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Villain Overview Gallery

Evil-doer Full Name Eric Theodore Cartman Alias Cartman

Eric Cartman

Eric

Eric T. Cartman

Hon

Poopsie

Poopsiekins

Dear

Lard-Butt

(His Mother Liane Cartman's) Boy Eric

Eric Cartmanez

Fat-ass

Chubby

Fatty

Dumbass

Asshole

A Little Piggy

The One Who Always Clogs Up The Toilet In [Mr. Randy Marsh's] House

(A) Kid

Tubby

A Cop

Little Boy

A Little Fatass

You Fat-Fuck

Fat Boy

Fat Turd

Retard

Bullfrog

The Coon

That Fat Kid

(The) A.W.E.S.O.M.-O (4000)

A Fat Little Lump

Fatty Doo-Doo

Rick Cartman

CartmanBrah

Dickhead

Time Child

Not SkankHunt

Ming Lee

Bad Irene

The Rad Russian

The Dawg

Mitch Conner/Jennifer Lopez/Yennifer Lopez

Eric the Awesome

Brad Pitt, But Cooler

The Wizard King

The Grand Wizard Origin South Park Occupation

South Park Elementary student Owner of Cartmanland (formerly)

Law-enforcement official (formerly)

"Superhero"/Vigilante crimefighter (formerly)

YouTuber (formerly)

Leader of the Ginger Separatist Movement (formerly) Powers/Skills Trash-talking

Combat and fighting prowess

Manipulation

Strategies

Planning

Charisma

Sarcasm

Impersonation/acting skills

Murder methods

Leadership

Ventriloquism

Multilingualism

Repulsive flatulence

Weaponry use

Cooking

Musical skills

Photography

Electrokinesis via foul language (Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Stick of Truth only)

Fiery flatulence (Stick of Truth only) Hobby Watching TV and playing video games.

Eating junk food, especially KFC, Cheesy Poofs and Snacky 'Smores.

Insulting, harassing and ostracizing people, especially ethnic and racial minorities.

Hating on Kyle Broflovski and all Jews.

Bullying and otherwise manipulating Butters Stotch.

Teasing Stan Marsh's feelings for Wendy Testaburger.

Making fun of Kenny McCormick for being poor.

Making Wendy feel chagrined and marginalized.

Hanging out with and belittling Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Butters.

Dating Heidi Turner (formerly) .

Causing as much trouble in the least amount of time as possible. Goals Make his life better and easier in every way that he wants (ongoing; partially succeeded) . Crimes Hate crimes

Mass murder

Mass destruction

Enforced cannibalism

Mutilation

Enforced suicide

Vandalism

Cannibalism

Impersonations

Attempted genocide

Terrorism

Patricide

Theft

Plagiarism

Fraud

Rape

Torture

Abuse

Incrimination

Blackmail

Kidnapping

Treason

Assault

Battery

Sabotage

Extortion

Stalking

Smuggling

Armed robbery

Arson

Attempted bribery

Cheating

Conspiracy

Infringement

Attempted domination

Graverobbing

Unlicensed surgery

War crimes

Breaking and entering

Embezzlement

Underage/Hit-and-run machinery operation

False imprisonment

Forceful confinement

Slander

Brainwashing

Forgery

Piracy

Underage/child pornography

Child abuse

Various other offenses Type of Villain Rebellious Juvenile Delinquent

“ Screw you guys! I'm(-a) goin' home! „ ~ Cartman's catchphrase.

“ RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH! „ ~ Cartman's other catchphrase.

“ How would you like to suck my balls?! „ ~ Cartman in Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

Eric Theodore Cartman, more commonly known by his surname Cartman, is the main antagonist as well as the tritagonist of the adult animated sitcom South Park; he is usually a morally ambiguous anti-hero, antagonist or protagonist villain.

