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** In "Probably", Satan gets caught in a LoveTriangle with UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and some random dude, who constantly kill each other for Satan's hand. However, they're already dead and in Hell, so they just show up again with the next batch of damned souls.
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** In "Probably", Satan gets caught in a LoveTriangle with UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and some random dude, who constantly kill each other for Satan's hand. However, they're already dead and in Hell, so they just show up again with the next batch of damned souls. Averted in a later episode when he gets killed by Manbearpig and goes to Heaven. He makes no apperances after that.
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->'''Stan:''' "OhMyGod, TheyKilledKenny!"\\
'''Kyle:''' "YouBastards!"
'''Kyle:''' "YouBastards!"
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->'''Stan:''' "OhMyGod, TheyKilledKenny!"\\
"[[BigOMG Oh my God]], {{they killed Kenny|Again}}!"\\
'''Kyle:'''"YouBastards!""{{You bastard}}s!"
'''Kyle:'''
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-->'''Stan:''' I've tried everything to save Kyle. Holistic medicine is going to kill my friend! ''(starts crying)''\\
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' You don't seem to care when ''I'' die!
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' You don't seem to care when ''I'' die!
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-->'''Stan:''' ''(voice cracking)'' There's nothing more I can do, Kenny. I've tried everything to save Kyle. Holistic medicine is going to gonna kill my friend! ''(starts crying)''\\
friend!\\
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' Youdon't never seem to care when ''I'' die!
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' You
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-->'''Attorney:''' ...And the rest of the money is owed to the family of a boy who died on one of your rides.\\
'''Cartman:''' ''Kenny?!'' He dies all the time!
'''Cartman:''' ''Kenny?!'' He dies all the time!
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'''Cartman:''' What, ''Kenny?!'' He dies all the time!
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[[caption-width-right:480:Oh my God, these bastards killed Kenny again! [[note]]From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: [[Recap/SouthParkS1E1CartmanGetsAnAnalProbe Blasted by UFO then ran over by a herd of cattle and a police car]], [[Recap/SouthParkS1E7Pinkeye Crushed by the MIR Space Station (he dies again twice in the same episode)]], [[Recap/SouthParkS2E2CartmansMomIsStillADirtySlut Electrocuted when trying to turning on a hospital generator]], [[Recap/SouthParkS2E14ChefAid Head bitten off by Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Sliced in half by a boomerang]], [[Recap/SouthParkS5E8Towelie Fell into a pit of lava (while trying to save the boys' Gamesphere]], [[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList Accidentally shot at the back of the head from a bullet flying through the window]], [[Recap/SouthParkS15E14ThePoorKid Tossed and eaten by a reptilian bird, out of nowhere.]][[/note]] ]]
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[[caption-width-right:480:Oh my God, these bastards killed Kenny again! [[note]]From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: [[Recap/SouthParkS1E1CartmanGetsAnAnalProbe Blasted by UFO then ran over by a herd of cattle and a police car]], [[Recap/SouthParkS1E7Pinkeye Crushed by the MIR Space Station (he dies again twice in the same episode)]], [[Recap/SouthParkS2E2CartmansMomIsStillADirtySlut Electrocuted when trying to turning on a hospital generator]], [[Recap/SouthParkS2E14ChefAid Head bitten off by Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Sliced in half by a boomerang]], [[Recap/SouthParkS5E8Towelie Fell into a pit of lava (while trying to save the boys' Gamesphere]], Gamesphere)]], [[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList Accidentally shot at the back of the head from a bullet flying through the window]], [[Recap/SouthParkS15E14ThePoorKid Tossed and eaten by a reptilian bird, out of nowhere.]][[/note]] ]]
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* Invoked, Lampshaded, and Subverted all at once. In "Cripple Fight" Timmy plots to get Jimmy, another crippled kid, killed. He does this by giving Jimmy one of or a coat that looks just like Kenny's. Jimmy walks away and proceeds to [[BornLucky very narrowly avoid death from various sources the entire way.]]
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-->''[[https://youtu.be/j7yp80pgFGo Oh my god, we killed Cartman!]]''\\
''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj_8frz2xQY You bastard!]]''
** Invoked, Lampshaded, and Subverted all at once. In "Cripple Fight" Timmy plots to get Jimmy, another crippled kid, killed. He does this by giving Jimmy one of or a coat that looks just like Kenny's. Jimmy walks away and proceeds to [[BornLucky very narrowly avoid death from various sources the entire way.]]
