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Bonnie

Bonnie Rockwaller is a bossy and abrasive cheerleader from Disney's animated television series Kim Possible. Bonnie is voiced by Kirsten Storms. In the three part feature Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, a one-off 20-years-older version of Bonnie was voiced by Kelly Ripa. ^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... In the episode Crush of Kim Possible, Dr. Drakken finds something that can destroy Kim Possible, embarrasment. ... Kirsten Elisha Storms (born April 8, 1984, in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress best known for her role as Isabella Belle Black in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives from 1999 to 2004. ... Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970, in Berlin, New Jersey) an American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress and talk show host. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. ... For Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel around the world. ... This article is about the television series. ... Kirsten Elisha Storms (born April 8, 1984, in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress best known for her role as Isabella Belle Black in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives from 1999 to 2004. ... Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970, in Berlin, New Jersey) an American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress and talk show host. ...

While not one of the main characters, Bonnie is one of the show's most active background characters, usually serving as a McGuffin device to allow a smooth lead-in for the episode's primary plot, or as the instigator for subplots revolving around peer pressure and the difficulties that Kim experiences balancing her home/school life with her missions. ^[2][3][4] This article is about the plot device. ...

Personality

In many ways Bonnie is a typical cheerleader. She is confident, assertive, highly competitive, and is aware of her own ability to succeed. In this way, she has many of the same basic personality traits as Kim.^[5][3] However, the two characters diverge significantly beyond these points. While Kim's drive to succeed usually, though not always, comes from internal motivations, primarily the desire to meet her own high standards, Bonnie is driven by a desire to be respected and renowned by others. To this end, she likes to steal the spotlight and does not engage in thankless tasks if she can possibly avoid them. ^[5][3]

Although Bonnie is highly image conscious, she has a forceful personality that typically leads her to be a source of peer pressure for other characters, and a dictator of local fashions. This comes in contrast to Kim, who is highly susceptible to peer pressure, and tends to follow, rather than set, trends. ^[6][1][3] Another key difference between Bonnie and Kim is the way in which they act when faced with a challenge that they are uncertain about. If Bonnie does not believe that she can overcome a challenge, she will often try to avoid it, preferring to be seen as uninterested rather than a "loser". Commonly she achieves this by dismissing either the challenge or the challenger as being beneath her. This, combined with her assertiveness, gives her a very abrasive personality and a tendency to put others down as a means of self gratification. ^[1][5][3] In this vein, Bonnie shows a pattern of being incapable, or unwilling, to learn from her own mistakes, or to change her judgements of Kim and Ron, even after acknowledging herself in the wrong.

Despite her flaws, Bonnie has been shown to be surprisingly together and resourceful at times, and is among the least likely of the show's cast to panic over serious issues (though the same cannot always be said over trivial matters) and, although never depicted as being particularly brave, she is also not a coward. Her usual reaction to a dangerous situation, or to a threatening individual, is to show contempt rather than fear.

As is typical of the cliché of the High School Cheerleader, until his graduation (after, according to Mr. Barkin in Ill Suited, 7 years at Middleton High), Bonnie dated football star Brick Flagg. Upon Brick's graduation and entrance into College however, he dumped Bonnie (who he now refers to as "the mean girl"), causing Bonnie to have a (brief) crisis of confidence during which she attempted to steal Ron from Kim (during Homecoming Upset). As a result of the events in that episode, Bonnie managed to hook up with and is now (as of the series finale) dating Señor Senior, Junior.^[7][8] Ill Suited is the name of the first episode in the fourth season of Disneys Kim Possible. ... Kim Possible: Homecoming Upset, episode 80 of Kim Possible, has yet to air. ...

Rivalry with Kim Possible

Perhaps most importantly, Bonnie's personality is highly influenced by the fact that she has to continually play second fiddle to a beautiful, confident, world-trotting teenage superhero. Bonnie's rivalry with Kim is a major contributor to her personality: Her jealousy is keenly felt, and is not without justification. Bonnie feels that Kim continually "lords" her victories over her.^[2] In addition, Bonnie's home life is far more chaotic than Kim's as she shares a home with two emotionally abusive sisters and is supposedly without a father.^[8] Her highest ambition is to humiliate Kim in a way that will not only allow Bonnie to recover her old position as head cheerleader, but make Kim the school loser, meaning she wouldn't even be on the squad. Information Nickname(s) B Bon-Bon Age High school Senior (Season 4) Family Connie and Lonnie (Older Sisters), Mrs. ...

Bonnie vs. Kim

One of the running themes of the Kim Possible franchise has been the ongoing, and fairly bitter, rivalry between Bonnie and Kim. Both are highly competitive, though for different reasons, and both compete ferociously not to be outdone by the other. Something which is not only true when they are pitted against one another, but even when they are on the same side.^[3][5] This rivalry is so intense that it has had some influence on Bonnie's personality. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the TV show of the same name, see Kim Possible. ... Information Nickname(s) B Bon-Bon Age High school Senior (Season 4) Family Connie and Lonnie (Older Sisters), Mrs. ...

