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[[folder:The original cartoon series]]
* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
** Wade once went to Paris and then lied to Kim by telling her he was there to fix the "French Internet".[[note]]He was actually having a secret date with Monique, but that's another story.[[/note]] Kim comes to the conclusion he was lying because she remembered the Internet is one united worldwide network. But, there was a "French Internet" of sorts between 1978 and 2012, or rather a pre-WWW precursor to the Internet as we know it today, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel Minitel]],[[note]]OK, actually Teletel; technically, Minitel was the name of the terminals one accessed the network, but people usually just called both "Minitel" anyway[[/note]] which was able to implement various functionalities we now take for granted online.
** In "Grande Size Me", Ron tries to prove that the "Wheel of Good Eating" (based on the real life "Food Pyramid" taught in schools) is a myth, in the 2000s it was revealed that the Food Pyramid was in fact [[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html a myth]] and since the episode's airing the model received a fair amount of criticism to the point where more accurate models have since replaced it in schools.
* ActorInspiredElement:
** Apparently, Creator/ChristyCarlsonRomano was asked how a teenager like her would say something like "What's up?" and she said something like "What's the sitch?" which became Kim's famous CharacterCatchphrase. That said, she has said her memory might not be accurate, but she is 99% sure that is what happened.
** The creators also asked her what her favourite clothing stores are and she named Banana Republic and Club Monaco. That's how Club Banana was created.
* AscendedFanon: Many fans of Kim Possible theorized that the first name of Kim's brain surgeon mother, Dr. Possible, was "Anne", because it was Kim's middle name, and her father Dr. James Timothy Possible, extrapolated from his sons Jim and Tim. The SeriesFauxnale So The Drama named Kim's father thus, and the second named Anne in the series' two-part finale. To make this work, one must mention that the creators would occasionally visit fan forums.
* BannedEpisode: "Ron the Man", due to its content (it reveals that Ron's Jewish) is banned in MENA region and apparently for the same reason the episode cannot be dubbed into Arabic (Strangely this didn't happen to any of Christmas-themed episodes). As a side-effect of the ban the episode was kept from being premiered in Poland until at least August 2010 when Disney Channel Poland separated from the Disney Channel MEA/Greece/Turkey feed.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Amidst the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, a screenshot of Wade saying in twenty years people would be working from home like him and Kim [[ItWillNeverCatchOn dismissing the idea]] went viral. No such conversation actually takes place in the show itself (it could be from some deleted scene/promo though). The screenshot appears to be from the episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS1E6BuenoNacho Bueno Nacho]]" and the actual conversation that takes place is of Kim and Wade discussing a Club Banana jacket she wants to buy but can’t afford and Wade accidentally revealing that he has been hacking into her account and reading embarrassing incidents from her personal diary.
* BreakawayPopHit: Sort of. "Call Me, Beep Me" and "Say the Word" were played in heavy rotation... on Radio Disney.
* TheCharacterIceCreamBar: Blue Bunny sold a fruit punch and cherry-flavored ice bar with gumball eyes in the shape of Kim's head.
* ChildrenVoicingChildren:
** The Possible Twins, Jim and Tim, are both played by Shaun Fleming. He was 12 while recording season one, when the "tweebs" were 10. According to producers, Tim and Jim got a redesign and height boost in season four, either to justify Shaun's voice change or to justify a new actor. In the end, Disney went with a new actor, also a young boy: 13-year-old Spencer Fox, better known as Dash from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''. Of course, by season three, Fleming's voice had obviously broken, and no attempt was made to hide it. This had the bizarre result of the "tweebs" ''looking'' older but ''sounding'' younger than they had in the previous season.
** Kim herself was voiced by Creator/ChristyCarlsonRomano, who was 16 years old at the time of casting.
** Monique and Bonnie were also voiced by teens, as was Wade, though since he's a preteen, this makes it a bit of a DawsonCasting case for him.
* TheDanza: Tara, voiced by Tara Strong.
