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* MerryChristmasInGotham: Ron tries to take on Drakken by himself so Kim can have a nice Christmas with her family. Ends up with Ron and Drakken bonding over an old TV show, whose theme they sing together. Now, ''Kim Possible'' isn't exactly [[DarkerandEdgier dark and edgy]] to begin with, but they were shooting for LighterAndSofter than usual.

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* MerryChristmasInGotham: Ron tries to take on Drakken by himself so Kim can have a nice Christmas with her family. Ends up with Ron and Drakken bonding over an old TV show, whose theme they sing together. Now, ''Kim Possible'' isn't exactly [[DarkerandEdgier dark The episode ends with Shego and edgy]] the Possible family sitting down to begin with, but they were shooting for LighterAndSofter than usual.Christmas dinner in an escape pod in the Arctic:
--> '''Shego:''' Uh - Dr. D... you ''serious?''
--> '''Kim:''' Actually, this is... this is... I don't know ''what'' this is.
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* MaleGaze: The series has its fair amount of close up butt shots.

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* MaleGaze: The series has its a fair amount of close up butt shots. shots, and sometimes lingers on Shego.
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** Drakken in ''Possible Christmas'' - to the point of CharacterDerailment. Not only does he pay for Shego's Christmas vacation and invite the Possibles to Christmas dinner, he ''remembers Ron's name.''

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** Drakken in ''Possible Christmas'' - to the point of CharacterDerailment.Christmas.'' To hilarious lengths. Not only does he pay for Shego's Christmas vacation and invite the Possibles to Christmas dinner, he ''remembers Ron's name.''

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* PetTheDog: Shego with Junior, noteable in the second episode with them because this was around the time she descended into StupidEvil territory.

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* PetTheDog: Some villains get these moments - PlayedForLaughs, of course.
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Shego with Junior, noteable notable in the second episode with them because this was around the time she descended into StupidEvil territory.territory.
** Drakken in ''Possible Christmas'' - to the point of CharacterDerailment. Not only does he pay for Shego's Christmas vacation and invite the Possibles to Christmas dinner, he ''remembers Ron's name.''
--> '''Kim:''' Well, this is - this is... I don't know what this is.



* ProdigalFamily: Team Go, Mama Lipsky, Motor Ed. Seriously.

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* ProdigalFamily: Team Go, Mama Lipsky, Motor Ed. Seriously.Ed (seriously).
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* MaleGaze: The series has her fair amount of close up butt shots.

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* MaleGaze: The series has her its fair amount of close up butt shots.
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Ron, for an episode.

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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Ron, for an episode.PantyShot: Kim, briefly, in the opening and from the episode “Ill Suited” (both times she's in her cheerleading outfit). In another episode, Kim is participating in a cheerleader pyramid routine and her friend Crystal is on top of the pyramid doing a handstand. Every stitch of Crystal's purple bloomers are shown.
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* MoonLandingHoax: In the episode "Stop Team Go": Shego is [[MirrorMoralityMachine temporarily turned good]], but Kim has trouble convincing Ron.
-->'''Kim:''' ''(elbowing Ron)'' Ron, that's Shego!
-->'''Ron:''' Nah, it's not Shego, it's Miss Go -- see, it says so on the board.
-->'''Kim:''' Putting something on the board doesn't make it true!
-->'''Ron:''' Oh, sure, y'know, when I said that in 20th Century History, I got sent to the office!
-->'''Kim:''' The moon landing wasn't faked in the Arizona desert, Ron!
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* MuggingTheMonster: During "Graduation, Part 2", Ron, unbeknownst to the Lowardians, comes into control of a very great power, making Warhok and Warmonga's tap-dancing on his BerserkButton a very poor idea. It crosses into BullyingADragon when they continue messing with him even after he's taken out all their tripods and thrown Warhok across the landscape.
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* PositiveDiscriminationPositiveDiscrimination: [[HandicappedBadass Felix Renton]] was TheAce in his episode.
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* OneOfTheBoys: In "Steal Wheels", Kim gets jealous of Ron spending so much time hanging out with Felix, so she tries to be one of these in order to fit in with them. She can't pull it off, and she doesn't even enjoy any of the activities they do.
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** And form the episode where they thought Bird-themed villain Aviarius:
-->'''Ron:''' [[ChickenWalker That]] is the second-biggest flamingo I've ever seen.
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* RapidHairGrowth: Mr. Barkin's beard apparently grows so fast that he has to shave it 15 times a day.
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* PlotInducedStupidity: 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. The PlotInducedStupidity comes into play when 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 conveniently forgets about this gizmo once its could be useful again.
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: [[ThisLoserIsYou Ron Stoppable]] breaks into his girlfriend's house, then her closet, steals her super battle suit, joins the football team as star quarterback, gets caught with the suit and controlled by a villain, ends up in a physical and emotional fight with Kim, then ends up on the team anyway (and is still a star player just in a different position), all because he thought Kim was going to take [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]]'s advice about "trading up" to a socially acceptable jock boyfriend. Ron then overheard Kim talking with Monique about trading up and agreeing with Bonnie. Turns out they were talking about a new mobile phone.
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* RenamedTheSame: Gil, renaming himself Gill.
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* PlotParallel: Often found between the "basic average girl" and "here to save the world" plots of any given episode. For instance, Señor Senior Senior's controlling attitude toward Junior's disco in "Coach Possible" showed Kim the error of her overzealous approach in coaching the soccer team.
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-->'''Barkin:''' Ah, Senior Year, I remember it well. Best two years of my life; big fan on the football team [...] dated the most popular girl in school [...] I even helped save the world a time or two.\\

