Eric Cartman

Eric Theodore Cartman commonly known as Cartman, is the main antagonist of the South Park franchise.
He is also and one of the main protagonists of the animated feature South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, as well as the deuteragonist of the 2014 video game South Park: The Stick of Truth, and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Mitch Conner) of the 2017 video game South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the main antagonist of the 2017 mobile video game South Park: Phone Destroyer, and the secondary antagonist of South Park: Snow Day. 
He along with Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Kenny McCormick are colloquially referred to as "the Boys", as they are often seen together and are protagonists of the franchise. He is an 8–10-year-old boy living in South Park, Colorado. He is a racist fatass who hates Jews (such as Kyle) and muslims (believing they are terrorists). Although he is a selfish, greedy, manipulative, and intolerant machiavellian who functions as a juvenile sociopath, he has sometimes performed heroic acts despite lacking heroic traits. 
He is voiced by the series' co-creator Trey Parker, who also voices Stan Marsh and many other characters.
== Appearance ==
Cartman is a obese kid which many people refers to him as "fatass". He has brown hair. He has a thick chin. He wore a red jacket and brown pants. He wore a light blue beanie and yellow mittens.
==Personality==
Despite being one of the four main protagonists of the show, and arguably its most famous character and mascot, Cartman is a sadistic, arrogant, foul-mouthed (the most foul-mouthed on the show), argumentative, spoiled, greedy and sociopathic fatass who is openly prejudiced against anyone who is not a heterosexual Caucasian male. Cartman usually does and says despicable things for fun or a higher self-serving purpose, such as theft, lying, slander, and even torture and murder. He once calmly said that other peoples pain and suffering amuses him, seemingly not realizing that this was a bad thing. On occasions, he embraces the negative side of life, such as willingly and knowingly being a fear monger for petty and avaricious reasons. He is constantly making nasty remarks at the expense of Hebrews, African Americans and flatly thinks females are automatically inferior to males in everything. He also stereotypes every race and religion (positively and negatively) without hesitation or shame. Due to the messed up nature of South Park, his stereotyping usually turns out right.
Possibly due to being spoiled rotten by his mother, Cartman has a ridiculously excessive condition of 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 will make him actually see it. He constantly denies being fat except once when he used his weight to abuse the rights of mobility scooter riders. Cartman's ego also makes up preposterous and nonsensical alternatives to things that happen so he always sees himself as an awesome hero who everyone loves. This also causes him to think that he is indeed humble and that everyone who challenges this delusion are the ones with the ego problems.
There are more episodes that focus on Cartman than any other character but he is never presented as a hero in these cases (at least not a hero with nothing to repent for). When an episode focuses on Cartman it is usually because he has or is about to do something terrible for personal gain and the other boys attempt to stop him or resolve it. Even when Cartman is fighting alongside his friends for what is right, he goes about it in a morally dubious way.
Though Cartman seems generally stupid academically, this could just be a lack of regard for academics. He has demonstrated exceptional cunning and intelligence for his age in all other situations. He seems to know how to speak Spanish and German and understands enough about economics, politics and religion 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 method acting. When he thought he was of Native American and then African American heritage, he flawlessly took on the stereotype of both cultures, adopting their mannerisms, attire and gestures perfectly. He also showed this talent whilst temporarily acting as a police officer, Adolf Hitler, a mentally handicapped child, a Christian Rock Musician and Gandalf the Wizard among many others.
Cartman has an uncanny habit of sneaking into peoples houses at night and spontaneously bursting into song to express his deepest feelings. His racism stems from an obsessive paranoia that all other ethnic groups are xenophobic towards the Caucasian race and will attempt an uprising as revenge for years of oppression. Another interesting note about Cartman is the one of the few South Park residents with a Southern accent. Due to this, he mispronounces several words in the first few seasons: Mum as "Myem" or "Meeeem", guys as "Geyz", hey as simply "I" or "A", here as "Myau" and most words that end in "ity" as "itah". One prime example of the final one is Cartman's famous catchphrase of "Respect my authoritah!".
