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Ronald "Ron" Stoppable is a fictional character from the Disney animated television series Kim Possible. His first and last name is a take on “Unstoppable”, and he's voiced by actor Will Friedle.
   He debuted in the series opening episode in June 2002, starred in all 65 episodes of Season 1-3, and made his Season 4 debut in an episode initially broadcast exclusively over the Disney Channel website in February 2007, and returned to Disney Channel on February 10.
   Ron is a high school student with an eccentric personality who serves as a “bumbling sidekick” to the show's titular protagonist Kim Possible. He was Kim's best friend from Seasons 1-3 and eventually progressed to the level of boyfriend during the Season 3 finale. He provides much of the franchise's comic relief, but also serves as an anchor to Kim's competitive/image conscious personality.
   Ron is medium height; lanky. His long face has a wide mouth, a round nose, freckles on his cheeks, brown eyes and messy blond hair.
   Ron appears in most of the video games based on the show, but is playable in only two: and .

History

Ron is an only natural child from an observant Jewish family (See also Ron's Religion). He met Kim during their first day at pre-school and they've been firm friends ever since.
   In the TV movie "A Sitch in Time", Ron is depicted as having been an articulate, observant child able to comprehend concepts too complex for the average child of his age, as having an imaginary friend named "Rufus", and as having a strong social conscience but also underdeveloped social skills which set him apart from other children.
   Many aspects of Ron's current personality can be traced back to various traumatic events from his childhood that have been shown in a variety of flashbacks throughout seasons 1-3. The event which is referenced most often in the series was a summer that he spent in a rundown sleep away camp named Camp Wannaweep during which time he called home so many times, asking to leave the camp, that his mother eventually refused to accept his calls. While at Wannaweep, Ron was bullied by other campers and forced to share an insect infested cabin with the camp's overactive chimpanzee mascot “Bobo”. This led him to develop a pathological fear of monkeys and apes that has been frequently mentioned throughout the series, as well as a less-mentioned fear of insects and spiders.
   It was also during this summer at Wannaweep that Ron first encountered fellow camper Gil Moss, with whom he traded his slot on the swim schedule for a second slot in arts and crafts. Gil later returned as Gill, a villain seeking revenge on Ron, whom he blamed for causing him to mutate (a result of spending all day swimming in the lake's polluted water). Based on the period in which Kim wore braces, this event was some 2 years prior to the start of season 1.
   Ron's feelings for Kim have been addressed several times during seasons 1-3, most notably when Kim came under the influence of a mood altering device that caused her to pursue him romantically, and were finally resolved during the last installment of the Season 3 finale (originally intended to be the final episode of the franchise). As of Season 4, he and Kim are officially a couple. Senior year also sees Ron join the high school football team as its star running back, using the running and dodging skills he honed as Kim's sidekick. It is speculated from the episode Big Bother that Ron is 18 years old but that isn't confirmed.
   Ron's status as an only child ended during season 4, when his parents adopted a baby girl named Hana. At first, the change angered Ron, calling Hana an "intruder" and evil. Eventually, he starts enjoying her company and learns to be a big brother.
   In Graduation (the two-part final episode of the series), Ron truly stepped up and became the hero by single-handedly saving Kim as well as the entire world. After Kim and Shego were knocked out by the menacing alien Warhok, Ron was the only one left to fight and was unsure of what to do. Sensei appeared to encourage Ron to summon his Mystical Monkey Power, telling him that he's the Monkey Master and that this was his destiny. With Kim's very life put on the line, Ron was finally given the motivation he needed to step up and in an incredible show of bravery and sheer power he single-handedly takes on both Warhok and his battlemate Warmonga and apparently destroys them.

