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Extreme Steam?

• In So The Drama, what did Erik mean by "Extreme Steam"? When I was young, I thought he was calling Kim hot, but looking back, Ron seems to be annoyed about the comment like Erik had insulted her.
  • Erik is calling her hot, but Ron's finding that a little creepy in a guy who only just met her (and probably figures Erik is only pretending to be friendly with Ron as a sleazy way of getting closer to Kim.)
  • The fact that Ron's own issues about his relationship with Kim are coming to a head would predispose him to react badly to another guy taking an interest in her.
  • Another possibility is that Ron, his reactions filtered through the above emotions, interpreted the comment in a negative light (e.g. as an insinuation that Kim Really Gets Around).

Is she a spy?

• Kim's meant to be a spy right? Exactly what spy stuff does she do? Use gadgets to bring down foes? I may be missing something but she seems to operate more of a soldier type (sneak in, steal\smash something) than actually spying on what Drakken is up to then calling in Global Justice or something.
  • It's the highly stylised definition of "spy" created by the likes of the James Bond movies and The Avengers (1960s) and such: stocked with neat gadgets, jetting around the world, foiling supervillains bent on world domination and blowing things up, just like True Lies or Spy Kids or Totally Spies!. There seems to be an inherent blurring of "spy" and "clandestine agent". There isn't much relation to real espionage work. It's not John le Carré.
    • Sure, I can accept rule of cool in terms of spies. It was something I thought worth noting. Bond for example, he does proper spying from time to time, and for all the homage to the spy parody the closest we get to Splinter Cell is a throwaway gag. Kim would be more at home in Metal Gear than the Cold War.
    • I can think of three times when they were spying on villains instead of just looking for a fight: The Bermuda Triangle Club in So The Drama, the villain's convention in "Bad Boy" and Killigan's island in "Graduation". But I don't think Kim is ever called a spy in the show: what she does in usually referred to as "crimefighting" or "hero stuff".
    • Is she ever actually labled as a "spy"? It seems like she just takes on dangerous missions to help people.
    • As far as I'm aware, she's canonically a "freelance agent". She's something like the Spy Kids: not exactly secret agents, but they are "super" agents that seemingly work for free.
  • Same OP who made the above entry, she first started her life as a babysitter advertising that "she could do anything." Then she got hired by two guys having security laser problems, shs saved them, and it all went on from there.

She loves him, she loves him not?

• I've put up a couple of defences for Kim here, but now I have a point of my own to raise. By So the Drama it's pretty obvious Kim loves Ron. Whether it be visual cues (the Spiderman bit in Fearless Ferret) subtle clues (Kim hits on Ron, suggesting he take her as a date in Bad Boy) or basically all of A Very Possible Christmas, where she acts like she did when she had the moodulator, albeit milder. (Don't forget her episode-long 'jellin' fit in Gorilla Fist!) So how come she spends most of the film freaking over being with Ron?
  • Denial? He's been a friend for so long that she just doesn't see him that way: when her father gets antsy about her asking for advice, she says "It's not a question about boys, it's about Ron." They're both reassured. Also, she worries about her place in the high school popularity "food chain", and the likes of Bonnie make her think she should be dating someone more on a level with the head cheerleader and captain of everything.
  • Monique addresses this, telling Kim that Bonnie should eat her low carb words.
  "Bonnie's playing you girl. What good is saving the world if I have no one to share it with?"
  • Amusingly, Ron also freaked out about the possibility of getting together with Kim in "Emotion Sickness" and Monique asked him:
  "Would that be a bad thing?"
  • To be fair, to that point Ron hasn't done very much to encourage any amorous feelings Kim has towards him.
  • As someone who has been rewatching the show recently, to me, it is pretty obvious that Kim has feelings for Ron, but he, for the most part, doesn’t show in any way, shape or form that he reciprocates her feelings, making her feel her love for him is unrequited. This is especially noticeable when Ron says he knows why Kim looked upset (while trying to get her to sign the Bueno Nacho petition) and Kim responds with a hopeful "You do?" Once Eric enters the picture, she moves on from him. Once his true colors are revealed, she is back to square one: she feels No Guy Wants an Amazon. Notice when Ron confesses his feelings for her, her response is a curious "Oh really?", implying she is just surprised and happy that he likes her back.
  • I read one theory that Ron's response to the Moodulator incident left Kim feeling particularly uncertain about the idea of telling him her feelings, concerned that if Ron rejected her before he knew about the Moodulator there "must" be something fundamentally wrong with her that stops anyone being attracted to her. She basically convinced herself that Ron didn't see her that way and ignored anything that might suggest otherwise because she thought he'd already "confirmed" he doesn't see her that way.

Finding a job for Kimberly Anne?

• Why does Kim bother to look for a job occasionally if she's a secret agent? Doesn't she get paid to do the things she does?
  • No — otherwise, she'd be like Team Impossible.
  • She's basically a mercenary for free, rather than a secret agent. I get the feeling that a lot of the reason she gets called in so much is budgetary concerns. "Look, you guys. Doctor Drakken stole our thing. Our thing! We need it back. But if we can't get it back, we'll need a new one, so try not to spend a lot of money." "No problem, we'll call the cheerleader with the kung-fu klutz sidekick and the rat."
    • As I understand it, her payment is future favors. "Hey, remember that time I saved you/your daughter/your village/the world? Can I get a ride/some equipment/a little info?"
  • Also, saving the world is just her hobby; she got into accidentally. Presumably, she has some other ambition. Her parents encourage her to follow in their respective footsteps instead of joining Global Justice, or something like that.
    • She was looking at global diplomacy at one time.
  • "Saved the world multiple times" looks pretty good on a college application.
    • I mean, her saving the world cost money and she prolly don't get paid a lot to do that.