He is an 8-to-10-year-old boy who lives in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado near Denver. He has been the longtime arch-nemesis and companion of Stanley "Stan" Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Kenny McCormick despite hanging out with them none have considered him a true friend. He was also the social rival of Stan's sometimes-girlfriend and love interest Wendy Testaburger and later the abusive (ex-)boyfriend of Heidi Turner as well as the only son of Liane Cartman.

Being disliked by nearly everyone in town Cartman is nothing but a fat, bigoted, racist, sexist, cowardly, foulmouthed, manipulative, tyrannical psychopath constantly spreading hate speeches and bullying as well as deceiving and using others (especially Kyle and Butters) to achieve his goals.

He is voiced by co-creator Trey Parker, who also played Kim Jong-il in Team America: World Police and Balthazar Bratt in Despicable Me 3.

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Biography

Cartman has an intensely heated rivalry of-sorts with Kyle due to his constant immoral scheming and disrespect for other cultures, especially his tendency towards anti-Semitic words and actions - their particular enmity has intensified over the course of the series and the struggle between them can be seen as one between good and evil later on. He has slightly-lesser animosities with Stan, Kenny, Wendy and Butters among many others: he pokes fun at Kenny coming from a near-destitute family, teases Stan and Wendy's feelings for each other while openly deprecating their respective ideals and takes advantage of Butters's generous nature by leaving him in the dust when anything goes wrong. Also, no matter how much Kyle and the rest of the boys keep telling Cartman the truth he refuses to believe the young Jew (or anyone else for that matter). Cartman is delusional which makes him believe he is awesome and better than everyone but he is too ignorant and arrogant to see the truth. He had always been in denial about the facts he was overweight and disliked by nearly everyone in town (especially Kyle and the other kids). However, he was truthful when he admitted to being racist (making fun of other Jews, ripping on African-Americans, etc.). It was shown that he worships those such as Adolf Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan much to the dismay of Kyle and Jerome "Chef" McElroy; he also worshipped Mel Gibson for his role in The Passion of the Christ which he believed to prove Jews as scum.

Cartman is often very immature and quite a coward, being reduced to tears once or twice with a passive hit from Kyle - however, he shows remarkable knowledge when he wants to sometimes verging on the role of a knowledgeable and master manipulator as he manages to gather large crowds to his will via impressive speeches and surprising charisma.

Cartman's plans vary from story to story but are typically small-scale and petty such as cheating someone out of money or obtaining a new toy/gadget - though he also has grander plans, some of which have verged on world domination though he always fails to achieve his goals (with one notable exception). Some of his more evil plans revolve around committing murder (or genocide) which usually happens.

Cartman is a spoiled brat who will do anything to get what he wants. Denying Cartman of his goal is a dangerous game as he easily develops obsessions over such things and can be extremely vindictive when feeling wronged and if sufficiently annoyed gains a psychopathic glee in destroying perceived enemies. Despite this Cartman has no qualms about whining, begging and manipulating people as well and a foul temper that explodes at any moment.

The cause of Cartman's flaws seemed to be a product of his environment as having been given everything from an early age he came to expect such treatment and his lazy, selfish behavior was rewarded rather than punished by his mother Liane Cartman who normally seemed all-but-incapable of disciplining her demonic child regardless of the abuse she received.

Unlike other characters (e.g. Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Butters) he did not actually seem to learn from mistakes and continued to do things that backfired blaming everyone except himself for the results.

Another recurring theme in the series is Cartman seen doing something selfless and it somehow always turns out to be a coverup for some selfish plot - the effort put into these master plans show that Cartman is not as stupid as he acts and smarter than he lets on but are usually doomed to failure due to the actions of others (especially Kyle and the rest of the children) or other factors.

While Cartman has always been a crass child he was not originally seen as entirely evil; however, the show's fifth season was when his character arc took a turn for the worst and ultimately became the psychopath and sociopath of today.

Personality

“ He's a fat, racist, self-centered, intolerant, manipulating sociopath. „ ~ Kyle Broflovski.