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-->'''Barkin:''' Ah, Senior Year, I remember it well. Best two years of my life; big fan man on the football team [...] dated the most popular girl in school [...] I even helped save the world a time or two.\\
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* MonsteroftheWeek: The series manages a good deal of character development with nary an arc to be had.
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Crosswicking from Mystery Meat.

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* MysteryMeat: Frequently served at Middleton High's cafeteria, to the disgust of the students. One episode had Kim and her class forced to watch a video saying what exactly went into Mystery Meat; the class ran out screaming and wanting to vomit.
** In another episode, Mr. Barkin is filling in for [[NoodleIncident yet another absent teacher]] who "made a mistake many first-year teachers make -- she ate the cafeteria meatloaf". The class [[ReactionShot reacts with horror]].
** In another episode, Wade analyzed the gravy that a ghost [[spoiler:actually Sensei's astral projection]] used to write a message to Ron on the cafeteria wall. Wade told Kim and Monique that they do not want to know what's in it until they graduate. From college.
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** Britina, MC Honey, Heather, the Holson twins, the CausticCritic host of "[[AmericanIdol American Starmaker]]" and Camille Leon, among others.

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** Britina, MC Honey, Heather, the Holson twins, the CausticCritic host of "[[AmericanIdol "[[Series/AmericanIdol American Starmaker]]" and Camille Leon, among others.
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* TheNotSecret: Most of the villain lairs, which are obviously intended to be secret and untraceable by the villains themselves but are easily found by a ten year old boy, Global Justice and/or pretty much anyone the plot wants to know. Particularly notable with Dementor and Drakken, who really push the "secret lair" schtick. In one memorable case, Drakken's lair was found no problem by ''his mother.'' Like everything, {{lampshaded}} - this time by [[DumbAssHasAPoint Motor Ed.]]
--> Ed: "Dude, seriously, what type of secret hideout is this? Everyone knows you live here, man!"
--> Drakken: "One magazine subscription and suddenly everyone's got your address..."

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* MeLoveYouLongTime: Yori is so into Ron. Totally. Big time. As were Kim and Monique with Hirotaka when Ron went on a student exchange program (although he was dating Bonnie at the time). Subverted however in the fourth season when Ron reveals to Yori that he and Kim were now an OfficialCouple; Yori accepts it very quickly. Maybe even a little ''too'' quickly for Ron's perspective. And Kim herself does become a little protective about the matter.
-->'''Ron:''' Yori, thing is... Kim and I aren't JustFriends anymore... we're kinda... well... dating.\\
'''Yori:''' I see.\\
'''Ron:''' Totally didn't mean to break your heart or anything.\\
'''Yori:''' I believe my heart is intact.\\
'''Ron:''' It is? Does ''everyone'' have a heart of stone these days?\\
'''Yori:''' Sensei teaches that change is a part of life, and leads to growth, wisdom and happiness.\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, who doesn't love change? But you can admit to a ''little'' [[CallBack emotion sickness]] if you want.\\
'''Kim:''' ''Ron''! She said she's OK with it!\\
'''Monkey Fist:''' [[CallBack So The Drama]].
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* ManiacMonkeys: Monkeyfist's monkey ninjas.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kim and Ron, as well as Shego and Dr. Drakken. Kim and Ron remember their first Halloween together, take a wild guess which one wore a cowboy outfit and which one wore a tutu.

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* ManiacMonkeys: Monkeyfist's Monkey Fist's monkey ninjas.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kim and Ron, as well as Shego and Dr. Drakken. Kim and Ron remember their first Halloween together, together; take a wild guess which one wore a cowboy outfit and which one wore a tutu.



** Monkey Fist wouldn't have realized "the infant" who beat him earlier was "The Han" he was looking for...especially if Kim hadn't tried to insult his intelligence by mentioning Hana "Han" Stoppable was Ron's Sister.

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** Monkey Fist wouldn't have realized "the infant" who beat him earlier was "The Han" he was looking for...especially if Kim hadn't tried to insult his intelligence by mentioning Hana "Han" Stoppable was Ron's Sister.sister.