Should not have survived that, Shego.

• In "So The Drama," how did Shego survive being kicked off a roof, electrocuted, and a building falling on top of her?
  • "Slayer powers" (ie. she can't die because she's a woman, and women are the stronger sex).
  • Because she's a likable, eccentric, popular, badass *primary* villain in a kids show.
  • The same way she survives getting thrown across rooms, several-story falls, getting buried in cheese, collapsing buildings, the Vacrometer's lightning, flying car crashes, explosions, monkey stampedes, and everything else. She - like other characters on the show - is Made of Iron.
  • Wild Mass Guessing goes that she has a healing factor among her superpowers.
  • The last minute addition of the scene shows where they lock her and Drakken into the police van with some mooks. Test audiences interpreted it as Shego being killed by Kim (which was actually never supposed to be the case), so they made it more clear that she did survive.

Shego's gloves

• Why does Shego keep filing her gloves?
  • There are claws built into them. No lie.
  • Fanon says she channels her plasma blasts through little vents in them, and that the vents thus need cleaning.
  • All Jossed. Her fingers turn sharp as shown in Car Alarm, when she attacks Ed. But they may just be a stylized way of drawing her sharp nails.
  • On at least some occasions, she does it while Drakken is ranting about something, suggesting that it's a deliberate show of disinterest.

Heroic Old Shame?

• Shego worries that if her superhero past came to light her villainous reputation would be ruined. But how can it be her dark (light?) secret? She hasn't changed her appearance, and superheroism isn't a low profile activity.
  • Go City seems weirdly insular. Kim's never heard of Aviarius, who lives in the same city as his hero foes, and Hego has never heard of internationally-infamous Dr. Drakken and is clearly (and perhaps willfully) ignorant of the high-profile crime his sister has devoted her life to. Shego, if you'll excuse this odd and tortured simile, is like a small-town prom queen who went off to the big state college: Nobody knows anything about where she came from, and none of it matters anymore anyway because she's swimming in a much larger pond now.
  • The world of Kim Possible is a really weird place. Like, really weird. Evil is unionized, Hench Co. does very good business, and crime is fought around the world by superheroes, Global Justice (a super-spy organization ala James Bond), and some cheerleader. No one recognizes Shego as a FaceHeelTurned former superhero from Go City because there are probably teams of superheros (or something similar) protecting every major city around the world, hence why Kim and company don't recognize Hego or Aviarius — it's just another superhero-supervillain face-off. No big.
    • Well, then there's the crossover the show had with Lilo & Stitch. Furthermore, Lilo and Stitch crossover with American Dragon Jake Long, Recess and the Proud Family, thus putting them all into one world. While American Dragon Jake Long and Lilo Stitch would pretty good sense (with the magic and the aliens,) the latter two don't. Then again... that does kinda answer the Recess movie thing with the tractor beam...

Wade's inventions I

• If Wade made the Battle Suit so overpowered that it made Ron and even Larry, the nerd with half the strength of an average child, so powerful that they became the strongest people in the series just by wearing that Battle Suit, why did Wade not create more Battle Suits? I blame it on very bad writing...
  • I reckon they had to hold back the phlebotinium and write out the battlesuit as much as possible to avoid making Kim too powerful. When they added it in So The Drama, that was the series' finale, so they didn't have to worry about that, but with the fourth season it must have become a bit of a nuisance.
  • Unless I'm mistaken Wade said in So The Drama that the battlesuit was still in the testing phase. Until he irons all the kinks out of it he probably doesn't want to make some more (we also see the Battlesuit malfunctioning in one episode). That, or Kim hid it somewhere to keep Ron's paws off it after episode 4.1 and forgot about it.
  • Also, there's the threat of having it hijacked again.
  • Maybe Kim didn't want it anymore after Larry had it.

A literal killing in a Disney show?

• Question about the show's final. So did Ron actually killed Warmonga and that other guy since getting thrown in a crashing spaceship seems a a pretty secure death.And if that's the case how come that Ron doesn't seem somehow affected by something like that
  • Well nothing was really confirmed and the finale was pretty quick to end to be fair. If I were to guess... They are either, simply dead, or they are made of iron like most of the characters. They are 8 foot something and made of huge muscles and armour, oh, and they are aliens... so I wouldn't put it past them surviving. And if they did die, why would Ron care... he just saved the world from the aliens, graduated and seemed to be flying to the moon with Kim. What more can you ask for...
    • I believe Word of God said that they died. Although Word of God have said lots of things...
    • Aw, too bad, no snoo snoo for you, Drakkhen.