“ Kyle: Dude, I think it might be best for us to never piss off Cartman again.

Stan: Good call. „ ~ Kyle and Stan after Eric Cartman feeds Scott his parents.

Despite being one of the main characters on the show and arguably the most popular and primary mascot Cartman is arrogant, psychopathic, sociopathic, foul-mouthed (the most foul-mouthed character in the show's fictional universe), self-centered, argumentative, egotistical, greedy and openly prejudiced against anyone not a healthy, average-income, cisgendered, heterosexual and Catholic, Christian or atheist Caucasian male. Cartman says and does despicable things for fun or a higher purpose such as theft, lying, slander, even torture and murder. He once calmly said the pain and suffering of others amused him, seemingly not realizing it was a bad thing. On occasions, he embraces the negative side of life such as willingly and knowingly being an emotional monger for avaricious reasons. He is constantly making nasty remarks at the expense of individuals with foreign heritage or blood and flatly thinks females are automatically inferior to males in everything. He also stereotypes every possible race and religion and makes up generalized assumptions about things he knows in the world around him (both positively and negatively) without hesitation or shame. Due to the messed-up nature of South Park his beliefs more or less turn out right; a gag in the series shows him and Kyle having bets on whether or not what Cartman says is true with the oversized boy actually being correct in most regards, something that infuriates Kyle further and solidifies Cartman's delusions.

Because of being spoiled rotten by his single mother he has a ridiculously excessive condition of a superiority complex. He knows in his heart-of-hearts that he is a cruel, overindulged obese beast of a child but it seems no human-discovered method makes him realize it. He constantly denied being fat except when he used his weight to abuse the rights of mobility scooter riders and never seemed to know that just about everyone hates him (no matter how obviously they spelled it out). Cartman's ego makes up preposterous and nonsensical alternatives to things that happen so he always sees himself as an awesome hero everyone loves. This causes him to think he is indeed humble and everyone who challenges this are the ones with ego problems. Unlike the other people of South Park who are fans of the hometown Denver Broncos, Cartman is actually a fan of the rival Las Vegas Raiders.

There are more episodes focusing on Cartman than any other characters but he is never presented as a hero (at least not one with nothing to repent for). When an episode focuses on him it was usually because he had or was about to have done something terrible for personal gain and others attempted to stop him or resolve it. Even when fighting for what is right he went about it in a morally-dubious way.

Though Cartman seems to have low intelligence in school this could just be a lack of regard for academics. He has demonstrated exceptional cunning for his age in all other situations. He knows how to speak foreign languages and understands enough about economics, politics and religions to manipulate them with little effort. Cartman is also a powerful leader and has easily rallied his classmates and even large groups of adults to follow him in missions. Despite seeming to be rather lazy in most cases Cartman has demonstrated a great passion for acting. When he thought he was of Native American and then African-American heritage he flawlessly took on the stereotypes of both cultures adopting their mannerisms, attires and gestures perfectly. He also shows this talent whilst temporarily acting as a police officer, Hitler, a mentally-handicapped child, a Christian Rock musician and Gandalf the Grey Wizard among many others.

Cartman has the uncanny habits of sneaking into people's houses at night and spontaneously bursting into song to express his deepest feelings. His racism stemmed from an obsessive paranoia that all other groups are equally xenophobic towards the Caucasian race and will attempt an uprising as revenge for years of oppression. Another interesting note about Cartman is him being one of the town's residents with a Southern accent. Due to this he mispronounced several words in some of the show's seasons: "Mom" as "Myem" or "Meeeem", "Guys" as "Geyz", "Hey" as "I" or "A", "Here" as "Myah" or "Nyah" and most words that end in "-ity" as "-itah". A prime example of the final one is Cartman's catchphrase "Respect my authoritah!"