Zorpox

Initially, Zorpox the Conqueror was a fictional comic book villain within the Kim Possible universe. His name and trademark black and red costume were used by Ron Stoppable, during Season 3, as part of an attempt to infiltrate the Tri-City villains' convention. However, during the course of the convention, Ron became involved in a struggle with Drakken and Shego, which resulted in a device on display there, known as the "Attitudinator", transferring Drakken's "bad energies" (villainous tendencies) into him.
   Initially, Ron was unaware of what had happened, and the device appeared to have had no effect. However, as the day progressed, Ron's personality steadily changed. He readopted a leather jacket-wearing "bad boy" look that he'd unsuccessfully tried to pull off earlier in the episode (in the belief that "girls are attracted to bad boys"), and began to fixate on the idea of getting revenge on his cousin Shawn.
   Soon afterward, Ron's skin turned blue, and he took to wearing the Zorpox costume and regarding Kim as an enemy. He also began to display a number of abilities and traits traditionally associated with a mad scientist-type villain, including a strong mechanical and scientific aptitude, possible superior to Drakken's. These abilities allowed him to develop a number of high-tech weapons such as an "all terrain plasma catapult" and a weather machine.
   Eventually, with the transformation complete, Ron made a double play for world domination. Using one villainous scheme as a decoy in order to prevent Kim from interfering with his true plan, he attempted to disrupt the world's weather in an effort to force the global community to surrender its supply of nacos.
   Ron/Zorpox was eventually stopped by Drakken (now free from his dark side), who placed a newly repaired "Attitudinator" on Ron's head, restoring both him and Drakken to their original selves once more. Drakken realized that he'd a responsibility to do so, because "it's better that I'm bad than if he's bad."
   Ron's villainous alter ego didn't surface again during Season 3. However, Zorpox's personality makes a brief reappearance in Stop Team Go, again under the influence of the Attitudinator, where he proceeded to battle the likewise temporarily-evil Team Go, showing amazing martial arts abilities while defeating a small army of Wegos, and helping to defeat Electronique. It is possible that as Zorpox, Ron has access to more of his suppressed abilities, and may be able to consciously use the Mystical Monkey Powers due to his overconfidence while evil.
   Zorpox is one of several hints dropped during the show's run that Ron's constant bumbling and failures stem less from actual incompetence and clumsiness than from his lack of focus and, more importantly, his lack of confidence. Since Drakken seemed to retain his mad scientist inventing and engineering skills when his evil was transferred to Ron, Ron may possess untapped potential as an engineer and inventor himself. An example of this is in the episode Naked Genius when Ron is kidnapped and forced to make a doomsday device out of everyday equipment.

Personality

Personality-wise, Ron is the polar opposite of Kim. Like Shego, he displays a lack of ambition and a propensity for sarcasm toward villains such as Drakken. He reacts differently from Kim in almost every situation, excels at things that she's difficulties with (and vice versa), and sees the world in a different way. He is probably also the most diverse character in the franchise, and is the character who has displayed the most contradictions/contrasts in terms of personality and capability throughout the franchise (See Contrasts).
For most of the franchise, Ron's character consists of three primary teen comedy/drama stereotypes:

A "type B personality" friend to a type A character
A “bumbling sidekick”
A “high school underdog”.