Talking to the scientists

• Why does no one question some of the scientists that the villains steal from? I believe they might have touched briefly on it in the mind control episode, but they didn't bother with it any more. And they completely ignored it in the mood-controller episode. The guy's lab even LOOKS like a lair; it had a door that was kind of hidden in the wall.
  • Stranger than that, with the bracelet that grows into a battlesuit, Kim tries to contact them, but they're closed for the weekend. Our secret military project has been stolen, but it can wait till Monday. They do talk to scientists in charge of the Pan-Dimensional Vortex Inducer and Ray X, but those times, they were called in by them.
  • As for Dr. Bortle, how does he get away with it? He's working on mind control, with the mood-controller and the compliance chip. If he tried using them, they'd bust him as a villain. Both times Kim and Shego suffer for it; maybe one of them arranged an "accident" for him later.
    • One of them being Shego. Kim seemed too busy hitting on Ron (the next episode has her hinting to be brought along as a date).
    • The show as a whole takes mind control pretty lightly. Hell, Kim even used the compliance chips on her brothers with no consequences, despite calling them "ferociously unethical" earlier in the episode.
    • The mind-control devices in this show are Nightmare Fuel potential bad. Ron is easily turned into the worst villain on the show twice, and if he got away, I'm sure the first thing on his mind would be zapping Kim evil, installing a mind control chip just in case she turns into a rival, as well as slapping a moodulator set to make Kim fall in love with him just to increase his control over her; she'd be evil, but so in love with Ron she'd do what he says, without the obvious signs of being mind controlled. I'm sure he'd also have a few control chips spare for Tara, Yori, Monique, Zita and Bonnie as well.
  • Bortle appears to be a mix of Mad Scientist and Arms Dealer (he was selling the moodulators in an online auction, apparently indifferent to what the highest bidder wanted them for). So the answer comes down to: he gets away with it the same way Jack Hench does.
    • Also, mind control might be a minor sideline for him — the device Drakken and Shego came to steal in "Emotion Sickness" was something else altogether.
    • To the extent that Bortle could be considered amoral bordering on villainous, he's a Villain with Good Publicity — note that Kim dismisses the notion that he'd create something as "ferociously unethical" as mind control chips. It helps that Bortle has the good grace to be embarrassed and dance around the issue (rather than brazenly weasel the way somebody like Jack Hench would).
    • He may have more created the chips as an experiment to see if he could create something like that and never seriously planned to market or use them in any way.

Tim and Jim, post Time Skip

• What's with the random design change for Tim and Jim? It can't be puberty, right?
  • Since they had Kim and Ron growing up, dating and eventually graduating from High School, they grew the tweebs up as well. I think they also switched the voice actor.
  • They did switch their voice actor. Shaun Fleming was going through too much puberty to return for season 4, so he was replaced by Spencer Fox.

Camille's nanomorphing?

• In Camille's second appearance why is she suddenly unable to perfectly nanomorph into people? When she nanomorphed into Kim she didn't change the colour of her eyes or skin.
  • The animators apparently only wanted to make it obvious to the viewer. After all, Camille was treated as perfectly-nanomorphed in-universe. Ron got totally fooled (although that's not something hard) and Monique realized who was the fake over a fashion factor, not a mistake in Camille's transformation.

Odd Sibling Out?

• Why don't Shego's siblings really look like they were hit by a comet? Only their hair colors have changed, while Shego's hair is the same but she has greenish skin.
  • Well, Mego's skin is fairly purplish, as for Hego and the Wegos, they retain a "normal" look, but do a close check. Their skin tone IS different from one another, even though the fact they are brother would suggest they should look more alike. The Wegos's skin color is closer to red, while Hego's skin (When wearing his Go Suit) goes a bit pale, as if approaching light blue. It's clear that they have been affected too, it's just not too notable.
  • One theory is that sun exposure produces more intense power glow colors instead of a normal tan. Shego spends a lot of time on the beach, her brothers (except for Mego) don't.

Skintone Sclerae?

• Why did Monique have no pupils?
  • Because most minor characters are like this (Alex Saffic, for example). This was fixed in the second season.

No Belly Button?

• Bonnie doesn't have a visible belly button. Kim does. They're wearing identical cheerleading outfits. How is this possible?
  • Maybe she's wearing a skin tight bodysuit that's the same colour as her skin.

Bonnie as the Alpha Bitch

• How could Bonnie maintain Alpha Bitch status? Kim is one of the most popular girls in school, though she doesn't really have any close friends outside of team Possible aside from Monique. Enough people know her (and Ron) well enough to cheer when Kim/Stoppable happened in the first movie, and Kim is, at least later in the series, known to be this freelance Secret Agent by a number of people, who have mostly seen her in Middleton-saving action. And it can't be that everyone puts up with Bonnie because nobody's ever questioned her authority, because there have been at least a couple of times when she was abandoned at the end of a scene stamping her foot like an angry monkey because Possible got attention and she didn't. If they got back to being her "friends" because they felt sorry for the poor pretty girl who has a tragically undersized kindness gland, why do they let her unload all that... that... popular bother on Kim?
  • There are plenty of possible reasons:
    1. Bonnie is pretty much the high school equivalent of a Villain with Good Publicity, seeing as despite her failings as a person, she still is popular enough to have influence. The fact that she's rather good looking (Guys want to date her, girls want to be her) helps.
    2. We don't know how everyone else is very well. For all we know, they could see Bonnie as either a jealous bitch or actually agree with her.
    3. The fact that Kim's best friend is considered a social pariah (To the point where it's believed he is on the bottom of the social ladder by himself) does give her leeway with a lot of people. If you were to proudly hang with someone who, in their point of view, had no redeeming qualities, your tastes (As well as judgement) would be in question, too.
    4. Status Quo Is God, most likely...
  • Kim probably has very little social life compared to Bonnie, since she spends all her free time off fighting evil and such, while Bonnie actually hangs around to get to know people and has time to get into people's good graces/intimidate them into obeying her. I can't imagine the cheer squad appreciates having Kim bailing on them all the time.
    • It may be that the other students find Kim admirable, but pretty difficult to relate to. She dashes out of classes to save the world yet still seems to have a finger in every pie from the yearbook to the swim team, and is rather breezy about her exploits. You can imagine them talking to her:
  M. Uggle: How was your weekend, Kim?
  Kim: Oh, rescued Mrs Murphy's cat, saved a village in Guatemala from a mudslide, stopped Dr. Drakken from causing earthquakes in Japan. How about you?
  M. Uggle: Um...

No Name Given?