Cartman's sanity is a thing of question too. In addition to obviously being a psychotic child, Cartman has a split personality. This is demonstrated when he was doing the voices of his stuffed animals, making them all compliment him immensely but then having one of them insult him. He also thinks that his make-up hand puppet, Mitch Conner, is another person entirely. Despite doing Conner's voice, Cartman seems to be oblivious to the fact that is just his hand.
There are instances where Cartman's long-suppressed ethics manage to surface, such as:
*When he fully redeemed for a few hours at the end of 'Tsst'.
* When he made up for everything he had done wrong in "The Death of Eric Cartman" (though this was for self-serving reasons).
*When he attempted to help the other boys stop everyone from playing the brown noise in Word Wide Recorder Concert.
*When he saved Terrence and Philip from execution in the movie and even single-handedly fought of Saddam Hussein, surprisingly saving the world.
*He gave up the Pangolin despite the fact it served him a purpose to kill it.
*He gave up his life with Yentl and his kids to save the World.
While being simply tendentious and nasty in the earlier seasons, Cartman has gotten considerably worse as the show has progressed, but occasionally becomes more laid-back and then goes right back to being a villain throughout the episodes. Cartman also can not seem to make up his mind if he likes Stan, Kyle and Kenny or not, as he is always saying he hates them, sometimes even singing about it, but occasionally says he loves them and is always hanging out with them. In addition he usually seems horrified when Kenny dies, though later takes advantage of it. Despite this, his mother is no longer giving into his demands so it is likely he will change for the better.
Cartman hates his eye doctor, Dr. Lout when he always making fun of him by giving him expensive fat jokes as well calling him his "little piggy".
Like his friends and other kids, Cartman loves watching the Terrance and Phillip show and movies. He and his friends managed to sneak into the Terrance and Phillip movie. He doesn't considered Terrance and Phillip as "naughty and toilet humor" because he declared it was a bunch of crap when Kyle's mother, Sheila is a dirty Jew who always trying to ruining the kids' funs.
Cartman didn't get much sleep last nights because having nightmares.
He is afraid of his pre-school bully, Trent Boyett who was wrongfully sent him to prison for 5 years by Cartman and the three other boys.
Like all of his classmates, Cartman hates Mr. Garrison because he is a sick weirdo. He never choose him to answer the question because he thinks he doesn't answer when Mr. Garrison ridiculed Cartman by calling him as a "butts for brains" and "cream puff". He is shown upset when seeing Mr. Garrison is still his homeroom teacher. 
Like all men, Cartman hates queefing because it was never funny but rather it is contagious towards men. He called the Queef Sisters as a disgusting crap. He contacted the Canadian Network, arguing with them for showing the Queef Sisters instead of Terrance and Phillip. He shown shock when a girl queefed Butters Stotch. Cartman, the boys team up with the male adults to ban queefing for life.
==Heroic Acts== 
*Perhaps the most heroic act of Cartman is in the film, "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", his frequent use of vulgarity, after getting electrocuted by a power box, coupled with the experimental V-chip implanted in his brain to stop him from swearing (which gave him temporary electrostatic powers), deliberately helps save the world from Saddam Hussein.
*In "Major Boobage", he hides his pet cat and other cats in his attic so they won't get taken away, at first he refuses to hide them because he didn't want to get in trouble, but his love for cats got the better of him and decides to hide them.
*In "Follow That Egg", he and Hedi are paired for a project. They had to raise an egg like it was their child, Cartman went up to Garrison, brought her a broken egg, and said that he broke it and Heidi didn't, and told Garrison to give him an F and Heidi an A, that way the grade will be C-, he was taking full responsibility for breaking the egg.
*In "Fishsticks", when Kanye West and his friends confronted Cartman and Jimmy because he thinks that they say he's a gay fish even though it was quotes to a joke, Cartman tells Kanye and his friends to let Jimmy go and that he was the one who came up with the joke. He knew Kayne wanted to hurt and/or kill the person who came up with it. Eric's memory of the joke's origin was "rewritten" each time he remembered it, reducing Jimmy's part until it was just Eric's work alone. There were instances in the past in which he blamed others for his actions, but this time Eric instead took responsibility for the joke, despite the threat.
