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Wade is a fictional character from animated television series Kim Possible, voiced by Tahj Mowry.

About Wade
Wade is a 10-year-old child genius who runs Kim Possible's website, supplies her with her gadgets, and gives Kim her missions through her Kimmunicator. He often relays information to her, searches for information for her, and performs programming feats. (A running gag is that Kim or Ron will ask Wade to perform a particularly difficult programming task, and Wade will reluctantly begin, noting how difficult it will be, then exclaiming his success after a ridiculously short period of time, i.e., "I don't know; this is a highly restricted facility. There'll be all sorts of advanced programming safeguards; there's no telling how long it'll take to ... Got it, you're in!") As a genius, he has completed his high school and college education in eight months. He spends his time in his bedroom of his parents' house, in front of the computer with the lights off. He also seems to drink a lot of soda, since he's often seen slurping one down when communicating with Kim. In Season 4, he actually leaves his room to deliver gear in person (like Q in the James Bond series) and even accompanies Kim on the occasional mission (Odds Man In and Homecoming Upset).

Exactly how Kim and Ron first met Wade has never been explained. He has no official last name, but, at one point in early development, his full name was "Wade Load", a pun on the phrase "wide load" and alluding to his being somewhat pudgy and possibly overweight.

Common Information

Wade is a recluse and possibly agoraphobic. He practically never leaves his room, saying he hates the outdoors, and usually interacts with Kim and Ron through mechanical devices: the Kimmunicator, which he designed, and various other technical wizardry such as a hologram, appearing inside a virtual reality world, using a robot called the "Wadebot" (seen in Blush and Overdue) and even through a garden gnome in Ron's garage, which he used by creating a specially tuned resonance effect. Kim and Ron have only twice managed to meet him face to face before season 4: once when he left his room to get revenge upon Team Impossible for destroying his entire computer system with a spike, and again in an alternate future (A Sitch in Time) when an adult Wade served as leader of the resistance movement (although technically this may have been reversed once the time line was altered to prevent that dystopian future from occurring). However, a hologram appearance by Wade, seen in Monkey Fist Strikes and an appearance in a game (Virtu-Ron) to save Ron and his then-girlfriend Zita Flores in Season 2 may also count as personal appearances.

Wade makes more personal appearances in Season 4, visiting Kim and Ron in person to give them more updated gadgets. During the episode The Cupid Effect Wade developed a boyhood crush on Monique, which she did not reciprocate. In response, Wade built a Love Ray and caused Monique to fall madly in love with him, but soon Wade found that his invention did more harm then intended and destroyed it. In the end, he listens to Monique rant at him for doing what he did, but then she admits she was flattered by the attention. After this, he met Olivia, a young girl genius more close to his age who also invented a Love Ray, much to his dismay -- and Ron's worry that Kim may have had a similar one.

It would appear that Wade is quite short--though this is probably to be expected of a 10-year old. However in Season 4, Wade, now 12, remains the same height. In A Sitch in Time, the adult Wade is a muscular giant. However, in that episode he claims to have had a growth spurt, so as present-day Wade gets older, he may become more like the Wade seen in that episode.

Wade enjoys being indoors, computers, knowledge, inventing, helping, and drinking soda.

Family
Wade's mother (as yet unnamed on air) appears to be African-American. Only she has appeared on the show, but his father is clearly mentioned as being around. They both seem unconcerned with their son's way of spending all his time, and his mother seems to really enjoy Wade's inventions and cleverness. He supposedly also has a great grand-uncle, who appeared in Rewriting History and was a photographer 100 years ago, though he may or may not had such a job due to the episode being a dream sequence.

In Season 4, it is mentioned that Wade's father (named "Lontaine") is often absent, and that his wife resents him for it; however, the flowers he supposedly sent her for Valentine's Day (it was actually the Seniors in order to gain access to Wade's computer) may have eased the tension between them. (The Cupid Effect)

Residence

Wade's home location has never been explicitly stated, but it has been generally proven that he lives somewhere in Middleton. In So the Drama he was seen being attacked by one of the cybertronic Lil' Diablo toys, which at that point had only become active within Middleton. Also, in the episode The Twin Factor, Wade received the photos that were only e-mailed out to Middleton by the tweebs.

The living room and outside of his house was seen for the first time in The Cupid Effect, Season 4. This is further confirmation that he and his family live in Middleton since Ron actually visits him there to give him the benefit "of his mad love school skills."

Wade is voiced by Tahj Mowry, who played a young genius on the sitcom Smart Guy. In A Sitch in Time, his future self is voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan.

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