building that is several stories high, into an electrical signal tower, which not only electrocutes her but also collapsed right on top of her. And she comes out of the incident with slightly torn clothes and frazzled hair...
* MadMathematician: The Mathter.
* MadScientist: Drakken, [=DNAmy=], Prof. Dementor, and even a fair number of the "good guys" qualify.
* MagicMeteor: The origin of Team Go. "A glowing, rainbow-colored comet!"
* MakeMeWannaShout: "Hidden Talent".
* ManiacMonkeys: Monkeyfist's monkey ninjas.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kim and Ron, as well as Shego and Dr. Drakken. Kim and Ron remember their first Halloween together, take a wild guess which one wore a cowboy outfit and which one wore a tutu.
* MassHypnosis: Drakken tries this, using shampoo of all things, and a scheme involving teens MP3 players that didn't work out. The Seniors try it with a love ray.
* MasterOfDisguise: Camille Leon.
* MayContainEvil: "Dr Drakken's Brainwashing Shampoo and Cranium Rinse".
* MayDecemberRomance: Drakken and Shego. He's the same as Kim's father (his early 40s), while Shego is somewhere in her twenties by the series' end.
* MeaningfulName: Almost everyone.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Drakken steals the royalty money Ron gets for inventing the Naco. After Kim fails to get it back, he spends it on a giant laser that doesn't work as expected and destroys itself and his lab.
* MeLoveYouLongTime: Yori is so into Ron. Totally. Big time. As were Kim and Monique with Hirotaka when Ron went on a student exchange program (although he was dating Bonnie at the time). Subverted however in the fourth season when Ron reveals to Yori that he and Kim were now an OfficialCouple; Yori accepts it very quickly. Maybe even a little ''too'' quickly for Ron's perspective. And Kim herself does become a little protective about the matter.
-->'''Ron:''' Yori, thing is... Kim and I aren't JustFriends anymore... we're kinda... well... dating.\\
'''Yori:''' I see.\\
'''Ron:''' Totally didn't mean to break your heart or anything.\\
'''Yori:''' I believe my heart is intact.\\
'''Ron:''' It is? Does ''everyone'' have a heart of stone these days?\\
'''Yori:''' Sensei teaches that change is a part of life, and leads to growth, wisdom and happiness.\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, who doesn't love change? But you can admit to a ''little'' [[CallBack emotion sickness]] if you want.\\
'''Kim:''' ''Ron''! She said she's OK with it!\\
'''Monkey Fist:''' [[CallBack So The Drama]].
* MementoMacGuffin: Ron's titanium-reinforced belt helped Kim remember that they were dating in "Clean Slate".
* MerryChristmasInGotham: Ron tries to take on Drakken by himself so Kim can have a nice Christmas with her family. Ends up with Ron and Drakken bonding over an old TV show, whose theme they sing together. Now, ''Kim Possible'' isn't exactly [[DarkerandEdgier dark and edgy]] to begin with, but they were shooting for LighterAndSofter than usual.
* MetronomicManMashing: The ninja toddler Hana does this to Monkey Fist.
* MicroMonarchy: The Kingdom of Rodigan, where Prince Wally is from, is quite possibly this, even though we don't get precise info on the country's size.
* MinionShipping: Drakken and Shego.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Senor Senior, Jr.
* MirrorMoralityMachine
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Kim nearly bumps into Ron so many times in "Adventures In Rufus-Sitting".
* MissedTheCall: Kim initially set up her website looking for ordinary teenager jobs like babysitting, but got drawn into adventuring after a rescue call to Team Impossible accidentally reached her instead.
* MissionControl: Wade, quintessentially.
* MixAndMatchCritters: [=DNAmy=]'s creations and Cuddlebuddies.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Malcolm in "Virt-U-Ron".
* MotiveDecay: The Mathter; He went from terrorizing Go City to making Ron his personal {{archenemy}} just because he used a variable (saying his tape recorder cost twenty dollars) in less than two minutes after they first meet. That's got to be some sort of record. This, like everything else in the series, is also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].
-->'''Ron''': Oh great, now the math guy's back!\\
'''Kim''': And he's not even our villain!
* MoodSwinger: Doctor Drakken can be ranting with malicious glee about destroying his teenage foe one minute, and then switch to looking for milk in a supermarket. The "Moodulator" chips make Kim and Shego act this way too.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Drakken is the guiltiest as he dropped out of college and therefore has no degree to speak of.
* MoralityDial: The Attitudinator in "Bad Boy" and "Stop Team Go".
* TheMovie: Twice, ''A Sitch in Time'' being the more quintessential - the other was the first planned GrandFinale.
* MultipleDemographicAppeal
* MusclesAreMeaningless: [[TheDragon Future Drakken]] versus [[{{Sidekick}} Ron Stoppable]]. Enough said.
** Amazingly, it was also inverted in that same episode, since Dr. Drakken wiped the floor with both Kim Possible ''and'' a CharlesAtlasSuperpower Monique. After beating them, Shego gloats, making Ron mad. '''Big Mistake'''.
** Usually, Kim: perfectly willing and able to knock down men twice her size. Even discussed when she and Shego faced two huge wrestlers while TrappedInTVLand; "Well, this shouldn't be a problem."
** Ron and Drakken's henchmen wear muscle-enhancing rings in "Ron The Man", but it's still Kim and Shego doing most of the fighting, maybe even more than usual.
** Señor Senior Junior is the most buff-looking of the regular villains, but doesn't get into fights. Maybe he [[TheDandy doesn't want to mess up his hair]].
* {{Nanomachines}}: The Nano-Tick in "Tick, Tick, Tick" (though it's not really on a nano-scale - according to Drakken, it just sounds cooler that way) and probably the source of Camille Leon's [[ShapeShifter shapeshifting]] ability.
* NewJobEpisode: Played straight in "Bueno Nacho". Subverted and played straight in "The Big Job"
* NeverMessWithGranny: Nana Possible went through the [[TheSpartanWay Navy SEALS Underwater Demolitions Training]], and owns Kim at kung fu, tough enough for ya?
* NeverSayDie: Villains sometimes talk about "destroying" or "eliminating" Kim.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl:]] Kim post season one. Yori in all her appearances.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Seniors would have been content to be rich and eccentric, if Ron hadn't accidentally convinced them that EvilIsCool.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In ''A Sitch in Time'', after Overlord Shego won, Drakken talks her into [[JustBetweenYouAndMe gloating]].
* {{Ninja}}: Both human, monkey and sumo.
** And the Embarrassment Ninjas.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Britina, MC Honey, Heather, the Holson twins, the CausticCritic host of "[[AmericanIdol American Starmaker]]" and Camille Leon, among others.
** One TrappedInTVLand episode had a pink haired spy fighting Kim over a device. [[Series/{{Alias}} Who could that be?]]
* NoGravityForYou: Occurs sometimes in space-related episodes.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Kim reasons this as why she doesn't have a date to the prom.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dementor's excitable METHOD OF ''SPEAKING!''
** And there's Dr. Drakken. In the Halloween episode, after yelling on the phone with Duff Killigan, shego tells him to use his indoor voice.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Shego in ''A Sitch In Time''.
* NoSeatbelts: Averted. The show makes sure that they put on helmets or parachutes or buckle up in their flying car.
* NonhumanSidekick: Rufus.
* NonLethalWarfare: With HarmlessVillain Drakken around, this is unsurprisingly the norm. Not that he and the other villains don't ''try'' to blow Kim away, though.
** Kim also gets a few exceptions, at one point firing a homing missile at Drakken and Shego's fleeing hovercar, and kicking Shego of a roof into an electrical tower at the climax of ''So The Drama''.
* NonSingingVoice: The Oh Boyz singing voices are not the same as their acting voices.
* NoodleIncident: ''Kim Possible'' loves this trope.
-->'''Barkin:''' And don't let them tell you they're supposed to have class outside! We put stop to that after the jellyfish incident.\\
'''Miss Go:''' Oh that's so nice! You took the class to the beach!\\
'''Barkin:''' No beach. Just jellyfish. Don't ask.
** Also:
-->'''Kim:''' Like that time you cleaned your room.\\
'''Ron:''' We agreed never to speak of that dark day.
** There was also the "paper machete" incident. Not paper mache, machete.
** Kim and Ron also tend to hitch rides from people whom they have helped in the past, often in some spectacular fashion. They do this [[OnceAnEpisode a lot]].
** Occasionally, Mr. Barkin will begin a class with a brief explanation of why he's [[TwoTeacherSchool substituting for another teacher]].
-->'''Barkin:''' A fungal experiment [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]]. [[YouDontWantToKnow I didn't press for details]].
** Supposedly, he also saved the world once, if his speech to Ron about graduation is any indication;
-->'''Barkin:''' Ah, Senior Year, I remember it well. Best two years of my life; big fan on the football team [...] dated the most popular girl in school [...] I even helped save the world a time or two.\\