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* Third, they eventually stopped doing the gag entirely. The Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E13KennyDies Kenny Dies]]" is a VerySpecialEpisode in which Kenny gets KilledOffForReal. His place in the FourTemperamentEnsemble was filled mostly by [[ProperlyParanoid Tweek]] or [[ButtMonkey Butters]], depending on the day. Then after one season, they brought Kenny back, [[UnexplainedRecovery with no explanation]] (although WordOfGod hinted it had something to do with Jesus dying in that episode). [[WordOfGod Trey and Matt]] mentioned that they were originally planning to kill off ''Kyle'' at the end of season 5, but decided against it and had Kenny bite the dust for real as a way of retiring the gag before it got stale. Now Kenny no longer dies... [[MauveShirt as often]]. Usually, they play with the audience's expectation that Kenny ''will'' die, and it actually makes for some tension in situations where the audience would otherwise [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt expect a character to survive]].
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* Third, they eventually [[RunningGagged stopped doing the gag entirely.entirely]]. The Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E13KennyDies Kenny Dies]]" is a VerySpecialEpisode in which Kenny gets KilledOffForReal. His place in the FourTemperamentEnsemble was filled mostly by [[ProperlyParanoid Tweek]] or [[ButtMonkey Butters]], depending on the day. Then after one season, they brought Kenny back, [[UnexplainedRecovery with no explanation]] (although WordOfGod hinted it had something to do with Jesus dying in that episode). [[WordOfGod Trey and Matt]] mentioned that they were originally planning to kill off ''Kyle'' at the end of season 5, but decided against it and had Kenny bite the dust for real as a way of retiring the gag before it got stale. Now Kenny no longer dies... [[MauveShirt as often]]. Usually, they play with the audience's expectation that Kenny ''will'' die, and it actually makes for some tension in situations where the audience would otherwise [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt expect a character to survive]].
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'''Kyle:''' We did?\\
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)'' Yep. We killed Kenny. [[HeelRealization We're bastards.]]
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)'' Yep. We killed Kenny. [[HeelRealization We're bastards.]]
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'''Kyle:''' We did?\\
killed Kenny?\\
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)''Yep. We killed Kenny. [[HeelRealization We're bastards.]]
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)''
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** Jesus has died three times, the first time by an Iraqi, the second time by Kyle (whom was instructed by Jesus to kill him so he could resurrect outside their prison cell), and the third time by Al Gore, who was trying to kill [=ManBearPig=], but ended up killing everyone in Imaginationland, except Butters, who imagines everyone back to life.
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** Cartman seems to be capable of this, although not to Kenny's extent. For instance, in "Medicinal Fried Chicken", his [[YourHeadAsplode head explodes]], but he's fine the next time we see him.
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** Cartman seems to be capable of this, although not to Kenny's extent. For instance, in "Medicinal Fried Chicken", his [[YourHeadAsplode head explodes]], but he's fine the next time we see him. The prototype versions of both him and Kenny also die in the 1992 ''Spirit of Christmas'' short.[[note]]In the short, the Cartman prototype was named Kenny instead, while the Kenny prototype himself as unnamed.[[/note]]
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->'''Stan:''' "OhMyGod, TheyKilledKenny!"\\
'''Kyle:''' "YouBastards!"
-->-- [[OncePerEpisode Almost every episode]] in the first five seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
Kenny [=McCormick=] is the {{Trope Namer|s}} and best-known example. During the first five seasons, Kenny would die practically OnceAnEpisode, and Stan and Kyle would always give their trope-naming exchange. The showrunners were pretty creative about it, knowing how quickly it could become an OverusedRunningGag.
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* First, they came up with a truly remarkable variety of ways to kill Kenny. There's even a ''pie-chart'' on the main page for this trope as the page image -- and it's accurate! The writers were especially good at {{subver|tedTrope}}sions, having Kenny [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat improbably survive the episode's threat]] and then die in a completely unrelated and unexpected way just minutes later. Among the creative things they did was have him die in a HalloweenEpisode, then come ''back'' [[CameBackWrong as a zombie]], then get killed again. They also once [[ThrowTheDogABone gave Kenny a break]] by having his girlfriend rush in and save him with {{CPR|CleanPrettyReliable}}.
* Second, they hung a tremendous number of {{lampshade|Hanging}}s on it.
** In "Cartmanland":
-->'''Attorney:''' ...And the rest of the money is owed to the family of a boy who died on one of your rides.\\
'''Cartman:''' ''Kenny?!'' He dies all the time!
** In "Cherokee Hair Tampons":
-->'''Stan:''' I've tried everything to save Kyle. Holistic medicine is going to kill my friend! ''(starts crying)''\\
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' You don't seem to care when ''I'' die!
** In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", Stan and Kyle themselves are accidentally responsible for Kenny's death, and react accordingly:
-->'''Stan:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Oh my God, we killed Kenny.\\
'''Kyle:''' We did?\\
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)'' Yep. We killed Kenny. [[HeelRealization We're bastards.]]
