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Butters Stotch

Leopold "Butters" Stotch

For tropes related to him, see South Park: Butters Stotch.

Wendy Testaburger

For tropes related to her, see South Park: Wendy Testaburger.

Jimmy Valmer

James "Jimmy" Valmer

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"Wow, what a terrific audience."

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in French by: Gilbert Lévy

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: María Elena Heredia (Season 5), Rossana Cicconi (Seasons 6-11 and 2007 redub), Arianna López (Season 12 onwards and 2015 redub), Sebastián Pinardi (adult)

Debut: "Cripple Fight"

A crippled boy with a Speech Impediment and a stutter. He's also a fantastic (or so he thinks) stand-up comedian.

His role in Coon and Friends is Fastpass.

Abusive Offspring: He's usually quite loving with his parents, but in "Up the Down Steroid", he hits his mother on the face with one of his crutches as she tries to stop him from beating up Nancy.
Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "Up the Down Steroid", his abuse of steroids turn him into an egotistical and overambitious asshole and cause him to snap at his loved ones, culminating in beating up his girlfriend and his mother.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Jimmy was born the way he was because of the way his parents used to make fun of crippled people.
Anti-Humor: Jimmy's brand of comedy is pretty underwhelming at the best of times, but it can be easily chalked up to him being a child. In the future, Jimmy is able to become a famous entertainer with his own show, though his jokes are mostly just two-liners that open with "What do you call a..." and then picking a random ethnic/minority group. In-universe Executive Meddling forces him to replace the punchlines of his jokes with bland compliments that show just how low comedy has sunk since the likes of PC Principal and China's government have only intensified in their ambitions to curb entertainers. In the reformed future, Jimmy is able to make jokes with actual punchlines, though they're still well below the standard that proper comedians would tell.
Befriending the Enemy: Once they've physically settled their differences, Jimmy is happy to bury the hatchet with Timmy at the end of "Cripple Fight". The latter takes a few more seasons to reciprocate but they do eventually become best friends.
Berserk Button: Comparing people who were crippled later in their lives with people who were crippled from birth really pisses him off, and just mentioning Christopher Reeve is enough to put him in a mood for a while. He gets over it after witnessing the conflict between the crips and the bloods first-hand.
Big Damn Heroes: Despite not being very proficient in a fight, sometimes he manages to save people just by talking his enemies down or making them laugh.
- In "Krazy Kripples", he and Timmy manage to make peace between the two eponymous bands of Gangbangers, the Crips and the Bloods, just by giving them a heartfelt speech about how they're not so different form one another.
- The most straightforward example is in "Erection Day", where he saves the life of his prostitute Nut Gobbler from being killed by her pimp, chasing them down in a taxi, taking a shot to the shoulder, and finally distracting the latter with his stand-up comedy routine enough for Nut Gobbler to whack him with a pipe.
- In "Funnybot", he saves the entire world from the Deadly Prank of the titular Funnybot by giving it a comedy award, triggering a Logic Bomb in its programming (since accepting it meant taking comedy seriously, which went against its idea of comedy) and causing it to shut down.
- In "P.C. Principal: Final Justice," he (with the help of newfound ally Classi) arrives at the South Park Gun Show just in time to prevent a massive shootout and reveal the truth behind the Ads' schemes to gentrify the entire world and eliminate the human race.
Black Comedy: Jimmy's got a penchant for this sort of humor, at least when he's not making "Knock Knock" Joke or pop culture references. In a deleted scene from "Reverse Cowgirl", he tries to cheer up Clyde who is grieving the death of his mother and ends up making her a joke about the way she died.
Jimmy: What do Clyde's mom and a 15-year old girl's aborted fetus have in common? They both died screaming in a toilet.
Breakout Character: Was originally a one-shot character in "Cripple Fight" and not even a resident of South Park. The creators took a liking to him and integrated him further into the cast and classroom, deciding that he'd be easier to write for than Timmy, even portraying them as best friends as opposed to their previous (one-sided) rivalry in "Cripple Fight". Nowadays, he's easily one of the most recognizable students in the Fourth Grade class, having the most episodes focused on him out of the fourth grade boys other than the main four and Butters, and is either hanging out as a member of Craig's Gang, with Timmy, or the main four themselves.
Born Lucky: Played for Laughs. When he was born, the doctor said that he would never be able to walk but would have a bizarre penchant for comedy. His mother cried at this revelation, but Jimmy could not be more happy of his situation.
Bridal Carry: A particularly awkward example with his prostitute Nut Gobbler, who is five times larger than him. Despite being disabled, Jimmy actually manages to pull it off and carry the woman into their apartment.
Broken Pedestal: Downplayed. When he was introduced in "Cripple Fight", he was universally beloved by the kids and adults alike, overshadowing the already popular Timmy. After becoming a recurring character, more characters started criticizing his jokes or calling him out on his Jerkass Ball moments, but he's still generally held in high regard by everyone. By "Post Covid: Return of Covid", he seems to have rebuilt the pedestal as an adult, being everyone's favorite stand-up comedian.
Brutal Honesty: He engages in this often, occasionally for a joke, and most of the time because he's really oblivious to the implications of what he's saying.
Nut Gobbler: You came all this way... You really care about me.
Jimmy: Not really, you're just a hooker, and I need to get laid.
Butt-Monkey: Being disabled doesn't save him from getting his ass handed to him on a disturbingly frequent basis. Examples are "Cripple Fight", "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring of the Two Towers", "Casa Bonita", "Erection Day", and "Truth And Advertising".
Casanova Wannabe: In "Erection Day", half of which he spends requesting sex from girls, eventually scoring with an older prostitute. Judging by how positively the girls in question reacted to him before he went for the "Hot Cosby", it seems he would otherwise have no problem getting a girlfriend (which he did briefly get before "Up the Down Steroid").
Character Catchphrase:
- "Wow, what a terrific audience!"
- "I mean, come on!"
- Future Jimmy: "What do you call a [insert random demographic] that [does a random action]? A fant-t-tastic person who deserves our respect!"
Character Development: After being manipulated into cheating at a tournament in "Up the Down Steroids", giving away credit for a joke in "Fishsticks" and becoming a Sell-Out for the Canadian Devil in "Freemium Isn't Free", Jimmy spends most of Season 19 refusing to let anything (even a $26 million-dollar bribe or a threat at gunpoint) censor his speech and tamper with his integrity. He falters again in the Bad Future due to Political Overcorrectness, but returns to his roots in the revised future. Even when he's forced to remain quiet again in "Japanese Toilet", it's only after the toilet paper companies make numerous attempts on his life and his loved ones.
Class Clown: He won an award for the funniest kid in school in "Funnybot", and his promotional image had him narrowly avoid a Slippery Skid on a Banana Peel. In general, his jokes are mostly hit-or-miss among his classmates, but he's also the only one who actually tries to be funny, so there isn't much competition (the other nominees were Clyde Donovan and Kelly Gardner, who didn't seem too eager to be in the poll).
Comically Missing the Point: He's almost as prone to this as Butters, but contrary to what one may think, it's mostly owing to his naivety and poor judge of character than any mental disorder.
Jimmy: [while approaching the bloods with Timmy] Look, Timmy. There's a convenience store. That must be what the fellas meant by "pop some punk-ass Bloods." They want us to get them some soda pop and treats. Let's buy them ginger ale and marshmallows. Then they'll let us in the club for sure.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Most notable in "Erection Day", where he manages to defeat an adult pimp with his sheer determination and the power of comedy.
A Day in the Limelight: Following his introduction, he's had leading roles in "Krazy Kripples", "Up the Down Steroid", "Erection Day", "Fishsticks", "Sponsored Content", "Funnybot", "Crippled Summer", "Truth and Advertising", and "Moss Piglets".
Dirty Kid: His sexuality in South Park: The Fractured but Whole is described as "Yes please".
- While it's unclear how much of it is genuine and how much is him trying to be edgy, he talks about getting laid a lot, even discounting his mission to quell his boner in "Erection Day". When Sophie Gray is introduced to the class, he's quite explicit when talking about how he feels about her.
  Jimmy: That girl is pretty fly. As soon as she said she watches Mandalorian, it gave me a little boner. If you wanna be with a new girl, you're gonna have some stiff competition. Get it? Stiff C- c- c- c- competition.
Disabled Snarker: A more optimistic example than most. He's physically and mentally disabled and also the proud Class Clown, and has some snark when things go south.
Jimmy: (after a truck driver accidentally runs over all the bloods Jimmy was supposed to "pop") Suh, suh, suh, suh, Sssunday driver!
Domestic Abuse: In "Up the Down Steroid", clouded by his Acquired Situational Narcissism, he beats up his girlfriend Nancy after she breaks up with him. He also becomes this on the emotional variety when he screams at her that she forced him to beat her. He apologizes for this at the end of the episode, which she seemed to appreciate, but it's heavily implied they didn't reconcile.
Dreadful Musician: Downplayed. He doesn't really have a bad singing voice, but his Porky Pig Pronunciation makes him fumble the lyrics, such as in "Red Sleigh Down". Despite this, he gets better with time, as shown when he sings "Tardicaca Hula Gal" at the end of the summer camp competitions in "Crippled Summer", with his energy being contagious even among his rivals, the red team. Though he still fumbles the ukulele solo part, he actually moves on to the next verse this time instead of wasting time by repeatedly trying to play it until he gets it right like he did in the former episode.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Jimmy never allowed his Porky Pig Pronunciation or any other hindrance to put him down from becoming a stand-up comedian. In both the Bad Future and the revised one, he sees his dream come true as an adult, although the former gives him another crutch in the form of in-universe Executive Meddling that stops him from being as edgy as he wants, which he also overcomes in the revised timeline.
Extreme Doormat: Throughout "Fishsticks", he allows Cartman to gaslight him into thinking they both came up with the titular joke together, despite knowing deep down that Cartman didn't actually do anything to help. Though he does grow a spine later on, he ends up submitting at the end when at the mercy of Kanye West, allowing Cartman to take all the credit for the joke (which would've gotten the latter killed by Kanye had Cartman's speech projecting his flaws unto Jimmy hadn't spurred a Jerkass Realization unto the rapper).
Everyone Has Standards:
- Despite his penchant for Black Comedy, he makes it clear in "Gluten Free Ebola" that insensitively ditching everyone at school to go work on a start-up company and then act like nothing's happened when said project predictably fails is not funny.
  Kyle: We were trying to be funny.
  Jimmy: Yeah? Well, nobody's laughing, Kyle.
- As much as he hates having his speech censored, he decides to not take any more actions against the toilet paper companies after they try to kill him, take his bike and his cat, and make numerous threats against his loved ones all for writing a paper exposing their illicit practices.
Fantastic Racism: He has a low opinion of people who became crippled later in life like Christopher Reeve, and forms an affinity group with Timmy just to point out the superiority of natural born-cripples.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: His reasoning for selling out to the Canadian Devil in "Freemium Isn't Free" is that he lost all his money playing "Yim Yum Sparkly Gem Forest", so when the Canadian government approached him asking to promote their other freemium games unto the other kids, Jimmy agreed snice he was desperate and needed the money. The boys don't have much sympathy for his predicament since he's pushing his tragedy unto others for his own benefit, and Jimmy has no actual rebuttal to this.
The Gadfly: The go-to kid for cracking jokes and breaking the ice, even if his puns don't land as often as he would like. His comedy loses a lot of steam in the Bad Future, but it's mostly due to the future being overly politically correct, so he has to thread with caution.
Gag Penis: During a dream sequence in "Erection Day", where he gets an erection of epic proportion.
Girls Have Cooties: Some of his jokes are innocently sexist, and he laughs at one of Skankhunt42 troll posts in "Member Berries".
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: A Running Gag with him, especially in his earlier episodes, was him being so incredibly good natured that he fails to understand when people are being nasty to him, and just keeps being friendly. This originally happened with Timmy in "Cripple Fight" (though he caught on there), and is the basis for his dynamic with Nathan: where Nathan schemes to screw him over, and Jimmy doesn't even realize it's happening. This is carried over to Fastpass' Day in the Limelight DLC Side-quest of the Fractured But Whole as well.
Grew a Spine: He spends most of the plot of "Fishsticks" being gaslit by Cartman into believing that they came up with the titular joke together (when in actuality it was all Jimmy). After seeing the sheer hypocrisy of Cartman calling Carlos Mencia out for stealing their joke, he gives him a brutal takedown once they're alone. It doesn't last, and Cartman manages to successfully gaslight him again after being threatened by Kanye West, but still significant.
Handicapped Badass: Just about every episode he stars in has him do something awesome, from fighting with a pimp to joining the Crips, all while on crutches and maintaining his childish innocence throughout the whole affair.
- It's taken further in both The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, where Jimmy takes the role of either the Bard of Larnion or the superhero Fastpass, "the fastest kid in town". He even has A Day in the Limelight DLC sidequest in the latter, focusing on him and saving his favorite summer camp at Lake Tardicaca.
- Even before he resorts to using steroids in "Up The Down Steroid" Jimmy is shown to possess impressive upper body strength for a child as he's able to bench press a heavy barbell for seven reps. This makes sense as he would be exercising his arms every day since he uses them to walk.
- He becomes a full-out hero in Season 19, as it's revealed that he has a natural ability to distinguish between Ads (which, in the South Park universe, are living, sentient beings) and reality. This power allows him to learn the truth about the Ads' leader Leslie, tell the town about their scheme, and ultimately allow PC Principal to save the day.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: It turns out that he has the innate ability to tell ads apart from genuine news. Sounds pretty lame on paper, right? Well, not when A. the Ads become sentient, B. they're planning to take over the entire world, and C. they're able to take on human forms and blend into society seamlessly. Jimmy's gift is responsible for saving all of humanity.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Though he's much more prone to teasing others, he can make light of himself when he wants to, and he also uses the word "retard" more than most other students, especially after being told not to by PC Principal.
Jimmy: My mom says God has a plan for everyone. I guess I was plan B.
Heterosexual Life-Partners:
- After a rocky start, he becomes this with Timmy, with whom he starts affinity groups, trains for the special Olympics, and makes science projects.
- Downplayed with Butters. While Jimmy doesn't hang out with him as much as Timmy, Butters is nonetheless shown to be one of his closest friends, as shown in episodes like "Tonsil Trouble" and "Nightmare on FaceTime" when they are both seen hanging out together. Jimmy is also one of the few people to go to Butters for advice in "Erection Day" (it backfires on him). Despite this, Jimmy has made fun of Butters on several occasions alongside the other kids, and didn't quite appreciate him being the only person to show up at his comedy show in "Krazy Kripples".
Horrible Judge of Character: He often finds it difficult to understand evil, which led him to innocently join a dangerous gang in "Krazy Kripples". He's also taken people like Cartman or Nathan at their words several times despite having been duped by them on multiple occasions, and is overall Oblivious to Hatred. In Season 19, he doesn't fall for Nathan's innocent act, but he does fall for Leslie's, which costs him.
Innocently Insensitive: While he always means well, he doesn't realize when his jokes or his stutter are making him come across as more annoying than funny, which only makes Timmy dislike him more in "Cripple Fight" when Jimmy keeps making jokes at his expense.
- In "Red Sleigh Down", he asks the townsfolk to let him sing his favorite Christmas song before lighting up the tree. Not only does he choose the longest Christmas song ever ("The Twelve Days of Christmas"), but he constsantly fumbles through the lyrics due to his stutter, making the song go on for hours. He remains blissfully unaware of the public's exasperation throughout.
- In "Krazy Kripples", he tries to make peace between the "Crips" and the "Bloods" by staging a lock up at the recreation center so that they can all play games together. This almost ends in bloodshed with the two gangs holding each other at gunpoint, but against all expectations Jimmy actually succeeds in getting them to make up.
- In "Raisins", Stan tries to use him as a messenger to convey his feelings to Wendy, asking him to tell her that she's "a continuous source of inspiration" on his behalf. However, due to his stutter, Jimmy ends up unwittingly calling her a "cunt-" repeatedly, and she leaves in frustration before he finishes the phrase.
- In "Erection Day", he tries to quell his erection by asking his classmates for sex point-blank without any self-awareness, earning him a slap from Red and a cup of water thrown on his face from Shauna.
- He has no idea of how much his "fishsticks" joke pissed off Kanye West, who took it as a personal insult.
- Subverted in "Sponsored Content", where PC Principal believes his paraphrasing of the word "retard" on the school newspaper is due to not being aware of the connotations of the word. When brought in to his office, Jimmy defends his choice and explains that he doesn't believe in censoring other people's opinions. Though PC Principal doesn't believe him, he later proves how deliberate it was by using the word again on the headline of his next newspaper.
Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Parodied: he's terrible at stand-up comedy because of his stutter (it makes him unable to deliver jokes with any kind of timing), but always ends up winning talent shows and applause anyway because people feel bad for him. However, it's played straight in a way as Jimmy never allows his disability to impair him from doing what he loves the most, and it's heavily hinted in both futures that he refused to cure his disability with the future medicine (like Timmy did) because he wanted to be an example for other disabled kids.
Jimmy: Well, just in case you were wondering, I do have a disability. I am totally happy with the way I was born, very much. I travel to different states and talk to kids about being proud of what they are.
Ironically Disabled Artist: Jimmy has a pervasive stutter and stammer, but his main pursuit is stand-up comedy, meaning his jokes often take a little while longer to deliver. He's also a bard in the game South Park: The Stick of Truth, and has the same issue when singing. For added irony, his superhero alter-ego "Fastpass" has superhuman speed, despite Jimmy using crutches.
Jerkass Ball: In the episode "Up the Down Steroid", due to being Not Himself, he acts like a complete jerk (though it thankfully doesn't last the whole episode). He even goes as far as to attack his girlfriend. He has a Jerkass Realization at the end when he sees that Cartman had cheated on the special Olympics as well, and with the help of Timmy.
Jerkass Realization: He usually has one whenever he holds the Jerkass Ball.
- The most poignant example is at the end of "Up the Down Steroid", where after seeing himself reflected on Cartman, he confesses he cheated at the Special Olympics and gives up his medal.
- In "Freemium Isn't Free", he was already remorseful for promoting freemium games, but he breaks down when the boys inform him of how much Stan got addicted to one because of him. At the end, he helps Stan overcome his addiction as a means to atone.
Kick the Dog: Some of his jokes can cross into bullying territory.
- Pretty much the entire second half of "Up The Down Steroid", where he beats up his girlfriend for trying to leave him and then gives his mom the same treatment for trying to stop him. He also insults Timmy several times for calling him out on his use of steroids.
- He spends most of "Ginger Kids" being a dick to any redhead kid at school under the delusion (spurred by Cartman) that they had no souls, which is the current page image for Redheads Are Uncool. Unlike his usual teases, here he flat-out insults them.
- In "The Magic Bush", the moment he finds out that a video that showed Craig's mom's exceedingly hairy private parts had been leaked into the internet, he wastes no time approaching Craig to make several jokes at his expense.
Know When to Fold 'Em: In "Japanese Toilets", he reveals that he gave up on trying to expose the toilet paper companies a long time ago, since they had made numerous attempts on his life following him making a report on them.
The Load: Though he's had his list of impressive achievements, he's often useless in episodes where he assists the boys during a dangerous ordeal, such as "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", "Super Fun Time" and "Pee". In the "Post-Covid" specials, his role is reduced to sporadically telling lame "future" jokes which nobody finds funny.
Logical Weakness: Taking away his crutches renders him helpless, as he can't walk under his own power. Leslie does this to him in the Season 19 finale to keep him from interfering with the Ads' plans, and it's not until Classi returns them that he's able to help thwart the scheme.
Must Make Amends: Whenever he holds the Jerkass Ball, he usually goes out of his way to fix this after realizing he was in the wrong. Most significantly, he gives up the trophy he won at the special Olympics after recognizing he had won it unfairly by taking steroids, and says that he understands if he's never allowed to participate again after the fact.
Nice Guy: He is the second-nicest of the South Park kids behind Butters. As Innocently Insensitive as he can be, he's always happy to make people laugh wherever he goes, and is generally charming and affable even to gangsters or people who wrong him, such as Nathan, the Bloods, or the pimp in "Erection Day". He's so nice he almost single-handedly managed to make peace between the Crips and Bloods in "Krazy Kripples". Even when he acts mean, such as in "Up the Down Steroid", "Funnybot", and "Freemium Isn't Free", he always realizes he's in the wrong at the end, takes accountability for his actions, and vows to be better.
No-Respect Guy: Though nobody mocks him for his disability, some of his worse comedy routines can make him unpopular amongst the town, as shown in "Krazy Kripples", where nobody but Butters goes to support his stand-up.
Oblivious to Hatred: Nathan notoriously loathes Jimmy, but no matter how blunt he is, Jimmy can never seem to get the picture. In "Cripple Fight" he's also utterly oblivious to how much Timmy resents him until he gets told directly.
Only Sane Man: In "Imaginationland", he is the only kid who seems to care more about how obsessed Cartman is with Kyle sucking his (Cartman's) balls rather than Kyle's refusal to do it.
Plucky Comic Relief: He considers himself to be this with his passion for stand-up comedy. However, the execution of this comedy is often hit-or-miss among his classmates. However, he did create the funniest joke ever in "Fishsticks".
Poor Communication Kills: Other characters will occasionally ask him to deliver messages or perform for them without considering that his stutter might lead to trouble.
- In one episode, Stan asks Jimmy to tell Wendy that "she's a continuing source of inspiration for him." Jimmy proceeds to say "Stan says you're a cunt-cunt-cunt...", only managing to finish the sentence after Wendy furiously storms away.
- In a Christmas Episode, the mayor invites Jimmy to sing at the annual tree lighting ceremony. The song he chooses? "The Twelve Days of Christmas." It's already an incredibly long List Song, but his stutter makes it ten times worse. The rest of the episode repeatedly cuts to Jimmy's performance, with the audience gradually becoming more anguished and exhausted with each verse. And by the time he finally finishes, it's too late to light the tree.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Has said more casual slurs than most other characters, usually in an attempt to be edgy, which soon enough causes problems with PC Principal, as Jimmy doubles down on his use of them in the school newspaper. This all changes in the Bad Future, whereupon he has been overcome by Political Overcorrectness so most of his jokes are extremely safe and the punchlines end up being hollow praises. He gets this back in the revised future.
Jimmy: What a fantastic audience, wow. What is up with all these bisexual Canadians, huh? I guess they don't know whether to fuck their brother or their sister.
The Pollyanna: Not as much as "the Melvins" or even Timmy sometimes, but Jimmy is always in a good mood, even when the tables are turned against him. He spends most of "Crippled Summer" being the light of the party, with only Nathan resisting to his charms.
Porky Pig Pronunciation: Due to his stutter, he tends to fumble the punchlines to his jokes a lot, ruining the timing.
Pretty Fly for a White Guy: When he joins the Crips in "Krazy Kripples", adopting the slang his "homies" used almost instantly. He maintains it even when talking to his parents later in the episode.
Jimmy: Yo, don't be dissing my niggas, dawg. They're my f-friends.
Raging Stiffie: "Erection Day" has Jimmy suffering from premature erections as a result of being the center of attention.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives a scathing one to Cartman in "Fishsticks", crossing with Armor-Piercing Question.
'''Jimmy: Eric, there's something I really need to know. How do you live with yourself? You know you had nothing to do with the fishsticks joke. But you just keep pretending. How do you look at yourself in the f-f-fucking mirror?! That's what I want to know! How do you take credit for something you didn't do?!
Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy: Does not go well with the Speech Impediment as one may imagine, though he's regarded as relatively talented In-Universe.
The Reliable One: While not perfect at this task, he's often the ones the other kids go to for advice or support, or to make them laugh through a bad day.
Rescue Romance: Defied. He saves his prostitute Nut Gobbler from her possessive pimp, but when she suggests that he must really care for her to have risked his life to save her, he quickly reaffirms that he only sees her as a vessel to kill his erection, which she accepts.
Remember the New Guy?: In "Erection Day", Kyle says Jimmy always wins the talent show, which Garrison later says is annual. This is despite the fact that Jimmy was introduced to the school when they were already in the fourth grade.
School Newspaper Newshound: Takes student journalism very seriously — including scoring an interview with Dick Cheney for the school's newscast and resisting any form of editorial control from PC Principal. When PC Principal won't let him publish an op-ed with the word "retarded" in it, Jimmy personally delivers every copy of the school newspaper himself with the headline "Principal's 'Retarded' Policy" and yells, "S-s-s-suck my dick, PC Principal!" at him as he rides away.
Senseless Sacrifice: In "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", he stays back to Hold the Line when the sixth graders are chasing the boys, trying to invoke Gandalf from "The Lord of the Rings". However, not only does he stutter through the Pre-Asskicking One-Liner, he gets run over by the bycicle-riding bullies without slowing them down even for a second.
Sixth Ranger: Whenever the main group gets bigger than 5 or one of the main characters is preoccupied with a different subplot, he is the usual sixth member, though Clyde and Tolkien are not uncommon.
Speech Impediment: Stuh-stuh-stutters a lot.
Crip: So you sayin' yuh down?
Jimmy: Down like a clown, Charlie Br... Down like a clown, Charlie B-broooowww... Down like a clown, Charlie Browh... Bro-uh-own. Down like a clown, Charlie Br-Brown.
Spell My Name With An S: Oftentimes spelled as Vulmer.
Sudden Name Change: Jimmy Swanson -> Jimmy Valmer. The first was shown in "Krazy Kripples", while the latter started being used in "Up the Down Steroid." Alluded to in "Tsst!", when Jimmy tests Cartman's claim about being best friends that know everything about each other by asking if he even knows his last name.
Third Wheel: He briefly serves as this for Stan and Wendy in "Raisins" and "Elementary School Musical" but it backfires horribly in the former when he tries to play Cyrano and ends up accidentally calling her a "cunt" on Stan's behalf. He also explicitly refers to himself as this for Tweek and Craig in The Fractured but Whole, but he's only shown assisting the Battle Couple in battle.
The Unfettered: In "Erection Day", he does everything in his power to get laid, even going out of his way to save his paid prostitute from an insane pimp.
Troll: Usually second only to Cartman to make a dark joke at someone's expense, albeit without any ill intent.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Overall one of the lesser examples compared to the boys, but played straight in "Up The Down Steroid", where he becomes dependent on steroids and becomes physically and verbally abusive towards his loved ones as a result, and in "Erection Day", where he has sex with an older prostitute.
Universally Beloved Leader: He's the leader of the blue team at Lake Tardicaca, and he's idolized by everyone on his team and the opposing team (save for Nathan).
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "Raisins", though Stan and Wendy already were threading on thin ice with their inability to communicate, his failure to play messenger with the latter puts the final nail on the coffin of their relationship, ensuring that they give each other the silent treatment until 4 seasons later.
Verbal Tic: In earlier seasons, he would often say "very much" at the end of sentences, only some of them being sentences for which that would make sense. This was dropped around Season 8.

