Recap / Kim Possible A Sitch in Time S 2 E 15

Team Possible takes the fight to Shego, heading twenty years into the future. They find a world under her control, and are soon captured. Fortunately, they are rescued by the resistance, with whom they team up to attack the Supreme One's stronghold.

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This episode provides examples of:

• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The one underneath Shego's base is so large it's used to infiltrate her base. Why it wasn't used earlier is not touched upon.
• Accidental Hero: Ron didn't plan on destroying the Tempus Simia idol. (Although he did ask if they can’t just break it earlier).
• Artifact Name: Rufus 3000 and his associates all still refer to themselves as "naked mole rats" even though they're all wearing armor.
• Badass Boast: After No Selling a kick to his stomach from Kim, the now muscular Drakken gives us this gem:
  Drakken: I’ve got fab abs!
• The Bad Guy Wins: The whole point of this episode is to show what would happen if one of Kim's enemies actually succeeded in taking over the world. Life sucks. Middleton is ruled by the totalitarian regime of "the Supreme One", Shego herself. Standards of living are pretty strict and everyone has to wear Shego's outfit. Schools have become a place drained of all individuality and spirit. Media, entertainment, and art are all modeled in Shego's image. And most importantly, Sinister Surveillance is omnipresent. It is because of these reasons that Kim and Ron's parents, and presumably a bunch of other people, relocated to the moon.
• Bad Future: Shego managed to Take Over the World and is now called the Supreme One. Her version of Middleton, called Shegoton, is pretty Orwellian in nature.
• Beneath Suspicion: Kim had been assuming that "The Supreme One" was Drakken (who was constantly trying to take over the world) and is surprised to find out that it was actually Shego (who had never really shown much personal ambition):
  Rufus 3000: Wasn't it clear that Shego was the only one smart enough to take over the world?
  Kim: Uh, well, I guess it always seemed more like a guy thing.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Jim, Tim and Rufus 3000 arrive just in time to save Kim and Ron from the mind probes.
  • Also, Monique blows her way into Shego's throne room, destroying the torture machine Kim was attached to.
• Big Little Sister: As a result of having been lost in the time stream for twenty years, when Kim meets Jim and Tim again, they are now mature adults in their thirties while Kim is still a teenager.
  Ron: Time travel. It's a cornucopia of disturbing concepts.
• Big "NO!": When Ron finds out Shego destroyed Bueno Nacho.
• Brick Joke:
  • When Ron discovers how ripped Jim, Tim and Wade have become, he tells them not to underestimate him because he has “mad 'Fu skills”. They laugh it off, but in the climax, Ron uses his mad 'Fu skills to take down a similarly ripped Drakken with ease and destroys the Tempus Simia statue.
  • When they are discussing the specifics of the Tempus Simia, Ron asks why not just destroy it, and Jim and Tim give a long-winded explanation of how it could potentially solve their problems, but could also destroy the very fabric of time and reality, killing everyone. In the end, a rage-fuelled Ron destroys most of Shego’s lair, breaking the Time Monkey along with it, unintentionally saving the day.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Apparently, Bonnie doesn't seem to remember Kim or acknowledge her in any way, despite the fact that they were hated rivals in high school. For all she knew, Kim was just another troublemaker that needed re-education. (Possibly justified in that Bonnie would expect Kim to be the same age as herself rather than still a teenager.)
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Shego's world specializes in this.
• Les Collaborateurs: Bonnie Rockwaller is one of the instructors at the re-education center, and she's enjoying it.
• Crapsack World: Shegoton is a place of such utter misery and terror that's most likely modeled after Oceania from Nineteen Eighty-Four, with Shego and her forces as The Party.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When Ron realizes that Shego is the one who made him move to Norway (and made him eat meatcakes), he completely turns the tide and destroys the Tempus Simia idol.
  Ron: "You're the reason I moved? YOU'RE THE REASON I'VE BEEN EATING MEATCAKES?!"
  Future Drakken: "Sit back!"
  Ron grabs Drakken and effortlessly flips him across the room
  Ron: "And no one knocks down Bueno Nacho - Past, present OR future!"
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Shego financed her scheme by travelling through time, using her future knowledge to invest in the dot-com bubble and pulling out before it burst, and then opened up a bank. She had enough money to finance an evil think tank and be able to buy out Ron's mother's workplace to transfer her to Norway.
• Defensive Feint Trap: Killigan manages to take down most of the rebels by pretending to have been critically damaged by Jim, Tim and Wade's attack, only to launch a blast that knocks everyone out before pulling his pieces together.
• The Dictatorship: Middleton, now Shegoton is under the control of a political party called The Supreme One (also known as Shego and her posse).