'''Ron:''' Right on- wait, what?! You?
* NotMeThisTime: When Kim finds out that Dr. Drakken has been broken out of prison by a woman with "green energy blasts", she naturally drops in on his {{sidekick}} Shego, only to find out later that it was actually an alien who did it.
-->'''Shego:''' I'm. On. Va''cation!''\\
'''Ron:''' So, it ''wasn't'' you that busted out Drakken?\\
'''Shego:''' Who do you think I'm vacationing ''from?''
** Also done in the first part of the two-parter series finale, "Graduation Part 1". When several golf courses were undergoing eruptions, Kim Possible suspects Duff Killigan for the event. When confronted with the issue, Killigan explains that he wasn't involved, and even takes it a step further to reveal that his own golf course was defaced in a similar manner.
** Also done in "Gorilla Fist" where Ron and Yori go looking for Monkey Fist thinking he kidnapped Yori's Sensei, not knowing it was a BatmanGambit by DNAmy. When found Monkey Fist explains he wouldn't kidnap him because [[PragmaticVillainy he was of no value to him]].
* TheNotSecret: Most of the villain lairs, which are obviously intended to be secret and untraceable by the villains themselves but are easily found by a ten year old boy, Global Justice and/or pretty much anyone the plot wants to know. Particularly notable with Dementor and Drakken, who really push the "secret lair" schtick. In one memorable case, Drakken's lair was found no problem by ''his mother.'' Like everything, lampshaded - this time by [[DumbAssHasAPoint Motor Ed.]]
--> Ed: "Dude, seriously, what type of secret hideout is this? Everyone knows you live here, man!"
--> Drakken: "One magazine subscription and suddenly everyone's got your address..."
* NotSoAboveItAll: A common gag. In general, it's a running theme in the show that Kim is nowhere near as infallible in her regular life as she is in "mission mode".
* NotSoDire: A fair number of episode teasers establish an apparent crisis, only to reveal that the real sitch is relatively benign.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: "Homecoming Upset". Bonnie forces Ron into a kiss just as Kim arrives on the scene. After getting over the shock of the sight, a ''very'' pissed off Kim has to be reassured by Ron that he was the "kissee" and not the "kisser" in the situation. Turns out, Kim is well aware of this, but she's still angry all the same.
-->'''Kim:''' No kidding! It took ya twelve stinkin' years to kiss me!
** "Ill Suited", where Ron is trying to explain why he stole Kim's battlesuit.
-->'''Ron:''' Wait wait! It's not what you think!\\
'''Kim:''' Oh? So you're not a cheater, a liar and a ''thief''?!\\
'''Ron:''' ... OK, it is what you think.
* ObliviousToLove: Ron was completely oblivious of Cheerleader Tara's crush on him until it was too late.
** He was also oblivious to Yori's also. This led him to tell Kim (who's developing feelings for Ron) that girls should just say how they feel.
* ObsessedAreTheListmakers: Dr. Drakken dreams up a great plan to TakeOverTheWorld, but later forgets it. To avoid this happening again, he starts writing everything he plans to do on note-cards. This bites him when he forgets to write down a crucial step of his next plan and so misses it out, fatally endangering himself, his {{sidekick}} Shego, Kim and Ron. At this point, Shego [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bails out and leaves him to it.]]
* OffhandBackhand: Shego to Mego: "He always does that move. It never works."
* OfficialCouple: Kim and Ron, from ''So The Drama'' onward. WordOfGod is they were planned from the start, [[JustFriends which is unsurprising]]. WordOfGod goes on to further state that if there were any doubts, their relationship from "Graduation" onwards will indeed continue and flourish. More specifically That they will be together forever.
** Bonnie and Senor Senior Jr. from "Homecoming Upset" onwards.
** Dr. Drakken and Shego are strongly implied to be this, as per the end of "Graduation".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Shego to Kim. FoeYay? Where?
* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList
* OlderThanTheyLook: Granny Crocket after extensive surgery.
-->'''Granny Crocket:''' Granny had [[{{Understatement}} a little]] work done.
* OneShotCharacter: [[MeaningfulName Falsetto]] Jones the GentlemanThief only appeared in one half-episode.
* OneSteveLimit: Ron Stoppable and Ron Reager. {{Lampshaded}} during the latter's first appearance.
* OneWingedAngel: Gleefully subverted; Drakken is mutated by one of his own chemicals, but it makes him even less threatening. Played straight, again by Drakken, later in the same episode.
* {{Open Minded Parent}}s: The Possibles, natch. Kim can go halfway around the world, battle giant robots, and get lost in time and space (maybe all three at once), yet her parents won't bat an eye. But she better not be seeing any boys...!
** Her parents are experts at [[ThisAintRocketSurgery two of the most notoriously difficult jobs on the planet]]. [[JustifiedTrope One would hope that they are open minded.]]
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kim and Ron certainly are ordinary, certainly go to HighSchool, and most certainly SaveTheWorld on semi-regular basis. (From the theme tune: "I'm your basic average girl, and I'm here to save the world.")
* OutOfFocus: The comic stories in ''DisneyAdventures'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork tended to focus more on lame Rufus-centric gags]] than Kim saving the world.
* OverprotectiveDad: Mr Possible is happy for Kim to roam the world fighting evil, but frowns at talk of boys dating her, and threatens to pack Ron into a space probe if their dating goes sour.
* PaintingTheMedium: Ron at the end of "Grande Size Me".
* PairTheSmartOnes: Kim's rocket scientist and brain surgeon parents.
* PairTheSpares: Ron's Season 2 interest Zita, was dug out of limbo to be set up with Felix, another B-Character in the GrandFinale.
* PantyShot: One in "Tick Tick Tick" [[http://imageshack.us/a/img845/7599/kimpossiblese1ep004tick.jpg]] which made the first TitleSequence and another more noticeable in "Ill Suited".[[http://imageshack.us/a/img689/1062/kimpossiblese4ep066ills.jpg]] Otherwise Kim's cheerleading outfit has a MagicSkirt, in very drastic contrast [[ComedicUnderwearExposure to Ron]].
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Ron, for an episode.
* PaperThinDisguise: Averted with Camille Leon, except in her second appearance.
* ParentalBonus: A number of sly references. "[[QueerEyeForTheStraightGuy Evil Eye For The Bad Guy]]"?
** "[[GilligansIsland Killigan's Island]]".
* PerpetualFrowner: Shego.
** Who becomes a PerpetualSmiler in ''[[NotHerself Stop Team Go]]''.
* PerplexingPlurals: In "Naked Genius", Drakken captured Ron (thinking he got the brainpower he was after instead of Rufus) and forced him to build a doomsday device or else he'd be sleeping with the "fishes". He then gets confused if that is correct and asks Shego. Shego tells him that both fishes and fish are correct plurals for the word.
* PersonalitySwap: Ron and Drakken swap their "good" and "evil" essences.
* PetTheDog: Shego with Junior, noteable in the second episode with them because this was around the time she descended into StupidEvil territory.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Played with in "Cap'n Drakken" where Dr. Drakken gets possessed by a pirate ghost:
-->'''Drakken:''' Aye. Set the mainsail, wench.\\
'''Shego:''' Okay, first of all we don't have any sails. Second of all, call me 'wench' again and we'll be planning a ''burial at sea''.\\
'''Drakken:''' ''(nervously)'' Yearr. Arrgh.
* PlotInducedStupidity: In the episode ''Blush'' the "Wade-bot" launches itself off a cliff in the Amazon with Ron and Rufus, however Wade only remembers after the leap that he forgot to install the parachute. The PlotInducedStupidity comes into play when just a few minutes earlier ''in the same episode'' the Wade-bot had a hang-glider attachment to save Ron and Rufus from plummeting down a waterfall, and conveniently forgets about this gizmo once its could be useful again.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Kim's brothers in Season 4.
* PlotTechnology: Nearly all of the MadScientist {{supervillain}}s are guilty of this.
* PluckyComicRelief: Usually Ron, though Drakken has his own share of moments as well. Drakken is Shego's comic relief (and vice versa) and Ron is Kim's comic relief.
* PositiveDiscrimination
* PostKissCatatonia: Ron falls into one of these when Kim first kisses him [[KissingUnderTheInfluence under the influence of the Moodulator]] in "Emotion Sickness".
* PowerFloats: Ron with his monkey power.
* PowerGlows: Shego and Team Go, Ron's Monkey Power and some of the mad-science machinery, among other things.
* PowersAsPrograms: Aviarius extracts Team Go's powers for himself, though Kim gets one at first.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Pain King vs. Cleopatra", which was also Monique's debut episode.
* ProdigalFamily: Team Go, Mama Lipsky, Motor Ed. Seriously.
* PunnyName: Kim, Jim, Tim and Ron, obviously. In fact, as mentioned above, the majority of the characters have punny or [[MeaningfulName meaningful]] names.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Happens a few times, though most notable in "So the Drama".
* PuppyDogEyes: Kim's (nearly) irresistible "Puppy Dog Pout". Her mom also uses it a few times.
* PutOnABus: Brick Flagg.