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Clyde Donovan

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"You, sir, mocked Cartman before, yet you two sit here demanding answers! Now, damn you, let him speak!"

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in French by: William Coryn

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Xavier Coronel (Seasons 1-10a and 16-18), Orlando Noguera (Seasons 10b-15 and 20 onwards, and 2007-2011 and 2016 redubs), Eduardo Wasveiler (2015 redub), Alex Ruiz (Season 19), Carlos Hugo Hidalgo (Mexican dub), Isabel Martiñón (Warner Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub), Rolando de la Fuente (Paramount Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

One of the 4th graders who attends South Park Elementary, and one of the dumber ones. Clyde was once described as the second fattest kid next to Cartman, which kickstarted his reputation as somewhat of a Butt-Monkey. Despite this, the girls in his class once put him at #1 on their "Cutest Boys" list, if only just to get free shoes since his father owns a shoe store and they wanted to justify dating him by making him look popular.

His role in Coon and Friends is Mosquito.

Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "The List", Clyde is listed through a list as the cutest person by the girls, and briefly becomes arrogant and narcissistic upon finding out. After the list is exposed as a forgery, he more or less reverts back to his original personality, though he slips into the role again in "Deep Learning".
Aloof Ally: If he doesn't care about a particular state of affairs, he can rival Craig when it comes to his apathy.
- He auditions for a position as the boys' fourth friend after Kenny dies, but is honest about not really liking them anyway. When he loses, he makes sure to tell them off for their entitled behavior, but is simply dismissed as a Sore Loser.
- He joins the boys in their mission to kill the griefer in Warcraft, only to stop playing halfway through to skim through a playboy magazine, not even warning the rest of his departure.
- It's also fairly obvious when he's playing a role he doesn't enjoy (such as the narrator in "Hellen Keller! The Musical", The High Elf in "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the Texan in "The Last of the Meheecans", and Warrior Clyde in "The Stick of Truth") vs. when he's playing one he does enjoy (such as The Lord of Darkness and Mosquito).
Ambiguously Bi: While Clyde has most certainly shown attraction to the girls, his actions towards Marjorine (Butters in disguise) and the fact that he was the only recognizable boy character in Craig and Tweek's grade who went to see yaoi fanart of them could imply that Clyde Donovan swings both ways.
Ambiguously Evil: Though he's usually a nice enough kid, Clyde has serious issues with morality, and deals with death a lot easier than one would expect from a boy his age. He doesn't pause in doing his homework when his fellow student Gordon Stolski is brutally murdered during the morning announcements, casually flips off his mother's ghost a few days after her death, and didn't seem all that worried when Logan LeDouche and his assassin were killed in front of him. It doesn't help that "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" hints at him having the potential to become like Cartman. The Stick of Truth also features him in a villainous role , where he takes possession of the Alien goo to create a horde of Nazi Zombie minions, even reviving the beloved Chef as a zombie to kill the boys who were pursuing him. While this could be chalked up as him being very dedicated to the role like the other kids, the amount of commitment he puts into being a Card-Carrying Villain should be enough to raise a few eyebrows. The "Post Covid" specials only make things worse when it's revealed that he actually grew to become the new Cartman in the Bad Future: A selfish Fat Bastard and Insufferable Imbecile who stubbornly listens to the worst advices and is happy to shoot a child for reasons he can't even understand. While his fate in the revised future is unknown, there's very little that hints at him taking a different path.
Apathetic Citizens: When Gordon Stolski gets murdered during the morning announcements in "Dances with Smurfs", Clyde doesn't even pause in doing his schoolwork.
Apologetic Attacker: In "Post-Covid: Return of Covid", he coldly apologizes to past Kyle as he approaches him with the intent to gun him down, thinking it's necessary to save the future. He becomes a lot less affable when future Kyle threatens to vaccinate him, whereupon he loses his cool and tries to shoot past Kyle despite having no actual reason to.
Ascended Extra: Downplayed as he was given a name and spoke fairly often as early as Season 1, and had more prominence than Butters of all characters in the show's first two seasons, but he was mostly a minor character who was only used to provide the generic line or be the focus of just one scene (e.g. witnessing his dog Rex getting raped by Stan's dog Sparky is "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", becoming Bebe's new boyfriend after breaking up with Kyle in "Clubhouses"), and was otherwise just another student to fill in the school/classroom background. He takes up a larger capacity in the Season 4 episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" where he takes on the role of the replacement fat kid while Cartman is in juvenile hall, which leads Clyde to being humiliated by everyone as a Running Gag. From that point on, Clyde began appearing more often as a member of the Boys' extended group, as well as a regular member of Craig's gang. He finally gets his Day in the Limelight in the Season 11 episode "Lice Capades". In conclusion, Clyde went from the only prominent student in the first three seasons outside of Wendy or Pip, to one of the most recognizable and popular male fourth graders.
Asshole Victim: Downplayed in "Post Covid: Return of Covid". During the climax, his Future Loser self gets shot down by Cartman after he tried to kill Kyle in a misguided attempt to save the future, and because Kyle's future self tried to vaccinate him. Due to how much of a hindrance he had been to the group with his refusal to get vaccinated, nobody holds this against Cartman, but Stan, Kyle and even Cartman himself are still somewhat distraught when he falls off the bridge. Past Kyle (his attempted victim) is also quite shocked when Cartman starts shooting him.
Big Bad: His future self serves as this during the "Return Of Covid" Special, serving as the biggest threat of the episode after Cartman has a Heel Realization.
Book Dumb: Rather ignorant about math, history, and other subjects.
Boom, Headshot!: In "Post-Covid: Return of Covid", Cartman ends him with a shot to the head after riddling him with bullets.
Butt-Monkey: Mr. Garrison has no problem insulting him when he gets a question wrong. He's also subject to Stan and Kyle's teasing when Butters claims him to be the second-fattest kid in the class in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000." Not even his mother gives him a break, constantly harping on him leaving the toilet seat up even after her death.
Clyde: For the last time, I'm not fat, so stop calling me fat, goddammit! (Covers his mouth when he realizes he just sounded like Cartman)
The Casanova: Though he's usually not as successful as he would like, he's managed to score with Bebe and Red (who are hinted to be quite popular among the girls) and also dated Lisa Berger when she was the most popular girl in class. In "Deep Learning", almost all girls are swooned by his AI-generated romantic messages, even Nelly and Betsy.
Casanova Wannabe: As part of his Dirty Kid characterization, he tends to try and flirt with girls even when they're clearly not interested. Common targets include the Raisins Girls (who do show an interest, but only so they can take his money) and Wendy in the video games.
- In The Fractured But Whole, he even flirts with Wendy's superhero persona Call Girl as Mosquito, which annoys Toolshed (AKA Stan Marsh), and Call Girl herself.
- In Phone Destroyer, he flirts with Wendy over texts, trying to woo her away from Stan and trash-talking the latter, because she was staring at him. Wendy states it's because Clyde had mustard stains on him.
Character Catchphrase: From the "Post Covid" specials: "Fuck yes, I wanna [do something shady]! (Really?) Fuck yes!"
Characterization Marches On: Started off as simply the first/only kid to talk once all the primary students had been used. He was eventually retooled as a somewhat unintelligent, athletic "ladies man" who is prone to crying in dire situations.
Corrupt the Cutie: He completely falls for QAnon's conspiracy theories and Cartman's influence, and unlike the other kids, it only becomes worse as an adult.
The Corruptible: Though he doesn't like people telling him what to do, he's very easily influenced. When he proves himself unwilling to accept Janice as his stepmother, she resorts to paying influencers to reach out to him via them.
The Cutie: He may not oficially be the cutest kid in the class despite what the girls' list says, but he's still mostly a wholesome wimp who is easy to like.
A Day in the Limelight: He's the main character of "Lice Capades", "Reverse Cowgirl", and "Not Suitable for Children", and he has a major role in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime", "The List", "Fatbeard", and the "Post-Covid" specials.
Dirty Kid: Next to Kenny, Clyde is one of the more perverted kids in the class.
- In "Make Love, Not Warcraft", he decides to read a Playboy magazine rather than participating in playing World of Warcraft with his friends.
- In "Marjorine", when the eponymous new girl ^notein actuality Butters Disguised in Drag introduces herself to the whole class, she mentions that she likes getting her snooch pounded on Friday nights, to which Clyde enthusiastically responds "Nice."
- He holds a speech about lesbian cheerleaders in "Ginger Kids".
- In "Sexual Harassment Panda", Clyde uses his settlement to go on a cruise with bikini-clad women.
- In "Clubhouses", after Bebe declares she no longer likes Kyle and is now dating Clyde, the latter responds "Bitchin'", and later plays truth or dare with her and Wendy.
The Ditz: Not exactly the smartest guy, as proven by his Book Dumb tendencies. After joining the Lil Q'ties, he becomes a conspiracy theorist, maintaining said beliefs even as an adult.
- In The Movie, when Mr. Garrison asks the class what 5 x 2 is, Clyde incorrectly answers "12", to which Garrison responds "Okay, now let's try to get an answer from someone who's not a complete retard." Of course, Mr. Garrison isn't shown to actually teach the class anything most of the time, so it might not be Clyde's fault.
- In "Weight Gain 4000" he doesn't know that he's supposed to be dressed as an Indian (Native American) for the South Park play despite having a feather on his head and has to ask Mr. Garrison for confirmation.
- In the "Post Covid specials", he takes this to a whole new level; bordering on Lethally Stupid.
Dumb Jock: He likes sports but is hopelessly Book Dumb.
Everyone Has Standards: He is overall one of the nicer and more reasonable boys, though it's still worth mentioning a few examples.
- He's clearly distressed by the lifestyle of the pirates in Africa and is deeply disturbed by the horrors he sees there.
- Like everyone else, he's disturbed by some of Cartman's more psychotic episodes, such as:
  - His scheme to get revenge on Scott Tenorman.
  - When he gave Kyle HIV.
  - Cartman showing a picture with Butters Penis in his mouth.
- While he takes a bit of a level in jerkass and goes about it in an Innocently Insensitive way, after Kyle is rated the ugliest boy in school, he's quick to defend Kyle from Butters' jabs at his appearance and takes offence at mocking people for things out of their control.
- He's a Dirty Kid, but in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", he doesn't enjoy his "two minutes in the closet" experience in Bebe's party, which ends up making him cry. In "Cartman Sucks", he's also visibly disturbed by the picture of Cartman with Butters' penis in his mouth.
- He may be a jock, but he hates baseball as much as the other kids.
Face–Heel Turn: Though he Took a Level in Jerkass as an adult, he still had a semblance of investment on completing Kenny's mission to erase the events of the pandemic, but when his own group tries to trick him into unknowingly getting vaccinated, he turns against them and the moment Cartman approaches him with an invitation for his own anti-time travel foundation, he eagerly switches sides and becomes completely committed to Cartman's goals.
Fan of the Underdog: Surprisingly, he's one of the few people who support Cartman in some of his plans, which likely stems from being forced to spend a day in his shoes during the latter's absence in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime", so he knows it's on his best interests as the second fattest kid to keep him around as the designated Fat Idiot. In "Sarcastaball", Cartman attests to Clyde's hugs being the warmest, likely a Call-Back to the ending of the former episode where Clyde hugged him. As an adult, he's also the only one to merrily follow him to the end, as Butters had to be threatened into helping, and the other members of the Foundation Against Time Travel seemed mostly disinterested in the cause.
Kyle: The girls do not have a device that shows them the future Cartman. That's retarded.
Clyde: [Before Cartman can say anything] YOU, SIR, MOCKED CARTMAN BEFORE, YET YOU TWO SIT HERE DEMANDING ANSWERS! NOW DAMN YOU, LET HIM SPEAK!
Cartman: [baffled] ...Thank you, Clyde.
Fatal Flaw: Stubbornness. Clyde finds it borderline impossible to break a bad habit or meaningfully change his beliefs on a subject, and tends to double down on them after somebody preaches at him, which is problematic due to the questionable believability of the people he gains those beliefs from. He gets his mother killed when he refuses to put the toilet seat down like his mother had constantly told him to, causing her to fall down and get her organs pulled down the drain after flushing even doing it again after her ghost calls him out on it despite it apparently being a hazard for his sister. As an adult in "Post Covid", he maintains his QAnon beliefs even after it had been revealed that their "chosen one" was the widely hated Mr. Garrison, and his constant refusal to get vaccinated (or even say he's gotten vaccinated) makes everything worse for everyone, putting the town under quarantine, forbidding the group's entry to the asylum, and causing the government reinforcements to back off. He only gets more aggressive when Wendy tries to trick him into getting vaccinated. In the end, this gets him killed when Cartman goads him into killing past Kyle to "save the future", as Clyde sticks to his decision to do so even after Cartman himself had changed his mind, eventually getting himself shot down by the same person who instilled those beliefs into him.
Fat Bastard: Future Clyde has let himself go, become an antivaxxer and is willing to murder Kyle as a child.
Formerly Fit: He is normal-weight as a kid, but really lets himself go as an adult.
Future Loser: Not as pronounced as Stan, but in "Post-Covid", he's become a moronic anti-vaxxer whom everyone hates.
The Generic Guy: Though he has been played out as the second most wimpy and perverted kid (outside of Butters and Kenny, respectively) and the most submissive kid to Cartman, it's hard to describe Clyde as anything other than "the kid who isn't insane/jewish/a bully/poor/innocent/crippled/rich/black/deadpan/twitchy/political/female/a prop/a Star Wars fan/Mintberry Crunch/dirty/dead."
Hate Sink: He's this in the "Post-Covid" two-parter where he becomes a selfish anti-vaxxer who caused many problems with for the whole cast because of his constant refusal to get vaccinated. Then he willingly offers to kill Kyle in the past to prevent the future from being fixed, seemingly to spite his peers for trying to get him vaccinate. Unsurprisingly no one feels sorry for Clyde when Cartman kills him to save Kyle.
Hates Their Parent: He's flipped off both his dead mother and his stepmother on two different occasions, the latter only after actually acknowledging her as his mom.
Clyde: Janice, can I call you mom?
Janice: Of course, Clyde!
Clyde: Fuck you, mom!
Heroes Love Dogs: He has a dog named Rex, who got raped by Stan's dog Sparky in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", much to Clyde's horror.
Horrible Judge of Character: Though he can understand when someone is being an asshole to him, which is why he didn't hang out with the boys much in early seasons, he has a tendency to listen to the advice of the worst possible people (Cartman, the fraud lawyer in "Reverse Cowgirl", QAnon, himself, Logan LeDouche, and Nathan) and stick to his beliefs implanted by said people, which makes him a huge hindrance as an adult when he becomes an anti-vaxxer whom Cartman can play like a fiddle by feeding into his ego. It apparently runs in the family, as his father listened to Matt Damon's crypto ad and "lost all his fuckin' money".
Hypocrite: As an adult in "Post Covid", he says that "his body is a temple" and would not allow it to be poisoned by getting vaccinated, only to agree to do cocaine with Wendy (in actuality powdered vaccine from the future).
Insufferable Imbecile: Clyde has become this as an adult in the Bad Future shown in "Post Covid" and "The Return of Covid". He strongly believes in the already-disproven myths about Covid vaccines, to the point that he stubbornly refuses to get vaccinated despite knowing that he can get the federal quarantine around South Park lifted if he does so. Clyde also becomes easily manipulated by Cartman into trying to kill a child and proceeds to continue this murder attempt even after Cartman changes his mind and orders him to stand down.
Informed Deformity: His status as the second fattest kid in the class is not in any way visible due to being drawn the same size as the other kids who aren't Cartman. Subverted as an adult in the COVID specials, in those Clyde really is fat.
It's All About Me: As an adult, all Clyde cares about is sticking to his beliefs, even if it means the entire town has to be put under quarantine because of his refusal to vaccinate himself. He also betrays the team halfway through after they try to vaccinate him without his consent, and joins Cartman.
Jerk Jock: In "The List", he fits the trope to a T after discovering he was the cutest boy in the class, wearing a red and white sports jacket, staring at himself in the mirror, and flirting with every girl he encounters. He plays this straight again in "Deep Learning", even having the same varsity jacket in a picture on Bebe's phone. Otherwise Downplayed, as he's one of the less violent classmates, and even after his Face–Heel Turn as an adult, his behavior is more akin to a Lazy Bum than a jock.
Clyde: Hey, what's going on?
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the later seasons, he's very bratty and cares a little too much about the image he projects, partly due to being influenced by Logan LeDouche, but he still tries to give Stan earnest advice, and looks to find the source of the Cred fad so as to help stop the fighting among his classmates (and because his parents don't let him have any).
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In "Post-Covid", while he still Took a Level in Jerkass, he worked with the others to uncover Kenny's secret and finish his plan to stop the McCormickron COVID variant, and he was shown to be surprisingly helpful at times (even if he keeps making things worse for the group due to his vaccine hesitancy). After the group tries to trick him into getting vaccinated, he switches sides and shows just how despicable he's become by agreeing to Cartman's plan to kill Kyle when the latter strokes his ego.
Clyde: This doesn't make any sense. Why do I have to be the one to go back in time and kill Kyle?
Cartman: It's because I admire you, Clyde. As an anti-vaxxer, you understand that you have to strong and stand by your beliefs even if it means others will die.
'Clyde: Hey, thanks.
Kick the Dog: In "Deep Learning", we learn he uses ChatGPT to respond to Bebe's text, being incredibly dismissive of her problems and treating them like a chore, unlike Stan who is mostly Innocently Insensitive with his use of the tool. When his actions are about to be discovered, Clyde only seems to care about Bebe's retaliation instead of how she would feel.
Kids Are Cruel: Downplayed. He has his moments, especially with Pip in "Damien" and Ginger Kids in "Ginger Kids", but overall, is one of the more reasonable characters, and was against the collective bullying of Kenny in "Lice Capades" for having lice, if only because he felt responsible due to being (in his mind) the actual kid with lice.
Knight Templar: In "Post-Covid: Return of Covid", he's made to believe that killing past Kyle will save the future somehow (in actuality, it will only ensure that Cartman doesn't lose his family), and when Stan shows up to tell him that Cartman changed his mind, Clyde assumes that he's trying to trick him, and tries to go through with the deed regardless.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All: In "Post-Covid: Return of Covid", he believes that vaccines cause you to grow titties on your head, as he was once told so by an expert. As it turns out, said "expert" was himself when he travelled back in time to kill Kyle as per Cartman's plan. Later in the episode, he internalizes Cartman's preaching and refuses to back down on the mission to kill Kyle even after Cartman himself changes his mind.
Clyde: Enough of this crap! I'm sticking to my beliefs, and this kid dies now!
Locked Out of the Loop: In "Post-Covid: Return of Covid", Cartman never tells Clyde the reason why he's sending him to the past to kill Kyle, only giving him a half-baked lecture on how he's going to save the future by doing so. Because of this, hearing from Stan that Cartman had suddenly changed his mind later doesn't stop Clyde's drive in the slightest, and by the end, he's gunned down by Cartman without even knowing why.
Lovable Jock: He's a sweet and funny kid who loves sports and is very good at them, such as football, basketball, tetherball, hockey, soccer, and sarcastaball, though he hates baseball just as much as the other boys do. Butters notes that he's very good at sarcastaball because he gives the warmest hugs.
More Despicable Minion: Clyde becomes this to Cartman after Cartman recruits him to his cause in "The Return Of Covid". While Cartman wants to prevent the future from being fixed, his reason for doing so is to prevent his family from disappearing. Clyde, on the other hand, is a selfish Anti-Vaxxer with no sympathetic motives and it's implied he's only helping Cartman just to spite everyone for trying to get him vaccinated.
Multiple Gunshot Death: In "Post Covid: Return of Covid", Cartman shoots him 9 times to stop him from killing Kyle, with one hitting him in the groin. His body promptly falls down a bridge and into the river below.
My Future Self and Me: In "Post Covid", his future self comes across him and they have a brief conversation regarding vaccines, which shapes Clyde's view on them for years.
Nice Guy: He's quite shallow and insensitive, and is no stranger to Troubling Unchildlike Behavior, but is still one of the nicer classmates, and his conscience has stopped him from participating in other kids' more cruel activities on more than one occasion. Even when he held the Jerkass Ball in "The List" due to Acquired Situational Narcissism, he was still more sensitive to Kyle than Butters was during Kyle's Heroic BSoD. However, "Post Covid" shows him growing to become a selfish douche, and the seasons afterwards have him Taking a Level in Jerkass, becoming more stubborn and shallow.
Pet the Dog: In "Post Covid: Return of Covid", he has a brief moment where he smiles after Wendy manages to get some reinforcements for the group. Then the man over the speaker says that everyone in the group needs to be vaccinated, and Clyde doubles down again.
Prone to Tears: This is one of Clyde's most defining traits. It’s often played for laughs, because of how whiny he sounds when he cries and how frequently he does it. In "Fatbeard", Ike of all people has to snap him back to reality when he starts annoying Cartman with his cries.
Relationship Revolving Door: He has a worse case of this with Bebe than Stan has with Wendy, partly because their relationship is quite shallow and mostly built on lies and usually doesn't last past the episode where they get together. In "Clubhouses", Bebe uses him as a rebound guy after seeing that she didn't have a future with Kyle, in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Clyde gets particularly interested in her because of her newly developed breasts, in "The List", she tampers with the list of cutest boys to justify dating him for his shoes because he was too ugly for her otherwise, in "Skank Hunt", she or another girl breaks up with him as part of the girls' collective protest against the boys, and in "Deep Learning", Clyde starts using ChatGPT to respond to her texts in a romantic way, which makes her fall for him again.
Retcon:
- Was revealed to have apparently had a colostomy at age 5 in "The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", though this is never referenced again (save for the game Let's Go Tower Defense Play!) and Clyde appears to use the toilet just as fine as the other kids.
- In "Quest For Ratings", Kyle rumors that Clyde has only one testicle, but he's depicted with the both of them in "Wieners Out". Of course, it could be attributed as malicious slander, as the boys were trying to get ratings at all costs.
Self-Made Orphan: Halfway there; poor guy just kept forgetting to put the toilet seat down, so his mom ended up dying from sitting on the toilet without the seat.
Shipper on Deck: If being the only boy seen walking to the Asian girls' art exhibit of Tweek and Craig yaoi with a smile on his face is an indication.
Sudden Name Change: Clyde Goodman (never spoken in show) -> Clyde Donovan, and briefly "Clyde Harris" in "Lice Capades" (before reruns changed it back to "Donovan").
Terminator Impersonator: In the Return of COVID special Clyde goes back in time wearing aluminum foil on his body and stalks present-day Kyle with a gun, complete with background music.
Token Evil Teammate: Of the Lil Q'ties, Clyde is the only confirmed one who carried on his anti-vaxxer beliefs as an adult, since he was warned by his future self that it would make him grow titties on his head.
Took a Level in Badass: Despite being a wimpy kid who is easily pushed around in some episodes, in both South Park: The Stick of Truth and "Return of Covid", he becomes The Heavy who is even more dangerous than Cartman, which he tries to cement with an impersonation of The Terminator in the latter.
Took a Level in Dumbass: He was no Einstein before, but his future self's influence, made worse by joining QAnon just after, causes him to become a complete moron as an adult.
Took a Level in Jerkass: During the 40 year timeskip in Post Covid, Clyde goes from a relatively nice kid to a selfish, anti-Vaxxer Jerkass.
- After The Boys manage to save the past, it's not made clear if Clyde made it out of this trope or not in the good timeline, as he isn't seen in the party during the ending.
- Season 26 seems to imply that Clyde's obnoxious behavior has stuck to some degree (though not enough for him to be an outright bad person), as he's portrayed more negatively in episodes like "Cupid Ye", "Deep Learning" and "Not Suitable for Children".
Toxic Friend Influence:
- A bizarre example as he is this to himself. In "Post Covid: Return of Covid", an adult Clyde travels back to the past to kill Kyle and save the future as Cartman told him, but has to stop by his house to retrieve his dad's gun. Upon crossing paths with his past self, Clyde presents himself as an expert and tells "himself" to never get vaccinated in his life because "it would make him grow titties on his head". Earlier in the episode, adult Clyde cited this encounter as the reason why he refused to get vaccinated, apparently not realizing/caring that said "expert" was himself.
- When Stan comes to him for relationship advice in "Deep Learning", Clyde instead teaches him how to use AI to respond to her messages instead of doing it himself, assuring him that his online conversations with Bebe are a chore to get through.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He's nowhere as bad as Cartman, and usually acts like The Generic Guy, but he's got a dark side that is usually ignored by the other characters. He's as much of a Dirty Kid as Kenny, and can be as evil as Cartman when he's pushed (as shown in "The Stick of Truth"), and seems to quite easily shape his personality depending on the situation (even acquiring a British accent at the start of "Marjorine"). In "Dances with Smurfs", he doesn't stop doing his homework while his classmate Gordon Stolski is being brutally murdered over the intercom^noteeven Cartman was somewhat distressed, in "Reverse Cowgirl", he flips off his recently deceased mother's ghost after refusing to drop his habit of leaving the toilet seat up despite it being what killed her, and in "Skank Hunt" he's the one to suggest breaking Cartman's electronics with an uncharacteristic determination (though he later finds himself hesitating as he starts begging), and in "Return of Covid", he knows where in the house his father keeps a gun stashed. This dark side becomes impossible to overshadow as he grows into adulthood, as by then he's so detached from morality that he borders on The Sociopath.
Uncertain Doom: Though his Bad Future self meets a gruesome end at Cartman's hands, there is no clue as of what became of Clyde after the future was revised. The explanation behind his absence can range from him simply not being invited to celebrate Christmas with the rest of the cast to having died of COVID prior to the event due to his refusal to get vaccinated. His appearance in Season 25 onwards shows that he did survive the pandemic, but his absence in the revised timeline makes him one of the very few supporting characters who isn't Saved by Canon.
Vocal Dissonance: In "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Clyde is voiced by Matt Stone rather than Trey Parker, which is why he has a nasally Southern accent similar to Butters' in that episode.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Much like Cartman, Clyde's Butt-Monkey status among the kids (alongside the death of his mother) likely shaped him into becoming a Mirror Character of the former as an adult, and having no sympathy for the town when it starts going to hell because of his stubborn refusal to vaccinate.
Would Hurt a Child: His future self has no qualms about trying to kill past Kyle when Cartman tells him to, and he tries to follow through with the plan even after Cartman's Heel Realization.

