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  • Accidental Innuendo:
    • Kim asking Ron if he wants the ultimate ride (extreme snowboarding as opposed to something else) is just one of the tamer instances of this.
    • In a rare visual variant, a scene in "The Mentor of Our Discontent" has Shego raising her plasma-covered hand at Drakken as a threat. Many fans think that Shego is actually Flipping the Bird. Due to the plasma it's impossible to tell whether this is accidental or a Parental Bonus. Signs lean towards the former as Shego seems to be holding her hand straight.
  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Some fans feel like the show could be framed as actually being about Ron, since he undergoes the biggest change and character growth in the series.
    • Many believe that Ron could be and perhaps even is better than Kim is at heroics, either intentionally holding himself back so as to not surpass her or, as seen in the show, unintentionally holding himself back through self-doubt. Fans generally point to his badass moments with Monkey Power as proof of this, as well as the times he became evil, with Evil!Ron being the most successful villain in the series to the point of scaring Shego into falling in line.
    • Does Dr. Drakken really think Team Impossible are all that or did he say that just to tease Kim?
    • What really caused Shego to become a Fallen Hero in her backstory? Her brother Hego explained it was from them fighting evil so many times, but Ron thought it was the "fighting" part, while Kim thought it was the "evil" part, and Hego never actually says which of them is right, which could imply that it could have actually been either, or both.
  • Alternative Joke Interpretation: When Kim falls in love with Ron in the episode "Emotion Sickness", Ron says, "It's not like I haven't thought about this, I mean, who hasn't?" Some thought Ron meant that everyone thought of Ron dating Kim, while others thought he meant that everyone thought of themselves dating Kim.
  • Anvilicious:
    • "Grande Size Me", the episode focused on dietary health as deliberately blatant as possible.
    • The 'lying is wrong' aesop of "October 31st" is laid so thick that it feels like one is beaten on the head with a hammer with how heavy handed it is. Many fans even complain that it ruined the first holiday episode.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Ron Stoppable. Although he has many fans for his comic relief and being one of the more relatable characters who undergoes the biggest growth in the series, there are many who find his wimpy and silly antics annoying, particularly in Season 4. His Relationship Upgrade with Kim didn't help matters; those who shipped them love them as a couple and think they complement each other perfectly, while the others who doesn't, think they work better as Just Friends and Platonic Life-Partners, or for other shipping reasons, would prefer that they're nowhere near each other.
    • Warhok has some degree of division with some on whether or not he was deserving as the show's Final Boss. Namely that he's an alien, making him out of place with Kim's enemies, and that he only appears in the final episode with no real build-up when Warmonga appeared.
    • Ron's adopted sister, Hana, garners some flak for being yet another example of his parents springing life-changing decisions on him out of the blue with zero warning or consulting his opinion on the matter, as well as her being a Cousin Oliver in a series that already had a decently sized cast of characters. However, she only has prominence in two episodes, her skills are at least someone justified by her being a product of the Yamanouchi Ninja School, and she is an adorably cute baby in the end.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene in "Car Alarm" when the Sloth drives out into space, which Ron takes advantage of to test his theories on zero-g naco eating. How did he get that naco in the first place? No idea.
  • Broken Base: The eventual Official Couple of Drakken/Shego is often debated amongst some fans even after all these years. As usual, the issues are "Was it written/foreshadowed well or was it Strangled by the Red String?" and "Do they work better as friends or lovers?". The main Official Couple of Kim and Ron was also notorious, including over the rift it caused with Kigo.
  • Common Knowledge: A lot of fan arts, memes, YouTube comments claim how Ron managed to get out of Friendzone. While this is true to a certain degree (especially in the movie So the Drama, which focuses on Ron realising his feelings for Kim), throughout the actual show’s run, especially in Season 3, Kim also displays signs of having a crush on Ron, like getting jealous of him when he gets attention from other girls (like Yori, around whom Kim acts as an Insecure Love Interest of Ron) and even other boys (Felix and Ron getting close makes her go Green-Eyed Monster). In Emotion Sickness, Ron actually considers breaking up with Kim so that their relationship doesn’t ruin their friendship, which makes Ron the one who put her in the friendzone. Even in So the Drama, Ron decides not to go through with his Love Confession because it might ruin their friendship. Then there is Kim’s “It took you 12 stinking years to kiss me” line from Season 4, meaning, if anything, both were attracted towards one another but both had put each other in the friendzone.
  • Crack Pairing: "Stop Team Go" had Shego/Mr. Barkin. Granted, she was under the influence of a Mirror Morality Machine at the time, and it doesn't last beyond that episode when she returns to normal. It also helps that their voice actors had a close working relationship in a previous Disney cartoon.
  • Creator Worship: The creators of Kim Possible, Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle.
  • Crossover Ship: Kim Possible gets shipped with characters outside of her series.
    • Nickelodeon Magazine depicted a picture of her dating Prince Zuko. This is because she once admitted to being attracted to the Troubled, but Cute type.
