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Bonnie Rockwaller

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Voiced by: Kirsten Storms / Kelly Ripa (Future Bonnie)
Played by: Erika Tham

Kim's rival outside of her "saving the world" stuff and the resident Alpha Bitch for the show, Bonnie is usually the antagonist as far as Kim's high school career goes. She eventually hooks up with Señor Senior, Junior in "Homecoming Upset."


  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Kim attempted to teach her a lesson for her behavior, Bonnie was reduced to a crying mess and forced to reveal her insecurity of not having Brick around anymore, begging Kim to help her.
  • Air Quotes: Known for using them to describe Kim's world saving. Kim, of course, calls out her using them to describe something she actually does.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Unable to find a cool/popular guy as her boyfriend, getting together with the handsome and muscular son of a rich supervillain is the perfect consolation prize for her.
  • Alpha Bitch: She's a bitchy and popular cheerleader that bullies the protagonist.
  • Ambiguously Brown: It's never explained what her exact ethnicity is—she could be mixed race (judging from her mom's appearance in "Downhill") or she could just be a white girl who uses some kind of fake tanning products (since she's shown evening out her tan in "Return to Wannaweep"). The live-action film depicts her as Asian, but it's unclear if this is a Race Lift or not.
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Her mom is shown to be this—it's unknown if her dad is, especially since he's never seen or mentioned throughout the entire series.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: Assuming she has no other siblings, Bonnie's the youngest of three daughters.
  • Book Dumb: Geography clearly isn't her best subject—until being corrected by her sisters, Bonnie apparently thought that Cincinnati was a country (it's a city in Ohio).
  • The Bully: Bonnie's not the sort to dish out physical abuse, but she does mock and deride Kim and Ron at every opportunity, and she tries to make their social lives hell for four seasons (to say nothing of the other kids who're less popular than her).
  • Bullying a Dragon: Bonnie picking on Kim, who frequently fights and defeats supervillains (some of whom have superpowers), would likely fall into Too Dumb to Live territories if Kim weren't as magnanimous as she was. That said, when Bonnie kisses Ron in "Homecoming Upset", she breaks down and starts crying the instant Kim gets in her face. It's like she finally realized who she's been antagonizing all this time.
  • Cruel Cheerleader: Unlike Kim and the rest of their fellow cheerleadersnote , Bonnie's the only true mean-spirited on the squad.
  • Disappeared Dad: We never see or hear anything about Bonnie's dad—in fact, the only relatives of Bonnie's that we actually see or hear about are her older sisters, Connie and Lonnie, and their mom (who's name is never revealed).
  • Driven by Envy: It's been evident that the primary reason Bonnie's so mean to Kim because she feels challenged by Kim's general popularity and can't stand the idea of being "second best" to anyone. Her envy itself could be a result of her sisters' treatment of her.
  • Dude Magnet: She's very popular with boys—even Ron appeared to have a small crush on her in the the early episodes, despite Kim's rivalry with Bonnie. Until Junior became her boyfriend, Bonnie had an on-again/off-again relationship with Brick Flagg and also dated Hirotaka in "Exchange" (winning over Kim and Monique). And in the episode where she and Junior ultimately hooked up, when Kim and Ron are helping Bonnie find a new boyfriend, many boys show up including Kim's cousin Larry, who unsuccessfully attempts to flirt with her.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Her mom calls her "Pumpkin" and "Bon-Bon," the latter of which Ron likes to call her to annoy her.
  • Evil Counterpart: Not exactly evil, but bitchy (not that evil is beneath her, as shown in A Sitch In Time). When it comes to Bonnie's athletic skills, she's almost Kim's physical match. But, at the same time, Bonnie's athletic skills are geared mostly towards things like cheerleading, dancing and gymnastics—Bonnie has virtually no combat skills (she actually once broke down crying at the prospect of an actual physical fight with Kim) and she also has no interest in saving the world (albeit only because it involves too much danger that she can't handle).
  • Fair-Weather Foe: In "Ron Millionaire", she's perfectly willing to act all flirty with Ron, who she disdains for his money.
  • For the Evulz: Her basic m.o. Bonnie would often go out of her way to spite or embarrass Kim and Ron, just because she could, like inviting Kim's parents along on the school's ski trip so she could watch them humiliate Kim.
  • Family Theme Naming: With her sisters, Connie and Lonnie.
  • Freudian Excuse:
