Kim Possible / Tropes G to L

This page covers tropes found in Kim Possible.

Tropes A to F | Tropes G To L | Tropes M to R | Tropes S to Z | YMMV

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G

• Gadgeteer Genius: Wade and the Tweebs.
• The Gay '90s: "Rewriting History"
• Gender Incompetence: Pretty much all male characters are either incredibly annoying, evil, useless in a fight, or some combination of the above. Slightly downplayed in that many of them do get at least a few instances where they get to shine, and many of them are Techno Wizards.
• Generation Xerox: "Rewriting History" first shows events from a hundred years earlier involving parallel ancestors of Kim, Ron, Wade, Drakken, Shego, Dementor, and Barkin, and the closing scene implies that ancestors of Kim, Ron, and Drakken have been in conflict since the days of the Roman Empire.
• Genius Ditz: Motor Ed is an unparalleled mechanical and engineering genius, so much so that Drakken has to turn to him for help when creating a doomsday vehicle. He's also an extremely ditzy rocker archetype who cares more about his mullet and cruising on some hot wheels than anything else. His plans often involve using his genius skills for some almost moronically simple goal, like stealing a rocket that could easily destroy everything for miles simply to make a hotrod to cruise down the highway with.
• Genre Savvy: Several...primarily Kim, Ron, Wade, and Shego.
  • Señor Senior Sr plays this totally straight, because he learned his supervillainy in books and it's an eccentric hobby for him.
  • While one-off villain Falsetto Jones did set a Death Trap for Kim and Ron, he was actually the only one who stuck around to watch.
• Geographic Flexibility: Played straight, and Lampshaded in "Clothes Minded". Kim and Ron can go anywhere in the world and be back home for dinner.
• Ghost Pirate: Dr. Drakken is possessed by one in "Cap'n Drakken".
• Gilligan Cut: Kim trying to avoid her brothers' cold in "Sick Day":
  Kim: I do not want to catch this.
  [cut to Kim in bed with a cold]
  Kim: How did I catch this?
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Kim herself has been mentioned to collect Cuddle Buddies.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Kim x Ron...the former page image and the Trope Namer comes from a phrase used in an interview with Bob and Mark.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Downplayed with Kim and Ron. Kim is friendly and outgoing, but she is quite snarky, overly competitive, and can be easily frustrated. Ron, meanwhile, is an easygoing Keet.

