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[[Image:Kim Possible Cast.jpg|thumb|right|360px|From left to right: Wade, Dr. James Timothy Possible and Dr. Ann Possible, Ron, Rufus, Kim, Shego, Dr. Drakken, Monkey Fist, Señor Senior, Sr., Adrena Lynn, Señor Senior, Jr.]]
Disney's 2002-2007 award winning animated television show Kim Possible includes many major and supporting characters centering around the the main protagonist of the series Kim Possible and her partner Ron Stoppable, as well as her friends, allies, enemies and other aquaitences. Kim Possible is about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted atmosphere and often lampoons the conventions and clichés of the secret-agent and action genres. Two movies and six video games based on the series have been produced as well as various other merchendising. The series and major characters were created by Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. According to the creators the two main characters were created under the premise of "Kim Possible: she can do anything" and "Her partner is Ron Stoppable: he can't do anything".
The titular character, Kim Possible is a freelance teenage hero who also has to deal with attending high school and other aspects of typical teen life. Kim is a confident and assertive teenager whose awareness of her own abilities is reflected well by her motto "I can do anything". Ron Stoppable, her partner, is also a high school student with an eccentric personality who serves as a “bumbling sidekick”. Accoridng to the creators the two main characters were created under the premise of According to the creators the two main characters were created under the premise that "Kim Possible: she can do anything" and "Her partner is Ron Stoppable: he can't do anything". Other reoccuring characters that appear throughout the series are described below. For minor characters who do not have a recuring role see Minor characters in Kim Possible.
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[edit] Character creation and influences
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[edit] Team Possible
[edit] Kim Possible
Kim Possible is the team leader, this red-haired crime-fighter who saves the world, also tries to live a normal teenage life; dealing with everyday problems. She has been Ron's best friend since Pre-K, and has been his girlfriend since the night of their junior prom (Season 3). Naturally, her name makes reference to the word 'impossible.' Kim's dialogue tends to be peppered with not-so-typical teen slang; for example, "So not the drama" and "No big", as well as the series' catchphrase, "What's the sitch?" (slang for situation).
[edit] Ron Stoppable
Ron Stoppable is Kim's best friend since Pre-K, partner, and boyfriend. Despite his role as the goofy sidekick, Ron has proven himself to be a very capable hero and also saves the world from time to time, usually through sheer luck as opposed to skill. His name is a play on the word 'unstoppable'.
He has 'mystical monkey power', and in the series finale, he is the one who stops the aliens from destroying Earth.
[edit] Rufus
Rufus is a naked mole rat, and pet of Ron Stoppable. Rufus can always be found riding in Ron's pocket. Rufus has similar interests and personality traits as Ron (such as a love of Bueno Nacho and video games) and often mimics Ron's actions, emotions, and facial expressions. Despite being a rodent, Rufus is actually very competent and level-headed, and often comes to the rescue of Kim and Ron when they're in a pinch. He has very good technical skills, and Ron often refers to him to fix broken appliances.
[edit] Wade
Wade Load is a 10-year-old child genius who runs Kim Possible's website, supplies her with her gadgets, and gives Kim her missions through her Kimmunicator. He often relays information to her, searches for information for her, and performs programming feats. (A running gag is that Kim or Ron will ask Wade to perform a particularly difficult programming task, and Wade will reluctantly begin, noting how difficult it will be, then exclaiming his success after a ridiculously short period of time, i.e., "I don't know; this is a highly restricted facility. There'll be all sorts of advanced programming safeguards; there's no telling how long it'll take to ... Got it, you're in!") As a genius, he has completed his high school and college education in eight months. He spends his time in his bedroom of his parents' house, in front of the computer with the lights off. He also seems to drink a lot of soda, since he's often seen slurping one down when communicating with Kim. Wade is voiced by Tahj Mowry
[edit] Monique
thumb|100px|right|The first appearance of Monique
Monique is a friend of Kim Possible. She gives Kim level-headed advice about school and life, and serves as a good counterbalance to Ron's out-of-touch eccentricities. Monique works at the designer clothing store Club Banana, which is where she and Kim met. So far, she has become assistant manager in the fourth season and has persuaded Kim to work there with her. Not too much is known about Monique’s personal life and family, though she has mentioned having a brother. She has complained of having bad luck with boyfriends: She once became the object of Wade's affection, and on another occasion she and Kim fell in love with the same boy, Hirotaka, and actually physically fought over him. Voiced by Raven-Symoné.
