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Mr./Ms./President Herbert/Janet Garrison

Mr./Ms./President Herbert/Janet Garrison

"Now I might not understand politics, or immigration policies, or... the law. Or basic... ideological... concepts. But dammit I understand there there's a bunch of Canadians here and I'm gonna do somethin' about it!"
^{Click here to see him as Ms. Garrison}

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^{Click here to see his Panderverse self}

"I tell you, there's some crazy stuff going on in this town."

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Antonio Delli (Seasons 1-9 and 16-start of 17), Larry Villanueva (Seasons 10-15 and 2007-2012 redubs), Eduardo Wasveiler (rest of Season 17 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs), César Arias (Mexican dub), César Izaguirre (Warner Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub), Carlos Águila (Paramount Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

The boys' eccentric homeroom teacher throughout most of the series. He used to carry a sarcastic hand puppet with him (two, actually: Mr. Hat and Mr. Twig), but later left them behind. His gender and sexual preferences have been in constant flux. From the start of the show he was man, but had a sex change in Season 9 where he became a woman and was referred to as Janet Garrison which lasted until Season 12, where she reverted back to a man and has stayed a man ever since. In Season 19, he left his job as a teacher and started a presidential campaign on a basis of "fucking everyone to death". From Seasons 20 to 24, he served as President of the United States, serving as a stand-in for Donald Trump.