Cartman's sanity and mental state are things of question too. In addition to obviously being near-psychotic Cartman has split personalities. This is demonstrated when doing the voices of his stuffed animals, making them all compliment him immensely but then having one of them insult him. He also thinks his hand-puppet Mitch Conner is another person entirely. Despite doing Conner's voice he seems oblivious to the fact it is just his hand.

There were instances when Cartman's suppressed ethical senses manage to surface such as:

When he redeemed for a few hours at the end of "Tsst",

made up for everything he had done wrong in "The Death of Eric Cartman" (though for self-serving reasons),

attempted to help the other boys stop everyone from playing "the brown note" in "World Wide Recorder Concert"

in "World Wide Recorder Concert" and saved Terrance and Phillip from execution and single-handedly fought Saddam Hussein, saving the world in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

While being simply tendentious in earlier seasons Cartman had gotten considerably worse and even nastier as the show progressed but occasionally became more laid-back and then went to being a villain again. Cartman also cannot seem to make up his mind if he liked Butters, Stan, Kyle and Kenny or not as he said he hates them but occasionally did the opposite and was always hanging out with them, sometimes even singing about it. In addition he usually seems horrified whenever Kenny dies though he later takes advantage. It is important to note that these instances were before Season 5 (and Cartman's breakthrough with Scott Tenorman) and he had attempted since then to both kill his friends and remain indifferent to their well-being overall.

Antagonistic Roles

Cartman was introduced as an antihero of the show but after Season 5 became more of a protagonist-villain. However, later seasons have shown him constantly switching from a villain to an anti-hero. He served as the main antagonist in "Cartoon Wars" and "Coon and Friends" and one of two main antagonists in "#REHASH" and "#HappyHolograms" (along with Mr. Big Record Producer) and Season 21 (alongside Mr. Garrison). He's also the bigger bad in South Park: The Fractured But Whole since he created Mitch Connor in the first place. He also appears as the secondary antagonist of the 23rd season.

Criminal Record

“ Butters: Boy oh boy, Eric, you've got a lot to atone for.

Eric: Really?

Butters: Really. I mean, honestly, i don't know how you're gonna make up for all this. „ ~ Butters to Eric about his crimes and redemption.

Cartman's Redemption

Although rarely, Cartman sometimes becomes aware of his evil deeds if it was self-redemption in the episode " The Death of Eric Cartman " where he thought he had died and had left on earth like a lost soul because of his wrongdoings he made every effort to do good, more specifically it suggests in his song: " Make It Right ". However, he only did it because he thought that if he didn't do it he wouldn't go to the afterlife and he did not mean to apologize to them and wasn't sorry at all. Incredibly, Cartman has become much more sympathetic and light in his wickedness in the 16th season, particularly in the episode "Jewpacabra" where his hatred of Jews seems to have been completely removed, and eventually ( albeit apparently ) converts to Judaism for the rest episode until "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" when he unintentionally blamed Kyle for killing Kenny which he dies from boredom and herpes and rest of the ziplining trip, unintentionally or likely re-converting back to Roman Catholicism for unknown reasons after the events of the episode. He originally claimed he was not fat but snapped in "Raising the Bar" when he rethought this and told Kyle he would spend his entire life in a scooter before leaving him; instead of getting weight loss he wanted to ride a scooter around to make fun of Kyle and everyone else who was not fat.

" where he thought he had died and had left on earth like a lost soul because of his wrongdoings he made every effort to do good, more specifically it suggests in his song: " ". However, he only did it because he thought that if he didn't do it he wouldn't go to the afterlife and he did not mean to apologize to them and wasn't sorry at all.

The Coon

Cartman is notable for having a large criminal record and having crossed Moral Event Horizon . Although having committed many atrocities before he has only been arrested in any way about six times. Cartman's record includes but remains not limited to:

The Coon was the superhero (or rather supervillain) alter-ego of himself. He first appeared in the self-titled episode. He was also the leader of Coon and Friends in "Coon 2: Hindsight" before being kicked out because he kept beating up and blackmailing innocents and other heroes; Mysterion ironically chose to keep the group's name despite his absence just to annoy him.

