History Characters / SouthParkKyleBroflovski

** He feels like this to a lesser extent towards Kenny. Kyle can be protective towards Kenny, but in most cases when the other main boys, or at least Stan, do it as well. However, he has a few moments by himself. In "Wing" he was determined to avenge Kenny's death, at the end of "Kenny Dies", Kyle beat up Cartman after he realized the latter used the collected stem cells to duplicate a pizzeria instead of saving Kenny with them.
** Inverted between him and Stan. Stan is older (albeit not by much) and he is usually more protective towards Kyle as well as [[TeamDad the rest of the group]]. However, if Stan is in trouble, expect Kyle to be the first to come to his aid. Some examples include: "Fun with Veal", when Kyle took care of Stan while the latter was sick; "Imaginationland Part I", when the boys found themselves in the middle of a war and Stan had a moment when he couldn't move due to shock, Kyle took his hand and brought him to safety; and in "Freemium isn't Free" Kyle did his best to comfort Stan and help him overcome his mobile-app addiction.

** In "Make Love Not Warcraft" Kyle's avatar is a woman, which contrasts with the very manly-looking avatars used by the other boys.

* JewishAndNerdy: Downplayed. He's Jewish and the smartest kid in the group, but he's cool enough to [[VitriolicBestBuds bust balls with the best of them.]] He also hates his cousin's stereotypical nerdiness.
** In "Something You Can Do With Your Finger" Kyle strongarms Cartman into letting him be the boyband's token tough guy, citing that Jews have been tough since the days of Abraham.

* RedheadInGreen: He has green hair and wears a green hat, collar and mittens. Unlike most examples, his hair is rarely shown.

** He feels like this to a lesser extent towards Kenny. Kyle can be protective towards Kenny, but in most cases when the other main boys, or at least Stan, do it as well. However, In "Wing" he was determined to avenge his death.

* InkSuitActor: Much like Stan, Kyle's adult self in the ''Post-Covid'' specials looks ''exactly'' like Matt Stone himself. Kyle no longer having his afro is even similar to Matt Stone losing his afro in later years.

Stan's closest friend. He and his parents are Jewish, but his younger brother Ike is actually from Canada. He appears to be the smartest of the original four--at least academically--but has a tendency to get sucked into the latest fads/problems/social issues sweeping South Park. Kyle is also known as the moral compass of the otherwise chaotic town - although he has a nasty temper to go along with it.

* MommyIssues: In earlier seasons, ''especially'' in TheMovie. Kyle wholeheartedly disagrees with his mother on most things, but he still takes it personally when anyone - least of all Cartman - calls her a bitch.

* ProperlyParanoid: Kyle is immensely distrustful of Cartman in the Post-COVID specials, suspecting that his conversion to Judaism and kinder nature are all a front so that Cartman could pull some elaborate prank on Kyle. Given Cartman has pulled off similarly elaborate pranks on Kyle in the past - sometimes with the intent to ''kill'' Kyle - it's understandable why he's so suspicious. As it turns out, however, it's subverted; Cartman actually ''had'' changed his ways.

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-> '''Butters''': There! It was like that! It looked just like that! (points to a bush, then walks over to it) Just like this, buh, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything but smaller, and right in the place where her underwear should've been. If I trim it down, it'll look right]].. \\

*** Kyle has been showing this side of him since as early as "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", but against his fellow CompetitiveFreak Terrance Mephesto, using Cartman's pig Fluffy (against Cartman's own will) and his own elephant to make a pot-bellied elephant offspring, dragging his friends into Dr. Mephesto's lab (which gets Stan cloned). Later in the episode, he ditches Stan to check on Fluffy, leaving him to deal with the consequences of his clone's rampage.

* FatalFlaw:

* FieryRedhead: Mixed with his HotBlooded tendencies whenever his ChronicHeroSyndrome [[CharacterizationMarchesOn personality kicks in]].
** As of "The Worldwide Privacy Tour", this is becoming slowly subverted as he seems to have significantly toned these traits down, becoming less [[TheFinickyOne spiteful]], unresistant and [[HairTriggerTemper angry]] in general: he seems genuinely appalled (albeit sardonic) at Cartman somehow continuing to be in denial of his laziness in "[=DikinBaus=] Hot Dogs" rather than just contemptuous of his habits, and he doesn't worry at all about the unfocused/rigid mentality of the town in "Japanese Toilets", especially if it means he can support his best friend.

