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  • "Coach Possible": Wade not being able to hack the guitar-playing bear animatronic makes more sense when you consider that getting an artificial intelligence to play a string instrument, let alone well, is something that has only recently happened in real life. That bear needs to hold the banjo so gently it doesn't break, while at the same time tapping the strings for accords all in sync with the other machines. And thanks to SSS, said bear is also a dancer and a war machine now. By comparison, all it takes for a mechanical drummer is telling it when to hit a sturdy drum with a stick and how hard.
  • A Running Gag in season 4 has the villains occasionally express disbelief at Kim and Ron's new relationship status, with the general reason being that she's too cool for him. However, the season 3 finale So the Drama has the entirety of Middleton High (sans Bonnie) cheering for the pair after they realize their feelings for each other. These reactions actually make sense beyond heartwarming/comedic purposes: The villains have only seen Kim at her best (fighting crime and saving the day) and Ron at his worst (bumbling and constantly out of his depth). At school though, their positions are a bit more even, with Ron adapting better to social situations and providing emotional support for Kim whenever the stress of high school starts to get to her. The students recognize that Kim needs Ron as much as he needs her, so in their eyes a Relationship Upgrade is the next logical step. The bad guys aren't privy to this though, and so are left wondering why a hero would want to date her sidekick.
  • So, according to the "Animology" quiz, a Blue Fox and a Yellow Trout are "perfect soulmates." Kim Possible (a globe-trotting Type-A overachiever) got "Blue Fox" while Señor Senior Junior (a lazy Idle Rich narcissist) got "Yellow Trout." It doesn't make sense that these two personality types would be soulmates...or does it? Kim's the kind of girl that guys like Junior would have to make a massive self-improvement effort to win over, and while Junior's the kind of guy that a girl like Kim would probably see as a "project" that she could make into something better. It's a romantic-comedy staple, really.
  • In "Grudge Match", Ron's "rules" are ultimately proven wrong once the audience learns that not only is Oliver a robot, but Vivian built him. If Ron's rules had been right, she would've built him as a handsome kind of nerd. But Vivian didn't. Because she designed Oliver to be the kind of boyfriend she'd care about. Sure, Vivian also wanted to build him as a front for someone people would take seriously as a robotics expert, but she was still concerned for him when Dr. Fenn tried to (essentially) kill Oliver with a mallet.
    • Even better, Vivian made Oliver to be different from your stereotypical nerd. She gave him a personality where he was protective, assertive, and confronted Dr. Fenn for stealing Vivian's robot.
    • Generally, "Grudge Match" in itself is about debunking stereotypes. You would think Dr. Fenn would have his intelligence to compensate for his short size, because it would be complicated to think otherwise. But in reality, he doesn't have robotic expertise. In short (no pun intended), he has nothing to compensate his failings, nothing but insecurity and the cunning deception that he built the robots.
  • The Attitudinator changing Ron's personality to be a 2.0 version of Drakken isn't too far off the mark when one realizes that in "Attack of the Killer Bebes", he was Ron's Shadow Archetype for how he might've turned out if Kim hadn't been supportive of his Mad Dog costume.
    • Also, in a sense, being bullied by Cousin Sean could count as what would normally push him over the edge if Ron wasn't a decent person to begin with.
    • On the flipside, Nice Dr. Drakken may reflect how he would've turned out if (A) his college buddies had been nicer to him and (B) he didn't have a villainous nature to begin with.
  • The "dino-thing" in "Partners" went on a rampage... and was attempting to eat the various signs. Standard monster destruction in American Suburbs? Nah, that thing was hungry (and with that much mass and being newly "born", boy does it need food!). As Ron notes:
    "That thing has a dino-sized appetite!"
  • The most straightforward explanation for why Shego is a sidekick rather than an independent villain in her own right is her lack of initiative and creativity. A few hints supporting that conclusion:
    • "Two to Tutor": Shego draws a total blank when trying to decide on a field-test target for Junior's criminal training. Junior has to supply her with an idea by coming up with a web search.
    • "A Sitch in Time": The one time Shego apparently does come up with a plan of her own, the plan doesn't really involve any original thought on her part — her future self repeats what she remembers her past self being told by her future self...
    • Also in the same movie, Shego could've left well enough alone. But it was because Drakken insisted she boast about her accomplishment like a "proper villain" that lead to her downfall. Deep down, she's still the sidekick listening to her boss.
