History SouthPark / TropesWToZ

* WouldHitAGirl: Kenny in "The Poor Kid" beats up a girl who bullies his little sister. You don't fuck with Karen [=McCormick=].

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** Chef chews out the boys for revealing that his bride-to-be Veronica is a {{Succubus}} on the night before the wedding (which is true). It doesn't help that they were jealous of her. He forgives them after they send her back to the pits of Hell.

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Plays out the trope straight and is the main personality trait of Kyle in "A History Channel Thanksgiving" by subverting it; Kyle is shown to be fixated on the thought that the Pilgrims were human, thus he rants about the assumption they are aliens. As the episode progresses, everything Kyle says is a complete [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic succession of rants]], but they turn out to be the truth; thus the episode escalates to more and more absurd heights to exhibit Kyle's inability to ''Suspend his Disbelief'' in the episode he exists in. The trope is wrapped by the end of the episode, as Kyle finally accepts the fact that the [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Pilgrims are indeed aliens]]; allowing him to live along in his universe. But is restored to his snarky self when the History Channel suggests that ''Ghosts'' might had been a part of the event as well. ''[[UpToEleven Because that just goes too far!]]''

%% * YouCanPanicNow: The parents in South Park, usually.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: Randy and Stan Marsh.
* WackyRacing: Happens in "Handicar", complete with [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat Dick Dastardly and Muttley]] and Creator/NeveCampbell as contestants. For bonus points, Campbell is [[WholeCostumeReference dressed as Penelope Pitstop]].

* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Vietnam was actually a lot of fun, and [[ArtisticLicenseHistory involved water slides]].

* WeaponizedLandmark: The Lincoln Memorial. Combated with a giant stone John Wilkes Booth.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Heavily lampshaded by Craig in "Pandemic".

* WhamEpisode: "Kenny Dies", "Raisins", "You're Getting Old" and "1%".

** [[spoiler: "What, [you wanted to tell me] that you put pubes in your chili?"]][[note]]"Scott Tenorman Must Die"[[/note]]
** [[spoiler: "He just said, 'Where's Stan?'"]][[note]]"Kenny Dies"[[/note]]
** "Wendy breaks up."[[note]]"Raisins"[[/note]]

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Said by Stan in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining", when he suggests a boat to escape the zipline adventure.

* WidgetSeries

* WikiWalk: In the episode "Canceled".

* '''WorldOfHam'''
* WorldOfSnark
* WorldOfWeirdness
* WorldsBestCharacter: The episode "More Crap" depicts Bono as a competitive asshole who wants to be "number-one" at everything and can't stand being "number-two", [[spoiler: because he's actually '''''[[TalkingPoo a]]''''' [[TalkingPoo number-two]]]].

* WouldntHitAGirl: Often played straight, but sometimes averted ("Up the Down Steroid" and "Wing").
* WouldHitAGirl: Kenny in "The Poor Kid". You don't fuck with Karen [=McCormick=].

*** And for more Cartman, in "Fat Butt and Pancake Head", Cartman pretends he (or his hand, at least) is Music/JenniferLopez. "Ms. Lopez" creates a hit album, gets affectionate with Creator/BenAffleck, and enjoys the wealth and fame of celebrity life via XanatosSpeedChess. The reason is to make Kyle admit the possibility that the hand is an independent living being from Cartman and calls the whole thing off when Kyle makes even the tiniest admission. (In "200", the hand is proven to be an actual separate entity.)

** Wendy in "Tom's Rhinoplasty".
** Apparently, Polly Prissypants in "1%".
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: {{Justified|Trope}} in that Randy's an idiot.

* YouBastard: Occasionally.
* YouCanPanicNow: The parents in South Park, usually.

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* ZombieApocalypse: Played straight ("Pinkeye") and parodied ("Night of the Living Homeless").
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* WastefulWishing: God allows the human race the answer to a single question, and Stan asks him... why he hasn't gotten a period yet

* WackyRacing: Happens in "Handicar", complete with [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat Dick Dastardly and Muttley]] and Creator/NeveCampbell [[WholeCostumeReference dressed as Penelope Pitstop]] as contestants.

* WastefulWishing: God allows the human race the answer to a single question, and Stan asks him... [[WhatAnIdiot why he hasn't gotten a period yet.]]

