Kim Possible (Cartoon Character)

Kimberly Ann Possible is a fictional character from Disney’s animated television series Kim Possible. She is voiced by Christy Carlson Romano.

About Kim

Kim is a Kung fu fighting cheerleader who saves the world and still finds time to be a top student. She’s smart, confident, and assertive, with a very driven Type A personality. Kim is very good-hearted, has a very positive attitude, and has made a career out of helping those in need. However, she’s somewhat bossy and quite a perfectionist, and can be extremely demanding of both herself and those around her, not to mention that she sometimes shows a lack of faith in others’ abilities and can be a bit arrogant about her own. As a consequence, Kim also tends to easily become annoyed and impatient toward obnoxious or underachieving individuals. Oddly enough, her best friend Ron Stoppable is the very personification of Type B personality, laid-back ambivalence and randomness, and she seems to have learned some degree of tolerance through him.

Kim originally wanted to offer her services as a babysitter, but through a twist of fate ended up as a freelance secret agent doing odd jobs ranging from rescuing cats in trees to saving the world from mad scientists (particularly Dr. Drakken, her arch-nemesis). Her motto is “I can do anything,” and she more than lives up to it, with a wide variety of skills ranging from martial arts to mountain-climbing to skydiving. However, although she’s practically unstoppable in combat, she still sometimes suffers from the same social insecurities and growing pains as any other high school girl her age. Her only real weakness seems to be a strong tendency to be concerned about (and frequently fooled by) appearances, as well as a tendency to succumb to peer pressure, something she never really managed to overcome until the very end of the third season.
As animated teen characters go, she’s unusual in that she’s a hero and yet at the same time is one of the “popular kids” rather than the typical misunderstood outcast, a role fulfilled by Ron. Despite being a secret agent, her work saving the world is no secret, as everybody in her life knows about it. They mostly just ignore it and treat her like any other friend, except for the rare occasions when her work interferes with her home life (such as when a villain attacks the school or kidnaps her cheerleading squad).

Like most girls her age, Kim has been prone to crushes with boys over the course of the series, although none of them ever really worked out. It wasn’t until the movie So the Drama that she found true happiness in the arms of Ron.
Besides saving the world, her interests also include designer clothes and a series of Beanie-Baby style collectibles of mutated animals known as “Cuddle Buddies”.

Love Interests

Over the years, Kim has had a lot of crushes. She has also been the subject of a few. Here are the many that are mentioned:

• Walter Nelson: Walter has, so far, only been mentioned on the show. What is known is that Kim had a crush on him in middle school. He kissed Kim and their braces locked. This is suspected to be Kim’s first kiss.
• Señor Senior Junior: In Animal Attraction, Junior begins to nurse a crush on Kim when he finds out that she’s his soul mate (according to Animology). It is unknown if this will be addressed in season 4.
• Brick Flagg: Brick thought he had a crush on Kim in All the News after Ron misquoted Kim saying that she “thought Brick Flagg was totally hot”. Kim, on the other hand, only saw him as a friend. Brick “dumped” Kim after he thought Kim was “trying too hard” thinking she had staged his kidnapping by Adrena Lynn.
• Josh Mankey: In seasons 1 and 2, Kim was infatuated with Josh Mankey. Prior to season 3, over the course of which hints of a potential and later actual romance between Kim and Ron arose, Josh received the most adoration from Kim of all her love interests as he was the main object of her “calf love” affections. While Ron was disapproving of this relationship at first, he later grew to accept it. Kim’s infatuation with Josh was revealed to have died down “last semester” in episode Emotion Sickness, which allowed the creators of the show room for the coupling of Kim and Ron. Josh was a timid, mellow and nonchalant young man. Many fans opine Kim and Josh would have been more interesting a pairing than Kim and Ron, due to their social schematics predating season 3; conversely, many fans opine the coupling of Kim and Ron was a better choice.
• Hirotaka: Kim grew interested in Hirotaka (an exchange student from Japan). Hirotaka showed interest in her, at least in her martial arts abilities, but he was more interested in seeing Kim fight with her best friend, Monique, over him. He also appears to have been dating Bonnie Rockwaller all along, and refers to her as his “Number One Girlfriend”.
• Bobby Johnson: Kim only mentions him in The Truth Hurts. She admits that she’s not sure if she likes him because she likes him, or because he asked out Bonnie first. The scene in which Kim mentions Bobby Johnson is significant, because the reporter, in said scene, inquires as to whether Kim is crushing on anyone, and, forced to tell the truth, she must answer the question sincerely, naming those she is crushing on. The fact she did not mention Ron Stoppable would seem to disprove any possibility of Kim having crushed on Ron before season 3, because The Truth Hurts is the last episode in the production order, and most chronologies, of season 2. However, it is to be noted some fans disagree with this fact, and choose to ignore it.
• Eric: Eric was a Synthodrone made by Drakken to distract Kim from the plans Drakken had formulated. While Kim had initially completely ignored, and shunned aside, Ron in favor of Eric, upon discovering he was not in fact human, Kim transferred her affections to Ron. Some fans conjecture the fact Kim did this without warning and rather abruptly is due to her having been “on the rebound” from Eric’s estrangement, and that she would have instead dated anybody. However, this is opinion, and not fact; the truth is that we do not know Kim’s motives for the transference of her affections. Eric was tall, well-built, attractive and serious — and incredibly convincing as a regular human being.
• Ron Stoppable: Originally Kim’s goofy sidekick and best friend, over time their friendship became something more. The directors of the show, as stated in an interview, had chosen to couple Kim and Ron so as to impart the moral, “give geeks a chance.” Kim and Ron had a very durable friendship before their romantic involvement in So the Drama. This is suspected by some fans to be a type of maxim communicating the idea a strong friendship should first precede romance. According to the series’ directors, Kim and Ron will be dating in the upcoming fourth season. It is believed by some fans the addition of the element of romance will be a positive thing, while some others are opposed to it (they feel it may cause the show to jump the shark).

Source: Wikipedia contributors (2006). Kim Possible (character). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:28, May 15, 2006.