* PsychoElectro: Electronique. Well, as psycho as you can be on the Disney Channel.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Monty Fiske fits this trope to a T, before he became "Monkey Fist".
* RapidFireTyping: Wade, as MissionControl and uber-hacker, and anyone depicted using a computer. Except Ron, seen pecking at the keys.
* RaygunGothic: The show's design ethic, most obviously in Drakken's lairs and the Possibles' home.
* RebusBubble: Ron + Battlesuit = Victory.
* RecurringExtra: The Middleton High students milling around in the background when Kim and Ron are at school are quite consistent, but fans particularly picked up on two: a freckled brunette usually wearing blue outfits and thus dubbed "Girl in Blue" and a tall, short-haired girl who fit the image of a ButchLesbian and was dubbed "Alex Sapphic", first by {{slashfic}}ers, then by the fandom in general.
* RedShirt: Parodied in season three, in the Trapped In TV Land episode called "Dimension Twist", when Kim is temporarily sent to a Star Trek-esque TV show and appears in a red uniform:
-->'''Wade:''' [[ThisIsThePartWhere This is the part of the show where]] they pick series regulars to go on a mission. Just make sure you're not the one wearing...\\
'''Kim:''' ... A red shirt?\\
'''Pseudo-Kirk:''' And... (to Kim) you! You're expendable.
** Also, Drakken's hapless rank-and-file henchmen are dressed in red, and are as close to RedShirt status as it gets in a NonLethalWarfare setting.
* RefugeInAudacity: {{Area 51}} only [[SarcasticConfession leaks information that is 100% true]] so that the public at large doesn't think the stuff that goes on there is actually happening.
* RedHeadedHero
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Exactly how does Shego manage not to vaporize her own hands if she doesn't have a HealingFactor? (A popular idea in {{fanon}}.)
** It would also explain how she survived the end of ''So The Drama''.
* ResetButtonEnding: TimeTravel incurred this once.
** In a lot of ways, ''So the Drama'' did this, perhaps most evidently with Bonnie's character development. She returns to being even more of an AlphaBitch from here on in.
* ReunionRevenge
* RelationshipUpgrade: Kim and Ron from ''So The Drama'' onward.
* RichBoredom: Senior Senior Sr.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Oliver]] and [[spoiler:Eric.]]
* RightHandCat: Played with at least thrice.
* RockStarParking: PlayedForLaughs in "The Big Job".
* RoguesGallery
* RugbyIsSlaughter: And Mr Barkin plays it.
* {{Rule 34}}: Literally search for images of any female character. Now turn off safesearch, and...yeah.
* RunningGag:
** Ron losing his pants, which he started to {{lampshade}}. In the first season, upon seeing an enormous obstacle/opponent that they would have to face, he would often exclaim:
-->'''Ron:''' That would be ''so cool'' if it wasn't gonna hurt us!
** Ron being 'micro chipped' by Wade.
** As stated above, the number of almost kisses between Kim and Ron became a gag in season 4. However, if you're a K/R fan, you might see it as a MomentKiller.
** Motor Ed's verbal tic. Seriously.
** After "Rappin' Drakken," that plan's horrific failure becomes a running gag that spans Season 4 - mostly via Shego's snark or someone only remembering him because of the shampoo. This culminates in him being able to easily put together a MassHypnosis plan because "there was plenty of the mind control shampoo left over."
** Several episodes, particularly the ones with two shorts that were more humor related instead of one full story, have the running gag of Kim getting stuck with the worst luck or having a much harder time dealing with something while Ron skates through the sitch with good luck and a total lack of interest. This includes Ron being bumped up to first class on a commercial flight - twice - while Kim is stuck in coach (Ron has the decency to try to pretend it wasn't awesome, though he fails), Kim being totally blindsided and humiliated by having the tell the truth all the time while it makes Ron instantly popular, Ron bonding with an overgrown roach monster while Kim is so grossed out she constantly freaks out (after telling Ron not to worry about bugs, no less), both episodes that focus on Felix and the first half of "Sick Day."
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* SadisticChoice: Adrena Lynn makes Kim save both Ron and Brick in this manner.
* SafetyWorst: "Odds Man In".
* SaveTheVillain: The rescue of Monkey Fist in "Gorilla Fist".
** Also saving Drakken and Shego from electrocution in "Rewriting History", and saving Drakken from drowning in "Cap'n Drakken".
*** Averted when a crook robs the Senor Seniors. Rather than try and help them regain what is rightfully theirs, Kim tries to capture them. Technically, she was trying to save the crook from Senior's revenge, so she ''did'' save a villain. There's a difference between trying to help an AssholeVictim to regain what's rightfully theirs and helping them to commit crimes as revenge.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Lorwardians.
* SchoolNewspaperNewshound: Ron tried his hand at it, going so far as to expose [[FakeUltimateHero Adrena Lynn]].
* ScienceFair: Kim and Justine build a portal to another dimension. Ron and Monique build a volcano at the last minute.
* ScoutOut: The Pixie Scouts.
* {{Scotireland}}: Duff Killigan is Scottish in every way, save for his very Irish surname.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Shego has occasionally walked out on Drakken after one of his schemes started going south or he just got too annoying.
* SdrawkcabAlias: Shego uses the alias "Ms. Ogehs" in "A Sitch In Time" to [[spoiler:Transfer Ron's mother to Norway to split up Kim and Ron.]]
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Rufus.
* {{Sexophone}}: Shego (as "Miss Wobakoff") has one of these played for her in "The Mentor Of Our Discontent", whilst trying to distract Martin Smarty.
* SealedWithAKiss: Kim and Ron in ''So The Drama'', originally and ''again'' in the [[StockSeriesFinales second finale of the series]].
* ShadesOfConflict: The show at first glance seems to be an obvious BlackAndWhiteMorality. A closer look at the various moral issues and the actions of the characters in some episodes usually yields more of a GreyAndGrayMorality.
* SharkPool: Both straight and parodied.
* SheFu: Kim; justified to some degree: she's a cheerleader, so she's ''supposed'' to be flexible.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Ron hilariously makes this objection before the RelationshipUpgrade (completely without provocation too). Shego makes similar denials about Drakken in the GrandFinale. Drakken had earlier made the same denial about Shego while trying to charm [=DNAmy=] into helping with one of his schemes. And Monkey Fist also states this about [=DNAmy=] in "Gorilla Fist".
* ShellShockedVeteran: Mr. Barkin, especially in "Fashion Victim".
* ShoePhone: Straight and subverted.
* ShooOutTheNewGuy: TotallyRadical extreme-stunts TV star Adrena Lynn appeared heavily in trailers and was intended to be a recurring arch-rival to Kim. Negative audience response saw her cut down to a one-shot villain and she never appeared again (unusual, since most villains made at least two appearances). She pops up in TheStinger for the GrandFinale, which is probably the only other time we see her.
* ShoutOut: "[[AnimalHouse Toga! Toga! Toga!]]" (and plenty more.)
** Kim made a reference to [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer combusting cheerleaders]].
** Shop Smart. Shop [[EvilDead Smarty Mart]].
** Team Impossible's uniforms are highly reminiscent of [[XMen Cyclops,]] especially how he looked in the 90's.
*** The show is savvy enough to have a boat pilot named ''[[SplinterCell Sam]]'', in an episode where Kim dons a black stealth suit. An incomplete list of shout outs can be found on tv.com.
*** A near impossible to spot one comes when Ron has to merge the staff of NewForest with the sword in the Everworld episode. The magic words? [[BedknobsAndBroomsticks 'Treguna, mecoides']].
** In the first episode of the fourth season, we hear "[[[ZeroWing All your battle suit are now belong to me!]]"
** Drakken's real name is Dr. Drew Lipsky, and he tells his mother he's a radio talk show psychologist. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Pinsky Remind you of anyone?]]
** Ron knocks down a mini golf {{Titanic}}, as a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of the film's tune plays.
** The Brick Flagg shows off that at least one of the writers was a fan of DCComics.
** In the Christmas episode, Drakken goes into [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas a very Grinch-esque rant about Christmas, which mentions "roast beast"]] [[{{Angrish}} and eventually devolves into Seuss-esque nonce words]] (which Shego lampshades)
** A quick and dirty one from Kim:
-->[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo "'Haunted island'? 'Keep out meddling kids'?]] [[SarcasmMode ''Puh-leze''."]]