*In "Rainforest Shmainforest", Cartman asks the construction workers to save Miss Stevens and the remaining children from the tribe of natives called the Yamagapa.
*In "Die Hippie, Die", his intolerance of hippies saves South Park from a drug-filled hippie music festival.
*In "I'm a Little Bit Country", by filling his TiVo with the history channel and dropping it and himself into a pool, he able to travel back in time to 1776, where he is able to institute the American tradition of Ice Cream Thursdays and return to South Park with a special 100th episode message about war and peace.
* In "The Snuke", Cartman's intolerance against Muslims and his use of racial profiling save the day.
*In "Grey Dawn", Cartman is the boy that figures out that by shutting down Country Kitchen Buffet, the Elderly won't have anywhere to get food, this being one of the few occasions where the boys rely on Cartman's planning (but only to an extent; Cartman wanted Kyle to suicide bomb the Buffet, but Stan over-ruled that and said they would only lock the doors).
*In "The Death of Eric Cartman", Cartman is under the belief that he was a ghost trapped on Earth until things were made right. He distracts three escaped convicts who were holding ten people hostage at the Red Cross while Butters lets them escape. Also in this episode Cartman makes up for all his previous wrongs such as the Sally Struthers incident ("Starvin' Marvin"), feeding parents to their child ("Scott Tenorman Must Die"), and crapping in the Principal Victoria's purse (seven times).
* In "Red Sleigh Down", he tries to bring Christmas cheer to the people living in Iraq, which is considerably heroic. However, this was his attempt at redemption simply to get on Santa's nice list, for Cartman fears that his naughtiness will keep him on Santa's naughty list unless he performs one huge act of kindness. This ends up with Santa being captured in Iraq, but then Cartman becomes a hero again and helps rescue Santa, saving Christmas, and Santa gives Cartman a present at the end of the episode.
*In "Smug Alert!", he saves Kyle's family from a smug storm.
*In "Make Love, Not Warcraft", Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny logged into World of Warcraft together to kill the player killer Jenkins' character. First, Stan retrieves the Sword of a Thousand Truths from his dad. Second Kenny shoots his arrow and Kyle uses magic to paralyze Jenkins' character. And finally, after Cartman says, "Looks like you're about to get pwned", he crushes the player killer's head with his war hammer.
*In "The Succubus", Cartman helps his friends to save Chef from unknowingly marrying a Succubus. Unfortunately, he doesn't prove to be very useful because at the time he was recovering from laser corrective surgery for his eyes.
*In "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", Cartman helps Kyle to save his brother Ike from his Kindergarten teacher Ms. Stevenson, whom Ike was having an unhealthy sexual relationship with. Although Cartman was doing it because the two were making out in the school hallways while he was the hall monitor (A job he took very seriously), he proves extraordinarily helpful and Kyle thanks him.
*In "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods", Cartman, angry at the other boys for missing his commercial debut, kicks the star projector, sending the full blast of the mind control machine into Dr. Adams' brain, saving the kids, Mr. Mackey, and Nurse Gollum from being put under mind control.
*In "Eat, Pray, Queef", Cartman and the boys team up with all the male adults to get rid of queefing abuse after Butters got sick when he was queefed by a girl. They show Butters' queefing abused as evidence to ban queefing, which ended up with a success as many men considered queefing to be contagious to men.
*In "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants", Cartman repeatedly outsmarts, injures, and humiliates Osama Bin Laden until he is executed by a US soldier.
*In "Cat Orgy", Cartman helps Shelly get back at Skyler for dumping her. When Skyler tries to get his revenge towards them as well, Cartman throws the box of catnip at his face, making the cats try to rape him and rip his pants off in the process.
*In "The Poor Kid", Cartman told on the abusive foster parents to his councilor. If he didn't tell on the foster parents, Mysterion wouldn't have been able to save Karen and the foster kids as easily.
*In "Imaginationland" ManBearPig kills Kyle and Cartman is devastated. Cartman then starts to punch the chest of Kyle's dead body in an effort to revive him, to which Kyle begins to breathe after coughing. However, he only did this so Kyle would suck his balls, due to a strange deal the two had.