• The creators pretty much tied all the loose ends in the series, except we never learned Shego and her brothers' first names. Why not? They gave Kim's parents names. I still think Shego's Sheik and Mego's Mitch.
  • I just always assumed Shego's first name was Sheila. You're right though, this is bothersome. Maybe someone should ask the creators, if they're still open to questions about the series, what their names are.
    • Sheila...That works too.
  • They were supposed to go into Shego's ankle pouch thing, too. No one has any idea what it's really for.
  • Given all the times she's been referred to as "Miss Go", her first name may in fact be "She".
  • Here is an idea, maybe they alias are all short from their real , civilian names. (Like.... how about "He"ctor , "She"ila , "Me"lvin , "We"ston and "We"sley , The "Go"lden siblings)
  • I read a few theories that their surname is "Gough".

More on Shego's gloves

• What's with Shego's fingers? They're..Pointy and claw-like. At times, and at other times they're "normal".
  • Power side effect?

Again, shouldn't have survived that Shego

• The end of "So the Drama", about Shego. Kim kicks her into a falling electrical building and everything falls on top of her. If the damage from the kick didn't severely injure her, or the electricity, the building falling on top of her should have killed her. Yet she just appears with her hair being frizzed.. What the fudge!?!
  • That is one of the biggest reasons for which Shego having Healing Factor is pretty much not just Fanon, but Canon. Hell, I think even one of the producers confirmed it in an interview.
    • It was supposed to be the final episode ever, and the original versions didn't show the aftermath for Shego/Drakken. When they screentested, people went "OH MY FUCKING GOD KIM JUST KILLED SHEGO", as it's basically a typical Disney Villain Death and they had various views of "OH HELLS YEAH" and "OMG KIM IS A MONSTER" so they added the "take them away boys" scene. I personally think it would have been an awesome ending, showing that Kim has grown up, and is now out of the teenage Competence Zone, and that she's now in the "real world" where Thou Shalt Not Kill expires. Especially as the Drakken/Shego planned Diablo attack would surely have taken many lives.
    • Eh, debatable, they really aren't those kinds of villains, Shego can do it but lacks motivation, besides it always feels weird to have The Rival die outside of high fantasy, greek tragedy, or shounen martial arts. Defeat Means Friendship and all, and they made a big point out of having her cherish her time as 'Ms. Go'.
    • And Thou Shalt Not Kill is just a teen thing? Um, look at Batman, who is most definitely NOT anywhere near the "teenage Competence Zone." He has a code against killing and he fights some of the most murder-happy villains out there. You say Animation Age Ghetto, I say superhero morals.
    • Also, Shego had the least fault in what was making her angry. The whole deadly plot wasn't a "Drakken/Shego" plan like you state, but just a Drakken plan, and Eric was the one who broke her heart. Shego was just doing what she normally does, so Kim killing her would make no sense whatsoever because Shego just did not deserve it. Plus, Kim would have to be arrested, as she'd have gone above the law.
    • It would have been a different thing, had it happened mid-battle. But it happened during the immediate after-math, at a point where Shego was trying to get away from the scene rather than stick around and fight. (Note her surprised gasp when Kim suddenly appeared in front of her.) Killing the villain's right hand when the battle is already won is not exactly something an idealistic hero should do.
    • Kim was clearly looking to take out some of her anger on Shego, but it might not have gone that far if she hadn't slammed down Kim's Berserk Button with that "your boyfriend melted" comment.
    • Lastly, it should be mentioned the number-one reason Kim killing Shego would never, ever fly. There are way too many fans who love Shego. In all truth, it would feel very jarring to have a character with plenty of humanization throughout the series (she celebrated Christmas with Kim and her family, for crying out loud!) to get killed off so casually, and since the movie could have been the Grand Finale, Kim would end the series The Scrappy rather than The Hero.
    • Bottom line, Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley stated that Shego was NEVER intended to be killed and that they had to add Shego in the paddywagon last minute because test audiences thought she was killed.
  • Shego has survived several other instances equal to or more or less like this one. The real question is: Why is it that the same people that screamed bloody murder thinking Kim killed Shego when it was never intended to be the case don't bat an eyelid to when Eric was actually killed onscreen by Rufus (sure he was a Domestic Abuser, but he was also a synthodrone built by Drakken, and yet Eric is the one killed when the one guy who programmed him like that and came up with the said Diablo attack just gets sent to jail) or when Ron killed those two aliens in the actual series finale?
    • What Measure Is a Non-Human?, combined with the fact that the audience is a lot more invested in a frequently recurring character like Shego than with characters that appeared once or twice.

Shego's Vague Age

• Why does Ron always say Shego is old, though in his debut he liked her? Like in "Clean Slate". She can't be more then twenty four, and she looks pretty young.
  • By season four she's probably in her late twenties, or at least that's my guess. She's a college graduate and has a few years of supervillainy after that; at least, it puts her in a different age bracket to the high school kids. Besides, when Ron makes those comments (in "Clean Slate" and "Stop Team Go") he's trying to pull Kim away from her, and so playing up any difference.
    • Mid twenties, I suppose. Isn't it Word of God she was in her early twenties at the beginning of the show?
  • To a teenager, anyone over 20 is 'old'.
    • To a teenager with a functioning sex drive, still shaggable though. I'm going for the 'being a distraction' interpretation, though, since Ron might be nerdy but he's not the sexless type.
    • When Shego has Ron pinned down in A Sitch in Time (at least I think it was), he tells her that she actually looks pretty cute. But I don't think that thinking she is old and thinking she's attractive are mutually exclusive.
    • As a male that had a student teacher when he was a high school junior, early-20's is not that old or even a consideration. Heck, late-20's isn't that old if she's attractive.
    • In "The Golden Years", Ron tried to chat up the spring-break girls, undeterred by the fact that they were college students several years older than him. He got shot down in flames, but not for lack of trying.