• Glove Snap: In "Mother's Day", Kim decides to spend the titular day with her mother. She starts by going down to her mother's workplace, scrubbing up, and offering to help her mother out with a surgery she's performing, but not before tightening one of her gloves to a ludicrous degree.
• Goggles Do Nothing: The "future" gear of "A Sitch In Time". The "future hat" also does nothing.
• Go-Go Enslavement: Kim wears one of Shego's suits while under Drakken's Mind Control.
• Good Is Not Soft: Kim's usual method of dealing with villains is to make them Talk to the Fist.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Drakken's long, twisted scar on the left side of his face is definitely evil. Yup. That's how you know he's a bad guy.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Ron's boxers are either a solid color or have polka dots. It's Mr. Dr. Possible who suffers the most with his neon-heart print underwear. Drakken and Shego find a load of Dementor's stuff in the timeshare lair, including boxers with a skull motif.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Barkin mitigates his blasphemy by saying "Cheese and crackers!" The worst Drakken says is "Oh, snap."
• Government Conspiracy: The U.S. Government had known for a long time that aliens are real, but purposely disseminated this fact as a conspiracy to make the general public believe that conspiracy theorists seem like paranoid individuals and discredit the theory. Lampshaded by Ron on the questionable logic of this plan given that everyone already suspected that the U.S. Government was hiding evidence of aliens.
• GPS Evidence: twice.
• Graceful Landing, Clumsy Landing: Kim is a martial artist and cheerleader with borderline superhuman agility. Ron, on the other hand, is an unathletic klutz. Whenever the two drop into the villain's lair, Kim is able to land without incident while Ron is victim to crashes and pratfalls.
• Grade Skipper: Wade was ten years old when he got a college degree. Kim's younger brothers later entered the trope.
• Graduate from the Story: The two-parter ending "Graduation" was called that for a reason.
• Grand Finale: Two: So The Drama, then "Graduation". The second is a half-hour shorter, but even grander.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Kim carries one that looks like a hair dryer.
• Gravity Sucks: The Lorwardian ship falls like a rock after Rufus turns off the ship via the off switch.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Kim and Ron encounter this in the third season and So The Drama, due to a Romantic False Lead and a new friend with a kickass wheelchair and videogames. There was also Kim "jelling" over how close Yori seemed to Ron in "Gorilla Fist".
  • Kim gets jealous over Ron at almost the drop of a hat: she also gets jealous when he becomes good friends with Felix in "Steal Wheels," and gets very angry over the time he and Bonnie spend together in "Homecoming Upset" - a lot more justified that time, however, as they were dating at that point and Bonnie was doing everything in her power to run it in. To her credit, she manages to direct almost all her anger at Bonnie and not Ron.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Warmonga.
• Groupie Brigade: Movie star Heather (with Kim in tow) is pursued through the school by one in "And the Mole Rat Will Be CGI".
• Growing Muscles Sequence: Episode "Ron The Man", directed at Ron, Rufus and many of Drakken's mooks, courtesy of a neat little ring that grants "instant muscles". While this makes Ron popular at school for the time he wears it, he finds out almost too late that being huge prevents him from fetching that episode's device of mass destruction in an airvent.
• Growing Up Sucks: An element in both finales.

H

• Hacker Cave: Wade has quite the bedroom full of computers for a ten-year-old supergenius.
• Half-Truth: Eric tells Kim that his "mission" is to take her to the prom. Well, it is.
• Halloween Episode: "October 31st".
• Hammerspace: Ron pulls a pickaxe out of nowhere in "Cap'n Drakken". Where Kim keeps her PDA-like Kimmunicator, even in her cheer costume, is equally mysterious (her traditional "action" outfit, at least, had pockets and pouches).
• Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: Kim is The Ace who takes crime-fighting in stride, while most of her villains, like Dr. Drakken and the Seniors, are Affably Evil or Faux Affably Evil with ridiculous, over-the-top schemes. She can have her moments of Not So Stoic in her high school life, however when facing bad guys, she is far more mature and serious. This is especially in play when she faces Dr. Drakken, who often comes up with various ridiculous plots, such as mind-controlling the elderly into his army.
• Hand Blast: Shego's "plasma" blasts.
• Handy Feet (Adapted Feet): The villain Monkey Fist had his hands and feet surgically replaced with monkey-like appendages.
• Happily Ever After: Kim and Ron. The two Sealed with a Kiss series finales make this such.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Dr. Drakken's girly flowers are mocked during most of the finale. Then at the very end, Dr Drakken points out that it technically makes him a Plant Person with full control over plants. With that power combined with the moment of surprise due to underestimation, Dr. Drakken was able to defeat Warhok and Warmonga with ease. And since his plants also respond to his subconscious thoughts, it was able to detect Drakken's love for Shego and could act as a matchmaker as well.
• He Who Fights Monsters: This is apparently the reason for Shego's Face–Heel Turn (by her Lawful Stupid brother version).
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Wade, in person; broken in a late Season 3 episode.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: When Shego gets zapped with the Reverse Polarizer and becomes good.
• Heel–Face Turn: Dr. Drakken and Shego in "Graduation". He even gets a medal from the United Nations.
• Heroic BSoD: Both Ron and Drakken have one after finding out that Snowman Hank has been cancelled.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Often, especially in the episodes with Monkey Fist. The winner is So The Drama's "Sumo Ninja".
• High-Class Glass: Ron disguises himself in an outfit that fits this trope to a T as part of a ploy to lure out Team Impossible.
• High-School Sweethearts: Kim and Ron. Best friends since Pre-K, but became an Official Couple at the Junior Prom.
• Hive Mind: The Bebes. The Tweebs seem to have this as well.
• Hive Queen: A strange variation. The Bebes decide to make Bonnie their queen simply because she is the one person that Kim hates more than anyone else and are hoping that this will give them an advantage.