    • Another popular character she's shipped with is the title character of Danny Phantom. Both characters do in fact have a lot in common: Both are teenage kids of scientists (but whereas Kim's parents are respected in their fields, Danny's are not), both have green eyes (Danny's eyes are normally blue but green in his ghost form), both fight a rogues gallery of villains with their Arch-Enemy being an Evil Former Friend of their father out for world domination, both are romantically involved with their best friend of the opposite sex who is implied to be Jewish and they both juggle normal lives with being heroes (though Danny's superhero life is a secret). Both cartoons also featured Stephen Silver as an artist and ended their runs in 2007.
    • Ron and Jake Long was a surprisingly popular ship on DeviantArt. Like Kim and Danny, Ron and Jake surprisingly have a lot in common, in addition the obvious bit of "Disney cartoon characters airing at the same time": They are both mystically powered beings (Ron has mystical monkey powers, Jake is the American Dragon), they both have Badass Normal Action Girlfriends and they both have a tendency to lose their pants in public (just look at the page images for the Funny pages of each show). In addition to that, both shows have a scene where the aforementioned Action Girlfriend is being beamed up, when Ron and Jake try to hold on to their hand, only to fail (Graduation Part 1 in Kim Possible, Homecoming in American Dragon Jake Long).
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Shego is most guilty of this, but the other villains have their moments of going from nasty to funny and back again.
  • Death of the Author:
    Bob Schooley: "...I'm sorry to say there really isn't one "right" answer to "most" of these questions. The series belongs to the fans to spin any way they want now."
  • Die for Our Ship: Kim and Ron themselves are particularly prone to this for those who ship pairings that only involve one of them. For pairings such as Kim/Shego, Ron is often devolved into a completely useless idiot incapable of doing anything but being annoying and getting in the way. In cases where Kim ends up the third wheel, she's demonized as an uptight snob who regularly abuses and takes advantage of Ron, constantly puts him in harm's way with no remorse and purely for her own gain.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Shego. In the show, she's always depicted as a No-Nonsense Nemesis and Card-Carrying Villain who does it all For the Evulz and has her share of Kick the Dog moments. Many if not all of these traits go straight out the window when it comes to fan fiction, particularly when shipping is involved, which paint her in the exact opposite light.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Warmonga gets a lot of love for her Amazonian Beauty appearance and fighting skills and for being the right combination of Laughably Evil and a Knight of Cerebus. This is the reason she returned in the final episode as a Big Bad alongside Warhok.
    • Electronique was rather popular with fans, more than you'd expect from her single appearance. But then, she was a Baroness and Gadgeteer Genius with electrical powers, a short temper and a hammy accent from somevhere in zer centre of Europe, so she was a memorably entertaining character, and as a villain in Shego's hometown she had a connection to the fandom's favourite character.
    • Yori, due to her badassery skills as a ninja and to the point that aside from being a potential love interest for Ron, she doesn't get the Die for Our Ship treatment for Kim/Ron shippers, arguably due to the fact in season 4 that she calmly accepts that Ron and Kim are now a couple, considering it destiny.
    • Tara is also loved by some viewers for being an adorable Nice Girl with a former unrequited crush on Ron.
  • Evil Is Cool: Not only does this at least seem to be Shego's philosophy, but look at what happened to Ron in that personality-switch-turned-him-evil incident.
  • Fashion-Victim Villain: Hilariously, Drakken got this done to him by the Evil Eye for the Bad Guy group. To many people’s relief the outfit was a one episode thing.
  • Foe Yay Shipping: Kim and Shego quite famously seen to always want to fight each other whenever in the same room. And when they do it's always filled with snarky comments that aren't really spiteful but kind of flirty. The episode "Stop Team Go", in which Shego is briefly turned good and hits it off very well with Kim, is believed by fans to be an acknowledgement of the fan following the ship has. The ending scene even shows Shego looking a photo strip of her and Kim from a photo booth somewhat sadly before burning it.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The popularity of the show in Germany is a major reason for its revival.
  • Girl-Show Ghetto: Greatly averted; this action-packed show and its characters have plenty of fans from both sides.
  • Growing the Beard: The first season was well liked enough but some thought the other characters were a bit underdeveloped. Steve Loter came in during season 2 as a director/producer — under his wing, the story pacing was sped up, and much more focus was put on other characters besides Kim, such as Ron, Drakken and Shego.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Frugal Lucre's plan in Low Budget, to damage the internet with a virus unless worldwide ransoms were paid, becomes less funny after the "Wanna-Cry" malware virus which included a ransom demand, infected computer systems around the world in May 2017, and actually damaged various systems including hospital & medical service computers.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: Kim being in love with Ron in "Emotion Sickness" was pretty cringy, but becomes very heartwarming when they start dating for real after So The Drama. Likewise as Shego ends up falling for Drakken also in the episode, and in the series finale it's implied they eventually do end together.