  • Kim's disdain of Larry may seem out of character even by her season one Jerkass standards but look at him for a moment. He is an uber geek who dreams of being a supervillain. Remind you of anyone? A Big Bad from Buffy the Vampire Slayer perhaps? He makes Warren Meers look suave in comparison, and Kim very much comes across as a fan of the series or at least the equivalent alternate knock-off. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that she wouldn't like him.
  • Over the course of the series, several countries around the world (Norway, Japan, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, Italy, China, Morocco) are settings of Kim and Ron's adventures, and all those countries have pavilions at Epcot's World Showcase at Walt Disney World. So when an interactive "treasure-hunt" style attraction was created in Epcot's World Showcase, it was based on Kim Possible and called Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure. (Five years after the Kim Possible series had concluded, the interactive attraction at Epcot was changed into Phineas and Ferb: Agent P's World Showcase Adventure.)
  • According to Warmonga, the Lorwardians are searching the galaxy for the legendary 'Great Blue:' an all-powerful warrior who will lead them in battle. In the end, they're destroyed when they try to fight Ron the Mystical Monkey Warrior, who has a blue aura. Ron was the Great Blue.
  • Apparently, Lowardian ships have a central off-switch in the engine room. While it's meant to be a joke, this makes sense. It's basically a kill-switch for at best, routine repairs to the engine, or at worst, an emergency situation.
  • When Ron initially became evil due to exposure to the Attitudinator, he turned blue and demonstrated a surprising skill with machinery, while in his second Attitudinator experience while facing Team Go, he relied more on his martial arts skills. This seems like a shift in method at first, until you take into account that on his first encounter with the device, he just got all of Drakken's evil while on the second occasion, Ron basically just experienced a moral inversion; Evil Ron in "Stop Team Go" was the true Evil Ron, and 'Zorpox' is basically an amalgamation of Ron and Drakken.
  • Seems strange that Barkin takes Ron's report in "Mather and Fervent" at face value, considering the "firing blast of math out of his skull part"... Except he knows Ron and what kind of ridiculous life he leads and that such a ridiculous event is something that would happen to him.
  • In "Low Budget", Frugal Lucre's master plan involves putting an expired can of sausages that was rigged with a devastating computer virus. The expiration date? 1999.
  • Drakken, Monkey Fist and Killigan are soundly thrashed by 4-year-old Pre-K Kim in "A Sitch in Time" and choose to high-tail it out of there. Not only are they in toddler bodies thanks to Drakken's invention and therefore not familiar with the bodies they're inhabiting compared to Kim's natural "savage" fighting, but staying and fighting is counterproductive since they already failed their objective (due to only switching from "crush Kim's spirit" to "crush Kim" after they arrive in a later period). Instead of breaking her spirit, they inspired her towards heroism by taking action against them when they were bullying Ron. In spite of the changes taking place to the timeline as evidenced by Ron's photo album changing, it's not drastic enough to prevent Kim from becoming a hero.
    • Alternatively, Ron is the one who inspired Kim to be a hero in the first place. He stood up for her despite being outnumbered by three bullies, and when Drakken, Killigan and Monkey Fist took advantage of that fact, Kim shoved aside her own timidness and fear to come to his aid.
  • Kim's crush on Josh makes sense when you look at him as an acceptable version of Ron. Kim mentions it took Ron twelve years to kiss her, indicating that she's had a crush on him for a while. However, Kim wasn't dating Ron because of possible peer pressure. Thus transferring her focus to a boy with a similar appearance and personality, but more socially acceptable.
  • While Drakken does come across rather clueless about Kim being the daughter of his old college friend James in "Attack of the Killer Bebes," the later episode "Mother's Day" implies that he didn't even bother to research James Possible's family at any point, not to mention there's very little if any resemblance between father and daughter while Kim resembles her mother enough that Drakken thought she was Kim's older sister during the latter episode. If Drakken thought that Kim actually had an older sister, it's clear that he didn't bother to learn anything non-work related about James' life. (Note that "Mother's Day" came after "A Very Possible Christmas" where he met Kim's immediate family, so it's likely he just has a blind spot similar to sidekicks when it comes to enemies' relations or the events of the Christmas Episode came after "Mother's Day.")
  • In "Tick-Tick-Tick", it's nighttime when Kim and Ron raid Drakken's lair. So when they insist that Drakken was about to say "for lunch" and Drakken denies it, it's quite possible that Drakken was telling the truth.
