History KimPossible / TropesAToF

* BigNo: Twice in Season 4, the latter followed by DisturbedDoves. Ron has a couple throughout the series (including a truly epic one in "A Very Possible Christmas" (Season 2, episode 16), but Kim lets one out in "Trading Faces" (Season 4, Episode 3) that frankly sounds halfway between a BigNo and a Tarzan yell.

* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler:The Lorwardians invade Earth to get revenge for being tricked by Drakken and beaten up by Kim.]]

** Dr Director is a GenderFlipped General Comicbook/NickFury. Which, in turn makes Gemini based on Jake "Scorpio" Fury.

* FingerSnapLighter: Shego.

** Drakken was initially an intimidating MadScientist, even to the point of quelling Shego in "Mind Games", with a touch of AbsentMindedProfessor. However, by the end of the series he is basically an IneffectualSympatheticVillain / IronButtMonkey. Although part of Drakken's problem is likely due to VillainDecay.
** Though he did get a [[TookALevelInBadass badass boost]] thanks to becoming a PlantPerson.

* ForeignQueasine: One episode had Ron and Rufus finding a bag of chips that belonged to the current client, whereupon they began eagerly eating them... at least until the client tells them the chips were made from crickets.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: In "Gorilla Fist", [=DNAmy=] to Monkey Fist.

* ConspicuousCG: The Diablos and The Lorwardian Tripods.

* CaptainErsatz: Team Go are a pretty obvious Ersatz to Marvel Comic's ComicBook/PowerPack, which logically makes Shego a villainous version of Katie Power. Also ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', considering the group's use of themed colors, they inhabit a "Go Tower", and the fact that the ''Teen Titans'' show was pretty popular at the time.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: "A Sitch in Time"

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: "Ron Millionaire": Ron gets $99 million for a snack food he invented while working in [[BurgerFool fast food]] in the [[ContinuityNod third episode]]. He updates his wardrobe with excessive bling, attracts a posse of sycophants and gold diggers ([[AlphaBitch including Bonnie]]), and in general acts like a jerk to those around him. In fact, temporary popularity going to Ron's head is a recurring plot (as was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the aforementioned episode), as are his attempts to ''get'' said popularity.
* ActionDressRip

-->'''Fashion Designer:''' I love It!\\

* ActionGirl: Kim, Yori, even Zita when she needed to be, making Ron ask, "Are all girls like this, or just the ones I know?"
** Both Kim and Yori double as The ActionGirlfriend.

* AdamWesting: Adam West appears as "Timothy North" aka The Fearless Ferret, as mentioned above.

-->Normally I would say we learned that mistrust and paranoia were bad...except those were the things that saved us.
** And a deliberately warped one in the episode on healthy eating. Ron delivers the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle "I learned something today" speech]] to camera (and gets the wrong moral, telling us to [[FantasticAesop stay out of mutagenic mad-science chemicals that will turn you into a monster]] instead of eating healthy food), while a growing crowd behind him [[AudienceWhatAudience wonders who on Earth he's addressing]].

* AffablyEvil: The Seniors, especially Senor Senior, Sr. He treats his villainy as more of a part-time hobby than anything and doesn't seem to be a bad person at all. Ron says that Sr. is a bad man with good manners.

* AffectionateParody: The show itself sets out to do to ''Film/JamesBond'' movies what Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}} did to horror films. One episode however was a spoof of the old ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series, with Creator/AdamWest playing...wait for it, Timothy North, the [[AdamWesting eccentric actor]] who really believed he was the Fearless Ferret.
** Even moreso, the episode had the original Ferret train a new Ferret (Ron) to follow in his footsteps. Ron is voiced by Creator/WillFriedle, the same guy who voiced Terry [=McGinnis=] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Batman Beyond}}'', a show that had the exact same concept.

* AirVentPassageway: Kim, Ron, and Rufus use air vents to get ''into'' places, such as Ron's panic room in 'Odds Man In' and The Bermuda Triangle in [[TheMovie 'So the Drama']]

* AllJustADream "Rewriting History"
** ...OrWasItADream

* AmazonChaser: Ron seems to have a thing for women like this. He even {{lampshade}}s it.