Tolkien "Token" Black

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^{Click here to see him as an adult}

"There's no one in town I can relate to
I play with autographed baseball bats
while everyone else just plays with sticks and pine cones
Has a boy ever felt so alone?"

Voiced in English by: Adrien Beard

Voiced in French by: Gilbert Lévy

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Rolando Felizola (Season 3), Frank Falcón (Seasons 4-7), Yuri Rodríguez (Seasons 8-9), Diego Osorio (Seasons 10-11 and 16, and 2007 redub), Xavier Coronel (Seasons 12-15), Orlando Noguera (Season 17), Fabián Hernández (Season 18), Eduardo Wasveiler (Season 19 onwards and 2015-2016 redubs)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

One of the very few black kids in South Park. Tolkien is also incredibly rich. He lives in a mansion with his parents, who have well-paid jobs.

His role in Coon and Friends is Tupperware.

Accidental Misnaming: "The Big Fix" reveals his first name is actually "Tolkien", after J. R. R. Tolkien. All the times his name was previously shown as "Token" were because Cartman (and Mr. Garrison) didn't know how to spell the name accurately.
Aerith and Bob: While most of the other kids have standard names, his sticks out as unusual.
Angry Black Man: Subverted. He's actually really easy-going. However, Cartman can't help but see him as this the few times he does raise his voice, which are rarely if ever unwarranted. In "World War Zimmerman", just him raising his voice is enough for Cartman to assume that he's snapped and now wants to kill him for being white.
All of the Other Reindeer: He feels this way in "Here Comes the Neighborhood" due to the other boys mocking him for his wealth, but it's eventually subverted as the boys explain to him that ripping on him is part of being their friend, and that he would be different if they didn't make fun of him.
Ascended Extra: Was originally a Living Prop who consistently appeared in Mr. Garrison's classroom but hardly spoke or played any notable role for the first three seasons. His name was revealed in the episode "Gnomes" and he received two lines in Season 3, but he was never called attention to as a character until the Season 4 episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", where Cartman gets accused of committing a hate crime for throwing a rock at Tolkien and gets sent to juvenile hall as punishment. Tolkien subsequently got more roles and got his occasional Day in the Limelight when the topic was about race or wealth, and consistently appears as a member of Craig's gang. This is taken even further as of Season 25, where he's regularly shown hanging out with the main four.
Berserk Button:
- Trying to "understand" what it feels like to be marginalized from his perspective is a good way to get him miffed and avoidant, as it reeks of Condescending Compassion. That said, "With Apologies to Jessie Jackson" and "The Big Fix" have him accept Stan's respective apologies for doing this.
- Mentioning J.R.R. Tolkien pisses him off, since he hates that he was named after someone so self-indulgent in his "nerdy, jive-ass dragon shit." Even his frustration with Stan in the latter episode mentioned above has less to do with him believing Tolkien's name was "Token" out of a tired stereotype and more about Stan thinking about nothing but his actual name, since when Stan lets his guilt fly he's able to realize that the latter is driving himself crazy over thinking that he's a racist asshole and the fact that he's so convinced he can't just immediately make up with Tolkien.
Beware the Nice Ones: Despite being one of the more easy-going classmates, he beats the tar out of Cartman in "Christian Rock Hard", and "Raising the Bar" shows him perfectly willing to exploit his morbid obesity for money.
Blackface: Inverted and Played for Laughs. In "Free Willzyx", while all the kids sported this look as part of their camouflage, Tolkien's face was jarringly painted white instead, with nobody pointing this out. All things considered, it might lessen his chances of getting shot depending on whether the security guard was from South Park or not.
Butt-Monkey: Just as Kyle is the brunt of most of Cartman's antisemitism, Tolkien suffers the most from Cartman's racism. Cartman even shot him point blank with a pistol at one point.
The Chew Toy: Not to the extent of Kenny, but he's gotten his arm injured on three separate occasions, two of which inflicted by a direct gunshot wound.
Closer to Earth: Arguably the most normal of the class (aside from his slight naivete and resented "black guy talents").
Curb-Stomp Battle: An almost literal example: he took down Cartman in three strikes, punching him hard enough to knock him down and get to chance to kick him across the curb of the stage in "Christian Rock Hard".
Cursed with Awesome: He's exceptionally gifted at playing bass, which he wouldn't be ashamed of if not for Cartman's claim that "all Blacks play bass", which Tolkien wanted to prove wrong.
A Day in the Limelight: "Here Comes the Neighborhood" and "Cartman Finds Love."
Earn Your Happy Ending: He was aways very ambitious and driven despite certain people being out to get him for petty reasons, so it's only fitting that he ends up a renowned police detective in both timelines, showing that not only did Harrison Yates' goal to arrest or kill every rich black person in the town fail, but that now an African-American whom he had tried to kill at least once is now taking his place and is miles more competent than Yates ever was.
Early-Installment Weirdness: A white version of him would occasionally appear in background shots in earlier seasons, though Tolkien can occasionally be seen in the same shot as said kid, so it might be intended as a different character who used his design. Regardless, unless you customize your New Kid in South Park: The Stick of Truth to sport Tolkien's hairstyle, there has been no recurring appearance of such a kid since The Movie.
Embarrassing First Name: He hates his name because he doesn't like J.R.R. Tolkien's work. It may explain why he never corrected anyone when they misspelled it.
Fatal Flaw: His often passive and dismissive approach in regards to Cartman's racism has bitten the poor boy in the ass on occasion, such as in "Christian Rock Hard", where he joins his Christian Rock Band and endures all his racist remarks in the hopes that it will pay off in the end (which it initially did until Cartman ruined it at the last second, making it All for Nothing), or in "Dead Kids", where he lets him cheat off him after an episode worth of dealing with his Insane Troll Logic. It almost gets him killed in "World War Zimmerman", where he elects to ignore Cartman's delusions that he's a threat to humanity, and even agrees to fist-bump him at the end while standing in "his ground", prompting Cartman to shoot him. He falls for him again even as an adult in "Post Covid: Return of Covid" (as do Wendy and Jimmy), trusting his Heel–Faith Turn and telling him everything about the time travel mission, allowing him to sic Butters on him and steal all their equipment.
Flawless Token: He really doesn't want to be this, but being rich, smart, and kind-hearted, it's hard for anyone to find a flaw in him, to the point where the kids rip on him for being too rich since they cannot find anything legitimate to poke fun at him for (until they see how hurt he was by their ribbing, whereupon they proceed to mock him for being a pussy instead). As an "Post-Covid", he's mostly embraced this side of him, being a reliable and badass police detective who outshines almost everyone in the team.
Future Badass: The Post Covid specials show that he grows up to become a police detective with impressive Kung Fu training.
The Generic Guy: Even more so than Stan and Clyde. Possibly intentional; he has two traits, rich and black, which make him stand out from the rest of the town, but neither of these traits affect his personality.
Genius Bruiser: He's one of the smartest kids in class, and also one of the toughest fighters. In "Post-Covid" specials, he's an FBI detective who both does extensive research on Kenny's death and beats up two hostile Shady Acres nurses after tracking down Randy.
Internal Retcon: Tolkien's name is and always has been "Tolkien", after J. R. R. Tolkien. Any instances of people spelling it "Token" were because of idiots who didn't know how to spell it correctly, and you're a dirty, horrible racist if you ever thought otherwise. Stan.
Stan: ...Then why did you spell it 'Token' without the 'L' or the 'I'?
Cartman: J.R.R. Tolkien has an 'L' in it? That's gay. Who did you think Tolkien was named after?
Jerkass Ball: Openly admits in "Raising the Bar" that he is willing to exploit the obesity crisis in America simply because it appears to affect whites rather than blacks.
Lonely Rich Kid: As shown in "Here Comes the Neighborhood", he finds it hard to relate to his classmates because of his rich upbringing.
Lovable Jock: He's proficient in football, basketball, and baseball (which he plays with autographed bats), dates a cheerleader, was supposedly voted the second-cutest kid and his parents are rich. Nevertheless, he's a still a humble guy who never sees himself above anyone.
Meaningful Name: He's the token black kid at school. Subverted in "The Big Fix" when it's revealed his name is actually Tolkien. When Stan tells him about the misunderstanding, he asks Stan why two black parents would ever name their child "Token"?
Named After Someone Famous: He's actually named after J. R. R. Tolkien, his father's favorite author.
Nerves of Steel: The guy somehow managed to sit through the entirety of Backdoor Sluts 9 without losing his sanity like Butters did, and even managed to (barely) maintain his composure afterwards. Seems like Clyde did good in choosing him.
Nice Guy: Is a rather nice, humble and good-natured kid all around who's very easy to get along with, as long as you don't engage in a bunch of bullshit racist propaganda around him (especially if you use the excuse of "trying" to do right by him and being "well-intentioned.")
Not So Stoic: He absolutely loses it when it turns out Cartman was right about him being able to play bass. In later seasons, this happens more frequently as Cartman starts making him a target of his schemes almost to the level of Kyle and Wendy (who aren't exactly demure themselves).
Only in It for the Money: The only reason he agreed to play bass for Faith +1 was for the profits Cartman promised.
Only Sane Man: He's much more down-to-earth than the rest of the cast and much smarter about dealing with Cartman's schemes. Where even Kyle will play along or go on a campaign against him, Tolkien will just ignore his bullshit unless it could directly benefit him.
Retcon: His name is retconned to have always been Tolkien after the famous British author, with everyone apparently always knowing this and only Stan and Randy thinking his name is Token as in "token black person" as opposed to a "J.R.R. Tolkien has an 'L' in it?"-style misspelling. However, his name was written as Token in-universe and out, though they took it a step further and even changed the spelling on apps and YouTube videos to reflect the retcon.
Scary Black Man: Zig-Zagged. Though Cartman loves to exaggerate how intimidating he actually is, sometimes it's not unwarranted, as Tolkien has been shown to be quite vicious with him when pushed to violence. Of course, this is a case of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as Cartman's racism causes him to overreact to anything Tolkien does, which pushes the latter to lash out at him, prompting Cartman to overreact once again. To a lesser extent, Stan has been shown to be a tad intimidated by him on occasion, though only after Cartman decides to throw in some questionable nuggets of wisdom at him.
Cartman: Yeah, well, it's not us you have to worry about. It's Tolkien. He is gonna wanna kick your cracker teeth in.
Stan: No, he's not... Is he?
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He quits the "Dungeons and Dragons" game after watching Backdoor Sluts 9, thinking it was actually a Lord of the Rings movie.
The Smart Guy: One of the smartest kids in class. He's often shown making complicated projects for show and tell, and he gets an "A" in a really tough math quiz in "Dead Kids", which is why Cartman usually cheats him off during exams. Kyle (who is no idiot himself) calls him really smart in "Raising the Bar".
Spoiled Sweet: He's the richest kid in town, but doesn't have an arrogant bone in his body, and is in fact quite insecure about how others perceive him for his wealth. In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", he sings a heartwarming song about wanting to be poor, since he feels that it will make him more accepted.
The Stoic: He remains stone-faced and unflappable in the face of his fellow South Park residents' stupidity and tends not to let it phase him too much, instead just trying to side-step it entirely.
Stop Being Stereotypical: Turns out Cartman was right, he can play bass. He isn't happy. He is also physically unable to keep himself from laughing at Tyler Perry's comedy, much to his own dismay.
Stereotype Flip: Invoked and eventually Zig-Zagged. Name aside (and even that is subjected to an Internal Retcon), his existence alone subverts a couple of black stereotypes as he's the richest kid in town and also one of the smartest and most even-tempered (and doesn't like Jessie Jackson, Black Panther or J.R.R. Tolkien's work). However, he also falls victim to another series of stereotypes, such as being good at bass, basketball, and singing, finding Tyler Perry funny, forming a Token Minority Couple with Nichole, being unable to resist fist-bumps, and knowing how to talk in Jive Turkey to help Kyle troll the United Negro College Fund. This is often to his chagrin as he is aware of the connotations of these traits and actively tries to avoid them for this very reason, though he will embrace them if he feels fulfilled. In the future, he seems to have embraced his Flawless Token side at least, though he seems oblivious to the irony of being a police detective in light of his family's tumultuous relationship with another particular South Park detective.
Sudden Name Change:
- It's Token Black, not Token Williams. "Williams" was given in "Here Comes The Neighborhood", while the "Black" name was first used starting with "Quest for Ratings".
- Then "The Big Fix" reveals his name has actually been Tolkien this whole time and the Marshes (and the audience) thought it was Token because of the similar pronunciation and various characters spelling it incorrectly out of ignorance.
Teacher's Pet: Though Mr. Garrison didn't seem to care about him much, he was this for Ms. Choksondik, who was always impressed with his high-quality presentations. He was also the only confirmed student who passed Mrs. Nelson's math test in "Death Kids", which is significant because Cartman flunked the test despite cheating off him.
Thousand-Yard Stare: His reaction to viewing the Backdoor Sluts 9 porno in "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" is to stare mindlessly into the distance.
Token Black Friend: He briefly becomes this for the boys in "Professor Chaos" as one of the candidates for Kenny's replacement. Though he makes it to the top five, he eventually loses to Tweek. Afterwards, he becomes this for Craig's gang.
Token Minority: He's the only black kid in the main fourth grade class. It's even (seemingly) in his name.
Token Minority Couple: Has one with the new black girl at school, Nichole Daniels, starting with "Cartman Finds Love," which Cartman invoked by setting them up because he thought the only black boy in school should be with the new black girl. Up until "Skank Hunt", where she breaks up with him, due to the girls' belief that one of the boys at school is Skankhunt42, much to his devastation. However, in South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Nichole does express concern for Tolkien at times, and the very first episode of Season 22 had Nichole stating that they were trying to get their relationship starting up again.
Took a Level in Badass: He was far more passive and demure in early seasons, even internalizing the other kids' teasing in "Here Comes The Neighborhood". After "Christian Rock Hard", it's certain that nobody is calling him a "pussy" anymore, and some kids are even shown to be intimidated by him on occasion.
Vocal Evolution: In his first two speaking appearances in "Tweek vs. Craig" and "Hooked on Monkey Phonics", Tolkien is voiced by Trey Parker attempting to pull off a black voice rather than by the modern Adrian Beard, which is why his early voice sounds less natural and more like a black guy imitation.
Wise Beyond Their Years: A tad more subdued example than the leads, since he's still a kid at his very core, but he's still quite knowledgeable in politics and finances, and even produced his own TV Pilot "Here Comes Fatty Doo Doo" (which lost to "Honey Boo Boo" but still), edited and voiced by himself.

Craig Tucker

^{Click here to see Super Craig}

^{Click here to see him as an adult}

"Do you guys know why nobody else at school likes hanging out with you? Because you're always doing stuff like this. You're always coming up with some stupid idea to do something, and then it backfires, and then you end up in some foreign country, or in outer space or something. That's why no one likes hanging out with you guys."

Voiced in English by: Matt Stone

Voiced in French by: Thierry Wermuth

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Guillermo Sauceda (Seasons 3-9), Orlando Noguera (Seasons 10-18 and 20 onwards, and 2007-2012 and 2016 redubs), Eduardo Wasveiler (2015 redub), Alex Ruiz (Season 19)

Debut: "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"

One of the 4th graders who attends South Park Elementary. It's implied that he has bad behavior, and is referred to as "The biggest troublemaker" in his class by Eric Cartman in "Tweek vs. Craig". He also has a habit of flipping people off, whether to express disdain toward them or not. Acts as the leader of a rival group to The Boys called Craig's Gang at times, usually consisting of himself, Tolkien, Clyde, and Jimmy (and sometimes Tweek).

His role in Coon and Friends is Super Craig.

