My first attempt at trying to design my version of Athena that combines elements of Drakken, Shego, and a tiny hint of Kim and Eric/Synthodrone #901.

Ditched some elements to make it somewhat fit more into the show. Still not 100% satisfied with how she looks but I'll try again some other time! Meanwhile, enjoy this attempt :')

Total time 2 hours

A few Shego sketches

I'm starting to think that a Kim Possible reboot is not a good idea. If you look at the direction the other Disney reboots are taking and the foundation the live action movie tried to lay, neither approach looks like it would be successful.

yeah... that's how i feel too. the live action could have worked as a series, and i wish they'd kept those shorts going that they produced. but it needed to find its own place... i think the live action tried to live a little too much in the cartoon world and didn't quite get its footing as its own thing. but the potential was there. they did a great job overall.

as for a reboot.... yeah no. they would change everything we love to frankly sell an agenda that would just enrage fans for the changes... when ppl want more of the shows they love, they want the SAME THING they fell in love with. not some re-imagined bad fanfiction brought to screen, cuz people do that now.

but no... let's just love Kim Possible as it is. it's stood the test of time and doesn't need any change. let's keep the fanfic where it belongs and keep it offscreen.

What would you have changed about the Kim Possible live action?

I think a little more world building. A little more treating it like a pilot for a new show and less like a soft reboot, since it relied a lot on what people already know about the characters.

I don't think I would have gone so hard with the Athena and Kim friendship because it diminished Ron and didn't really leave room for a series to come from it, because Ron wouldn't have a place. And people who love Kim Possible also love the show for Ron Stoppable so it just wouldn't feel right having him exist only as the comic relief instead of also Kim's bestie and sidekick, since in essence the way the show ended left them with two leads, two Kims.

Still, the movie was incredible for Drakken and Shego content. They were the best part.

What would you have changed about the Kim Possible live action?

Rufus's origin story. He seemed dumbed down in the live-action. I prefer him brave and clever, like the original. Also would have preferred he and Ron having already been friends, because the established dynamic was more fun.

Think I would have preferred cheerleading over soccer, but I didn't mind the soccer really.

A little more reference to Kim's other villains would have been nice. I loved the newspaper article cameos and the incident with Dementor, but more would have been good. Better than the...unnecessary action scenes. Like Kim needing to do a bunch of flips to get to class on time, get on the bus...yeah. A little villain montage would have been better.

Live-Action Kim Possible movie review

This movie will never be my favorite. It may even be my least favorite of all of the Kim Possible works. First with the show, then the movie, this being after that. Now if it were to just be this alone I would say it was a pretty good movie for what it is. So basically I think what I’m saying is that if you were someone like me who grew up with the animated tv show, maybe don’t watch this one. Now if you didn’t go for it!

The only good part about the live action Kim Possible movie is Shego’s costume design

The way so many companies (especially Disney) have been profiting off of nostalgia for the past few years has never sat right with me, but how about that Phineas and Ferb renewal?

KIM POSSIBLE (2019) | dir. adam b. stein & zach lipovsky

@takeflight asked: "I chased some dumb ideal my whole fucking life." ( kim + monique )

( a guts ask meme isn't a bad idea, right? )

Kim gave an almost sad nod, letting out a little sigh. "Yeah, that tends to be how it is for us, huh? Always chasing after something, trying to convince ourselves we have to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect. That we have to be better somehow." She leaned her head on her bestie's shoulder. "You know I think you're great just the way you are though, right?"

It's been forever since I last drew actual realism from photo but I was like "How about I make Todd Stashwick's Drakken blue and more cartoon accurate?" and then everything rolled downhill and this is what I ended up with. I don't really like the end result but I also don't want to throw it away just like that. Learning process yaaaay 😂😂😂 See drawing process below (at one point it gave semi Béla Lugosi vibes. I cannot escape Dracula my beloved).

"You're almost too big to carry, kiddo."

"I know."

I think my biggest unpopular Kim possible opinion is that the live action movie wasn’t bad, it wasn’t the greatest thing ever, but it wasn’t the worst thing ever.

There’s a lot of things I liked about it, I liked that Kim had a little arc and that she was allowed to be insecure and be more opens about her doubt and fears, Shego and Drakken were the best parts of it hands down (and they helped revive Drakgo 💙💚), Ron was great as well.