*In "Dead Kids", Cartman helps Token maneuver past the school shooters so he can get to their math exam in time, showing how seamlessly everyone has adapted to the atrocities except Sharon Marsh, who has been the negative nancy of the episode, much to the dismay of her loving husband Randy Marsh.
*In "Bike Parade", he was the one to carry Kenny's coffin on his bike after he died in that episode.
*In "Post Covid: The Return of Covid" Rabbi Cartman eventually helped his old friends alter the past; even though in the *present/future* he is content with his life, happily married and has children he adores, he was willing to sacrifice his happiness to help save everyone else's. Thanks to a strain of future Tegridy weed, past Randy cultivates a marijuana that helps everyone forgive each other for their actions during Covid, thus preventing the future in which most people are miserable. In the revised timeline, almost everyone's lives have changed for the better, with Sharon, Shelley, and Kenny alive, thus Stan never spiraled into alcoholism and self-loathing, Kyle is now a fulfilled father of two, and Butters having never gone insane, however, Eric has been reduced to an isolated, homeless drunk, who they had apparently tried to help but at this point abandoned him as hopeless, thus showing he paid the greatest price for his good deed.
*In "Go God Go XII" Eric, while motivated by a selfish desire to return from the future, accidentally changes the past, which ends the mutually assured destructive war between the factions of atheists. While war still exists in the future, it isn't as massive in scale.
==Relationships==
===Kyle Broflovski===
While all four boys have been through adventures over the years and share similar goals of wealth and popularity, there is no weaker link between the four than the often intense rivalry between Cartman and Kyle. While the latter sees himself as more moral and philosophical, often trying to take the safest and most logical route, the notoriously stubborn and selfish Cartman will take what he wants by any means necessary, a common source of conflict between the two. Though they have been shown on rare yet notable occasions to be on civil terms, Cartman often shows an extremely sadistic side towards Kyle and will stop at nothing to humiliate him, and Kyle in turn often sees humiliating Cartman as morally justifiable, particularly given his anti-semitism. The two have also been known to make bets with full intent of humiliating one another, such as the loser having to pay a sum of money, being each other's slave or on one famous occasion, suck the winner's balls. Cartman in particular takes extreme pleasure in Kyle's suffering- going as far as to break him in Ginger Cow and even fantasizing about his tears, oddly enough. Cartman himself has shown a disturbing lack of care for Kyle's wellbeing as well; whether it be laughing at his bodily mutation from a certain apple company, or offering him up to a room of very angry Germans. Kyle always calls Cartman as "fatass".
Cartman insulted Kyle about his mother, Sheila Broflovski by calling her a "bitch" and singing Kyle's Mom is a bitch. In "Death", Cartman punched Kyle for his mother forcing the kids to not watch Terrance and Phillip when she believes it was "naughty and toilet humor" which is a bunch of crap, although Kyle explained it was Sheila's doing, not his.
Cartman and Kyle have come to blows on multiple occasions, mostly notably after Cartman and Butters broke into the Broflovski Residence to infect Kyle with the HIV virus, when they had to be broken up by Mr. Mackey, as well as the FOX headquarters when they came into conflict over a controversial Family Guy episode, and after Kenny McCormick's death and funeral, when Cartman used stem cells to create a new Shakey's Pizza. Despite hatred, when the two boys can set their differences aside, and a common goal is clear in sight, Cartman and Kyle can make incredibly strong allies, although this always seems to disband one way or another. They do have some common interests they do not share with Stan and Kenny in the same fashion, such as Faith Hilling and the Xbox One, and also share a particular shared business talent that is displayed both in their time together working at the Crack Baby Athletic Association and during their time at the Washington Redskins start-up company, where they even lead a high-profile press conference together. They maintain a surprising degree of tolerance for one another, with Kyle in particular continuing to feel sympathy for Cartman and his moments of plight despite their problems, and Cartman recognizing Kyle’s assets for various schemes, allowing no bathroom break stop him.