Type B Personality

As a type B, Ron is primarily cheerful and upbeat, is highly resistant to most forms of peer pressure, and is largely unconcerned with appearance and fads, which he considers to be shallow and transitory. Because of this, Ron frequently serves as a counterbalance to Kim's type A personality, often encouraging her to take a step back in episodes where her competitive nature goes into overdrive, and helping her to get things in perspective when she frets over “teen issues” such as the “food chain” and how others think of her.
   Ron's personality is defined by ego but not in such an obvious way as type A Kim. He tends to become fixated with ideas, objects and concepts that can't be dislodged from his mind, even after they've proven to be flawed. During early episodes this usually took the form of Ron disagreeing with Kim over the intentions of a villain: for example, believing that Drakken wanted to "steal Christmas", and primarily served as dialogue during "covert entry" scenes. However, as Ron's personality developed with the franchise, this tendency became more pronounced. It was most evident in later episodes such as Mad Dogs and Aliens and Grande Size Me.
   In the former, Ron obsesses over the fact that Jim and Tim have replaced him as team mascot. He doesn't think they can live up to his legacy and takes it too personally, to the point where he tries to become their coach. In the latter, Ron refuses to believe that eating junk food can cause health and fitness problems. He tries to disprove it by eating nothing but Bueno Nacho meals (a play on the real world documentary "Super Size Me"). As a result, when his clothes start becoming tight he attributes it to shrinkage in the laundry and he attributes his shortness of breath to lack of clean air. However when he grows in height he says it's the diet he's on, not realizing that his falling into Henchco's Titan vat was the reason.
   Ron has on occasion expressed his usually hidden arrogance, which typically results from a bout of self confidence combined with his tendency to go overboard with things. Kim once commented that Ron is "prone to big-headiness." The statement came as a result of the sudden ego boost Ron received from learning that Global Justice wished to study him over Kim because they believed that he was the reason for Team Possible's success. However, all of Ron's Kim-centered jealousy is entirely restricted to the instance of Kim paying attention to others over him. He has never expressed envy over her abilities, instead offering her encouragement in the field and showing himself to be a loyal friend (and later boyfriend).
   Another effect of this personality type is that Ron tends to doubt himself more often than not, making himself subservient to Kim. It is highly probable that his behavior patterns have been influenced by Kim's frequently overbearing and hypercompetitive Type A tendencies, causing him to back down as a trained response because he knows that Kim doesn't like to lose. Because he values Kim more than anything, Ron is willing to sacrifice anything for her, including his own potential for greatness.
   All of these self-imposed restrictions are lost, however, when Ron becomes his alter ego, Zorpox. Because he's evil, Zorpox doesn't care about hurting Kim's feelings and therefore has no problem unleashing his full potential. The first time he was transformed, Zorpox was able to convert his tricycle into a plasma catapult, as well as create not one, but two doomsday devices in only a few hours. In Stop Team Go, he demonstrated that Ron is a much more capable fighter than he normally appears, incapacitating a swarm of about thirty Wegos in under ten seconds.

Bumbling Sidekick

As a “bumbling sidekick", Ron is typically portrayed as being extremely loyal but also clumsy and lacking in bravery. He tends to “trip over his own feet” in most episodes, often in comical or socially embarrassing ways, and during missions it's common for him to comically fail to do something that Kim has done flawlessly--for example, he might ski backwards down a mountain and collide with a tree just after Kim has successfully negotiated the slope. He also loses his pants often on missions. A regular running gag in the series is that Ron rarely receives any recognition for his actions helping Kim, and other characters have a hard time remembering his name, even if they've met him multiple times; Dr. Drakken has referred to him as "that guy," "the boy who always loses his pants" and most notably, "the buffoon." The only villain to consistently remember Ron's name is his arch-enemy, Monkey Fist. This has actually earned Ron's respect, as he tells Monkey Fist in the episode "Overdue".
   Ron's clumsiness was very pronounced in early episodes, often resulting in him endangering himself or the mission, and forcing Kim to stop whatever she was currently doing to save him. However, as the series has progressed his skills have become more proficient and he's required rescuing much less frequently. In later episodes, much of his clumsiness primarily serves as comic relief and is portrayed as awkwardness rather than incompetence; he's often shown performing feats of physical skill and dexterity alongside Kim, albeit in an awkward and slightly panicked manner in contrast to Kim's usually graceful and deliberate performance. The show's creators have stated that Ron's performance during action sequences was originally supposed to be based on Jackie Chan, performing physical feats in an uncertain and improvised, but ultimately effective, manner.
Although Ron's clumsiness has caused problems (for example, allowing villains to escape ) it also often works in his favor, allowing him to accomplish things through clumsiness that neither he nor Kim were able to do through pure skill (See The Ron Factor). According to Wade, this may be a quantifiable ability that Ron possesses, though the in-universe international espionage organization Global Justice has investigated this possibility and ruled it false.
   Another long-running trait of Ron's is his sizable list of phobias. His fear of monkeys is frequently mentioned, and he's also been shown to be pathologically fearful of insects, mechanical horses (triggered by an accident with a coin-operated horse ride in which he lost 2 baby teeth), garden gnomes (triggered by a gnome-related tricycle accident), and many other things. Often, episodes show him panicking on missions when confronted by anything threatening or dangerous. He also had a tendency to be paranoid in some cases, an end result of his childhood phobias and bad experiences.
   Despite his fears, Ron usually manages to come through in the end, and by the end of the series Ron has dealt with all of them at least once, and overcome them, again, most notably his fear of monkeys. Kim's cousin Joss remarks that Ron's actions in loyally following Kim into danger despite being afraid of practically everything is a mark of true bravery.. However, in season 4, he admits that he's still perturbed by the fact that this continues to happen even when he's a high school senior. In the video game, Ron loses his pants as an idle animation.