Aloof Ally: In "Pandemic", he works with the boys to get out of Peru, but spends most of his time belittling them for their constant inability to learn from their mistakes, which drives them insane. Being The Drag-Along throughout the two-parter, one can't blame him for not being too enthusiastic.
Aloof Big Brother: Generally doesn't give his sister Tricia much attention, and even flips her off on occasion (which is a recurring tick in their family). In The Fractured But Whole, she says that he can be a dick to her at times, but she still ships him and Tweek together.
Arch-Enemy: He seemed to be this to Mr. Mackey in "Tweek Vs. Craig" since the latter was sick of him being sent to his office, and Craig was the only kid who could push his Berserk Button in the early seasons. Though they barely interacted after Craig stopped flipping people off, their animosity towards each other resurfaced in The Stick of Truth, where Craig treats detention with Mackey as if it were akin to being restrained in a castle, and Mackey called upon his ginger hallway monitors to prevent his escape. When Craig and the others do escape, Mackey angrily screams "DAMN YOU, CRAIG!" while chasing him.
Armoured Closet Gay: The events of "Tweek x Craig", particularly with Craig's shameful expression when he rejects Tweek's feelings after the latter feels awful about taking their false break-up too far, heavily imply that Craig has been repressing his sexuality for a long, long time. He was also shown to be dating a girl in "Stick of Truth", but broke up with her shortly afterward.
Ascended Extra: Was originally a background character who usually appeared on the playground or sitting in front of Mr. Mackey's office, with no explanation really being given. He was named and given a reason for that running gag by Season 3.
Bad Boss: In the episode "South Park is Gay!", when his gang are presented as rivals to the boys. Unlike with the boys' dynamic, Craig snaps his fingers to get his "fags" in line, and has them dress exactly the same as him.
Berserk Button: Insulting his guinea pig Stripe seems to be a good way to make him angry as we see in "Tweek Vs. Craig".
Brutal Honesty: Though he will tell the occasional lie when it suits, Craig loves to tell harsh truths in the most blunt and unfiltered way possible, a skill which he puts to an excellent use when dealing with the boys.
The Bully: His original characterization from Seasons 3 to 8. He originally stood out as being distinctly aggressive and a complete bully, leading his classmates into the beating of defenseless kids. In recent episodes, he is much more passive aggressive and stoic, not as attentive to bullying others as before (though still gets the odd laugh out of it).
Butt-Monkey: He doesn't get it as bad as other kids, and for the most part he deals as much pain as he gets, but whenever he's the focus of an episode, the plot refuses to give him a break.
- In Season 12's "Pandemic" the main 4 tricked him out of his birthday money, and he spent the entire episode being dragged around Peru because the government mistook him and the boys for an actual Peruvian Flute band.
- In "Tweek vs. Craig", Cartman, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny fool him and Tweek into fighting each other, and he's later attacked by Tweek again at the end of the episode after he's made to believe that he insulted his mother.
- At the end of "Quest for Ratings", the Jerkass visual department adviser casually fires him in favor of the boys and makes a request to have him castrated for his deep voice.
- In "The Magic Bush", he and his family are humiliated when footage of his mom's vagina (and her excessive pubic hair) are posted on the Internet anonymously by Cartman.
Character Catchphrase: In "Le Petit Tourette", he repeatedly says "If I could [call someone something vulgar] I would be sooo happy." The "sooo happy" part is also used a few times in "Pandemic".
Character Development: After his Deadpan Snarker characterization was fully established, he undergoes a lot of development in "Tweek x Craig", where he's shown to be more emphatic than in his previous appearances, eventually coming to terms with his true sexuality and becoming Tweek's boyfriend in the process. Taken further in "Put It Down", where Craig is shown to be sweet, attentive, and supportive towards his boyfriend Tweek, who eventually manages to calm down after Craig learns to let him grieve and express his anxiety rather than problem-solve.
Character Tic: Earlier in the show, he had a habit of flipping people off.
Characterization Marches On: Originally, he was pretty much a one-joke character with the Flipping the Bird thing. Around Season 7, he was reimagined as The Rival to the main boys with schemes of his own. However, his "Pandemic" Day in the Limelight re-reimagined him as a Deadpan Snarker who would decidedly avoid trouble if he could help it (making him more of a Foil to the others). That characterization proved very popular and has persisted since.
The Chosen One: In "Pandemic 2", Craig is insistent that you don't have to do what you're expected to do, but discovers that when you're really the Chosen One, that's that. Sorry Craig, but you're going to have sparks shooting out of your eyes whether you like it or not.
Chick Magnet: Implied or Downplayed. In "The List", the fake list has him voted #12, but various users on South Park Archives discovered some pieces of the puzzle; Bebe said that "To move Clyde meant that Craig had to be moved to number twelve, which moved Jimmy down and moved Jason up!", meaning at this point they either had to switch Craig from position number 1 to 12 so Clyde could take the number 1 spot, or were planning on putting Craig at 1 vis-a-vis Clyde and Jason at 12 and 13 or 11 respectively so they could make room for the real ugliest boy (shown in a deleted scene to be Cartman) and do a freebie for Craig. Either way, Craig is at least held in high regard by the girls. He only becomes more popular after the Asian girls start making Yaoi of him and Tweek, a couple every single girl at school actively ships, which is why Craig loses most of the attraction he had from the opposite gender when he stages a breakup between the two.
Craig: Now everyone thinks I'm a manipulative cheater! I'll never get any chicks!
The Comically Serious: Craig doesn't show much emotion and it's often played for laughs.
Cosmic Plaything: The universe loves to go out of its way to force him to do things he desperately tries to avoid, such as saving the world in "Pandemic" and dating Tweek in "Tweek X Craig". He eventually submits and goes along with the latter, which ironically ends up making him happier.
A Day in the Limelight: Though he has major and supporting roles throughout, he's the protagonist of "Pandemic", "Pandemic 2: The Startling", "Tweek x Craig", and "Put It Down".
Deadpan Snarker: As of Season 12, Craig's most distinguishing characteristic is that he always speaks in a monotone, whether surprised, angry, or trying to make a joke. And that includes snarking. Despite being something of a background character, he has more of these moments than any other single character on the show. The only time he's ever lost his cool tone was when he lost control of his emotions while arguing with Tweek.
Craig: This is fun. Let's walk for miles through a spooky jungle. It just keeps getting better and better.
Disney Death:
- He falls off the school bus and down a cliff in "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)", but it later turns out the entire episode was all a Dream Within a Dream.
- Played for Laughs in The Fractured but Whole where he's buried in lava (read: red lego bricks) and has to be saved by Toolshed using his sandblaster hose on the new kid's butthole to clear the lava with their farts. Cartman then gives him a Shot to the Heart to "revive" him, which causes Craig to briefly break character to call him out on this since he could've killed him for real.
The Drag-Along: The Boys drag him along to their Peruvian pan flute scheme because he received $100 of birthday money. He is not happy about this.
Dysfunctional Family: No, really, have you seen his family's habit? Then again, his family doesn't start moral crusades that get people killed, stymie their kids' development to avoid being alone, cause untold damage with whatever crazy trend going on, abuse drugs and fight in front of their kids, ground and beat their kids over whatever minor issue bugging them, encourage their children to be vapid bimbos, or feed them meth-laden coffee while exploiting them for free labor and claiming the success or failure of the family business rests on their kids' shoulders. When news come out that Craig is gay, Thomas struggles with accepting it but overall handles the situation much more maturely and realistically than Stephen did when he thought Butters was bi. Randomly flipping each other off is one of the least problematic things a family in South Park could do.
Establishing Character Moment: Blink and you miss it, but in "Damien", he's swept away by Damien's hellish wind, but unlike the other kids who are also taken by the current, Craig keeps a flippant and stoic face throughout.
Eye Scream: By the end of "Tweek vs. Craig", Tweek has left him with a nasty swollen eye that you would be forgiven for thinking had been plucked out.
The Fatalist: After deliberately going out of his way to prove other people's divinations about him wrong, only to fail each time, he eventually resigns to his status as a Cosmic Plaything.
- He expresses his feelings of helplessness in his journal at the end of "Pandemic 2: The Startling" (though that doesn't stop him from staying out of another misadventure with the boys).
  Craig: I realized that we don't always have control over what happens to us. We are but players on the stage of life. And I also learned to never listen when people come asking you for money.
- This is proven further in "Tweek X Craig" when his own father tells him to stop fighting his homosexuality, as the Japanese girls chose him and continuing to resist will just make him unhappy for the rest of his life. He listens to his advice and promptly gets together with Tweek.
  Thomas: Son, you need to listen to me. You can't fight being gay. I used to think being gay was a choice, but... you don't get to decide. Japan picks who they pick and that's that.
Flipping the Bird: He does this to just about everyone he sees. He tries to pass it off as a tic, but nobody buys it. Apparently, he gets it from his family. This is actually weaponized in South Park: The Fractured but Whole as one of Super Craig's abilities, which is named "Shining Hate Finger".
Good Is Not Nice: Craig is repeatedly shown to be snarky, rude, and cynical, but he has a good heart deep down, which is shown more often in later seasons, particularly with Tweek.
Has a Type: Twitchy blondes, apparently. Before he started dating Tweek, he seemed to be somewhat affectionate to Thomas in "Le Petit Tourette", since he was attracted to the boy's ability to get away with cursing to his authority figures.
Hollywood Genetics: His father's a redhead while his mother and sister are blondes, yet the very few times we see him without his hat on, he has black hair. Some fans have used this, along with the fact that he apparently has ancestral ties to Peru, as evidence that he's adopted.
Informed Deformity: According to Cartman, Craig has "fucked-up teeth". The girls seem to agree, as he was apparently^note voted the fourth least cutest kid in the class, not that it bothered him, since his goal was being hotter than Cartman.
It Runs in the Family: Craig gets his nasally voice from his mother, his aloof and occasionally abrasive attitude from his father, and his Flipping the Bird tick from both of them.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: During the early seasons, he was probably the second most violent kid in his class after Cartman, as he was shown to lead any generic bullying that goes on in school. He was always shown going to the counselor due to his cynicism and disrespect towards the other characters, especially when flipping them off. This was almost entirely phased out starting around season 12, where his characterization was cemented as a Deadpan Snarker. In "Tweek x Craig", he undergoes massive Character Development when the false news of him and Tweek being gay with each other is spread around. He's still a deadpan kind of kid, but he's shown to be a whole lot more empathetic than his previous appearances have given him credit for. Later in "Put It Down" he goes even further, having become Tweek's boyfriend ever since "Tweek x Craig" and spending the entire episode by Tweek's side, trying to help him deal with his panic attacks about North Korea and President Garrison's tweets about them and Tweek.
Kids Are Cruel: During his rival/bully "phase" in the early seasons, with his primary victims being Mark Cotswolds in "Hooked on Monkey Fonics", and Kyle in "South Park is Gay". Aside from that, he's basically on par with the others, though he did casually suggest burning down the library in "Pajama Day" to protest the school banning his class from wearing their pajamas at school on the titular day.
Living Emotional Crutch: After they officially get together, he tries to be this to Tweek (who genuinely seems calmer and more confident when he's around), but it doesn't always work since he's not that good with messy things like emotions.
Meta Guy: In "Pandemic," his observations about the boys and their adventures feel a lot like overall commentary on the show. For instance, he points out that normal kids have normal problems like falling off their bikes or arguing with their parents, and when Stan and Kyle protest that "these things just happen," he retorts that nine times out of ten, they're choosing to pursue some Zany Scheme or get involved with something that's best left alone.
Mistaken for Gay: Thanks to the power of yaoi, everyone believes that he and Tweek are dating, and it's just easier to go along with it. There's not much mistaking about it as of "Put it Down", where Craig continues to act very affectionate towards Tweek despite there no longer being any peer pressure to do so.
Nerdy Nasalness: Known for his nasally voice and ugly laugh. If his room is any indication he likes space and science in general. He also likes Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
Never Bareheaded: His hair is almost never shown, unless he's wearing a birthday hat, baseball cap, or is being checked for lice. He also sleeps with his chullo hat on, and goes to school with it in Pajama Day as well.
Not So Stoic: He briefly loses his temper, to the point of petty name-calling, during his fight with Tweek in "Put It Down". Lampshaded by Craig himself right afterwards.
Craig: Oh, see? Now you made me lose control of my emotions. God damn it.
Official Couple: With Tweek since "Tweek x Craig". It's really established in "Put It Down", with the boys calling Tweek his boyfriend and him spending the episode trying to make Tweek feel better. Craig also holds Tweek's hand and calls him "babe" and "honey" throughout the episode, even when it's very unlikely anybody from South Park is around to see them. The creators further confirmed this on Twitter.
Only Sane Man: He's one of the only characters to ever point out how the main quartet's nutty schemes are ludicrous. Craig also demonstrates that, when those nutty schemes come up, it's possible to simply walk away from them.
Perpetual Frowner: If he isn't stoical, he's this.
Pet the Dog: He befriends Thomas, the kid with Tourette's Syndrome, near the end of "Le Petit Tourette" because he doesn't find swearing to be a problem, and he forgives Tweek for messing up their 'break-up' in "Tweek x Craig".
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers his above quote to the Main Four to explain to them why nobody else at school consistently hangs out with them. Which is rather unwarranted, if you think about it.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The stoic, logical, monotone Blue Oni to Tweek's Red. Bonus points for actually wearing a blue outfit.
Retcon: Craig's hair color was inconsistent for a time. It was initially black in "South Park Is Gay!", but was depicted as gray in "The Losing Edge". Later episodes switched his hair back to black, and in a slightly different style than what he had in his second hatless appearance. The Stick of Truth game confuses things further by depicting him as a blond in a sequence.
Refusal of the Call: In "Pandemic". Or at least, he tries.
Homeland Security Director: Damn you Craiiig! You just don't ever stop, do you?!
Craig: I didn't say anything.
The Rival: While he leads any rivalry of the primary four boys, he seems to have a special disdain for Cartman. This sticks even in later seasons, where he's for the most part made peace with Stan, Kyle, and Kenny.
The Stoic: While it was Depending on the Writer for a time, this has solidified into being Craig's "thing". He is notably very unflappable in the face of South Park's bouts of craziness, and takes a calm, disinterested disposition to pretty much everything.
Straight Gay: Is in a romantic relationship with Tweek, calling him "babe" and "honey" and refers to himself as a "Homosexual Cis Male" on his Fractured But Whole character sheet, but otherwise acts no different than the other boys.
Those Two Guys:
- Though he's more often seen with a group than in pairs, Clyde is usually his default companion when the boys are in a mission, especially around season 6 where their demeanors were quite interchangeable. The most notable example is "Crack Baby Athletic Association", where they work together to find the real Slash for Cartman.
- He can often be seen with Tweek ever since their hookup, and they even make a couple-themed bike for two in "Bike Parade".
Took a Level in Kindness: In recent seasons his violent and trouble-making tendencies have been toned down and he's become more compassionate, particularly after becoming Tweek's boyfriend. In "Put It Down" he spends much of the episode attempting to help Tweek with his panic attacks, and in "Splatty Tomato" he's the first to offer to help Kyle find his missing brother. Additionally, both future timelines show him to be a pretty warm fella, though not as much as Scott, Butters or Wendy.
You Can't Fight Fate: Not that he doesn't try, but in the end, everything prophesised about him turns out to be true.
- In "Pandemic 2: The Startling", he tries to prove that you can just walk away from your fate as The Chosen One, but it's trying to do that leads to him defeating the Guinea Pirate. It's almost a Broken Aesop in its implementation.
- In "Tweek x Craig", he and Tweek agree to pretend to date out of peer pressure, despite trying to prove throughout the whole episode that they aren't gay. Of course, as of "Put It Down", all signs point towards them dating for real.

Tweek Tweak

^{Click here to see Wonder Tweek}

^{Click here to see him as an adult}

"GAH! That is way too much pressure!"

Voiced in English by: Matt Stone

Voiced in French by: William Coryn

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Antonio Delli (Season 2), Patricia Azan (Seasons 3-9 and 17 onwards), Margarita Coego (Season 10), Xavier Coronel (Season 13), Jackeline Junguito (2011 redub), Rómulo Bernal (adult), Luis Daniel Ramírez (Mexican dub)

Debut: "Gnomes"

A constantly nervous and paranoid boy with wild blond hair. He constantly twitches because of all the coffee he drinks — and because of the "healthy" sprinkling of locally brewed meth that his parents keep putting in it.

His role in Coon and Friends is Wonder Tweek.

Abusive Parents: Not only do his parents test the quality of their meth supplies by giving it to their son through his coffee, but his father frequently jokes about selling Tweek into slavery right in front of him when it's painfully obvious his son has serious anxiety. In "Tweek x Craig", his dad admits that he's always just assumed that Tweek was a little spaz, but respects him now that he knows he's gay, which was pretty negligent on Richard's part regardless of Tweek's sexuality. Even Cartman realizes how messed up Tweek's home life is:
Cartman: God, what the hell do his parents do to him?
Aerith and Bob: Everyone has normal names, and this guy is named "Tweek".
Alliterative Name: Tweek Tweak.
Armoured Closet Gay: In "Tweek x Craig", it's shown that Tweek has also been a slight case of this trope, but after Craig motivates him to act out a false break-up with him (which had Gone Horribly Wrong), he seems to have gained more confidence, making it easier for him to come out of the closet than when Craig did.
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Being strung out on stimulants 24/7 will do that to you.
Butt-Monkey: For the four main characters during his time as the "fourth friend".
Cassandra Truth: Underpants gnomes!
Character Catchphrase: "GAH! That's too much pressure!", "GAH! Get away from me!", "They're gonna get me!" and "Oh Jesus!!!"
Character Tics: Trembling, pulling at his hair or shirt, and twitching his eye. He's actually ripped his hair out before.
Cloudcuckoolander: His appearance, personality, and outlandish claims such as the underpants gnomes give off this vibe to other characters, but he's really just Properly Paranoid, so it's mostly averted.
Cowardly Lion: He's capable of some pretty brave things if pushed, but none of them (so far) have cured his default setting of near-permanent panic attack.
A Day in the Limelight: "Gnomes", which is also his debut episode. Becomes one of the 4 main characters during the second-third of Season 6, and later on has "Tweek x Craig" and "Put It Down".
Dreadful Musician: Played with in "Put It Down". In the beginning of the episode, he "plays" a song by banging on the piano and screeching because he's too afraid of incipient nuclear war to be coherent.^note When performing the episode's eponymous song with Craig, however, he does just fine.
Freak Out: Every time he appears. His anxiety and twitchiness are played for laughs.
Hidden Depths:
- "Tweek x Craig" reveals that he's a surprisingly good improvisational actor.
- "Put It Down" reveals that he can bake well enough to impress Kim Jong Un, and that he's a gifted pianist once he finally calms down.
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Tweek's parents encourage his caffeine addiction while also making him do supply runs out to a nearby meth lab for their coffee business.
Holding Hands: Frequently seen holding hands with Craig in background scenes.
Hollywood Genetics: Tweek's hair is blonde, even though his parents are brown-haired.
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Tweek's terrible addiction to coffee. Completely inverted when it turns out that it is meth being slipped in his coffee — by his parents.
Keet: Even though his hyperactivity comes from the fact that he's paranoid and scared, not happy.
Meaningful Name: Tweak Bros Coffee is made with locally brewed meth. "Tweaking out" is when a meth user lapses into paranoid, compulsive, and meaningless behaviour after going on a binge.
Messy Hair: It probably hasn't seen a brush in years.
Mistaken for Gay: Everyone thinks he and Craig are together thanks to the Japanese transfer students drawing yaoi of the two, but by the time "Put It Down" comes around, everything points towards it being genuine.
Morality Pet: To Craig. Craig acts unusually gentle towards him in "Tweek x Craig", and according to some whiteboard notes for South Park: The Fractured but Whole, he's one of the only two things Craig cares about. In "Put It Down", Craig even calls him pet names like "honey" and "babe".
Must Have Caffeine: His parents own a coffee shop and don't have any issues with giving their nine year-old son more caffeine to help him "calm down", which isn't how it works. At all.
Nervous Wreck: To the point where his earliest classroom scenes would have him animated as constantly twitching and shaking. The animators stopped after his demotion to being a background character, but every once in a while he'll still twitch when he talks.
Nice Guy: Anxiety problems notwithstanding, he does usually mean well, and really does appreciate those who support him through his emotions. When chosen as the replacement Replacement Goldfish for Kenny in Season 6, he's quite loyal to the boys (save for Cartman) in spite of how badly they treat him, and balances it with a surprisingly solid moral core, to the point where Cartman and Kyle prefer him over each other (which to be fair isn't too hard).
Official Couple: With Craig since "Tweek x Craig". Seems to rely on Craig for support, and Craig calls him pet names like "babe" and "honey". The episode "Put It Down" basically has their relationship at the forefront, with Craig trying everything he can to help Tweek feel better, which works in the end. He's also seen holding hands with Craig throughout the episode, including the last scene, in which they hold hands and look each other in the eyes with a smile. Further confirmed by the creators on Twitter.
Properly Paranoid: In any other show, he'd be a lesson in not letting your fears get the best of you. In South Park, everything he's afraid of has happened, could happen, or is happening right now.
[The boys are standing around a snowman who is only missing his nose, holding a carrot.]
Stan: Okay, now put on the nose, Tweek.
Tweek: I can't, you do it!
Kyle: Just stick it on.
Tweek: But what if I put it in the wrong place?
Stan: Just put it between his eyes.
Tweek: AGH! But what if, while I'm putting on the nose, the snowman comes to life and tries to kill me?
Stan: Tweek, when has that ever happened, except for that one time?
Out of Focus: Video games aside, he has not had a major role since "Put It Down" from Season 21. Even before that, he came close to Living Prop status from Season 6 to Season 19. However, he seems to have regained his supporting status as of the "Post-Covid" specials, as he had a supporting role in "Not Suitable for Children".
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The panicky, emotional, skittish Red Oni to Craig's Blue.
Refusal of the Call: Such a Nervous Wreck that he can't even put the nose on a snowman because it's too much pressure. He struggled as the stand-in for Kenny since the other kids basically had to drag him around everywhere.
Repetitive Name: "Tweek Tweak". His last name is pretty much the same as his first.
Sixth Ranger: Ever since Tweek became Craig's boyfriend, he's been shown to be another member of Craig's Gang in various episodes.
Spell My Name With An S: The official FAQ says his surname is spelled "Tweak", though the show more often uses "Tweek" for the surname too.
Spiky Hair: To accentuate his basket case status.
Straight Gay: Is dating Craig, and is pretty much the only boy who has never been confirmed to have dated a girl. He also refers to himself as a "Homosexual Cis Male" on his Fractured But Whole character sheet and comments "I like sausage!" when Clyde complains that the South Park: Phone Destroyer group chat is a "sausage fest". He only stands out for reasons of his neurotic behaviors, however.
Teeny Weenie: According to "T.M.I.", he has the second smallest penis in the fourth grade next to Eric Cartman. But for some reason, he isn't seen with Cartman in the anger management class.
Those Two Guys:
- After Kenny came back and Tweek lost his major character status, he started being regularly seen with Jason, either sitting together in the cafeteria or as part of Craig's gang in "South Park is Gay".
- Since their hookup in "Tweek X Craig", Tweek majorly became a Satellite Love Interest to Craig, and was rarely seen without him. Of course, with "Put It Down" portraying the latter as a Living Emotional Crutch to Tweek, it's hard to see why.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Even if it started as a joke, Craig has been a very good and supportive boyfriend to him, and their healthy relationship is a nice contrast to the treatment he gets from his Abusive Parents.
Twitchy Eye: His eye usually twitches when he's suffering one of his muscle spasms.
Verbal Tic: Along with every kind of other tic.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Inexplicably vanished from the main boys' group as fourth friend off-screen before Kenny's return (while Butters was "fired" from the position), and his role among the boys steadily decreased until he was eventually removed from classroom scenes. In the "Black Friday/Console Wars" trilogy, he has a minor role as part of the PS4 group. Not to mention he has a few speaking lines in Season 17 (including in the aforementioned trilogy). He finally really returns to the show in Season 19, where he and Craig share the main focus of an episode.

Timmy Burch

Timothy "Timmy" Burch

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^{Click here to see Doctor Timothy}

^{Click here to see Iron Maiden}

"TIMMAH!"

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in French by: William Coryn

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: undubbed (Seasons 4-9), Xavier Coronel (Season 10 and 2007 redub), Orlando Noguera (2010 redub), Alexander Otaola (Seasons 14-15), Arianna López (Season 16), unknown (Season 18), Rómulo Bernal (Season 21 onwards and 2015 redub)

Debut: "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000"

A handicapped boy in a wheelchair who can only say his name. He is friends with Jimmy Valmer.

His role in Coon and Friends was Iron Maiden, but is now Doctor Timothy of the Freedom Pals in South Park: The Fractured but Whole.