• Holiday Ceasefire: The end of "A Very Possible Christmas." The Possible family and Ron and Drakken and Shego agree to a truce until New Year's. They even sing a Christmas number together at the end of the episode.
• Hood Ornament Hottie: Motor Ed tricks Shego into being his hood ornament hottie in "Car Alarm". Shego was not pleased.
• Hospital Hottie: Mrs. Dr. Possible
• Hulk Speak: Ron talks this way after mutating into "Gronde".
• Humans Are Warriors: Kim, Ron, and Shego in "Graduation, Part 2".
• Hurricane of Puns: A bucket load of math puns was used for the math-based villain the Mathter in "Mathter and Fervent." Examples include: Hego yelling "Fore!" right before the Mathter throws the number four at Kim, the Mathter's minions being called Coefficients, and this:
  Mathter: Oh why don't you just relax and have some Pi! [throws Pi weapon at Kim]
  Ron: Kim!
  Mathter: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Now it's your turn to feel the full wrath of my math.
  Ron: Okay, um, sure could use, I don't know, a hero right about now.
  Mathter: Now prepare to be subtracted entirely because-
  Ron: Because what? My number's up?
  Mathter: Oh. Yes.
  • Lampshaded later in that episode:
  Kim: Agghh! Okay, one more lame-o math reference, and I am going to LOSE IT!
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Not Ron to Kim, but rather Rufus to Ron.
• Hypocritical Humor: The villains expressed their disappointment at Kim for lying in the Halloween Episode. Though that could have just been them rubbing salt into the wound.
  • From "All the News," a reporter announces their station will be dropping Adrena Lynn's show and instead promoting more responsible programming. He promptly tells viewers to stick around for another hour of “Stuff on Fire!”