High School Underdog

Alongside his general clumsiness, Ron doesn't excel in school and often appears to have difficulty grasping simple facts or concepts, even if they're spelled out to him, either because he's a limited understanding of the topic or the way in which it's being discussed, or because he isn't paying attention. (Due to the nature of Ron's role within the series, it isn't always clear when this is part of his permanent persona, and when it's intended purely as comic relief.) Ron's problems are accentuated by his overall lack of focus, and by a tendency towards a laziness which, at its most extreme, included expecting his lab partner to do all of the work on the grounds that their natural motivation to succeed would compel them to pick up his slack.
   Ironically, while it's a common gag for Ron to fail to understand everyday words or euphemisms (such as the phrase "fraternal twins"), Ron demonstrates a slightly more advanced vocabulary than other characters on the franchise, often using longer words than a person of his age might otherwise use, and maintaining more controlled style of speech throughout the series as well as reflecting complex and unusual lines of thought that slip other character's attention, including comments on Kim's own statements and behavior. However, such observations by Ron only serve to further give other characters the impression that he's odd and weird. These characteristics were particularly evident when Ron was younger, . In the Season 4 episode Grande Size Me, he doesn't appreciate that eating nothing but Bueno Nacho food would cause him to decline in health and physique. In The Big Job, when Monique hints that he should get a job, he doesn't understand even when Monique tells him that he'd have "mad money."
   As is common for a fictional underdog, Ron has a tendency to have low expectations of his performance and to set low standards for himself, both academically and socially. He lacks focus and often appears to fare poorly due to either a lack of effort and a lack of belief in his own abilities
   His efforts to fit in are often hampered by the fact that he's moderately hyperactive and has a tendency to act with a pronounced level of immaturity, which has earned him a reputation as a loser among his peers
   Though never directly stereotyped as being a dork/geek, he's been referred to as one on several occasions, and has many typical dork/geek traits. As evidenced by his love of “cult” computer games,, his occasional fascination with the science fiction and fantasy genres, and by his ability to get along with Kim's geekish cousin Larry.

Constant Transformations

Though not necessarily a personality trait, Ron's ability to get himself into situations where he was physically transformed seemed endless. It was even mocked in the episode Grande Size Me, where Ron states to the audience the unpleasantness of being physically transformed. In Ron the Man, Ron is transformed into a Muscle Man through the use of a muscle enhancing ring, though this was deliberate on Ron's behalf. In the Episode, Return to Camp Wannaweep; to combat the villanous Gill Ron leapt into toxic waste and becomes a powerful man-beaver. In the Episode Grande Size Me, Ron is transformed into a large Hulk- like orange skinned man this time against his will after falling into a tub where Jack Hench's Project Titan was being stored. In this episode, Ron defeated Gemini and arch foe Monkey Fist. This was the second time he defeated Monkey Fist one on one, but is large ignored due to Ron's mutation. In the Episode, Nursery Crimes; Ron is transformed into a baby against his will. Though not necessarily a physical transformation, Ron is endowed with matter destroying powers against his will in the Episode Mathter and Fervent by the Mathter, a foe of Team Go.