** ''A Sitch In Time'' pulls a double whammy: Not only does young Drakken wear a skull t-shirt just like [[CreepyChild Sid]] of WesternAnimation/ToyStory, the design echos ThePunisher's style of wardrobe.
** "Monkey Fist Strikes" has Kim retrieving an artifact for the titler villian, before knowing he was evil. The scene of her retrieving the artifact is Kim's love letter to ''TombRaider''.
** [[Disney/TheLionKing "It's the circle of life."]] Kim even lampshades it.
** [[Film/JamesBond "Good evening Miss Possible]]. The name's Schtoppable. [[SeanConnery Ron Schtoppable]]."
** And yet another obscure ShoutOut to [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer you know who]]. Kim's casual clothes are the same gym outfit Buffy wore a few times.
** A particular phrase that Barkin shouts early in ''Captain Drakken'' ("Move that bus!") is reminiscent of a [[ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition certain other show]].
** Rufus In Show: Kim, Ron and Rufus survive a jump off a cliff using, of all things, a [[Literature/AliceInWonderland dress parachute]].
** Drakken's line from Sick Day: "[[Music/ThePointerSisters I'm so excited and I just can't hide it!]]"
** In "The Golden Years" there's one with a lot of ParentalBonus points, after describing all the ways Nana Possible is a [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]
-->'''Shego:''' She's a baaad Grandmother...\\
'''Kim:''' [[CurseCutShort SHUT YOUR MOUTH!]]\\
'''Shego:''' [[{{Shaft}} I'm just talking about your grandma!]]
* ShownTheirWork: The GameBoy Advance games. The second and third one especially put a lot of effort into getting all the little details right, from the ridiculous Drakken plot to Ron dancing like the Oh Boyz, they nailed the look and feel of the episodes.
* ShowWithinAShow: The soap opera "[[SoapWithinAShow Agony County]]" is mentioned a few times, in addition to the shows from "TV Trashheap". A whole load of them are used when TrappedInTVLand in "Dimension Twist".
** ''American Starmaker'', a televised TalentShow hosted by a {{Jerkass}} host. [[AmericanIdol Remind you of anything]]?
* SiblingSenioritySquabble: Gemini and Dr. Director. Avoided by Kim's twin brothers, strangely enough.
* SickAndWrong: Ron would frequently describes {{squick}}y things as being "sick and wrong". ''Really'' weird stuff elicits the response "This goes beyond sick and wrong, it's Wrongsick!''"
* SickEpisode: One in which nearly every named character eventually succumbs.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Shego's power glows green, and she has a lot of green highlights.
* {{Sidekick}}: Ron to Kim, Shego to Dr. Drakken.
* SignedUpForTheDental
* SingleMindedTwins: The Wegos don't seem to have separate personalities, which could be related to their superpower. Jim and Tim Possible, however, just seem to be on the same wavelength. All the time.
* {{Snowlems}}
* SleepCute: Kim and Ron during a boring field trip. The {{shipp|ing}}ers had a field day.
* SmugSuper: Shego makes sure that everyone she feels is inferior [[TrashTalk KNOWS that they are]], including her brothers, her boss, and occasionally the heroic sidekick. She also mocks Kim, but considers her an equal, [[{{Subtext}} maybe more]].
* SnapBack: The creators [[ShrugOfGod said]] the show only had "continuity by accident". Drakken's lair is always rebuilt by his next appearance; Ron's attempts to improve his popularity or social standing never stick; Kim cedes the captaincy of the cheer squad to Bonnie at the end of "Number One" but is back in the role later; and "Monkey Ninjas In Space" ends with an army of monkey ninjas claiming Ron as their leader, and are never mentioned again. As time went by, there was more ContinuityCreep and CharacterDevelopment, especially when the series [[UnCancelled returned]] for season four.
** ''[[TheMovie So The Drama]]'' even verges on BroadStrokes, such as rolling back Kim's learning to reject peer pressure and the hierarchy of the school "food chain", or Bonnie's CharacterDevelopment to return her to her original role as AlphaBitch.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Kim can easily take down supervillains around the world. Asking the boy she has a crush on to the school dance, on the other hand...
* SomethingElseAlsoRises:
** "Emotion Sickness", Kim kisses Ron on the mouth for the first time. After pulling away, Ron collapses to the ground and his entire body goes completely stiff, to the point where Kim can prop him back up to standing position like a garden rake.
** "Homecoming Upset", the firehose Ron is holding starts spraying all over the place when Bonnie hugs him.
** Fans who read into series extensively note the positioning of Rufus when he emerges from Ron's pocket when Kim is around.
* SpaceIsNoisy: The garbage makes the clinking of glass as it floats through space? Check. The engines make wooshing noises as it dodges between said garbage? Check.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Ron Stoppable can render [[SpannerInTheWorks any plans made by anyone, no matter how complex]] useless by wandering around and [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo touching random objects]].
** Global Justice even called it the "Ron Factor" and the secret to Kim's success.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Ron, most often with Rufus. He has also shown that he can communicate very well with other animals: Chippy, Roachie, and Professor Dementor's giant dogs, to name a few.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Also Rufus.
* SpinningClockHands: Subverted.
-->'''Barkin:''' Darn clock's busted again!
* SpoilerOpening: Lord Monty a.k.a. Monkey Fist appears in the opening theme from the very first episode onwards, however his first appearance was not until episode 13, where it was written as if Monty turning out to be the bad guy was a [[TheUnreveal big twist]].
** This happens again in the last season when the Opening changed, spoiling [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Warmonga]] well before her episode appearance. Once more her episode is written as if we're not supposed to have any idea who this ''other'' green skin lady who's helping Drakken who isn't Shego was.
* SpyCouple: Kim and Ron.
* StabTheSky "Virt-U-Ron" Ron completes the HeroicFantasy episode in true style.
* StableTimeLoop: "A Sitch In Time", if one accepts the implication that [[spoiler:destroying the ''Tempus Simia'' [[RetGone erases it from ever existing]]]]. Otherwise it's a TimeyWimeyBall.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Very few things change on the show even when they should, both inverting it and playing it straight.
** In Season 4 the writers tried to add a number of other changes so the RelationshipUpgrade wouldn't seem so out of place like: Ron on the football team, Kim's new car, Kim's brothers in high school, new jobs, new clothes, a few new villains, etc.
* StealthPun: Mego, coloured purple (violet), has his super-power described as "He's a [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinker]]". In "Big Bother", Ron is conflicted between his school assignment bag of flour and his new sister Hana (which is Japanese for Flower.)
** Was Mrs Possible channeling [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Jill Valentine]] in "Day of the Snowmen"?
*** 'Grah! They know I have [[IncrediblyLamePun excessive power demands!]]'
** "Cute little trap, Professor."
* StephenUlyssesPerhero: Villainous example, D.N.Amy.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Shego still wears her Team Go uniform.
* StrictlyFormula
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The Internet Search for "really valuable" and "heavily guarded". The discussion of outsourcing.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Steve Barkin's father Franklin turns out to have the exact same look and personality as his son.
* StuffBlowingUp
* SuckECheeses: J.P. Bearymore's Pizza Partytorium.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: In the episode "Roachie", Ron befriends a giant cockroach and soon begins having full conversations with it, imitating its clicking-noise speech.
-->'''Kim:''' You're like the Roach Whisperer.\\
'''Ron:''' Y'know, if you're trying to speak 'roach, you've got it all wrong, KP. You've gotta click with your mandible.
* SueDonym: Shego's other alias of "Ms. Whoabackoff".
* SummonToHand: Magic sword!
* SuperCellReception:
** The Kimmunicator has never once failed due to signal interference, unless it was deliberately jammed. It works anywhere on Earth or in near-orbit space, even deep underground. At one point, the Kimmunicator sprouts wheels in order to get Kim. According to Wade, it also has its own satellite. She has, however, lost it a few times, and when the writers got sick of that plot, they gave her a compact wrist-mounted version.
** In the ChristmasEpisode, Drakken's cell phone was able to make calls from the North Pole.
* SuperFamilyTeam: Team Go!
* {{Supervillain}}: Nearly every episode has at least, ''at'' ''least'' one that appears. Some have two and a couple have entire conventions of them.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: "The Mentor of Our Discontent", Drakken has Shego don a blonde wig and dress in order to distract Martin Smarty, whilst he and Frugal Lucre break into his office. The distraction works, but Smarty becomes just a little too enamoured with Shego for her tastes, leading to this exchange;
-->'''Martin Smarty:''' Well, ''[[HelloNurse hello]]''... Being a ''single'' father such as I am, it would be my privilege to assist you, Miss...?\\
'''Shego''': Whoa! Back off!\\
'''Martin Smarty''': Miss... Wobakoff??\\
'''Shego''': Yeah... fine. Miss Wobakoff. Yeah... clever.
** There's also the [[WithThisRing the misunderstanding]] Kim and Ron had over the Magno-Rings in "Car Alarm";
-->*As Kim is about to jump out of the Sloth onto the Kepler*\\
'''Wade''': Wait! Before you go-\\