* Invoked, Lampshaded, and Subverted all at once. In "Cripple Fight" Timmy plots to get Jimmy, another crippled kid, killed. He does this by giving Jimmy one of or a coat that looks just like Kenny's. Jimmy walks away and proceeds to [[BornLucky very narrowly avoid death from various sources the entire way.]]
** In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', Kenny is now "Princess Kenny". If he dies in combat, he'll be picked apart by rats and dragged off, so he cannot be revived. He returns either after two turns or after combat ends. He also exhibits this [[spoiler:after he [[FaceHeelTurn betrays the group]] and becomes the FinalBoss -- and a SequentialBoss who comes back every time you kill him, although weaker than before. The New Kid finally breaks a taboo by [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique farting]] on [[CombatPragmatist his balls]] and defeats him]] -- and he ''still'' comes back, but [[spoiler:he's [[HeelFaceTurn no longer evil]].]]
** In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', Kenny is now Mysterion, and dying and coming back is a part of his gameplay. Whenever he dies, he becomes "Dead Mysterion", a floating spectre with a different moveset from regular Mysterion. Dead Mysterion cannot be damaged, but you still lose the fight if he's the only one left. He can return to life with his LimitBreak, which consists of his soul rising to Heaven -- only for him to change his mind at the last second and revive as regular Mysterion (which also heals the rest of the team).
* Third, they eventually stopped doing the gag entirely. The Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E13KennyDies Kenny Dies]]" is a VerySpecialEpisode in which Kenny gets KilledOffForReal. His place in the FourTemperamentEnsemble was filled mostly by [[ProperlyParanoid Tweek]] or [[ButtMonkey Butters]], depending on the day. Then after one season, they brought Kenny back, [[UnexplainedRecovery with no explanation]] (although WordOfGod hinted it had something to do with Jesus dying in that episode). [[WordOfGod Trey and Matt]] mentioned that they were originally planning to kill off ''Kyle'' at the end of season 5, but decided against it and had Kenny bite the dust for real as a way of retiring the gag before it got stale. Now Kenny no longer dies... [[MauveShirt as often]]. Usually, they play with the audience's expectation that Kenny ''will'' die, and it actually makes for some tension in situations where the audience would otherwise [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt expect a character to survive]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', Kenny dies for real, and he goes to Hell, but he gets resurrected when the forces of Hell invade Earth. Then Kenny [[spoiler:sacrifices himself so that there could be no Hell on Earth, which earns him a place in Heaven]].
** In "Poor and Stupid", Kenny finds himself on an active NASCAR track, and manages ''not'' to get killed -- even as the cars around him are all ramming each other and causing accident after accident.
* Fourth, the Mysterion episodes actually explained Kenny's immortality as an ability of his: [[spoiler:he was born with a form of BornAgainImmortality that causes his mother, every time he dies, to give birth to an infant who ages into Kenny overnight]]. (This is possible because [[spoiler:his parents attended cult meetings when his mother was pregnant with him the ''first'' time]].) The effect of this [[spoiler:erases everyone's memory of each death but Kenny's -- although his friends and parents ''kinda'' remember him dying a lot]], but his parents tend to ignore it thanks to their perpetual substance abuse-induced haze.
* And characters ''other'' than Kenny have been subject to this as well:
** In "Probably", Satan gets caught in a LoveTriangle with UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and some random dude, who constantly kill each other for Satan's hand. However, they're already dead and in Hell, so they just show up again with the next batch of damned souls.
-->'''Saddam:''' [[RunningGag Where was I supposed to go, Detroit?]]
** UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden has been killed twice on the show -- three times if you include his RealLife death as occurring InUniverse.
** Cartman seems to be capable of this, although not to Kenny's extent. For instance, in "Medicinal Fried Chicken", his [[YourHeadAsplode head explodes]], but he's fine the next time we see him.
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->'''Stan:''' "OhMyGod, TheyKilledKenny!"\\
'''Kyle:''' "YouBastards!"
-->-- [[OncePerEpisode Almost every episode]] in the first five seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
Kenny [=McCormick=] is the {{Trope Namer|s}} and best-known example. During the first five seasons, Kenny would die practically OnceAnEpisode, and Stan and Kyle would always give their trope-naming exchange. The showrunners were pretty creative about it, knowing how quickly it could become an OverusedRunningGag.
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* First, they came up with a truly remarkable variety of ways to kill Kenny. There's even a ''pie-chart'' on the main page for this trope as the page image -- and it's accurate! The writers were especially good at {{subver|tedTrope}}sions, having Kenny [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat improbably survive the episode's threat]] and then die in a completely unrelated and unexpected way just minutes later. Among the creative things they did was have him die in a HalloweenEpisode, then come ''back'' [[CameBackWrong as a zombie]], then get killed again. They also once [[ThrowTheDogABone gave Kenny a break]] by having his girlfriend rush in and save him with {{CPR|CleanPrettyReliable}}.