    • A later epiode reveals that Bonnie has a pair of older sisters named Connie and Lonnie, and from what little we see of them, it's clear that her sisters don't care much for her and view her as the runt of the litter. And given how Connie and Lonnie claim that they're considered to be the smartest and most beautiful of the three sisters, respectively, while "Bonnie got the rest," it's implied that Bonnie's nasty disposition is at least in part due to an inferiority complex of being in the shadow of her older sisters, who were presumably the popular girls back when they were in high school. It also explains her envy toward Kim; she's been second-best to her sisters her whole life and wants to surpass them, but Kim's own accomplishments and popularity (especially due to saving the world on a regular basis) overshadow hers, thus furthering her feelings of inadequacy and frustration.
    • There's also her breakup with Brick, which hit her so hard that she resorted to cheating in the election for Homecoming King and Queen because she missed having a popular guy as her boyfriend.
  • Gold Digger: In "Ron Millionaire". When his money is gone by the end of the episode, she quickly dumps him. At least she's honest about it.
    Bonnie: Ron Stoppable, you are such a hottie!
    Ron: Are you saying that because I'm rich?
    Bonnie: Uh-huh.
    Ron: Cool!
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Bonnie's primary motivation in the series is that she's very obviously jealous of Kim's success and popularity. In the episode "Number One," she tries replacing Kim as the school cheerleading captain, because she feels that she'd be a way better match for the job.
  • Hate Sink: We can't hate any of Kim's villains due to them falling into the Laughably Evil category, but we can hate Bonnie, who is meant to be a stereotypical Alpha Bitch who antagonizes Kim whenever she's not saving the world, though she does receive a few Pet the Dog moments.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • As shown in "Number One", Bonnie puts a lot of effort into usurping Kim's position as the MHS-cheerleading captain and proves to competent enough to actually lead and motivate their squad, as well as showing that she is actually really good at the sport itself. In fact, pretty much the only thing that Bonnie couldn't handle was having to continue doing the hard work she had done to gain the position in the first place (since the captain would have way more responsibilities than the rest of the cheerleaders would).
    • "Car Trouble" shows that, in contrast with her fellow high schoolers (including Kim), she's actually a very composed and capable driver, able to ace her Driver's Ed test on her first try.
  • I Fight for the Strongest Side!: As shown in A Sitch in Time where her future self is in charge of brainwashing and de-moralizing the populace. Makes a lot of sense for her character, since it's one of the few things outside of cheerleading that she's good at.
  • Impossible Hourglass Figure: Bonnie's got a rather curvaceous build despite being just a teenager.
  • Jerkass: She never passes up an opportunity to be mean to Kim. She's especially mean to Ron, and she uses her popularity as a weapon. Strangely enough, there are times she doesn't mind Jim and Tim, because they all like making Kim's life miserable (until the twins realize she's that intolerable). In a Bad Future where Shego takes over the world, joining the Supreme One really brings out the worst in her.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At the end of episode "Bonding" she seems to have become friendlier towards Kim, but due to Status Quo Is God in later episodes, she returns to the usual Alpha Bitch. That being said she still has her softer moments, though they don't occur very often.
  • Kick the Dog: In an attempt to make Kim jealous, she kisses Ron — who's Kim's official boyfriend at this point — right in front of her. Needless to say, neither take this well, to the point where Kim was seriously considering beating the crap out of Bonnie.
  • Lampshade Hanging: When she accidentally gets stuck to Kim and has to accompany her on a mission, she starts questioning things — like why Kim had to climb a cliff instead of taking the road, and why Dementor repeatedly engages in Bond Villain Stupidity (explaining his plan, not getting rid of them immediately, etc.) Kim and Dementor simply state that "it's how it's done".
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Due to her ill-conceived belief that "nothing important happens during the last week of school," Bonnie ends up having to go summer school in order to get her high school diploma—Mr. Barkin explains that due to Bonnie blowing off her classes during the last week of school, she missed some stuff that he claims left her one credit short of being able to graduate high school. And to really add insult to injury (for Bonnie), Barkin's the one teaching summer school and Bonnie was literally the only student in her grade that has to attend summer school, so she doesn't have anyone to share in her misery with.
  • The Load:
    • In "Bonding", it's used literally. Kim has to carry her, and she makes Kim's job even harder by making the same mistake any amateur explorer does — falling for an innocent-looking trap.
    • In general, Bonnie quickly becomes The Load whenever she tags along on one of Kim's missions. She has very few useful skills she can contribute, and she usually spends most of the trip whining. Even Ron, who was prone to quite a bit of complaining himself, was thoroughly sick of her by the end of "Homecoming Upset".
      Bonnie: Even in Italy, nobody wanted me!