  • While the show does treat Mystical Monkey Power and Monkey Fist as semi-silliness given the western image of monkeys, especially with Ron's fear of them and his apparent inability to actually make use of them, the show does demonstrate that it is indeed a force to be reckoned with. After all, famously, it was a powerful immortal monkey that challenged and defeated all of Heaven, and is arguably mythology's most powerful non-divine hero. And what are the Lorwardians if not emissaries from the heavens? Likewise, the full display of Mystical Monkey Power involves one's hair rising and gaining a blue aura, not unlike said immortal monkey's most famous descendant several years later in real life.
    • Similarly, Monkey Fist ends the series still petrified in stone, the result of his mad lust for power above all. Similar, but not quite the same as being trapped under a mountain for 500 years. Or, he basically got sent back to how Sun Wukong started: sealed in stone.
  • In "Grudge Match", while in an authorized personnel only section of the Middleton Space Center, Kim directs Ron, Vivian and Oliver towards another passage in order to intercept Fen when he tries escaping with the stolen robot. Per "Monkey Ninjas in Space", she's been going to the Space Center with her father ever since she was eight years old for the Rocket Boosters' club, and her father is an important and influential member of the Center's staff. She most likely knows the Space Center's layout far better than most through her visits with her father.

Fridge Horror

  • At the end of "Twin Factor", Shego confirms (yells) that the mind control Dr. Drakken used on her made her obey, but left her fully conscious and aware. That means she was fully aware without any control over her own body. With no confirmation it would ever stop. And, insult to injury, she had to act cheerful about it. Incidentally, this was not just tailored to Shego; it also worked on Kim. And if Drakken could attach the chips to both of them...
    • It gets worse. Remember how when Kim is sent after Ron, she seems to ignore the Tweebs, and when Drakken orders both girls to catch Rufus, they forget about the other intruders? This implies that the chip takes away all thought processes other than those required to carry out an order... so unless Drakken gives an order, neither girl will MOVE. And they have no way to signal if they're hungry, thirsty, tired, need to go to the bathroom, or anything. If Drakken forgets this, both girls could be forced to slowly waste away, very aware of what's going on, but powerless to stop it.
      • It's not "if" he forgets, it's when. We're talking about the guy who had one of his inventions get shorted out because he couldn't be bothered to take Commodore Puddles for a walk — and that's when he was being prompted both by the dog's whining and Shego's nudging. At best, he'd forget about Kim and Shego as soon as a new mad-science project grabs his attention.
    • Which is what he should have done once he managed to stick the chip on Kim (after removing Shego's of course).
    • The same could potentially have occurred with the Seniors when they hypnotized a large number of Europe's V.I.P.. While they were forced to dance, they seemed to know what was going on judging from Kim's comment after Wade put her glasses on.
      • An additional horror for Twin Factor. At some point after the chip was placed on her, Drakken had Kim change clothing.
  • Remember Warmonga from "Mad Dogs and Aliens" and "Graduation"? Remember the fact that both times she showed up, it was with an arsenal useful for taking over the world practically single-handedly? According to Word of God, she didn't even have government backing from her home planet there, and when you consider the arsenal included enough walkers to effectively cause a lot of damage to humanity as a whole... What do you think the government packs in comparison? Especially since these are conquistador aliens who travel equipped to take over a world?
    • Probably not a lot, if anything. Warhok and Warmonga seemed to be treating world conquering as a hobby. Not to amass resources or because Earth was valuable, but because it was fun. So, it probably works on the same concept of asking why doesn't Senor Senior Senior ask for government help with his schemes. They don't really need it and whatever their government can supply is probably woefully inadequate to what the Lowardians already have.
    • If two individuals pursuing a personal vendetta can deploy that kind of firepower, they (and other warlords like them) probably are the Lowardian government.
  • In one episode we see Shego light up one of her fingers with her powers then she touches a villian's mook's forehead with it after which he drops to the floor in a limp heap. Is it possible she gave him a lobotomy?
  • At the end of Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, Kim kicks Shego off the roof of the Bueno Nacho HQ building straight into the high-voltage radio tower. Additionally, she kicked her hard enough to make it collapse - right on top of her. As this is happening, she walks up near the edge, with a smile resembling a Psychotic Smirk or a Slasher Smile. Until the next scene where we see Drakken and Shego are taken away, nobody could know if she survived or not, so this looks more like if Kim just sent Shego to her death, and she doesn't seem to have any regrets about it. Actually, she seemed like she liked it.