I

• Identical Grandson: In the "Visions of Another Self" episode, lampshaded by Ron when they discover doubles for Kim, Ron, Barkin, Drakken, Shego, Dementor and finally Wade.
  "Come on this is ridiculous!"
• Idiot Ball: Ron's intelligence varies from episode to episode, and sometimes he's just flat out clutching this ball. Kim gets it a few times, too.
  Ron: Hello, Information? I'd like the number for 911 immediately please!
• I Broke a Nail: Shego did this once, in an episode where she was under the effects of a device that controlled her emotions. She would never cry at all otherwise, certainly not over something like a broken nail.
• Idiosyncrazy: Several of the recurring villains have a consistent theme to their crimes, such as Duff Killigan's golf obsession or Frugal Lucre's cheapness.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: This is Ron's reason for not getting together with Kim before they did (Kim's reason is partially this, but mainly about peer pressure). The first time this is made explicit is "Emotion Sickness", when Kim was under Moodulator influence. The second time, occurs in So The Drama and almost leads into...
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Ron decides against telling Kim how he really feels, leaving her to attend the prom with Eric whilst he doesn't go and instead sits in Bueno Nacho feeling sorry for himself... where he learns that Drakken is using Bueno Nacho as part of his new plan, leading to the reveal that Eric is a synthodrone, and allowing Ron the chance to confess to Kim, who returns his affection.
• If I Had a Nickel...: In "Ron Millionaire". "If I had a nickel for every time I heard that [talking about Bonnie's comment]...I could have grande-sized!"
  • He then literally gets a nickel for every Naco sold by Bueno Nacho, resulting in 99 Million dollars.
  • In the episode "Cap'n Drakken":
  Shego: If I had a doubloon for every time I've done that (saving Drakken's booty)…
• I Just Want to Be Special: Ron, on more than one occasion.
• I Know Karate: Well, not karate - kung fu. Kim knows sixteen styles apparently... Mantis not so much.
• I Know Kung-Faux: Monkey Kung-Fu, as practiced by Monkey Fist and Ron.
  • There is actually a real Monkey Kung Fu, but it's obviously not what the show is referring to and does not involve McGuffins.
  • In a case of Shown Their Work, Monkey Kung Fu is also known as Tai Shing Pek Kwar and Monkey Fist.
• I Know Madden Kombat: Kim and Duff Killigan.
• I Minored in Tropology: Evil sidekick and Dark Action Girl Shego holds a degree in child development.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: In "Sink or Swim", Kim makes the excuse of having to go and get more firewood to avoid listening to anymore of Ron's stories about Camp Wannaweep.
  Ron: Uh, Kim? Camp Wannaweep Rule #1: use the buddy system!
  Kim: Oh, well, I think I can handle it.
  Mr. Barkin: He's right, Possible. I'll go, too.
  Ron: Mr. B's with the program!
  Mr. Barkin: (sotto) I cannot take another campfire story.
  Kim: Why do you think I'm going?
• Imagine Spot: Ron imagines scoring the touchdown, heheh.
• Impossible Pickle Jar: In "Stop Team Go", a humorous sub-plot involves Drakken struggling to open a jar of pickles. He tries opening it himself, using various tools and henchmen and he even tries incinerating it with a massive Death Ray. By the end of the episode, Drakken finds Shego who opens it instantly.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Kim's flippy waist-length hair is no impediment to acrobatics or combat and is only occasionally tied back. Shego's is pretty long and voluminous, reaching past her hips yet still blowing dramatically in the wind. Both quickly spring back into shape, no matter what happens to them.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Ron's dad does this to the Mathter before a math-based brain battle.
  Mathter: And what kind of hero are you?
  Mr. Stoppable: I'm no hero. I'm Actuary of the Year.
• In the Blood: "Anything is possible for a Possible!" And the show more or less follows that idea. All the Possible family have some sort of badassness in them.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Ron, taking on the mantle of the Fearless Ferret.
  • Also, Señor Senior Senior doesn't seem to be having much luck teaching Junior how to be a proper villain.
• Inappropriate Hunger: At first in "Tick-Tick-Tick". While trying to escape Dr. Drakken and Shego Ron drives him and Kim to Bueno Nacho.
  Kim: What makes you think we're safe in here?
  Ron: I don't think we're safe anywhere, but chases make me hungry. Chimiritos?
  Kim: No thanks. I'm trying to focus on the thing on my nose that's gonna blow me up!
• Informed Judaism: Ron is supposed to be Jewish.
• Infection Scene: In "Sick Day", Kim comes down with a cold and wonders how she caught it. Wade "helpfully" illustrates this by showing camera footage of the "germ trail": when she went to give her one of her sick twin brothers a tissue, she touched a spot on the table where he had placed his hand, then touched her face.
• Ink-Suit Actor:
  • John DiMaggio IS Motor Ed. Seriously.
  • Cheese and crackers, Barkin looks a lot like Patrick Warburton.
  • Monique bears more than a passing resemblance to Raven-Symoné.
• Inventional Wisdom: The Lorwardian Mothership is shut down by a single button, not even code locked.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Miss Go; justified because she is the exact opposite of Shego via a Mirror Morality Machine.
• Insignificant Anniversary: When Kim and Ron have been dating for six months, she buys him a titanium-reinforced belt (which provides an in-universe explanation for doing away with the "Ron's pants fall down" gag). That said, Monique takes the "half-iversary" occasion more seriously than Kim does.
• Instant Expert: Kim. Mostly confined to the first season. The crowning moment being her being able to fly a space shuttle after seeing a monkey do it first.
• Insistent Terminology: "This building is actually made of cheese."
• Institutional Apparel: All the villains that end up in prison end up wearing orange jumpsuits.
• Insult Backfire: When Kim tries to zing Monkey Fist in "Oh No! Yono!" she accidentally reveals that Ron's sister, Hana, is "The Han" Monkey Fist is looking for. When he realizes this, he slaps his forehead and realizes "How blind I've been!"
• Insult Misfire: "Showdown at the Crooked D".
  Ron: (To Mr. Dr. P.) Don't let him call you a lackwit!
• Involuntary Dance: Happens when Kim and Ron end up hypnotised and end up being ordered to dance by Señor Senior Junior.
• Ironic Echo / Brick Joke:
  from "Crush"

