Monkey Fist

Lord Monkey Fist (birth name Monty Fiske) is a villain on the television show Kim Possible. Monkey Fist first appears in "Monkey Fist Strikes", and is later confirmed to be the arch-nemesis of Ron Stoppable. He is a British nobleman, world explorer, and archaeologist. He also has a passion for monkeys. 
== History ==
Fiske 
is a villain who specializes in the mystical and martial arts. More 
specifically, he is obsessively consumed with the study of Tai Shing Pek
 Kwar, or Monkey Kung-Fu, and with monkey-themed magical artifacts.
Fiske was originally an archaeologist and most of his appearances
 open with the search for a specific monkey artifact that will drive the
 rest of the plot.
His personality includes many monkey-derived tics, such as a 
hooting laugh and a tendency to knuckle-walk. His physiology has been 
altered by DNAmy to include hands and feet like those of a monkey.
Due to Ron Stoppable's pathological fear of primates, Monkey Fist considers Ron to be his enemy on equal footing with or perhaps ahead of, Kim Possible, especially since Ron and Rufus
 are the only other beings to possess mystical monkey power. He hates to
 admit that Ron being his arch-foe, referring to him as an 
"arch-bumbler" on at least one occasion. His final appearance was in the
 Season 4 episode "Oh No Yono,"
 where he is reverted into a stone statue in fulfillment of his 
'destiny,' to follow the path of the Yono, and was still so as of Ron's 
graduation from high school.
Although it might seem this is the first time a recurring enemy 
has been "killed off", it should be noted that Kim, Sensei, and Rufus 
were all turned to stone, and yet they are not dead. However, their 
transformations were reversible, while Monkey Fist's was permanent.
== Physical Description ==
* Gender: Male
* Age: Unknown, 30's to mid 40's
* Height: About 5'10"
* Weight: 180 lbs (59 kg) (estimated)
* Build: Thin and tall, stooped
* Hair: Black and unruly, with prominent body hair on his hands, feet, and sideburns
* Eyes: Dark blue
* Ethnic Extraction: British
=== Dress ===
He wears 
explorer's clothes in his debut episode. Ninja uniform and mask, black 
martial arts uniform. Sometimes accessorized with a smoking jacket and 
fez when not actively in combat.
== Personal History ==
Once
 a respected archaeologist and the leading expert on all things simian, 
Lord Monty Fiske is an example of the consequences of obsession. In his 
debut episode, "Monkey Fist Strikes", he turned to Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable to help him recover a jade monkey statue from a temple in Cambodia.
Kim managed to retrieve the statue, which Monty stole while 
disguised as a ninja to throw her off the trail. Taking it back to his 
home in England, he set the idol in precise alignment with four others 
and was given mystical monkey power as a result. He then changed his 
name from Monty Fiske to Monkey Fist in an appropriately ironic 
spoonerism.
However, Ron Stoppable and a holographic Kim Possible showed up, 
and he proceeded to chase Ron through his house in an attempt to kill 
him in order to prevent anyone from learning of his secret. Ron 
eventually defeated him when he received mystical monkey power as well, 
then proceeded to destroy the idols, much to his dismay.
Since then, Monkey Fist has considered Ron to be his personal 
nemesis, despite Ron's role as Kim's sidekick. His subsequent plots have
 all revolved around mystical monkey power in one way or the other, 
which indicates that he has trouble letting go of his obsessions.
In his final appearance, Monkey Fist was turned into stone to 
follow the path of the Yono. His lust for power had consumed him by that
 point, and he was willing to do anything and everything to ensure that 
he would be the monkey master, even if that meant giving up his soul. 
His encounter with Yono in many ways resembles the traditional literary 
device of making a deal with the Devil or malevolent Djinn. He did make a
 brief cameo in the finale, though he was still petrified stone.
== Appearances ==
* His first appearance was in the episode "Monkey Fist Strikes", where he receives mystical monkey power from four monkey idols, and is defeated by Ron, who also gets the monkey power.