Excessive Evil Eyeshadow (or, rather, eyeliner)?

• Does Shego wear black eye liner? In certain episodes (like Bueno Nacho) her eyes have a black ring look to them, in some her upper eye is black and in some her eyes are plain.
  • Right. Because it'd be completely impossible for a woman to wear make-up some days, but not others. Really, that minor an inconsistency in character design is hardly something to get worked up over, especially when it's about aethstetics/cosmetics (I guess Limited Wardrobe is so ingrained we don't think about the possibility of "she's not wearing that today" or something).

Clean Slate

• Clean slate. Were they lamp-shading the fandoms views on Kim and Ron or the fact that they Jumped the Shark by suddenly making Kim and Ron like each other and hook up?
  • Do you mean "Clean Slate" the episode or just how the show seemed to put them together? For the former the show did have them dating for six months, so the ending where Kim remembers she did love Ron works. For the latter, if you watch through the series you can see a number of subtle clues. Like? Like the Spider-Man scene in "Fearless Ferret", or "Steal Wheels", when she's jealous of Ron spending time with Felix. "Emotion Sickness" and "Gorilla Fist" has it well established by this point that she has feelings for Ron, not to mention "A Very Possible Christmas", but "Bad Boy" had Kim slyly hinting to take her on a date. Even the first season episodes had a few moments that implied them being more than just friends.
    • ...No, not really. Very subtle moments but they still seemed to be more on the Just Friends side of the spectrum.
    • Kim/Ron is a pretty typical Just Friends ship, where it gets teased by friends and family, there is some Green-Eyed Monster from both sides, some wondering about if it'll ruin their friendship, and finally one goes for it. It's only real complication is the fact they save the world, and arguably this just helps them realise what they really feel for each other.

Ambiguous Doctorate?

• Is the name Dr. Drakken supposed to have any meaning to it?
  • Probably not. It just sounds 'supervillainy'.
  • That's about the reason, I reckon, and it sounds similar to "dragon".
  • Or possibly "Draconian".
    • "Drache" is the German word for "dragon", and it's pronounced in roughly the same way.
  • If this is what you meant, then if you take some parts of the series' pitch bible as canon, then his full name would be Ubel Drakken. In czech, "Drak" is ironically a feminine version of the of the word "dragoness". Obviously because the writers wanted his last name to sound cooler and more last namey, they added "ken" to it.

The name "Hall"

• With all the Meaningful Names in this show, why does DNAmy have a plain surname like Hall? Was it chosen because it sounded good or is there a reference I'm not getting?
  • Dunno if its a reference, but Amy Hall is a pretty common name, so probably...
    • Friige Brilliance: Y'all would think a mad scientisit would have some unique or off-the-wall name but, instead, it's something unsuspecting. At the start of the ep, no one would have suspected her.

Shego crashing a plane

• During Kimitation Nation Shego grabs onto the plane which makes it fall due to an electrical overload, or something. Why didn't she just turn her powers off? Back then she had no super powers (the gloves made the glow), but did she forget to turn it off since she was mad?
  • If she shorted out an electrical line on the airship (by tearing into the side with her glove claws), it wouldn't matter where her powers came from or whether or not they were activated — the damage is done. (A close look at the scene shows a lot of blue energy arcs and relatively little of Shego's green energy, which would seem to confirm this.)

Is Bonnie willing or no?

• In the Bad Future, was Bonnie actually evil and working for Shego of her own free will? Apart from the scruffy hair and what appear to be bags under her eyes she seemed perfectly fine.
  • Based on what we have seen of Bonnie being the Alpha Bitch, one can easily assume that she did join Shego's power-structure out of her free will. Though I don't think she would consider herself anything else than pragmatic in joining the powers that be. Also, don't forget that "A Sitch In Time" happened before the Character Development that gave Bonnie her Freudian Excuse for her behaviour.
  • She could have been brainwashed. Or it could have been her own free will, sure... given the choice between getting her brain washed or washing other peoples' brains, Bonnie choosing the latter isn't really out of character for her. Remember, in that world it wasn't a case of the supervillains being some little upstart group against the world, they were the world government. Bonnie joining up with them under those circumstances isn't exactly laudable but it's understandable. Ultimately, interpret it how you choose to, the writers seem to encourage that with this series.

Are they dating?

• At the end of one episode Monkey Fist was shown staring lovingly at a framed picture he has of DNAmy, but the next time we see them together he's repulsed by her. Is this Negative Continuity or is Monty just a Hypocrite bothered by Amy's new gorilla arms?
  • She seemed to have become a Stalker with a Crush between those two episodes, which probably wasn't very appealing to Monkey Fist.
  • Since SHE was the one talking when the image of Monkey Fist looking at her picture came up, its possible that the scene represents DNAmy's delusion and has no connection to reality. Fist is part monkey and she does like mixed animals.
  • It could also be that Monty Fisk appreciated what she did for him (turning him into a man monkey) but as boyfriend and girlfriend, no.