[edit] Family members
[edit] Possible Family
[edit] Dr. James Timothy Possible
Dr. James Timothy Possible, Sr. is Kim's dad and a rocket scientist. A very typical 50's professor type, he's somewhat obtuse and more than a bit absent-minded. Like Kim, he likes to play off his name with the family motto; "Anything's possible for a Possible", although he sometimes becomes overly arrogant with his motto. He was also once Drew Lipsky's friend. This was before Drew became Doctor Drakken. James has consistently expressed a strong distrust of "show folk", including celebrities and circus people. While reminiscing about freeing a mouse, whom he had dubbed "Pinky-Joe Curly Tail", from the labs in his alma mater (and equipping it with robotic battle armor), he commented that he "hated those Psychology students".
[edit] Dr. Ann Possible
Dr. Ann Possible is Kim's mother she debuted during the first Season in 2002 and has made regular appearances throughout Seasons 1-4. Unusually, Mrs. Possible was not given a first name until the final episode of Season 4 (see below). For the entire series prior to that, she was known only as Mrs. Possible, or Mrs. Dr. P/Possible, or a variation on Mom. She is voiced by Jean Smart. Mrs. Possible is a brain surgeon by trade, mother to Kim Possible, and wife to Dr. James Possible; however, little else is known about her.
[edit] Jim and Tim Possible
thumb|120px|right|Jim and Tim Possible
James Possible, Jr., and Timothy Possible (usually called Jim and Tim) are Kim's younger twin brothers, child geniuses with a penchant for constructing wacky inventions and harassing their older sister. They are both named after their father, Dr. James Timothy Possible, or Jim Tim Possible. Often referred to, by their older sister, as the Tweebs (a portmanteau of twins and dweebs). Aside from the shirt colors, the only way to tell the difference between the two is that Tim has slightly more (and smaller) spikes in his hair than Jim. They were 10 years old when the show first began. However, in Season 4 they are 12, and also appear older as well (they possibly experienced a growth-spurt over the summer). Their genius level is not quite the same as Wade but close enough where in Season 4 they have their own communication with him -- the Jimmunicator and Timmunicator.
[edit] Stoppable Family
[edit] Mr. & Mrs. Stoppable
thumb|100px|left|Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable
Mr. Stoppable, Ron's father, is an actuary which allows him to work anywhere. Ron has mentioned that his dad has allergies to nearly every kind of animal hair, which led to Ron buying Rufus when he was young. Mr. Stoppable is Jewish. It appears that he also happens to be a mathematical genius, and once assisted Team Possible on a mission to defeat the Mathter. In several episodes (Ron The Man, Odds Man In and Mathter and Fervent), Mr. Stoppable appears to want to guide Ron with good fatherly advice and be considered his hero. Ron appears to be closer to his father than his mother (Mathter and Fervent). Mr. Stoppable is voiced by Elliott Gould. Ron seems to have a tentative relationship with his mother, Mrs. Stoppable. She forced him to go to Camp Wannaweep (the source of almost every fear he has) and when he kept calling her to tell her that he wants to go home, she eventually stopped accepting his phone calls. She also has a no-nonsense attitude, which Ron dislikes. According to the plot of A Sitch in Time, she works in a bank. Mrs. Stoppable is voiced by Andrea Martin.
[edit] Hana Stoppable
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Hana Stoppable is Ron's adopted sister. Hana made her first appearance in the Season 4 episode Big Bother. When the Stoppables' adopted Hana, they had moved Ron up into the attic and Hana into Ron's old bedroom - after turning it into a nursery - without Ron's prior consent, input or awareness, all in one day while Ron was still at school, leading Ron to view her as "the intruder" at first. By the episode's end, Ron came to fully accept Hana as his sister. He connects with her better than he does with his own parents and thus Ron became a very devoted big brother to Hana. Her first word is "Page", and Yori sees her as a sort of little sister. Later, in Oh No Yono, Ron was able to turn the tables on his parents by informing them that Hana is a ninja child, that saved the world by using dance moves Ron showed her on a DVD, and the ability of turning a page in a book. She's often seen running around on the cieling of the Stoppable's house.
[edit] Villains
[edit] Dr. Drakken
Dr. Drakken (real name Drew Theodore P. Lipsky) is a mad scientist bent on world domination. He is the show's most frequently recurring villain, and the arch-enemy of the titular heroine, Kim Possible. He was the first villain Kim fought in episode 1; in which he attempts to use technology stolen from a Japanese games manufacturer to create a giant robot.[1] and was the last villain that she fought in the three part finale of season 3.[2] He often serves as a comic straight man to the dry humor and comic humor supplied by Shego and Ron respectively. Drakken is voiced by John DiMaggio[3].
At the end of season four, Dr. Drakken inadvertently changes his ways and ends up helping Kim and Ron save the world.
[edit] Shego
Shego, voiced by Nicole Sullivan was first introduced as Dr. Drakken's sidekick at the beginning of Season 1, in the episode Crush.[1] She is one of the franchise's primary antagonists, and one of its most recurring characters. In most episodes Shego acts as Dr. Drakken's sidekick, but she has occasionally done mercenary work for other villains.[4] She could be said to be Kim's opposite in the series, sharing many of her qualities and traits, such as cleverness and determination, but using those qualities for devious purposes.