* {{Defictionalization}}: Purely unintentional...[[WildMassGuessing probably]], but there was a great deal of positive response to Taco Bell's Beefy Nacho Burrito because after ten years they finally caved and made a real life Naco. The Grilled Stuffed Nacho introduced in December 2013 is perhaps even closer to the Naco. Taco Bell would also introduce Diablo sauce in the 2010s in black packets much like the ones on the show.
* DuelingShows:
** ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' was another "secret agent high-school kid" show. It predated ''Kim Possible'' (which began in 2002, while ''Totally Spies!'' began in 2001), and ironically, aired on what was then [[Creator/{{Freeform}} ABC Family]] ([[TheArtifact a remnant]] of having been co-produced by Saban before it and Fox Family were bought by Disney), then moved to Creator/CartoonNetwork.
** Kim Possible wasn't even the only Disney show to do the whole "teenage spies" plot first as ''WesternAnimation/MaryKateAndAshleyInAction'' came out in 2001 and aired on Disney's Creator/OneSaturdayMorning block.
* ExecutiveMeddling: [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Both Good and Bad]]:
** They requested an animal sidekick. We got Rufus.
** In the episode "Bad Boy", Standards and Practices wouldn't allow the writers to show Drakken making coffee. They suggested chocolate milk instead, and the writers turned that into "Coco Moo", resulting in one of the series' funnier gags. (The rumor that "Coco Moo" itself resulted from S&P forbidding the phrase "chocolate milk" is unfounded, as Drakken actually does use that phrase in the episode.)
** "Grande Sized Me" and its "good eating" aesop was mandated by execs. Allegedly, the episode's SpaceWhaleAesop was a form of WriterRevolt.
** The original plan to make "Rappin' Drakken" a VillainEpisode was vetoed.
** Requested that the hats in "Showdown at the Crooked D" be called "Silly Hats" rather than "Stupid Hats". They even lampshaded it.
--->'''Drakken:''' The Silly Hat!\\
'''Shego:''' Not the name I would have chosen...
** A scene in "Queen Bebe" explaining how the Bebes were reactivated was cut for time in order to dedicate more time to Music/SmashMouth.
* FakeBrit: American Creator/TomKane as English Monty Fiske aka Monkey Fist.
* FakeScot: British-Israeli Brian George as Scottish Duff Killigan.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: "Hidden Talent" reveals Kim cannot sing high notes. In fact she is truly atrocious at it. Christy Carlson Romano, her voice actress, is in fact an accomplished singer as she demonstrates at the end of the episode.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show has never been fully released on DVD. As of October 2010, Disney has released the first two seasons in the US, but as a Disney Movie Club exclusive, and the entire run is on iTunes and [=DisneyNOW=] in the US.
** Fortunately, Creator/DisneyPlus got launched in November 2019 and the entire series, including ''So the Drama'' TV movie and "A Sitch in Time" (albeit rather confusingly split up into three episodes in season 2 called "Past", "Present" and "Future" with zero indication that they are three parts of a TV Movie) and the 2019 live action version, started streaming.
* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds released a set of eight toys in their Happy Meals in 2003. These consisted of Ron, Rufus, Dr. Drakken, Shego, Monkey Fist, Wade, and two different versions of Kim. These toys made a cameo appearance in ''Film/SuperSizeMe''.
* LifeImitatesArt: In "Grudge Match" it's revealed that Vivian Porter actually built the top-secret robot but passed it off as being created by Oliver (who himself was a robot created by Vivian) since people didn't take her research seriously because of her looks (blonde and wearing a tube top and mini-skirt). In real life there is a female tech-creator-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu Naomi Wu]] who dresses similarly to Vivian and also has issues with people not taking her research seriously because of her looks.
* MakeAWishContribution: Done with Josh and Katlyn in Season 4, who were animated into an episode as a wish from the Make A Wish foundation. Josh appeared in the episode "Grande Size Me", and Katelin appeared in "Clean Slate." Katlyn's scene has her telling Kim that she's her biggest fan, and asks for her autograph.