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• 0% Approval Rating: Subverted. While Garrison's decision to nuke Canada made him widely hated, he still has an approval rating of 3% meaning there are a few people who support him, like the Whites. He burns even that bridge in "The Vaccination Special" by making a deal to the elites in order to be liked by everyone again.
• Adults Are Useless: Seriously. While most adults and authority figures in the Crapsack World of South Park are too absentminded themselves to enforce legality and morality, Mr. Garrison takes the cake. He's too power-hungry and apathetic to care when his students are in legitimate harm, instead forcing them to suffer from it. He is in fact an exaggerated parody of how teachers in Real Life abuse their authority and occasionally fail to take action against bullying and harassment. It reaches an all-time high in Season 20, where he becomes an in-universe stand-in for Trump.
• Angry White Man: He's been intolerant of pretty much everyone and everything, believing at various points in the series that gay marriage, teaching evolution, wealthy black people and immigrants are all a threat to the American way of life, regardless of how they may affect him. He outright describes himself as "a sick, angry little man" at one point during his election campaign. His status as this is what earns him the admiration of the White Family.
• Anti-Hero: He assists the town whenever they're in a pickle, but his suggestions are usually quite brutal if not outright nonsensical (such as getting rid of all the Mexicans to save Christmas). Despite this, he has the odd moment when he actively assists in saving the townsfolk from whatever predicament they find themselves in. In "Vaccination Special", he becomes a complete Nominal Hero, since he does single-handedly put an end to the COVID outbreak in South Park (that he helped spread while in his last year as president) by hiring Air Israel to get everyone vaccinated. Despite this, it's made clear that he only did this so that people would like him again, as he's quick to burn the only bridge he had created through his presidency (with Robert White), and was willing to work with the deranged Hollywood Elites to get his old life back.
• Anti-Villain: After he finds out he might actually win the presidency, he becomes horrified that he could take the job from someone more qualified. He then proceeds to do all he can to sabotage his campaign. After actually becoming president, he drops the "Anti" part, though part of it remains due to being influenced by the Memberberries.
• Apathetic Teacher: When he's not busy belittling his students, he basically phones in his job, and is often more interested in talking about pop culture, his struggles, or his relationship problems than any actual school subject.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • For PC Principal within a week of the latter's arrival. Unlike Principal Victoria, PC Principal doesn't appreciate his offensive streak and fires him from South Park Elementary as soon as he gets the opportunity. On Garrison's part, once he became president following this, the first thing he does is rub his victory on PC's face and force him to suck his dick.
  • Becomes this for Tweek in Season 21, doing everything to terrorize him and ruin Tweek's efforts to forge peace between the U.S. and foreign countries. Likewise, Tweek is the one terrified of Garrison the most.
• Armored Closet Gay: It was hinted many times that he was gay, but he would take deep offense and insist he was straight. He would say Mr. Hat was gay and later admitted his second-hand puppet, Mr. Twig, was also gay. Mr. Garrison denied the fact he was gay so much, that he even appeared homophobic and believed gay people were an abomination and weren't human. In one particular episode, he tells Stan, "Gay people are evil. Their hearts pump not blood like yours and mine, but rather a thick, vomitous oil". He did eventually come out and even had a relationship with Mr. Slave. After undergoing a sex change surgery, Ms. Garrison returned to this, fighting against same-sex marriage and homosexuality before eventually coming out as a lesbian, apparently comfortable again with her sexuality. After another sex-change, the creators said that Mr. Garrison "likes everyone", showing no sexuality issues anymore.
• Ax-Crazy: The fact that he has constant violent mood swings, has no problem raping immigrants and his own employees to death, and nukes Canada over petty reasons, clearly highlights his lack of sanity.
• Badass Teacher: He's had moments of this, but one thing that cements this is during "Where My Country Gone", where he's the first to boldly stand up to PC Principal, and the first to get away with it (though he does get fired, he gets to keep his face intact).
• Bad Boss: He's been raping his own employees ever since he became President. He also forces Mr. Service to wear a thong in the cold, and shows little remorse when hiss deal with the elites causes him to get turned into Mr. Hat.
• Back for the Finale: Garrison returns in the Season 22 finale, after being absent and unmentioned throughout said season.
• Bad "Bad Acting": His ventriloquist act with Mr. Hat... isn't very convincing, and the only one who believes it (aside from Butters to an extent) is himself.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: It was once implied during earlier episodes that Garrison might have had sex with Cartman's pet pig 'Fluffy', meaning he may also enjoy bestiality. In addition, "Jakovasaurs" also suggests that same idea when the people are watching the Jakovasaur and Garrison suggests that they let him keep the Jakovasaur. They replied that he once found a bird that he kept at his house to keep it alive, but he ended up having sex with it, to which Garrison replies that the bird was a total slut and then he tells everyone who didn't have sex with the bird to raise their hands and everyone raises their hands (a reference to "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut").
• Big Bad: He has been this for several episodes, with the most prominent being the "Go God Go" two-parter. He becomes the Greater-Scope Villain of five consecutive seasons (from the second episode of Season 19 to the first half of Season 24) when he gets into politics, especially in Season 20 when he's elected president against his wishes and loses all hope in America.
• Big Bad Ensemble:
  • With Bedrager, the Member Berries, and Gerald in Season 20.
  • With Eric Cartman in Season 21.
  • With Randy, Mickey, and Yates for "The Pandemic Special".
• Boomerang Bigot: He becomes homophobic after his sex reassignment surgery drives away Mr. Slave, then misandric once more men are driven away by his sex change (thus turning toward lesbianism), and transphobic when he finally gets the sex change reversed.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: How else can you explain such an ineffectual teacher building an marketing something that made planes obsolete?
• Bullying a Dragon: He makes horribly thought-out statements (to the point they're insulting and demeaning) that get him chased by an angry mob armed with chainsaws, axes, bats and guns in "Douche and Danish" and then hurls racist anti-Asian slurs at Kim Jong-un and North Korea angering them to prepare a nuclear attack on South Park.
• The Cameo: Makes one near the end of Season 22, where he's shown having been captured after a season of being at large.
• The Caligula: After becoming president, he makes the Canadian President look responsible in comparison. He even puts more effort in his "stank face" than on managing his country. Then again, being a giant douche is what he promoted during the elections.
  Stan: You're just going to sit there and not do anything?
  Garrison: I'm going to actively not do anything, and you can just eat shit off my balls and die.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: As he makes clear after meeting Richard Dawkins, his life philosophy is "Using logic and reason isn't enough. You have to be a dick to everyone who doesn't think like you". In Season 20, he tries exploiting this to sabotage his election, becoming one of the few times where this trope is used sympathetically, but when it only makes him more popular amongst the audience, he eventually embraces it once he's elected, partly due to the influence of the Memberberries.
  Garrison: Everyone, I need to just speak from the heart here. Uhm, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I've gotta come clean. Uh, I had no idea I would get this far, but the fact of the matter is, I should not be President. Okay? I will fuck this country up beyond repair. I'm a sick, angry little man. Please, if you care at all about the future of our country, vote for her. Okay? She's the one who at least has some experience. She, she's not as bad as you think, I promise. And unlike me, she's actually capable of running this country.
• Character Catchphrase: Occasionally, when he or Mr. Hat is angry:
  Garrison: You go to hell! You go to hell and you die!
  • In Season 20, he starts saying, "Oh, jeez!" in a scared tone frequently.
• Characterization Marches On: The guy went through one of the most bizarre and convoluted character arcs in animation history: He starts off as a raging homophobe who was also a closeted homosexual himself, with a Companion Cube named Mr. Hat to help him through the grief. He then came out of the closet and ditched Mr. Hat for a masochist boyfriend named Mr. Slave in Season 6, becoming a full blown Depraved Homosexual. Still not content with his new sexuality, he got a sex change operation in Season 9, changing her name to Janet and going back to hating gay people since Mr. Slave ditched her following the operation. She then got together with Richard Dawkins and became a Hollywood Atheist whose influence over her husband became the catalyst of a Bad Future, but these events were reversed by Cartman and she went back to being The Fundamentalist, this time with a newfound hatred for men that led to her becoming a Psycho Lesbian in Season 11. A season later, she then became disillusioned with her new identity and got her penis reattached, becoming a transphobe after the fact. After 7 seasons of stability, he developed an immense hatred for Canadians that got him fired, which motivated him to run for president. Though he started growing remorseful after the fact and tried to actively sabotage his election, after winning against all expectations and being briefly brainwashed by the Memberberries, he loses all trust in America and decides to embrace his new over-the-top persona, spending most of his time as president being The Hedonist who screws up his own country and others for shits and giggles. When he lost the election, he was freed from the influence of the memberberries and mostly reverted back to his original characterization with the help of the Hollywood Elites. As of Season 25, he's actually trying to get his life together without any further drama with the help of his new boyfriend Rick, though he still has a long way to go.
  Mr. Garrison: Well, I just went through a little thing. You know, I... I realized I was gay. And then I realized I wasn't gay, I was a woman. And after I transitioned, I thought it was a little mistake and then I went through a phase of being the President of the United States.
• Character Development: Through Season 25 and 26, he tries to refrain from falling back into his Trumplica persona for the sake of his boyfriend Rick, marking the first time he's actively attempted to take accountability for his actions instead of blaming someone and doubling down. Even when he's standing in front of people who idolize said persona, he turns his reelection speech into a declaration of love for his boyfriend.
  Garrison: Rick, I am a giant piece of shit without you. I don't deserve another chance. You have been wronged. You have been betrayed. And the only person who deserves retribution is me. I know you all really want to rally and rage, but the only thing I have to say is that... I LOVE RICK!
• Chronic Villainy: "Spring Break" reveals he can very easily regress to his Trumplica characterization when prompted, and he likely would if Rick weren't there to make him accountable to somebody. After his catastrophic vacation in South Carolina, the fear of falling down that path again and being re-elected plagues him more than ever.
  Garrison: Oh Rick! I don't want to go through all that again. I just want to stay in South Park with you!
  Rick: Well, I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: He believes Mr. Hat and Mr. Twig to be sentient beings, for starters. Though eventually, it turns out they are. He also needs a Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder (usually a boyfriend) to keep him in check, and when he doesn't have one, there's nothing stopping him from running loose and taking a level in Jerkass.
• Comedic Sociopathy: His actions, from having sex with Cartman's pig to raping the Canadian President, are all played for comedy.
• Companion Cube: Mr. Hat and Mr. Twig. Subverted, as they actually are alive.
• Consulting Mister Puppet: Mr. Hat in early seasons. And, after Mr. Hat went missing, Mr. Twig. Particularly interesting since Garrison actually talked through the puppet, yet was still apparently oblivious to the fact that he was arguing with himself, though Mr. Hat seems quite capable of independent mobility. Not only has Mr. Hat kicked Mr. Mackey's ass but he's also an active member of the KKK.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To PC Principal as part of the Big Bad Ensemble of Season 20. PC Principle was a new character introduced in Season 19, Garrison was a long established character in a new narrative role. Both were angry white men but PC Principal took political correctness to the point of extremism while Garrison was openly racist and xenophobic and PC Principal figured out at the end of the season he was an Unwitting Pawn in a bigger conspiracy, defeated it and subsequently Took a Level in Kindness and became a more heroic figure. Garrison figured out he was being used half way through the season but was brainwashed by the Memberberries and remained an antagonist for several more seasons.
• The Corrupter: The "Go God Go" two-parter reveals that, had Garrison (after the first sex change) developed a relationship with evolutionary biologist and known atheist Richard Dawkins, he would've convinced Dawkins to use his beliefs to eradicate religion from the world by being as much of an asshole as humanly possible. This would've created the Bad Future Cartman got stuck in, where Garrison's influence sparked centuries of war and violence across the Earth simply because the three atheist factions followed Dawkins' (and Garrison's) example by insisting they each had the answer to the ultimate question: what to name the faction of atheists. Thankfully, Cartman accidentally stops this from happening.
• The Corruptible: In Season 20, he falls under the influence of the Memberberries after being elected President and becomes more eager to "fuck the country up beyond repair". It's heavily implied this at least motivated his decision to nuke Canada or actively make the Pandemic worse.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: His victims get raped to death, or "fucked until their spirits leave their bodies". The Canadian President is the only one shown onscreen and it's not pretty.
• Demoted to Dragon: To the Member Berries, though he is implied to have broken off from their influence, and by “The Pandemic Special” he’s ascended back into being the Big Bad.
• Demoted to Extra: Originally the second-most prominent adult on the show behind Chef, he's now limited to a single line in scenes inside the classroom. Subverted in Seasons 19 onward however, when he returns to prominence with a vengeance.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Prior to leaving the school in Season 19, his competence as a teacher tends to zig-zag depending on the episode. Most of the time, he's an unprofessional ass who teaches his students about trivial subjects like television shows and popular culture. Other times, however, he becomes realistic and teaches them about normal matters like multiplication problems.
  • Likewise, his amount of sympathy for his students also varies. Most of the time, he's a perpetually and unreasonably rude teacher who never ceases to drop his attitude and shows little remorse when his students are in serious danger. A special mention of this trait goes to "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", where Mr. Garrison notices Stan has a black eye and jumps to the conclusion that he might be having problems at home, which turns out to be true, but since Stan is receiving the abuse from his sister rather than his parents, Garrison loses sympathy and bluntly discourages Stan's worries about such a serious matter. However, on rare occasions, it's implied that he deep-down cares for his students and wants to have an impact on their futures. This is evident when he teaches them about actually important matters rather than the usual trivial BS.
• Depraved Bisexual: He's been a Depraved Homosexual, a Depraved Heterosexual, a Psycho Lesbian... He's a depraved whatever-his-orientation-is-at-the-moment. He's had relationships with men, women, tried to look for a young boy online, and had sex with both a pot-bellied pig and a pigeon. As Chef puts it:
  Chef: Children, there's a big difference between gay people and Mr. Garrison.
• Despair Event Horizon: He stated that he'll lose all faith in humanity if he gets elected to be president over Clinton. He wins.
• Dirty Coward: In "Super Fun Time" he tries to sacrifice some children to save himself from gunmen, and unsurprisingly, he's at the front of the line while fleeing from them later in the episode.
  Garrison: Please, if you're going to take anyone, don't take me. These children are worth more for you!
• Does Not Like Men: In "D-Yikes", after getting rejected because of her sex change, Ms. Garrison takes her rage out on all her male students.
  Garrison: You boys make me sick! You're well on your way to being men, who only think with their penises! I am assigning all of you weekend homework! You are going to read Hemmingway's book, "The Old MAN and the Sea"!
• Dragon-in-Chief: Garrison may be under the Member Berries' control, but when all is said and done the latter are still just small berries that simply talk about bigotry and nostalgia while the former has all the authority and power as president to do whatever he wants. By Season 21, the townsfolk of South Park are scared solely of Garrison and don't mention the Member Berries at all.
• The Dreaded: Becomes this after being elected president. The people of South Park are horrified at the very sight of him and he even manages to make PC Principal tremble in fear with his mere presence. By Season 21, he definitely becomes this for Tweek.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Throughout Season 21 he is referred to as The President rather than be called by his name.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Is hinted to be one for Big Gay Al. While Al is out and proud, stylish and wears a pink shirt, Mr. Garrison is self-loathing, plainly dressed and wears a green shirt. Mr. Garrison made Stan feel like a wuss for getting beaten by his sister, while Big Gay Al taught Stan that being gay isn't a bad thing. Big Gay Al is kind to animals, while Mr. Garrison rammed a gerbil up Mr. Slave's rectum. Mr. Garrison uses "fag" as a slur against gays, while Big Gay Al wants to reappropriate it to use against Harley riders. Both are mentor figures to the main boys and have had a relationship with Mr. Slave.
  • Also one for Tweek Tweak. Both are Straight Gays who are uncomfortable being labeled as homosexuals and are rather mentally unstable. However Tweek's mental instability comes for being abused by his parents, while Garrison acts the way he does because he wasn't molested by his father as a child. Tweek eventually accepts being gay after being in a stable relationship with Craig, while Garrison decision to change into a woman so he wouldn't technically be labeled gay drove his lover, Mr. Slave, away. Likewise, they both set up by a third party into their current predicament, before eventually accepting their role. For Tweek, it was aforementioned acceptance that he was gay; For Garrison, it was accepting to become an evil president.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He may struggle with empathy when it comes to everyone else, but when he finds himself a Living Emotional Crutch, he endlessly dotes on them.
  • Companion Cube or not, he cared a lot more for Mr. Hat than he's ever cared for any human, and had a lot of patience for his evil and racist streak and Yandere tendencies. This love extended to his Replacement Goldfish Mr. Twig, for whom he looked after when Mr. Hat tried to kill him, and made sure he was content with his decision to leave him for Mr. Hat before going through with it.
  • Though he grew to resent him after he dumped him, he loved Mr. Slave and actually stood by their master-slave dynamic, caring for him and going out of his way to please him the way he liked. By Season 24, he still has some lingering feelings towards him, and a call from him is the only thing that can spur him into action as President.
  • She really grew fond of Richard Dawkins after they got together, changing her fundamentalist views into those of a Hollywood Atheist for his sake, and staying by his side for the rest of her life in the Bad Future. It's implied she actually found fulfilment with him in said timeline since she never changed back into a man. Unfortunately for her, Cartman ruined their first date with the crank prank time phone and changed the timeline into one where Garrison's extreme views never influence the future.
  • He also cared for Allison (the only woman he's ever significantly felt attracted to) and the rest of the recurring customers at "Les Bos", even declaring war on the Persians when they try to modify the place.
  • Despite becoming transphobic after his second sex change, he actually became Vitriolic Best Buds with Caitlyn Jenner, and chose her as his running mate when he ran for president, cracking jokes with her and listening to her advice.
  • Though he's mostly a Bad Boss to him, he still seemed to care about Mr. Service more than any of his other staff members, and shows worry when he says that his balls were freezing.
  • Though they still have some rough patches, his latest boyfriend Rick is the only person who has successfully managed to break Mr. Garrison out of his toxic habits, which the latter appreciates. In "Spring Break", he tries everything he can to make their vacation in South Carolina work, and uses his re-election speech to profess his love for him.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Despite his hatred for Kathie Lee Gifford, he cannot bring himself to kill her, instead having Mr. Hat do it for him.
  • He's as politically incorrect as they come, but he's not touching the topic of assisted suicide with a 20-foot pole. He's also uncomfortable with Mr. Hat joining the KKK.
  • Minor example, but despite his hatred for Canadians, he's shocked to see one of them commit suicide by jumping out of a high building out of remorse for having voted for the Canadian President.
  • He becomes frightened of the reality of a person like him being the leader of the entire country, and the ignorance that is fueling his supporters and campaign. And his efforts to sabotage himself are all for naught because they still soak up his every word.
    Garrison: I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I had no idea I would get this far, but the fact of the matter is, I should not be President. Okay? I will fuck up this country beyond repair. I am a sick, angry little man.
• Evil Is Petty: When he becomes President he goes around and tells everyone to suck his dick.
• Evil Puppeteer: Downplayed. He has his puppet Mr. Hat in the first few seasons, but although he's not exactly evil, he's a major Jerkass.
• Fat Bastard: He puts on weight, starting in "Not Funny", by bingeing on ice cream.
• First Law of Gender Bending: Played straight in Season 9's "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" where he first gets the male-to-female operation. He changes his mind, but his testicles get destroyed and he is unable to go back to being a man until four seasons later. Then subverted in Season 12, when he gets another operation to go back.
• Flanderization: After being elected President, his sleaziness and bigotry are turned up and become his defining traits as part of becoming a Trumplica. At least part of this is implied to be due to the Memberberries' influence, as he spends most of "Spring Break" trying to kick this characterization akin to how someone tries to kick a drug habit.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He's always seen wearing glasses, even when he becomes President. Oh, and he's a psychopathic rapist.