  • He's Just Hiding: While Word of God says Warhok and Warmonga do die in the explosion of their ship, many fans prefer to think that they survived, or at least that Ensemble Dark Horse Warmonga did.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Kim's lab partner, Justine Flanner, who helped her defeat D.N.Amy, was voiced by Mayim Bialik, who went on to play another scientist named Amy. Funnily enough, The Big Bang Theory began the same year this show got revived for a Post-Script Season and ended its run for good.
    • In the episode "The Fearless Ferret", Ron unexpectedly came across the house of a grumpy old man who turns out to be a superhero which Ron has willingly become his successor. Didn't Will Friedle previously voiced a character who went through the same situation? Except the man turned out to be a REAL superhero?
    • Badass, but sweet-natured redhead who fights evil between her classes, and is famous for being able to do anything? Bumbling, Adorkable blond guy who hangs out with her because, despite some people thinking she's way out of his league, even the best of us needs someone who has her back? Snarky, sexy villainess with a memorable mane of dark hair to go with her freaky powers? Wait, are we talking about Kim Possible, or Pyrrha Nikos? (Fortunately the similarities mostly end there, otherwise season 3 would have ended with Shego fatally shooting Kim in the heart.)
    • In the episode "And the Mole Rat Will Be CGI", Kim and Ron remark that the idea of a live-action Kim Possible movie would be ridiculous. However, in 2018, Disney Channel announced a future live-action Kim Possible movie, to much rejoicing though the film itself got a somewhat mixed reaction.
    • In "Royal Pain", while trying to help Kim run for class president, he takes her mini-golfing. Kim complains that she doesn't see how this is supposed to help her, to which Ron states that his reasoning is that "The best political decisions are made while golfing." A few years later, Donald Trump would be seen as a controversial presidential figure for his political decisions, also being known for golfing in his rather questionably lengthy leisure time despite complaining about past presidents doing so.
    • In "Ill Suited", Ron has a nightmare of kissing Kim at the dance and then she turns out to be one of the androids from So The Drama. 13 years later, on Big Hero 6: The Series, Christy Carlson Romano voices a character who kisses the hero, and she turns out to be an android. Talk about Ron's worst nightmare come true.
    • Duff Killigan, a Scotsman who specializes in explosives, like a certain Demoman.
      • To add to that, Demoman can wield a golf club.
    • Walmart announced in 2019 that they now plan to use robots to do things like shelf stocking, just like Smarty Mart used "Stockbots" in The Mentor of Our Discontent.
    • In "Graduation", Ron finally masters the Mystical Monkey Power and obtains the ability to increase his strength manyfold by enveloping himself in a blue monkey-themed Battle Aura. In 2015, Goku and Vegeta obtain a blue Super Saiyan form stronger than anything they had before.
    • Tara Strong voicing Tara the cheerleader. Not the last one she'd voice either.
    • In "Kimitation Nation", Bonnie mocked Kim for wearing the same outfit everyday. During Season 2, Kim would rotate between outfits. By Season 3, the only time her green top with jeans look would appear is in the theme song.
    • In "The Golden Years", Nana gifts the twins with Vinyl albums, the two treating them like ancient artifacts. In 2007, when the show met its final episode, Vinyl would see a resurgence that would continue into the 2010's.
    • Shego was part of Team Go, THEY'RE ON THE GO!
    • In "Grande Size Me", Ron is trying to prove that the "Wheel of Good Eating" (based on the real-life "food pyramid") is false, many years later it was revealed that the food pyramid was in fact a myth to the point that many health groups now explicitly say not to follow it. The fact that a "healthy eating" episode was mandated by execs in the first place makes this even more funny.
    • In "The Twin Factor", Kim drops the line "I'm about to become an only child" when fed up with babysitting Jim and Tim, a line that Azula would promote to memetic status a few years later.
    • "Two to Tutor" depicted Kim having kitchen troubles, with the fandom liking to overemphasize her lack of skill in cooking as shown in Never Live It Down. Christy Carlson Romano, the voice of Kim, has done a series of cooking videos to show she's a far better chef than the girl who could supposedly "do anything".
    • A Disney Channel cartoon with a teenage girl with red hair has two super smart brothers who constantly bother her? Though admittedly, the Tweebs are meaner than Phineas and Ferb are. What's more, she's an agent that fights a goofy supervillain nicknamed Dr. D whose henchwoman wears a dark jumpsuit much like Doof's daughter. Sounds like she and Agent P would get along just fine. Kim even says "You are so busted!" at one point.
    • For the majority of the show's run, Shego has been a popular character with the LGBT Fanbase. In the early 2020s, Shego's voice actor, Nicole Sullivan, would play another green-skinned villainess that is in fact bisexual.
  • Hollywood Homely: Ron's been mentioned by a number of characters to be less than good looking, to the point of being ugly. He's average looking at worst.
  • I Knew It!: Early fanfictions were writing Shego as having a brother named "Hego" who is a superhero long before the actual character appeared. Fans didn't anticipate her having multiple brothers though, and especially not her being an ex-hero.