The Coon eventually went to the evil side when he formed an alliance with Cthulhu in "Mysterion Rises". He embarked on a killing spree with Cthulhu, eventually making him level San Francisco. In "Coon vs. Coon and Friends" he continued his killing spree making Cthulhu destroy the Burning Man festival, slaughter Justin Bieber and most of his fans and banish his friends to the City of R'Lyeh.

However, Cthulhu was eventually defeated when Mint-Berry Crunch used his newfound superpowers to seal him back into his own dimension. The Coon was then made powerless and captured by the new Coon and Friends who put him in the same cell with Professor Chaos (Butters).

"Coon" was in itself a racist term, Cartman's raccoon-themed costume aside.

In video games

South Park: Tenorman's Revenge

Cartman was given a more heroic role than he had in the show. Instead of being a villain Cartman was again one of the main protagonists and helped the other boys get their Xbox 360's hard drive back from Scott. Besides making occasional nasty comments Cartman was much more tame here.

South Park: Stick of Truth

In the beginning Cartman was more of an anti-villain by helping the New Kid join the game and recruiting them into the Kingdom of Kupa Keep; you needed to recruit the Goth Kids for him. If you chose to follow Kyle then Cartman's army would invade the school and you had to fight him while he tried to knock you down with fiery farts.

South Park: The Fractured but Whole

Cartman served as a supporting protagonist as he led Coon and Friends against their rival team Freedom Pals to make money for their own superhero franchise. His alter-ego Mitch Conner served as the main antagonist as he was the one behind all the crimes in town.

Quotes

“ Hey! „ ~ Cartman “ (Token: And with Cartman's enormously fat ass, the boys are sure to win!) Token, I swear to God, if you call me fat one more time I'm gonna smack you on the head with this rock! „ ~ Cartman threatening to hit Token Black if he calls him fat again. “ (Scott: I'm glad you like it so much, because now that you're almost finished, I have something to tell you.) What? You mean about how you put pubes in your chili? ( Scott: What?!) I'm afraid this isn't your chili, Scott. I switched it with Chef's. It's delicious, Chef. I hadn't planned on that. What I did plan on, however, was that my friends, Stan and Kyle, would betray me and warn you that the Chili Con Carnival was a trap. I assumed that they would tell you that I had trained Denkins' pony to bite off your wiener. What they didn't tell you was that Denkins is a crazy redneck who shoots trespassers on sight. Knowing that you would try and do something to the pony, I warned Mr. Denkins that violent pony killers were in the area. [A shot of Cartman telling Denkins of such a thing. Denkins is armed] I also know that you wouldn't go yourself, for fear of having your wiener bitten off. You would most likely send your parents. And, I'm afraid that when Mr. Denkins spotted them on his property, he shot and killed both your parents. (Scott: My... mom and dad are... dead?) I came just in time to see Mr. Denkins giving his report to Officer Barbrady. And of course, to steal the bodies. After a night with the hacksaw, I was all ready to put on my Chili Con Carnival, so that I could tell you personally about your parents' demise! And of course, feed you your chili. Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili." „ ~ One of the most heinous crimes of Eric, when he took revenge on Scott Tenorman by killing his parents, turning them into chili and making him eat it. “ You're sterile, is that it? No, that's too convenient of an excuse. The truth is, nobody ever wanted to have babies with you. Isn't that it? (her jaw drops) Always the mom's maid and never the mom? Must be hard on you, knowing that the years are ticking away, your friends all getting married and all the while your uterus is slowly shriveling away, drying up, becoming totally worthless. „ ~ Cartman destroying Nanny Stella. “ (Kenny: Hey, fat boy!) Kenny? What the hell? I sent you to the...(Kenny: To the sunken city of R'Lyeh fallen from the stars! You little fucking prick! What is wrong with you?! What kind of sick fuck does that to his friends?!) It's not my fault you guys turned evil, Kenny! (Kenny: You are the bad guy, fat boy! YOU!) I'm going around making the world a better place! (Kenny: For you! You're making it a better place for you!) „ ~ Cartman confronted by Kenny for using Cthulhu for massacring people.