Contrast

Despite usually being portrayed as being awkward, childish, distracted, and an underachiever, Ron's character has been been shown to have hidden depths and abilities which the franchise occasionally explored as plot devices or McGuffins.
   Among Ron's hidden talents are demonstrable creative and intellectual streaks. He wrote the song that Kim sung at the school talent contest is a talented cook,, and enjoys success in many craft-related activities (including constructing his own custom made Mad Dog head He also has a lot of other talents, as seen in the talent show. In Graduation, upon seeing Kim in mortal danger, as well as getting a pep talk from Sensei, Ron taps into the full extent of his Mystical Monkey Powers and takes on both Warhok and Warmonga all by himself and destroys them in an amazing display of sheer bravery and heroism. Agility and Sports. During Sick Day Ron was able to master several different extreme sport related skills that he'd previously been unable to master, in order to infiltrate Drakken's lair and escape with Ray X (suffering only a single trademark pants-related incident). In “The Twin Factor” Ron successfully evaded both Shego and a mind controlled Kim, even maneuvering himself so that the pair would cut his bonds,
   Perhaps the most pronounced of the changes/contrasts displayed by Ron was in “Bad Boy" when the stereotypical "mad scientist" elements of Drakken's personality were accidentally transferred into him, causing him to temporarily became a costumed "Mad scientist/Evil genius" type super villain named Zorpox The Conqueror. As Zorpox, Ron created a series of increasingly sophisticated weapons, ranging from a mechanical device to fling mashed potatoes to an all terrain plasma catapult and a weather generator capable of instantly controlling the weather at a global scale.
   In "A Sitch in Time," he single-handedly defeated a super-strong Drakken and destroyed the Time Monkey by causing a series of pillars to topple like dominoes. Considering that Kim couldn't defeat the genetically-enhanced Drakken on her own, his great anger at that time likely caused him to tap into his Mystical Monkey Powers and use his super-strength from that to defeat Drakken and Shego.
   After the end of “Exchange” Ron's monkey powers were not explicitly shown again for a while. The show even made a self-referential comment about this; during a fight, Ron's opponent is surprised by his terrible performance, believing Ron is supposed to possess some sort of mystical superpower. Ron sheepishly replies that "it comes and it goes, y'know."
   During the final two-part episode, Graduation, Ron's Mystical Monkey Powers sprung into a very powerful being when he single-handedly confronted, fought and defeated the nine foot tall alien duo of Warmonga and Warhok, with no help from Kim or Rufus. After Warhok made the very serious mistake of threatening Kim's life in Ron's presence, Sensei appeared to encourage him to summon his Mystical Monkey Powers. He revealed that Ron is the Ultimate Monkey Master (ironic for someone who once had such an extreme fear of monkeys) and that this (presumably being the Ultimate Monkey Master) is his destiny that he's now ready for. With Kim unconscious, her life being threatened, and no chance of anyone else saving the day, Ron consciously tapped into his Mystical Monkey Powers, another indication that Ron's failures and clumsiness stem more from his insecurities and self-doubt than lack of ability, and that he'd prove much more capable if he was able to work past them.
   Upon its manifestation, Ron's strength was nearly infinite. He was seen to grab both aliens by their wrists and launch them well over half a mile into the air, before they impacted with their crashing spaceship, presumably destroying them. Needless to say, this surprised those around him, including Kim, Shego, and Rufus. This action caused Kim, for the first time in the series (and the last, given that it was the final episode), to be lost for speech. Even Shego was completely impressed, saying that it looked like Ron "stepped up, monkey style." This was the first time in the series that Ron had complete control over his powers and he can now presumably access them whenever he wants.