  • Incest Yay Shipping: Kim with her mother, Ann, and her cousin, Joss.
  • Informed Wrongness: This is more of an In-Universe example: the other students (and even outsiders) make Kim out to be this incompetent opponent in the "Royal Pain" episode when she runs against Prince Wally for president (heck even Ron abandons Kim in favor of Wally). They only wanted Prince Wally to win the election due to their own shallow reasons (despite Kim being more humble and grounded than the arrogant Prince). It's no wonder Prince Wally is The Scrappy and has never appeared on the show again after this episode.
  • Jerkass Woobie:
    • Dr. Drakken. In one episode, it's revealed that his Start of Darkness was triggered by merciless mockery ("we laughed for days") from his college friends (one of whom was Kim's father).
    • Bonnie has two bully older sisters at home; it can be assumed that Bonnie's mean and sour disposition probably stems from her sisters being so mean to her all the time.
    • Roland Pond from "Oh Boyz" enjoyed the profits gained with the Oh Boyz' disappearance and had no interest in finding them (and Ron), being perfectly willing to leave them to their fates and try to sabotage attempts to find them. However, given the Oh Boyz' status as The Prima Donna and how they treated their manager prior to their Character Development while captured by the Seniors and Roland's own pitiful attitude with having to deal with them, the decision to abandon them is born more from resentment of their mistreatment of him rather than malice.
  • Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Artie is hated by many as he's not a charismatic villain like the rest of Kim's Rogues Gallery. He's just a snobby, rebellious, spoiled brat who makes Ron's life miserable for kicks and completely disrespects everyone trying to mentor him in life because of anger over his father not spending enough time with him.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Many fans of KiGo were introduced to the series after fan art depicting them together blew up online, and watch the show just to see how they interact with each other.
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Both Kim and Shego, as well as Ron, to a lesser extent.
  • Les Yay:
    • Shego is way, way too into Kim. Pet names, sly compliments, even a mudbath... then an episode dedicated to them, which shows that when the "mortal enemies" factor is removed they become incredibly close very fast. It'd be uncomfortable if Kim didn't seem to be flattered by it. See Foe Yay Shipping above.
    • There's also some definite vibes between Kim and Yori in the climax of "Big Brother".
    • Shego seemed to be very impressed with Warmonga's giant body.
      • Shego: "Wow! Somebody's been drinking their milk!"
  • LGBT Fanbase: Both Kim and Shego are very popular with women.
  • Magnificent Bastard: These foes faced by the title character and her team truly test what impossible challenges they can face.
    • Shego is the dangerously competent, hilariously snarky Dragon to Dr. Drakken. Having become a villain for sheer thrills, Shego serves alongside Drakken thanks to a genuine care for the man, putting up with and ensuring his ridiculous plans go off with far more success than he alone ever could manage. Dropping hints for her boss hidden in sarcasm, saving his life and plans on the regular, and always keeping pace in physical combat with Kim Possible herself, Shego rarely loses her sternly dark composure no matter what she faces. Able to train the airheaded Senior Jr. to be a master criminal, take advantage of an amnesiac Kim to amass an immense fortune of stolen cash, and even use time travel to take over the world for decades in a scheme of her own when she felt ambitious, Shego is consistently established as Kim's most lethal, competent foe, who only holds back due to a usual lack of interest and a set of notable morals. Shego ends the series saving Kim's life and the entire world by teaming up with her alongside Drakken to stop the Lorwardian fleet from conquering Earth, resulting in Shego being hailed as a hero and apparently turning over a new leaf to serve as an ally to the heroes of the planet.
    • Señor Senior Sr. is a retired billionaire who wants to become a great supervillain to alleviate his boredom. Getting the idea from Ron after using up all of Europe’s electricity to power up his private island, Sr. tries numerous times to enact his world domination scheme in order to prove himself a proper villain, at one point even attempting to nuke Middleton to show how bad he can be. Having a genuine affection for his son Señor Senior Jr., Sr. does whatever he can to make him happy, such as effortlessly kidnapping the Oh Boyz boy band as blackmail just so Jr. can have a shot at living out his dream as an international pop sensation. With a friendly attitude and a brilliant mind, while also displaying some extreme sports skills for his age, Sr. shows himself to be one of Kim’s greatest opponents.
    • Jack Hench is the smooth-talking, affable founder of HenchCo, a genius businessman who created the term "henchman" itself, and has dedicated himself to building a better community of villainy. Hosting a bevy of weaponry and supervillainy enhancers that he sells at massive prices to prospective bad guys, Hench has a great reputation among evil-doers for being a reasonable salesman, one who allows free testings of his products and runs raffles to give out free tanks. Even when a set of his weapons are stolen by Drakken, Hench simply puts Kim Possible onto the case to recover the weapons from Drakken, content with losing the profits so long as he establishes that HenchCo is not to be trifled with. With a sales pitch and a polite word for his even his enemies always up his sleeve, Hench never once faces any true repercussions for his criminal activity, always just shrugging off whatever losses his incurs and moving on to his next big project.