      Ron: (sighs) And there she goes.
      Bonnie: Hey, I don't do pathetic!
      Ron: Well, you could have fooled me.
  • Love at First Sight: With SSJ — it was like a match made in hell.
  • Make Way for the Princess: She has this mindset in contrast to Kim, who's just as popular as Bonnie is (if not more popular), but is much kinder, friendlier and (overall) humbler.
  • Never My Fault: When Bonnie intentionally collapses a cheer pyramid and Kim calls her out for it, Bonnie immediately says "Like it's always about you. Zero your ego, Kim."
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: She’s not a villain, more of a jerkass bully, but her attempts to humiliate Kim and Ron often end up backfiring in ways that benefits the two of them eventually.
    • Had Bonnie not messed with Kim’s head about not having an acceptable date for junior prom, Kim may have gone with Ron as her “just friend”, and the pair might not have gone through their Relationship Upgrade. Thanks to Bonnie’s manipulation, which results in Kim wanting a proper date and meeting Eric ends up triggering a series of events that ends with Ron and Kim realising their feelings for each other. Her final attempt at humiliating them ends with the big reveal that everyone in the school has been a Shipper on Deck for the two, meaning they do not have to worry about what people think of them dating anyway.
    • In season 4, she makes an attempt to break them up by saying that as a cheerleader in her senior year, Kim must date a jock, so she either has to trade up or Ron has to step up, and Ron ends up stepping up, using his “mad running away from bad guys skills”, ending up as the football team’s running back, breaking many records in the process, becoming the Big Man on Campus, who is voted as the Homecoming king, meaning he is popular enough to date Kim.
  • Official Couple: Was this with Brick Flagg for most of the second and third seasons (albeit as an on-again/off-again couple) of the show before becoming this with Señor Senior, Junior in the final season.
  • Pair the Spares: Paired off with SSJ in the Post-Script Season (after she and Brick break up for good).
  • Psychological Projection: She sometimes accuses Kim of acting like everything is all about her or lording her talents over everyone else, when in reality she's the arrogant and self-centered one. It's implied that this is because she's jealous of Kim, particularly because of Kim's status as their school's head cheerleader along with her general popularity.
  • Punny Name: Rockwaller is a riff on "stonewall", which means to be uncooperative, obstructive, or evasive. "Rockwaller" also sound similar to "Rottweiler", and they don't get much bitchier than Bonnie.
  • The Rival: Bonnie's this to Kim for pretty much all the "high school" related stuff, particularly anything related to cheerleading.
  • Shadow Archetype: Bonnie is basically Kim's worst traits (pride, arrogance, vanity, self-centeredness, shallowness) minus her positive qualities (selflessness, heroism, kindness, compassion, humility).
  • Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Her attraction to Brick and Ron was mainly due to both being popular at something—Brick being the star quarterback on the school's football team and Ron during his brief period as a millionaire (and later becoming the star running back for the football team, and Brick broke up with her).
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She's a constant recurring thorn in the "basic average girl" side of Kim's life.
  • Smug Snake: What makes Bonnie more irritating and hated than anyone from Kim's rogues gallery; she is essentially a walking embodiment of catty and obnoxious queen bees everywhere. It's very unlikely that a regular person would cross paths with someone like Drakken or Dementor. However, unless you have lived a very charmed life, you have met, or will meet, someone like Bonnie, whether it's your neighbor, classmate or co-worker.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Whenever she and Kim have to work together on a mission, they're usually at each other's throats.
  • Token Evil Teammate: "Evil" is pushing it, but whenever we see any of the MHS-cheerleaders (including Kim), whether it's together or individually, Bonnie's the only one who's genuinely mean-spirited—while the rest of the cheerleaders may come off as a bit snobby and self-centered at times (including Kim herself), they're ultimately nice girls.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Kim's Tomboywhile Kim's more of a mix between "tomboy" and "girly girl,", she's got athletic skills outside of cheerleading (such as knowing various forms of martial arts) and her wardrobe consists mainly of stuff like shirts, pants and tracksuits. Bonnie, by contrast, has a comparably girlier wardrobe (consisting mainly of stuff like skirts and dresses), has traits associated with being the Alpha Bitch and, though certainly very athletic, really only ever uses her athletic prowess for stuff related to cheerleading (such as dancingnote  and gymnasticsnote ).
  • Ungrateful Bitch: When the Bebes kidnapped her to make her their queen after overhearing Kim talk about her. After Kim manages to save her she scoffs a "finally" and blames Kim for the whole mess even though it was unintentional.