* The glove box pops open revealing two golden rings. Kim and Ron stare wide-eyed at each other whilst Rufus hums "Here Comes The Bride"*\\
'''Ron''': ... I had nothing to do with this!\\
'''Wade''': Ron... They're Magno-Rings. They'll help you hold on to the side of the Kepler.\\
'''Ron''': Haha! Right. That's what I thought they were... y'know... for.
* SureWhyNot: Quite a bit of {{fanon}}, most obviously the names of Kim's parents.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Drakken's [=MO=], along with most of the recurring villains.
* TakenForGranite: "Oh No Yono", Kim and Sensei briefly; Monkeyfist indefinitely.
* TalkingToHimself: Drakken and Motor Ed share a voice actor, and appeared together in one episode.
** Seriously.
* TechnoWizard
* TeenSuperspy
* TeensAreShort: Despite being seniors and probably past puberty, neither Kim nor Ron pass an adult's shoulders in terms of height.
* TemptingFate:
-->'''Kim:''' Spikes. Gee. Where are the snakes?\\
''(snakes appear)''\\
'''Kim:''' I was just being sarcastic!
* TermsOfEndangerment: Shego's nicknames for Kim.
* ThatCameOutWrong: In "Ill Suited", Ron steals Kim's battlesuit and uses it to cheat his way into the position of star quarterback of the football team out of fear that Kim would dump him for a jock (based in part on misunderstanding a conversation he overheard). This is revealed when Professor Dementor uses a remote device to take control of the suit, whilst Ron is still in it. He attempts to explain his position... poorly at first (whilst being controlled to fight Kim).
-->'''Kim:''' You cheated your way onto the football team!\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but that was just a perk. I was really trying to cheat on ''you''... *notices Kim's angrier expression* -For you! To win you!
* ThemeTuneCameo: The phrase "Call Me, Beep Me" from the TitleThemeTune is dropped in "A Sitch in Time" and "So the Drama". Also, the Kimmunicator's ringtone is the first four notes of the song. And it's played ''a lot''. In "Team Impossible", Ron is impressed that they have their own theme tune, and tries to write one for Kim and himself. He comes up with the show's theme, of course.
* TheBadGuyWins: ''A Sitch in Time'' explores this possibility with a BadFuture if [[TheDragon Shego]] were to ever seize control of the world.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Kim is much less successful in villain-fighting without Ron's backup, as proven in ''A Sitch in Time''.
* TheSmartGuy: Wade Load is most definitely the techno-whiz of the group, making random inventions just in the nick of time for just the right mission, though a few episodes have portrayed him as not being so smart in the field.
** He's even voiced by former ''Smart Guy'' Taj Mowry.
* ThereWasADoor
* [[SheIsAllGrownUp They Are All Grown Up]]: In ''[[TheMovie A Sitch in Time]]'', both [[TookALevelInBadass Wade and Kim's little brothers]]
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* TheyFightCrime: She's a highschool cheerleader, he's her bumbling best friend since early childhood...
* ThinkNothingOfIt: When the people who give Kim rides to the mission site thank her for helping them previously, she always shugs it off as [[CatchPhrase "No big."]]
* ThisAintRocketSurgery: Kim's dad is a rocket scientist and her mom is a brain surgeon. This has been the source of many jokes in the series.
** They come up with a summer job at the fast food place to ease money troubles:
-->Kim: A rocket scientist and a brain surgeon and this is all you could come up with?
** And on tax forms, while Kim's father is calling an accountant:
-->Mr Possible: Yes, I know it's tax season; that's why I'm calling an accountant. (pause) Look, ma'am, I'm no rocket scientist - well, actually I am - (whoever is on the other end hangs up) Hello? Hello?
** When the Possible family's TV stops working:
-->Tim: You're a rocket scientist! Can't you ''do'' something?
-->Mr. Possible: Well, I could put it in geosynchronous orbit, but I'm not sure how that would help.
* ThisBillboardNeedsSomeSalt: The Dimension Monster and "Gronde" both try this.
* ThisIsReality: Wade suggests he should "[[BeYourself be myself]]" to attract his crush, and Ron replies "That only works in cartoons!"
** Subverted in another episode: "This isn't one of your stupid science fiction games, Larry! Ron's facing a kung fu mutant with bio-engineered hands, and mystical monkey powers, and..." At that point, Kim decides to give Larry's idea a try.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Ron's father, an actuary, spends an entire episode trying to be a hero to his son. Luckily, his number-crunching skills turned out very useful when they faced the Mathter:
-->'''Kim:''' Did you know your dad had it in him?\\
'''Ron:''' No, but who knew we’d be facing a math-crazed villain?\\
'''Kim:''' Yep. So convenient.
* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: "Job Unfair".
* ThrowItIn: Shego's personality. Originally she wasn't intended to be a DeadpanSnarker who enjoyed needling her boss more than listening to him, but Creator/NicoleSullivan's voice acting led the writers to play to her ability for that.
** Motor Ed was created because JohnDiMaggio was goofing around in the break room and made up the voice for a laugh.
* TitleDrop: Not the series title (too easy), but the line "Can't anyone ''stop Team Go''?" in the episode...well, guess.
** Not to mention in "Big Bother" Ron makes mention of two other episodes by name [[ContinuityNod "Emotion Sickness" and "So The Drama"]]
* TitleSequence: The show uses clips from the show during the theme. The first montage is used throughout the first 3 seasons, but it updated during the fourth. Though in the first montage there is some debate about the brief scene of a giant Shego battling a miniature Kim, as nothing of the sort actually happens in the show. [[BaitAndSwitchCredits A Bait And Switch Clip Perhaps?]]
* TrapDoor: It comes with the territory. Straight, Subverted and {{Lampshaded}}. "And suddenly, the world was full of holes."
* TrappedInTvLand: "Dimension Twist".
* TripodTerror: The Lorwardian walkers; technically four-legged, but they fit the trope.
* TronLines: Kim's battlesuit.
* {{Troperiffic}}
* TroubledFetalPosition: Occurs a few times throughout the series, such as Drakken assuming this position when Shego freaks out in the lair from the Moodulator and when Ron locks himself in his panic room.
* TVTeen
* TwinBanter: Jim and Tim, naturally. Hicka-bicka-boo? Hooshaw!
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Most episodes contain a supervillain plot and something from Kim's normal life.
* TwoTeacherSchool: Due to the NoodleIncident, Mr Barkin will be teaching this class/trip/whatever. How many members of staff do we see apart from Barkin?
** We actually saw the journalism teacher in season 1, a math teacher in season 2 and Ms. Go as a sub in season 4, and someone who might have been the principal in the GrandFinale. That's it.
** Interestingly, one episode referred to Miss Go being a substitute for a Miss Carson, injured while skateboarding. Yes, [[HeyItsThatGuy as in Kim's voice actress]].
** Home Economics is so underappreciated in Middleton High that, when Kim and Ron took the class, (which they only did because they missed the chance to take other classes instead of that one), it was revealed to them, to the viewers ''and'' the ''faculty'' that the last Home Economics teacher retired years ago. Mr. Barkin was then put in charge. However, his whole experience on the subject consisted on looking for food in the forests he was deployed in during his military days. He even brought a shovel to class. He was even fair enough to step out as soon as Ron proved himself more knowledgeable on Home Economics than him.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Hana Stoppable aka The Weapon or The Han.
* {{Uncanceled}}
* UnderwaterBase: Drakken's had more than one of these. The big glass window tends not to last long.
* UnderTheMistletoe: Kim and Ron. Except that it's parsley. Works anyway, though.
* UnnamedParent: Kim's parents were both just Dr. Possible - a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon - but each finale episode contained a reveal for one of them. Kim's father was revealed as James Timothy Possible in ''So The Drama'', and Kim's mother was called Annie in "Graduation". Anne was already her {{Fanon}} name, as it's Kim's middle name, and her twin brothers are called Jim and Tim. Ron's parents are still nameless.
* TheUnreveal: Several throughout the series, but notably the very last episode ends as Dr. Drakken is about to tell the story about how his skin turned blue when the series ends.
* VagueAge: Shego. She apparently has a degree in teaching. She has also apparently shown romantic feelings for Drakken (who was in college with Kim's father), and definitely dated Mr. Barkin. On the other hand, she acts like a teenager and is young enough to date Senor Senior Jr, who might be Kim's age (sixteen - eighteen).
** If Shego is telling the truth in "Clean Slate", then she's 3 - 4 years older then Kim (she said she was a senior when she was a freshman). She's probably not.
** The ages of Kim and Ron (and by extension, their fellow students) are also never really addressed beyond WordOfGod describing them as "high school age". Although given a few details throughout the series (moving to senior year, being able to drive, graduating etc.) it can be reasonably assumed that they start out in the series at 14/15, before ending up at 17/18 in the final season.
* VaporWear: The animators of Kim Possible probably did not foresee the unintended implications of [[http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5941/notinmindq.jpg this screenshot...]]