    • "Sick Day" & "Odds Man In": Hank Perkins is an upbeat temp who works for villains in need of assistance. Assisting Duff Killigan in acquiring Ray-X from a sick Kim and Ron, Perkins easily captures Jim, Tim, and Rufus when they try and retrieve the Ray from him. Returning as a villain consultant, Perkins helps build trust among Drakken's henchmen in time for his plan to launch a new Ice Age, while getting him to go corporate in the process. Buying out a cupcake shop and rebranding it in order to disguise one of Drakken's atmosfreezers, the shop turns into a financial success, becoming a genuine food enterprise in the process, which gives more chances to place atmosfreezers worldwide to launch Drakken's plan.
    • "Rufus in Show": Falsetto Jones is a master thief with a high-pitched voice and a love of dogs. Stealing jewelry knowing that his wealthy connections will prevent him from getting caught, Falsetto's base is so well-guarded that entering his dog show is the only way to bypass security. Upon Ron entering Rufus into Falsetto's dog show and winning, Falsetto, tricking Rufus into giving him his pawprint autograph, deduces that the two of them and Kim are trying to retrieve a stolen diamond from him. Placing Kim and Ron over a Death Trap, Falsetto, averting Bond Villain Stupidity, decides to watch them die, feeling that he deserves to witness this event for himself.
  • Memetic Badass:
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • What's the sitch? Explanation
    • You think you're all that, Kim Possible! BUT YOU'RE NOT! Explanation
    • Boo-Yah! Explanation
    • Wade, you rock! Explanation
    • Please and thank you.
    • "Hicka-bicka-boo?"
      "Hooo-Sha!" Explanation
    • Out there...in here... Explanation
    • Kim Possible... She can do anything.
    • Kim Possibru
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • Warhok and Warmonga were about to take Kim back to Lorwardia and stuff her as Warmonga's trophy. And they say this in front of Ron. Not only their people have conquered and enslaved planets, but apparently they would gladly kill and mount a teenager who messes with them.
    • Monkey Fist crosses it in Season 4 when he attempts to have Hana thrown into a volcano. Despite her being a toddler. A super-powered Humanoid Abomination toddler, but he didn't know that. As far as he was concerned, he was giving the order to have a completely ordinary baby killed.
    • Shego's future counterpart crosses the line when she turns the world into a dystopia and enslaves Dr. Drakken and the other villains. She also destroys Bueno Nacho.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: The four-note ringtone of the Kimmunicator. So beloved, it was a popular ringtone for cell phones during the 2000s.
  • Never Live It Down:
  • One True Threesome:
    • Kim/Ron/Shego would solve a lot of fighting between the K/R and Kigo shippers in the Kim Possible fandom.
    • Kim/Bonnie/Shego has supporters.
    • Kim/Ron/Bonnie isn't unknown amongst those who would have preferred Bonnie and Ron together (or alternatively Bonnie and Kim).
    • Ditto for Kim/Ron/Yori.
  • Periphery Demographic: For a show aimed at tweens, the show is remarkably popular among their parents and other adults, especially taking in the LGBT Fanbase aspect. It was also quite a target for Rule 34.
  • Pandering to the Base: It's clear that "Stop Team Go!" was made solely to appease Kigo fans. Unfortunately, it's obviously not a fan-favorite episode for K/R fans.
  • Recurring Fanon Character: In the fanfic A Small Possibility, Shego and Kim have twins named Sheki and Kasy. Following the fic's publication, the two are the go-to kids used in many Kid Fics involving the pairing.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Minor villain D.N.Amy is voiced by Melissa McCarthy.
  • Ron the Death Eater:
    • Ron Stoppable The Death Eater. Seriously, you go on one Helm Of Opposite Alignment-induced rampage, and suddenly everyone expects you to be the next Doctor Doom. Ironically enough, a lot (though not all) of "Ron turning evil" fics are less to get him out of the way for Kim and Shego to get together and more because.... the Opposite Alignment version of Ron was arguably the coolest, most badass villain on the show!
    • Kim's father Dr. Possible also get this from time to time for being a major instigator in Drakken's origin, and just acting overly smug in general, so he's often treated like a bad father too even though he's clearly not. What's Hilarious in Hindsight is that his voice actor would later go on to voice a real scumbag father.
  • The Scrappy: Prince Wally from the episode "Royal Pain" is considered one of the most obnoxious and unlikable characters the series ever had, with many viewers rooting for the Knights of Rodeghan to ax him off. This might be the reason he was never utilized again following his episode.
  • Ship Mates:
    • Kim/Ron and Drakken / Shego are often shipped by the same fans.
    • Ron/Bonnie or Ron/Yori (for het) and Ron/Drakken or Ron/Felix (for slash) are the most used pairings by KiGo writers who want to "free" Kim from Ron.
