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I read there's going to be a 4th season of Disney's Kim Possible. I have mixed feelings about that show. The action is packed, the dialogue is pretty tight, and the animation style is pleasantly quirky. However, it's so very excruciatingly feminist. All male characters are one of these options: A) Incompetent and/or small-minded sociopath, B) Highly intelligent, but lacking in either common sense or mobility, or C) Well-meaning human target and comic relief.

All that aside, the fact I'm finally getting to is that coming into the 4th season that they weren't initially planning on making, they have to deal with the fact that they "finished" the show with the main character falling in love with her option-C sidekick, Ron Stoppable. That sort of ruins the dynamic of the show. But they (the creators) claim they have a way around it.

The point of this post is that what I would personally do in that situation is shamelessly steal from the Love Hina OVA.

I used to download a lot of anime. Let's not talk about why.

See, Love Hina was a harem-type anime with a ridiculously spineless twerp of a main character named Keitaro. The whole point of the show was how he kept accidentally looking like a pervert and getting his ass kicked by the female characters. But after they ended the series, there was an extra bit of story they released - an epilogue, basically - where Keitaro had gone away and come back a total badass. It was hugely satisfying to see the guy catch a break after 26 episodes of humiliation.

And that's what Ron Stoppable needs. I can definitely see an entire season with the various reactions to "oh sh*t, Kim's not the only super-slick butt-kicker for goodness in town." Obviously new comic relief would have to be introduced. But it would be highly entertaining to me - and I'm betting a whole ton of tweenage boys - to see the always-inferior male character come into his own and skillfully contribute to the sound thrashing of the Forces of Evil.