* {{Ninja}}: Both human, monkey and sumo.

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* {{Ninja}}: Both human, monkey monkey, and sumo.



** And there's Dr. Drakken. In the Halloween episode, after yelling on the phone with Duff Killigan, shego tells him to use his indoor voice.

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** And there's Dr. Drakken. In the Halloween episode, after yelling on the phone with Duff Killigan, shego Shego tells him to use his indoor voice.



* NoSeatbelts: Averted. The show makes sure that they put on helmets or parachutes or buckle up in their flying car.

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* NoSeatbelts: NoSeatBelts: Averted. The show makes sure that they put on helmets or parachutes or buckle up in their flying car.



** Kim also gets a few exceptions, at one point firing a homing missile at Drakken and Shego's fleeing hovercar, and kicking Shego of a roof into an electrical tower at the climax of ''So The Drama''.

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** Kim also gets a few exceptions, at one point firing a homing missile at Drakken and Shego's fleeing hovercar, hover car, and kicking Shego of a roof into an electrical tower at the climax of ''So The Drama''.



** Kim and Ron also tend to hitch rides from people whom they have helped in the past, often in some spectacular fashion. They do this [[OnceAnEpisode a lot]].

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** Kim and Ron also tend to hitch rides from people whom they have helped in the past, often in some spectacular fashion. They do this [[OnceAnEpisode a lot]]. Although a few of their rides do have {{Call Back}}s on previous episodes.



** Also done in "Gorilla Fist" where Ron and Yori go looking for Monkey Fist thinking he kidnapped Yori's Sensei, not knowing it was a BatmanGambit by DNAmy. When found Monkey Fist explains he wouldn't kidnap him because [[PragmaticVillainy he was of no value to him]].
* TheNotSecret: Most of the villain lairs, which are obviously intended to be secret and untraceable by the villains themselves but are easily found by a ten year old boy, Global Justice and/or pretty much anyone the plot wants to know. Particularly notable with Dementor and Drakken, who really push the "secret lair" schtick. In one memorable case, Drakken's lair was found no problem by ''his mother.'' Like everything, lampshaded - this time by [[DumbAssHasAPoint Motor Ed.]]

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** Also done in "Gorilla Fist" where Ron and Yori go looking for Monkey Fist thinking he kidnapped Yori's Sensei, not knowing it was a BatmanGambit by DNAmy. [=DNAmy=]. When found found, Monkey Fist explains he wouldn't kidnap him because [[PragmaticVillainy he was of no value to him]].
* TheNotSecret: Most of the villain lairs, which are obviously intended to be secret and untraceable by the villains themselves but are easily found by a ten year old boy, Global Justice and/or pretty much anyone the plot wants to know. Particularly notable with Dementor and Drakken, who really push the "secret lair" schtick. In one memorable case, Drakken's lair was found no problem by ''his mother.'' Like everything, lampshaded {{lampshaded}} - this time by [[DumbAssHasAPoint Motor Ed.]]



* ObsessedAreTheListmakers: Dr. Drakken dreams up a great plan to TakeOverTheWorld, but later forgets it. To avoid this happening again, he starts writing everything he plans to do on note-cards. This bites him when he forgets to write down a crucial step of his next plan and so misses it out, fatally endangering himself, his {{sidekick}} Shego, Kim and Ron. At this point, Shego [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bails out and leaves him to it.]]

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* ObsessedAreTheListmakers: Dr. Drakken dreams up a great plan to TakeOverTheWorld, but later forgets it. To avoid this happening again, he starts writing everything he plans to do on note-cards. This bites him when he forgets to write down a crucial step of his next plan and so misses it out, fatally endangering himself, his {{sidekick}} Shego, Kim Kim, and Ron. At this point, Shego [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bails out and leaves him to it.]]



* OfficialCouple: Kim and Ron, from ''So The Drama'' onward. WordOfGod is they were planned from the start, [[JustFriends which is unsurprising]]. WordOfGod goes on to further state that if there were any doubts, their relationship from "Graduation" onwards will indeed continue and flourish. More specifically That they will be together forever.

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* OfficialCouple: Kim and Ron, from ''So The Drama'' onward. WordOfGod is they were planned from the start, [[JustFriends which is unsurprising]]. WordOfGod goes on to further state that if there were any doubts, their relationship from "Graduation" onwards will indeed continue and flourish. More specifically That that they will be together forever.



* PersonalitySwap: Ron and Drakken swap their "good" and "evil" essences.

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* PersonalitySwap: Ron and Drakken swap their "good" and "evil" essences.essences in one episode.



* PutOnABus: Brick Flagg.