  • Spiritual Successor:
  • Squick: In "Homecoming Upset" it's said that Brick Flagg was held back three times in high school, graduating from Middleton High School only by Season 4. Based on the average age of high schoolers and the maximum attendance age of 21 in the US public schooling system, that means that by the So the Drama prom dance, Brick would be approximately 20-21 years old, making him at the least four or five years older than his on-and-off girlfriend Bonnie, who would be approximately 16-17.
  • Strawman Has a Point: Team Impossible are portrayed as greedy jerks by forcing Kim out of the hero business, but the thing is, if someone offered to do same work you did for free, thus putting you out of business, you too would be rather irate.
  • Testosterone Brigade: Have you seen some of the fan art on DeviantArt? For a Disney girls' show, Kim Possible has an awful lot of post-pubescent male fans.
  • Theme Pairing: Fans like to pair Kim and Shego, the Action Girl and Dark Action Girl who are both more reasonable and level-headed than their eccentric male counterparts
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Ron's shift from Will Friedle's normal tone to a hyper-nasally way of speaking was a bit grating to some fans.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Many of the characters who only appeared in one episode have interesting backstories and abilities but sadly, didn't get much exploration:
    • Adrena Lynn would've been an excellent Foil for Kim, while Kim actually does her stunts and does it for altruism, Adrena does it for fame and is a lying fraud. Apparently Adrena Lynn was originally going to be a recurring character and act as a proper foil for Kim, but wasn't popular with audiences.
    • As mentioned in What Could Have Been in the trivia section, Will Du could've been a great rival for Kim in terms of heroism and spying, but only appeared in one episode.
    • Prince or rather President Wally, could've served as the team's financier since he did tell them that he would meet them again.
      • Same with the Knights of Rodeghan. Would they still try to assassinate Wally despite his intentions of turning their country into a democracy?
    • They could have done more with Kim's relationship with Josh and Ron's relationship with Tara and/or Zita (instead with Ron's former he wasn't even aware of Tara's crush, just like with Yori).
    • Kim, Tim and Jim's cousin Joss could've made a great recurring character as fans were disappointed that she didn't appear in the series finale while her father Slim did.
    • Kim and Bonnie's fellow cheerleaders are essentially Social Circle Filler, even Tara, despite her early crush on Ron. It could have been interesting seeing more about how they navigate being in the middle of Kim and Bonnie's rivalry, how they view Kim's world-saving activities, and how their perception of Ron changes after his heroism in the second episode.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • We saw a good Shego and Drakken and an evil Ron but never an evil Kim. It could have been that it was too obvious, or that Ron is just better because he's funny as a villain, but an evil Kim is both a terrifying and interesting concept.
    • One complaint that fans have about the fourth season is that there wasn't as much romance between Kim and Ron as they were hoping for. This makes sense considering that Kim and Ron's new relationship was one of the main reasons fans petitioned for a fourth season in the first place.
      • Heck, watching the episode "Cap'n Drakken", you wouldn't even know the two were in a relationship, and could mistake it for a season 3 episode.
      • Making this even more frustrating is that a Disney cartoon years later would prove that it was possible to incorporate an element of romance without leading to a Romantic Plot Tumor, which mitigates the justification for keeping Kim and Ron's relationship to the minimum.
    • Some fans were disappointed to see Yori's reaction when Ron told her that he was dating Kim, echoing his sentiment that she could have at least felt something. Although many were glad that she accepted it and chose not to intervene, some believe it would have been more interesting if she had to come to terms with it over the course of the episode instead of making it instantaneous, or accepted them as a couple but still had feelings for Ron instead of throwing them away just as quickly.
    • Wouldn't it have been great to see Junior's competence at villainy again?
    • In "Showdown at the Crooked D", Drakken and James Possible's shared past at college is brought up. However, Professor Ramesh also used to be a college friend of Drew Lipsky and shows up in the episode, yet he does not recognize Drakken's voice as he did in "Attack of the Killer Bebe", nor does Drakken refer to him in any specific way as to Ramesh's new Silly Hat-induced stupidity. Bob Chen does not appear at all, though he does appear in the series finale with Ramesh.
  • Ugly Cute: The only cartoon to make a naked mole rat an awesome spy's pet. And considering what naked mole rats look like in real life, that's saying something.
  • Unfortunate Character Design: Everyone has joked about Kim's upper lip looking like a moustache.
  • Unintentional Period Piece:
    • Zita is a fan of an Everquest parody (which still exists but has been overthrown by World of Warcraft), there's a '90s-esque reoccuring Boy Band, and Kim's fashion sense reeks of early 2000s. Not to mention the extreme sports theming of several episodes.
    • The theme song's refrain, "call me, BEEP me, if you wanna reach me" was dated even back in the 2000's as beepers were on their last gasps while cell phones were becoming more common.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Roland Pond, the record executive in “Oh Boyz.” He’s presented as being in the wrong for not rushing to save the missing boy band, but the band in question treated him like crap. In the end, he'ss punished for abandoning the group and the Oh Boyz are never called out for their actions.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kim is usually sympathetic, except in the episode "Bueno Nacho." She gets upset over Ron being a better employee than her at Bueno Nacho — a job that she signed him up to do with her without his consent. She also thought her own job duty was stupid, despite Ned giving her a much easier objective (just putting condiments on the food) than Ron. Despite this, viewers are meant to side with her in her arguments with Ron. That said, she does admit that she envied Ron being better than her in the job and apologises for her behaviour.