Shego's solo career

• Why did Shego never work as a supervillain for herself (and only herself) before the movie "A Sitch In Time" and never do it again after that? I mean, its always been obvious that she's more competent than Drakken is, she could probably steal more money then he pays her, and she doesn't even seem to like him much, so why does she work for him?
  • The most obvious reason is lack of ambition. Also, Drakken's lairs provide her with a hideout (a useful thing if you're wanted in eleven countries). And, of course, Drakken is always good for mockery-gold entertainment.
  • Because she won. In teaming up with Dr. Drakken, she often finds herself in a fight with a very competent Kim Possible and has to actually work to salvage the plans or make them work. And really, it seems like the outlandish schemes would be more fun to pull off than Pragmatic Villainy.
  • By the final season it's flat out stated that she loves him and prior to that implied. Her and Drakken were the mirror to Kim and Ron's relationship. She is lazy but she could easily have gone to work for any of the other villains most notably the Senor's. Frankly there were better ways to get everything she seems other than Drakken.
  • Drakken gets annoyed with her, but generally puts up with Shego's laziness and sarcasm. She might not want to rock the boat and possibly end up working for somebody who would (at best) fire her or (at worst) actually be tough enough to intimidate her as Evil!Ron did.
  • Also, looking at Shego's independent efforts she seems to suffer from Creative Sterility; she can point out flaws in Drakken's plans, but when Junior had to come up with suitable targets when she was acting as his villainy tutor, she doesn't seem to have the imagination to actually come up with anything on her own (even in Sitch in Time the plan was basically the product of a Stable Time Loop where future-Shego told present-Shego what to do so that she could take over the world and then go back to tell herself how to do it).

Loser Drakken

• Why exactly is Drakken considered a loser among villains, anyway? Considering the Possible-verse doesn't seem to have the evil Dr. Whackjob ruling everything at any point, wouldn't that mean that every villain everywhere has failed to Take Over the World and thus, the entire villain community is made up of miserable failures? At least Drakken has managed to cause worldwide pandemonium on a few occasions.
  • Because he's quite desperate in his obvious and vocal bids for recognition from his villainous peers. Who are evil. Denying a guy what he craves most is hilarious to them. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they occasionally gather together a clip show or something of the like to watch the various ways they've snubbed the guy, and just how comically affected he was by it.
  • May also be a coping mechanism. They placate themselves by trying to prove they aren't as much a loser as someone else. Drakken is the easiest target since Shego mouths off to him all the time. The others use henchmen and minions instead, and none of their subordinates sass them.
  • Also, Drakken has not only failed at being a villain, but also at establishing a villainous reputation for himself (on several occasions, he is mistaken for Professor Dementor, much to his annoyance). That's reason enough for other villains (who've generally succeeded at the latter, if not the former) to laugh at him.

Censoring "Chocolate Milk"

• Why couldn't they say "Chocolate Milk"? Is it trademarked? Is it some sort of obscure racial slur? I really don't get it.
  • Because Drakken and Good!Shego just talk that way. Notice that both times someone said Cocoa Muu their interlocutor (normal Shego for Drakken and Kim for Good!Shego was weirded out). That, and maybe Good!Shego did it on purpose to appear less threatening, or just to weird Kim out: she may have been made good by the Attitudinator, but she still had a strange sense of humour, and her brothers confirmed she was a cranky world-class Deadpan Snarker even as a superhero.
    • No, man, read the trope pages. Disney S&P specifically told the writers that they couldn't say "chocolate milk". As for the rest of that... I'm not really sure what you're talking about.
    • It's clearly just a running gag. The story that Disney S&P forbade them to use the phrase "chocolate milk" is garbled (the writers weren't allowed to give Drakken coffee, and forced the change to chocolate milk). Drakken, in fact, does say "chocolate milk" in the episode:
    Shego: What's it do?
    Drakken: By turning this knob, it generates cascading sonic pulses, and with the proper mixture, I can really shake things up!
    Shego: So... you can use it to...
    Drakken: That's right, Shego! Make the perfect glass of chocolate milk!
    • As noted above, it's treated as an odd turn of phrase in-universe. Maybe it's some kind of side effect of the Attitudinator (every use of the term was either from an Attitudinated character or a questioning echo from somebody who just heard it from an Attitudinated character).
    • To give further credence to the above, people who are turned good by the Attitudinator don't just become decent people. They become Sickeningly Sweet to the point where they repulse even normal good people with their over-the-top niceness. Using cutesy baby words to refer to things like chocolate milk would certainly make sense given the way their personalities are otherwise altered.

Clean Slate II

• So in "Clean Slate" why the heck did no one want to or try to help Ron get Kim to remember they were dating? Bonnie and Shego I can understand, of course they wouldn't care, but Kim's Mom, who is obviously a Shipper on Deck for them and even Monique don't even try.
  • Kim's mom may have thought it would be better to recover some of Kim's other memories first — having her remember that she's dating Ron before she really knows who Ron is or who she herself is might not be very healthy.'

The Monkey Ninjas

• What happened to the Monkey Ninjas after Monkey Fist was turned to stone? They just scatter off never to be seen again. Whatever became of the Monkey Ninjas?
  • Probably just ran off to be regular monkeys. They don't have to follow his orders any more and they're free to do as they wish.

The Shared Disney Universe

• The Alien invasion when you remember that Kim Possible is part of a Shared Universe with Lilo & Stitch, Recess, American Dragon Jake Long, Proud Family, and possibly Fillmore. Just... what happened to all of them???
  • Especially when you consider the planet was supposed to be protected.
    • Maybe it was during Hamsterviel's takeover and it slipped?
  • Regarding everyone, we've seen most deal with strange massive events: Stitch and his ohana would've dealt with any invasion in Hawaii. Jake and the magical world would protect New York and the cast of Recess and the Proud Family have stopped big events (Recess movie and the finale of Proud Family show this).
  • The most likely answers are that they were fighting in their individual areas and we just didn't see it or more likely the writers forgot. This is a common problem and in much more serious shared universes than Kim Possibles. Let's be fair Kim, Stitch, Recess, and Jake only share a universe when it's for a funny crossover episode. On the other hand the Avengers are Headquartered out of New York City as are the Fantastic Four and the X-men are generally accepted as being in upper state New York (close enough to get there by plane in under an hour) yet Spiderman has had to solo city wide take overs multiple times because everybody else is conveniently occupied by something somewhere else.

