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2* Several characters are given fanon appearance traits due to the series having a very cartoony and simplistic style:
3** About every third fanfic mentions Kyle's gorgeous green eyes (with brown being the second most common color). But on the show, his eyes are drawn as white ovals with black dots for pupils. Who knows what Matt and Trey would say if you asked them what color Kyle's eyes really are. Japanese fan-artists tend to give Kyle brown or [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow reddish eyes]] rather then the green western fans go for.
4** Kyle is, in fact, the only one of his friends whose eye color has not been mentioned. Stan has blue, and Kenny's are blue (originally hazel in a draft for "Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" [[note]]though a gouged-out eye of his was shown to be blue in "Starvin' Marvin". Some also believe he had brown eyes, due to an ass pun Cartman made about Kenny having a "brown eye" when he put a picture of Kenny's butt as a missing child poster[[/note]]). Cartman is usually speculated to have brown eyes, although some will also give him blue or hazel due to the fact that he harvested Kenny's eyes for his own sight at the end of "The Succubus" (although being that the show can rely on NegativeContinuity, this detail may also be suspect). Another headcanon eye color for Cartman that's been gaining popularity is that he's heterochromic, specifically with one brown eye and one blue, usually with one being his and the other being Kenny's. In fact, this headcanon's popularity has almost ''surpassed'' the idea of him having normal eyes.
5** Before Kyle's hair was revealed to be red (and in his "Jewfro"), a lot of fanarts went with giving him straight brown hair or even black hair like Stan's. Those that did give him curly hair like Matt Stone still didn't take it as far as the show did!
6** Most characters have a set fanon eye color. You'll rarely see Butters or Craig with any color other than blue, brown and green are the most common eye colors for Tweek, both blue and brown eyes are extremely common for Clyde, Wendy either has brown eyes or inexplicably ''purple'' eyes, minor character Kevin Stoley usually has blue or brown eyes, etc.
7** It's fairly common to see fanart where Kyle has freckles, even though "Ginger Kids" specifically says that he doesn't. Contrast his adopted brother Ike, who is often seen without freckles despite Kyle mentioning them in the first episode.
8** Kenny is commonly depicted as freckled despite nothing in-series suggesting that he is. It's possibly based on the PhenotypeStereotype of a "hick" family like his.
9** After getting a ninja star lodged in his eye in "Good Times With Weapons", Butters is frequently depicted in fanart as having a scar going through said eye. Some take it a step further and even have him wearing a false eye, or otherwise suggest that the incident blinded his eye.
10** Most fans thought Wendy cut her hair in "The Cissy", thus a lot of fanart from around that time depicts her with a pixie cut. A future episode shows her with her hair long again, implying that she simply shoved her hair into her hat.
11** Although Clyde's status as the "second fattest" kid was just a guess by Butters that Stan and Kyle jumped at for the chance of having a replacement to mock in Cartman's absence, there are fans that insist on drawing him [[HollywoodPudgy just the least bit thicker than the other skinnier kids]], or making him outright chubby, though with some muscle to contrast Cartman. The ''Post-COVID'' specials add some credibility by depicting adult Clyde as pretty husky.
12** Craig is often depicted as [[TallDarkAndSnarky taller]] than the other boys, since he's drawn with longer legs and his parents are the tallest parents shown. The physical in "T.M.I." also says he grew the most over the previous year.
13** It's also common for people to depict Craig with darker skin in fanart, the logic being that if he's TheChosenOne of a Peruvian prophecy he must have some South American ancestry. Given that skin tone is pretty much the only racial feature the show's art style actually shows on children, he's probably just supposed to be a MightyWhitey.
14** Due to Cartman at one point off-handedly making fun of Craig's "fucked up teeth", it's fairly common to see fanart depicting Craig with braces. Oddly, some show his boyfriend Tweek having them instead. Maybe they're contagious?
15* Another part of fanon is that most of the cast is gay ([[NoBisexuals not bi, though]][[note]]if any of the boys are depicted as bi, it's usually Kyle or Kenny[[/note]]). Most of the boys, even Eric, have shown interest in girls on more then one occasion. Fanon never doubts that Butters is a flaming CampGay with a crush on either [[HoYay Cartman]] or [[CrackPairing Kenny]]. Besides Kenny and Stan, he may be the boy to have his sexuality stated most often. He's usually depicted as CampStraight, though "Cartman Sucks" has him declare himself "bi-curious" at the very least. In the case of Butters, it's not just {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s who see him as gay. [[LGBTFanbase A few gay fans relate to Butters]], and you can't blame them with their [[DepravedHomosexual other options]].