* In "Monkey Ninjas in Space",
 he got his monkey ninjas and tried to kidnap a monkey astronaut named 
Frederick to fulfill a prophecy made by the Monkey Spirit, which was 
misread by the Monk Spirit. He is defeated by Kim, Ron, and Frederick 
and is captured.
* In "Adventures in Rufus-Sitting", Monkey Fist teams up with Duff Killigan and Shego.
* In "Exchange", Monkey Fist was after the Lotus Blade, but was defeated once again by Ron. This was the first episode to feature Sensei and Yori.
* In the movie Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time,
 Monkey Fist teams up with Drakken, Shego, and Duff Killigan. This is to
 be considered non-canon, in a sense, as at the end of the movie all the
 events are reversed when the time monkey is broken.
* In "The Full Monkey", Monkey Fist was after a monkey amulet
 which would turn him into the monkey king (a humanoid monkey), but 
during the fight, Kim got the amulet instead, turning into a monkey, and
 defeated Monkey Fist at the exact moment Ron changed her back using 
science.
* In "Overdue", Monkey Fist teams up with Drakken, Shego, Duff Killigan, and Professor Dementor.
* In "Gorilla Fist",
 Monkey Fist appears to have kidnapped Sensei, but was hiding from the 
true kidnapper: Gorilla Fist, who is revealed to be DNAmy, who is in 
love with Monkey Fist. He is repulsed by her advances and is last seen 
being chased off by her.
* In "Grande Size Me", Monkey Fist teams up with Drakken, Duff Killigan, Jack Hench, and Gemini.
* In "Big Bother", Monkey Fist is searching for a weapon (later revealed to be Ron's adopted sister Hana Stoppable), and is defeated by Hana.
* In "Oh No! Yono!",
 Monkey Fist continues his search, and starts by awakening the Yono. He 
agrees to follow the Path of the Yono, although he does not know what 
this really means for him. He is defeated again by Hana, and as agreed, 
Monkey Fist follows the path of the Yono, being turned to stone by Yono,
 and placed at the top of the Temple of the Yono, which sinks back into 
the sand.
* In "Graduation",
 Part 2, during the credits, Monkey Fist is seen in a café among the 
other villains, still a statue, next to DNAmy (who presumably dug him 
up).
== Relationships ==
Fist's
 manservant, Bates, appears in his first appearance; what has become of 
him is uncertain. His near-constant companions are his troop of elite 
and disciplined Monkey Ninjas, who serve as his front-line troops. He 
has no other known associates, except for the brief team-up with Dr. Drakken, Duff Killigan, and Shego, that was expunged from history.
Monkey Fist has also been the focus of the (unrequited) advances 
of DNAmy who gave herself the body of an Ape in order to justify the two
 of them having a relationship.
Monkey Fist's relationship to Ron Stoppable is that of an enemy. 
He's one of the very few villains to consistently remember Ron's name. 
However he dislikes admitting that Ron is his arch-foe, stating on one 
occasion "You're not an arch-foe, you're an arch-bumbler." As a result 
he's frustrated by his regular defeats at Ron's hands.
Monkey Fist was temporarily allied with Fukushima against the Yamanouchi Ninja School and Ron Stoppable.
== Personality ==
Unlike
 other villains in the series, his plots have little to do with gadgets 
and technology (the most advanced piece of technology he ever used on 
the show was a laptop computer), and tend to focus instead on mystical 
artifacts. He is intelligent, cunning, and is the only villain who has 
been shown as willing to kill someone directly (all the others tend to 
use some sort of deathtrap to avoid getting their hands dirty). His 
sense of humor separates him from the other villains as well, as he 
possesses a dry English wit as opposed to the childish behavior of most 
other villains, such as Dr. Drakken.