    Mr. Steven Barkin 

Mr. Steven "Steve" Barkin

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The teacher who seems to be in charge of almost every class at Middleton High.


  • Ascended Extra: While he had always been a recurring character in the show, Mr. Barkin's strange frenemy dynamic with Ron is given a lot more focus in the fourth and final season: partly because Ron starts working at the same Smarty Mart Barkin is employed at, and partly because Ron receives a lot more character development/screentime in the final season.
  • Baritone of Strength: Even though he's middle-aged, he's still shown to be a very athletic and physically fit man who has a deep, husky cadence, courtesy of Patrick Warburton.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: From Ron, surprisingly:
    DNAmy: Want a ginger snap?
    Barkin: Lady, you are-
    DNAmy: Special?
    Barkin: SICK AND WRONG!
  • Butt-Monkey: Being a regular teacher in a world filled with monsters, mutants and super spies has caused him to become this trope at times. In season 1 alone, he got mutated twice by DNAmy and Gill.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Okay people, LISTEN UP!"
  • The Comically Serious: A lot of humor is derived from just how stiff, gruff and humorless Mr. Barkin usually is compared to the quirkier teens he's in charge of, though his personality does start to become a bit more eccentric and wacky by Season 4.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: His odd fixation to antagonize Ron — like not letting him leave class after the bell rings with the rest of the class and making him turn in homework before the school building was even open — stemmed from when Ron looked at him funny in ninth grade.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty: The "Coach Nasty" variant, which also carries over to his gruff classroom manner. He's a veteran, and presumably had the same no-nonsense demeanor while in the service.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In "Tick-Tick-Tick" and "Royal Pain", Steve Barkin's hair was blond instead of brown.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck!: He's got some odd G-rated exclamations.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • In "Graduation", he offhandedly mentions his high-school years, which are strangely identical to Ron's, including the saving the world part. It's probably why he's always so tough on Ron.
    • His Shell-Shocked Veteran flashback in "Two to Tutor" implies he's a Vietnam vet, and My Lai is mentioned — although it's pronounced "My Lai" instead of "Mee Lai" like it is in Real Life.
  • Hypocrite: In "Ron the Man", he rudely challenges Ron's masculinity by pointing out how often he gets saved by a girl (Kim), conveniently ignoring the fact that Kim had also saved his tail several times before that episode.
  • Ink-Suit Actor: He pretty much just looks like Patrick Warburton drawn in the show's artstyle.
  • Jerkass to One: He's normally a very tough but fair instructor, but he doubles down on the tough part while cutting back on the fair when it comes to Ron, usually because of "the funny look incident".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As far as teachers go, he's rude, stern, humorless and gruff. He's also brave, firm but fair, determined to keep his students straight and honest, and he usually tries to protect them from danger whenever he can.
  • Kick the Dog: When Ron comes to him in need of help to understand what kind of man he is in "Ron the Man", Barkin smugly replies that Ron is "small and weak", which, understandably offends Ron.
  • Large Ham: He has his moments, like his unbridled freakouts in "Sink Or Swim", "Fashion Victim" and "The Mentor Of Our Discontentment" where he completely loses composure, or the overdramatic way he reprimands Ron for being a cheater in "Ill-Suited".
  • Laser-Guided Karma: In "Fashion Victim", Barkin abuses his authority as Ron's teacher for petty reasons - his rivalry with Ron - and unlike his other Kick the Dog moment from "Ron The Man", he winds up paying for it later. In the second half of that episode, Barkin undergoes a rather embarrassing case of Sanity Slippage while he's confined, before he's taken in by the fashion police for questioning.
  • Last-Name Basis: He gruffly addresses his students by their last names, and is almost always addressed by his own last name (in a few situations, someone uses his first name, "Steve").
  • Manly Man: To Ron's dismay, all of Barkin's interests are hardy, stereotypically masculine things like rugby, jogging, competitive swimming and spending time at the gym, though he also turns out to be the troop leader of some local girl scouts, the only thing he and Ron do bond over in that episode.
  • Manly Man and Sensitive Guy: The manly, hotheaded, military man to Ron's cautious, sensitive, nerdy guy, which becomes increasingly apparent in seasons 3 and 4, when they're partnered up more often in episodes.
  • Meaningful Name: The loud, stern, frequently cranky teacher is named 'Barkin'.
  • Missing Mom: His father is introduced in an episode of Season 4, but no mention of his mother is ever made.
  • No Guy Wants an Amazon: Implied. In his aforementioned Kick the Dog moment, Barkin also informs Ron that he frequently gets rescued by a girl. That statement, the way he said it, and his definition of what a man is hints of him having this attitude.
  • No Indoor Voice: He can whisper, but he spends most of his time projecting across the room. It's quite justified because he was a Drill Sergeant Nasty once.
    Okay, people, now listen up!
  • Noodle Incident: The teachers at Middleton High are constantly sidelined by some odd event or other, leaving Mr. Barkin to fill in for them.
  • Not So Above It All: Often.
    • In “Bonding”, he is initially annoyed by Ron’s rapping, but by the end of the episode, he is shown to enjoy it as he and the Pixie scouts dance to his rapping, leaving Kim and Bonnie the only ones who are annoyed/baffled.
    • Ron once wrote a love note on Wade’s behalf, for Monique, but accidentally submitted it instead of his biology report to Barkin. The normally tough, but fair Barkin is so touched by it, he is moved to tears and gives Ron an A+.