* ArtShift: The episode "Virt-U-Ron" featured a blockier style of art to show that they were in a video game.
* ArtEvolution: Monique went from having black dot eyes, to white eyes with pupils by the second season.
** Also, the characters had more movement in the first two seasons than in later ones. The animation also got smoother as time went on.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: You have three guesses on this. The first two don't count.
** In fact, several characters fit this. In addition to our titular teen heroine, most of her family qualify, with the exception of Cousin Larry and Aunt June. We also have Adrena Lynn, Brick Flagg, and Camille Leon.

* BadBoss: Gemini's secret headquarters is full of [[TrapDoor trap doors]] that he uses to dispose of {{Mooks}} [[YouHaveFailedMe who have "failed" him]], or just argued against him.
** One of said {{Mooks}} was savvy enough ''not'' to sit on the offered chair. It didn't help though but point for the effort.

The Possible family. Also Shego's family, who are a team of superheroes.

* BadFuture: ''[[EvilOverlord The Supreme One]]'' [[TakeOverTheWorld takes over the world]] and rules it from her [[EvilTowerOfOminousness citadel of Doom]] in Shegoton, formerly Middleton in ''[[TheMovie A Sitch in Time]]''.
* BadVibrations: Done numerous times, including D N Amy's [[Franchise/JurassicPark dinosaur]], [[Franchise/JurassicPark complete with a vibrating tub of nacho cheese]].

-->"It's been my dream to see you save the world ''without'' baring your midriff."

* BatmanColdOpen: Half of the teasers in the show. The other half were often related to a subplot relating to Kim's personal life that lead into the rest of the episode.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In Graduation, Drakken said he just wanted one clear-cut victory... granted, it didn't turn out all that bad for him.

* BigNo: Twice in Season 4, the later is followed by DisturbedDoves. Ron has a couple throughout the series (including a truly epic one in "A Very Possible Christmas" (Season 2, episode 16), but Kim lets one out in "Trading Faces" (Season 4, Episode 3) that frankly sounds halfway between a BigNo and a Tarzan yell.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Bueno Nacho restaurants.
** These restaurants are actually almost a perfect replica of the old building design for the real life 'Del Taco' restaurant chain, which did in fact, greatly resemble a small house wearing a building-sized sombrero. Several of these old buildings still exist in various places around the United States.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Team Possible and friends are unambiguously good (albeit occasionally slipping into [[CompressedVice bad habits]] for long enough to learn [[{{Aesop}} a lesson]] from the experience). The villains are unambiguously evil and [[CardCarryingVillain proud of it]].

-->'''Kim:''' Alright, but I warn you, you're breaking with villain tradition here.
* {{Bookends}}: The first aired episode of the series, "Crush", ends at a school dance where Kim dances with Josh Mankey. The show's first finale, ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So the Drama]]'' ends with a school dance, with [[RelationshipUpgrade Kim dancing with Ron.]]
** Also from "Crush"; during their first encounter, Drakken corners Kim and sneers, "You should have stuck with baby-sitting!" In ''So the Drama'', Kim, [[DespairEventHorizon her spirit having been crushed by Eric's betrayal,]] laments, "Drakken was right, I should have stuck with baby-sitting."

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In-universe: When it was time to make Kim Possible 1. Rufus had clothes. [[LampshadeHanging Because it was a FAMILY action movie!]]

* BrainlessBeauty: {{Subverted}} with most of the characters, though most notably by [[HotScientist Vivian Francis Porter]].

* BreakoutCharacter: Shego & Drakken. They were just meant to be one of the many villains in the show. Shego was simply Drakken's sidekick; Her color scheme was chosen because green and black are "villain" colors and she didn't even have her superpowers. Drakken was more pushy, and aggressive than he turned out to be post-Season 1. They soon became main characters and arguably the ''mascots'' of the series (Besides, y'know, Kim, Ron, and Rufus.)
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "The Ron Factor", Kim stops the opening credits to ask the audience. "No no! Seriously! You need Ron?" Given how this was Steve Loter's first episode as director, that's a considerable bit of irony, since under his direction Ron would take the spotlight away from the show's title character.

* BrilliantButLazy: Shego is considerably more competent than any of the other villains, but shows no real initiative and spends much of her time lounging around reading magazines.
** Also one possible [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpretation]] of Ron -- [[CowardlySidekick usually bumbling]], but able to [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass come through when it counts]].