Shego's degree

• Why does Shego have a degree in childhood development? It really doesn't seem like something she'd want to do.
  • Originally, she presumably planned to do what most people do — get an education and then get a job, and for whatever reason she chose that field (perhaps she made the decision during her Team Go days, thinking it would be useful for a hero who sometimes has to reassure frightened children). It seems odd now because we're seeing her after the change in attitude that made her a villain.

The Attitudilator's effect

• So in Emotion Sickness, while Kim was under the effects of the Attitudilator, Wade sees her and Ron kiss and becomes wierded out (even doing a spit take and falling out of his chair), if not discusted by it. But why was he? He didn't know that Kim was under it's influence and he never acted like this again when Kim and Ron become a real couple.
  • I don't think it was revulsion i think it was surprise.

Training Ron

• How come Kim doesn't train Ron in martial arts? Ron has the aptitude and it gets better after he gets MMP. But Rons skills are good but she has him distract grown men. I know he does this willingly but why is it never hinted that she helps him train. Ron has run away from Shego and Kim before. He has talent but no one but Yamanouchi ever teaches him things.
  • My guess is she tried once but he was his typical uncoordinated self. Keep in mind until the finale he only taps into his mystical monkey kung fu accidentally or when he’s really angry. He may have a lot of potential but he has a lot of trouble utilizing it.

Loser Drakken II

• In what way is Professor Dementor considered superior to Drakken? Yes he has more competent henchmen but that is not saying much since every other villain's henchmen is considered superior to Drakken's. He failed in his plans just as much, is not a Knight of Cerebus, and came nowhere even close to the Near-Villain Victory that Drakken got in So The Drama. Heck, the live action movie makes him look inferior to Drakken due to being the Starter Villain in it.
  • Because Drakken has weak Villain Cred, while Professor Dementor does not.
  • The question is why Drakken's Villain Cred is so weak. As noted above, it may be that his personality, (lack of) style, and the way he's constantly dissed by Shego makes him look like a bigger loser than other villains even if they all have an equally bad track record of failure.

Their friendship

• Why are Kim and Ron supposed to be friends, exactly? I know that they were chums when they were kids, but in all of the episodes I've watched, they come across as polar opposites anytime their interaction goes above generic chitchat. Kim is skilled and accomplished, Ron is regarded as a loser by everyone... and I'm not trying to demonize Kim or anything, but all of the "touching friendship" moments I can remember are Ron doing something really nice for her, whereas she constantly dismisses and belittles him for his interests and hobbies. It feels like they should not be getting along well enough to be each other's near-constant companions like the show tells us they are.
  • They’ve faced possible death together a great many times. That sort of thing has a tendency to create close bonds. Also, I think Kim shares more of Ron’s interests than she lets on.

The Friend Nobody Likes

• So why are the other villains present for Drakken's award ceremony in the final episode and why is he still lounging with them in the credits scene? He helped save the world. That's not something that would be taken so well for people of evil.
  • The other villains (except Frugal Lucre) seemed rather disdainful of Drakken. Maybe they showed up expecting/hoping that he'd make a fool of himself in front of the whole world and wanted to see it in person. As for the credits scene, Professor Dementor teased Drakken about saving the world rather than conquering it.

Amy's Motives

• On Episode 5 in Season one, After Amy's true colors was revealed, she wanted one of her minions to get Mr. Barkin's camera only for it to be crush when Ron thought Amy wanted to reward, which turned it she didn't. Did she only want Mr. Barkin's camera just to have one of her henchmen to crush it or was she going to have Barkin's camera for something else?

This dude keeps getting out

• How does Drakken keep breaking out of jail? I mean, Shego probably always breaks them out, but what's stopping them from placing them in tighter security? It's almost like they want them to break out.
  • We've seen indications that Police Are Useless at dealing with supervillains (the few times regular police show up, it's to haul away villains Kim has already defeated); apparently prison security isn't much better. They do better in the early fourth season (where Shego needs help from other villains to escape and Drakken remains stuck in prison until he also gets busted out).

Wade's Prediction (Hilarious or Harsher in Hindsight?)

• What is the name of the episode where Wade says In 20 years everyone will be working at home like him?
  • Looks like that was a fake screenshot that was distributed on social media. The screenshot in question looks suspiciously similar to a scene from Kim Possible S 1 E 6 Bueno Nacho, where Kim and Wade are discussing a club banana jacket that she can’t afford, Drakken’s Evil Plan and Kim’s personal diary that Wade hacked into and read some embarrassing incidents from.
  • There actually is a similar line in "A Sitch in Time" (part 3). There's a brief scene establishing that Kim's and Ron's parents were part of the "lunar migration" to get away from the Supreme One's regime, and Ron's father makes a comment about being able to do his job from anywhere.
  • True, but I believe the OP is talking about this image, which appears to be fake, unless its from one of those Disney Channel promos or something. Otherwise, this looks directly from Bueno Nacho.

Not Accounting For Tast?

• When Kim and Ron start dating, almost everyone goes “She is way out of his league” or “He doesn’t belong with her”. Yet when Yori and Ron go on a mission together, everybody is like “Yep, that’s his girlfriend”, even though Yori and Kim are along the same level of attractiveness. Why such different reactions? Rule of Funny?
  • Kim is quite likely known as a world saving badass who could easily date some of the most famous people on the planet. Ron should be just as well known to the point that "normal" attractive girls might be interested but he is also a massive dork and doesn't look nearly as awesome as Kim does during their missions.