  • Unnecessary Makeover: While Kim's new mission outfit in Season 4 is not hated, fan art and even her live-action counterpart's costume shows her original mission gear is clearly the more liked one. Adding to this is Stephen Silver, the lead character artist behind the show, drew a 10 Years Later version based on art he and Butch Hartman did for Danny Phantom, looking more like an update of her original outfit.

    2019 Film 
  • Base-Breaking Character:
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Hey, remember that episode called "And The Mole Rat will be CGI"? That episode was about some hack deciding to make a movie about Kim Possible, after seeing her in action. On top of that, they really did use CGI for the mole rat in the 2019 movie.
  • Ho Yay: Kim and Athena's relationship has a lot of subtext, not helped by the fact that it's very similar to Kim and Eric's from So The Drama.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Many fans have taken issue with the plot twist of Athena being a robot since Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama had already done it with Eric (in a manner generally considered better). In addition, fans who saw that movie found it predictable. It hasn't helped that the film features another villain plot twist, something Disney has been criticized for overusing in the later half of the 2010s in their films.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Many find that only the scenes centering around Drakken and Shego are worth watching, as despite their appearances not being quite up-to-snuff with their cartoon designs, their actors seem to be the only ones actually having fun with their characters rather than just sleepwalking through their performances like the rest of the cast.
    • This also extends to de-aged Drakken, whose child actor does a remarkably good job at portraying Drakken if he was forced into a young body.
  • LGBT Fanbase: Shego, who already has a prominent LGBT fanbase, is played by an openly lesbian actress.
  • Memetic Mutation:
  • Narm:
    • The mere fact that Kim feels the need to do saltos and rolls to do anything, even when she's simply walking somewhere. Is Sadie Stanley portraying Kim Possible or Sportacus?
    • The climax of the movie has Kim, Ron and Kim's grandma all dressed properly for the action that's about to happen. Meanwhile, Kim's mom looks more like she just decided to drop by from her morning jog.
    • From the same scene, Kim, Ron and her backup assume an Ass Kicking Pose, climb down a flight of stairs and pose again.
    • Changing Kim and Bonnie’s position from high school cheerleaders to soccer players is not bad. Bonnie, however, dismissing cheerleaders as losers comes across as silly given cheerleaders are more often than not as athletic, if not more, than soccer players in real life.
    • "Hench-WOMEN!!!!"
  • Older Than They Think:
    • Many fans are upset that Disney brought their favorite cartoon back in the form of a live-action remake, but the idea to make a live-action Kim Possible movie dates back to when the original series first aired. As mentioned on the Trivia page, So The Drama was originally conceived as a live-action movie.
    • People have been disappointed that this version of Kim ditches the crop top. However, said crop top was a minor criticism against the original show, being deemed as "too sexualized" by many adults. There was an entire season 4 episode dedicated to Kim's classic outfit being destroyed by accident and her replacing her iconic crop top with a more modest purple T-Shirt.
    • Drakken's failed attempts at being "cool" and contemporary, such as using Villainstagram, have been mocked, but they're in-character to the cartoon. Drakken has always been portrayed as an out-of-date, older adult that contrasts with Shego's 20-something youthfulness and savvy attitude (most memorably when Drakken became "Dr. D" and rapped to sell his shampoo).
  • Questionable Casting:
    • While it was probably unavoidable given the change to a live action format, a lot of people are also criticizing the casting choices, claiming that none of the actors resemble their cartoon selves or capture their personalities, even taking the costume changes below into account. Oddly enough, some have argued that Sadie Stanley looks too young to be playing Kim, even though she was stated to be 16 at the time of the film's announcement, the same age as her cartoon counterpart. Once the film came out, most viewers at least seemed to agree on praising Taylor Ortega (Shego)’s portrayal for being the most similar to her original cartoon self and that Sean Giambrone, while still debatable regarding Ron’s role in the story, could still capture Ron’s essence while also sounding like Will Friedle.
    • Gary Cole, Jean Smart, and Patrick Warburton not reprising their roles as Mr. and Mrs. Possible and Mr. Barkin respectively, despite being screen actors, just as Patton Oswalt got to return as Professor Dementor. Likewise no cameo from Will Friedle despite Christy showing up for onenote , Tahj Mowry (Voice of Wade), Nicole Sullivan (Shego), John DiMaggio (Drakken note ) or, even more odd, Raven-Symoné (Monique) for that matter despite the fact at the time she had a show running on Disney during the film's production (Raven's Home).
    • The Nostalgia Critic brings up an interesting point in his review about not using Christy Carlson Romano and Will Friedle to play Kim's parents rather than the former just showing up for a cameo. Indeed the two can look the part given the right makeup and actually would've been an nice in-joke with their VAs now being the parents to the live action version.
