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== [[Kim Possible]] ==
* Kim's meant to be a spy right? Exactly what spy stuff does she do? Use gadgets to bring down foes? I may be missing something but she seems to operate more of a soldier type (sneak in, steal\smash something) than actually spying on what Drakken is up to then calling in Global Justice or something.
** It's the highly stylised definition of "spy" created by the likes of the [[James Bond]] movies and ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' and such: stocked with [[Shoe Phone|neat gadgets]], jetting around the world, foiling [[Super Villain|supervillains]] bent on [[Take Over the World|world domination]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing things up]], just like ''[[True Lies]]'' or ''[[Spy Kids]]'' or ''[[Totally Spies]]''. There isn't much relation to real espionage work. It's not [[John Le Carre]].
*** Sure, I can accept rule of cool in terms of spies. It was something I thought worth noting. Bond for example, he does proper spying from time to time, and for all the homage to the spy parody the closest we get to Splinter Cell is a throwaway gag. Kim would be more at home in Metal Gear than the Cold War.
*** I can think of three times when they were spying on villains instead of just looking for a fight: The Bermuda Triangle Club in ''So The Drama'', the villain's convention in "Bad Boy" and Killigan's island in "Graduation". But I don't think Kim is ever called a spy in the show: what she does in usually referred to as "crimefighting" or "hero stuff".
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** Bortle appears to be a mix of [[Mad Scientist]] and [[Arms Dealer]] (he was selling the moodulators in an online auction, apparently indifferent to what the highest bidder wanted them for). So the answer comes down to: he gets away with it the same way Jack Hench does.
*** Also, mind control might be a minor sideline for him -- the [[MacGuffin|device]] Drakken and Shego came to steal in "Emotion Sickness" was something else altogether.
*** To the extent that Bortle could be considered amoral bordering on villainous, he's a [[Villain
* What's with the random design change for Tim and Jim? It can't be puberty, right?
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* How could Bonnie maintain [[Alpha Bitch]] status? Kim is one of the most popular girls in school, though she doesn't really have any close friends outside of team Possible aside from Monique. Enough people know her (and Ron) well enough to cheer when Kim/Stoppable happened in the first movie, and Kim is, at least later in the series, known to be this freelance Secret Agent by a number of people, who have mostly seen her in Middleton-saving action. And it can't be that everyone puts up with Bonnie because nobody's ever questioned her authority, because there have been at least a couple of times when she was abandoned at the end of a scene stamping her foot like an angry monkey because Possible got attention and she didn't. If they got back to being her "friends" because they felt sorry for the poor pretty girl who has a tragically undersized kindness gland, why do they let her unload all that... that... ''popular bother'' on Kim?
** There are plenty of possible reasons:
### Bonnie is pretty much the high school equivalent of a [[Villain
### We don't know how everyone else is very well. For all we know, they could see Bonnie as either a [[Jerkass|jealous bitch]] or [[Dumbass Has a Point|actually agree with her]].
### The fact that Kim's best friend is considered a social pariah (To the point where it's believed he is on the bottom of the social ladder by himself) does give her leeway with a lot of people. If you were to proudly hang with someone who, in their point of view, had no redeeming qualities, your tastes (As well as judgement) would be in question, too.
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** Right. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because it'd be completely impossible for a woman to wear make-up some days, but not others]]. Really, that minor an inconsistency in character design is hardly something to get worked up over, especially when it's about aethstetics/cosmetics (I guess [[Limited Wardrobe]] is so ingrained we don't think about the possibility of "she's not wearing that today" or something).
* Clean slate. Were they lamp-shading the fandoms views on Kim and Ron or the fact that they [[Jumped the Shark]] by suddenly making Kim and Ron like each other and hook up?
** Do you mean "Clean Slate" the episode or just how the show seemed to put them together? For the former the show did have them dating for six months, so the ending where Kim remembers she did love Ron works. For the latter, if you watch through the series you can see a number of subtle clues. Like? Like the [[Spider
**** ...No, not really. Very subtle moments but they still seemed to be more on the ''[[Just Friends]]'' side of the spectrum.
**** Kim/Ron is a pretty typical [[Just Friends]] ship, where it gets teased by friends and family, there is some [[Green-Eyed Monster]] from both sides, some wondering about if it'll ruin their friendship, and finally one goes for it. It's only real complication is the fact they save the world, and arguably this just helps them realise what they really feel for each other.
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** Based on what we have seen of Bonnie being the [[Alpha Bitch]], one can easily assume that she did join Shego's power-structure out of her free will. Though I don't think she would consider herself anything else than pragmatic in joining the powers that be. Also, don't forget that "A Sitch In Time" happened before the [[Character Development]] that gave Bonnie her [[Freudian Excuse]] for her behaviour.
* At the end of one episode Monkey Fist was shown staring lovingly at a framed picture he has of DNAmy, but the next time we see them together he's repulsed by her. Is this [[Negative Continuity]] or is Monty just a [[Hypocrite]] [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup|bothered by Amy's new gorilla arms]]?
** If I remember correctly those episodes were pretty far apart, a lot could of happened between them. The evidence seems to point to her becoming a [[Stalker
** Since SHE was the one talking when the image of Fist with her picture came up, its possible it was her delusion. Fist is part monkey and she does like mixed animals.
** It could also be that Monty Fisk appreciated what she did for him (turning him into a man monkey) but as boyfriend and girlfriend, no.
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