Mortal Enemies

Despite his position as a sidekick until the very end of the series, Ron has in fact a score of enemies who could conceivably consider him as their primary foe rather than Kim Possible. Monkey Fist:
Ron's deadliest and most vicious foe. Once a respected archaeologist and expert on all things Simian, Lord Montgomery Fiske turned to Kim and Ron to help him recover a jade monkey statue from a temple in Cambodia. He spent the family fortune on radical genetic mutation, which was revealed in the season two episode "Partners" to be the work of DNAmy. He is a master of Tai Sheng Pek Kwar, also known as Monkey Kung Fu. In his debut episode, "Monkey Fist Strikes," he succeeded in his goal of obtaining the mystical monkey power and changed his name from Monty Fiske to Monkey Fist in an appropriately ironic anagram.
   Ever since their first encounter, Monkey Fist has considered Ron his greatest enemy, although he once told him, "You're not an arch foe, you're an arch-bumbler!" He, Ron, and Rufus are the only ones who possess the Mystical Monkey Power, although Ron's adopted sister Hana is implied to have it as well. In his battles against Monkey Fist, Ron is generally at his peak, though he hasn't actually beaten Monkey Fist in a one-on-one battle since their first encounter. In many ways, Ron and Monkey Fist have a similar relationship and similar personalities in the way Shego and Kim have. In almost every episode where Ron and Monkey Fist have fought, Ron displays ability he rarely shown in other episodes not featuring Monkey Fist. Of all of Kim and Ron's adversaries, Monkey Fist alone is able to remember Ron's name most of the time, something which Ron has admitted he respects.
   As season four draws to a close, Monkey Fist is reverted into a stone statue after he gives up his 'destiny,' to follow the path of the Yono, and is unable to free himself as of Ron's graduation from high school. Presumably this is the first time a recurring enemy has been "killed off". Gill:
During their time at Camp Wannaweep, Ron, afraid of the polluted water in Lake Wannaweep, allowed the bullying Gil Moss to have his turn at swimming time in the lake, while Ron took Gil's arts and crafts sessions. The result was that Gil was transformed into a hideous sea monster, Gill.
   As of the end of season 3, the only time that his background was referenced directly was during season 1, when teacher Steve Barkin noticed that Ron's rabbi, Rabbi Katz, had given him a bar mitzvah certificate but had forgotten to sign it..
   Ron's Jewish heritage wasn't prominently featured in any storyline during season 4.

Love Interests

Ron has had a variety of love interests and crushes throughout the show, more than any of the show's other characters:

Zita Flores: Ron's crush in early season 2. She might have been his first girlfriend. However, sometime prior to graduation from high school, Zita is implied to be dating Ron's best male friend, Felix Renton.

Amelia: Addressed in The New Ron, Animal Attraction, and Ron Millionaire. In "The New Ron," Amelia crushed on Ron because of his new hairdo. When he lost the haircut, he lost Amelia's interest. Ron got excited in "Animal Attraction" when he found out that Animology said that Amelia was his soul mate. In the episode Clean Slate, Kim acknowledged that she loved Ron. The fact that her impending death spurred him to destroy their adversaries in Graduation would illustrate the fact that this love is indeed mutual; the ending of the series finale heavily implies that Kim and Ron's relationship will endure.

Trivia

The episode "The Fearless Ferret", a parody of the original Batman TV series, features Ron becoming the apprentice of an aging crime fighter (voiced by Adam West, the actor who played Batman in the TV series). This is also a parody of the setup for the animated series Batman Beyond. Will Friedle voices both Terry McGinnis (Bruce Wayne's apprentice in Batman Beyond), and Ron.

Despite having to resort to "borrowing" Kim's ability-enhancing battlesuit to make the football team, after returning the suit, Ron breaks the Middleton rushing record in “Ill Suited” and becomes the team's star running back, although in other episodes he appears to be operating as a receiver.Further Information

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