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* PutOnABus: Brick Flagg. and Miss Go did one on Kim too.
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* PantyShot: One in "Tick Tick Tick" [[http://imageshack.us/a/img845/7599/kimpossiblese1ep004tick.jpg]] which made the first TitleSequence and another more noticeable in "Ill Suited".[[http://imageshack.us/a/img689/1062/kimpossiblese4ep066ills.jpg]] Otherwise Kim's cheerleading outfit has a MagicSkirt, in very drastic contrast [[ComedicUnderwearExposure to Ron]].
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** Several episodes, particularly the ones with two shorts that were more humor related instead of one full story, have the running gag of Kim getting stuck with the worst luck or having a much harder time dealing with something while Ron skates through the sitch with good luck and a total lack of interest. This includes Ron being bumped up to first class on a commercial flight - twice - while Kim is stuck in coach (Ron has the decency to try to pretend it wasn't awesome, though he fails), Kim being totally blindsided and humiliated by having the tell the truth all the time while it makes Ron instantly popular, Ron bonding with an overgrown roach monster while Kim is so grossed out she constantly freaks out (after telling Ron not to worry about bugs, no less), both episodes that focus on Felix and the first half of "Sick Day."

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** Several episodes, particularly the ones with two shorts that were more humor related instead of one full story, have the running gag of Kim getting stuck with the worst luck or having a much harder time dealing with something while Ron skates through the sitch with good luck and a total lack of interest. This includes Ron being bumped up to first class on a commercial flight - twice - while Kim is stuck in coach (Ron has the decency to try to pretend it wasn't awesome, though he fails), Kim being totally blindsided and humiliated by having the tell the truth all the time while it makes Ron instantly popular, Ron bonding with an overgrown roach monster while Kim is so grossed out she constantly freaks out (after telling Ron not to worry about bugs, no less), both episodes that focus on Felix and the first half of "Sick Day.""
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* RoyalBrat: Prince Wally in the episode ''Royal Pain''.
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** This show is a nearly non-stop maker of references to older movies and 70s-80s music.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Seniors would have been content to be rich and eccentric, if Ron hadn't accidentally convinced them that EvilIsCool.

