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  • Eric Cartman has proven to be one of the most sociopathic characters in the show... but draws the line when Butters (accidentally) shoots men in the dick, which causes him to begin a tirade about how it's wrong. ("It's WRAA-AUNG!") Also, in "Major Boobage", it turns out he doesn't approve of hurting cats.
  • An early example of Cartman showing decency is "Ike's Wee-Wee" where Kyle decides to save his brother Ike from getting circumcised (confusing it with castration). The plan goes horribly wrong when a decoy he made is ripped apart by a dog before getting hit by a tanker truck. Cartman glares at Kyle as his parents cry over the supposed loss. Then again, Cartman in the earlier seasons was a lot less evil compared to what he would become.
  • Even though he laughed about the revelation that his dad was cheating on his mom with random men in gay bath houses and cheerfully assured Butters that he was going to mock him about it later, Cartman was genuinely shocked that Butter's mom Linda revealed that she had tried to kill Butters earlier.
  • In "Cartoon Wars Part 1 & 2'", Kyle calls him out for making fun of other religions, particularly his (Judaism). But when Family Guy shows an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Cartman justifies this by saying he's just a little boy and this is a cartoon. ("It's WRAA-AUNG!"). Interestingly enough, South Park has shown the Islamic prophet both uncensored ("Super Best Friends") and censored (episodes after that). This is then subverted as it turns out that Cartman only pretends to care about showing Muhammad, since he sees it as an excuse to have Family Guy taken off the air, as he hates the show with a passion.
  • In the episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", Cartman tries to stop the statutory rape implied by the title ...because the affair was partially held in the school hallways. Because Cartman was the hall monitor that week, kissing in the halls is strictly against school rules, and teachers have to RESPECT HIS AUTHORITAH!
  • Cartman's reaction to 22-year-old Skyler dating Stan's underage sister Shelley: "Dude, that's not cool."
  • In "The Pandemic Special," Cartman not only spared the pangolin's life (despite the fact that killing it would have benefitted him) after listening to Stan's plea, but is visibly appalled when Garrison shows up to kill the pangolin and the scientist holding it with a flamethrower.

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  • In the episode "The Coon", when Cartman (as a raccoon-themed superhero known as The Coon) gets Professor Chaos (Butters' super-villain persona) to blow up a hospital to lure out rival hero Mysterion, Professor Chaos laments on how he finds blowing up hospitals is mean and reprehensible. As a villain, Professor Chaos is more prone to poking poodles than kicking dogs.
  • "Super Fun Time": In Pioneer Village, you are not allowed to break character, ever, until the second the work day ends at 5:00. So, when the park is taken over by terrorists who robbed a Burger King (long story), and they ask for the code to the electronic lock on the back door so they can escape the cops, one of the employees shoots a fellow employee who was about to break character and reveal it. By this point, the terrorists have killed several employees themselves, but even they're stunned by this.
    Terrorist Leader: You people are fucking insane!
  • Again, in "Imaginationland", Jason Voorhees says he doesn't want to ever meet the kid who created Christmas Critters, who originates from Cartman's short Christmas story. That's right, Cartman is so screwed up that even a zombie serial killer is disgusted at what comes up from his mind. In general, before the terrorists attacked Imaginationland, the Evil Imaginary Characters simply weren't interested in war, although they don't want anyone or anything good crossing into their home territory or else they'd kill them. Then the terrorists attacked both territories and made the Good Imaginary Characters scapegoats to convince the Evil ones to declare war and for the Good and Evil Characters to kill each other.
  • In "Go Fund Yourself", after Dan Snyder plays alone against the Dallas Cowboys and gets tackled to death, even ISIS is disgusted by the boys using the Washington Redskins label to make profit out of nothing.
  • Satan does this often. In addition to hating his Jerkass boyfriend Saddam Hussein, he also despises rich, spoiled 16 year old girls (he fears that he might become one, but one of his minions tells him "you're not that bad") and thinks that someone dressing up as Steve Irwin with a sting ray through their chest at his Halloween party is offensive. (It turns out that said party-goer actually is Steve Irwin, and Satan makes him leave because he's not in costume).
  • One draft of the film includes a subplot in which Kenny and Saddam make a bet involving Smacky S'mores. When Saddam attempts to cheat his way out of the bargain after Kenny lives up, Satan calls Saddam out on it before betraying him.
  • In the film as well, Mothers Against Canada were willing to go to war over a television show but backed down when their children got involved. Sheila learned the hard way when she gunned down Terrence and Phillip.
  • Even Al Qaeda suicide bombs the "armies" of New Jersey to help America before the idiocy can spread to Afghanistan.
  • The "Native Americans" from Cherokee Hair Tampons have no problem in helping Miss Information scam the towns folk out of their money by selling fake products and lying about their true heritage, (they're really Mexicans), hell they even found it funny. But once they see the physically ill Kyle, they tell them that he should go to a doctor and come clean about the whole thing.
  • Satan was pretty disgusted with how Freemium games exploit their players into spending more money, since he believes that temptations should have actual nuance rather than simple exploitation of addiction. Once he finds out that the Terrence & Phillip Freemium game was created by Beelzaboot, the Canadian Devil, he possesses Stan (who let him) in order to fight him.
  • All the kids are visually disturbed at Bill Gates viciously beating the head of Sony to death in the Console War Trilogy, even and especially Cartman, which speaks miles and volumes on how horrible the Console Wars and Black Friday are. Hell, Cartman is the one who opts to just play outside after everything is said and done (which apparently leads into The Stick of Truth, complete with an ad for it)
  • When Skankhunt42 aka Gerald Broflovski explains to other Trolls that they shouldn't just try to inflame individual people, but turn entire groups of people against each other, one of the other Trolls replies: "That's kinda... mean."

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