Shego was also once a member of 'Team Go', the members of which are here brothers. Her glowing green powers, along with the powers her brothers possess, were a result of some sort of magical rock that fell from space.
[edit] Monkey Fist
Lord Montgomery Fiske (aka Lord Monkey Fist) is afrequently recurring villain. He is voiced by Tom Kane. Once a respected archaeologist and the leading expert on all things simian, Lord Montgomery Fiske is an example of the consequences of obsession. In his debut episode, Monkey Fist Strikes, he turned to Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable to help him recover a jade monkey statue from a temple in Cambodia. Kim managed to retrieve the statue, which Monty stole while disguised as a ninja to throw her off the trail. Taking it back to his home in England, he set the idol in precise alignment with four others and was given mystical monkey power as a result. He then changed his name from Monty Fiske to Monkey Fist in an appropriately ironic anagram.
[edit] Duff Killigan
thumb|130px|right|Duff Killigan
Duff Killigan is a recurring villain; he is voiced by Brian George. Killigan debuted in episode 7 of season 1.[5] He returned mid-way through the first season,[6] and had a number of cameo roles during seasons 2 and 3, including all three installments of the feature length episode A Sitch in Time. [7] He's also a boss in the video game Drakken's Demise. Killigan is an irate Scotsman who is normally seen dressed in a traditional kilt and tam. His weapon of choice is a set of golf clubs and exploding golf balls. By his own accounts he is the "World's Deadliest Golfer". [5]
[edit] The Seniors
[edit] Señor Senior, Senior
Senior is a retired multi-billionaire who (at Ron's 'accidental' suggestion) took up villainy as a hobby to occupy his retirement years. All about the challenge, he tends toward grandiose, high-end capers, and has almost unlimited financial resources to carry them out. Although his stated goal is world domination, he seems more interested in reputation and achievement rather than power, and largely focuses on challenging thefts or schemes rather than actual global conquest. His objectives are limited such as "the Euro-alliance's nice little islands with warm beaches and hot summer nights" or other goals. Despite his massive resources, he prefers to rely entirely on his own skills (with a little help from his son, Jr.), and usually doesn't rely on henchmen.
[edit] Señor Senior, Junior
Señor Sr.'s son and accomplice Junior is a spoiled man-child more interested in parties and looking fabulous than in his father's criminal plans. He is usually highly unhelpful during his father's capers, but Senior always takes him along anyway. Junior's goal is to become an international pop sensation rather than a supervillain, but he's proven quite amoral and has no problem utilizing his father's criminal methods to achieve that goal.
[edit] Professor Dementor
Professor Dementor is a mad scientist and bitter rival of Dr. Drakken. Drakken and Dementor are apparently the world's two foremost mad scientists (although Dementor is much more famous), and the two of them are in competition to see who can conquer the world first. Like Drakken, Dementor has henchmen, evil inventions, etc. But while he has been known to steal the odd scientific doo-dad from time to time, unlike Drakken (who mostly relies on stealing the inventions of others), Dementor relies on building his own inventions, which actually work quite well; albeit most of which functions in a rather comedic manner, not to different from Drakken's.
[edit] DNAmy
Amy Hall, (AKA DNAmy) is a recurring villain; she was first introduced during as a primary villain early in Season 1, [8] and later co-star one episode of Season 2 and 3 respectively, [9][10] before returning as a guest character early in Season 4. DNAmy is voiced by Melissa McCarthy. Amy Hall, known as DNAmy by her former colleagues, is a disgraced geneticist who was shunned by the scientific community for her unorthodox and unethical splicing experiments.
[edit] Killer Bebes
thumb|130px|right|Killer Bebes
The Killer Bebes are feminine robots based on an early design by Dr. Drakken in college. Cold, quick and formidable, the collective Bebe hive desires only perfection in performance. Their collective name is a pun on "Killer Bees," a concept used in various 1970s disaster movies. The Killer Bebes first appeared in Attack of the Killer Bebes, originally broadcast August 2, 2002, and were created by Drakken to kidnap his old classmates from college (including James Possible, Kim's father) as part of a twisted college reunion. However, realizing that their creator was imperfect, the Bebes rebelled against Drakken and chose to work independently. With some help from her father, Kim was able to disrupt the Bebe's programming with a hypersonic pulse severed their link to the Bebe hive mind, thus destroying their ability to coordinate their actions. However, the Bebes would later return with newer upgrades, including enhanced strength and the ability to move at hypersonic speed; allowing them to move so fast that others appear to be frozen in time.
