Ron, desperate for respect, decides to become a "bad boy." Drakken, desperate to win, decides to attend a supervillain convention. But matters go bad when an accident with an attitudinator turns Drakken mild-mannered and Ron into a supervillain.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Kim admits to Ron that she likes the Troubled, but Cute type. Ron sees a pattern, and attempts to cultivate a bad boy persona as date-bait. This coincides with a Transformation Ray that makes him a genuine supervillain.
- Asshole Victim: It's impossible to feel sorry for Cousin Sean when Evil Ron tries to kill him with his plasma catapult.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Upon seeing that Ron is a more credible supervillain than Drakken, Shego aims to trade up and get some results for once. She quickly finds that Evil!Ron is also a bigger threat than her and more than willing to prove it, and worst of all, he did all of this to get the world to surrender its entire supply of nacos as ransom.
- Being Good Sucks: Drakken is depressed when he figures out that becoming evil again for the greater good will mean no more playtime with Rufus.
- Better the Devil You Know: It's made pretty clear that Kim's job is a lot more difficult with Ron taking the helm as the Big Bad.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Shego borrows Ron's Sick and Wrong catchphrase to describe Good!Drakken.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Seven-year-old cousin Sean, who delights in tormenting Ron.
- Bullying a Dragon: Sean turns up to torment Ron, ignoring the big, scary-looking way he's refitted his trike and the fact that Ron is twice his size.
- Call-Back: Ron being microchipped by Wade is referenced once again.
- One of the girls Ron unsuccessfully tries to hit on as a “bad boy” is Tara, the cheerleader who had a crush on him once, but she clearly preferred the nicer version of Ron, and has probably moved on.
- Cassandra Truth: Ron's parents don't believe him about Sean being a little monster on the basis that he's only 7 years old. Kim initially thinks Ron is overreacting as well.
- Dreaded Kids' Table: Ron wouldn't dread it so much if he didn't have to sit with his cousin Sean, and he has to sit here unless he brings a date to the wedding. Kim offers to pretend to be his, which he takes her up on at the end of the episode.
- Enfante Terrible: At least, that's how Ron sees Sean.
- Eviler than Thou: Shego quickly realizes, much to her horror, that Ron being a bigger threat than Drakken also means he's a bigger threat than her.
- Evil Is Hammy: Evil!Ron is possibly the most over-the-top villain of the series, which is saying something.
- Evil Laugh: Evil!Ron's combines this with his "Booyah!!" catchphrase. It quickly grates on Shego's nerves.
- Facepalm: Shego's response to Evil!Ron's ultimate goal being to claim the world's supply of Nacos.
- Fight Unscene: Played for laughs, after Ron and Drakken's personalities are restored.Drakken: Aha, Kim Possible! For now it is I, Dr. Drakken, who controls the Mega Weather Generator!Kim: (smirking) I think we all know what comes next...[cut to Drakken's lair exploding]
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Ron doing this to Kim at the reception is just one further way to show how he's become a supervillain. Him later using Kim's full legal name is derided as overkill.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Subverted, as the Attitudinator wasn't specifically designed to make people happy, but both Good!Drakken and Evil!Ron come off as much happier in their adjusted forms than their normal ones.
- Gone Horribly Right: Ron wanted to be a bad boy so he could get a date for the wedding and avoid sitting at the kid's table with Sean. Thanks to the Attitudinator, he does become a bad boy. To the point he no longer concerns himself with getting a date, because he's invented a devious device that will ensure Sean bows down to him!
- Insult Backfire: Kim says Evil!Ron using her Full-Name Ultimatum is overkill, but he responds by saying overkill is exactly what he's going for.
- Happiness in Mind Control: Good Drakken likes the way he is and doesn't want to be turned evil again. Kim convinces him to reluctantly accept it because it's the way things are supposed to be (politely avoiding the fact that Evil Ron is a much more effective and dangerous villain than Drakken was).