* Second, they hung a tremendous number of {{lampshade|Hanging}}s on it.
** In "Cartmanland":
-->'''Attorney:''' ...And the rest of the money is owed to the family of a boy who died on one of your rides.\\
'''Cartman:''' ''Kenny?!'' He dies all the time!
** In "Cherokee Hair Tampons":
-->'''Stan:''' I've tried everything to save Kyle. Holistic medicine is going to kill my friend! ''(starts crying)''\\
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' You don't seem to care when ''I'' die!
** In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", Stan and Kyle themselves are accidentally responsible for Kenny's death, and react accordingly:
-->'''Stan:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Oh my God, we killed Kenny.\\
'''Kyle:''' We did?\\
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)'' Yep. We killed Kenny. [[HeelRealization We're bastards.]]
* Invoked, Lampshaded, and Subverted all at once. In "Cripple Fight" Timmy plots to get Jimmy, another crippled kid, killed. He does this by giving Jimmy one of or a coat that looks just like Kenny's. Jimmy walks away and proceeds to [[BornLucky very narrowly avoid death from various sources the entire way.]]
** In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', Kenny is now "Princess Kenny". If he dies in combat, he'll be picked apart by rats and dragged off, so he cannot be revived. He returns either after two turns or after combat ends. He also exhibits this [[spoiler:after he [[FaceHeelTurn betrays the group]] and becomes the FinalBoss -- and a SequentialBoss who comes back every time you kill him, although weaker than before. The New Kid finally breaks a taboo by [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique farting]] on [[CombatPragmatist his balls]] and defeats him]] -- and he ''still'' comes back, but [[spoiler:he's [[HeelFaceTurn no longer evil]].]]
** In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', Kenny is now Mysterion, and dying and coming back is a part of his gameplay. Whenever he dies, he becomes "Dead Mysterion", a floating spectre with a different moveset from regular Mysterion. Dead Mysterion cannot be damaged, but you still lose the fight if he's the only one left. He can return to life with his LimitBreak, which consists of his soul rising to Heaven -- only for him to change his mind at the last second and revive as regular Mysterion (which also heals the rest of the team).
* Third, they eventually stopped doing the gag entirely. The Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E13KennyDies Kenny Dies]]" is a VerySpecialEpisode in which Kenny gets KilledOffForReal. His place in the FourTemperamentEnsemble was filled mostly by [[ProperlyParanoid Tweek]] or [[ButtMonkey Butters]], depending on the day. Then after one season, they brought Kenny back, [[UnexplainedRecovery with no explanation]] (although WordOfGod hinted it had something to do with Jesus dying in that episode). [[WordOfGod Trey and Matt]] mentioned that they were originally planning to kill off ''Kyle'' at the end of season 5, but decided against it and had Kenny bite the dust for real as a way of retiring the gag before it got stale. Now Kenny no longer dies... [[MauveShirt as often]]. Usually, they play with the audience's expectation that Kenny ''will'' die, and it actually makes for some tension in situations where the audience would otherwise [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt expect a character to survive]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', Kenny dies for real, and he goes to Hell, but he gets resurrected when the forces of Hell invade Earth. Then Kenny [[spoiler:sacrifices himself so that there could be no Hell on Earth, which earns him a place in Heaven]].
** In "Poor and Stupid", Kenny finds himself on an active NASCAR track, and manages ''not'' to get killed -- even as the cars around him are all ramming each other and causing accident after accident.
* Fourth, the Mysterion episodes actually explained Kenny's immortality as an ability of his: [[spoiler:he was born with a form of BornAgainImmortality that causes his mother, every time he dies, to give birth to an infant who ages into Kenny overnight]]. (This is possible because [[spoiler:his parents attended cult meetings when his mother was pregnant with him the ''first'' time]].) The effect of this [[spoiler:erases everyone's memory of each death but Kenny's -- although his friends and parents ''kinda'' remember him dying a lot]], but his parents tend to ignore it thanks to their perpetual substance abuse-induced haze.
* And characters ''other'' than Kenny have been subject to this as well:
** In "Probably", Satan gets caught in a LoveTriangle with UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and some random dude, who constantly kill each other for Satan's hand. However, they're already dead and in Hell, so they just show up again with the next batch of damned souls.
-->'''Saddam:''' [[RunningGag Where was I supposed to go, Detroit?]]
** UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden has been killed twice on the show -- three times if you include his RealLife death as occurring InUniverse.
** Cartman seems to be capable of this, although not to Kenny's extent. For instance, in "Medicinal Fried Chicken", his [[YourHeadAsplode head explodes]], but he's fine the next time we see him.
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