• Disney Villain Death: Kim kicks the Supreme One through a broken window.
• Dragon Ascendant/Demoted to Dragon: Shego and Drakken's roles are reversed. Drakken, however, still has objections because Shego stole his Evil Plan, but is put under an obedience collar so that he doesn't turn on her.
  • Killigan and Monkey Fist have also gone from independent villains to enforcers working for Shego.
• Dystopia: Shegoton.
• Dystopia Is Hard: Shegoton is an airtight dystopia, with absolute control over its citizens. The only persons not affected are the rebellion.
• Egopolis: Shego has renamed Middleton and Club Banana after herself.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Shego is aware that Kim and Ron make a good team. Why? She doesn't know. Interestingly enough, her wording implies that she could have spent time to try and understand it, but she didn't care for it, preferring to just split them up.
  Shego: You see, travelling into your past I realized one thing: as a team, you two are actually solid. Why? Don't know, don't care.
• Evil Is Petty: As "the Supreme One", Shego makes a point to place her Evil Tower of Ominousness in Middleton (now renamed Shegoton), a block away from the Bueno Nacho store where Team Possible first defeated her and Drakken, destroys the Bueno Nacho chain and renames Club Banana after herself.
• Fantastically Indifferent: Kim’s and Ron’s parents don’t mind living on the moon, or that Kim has been lost in time for 20 years.
• Flaw Exploitation: Shego takes over the world by exploiting the major flaw that Kim Possible is nowhere near as effective without her sidekick Ron Stoppable. She splits them up by offering Ron's mother a new job in Norway.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: One of Shego's marching henchmen in this future will turn up again in the restored present timeline later on.
• Future Badass: Jim, Tim, Wade and Monique have become freedom fighters battling Shego's rule. Dr. Drakken, now Demoted to Dragon, is Shego's main enforcer. All have gone from Non Action Guys to being able to more than hold their own in a fight.
• Future Loser: A balding Brick Flagg is seen at the Attitude Adjustment Center. It's even lampshaded by Ron.
  Ron: Man, he let himself go.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: Because the Tempus Simia was destroyed, all the time traveling was undone and everyone's memory of it was erased.
• I Got Bigger: The Tweebs and especially Wade.
• The Juggernaut: Drakken undergoing a diet, exercise, and genetic manipulation has made him into a heavily muscled, incredibly tough fighter who tanks Kim and Monique's hits like they're nothing. Most of their fight involves Kim, and later Monique, running hit-and-run tactics on him, which prove to be ineffective as he does not tire and they do nothing but annoy him. Both fights he's involved in end when he finally lands a hit.
• Just Between You and Me: Shego was about to simply have Kim, Ron, Rufus and the resistance members killed, but Drakken convinced her to gloat to them instead. This makes Ron realize that Shego was the reason he and Kim got split up and him having a horrible time in Norway, causing him to reach his breaking point and throw Drakken across the room, causing Shego to run away from him, and proceeded to knock one of Shego's statues down, ultimately causing a chain reaction resulting in the destruction of the Tempus Simia Idol and the restoration of the proper timeline.
• Manipulative Bitch: Shego, to the point of manipulating every one of the villains into working for her and taking the idol for herself.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": When the Tempus Simia Idol is shattered, everyone is frozen in shock for the first few seconds, believing that Ron might have just accidentally destroyed the very fabric of time and reality.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Diet, exercise and genetic manipulation along with years of fighting an evil dictatorship have made some of the physically weaker characters into musclebound freedom fighters or evil enforcers. However, the puny-looking Ron easily flips over the massive Drakken across the room with a flick of the latter's wrist.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Future Shego took over the world, but the closest she got to fighting during the episode was tossing Ron away from the monkey idol, pointing a big laser turret at Kim and trying to jump at Kim and Ron as the timeline is restoring itself and they're being returned to their proper time.
  Shego: Sorry, Kimmie, but the Supreme One always delegates.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Future Drakken enters the room, bulging his muscles, its obvious that this is Kim's initial reaction.
  • Drakken has a split second to realize that something bad is about to happen to him when Ron grabs his wrist and it makes a cracking sound.
• Older Than They Look: Of all the characters, Monkey Fist is the only one who has shown no sign of change or aging, even after twenty years (as well as the extra few years that he, Duff, and Drakken had to relive after getting arrested and stranded in the past). Killigan's head also looks just as young as he was in the main timeline, but he's also mostly cyborg by then. Mr. Stoppable also looks the same as he does in the present in his one brief cameo.