Bonding

• In Bonding, Kim and Bonnie are stuck together by a bonding agent at the hip and Ron and Mr. Barkin are stuck together at the shoulder. Why couldn't the problem be solved by changing clothes, which both pairs obviously do multiple times throughout the episode and if the bonding was beyond just their clothes touching, why were they able to change clothes?
  • I would have to watch the episode again to see if Wade provides an explanation, but the energy effects suggest that the bonding is more magnetic force than adhesion.
  • In what could I suppose be considered "Fridge Awkwardness"... you gotta wonder just how they did stuff like use the bathroom or shower when stuck together like that. Then again, that might be what certain sorts of fanfics were made to answer...

Say my name

• How the heck does getting a Harmless Villain to say your name a Moment of Awesome?
  • In the way that said Harmless Villain never remembers your name, so forcing him to cave in and say it makes it awesome.
  • "Getting a harmless villain to say your name" was exactly the Moment of Awesome in Breaking Bad
  • Because it's at the end of a movie that's been spent proving that he's a Not-So-Harmless Villain, as well as Ron's Character Development of not being such a pushover.

Why come to the US, Wally?

• Why did king Wally have to go to the US to experience what democracy is like, when he lives in Europe, surrounded by dozens of perfectly democratic countries?
  • It wasn't just him going to the US. He actually ran for and was elected class president.

Ron's Wealth or Lacktherof

• So, Ron suddenly becomes super-wealthy due to royalties from selling his "Naco" idea to Bueno Nacho. Because Status Quo Is God, he loses all of his money at the end of the episode. Question is, his money came from royalties, which are continuous, not a lottery or an inheritance, which are simply one-time deals. Why isn't Ron continuing to receive money?
  • Maybe he is, but off screen its being deposited in a trust fund or a bank account he can't access yet.
    • Presumably, Ron (and his royalties) is the one paying KP's bills. They just don't talk about it.
    • I think it's probably something that doesn't accumulate very fast and it was just something that Ron came up with a long time ago, so the slow accumulation built up over time.
    • The slow accumulation of ninety-nine million dollars? Even if we generously say a year has passed since the invention - which is unlikely, in-universe - and even if the naco craze died off quickly, he still should be getting ridiculous amounts of money - particularly by high school student standards - on the regular.
    • The naco was discontinued, so it was probably a fad that died down after an initial surge, but also note how Ron received the check. It wasn't mailed to him or delivered by a courier or anything remotely... how shall I put this... reliable. It was given to a (probably) teenage assistant manager at the local establishment to hand over when he happened to see Ron. And sure, he sees Ron every day, but it still took him a while to deliver it. It's possible there are more checks sitting around in the backroom that Ned has forgotten about or hasn't noticed. And it didn't seem to be an official agreement in the first place. Ron sure wasn't expecting it. If he (or his parents, on his behalf) got a little smarter about it and contacted a lawyer, they could very well find out there's more money owed to him.

The Titular Blushing

• In "Blush", Kim starts disappearing a little bit more every time she gets embarrassed, and risks disappearing from existance. However, matter can't be destroyed or created, it can only be transformed. So scientifically, how could Kim just have disappeared like that?
  • Because the mass is not being destroyed, but rather shifted from one phase space to another, which is why she's also able to maintain agency and control of her body? Alternatively, it's a cartoon.

Why doesn't Shego just leave

• Sure by So The Drama that had become pretty much Like Brother and Sister, but Shego stays with Drakken because....? When you get down to it, even if he does pay a lot, the stuff he's gotten her into (like the mind control incident mentioned above) is too much.
  • If she is unwilling or unable to strike out as an independent operator in her own right, it's a matter of choosing which villain to work for. Drakken, for all his flaws, may simply be the best option.
    • This is exactly the case. She once works with/for Motor Ed, and realizes very quickly that not only is he no more competent than Drakken, but that he also doesn't even treat her with the professional respect owed a competent sidekick — he literally calls her his 'moll'. She immediately dumps him and goes back to Drakken, because he might be multiple levels of messed up/incompetent, but he DOES respect her abilities.
  • In addition, all the stuff he gets her into doesn't exactly reflect well on her either. It could be that by the time he'd screwed up so much she thought it worth it to look for a new boss, her own stock had dropped so badly she was stuck with him.
  • Drakken might be the only villain around who's willing to put up with Shego's insolence and mockery. The fact that he reacts entertainingly to it is a bonus.
  • Shego's "employment" with Drakken seems more like a part-time thing, almost a hobby. Sure, he mentions contracts every now and then, but several episodes (especially "Two to Tutor" and "Clean Slate") show that she can go on independent jobs (or just laze on the beach) whenever the hell she wants.
  • Given in the Grand Finale they are implied to be hooked up, it is possible that just like Kim and Ron, Drakken and Shego were somewhat attracted to each other from the beginning, they just didn’t act on it, Shego because it’ll affect her personal image (just like how it’ll affect her image if word of her being a former superhero gets out), Drakken, because he is scared of her.

Drakken's being blue

• Drakken's blue skin was most likely some freak lab accident. That's as far as we can guess.

Oh, so now you recognize that guy

• Professor Ramesh recognized Drakken's voice as his former college friend Drew Lipsky in "Attack of the Killer Bebes", yet never did in "Showdown at the Crooked D".

2019 Film

• As Drakken is about to bring his plan to fruition, the computer graphics illustrated the process as a transfer of something (presumably the "spark" Drakken wanted) from Kim to Athena and then from Athena to Drakken. How was the former part supposed to work, when the "spark" transfer required a large machine powered by some special isotope he didn't obtain until after Athena was already at work undermining Kim?
  • Athena WAS the machine. Presumably she was making a copy of Kim's spark, not transferring it. Notice how they never "transfer it back" to Kim. Then to transfer this copy into Drakken he needed the isotope to put it into himself.