Some people said it was cringe that he referenced memes, but for Drakken that is completely in-character. Drakken would 100% try to use slang and fail miserably.

I’m also appreciate that the live action showed us what Kim and Shego’s age gap actually looks like.

I never thought of it that way, but maybe that also contributed to the movie falling in ratings? It really puts the ship into perspective and I bet some people didn’t like that.

drakken DID try and fail to use slang miserably in the cartoon! they even used the same book cover that he used in the cartoon in the final shots of the live action when shego is driving mini-drakken to high school:

the live action should get a LOT of credit that it doesn't. the canon references are...profound. I mean, that bueno nacho set! wade's striped cup. the grappler. the original mission outfit. I could go on for a LONG time about how very much IN the world of Kim Possible they tried to make us believe we were with numerous background details and references like the aforementioned, and even deeper nuances about the characters and story. but I'll save that for another time if anyone is interested.

I loved that Kim got her identity crisis. I just didn't like how it ended, as I've addressed in other posts. but the cartoon dealt with that very thing in the series' soft-finale episode of Team Impossible. that episode did the same thing: if she's not saving the world, then who is she? and it felt much more Kim-like than the movie did... but you can read my past posts about why I didn't like the end of the movie.

Drakgo. were. awesome. everyone agrees. and they perfectly transplanted them from early 2000's to late 2010's. I very much believed that if those characters lived naturally in that year, that's how they'd behave. that was another win for the movie. they weren't trying to make it like...the cartoon chars had time-traveled, but as if this is their normal world, and it worked perfectly.

part of me wants to rant about the character slaughter of James Possible, but...I'll save that for another post.

and of course, as I've said, I loved that the show distinctly showed the age gap between Kim and Shego. but in doing so it also kind of...broke the suspension of disbelief you need to believe in a...teenage world-traveling crime-fighter who goes to public high school. it's kind of in the same vein as.... Spy Kids, if anyone remembers that franchise. great fun, but wholly unrealistic. and we're not expected to pretend it is! we know we're living in a fantasy world and they don't try to make us believe otherwise... and KP is wholly unrealistic if you take it out of the cartoon world and put it in the real world... ultimately I think that's why the movie didn't launch into something more. some things are simply suited for animation, and do not work in live action without...eh...well, without the grandiose technology it takes to make a Marvel movie. I was just looking at clips of WandaVision a few days ago and thinking how these women just...flying, hovering in the air, with no visible power source... just magic... this sort of thing you don't believe in live action. our logic won't really let us if we're adults. but they had enough high-budget CGI, enough incredible photography direction...they made it more believable than Kim and Ron on the jetpacks. and even so, the world is so grandiose that we don't really believe the marvel world is the real world either. so yeah...the KP live action tried to make us believe it was the real world, and we just...couldn't.

some things simply aren't made to be on film. some things are meant to be cartoons, and should stay cartoons. in my opinion the superhero genre is one such thing, but... that's another topic.

What would you have changed about the Kim Possible live action?

I would have made the school years and age relevance.

 Kim didn't know who some of her villains were until she was in high school. Specifically Drakken and Shego. 

 So to have them have a previous thing before she's even in high school I didn't like that. But I let it slide. 

 Also the fact that Drakken wasn't blue bothered me. I think it bothered a lot of people in the Phantom to be honest. I also didn't like how they recycled the plot line from later things in the series and even for the shorts making like the aliens be randomly in the series when it was actually supposed to be a very important big bad. 

So to me it was like they were trying to shove it all in the movie that didn't have a lot of advertising to it because they had no intentions of making another movie it was just a one-time thing because if they had actually wanted to make a movie or a viable series they would have spent a little bit more time in making it more accurate and having a plot that was easier at the beginning like an example if she had just met them and started off the issues that started in that villainy era that would have made more sense to me rather than recycling what would have been plots from the end of the entire series .

But mostly it was the blue thing

I hate to bring this up but I think the time Jim Lehrer interviewed Wordgirl means that Wordgirl canonically exists in real life

“No. That’s what you do. That’s not who you are.”

Damn, that distinction. 

Thinking about the line in Team Impossible when Kim says, “Save the world. It’s what I do and nobody’s going to stop me.” 

Notice the similar language, too. What I do. Not who I am.