History WesternAnimation / SouthParkJoiningThePanderverse

--> '''(Regular) Cartman''' [responding to Kyle]: Goddammit, I'm not fat, I'm just shamed for my body in a world where white men decide what's beautiful--[covers his mouth] ''What the fuck was that?!'' What the fuck was that, I don't say that!

* AesopAmnesia: Randy and the rest of the white collar workers realize that their reliance on technology caused them to not be able to fix things. However, they get over this initially by using Kathleen Kennedy as a scapegoat, and then by bringing an infinite number of handymen from different universes.

** Basically all of the Panderverse versions of characters are given this trope to some extent, as they're all portrayed as being at worst perfectly attractive women with unique and detailed designs in the place of the original versions' flatter and more copy-paste designs carried over from the earlier seasons. In the Panderverse Kenny is given particular attention, as she doesn't have her face hidden and is arguably the most sexually provocative member of the cast.

* AesopAmnesia: Randy and the rest of the white collar workers realize that their reliance on technology caused them to not be able to fix things. However they get over this initially by using Kathleen Kennedy as a scapegoat, and then by bringing an infinite number of handymen from different universes.

* AbusiveParents: In the Panderverse Stephen Stotch is just as horrible to Butters as he is in the main timeline. She tells her that while she's grounded she can't have any fun and orders her to be more miserable!

** When the Handyman declines to continue repairing Randy's oven door in favor of a client who is offering much higher pay, Randy tries to get him to stay with a six-pack of beer. The Handyman lashes out at him for how cheap his bribe was.
** Multiple college-educated men wait around at Home Depot looking for some illegal immigrant to come do repair services for them in exchange not for money but for expertise in their college studies that can still be provided for free by the Internet such as insurance brokerage, accounting, news reporting and geology.

** Fans of Disney/Lucasfilm properties who tend to blame Kathleen Kennedy for everything are mocked in the scene where Randy and the other protesters stupidly blame her for why nobody can do anything anymore, despite her having absolutely nothing to do with the situation.

* CatapultNightmare: Cartman has one when he wakes up from the Panderverse nightmare. Cartman!Kennedy does this at the end.

* GainaxEnding: The special ends with Cartman!Kathleen Kennedy waking up from her nightmare as an alien version of Liane comes in and gives her a bowl of cereal, with all the cereal pieces being tiny Kyles.

** While Cartman isn't the BigBad actively driving the conflict, it's revealed that he was the one who indirectly started the whole plot for the special in the first place by sending thousands of hate mails to Kathleen Kennedy, resulting in Kennedy continuously abusing the Panderstone's power until Cartman!Kennedy arrives in Kennedy's universe and takes her place.

** Cartman!Kennedy constantly ordering a "chick" be added to every movie and [[TwoferTokenMinority making her gay]] (and occasionally adding "and fucking lame!"). This extends to a remake of ''Bambi'' and she even demands it in her food.

** Cartman!Kennedy sends her linguini and clams back to the kitchen, telling the waiter she wants the chef to add "A chick and make her gay" to the dish. The waiter is unsure how this can be done, but takes the plate regardless. One can only imagine how this was resolved.

* BigBad: Cartman!Kennedy is the main antagonist in this episode, where it's revealed that she trapped the real Kathleen Kennedy in the Panderverse before taking her place where Cartman!Kennedy's actions have negative consequences to Disney's box office sales and the Multiverse as a whole.

* AbusiveParents: In the Panderverse Stephen Stotch is just as horrible to Butters as he is in the main timeline is. She tells her that while she's grounded she can't have any fun and orders her to be more miserable!

* AbusiveParents: Panderverse!Stephen Stotch is just as horrible to Panderverse!Butters as the main timeline's is. She tells her that while she's grounded she can't have any fun and orders her to be more miserable!