• Freudian Excuse: Inverted. He has been deeply tormented all his life because his father didn't molest him as a child, thinking it meant that his father didn't love him. Bizarrely, his mom also thinks the same thing.
  Garrison's Mom: That's not true! Your father loved you! Often!
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He goes from a simple 4th grade teacher to the President of the United Fucking States. Canada suffered dearly for this.
• Gay Conservative: Despite his ever-changing sexual orientation he is generally depicted as being one of the town's Republicans rather than a Democrat. Then again, he is a Boomerang Bigot.
• Graceful Loser: He doesn't seem upset at being arrested in the Season 22 finale, and simply smiles as he watches the bike parade. He's also happy to get back to teaching after losing the presidency.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He could be seen as this for Season 23, in regards having ICE raid homes to detain illegal immigrants, while separating the parents from their children. Eventually his most loyal supporters, the Whites, would adopt one of these children and abuse him leading to the creation of "Mexican Joker". In "Season Finale", he also helps get Randy, the season's Big Bad, out of jail.
• Green and Mean: He typically wears a green shirt and is incredibly sadistic.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The only person in South Park who is as remotely volatile as Eric Cartman. Exaggerated during the seasons following his sex change, where she becomes a lot more violent towards her students whenever she has a bad day. Being a Straw Misogynist, she probably thought she could get away with it.
• Hate Sink: He becomes this after he wins the presidential election and becomes a blatant parody of Donald Trump. He repeatedly rapes members of his cabinet, intentionally exacerbated Tweek’s fears over North Korea by lying on Twitter about the cupcakes Tweek sent them, and then launched a nuclear missile at Toronto killing over a million Canadians there just because he finds it sexually arousing. These actions caused almost the whole town to despise him and almost caused the United States to descend into nuclear war.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: He was this way before coming out of the closet, constantly talking about poontang that we never see him get. Once he actually becomes The Casanova in "Tom's Rhinoplasty", he's scared shitless of all the female attention and wants to go back to his old life.
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Engages in this in "Not Funny" after getting called a little bitch president by Mr. Slave.
• The Heavy: While Garrison is currently the most powerful and most dangerous man in the world driving most of the conflict in the later seasons, such as nuking Canada in Season 21, he is still just a pawn the Member Berries are controlling.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: It's really hard to know when he's a regular teacher or a sexual depraved SOB. Even as president he can either be an ally to the boys or a threat that parodies Pennywise.
• He Who Fights Monsters: After killing the bigoted and xenophobic Canadian President, he goes on to enact the very same policies and ideologies as his late enemy.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Mr. Garrison feels that he had a traumatic childhood because his father didn't sexually abuse him, and to Garrison, this meant that his father didn't love him. Mr. Mackey, the guidance counselor, says that the only way to save his son's life is for the elder Garrison to have sex with him, and he finally hires Kenny G to pretend to be him and sleep with the younger Garrison.
• Incompatible Orientation: After becoming a trans woman, he got this from men that swing both ways. Mr. Slave broke up with him because the latter is gay, and Richard Dawkins was Squicked when Cartman blurted out that he was assigned male at birth.
• Insufferable Imbecile: He is an extremely incompetent teacher at South Park Elementary School who puts no effort into actually teaching his students anything. He is also mentally insane, regularly showing severe anger issues, psychopathic tendencies, and delusions that are divorced from reality.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He's shown to have shades of one with the boys in the earlier seasons. While they don't think highly of him and persist to disrespect his authority as a teacher, they're shown to be on good terms with him outside of school or in both of their free times.
  • The earliest instance of this was shown in "Weight Gain 4000", where the four boys and Wendy visit Mr. Garrison at the local mental health institution and express their condolences about his recent PTSD development, encouraging him to get on the road to recovery and genuinely hoping that he can return to his position as a teacher soon.
  • In "South Park is Gay!", Kyle and Mr. Garrison sympathize with each other over distaste for the recent fad and book a train to New York to kill the host of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
• It's All About Me:
  • Got a sex-change operation because he wanted to be a woman. Mr. Slave was understandably upset, as Mr. Garrison expected him to just turn straight and accept a change he didn't get a say in. It gets worse in a later episode when trying to "take Mr. Slave back," completely failing to once more understand just why Mr. Slave left. And when Garrison learns Mr. Slave was going to marry Big Gay Al, Garrison decided to help make gay marriage illegal just out of spite.
  • In Season 25, his "lessons" revolve entirely around discussing his new relationship, with not attempt whatsoever to actually teach his students anything.
• Jerkass: He's a short-tempered, foul-mouthed, power-hungry teacher who treats his students with very little respect and rarely gets his head out of his ass to save them in the face of legitimate danger. Though since his second change in Season 12, this has been toned down somewhat. He returns to this role by Season 20, where he becomes the the President of the United States, with the sole purpose of abusing his power in the most criminal ways possible, with rape and terrorism being his worst offenses.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's very shallow and doesn't remotely excuse the diabolical and criminal acts he's committed, but on rare occasions, he has his moments of showing genuine respect for his students, in that he'll sometimes teach them ideal school subjects, and has been implied to have somewhat of an Intergenerational Friendship with them outside of his job. By Season 25, he's trying hard to be this again after his tumultuous "sabbatical" as president, with his new boyfriend Rick trying to steer him down the correct path, which Garrison surprisingly appreciates and follows through with despite his innate desires to go back to being a Trumplica.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After terrorizing Tweek, raping immigrants and his own staff, nuking Toronto, and escaping capture in Season 21, he's finally arrested in Season 22's finale. Subverted in Season 23 where he returns to the office. Then he returns to his teaching job after breaking the fourth wall to erase his past crimes. Even PC Principal doesn't bring up the time Garrison forced him to perform a sexual act.
• Karmic Rape: In "Where My Country Gone", he fucks the Canadian President to death.
• Kick the Dog: In The Movie, calling Clyde "a complete retard" for failing a math question and combating Wendy's complaint of a sexist statement of his with another sexist statement.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Whenever he tries to teach children. From the first episode alone: "Christopher Columbus discovered America and was the Indians' best friend. He helped the Indians win their war against Frederick Douglass, and freed the Hebrews from Napoleon, and discovered France". Becomes a Running Gag in later seasons when he tries to teach the children the plots of various popular plays and television shows, for example presenting the plots of Game of Thrones and Les Misérables as real history. Subverted during his presidential election where Garrison wears his ignorance on his sleeves, but still gets elected regardless because he's honest about it unlike Hillary.
• Lack of Empathy: Mr. Garrison has little consideration for others' feelings and wears his psychopathic emotions on his sleeves.
• Large Ham: In addition to his Hair-Trigger Temper, Mr. Garrison has an occasional propensity to yell at his students for no reason and in general lacks an indoor voice.
• Leitmotif: As of "Members Only", his leitmotif has become a Dark Reprise of "Hail to the Chief".
• A Lighter Shade of Black: The only reason he was elected President despite his active attempts to sabotage his election is because he was running against Hillary Clinton, a fact he laments after hearing her refute his argument despite him having argued in her favor.
  Garrison: Oh fuck, oh fuck, why the fuck did it have to be her, I am so fucked.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Due to his inner conflicts, he usually attaches himself to his significant others in this way: It started with Mr. Hat, with whom he's been since he was a child, and with whom he stayed until his old age in the Bad Future, then he changed to Mr. Slave for three seasons, then Richard Dawkins, whom she married in one timeline, then the lesbians at "Les Bos", and finally and most meaningfully, Rick, his Morality Pet.
• Morality Pet: After briefly slipping back into a Trumplica in "Spring Break", he announces in a public speech that his boyfriend Rick is the only reason his rerailment stuck and is terrified of going back should he ever lose him.
• Never My Fault: Mr. Garrison often gets mad at his students when they show others in the town how little they actually know despite the fact that he's clearly never taught them any actual school subjects.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: As of Season 20, he's become an Expy of (or rather a jab at) Donald Trump.
• Not Brainwashed: His behavior as president was implied to be the result of the Memberberries brainwashing him, in "Spring Break" it's instead portrayed as an addiction he has trouble getting over.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: In the Pandemic Special, he outright states he's doing nothing about the pandemic because there's higher death rates among Mexicans than any other race, and is using the virus as a weapon to indirectly exterminate them.
• No Indoor Voice: He's rather loudmouthed and short-tempered.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: From Season 21's "Sons of Witches", it seems that he hasn't really done much while in office, only getting rid of six immigrants and has yet to complete his wall. An episode later, it was revealed that he's been raping foreign diplomats to death as well as his own office so they keep quiet. And that's not getting to two episodes after when he decides to nuke Canada.
• Orcus on His Throne: In Seasons 20-24, he spends most of his screentime lounging around in his office and casually fucking his staff. He only gets off his ass to participate in the Witch Week, scare Crystal White and Tweek for no reason, help get Randy out of prison, and kill the pangolin carrying a potential COVID vaccine (and the scientist holding the pangolin).
• Pet the Dog:
  • He holds the eulogy for Kenny's funeral in "Kenny Dies", and actually plays it straight, moving the townsfolk to tears with his speech.
  • In "Best Friends Forever", Mr. Garrison is arrested for trying to bring food and water to Kenny whilst the latter is in the hospital.
  • Despite his complicated history with Chef, Garrison still attends his funeral, and sheds a tear at his casket.
  • He actually did a surprisingly good job as a teacher during his temporary stint with the Kindergarten class, sparing the kids from his usual bizarre behavior and potty-mouth.
  • In Season 23's "Season Finale", he actually listens to Randy's plea for help and does his best to clear his charges and get him out of prison. Of course, his methods were underhanded as can be, and this is still presented as deplorable since Randy was at his worst in that season, but Garrison still had no apparent ulterior motive beyond throwing his old friend a bone.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He is racist, homophobic, and misogynistic among many other prejudices. In one Christmas special, he travels to non-Christian countries to admonish people for not celebrating Christmas in a particularly hilarious song.
• President Evil: He gains the Republican nomination and eventually wins the 2016 Presidential election on a platform of fucking all the immigrants to death. Of course, this could also be considered a subversion, as it's the Member Berries that have infected his mind following his attempts at self-sabotage. Played straight in following seasons, where he uses his position of power to rape, murder, and even commit genocide.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: While Mr. Garrison wasn't exactly a decent person before, his Story Arc starts when he grows tired of the immigrants coming to his country. He decides to run for president so that he can establish a law to fuck all immigrants to death. However, he soon realizes that he never really had any plans as president other than fucking immigrants to death, so he tries to foil his own election. His attempts were rendered naught, however, as the Member Berries brainwashed him into accepting the presidency and becoming a Serial Rapist towards his own staff and nuking Canada. It is implied he has broken off from their influence, but he has still continued his downward spiral, and the ending of “The Pandemic Special” makes it clear that Garrison is a complete villain.
• Puppet King: Despite being President, he's little more than a pawn for the Member Berries to use. Downplayed in Season 21, where he seems to have achieved some semblance of power over them, telling them to shut up when they try to make yet another Star Wars reference.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Mr. Garrison is a full-grown adult who lives on his own yet has an unhealthy obsession with rape, has frequent mood swings, has committed several felonies, wants power just to excuse being awful, and has no consideration for others' feelings. Despite his overall sociopathy, he's shown to have a slight touch of innocence, as he initially relied on a Companion Cube to support him, has occasional moments of being genuinely nice to his students, and in "Ike's Wee Wee" is shown watching Teletubbies while high.
• Rape as Backstory: Averted, much to his disappointment. His relationship with his father is strained because the latter never molested him as a child. However, since his mother also shared his views on the matter, it's possibly played straight on her side, only exemplified by Garrison's close relationship with her.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: What makes him bit more depraved than probably anything else in this show. He based his whole presidential campaign on fucking everyone to death, forces people to give him blowjobs as president, and is now raping his own staff.
• Retired Monster: After losing the 2020 president election, Mr. Garrison returns to being a teacher at South Park Elementary in "South Park Vaccination Special". That said, Mr. Garrison doesn't seem to show any remorse for all the atrocities he committed during his presidency and remains oblivious to the fact that everyone now hates him.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Wears a black suit and red tie after becoming President.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Becomes the red to Rick's blue after Season 24, with Rick from what little we've seen of him being more quiet, reserved and emotionless, while Garrison is more kooky, emotional, and temperamental. In "Spring Break", it's displayed in full effect, as Rick is the only one who can calm Garrison down whlie Garrison is the only one who can make Rick lose his temper.
• The Rival:
  • To Hillary Clinton in 2026 when they were running for president, though halfway through the election process he's tries to get her to win.
  • Downplayed with Joe Biden in 2020. Though he's a Graceful Loser once the latter is elected in his stead, Garrison shows in "Spring Break" that he still thinks he's a lousy president regardless. However, this is all part of his Trumplica persona so it's not associated to what he actually believes.
• Running Gag:
  • "Can we get rid of all the Mexicans?"
  • "Fuck them all to death!"
• Sadist Teacher: His emotional imbalances cause him to be this quite often.
• Sadly Mythtaken: In one episode of an early season, he gets homosexuals and vampires confused.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: After being elected president, he uses his position to commit all sorts of horrific crimes with impunity.
• Serial Killer: His victims are all males, consisting of diplomats and his own employees, whose modus operandi involve fucking them all to death.
• Serial Rapist: He as President Garrison has gone around, fucking foreign diplomats and his own employees to death.
• Shadow Archetype: To Randy, the both have a tendency to go overboard with casual interests and treat everything as Serious Business. But Randy's obsession's seem almost sane and rational compared to Garrison, who can change anything from his gender, sexual orientation and core beliefs at a moments notice and no matter what it is, pushes the thing he's decided is his new identity onto people with Nazi-like forcefulness.
• The Sociopath: He could rival Cartman when it comes to careless immorality. Mr. Garrison has no sense of respect for others' well-being and will willingly murder and rape people without feeling a shred of remorse for his victims.
• Springtime for Hitler: Has tried this twice.
  • In Season 6's "Death Camp of Tolerance", Mr Garrison tries to intentionally get fired by displaying exaggeratedly inappropriate homosexual behavior on front of his students (and later, their parents) so he can sue the school district for millions for firing him for being gay. All this results in is the adults of South Park congratulating him for being so brave in such an unaccepting climate. When Mr. Garrison lashes out at the crowd giving him a standing ovation for how they'd tolerate such behavior and asks them to fire him already so he can get his millions of dollars, he's sent to the tolerance camp for not being accepting of himself.
  • Throughout Season 20, Mr. Garrison tried to sabotage his own Presidential campaign, from sitting during the National Anthem (which backfired due to the Anthem being rebooted by J. J. Abrams, allowing the person to either stand, sit, or kneel during the anthem) to telling dirty jokes during his campaign rallies, and ultimately, pleading with his followers to vote for Hillary Clinton. They were all for naught, as Garrison was elected President, due to interference by the Member Berries.
• Straight Gay: While he's had his campy moments, he's by and large this, and you probably wouldn't be able to tell that he's gay just by the way he acts whenever he's in the classroom, unlike Big Guy Al, who's obviously gay.
• Straw Feminist: After his first sex change, she constantly preached about girl power and griped about how All Men Are Perverts. She gets worse in "D-Yikes", at least before coming out as a lesbian.
  Garrison: Oh, that's too bad, dude!. Maybe if you boys could keep your penises in your pants once in a while you'd get more done!
• Straw Misogynist: Before his first sex change, he mostly spoke about screwing with hot chicks and getting poontang. While running for president, he tries to weaponize this to lose voters, as he was actively trying to throw the election, though it Went Horribly Right for him (not that it stopped him from getting elected).
  Garrison: Well, I'm sorry Wendy, but I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: After despairing at the notion of someone like himself becoming President, he sinks into depression and questions the sanity of humanity. When he is elected, he jumps off the proverbial wagon and abuses his authority every chance he gets... but he's come under the influence of the Member Berries.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Prior to getting a Trump-esque appearance, he didn't have much distinct features that made him stand out from everyone else in South Park. It didn't made him any less of a deplorable human being.
• Tranquil Fury: When he sees PC Principal after becoming President, it's shown that he hasn't really gotten over being fired by PC Principal because he didn't want to change. Rather that loudly lashing out at PC Principal over it however, he calmly and softly, tells him to suck his dick.
• Transparent Closet: For the first few seasons. He speaks with a very mincing tone of voice and prefers to engage in celebrity gossip rather than teach real subjects. By far the biggest tell of Garrison's sexuality is when he tried writing an erotic novel and dedicting entire paragraphs to describing male genitals while the female form is barely acknowledged. Even the book's title had the word "penises" in it.
• Trumplica: His bid for presidency and eventual victory are all thinly-veiled spoofs of Donald Trump's similar aspirations. His appearance becomes more Trump-like and certain personality traits such as his sleaziness and bigotry are flanderized. Ironically, all of this happened after Mr Garrison killed another Trump expy.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He was already a bit of a Jerkass early on, sometimes showing a heart of gold, but he would get worse in later seasons, especially once he became President. By Season 24, he's even worse than Cartman, as evidenced in "The Pandemic Special", where he kills the Pangolin that held the cure of the Pandemic for his own benefit while Cartman had actually decided to save it despite its survival going against his benefit.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Though he did have to sink to another depth to be Easily Forgiven after returning to South Park, he actually starts making an attempt to change his ways once he's lost his second election, and is a very grateful and doting boyfriend to Rick, with whom he tries his damnedest to have a healthy relationship.
• Turn in Your Badge:
  • Played for Laughs in "Cherokee Hair Tampons" when he's fired from South Park Elementary, whereupon he tells the council that he will promptly give them his badge and gun, akin to a retired police officer. The council has to remind him that teachers shouldn't carry guns.
    Garrison: Oh, so I can keep it, then?
  • When Garrison spouted racist speech toward the Canadian children at the elementary school, PC Principal promptly fired him. These events led him to become President Garrison.
  • Attempted again in the seventh episode of Season 21, though it doesn't end well for the ones who tried.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Season 19, he decides to run for president so he can kick the immigrants out of South Park. This leads to the whole town becoming the laughingstock of the whole country. To counter this, the locals gentrify the town to appear classy and enlightened. The upkeep costs more than the locals can afford and it's not long before the homeless population begins to rise, with Randy and several other people contemplating moving to another town to survive.
• Villains Never Lie: When his cabinet reveals to Garrison that a Russian diplomat was "raped and executed" on US soil, he proudly admits to doing the deed. When they call him out for his oath to the office, ''he reminds them that "his oath to the office was to fuck everyone to death!.
• Villain Protagonist: Of Season 20 along with Skankhunt42, though he only commits to the role after actually being elected president halfway through the season, unlike Gerald whose more despicable actions are done as a defense mechanism to save his own ass from the consequences of his actions.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: After running for president, the only people he has any semblance of a friendship with are Caitlyn Jenner and Rudy Giuliani, with whom he still exchanges insults.
• You Are What You Hate:
  • He was quite homophobic in the early seasons before coming to terms with his sexuality. Then he became homophobic again after becoming a woman... until s/he became a lesbian. What's more, his/her lesbianism was spurred on by an acquired hatred of men shortly before deciding to go back to being a man.
  • He kills the evil Canadian president, only to become a politician fueled by sensationalist fervor himself. They even share similar stances on immigration.
• Younger Than He Looks: His grey, balding head makes him looks like he's in his mid-fifties to early sixties when in reality he's only 41.