** Don't call his mom a bitch. Or make fun of his Jewish heritage. Or say he’s from New Jersey. Or be Eric Cartman and do pretty much anything. At this point in the series, it's more the fourth thing than the first three. He also apparently has a dislike of ninjas, as his Facebook profile mentions that he wants the world to stop talking about them.
** As mentioned under HairTriggerTemper and GoodIsNotNice below, don't challenge him in ''any'' way (ethically speaking, not in the [[CompetitionFreak other sense]]), whether it be questioning his ideals, accusing him of interference, or changing your mind and making him think that [[MakeAnExampleOfThem he should be used as an example,]] even if that wasn't implied.

* BerserkButton: Don't call his mom a bitch. Or make fun of his Jewish heritage. Or say he’s from New Jersey. Or be Eric Cartman and do pretty much anything. At this point in the series, it's more the fourth thing than the first three. He also apparently has a dislike of ninjas, as his Facebook profile mentions that he wants the world to stop talking about them.

* {{Bookworm}}: Kyle is shown to like reading more than his friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads several books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says, "Will somebody take those books away from him?”. His bedroom also contains more books and academically inclined things than the other kids’ rooms do.

* {{Bookworm}}: Kyle is shown to like reading more than his friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads several books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says, "Will somebody take those books away from him?"

'''Kyle:''' Well, ''you'' made me eat veal and didn't tell me what it was, so go ahead and be angry, you baby calf-killing [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!\\

* NumberTwo: While never directly stated, Kyle is the one to take charge of the group when [[TheLeader Stan]] is absent or incapacitated, though he often fails to convince Cartman to cooperate. That being said, Kyle does occasionally do a decent job at leading without fighting much with Cartman if at all. In "Freemium isn't free", while Stan wasn't available due to his addiction to the Terrance and Phillip app-game, Kyle was the one who lead the boys into finding information about the app from Jimmy in order to help Stan. In "Nobody Got Cereal?" he managed to convince Cartman and Kenny to hide at the school while Manbearpig was terrorizing the town and the police were searching for them. Granted, Stan and later the police found them there and Cartman and Kenny complained about going to school in the weekend, but the fact that Kyle managed to get the team there safely in the first place despite their unwillingness to do so is no small feat.
* OnlySaneMan: Often trades this role with Stan or shares it with himm at the same time.

* OnlySaneMan: Often trades this role with Stan.

* BigBrotherBully: To Ike in the first season. "[[CatchPhrase Kick the baby]]!"

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->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt Stone]]

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Stan's closest friend. He and his parents are Jewish, but his younger brother Ike is actually from Canada. He appears to be the smartest, at least academically, of the original four, but has a tendency to get sucked into the latest fads/problems/social issues sweeping South Park. Kyle is also known as the moral compass of the otherwise chaotic town - although he has a nasty temper to go along with it.

* HairTriggerTemper: He is frequently pissed off because of something Cartman says or does, though in general it won't take much to push him too far, even (or perhaps especially) when it's a barely coherent moral issue. "South Park Is Gay!" (where he tries to murder the ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' cast), "Mexican Joker" (where he becomes incensed at the guards' using unwritten, allievating morals for the detainees instead of them just coming up with improper conclusions) and "It's a Jersey Thing" (where people seeing him with raw emotion that they dislike is enough for him to try and ''force'' them to dislike it or stop even the slightest chance of them imagining it) are some good examples.

* HairTriggerTemper: He is quite easily pissed off, usually because of something Cartman says or does.

Stan's closest friend. He and his parents are Jewish, but his younger brother Ike is actually from Canada. He appears to be the smartest, at least academically, of the original four, but has a tendency to get sucked into the latest fads/problems/social issues sweeping South Park. Kyle is also known as the moral compass of the otherwise chaotic town - although he has a [[HairTriggerTemper nasty temper]] to go along with it.

* HairTriggerTemper: Kyle is quite easily pissed off, usually because of something Cartman says or does, to the point where [[ItMakesSenseInContext he got Canada nuked]] because he was angry that [[{{Jerkass}} Cartman]] turned Heidi (a girl he liked) into a female version of him. Kyle's attempted KnightOfFaith outlook ends up going to flames for much the same reason, letting ''everyone else's'' meanness drive him over the edge to the point where others' attempts to bring him down [[ViciousCycle to reality just make him angrier.]]

* JerkassToOne: He's this towards Cartman. While Cartman is, of course, a JerkAss himself, there's times Kyle is one to him for no good reason, [particularly in episodes like "Tonsil Trouble," where he openly laughs at Cartman for catching AIDS.