* VerbalTic: Motor Ed, seriously. Even the annoying Frugal Lucre is bothered by it.
** Dememtor has a habit of speaking '''AS THOUGH CAPSLOCK IS ZE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!''' He also has ze German style of speech, yes.
* VillainBall: Outright embraced by several villains, especially Señor Senior Senior, who took up villainy because he was rich and bored. Seeing how close he can get to victory while strictly adherring to the so-called "code of villainy" seems to be the whole point of the challenge for him.
** Notably snapped up by [[spoiler:Shego]] in "A Sitch in Time" when [[spoiler:she]] has [[spoiler:Drakken]] strap Kim to a Bond Villain-esque torture table instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just killing her]]. Slightly jarring after [[spoiler:Shego]] managed to conquer the world by sole virtue of being far more competent than the three other villains who had been busy juggling the VillainBall between them for the entire first act.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Frequently, often with enough time for Drakken to deliver his CatchPhrase. I guess a CardboardPrison is too good for some villains.
* VillainsNeverLie: The villains who appeared in the HalloweenEpisode got disappointed that Kim lied.
** When Dr. Drakken tried to take over the world by marketing a brain-washing shampoo with a label that warned people about the brain-washing, Drakken said it was TruthInAdvertisement.
* VillainsOutShopping: Shown many times, once even ''literally''.
* VillainSong: Dr. Drakken gets a rap number to promote his new brand of brainwashing shampoo in the episode "Rappin’ Drakken"
* VillainTeamUp: [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Drakken, Shego, and Motor Ed]] in "Steal Wheels", [[BigBadDuumvirate Drakken, Monkey Fist, Killigan, and Shego]] in [[TheMovie "A Sitch in Time"]], [[BewareTheSillyOnes Drakken and Lucre]] in "The Mentor of Our Discontent", [[SinkOrSwimMentor Shego and Junior]] in "Two to Tutor" and "The Big Job", [[ForTheEvulz Shego and Motor Ed]] in "Car Alarm", and [[{{Crossover}} Drakken, Shego, and Hamsterviel]] in the ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Rufus".
* ViolentGlaswegian: Duff Killigan's temper got him banned from every golf course in the world.
* VisibleInvisibility: The cloaking device on the Wadebot 2.0, Kim's Battlesuit and one of Drakken's lairs.
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: (the episode with Kim's ancestor Miriam "Mim" Possible, also a multiple [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Grandchildren]] bordering on GenerationXerox.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Our current page image, so not the drama.
* WantedPoster: Shego and Drakken have these. They're in Kim's locker at her school.
* WaxOnWaxOff: In "Oh No! Yono!" [[spoiler: Ron's showing Hana the "Flippie Dance" gives her the agility and acrobatic moves needed to beat Yono and Monkey Fist.]]
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Kim to Ron since she is much stronger then him. At least until the GrandFinale. Then she might be turned on by his [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: The fake clones that Drakken creates of Bonnie, Kim, Ron, and Rufus disintegrate into green goo on contact with soda.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Pretty much what ''all'' the villains in the show say when defeated.
** Occasionally inverted when Drakken declares "We ''won't'' meet again!" after springing a DeathTrap.
* WeatherControlMachine: Drakken uses these once in a while, as did the temporarily-evil Ron with his "Mega-Weather-Generator".
* AWeightyAesop: ExecutiveMeddling enforced this, which is why "Grande Size Me" exists.
* WeirdnessCoupon: No-one really seems bothered by Kim and Ron skipping out of school to fly around the world fighting {{supervillain}}s, despite Kim being fairly famous for it. Drakken and Shego never attract attention for their unusual appearance.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Drakken in "Bad Boy". Ron has this attitude towards Shego in "Stop Team Go".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Many fans were curious what happened to Ron's short lived interest Zita after only two appearances. She comes back in the finale without so much as a line, [[PairTheSpares as a couple with fellow B-character Felix]].
* WhatIsEvil: Drakken tries to invoke this with Kim, referencing ShadesOfConflict, in the episode ‘Ron Millionaire’. Kim [[ShutUpHannibal ignores him]].
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway?: Ron unwisely mocks Burns' number-crunching abilities. Other examples occur throughout.
** "Mathter and Fervent" has Mr. Stoppable use his own math-based brain power to take on the Mathter and win in a show that [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Math can be an Awesome Power to use.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman?: The fatalities of the series includes The Bebes (robots), Syntho-Drone 901 (a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot ridiculously human synthodrone]]), Warmonga and Warhawk (aliens), and Drakken's insta-clones of Kim, Ron, Rufus, and Bonnie (from "Kimitation Nation"). No human was harmed.
** Save for Monkey-Fist. Kinda. Well, he as [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] and then buried under dozens of tons of sand. And then he showed up in a cafe in the trailer of the last episode... still as a stone.
* WhenEldersAttack: In 'The Golden Years', Drakken's [[MindControl army of seniors]] attacks Kim.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Heck Is Middleton?]]: A question asked frequently of the creators. A common {{Fanon}} answer is Colorado, apparently based on [[http://caps.kpfanworld.com/photogallery/the_new_ron/0940.jpg this map]] (which eventually turned out to be merely the first of several mutually exclusive hints).
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs?: "And The Molerat will be CGI".
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In Ron's case, monkeys.
** Played straight with Kim, when she was exploring that Monkey Temple, for the Monkey artifact.
*** "Gee where are the snakes?"(cue snakes surrounding her) "I was just being SARCASTIC!"
** One episode had Kim telling Ron to basically quit being a sissy for complaining about a spider bite on his face, while walking in the sewers looking for some mad scientist. When a bunch of cockroaches the size of a medium-to-large dog run by, she goes into HeroicBSOD, and nearly throws up.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Asked by Senor Senior, Jr and answered by Shego.
* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Monkey Fist's "artifact assault" in "Oh No Yono", and Drakken's response to Shego's fight with Warmonga.
* WickedCultured: SSS, Falsetto Jones.
* WimpFight: Ron and Drakken sometimes engage in ineffectual slapfights while Kim and Shego carry on a more serious battle.
* WorldOfActionGirls: Provides the trope quote.
* WorldOfPun: The show is notorious for this, as Kim herself has noted once or twice.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: Many.
** Mego's costume is purple [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} because he's a shrinker...]].
** Bueno Nacho is an analogue of Taco Bell.
** The supermarket chain Wal-, er, Smarty-Mart.
** Kim goes to see [[ChickFlick chick-flick]] ''The Memo Pad'' with Shego. (''The Notebook'')
** Drakken gets himself on ''[[AmericanIdol American Starmaker]]'' as part of an {{evil plan}}.
** Towards the end, there's a magazine called ''Humans'' (probably a stand-in for ''People'' magazine).
** There's also ''[[DancingWithTheStars Ballroom With B Actors,]]'' and celebs like the [[MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Holsen twins]], [[BritneySpears Britina]] and [[NSync Oh]] [[BackstreetBoys Boyz.]]
** Sometimes this would be inconsistent: BradPitt and JuliaRoberts are mentioned by name, where others are {{Lawyer Friendly Cameo}}s, and Ron has the Sony Ericsson ringtone.
* YankTheDogsChain: Ron, in several episodes, achieves popularity. His life doesn't suck as much anymore! [[StatusQuoIsGod Oh wait...]]
* YouAreGrounded: In [[HalloweenEpisode October 31st]], Kim's grounded at the end of the episode.
* YouAreTheNewTrend: One episode has Kim's hero outfit being the new 'in' trend. [[spoiler:Ron's outfit becomes the new trend at the end of the same episode.]]
* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: In one episode, Dr. Drakken angrily complains about the shortcomings of his henchmen; Shego scoffs at him for being too cheap to hire better ones.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Played straight, and [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], with Gemini. Subverted in ''So The Drama'': Drakken appears to say this seriously to Shego after Kim foils her, but he doesn't really mean it.
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: At least once, Dr. Drakken says "Farewell, Kim Possible! We '''''[[AvertedTrope won't]]''''' [[WeWillMeetAgain meet again]]!" as he leaves her in a DeathTrap.
* YourOtherLeft: "Your other starboard!"
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And that's the sitch.