  • In "Emotion Sickness", who knows what "irreversible frenzy of rage" Kim would have done to Ron if she'd caught him? What if it had taken until after she'd finished for the Moodulator to short out?
    • Which brings up the question: What were the moodulators for? the only practical use that comes to mind is keeping a surgeon calm in the operating room or keeping another professional calm in a stressful work environment, and if that WAS the purpose of the things, why are emotions like joy, anger, love, and sadness involved?
      • There are some pretty dark possibilities: induced rage to create a relentless fighter, induced love to make someone into a concubine, induced joy and sadness as rewards and punishments to bend someone to your will....
      • And remember, these things were made not by a mad scientist, but by a kindly old man, who only really got upset when something pushed him...
  • Word of God states that Kim and Ron will be together forever. No mention is made of Rufus. While naked mole rats are extraordinarily long-lived (a lifespan of like 30 years), that's still not anywhere near the 70+ years that make up a human life span. If anything, that's just 30 years for both Kim and Ron to get attached to him before he dies.
    • One of the features on the Sitch in Time DVD shows an older Rufus who looks pretty healthy, a little on the pudgy side but still good. When it comes to cartoons, animals will sometimes age like humans, so I'm sure Rufus will be fine.
    • Alternatively, he will die, but that's just a fact of life. It will be sad if he died before either one but that's the sort of thing that happens.
      • True. After all, a dog or cat gets 10-15 years... though not sentient, of course, they often become an integral part of the family. Perhaps when the time comes, Rufus will be succeeded by his son as Team Pet and loyal friend.
    • Another thing to consider is how Rufus might have been affected by the Mystical Monkey Power... maybe he got an extended lifespan?
  • Señor Senior, Senior's first act of villainy is to drain all of Europe's power to ransom for another island. It's played off as a bored rich guy's first foray into villainy, but seeing as hospitals and water treatment plants need electricity he'd have started killing people by the thousands in just days.
  • The Attitudinator. It's a Mirror Morality Machine that turns good people evil and vice versa. When it hit Ron, he went from a cowardly, accident-prone sidekick to a scarily competent evil genius that made Shego fear him. What would have happened if the Attitudinator had hit a good guy that was already pretty competent ...like, say, KIM?
    • Heck, this is exactly what evil Ron's first thought is upon obtaining said device!
  • The Sitch in Time DVD bonus features show a future version of Kim, still fighting crime in her 40s. She's wearing an eyepatch. What happened that could lead her to wearing an eyepatch?
  • When Ron reactivates the laser grid in "Sitch in Time", the only person actually safe and clear is Shego, who is watching the fight from the hallway. The laser grid could easily have torn any of the seven other people still in the room (Preteen Kim, Preteen Ron, Kim, Ron, Drakken, Killigan and Monkey Fist) to pieces just like it did the Stone Guardian of Satsuma.
  • Bonnie's relationship with Brick Flagg may seem normal at first until a line from "Ill Suited" states that it took him 7 years to graduate. This could be interpreted as spending seven years to finish four years of high school or taking seven years to finish senior year. If it's the latter, then we have an adult well into his twenties still going out with high school aged teenagers.
    • Even if it took him seven years to complete all of high school, it's still a bit icky for a 21 year old to still be dating school-aged teenagers.
      • Actually if it took Brick seven years to graduate senior year that would make him 24-25 when he left which is still rather disturbing
  • Malcolm Nevious's megalomaniac tendencies (his desire to take over Everlot, his attempt to trap Ron and Zita in the game and the twisted way he wants Zita to be his queen) may have been as a result of his use of immersion caps, which made a rat highly aggressive when Malcolm's father and his assistant removed it without finishing the game. Along with Ron and Zita, he is the only one seen in his real-life clothes in-game, but he was also seen outside of Everlot the day after Ron met Zita in the game.
  • This tumblr post makes the disturbingly plausible case that Dr. Vivian Porter in "Grudge Match" didn't just have her work stolen by her colleague, but was also sexually harassed by him due to their behavior and the fact that Porter built a protective and aggressive robot boyfriend ostensibly to act as the front man for Robot Rumble that also acts as her bodyguard.

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