Mr. Mackey

"Drugs are bad, mmm-kay?"

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Tomás Doval (Seasons 1 and 16b), Guillermo Sauceda (Seasons 2-9), Rolando Felizola (Seasons 10-16a and 2007-2012 redubs), Eduardo Wasveiler (Season 17 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs), Humberto Vélez (Mexican dub), Mario Arvizu (Warner Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub), Bardo Miranda (Paramount Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub)

Debut: "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"

South Park Elementary's guidance counselor with a very large head. Incredibly mellow, mmm-kay?

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Is often nice unless one of his various buttons are pushed.
• Butt-Monkey: Most of the kids have no respect for him whatsoever, as shown in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" and "Erection Day".
• Clueless Aesop: Often tries to deliver messages to the kids with no logic or knowledge behind them. At one point he fails at teaching sex ed because he's forgotten how it works. He doesn't even know how to pronounce "marijuana".
• Department of Redundancy Department: While giving his "Drugs Are Bad" speech in "Ike's Wee Wee".
  Mr. Mackey: Drugs are bad, m'kay. You shouldn't do drugs. If you do them, you're bad, because drugs are bad, m'kay. It's a bad thing to do drugs, so don't be bad by doing drugs, m'kay, that'd be bad.
• Drugs Are Bad: The Trope Namer, heavily parodied. After giving an anti-drug speech to the class, he got busted for allegedly holding marijuana, leading to him being fired. The ensuing depression and poverty led him to using the same drugs he talked about to cope.
• Flanderization: "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" and onward have begun play up the angry aspect of his personality. That was originally played as a one off gag but with Seasons 14 onward, Mr. Mackey's temper has become more frequent to the point of consuming his personality. Compare "Ike's Wee Wee" to "Royal Pudding".
• Freudian Excuse: The reason for his volatile attitude towards directing a play about tooth decay is because his father was killed by tooth decay.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He seems to have developed quite a nasty one recently, for example in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", "Insheeption" and "Royal Pudding".
  "I will rape you in the mouth, m'kay! I will rape you in your fucking mouth! M'KAY!"
• He Who Fights Monsters: In "Bass to Mouth", he (along with the Principal Victoria) severely rebukes Cartman for nearly driving two kids to suicide. The near-end of the episode sees him throwing Cartman under a moving bus, while making it look like a suicide, for his own purposes.
• Hidden Depths: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" reveals him to be an extraverted party guy when he has the opportunity.
• Jerkass Ball: When directing the Kindergarten play during "Royal Pudding" Mr. Mackey drops his usual mild-manneder attitude and starts screaming obscenities at the kindergarteners and Kyle over every mistake. It's later revealed that the reason he took the play so seriously was because his father had been killed by tooth decay years before, and Kyle was playing the role of the disease, so Mackey was projecting his hatred of tooth decay unto him.
  Kyle:Uh I'm trying, Mr. Mackey, I really am.
  Mr. Mackey: Oh, you're trying? You call rolling your fat ass out on the stage and lazily blurting out your lines like a turtle takin' a shit, you call that trying?! This play is supposed to change how people think, Kyle! Get it fucking right!
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He claims to be an authority on various subjects like drugs and psychology, but his advice usually boils down to meaningless platitudes at best ("Drugs are bad, mmmkay?") and violent nonsense at worst. He also fails to back up what he says with any information the kids could actually use. And for the record, the Latin for "generosity" isn't "bitch" without the "T", but "liberalitas".
• Nice Guy: As counselor, he's always eager to support the kids when they have a problem, despite his tendency to deliver Clueless Aesops and/or make things worse for them with his intervention. He did became more temperamental overtime, but that didn't stop him from remaining one of the nicer adults, especially in The Movie, where he sings his song "It's Easy M'kay" to help the kids stop abusing the swear words they had learnt.
• No Full Name Given: He's just known as Mr. Mackey. His first name has not been revealed yet.
• No Sympathy: In "Royal Pudding", when Ike is crying over the Princess of Canada having been kidnapped, Mr. Mackey just yells at him for ruining the Tooth Decay kindergarten play.
• Ominous Owl: In "Insheeption", he's revealed to have a hoarding problem stemming from a childhood incident when he was molested by a Woodsy Owl mascot ("Give a hoot, don't pollute!"). When Mr. Mackey faces up to this traumatic memory in a dream, the owl mascot turns into a monstrous embodiment of Mr. Mackey's trauma. Eventually, believe it or not, the other people in the dream have to bring in Freddy Krueger to stop the owl.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Super Hard PCness", Mr. Mackey was so smitten towards his Distaff Counterpart, Ms. Conduct, that he forgets to say his trademark "m'kay" more than a few times.
• Prone to Tears: He's quite a sensitive individual and tends to cry whenever he is even mildly insulted.
• The Starscream: He made a false accusation against Principal Victoria to get her fired because he was tired of being her dogsbody. This ultimately backfires on him as PC Principal turns out to be much worse.
• Stern Teacher: Although he's started crossing over into Sadist Teacher as of late (see above episodes).
• Strong Family Resemblance: His parents are briefly seen in "Child Abduction Is Not Funny" and look almost identical to him. His father also displays the same "m'kay" Verbal Tic.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Seasons 14 onwards. After having to deal with Scott Malkinson's Wangst for hours (if not days) on end, Mr. Mackey just stops caring. Granted, it's not hard to sympathise with him by the end of it.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Getting Principal Victoria fired and replaced with PC Principal would accidentally set off a chain of the events that would follow afterward.
• Verbal Tic: Mr. Mackey ends most of his sentences with "m'kay". It also crosses over into other languages; when speaking Spanish in "Rainforest Schmainforest" he uses "m'bien". It even extends into his writing, where he writes out "mkay" at regular intervals.
  • It's heavily hinted via the song "It's Easy, M'Kay" that he says it in lieu of saying "fuck".
    Mr. Mackey: ♪Step four; don't say "fuck" anymore/Because "fuck" is the worst word that you can say/So just say the word "M'kay"!♪

Nurse Mary Gollum

"What I really want to say is, egh... Well, this may sound odd coming from a woman with a fetus sticking out of her head, but... You're all a bunch of freaks!"

Voiced in English by: Mary Kay Bergman (1998), Kari Turner (the Unaired Pilot)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Margarita Coego, Jackeline Junguito (2011 redub), unknown (Mexican dub)

Debut: The Unaired Pilot, "Conjoined Fetus Lady" (series)

The nurse at South Park Elementary who has a dead fetus attached to her head, and as such, she was outcasted for her deformity.

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• Born Unlucky: She never wanted the deformity in the first place. The only reason she doesn't consider removing it is because doing so would cause her death.
• Butt-Monkey: All the kids were disgusted by her birth defect, and even some of the adults too (like Gerald). She's actually not too offended by this, knowing that kids are still learning how to deal with differences; but she's embarassed when the town throws a parade drawing attention to her, in the name of acceptance.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She has been inexplicably absent in the series for several years and hasn't been seen since the Season 9 episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow". Before that, her last speaking role was in "Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods".
• Conjoined Twins: Has a conjoined fetus twin attached to her head.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Conjoined Fetus Lady".
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the unaired pilot version of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", she wasn't depicted with the conjoined fetus. She's also less of a Reasonable Authority Figure.
• Facial Horror: The dead conjoined fetus on her face makes Kyle scream in horror.
• Hypocritical Humor: In the unaired pilot, when the boys visit the nurse office after they witness Cartman farting fire, Gollum calls out the boys out for telling Pip (who also had to visit due to hitting his head on the playground equipment) to shut up. But once the boys leave and Pip says he hopes Cartman is okay, she tells him to shut up.
• Only Sane Employee: A well-adjusted woman with a deformity who understands that kids are gonna be insensitive, in a staff full of Garrison, Mackey, and Victoria. She also is the only one to consistently do her job (treating sick kids) well.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She may not like her deformity, but she understands kids will find it startling and that they're not going to be the most polite about it. It's the adults trying to honor her for her disfigurement that gets on her nerves.
• Sudden Name Change: The unaired pilot had her surname as "McSchwartz", but it would later be changed to "Gollum" in "Conjoined Fetus Lady".