Advertised Extra: Despite singing Kenny's part in Season 6's theme song, he's only prominent in two episodes over the course of the season.
Affectionate Nickname: Jimmy occasionally calls him "Tim" or "Tim-Tim".
Breakout Character: Was intended to be a one-shot and gag character, but the crew liked him and he was popular with audiences, leaving him to be utilized more through Season 4. However, this was subverted after a while (see Demoted to Extra).
Characterization Marches On: Timmy's earlier appearances left it ambiguous if he was really "all there" in the head as he didn't always seem like he was fully aware of what was going on around him. Over time, it became a lot more clear that he not only was, but was actually very intelligent. He just isn't always able to show it due to his limited vocabulary.
A Day in the Limelight: "Handicar" is primarily about Timmy. The main cast don't even appear. Also "Timmy 2000," "Cripple Fight," and "Helen Keller! The Musical."
Demoted to Extra: After being built up to be a major secondary character, he was ultimately replaced by the easier-to-write-for Jimmy, though Timmy himself became more prominent in later episodes alongside Jimmy, even portraying them as best friends as opposed to their previous (one-sided) rivalry in "Cripple Fight".
Flanderization: His Pokémon Speak. In his earlier appearances, he is shown to say more than just his name when he tried. However, in "Up the Down Steroid" he was unable to tell Mr. Mackey that Jimmy was using steroids because all he could say was "Timmy" and "Jimmy".
Hidden Depths: "The Hobbit" implies he resents his disabilities, as he's seen photoshopping a picture of himself to look like a normal boy.
I Just Want to Be Normal: In "The Hobbit" it's implied that Timmy resents his condition, photoshopping his pictures to look like a normal kid. Thanks to healthcare advancing in the future, as an adult he's capable of walking and saying full phrases.
Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Parodied: he's often used to parody various social issues relating to the disabled. Otherwise, he and Jimmy are treated as just another couple of students by their classmates and everyone else.
Intelligible Unintelligible: Jimmy seems to be able to understand him about as clearly as if he were speaking with actual words despite his speech impediment.
It's All About Me: As Cartman pointed out, he can be very selfish at times.
- In "Helen Keller: The Musical" he uses his position as the lead to force the other students to use the turkey he wants over the turkey everyone else wants.
- In "Cripple Fight" he tries to kill Jimmy then lies about Jimmy being gay to get him kicked out of Boy Scouts because he was jealous he was no longer the only handicapped kid in Boy Scouts.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Due to the nature of the show itself, it's hard to tell if Timmy may actually be telepathic. On one hand, it could just be all the kids pretending he's reading and speaking to their minds when playing superheroes together. On the other hand, his ability to communicate everything he does to them while only being physically able to say few words only makes sense if you assume that the telepathy is real, and South Park is just too used to its weirdness to comment on it much. Neither the show nor the game have confirmed it one way or another yet.
Never Learned to Talk: Wheelchair using student Timmy Burch is never heard speaking much other than his name and other words such as "Livin' a lie" "Jimmy, Gobbles and octonauts". This is most likely due to his intellectual disability.
Nice Guy: While a tad arrogant at times, he's nevertheless always happy to help others without any prompting, and is so handy that even Cartman likes him. In "Handicar", he starts a taxi device to collect funds which he then donates in its entirety to his Summer Camp (all $2.3 billion of them).
No Indoor Voice: Tends to SHOUT his name rather than say it ("TIMMAH!").
Pokémon Speak: "Timmy!" is (usually) the only word he can say somewhat intelligently. Bizarrely, both of his parents are also like this ("RICHARD!" "HELEN!"). Sometimes he's able to speak other names depending on the episode; for example, "Gobbles!" in "Hellen Keller! The Musical" when he adopts a turkey named Gobbles. He can also say his friend's name, "Jimmy!", since it's just "Timmy!" with the first letter replaced. "Fourth Grade" also has Timmy cry "Please help me!" when his modified wheelchair gets unstable and could explode if the chair went too slow or if he got off it. He also manages to rattle off "And the Lords of the Underworld!" in "Timmy 2000".
- This is subverted for the most part in South Park: The Fractured but Whole, where Timmy's superhero persona "Doctor Timothy" is an extremely powerful psychic who is able to speak telepathically in complete and fluent sentences. He can still only say his name when talking without using his powers, though.
Promotion to Opening Titles: Took over Kenny's singing role in the theme song during Season 6 (after Kenny died and temporarily stayed dead). Ironically this was the same time Timmy was Demoted to Extra.
Smarter Than You Look: For a kid who was referred to as mentally handicapped In-Universe, he's pretty clever. Not only did he start a taxi service that's worth $2.3 billion by the end of the episode, he was able to successfully frame Jimmy out of the scouts (though, to be fair, the adults of South Park are too stupid to notice how bad a Photoshop job it was). Also, as shown in South Park: The Fractured but Whole, his telepathic dialogue appears to be outright eloquent. On the motor skills side, he has been seen swimming, operating a computer, and holding his own in a fight.
Young Entrepreneur: "Handicar" features Timmy starting up a taxi service of the same name where he pulls passengers around in a wagon hitched to his wheelchair. He's so successful that he sells his business for $2.3 billion at the end of the episode.

Secondary

Scott Malkinson

^{Click here to see Captain Diabetes}

^{Click here to see him as an adult}

"Hey, don't make fun of my diabetes!"

Voiced in English by: Matt Stone

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Rolando Felizola (Season 12), Alexander Otaola (Season 13), Fabián Hernández (Season 17), Jackeline Junguito (Season 18), Rómulo Bernal (Season 20 onwards)

Debut: "Elementary School Musical"

Another classmate that debuted in Season 12. He's considered very uncool to be seen hanging around since he has a lisp and diabetes.

His role in Coon and Friends is Captain Diabetes.

Ascended Extra: His biggest roles were initially only in "Elementary School Musical" and "Butters' Bottom Bitch", although he was re-used in the background in subsequent school scenes. He wound up utilized again in some significant part for the "Black Friday" saga in Season 17, as well as Season 18's "Gluten Free Ebola" and Season 20's "Skank Hunt". He has more prominent roles in several episodes of Season 23 and eventually gets an episode centered around himself in Season 23's "Basic Cable". He even has a major role in "The South ParQ Vaccination Special", where he and several other 4th Graders are Brainwashed and Crazy by the QAnon tutors in order to stop the COVID-19 vaccinations from happening, forming their own group called "Lil' Qties", with Scott as their leader. As of Season 25, he is now a regular character in Mr. Garrison's classroom.
Butt-Monkey: Plays this part to Cartman and the other boys in his debut episode, "Elementary School Musical", and is later mentioned to have been beaten up by Butters in "Going Native". He also suffers from starvation and the risk of dying from diabetes in the Black Friday Trilogy while he and Butters visit George R. R. Martin to ask for his help, and he just talks about Game of Thrones, mostly how much the series shows off people's wieners constantly, much to their disgust.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Scott becomes this towards Sophie in "Basic Cable", lashing out at any guy trying to talk to her.
A Day in the Limelight: He gets such an episode in Season 23 called "Basic Cable", where it focuses on him trying to impress a girl he likes by trying to get streaming services for his family.
Delicate and Sickly: Always suffers from his diabetes to the point where he almost passes out from it in the "Black Friday" trilogy.
Early-Bird Cameo: He can be seen briefly at the arcade room in Jeffersons' house in the remastered version of the Season 8 episode "The Jeffersons".
Entitled to Have You: Scott starts thinking of Sophie this way, based solely on the fact that they both have diabetes, and that's the only thing about her that he cares about. When Scott lashes out on the boys for hogging on her attention, Sophie calls him out on this.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Butters is the only one who likes him while the other kids constantly make fun of him. It's best shown "South Park: Post Covid" when all of the now grown up kids return to town and none of them even remember who Scott is, even though he keeps trying to remind them.
Grew a Spine: Scott manages to stand up for himself to the other boys who've made fun of him for having diabetes several times in "Basic Cable". During the climax, he gorges on pie from the Gray's kitchen to send himself into a diabetic rage in order to stand up to the other boys who want to win Sophie Gray's heart, just like himself.
Love at First Sight: In "Basic Cable", he fell in love with the new girl in his class, Sophie Gray, who has diabetes just like himself.
Nice Guy: One of the nicer classmates. He willingly helps the boys' attempts to win back their classmates' trust in "Gluten Free Ebola", and goes along with Butters to get George R. R. Martin's help in the Black Friday Trilogy. This is taken further in South Park: The Fractured but Whole, where he plays the role of Captain Diabetes, "the world's strongest diabetic superhero". Here, it is shown that Scott Malkinson is very heroic, going so far as to take Randy's keys to prevent him from driving while drunk, even when he chases him and the New Kid all the way to the Buca Da Faggocini on their first superhero mission. It helps that his character sheet states that his character alignment is "Lawful".
Non-Standard Character Design: While most of the fourth graders lack visible ears in their designs, his ears are large and quite prominent.
Phrase Catcher: Scott is almost always mocked by his fellow students with the phrase "I'm Scott Malkinson. I have diabetes."
Replacement Flat Character: Takes on Butters' old role as the Butt-Monkey whom others only tolerate for their own benefit.
Speech Impediment: Has a lisp combined with his very nasally voice.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In his early days on the show, he was just your average Butt-Monkey. By the end of "Skank Hunt", you'll want to smack him just as much as Mr. Mackey does for him continuously threatening to quit Twitter and never actually following through. He also gets possessive over Sophie in "Basic Cable" despite Sophie not showing any romantic interest in him.
Youthful Freckles: He sports these to further accentuate his Butt-Monkey status.

Kevin Stoley

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"Perhaps we could use it to strengthen our star cruisers."

Voiced in English by: Matt Stone

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Tomás Doval (Seasons 1-2), Frank Falcón and Rossana Cicconi (Season 6), Yuri Rodríguez (Season 9), Xavier Coronel (Season 13 and 2011 redub), Jonathan Ramírez (Season 17), Alex Ruiz (Season 20)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

A minor background character in the Boys' class and a Star Wars fan. He's usually unimportant, but joined Cartman's pirate crew in "Fatbeard".

Ascended Extra: He is seen consistently in episodes like "Black Friday", "A Song of Ass and Fire", and "Titties and Dragons".
Asian and Nerdy: He's said to be Asian in "Conjoined Fetus Lady" and while we don't know about his grades, he definitely qualifies as a geek.
Geek: He often talks about about Star Wars.
Identical Stranger:
- There's a 4th grade girl called Esther, who basically looks like a female version of him.
- There is a background character that also looks almost identical to Kevin, except he has brown hair.
Informed Attribute: He doesn't appear to be Asian compared to the other Asian characters that appeared in the show.
Living Prop: Only gets used now and then when the writers want to show off his nerdy awkward nature, or to just give a generic line here and there.
Offscreen Romance: With Red. She'd broken up with him in "Skank Hunt", but like a number of other now-broken couples, we didn't even know they were dating. They didn't exactly have much canonicity, save for the fact that they hung around with each other in the background in earlier seasons.
Phrase Catcher: "Kevin, God damn it!" Said by Cartman when Kevin shows his love for sci-fi (usually Star Wars or Star Trek) at inappropriate times (such as carrying a toy lightsaber to Cartman's pirate club).
Retcon: Stated to be Chinese-American in Season 2's "Conjoined Fetus Lady" when he mentions "My parents are from China", though the Brooks couple in "My Future Self n' Me" are implied to be his parents and are Caucasian. They've popped up in parent gatherings in later episodes as well. Some take this as him being adopted, while other viewers figure the Chinese heritage was a one-episode deal that the writers quickly forgot about.
Sudden Name Change:
- His last name was implied to be Brooks in "My Future Self n' Me", but later changed to Stoley in "Fatbeard".
- He was originally named "Sky" in the Season 1-2 storyboards as well ^note, though Mr. Garrison referred to him as "Casey" in "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig".

Bradley Biggle

^{Click here to see Mintberry Crunch}

"Sometimes, when everything seems hopeless, that's when you need to bring it all. That's when you need... TO BRING THE CRUNCH!"

Voiced by: Jesse Howell ("Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics"), Eric Stough ("Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"), Matt Stone (present)

Debut: "Rainforest Shmainforest"

A mild-mannered, attractive fourth grader and the younger adopted brother of Henrietta.

His role in Coon and Friends is America's favorite superhero, Mintberry Crunch.

Alliterative Name: Goes along with some superheroes' alter-egos.
Ascended Extra: Becomes one for the "Coon and Friends" trilogy.
Blessed with Suck: Or so you would think...
Cloud Cuckoolander: Pretty odd at times.
Connected All Along: It's only near the end of "Coon vs. Coon and Friends" that we discover that he and Henrietta are siblings.
A Day in the Limelight: The "Coon and Friends" trilogy.
Deflector Shields: His "Protective Berry Bubble" power. It's even part of his abilities in The Fractured But Whole, where it's shown that he can grant his allies temporary invincibility by cleansing them with Mint while covering his enemies with Berry, nullifying all damage from enemy attacks.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He does, with the power of mint and berries, with a satisfying, tasty crunch.
Dirty Coward: "Heroically" leaves his fellow superheroes to fight Cthulhu and watches Judge Judy instead. Prior to taking an extreme Level In Badass anyway.
Edible Theme Clothing: The costume for his Mintberry Crunch alter ego consists of half of a berry mask some mint leaves, and a few berries on one half of his body.
Flight: Is able to do this once discovering his true power, despite it not relating to mint or berries.
Human Aliens: In the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, he is revealed to actually be from the planet Koka-jon, where his kind resemble the humans on Earth.
Identical Stranger: Suspiciously similar to Butters.
Lethal Joke Character: He's a coward whose superpowers are based on sugary breakfast cereals, and these very traits make him the only one who can stop Cthulhu.
- He even becomes this in The Fractured But Whole. He has low attack and unlike his sister Henrietta, his effects don’t immediately take effect, but once a teammate has Mint and the opponent has Berry, the former takes absolutely no damage, and if you activate his Ultimate and keep doing it every turn, then your team pretty much has nothing to worry about.
Living Prop: Before A Day in the Limelight anyway. He wasn't even a South Park resident when he initially debuted, but the animators quickly re-used his design for classroom and crowd scenes (along with other characters from the "Getting Gay With Kids" choir).
Loser Has Your Back: While he does take a level in badass later, he was portrayed as a coward when Cartman beats him up and Cthulhu sends his friends to oblivion. He is the only one that follows Mysterion to confront Cartman and Cthulhu.
Meaningful Name: His name alliterates, like the names of multiple super hero civilian identities (like Peter Parker for Spider-Man and Clark Kent for Superman).
Muggle Foster Parents: He is really an alien from the planet Koka-jon.
Put on a Bus: Aside from a few background cameos and several hidden appearances in Seasons 19 and 20, he hasn't really appeared since the superhero arc when he left to go find his alien parents. He comes back for the "Bring the Crunch" DLC in Fractured but Whole, remarking how he hasn't been back on Earth in a while.
Super Power Lottery: He has super strength, can fly, can move at superhuman speeds, can generate forcefields, teleport, and shoot berries and mint leaves out of his hands.
Super-Strength: Apparently he's strong enough to defeat Cthulhu and easily drag him by a mouth tentacle all the way back to his own dimension.
Teleportation: Closes the portal to R'lyeh after sending Cthulhu back there.
Vocal Evolution: His first speaking role was voiced by an actual kid (the same as one of Ike's original voices). In "Marjorine", Bradley is given a nasally voice akin to Craig, voiced by Matt Stone. This same voice carries over into the episodes "Coon 2: Hindsight", "Mysterion Rises", and "Coon vs. Coon & Friends".
Walking Spoiler: Since he was only a background character before defeating Cthulhu, most of his tropes refer to that feat.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His power is described as "Mint and berries yet with a satisfying tasty crunch". Apparently it's pretty badass.
Who's Laughing Now?: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. While banishing Cthulhu back to R'lyeh and rescuing his friends, he briefly returned home to flip off his sister and say, "Fuck you! I have powers you fat bitch!"

Jason White

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Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe"

Final Appearance: "Season Finale"

A Living Prop who resembles actor Jason McHugh, who starred in Cannibal! The Musical and Orgazmo, both created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Ambiguous Situation: Is he officially dead or alive? He gets run over and is pronounced dead in "Season Finale", but is shown to be alive in subsequent episodes with no apparent explanation or acknowledgement. It's unclear if these occurrences are continuity errors or if he somehow was revived from his death. Will hopefully made clear once and for all if and when the White family get another episode focused on them.
Angry White Man: Downplayed. We never really get to see much of this side of him, but he is part of a family of them.
The Brute: He's unafraid to beat people up, and in The Fractured But Whole, he reveals that he's into brutalist heroes, so the only way to get a selfie with him is to equip at least one of their abilities.
The Bully: In "South Park is Gay", he's the second most antagonistic kid to Kyle, next to Craig, and the first one to get physical with him in the playground.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's randomly run over by a police cruiser in "Season Finale". While he was a Living Prop, he still was around since the beginning of the show and his death is very abrupt and out of nowhere.
Early-Bird Cameo: He made a brief appearance in the cafeteria in Season 1's "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" before he's formally introduced in Season 6's "Professor Chaos".
Forgotten Fallen Friend: One of the biggest gripes his father had at his funeral was the lack of turnout, which bothered him to no end since he had been there since the beginning.
Bob When I look out on this congregation, I can't help but think, "There's not a whole lot of people here." Doesn't seem like a big deal. Nobody's outraged. 'Cause it was our family. Nobody cares when a White gets killed by the police. There should be protests and marches, but NO. The police killed a White! That's not protest-worthy!
Informed Deformity: Wendy says that he has freckles in "The Hobbit", which aren't noticeable at all, and his actual "imperfection" (his receding hairline) is never pointed out by anyone.
Killed Off for Real: Gets run over by a police cruiser while playing football with the rest of the kids. Suddenly might be averted (see retcon below)
Living Prop: Despite getting a few lines here and there, he had very little characterization and usually only appeared in the background. The only thing he does of note is indirectly cause the creation of Mexican Joker with his death.
Look Both Ways: How he ends up biting it, walking across the street to retrieve a ball and getting hit by a car.
Lovable Jock: The only notable trait of his that Father Maxi brings up during his funeral is his love for sports. In general, he's usually seen playing football or basketball, and is said to have been a nice enough guy.
Mauve Shirt: He would get a few lines once in a while and was around from the first episode, but he had very little characterization and any role he played could have been played by any of the other kids. Bonus points for wearing a purple coat.
Nice Guy: In The Stick of Truth, he's the only elf to readily accept the New Kid without asking anything from them in return, and you only need to buy something from his store for him to befriend you. After his death, Cartman tells his parents that he was a good guy, and would want his parents to move on.
Offscreen Romance: With Emily (the blonde girl with an alcoholic mother in "Bass To Mouth"). They were often seen conversing in the background prior to "Skank Hunt", where she hands him a breakup note.
Prematurely Bald: Or balding, rather. Despite being an elementary student, he appears to have a receding hairline.
Retcon: Despite being killed off in "Season Finale", Jason appears at the playground and in the assembly in "The Big Fix" (as does the Boy with Brown Hair and Red Shirt who died in "The Pandemic Special"), and both are fully animated raising their hands about Tolkien and playing with other children, indicating they may be revived or it may be an oversight by the animators.
Sixth Ranger: He was seen as a part of Craig's group in "South Park Is Gay", "Elementary School Musical", and briefly in "Ginger Cow". He's also usually part of the boys' extended circle, though only when the group already has more than 6 kids.
Small Role, Big Impact: Despite being a Living Prop, his death causes the creation of Mexican Joker.
Token Good Teammate: The only member of his family to never be shown as an Angry White Man, although that might have something to do with his untimely death only two seasons after they're established as characters.
Unexplained Recovery:
- A variation. When he's run over, the car completely smashed the back of his head. However, at the funeral, his head is mostly unscathed with only tire marks on his face.
- He also made a few background appearances in the school after he died. Although compared to before, his cameos are much more infrequent and not upfront.

The Girls

Main

Bebe Stevens

Bebe^notepronounced "Bay-Bay", not "Bee-Bee" Stevens

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"Having boobs sucks."

Voiced in English by: Jennifer Howell (current), Mary Kay Bergman ("Weight Gain 4000")

Voiced in French by: Marie-Laure Beneston

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Vivian Ruiz (Seasons 1-2), Patricia Azan (Seasons 3-9 and 16 onwards, and 2015 redub), Laura Termini (Season 11 and 2007 redub), Karina Lange (Seasons 12-13 and 2011 redub), Ana Lobo (Mexican dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

Wendy's best friend. She once hated her breasts when she started developing them early (and caused the male 4th graders to turn into perverted, mindless apes), and was once attracted to Kyle Broflovski because she thought he had a "sweet ass." Passionate like Wendy (though not very concerned with feminism and politics), she also tends to come into verbal conflict with Cartman.

All Women Love Shoes: And Bebe loves them more than all.
Ascended Extra: Bebe was introduced as the narrator for the South Park Play in "Weight Gain 4000", then was pretty much reduced to a character with a generic line (similar to Clyde) until she's revealed to be Wendy's Best Friend in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" and gives her the makeover to win Stan back. She got her first major role in the episode "Clubhouses" where she developed a crush on Kyle for his buttocks and received her own Day in the Limelight with "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", which established her as an important member of Wendy's group of girlfriends.
Badass Adorable: Bebe may be a cute 4th grade Girly Girl, but she has proven multiple times that she's no slouch in a fight. "The List" shows Bebe holding off Girly Bruiser Wendy with little effort when they're fighting with a gun over the titular list, while "The Worldwide Privacy Tour" has her immediately jump into a berserker-like fight with Butters after he insults her (granted, Butters doesn't attempt to fight back, but she didn't know that would be the case for the first ten-ish seconds of the fight and clearly wanted to show him who's boss no matter what).
Buxom Beauty Standard: Parodied. Her breasts develop early, but they're still barely noticeable, yet she still becomes a Dude Magnet with all the boys in class becoming extremely attracted to her.
A Day in the Limelight: She's the main focus of "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society".
D-Cup Distress: Doesn't like how her newly-defined breasts have caused the boys to give her unwanted attention and the girls to ostracize her.
The Dragon: To Wendy, usually. She can also be this way to anyone else if the girls are the intended antagonists for the episode.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Was originally shown wearing a green jacket in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and would later be shown wearing a pink one in "Weight Gain 4000" and "Pinkeye".
Girly Bruiser: She may be one of the most feminine girls in the show but episodes like "The List" and "Worldwide Privacy Tour" show herself to be a fairly competent combatant, going all Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs on Butters in the latter episode for at least a couple minutes without getting tired because she's just that angry at him.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: While she may be one of the more feminine girls, she also enjoys partaking in many hobbies that aren't considered "feminine", like throw rocks at ongoing car with the boys, and playing Call of Duty: World at War in the computer lab, even Flipping the Bird at Cartman when she gets a kill shot at him. "Worldwide Privacy Tour" also shows herself being willing to beat up people when they insult her.
Hidden Buxom: "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" has her hiding her breasts by wearing a carboard box over her coat. As her breasts aren't noticeable in any future episodes (with the exception of her scrapped facebook profile picture in "The Stick of Truth"), it's implied that she has gotten a bigger sweater to hide them.
Hidden Depths: She wants to be a lawyer or a marine biologist.
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Defied in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", where she tries to get boys to stop treating her this way.
Informed Deformity: Wendy reveals that she has acne in "The Hobbit", but she is never shown to have any.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Usually, she's harsh towards some of her fellow classmates when not being Wendy's lancer. In fact, her harshness becomes a prominent issue in "The List" and "Lice Capades". (You can guess what Clyde's reaction to some of her commentary was). Despite this, her Jerkass behavior actually turns out to be a charade, especially when she doesn't like how her boobs manipulate every boy in her class to include her.
Lovable Alpha Bitch: Bebe is a very popular girl who can be shallow on occasions, cares about her looks and social status, and is willing to beat people up if they insult her. That said Bebe reveals her harsh personality is just a facade to hide her insecurities on how people view her while also admitting that she doesn't want people to judge her solely on her looks. In fact, she can be nice to people if they haven't pissed her off and has shown herself to be a loyal friend to Wendy on occasions.
Ms. Fanservice: She becomes this as an adult where she wears a form fitting shirt that emphasizes her Impossible Hourglass Figure and large breasts and skirt that exposes her legs.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: She give a brutal beatdown to Butters when he insulted her in "The Worldwide Privacy Tour".
Out of Focus: Has had a little less to say and do when it comes to plots involving the girls and class, due to her voice actress being busy with other commitments. Sometimes, she goes entire seasons without saying anything.
- She also barely appears at all during Season 3, only appearing in 5 out of the 17 episodes.
Stereotype Flip: Despite her mother being one, Bebe doesn't apply to the Dumb Blonde stereotype (thus averting the It Runs in the Family trope), as she correctly answered what 6 x 8 is in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society".
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl (a Girly Girl who loves shoes and has a girly room) to Wendy's Tomboy (the former is a headstrong Straw Feminist who wears yellow pants, a stereotypical male color). Downplayed though in that Wendy herself isn't a straight-up tomboy, rather being somewhere in the middle of the masculine-feminine spectrum.
Those Two Girls: She can be seen paired with Red in several episodes.
Vocal Evolution: Her voice notably gets deeper in later seasons.