16* Fans are also really attached to the idea that Butters' "Majorine" alter-ego and Kenny's "Princess Kenny" makes them trans girls, or at the very least genderfluid. In fact, when "The Cissy"[[note]]Better known as "the transgender bathroom dilemma episode"[[/note]] first came out, some fans were actually surprised that there wasn't a single mention of Princess Kenny. Due to Wendy dressing up as a boy in "The Cissy" many fans took to her being a trans boy or nonbinary, considering how low-key it was compared to her usual protests. Some fans see Cartman as having gender dysphoria due to his crossdressing however the series seems to have jossed that.
17* In the episode where Clyde's mom dies, she mentions that Clyde has a sister. Pretty much every fanwork makes her a young adult or teenager (usually a college student), perhaps in part to explain why we've never explicitly seen her. Candidates from the show include a woman sitting next to Clyde's father during the funeral, or a teenager who sang at the funeral in a deleted scene.
18* There are a ''lot'' of fanon relationships that have perpetuated and been mistaken for actual canon due to some fans' persistence. These include: Kevin Stoley [[note]]The Star Trek-obsessed kid who may or may not be Asian, depending on the episode/season[[/note]] and Esther [[note]]One of the background girls who got to speak once in season 6[[/note]] being fraternal twins due to [[HalfIdenticalTwins both having black hair and similar clothing color schemes]], Craig's father and Skeeter (the town redneck) being brothers, Red being Craig's cousin (due to Skeeter once implying she was his daughter, which was {{jossed}} in "The Pandemic Special" which depicts Red's parents), and other assorted details that usually apply to secondary/background classmates or the boys' siblings.
19* Due to Craig being TheChosenOne of an ancient Inca prophesy in [[Recap/SouthParkS12E10Pandemic the Pandemic]] [[Recap/SouthParkS12E11Pandemic2TheStartling two-parter]], it's common for many fans to believe that Craig either has Inca ancestry, or was adopted (further backed up by the fact that unlike his sister Tricia, Craig's hair color doesn't match either of his parents'). It's also not rare for him to still be able to shoot laser beams.
20* Fanon names:
21** Back in the pre-season 5 days of fandom, some fanfiction and sites assumed that Butters' real name was "Jim Swanson", due to him being referred to as "Swanson" in the "Conjoined Fetus Lady" script and episode, and a fan mishearing "Jill" (the character Butters was playing in the "Charlie's Angels" game in "Two Guys Naked In A Hot Tub") as "Jim". The Swanson name was put to rest when his surname of "Stotch" was revealed, and so was "Jim" after his real name was revealed to be "Leopold", though a later character named Jimmy did have the Swanson surname before the creators [[SuddenNameChange changed it to Valmer]].
22** Another longstanding fanon was Kevin Stoley's surname beginning with a "C", based on mishearing his first canon name "Casey" as "K.C.". This lead to him being referred to as "Kevin C." in many fansites, though fans would rarely expand on what the C would stand for (although it would sometimes be "Charles" or "Chang", the latter to reinforce his Chinese heritage). "Kevin Mattrei" was also once used in fanfiction, but did not catch on for very long. Those who want to preserve the "C" have moved it to being Kevin's middle name, while keeping the Stoley surname.
23** Before the names of the male {{Goth}}s were [[GivenNameReveal finally revealed]], Michael was often named Ethan (or Evan), Pete was Dylan, and Firkle was Georgie. These names actually originated with popular fanfic author Kyle_the_Skeptic in 2004-05ish. Season 21's "Franchise Prequel" would [[AscendedFanon canonize]] Firkle's real name as "Georgie", with Firkle simply being a nickname.
24** The one-shot movie characters Christophe (aka "The Mole") and Gregory received the respective fanon surnames of [=DeLorne=] (or [=DeLorn=]) and Thorne from a fanfic, which wound up spread around for a few years.
25** Kenny's mother was often called "Carol" by fans, as the name was often used as a placeholder name for the other main characters' mothers (primarily in Season 1, such as with Sharon and Sheila in "Death") before their own names were established, but her official name remained "Mrs. [=McCormick=]" for a long time. WordOfGod as far back as 1999 was that she had no name. In what may be a case of AscendedFanon, her name was confirmed to be Carol in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole''.
26** Stan's full name is often rendered by fans as "Stanley Randall Marsh", and this has been treated as canon, and even falsely attributed to an episode, with the middle name often assumed to come from his father, Randy. No episode suggests this, and series co-creator Trey Parker and his father Randy are both named Randolph, not Randall.
27** A rather infamous fanfic author at the official message board popularized the surname "Nommel" for Craig several years before he was canonically named "Craig Tucker".
28** "Ruby" was a common name for Craig's little sister in many parts of the fandom. Even after ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' [[{{Jossed}} revealed that her name is Tricia]], many fanfic writers continued to call her "Ruby", but as a nickname while keeping her real name as "Tricia".
