List of minor villains in Kim Possible

This article is for less prominent villains in the fictional universe of Disney's animated television series "Kim Possible".

Adrena Lynn

"Big Daddy" Brotherson

Electronique

Evil Eye Trio

Fukushima

Jack Hench

Nanny Nane

Summer Gale

The Mathter

Warhok

Zorpox The Conqueror

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"The presence of "evil energies" |

Zorpox the Conqueror is a villain from Disney's animated television series "Kim Possible", and the villainous alter ego of series regular Ron Stoppable.

He made his first appearance in the episode "Bad Boy", midway through Season 3, Kim Possible, episode 55, Bad Boy (14 January 2005)] and was voiced by Will Friedle, and later returned during Season 4. The name "Zorpox the conqueror" was chosen from Issue 97 of the "Villain's League of Evil Villains"; a comic owned by Wade. Zorpox has a distinctive musical theme: "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach.

History

Initially, Zorpox the Conqueror was a fictional comic book villain within the Kim Possible universe (see Fictional fictional character). 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 "Attitudinator", transferring Drakken's "bad energies" (villainous tendency) into him.

Initially, Ron was unaware of what has happened, and the device appeared to have had no effect. However, as the day progressed, Ron's attitude steadily changed. He readopted a leather jacket-wearing "bad boy" look that he had 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 which was clearly shown and quoted by several characters in the episode to have been superior to Drakken's. This number of 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. This was the only time it happened in the series (a decoy plan to divert from the real one) until "So the Drama". The plan even confused Shego (and later dismayed her when she found out). She said it wouldn't hurt to be kept in the loop.

Ron/Zorpox was eventually stopped by Drakken, who placed a newly repaired "Attitudinator" on Ron's head, restoring both him and Drakken to their original selves once more.

Ron's villainous alter ego did not surface again during Season 3, and release notes for Season 4 do not include him as a character. However, Zorpox's personality makes a small reappearance in "Stop Team Go", again under the influence of the Attitudinator, where he proceeded to battle the evil Team Go, showing amazing martial arts abilities while defeating a small army of Wegos, and helping to defeat Electronique. When Ron became evil again, Hego didn't think of him as much of a threat, but Shego mentioned that he'd "be surprised".

Personality

Zorpox's personality is essentially Ron's personality; primarily, his inquisitive and hyperactive nature, a bit of childish humor, and his unusual perspective of scales (for example, demanding a ransom of 'the world's supply of Nacos'), but with the addition of several elements which are more normally associated with a stereotypical "mad scientist" type villain, such as Drakken. These elements include penchant for dramatics, a sense of smugness, and camp villainy.

Despite being an amalgam of Ron and Drakken, Zorpox also demonstrated a number of traits that neither is usually credited with possessing. Among these traits were a high level of forethought, and an appreciation of the importance of learning from Drakken's past failures/Kim's past successes. As such Zorpox was one of the few Kim Possible villains to use a decoy- a bogus doomsday weapon- in order to distract Kim from his true plans (until "So the Drama", he was the only villain to do so), or to realize that Kim typically received last minute mission updates from Wade, prior to going in, thus providing a signal that could be used to locate her.

Zorpox also took a harder line with Shego than Drakken had done. He insisted on his authority, employing a belt that enabled him to repel Shego's energy blasts - which Drakken owned but never figured out how to use - and the lair's traps, in order to intimidate her and remind her as to who was in charge and who was the sidekick. Shego was effectively shocked, unnerved, and subdued.

Zorpox retained and utilized a modified version of Ron's trademark "Booya", which Zorpox worked into a villainous laugh ("Booyahahahaha"). Owing to his forethought and more logical approach to problems as well as his superior technical talents, Zorpox has been argued to be a superior villain in the franchise.

Zorpox was never referred to as such by any of the characters in the show except himself (while still good and incognito at the Villain's Convention) and Jack Hench, who never knew of Zorpox's true identity outside of the convention. Rather, he was called by his normal appellation.