Richard Adler

"Stop screwin' around!"

Voiced in English by: Matt Stone

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Rolando Felizola (Seasons 3-5 and 16a), Manolo Coego (Seasons 10-14), Orlando Noguera (Season 15), unknown (Seasons 16b and 19), Eduardo Wasveiler (Seasons 17-18), Rómulo Bernal (Season 21 onwards)

Debut: "Tweek vs. Craig"

The boys' shop teacher. He hates kids that "screw around", and once had a difficult time coping with the loss of his wife.

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• Addiction Displacement: An Implied Trope. He compulsively chews nicotine gum when he has flashbacks of his wife's death, suggesting that he originally coped by smoking. When he runs out of gum, he attempts suicide.
• Bait-and-Switch: When he says "Jesus Christ, what was I thinking?!" during his suicide attempt on the table saw, you'd think that he regrets his decision to commit suicide, but instead he turns his body upwards on the table saw so his head is facing the blade rather than his genitalia.
• Berserk Button: Don't screw around in his class.
• Blatant Lies: When Clyde interrupts him from reminiscing his wife's timeline, he asks if his wife is dead. Adler responds "no!" and tells him to get back to work so he doesn't ask any further questions and discover his secret.
• Character Catchphrase: "Stop screwin' around!" and other variations on it.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Tweek VS. Craig", his debut episode, focuses on his Tragic Backstory and how it affects him in the present.
• Driven to Suicide: The only thing keeping him from killing himself is his nicotine gum. Once he runs out, he decides to end everything. Naturally, it never occurs to him to go buy some more.
• Interrupted Suicide: When he comes close to death, Tweek and Craig are sent through the shop class window and their "screwing around" distracts him from killing himself.
• The Lost Lenore: Constantly has flashbacks to his wife's fatal yet ridiculous accident.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: The source of his angst for his death wife. He even says it word for word, to the point where it's practically his second catchphrase.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. "Richard" is also the name of Tweek's dad as well as Timmy's dad.
• Only Sane Man: One of the few characters who attempts to aid Kenny after one of his accidents and calls out Stan and Kyle on their inaction, Unfortunately he gets distracted by a hallucination of his dead wife.
• Skewed Priorities: Tries to kill himself because he runs out of nicotine gum. Couldn't he just buy some more?
• Start of Darkness: Becomes one of the Cthulhu-worshippers. Clearly he's still not over the death of his wife even years after his episode.

PC Principal

"Watch your microaggressions, bro!"

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Eduardo Wasveiler

Debut: "Stunning and Brave"

Peter Charles Principal, better known as PC Principal, is South Park Elementary's replacement for Principal Victoria in Season 19's "Stunning and Brave", and the secondary antagonist of the season. He's a violent frat boy dedicated to being as politically correct as possible, while forcing others to be the same way.

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• Adults Are Useless: A rare aversion, particularly after he mellows out. He has plenty of his own flaws and quirks, but he'll genuinely try to help the student body when there's a problem and tries to put a stop to Cartman's obstinate bigotry and rumor-mongering whenever he tries to start something.
• Ambiguously Human: He's seen in an ad with Leslie, who is an ad herself. However, it isn't clear if this was fabricated by the ads to mess with his head, or if he genuinely was an ad who somehow managed to go against his programming. The fact that he is able to have children with Strong Woman suggests he is actually a human.
• Angry White Man: Subverted. He's only prejudiced against his own kind, but is just as petty about it. Played straight towards the ads.
• Anti-Villain: In Season 19, he was a grade A asshole who ruled the school with an iron fist and who accused everyone who didn't share all his political views of being bigoted. However, within his first week as principal he beats Cartman's bigotry out of him and scares him into submission (temporarily), and in his second week he fires Garrison, so it cannot be argued that he didn't do any good. In "Stunning and Brave", Kyle outright says that his policy is a good one on paper, but the cavalier way in which he goes about it forbids anyone from having a proper dialogue, and turns PC into an antagonistic force whom the students all fear and dislike.
• Badass Armfold: Often crosses his arms in such a way as to leave his fingers under his arms and his thumbs sticking up above.
• Badass Teacher: As of Season 20.
• Bodyguard Crush: To Strong Woman. However, given their similar personalities, his attempts at being the bodyguard fall flat, especially when he tries to scold Butters for talking while Strong Woman is.
  PC Principal: (snatches the mic from Strong Woman) HEY, BUTTERS! SHUT THE FUCK UP, DON'T DISRESPECT STRONG WOMAN WHILE SHE'S TALKING!
  Strong Woman: (deadpan) Do you think I couldn't do that myself?
  PC Principal: (embarrassed) O-oh, sorry.
• Big Bad: Of Season 19. Until the end of it, that is.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves the day at the end of Season 19 by taking out Leslie, the true Big Bad.
• Big Good: Has taken this position as of Season 20.
• The Bully: Although he genuinely believes in what he preaches.
• Can't Take Criticism: Eh... kind of. If you criticize his methods, he'll at best brush it off by assuming you straight-up don't know what you're talking about or at worst verbally lash you out. That said, it's not impossible (though if Butters and Jimmy are any indication, the negative consequences of his actions have to be obvious) to make him see what mistakes he makes, and when he does, he partially blue screens and may try to even make some amends.
• Character Catchphrase: "Alright everyone, listen up!" Season 21 also gives him, “Dude... bro”.
• Character Development:
  • In Season 20, his Jerkass tendencies are toned down and he's more neutral when it comes to the conflict between the boys and the girls, letting the boys have the same rights the girls have despite their gender supposedly having more "privilege". Further highlighted when he firmly but politely tells Butters to stop protesting during a school presentation. A noticeable change from the way he used to handle Leslie whispering in the exact same scenario.
  • He has also stopped bending over backwards for Cartman's schemes whenever Cartman comes to him wanting something.
  • PC Principal eventually opens up to the idea that just because someone is from a marginalised group, doesn't mean they should be exempt from criticism if they're genuine jerks. In his debut, PC Principal's advocacy for trans rights made him a Caitlyn Jenner groupie who would physically assault anyone that either misgendered her or just wasn't a fan of her. In "Board Girls" he finds an enemy in Heather Swanson, a blatantly cisgender man who only says he's transgender for the sake of getting away with beating women at sports.
  • In the reformed future PC Principal can be seen laughing at Jimmy's joke about bisexual Canadians. Keep in mind that not only did Canadians suffer an attack from the US that resembles 9-11 times 1000 in 2017, but the punchline insinuated that bisexuals are indecisive rather than a genuine orientation.
• Comically Missing the Point: He is triggered by Cartman saying spokesman instead of spokesperson when Cartman intended to frame him for pedophilia.
• Cool Shades: He and his PC friends all wear the same brand of sunglasses. As do the PC Babies.
• Create Your Own Villain: His efforts to make South Park Elementary a PC environment, specifically in regards to the influx of Canadian immigrants, were what led to Mr. Garrison becoming president, as the latter gleefully points out when he returns to town after being elected.
• Decon-Recon Switch: He starts out as deconstruction of overtly politically correct characters in comedy by pointing out how obnoxious they come across to many, harming their own movement. Post Season 19 and a battle with the ads manipulating PC later, he reassesses his methods to tone down his negative qualities so while he's still annoyingly PC, he comes across as entertainingly and somewhat endearingly so.
• Dirty Coward: He has no problem beating up, harassing and humiliating grade-school students who disagree with his views, but becomes easily intimidated when someone his size (like Mr. Garrison) stands up to him without fear of consequences. Whatever Mr. Garrison did to him, it certainly seemed to teach him more humility.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He responds to gender-exclusive language with hot-blodded beatdowns.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He's a douche, but he would never use his progressive views to try and get laid. He even calls in a meeting with the other PC bros to tell them that doing so is insincere and manipulative.
  • By Season 21, he's started to get sick of Cartman constantly demanding he help him feel better about himself in school.
  • Season 25 shows he does not appreciate it when the students compare him not giving them whatever it is they want to Nazi Germany and he's repeatedly told them not to trivialize the Nazis by doing so.
• Evil Counterpart: He may be considered one to Kyle. While they're both Hot-Blooded individuals who both don't shy away from using overzealous methods to solving what they perceive as problems, and while Kyle also has had his Knight Templar moments, he still has much more genuine compassion and understanding compared to PC Principal's almost single-minded hostile nature. In short, PC Principal is what you get when you take all of Kyle's negative traits and take them up to eleven.
• Eviler than Thou: Granted, Cartman is also evil and has committed far more horrific acts, but PC Principal's basically Cartman with a desire to fight bigotry and prejudice... through bullying people about completely benign "microaggressions". Their first encounter ended with Cartman in the hospital.
• Fratbro: He is one, and opens up a new PC fraternity in South Park shortly after becoming principal. He's seemingly retired this trait as he's now a family man.
• Good All Along: In comparison to the other PC bros and the town at large, we see that PC Principal has no ulterior motive for his social justice crusade. Even his violent outbursts are toned down once he realizes he's doing more harm than good.
• Genius Bruiser: He's very athletic and strong (he's often seen lifting weights in his office), and a skilled enough fighter to kill several men in a bar fight. While it's not dwelled upon, he also mentions offhand that he's a graduate of Texas A&M University, which is no small feat.^note A&M is rated as the 115th best university in the U.S. by Forbes (which focuses on student outcomes like income and employment) and 96th best in the world by ARWU's Shanghai Rankings (which focuses on research, prestige, and faculty). The average student coming in from high school has a 3.6 GPA. He also qualified to be a principal when it's implied he's still in his 20s.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He beats Cartman within an inch of his life after Cartman tries to blackmail him by soaking Butters' underwear with PC Principal's urine. However, this is not what set him off. What sets him off is that Cartman used the word "capiche" when intimidating him, implying to him that Italian-Americans are all mobsters. Then he used the word "spokesman" instead of the word "spokesperson" in reference to Jared Fogle, implying to him that women aren't capable of selling Subway sandwiches. He also spends the majority of his debut episode antagonizing Kyle for not thinking Caitlyn Jenner is a hero.
• The Heavy: He's the most frequent obstacle in Season 19, but he is actually a Unwitting Pawn to Leslie, the true Big Bad .
• Heel–Face Turn: Is built up as the Big Bad of Season 19, but turns good in the finale and kills the true Big Bad, Leslie. He remains in South Park as the principal, and vows to take down the ads for their oppression of humanity.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite coming across as a Hot-Blooded bully, in "Where My Country Gone" he seemed a little bit intimidated by Mr. Garrison when he continued to rant on about the "undocumented" Canadian immigrants even after being fired (the fact that PC Principal doesn't attack or speak up against Mr. Garrison certainly suggests this). He was also absolutely terrified of Garrison when he returned as president elect.
  • The musical segment of the episode "Safe Space" reveals he too has a Safe Space, implying that he has a fear of being shamed and wants to be protected from it.
  • In contrast to his PCA bros, he genuinely believes in political correctness, as exemplified when he chides his bros for using PC to score with the ladies.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Subverted. His name really is PC Principal, with "PC" being short for Peter Charles.
• Horrible Judge of Character: When the girls tell him that Cartman is harassing them online as skankhunt42, he dismisses this because of all the PC work Cartman has done recently. It actually isn't Cartman, but PC Principal still should've looked into it. Later on, in an effort to end the conflict between the boys and girls, he brings in Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby to teach the boys about being gentlemen.
• Hypocrite:
  • His frathouse filled Kyle's room with pigs that have "Biggit" painted on their skin. Apparently animal exploitation and antisemitism aren't as big an issue as making sure no-one uses gender-exclusive pronouns (though he may have simply been unaware that Kyle was Jewish). A fairly transparent Take That! to the predominance of antisemitism among self-declared college progressives, though this aspect was dropped after that episode.
  • He threatens and inflicts physical harm on children - coming within a hair's breadth of harming the disabled Jimmy - then has the gall to demand that other people resign.
  • Subverted when Heather Swanson tries to accuse him of this, stating that he's transphobic for not accepting a cisgender man into women's sports. The fact that Heather was clearly lying and didn't undergo months of hormone therapy before competing is never brought up.
• Hypocritical Humor: He criticizes South Park Elementary for not having any ethnic minorities aside from Tolkien and Nicole. Meanwhile, his PC Fraternity is composed entirely of privileged, cis-gendered white men.
  • He spends his first appearance harassing Kyle for not blindly Hero Worshiping Caitlin Jenner for being transgender in spite of the fact that her beliefs are the exact opposite of his, and the next episode he fires Mr Garrison (also (twice) transgender) for expressing pretty similar views. To drive the point home, Garrison then uses those views to run for president with Caitlin as his running mate.
• Irony:
  • Has the appearance and demeanor of the blond buff bro stereotype, the type of people who the stereotype of an SJW would hate the most. Reinforced in Season 21, where he suddenly gains the catchphrase “Dude... bro”.
  • On a positive note, he states that being progressive shouldn't just be a ploy to hook up with women. He eventually finds himself in a steady relationship with a feminist.
• Jerkass: Threatens anyone who disagrees with him with several weeks of detention. He's especially hard on Kyle, who has put up with a lot of political incorrectness over the years. This aspect of his character gets dropped after Season 19.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Many (but not all) of his criticisms of South Park in his debut episode are on point, and the existence of Cartman alone (whom the previous principal once even referred to as a cancer in the school) is enough to prove that the show did have a bigotry problem. Kyle and Wendy would have actually considered him a godsend if he wasn't such an entitled asshole.
  Butters: But the thing is, Eric isn't even fightin' it. It's like he's all sad and scared.
  Kyle: Good! He should be sad and scared! These things do matter and I already feel better to be at a school where we can start to have a dialogue and talk about this stuff.
• Jerk Jock: He fits all the criteria: He works out in his office, drinks from a sports bottle, sports Oakley sunglasses, says "bro" a lot, and is an entitled prick. His PC frathouse is also this, especially Randy once he joins.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Becomes this in later seasons when he starts to be more reasonable and kinder to the students.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Near the end of Season 20, he has to live with the fact that his actions partially caused one of the most politically incorrect characters to become president, who proceeds to rub it in his face, and force him to suck his dick.
• Knight Templar: He's so self-righteous and overzealous in his ideals that he almost makes Cartman look genuinely heroic. So far the only group he's actually managed to help are... overweight Americans with thin skin. And Nathan.
• Meaningful Name: His name is PC Principal, so him being politically correct is a given. It also has a double meaning. In addition to being politically correct, he's also a pawn for the ads, kind of like a PC, as in a Personal Computer.
• Motor Mouth: Even in rare times where he's not being hostile to anyone, he talks in a somewhat excitable matter.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Near the end of 'Safe Space', he's shown feeling genuinely guilty for pushing Butters too hard when he had him running a Safe Space for too many people.
  PC Principal: I guess... I asked too much of one kid. (Sniffles)
  • He's horrified when he discovers he threatened to break Jimmy's legs, the same Jimmy who needs crutches to get around to begin with. When he lectures him on using the word "retarded" he is much more mature and restrained than he was towards Cartman.
  • He's fully aware that firing Garrison back in "Where My Country Gone?" was what allowed him to run for - and ultimately win - the election, and is very shaken about it.
  • To a lesser extent, he's stunned when Strong Woman points out that his zealous attempts to defend her are only undermining her worth.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Because of his muscular frame and face, he is the only adult male that stands out from most adult male characters not to mention he doesn't have a round head and his facial features look very realistic.
• Only Known by Initials: His name isn't really "PC", in "Board Girls" it turns out to be short for "Peter Charles".
• Pet the Dog: He has moments of these that shows he's not just a politically correct zealot.
  • He does everything he can to help Cartman during "Safe Space", but does it in a jerkass way that ends with him giving Kyle and Wendy two weeks detention for not helping Cartman.
  • He also feels bad about making Butters censor too many people's social media feeds, which resulted in the latter almost killing himself.
  • When the boys start marching through the halls with their wieners out, PC just shrugs it off as their right to protest. This could be out of sympathy for all the boys who lost their girlfriends, or because he still feels guilty for what happened to Butters in the last season.
  • He actually takes Kyle's side in "Cupid Ye" upon learning that Cartman has made several anti-Semitic remarks about Kyle and only threatens Cartman with detention if he continues making genuinely offensive comments instead of beating him up like he did in his debut episode.
• Political Overcorrectness: He and his bros run entirely on this. You will be PC around him, otherwise he'll give you detention, regardless of whether you're a student or not. Resist any further, and he'll beat you until you're nearly dead.
• Politically Correct Villain: Before his Heel–Face Turn, he's a bully who imposes his morality on everyone and is willing to violently assault people over microaggressions and statements that are politically insensitive, instead of the things they actually deserve to be violently assaulted over.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: At the end of Season 19 to Leslie.
  PC Principal: You're expelled.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Evolves into this by the time Season 20 rolls around. When the girls complain about the boys retaliating against their protests with a counter-protest, PC Principal doesn't cry sexism.
• Running Gag: "God-damnit, Leslie, shut your fucking pie hole!"
• Selective Obliviousness: In pursuing political correctness, he has outright stated that parts of the situation he is dealing with are immaterial — for example, in "Tweek x Craig", he is so fixated with teaching Tweek and Craig affirmative consent that he outright states that the fact that they are not gay has no importance whatsoever.
  • In "The Fractured But Whole", he assaults a guy because the guy told his Latino friend he looked tired, as people of Latino descent are stereotyped as being lazy. The Latino man tells PC Principal he actually is feeling tired and PC Principal assaults him too.
• Skewed Priorities: Meant to be Played for Laughs, he beats up Cartman for using the word "spokesman" instead of "spokesperson" and for using "capiche" when threatening him therefore associating Italian-Americans with intimidation tactics, all while completely ignoring or simply not caring that Cartman is currently threatening to frame him for pedophilia.
• Sleeping with the Boss: He and Vice-Principal Strong Woman eventually get married and have kids in later seasons. Parodied when they're first discovered, with all the adults reacting to the idea of coworkers having sex as if it were incest.
• Soapbox Sadie: A rare, male example. Although as much of a self-righteous Jerkass he can be, he genuinely believes in his preaching, unlike the rest of his compatriots, who are only doing it to impress the ladies.
• Straw Character: Of Social Justice Warriors.
• Tomato in the Mirror: An ambiguous case. He is led to believe that he is actually an ad, but it's never specified if this was just the ads trying to mess with his head after he starts going against their agenda, or if he truly is an ad who ended up Becoming the Mask and turning against his own kind due to their intolerance.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After realising that the ads have marginalised all of humanity, he starts treating the students with respect and tolerance regardless of their race or gender.
• Toxic Friend Influence: He and his frathouse suckered Randy into their group by offering him beer. Remember that Randy's an alcoholic. He also got Randy to break into Kyle's house and harass him, risking jail time while PC Principal can plan his next attack on the poor boy.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the 19th Season, he fired Garrison out of disagreements with immigrants. That was the stepping stone that allowed Garrison to rise as the most powerful man in America, which Garrison himself points out next season.
• Unwitting Pawn: To the ads.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: You'd think that coming to South Park with the desire to spread tolerance and anti-bigotry would make him a benign figure... except his methods only prove him to be little more than a bully. Later episodes reveal that despite being the harbinger of PC fanaticism, he's the only one who isn't using political correctness for personal gain e.g. seducing young women.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • He feels no regret in nearly beating Cartman to death for saying "capiche" when intimidating him and saying "spokesman" instead of "spokesperson". Then again, this is Cartman we're talking about.
  • Kills Leslie at the end of Season 19, although Leslie isn't actually human.