Heidi Turner

For Tropes related to her, see South Park: Heidi Turner.

Red McArthur

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"I'd give anything to be with Bridon Gueermo, but he'd never go out with me. I'm nobody."

Voiced by: Eliza Schneider (2002?, see note)^note, April Stewart (2004-?, see note) ^note, Mona Marshall (2008-present)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

One of the minor female classmates and a part of Wendy and Bebe's group of friends. Used to be a background character more often seen with Kevin than with the other girls.

Advertised Extra: The commercials made it seemed as if Red was going to have a prominent role in the "Vaccination Special", but in the actual episode Red spoke once but joined the Lil'Qties in fighting The Boys.
All Women Love Shoes: Briefly dated Clyde just to get a chance at getting free shoes before passing him on to Bebe.
Apathetic Citizen:
- Looks bored during Gordon Stolski's murder during the morning announcements in "Dances with Smurfs".
- Doesn't show any sympathy when Mrs. Garrison announces that Butters has "died" in "Marjorine"; she instead just asks "Who's Butters?". Though this isn't as harsh as the previous example, since Butters hadn't actually died in the episode, she didn't know that, so it doesn't justify her.
Ascended Extra: Originally the most silent of the recurring female classmates, but began getting more of a speaking role starting with the sixth season. She even appears as an unlockable character in the Xbox Live South Park game Let's Go Tower Defense Play! and gets her own character cards in South Park: Phone Destroyer, with two of them being Legendaries.
Beta Bitch: In "The List", she helps Bebe and a few other popular girls forge the cute boys list to justify dating the Hollywood Pudgy Clyde to get free shoes since his father owned a shoe store. Red herself was shown dating Clyde early in the episode for a short while before Bebe steps in.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Not as extreme as Wendy or Bebe can get, but still can be pretty bad. Most notably in "The List" where she initially acts friendly to Wendy before resorting to threaten her when she reveals that she knows about the forgery of the cute boys list.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the very first episode, she was originally shown wearing a light purple jacket rather than her modern navy blue one.
Gamer Chick: Red is seen playing Call of Duty: World at War in the computer lab, even gloating to Stan when she gets a kill-shot at him.
Girly Bruiser: Joined the Lil'Qties in battling the Boys in the "Vaccination Special", specifically fighting Kyle.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Loves rainbows, sparkles, and boy bands as much as the other girls in her class. However, she is shown to also love video games and she can put up quite a fight when needed to.
Given Name Reveal: Of the surname variety—in "The Pandemic Special", her surname is revealed to be McArthur.
Hidden Depths: In "Butterballs", each time Stan voices his concern to stop bullying at his school, Red expresses her admiration that somebody is willing to do something about it. She even has a prominent role in Stan's anti-bullying video. And by the end of the episode, Red is noticeably quite angry (along with the rest of the school) at him when the video turns out to be hypocritical, and she furiously goes up to him to say that it made her and the school "look like uncaring idiots."
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her cruel streak, she is occasionally shown to also have a tender side. In "Marjorine", she's one of the harshest on the "new girl" (actually Butters in drag) but later shows some remorse when she drives him to tears.
Kids Are Cruel: As with the other students and girls. Usually comes off cruelest in plots involving just the girls, such as in "Marjorine", "The List", and "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset".
Living Prop: For most of the show's run, but newer seasons will give her a line or two if we need a girl other than Wendy or Bebe.
Meaningful Name: Her name comes from the fact that she has red hair.
Satellite Character: Along with most of the other girls, she mostly exists to be one of Wendy and Bebe's friends.
Sudden Name Change: Red -> Bertha -> Rebecca -> Red once more. Though "Rebecca" can be considered her extended name, there's no accounting for "Bertha", unless Jimmy simply got it wrong and she didn't correct him.
Cartman: Fuck you, Millie. Fuck you, Annie. Fuck you, Bebe. [to Red] Fuck you, whatever your name is. [to Sally Turner] and Fuck you, bitch!
Those Two Girls:
- She often appears to be this with Annie in crowd and background shots.
- It's not uncommon to see her paired up with Bebe when the latter isn't with Wendy.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Red is the girly girl to Wendy's tomboy. Downplayed in that they both have some masculine and feminine character traits, but Red is generally more willing to conform to feminine trends such as acting like a "stupid spoiled whore", making fake lists about the boys' cuteness with Bebe and the others just to get fancy shoes from Clyde, or getting obsessed about manipulating her image with photo editing to impress boys, while Wendy is more likely to oppose them. Zigzagged slightly in that both girls can be quite confrontational and tough at times, and Wendy has the more feminine appearance of the two.
What Happened to the Mouse?: She's one of the few supporting characters to not make an appearance as an adult in any of the "Post-Covid" specials, which is worrying since the last time she had been shown onscreen prior to that was as a Lil Q'tie, which considering how joining the group affected her classmate Clyde, doesn't fare well for her, at least in the Bad Future.

Annie Knitts

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"I don't even know what a queef is!"

Voiced by: Mary Kay Bergman (1998-1999), Mona Marshall (2004-2009), April Stewart (2009-present)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

Another tertiary student shown in 3rd/4th grade classroom over the course of the show. She's part of Wendy's group of friends, and that's really mostly it for her.

Ascended Extra: Though usually just a background character in the show, she gets a major role helping the New Kid in South Park: The Stick of Truth. She also gets a couple of speaking roles in Season 20.
A Day in the Limelight: South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Distaff Counterpart: To Butters. Both have blonde hair, are among the nicer and more naive of their respective cliques (Annie with the girls, Butters with the boys), are the targets of bullying, and display surprising leadership traits in spite of their ingenuousness.
The Ditz: Although she's rarely characterized as much as the others, her brief lines and screen time basically amount to her seeming to be this.
Fangirl: The Stick of Truth shows her to be one of Justin Bieber, as she has a doll of him.
Informed Deformity: Wendy mentions that she has thin hair in "The Hobbit", but similar to the other flaws she mentioned, this isn't visible to the audience.
Living Prop: Despite being featured on the show since the first episode and never leaving the classroom, she does not really have much of an established personality and has yet to receive any major character development. Judging by the times where she is characterized, she does have potential to be like a female Butters due to their similarities as aforementioned. She usually has very little to do, unless she's shown as part of Wendy's group. She does, however, get a bit of a role in the Stick of Truth game, where she'll befriend the player character after he defends her from a group of older girl bullies.
Nice Girl: Annie generally comes off as one of the nicer girls in the fourth grade. The Stick of Truth brings this trope out full force.
Out-of-Character Moment: Despite her naivete, she showed a lot of leadership for the girls to get revenge on the boys for assumptions that one of them is the notorious Internet troll in "Skank Hunt".
Satellite Character: Exists to show that Wendy has other friends besides Bebe.
Spell My Name With An S: Her initial surname was first assumed to be "Polk" for many years. Only the release of an official episode guide would confirm her surname to be spelled "Faulk". Up until it changed.
Sudden Name Change:
- Referred to as "Annie" in the storyboards for Seasons 1 and 2, but was used as a character named "Jordan" in "Conjoined Fetus Lady" ^note. She was then referred to as "Annie" a full six seasons later, but would then briefly be called "Ashley" in "Butters' Bottom Bitch".
- Her surname was also initially given as "Faulk" in Season 8, but it changed to "Nelson" by the end of Season 17 ("The Hobbit").
- In The Stick of Truth she is referred to as Annie Knitts, and then it's changed back to Nelson in The Fractured But Whole.
Those Two Girls: The animators seem to pair her off with Red quite a bit in the background.

Nichole Daniels

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Voiced in English by: Kimberly Brooks ^note

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Paulina Cossio (Season 16), Patricia Azan (Season 17), unknown (Season 20), Paula Barros (Seasons 21-22), María José Estévez (Season 23)

Debut: "Cartman Finds Love"

The newest girl in the 4th grade. Although she initially shows interest in Kyle, Cartman's manipulation leads to her realizing that Tolkien is the one that she wants.

Apologises a Lot: In her debut episode, though she appears to have dropped this habit in her subsequent appearances.
Characterization Marches On: In her debut episode, she was rather discreet, prone to apologizing regardless of whether she actually did anything wrong, and generally went out of her way not to upset others. As the seasons went on, she's become more assertive and isn't afraid to speak out against others. By Season 23, she's practically become a leader figure to the other girls.
Informed Deformity: Wendy mentions that she has puffy eyes in "The Hobbit", but similar to the other flaws she mentioned, this isn't visible to the audience.
Nice Girl: One of the nicest girls in the show and, with the exception of "Skank Hunt", has yet to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
Official Couple: With Tolkien, to the point where she's shown with him and the other students in the episodes afterwards. Until she dumps him at the end of "Skank Hunt", leaving him devastated. However in "Dead Kids" she's trying to make her relationship with Tolkien work again.
Precision F-Strike: Swears for the first time in "Board Girls".
Nichole: Okay, so then let's do it, bitch.
Token Minority: Is the only other black kid at South Park Elementary.
Token Minority Couple: Cartman's racist manipulation leads her and Tolkien to enter a relationship.

Secondary

Nelly

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"I don't care if you're a boy! I'm gonna kick your ass!"

Voiced by: April Stewart

Debut: "Free Willzyx"

Another minor student who appears to be friends with the popular girls.

Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: She has no qualms over fighting Butters and the other girls encourage her to kick his ass.
Everyone Has Standards: In "Douche and a Danish", she refuses to fight Butters until he pulls his pants up, since flashing his wiener at her was the only tactic he had.
Girlish Pigtails: She has twin pigtails, and also wears a flower shirt to empathise her femininity.
Girly Bruiser: She has no qualms picking fights while wearing a flower shirt and sporting pigtails.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Likes the Jonas brothers, Tweek X Craig yaoi, and Clyde's romantic messages to Bebe as much as the other girls, and her appearance is one of the most girly of the team. With that said, she's very headstrong and a tough fighter.
Groin Attack: Receives one from Butters when he tries to obtain the girls' list of the cutest boys. However, since she doesn't have balls (and Butters has a weak kick), it doesn't hurt her as much as Cartman hoped for, and the plan fails.
Little Miss Badass: She seems to be a talented fighter, as evidenced by the injuries Butters receives after kicking her in the groin. They are later set up to battle at the the beginning of "Douche and a Danish", which is then interrupted by Cartman and Heidi.
Living Prop: Though she does take the lead on occasion, she's usually a prop among the girls, and rarely even sits with the main clique at the cafeteria.
The Reliable One: The girls entrust her with the cutest boy list, and she does a pretty good job at defending it until Cartman strikes her with his "Operation: Cannot Possibly Fail A Second Time". However, with the revelation that the list was a forgery likely designated so that the boys would steal it, Bebe might've actually used her as a scapegoat.
Offscreen Romance: Is shown to have had one with Francis^note in "Skank Hunt", as she is seen handing him a breakup note towards the end of the episode.

Lola

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"Do yourself a favor, Wendy! Just let it go! And keep your little mouth shut!"

Voiced by: Jessie Thomas

Debut: "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"

A minor female classmate part of Wendy and Bebe's group of friends and a member of the Pleases & Sparkles club.

All Women Love Shoes: She conspired with the girls to put Clyde at number one on their cutest boys list just to get free shoes from him.
Alpha Bitch: She, along with Jenny, lashes out at Wendy for disapproving of their decision to put Clyde at the top of the list just to get free shoes from him, and wants her to leave the Pleases & Sparkles club because of this.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In "The List", where she secretly conspires with Red, Jenny and Bebe to tamper with the list to put Clyde at the top in order to get free shoes from him.
Early-Bird Cameo: She can be seen at the Chinpokomon camp in the HD version of "Chinpokomon", 3 seasons before her actual introduction.
Girly Girl: She loves shoes, sleepovers, and shopping just like all the other girls.
Gossipy Hens: Is shown gossiping to her friend Jenny in "Cartman Finds Love" about Kyle's rumored homosexuality.
Groin Attack: Receives one from Wendy after she disapproves of her decision to put Clyde at the top of the list just get a chance at getting free shoes. Doubles as a Brick Joke to an earlier attempt in the same episode "The List", when Cartman has Butters get the "Cutest to Ugliest Boys" list from Nelly by kicking her in the groin, but to no avail, leading Nelly to beat up Butters in retaliation.
Informed Deformity: Wendy mentions that her arms are too short in "The Hobbit", but similar to the other flaws she mentioned, this isn't visible to the audience.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her cattiness, she serves as one of the leading volunteers to help raise awareness in distracted driving in "Put It Down". She's also the only one to actually try to get her female peers to stop mocking Heidi's decision to date Cartman in "Doubling Down".
Living Prop: One of the least characterized out of all the girls.
Lovable Alpha Bitch: In spite of some of her nastier moments, she has been shown to have a nicer side; she and Red defend Butters from the boys' criticism in "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", she offers to let Kyle join her and Jenny at the mall when she thinks he's gay in "Cartman Finds Love", and she tries to help raise awareness for distracted driving in "Put It Down".
Those Two Girls: She is frequently shown with her best friend Jenny.

Jenny Simons

Jennifer "Jenny" Simons

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"Do you really think they'll believe you over the heads of the committee?! We'll simply generate a new list! "Biggest Liars"! And put you [Wendy] at the top!"

Voiced by: April Stewart

Debut: "The List"

A girl part of the Pleases & Sparkles club, and is best friends with Lola above. She's mostly another minor female classmate, but had an important role in "Bass to Mouth".

Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted in "Bass to Mouth", when she shits her pants in front of everyone.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In "The List", where she secretly conspires with Red, Lola and Bebe to tamper with the list to put Clyde at the top in order to get free shoes from him.
Bring My Brown Pants: In order to have her overshadow the Pete Melman incident, Cartman tricks her into soiling herself in the middle of class. It works, but she attempts suicide shortly afterwards.
Bungled Suicide: After being humiliated by crapping her pants in front of the entire class, she was mentioned to have jumped off the school roof, but still manages to survive the fall with a broken pelvis, and is shown to still be alive in later episodes.
Characterization Marches On: Her debut appearance in "The List" presents her as a malicious and self-serving jerk who was willing to undermine several boys' reputations and even her friend Wendy solely to get free shoes. Her subsequent appearances, however, present her as more of a naive Nice Girl.
Embarrassing Nickname: After her Potty Failure, her boyfriend apparently started calling her "Soft-served Simon".
Horrible Judge of Character: She was gullible enough to fall for Cartman's Laxative Prank after she feels remorseful for "rejecting" him.
Laxative Prank: Falls victim to one by Cartman.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In "Bass to Mouth", she felt guilty for turning down Cartman's offer of friendship, and subsequently tried to make it up to him by trying one of his mom's cupcakes. However, the cupcake was laced with laxatives, causing Jenny to defecate her pants in class, humiliating her and causing her to attempt suicide.
Offscreen Romance: Is revealed to have a boyfriend in "Bass to Mouth", but it was never revealed whom. Considering the only seen we hear him do is reportedly call her a "Soft-served Simon" through Eavesdropper, it's probably for the best that she isn't ever seen around him.
Potty Failure: After eating laxative-laced cupcakes that Cartman gave her, she asks Mr. Garrison if she can be excused from class to use the bathroom, and he lets her do so, but Cartman tries to stall her, and after holding it in for too long she eventually craps her pants in front of the entire class.
Those Two Girls: She gets paired off a lot in the background with Lola.

Sally Turner

Note the hairclip, style, and clothing.

"Jason has a huge bulge. You're gonna get it, boys."

Voiced by: Jessie Thomas

Debut: "Rainforest Shmainforest"

A member of the girls' clique, who only appears as a background character.

A-Cup Angst: Is said to stuff her bra in "Quest for Ratings". Though this is probably Malicious Slander, she did wear one of the skimpier Paris Hilton-themed outfits just a few episodes later, so her preoccupation with her chest might not be all fantasy.
Beta Bitch: Is one of Lizzy's lackeys in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", but does not have any individual lines.
Dirty Kid: She, along with the rest of the girls after becoming stupid spoiled whores, hits on the boys walking by in the hallway, and even makes a comment on one student's erection. Fittingly, she's paired with Kenny in "Follow That Egg".
Living Prop: One of the biggest examples of a recurring classmate. Unlike every other kid who debuted in the "Getting Gay With Kids" choir, she has remained a background character ever since, hardly getting any lines or prominence, save for a few speaking roles in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", the only episode where she speaks. Out-of-universe, some fans even mistakenly believe that she and Red are the same person.
Non-Standard Character Design: Minor example. Her eyebrows are red like her hair instead of black like the other students, even the other redheads.
Sudden Name Change: Her name was heard in "Quest for Ratings", yet oddly enough she was called "Powder" in "Follow That Egg!". In-Universe, it might be a nickname, or Mr. Garrison got her name wrong, which Kyle has noted him to do in "The Big Fix".
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The only meaningful things she's shown (or told) to do are actively participate in the Stupid Spoiled Whore fad in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" and reportedly stuff her bra in "Quest for Ratings" (assuming it's true), all in the same season.

Lisa Berger

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Voiced by: Jessica Makinson

Debut: "Butterballs"

Another new 4th grade character that appeared in Season 16. She becomes more of a focus in the Season 17 finale, "The Hobbit".

Abhorrent Admirer: Butters was turned off by her being too fat, but suddenly gained interest once Wendy photoshopped Lisa to make her look thin and attractive.
Ascended Extra: Introduced as a random child being ridiculed in "Butterballs", but winds up on the cheerleading team in Season 17, leading up to her role in the finale.
Butt-Monkey: Is ridiculed for her style of pants, as well as being fat.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After playing her first major role in "The Hobbit", she completely vanished from the series without any explanation until a brief cameo in "Board Girls".^note
Fan Disservice: After everyone begins fawning over her thanks to Wendy's Photoshopped image of her, she puts on a dominatrix-style outfit. Besides the fact that this extremely revealing outfit is being worn by a nine year old girl, her stomach fat bulges through it in a rather unflattering fashion.
Non-Standard Character Design: Aside from being chubbier, her hair has shading and highlights to it, and she doesn't wear winter clothing.
Small Name, Big Ego: Thanks to Wendy Photoshopping a picture of her and suddenly being considered hot and popular.
Song Parody: She performs a parody of Britney Spears' "Work, Bitch" called "Work Out, Slut".
Sudden Name Change: Was named "Lorraine" in her debut in "Butterballs", but was referred to by her current name in "The Hobbit".
Took a Level in Jerkass: She starts off friendly and shy, but after becoming popular, thanks to Wendy's photoshopped image of her, she becomes a narcissistic jerk.
What Happened to the Mouse?: She never appears or is mentioned again after the episode "The Hobbith", likewise the subject of her relationship with Clyde is never mentioned again and in season 26 he dates Bebe again instead of her.

Other Classmates

Pip Pirrup

Phillip "Pip" Pirrup

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"Cheeri-o! My name is Pip. I would like to see if you wouldn't mind not smashing our little town to bits."

Voiced in English by: Matt Stone

Voiced in French by: Marie-Laure Beneston

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Frank Falcón, Orlando Noguera (2011 redub), Mayra Arellano (Mexican dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

Final appearance: "201"

A British student who was picked on a lot, and everyone hated him.

Alliterative Name: As with the character he was based off of.
All of the Other Reindeer: Mistreated and abused by all the other children. Just about everyone hates him. Even Chef. Despite this, however, he is shown to be friends with Butters and Dougie in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub".
Back for the Dead: He became a Living Prop after his last speaking role in "Professor Chaos" and was completely absent from the show after his brief non-speaking appearance in "D-Yikes!", but returned in "201" to be killed off by Mecha-Streisand.
Berserk Button: Don't call him French. He will tolerate it at first, but he will eventually snap and attack you.
Beware the Nice Ones: When the Chinese dodgeball team called him "French" one too many times, he managed to single-handedly defeat them.
Butt-Monkey: The whole purpose of Pip's character was to be ostracized and abused by all the other students in spite of (or perhaps because of) his overly nice nature. The four boys would rip on him for his nationality, while everyone else would regularly torment him by playing games where they abuse him at recess. Even Chef, who was regularly sympathetic and caring to the school children, finds him annoying and expresses no concern for his wellbeing when he doesn't have a football helmet to wear when coaching the South Park Elementary football game.
Everyone: Shut up, Pip!
Captain Ersatz: Of the Charles Dickens character.
Cheerful Child: Pip always had an upbeat attitude even in the face of ostracism, and never ceased to speak in a cheery voice.
The Chew Toy: For the four boys and pretty much everyone else, who all found amusement and hilarity in exploiting Pip's weakness and abusing him.
Children Are Innocent: Before Butters was introduced as a proper character, Pip filled in the role as the resident Cheerful Child who stands out as being one of the few students who doesn't represent adults' views that Kids Are Cruel and never engaged in his peers' age-inappropriate activities unless pressured.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After he got his own episode, he was more or less replaced by Butters and eventually vanished from the classroom scenes and student gatherings. He made one more appearance, and was quickly killed off. The creators state that they enjoyed Butters' role as the Butt-Monkey more after "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub", so they wrote Pip out after A Day in the Limelight.
Covert Pervert: Despite being one of the most innocent and childlike students on the show, Pip has still expressed some degree of sexual curiosity. He's among the many male students who become interested in Bebe after she develops boobs in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" and fights with the other boys over her, and is quite enthused over Rebecca Cotswolds whoring herself out to kiss him in "Hooked on Monkey Phonics".
A Day in the Limelight: "Pip" and to some extent "Conjoined Fetus Lady" where he is a major character of the B-plot.
Demoted to Extra: In The Movie. Despite being a prominent character in the show's early run, Pip doesn't have any dialogue or role in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and only appears in the background.
Hidden Depths: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" shows that Pip is a lowkey fan of Charlie's Angels, which he plays with Butters and Dougie. He roleplays as Sabrina Duncan.
Living Prop: Became this after "Pip", only to be used one more time for a candidate for the Boys' new fourth friend in "Professor Chaos", until he was entirely phased out from the classroom scenes (as mentioned above).
Meaningful Name: His nickname being used to address him more than his regular name is because everyone hates him.
Nice Guy: Very friendly most of the time, though most of the kids didn't reciprocate his friendly manners.
Phrase Catcher:
- "Go away, Pip! Nobody likes you!"
- "Right-o!"
Precision F-Strike: Despite Pip being the initial Token Wholesome student, even he didn't have a 100% squeaky-clean tongue.
- At the end of "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", Pip says "Let's hear it for Cartman's big fat ass!"
- He also says "bitch" in his day in the limelight episode "Pip" and can be seen singing "Uncle Fucka" with the rest of the class in Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
Throw the Dog a Bone:
- He was in the top 6 of people to replace Kenny which isn't too bad considering it started out at 20 and he was chosen over Wendy.
- In later seasons, particularly around Season 5, Pip would begin to be seen in the Boys' extended group or playing with and talking to other boys in the background (ie. Timmy, Jason, and Kevin in "South Park is Gay!") without them minding his company, implying that he gained more acceptance in school after his character decline.
Tiny Tim Template: While he is primarily based of the character from Great Expectations, he does have shades of being this, being a British-voiced orphan (though he originally wasn't), and tends to suffer a lot of abuse from everyone in town, although he has no permanent visible injuries on him. Nevertheless, he still manages to keep a chipper attitude despite all of his bad luck. Up until his death in Season 14, anyway.