    • He initially sounds annoyed by Ron’s report on his hero, his father and the more Ron confirmed that the over-the-top essay he wrote was real, the more annoyed he seems to get. But he is actually very impressed, thinks Mr. Stoppable is awesome and gives Ron an A+.
  • Older Than They Look: Heavily implied that he fought in Vietnam, which took place from 1955 to 1975. Because he namedropped Mỹ Lai, it can be assumed that he fought around the same time the massacre took place, situating his military service around the late 60s. Since the show takes place in the early 21st century and the average age of a lieutenant is 25 years old, he's pushing at least approximately 60 years old, yet looks like he's in his thirties. We also meet his father who looks only slightly older than him, but if the above facts are true his father would be in his eighties or nineties.
  • Pet the Dog: He greatly appreciated Ron's cooking in "Two to Tutor" and even let him take over both as the de facto Home Ec teacher and let him run the cafeteria (until the health inspector arrived and saw a live rodent serving food).
  • Properly Paranoid: His irrational fear of killer, rebellious robots turns out to be more warranted than everyone expected in "The Mentor Of Our Discontent", thanks to Dr. Drakken and Shego's meddling.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: Combined with Scout-Out— "Bonding" reveals that Barkin acts as the "den mother" to a Girl Scout-style scouting troop called the Pixie Scouts, which he runs more like a military unit (he also prefers to be called "Brigadier Pixie" instead of "den mother").
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: "Tough but fair." There was an episode about this.
  • Running Gag: Thanks to a number of offscreen noodle incidents, Mr. Barkin seems to teach every class in Middleton High, filling in for the other teachers despite the vastly different subjects they teach. By the fourth season, the running gag even extends to his relatives.
  • Sanity Slippage: In "Fashion Victim", when Ron and Mr. Barkin are trapped inside a crate and shipped overseas for a long amount of time, a mixture of paranoia and claustrophobia causes Mr. Barkin's mental stability to really take a hit, which does nothing to calm Ron's own nerves.
  • Scare 'Em Straight: Barkin shows the Driver's Ed class a scratchy old black-and-white film called "The Ghost Car". Initially, Kim and Ron mock the antiquated depiction of teenage life, but then they are horrified by a gory crash scene intended to teach a lesson about careful driving.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Barkin occasionally freaks out when he's thrust into a crisis, and regresses into thinking he's in the middle of a warzone.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Mostly toward Ron, but occasionally toward Kim as well, such as the episode where he catches her not making it to class on time and gives her detention. Hilariously lampshaded when the two get bonded. Ron mentioned how after giving Barkin "a funny look", he's been at his case, which Kim dismisses. Barkin later brings it up by saying that he knew Ron would be trouble since "the funny look incident".
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Barkin's father looks just like him, but slightly older. He also echoes Barkin's omnipresence by doing every job in a living-history village.
  • Stern Teacher: Barkin is nothing if not firm in his enforcement of rules and handling with students.
  • Suddenly Shouting: As you would expect from a character voiced by Patrick Warburton, he's prone to shouting and several other loud outbursts when he's upset.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Typically, he's a very surly, hot-blooded and reserved man, but by Seasons 3 and 4, he starts to reveal a softer, more thoughtful side to his personality and some unexpected interests beyond being a hardass teacher, usually when he's off-duty — such as leading the local Pixie scouts, or taking pride in his job at Smarty Mart, or pushing Ron to meet his full potential.
  • Time-Passage Beard: Played with. While they're trapped in a crate, Ron notices that Barkin has a five 'o' clock shadow, prompting him to ask how long they've been in there, to which Barkin replies it was just nineteen minutes. Turns out Mr. Barkin has to shave often.
    Ron: How often?
    Barkin: About fifteen times a day.
  • Tormented Teacher: Steve Barkin has had to fill in for almost every class at Middleton High. In the course of his time on the series, he's had students run from detention (Kim herself, though in her defense, she had a bomb on her nose and was being targeted by her Arch-Villain). been attacked by a mutant at a campground, been altered in a man/mole-rat hybrid (he got better), had monkey ninjas rampage through his school, dated The Dragon of Kim's arch nemesis, and had his car vaporized by Kim's brothers at her graduation. All-in-all, the guy has it rough. Not that he's entirely sympathetic, as he is the Stern Teacher, though he is also fair.
  • Two-Teacher School: With the exception of a few episodes, Barkin's usually the only teacher who's ever actually seen at Middleton High School. A frequent Running Gag with him is how he often fills in for other teachers due to some kind of Noodle Incident.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
    • He often shows a mixture of fear and hatred for mutants in general. In "Tick-Tick-Tick" he's tricked into calling off detention by being led to believe that Rufus was a mutant, in both "Sink or Swim" and "Return to Wannaweep" he has to deal with Gill trying to mutate him and the cheer squad, and in "Bonding" he says that he knew the day would come where it'd be between him and mutant wiener dogs.
    • In "The Mentor Of Our Discontent", Barkin admits that he's afraid of killer robots rebelling and overthrowing humanity, and when he's proven to be Properly Paranoid later because of Drakken's schemes, he spends the entire third act of that episode freaking out and running for his life through the Smarty Mart.