* MissingTrailerScene: The credits of the first three seasons have a brief clip of Kim dodging an attack from a much larger Shego (it's unclear whether Shego has [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grown large]] or Kim has [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunk small]]). The scene never appears in any episode.
* NonSingingVoice: The Oh Boyz singing voices are not the same as their acting voices.
* TheOriginalDarrin:
** Senior Senior Sr was voiced in various episodes by Earl Boen instead of Ricardo Montalban when the latter was in poor health. He returned to the role when he recovered.
** In the French dub, Ron is voiced by Creator/DonaldReignoux. However, there are several Season 2 episodes where Reignoux was unavailable and had to be exceptionally replaced by Creator/AlexisTomassian. Also, Mr. Barkin is voiced by Creator/ChristianPelissier, but there are a few episodes where he's replaced by François Siener.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Shaun Fleming voiced the Tweebs for the first three seasons all the way to ''So the Drama''. When the series was renewed for a fourth season, Fleming was going through too much puberty to reprise. Spencer Fox was chosen to replace him.
** Breckin Meyer, who voiced Josh Mankey in the pilot episode, was replaced by A.J. Trauth in all other appearances for unknown reasons.
* OutOfOrder: The early episodes had some oddities in their original airing order that introduced glitches in the show's continuity ([[NegativeContinuity such as it was]]):
** "Tick-Tick-Tick" clearly establishes that Team Possible is encountering Dr. Drakken and Shego for the first time; however, they were the villains in the first-aired episode "Crush".
** Bonnie temporarily takes over the cheer squad in "Number One" and introduces new uniforms. In the original airing order, the new uniforms show up in earlier episodes and switch back and forth with the original ones.
** Ron becomes the cheer squad mascot in "Number One", but was previously seen in that role in the second-aired episode "Sink or Swim".
** Luckily, Disney+ placed the episodes in production order, so people can follow along in proper continuity order.
* ProductionPosse: Chris Bailey, Steve Loter, and Stephen Silver had all worked before this show on the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', also produced by Disney TV Animation (albeit under the Touchstone TV label).
* ReleaseDateChange: The show was originally supposed to premiere in January 2002 according to this [[https://youtu.be/CcRPeLuRuKo?t=24 promo]] from the Spy Kids home video release, for whatever reason it was pushed back to summer.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Never by Disney Channel, but suffered from a really bad case of this during its time airing Saturday mornings on Creator/ABC. As the only Disney Channel series being rerun on the network that wasn't an EdutainmentShow, many ABC affiliates (mostly those operated by Hearst Television or Allbritton Communications) saw no need to air it, even less so than ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' because at least that series was premiering new episodes on the block while K.P. was nothing but reruns. As a result, those stations either didn't air the show at all in favor of using that space for college football and/or locally-produced programming, or aired it in a time isolated from the rest of the block (usually the dead hours of the morning or late in the afternoon on Saturdays, or on Sunday mornings, often '''directly''' competing against the show's Disney Channel broadcasts). The show was dropped from ABC Kids' line-up in September 2006 in favor of a second timeslot for ''Power Rangers'', meaning that the show's fourth and final season never got to air on ABC.
* ShrugOfGod: [[http://ronstoppable.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=genkp&thread=12815&page=4#844956 Taken by Bob Schooley after the series' end when it comes to some (not all) questions.]]
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The intro song mentions pagers right when they were getting displaced by cellphones.
* 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 Creator/JohnDiMaggio was goofing around in the break room and made up the voice for a laugh.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** [[PunnyName Adrena Lynn]] was meant to be a recurring villain in the series, but wasn't popular enough for the audiences.
** The [[https://kimpossible.fandom.com/wiki/Kim_Possible_Wiki:Pre-production_Series-pitch_Bible series pitch bible]] reveals some of [=McCorkle=] and Schooley's initial ideas for the show:
*** Steel Toe was envisioned as a member of the RoguesGallery, rather than a law-abiding character-of-the-day (pro-wrestling is still in his backstory, though).