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** Monkey Fist wouldn't have realized "the infant" who beat him earlier was "The Han" he was looking for...especially if Kim hadn't tried to insult his intelligence by mentioning Hana "Han" Stoppable was Ron's Sister.
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* MadeOfIron: Everyone, the most notable being the time when Shego got kicked from the roof of a building that is several stories high, into an electrical signal tower, which not only electrocutes her but also collapsed right on top of her. And she comes out of the incident with slightly torn clothes and frazzled hair...
* MadMathematician: The Mathter.
* MadScientist: Drakken, [=DNAmy=], Prof. Dementor, and even a fair number of the "good guys" qualify.
* MagicMeteor: The origin of Team Go. "A glowing, rainbow-colored comet!"
* MakeMeWannaShout: "Hidden Talent".
* ManiacMonkeys: Monkeyfist's monkey ninjas.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kim and Ron, as well as Shego and Dr. Drakken. Kim and Ron remember their first Halloween together, take a wild guess which one wore a cowboy outfit and which one wore a tutu.
* MassHypnosis: Drakken tries this, using shampoo of all things, and a scheme involving teens MP3 players that didn't work out. The Seniors try it with a love ray.
* MasterOfDisguise: Camille Leon.
* MayContainEvil: "Dr Drakken's Brainwashing Shampoo and Cranium Rinse".
* MayDecemberRomance: Drakken and Shego. He's the same as Kim's father (his early 40s), while Shego is somewhere in her twenties by the series' end.
* MeaningfulName: Almost everyone.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Drakken steals the royalty money Ron gets for inventing the Naco. After Kim fails to get it back, he spends it on a giant laser that doesn't work as expected and destroys itself and his lab.
* MeLoveYouLongTime: Yori is so into Ron. Totally. Big time. As were Kim and Monique with Hirotaka when Ron went on a student exchange program (although he was dating Bonnie at the time). Subverted however in the fourth season when Ron reveals to Yori that he and Kim were now an OfficialCouple; Yori accepts it very quickly. Maybe even a little ''too'' quickly for Ron's perspective. And Kim herself does become a little protective about the matter.
-->'''Ron:''' Yori, thing is... Kim and I aren't JustFriends anymore... we're kinda... well... dating.\\
'''Yori:''' I see.\\
'''Ron:''' Totally didn't mean to break your heart or anything.\\
'''Yori:''' I believe my heart is intact.\\
'''Ron:''' It is? Does ''everyone'' have a heart of stone these days?\\
'''Yori:''' Sensei teaches that change is a part of life, and leads to growth, wisdom and happiness.\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, who doesn't love change? But you can admit to a ''little'' [[CallBack emotion sickness]] if you want.\\
'''Kim:''' ''Ron''! She said she's OK with it!\\
'''Monkey Fist:''' [[CallBack So The Drama]].
* MementoMacGuffin: Ron's titanium-reinforced belt helped Kim remember that they were dating in "Clean Slate".
* MerryChristmasInGotham: Ron tries to take on Drakken by himself so Kim can have a nice Christmas with her family. Ends up with Ron and Drakken bonding over an old TV show, whose theme they sing together. Now, ''Kim Possible'' isn't exactly [[DarkerandEdgier dark and edgy]] to begin with, but they were shooting for LighterAndSofter than usual.
* MetronomicManMashing: The ninja toddler Hana does this to Monkey Fist.
* MicroMonarchy: The Kingdom of Rodigan, where Prince Wally is from, is quite possibly this, even though we don't get precise info on the country's size.
* MinionShipping: Drakken and Shego.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Senor Senior, Jr.
* MirrorMoralityMachine
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Kim nearly bumps into Ron so many times in "Adventures In Rufus-Sitting".
* MissedTheCall: Kim initially set up her website looking for ordinary teenager jobs like babysitting, but got drawn into adventuring after a rescue call to Team Impossible accidentally reached her instead.
* MissionControl: Wade, quintessentially.
* MixAndMatchCritters: [=DNAmy=]'s creations and Cuddlebuddies.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Malcolm in "Virt-U-Ron".
* MotiveDecay: The Mathter; He went from terrorizing Go City to making Ron his personal {{archenemy}} just because he used a variable (saying his tape recorder cost twenty dollars) in less than two minutes after they first meet. That's got to be some sort of record. This, like everything else in the series, is also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].
-->'''Ron''': Oh great, now the math guy's back!\\
'''Kim''': And he's not even our villain!
* MoodSwinger: Doctor Drakken can be ranting with malicious glee about destroying his teenage foe one minute, and then switch to looking for milk in a supermarket. The "Moodulator" chips make Kim and Shego act this way too.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Drakken is the guiltiest as he dropped out of college and therefore has no degree to speak of.
* MoralityDial: The Attitudinator in "Bad Boy" and "Stop Team Go".
* TheMovie: Twice, ''A Sitch in Time'' being the more quintessential - the other was the first planned GrandFinale.
* MultipleDemographicAppeal
* MusclesAreMeaningless: [[TheDragon Future Drakken]] versus [[{{Sidekick}} Ron Stoppable]]. Enough said.