* BrotherChuck: Star quarterback Brick Flagg showed up here and there, but he sort of vanished after a while. Although his no longer appearing was ''eventually'' justified at least for the last season - he'd graduated by then. He wasn't exactly the brightest bulb when off the football field, and it was mentioned that he'd ''finally'' graduated after being held back a few years. (He even votes for one of his opponents during the school election. Not that it mattered much.)

* BuffySpeak: Despite a few affectations, the slang used by teenagers in this show is either semi-contemporary or totally fabricated. They used the BuffySpeak less and less in later seasons, which lessened the [[ForcedMeme cringe factor]] of a few of them.
*** Ten reference points for nailing Creator/SarahMichelleGellar's voice.

* CaptainErsatz: Team Go are a pretty obvious Ersatz to Marvel Comic's ComicBook/PowerPack, which logically makes Shego a villainous version of Katie Power.
** Also ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', considering the group's use of themed colors, they inhabit a "Go Tower", and the fact that the ''Teen Titans'' show was pretty popular at the time.

* CardboardPrison: {{Lampshaded}} in the fourth season, when people keep breaking Shego out of prison while leaving Drakken to rot.

* CatchphraseInterruptus: In the second season Ron uses his "That would be so cool if it wasn't going to hurt us" phrase twice, but gets interrupted both times: first by Wade and another time by himself.

* CantYouReadTheSign: Ron offers Kim and Monique a pickle in the Club Banana store. Monique points out the sign "No Food, Pickled or Otherwise".

* ChewToy: Some see Drakken and Ron (seasons 1-3) as this since they never seem to catch any breaks.

* ClarkKenting: Hego. Bonus as Christopher [=McDonald=] voiced Franchise/{{Superman}} in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' with Will Fredle.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Classy 'N' Crass]] : She's well-mannered, impeccably groomed, gorgeous, and stylish to a fault. He's lazy, slobbish, has ears like two open car doors, is forever about two fashion trends behind, and smells like overripe fruit.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The Battlesuit, so powerful in fact that the writers had to work hard to get rid of it. Kim briefly wonders if her regular duds have some sort of luck to them.

* CompilationMovie: "A Sitch in Time".

* ContinuityNod: More than one might expect, especially given the producers admitted approach of [[SnapBack "Continuity by accident"]]. (Changed in [[UnCancelled season four]] were the call backs to previous one-off characters and stories bordered on ContinuityPorn.)
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Several of the villains indulge in BondVillainStupidity and hold tightly to the VillainBall simply because that's how these things are done.
** Señor Senior Senior stands out principally because 'evil billionaire' is his ''hobby,'' and he's very dedicated to doing it exactly according to tradition. He doesn't mind losing, because that, too, is traditional.

-->'''Mr. Dr. P:''' You wore rocket skates to graduation?\\

*** This doubles as a ContinuityNod as Ron was caught without them at the start of the previous finale, ''So the Drama'', and it caused him quite a bit of trouble (especially since he ''did'' remember to wear his blaster briefs).

* TheCrimeJob: "The Big Job", where Senior Senior Junior tries to pull off an impressive crime as a birthday gift to his father.
* {{Crossover}}: Kim and crew appeared in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (in which there's also a ContinuityPorn moment involving Drakken's issues with cloning) and {{cameo}}ed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}''.
** The crossover with ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' indirectly links ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''.

* DarkHorseVictory: "Return to Wannaweep": Kim, her rival Bonnie and even Ron end up losing the Spirit award to the shark mascot.

--> "Proving once and for all that quantity wins over quality."

* {{Deathtrap}}: Practically OnceAnEpisode, the Villains leave our heroes to their own demise, except in the case of one aversion. Otherwise it's {{lampshade|hanging}}d fairly often.

** In "A Sitch in Time," Ron and Kim are talking about him moving to Norway and Kim's trying to reassure him that they'll still be able to work together.

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Apparently this is so easy in Kim Possible's world that even the show's very lowest grade villains, a disgruntled Smarty Mart employee and a washed-out reality TV star, can seize control of every TV on the planet.
** At least, it's easy if you're a [[TechnoWizard Computer Genius]] like Lucre or you have access to a ''lot'' of your former show's broadcast equipment like Adrena Lynn.