Trivia

Cartman parodied Tony Montana, the first time in a play imitating him and the second for real.

Cartman was shown to go to great lengths to get revenge on people who did relatively minor things or really nothing at all. An example is in "Tsst" when Cartman made a kid saw off his own leg and get sent to the hospital just because he called him "chubby" ; he never did something similar to any of his friends despite them calling him names worse than "chubby" or arranged a gambit to get Wendy's parents killed like Scott's parents regardless of the fact that what Wendy did was more painful than what Scott did. Why he didn't do such things is still not known although Wendy can occasionally outsmart Cartman and turn his schemes against him and he still has an ambivalent measure of caring for his "best friends" . He may have failed to seek extreme revenge on the former due to his feelings for her; it was revealed he actually likes her but it is also unknown why he did not begin his evil planning when she reaffirmed her affections for Stan and dislike for him. Cartman saved Kyle for the sole reasons of having something to do by picking on him and forcing him to "suck his balls" after proving leprechauns existed despite his desire to get rid of him.

; he never did something similar to any of his friends despite them calling him names worse than or arranged a gambit to get Wendy's parents killed like Scott's parents regardless of the fact that what Wendy did was more painful than what Scott did. Why he didn't do such things is still not known although Wendy can occasionally outsmart Cartman and turn his schemes against him and he still has an ambivalent measure of caring for his . He may have failed to seek extreme revenge on the former due to his feelings for her; it was revealed he actually likes her but it is also unknown why he did not begin his evil planning when she reaffirmed her affections for Stan and dislike for him. "1%" marked the first time he possibly made an advance in psychological health as he destroyed all of his stuffed animals who he gave voices and personalities to the point that one even insulted him in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut", severing a dangerous attachment to his stuffed toys even if through delusional mental episodes. If Cartman had split personalities then he had at least five: Clyde Frog , Peter Panda , Muscleman Marc , Wumpletumpkins and Polly Prissypants . If Mitch/ Jennifer Lopez was included he would still have one left.

In a scene removed from a season he knocked out Token to probably settle old accounts.

Cartman along with his namesake theme park Cartmanland from the titular Season 5 episode shared similarities with Bowser (with World Bowser and Bowser Land) from Super Mario Bros. and Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (with Eggmanland and Robotnikland) from Sonic the Hedgehog .

Cartman along with his namesake theme park Cartmanland from the titular Season 5 episode shared similarities with Bowser (with World Bowser and Bowser Land) from and Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (with Eggmanland and Robotnikland) from . Cartman show a lot of similarities to Peter Griffin, both who were fat dimwitted idiots who were mostly anti-heroes before, but gradually became more cruel, manipulative, and sadistic, Cartman's breaking point was in Season 5 with Scott Tenorman must die but Peter's breaking point is hard to pinpoint, but his actions became especially heinous in Season 8.

In the 1996 unaired Pilot episode, Cartman was originally going to have a father and younger sister, but Cartman's unnamed father and sister were scrapped and Cartman would only have a single mother instead.

He is similar to Patrick Hockstetter from the novel It : Both are Fat. Both get unconditional, steadfast love from their mothers. Both committed child abuse. Both are mentally insane and are more intelligent than credited for. Both are criminals, though not convicted as one by cops. However, Eric became insane due to being humiliated and prior pampering whilst Patrick was insane due to a mental disorder.

: Cartman's Fingerbang outfit bears a striking resemblance to the late Elvis Presley's outfit from his later years.