** Amazingly, it was also inverted in that same episode, since Dr. Drakken wiped the floor with both Kim Possible ''and'' a CharlesAtlasSuperpower Monique. After beating them, Shego gloats, making Ron mad. '''Big Mistake'''.
** Usually, Kim: perfectly willing and able to knock down men twice her size. Even discussed when she and Shego faced two huge wrestlers while TrappedInTVLand; "Well, this shouldn't be a problem."
** Ron and Drakken's henchmen wear muscle-enhancing rings in "Ron The Man", but it's still Kim and Shego doing most of the fighting, maybe even more than usual.
** Señor Senior Junior is the most buff-looking of the regular villains, but doesn't get into fights. Maybe he [[TheDandy doesn't want to mess up his hair]].
* {{Nanomachines}}: The Nano-Tick in "Tick, Tick, Tick" (though it's not really on a nano-scale - according to Drakken, it just sounds cooler that way) and probably the source of Camille Leon's [[ShapeShifter shapeshifting]] ability.
* NewJobEpisode: Played straight in "Bueno Nacho". Subverted and played straight in "The Big Job"
* NeverMessWithGranny: Nana Possible went through the [[TheSpartanWay Navy SEALS Underwater Demolitions Training]], and owns Kim at kung fu, tough enough for ya?
* NeverSayDie: Villains sometimes talk about "destroying" or "eliminating" Kim.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl:]] Kim post season one. Yori in all her appearances.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Seniors would have been content to be rich and eccentric, if Ron hadn't accidentally convinced them that EvilIsCool.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In ''A Sitch in Time'', after Overlord Shego won, Drakken talks her into [[JustBetweenYouAndMe gloating]].
* {{Ninja}}: Both human, monkey and sumo.
** And the Embarrassment Ninjas.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Britina, MC Honey, Heather, the Holson twins, the CausticCritic host of "[[AmericanIdol American Starmaker]]" and Camille Leon, among others.
** One TrappedInTVLand episode had a pink haired spy fighting Kim over a device. [[Series/{{Alias}} Who could that be?]]
* NoGravityForYou: Occurs sometimes in space-related episodes.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Kim reasons this as why she doesn't have a date to the prom.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dementor's excitable METHOD OF ''SPEAKING!''
** And there's Dr. Drakken. In the Halloween episode, after yelling on the phone with Duff Killigan, shego tells him to use his indoor voice.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Shego in ''A Sitch In Time''.
* NoSeatbelts: Averted. The show makes sure that they put on helmets or parachutes or buckle up in their flying car.
* NonhumanSidekick: Rufus.
* NonLethalWarfare: With HarmlessVillain Drakken around, this is unsurprisingly the norm. Not that he and the other villains don't ''try'' to blow Kim away, though.
** Kim also gets a few exceptions, at one point firing a homing missile at Drakken and Shego's fleeing hovercar, and kicking Shego of a roof into an electrical tower at the climax of ''So The Drama''.
* NonSingingVoice: The Oh Boyz singing voices are not the same as their acting voices.
* NoodleIncident: ''Kim Possible'' loves this trope.
-->'''Barkin:''' And don't let them tell you they're supposed to have class outside! We put stop to that after the jellyfish incident.\\
'''Miss Go:''' Oh that's so nice! You took the class to the beach!\\
'''Barkin:''' No beach. Just jellyfish. Don't ask.
** Also:
-->'''Kim:''' Like that time you cleaned your room.\\
'''Ron:''' We agreed never to speak of that dark day.
** There was also the "paper machete" incident. Not paper mache, machete.
** Kim and Ron also tend to hitch rides from people whom they have helped in the past, often in some spectacular fashion. They do this [[OnceAnEpisode a lot]].
** Occasionally, Mr. Barkin will begin a class with a brief explanation of why he's [[TwoTeacherSchool substituting for another teacher]].
-->'''Barkin:''' A fungal experiment [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]]. [[YouDontWantToKnow I didn't press for details]].
** Supposedly, he also saved the world once, if his speech to Ron about graduation is any indication;
-->'''Barkin:''' Ah, Senior Year, I remember it well. Best two years of my life; big fan on the football team [...] dated the most popular girl in school [...] I even helped save the world a time or two.\\
'''Ron:''' Right on- wait, what?! You?
* NotMeThisTime: When Kim finds out that Dr. Drakken has been broken out of prison by a woman with "green energy blasts", she naturally drops in on his {{sidekick}} Shego, only to find out later that it was actually an alien who did it.
-->'''Shego:''' I'm. On. Va''cation!''\\
'''Ron:''' So, it ''wasn't'' you that busted out Drakken?\\
'''Shego:''' Who do you think I'm vacationing ''from?''
** Also done in the first part of the two-parter series finale, "Graduation Part 1". When several golf courses were undergoing eruptions, Kim Possible suspects Duff Killigan for the event. When confronted with the issue, Killigan explains that he wasn't involved, and even takes it a step further to reveal that his own golf course was defaced in a similar manner.
** Also done in "Gorilla Fist" where Ron and Yori go looking for Monkey Fist thinking he kidnapped Yori's Sensei, not knowing it was a BatmanGambit by DNAmy. When found Monkey Fist explains he wouldn't kidnap him because [[PragmaticVillainy he was of no value to him]].
* TheNotSecret: Most of the villain lairs, which are obviously intended to be secret and untraceable by the villains themselves but are easily found by a ten year old boy, Global Justice and/or pretty much anyone the plot wants to know. Particularly notable with Dementor and Drakken, who really push the "secret lair" schtick. In one memorable case, Drakken's lair was found no problem by ''his mother.'' Like everything, lampshaded - this time by [[DumbAssHasAPoint Motor Ed.]]
--> Ed: "Dude, seriously, what type of secret hideout is this? Everyone knows you live here, man!"
--> Drakken: "One magazine subscription and suddenly everyone's got your address..."
* NotSoAboveItAll: A common gag. In general, it's a running theme in the show that Kim is nowhere near as infallible in her regular life as she is in "mission mode".