• Orcus on His Throne: Shego's stint as the Supreme One, in spite of an active rebellion, mostly appears to involve her sitting on her throne at the top of her tower and watching television (which only has her on it), delegating most tasks to her underlings and the occasional "motivational video" to be disseminated to the Attitude Adjustment Center.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: Killigan boasts that he's now "the world's deadliest golfing cyborg!" This is Lampshaded by Ron.
  Ron: And really, how many other golfing cyborgs are there? It cannot be a crowded field.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner:
  Jim: (About Robo-Duff) "I'll give him this, he shoots a good game."
  Tim: "What do we do?"
  Wade: "Let's take him down."
• Reset Button: When the Tempus Simia is destroyed in the future, the timeline resets and Shego's manipulations (e.g. moving Ron's family to Norway) are undone. However, Ron still retains an apparently unexplained dislike of meatcakes.
• La Résistance: Led by Wade, the main heroes against Shego's regime. Prominent members include Jim and Tim, Monique and Rufus 3000.
• Shirtless Scene: By the end of the fight in Shego's throne room, Drakken and Ron left their shirts behind.
• Shock Collar: Shego uses these to control her subjects. They are referred to in-universe as "obedience collars".
• Shout-Out: No free will, a strict dress code and the supreme one doing all the thinking? Good God, sounds like Shego's read Nineteen Eighty-Four one too many times.
• Side Bet: Two of the Rufus clones apparently had a bet over the meaning of life.
• Silver Fox: The now-senior citizen Mr. and Mrs. Possible haven't lost their looks, even twenty years in the future.
• Sore Loser: The only time Shego tries to physically fight is after Ron broke the Tempus Simia and he, Kim and Rufus were being pulled into a time portal back to their timeline. Though she had already lost because of the destruction of the Tempus Simia, Shego leapt at them to attack them, but was kicked off by Kim.
• Spanner in the Works: Ron. At the end, Shego had won. Drakken had just defeated Kim and Monique and Killigan had the resistance in chains. However, her gloating triggered his Rage Breaking Point, causing him to accidentally destroy the Tempus Simia Idol while destroying Shego's throne room, restoring the world to the pre-Simia timeline.
• Stable Time Loop: Until the broken Tempus Simia reset the timeline, it's revealed that the entire movie acted as one...mostly. Events played out as they had due to Shego having already stolen the Tempus Simia and gone back in time to transfer Ron's mother to Norway, among other plans. The other three villains' meddling in the past caused no lasting damage to the timeline, while Kim and Ron skipped over to the future 20 years later and ultimately never stopped Shego from taking over the world or ever returned to the present. The only exceptions are Ron's changing photo (and his and Rufus's Ripple-Proof Memory of the change) and how Kim and Ron don't seem to remember having once met their future selves.
• The Story That Never Was: In the final fight, the Time Monkey breaks, undoing all the time traveling and restoring the world to how it was at the start of the story, erasing everyone's memories in the process.
• Take a Third Option: Back in part 1, Tim and Jim argued over whether to name their experimental ship the Timminator or the Jimminator. Two episodes and 20 years later, they've settled on calling it “the Kimminator”.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Diet, exercise and some genetic manipulation made Drakken into a Future Badass Lightning Bruiser capable of holding his own against and defeating Kim. Even after Monique, who also Took A Level In Badass since Australia, shows up to help Kim, he's still able to defeat them both when he finally connects a hit.
  • After her less-than-stellar performance in A Sitch in Time: Present, Monique arrives to save Kim as a member of the rebellion, and proceeds to show off her 20 years of training while fighting Drakken.
  • Duff Killigan wasn't exactly anything to scoff at, but his cyber-robotic enhancements allow him to keep Jim, Tim and Wade at bay for an extended period of time, he can literally pull himself back together if damaged, and he's the one to take down most of the rebellion.
• Wham Line: When Kim and Ron ask Rufus 3000 about the identity of the two human rebel commandos aiding 3000 and the other naked mole rats in freeing Kim and Ron.
  Kim: What's the dealie on them?
  Rufus 3000: You do not recognize them?
  Tim: Hicka-bicka-boo?
  Jim: Hoo-sha!
• Women Are Wiser: Lampshaded by Rufus 3000 and Kim that Shego was the only one smart enough to conquer the world.
• You Didn't Ask: A variation shows up at the beginning of the episode, when Kim (having captured the three main villains) thinks that the problem is solved, only for Rufus 3000 to reappear and tell her it isn't:
  Kim: Shego is the Supreme One? Well, you could've mentioned that!
  Rufus 3000: I thought it was obvious.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Kim's initial reaction when Shego summons Dr. Drakken to fight her, leading to The Reveal of his new muscular physique.