[edit] Gill
Gil Moss (a.k.a.: Gill) was a childhood aquaintence of Ron Stoppable when were both campers at Camp Wannaweep. The two of them swapped places during swim-time, because Gil loved the water whereas Ron absolutely refused to get in. As a result of his extended stay in Lake Wannaweep's toxic water, Gil was transformed into the monster Gill ("I added an 'L', you know, as in Gill, as in these things that grew when I mutated!"). Gill blamed Ron for his mutation, and tried unsuccessfully to get revenge by tricking Ron and the rest of the Middleton Cheerleading squad into coming to Camp Wannaweep, where he captured them and attempted to make them just like him (and almost succeeded in turning Mr. Barkin into a mutant). His plan failed when Ron used his artistic know-how to trap Gill in a net.
[edit] Motor Ed
thumb|130px|left|Motor Ed
Dr. Ed Lipsky (a.k.a.: Motor Ed) is distinguished by his large build, tattooed left arm, ripped clothing, handlebar goattee, mullet haircut, and constant use of the word 'seriously!'. Ed and his gang of hoagie-loving master mechanics hide out in a secret junkyard lair in New Jersey. Motor Ed's original name is Edward 'Eddy' Lipsky, and he is a cousin of Drew Lipsky (Doctor Drakken), though does not share Drakken's blue skin. Motor Ed is considered the 'black sheep' of the Lipsky family.
[edit] Camille Leon
thumb|130px|right|Camille Leon
Camille Leon made her debut in an episode broadcast exclusively over the Disney Channel website in February 2007, and Disney Channel later that month. Camille is an all-new villain introduced as part of Season 4.[11]. Her name is a play on the word chameleon, and she is voiced by Ashley Tisdale. Her character personality and mannerisms appear to be based on a composite of Paris Hilton and the fictional characters London Tipton from TSL (on which Tisdale stars) and Sharpay Evans from High School Musical, the latter of whom was also played by Tisdale.Camille was a skilled actress and heiress to a cat food fortune who turned to crime after her father disinherited her for reasons unknown.
[edit] Other characters
[edit] Bonnie Rockwaller
thumb|130px|left|Bonnie Rockwaller
Bonnie Rockwaller is a bossy and abrasive cheerleader voiced by Kirsten Storms. In the three part feature Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, a one-off 20-years-older version of Bonnie was voiced by Kelly Ripa. [7] While not one of the main characters, Bonnie is one of the show's most active background characters, usually serving as a McGuffin device to allow a smooth lead-in for the episode's primary plot, or as the instigator for subplots revolving around peer pressure and the difficulties that Kim experiences balancing her home/school life with her missions. [12][5]
[edit] Steve Barkin
thumb|100px|right|Steve Barkin
Steve Barkin debuted in the series opening episode in June 2002 [1], and was last seen in the season 3 finale[13]. He has reappeared in the 4th season.[14] Barkin is a substitute teacher at Middleton High School, which is attended by Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. For reasons of frequent injuries, sickness, or vacation among other staff members, Barkin teaches a variety of classes, ranging from gym to home economics, leading to him being dubbed the school's "permanent substitute" by the show's staff. Unlike most fictional teachers in "high school hero" franchises, Barkin is fully aware of Kim's missions and has, by accident or design, become personally involved in several of them. He is voiced by Patrick Warburton.
[edit] Yori
thumb|100px|left|Yori
Yori first appears in the episode Exchange[15]. She is portrayed by Keiko Agena. A classmate from Ron's trip to the secret ninja school in Yamanouchi (presumably 山ノ内, which roughly translates to "Mountain Agricultural-Land" in Japanese), Japan during the episode Exchange. She is highly skilled in martial arts, but still manages to get captured by Monkey Fist, allowing Ron to save the day for once. This is one of the few times Ron successfully employs his Monkey Kung Fu. She does have a crush on Ron (Ron: "You mean Yori *liked* me, liked me?!?"), which coincidentally caused Kim no end of grief, as seen in the episode Gorilla Fist, when Yori subtly tried to steal him from her. At least, that was how Kim saw it.
[edit] Minor Characters
See Minor characters in Kim Possible.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c Kim Possible, episode 1, Crush (7 June 2002)
- ^ Kim Possible, episodes 63-65, So the Drama (parts 1,2,3) (8 April 2005)
- ^ John Di Maggio, IMDb, Accessed April 4, 2007.
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- ^ Kim Possible, episode 14, October 31 (11 October 2002)
- ^ a b Kim Possible, A Sitch in Time (parts 1-3) (28 November 2003)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 5, Downhill (21 June 2002)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 44, Partners (12 March 2004)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 61, Gorilla Fist (18 November 2005)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 68, Trading Faces (10 February 2007)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 123675009235, Queen Bebe (19 December 2057)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 63-65, So the Drama (8 April 2005)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 66, Ill-Suited (10 February 2007)
- ^ Kim Possible, episode 32, Exchange (November 7, 2003)
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