  Drakken(to Kim): You should have stuck to babysitting!
  from "So the Drama", three years later:

  Kim: Drakken finally won. I should have stuck to babysitting!
• Island Base: Drakken and The Seniors.
• It Only Works Once: "Queen Bebe": Kim sees that the robotic villains, the "Bebes", no longer respond to radio interference like they did in "Attack of the Killer Bebes". This makes sense, as because the Bebes (and Kim) are moving at hyperspeed, a hypersonic emission would be much slower, and as such would not have the same effect.
• It's Personal: "Car Alarm". Jim and Tim emphasize the upgrades to the Sloth are because Motor Ed outran them.
  • Done doubly in "Team Impossible". Kim has had it with the so-called heroes and is wiping the floor with them and them some. Ron is basically eating popcorn, then Wade shows up in the flesh for the first time ever in the series, because they spiked his computers, and he is really mad.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Kim and Shego have a much more personal and visceral conflict going between them than Kim and Drakken.

J

• Jerkass Has a Point: The Oh Boyz getting Roland Pond fired, after getting away from Señor Señor Señor. While they may have been jerks to him, it doesn't justify that he left them in the hands of a kidnapper, who could have been up to more horrible things, than just trying to force the Record Company to give his son a Record Deal.
• Join or Die: Gemini tries to force Ron Stoppable to join his terrorist organization of WEE by threatening him with a laser.
• Jokers Love Junk Food: Kim and Ron, globetrotting teen crimefighters, both enjoy eating at Bueno Nacho, a fast-food Mexican restaurant. Ron, the lovable sidekick turned Love Interest, has also been known to pig out on school cafeteria pizza because, as he notes, "Cheese on cardboard is still cheese." Kim will at least make it a point to order a salad. This even leads to a Very Special Episode, where exposure to toxic chemicals causes Ron's bad eating tendencies to turn him into a large orange hulk-like monster.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Team Impossible; went from just being punch clock heroes who wanted Kim to stop saving the world so they could get paid for it, and basically straight to trying to permanently end her heroics.
• Just Between You and Me: The villains frequently give in to the urge to gloat when they think they're finally about to be rid of Kim once and for all.
• Just Friends: Kim and Ron, for Seasons 1-3. It's notable that their interactions don't change much after their Relationship Upgrade.

K

• Karma Houdini: The Oh Boyz treated everyone like crap, especially their long-suffering manager. At the end of the episode, only the manager is punished for abandoning the Oh Boyz.
  • Also, there are no repercussions to Cyrus Bortel for building (and in one case auctioning off) "ferociously unethical" behavior control devices, or to Jack Hench for knowingly providing henchmen and supplies to villains.
• Keep Away: Rufus after eating the MacGuffin becomes the object of frequent tossing about.
• Kid Hero: Kim and Ron.
• Kirby Dots: The Krackle effect accompanying Shego's glow power.
• Kissing Discretion Shot: Kim and Ron in "Mentor of Our Discontent".
• Kissing Under the Influence: The moodulator leads to Kim and Ron's kiss in "Emotion Sickness".