* BiologicalMashup: [=DNAmy=]'s creations.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Cuddlebuddies.

** "Low Budget" includes the discovery that Kim's favorite brand, Club Banana, is an offshoot of (and sells similar wares to) Smarty Mart, the Wal-Mart {{expy}} she looked down on. This doesn't affect her adherence to the latest Club Banana fashions at all. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Smarty Mart's boots are black, Club Banana's are onyx.]] [[HypocriticalHumor There's a difference!]]

** "Low Budget" includes the discovery that Kim's favorite brand, Club Banana, is an offshoot of (and sells similar wares to) Smarty Mart, the Wal-Mart {{expy}} she looked down on. This doesn't affect her adherence to the latest Club Banana fashions at all. Smarty Mart's boots are black, Club Banana's are onyx. [[HypocriticalHumor There's a difference!]]

** During a scene in ''The Cupid Effect'', [[ItMakesSenseInContext while ad-libbing a love note to Wade's Mom]], Señor Senior Sr. (Ricardo Montalban) casually tosses in a line about chasing the wealth of the world " [[TheWrathOfKhan 'round perdition's flame]]".

* MotiveDecay: The Mathter; He went from terrorizing Go City to making Ron his personal {{archenemy}} for no apparent reason in less than two minutes after they first meet. That's got to be some sort of record. This, like everything else in the series, is also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].