* NotSoDire: A fair number of episode teasers establish an apparent crisis, only to reveal that the real sitch is relatively benign.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: "Homecoming Upset". Bonnie forces Ron into a kiss just as Kim arrives on the scene. After getting over the shock of the sight, a ''very'' pissed off Kim has to be reassured by Ron that he was the "kissee" and not the "kisser" in the situation. Turns out, Kim is well aware of this, but she's still angry all the same.
-->'''Kim:''' No kidding! It took ya twelve stinkin' years to kiss me!
** "Ill Suited", where Ron is trying to explain why he stole Kim's battlesuit.
-->'''Ron:''' Wait wait! It's not what you think!\\
'''Kim:''' Oh? So you're not a cheater, a liar and a ''thief''?!\\
'''Ron:''' ... OK, it is what you think.
* ObliviousToLove: Ron was completely oblivious of Cheerleader Tara's crush on him until it was too late.
** He was also oblivious to Yori's also. This led him to tell Kim (who's developing feelings for Ron) that girls should just say how they feel.
* ObsessedAreTheListmakers: Dr. Drakken dreams up a great plan to TakeOverTheWorld, but later forgets it. To avoid this happening again, he starts writing everything he plans to do on note-cards. This bites him when he forgets to write down a crucial step of his next plan and so misses it out, fatally endangering himself, his {{sidekick}} Shego, Kim and Ron. At this point, Shego [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bails out and leaves him to it.]]
* OffhandBackhand: Shego to Mego: "He always does that move. It never works."
* OfficialCouple: Kim and Ron, from ''So The Drama'' onward. WordOfGod is they were planned from the start, [[JustFriends which is unsurprising]]. WordOfGod goes on to further state that if there were any doubts, their relationship from "Graduation" onwards will indeed continue and flourish. More specifically That they will be together forever.
** Bonnie and Senor Senior Jr. from "Homecoming Upset" onwards.
** Dr. Drakken and Shego are strongly implied to be this, as per the end of "Graduation".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Shego to Kim. FoeYay? Where?
* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList
* OlderThanTheyLook: Granny Crocket after extensive surgery.
-->'''Granny Crocket:''' Granny had [[{{Understatement}} a little]] work done.
* OneShotCharacter: [[MeaningfulName Falsetto]] Jones the GentlemanThief only appeared in one half-episode.
* OneSteveLimit: Ron Stoppable and Ron Reager. {{Lampshaded}} during the latter's first appearance.
* OneWingedAngel: Gleefully subverted; Drakken is mutated by one of his own chemicals, but it makes him even less threatening. Played straight, again by Drakken, later in the same episode.
* {{Open Minded Parent}}s: The Possibles, natch. Kim can go halfway around the world, battle giant robots, and get lost in time and space (maybe all three at once), yet her parents won't bat an eye. But she better not be seeing any boys...!
** Her parents are experts at [[ThisAintRocketSurgery two of the most notoriously difficult jobs on the planet]]. [[JustifiedTrope One would hope that they are open minded.]]
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kim and Ron certainly are ordinary, certainly go to HighSchool, and most certainly SaveTheWorld on semi-regular basis. (From the theme tune: "I'm your basic average girl, and I'm here to save the world.")
* OutOfFocus: The comic stories in ''DisneyAdventures'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork tended to focus more on lame Rufus-centric gags]] than Kim saving the world.
* OverprotectiveDad: Mr Possible is happy for Kim to roam the world fighting evil, but frowns at talk of boys dating her, and threatens to pack Ron into a space probe if their dating goes sour.
* PaintingTheMedium: Ron at the end of "Grande Size Me".
* PairTheSmartOnes: Kim's rocket scientist and brain surgeon parents.
* PairTheSpares: Ron's Season 2 interest Zita, was dug out of limbo to be set up with Felix, another B-Character in the GrandFinale.
* PantyShot: One in "Tick Tick Tick" [[http://imageshack.us/a/img845/7599/kimpossiblese1ep004tick.jpg]] which made the first TitleSequence and another more noticeable in "Ill Suited".[[http://imageshack.us/a/img689/1062/kimpossiblese4ep066ills.jpg]] Otherwise Kim's cheerleading outfit has a MagicSkirt, in very drastic contrast [[ComedicUnderwearExposure to Ron]].
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Ron, for an episode.
* PaperThinDisguise: Averted with Camille Leon, except in her second appearance.
* ParentalBonus: A number of sly references. "[[QueerEyeForTheStraightGuy Evil Eye For The Bad Guy]]"?
** "[[GilligansIsland Killigan's Island]]".
* PerpetualFrowner: Shego.
** Who becomes a PerpetualSmiler in ''[[NotHerself Stop Team Go]]''.
* PerplexingPlurals: In "Naked Genius", Drakken captured Ron (thinking he got the brainpower he was after instead of Rufus) and forced him to build a doomsday device or else he'd be sleeping with the "fishes". He then gets confused if that is correct and asks Shego. Shego tells him that both fishes and fish are correct plurals for the word.
* PersonalitySwap: Ron and Drakken swap their "good" and "evil" essences.
* PetTheDog: Shego with Junior, noteable in the second episode with them because this was around the time she descended into StupidEvil territory.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Played with in "Cap'n Drakken" where Dr. Drakken gets possessed by a pirate ghost:
-->'''Drakken:''' Aye. Set the mainsail, wench.\\
'''Shego:''' Okay, first of all we don't have any sails. Second of all, call me 'wench' again and we'll be planning a ''burial at sea''.\\
'''Drakken:''' ''(nervously)'' Yearr. Arrgh.