Strong Woman

Voiced in English by: Jessica Makinson

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Paula Barros

Debut: "Super Hard PCness"

The new vice-prinicpal at South Park Elementary and a love interest to PC Prinicpal.

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• Distaff Counterpart: To PC Prinicpal.
• Has a Type: Loud macho men. Before PC Principal she dated a Randy Savage lookalike.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Her official title is Vice Principal Woman.
• Hot Teacher: She's noticeably attractive, though she doesn't go out of her way to look hot.
• Made of Iron: She gave birth to five babies in a row, without an epidural. Her name isn't Strong Woman for nothing.
• Not Hyperbole: She's also physically strong. Competing in a Strong Woman weight lifting competition where she is shown to be noticeably muscular while lifting weights most men couldn't.
• Political Overcorrectness: Subverted. Strong Woman turns out to be calm and understanding, pointing out micro-aggressions but not making a big deal about them.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Strong Woman turns out to be this, despite her name and first couple of scenes implying she'll be a comedic buffoon similar to PC Principal. She genuinely wants to make the school a safer place for all students, and when Kyle tries to get her on his quest against Terrence and Phillip, she simply notes that pointing fingers at TV for kids' antics is illogical and usually leads to a slippery slope of Moral Guardians crusades.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to PC Prinicpal's red. Strong Woman seems fully aware that not everyone is going to be as up to date with gender relations and points out how improvements can be made with no drama, a sharp contrast to PC Principal who believed that people were intentionally being politically incorrect.
• Sleeping with the Boss: She eventually begins an affair with PC Principal.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Parodied. Strong Woman and PC Prinicpal could start dating any time they want, but both feel that dating co-workers is outright impossible, especially since PC Principal is her immediate superior in a time when power dynamics between sexual partners were being scrutinised. Eventually they do become a proper couple once they realize the rest of the town are too self-absorbed to notice them.
• Straw Feminist: Averted. Strong Woman wants to make the school environment better for the female students, but she doesn't hate men and is willing to listen to their concerns; when Kyle came to her office, she actually listened to his suggestion and even though she turned it down, she explained why.
• Take That!: Strong Woman is one to self-proclaimed "strong women" who try to find sexism in everything such as how when she first introduces herself to the faculty she assumes they would treat her differently if she was a guy. Subverted as she's still a pretty reasonable person who listens to everyone's problems regardless of gender, unlike how PC Principal was a caricature of PC culture for almost the entirety of his debut season.

Former Staff

Jerome "Chef" McElroy

"Hello there, children!"

Voiced in English by: Isaac Hayes (regular voice), Peter Serafinowicz (Darth Chef)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Rolando Felizola (Seasons 1-10 and 2007 redub), Xavier Coronel (2010-2011 redubs), Eduardo Wasveiler (2015-2016 redubs), Alfonso Mellado (Mexican dub), Blas García (Warner Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub), Jorge Roldán (Paramount Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

Final appearance: "The Return of Chef"

The school chef and token minority of the early seasons (Seasons 1-9). The former go-to guy for advice for the boys, which was often dispensed in R-rated songs about making love to women.