* WhiteDudeBlackDude: When Cartman needs to form a band in "Christian Rock Hard", he gets Token to play bass. Because he's black. When Token protests that he doesn't own one, Cartman tells him to look in the basement. Sure enough, there's one there. When Token further protests that he's never picked up a bass in his life, Cartman tells him that he's black, he can play bass. Sure enough, he can.
--> '''Token:''' "Dammit..."
* WhosLaughingNow: Played and subverted with Butters, his own attempts at revenge as Professor Chaos always fail miserably, though he manages to accomplish amazing acts of retribution for his abuse completely by accident (eg. "AWESOME-O", "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]").
** [[spoiler:Scott Tenorman pulls this on Cartman in "201" when he reveals that they both shared the same father.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "Mysterion Rises" [[spoiler: Kenny reveals that he is CursedWithAwesome in that no matter how many times he dies, he is always resurrected. He remembers each death vividly, but no-one else ever does]].

** "All About Mormons" ends with Stan being called out by Gary on being mean to extremely nice people over something as petty as logical gaps in their religious teachings. Doubles as a TakeThatUs.

* YouAreGrounded: Extremely frequently. There are over a hundred references towards being grounded over the course of the series. The majority of these groundings are focused around Butters, who is deliberately made into a victim of constant groundings. In fact, "Grounded Vindaloop" has an astonishing 24 references towards being grounded - 24 over the course of 21 minutes! That episode alone is the reason for the high level of groundings, as well as eclipsing the combined total of the feature film and the earlier episode, "The Ungroundable". ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' could barely reach 6-7 references towards the grounding over the course of any one episode, and ''South Park'' basically quadrupled that in one episode.

* YouAreGrounded: Extremely frequently. There are over a hundred references towards being grounded over the course of the series. The majority of these groundings are focused around Butters, who is deliberately made into a victim of constant groundings. In fact, "Grounded Vindaloop" has an astonishing 24 references towards being grounded. 24 over the course of 21 minutes. That episode alone is the reason for the high level of groundings, as well as eclipsing the combined total of the feature film and the earlier episode, "The Ungroundable". ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' could barely reach 6-7 references towards the grounding over the course of any one episode, and ''South Park'' basically quadrupled that in one episode.

** At the end of "201", [[spoiler:we never found out how they got rid of Mecha Streisand. The Super Best Friends distract her with a Neil Diamond duet and that's the last we see of her]].

** During the events of "About Last Night", Prsident Bush, who would've still been the President and therefore present at the White House, isn't even mentioned. An [[WhatCouldHaveBeen early draft of the episode]] had him [[HeroicSacrifice heroically taking the fall]] for the theft of the Hope Diamond a la ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', but Matt and Trey were tired of Bush jokes and opted to leave him out entirely.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Cartman is quite fond of these as a method of manipulating his mother. He, Stan and Kyle also pull this at least OncePerEpisode in Season 6, using Kenny's death to garner sympathy from their friends and family.

* WeirdnessMagnet: Heavily lampshaded by Craig in 'Pandemic'.
* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: Played with in the episode "Ass Burgers", in which a support group for Asperger's Syndrome that Stan joins turns out to be a society of cynics who think their view of the world as shit is what the world actually is, and what everyone else sees is dubbed as an "illusionary world", which is part of a plot involving aliens or whatever (they're not sure exactly what). They send Stan out on a crazy mission to liberate everyone from the so-called illusion they live in, getting him drunk in order for him to reenter the "illusion". They also claim that Asperger's doesn't exist, because why would it have a name that could easily be made fun of?

* WhamEpisode: "Kenny Dies", "Raisins", "You're Getting Old" and "1%"

** During the events of "About Last Night" Prsident Bush, who would've still been the President and therefore present at the White House, isn't even mentioned. An [[WhatCouldHaveBeen early draft of the episode]] had him [[HeroicSacrifice heroically taking the fall]] for the theft of the Hope Diamond a la ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', but Matt and Trey were tired of Bush jokes and opted to leave him out entirely.
** At the end of "201" [[spoiler:we never found out how they got rid of Mecha Streisand. The Super Best Friends distract her with a Neil Diamond duet and that's the last we see of her]].

** The "All About Mormons" episode ends with Stan being called out by Gary on being mean to extremely nice people over something as petty as logical gaps in their religious teachings. Doubles as a TakeThatUs.