'''Kim:''' ''Ron''! She said she's OK with it!

** During a scene in ''The Cupid Effect'', [[ItMakesSenseInContext while ad-libbing a love note to Wayne's Mom]], Señor Senior Sr. (Ricardo Montalban) casually tosses in a line about chasing the wealth of the world " [[TheWrathOfKhan 'round perdition's flame]]".

* AlmostKiss: Way too many in Season 4 when Kim & Ron were about to kiss. Wade, Monique, and Bonnie were just a few of the people who interrupted would be kisses between Kim and Ron. The WordOfGod admitted it was an intriguing gag.

** During a scene in ''The Cupid Effect'', [[ItMakesSenseInContext while ad-libbing a love note to Wayne's Mom]] Señor Senior Sr. (Ricardo Montalban) casually tosses in a line about chasing the wealth of the world " [[TheWrathOfKhan 'round perdition's flame]]",

* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Kim to Ron since she is much stronger then him.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: [[NotSoHarmless Drakken]] and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Ron]] are quite dangerous when they stop acting silly and [[LetsGetDangerous actually try]]. Lucre was also a surprisingly effective villain even with his lame gimmicks.

** Drakken was initially an intimidating MadScientist, even to the point of quelling Shego in Mind Games, with a touch of AbsentMindedProfessor. However, by the end of the serious he is basically an IneffectualSympatheticVillain / IronButtmonkey. Although part of Drakken's problem is likely due to DiminishingVillainThreat.
** Ron went from fairly competent PluckyComicRelief at the beginning of the series to BumblingSidekick / ButtMonkey by the end of the series. Not even the single instance of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass that occurs in the last episode could make up for the recurring theme in the fourth season where they basically showed that ANYBODY could do a better job as Kim's sidekick than Ron.

** The crossover with ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' indirectly links WesternAnimation/KimPossible to ''{{Recess}}'', ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' and ''TheProudFamily''.

* PantyShot: One in "Tick Tick Tick" [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=70372874]] which made the first TitleSequence and another more noticeable in "Ill Suited".[[http://imageshack.us/a/img689/1062/kimpossiblese4ep066ills.jpg]] Otherwise Kim's cheerleading outfit has a MagicSkirt, in very drastic contrast [[ComedicUnderwearExposure to Ron]].

* PantyShot: One in "Tick Tick Tick" [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=70372874]] which made the first TitleSequence and another more noticeable in "Ill Suited".[[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=70372873]] Otherwise Kim's cheerleading outfit has a MagicSkirt, in very drastic contrast [[ComedicUnderwearExposure to Ron]].

** Her parents are experts at two of the most notoriously difficult jobs on the planet. [[JustifiedTrope One would hope that they are open minded.]]

* BigNo: Twice in Season 4, the later is followed by DisturbedDoves. Ron has a couple throughout the series, but Kim lets one out in "Trading Faces" (Season 4, Episode 3) that frankly sounds halfway between a BigNo and a Tarzan yell.