* PlotInducedStupidity: 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. The PlotInducedStupidity comes into play when 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 conveniently forgets about this gizmo once its could be useful again.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Kim's brothers in Season 4.
* PlotTechnology: Nearly all of the MadScientist {{supervillain}}s are guilty of this.
* PluckyComicRelief: Usually Ron, though Drakken has his own share of moments as well. Drakken is Shego's comic relief (and vice versa) and Ron is Kim's comic relief.
* PositiveDiscrimination
* PostKissCatatonia: Ron falls into one of these when Kim first kisses him [[KissingUnderTheInfluence under the influence of the Moodulator]] in "Emotion Sickness".
* PowerFloats: Ron with his monkey power.
* PowerGlows: Shego and Team Go, Ron's Monkey Power and some of the mad-science machinery, among other things.
* PowersAsPrograms: Aviarius extracts Team Go's powers for himself, though Kim gets one at first.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Pain King vs. Cleopatra", which was also Monique's debut episode.
* ProdigalFamily: Team Go, Mama Lipsky, Motor Ed. Seriously.
* PunnyName: Kim, Jim, Tim and Ron, obviously. In fact, as mentioned above, the majority of the characters have punny or [[MeaningfulName meaningful]] names.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Happens a few times, though most notable in "So the Drama".
* PuppyDogEyes: Kim's (nearly) irresistible "Puppy Dog Pout". Her mom also uses it a few times.
* PutOnABus: Brick Flagg.
* PsychoElectro: Electronique. Well, as psycho as you can be on the Disney Channel.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Monty Fiske fits this trope to a T, before he became "Monkey Fist".
* RapidFireTyping: Wade, as MissionControl and uber-hacker, and anyone depicted using a computer. Except Ron, seen pecking at the keys.
* RaygunGothic: The show's design ethic, most obviously in Drakken's lairs and the Possibles' home.
* RebusBubble: Ron + Battlesuit = Victory.
* RecurringExtra: The Middleton High students milling around in the background when Kim and Ron are at school are quite consistent, but fans particularly picked up on two: a freckled brunette usually wearing blue outfits and thus dubbed "Girl in Blue" and a tall, short-haired girl who fit the image of a ButchLesbian and was dubbed "Alex Sapphic", first by {{slashfic}}ers, then by the fandom in general.
* RedShirt: Parodied in season three, in the Trapped In TV Land episode called "Dimension Twist", when Kim is temporarily sent to a Star Trek-esque TV show and appears in a red uniform:
-->'''Wade:''' [[ThisIsThePartWhere This is the part of the show where]] they pick series regulars to go on a mission. Just make sure you're not the one wearing...\\
'''Kim:''' ... A red shirt?\\
'''Pseudo-Kirk:''' And... (to Kim) you! You're expendable.
** Also, Drakken's hapless rank-and-file henchmen are dressed in red, and are as close to RedShirt status as it gets in a NonLethalWarfare setting.
* RefugeInAudacity: {{Area 51}} only [[SarcasticConfession leaks information that is 100% true]] so that the public at large doesn't think the stuff that goes on there is actually happening.
* RedHeadedHero
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Exactly how does Shego manage not to vaporize her own hands if she doesn't have a HealingFactor? (A popular idea in {{fanon}}.)
** It would also explain how she survived the end of ''So The Drama''.
* ResetButtonEnding: TimeTravel incurred this once.
** In a lot of ways, ''So the Drama'' did this, perhaps most evidently with Bonnie's character development. She returns to being even more of an AlphaBitch from here on in.
* ReunionRevenge
* RelationshipUpgrade: Kim and Ron from ''So The Drama'' onward.
* RichBoredom: Senior Senior Sr.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Oliver]] and [[spoiler:Eric.]]
* RightHandCat: Played with at least thrice.
* RockStarParking: PlayedForLaughs in "The Big Job".
* RoguesGallery
* RugbyIsSlaughter: And Mr Barkin plays it.
* {{Rule 34}}: Literally search for images of any female character. Now turn off safesearch, and...yeah.
* RunningGag:
** Ron losing his pants, which he started to {{lampshade}}. In the first season, upon seeing an enormous obstacle/opponent that they would have to face, he would often exclaim:
-->'''Ron:''' That would be ''so cool'' if it wasn't gonna hurt us!
** Ron being 'micro chipped' by Wade.
** As stated above, the number of almost kisses between Kim and Ron became a gag in season 4. However, if you're a K/R fan, you might see it as a MomentKiller.
** Motor Ed's verbal tic. Seriously.
** After "Rappin' Drakken," that plan's horrific failure becomes a running gag that spans Season 4 - mostly via Shego's snark or someone only remembering him because of the shampoo. This culminates in him being able to easily put together a MassHypnosis plan because "there was plenty of the mind control shampoo left over."
** Several episodes, particularly the ones with two shorts that were more humor related instead of one full story, have the running gag of Kim getting stuck with the worst luck or having a much harder time dealing with something while Ron skates through the sitch with good luck and a total lack of interest. This includes Ron being bumped up to first class on a commercial flight - twice - while Kim is stuck in coach (Ron has the decency to try to pretend it wasn't awesome, though he fails), Kim being totally blindsided and humiliated by having the tell the truth all the time while it makes Ron instantly popular, Ron bonding with an overgrown roach monster while Kim is so grossed out she constantly freaks out (after telling Ron not to worry about bugs, no less), both episodes that focus on Felix and the first half of "Sick Day."

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