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1At school, Kim is complaining about the seniors and their exclusive table, which gets even worse when her [[SitcomArchNemesis nemesis]], Bonnie Rockwaller, is allowed to sit there, despite not being a senior, due to wearing the latest fashion craze by Elsa Kleig: pink pouf. Later, Kim goes on a mission to help scientist Dr. Fenster and protect [[MacGuffin a satellite with a powerful laser]] from being stolen by Drakken & Shego. During the course of the mission, Kim crash-lands into the Downloaded Music Awards, where she catches the attention of fashion icon Elsa.
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3Meanwhile, Drakken comes up with a new {{evil plan}} -- producing an army of clones. He runs into a snag when Shego absolutely refuses to let him clone her (having a no cloning clause in her contract) and walks off. While this is happening, Kleig creates a new fashion line based on Kim's mission clothes called "Kim Style," which becomes the new craze. However, Kim's attempt to take advantage of it to gain popularity fails, and she becomes fed up with it. At Drakken's lair, a TV report on the new trend gives him the idea to clone Kim instead... after all, [[EvilKnockoff who better to defeat Kim Possible than Kim Possible]]? Drakken then travels to Middleton to steal Kim's DNA, but gets Bonnie's instead; however, the clone is still vicious, so he decides to work with it.
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5Kim, Ron & Monique have a run-in with one of the clones, eventually locking it in a dumpster, where it dissolves for some reason. Tracking Drakken to his mobile base, Kim battles him, but not before he creates clones of Ron, Rufus, & herself. Hiding from her clones, Kim learns from Wade, who earlier scanned the remains of the Bonnie clone, that soda can destroy them. Luring the clones to Bueno Nacho, Kim uses the soda machine to destroy them all, while Drakken escapes after Shego returns from her vacation, promising to never clone her. Eventually, "Kim Style" goes out of style, but Kleig presents her new fashion line based on Ron's casual clothes, with Rufus as the model.
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8!!This episode provides examples of:
9* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Drakken's clones are programmed with the lightning-fast reflexes of a king cobra, the invincible strength of a rogue elephant, and the killer instinct of [[FluffyTheTerrible Commodore Puddles]] a cute, yet vicious poodle.
10* AmbiguouslyBrown: One of the two henchmen Drakken brings with him.
11* DescriptionCut: Drakken laments that he misses Shego and wonders if she's missing him too. Cut to Shego on vacation water skiing with an impossibly buff guy, clearly without a care in the world.
12* DidntThinkThisThrough: In spite of the news about Kim Style, it doesn't occur to Drakken that Kim would no longer be the only student to wear her style.
13* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Played with at the "Downloaded Music Awards":
14-->'''Musician#1:''' Downloading is about the fans, yeah.\
15'''Musician#2:''' Fans rock.\
16'''Musician#1:''' Even though we don't get any money when you download.\
17'''Musician#2:''' No money... rocks!\
18'''Musician#1:''' No, mate, no money does not rock.
19* EvenEvilHasStandards: Regarding his [[{{Mooks}} henchmen]], Drakken says, "to clone any one of you would be a crime against humanity even ''I'' am incapable of."
20* EvilKnockoff: Drakken creates the Kim clones under the reasoning that the best person to beat Kim Possible is Kim Possible herself. He creates clones of Bonnie, Ron, and Rufus by mistake when searching for Kim’s hair, but also sends them to fight Team Possible.
21* ExpendableClone: All of the clones are killed off by the end of the episode, something nobody seems to notice. Granted, the clones spent the entire episode acting like rabid animals, so it might be they weren’t actually intelligent beings.
22* {{Foreshadowing}}: This will not be the last we see of Commodore Puddles.
23* ImMelting: The clones are chemically unstable, and soda is enough to cause them to melt down into puddles.
24* ImprovisationalIngenuity: Drakken initially fails to get Kim's [=DNA=], creating a clone of Bonnie instead. Though initially angry, he makes it work when the clone rips apart a picture of Kim, unleashing more of the Bonnie clones in his search for Kim. His attempts to find Kim's [=DNA=] also results in clones of Ron and Rufus that he utilizes similarly until he can find the correct hair sample.
25* KillerRabbit: Commodore Puddles: small, cute, and psychotically aggressive.
26--> '''Henchman''': “So small--and yet so evil.”
27* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded by Bonnie. "Kim Possible, you are such a loser. I mean, you wear that same stupid outfit, like, every day".
28* NeverMyFault: After finding out that he cloned Bonnie instead of Kim, Drakken blames his terrified henchmen for bringing him the wrong DNA--despite having retrieved the sample ''himself'' while [[NotNowKiddo dismissing one of the henchmen's attempt to ask]] how he could be sure he had the right locker.
29* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Elsa Kleig is based on Elsa Klensch, who hosted a fashion and design program on CNN.
30** Also, she was voiced by Wendy Malick, who was starring in ''Series/JustShootMe'' at the time as a fashion editor for a magazine.
31* NotInMyContract: Shego has a "no cloning" clause [[GenreSavvy in her contract]].
32* RefugeInAudacity: Drakken's choice of mobile base of operations while tracking down Kim to clone her is... [[https://cdn.kpfanworld.com/caps/Kimitation%20Nation/Image0617.jpg a truck with an image of him sitting on a toilet labelled as "Mr. Potty".]] Somehow, he reached Middleton High and was casually driving around Middleton searching for Kim without attracting any attention from law enforcement, with Wade only picking up on his presence because the truck radiated the same amount of power as his usual lairs.
33* RuleOfThree: For some reason, Drakken makes three of each clone.
34* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Shego quits when Drakken won't drop the idea of cloning her.
35* SendInTheClones: Drakken produces batches of Bonnie, Kim, Ron, and Rufus clones and sends them to attack Team Possible.
36* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Kim is able to recognize the real Bonnie because "only you would insult me like that.", though the fact that she talks at all is enough; all the clones do is growl.
37* StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
38--> '''Monique:''' You saved the Downloaded Music Awards, that's got to mean something here.\
39'''Ron:''' ''(slumping on table)'' And yet it doesn't, and it vexes me so.\
40''(cut to Drakken's lair where he sits down behind his desk)''\
41'''Drakken:''' Kim Possible always defeats me ''(slumps in same way as Ron)'' and it vexes me so.
42* SurroundedByIdiots: After Shego leaves, Drakken briefly considers cloning some of his henchmen. He abandons the idea after taking another look at them and declaring that creating more of them would be [[EvenEvilHasStandards "a crime against humanity even]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards I]]'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards am incapable of"]].
43** When Drakken's first attempt produces a clone of Bonnie instead of Kim, he rants at his henchmen for bringing him the wrong DNA, even though [[NeverMyFault Drakken was the one operating the collection drone]] and one of the henchmen [[NotNowKiddo asked him if he was sure he'd found the right locker]].
44* WeaksauceWeakness: Drakken's clones dissolve into goo when doused with soda water.
45* YouAreTheNewTrend:
46** "Kim-Style" -- a fashion designer looking for ideas sees a TV report of Kim's latest heroics and creates a new clothing line based on her mission outfit.
47** Ron's casual outfit becomes the new trend at the end of the episode.
48* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Bonnie and her clique dismiss Kim's ''actual mission outfit'' as a lame attempt at Kim-Style, telling her that she just can't carry it off. Kim is left speechless.
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