*** Similarly, Will Du (originally ''Ken'' Du) was meant to be much more of a recurring character, with Kim alternatively annoyed by his ego and nursing a crush on him.
*** Kim's token female friend was originally ''Zita'' - who, instead of a gamer chick, was a SoapboxSadie that befriended Kim in an "OppositesAttract" sort of way.
*** Drakken originally ''wasn't'' an alias; his full name was meant to be Ubel Drakken.
*** Mr. and Mrs. Dr. P were originally meant to be a snack-food technologist and a senator, respectively with the latter's name originally being Kim Sr. instead of Anne.
*** The Killer Bebes were originally called The Killer B's and they were going to be human clones rather than gynoids.
** Anneliese van der Pol was originally going to voice Kim, while Creator/NeilPatrickHarris was originally going to voice Ron.
** Kim was originally intended to be blonde.
** As confirmed by Friedle in his Twitter account, Wrestling/JohnCena was considered to voice Ron, which would've caused a QuestionableCasting from fans.
** ''So the Drama'' was originally written as a live-action adaptation of the TV show, which explains the film's BroadStrokes. Also there was another script for a live-action film that later became ''Film/{{Sky High|2005}}''.
** According to former staff, there was supposed to be a fifth season and/or a sequel (either the fifth season ''was'' the sequel or they are two separate entities), but it was cancelled.
** The show's logo was originally orange instead of green as shown in this [[https://youtu.be/CcRPeLuRuKo?t=24 teaser promo]].
** "Graduation" was originally going to be a three-parter like ''A Sitch in Time'' and ''So the Drama''.
* WordOfGod:
** The Creators Bob Schooley and Mark [=McCorkle=] have stated Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable were meant to be together from the start of the series and will be [[HappilyEverAfter together forever]]. Also, despite the show's NonLethalWarfare, the aliens in the GrandFinale ''were'' killed, Drakken and Shego are a couple and still evil (just "[[HarmlessVillain a more annoying kind of evil]]") and don't worry about what they've said.
** Warmonga and Warhok are married, [[http://ronstoppable.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=villains&action=display&thread=7028&page=1#252229 at least according to Steve Loter]].
* WordOfSaintPaul: According to Christy Carlson Romano, Kim and Ron now have 2 kids and live in Upperton after investing in Bueno Nacho.
* WriterRevolt:
** [[ExecutiveMeddling Compelled]] to make a episode about dietary health, the story sees Ron [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk hulk out]] due to [[AppliedPhlebotinum a vat of stuff]] and a lot of junk food in a parody of ''Film/SuperSizeMe''. He delivers [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle the ''wrong'' moral (don't mess with dangerous chemicals)]] to the camera while a growing crowd behind him [[PaintingTheMedium wonder who he's talking to]].
** In addition to [[ExecutiveMeddling execs]] insisting on an animal sidekick and getting Rufus in return, Rufus' species, a ''naked'' mole rat, was deliberately chosen as Disney Channel would have no choice but to keep using the word "naked" to describe a main character throughout the series' run.
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[[folder:The live-action movie]]
* CastTheRunnerUp: Ciara Wilson originally auditioned for the role of ''Kim'' before getting cast as Athena, who was named Artemis in early development.
* DawsonCasting: Like many Creator/DisneyChannel shows, this is mostly avoided for the most part, such as 16-year old Creator/SadieStanley playing 16-year-old Kim and 13-year-old Issac Ryan Brown playing 10-year-old Wade. Exceptions include 20-year-old Creator/SeanGiambrone as 16-year-old Ron and 20-year-old Erika Tham as 16-year-old Bonnie, but due to them being YoungerThanTheyLook, this is not obvious.
* RoleReprise:
** Professor Dementor's voice actor, Creator/PattonOswalt, reprises his role.
** [[https://youtu.be/1anTsD94GuA Nancy Cartwright]] reprises the role of Rufus.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A week after the film aired, a special viewing of the film, with Drakken talking about five ways to be a villain during commercial breaks, was billed as featuring him, Shego, and [[spoiler:Athena]], spoiling one of the main plot twists of the movie.
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