    • In fact, many were actually surprised to see Alyson Hannigan (Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lily from How I Met Your Mother) in the role of the mother instead, citing it's not a bad choice and the actress does well enough. Though, bizarrely, she looks more like Kim than the actress playing her does despite being 20 years her senior.
  • She Really Can Act: Love or hate the film, Sadie Stanley turns in one Tear Jerker of a performance at certain points, particularly when she's breaking down to her grandmother about not being as good as Athena.
  • So Okay, It's Average: General consensus is that the film was just okay. The actors do a fine job of imitating the characters (with Shego and Ron's actor getting the most praise), and it's clear the writing team (which included the show's creators) were trying to be as close to the cartoon as possible, right down to even recreating the opening sequence and some of its Running Gags. However, the movie has some pacing issues, Kim's character feel a bit OOC at points (Yeah Kim can be petty but could get over it fairly fast and put doing right above her own self interest. So her suddenly getting jealous of Athena supposedly upstaging her to the point she didn't help her during the school assembly didn't sit well with most) and many of the changes made for the adaptation didn't sit well with most of the fanbase. The movie also received criticism for Athena's inclusion, especially when we learn that her role in the plot is a repeat of Eric's from the previous film, right down to the twist that they're a Drakken-made robot meant to mess with Kim's head. And even those that did enjoy it seem to agree that the trailers didn’t do much to get viewers intrigued, let alone the original series’ fans, like not explaining what the film was about or hightlighting the more favorable aspects in the film and/or that resembled the cartoon. Overall, this DCOM is not a bad watch, but series fans have quickly deemed it a forgettable curiosity.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
    • All over the place regarding the new character designs, from Kim's updated mission outfit to the fact that Drakken and Shego no longer have blue and pale green skin, respectively.
    • Story-wise, adding Athena, which changed Kim and Ron's Action Duo to a Power Trio, rubbed many fans the wrong way, with some even saying that it's a disservice to the characters and the cartoon.
    • Shego's powers not being innate upset many fans who are fond of her backstory and her metahuman characteristics.
    • Changing Kim's sport profession from cheerleading to soccer was received badly, since her being a cheerleader is one of her defining traits and also explains why she's so athletic.
    • Removing Rufus' history with Ron by making him a lab rat, rather than Ron's childhood pet has been criticized for making no sense. Especially since Rufus has no bearing on the plot, outside of quickly coming out and helping the heroes in the climax.
    • While fans were pleased at Christy Romano's cameo as Poppy Blue, many were still severely disappointed that Will Friedle didn't also make a cameo. Especially considering the fact he and Romano appeared dressed as their respective characters during the remake's auditions in April 2018.
    • For some fans, replacing Monique as Kim's female best friend with Athena.
    • Removing the Kimmunicator and replacing it with a simplistic necklace has been heavily critiqued. The Kimmunicator was a major element of the show, to the point where it's referenced in the main theme and an entire tie-in game revolved around it. In contrast, Kim's necklace is just a nameless necklace with holographic features.
    • One of the more slight complaints is how the film goes for a "girl empowering" feel which the show also did, but much more effectively. The fact that the climax involved pretty much all the female Possibles members confronting Drakken and Shego rather than the whole family coming to help out didn't help this notion.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • Athena, for those who didn't resent her inclusion from the start. The idea of there being a heroine, who's better than Kim and makes the latter feel worse about her own capabilities is a pretty decent idea. Even her turning out to be a spy was (while predictable), a nice direction for the plot to go to, since she, unlike Eric, actually manages to do a Heel–Face Turn, which would make for an interesting dynamic. However, as mentioned before, some dislike her becoming a permanent member of Team Possible, since she's disturbing Kim and Ron's dynamic. Her turning out to be a robot was also received badly, since it's pretty obvious that the writers needed some sort of way to have her survive the explosion, without being to unrealistic about it.
    • The climax has Kim, her mother, and Nana along with Ron coming to stop Drakken and Shego... and leaves out her father and the Tweebs. One of the things about the series is that all the Possibles are capable in some fields and could've helped out in the climax to help emphasize the "family" unit to Athena.
  • Unexpected Character: Of all the characters that show up in the movie, who was expecting Nana Possible, a more or less minor character note  from the TV show, to be one of them?
  • WTH, Costuming Department?:
    • All of the costumes have gotten flak for their inaccuracies, but people tend to point fingers at Ron, for having a haircut similar to Justin Timberlake back in his *NSYNC days. Not only is that haircut inaccurate to the show, but it also looks very ridiculous on him. Oddly enough, he has a more accurate hairstyle in the music video for "Naked mole rap".
    • Shego looks less like her cartoon counterpart and more like the daughter of Rita Repulsa.
    • Kim's mission outfit with its cut-outs and plenty additional straps that can get caught anywhere is just plain impractical for an Action Girl who's reliant on her agility.

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