The roots of this rivalry are known to go back several years, even before Kim overtook Bonnie as the head of the MHS cheer squad. The earliest depiction of the antagonism between the two was during the second part of A Sitch in Time, when it is revealed that Bonnie assigned Kim a cheer squad tryout routine that was supposed to be impossible to complete successfully.^[1] At the time, the rivalry appeared to be one-sided, with Kim's younger self seemingly being oblivious to it. By high school, however, feelings had become mutual.

On Bonnie's part, much of this rivalry can be attributed to the fact that she often sees Kim as "overachieving on purpose" to make her look bad, and the belief that Kim is purposefully lauding her successes over her. ^[2] This belief is, in part, born out by Kim's own admissions (and is in line with her competitive personality), including times when Kim admits that she would rather risk humiliation than seeing Bonnie win^[9]. Although Kim has responded in kind to Bonnie's attacks in the past, such occasions are rare, though Kim enjoys every occasion in which Bonnie takes a tumble. For the TV show of the same name, see Kim Possible. ...

As the protagonist, rather than the antagonist, these incidents usually end in Kim's favor. However, at times they have been mutually self-destructive, with both Kim and Bonnie losing out because of their refusal to compromise, or because they have neglected other things in favor of competing with one another. ^[5] While she is usually cast as being the bad guy, Bonnie has been known to bring out the worst in Kim, pushing her competitive nature and desire to succeed to unhealthy levels. These include incidents in which she has engaged in one-upmanship and tit-for-tat revenge, or where Kim has felt driven to succeed purely to prevent Bonnie from doing so.^[3][5] This doesn't seem to be the case in the rivalry between Kim and Shego, which is more driven by Kim's sense of justice. One-upmanship is the systematic and conscious practice of making ones associates feel inferior and thereby gaining the status of being one-up on them, as described by Stephen Potter in his tongue-in-cheek self-help books, and in film and television derivatives from them. ... Tit for tat is a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoners dilemma. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Shego Shego is a fictional character from Disneys animated television series Kim Possible voiced by Nicole Sullivan. ...

As part of their rivalry, Bonnie has used a variety of negative nicknames to refer to Kim, including "Tin Teeth" (during the time she wore braces) and "Miss Perfect". When speaking to Kim face to face, she typically calls her "K" (Similarly, Kim refers to Bonnie as "B").^[1] Ron has asked Kim why she doesn't physically fight back against Bonnie, since she always fights against evil. Kim replies that Bonnie wasn't sufficiently threatening to use force against, because she was only "high school evil", and because doing so might hurt her permanent record. ^[4] Braces Dental braces (also known as orthodontic braces) are a device used in orthodontics to correct alignment of teeth and their position with regard to bite. ...

Family

Sisters

Connie and Lonnie Rockwaller

Bonnie first mentions having older siblings in season 2, when she describes them as having won the Middleton High talent contest four years in a row, and having to live up to this family record. Her older sisters, Connie and Lonnie, were introduced in season 3. Both have personalities similar to Bonnie, and both constantly bully and belittle her, publicly questioning her worth and putting her down as being unintelligent and unattractive. Remarking to Kim (in turn) "I got all the brains... I got all the looks... and Bonnie got the rest!"^[8] Bonnie shows a pained reaction to this - the only time she has shown any emotion other than contempt or contempt/victory - but then reacts to Kim's sympathy with anger immediately afterward. This interaction suggests that this kind of harmful "teasing" has been going on for years, which indicates that Bonnie may be a victim of emotional child abuse from her siblings. Kim, at the end of Bonding, says that she got a better understanding of why Bonnie is the way she is in the time they spent together. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

Mother

Bonnie Rockwaller and Mrs. Rockwaller.

Bonnie's mother (voiced by Jo Anne Worley) was introduced in season 1. She was shown to have a very different personality from all her daughters, in that she lacked their abrasive attitudes and seemed genuinely gregarious and friendly. Mrs. Rockwaller was also shown to be talkative and slightly over-protective of her daughter, and to seemingly be unaware of her Bonnie's cold attitude towards others.^[10] Bonnie's mother's marital status is unknown, but it's reasonable to assume that she's not married as she was the only parent to come to the ski trip without a spouse. Mrs. Rockwaller as calls Bonnie Bon-Bon as a pet name(much to Bonnie's dislike.) Which is the cause of Ron calling her "Bon-Bon" too. Image File history File links Bonnie_plus_mother. ... Image File history File links Bonnie_plus_mother. ... Jo Anne Worley Jo Anne Worley (born on September 6, 1937) is an American actress. ...

Alternate versions

Several alternate versions of Bonnie have been shown during the course of the series, including a clone version that was genetically engineered to fight Kim, a younger version who tried to sabotage Kim's cheer squad tryouts by assigning her what she thought was an impossible routine, and a future version who worked as one of Shego's underlings. This future version was voiced by Kelly Ripa. Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970, in Berlin, New Jersey) an American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress and talk show host. ...

The Killer Bebe also nominally became versions of Bonnie when she was briefly used as the core of their Hive mind. Under Bonnie's influence, the Killer Bebe criticized Kim's wardrobe, and belittled her fashion sense, just like the real Bonnie.^[2] A group mind or group ego in science fiction is a single consciousness occupying many bodies. ...

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