L

• Lampshade Hanging: Kim Possible loves these. Ron in particular. For example, the Collapsing Lair.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Avoided this in the episode "Clean Slate", in which Kim has amnesia, and is pretty much square-peg-round-hole moronic until they manage to restore most of her memories.
• Laser-Guided Karma: A good example happens to Bonnie. It is revealed that she was the only senior in Middleton High who wasn't graduating because she missed an important quiz on the last week of school, forcing her to attend summer school.
• Laser Hallway: Kim's first mission (in "A Sitch In Time") involved the in-universe mother of these where the entire room is filled with deadly laser beams, and Kim gets her first job: using her cheerleading and gymnastics moves to dive through all the beams and turn it off. More appear throughout the series.
• Last Minute Hook Up: You could say the ending of The Movie was that for Kim and Ron.
  • Also for Drakken and Shego, after giving them a case of He Is Not My Boyfriend in the Grand Finale.
• Last-Name Basis: Inverted with Shego. Her last name is "Go", but she has "She" in front because she used to be good and a part of a team with her brothers, and she was the girl of the team. It's also possible their names relate to their first names, but they're never given. Lampshaded by Ron in "Go Team Go".
• Laughably Evil
• Laugh of Love:
  • In "Sink or Swim", Tara giggles before kissing Ron on the cheek at the end of the episode.
  • Kim tends to do this when she's around the guys she has a crush on. She also giggled after her first kiss with Ron in "Emotion Sickness".
  • In "Gorilla Fist", Ron giggled when Yori kissed him on the cheek at the end of the episode, much to Kim's clear jealousy.
• Lawful Stupid: Hego.
• LEGO Genetics: DNAmy's creations are an example, as are Drakken's customized clones.
• Leitmotif: Kim, Rufus, Shego, Killigan and Monkey Fist all have their own themes, which made for an interesting climax in "Adventures in Rufus-Sitting", when the theme switches to whoever has the ball (well, molerat) at the time.
  • Rufus' is the backbeat from Naked Mole Rap.
  • DNAmy's, a Fifties romantic instrumental, doesn't appear unless she's somebody's Abhorrent Admirer (she was in pursuit of Mr. Barkin briefly before settling on Monkey Fist.)
• Less Embarrassing Term: Professor Dementor responds to Ron's comment about the "dress" he's wearing by shouting "It's a HOUSECOAT!"
  • Wade: "Don't call it sci-fi, it demeans the genre!"
• Lethal Chef: The school lunch lady fixes unrecognizable glop most of the time which may or may not be considered food. Kim also starts as this but improved considerably at the end of the episode.
• Le Parkour: Kim is capable of pulling this off. As for Ron... not so much.
• The Little Black Dress: You know the one.
• Limited Wardrobe: Many, many characters are guilty of this. (Bonnie wears her cheer costume an awful lot for someone supposed to be fashion-conscious.) Got better in Season 2 when the animators gave both Kim and Ron different outfits for different situations. Ron was eventually returned to his jersey and cargos because the crew didn't like the "bowling shirt".
  • Bonnie lampshaded this on Season 1 (Episode 16) with the line "Kim Possible, you are such a loser! I mean you wear that same outfit, like, every day!"
• Local Hangout: Bueno Nacho.
• Lock-and-Load Montage: The penultimate episode has Kim suiting up in battle armor, then picking up Ron in her Cool Car, like she is going to vape Drakken for keeps. Turns out it's for a puma in a tree.
• Loony Fan: Cousin Joss Possible (for Kim, and at the end of the episode, Ron), later Frugal Lucre (for Drakken).
• Love Potion: Wade creates a modern love laser beam that causes the much older Monique to fall in love with him. It works exactly as planned, until the effect wears off and she's pissed at him. Later, the villain comes in possession of the love laser beam and uses it for massive annoyance. At the end of the episode Wade is seeing a genius girl his own age -who turns out to have invented a Love Beam of her own.

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