- Hypocritical Humor: Ron ribs Kim for watching Agony County, which she claims is only to stay current. Just a moment later he makes a remark about a previous episode of the series, revealing that he himself watches it regularly as well.Ron: Am I not supposed to be current?
- Kim’s disbelief of Ron being tormented by his 7 year old cousin could be this given she herself is often tormented by her own 10 year old twin brothers. That said, the Tweebs are nowhere as bad as Sean.
- Kids Are Cruel: Ron isn't exaggerating that Sean is borderline rotten to the core. Even Kim is in disbelief as to how snide the kid is when she meets him in person.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Right after a Ship Tease moment while Kim and Ron are watching a soap opera:Ron: Are they still teasing that Charity and Danny are gonna get together?Kim: Like that's ever happen! It would end the series.
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Hilariously, Ron and Kim getting together actually gave the show an extra season.
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- Lesser of Two Evils: Turning Drakken evil again is a small price to pay for returning the much more dangerous Evil!Ron to normal.
- Mirror Morality Machine: Ron is turned evil and Drakken good by the Attitudinator after it breaks.
- No-Sell: In response to being called hired help, Shego tries to blast Evil!Ron, but it's deflected by a force field. He says he found the device in Drakken's stuff, but he doubts the guy even knew how to work his own invention.
- Oblivious to Love: Ron is oblivious to Kim's hints that she wants to be his date.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Kim is less than impressed with Wade's disguises for Ron and her. Indeed, Shego isn't fooled for even a second when she come across "Zorpox the Conqueror" and "Sheila of the Leopard People" at the convention center. On the flipside, Jack Hench is completely fooled and even tries to sell Ron a tank.
- Redemption Promotion: Inverted with Ron. After being zapped by the attitudinator, he's effective enough to scare Shego into submission, smart enough to utilize Drakken's gadgets better than he ever could, multitasks two schemes at once and using his insight on Kim to plan in the event of what she'll be doing.
- Shark Pool: Ron opens one behind Shego while telling her that "sidekicks need to know their place."
- Ship Tease: Kim and Ron getting very 'awk-weird' when he suggests she could go to the wedding as his date.
- Side Effects Include...: The commercial touts the benefits of the attitudinator, mentioning towards the end that it may cause hubris and itchy feet.
- Soap Within a Show: Agony County, a teen drama Ron and Kim watch "to stay current."
- Superpowered Evil Side: Evil!Ron shows much stronger focus and force of personality than normal Ron, to the point where he intimidates Shego into shutting up and obeying orders.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Ron's modus operanti through the episode after being turned evil. His first plot, an attempt to kill his 7-year old cousin Sean involves retooling his trike into an ATV that turns into a plasma catapult with which to blast him apart. His second scheme involves using his Annihilator to cause quakes that will shake the world to pieces unless it surrenders to him, and that was a decoy plan to cover up his Mega-Weather Generator - all so that the world will surrender the world's supply of nacos to him.Ron: Overkill? Isn't that the idea?
- Took a Level in Kindness: While it was helped along by the Attitudinator, in the end, Cousin Sean is turned into a much more pleasant person who treats Ron with more respect and kindness.
- Un Evil Laugh: Ron is fond of laughing "Boo-yah-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Shego is noticeably in pain from hearing his "evil laugh" because it's so terrible.
- We Need a Distraction: After Kim shuts down the Annihilator with two seconds to spare, Evil!Ron reveals that was just a decoy to buy time for him to finish his Mega-Weather Generator. Shego's rather annoyed over not being in the loop on this.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: Kim wants Drakken to let them use the attitudinator to swap Ron and Drakken back to normal because he is the lesser of the two evils. To be clear, she and Wade aren’t particularly annoyed by Good Drakken and they clearly don't enjoy the idea of turning Drakken back to his old self since he is their most frequent foe, but they have no choice in the matter, since having to deal with Evil Ron is much, much worse.
- Why Didn't I Think of That?: Evil!Ron boasts that he can track Kim's movements simply by scanning for the Kimmunicator's unique frequency. Shego is frustrated to realize how obvious that was and how Drakken never once thought of exploiting it.