* DressingAsTheEnemy Ron dresses as a henchman in "Odds Man In"
* DrillSergeantNasty: In Sgt. Coach form, Mr. Barkin.
** Barkin is both types, given his military background.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ron gets no respect in school, despite his key role in regularly [[SaveTheWorld saving the world]] with Kim. Even she doesn't get much slack from people on the home front for all the times she's saved them all from doom.
** Ironically, Drakken gets this as well. Despite the fact he's probably [[NearVillainVictory come closer to succeeding]] than any other foe, only Shego gets rescued from prison repeatedly.
** This could actually be FridgeBrilliance: Shego gets rescued repeatedly from prison by other supervillians, who want her as their sidekick - Drakken, on the other hand, is ''competition''.

* EasilyForgiven: "Ill-Suited" Ron is let off the hook despite lying to Kim, cheating at a major sporting event, and stealing high-tech weaponry that put lives in danger. Kim forgave him and Barkin let him stay on the team. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Although he did have to do 20 crabwalk laps around the field.]] [[ValuesDissonance Though it is a stark reminder of how in Season 1 Kim was grounded just for lying.]] Although since Ron is the goofy comic relief, writer's surrogate, and DesignatedHero of this particular episode he gets a pass.

* EggSitting: With a bag of flour in "Big Bother".
** Made that much funnier when one remembers that this is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Will Friedle's]] [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E21TheEggbaby second time]] doing so.

* EnemyMine: The main heroes and the main villains have to team up in the SeriesFinale to save the world [[spoiler:[[AlienInvasion from the Lorwardians]].]]
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: The very German Professor Dementor doesn't quite do the nailing of all of the idioms in English.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Steal Wheels" Shego objects to stealing Felix's technologically advanced wheelchair, asking incredulously "What's next, stealing candy from a baby?". Subverted in that one episode later, that's exactly what ''she'' does.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: That Kim was jealous of Yori in "Gorilla Fist". Wade and Monique for example.
** Kim and Ron's relationship in general, specifically starting in season 3, or maybe even way back during the first movie. When they finally do become a couple in "So The Drama", Bonnie [[AlphaBitch of course]] laughs ("It finally happened. She's dating that loser!"), everyone else ''cheers'', implying they'd been expecting it to happen ''all along''.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys, unless you're Ron. And in Season 4, that changes when he fully embraces his Monkey Kung Fu.

* EvilIsDumb: Inverted by Ron (normally intellectually lazy and good-hearted: on two occasions, wicked and far more ingenious than most villains). Averted by Shego, for all the good it does her.

* EvilPlan: Drakken has the traditional 'TakeOverTheWorld' goal, but his plans suffer from lameness.

* EvilLaugh: This is the only thing about being a villain that Doctor Drakken knows how to do right. Also parodied by Frugal Lucre, and Señor Senior Senior's winning line "Come, son. Let us return to our lair and practice our evil laughs together."
** Even [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Ron]] has one: "BOO-YA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
* EvilOldFolks: [[WickedCultured Señor Senior Senior]] and [[BabysitterFromHell Nanny Nane]].

* EyepatchOfPower: Dr. Betty Director, and her brother Gemini.
** Future Kim (portrayed as leader of Global Justice in a "Sitch in Time" [[DVDBonusContent DVD extra]]). Apparently they both wear it just to look cool; Betty thinks it gives her more respect.
* EyeScream: A mild case in "Low Budget" when Kim pretends to put on a contact lens. She pokes herself in the eye without flinching, but a single tear falls from her eye.

* FastballSpecial: Ron throws Rufus at Dementor's control panel in "Ill Suited", Rufus is also a functional shuriken if the need arises.

* FictionalZodiac: Animalogy, which seems to be more of a parody of astrology in general rather then the Zodiacal aspects. Though each color/animal ocmbination does have its own "fortune".

** Drakken was initially an intimidating MadScientist, even to the point of quelling Shego in "Mind Games", with a touch of AbsentMindedProfessor. However, by the end of the series he is basically an IneffectualSympatheticVillain / IronButtMonkey. Although part of Drakken's problem is likely due to DiminishingVillainThreat.