DogPoo Petuski

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"I think I deserve to take Kenny's place the most, because, I've been hanging around these guys for like five years and I never get to say or do anything."

Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

A kid covered in dirt and dog poo who mostly only appears as a Living Prop.

Dissonant Serenity: In "South Park: The Stick of Truth", he tries to deliver his quest to the new kid in old English, proper of an Elven Warrior, while asking them to "fuck the shit out of (the humans') banners".
Dung Fu: His ability in South Park: Phone Destroyer involves him flinging nuggets of dog poo at his enemies, which he has stored in his pockets for some reason.
Early-Installment Weirdness: A kid heavily resembling him can be occasionally seen in the special ed bus and in the asylum. Once the Special Ed kids are properly introduced in "Up the Down Steroid" and "Crippled Summer", said kid vanished, with no further mention of DogPoo being mentally challenged in any way (though he might have fecalphelia).
Friendless Background: Though he seemed to have no problem being part of social circles in the show, South Park: The Fractured But Whole implies this, as he's shown to be quite clingy with the new kid, and quickly proclaims that their selfie makes them friends forever before they can retract.
His Name Really Is "Barkeep": His Name Really Is DogPoo, in this case.
Living Prop: And how. He's made appearances in the show since the pilot but has mostly been used to fill in classroom scenes or student gatherings. In fact, he's only spoken in two episodes^note, and in South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: The Fractured but Whole as an NPC and one of the New Kid's potential followers. This is lampshaded in "Professor Chaos", where he wants to take Kenny's place as the new fourth friend because he never gets to say or do anything at all. Cartman acknowledges his status as a background character, saying he's more of a prop. Too bad he didn't make the cut.
Meaningful Name: He's a kid covered in dog poo, and his name is DogPoo.
The Pig-Pen: He's called "DogPoo" for a reason, which is a Shout-Out to the actual character from Peanuts.
Rape as Comedy: Becomes the victim of this in "It's a Jersey Thing" where he is shown being raped by Snooki, but it's Played for Laughs.
Sudden Name Change: All There in the Script example: The storyboards of early seasons referred to him as "Dirt", but his name is revealed to be "DogPoo" in "Professor Chaos".
Unexplained Accent: When he first speaks in "Professor Chaos", it is never implied why he speaks in an English accent. It also doesn't fit the unhygienic nature of his character.

Francis

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"You have slayed the mighty snow giant. I stand in awe of you, hero."

Voiced by: Matt Stone ("Probably"), Trey Parker ("The Wacky Molestation Adventure" onward)

Debut: "Tom's Rhinoplasty"

An Ambiguously Jewish kid who often serves as a default Sixth Ranger among the students.

Accomplice by Inaction: His girlfriend Nelly sees him and the other boys as this for not doing anything meaningful to stop Cartman's supposed trolling of the girls, (which he didn't seem to take too seriously, since he wasn't among the boys who later resorted to breaking Cartman's electronics in an attempt to stop the gender war) and breaks up with him in "Skank Hunt" as part of the girls' protest, leaving him to cry in the hallway. Notable because Nelly was the ringleader of the girls in that episode.
Nelly: You see, what the problem is, is that when a little troll is allowed to say anything he wants anonymously, then he speaks for all you boys!
Ambiguously Jewish: He attended Jewbilee in the episode of the same name, but several other episodes allude to the Broflovski's being the only Jewish family in town, so he may have snuck in like Kenny. On the one hand, Cartman is never shown picking on him for being Jewish like he does with Kyle. On the other, in South Park: The Stick of Truth, he had the same stereotypical Jewish voice as Kyle Schwartz.
Defeat Means Friendship: The way to befriend him in "South Park: The Stick of Truth" is to destroy his snowman.
Dirty Kid: He paid for a kiss from Sally Darson in "Butters' Bottom Bitch", lusted after Bebe's boobs like the other kids in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", and is frequently shown attending Raisins.
Flat Character: Not much is known about him other than he likes Snacky S'mores, which is all the description of his signature hairstyle in "South Park: The Stick of Truth" says about him.
Hero-Worshipper: In South Park: The Stick of Truth, he starts admiring the new kid when they destroy his snowman, since in his imagination it was an invincible giant.
Informed Deformity: Was apparently voted third to last in the list of cutest boys, only one position above Cartman, but didn't make a big fuss about it unlike Kyle (who was dead last). Considering the list was forged, it's possible he was another "causality" of the process of putting Clyde at nº1.
Jewish and Nerdy: He's implied to be Jewish, and speaks with a geeky voice in South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Living Prop: Though he doesn't have it as bad as DogPoo, this is his default role.
Nightmare Fetishist: "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" shows that he likes assassin superheroes, and will only take a selfie with you if you equip one's ability.
Offscreen Romance: Had one with Nelly prior to "Skank Hunt". Considering Nelly was the most quick to apply Guilt by Association regarding Skankhunt42's harassment of her peers and family members, it's a miracle they lasted for as long as they did.
Post-Kiss Catatonia: Downplayed. In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", he's visibly dizzy after Sally Darson kisses him.
Sixth Ranger: Served as this for the boys in "Chef Goes Nanners" when Cartman was allied with Wendy's group. He was also this for Butters' Wieners Out movement in the episode of the same name, usually being by his side alongside the major supporting kids.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Minor example. In "The Stick of Truth", he's passive and quick to befriend you, and even claims to admire you after you after you destroy his snow giant. In "The Fractured But Whole", however, he's more aloof around you, and will refuse to selfie with you unless you equip an assassin ability.
Trademark Favorite Food: "Snacky S'mores", or at least that's what his shirt reads. His hairstyle's description in "South Park: The Stick of Truth" confirms that he is indeed very fond of them, to the point of being his only character trait.
Vocal Evolution: The kid gets a new voice every single time he has a speaking role, which is mostly consisted of one-liners spread throughout the many episodes he's in. He sounds like Butters in "Probably", then Clyde in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" (both in Season 4), then adopts a more mature-sounding voice in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society". His voice then changes to that of a regular dork's in "Butters' Bottom Bitch". After that he adopts Kyle Schwartz's voice for his minor role in South Park: The Stick of Truth and then a kindergartener's for his few lines in South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
Yes-Man: Served as the stand in for the Mayor's aides when Cartman became mayor in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", warning him of the massive spit ball headed towards the office.

Bill Allen and Fosse McDonald

William "Bill" Allen and Fosse McDonald

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"Huh huh huh, that's gay!"

Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"

Two bullies that find everything to be "gay". They were more prominent in Season 1 and earlier classroom scenes, but were phased out and relegated to being background characters at the school after the switch to 4th grade.

Aerith and Bob: Bill's name is a little more standard than his friend's.
Character Catchphrase: "Huh huh huh, that's gay!"
Co-Dragons: Acted as this to Mephesto's son Terrance to help him win first prize for the genetic engineering experiment and make the four main boys lose.
Expy: Originally, they were parodies of Beavis and Butt-Head.
Generation Xerox: Their fathers briefly appear in "Damien", and look exactly like their sons and have the same "That's gay!" catchphrase. Bill's dad also appears in a cameo in "Ike's Wee Wee". Due to the rapid phasing out of these characters, the dads were quickly discarded.
The Hyena: They laugh at anything they find to be gay. Which is, to say, everything. Even to the point where they say "we're gay".
Living Prop: Their usual type of role these days.
Non-Standard Character Design: Their thick eyebrows, Fosse's sparse hair, and Bill's visible ears. After they became relegated to the background, the animators stopped bothering to remember their thicker brows and they're now animated with the standard thin ones.
Sudden Name Change: Bill's name was given as "Bill Allen" in "T.M.I.", but he was then referred to as "Billy Turner" in "The Hobbit".
Those Two Guys: They acted in a more antagonistic version of the role through Season 1.

Terrance Mephesto

Terrence Mephesto

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"Hey dumbasses. You morons give up on your stupid science fair project yet?"

Voiced by: Matt Stone

Debut: "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig"

The Bully: Towards the four main boys, due to facing competition between them for the science fair project.
Bus Crash: South Park: The Fractured but Whole reveals that he was killed by Mecha-Streisand, all the way back in Season 1 no less.
Competition Freak: Cloning an entire human body in order to surpass the boys' pig and elephant experiment is his number-one priority throughout the episode.
The Dragon: Acted as this towards Bill and Fosse for the genetic engineering project.
Living Prop: Never spoke again after his debut and was immediately relegated to a background character afterwards (and surprisingly still occasionally appears in the series throughout the years). Gets even stranger when South Park: The Fractured but Whole reveals that he was Killed Off for Real in "Mecha Streisand".
Non-Standard Character Design: Like Bill and Fosse, he had large, thick eyebrows before the animators stopped drawing them.

Brimmy

Voiced by: Matt Stone

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

Kids Are Cruel: Seen beating up one of the mall employees, creates a fire and spray paints in the Nebraska Mall in "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!".
Living Prop: The biggest out of every character in the show. Despite existing since the very first episode, he has no known personality at all and has only appeared as a background character. He has never spoken unique dialogue in the actual series outside of the Fractured But Whole video game.
Offscreen Romance: Had one with Isla (another background character), as she is seen breaking up with him in "Skank Hunt".

Betsy

Voiced by: Betty Boogie Parker

Debut: "South ParQ Vaccination Special"

Badass Biker: She seems to be trying to emulate this look, wearing a leather jacket with jeans and a white shirt.
Conspiracy Theorist: She made her debut as one of the Lil' Qties^noteThe youth wing of QAnon, having been lead to believe the vaccines against COVID-19 can't be trusted.
Creator Cameo: Eagle-eyed fans of South Park would know that she's clearly modeled after Trey Parker's real life daughter, both even having similar-sounding first names.
Remember the New Guy?: Similar to Timmy's introduction 20 years ago, she's introduced to be in the same grade and age range as the main boys, but didn't show up until after Season 23 and it took her a further 3 years after that to get a speaking role.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She has short hair and dresses like a badboy from the 1950s, but also has a bow in her hair and hangs out with the other girls.

Notable Cliques

The Goth Kids

Pete, Micheal, Henrietta and Firkle

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"If you wanna be one of the non-conformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do."

Voiced by: Trey Parker (Pete), Matt Stone (Michael), Jessica Makinson (Henrietta), Nico Agnone (Firkle, "Raisins", "You Got F'd in the A"), Sebastian Yu (Firkle, "Mysterion Rises")

Debut: "Raisins" (all of them)

Four kids who hang out behind the school smoking and talking about how life is full of pain. Oh, and they hate Twilight.

The red haired boy is Pete, the fat girl is Henrietta, the tall boy is Michael, and the kindergartner is Firkle.

Aerith and Bob: All of them but Firkle have typical, possibly even "conformist" names.
Ambiguously Brown: Michael's parents seem to be a white man and an Asian woman, but he's designed like any other white kid. A previous episode implied his parents are divorced, so maybe this was his stepmother, but he explicitly called her "mom". He may simply take after his father.
Angst: They all gripe about life being pain and misery as part of their gothic lifestyle, especially Michael and Henrietta, despite their lives not being depicted as very miserable at all.
Ax-Crazy: The smallest goth (Firkle), who worships Cthulhu and carries around a switchblade.
Firkle: No one will stop Cthulhu now. All will be sadness. Life will become death, and I will watch the crimson blood leak from your neck!
Michael: Dude, that little kid is hardcore goth!
Pete: Hardcore goth!
Broken Pedestal: They used to worship Cthulhu, but soon realize that his presence didn't actually change the status quo.
Mysterion: That god you pray to just took away all my friends.
Pete: Not our god. He promised everything would change if we worshiped him, but we're still sitting here smoking cigarettes like before. It's like Obama all over again.
Character Tics: Pete often flips his hair in between sentences.
Connected All Along: Up until "Coon vs. Coon & Friends" there was no indication that Henrietta and Bradley were siblings.
A Day in the Limelight: "The Ungroundable" and "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" (which even gives them their own version of the opening theme) make them the focus of the plot, both of which revolve around taking down a rival subculture.
Enfant Terrible: Firkle is a small child willing to kill Mysterion as part of his duty to Cthulhu.
Everyone Has Standards: Pete is against killing people in "Mysterion Rises".
Given Name Reveal: After about ten years of being nameless, the male Goth Kids are named in "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers". The taller one is Michael, the red-haired one is Pete, and the youngest one is Firkle. Henrietta's last name is also revealed to be "Biggle" in "Coon vs. Coon and Friends".
Goth: They're all stereotypical Goths, though Trey and Matt have Shown Their Work in regards to the nuances of the goth subculture though.
Goth Girls Know Magic: Henrietta is shown to keep a sacred tome in her room, filled with all sorts of knowledge about supernatural entities and such. It's taken a step further in The Fractured But Whole, where Henrietta is able to be recruited into the New Kid's team during and after the DLC Sidequest "From Dusk Till Casa Bonita", where she is arguably the best healer in the game.
Hypocritical Humor:
- Most of their humor comes from being cookie-cutter stereotypes who, despite acting rebellious and nonconformist, look down on anyone who doesn't conform to them.
  "If you wanna be one of the non-conformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do."
- In the episode "You Got F'd in the A", Stan is looking for recruits of his dance troupe and one by one the Goths refuse out of being non-conformist. However, Mike hesitates before proclaiming he is such a non-conformist he won't conform to his friends' expectations. He accepts Stan's offer and leaves the other Goth kids stunned:
  Henrietta: I think we just got put in our place.
  Pete: Yeah, we just got goth-served.
- They spend all their time alone complaining about how full of pain life is, when their lives would actually be pretty good if they stopped moping and actually tried being happy. Stan realizes this when he joins them for an episode after Butters rejects their offer to join him.
Informed Deformity: Apparently Pete has pockmarks.
No Name Given: Initially all of them except Henrietta. Fan nicknames for the other three usually went along the lines of "Red Goth", "Tall Goth", and "Kindergoth". The Stick of Truth game, meanwhile, referred to Pete as "Hair Flip" in gameplay footage (until it was corrected for the final release). See Given Name Reveal. The official Twitter for the show also referred to the boys as "Hair Flip, "Tall Goth", and "Little Goth", shortly before their official names were revealed. An excerpt of the episode's script also used those placeholders.
Not Brainwashed: "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" reveals that Henrietta and Firkle were not "brainwashed" into being emo. Firkle willingly switched sides out of defeatism while Henrietta switched over out of free will. She is embarassed when she realizes this and her friends instead go along with the ruse to have her save face.
Odd Friendship: Even after he stops being goth, Stan is occasionally seen to talk to the goth kids and it seems that he still gets along with them pretty well. They even give him advice in "Breast Cancer Show Ever".
One-Steve Limit: Michael's name was revealed in an episode also featuring the Vampire Kids, including their leader, the similarly named Mike Makowski.
Out-of-Character Moment:
- In the South Park theme that plays before every episode, Henrietta and Pete can be seen smiling and waving happily.
- Michael is probably the most sedate of the group, but had anger management problems in "T.M.I."
Shown Their Work: Despite a good chunk of the humor surrounding the goth kids coming from their depiction as walking stereotypes, Matt and Trey have been known to occasionally depict them as fairly accurate depictions (compared to most mainstream media, anyway) of the goth subculture. This ranges from their taste in music ^note, to the brand of dry/sarcastic humor found in some goths, the dislike of "posers" ^note, and in a rather odd way, displaying how members of the subculture differentiate themselves from other trends/subcultures that spawned from the original goth movement. Of course, this being South Park, it can be hard to differentiate the stereotype from the actual thing unless you have at least a decent understanding of what's being parodied.
Sibling Rivalry: Henrietta hates her younger brother Bradley and doesn't want to play with him when he asks her to, deeming him a dork.
Smoking Is Cool: They smoke frequently, deeming it a necessity of their subculture. When insulting the emos and vamp kids, they ask "Do you even smoke?"
The Smurfette Principle: Henrietta is the only girl in the group. Michael also brings the trope up in "You Got F'd in the A" when he suggests finding a girl in their dance troupe.
Michael: We can't be a dance troupe with just guys, people will think we're fags.
Spell My Name With An S: When Firkle's name was given on the show, fans had a few different ideas of how to spell it. The correct spelling comes from The Stick of Truth subtitles.
Teeny Weenie: If "T.M.I." is to be believed, Michael may have a small penis.
Tranquil Fury: Michael is in anger management but the goths as a whole rarely raise their voices, suggesting that this is how he expresses anger.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Kidnapping a classmate to ship them to Arizona, worshipping Cthulhu and stabbing Mysterion, even embracing Goth subculture isn’t common until middle or high school.
True Companions: Despite the depressive vibe they try to give out, they do clearly care about and look out for each other. This also seems to extend to folks who used to be goth but left, given their Odd Friendship with Stan.
Vague Age: Due to his height, it's generally assumed that Michael is a few years older than Pete and Henrietta, but it's never stated.
Vocal Evolution: Michael and Pete's voices were originally much higher and more nasal. By their third appearance they'd gotten noticeably deeper.
Wangst: Intentional. Henrietta constantly complains about the horrible things her parents do to her, such as...refusing to let her go to a concert because her aunt is coming over...and complaining about the clothes she wears. Her mother is shown as wonderfully loving, which suggests that her reasons for being goth are slightly whinier than the others. Her father is a bit more serious, though.
We Used to Be Friends: Downplayed, but it's implied that something happened between the events of Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole that caused them to have a falling out with the New Kid, as they behave at best somewhat dismissive, or at worst with bitter contempt, towards them. Which stands in high contrast to their treatment of Stan, who they're still on good terms with even after he left their group. Though they get somewhat more cordial with the New Kid after they help with their side quest in FBW, especially Henrietta, who becomes the New Kid's ally upon recruiting her in the DLC Side-Quest "From Dusk Till Casa Bonita", where she is shown to be a Support Party Member and arguably the best healer in the game.

Raisins Girls

"Welcome to Raisins! You having a good time?"

Voiced by: April Stewart, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider

Debut: "Raisins"

A group of slutty young girls who work at the Hooters-like restaurant Raisins.

Age-Inappropriate Dress: Their outfits are too revealing for their ages.
Theme Naming: All of them are named after expensive cars (Mercedes, Lexus, Porsche).
Uncanny Valley Makeup: As expected, since they're sluts.

The Sixth Graders

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"BOOBS!"

Voiced by: Rochelle Leffler (Leader)

Debut: "Clubhouses"

The Boys' bullies, led by a kid whose shirt has a picture of his face on it.

All Men Are Perverts: They all love boobs and porn.
The Bullies: To the main four boys and other kids.
Gang of Bullies: Aside from the leader, there are usually two other bullies flanking him, but some appearances have them as an extended gang.
Hormone Addled Teenagers: Try to take the adults' porno from the Boys once they learn they have it.
Non-Standard Character Design: While the leader is implied to be of Asian descent, the leader's eyes are slanted compared to the others.
Teens Are Monsters: Pre-teens, actually, but they're still total assholes. They did hold up their end of the bargain in "Pre-School" but had no problem ratting the boys out to Trent.

The Kindergarten Class

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Filmore: If I'm elected class president, I'll call for big ol' chairs. And on Fridays, I'll add two minutes to nap time. Thank you.

Voiced by: Nico Agnone (Filmore, Seasons 4-10), various other children ^note

Debut: "Trapper Keeper"

These characters first appeared in Season 4 and are Ike's fellow peers. They were phased out over time and only rarely appear now (or when children of the staff or other young talent can be brought in to voice them).

Meaningful Name: One indecisive child is named "Flora", which the creators meant as a pun on "Florida" (due to the ballot confusion during the 2000 election).
- Ike's opponent in the class president election is named Fillmore.
Out of Focus: In recent seasons, other than some minor background appearances.

"New Kids"

Damien Thorn

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Rectus... Dominus...

"My arrival shall note the end of the Beginning, the beginning of the End, the new reign of my father!"

Voiced by: Matt Stone (first appearance), Trey Parker (The Stick of Truth)

Debut: "Damien"

Satan's son who was sent to South Park Elementary to destruct the school's property. He was hated on for being the son of the devil and exhibiting that persona very much, but it turned out he just wanted to be treated equally like the other kids.

Anti-Anti-Christ: As noted in his description, all the kids at school hated him for being Satan's son and showing off evil characteristics, but he just wanted acceptance after all.
A Day in the Limelight: "Damien". It's the only episode where he has a major role.
Evil Wears Black: Wears all black, and is as foreboding as you'd expect a child of Satan to be. But subverted, as he's not nearly as evil as people think, and really just wanted to have friends.
Forced Transformation: He turns Kenny into a duck-billed platypus. The kids are only mildly impressed.
Living Prop: After his debut, he was relegated to a background and still occasionally appears as one today. His only other speaking role came from The Stick of Truth game.
Lonely at the Top: Despite his unnerving appearance, he's really just a lonely kid who wanted friends.
Mind over Matter: When he gets angry, furniture starts flying.
Non-Standard Character Design: Much like Bill, Fosse and Terrance, he was drawn with large, thick eyebrows. Unlike those three, however, he (usually) retains those eyebrows whenever he makes a cameo in later episodes.
Playing with Fire: Casually torches the school playground equipment.
Retcon: Was implied to have went back to Hell with his father at the end of the episode, but still appears in the background at South Park Elementary.
Summon Magic: Opens a fissure in the Earth and calls forth shadowy demons to abuse Pip — just to get invited into Cartman's birthday party.
Vocal Evolution: His second speaking appearance in The Stick of Truth portrays him with a more mature voice that sounds drastically different from the high-pitched voice he once had.

Charlotte

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"Thanks, Butters. I'm sore-y I didn't know what ice cream was."

Voiced in English by: Jessie Jo Thomas, Jessica Makinson

Voiced in French by: Marie-Laure Beneston

Debut: "Where My Country Gone?"

A Canadian girl that Butters met and was forced to date in order to give her a "Hot Cosby."

