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* [[Fag Hag]]: Shego is accused of being one to Drakken when a [[Camp Gay]] trio drives up in the desert and offers [[Mistaken for Gay|Drakken]] a ride for the right price.

* [[False Friend]]: Drakken sees Shego as this after {{spoiler|her failure to rescue him from prison after [[The Movie|"So the Drama"]]}}. It takes time for the trust to come back.

* [[Fix Fic]]: The various "down time between evil plans" scenes show Drakken and Shego gradually developing a level of mutual comfort and friendship (while remaining their familiar [[Evil Gloating|ranty]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] selves). In that context, the [[Grand Finale]] [[Last Minute Hookup]] appears more natural and less [[Shocking Swerve|totally out of left field]] than it did in the series.

* [[Fix Fic]]: The various "down time between evil plans" scenes show Drakken and Shego gradually developing a level of mutual comfort and friendship (while remaining their familiar [[Evil Gloating|ranty]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] selves). In that context, the [[Grand Finale]] [[Last-Minute Hookup]] appears more natural and less [[Shocking Swerve|totally out of left field]] than it did in the series.

** The section set after "Mad Dogs And Aliens" starts with them being (quite understandably, given the on-screen events of the [[Post Script Season]] up to that point) thoroughly alienated from each other, and goes on to show how they got back to the point of working together as usual. Onscreen, it looks like an extreme case of [[Easily Forgiven]].

* [[Foot Focus]]: One chapter has a partial focus on Drakken giving Shego a proper foot massage.

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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each section title is an item (or list of items) from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

* [[Lap Pillow]]: More like arm pillow, but still applies. Shego finds Drakken to be strangely comfy a couple of times.

* [[Last Minute Hookup]]: This story is presented as a supplement to canon to justify the sudden shipping that occurs between Drakken and Shego.

* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: This story is presented as a supplement to canon to justify the sudden shipping that occurs between Drakken and Shego.

* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Really has that feel to the two main characters. Somehow [[Up to Eleven|even more than canon]].

* [[Love Epiphany]]: Both eventually have one at different times. Then cue the angst.

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* [[Not a Date]]: Well, not a ''typical'' date, anyway. {{spoiler|In the final scene, following their first real kiss, they decide that going out on a standard dinner-and-movie type "date" would be lame and anticlimatic. Instead, they decide to amuse themselves by embarrassing Kim (like "Blush", but without the "make her disappear forever" part).}}

* [[Not Me This Time]]: In the post-"Emotion Sickness" scene, Drakken's first act after getting the moodulator chip off Shego is to insist that it wasn't his doing, obviously worried that she'll think [[Jerkass|he's treating her]] [[Mad Scientist|like an experimental subject]] again (as he did in "The Twin Factor" and attempted to do in "Kimitation Nation"). Fortunately, she believes him.

* [[The Not Secret]]: When Drakken tries to explain away the contents of his lair as "radio equipment", Mama Lipsky tells him not to bother -- she's known the truth ever since the events of [[The Movie|"So The Drama"]].

* [[The Not-Secret]]: When Drakken tries to explain away the contents of his lair as "radio equipment", Mama Lipsky tells him not to bother -- she's known the truth ever since the events of [[The Movie|"So The Drama"]].

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Drakken suffers from this more than Shego. He just doesn't think that he's all that attractive or much of a catch.

* [[Official Couple]]: Helps to set them up better than the show. Makes things a LOT more natural and less subtexty.