** Basically all of the Panderverse versions of characters are given this trope to some extent, as they're all portrayed as being at worst perfectly attractive women with unique and detailed designs in the place of the original versions' flatter and more copy-paste designs carried over from the earlier seasons. Panderverse!Kenny is given particular attention, as she doesn't have her face hidden and is arguably the most sexually provocative member of the cast.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: All Panderverse!Kenny talks about is how great Tammy Mullin's breasts are, saying they "hypnotized" her into warning Tammy about being farted on twice.
* AmbiguousGender: Every Panderverse character is portrayed as a biological female, but they constantly refer to each other with masculine pronouns and other ambiguous syntax. It's unclear if biological males even exist in said universe. Further muddying the waters, they clearly ''know'' what biological males are, as they recognize Cartman as one, Panderverse!Cartman isn't freaked by being in their presence, and Panderverse!Garrison explains the day's lesson involves the patriarchy. This is lampshaded by Stan, who goes through a multitude of pronouns on how to refer to Panderverse!Cartman.

* ArtisticLicense: Stan tells Panderverse!Cartman she shouldn't be surprised ''Baldur's Gate III'' saves don't transfer between dimensions, because they don't transfer between PC and [=PS5=]. This is incorrect and developer Larian Studios [[https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/1718018588538220640 tweeted a tongue-in-cheek clarification]].

** The boys (and the audience) are treated to a montage of a gaming computer being installed, and are led to believe that Panderverse!Cartman has a solution on how to get things back to normal. After the Internet speed is resolved, Panderverse!Cartman finally gets ready... to play ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''. Kyle is furious, and Stan lampshades "Wow. That really is Cartman."

** Panderverse!Cartman yells a similar NOOOOO after she learns she can't save her ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' gameplay between universes.

* ButtMonkey: Unsurprisingly, Kyle gets put through the wringer in this episode: Panderverse!Cartman farts on him, calls his mom a fat, stupid bitch several times, steals the latter's credit card, and by the end of ''that'' he's forced to participate in the merging of the Panderverse anyway, even though it's the Cartmans' (and Randy's) problem.

* ChivalrousPervert: Both the original Kenny and Panderverse!Kenny think their Tammy Mullin have great knockers, but they also prevented her from being farted on by Clyde.

** Panderverse!Cartman wants to continue playing ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', but it doesn't occur to her that she won't be able to play the game from the point she saved it back in her universe and will need to start over from the beginning.

* HartmanHips: In addition to being the tallest, Panderverse!Stan is noticeably curvier than the other "boys", highlighted by how she almost always keeps her hands near her thighs. Made funnier by an [[Recap/SouthParkS17E10TheHobbit earlier episode]] having Wendy mention that Stan supposedly has short legs.

* InformedFlaw: Invoked. Panderverse!Cartman is repeatedly called fat despite only having a slightly broad figure. This is part of the show's satire of {{Race Lift}}ed characters, in this case demonstrating that Cartman's appearance is integral to his character and changing it for the sake of diversity does not work for the show's humor.

* InNameOnly: The story shows the insanity of randomly switching around character traits. The kids are flustered when PC Principal tells them they have to accept Cartman is now an older black woman. This is also despite the fact Panderverse!Cartman otherwise talks and behaves ''exactly'' like the main Cartman.
* InsaneTrollLogic: PC Principal's response to Cartman being replaced with his older, Black, female counterpart is to just accept it as a natural part of life, as if Cartman had changed by losing weight. He even turns the Boys' bafflement at the situation as sign they are bigoted and threatens them with three weeks detention if they don't help her out. Naturally, Panderverse!Cartman takes full advantage of the situation just like her male counterpart would.

* LarynxDissonance: Panderverse!Yates still has the same male voice as her regular counterpart.

* ManipulativeBastard: Panderverse!Cartman is just as manipulative as the original, and arguably more effective. She sucessfully gets Kyle's mother to upgrade her internet speed to avoid identity theft, despite Panderverse!Cartman being the one who used her credit card. She also convinces the boys to get her a computer presumably to get back to her universe when she just wanted to play ''Baldur's Gate III''.

* PronounTrouble: Stan initially wasn't sure what to refer to Panderverse!Cartman as, going through he, she, they and it.