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Plays out the trope straight and is the main personality trait of Kyle in episode 222, a History channel Thanksgiving by subverting it; Kyle is shown to be fixated on the thought that the Pilgrims were human, thus he rants about the assumption they are aliens. As the episode progresses, everything Kyle says is a complete [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic succession of rants]], but they turn out to be the truth; thus the episode escalates to more and more absurd heights to exhibit Kyle's inability to ''Suspend his Disbelief'' in the episode he exists in. The trope is wrapped by the end of the episode, as Kyle finally accepts the fact that the [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Pilgrims are indeed aliens]]; allowing him to live along in his universe. But is restored to his snarky self when the History Channel suggests that ''Ghosts'' might had been a part of the event as well. ''[[UpToEleven Because that just goes too far!]]''
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: It happens to '''Satan''', of all people, in Season 22's "Nobody Got Cereal?".
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The four protagonists, despite being only 8-10 years old, are usually smarter and act more mature than most adults in the show. They usually see a problem or approaching danger first and come up with the solution for it in the end.
* AWizardDidIt: In Sexual Healing; the government suspects that the origin of sex addiction, is from a malevolent [[WizardsFromOuterSpace Alien Wizard]].

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Cartman is quite fond of these as a method of manipulating his mother. He, Stan, and Kyle also pull this at least OncePerEpisode in Season Six, using Kenny's death to garner sympathy from their friends and family.
* WriterOnBoard: Cartman's mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker's ex-fiancee, who cheated on him. On the show, Liane is a promiscuous woman who has banged nearly every man in town (along with at ''least'' one woman), who is a terrible mother and a naive idiot who enables and coddles her manipulative, sociopathic son. Parker also named an unfaithful horse Liane in his first film, ''Film/CannibalTheMusical''.

* XanatosGambit: Cartman pulls one off in the season 3 episode "The Red Badge of Gayness" (The one with "S'more-flavored Schnapps") - He makes a bet with the others that he can make it so the south won the civil war, and the agreed stake in the bet is, the loser(s) have to act as the winners' slaves. When he loses the bet, he (successfully) argues that he can't be a slave because the south losing the civil war resulted in the abolition of slavery.
* XMustNotWin: Kyle's feud with Cartman is usually justified given the latter's highly malicious intent. However even in petty wars, Kyle takes a sometimes disturbing extra mile to make sure Cartman's plans go up in smoke. eg. In "Douche and Turd" he and Cartman create opposing school mascots, with Kyle using increasingly manipulative methods to get people to vote against Cartman's candidate. Similarly ''a lot'' of Cartman's intentions are built around making Kyle lose.

** To add onto the Cartman example, there are plenty of occasions Cartman comes out with amazing success and fame due to a bet with Kyle, but brushes it all off because he didn't win the bet in particular. In "Christian Rock Hard" for example, Cartman bets Kyle he can make a Platinum album before him. Cartman succeeds in making a highly successful Christian rock band, gaining enormous popularity and wealth. However once he finds out that Christian "Platinum" albums are called "Myrr" instead (thus technically losing his bet with Kyle) [[VillainousBreakdown he flies into a rage in public]], destroying the band's career.
*** And for more Cartman, in "Fat Butt and Pancake Head", Cartman pretends he (or his hand, at least) is Music/JenniferLopez. "Ms. Lopez" creates a hit album, gets affectionate with Creator/BenAffleck, and enjoys the wealth and fame of celebrity life via XanatosSpeedChess. The reason is to make Kyle admit the possibility that the hand is an independent living being from Cartman and calls the whole thing off when Kyle makes even the tiniest admission. (In the episode "200", the hand is proven to be an actual separate entity.)

** Wendy in the episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty".
** Apparently, Polly Prissypants in ''"1%"''

* YouAreGrounded: Extremely frequently. There are over a hundred references towards being grounded over the course of the series. The majority of these groundings are focused around Butters, who is deliberately made into a victim of constant groundings. In fact, one episode, "Grounded Vindaloop", has an astonishing 24 references towards being grounded. 24 over the course of 21 minutes. That episode alone is the reason for the high level of groundings, as well as eclipsing the combined total of the feature film and the earlier episode, "The Ungroundable". "Malcolm in the Middle could barely reach 6-7 references towards the grounding over the course of any one episode, and South Park basically quadrupled that in one episode.

** TayZonday's head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down during while waiting with other [[MemeticMutation YouTube superstars]] in "Canada on Strike". Complete with dramatic music and everything. He manages to blow the critter's head off with his gun before he croaks.