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• All Men Are Perverts: Chef had an occasional propensity to break out into R-rated songs about having sex with women when the boys asked him for advice.
• Back for the Dead:
  • "The Return of Chef" brings him back, but reveals he was brainwashed by the Super Adventure Club and kills him off in a brutal way. Zig-Zagged in that he is revived as Darth Chef by the Super Adventure Club, but has yet to return to the show proper.
  • In The Stick of Truth, he is briefly resurrected as a brainwashed Nazi Zombie by Clyde. After being defeated, he regains his faculties, only to be set on fire and subsequently killed again.
• Back from the Dead: Chef has died and came back twice:
  • In "The Return of Chef", he is killed in an extremely gruesome way, but the end of the episode reveals that the Super Adventure Club resurrected him as Darth Chef. This has yet to be followed up on.
  • In South Park: The Stick of Truth, Clyde briefly resurrects Chef as a Nazi Zombie and sics him on the party as a boss fight.
• Big Beautiful Man: Women love Chef's chocolate balls.
• Been There, Shaped History: "Chef Aid" revealed that he did this with the music industry, having been influential in giving raise to Ozzy Osbourne, Meatloaf, and Elton John's stardom.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • In his final appearance, he was brainwashed into being a pedophile.
  • He's also among the citizens who are zombified in "Pinkeye" and is brainwashed into working at the planetarium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
• The Cast Showoff: He's acknowledged as an incredible singer In-Universe and is often tapped to perform at various functions.
• Character Catchphrase: "Hello there, children!" / " How's it going?" / "Why bad?"
  • Overlapping with Actor Allusion, sometimes Chef will say "You're damn right!".
• Chick Magnet: As stated above, he's most certainly a ladies' man.
• Chubby Chaser: In "The Return of Chef". When the kids take him to a strip club to try and break the Super Adventure Club's brainwashing, Chef is completely unresponsive to the attentions of the women there - that is, until the hugely obese Spontaneous Bootay makes her appearance. Chef is completely mesmerized by her, and her affections break the brainwashing completely.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In his last appearance, Chef is burnt, shot, amputated, lost his face (and an eye), and defecated, though he was revived as Darth Chef by the Super Adventure Club.
• Demoted to Extra: Notably appears less after Season 5, not even getting a chance to break into song. In Season 9, he only gets one speaking appearance.
• Dirty Kid: "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000" has a flashback of Chef singing sexually charged songs when he was the boys' age.
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: On some occasions, he gets so into his sensual songs above lovemaking that he turns himself on and forgets what the boys originally asked him about.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: A massively violent and gory one to boot. Given the falling out between his voice actor and the rest of the staff, which later turned out to be a misunderstanding, it's not at all surprising. He reappears in South Park: The Stick of Truth, only to die again... and his skin is burnt off.
• Ethical Slut: He has a lot of lovers, but he treats all of them with respect and is genuinely concerned with their well-being and pleasure. He also won't pursue a woman who shows no interest in him.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls him "Chef", even his parents.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite his obsession with sex, Chef is generally the most reliable adult in the series.
  • Played for Laughs in "Weight Gain 4000," when even the extremely experienced Chef finds himself exhausted by Kathy Lee Gifford's insatiable sex drive. "You trying to kill me?"
• Fake Shemp: Due to Isaac Hayes leaving the show and his subsequent death two years later, Chef's sporadic appearances after Season 9 reuse dialogue from past episodes.
  • In "The Return of Chef", Chef speaks through choppily-spliced dialogue after being brainwashed into becoming a child molester. When the brainwashing is temporarily broken, the dialogue is still reused but is spliced much more naturally. Averted when he becomes Darth Chef, who actually has new dialogue.
  • When Chef gets revived as a Nazi Zombie in The Stick of Truth, he speaks through a mix of reused dialogue and snippits of Hitler speeches.
• Fatal Flaw: Chef's lust is ultimately corrupted by the Super Adventure Club, turning him into a pedophile.
• God Is Evil: Chef tells Stan as much when he's upset about Kenny's impending demise. Funnily enough, Chef has expressed reservations about punching Jesus and converted to Islam for an episode.
• Hypocrite: In some instances (ie. "Fat Camp", "Ike's Wee Wee"), he would snap at the children for asking him questions about sexual matters, but he's the one who always breaks into songs about making love to women when they go to him for advice.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Along with many other things, such as mutilation.
• Intercourse with You: The subject nearly every time he sings, intentional or not.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He has a mutual friendship with the boys both on and off campus, courtesy of being their go-to guy for advice.
• Killed Off for Real: Zig-Zagged. He dies in "The Return of Chef", but is brought back as Darth Chef by the Super Adventure Club at the end of the episode. However, he makes no further appearances in the series afterwards and The Stick of Truth features him as a zombie, seemingly ignoring Darth Chef altogether.
• Longer-Than-Life Sentence: Subverted in "Chef Aid", when Chef sues Capitalist Records for plagiarism and is found guilty of harassing a big company. The judge declares that Chef must either pay two million dollars or serve eight million years in prison. However, when someone informs the judge that nobody can be forced to serve more than four years for what Chef is being sentenced for, the judge does comply and says that Chef will serve four years in prison if he doesn't pay.
• Loveable Sex Maniac: He has had sex with a lot of people and remains a likable characters since he was one of the few adults on the show with any common sense and actually helped the four boys.
• Loved by All: Every single citizen from South Park missed him when he left and when he returned they all threw a party for him. Later, they all show up at his funeral.
• Magical Negro: In fact, while he was on the show he seemed to be the only adult with any kind of common sense. Subverted when he sometimes decides that helping the boys would be more trouble than it's worth. And when Chef goes crazy, he really goes crazy.
  • In "Simpsons Already Did It", for example, he starts singing a song when he realizes the boys just told him that they killed their teacher and the autopsy found their "sea men" in her stomach, and he starts preparing to send them to Thailand instead.
  • In the episode "Red Hot Catholic Love", when the confused boys asked Chef why the priest wanted to put something on their butts and what, he walks away.
  Chef: Hello there, children!
  Stan: Chef! What would a priest want to stick up my butt?
  Chef: ...g'bye!
  • Similarly, when they ask him what a prostitute is in "Fat Camp", he gets angry:
  Chef: Dag-nabbit, children! How come every time you come in here you've got to be asking me questions I shouldn't be answering!? "Chef, what's a clitoris? What's a lesbian, Chef? How come they call it a rim job Chef?!" For once, can't you kids come in here and say "Hey Chef, nice day isn't it?!"
  • The earliest example comes in "Summer Sucks", when the boys call him for help.
  Chef: It's a what? A giant snake? Killing everybody? Growing bigger? Children, you know I rarely say this but, well... fudge it.
  [hangs up the phone]
  Kyle: What'd he say?
  Stan: Dude, I think he told us to go fuck ourselves.
  Cartman: Wow.
  Kyle: How's that gonna help?
• The Meaning of Life: Chef has asked this question on two separate occasions. He doesn't get an answer either way.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Although this was really just a case of Real Life Writes the Plot.
• Morality Pet: He seemed to have served as one for Cartman, as Chef was one of the few people whom he genuinely treated with respect (as much respect as Cartman can feel for someone at least).
• Nice Guy: Chef was characteristically sympathetic to the school children and one of the few trustworthy authority figures.
• Not So Above It All: Sometimes Chef can be just as crazy as the other townspeople, such as in "Conjoined Fetus Lady" and "Jared Has Aides". Also, in general, sometimes he isn't as helpful to the boys as they would expect, for Chef is sometimes too caught up in sex to help them or their problem is so fatal that even he doesn't want to get involved.
• N-Word Privileges: Subverted. He calls the boys "crackers". Of course, the boys don't even know what it means. (Although Cartman does later on, as he says to Stan: "Token is gonna want to kick your cracker teeth in!")
• Only Sane Man: At least among the other adults, Chef was more level-headed and rational. Until his final episode, in which he was brainwashed into becoming a child molester.
• Parental Substitute: He often served as one towards the boys, being wiser than their own parents. This is especially prevalent towards Cartman, who never had an actual father in his life.
• Phrase Catcher: Tying into his catchphrases, the boys would exchange the following responses with him:
  • "Hey Chef".
  • "Bad".
• Put on a Bus to Hell: Due to Isaac Hayes having a falling-out with the show's staff (which later turned out to be a misunderstanding on the writers' part, as although they seemed to have caught a hint of something far deeper than a mere conflict of opinion taking place, they didn't have much to go on), "The Return of Chef" wrote Chef out of the show in the absolute cruelest way possible, first by having him get brainwashed into becoming a child molester, then suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death that resulted in him being converted into Darth Chef. Despite still being at large, the closest Chef's got to returning thus far was Darth Chef appearing in the opening sequence and Chef himself briefly being resurrected as a Nazi Zombie in South Park: The Stick of Truth, seemingly ignoring Darth Chef altogether.
• Really Gets Around: Chef has a lot of sex with a lot of attractive women. "Chef Aid" showed him becoming a sex worker to pay off his legal debts, which meant sleeping with women he'd usually avoid like Kyle's mom and Ms. Crabtree. By the time he got to Mayor McDaniels, he'd passed out from exhaustion.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: One of the more reasonable school staff members.
• Take Our Word for It: Whenever the children ask about something he really doesn't want to tell them.
• Team Dad: He had some shades of this. He was a mentor for the boys (though he wasn't always helpful, either due to not giving good advice or not really trying). But he did (usually) try his best with the boys. One notable example was when the boys told them they might've killed their teacher by making her drink sea people. He pushed them outside from his house along with the couch they were staying on, but returned later to them with a plan to flee to another country (which they didn't do, because it turns out the boys didn't really cause their teacher's death).
• That Reminds Me of a Song: When the kids bring him a problem, he often remarks "Let me sing you a little song" to help. Unfortunately, most of his songs inevitably become about making love, even when sex has nothing to do with the issue at hand—for example, a tune about respecting people despite their differences turns into a laundry list of all the things he loves about women's bodies. Parker and Stone admitted that they originally planned to write a new song for Chef in every episode, but couldn't keep up with the demand.
• Token Minority: The only non-white adult in the town in the early seasons. In "Here comes the Neighborhood" he manages to be a Twofer Token Minority, as while the African-American population was on the rise, Chef was the only one who wasn't affluent.
• Verbal Tic: Always greets the kids with "Hello there, children.", even if there's only one of them. His father has also been heard using "children" when referring to one child. Although it was Cartman, so it could have been a fat joke - Cartman also had another child's soul in him at the time, making it technically accurate.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Chef was last seen in Season 10 having been converted into Darth Chef, but aside from being visible in the crowd that appears during the opening credits he never made another in-series appearance. You have to play The Stick of Truth to see Chef again.
• Where da White Women At?: He has had sex with lots of white women (cf. "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", where, while watching Kyle's elephant make love to Cartman's pig, Chef realizes that it's similar to the many times he's made it with a white woman), but really, he's not picky.
• You Are What You Hate: In "Chef Goes Nanners" he converted to Islam as a way of distancing himself from white people, which is at odds with his epicurean habits ranging from sex to non-Halal foods.

Principal Victoria

"Ooh my, what an exciting day!"

Voiced in English by: Mary Kay Bergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), April Stewart (2004-2015)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Vivian Ruiz (Seasons 1-2), Marilyn Romero (Season 3), unknown (Season 4), Margarita Coego (Seasons 5-16 and 2007-2011 redubs), Arianna López (Season 17 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs), Loretta Santini (Mexican dub)

Debut: "Pinkeye"

The former principal of South Park Elementary, constantly trying to please everyone and failing.

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• Berserk Button: She has zero tolerance for jokes about breast cancer, to the point where she not only allowed, but encouraged Wendy to beat up Cartman for making fun of it. This stems from the fact that she is a breast cancer survivor.
• The Bus Came Back: She shows up in the middle of Season 19 after being fired, to bring Mr. Garrison into the conspiracy. After this, she now shows up from time to time, but they are very large gaps.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Zigzagged. She has never gone completely away, showing up as some non-speaking cameos, but as of season 19's "PC Principal Final Justice", she never appears in the school since PC Principal took over her job permanently.
• Eyepatch After Time Skip: She's walking with a limp and a cane instead of an eyepatch, but the trope is still played straight. The limp and cane were never explained.
• Hidden Depths: She's a breast cancer survivor who's been fighting the illness for seven years. She's also, despite her occasional Extreme Doormat tendencies, a relatively skilled administrator and one of the only non-useless adults in all of South Park.
• Meaningful Name: A spoonerism of Dallas actress' Victoria Principal's name.
• Not So Above It All: She gets high before every Thanksgiving school play because she's unimpressed by the student's efforts.
• Only Sane Woman: With Chef being Killed Off for Real, Ms. Victoria now remains the closest to this trope out of the school faculty... Until Season 19.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: She just can't deal with anyone's stupidity and caves into Cartman's demands a lot. In "Bass to Mouth", when she's aware that Cartman's purposefully making reasons to humiliate people and driving them to suicide, she never thinks to expel him, instead playing along unwillingly.
• Put on a Bus: She's fired off-screen at the start of Season 19 and is replaced by PC Principal. By the end of season 19 PC Principal permanently takes over as Principal and she is never seen again.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: At least according to Randy and Gerald, who both think she looks hot at the meteor shower party.
• Stoners Are Funny: In "Helen Keller! The Musical". She gets extremely stoned before the titular play begins just to make watching it more bearable, and is dazzled when she sees how trippy the kids' revamped performance has become.

Veronica Crabtree

"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!"