    Monique 

Monique

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Voiced by: Raven-Symoné, Vivica A. Fox (Future Monique)

Kim's closest friend after Ron (and Rufus), she's smart and hip and always available to provide level-headed advice for Kim. She is very fashionable and works at Club Banana. Occasionally Monique would join Kim on her missions but lacked the skill needed to be a competent sidekick.


  • Dude Magnet: She mentions having a lot of first dates, but wants to be in an actual relationship. At the end of "So The Drama" movie, it appeared that she and Brick were becoming somewhat attracted to each other. Wade also developed a crush on her. And Ned is apparently interested in her.
  • The Fashionista: She works at a clothing store, loves fashion, and gives Kim dress advice for prom. She even helps design Kim's new mission suit in Season 4. It's flawless.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Her Monique-speak. Briefly delves into Acronym and Abbreviation Overload in "Steal Wheels".
  • Future Badass: Without Club Banana, she threw herself into training—see Took a Level in Badass below.
  • Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: While she's all about shopping and fashion, she's also a huge fan of wrestling and extreme sports.
  • The Load: On the few occasions she tries to join in Kim's missions, she quickly finds herself out of her depth.
  • Nice Girl: A responsible and highly loyal friend with a good heart.
  • Odd Friendship: She and Ron bond over their love of wrestling, to both Kim's confusion and relief.
    Kim: (sighs, but smiles watching Ron and Monique have an eating contest) I think this is the beginning of a very weird friendship!
  • Oh, Crap!: Gives this expression several times when she had to help Kim fight Drakken, Shego, Monkey Fist, and Duff Killigan. First when she realized that Shego had glowing super powers. Then when she realized that Killigan's golf balls explode. Lastly when Drakken says boo.
  • Only One Name: We never hear her last name.
  • Sassy Black Woman: More fun and less serious than Kim. She even sassed villains when she filled in as Ron's sidekick.
  • Shipper on Deck: So the Drama implies that she may be a Kim/Ron shipper given her sigh of happiness and relief when the two show up to the Junior Prom as a couple.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Implied as she mentions that she wants to have a stable relationship.
  • The Sixth Ranger: She's not an official member of Team Possible, but she helps out whenever she can.
  • Sudden Eye Colour: In her first few appearances her eyes were mainly just dots connect to her eyebrows. From season two onward she got full pupils which allowed for better expressions.
  • Took a Level in Badass: When she goes on a mission with Kim, she is shown to lack fighting prowess and is useless. By the time they go to the future, she has trained a lot—future-Monique justifies it by claiming that Shego took all the fun out of shopping for her, so she had to find a new hobby.