Unlike the other villains, Monkey Fist enjoyed a quite 
respectable upbringing as an English Lord, making his motivation for 
going into villainy slightly different. Monkey Fist has the tendency to 
become fixated on certain things, which is why he devoted his life to 
studying monkeys, spent the entire family fortune on radical genetic 
mutation to become just like them, sought out the mystical monkey power 
relentlessly, and considers Ron Stoppable to be his greatest enemy, 
despite Ron's role as Kim Possible's sidekick. Ron is the one who 
defeated him and took "his" mystical monkey power and therefore all of 
his plans are related to the boy in some way, usually revolving around 
stealing the mystical monkey power from him.
Monkey Fist is obsessed with having the mystical monkey power all
 to himself, as he has tried to eliminate Ron on several occasions. It 
is this desire to be the one and only monkey master that drove him to 
insanity, setting the course for his actions throughout the whole 
series. His fate at the hands of Yono was the end result of his lust for
 power. He also takes part in meditation at time by way of a Serenity 
Chime, as he was interrupted because of it during his first battle with 
Ron.
== Trivia ==
* Monkey
 Fist and Shego have similar personalities in both of them wanting to be
 the only ones to defeat their respective rivals Ron and Kim 
respectively.
** They both have sadistic natures.
** They both enjoy mockery, insulting, and sarcasm.
** They are both highly skilled fighters, possibly the best fighters on the villains side.
** They both prefer hand to hand combat.
** They both have a special power. Monkey Fist has the Mystical Monkey 
Power and Shego has the power she obtained from a comet as a child.
* Taking into account the usage of the term "The Yono", even by The 
Yono itself, it may be that "walking the path of The Yono" may mean 
Fiske is the next "Yono".
* His alias name (Monkey Fist) is an anagram of his real name (Monty Fiske).
== Gallery ==
=== Enemies ===
==== Ron Stoppable ====
: Main article: Ron Stoppable
Ron Stoppable considered Monkey Fist his arch-foe, both because of 
his overwhelming fear of primates and especially monkeys, and the 
Mystical Monkey Power that they both shared. Monkey Fist, on the other 
hand, rejected this idea, because as he told Ron, "You're not an 
arch-foe, you're an arch-bumbler." Which is the reason Monkey Fist get 
frustrated everytime he loses to Ron. Despite this, Monkey Fist either 
unknowingly or unwillingly provided evidence to the contrary. He was one
 of the few villains that consistently remembered Ron's name, and 
because his evil plots always revolved around mystical, monkey-related 
power, Ron tended to get dragged into them and always played a major 
role in disrupting Monkey Fist's plans. Monkey Fist also considered a 
Ron a "false" holder of the power they shared, while he thought himself a
 truly destined one, and so he was greatly frustrated by each of the 
defeats he suffered at Ron's hands and began including revenge against 
Ron among his motives. In fact, the loathing between Monkey Fist and Ron
 was in many ways similar to the rivalry between Shego and Kim. Both 
villains were highly skilled fighters with sadistic natures, enjoyed 
mocking their targets, and insisted on being the only one to defeat 
their rivals.
However, it should be noted that the battle in the Idol chamber was the first and only
 time Monkey Fist and Ron directly and seriously fought each other. 
Considering how swiftly Fiske pinned Ron to the floor, he would have 
emerged victorious had he not been concerned with rescuing the Idols 
from Rufus and subsequently burdened with them, which left himself open 
to Ron's coup de grâce dropkick.
==== Kim Possible ====
: Main article: Kim Possible
While Monkey Fist clearly despised Kim Possible for constantly 
getting in his way, his dislike of her tended to pale in comparison to 
his hatred of Ron. There was no doubt he considered her a worthy foe, 
however, because his plans often included ways to deal with Kim's 
unwavering determination to stop him. Monkey Fist's later habit of 
referring to Team Possible as "the cheer squad", or when faced with Kim 
alone, "the cheerleader", was most likely based on an acknowledgment of 
Kim being the driving force, both behind the team itself and her own 
cheerleading squad.
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