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mixed with Uncertain Doom. The last we see of her, she breaks up with Butters in season 20. When Canada got nuked in season 21, it's unknown if Charlotte was a casualty or not. This could serve as Laser-Guided Karma for unfairly breaking up with Butters.
Girlfriend From Canada: Subverted, as she literally was this to Butters.
Kick the Dog: The way she breaks up with Butters over something that doesn't even affect them comes off as particularly cruel, and leads directly to Butters escalating the gender war.
Official Couple: She enters a long-distance relationship with Butters. Too bad it doesn't last.
Star-Crossed Lovers: She's a Canadian and Butters is an American, and the two nations have a long-standing rivalry. This is subverted when the gender war begins, and Charlotte decides to break up with him to stand with the other protesting girls.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her breaking up with Butters causes him to form the "Wieners Out" movement, and causes him to hate and distrust girls even after he ends it.

David Rodriguez

David^notepronounced "Dah-Veed" Rodriguez

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"I guess you win, huh, big shot?! If you really are any kind of important to anybody, then get your bullshit food critic ass to the south of town and face me! Because you aren't a food critic, and you aren't important!"

Voiced by: Matt Stone

Debut: "You're Not Yelping"

David is a Mexican-American student introduced in Season 19.

Demoted to Extra: He becomes a Living Prop in some episodes after Season 19 and doesn't even have any lines as well.
Early-Bird Cameo: He makes his debut in "The Last of the Meheecans" as a Mexican child trying to break a Mantequilla pinata. He also had a non-speaking cameo as a Syrian refugee child during Kyle's speech at the end of "Stunning and Brave".
Flat Character: At least so far.
Living Prop: He only makes background appearances in episodes after Season 19, as stated in Demoted to Extra.
Phrase Catcher: "Do you ride you tiny bicicleta to school?," from Cartman.
Run for the Border: Subverted; it's mentioned that he moved to South Park from some place awful, where people tend to settle disputes with their fists. He's from Boise, Idaho, not Mexico.
Sixth Ranger: During season 19, he hung out with the four boys quite often.
Starving Student: Kind of; in his debut episode, he had to keep Cartman and the other Yelpers happy so that his family's new restaurant didn't fail.
Stranger in a Strange School: He's still getting used to some of the oddball characters.
Sudden Name Change: The show's official Twitter said his last name was "Teelez" after his debut, but a few episodes later, it was given as "Rodriguez".
Token Minority: Part of his purpose in Season 19 is to show that South Park has become more multicultural since the PC trend started.

Sophie Gray

Voiced by: Becca Scott

Debut: "Basic Cable"

A new girl from Scottsdale. She has diabetes and likes The Mandalorian. Due to her having diabetes, she instantly becomes the target of Scott Malkinson's affections.

Class Princess: Despite her diabetes, she quickly becomes popular at school. But she is also very kind and has no hidden meanness.
Dude Magnet: Her interest in all things Star Wars-related (barring the latest trilogy), causes every boy in school to try and court her, much to Scott's chagrin. She even manages to start a rivalry between the otherwise tightly-knit goth kids.
Fangirl: One of the first things she mentions when introducing herself is her love for Star Wars, especially The Mandalorian, which she tries to watch with Scott.
Motherly Side Plait: Her hair looks strikingly similar to this.
New Kid Stigma: Averted. Everyone at the school is taking her surprisingly well. Even Cartman.
Nice Girl: Despite not having any interest in any of the boys, she does eventually warm up to Scott over their diabetes.
Proper Tightswitha Skirt: Unlike the other girls, she wears a skirt and pantyhose instead of pants and generally gives the impression of a modest girl.
Satellite Love Interest: Inverted. She tells Scott that there's more to her than her diabetes, to which he can only weakly respond that his entire character is nothing but diabetes.
Sophie: Scott, I'm more than just my diabetes.
Scott: (Sadly) ...Well, I'm not. (Beat) ...I'm Scott Malkinson.

Gary Harrison, Jr.

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"It's really tough being in a totally new place, but I think all you guys are really cool so... I understand if there's initiation rites."

Voiced by: Kyle Mcculloch

Debut: "All About Mormons"

The first Mormon character on South Park. He tries to befriend Stan fairly quickly.

The Ace: Is both smart and athletic, doesn't let the other kids' teasing get to him, and probably the nicest kid, nay, person, in all of South Park.
All-Loving Hero: Arguably the nicest character in the entire series, able to forgive teasing or threats, and see the good side to everything.
Good Is Not Soft: Coming from Gary, this line is actually quite shocking and powerful, to the point that even Cartman is proud of it:
"You’ve got a lot of growing up to do, buddy. Suck my balls."
Mistaken for Gay: Cartman and Kyle keep referring to him as Stan's boyfriend, though presumably more as teasing than anything.
Nice Guy: He's such a friendly dude, he's impossible to bully, and it almost intimidates the other children.
One-Shot Character: Only appeared in "All About Mormons".
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: One of the most awesome moments in the episode. After Stan criticised his family and Mormon religion. Gary gives Stan a powerful speech next morning at the end of the episode how exactly he feels and points out his flaws, it ends with all of them speechless and Cartman praising him.
Gary: Look, maybe us Mormons believe in crazy stories that makes absolutely no sense, and maybe Joseph Smith did make it all up. But I have a great life and a great family, and I have the Book of Mormon to thank for that. The truth is, I don't care if Joseph Smith made it all up because what the church teaches now is loving your family, being nice, and helping people. And even though people in this town might think that's stupid, I still choose to believe in it. All I ever did was to try and be your friend, Stan, but you're so high and mighty you couldn't look past my religion and just be my friend back. You've got a lot of growing up to do, buddy. Suck my balls.

Gregory of Yardale

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"I must say, I don't think I belong with these rogues. I attended school at Yardale, and had a 4.0 grade point average."

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker (speaking), Howard McGillin (singing)

Voiced in French by: Mathias Kozlowski

Debut: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

An English boy who transferred to South Park from Yardale.

The Ace: He had a 4.0 grade point average during his attendance at school in Yardale. He seems to be far more politically competent than Stan as shown in the La Resistance meeting at Carl's Warehouse.
Hidden Depths: He doesn't share the boys' love for crass humor, but he steps up to defend Terrance and Phillip out of a genuine passion for the idea of free speech.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite his disparaging of the other kids while they're all in swearing rehab, and generally coming off as a ponce, he takes charge in La Résistance and plans out the rescue of Terrance and Phillip. It's clear that Stan only hates him because he is a rival for Wendy's affection.
Love Interest: Of Wendy. She becomes interested in him after they realize they both share similar political views, get good grades, and have great intelligence. She eventually abandons Stan for him, and her attempts to get Stan back fail after he vomits on her every time she comes near him.
One-Shot Character: Only appears in the movie.
Only One Name: His last name was never given. To add extension to his name, he is occasionally referred to as "Gregory of Yardale".
Precision F-Strike: On the receiving end from Cartman for being such a goody two shoes.
Gregory: I attended school at Yardale and had a 4.0 grade point average.
Cartman: You're a fucking faggot, dude.
The Rival: Of Stan; due to him hanging around his girlfriend all the time, jealousy ensues. However, Gregory doesn't play any deliberately antagonistic role in the movie, as he actually helps the kids form the La Résistance organization to prevent Terrence and Philip's execution.
Romantic False Lead: Wendy doesn't care for him anymore at the end of the movie.

Mark and Rebecca Cotswolds

Voiced by: Trey Parker (Mark) and Mary Kay Bergman (Rebecca)

Debut: "Hooked on Monkey Fonics"

Two homeschooled children who develop an interest in attending real elementary school after meeting the other South Park kids.

Beware the Nice Ones: Despite spending most of the episode getting pushed around, Mark proves he has some bite by beating up Kyle for supposedly corrupting his sister.
Bubble Boy: The first time Mark arrives to elementary school, he goes in a giant hamster ball.
Character Tics: Rebecca bites her lips and clasps her hands together in most of her scenes. When she spells, she whispers the letters into her hand first.
Child Prodigy: Both of them are incredibly smart, spelling complicated words at the spelling bee without a care. Rebecca is also able to replicate brain surgery despite being only eight.
Corrupt the Cutie: After kissing Kyle, Rebecca goes from a sweet nerdy girl to a promiscuous "whore" who flirts with every boy at the dance.
Ditzy Genius: Both of them are among the most academically brilliant students in South Park, but seriously lack social skills and are thus very naive.
Homeschooled Kids: Their defining character trait. As a result, they're quite brilliant, but lack the basic social skills necessary to get through life.
Literal-Minded: When Kyle asks Rebecca to go to the dance, she thinks he's just asking her to go by herself, not go as a date.
Kyle: Rebecca, there's this dance, see, the South Park Elementary Bay Of Pigs Memorial Dance, and uh, now I was wondering if you wanna go.
Rebecca: Hhm. Alright, I guess I'll go.
Kyle: You will?
Rebecca: I guess. Are you gonna go? Maybe I'll see you there.
Kyle: No no. I mean, go with me.
Rebecca: Oh, I'm sure Father will give me a ride. [walks away]
My Girl Is Not a Slut: Despite being attracted to her for most of the episode, Kyle is horrified to see Rebecca turn promiscuous after their dance.
No Social Skills: They both frequently miss social cues when interacting with other children. Mark doesn't understand why friends would be mean to each other or recognize when he's being bullied, and Rebecca doesn't understand when Kyle flirts with her.
Oblivious to Love: Rebecca doesn't recognize Kyle's attempts to flirt with her for most of the episode. Justified in that she doesn't understand the idea of love.
One-Shot Character: Downplayed with Mark, who only had a major appearance in this episode, but appears in crowd shots in later seasons. Rebecca, however, never appeared after this episode in any capacity.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: When Kyle brings up the subject of love, Rebecca has no idea what it is. Her closest understanding of romance is the expectancy that her "provider" will select a "mate" for her to "increase the herd."

Special Ed

Francis

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"It's time for the Special Ed Science Fair!

Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "Up the Down Steroid"

She is one of Jimmy and Timmy's friends at the camp for the disabled.

Ascended Extra: She appeared more as a filler in "Up the Down Steroid" and "Crippled Summer".
Gender-Blender Name: "Francis" instead of "Frances".
Minor Major Character: She appears in a bunch of episodes with a featured role, but it doesn't last longer than 10 seconds.
Nice Girl: It's the only trait in her personality.
Small Role, Big Impact: In "Funnybot" and "Moss Piglets".
Viewer Gender Confusion: She can be easily confused because of her short hair. Her voice and name don't help either.
Vocal Dissonance: Similar to Stan's sister, except for "Moss Piglets".

Thomas

"Y-you wanna know about fun? Going to public places knowing you're going to make a fool of yourself. Embarrass your parents. Aw shit! My dad... finally couldn't take it anymore. He... divorced my mom, s-said he'd still be around, but I only see him at Christmas time now. S-sh-shit! S-sh-shit! The worst part is I know how lonely my mom is. A lot of times I know she'd be better off if I was dead."

Voiced by: Matt Stone

Debut: "Le Petit Tourette"

A boy with Tourette's Syndrome that causes him to blurt out obscenities. Because of this, Cartman is influenced by his ability to get away with swearing harshly in front of everyone and fakes Tourette's Syndrome to do so.

Exhausted Eye Bags: Has bags under his eyes. From this it can be assumed that he doesn't get much sleep, possibly due to his Tourette's Syndrome.
Hollywood Tourette's: Deconstructed. His Tourette's Syndrome manifests with him swearing randomly, which the other kids (especially Cartman, who begins mimicking the condition as an excuse to swear, and Craig) find cool. However, Thomas finds this embarrassing and it causes him and his family much mental distress. The episode also features other characters with Tourette's who have tics other than swearing.
One-Shot Character: Only appeared in "Le Petite Tourette".
Only One Name: His last name was never given in "Le Petite Tourette".
Only Sane Man: He's the only one besides Kyle to realize that Cartman's faking his Tourette's and is worried that Cartman's actions will encourage others to start faking it to get away with saying horrible things.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Often swears uncontrollably due to his Tourette's.

Assorted Students

Dougie O'Connell

Douglas "Dougie" O'Connell

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"What evil plot do you have this time, Professor Chaos?"

Voiced In English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in French by: Marie-Laure Beneston

Debut: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub"

Younger nerdier friend of Butters. Joins the latter in his quest to destroy the world after being rejected by the other kids, under the alias of Professor Chaos' minion, General Disarray.

Blind Without 'Em: Implied in South Park: Phone Destroyer. After he's defeated in Stage 24 and his defeat animation shows him losing his glasses, he sends a misspelled message in the group chat saying he can't find them.
Butt-Monkey: Was rejected and labeled a "Melvin" similar to Butters.
Children Are Innocent: Like Butters and Pip, he's one of the few kids on the show who acts like a more realistic child and rarely swears or engages in age-inappropriate activity. Helps that he's two years younger than the regular cast.
Cute Bookworm: An adorable nerdy little boy who likes math.
The Dragon: To Butters/Professor Chaos. He plays the role as the latter's partner in crime, General Disarray.
Fanboy: Dougie is shown to be a fan of The Simpsons and can remember the episode numbers and recap the premise of each show.
Fan of the Underdog: His friendship with Butters, and to a lesser extent Pip, probably counts as this, since they're both similarly unpopular kids.
Hidden Depths: Dougie wants to become a news reporter when he grows up since they get to wear cool jackets.
Minion with an F in Evil: Mostly. He's actually sometimes more savvy than Butters at times, but still pretty clueless for the most part.
Nerd Glasses: A Cute Bookworm who likes math and possesses a savant knowledge of The Simpsons, Dougie wears circular glasses defining his geeky and nerdy personality.
Youthful Freckles: He sports freckles that along with his ginger hair and Nerd Glasses give the impression that he fits the nerd and geek archetypes.

Christophe "Ze Mole"

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"What do you think this is, kid? TV kiddy hour where we all sit around and lick Barney the dinosaur's fucking pussy? Huh? This is real life, with consequences you take to the grave!"

Voiced in English by: Trey Parker

Voiced in French by: Daniel Lafourcade

Debut: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

A bitter French nine-year-old boy with an intense hatred of God. An expert in covert operations.

Back from the Dead: Although it's only a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, he makes a reappearance in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" where he's shown on Late Night with Conan O'Brien while Stan flips through channels. This implies that he was resurrected after Kenny's wish in The Movie for everything to go back to normal.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has noticeably thicker eyebrows than most of the characters.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: He dies in Kyle's arms.
Expy: Suspiciously similar to Grantaire from Les Misérables. His death also brings to mind that of Eponine from the same musical.
French Jerk: He's French, and hates God.
The Napoleon: He's even described as small and bitter in the movie's script.
One-Shot Character: The Movie is practically his only appearance in the entire South Park franchise. His only reappearance was an extremely brief cameo in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub".
Politically Incorrect Hero: Hates God and isn't afraid to show it.
Rage Against the Heavens: He constantly hates God, who he calls the "biggest bitch of them all." It's one of his defining traits as a character.
Smoking Is Cool: Is always shown with a cigarette in his mouth, despite not being of legal age to smoke.
Tunnel King: He digs his way to free Terrance and Phillip, but Cartman fails to shut off the alarm in time and he is mauled by guard dogs.

Mike Makowski

Michael "Mike" Makowski

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"Per se"

Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "The Ungroundable"

The leader of the “Vamp Kids” clique, who usually only appears in plot lines related to the Goth Kids.

Character Catchphrase: “Per se.” Said with a pronounced lisp.
A Day in the Limelight: “The Ungroundable” and “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers.” Also the DLC for Fractured But Whole.
Depending on the Writer: Whether or not Mike really buys into the vampire mythology, or how seriously he takes his role as a “vamp.”
A Lighter Shade of Black: The Goth Kids’ main problem with him and his group. They’re much less cynical and more wholesome than the Goths.
Uncertain Doom: At the end of his first appearance, he is physically shipped in a box to Scottsdale, AZ. This process would likely kill someone, and for a while it’s unclear if it did kill Mike, but he reappears in the background of “Butterballs” a few seasons later. He makes his return as a speaking character in “Goth Kids 3.”

Nelson Brown

"It's a pretty bad time for me, coach. I'm only five and I'm dying."

Voiced by: Dante Alexander

Debut: "Stanley's Cup"

An ill-fated member of the Pee Wee hockey team. Nelson has terminal cancer, but tries his best to stay positive, even as it's clear he doesn't have long to live.

The Cutie: He's lost his hair from chemotherapy, but that doesn't make him any less cute.
Determinator: He's clearly weak from his cancer when we first meet him, and seems to be going through chemotherapy, but is still playing hockey. He soon gets worse, though, and eventually has to be hospitalized.
Death by Despair: He succumbs to his illness when his team loses. "No hope..."
Kill the Cutie: He doesn't make it.
Littlest Cancer Patient: He soon ends up in the hospital when his cancer becomes terminal, and really wants Stan to win the big game for him. Sadly, he dies when he sees his team lose to the Red Wings.
13 Is Unlucky: His jersey number is 13.

Bridon Gueermo

"I joined the basketball team. I gave up singing and dancing forever. I'm just not into it."

Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "Elementary School Musical"

A third grader who has seen High School Musical over 100 times and is an extremely talented singer and dancer. Despite this however, singing and dancing aren't his hobbies; he really wants to play basketball instead.

Abusive Parents: His dad always beats him up for choosing to be a basketball player instead of a singer and dancer until the end of his episode. His mom, however, is an aversion and tries her best to protect him from his dad's cruel punishments and ridicules.
The Ace: There doesn't appear to be anything he's bad at. Despite hating musical theater because his father forced him into it, his mere presence (and the kids' High School Musical fandom) causes the other students to spontaneously break into song and dance. All the girls like him despite him being a year younger, and he can shoot free throws effortlessly. On the other hand, he's an Extreme Doormat until the climax of his episode.
Ambiguously Gay: Despite all the girls ceaselessly fantasizing about him, he returns no interest in them whatsoever (though this could be because singing and dancing aren't his hobbies despite him being talented at both). Furthermore, his last name Gueermo is pronounced and spelled similarly to "Queermo"^note, and his dad shows off effeminate characteristics. Though, a cut sidequest in The Stick of Truth has him telling the New Kid to give Annie a letter from him, saying that he has a thing for her and he cannot get her out of his mind.
Broken Ace: Despite his ace qualities, he has an abusive father to deal with.
The Casanova: All the girls at school have a crush on him because he's seen High School Musical over 100 times and is thus really good at singing and dancing.
Expy: He's a parody of Troy Bolton from the High School Musical films.

Kip Drordy

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"Mom, Dad! I made a friend today!"

Voiced by: Trey Parker

Debut: "You Have 0 Friends"

A boy who felt lonely for being a friendless Facebook user. That was, until Kyle sent him a friend request.

Butt-Monkey: An outcast that nobody wanted to be friends with due to his appearance. This is later shown in "Butterballs", where he serves as the director of Stan's anti-bullying music video.
Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Develops one with Kyle after he felt sympathetic for him having no friends throughout his six months as a Facebook user. Unfortunately, this causes Kyle to lose his popularity status among his friends.
Throw the Dog a Bone: He gets all of Stan's friends at the end.

Gordon Stolski

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Voiced in English by: Matt Stone ("Ginger Kids" and "Fatbeard"), Trey Parker ("Dances With Smurfs")

Voiced in French by: Alexis Tomassian

Debut: "Ginger Kids"

Final appearance: "Dances With Smurfs"

A third-grader and ginger kid who runs the morning announcements.

Butt-Monkey: All of his appearances saw him get the short end of the stick.
Gag Lips: Has unusually plump prominent lips.
Killed Off for Real: He gets shot by a man who had somehow mistaken him for the man who had an affair with his wife, despite the said man being 40 years old and a trucker.
Mauve Shirt: He didn’t get much characterization outside of being a ginger.
Only Sane Man: The only ginger kid to point out that Cartman only ended his campaign against non-gingers in "Ginger Kids" after finding out he wasn’t ginger.
Youthful Freckles: Like all ginger kids, he has freckles.

Tammy Warner

"There's lots of rumors goin' around about me, that I agreed to give a boy a B.J.? Well, it's true. But it was before you and I were together, and it wasn't my fault!"

Voiced in English by: Mickey Ramos

Voiced in French by: Marie-Laure Beneston

Debut: "The Ring"

Kenny's one-time girlfriend, who once gave another boy a "BJ" in the parking lot of a T.G.I. Friday's after listening to the Jonas Brothers.

Fangirl: Is one of The Jonas Brothers, and so she has Kenny wear a purity ring once they start to promote them.
Good Bad Girl: Yes, she gave both Kenny and another boy blowjobs, but she feels bad about it.
Informed Poverty: Her family is apparently even poorer than Kenny's, though "The Poor Kid" seems to ignore this.
My Girl Is a Slut: The other boys tell Kenny about her giving someone a BJ, thinking that he'll dump her, but he's overjoyed.
My God, What Have I Done?: Seems to regret having given a blowjob to another kid before dating Kenny, and therefore asks him to wear a purity ring after the Jonas Brothers concert, only to change her mind later, before Kenny dies of syphilis.
One-Shot Character: Inverted. Her only major appearance is in "The Ring" but makes a brief cameo in "Butterballs".
Slut-Shaming: Everyone in school except for Kenny thinks that what she did in the T.G.I. Friday's parking lot is horrible. Of course, she's ten.
Take That!: Some have suggested that her name is a reference to Time-Warner.
Typhoid Mary: Kenny gets syphilis from her, but she shows no symptoms of the disease.

Larry Feegan

Voiced by: Matt Stone

Debut: "Broadway Bro Down"

A timid lifejacket-wearing boy who is frequently picked on by the other kids in school for being made to live a vegan lifestyle by his parents and later befriends Shelly when she stands up for him.

Butt-Monkey: He's forced by his parents to live a vegan lifestyle, which gets him no shortage of bullying by the other kids in school who refer to him as "Feegan the Vegan".
Dare to Be Badass: After Shelly stands up to his parents for him, Larry is inspired to forego both his veganism and his lifejacket. He also mentions in his song that he's also now standing up for himself more.
Ironic Death: Larry was always forced to wear a life preserver and took it off to prove his independence. He drowns during Randy's disastrous attempt to stop the show.
Nice Guy: He doesn't seem to have a mean bone in his body, but was too timid to ever stand up for himself before Shelly did.

Characters / South Park: Other Students

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Unofficial Fifth Friends

Leopold "Butters" Stotch

Wendy Testaburger

James "Jimmy" Valmer

The Guys

Main

Clyde Donovan

Tolkien "Token" Black

Craig Tucker

Tweek Tweak

Timothy "Timmy" Burch

Secondary

Scott Malkinson

Kevin Stoley

Bradley Biggle

Jason White

The Girls

Main

Bebenote pronounced "Bay-Bay", not "Bee-Bee" Stevens

Heidi Turner

Red McArthur

Annie Knitts

Nichole Daniels

Secondary

Nelly

Lola

Jennifer "Jenny" Simons

Sally Turner

Lisa Berger

Other Classmates

Phillip "Pip" Pirrup

DogPoo Petuski

Francis

William "Bill" Allen and Fosse McDonald

Terrence Mephesto

Brimmy

Betsy

Notable Cliques

Pete, Micheal, Henrietta and Firkle

The Sixth Graders

"New Kids"

Damien Thorn

Charlotte

Davidnote pronounced "Dah-Veed" Rodriguez

Sophie Gray

Gary Harrison, Jr.

Gregory of Yardale

Mark and Rebecca Cotswolds

Special Ed

Francis

Thomas

Assorted Students

Douglas "Dougie" O'Connell

Christophe "Ze Mole"

Michael "Mike" Makowski

Nelson Brown

Bridon Gueermo

Kip Drordy

Gordon Stolski

Tammy Warner

Larry Feegan

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