    Tara 

Tara

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Voiced by: Tara Strong

Tara is a blonde cheerleader who goes to Middleton High and a mutual friend of both Kim and Bonnie. Tara is friendly and seems to be one of the favorites among the cheerleaders.


  • The Cutie: With her bubbly and optimistic personality, she's arguably the nicest cheerleader on the MHS cheerleading squad.
  • Flat Character: Outside of the second episode, she doesn't get a lot of character development, as she's not a major character—it was rumored that she was going to have more screen time in the fourth season, but this later turned out to be untrue.
  • Laugh of Love: In "Sink Or Swim", Tara giggles before kissing Ron on the cheek at the end of the episode.
  • Pair the Spares: Paired with Josh Mankey (Kim's former love interest) in Season 3.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Gave Ron a smooch after he and Rufus saved them from Gill and was later confirmed by Kim that Tara had a crush on him. She eventually moved on and started dating other guys, one of which was Josh Mankey. When Ron once tried to hit on her as a "bad boy", she was more annoyed than anything by his behavior, showing she preferred the nicer Ron.

    Josh Mankey 

Josh Mankey

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Voiced by: Breckin Meyer — A.J. Trauth

Josh Mankey is a student at Middleton High School and Kim's main crush (until "Emotion Sickness").


  • The Ace: Being an artist, musician, and overall popular student qualifies him as one. He also happens to be a Chick Magnet and Nice Guy.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has thick, brown eyebrows.
  • Chick Magnet: Many girls (including Kim) have found him attractive.
  • The Generic Guy: Other than being a popular/talented but nice guy (and Kim's main crush until "Emotion Sickness"), he didn't get any character development.
  • Ironic Name: His last name is a derogatory term meaning "1. worthless, rotten, or in bad taste and 2. dirty, filthy , or bad". Weird considering he is The Ace, a Chick Magnet, and a Nice Guy.
  • Love Interest: Kim had a crush on him until "Emotion Sickness."
  • Mellow Fellow: Josh is an easy-going and incredibly mellow person. He has only displayed very mild reactions to the assorted weirdness he witnessed when Kim's missions cut into her personal life.
  • Nice Guy: Caring, laid-back, easy-going, gentle, and kind-hearted.
  • Pair the Spares: In "Emotion Sickness", it's revealed that he's hooked up with Kim's friend/fellow cheerleader, Tara—Kim's fine with it, as by then, she had gotten over her feelings for Josh.
  • Punny Name: "Mankey" may also be an allusion to monkey, an animal which Ron fears. This is commented on in "Blush" when Ron says that "Mankey is only one vowel away from monkey." That may have explained why Ron and his pet, Rufus, didn't care for him, since they both hate monkeys.
  • Put on a Bus: He never makes an appearance in the final season. There is some implication he was a year older and graduated.
  • Satellite Love Interest: Other than being the closest thing Kim had to a love interest outside of Ron, Josh really didn't have much of a role in the series—in fact, he only appeared in five episodes (including "Emotion Sickness", and even then his appearance in that was just a passing cameo), is only mentioned once in "So the Drama" and isn't seen or mentioned at all in the fourth/final season.

    Brick Flagg 

Brick Flagg

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Voiced by: Rider Strong

Brick Flagg is a student at Middleton High School during Kim Possible's sophomore and junior years, and the star quarterback of the football team. He was also known for being the on again, off again boyfriend of Bonnie Rockwaller.


  • Chick Magnet: Dated Amelia, and Bonnie. Monique also seemed interested in him.
  • Dumb Blonde: Brick has blond hair and is generally slow-witted.
  • Dumb Jock: The typical football player; big muscles everywhere except inside his head. Although he's not a Jerk Jock.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Despite Brick's slow witted nature and nice personality, he has a limit as to how much he is willing to tolerate in a relationship.
  • Held Back in School: Initially assumed to have only been a year older than Kim and her friends, but according to Barkin at the football tryouts in "Ill-Suited" Brick apparently spent at least seven years at Middleton High (indicating that he got held back at least three times).
  • Jerkass Ball: The normally nice Brick started a fight with Hirotaka just because all the girls in school were infatuated with him. This fight only had two purposes: Showing how awesome Hirotaka is and acting as the catalyst for Monique and Kim fighting over him.
  • Lovable Jock: He is the star quarterback of the football team, but generally avoids being a bully, unlike several of his fellow football players.
  • Love Interest: He's this to Bonnie in the second and third seasons, but they only seem to be dating for the sake of popularity — after Brick finally graduates from high school and goes off to college, he breaks up with Bonnie for good and ultimately moves on from anything related to high school.
  • Nice Guy: Brick is somewhat conceited, but ultimately a nice guy. If nothing else, he attempts to treat his girlfriends well, as he knows the pain of being dumped.
  • Put on a Bus: He doesn't appear at all in the final season (but he's mentioned a few times), although it's justified in that he's now done with high school and has finally left for college.

