Tara

Tara

Full Name:	Tara
Alias(es):	No Known Aliases
Gender:	Female
Age:	15 est. (season 1) 18 est. (season 4)
Build:	Slender
Hair:	Blonde
Eyes:	Blue
Skin:	Fair
Hometown:	Middleton

Professional Info
Profession(s):
	High School Student
Affiliation(s):
	Middleton High School
Relationships
Relative(s):
	No Known Relatives
Friend(s):
	Kim Possible Bonnie Rockwaller Hope Middleton High School Cheer Squad
Love Interest(s):
	Ron Stoppable (season 1 - 2) Unnamed Boy (season 3) Josh Mankey (season 3) Jason Morgan (season 3)
Pet(s):
	No Known Pets
Nemesis:
	No Known Nemesis
Behind the Scenes
First Appearance:
	"Tick-Tick-Tick"
Voiced by:
	Tara Strong

Tara is a blonde cheerleader at Middleton High School and a friend of both Kim Possible and Bonnie Rockwaller. Tara is friendly and seems to be one of the favorites among the cheerleaders.

Appearance

Tara has long, wavy sunny yellow, blonde hair, turquoise eyes, and fair skin. She is much shorter than Jessica. When Tara is not wearing her cheer uniform, she wears an apple-green sleeveless V-neck top, a teal skirt, and black high-heeled shoes.

Personality

Tara is generally easy-going, outgoing, and nice. Apparently, she gets along well with boys and can flirt easily. She gets along well with everyone and is popular in her own way. She usually panics when scared and is kind of a follower.

Abilities

As she is on the main cheer squad, Tara has to be a very talented cheerleader.

Relationships

Family

Nobody knows much about Tara's family.

Friends

Bonnie Rockwaller and Kim Possible

Main article: Bonnie Rockwaller

Main article: Kim Possible

Despite the rivalry between Kim and Bonnie, Tara maintained friendships with both of them.

Tara seemed to be friendly with everyone in general, unless they gave her significant reason to treat them otherwise. Most notably, despite Bonnie's rivalry with Kim, Tara was one of the few friends they had in common, and largely managed to stay on good terms with both girls. Bonnie did seem disappointed or annoyed that Tara was attracted to Ron, but apparently got over it.

Hope

Main article: Hope

Tara and Hope

Tara was often seen in the company of Hope, both of whom were often at Bonnie's right and left shoulders.

Enemies

Gill

Main article: Gill

Gill with a defiant and angry Tara trapped in his green slime.

When Gill sought revenge on Ron he lured him and the cheer team to Camp Wannaweep under the false pretense of a cheerleading competition. While Ron was his main target, Gill attacked and captured the rest of the squad by pinning them to walls of Cabin 13 with his green slime, Tara including. While Gill barred no real resentment against Tara and the other cheerleaders, he saw them as collateral and took sadistic pleasure in the fact that contact with the slime would turn them into mutants like him. Tara for her part, initially feared Gill. However, after Ron seemingly left her and the others behind to be turned into mutants, Tara seemed to no longer fear Gill and became defiant and angry towards him. After Gill was cured and returned to Camp Wannaweep, Tara seemed to have forgiven him and was angry at Ron for not trusting him. This changed however, as she went back to fearing him after Gil re-mutated himself and went in rampage. They remain enemies.

Love Interest

Ron Stoppable

Main article: Ron Stoppable

Tara initially had a crush on Ron Stoppable, which was most obvious.

Tara kissing Ron in Sink or Swim.

To virtually everyone but Ron while the cheer squad was stranded at Camp Wannaweep, Tara appeared very impressed by Ron's surprisingly solid leadership skills. However, Ron's overwhelming paranoia, combined with frequent flashbacks and his extreme determination to survive the experience, kept him from realizing that Tara was interested in him at all, despite the fact that she kissed him on the cheek afterward.

Josh Mankey

Main article: Josh Mankey

Presumably, because Ron was unaware of Tara's feelings and therefore showed no interest, she moved on. Ron only learned about Tara's former crush on him after she had started dating Josh Mankey, who likewise had grown apart from Kim.

Tara has also been seen dating an unnamed boy, and went to the prom with Jason Morgan, the Middleton High School basketball team's star forward.

Gallery

T & H, usual companions

Big Mike, friend to cheerleaders. Tara on the right.

Trivia

• Two of Tara's love interests have the same initials, "J.M."—Josh Mankey and Jason Morgan.
• During graduation, Tara sat near or next to Zita Flores.
• She is voiced by Tara Strong who has the same first name as the character on the show.

Notes

• Before the fourth season aired on TV, there were rumors that Tara was going have a bigger role on the show than she did in the first three seasons.
• Her last name was never revealed on the show, but many fans speculate that King is her last name—an allusion to John Steed's third partner Tara King from the British adventure series The Avengers; not the Marvel Comics superhero group—while others believe that Tara could be named after her voice actress, Tara Strong, since they look alike. There has never been any canon proof to back up any of these theories.

Behind the Scenes

Voiced By

Tara was voiced by Tara Strong in all of her appearances.

Episode Appearances

• Sink or Swim
• Number One
• Mind Games
• Return to Camp Wannaweep
• The Full Monkey
• Oh Boyz
• Steal Wheels
• Bad Boy