Debate

Since his appearance in "Bad Boy", there has been debate amongst fans as which elements of Zorpox represented things that were already present in Ron, and which elements represented things that were introduced to him from Drakken. These debates have produced two primary schools of thought.

# That the "Attitudinator" transferred some of Drakken's skills and experiences into Ron, enabling him to do things that he was not capable of doing prior. It should be noted that there was a cameo appearance of Evil Ron in season 4 without any influence from Drakken that has made this line of thought less justified and less supported.
# That the "Attitudinator" allowed Ron to better harness skills and experience, in the form of hidden or underused talents, which he already possessed. (In a same way, Drakken is allowed to show his good side which is usually showed by the fact that he's not violent. In "A Sitch in Time" for example Drakken only wants to crush Kim's spirit when Shego, Monkey fist and Duff want to directly crush her.)

Much of this debate centers on the fact that Zorpox demonstrated a high level of technical ability, while Ron is normally portrayed as being creative but not technically minded, although occasionally Ron shows it also; for example, in the episode "Naked Genius", Ron builds a working Doomsday device out of random household items after Drakken threatens him with his life.

Within the Kim Possible universe, such skills are more commonly associated with Drakken, and what technical skill Ron has demonstrated in the past has been more "abstract" than the skills demonstrated by Zorpox. Conversely, though, while Ron displayed a much higher level of technical ability than the other, Drakken was also show to have retained most, if not all, of his technical skills. Thus forming a counter argument. Also, at the end of the episode, "after" Ron turned good, he managed to fix the "Attitudinator" by himself (presumably with no help from Wade, unlike Drakken) and used it on his bratty cousin, hinting that Ron still possessed his mechanical genius after all.

According to the episode's script of Bad Boy (written in the form of an infomercial), the "Attitudinator" extracted both "good energies" and "bad energies" from Drakken, returning the former to him when it broke, but transferring the latter to Ron. However, the exact nature of these "energies" was never explicitly stated as being "evil will alone", or as being "evil will + ability" (no indication was given as to their nature beyond their labeling as being "good" or "bad"), leaving room for conjecture, but providing no definitive answers to the questions raised.

The debate over the relationship between Zorpox and Ron/Drakken was briefly reopened during season 4 when the dark Ron personality made a cameo appearance at the end of the episode Stop Team Go. In this episode, the Attitudinator returned in a modified form which was said to be able to polarize the personality (make one side dominant) of whomsoever was struck by its beam. This effectively made a good person bad and vice versa, but without first removing their good/bad energy as the original Attitudinator had done.

When struck by the modified Attitudinator, and with Drakken absent, Ron appeared to revert to his dark state exactly as before. While the episode provided no opportunity for the audience to verify whether or not this incarnation of Zorpox had the same technical genius as the previous one, he was shown to display the same character traits and the same method of thinking as before, including his forethought traits. Conversely, while the original Zorpox was a technical genius, the new Zorpox was shown to possess martial arts skills and a level of agility which the original did not display. Though the significance was not stated in the episode's script, these abilities strongly resembled those that Ron possessed while under the influence of the Jade Monkey Statues in Monkey Fist Strikes, and at other times when he tapped into the Mystical Monkey Powers. In the episode "Exchange", Ron seems to be able to do Monkey Kung Fu without using his Mystical Monkey Powers, however, because he does not turn blue, make things levitate, or need intense concentration. Ron may simply have used his Monkey Kung Fu expertise without using his Mystical Monkey Power, but some may argue that the Power gave Ron an instinctive knowledge of the Kung Fu that he could use without "powering up".

Aside from Ron's transformation, the episode made several direct and indirect references to the original episode in which Zorpox appeared, and recycled the background music, indicating a direct parallel between the two instances. Also, the evil Ron had the same accent/dramatic voice pattern as Zorpox, as well as his trademark evil laugh: "Booyahahaha!"

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