** Panderverse!Kenny talking about how Tammy Mullin has great knockers.

** Panderverse!Cartman is voiced by Janeshia Adams-Ginyard, who is known for her work with Disney.

** Panderverse!Kenny resembles [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Go Go Tomago]].

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Parodied with the namesake's Panderverse counterpart, who is crushed by Panderverse!Cartman after the latter arrives back at the Panderverse.

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: When Cartman and Kathleen Kennedy actually talk things out it's revealed to have been a vicious circle where minor efforts for diversity and inclusion result in minor complaints, so they double down on diversity and inclusion to stick it to them and the complaints get bigger and louder. This all comes at the expensive of trying to make a quality product.

* ArbitrarySkepticism:
** Stan, Kenny, and especially Kyle refused to believe in the concept of the {{multiverse}} for much of the special, despite all the insane supernatural things that have happened over the years. They also specifically dealt with parallel universe craziness in [[Recap/SouthParkS2E15Spookyfish Spookyfish]]. {{Justified|Trope}} in Kyle's case, as it's implied to be a BerserkButton for him since it apparently ''has'' to involve his mom and her credit card.

** Stan, Kenny, and especially Kyle refused to believe in the concept of the {{multiverse}}, despite all the insane things that has happened over the years. They also specifically dealt with parallel universe craziness in [[Recap/SouthParkS2E15Spookyfish Spookyfish]].
** Despite having gone through all kinds of supernatural adventures, Kyle vehemently refuses to believe the existence of the Panderverse for most of the special. {{Justified|Trope}}, as it's implied to be a BerserkButton for him since it apparently ''has'' to involve his mom and her credit card.

** No one enjoys criticism, but you have to learn how to deal with it and deliver it properly. You shouldn't be overly critical or hateful like Cartman or react defensively and negatively like Kathleen Kennedy did; otherwise, it'll lead to a lot of problems, and both sides suffer as a result.

** Toxic fans are mocked as well, since Cartman indirectly started the conflict by causing Kennedy to use the Panderstone repeatedly.

** The adults' plot mirrors the 2023 WGA strike; the handymen represent the Hollywood executives.

** Every time Disney released a movie or tv show Cartman hated, he managed to personally send Kathleen Kennedy ten to thirteen ''thousand'' pieces of hate mail, as in physical letters, not spam e-mails sent through an automatic program. When Kennedy finds out she is incredulous at how [[LampshadeHanging this even possible.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: While Cartman isn't the BigBad actively driving the conflict, it's revealed that he was the one who indirectly started the whole plot for the special in the first place by sending thousands of hate mails to Kathleen Kennedy, resulting in Kennedy continuously abusing the Panderstone's power until Cartman!Kennedy arrives in Kennedy's universe and takes her place.

** Going in a woke direction to combat racism, sexism and all other forms of discrimination is wonderful, but you have to know when and where to apply it. If you use it for ''all'' of your properties and in places where it makes no sense (ie, making Bambi a lesbian chick in your remake of said film) it will eventually comes off as insincere and like you just want to pander to your audience to keep them buying movie tickets.

*** The Panderverse versions of our characters talking about "fighting against the patriarchy" can be taken as a shot at how some shows and films focus on sending a message (that is, obnoxiously preaching) for marginalized groups rather than telling a story.

** Going in a woke direction to combat racism is wonderful, but you have to know when and where to apply it. If you use it for ''all'' of your properties and in places where it makes no sense (ie, making Bambi a lesbian chick in your remake of said film) it will eventually comes off as insincere and like you just want to pander to your audience to keep them buying movie tickets.

** Basically all of the Panderverse versions of characters are given this trope to some extent, as they're all portrayed as being at worst perfectly attractive women with unique and detailed designs in the place of the original versions flatter and more copy-paste designs carried over from the earlier seasons. Panderverse!Kenny is given particular attention, as she doesn't have her face hidden and is arguably the most sexually provocative member of the cast.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Panderverse version of Cartman is an older black woman who is mocked for being fat despite at worse having a slightly curvier figure. This is a joke based on both HollywoodBeautyStandards and how Cartman is heavily defined by being an obnoxious FatBastard that doesn't really work when you change things around.