Kim Possible (2019)

Kimberly "Kim" Ann Possible is the titular main protagonist of the 2019 live-action adaptation Kim Possible, based on the animated series of the same name. However, she was flanderized in the 2019 live-action film.

Why She Sucks

 * 1) She is flanderized from a badass spy, as well as a caring and loving friend, to an attention-seeking Mary Sue who gets jealous and holds a petty grudge at Athena for being more popular at school and a being better spy, which goes against her character in the show.
 * 2) *On that topic, she cares more about validation than actually saving the world.
 * 3) *For some reason, she is shown to be far weaker and less powerful than in the original cartoon, all for the sake of making Athena seem more powerful in comparison (see WIS #7).
 * 4) *Granted, in the original cartoon Kim at times does gets jealous at her rivals like Bonnie Rockwaller, but not to the extent of holding grudges against her rivals or having her jealousy consume her to unhealthy degrees, and instead overcomes it in a mature way and quickly moves on to more important tasks like saving the world, unlike this live-action counterpart of hers.
 * 5) She does so many unnecessary flips and backflips. Did she really need to do a backflip just to pick up paper off the ground?
 * 6) Her sports profession was changed from cheerleading to soccer, which doesn’t make sense considering how many backflips she does, and that cheerleading is what gave Kim her acrobatic abilities, and not to mention that cheerleading is one of her most iconic and defining characteristics in the original cartoon.
 * 7) She breaks the fourth wall (which alone is out of place for a show like Kim Possible) and criticizes her iconic crop top and cargo pants outfit from the animated series while saying it’s too cartoony, despite being the original design from the source material.
 * 8) She seems to overuse the grappling gun, unlike the show where she would at least use a variety of gadgets, so much to the point that the grappling gun is the only gadget that she's ever got despite that it is revealed in her room that she does have variety of gadgets.
 * 9) Sadie Stanley did a poor job at playing her, as she does not feel like Kim Possible, she feels more like a random girl who happens to have red hair and calls herself "Kim Possible".
 * 10) *On top of that, Sadie looks way too young for the role, as she made Kim Possible looked more like a middle-school teenage girl than a high-school teenage girl.
 * 11) Like Don Bluth's version of Thumbelina, she cries more than once in the movie ever since Athena proved to be more popular than her, which not only gets really annoying after a while, yet it completely goes against her character in the show and makes her seem more weak and vulnerable in the worst way.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) She does still save the world, despite caring more about validation as mentioned earlier.

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