Which Kim Possible Character Are You?

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Kim Possible premiered on Disney Channel in 2002 and ran for four seasons, and it has aged considerably better than most of its contemporaries. Created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, the premise was a single joke stretched into a format that turned out to be surprisingly durable: a high-school cheerleader saves the world on weeknights, and the world-saving is significantly less stressful than the high school.

Kim Possible herself was a genuinely new kind of Disney Channel lead. She is not a chosen one and she has no powers; she is simply extremely capable and extremely used to being the person who handles it. Her catchphrase it is no big works as characterisation because it is a lie she tells constantly. The show is at its best when it puts her in situations where competence does not help: a boy she likes, a rival cheerleader, a college application. She saves the world weekly and is undone by a school dance, and the series treats both with equal seriousness.

Ron Stoppable is the shows secret weapon. He is anxious, clumsy, obsessed with a fast-food chain, and permanently accompanied by a naked mole rat named Rufus, and the show never once suggests he does not belong on the mission. His loyalty to Kim is absolute and unembarrassed, and the writers spent four seasons resisting and then earning the romance between them. The third-season shift to an actual relationship is handled with a lightness that a lot of teen shows never manage.

The villains are where the show has its most fun. Dr. Drakken, voiced by John DiMaggio, is a mad scientist driven almost entirely by wanting the people who mocked him in college to be sorry, and his plans collapse under the weight of their own theatricality. Shego, voiced by Nicole Sullivan, is the far more interesting half of the partnership: sardonic, genuinely dangerous, visibly wasted on her employer, and given some of the sharpest dialogue in Disney Channel history. The Drakken and Shego dynamic a man who wants to be feared and the contractor who finds him exhausting is the shows best running joke.

Wade, the twelve-year-old tech genius running mission support from his bedroom, rounds out the team, and the shows willingness to let the smartest character simply not be in the room for most of the action was a smart structural choice.

What made Kim Possible last is tone. It is a comedy that respects its heroine, an action show that never forgets the homework, and a Disney Channel product with a genuinely idiosyncratic visual style those distinctive character designs and the deliberately retro spy aesthetic. A live-action film followed in 2019, and reboot conversations resurface regularly, which tells you how much affection is still out there.

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