    Zita Flores 

Zita Flores

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Voiced by: Nika Futterman

A student at Middleton High School who worked at the local multiplex theater.


  • Action Girl: She's brave and capable in danger, which is lampshaded by Ron ("are all girls like this, or just the ones I know?").
  • Back for the Finale: Return in the series finale as Felix's girlfriend.
  • Gamer Chick: Zita was a highly experienced player of the online computer game Everlot. Though she was only well-known among a small group of friends at the time, since she spearheaded a successful revolt against the infamous Wraithmaster and was vital to his defeat, it is fairly safe to assume that her status in the game was considerably elevated afterward.
  • Nice Girl: Zita has a friendly personality.
  • Pair the Spares: By the series finale, she and Felix seemed to have become a couple.
  • Satellite Love Interest: For Ron. Most of her scenes are related to him.

    Felix Renton 

Felix Renton

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Voiced by: Jason Marsden

Felix Renton is a student at Middleton High School who is friends with Ron and Kim, although he's closer to Ron.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Often refers to Ron as “Ron-Man”.
  • Big Eater: He was able to out-eat Ron.
  • Brainy Brunette: Felix was very intelligent, and was best known for his quick thinking in a crisis, as well as handling his wheelchair's cyber-robotics with ease.
  • Genius Cripple: Felix is handicapped and is a brilliant young man. He handles a cool wheelchair that allows him to fly (built for him specifically by his mother), and governments and militaries want to work with him and his legendary brainpower. He prefers to goof off and play video games with Ron. Felix was even the class valedictorian of his graduating class.
  • Handicapped Badass: While his wheelchair looks ordinary, he can instantly take to the air with it, or defend himself by deploying a pair of robot arms.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Ron, much to Kim’s jealousy.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: His mother is a genius in cybernetics and robotics, having designed Felix's wheelchair. It's clear where Felix gets his smarts from.
  • Nice Guy: Kind, easygoing, helpful, and friendly.
  • Pair the Spares: By the series finale, he and Zita have become a couple.
  • Super Wheelchair: He has one with extendable robot arms, hover tech, video game integrable AI, etc. thanks to his cyber-roboticist mother designing and building it for him. In fact, Drakken and Motor Ed steal it during "Steal Wheels" so they can reverse-engineer its tech.

    Ron Reiger 

Ron Reiger

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Ronald "Ron" Reiger is a rarely seen Middleton High School student. He is perhaps best known for regularly skipping gym class, and due to their same first name is occasionally confused with Ron Stoppable.


  • Birds of a Feather: In the Grand Finale, he seemed to bond quickly with the Possible twins over a shared interest in tinkering and inventing.
  • Child Prodigy: He had considerable technological talent, in that he created an electronic voting system that won him second place in the Tri-City Science Fair, and was able to further improve a Lorwardian weapon modified by Jim and Tim Possible.
  • Last-Name Basis: Out of the frustration caused by him and Ron Stoppable sharing the same first name, Kim insisted on referring to him solely as "Reiger", instead calling her boyfriend "my Ron" while the three were together.
  • Lazy Bum: Implied; in his very first appearance, the only piece of information we get on him is the fact that he skips gym class on a regular basis.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. The reason he exists is to create confusion as he and Ron Stoppable share the same first name.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: He is mostly a Joke Character, who mostly exists to create confusion, given he and Ron Stoppable share the same first name, but in Senior year at homecoming, where his electronic voting system was used to elect the king and queen via secret ballot, although Ron Stoppable apparently won on his own, Reiger manipulated the system so that Bonnie Rockwaller became queen, setting the episode's plot in motion.
  • Youthful Freckles: Another aspect he shares with Ron Stoppable.


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