** Ron went from fairly competent PluckyComicRelief at the beginning of the series to BumblingSidekick / ButtMonkey by the end of the end of the third season. In the fourth season, he began to go through CharacterDevelopment that came with his RelationshipUpgrade with Kim that culminated in a moment of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass in the last episode. True, he had a few instances of his bumbling self throughout the fourth season, it was most likely done for comedy.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In the episode ''Blush'' the "Wade-bot" launches itself off a cliff in the Amazon with Ron and Rufus, however Wade only remembers after the leap that he forgot to install the parachute. Yet just a few minutes earlier ''in the same episode'' the Wade-bot had a hang-glider attachment to save Ron and Rufus from plummeting down a waterfall, and he conveniently forgets about this gizmo once it could be useful again.

** Shego drinks a Long Island Iced Tea in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama''.

** The best example would be with Ron at the Middleton High Talent Show. While Kim is escaping an elaborate DeathTrap, Ron ends up as a last-minute write-in to stall for time. He ends up performing various vaudeville styled acts from dancing with Rufus, being a ventriloquist with Rufus as a puppet, playing the 'Star-Spangled Banner' with the rims of glasses, breathing fire with hot sauce before breaking several concrete bricks via a head-butt. While none of these talents are bad, they are admittedly odd compared to Kim's and Bonnie's. Nevertheless, he wins the talent show and as Barkin says:

* DysfunctionalFamily: The Go siblings.

** According to the official site, Shego's energy blasts were originally generated by some kind of mechanism in her gloves. However, the second season {{retcon}}ned her green glow into a superpower she got from a mysterious meteor.

*** This doubles as a ContinuityNod as Ron was caught without them at the start of the previous finale.

* CriminalConvention: In the Season 3 episode "Bad Boy", there is the Annual Supervillain Tradeshow and Convention. They have henchmen seminars, doomsday demonstrations and an evil snack bar! Unlike most examples of this trope, the general public seems to be aware of this, the convention taking place at the Middleton Convention Center.
* TheCrimeJob: "The Big Job", where Señor Senior Junior tries to pull off an impressive crime as a birthday gift to his father.

** The best example would be with Ron. While Kim is escaping an elaborate DeathTrap, Ron ends up as a last-minute write-in to stall for time. He ends up performing various vaudeville styled acts from dancing with Rufus, being a ventriloquist with Rufus as a puppet, playing the 'Star-Spangled Banner' with the rims of glasses, breathing fire with hot sauce before breaking several concrete bricks via a head-butt. While none of these talents are bad, they are admittingly odd compared to Kim's and Bonnie's. Nevertheless, he wins the talent show and as Barkin says:

* BadassFamily: The Possible family. Also Shego's family, who are a team of superheroes.

* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Kim's Nana Possible used to do much the same sort of thing that her granddaughter does now, and still indulges in it on occasion.
** [[AffablyEvil Senor Senior Sr]] is a legend of extreme sports.

* BullyHunter: She doesn't set out to do this, but Kim does beat up on Ron's bullies twice, including ''A Sitch In Time'''s CrowningMomentOfAwesome/[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]] against Drakken, Killigan and Monkey Fist. Also, [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]] breaks down crying when it looks like Kim's going to thump her.

* FictionalDocument: That [[BlatentLies favorite]] of high school English student everywhere, the classic novella ''Lo the Plow Shall Till the Soil of Redemption.''

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Quite a few characters - Wade, Bonnie Rockwaller, a few of Drakken's henchmen...

** [[spoiler: "So payback's the sitch!"]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ron. Starts appearing in "Sink Or Swim," and pops up more and more often, usually shown when Kim was unavailable or incapacitated for whatever reason. [[spoiler: In the grand finale, he saves Kim's life (and the world) by using his monkey powers, which some fans likened unto a Super Saiyajin transformation.]]

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In the episode ''Blush'' the "Wade-bot" launches itself off a cliff in the Amazon with Ron and Rufus, however Wade only remembers after the leap that he forgot to install the parachute. Yet just a few minutes earlier ''in the same episode'' the Wade-bot had a hang-glider attachment to save Ron and Rufus from plummeting down a waterfall, and he conveniently forgets about this gizmo once its could be useful again.

* ForgotABoutHisPowers: In the episode ''Blush'' the "Wade-bot" launches itself off a cliff in the Amazon with Ron and Rufus, however Wade only remembers after the leap that he forgot to install the parachute. Yet just a few minutes earlier ''in the same episode'' the Wade-bot had a hang-glider attachment to save Ron and Rufus from plummeting down a waterfall, and he conveniently forgets about this gizmo once its could be useful again.