Voiced in English by: Mary Kay Bergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Verónica Rivas (Seasons 1-2 and 4-6), Vivian Ruiz (Season 3), Jackeline Junguito (2011 redub), Magda Giner (Mexican dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

Final appearance: "Cartman's Incredible Gift"

The former school bus driver in the early seasons of the show.

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• A Day in the Limelight: Subverted. She had a prominent role in "City On The Edge Of Forever", though it turns out to be part of a dream within a dream, something that even the "dream" Veronica Crabtree acknowledges.
• Back for the Dead: After a long absence from the series, she makes a return in "Cartman's Incredible Gift"...as a corpse, killed and dismembered by the Left Hand Killer.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Sergeant Yates addresses her lack of prominence in the show whilst investigating her murder.
  "I know she hadn't been in any recent episodes, but dammit, she deserved better than this".
• Character Catchphrase: "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
• Given Name Reveal: Not that there was much point by the time it's revealed.
• Gonk: Even by the standards of the show's art style, she's pretty ugly, and she's considered so in-universe. While prostituting himself to her, Chef finds he can only have sex with Ms. Crabtree if she wears a bag over her head (which he claims is a sex toy).
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Played with. She seems to be in a state of perpetual rage that makes everyone nervous about setting her off, but it turns out it's very easy to simmer her down.
• Jerkass: Unfriendly and always shouting at the kids.
• Kick the Dog: In "City On The Edge Of Forever", she continually threatens to shoot a cute little bunny if the kids don't "sit down and shut up". Though it's later revealed to have all been part of Stan's double-dream, this raises questions as to how much he (and possibly the other children) feared her.
• Killed Off for Real: Was murdered by Michael Deats (a.k.a. the left hand killer) in "Cartman's Incredible Gift".
• No Indoor Voice: Ms. Crabtree yells almost all the time.
• Put on a Bus: Ironic trope indeed. "The Simpsons Already Did It" was her last proper appearance, aside from a cameo in the ending of "I'm A Little Bit Country". She disappeared for a while, until... well... see Killed Off for Real.
• Running Gag: Kids would say something rude or vulgar, only for Mrs. Crabtree to yell "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" The kid would respond with something non-vulgar that sounded similar, and she would let it go. Example:
  Stan: Yeah, whatever, ya fat bitch!
  Ms. Crabtree: WHAT DID YOU SAY?!
  Stan: I said I have a bad itch.
  Ms. Crabtree: Oh.
  • Played With in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut":
  Stan: We're not getting on, you fat ugly bitch!
  Ms. Crabtree: WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?
  Stan: I said "We're not getting on, you fat ugly bitch."
  Ms. Crabtree: Oh. Alright then... (drives away)
  Kyle: Whoa, dude.
  Stan: I always wondered if that would work.

Ms. Ellen

"And here's another present...from Wendy. Oh, why, it's a dead animal. Thank you, Wendy."

Voiced by: Natasha Henstridge
Debut: "Tom's Rhinoplasty"

Final appearance: "Tom's Rhinoplasty"

A female substitute teacher that caught the attraction of the boys. Also The Rival of Wendy Testaburger due to thinking that there's a connection between her (Ms. Ellen) and Stan.

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• Adults Are Useless: Due to her Extreme Doormat personality, she doesn't give Wendy any punishing for looking over her authority and threatening her.
• Apathetic Citizens: Isn't shocked or disgusted when she receives a dead animal as a present from Wendy.
• Dude Magnet: All the 3rd-grade boys fall for her in a minute, and Chef takes a liking to her as well. Sadly for them, Ellen's a lesbian (and, in the former's case an adult and their teacher), and thus not interested.
• Extreme Doormat: She lets Wendy intimidate her and kindly accepts her gift of a dead animal, refusing to give her any form of deserved punishment.
• Hellbent For Leather: Has a liking for leather, which she wears to school one day in lieu of her more professional attire...the same day Wendy comes in wearing something similar to try and attract Stan, overshadowing the girl completely.
• Hot Teacher: What the boys think of her.
• Incompatible Orientation: Chef goes out on a date with her, only discover that she's not interested in him because she's a lesbian.
• Informed Attribute: She's said to be a lesbian, but she never actually shows or displays any attraction to other women. We only have Chef's word to go on.
• Killed Off for Real: Gets killed off near the end of "Tom's Rhinoplasty" when a bunch of Iraqis shoot her into the center of the sun.
• Lipstick Lesbian: She's this, according to Chef (thus, causing Stan to be a Hopeless Suitor even without the age & profession complications keeping things platonic on her part).
• Nice Girl: She's remarkably kindhearted. One could say too much, considering she doesn't really stand up for herself.
• One-Shot Character: Because she got Killed Off for Real at the end of the episode. The closest she's received to a reappearance is being shown on Stan's drawing in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka".
• The Rival: To Wendy Testaburger. Stan is one of the boys infatuated by Ms. Ellen and she seemingly takes a liking to him, which causes Wendy to go Ax-Crazy, and her attempts to win Stan back fail after her beauty is overshadowed by Ms. Ellen's. She even goes as far as hiring a bunch of Iraqis to shoot her into the center of the sun, and throws a party in celebration of her death.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Seemed to have this with Stan, but when they went out to dinner she tells him that there's no connection between them since she's his teacher, thus, they are only friends (also, according to Chef, she's a lesbian).

Diane Choksondik

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker (2000-2002)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Verónica Rivas

Debut: "4th Grade"

Final appearance: "Simpsons Already Did It"

A grossly big-breasted woman who temporarily teaches the 4th graders until her death in Season 6.

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• Death by Irony: It seems, from the comments made about the contents of her stomach post-mortem, that she literally... well, I'm sure you can figure it out.
  • On a darker note, Ms. Choksondik's belief that unprotected sex is the worst decision a girl could make turns out to be true in her case when she dies after ingesting semen.
• The Ditz: Her intelligence can be very questionable such as not questioning why she was sent endangered manatees to dissect or getting more annoyed with Eric for not wanting to donate a dollar to charity than him exclaiming Islamophobic slurs in class.
• Extreme Doormat: Until Mr. Garrison teaches her how to keep her students from walking all over her.
• Euphemistic Names: Her name sounds like "Chokes on dick."
• Fan Disservice: Chef is disgusted when he sees her sagging breasts. The sex scene between her and Mr. Mackey in "Proper Condom Use" is also far from erotic.
• Hypocrite: She tells the girls that sex is the worst thing that could happen to them and they should never associate with boys who don't carry protection. She then has unprotected sex with Mr. Mackey.
• Killed Off for Real: In Season 6.
• Meaningful Name: Just read it out loud. Interestingly, the children never catch on to this obvious source of mockery, instead calling her "Ms Makesmesick" or some tame variation thereof.
• Official Couple: With Mr. Mackey until she met her demise.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite some quirks, she's actually a somewhat level-headed teacher and at least cares about educating the students, which is more than most of the teachers in South Park can say.
• Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Ms Choksondik tells the girls that sex will ruin their lives and indirectly causes a gender war. Meanwhile, she develops a budding attraction to Mr. Mackey that culminates in the two of them breaking every rule she'd told the girls to abide by.

Ms. Stevenson

Therapist: Was there ever a history of sexual abuse in your family?

Ms. Stevenson: No, but my uncle used to ask me and my twin sister to kiss, and he'd take pictures.

Therapist: Nice...

Voiced by: Katherine Howell

Debut: "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy"

Final appearance: "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy"

A new kindergarten teacher who forms a sexual relationship with Ike, who is four years old.

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• The Alcoholic: Not really, but she used this as an excuse to leave prison for rehab.
• Disney Villain Death: Jumps off a building rather than live without Ike.
• Driven to Suicide: When the police corner her, she jumps off a roof. She tries to convince Ike to go with her, but he reneges at the last second.
• Foil: To Chef, who also died in Season 10 after exhibiting signs of pedophilia. Chef was a middle-aged black kitchen staffer who had to be indoctrinated into believing that pedophilia was a good idea and was killed before he could find redemption. Ms Stevenson is a young white teacher who became a pedophile of her own volition and committed suicide.
  • To Ms. Ellen, both were universally considered Hot Teacher's and both had student's who were attracted to them. But Ms. Ellen was an Only Sane Women and made it clear to her students how inappropriate a relationship between them would be whereas Ms. Stevenson was quite easily seduced by a kindergartener. Ms. Stevenson killed herself because she didn't want to go to prison for peodophilia wheras Ms. Ellen was murdered by a jealous Wendy to spite being completely innocent.
• Freudian Excuse: According to her, she was forced by her uncle to engage in incestuous acts with her sister. In the present, she engages in sex with a child.
• Killed Off for Real: Dies after jumping off the airport roof.
• One-Shot Character: Only appears in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", and dies in the same episode.
• Pedo Hunt: Averted. When the police are told that one of the teachers is a pedophile, they're ready to arrest them. However, when they find out that it's Ms. Stevenson, they stop caring, and they congratulate Ike for getting lucky with her.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: The police refuse to arrest her on the grounds that a boy like Ike should be happy to sleep with her.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Owing to double standards regarding pedophilia, Ms. Stevenson is treated by the town as a victim who just needs a shallow sense of rehabilitation rather than the vile predator she really is.

Mrs. Margaret Nelson

Voiced in English by: Kimberly Brooks

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Jackeline Junguito (Season 19), Paula Barros (rest)

Debut: "The City Part of Town"

Final appearance: "South Parq Vaccination Special"

A replacement fourth-grade teacher brought in after Mr. Garrison quits to start a career in politics, until her death from Covid-19.

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• A Death in the Limelight: The only episode she plays a significant role in is the Vaccination Special, which ends with her succumbing to COVID-19 before she's able to be vaccinated.
• A Bloody Mess: In "Vaccination Special" Cartman and Kenny cover Ms. Nelson's chair in ketchup, making it look like she got a messy period. When she sees the "blood" in her skirt, she briefly panics before deducing that it was all a prank.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: In typical South Park fashion, the boys finally reach her and deliver the promised COVID vaccines, only for her to die of the virus anyway, with no previous Foreshadowing that she even got infected.
• Flawless Token: She's the only (actual) Asian character ^note Mr. Kim is a caucasian man who just thinks he's asian with any sort of regular role and is by all accouts completely normal. Which puts her leaps and bounds above almost everyone else in South Park.
• Funeral Cut: In "Vaccination Special" she starts coughing just as she is about to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Cut to her funeral.
• Incurable Cough of Death: Just as the boys bring the vaccines to the town, she jarringly starts coughing and hacking, and the very next scene shows her funeral service. For once, justified since a heavy cough is a prominent symptom of COVID-19 in real life.
• Killed Off for Real: In "Vaccination Special", she dies of COVID-19 seconds before she's able to get vaccinated.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being more professional than Mr Garrison, she will eat a marijuana-laced burger in front of her entire class.
• Only Sane Woman: Due to largely being out of the spotlight, most of her scenes showed her as a stern but sensible teacher who genuinely cared for the kids and even gave them a chance to redo a math quiz that had been failed by the majority. It also doesn't help that most of her interactions were with Cartman.
• Rage Breaking Point: Being denied a vaccine during a pandemic despite working in a field that's most vulnerable to COVID-19 had already frustrated Ms. Nelson, but when Cartman and Kenny humiliate her in front of her class she blows up and resigns on the spot.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: A normal, focused, sensible teacher trying to play her role in giving the kids a good education.
• Replacement Flat Character: She doesn't get a huge amount of characterization compared to Mr. Garrison or Ms. Choksondik, being a competent teacher who doesn't go on opinionated tirades regarding subjects outside her field of expertise.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She was a good-natured person who really wanted to trust the kids and allow them to make up for their prank in "Vaccination Special". However, she also had the misfortune of being Mr. Garrison's replacement, making her expendable when the hollywood elites (read: Trey Parker and Matt Stone) agreed to return him to being a teacher. After she dies, all four boys are heartbroken and sorrowfully attend her funeral without Cartman even trying to pull anything, a respect which they haven't shown for a deceased faculty member since Chef.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Just when it seems that she was going to obtain her own vaccine and be on good terms with the boys again, she is revealed to have contracted COVID-19 and dies without even getting her own vaccination, with the heavy implication that Mr. Garrison made a deal with the higher powers to kill her so he could get his old job back.

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