29** Due to Red being called "Rebecca" in "The List", it's become popular for fanfiction writers to use that as her real name, with "Red" merely being a nickname. Likewise, it's common for fanfic writers to make Bebe's real name be "Barbara", with "Bebe" simply being a nickname
30* Though an age difference (if any) was never given between the one-shot Cotswolds siblings in season 3, some fans have Rebecca as a year younger than Mark (making her technically a 2nd-grader when she appeared), or some will depict them as fraternal twins and Mark as the elder one. Kenny's first girlfriend Kelly also has some fanon circulating about her, such as the surname "Nelson" [[note]]Based off of a throwaway line from "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", however, it's very unlikely that it was actually a reference to her[[/note]], or that Sally Darson from "Butters' Bottom Bitch" is her cousin or twin sister, due to their similar appearances.
31* Red [[note]]although also given the one-time names of "Bertha" and "Rebecca"[[/note]] had quite a few fanon names and characterizations before the show writers decided to utilize her more with the other girls. In particular an early Pip-centric writer or two had latched on to her being seen with Pip in "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo" and "Summer Sucks" and called her "Biddy", after a character in ''Great Expectations'' (who had feelings for Pip). Others called her "Rachel" or "Mollie". Because she was either completely silent pre-season 6 or still didn't speak as much for a while after, she was a blank slate and portrayed as a silent stoic, an easily-frustrated foil to Wendy and Bebe, or more tomboyish. Some also latched on to the idea of portraying her as someone who [[ReallyGetsAround has quite the lovers]] in aged-up fanworks, going off how the animators used to pair her off with Kevin for scenes, her angry jealous moment at seeing Rebecca Cotswolds flirt with Token in "Hooked On Monkey Fonics", and her being paired off with Annie in later background scenes.[[note]]This may now be AscendedFanon given her description in the [[https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/SP_and_ME official personality test]] implies that she's "experienced a series of fun but short-lived romantic flings," though that still isn't explicit in the show proper.[[/note]]
32* Due to her characterization in episodes like "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" and "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Bebe is usually portrayed as a LovableAlphaBitch in many parts of the fandom. Some take it a step further and have all of her {{Jerkass}} moments in the series be a result of a persona she puts on.
33* It's very common in fanfics for a [[CastFullOfGay large majority of the cast to turn out gay]], but you're hard pressed to find any fic at all in which Kenny isn't an EthicalSlut.
34* A Wikipedia edit claimed an episode established Carol [=McCormick=] was sixteen when she gave birth to her son Kenny, which would suggest she was twelve years old when she gave birth to her older son, Kevin, while her husband is canonically in his thirties or forties. While many, many fans swear they heard it, this claim is nowhere to be found in any of the show's episodes, and "Chickenpox" provides evidence against it as Carol knew Stuart personally when Stuart was a teenager, suggesting they're not that far apart in age. The false age has even shown up on the official site on occasion!
35* Due to Butters mentioning that Clyde didn't come to help the boys [[ItMakesSenseInContext get one of Cartman's kidneys]] because his mother was making tacos for dinner, many fanfic writers seem to be convinced that Clyde's favourite food are tacos in spite of him never being shown eating them on-screen, let alone talking about them (That said, Butters does mention that Clyde really likes them).
36* In the show, Craig's bedroom is often shown with space-themed decorations. Fanart sometimes adds to this (giving him those glow-in-the-dark stars on the wall seems pretty popular) while fanfic may portray him fascinated by space, dreaming of being an astronaut or astronomer (which is supported by his "Spaceman Craig" outfit in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure), etc.
37* A fairly common trend is to give Butters a SplitPersonality, usually based on Professor Chaos, as a coping mechanism for his traumatic childhood. Ironically, he was misdiagnosed with multiple personalities in the episode "City Sushi" due to his playing being mistaken as a fragmented identity. Kenny, Mysterion, and Princess Kenny are also sometimes interpreted as Kenny having an early form of Dissociative Identity Disorder to cope with his traumatic home life and constant dying. The former was heavily implied in the BadFuture of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid'': [[spoiler:after being grounded in his room for his entire childhood, Butters becomes an NFT salesman named "Victor Chaos" who explicitly rejects his past identity and doesn't seem to remember his childhood friends.]]
38* It's never outright stated whether Grandma Stotch is Linda or Stephen's mother, but fans almost unanimously consider her to be Stephen's mother due to a scene in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' in which Stephen has a nightmare about his mother grounding him. Since Grandma Stotch bullies Butters for being a "sissy", it's assumed that she also emotionally and psychologically abused Stephen when he was a child for his gay/bisexual tendencies, which is partly why he's in the closet as an adult and why he abuses and [[TheChainOfHarm is always grounding Butters for little to no reason]].

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