Another thing to note is Cartman's former obsessive dislike of Kyle. Although disliking his opponent dearly, when faced with the possibility of loosing him permanently from the horrors of San Francisco, he's willing to save him to avoid boredom and have an entertaining rival to torment once more. Kyle himself is willing to save Cartman as well, although for significantly less selfish reasons. Although loathing him with all his heart, Kyle is willing to compromise it all in order to see Cartman do the right thing once in his life- although he may be too optimistic in that regard.
The two have occasionally gotten along such as in "Kenny Dies" and "Pinkeye" when Kyle put his hand on Cartman's shoulder when was upset about Kenny dying. In fact, in "You Have 0 Friends", Cartman helped Kyle make new friends, even though Cartman did not appear to be gaining anything out of it. In "It's a Jersey Thing", Kyle was ironically the one who saved Cartman when he was being raped by Snooki. Cartman showed genuine appreciation for this act, thanking him and later going as far as to say that although Kyle was a "monster" (for having Jersey blood running through his veins), he was "my [Cartman's] little monster", and pinched his cheek. Although they bicker constantly, the two haven't full on fought since then, and have had a lot more moments together where they seem happy, such as Kyle sharing music with Cartman in "You're Getting Old". There are also moments such as in "Faith Hilling" where the two share a common goal. However, there are many moments where they are at ends like earlier in the series, such as in the Coon trilogy. Therefore, their friendship is in a constant state of disrepair.
The back-and-forth of their outward conflict yet still regularly meeting with the other boys can be seen as somewhat ironic. Therefore, Kyle and Cartman could be seen to have a more complex connection than Stan and Kyle with. In "The Entity", Kyle described Cartman as "my sort of friend-ish", as his best explanation of their relationship.
In "Weight Gain 4000", Kyle insults Cartman for being such a "fatass" when he became fatter than ever. Kyle says when Cartman walking down that street people will say "Goddamn! That's a big fatass!" which it is true.
In "Rainforest Shmainforest", Cartman tells that Kyle doesn't have any rhythims for being Jewish, causing Kyle to tell him to "Shut up, fatass!".
In "You're Getting Old", Stan's behavior change upon turning 10 causes a rift to develop occurs in his friendships with Kyle, Cartman and Kenny to the point where they no longer wish to interact with him. As a result, at the episode's end with Cartman and Kyle playing video games together, the pair offer each other kind smiles, showing their friendship growing even further.
In "Ass Burgers", Kyle and Cartman have quite a few friendly moments together. Although they are shown bickering, the argument isn't angry as most of the arguments between the two can be. Kyle is quick to support Cartman in his new business, even going so far as to tell Stan that they can't be friends anymore because he's with Cartman Burgers now. When Stan shows up, drunk, talking to Kyle, it is shown that Cartman is keeping a close eye on them from where he was standing. He even eventually comes over to check if Kyle is okay, giving Stan a distasteful look. However, this is rapidly tarnished by the episode's end when Kyle discovers his method for producing his burgers.
In "Jewpacabra", Cartman constantly rips on Jews throughout the episode, even to the point of making up a Jewish creatures that eats children in Easter egg hunts. When Cartman believes that the creature could be real and is chained so the creature can eat him, he is tranquilized and is hazed. Kyle finds him and takes him home and puts him to bed. The next day, at the Sooper Foods Easter egg hunt, Cartman claims that he is Jewish and knows how Kyle feels.
In "Eat, Pray, Queef", Cartman and Kyle were looking forward of watching part ii of the Terrance and Phillip Blood Rage. But sadly, they disappointed and angry of the Queef Sisters. They are argue about the Canadian Channel when resorting to filthy and garbage as well robbed Cartman, Kyle and the other boys of their innocence. Cartman, Kyle and all the boys team up with all of the men to ban queef for life, which ended up to a success.
In "Mexican Joker", Cartman made a false install about Kyle and sent him to a detention center with the Mexican kids by ICE. Kyle calls Cartman as a "fat intolerant asshole".
In "The Losing Edge", Cartman and Kyle expressed their disappointment that they were forced to continue playing baseball (a sport they hates) as well Cartman tells to Kyle that nobody told them if they won too many games, they'd enter the finals. Kyle said to Cartman that nobody say anything about post-season.
In "Skank Hunt", Kyle was convinced that Cartman was the online troll Skankhunt42, and he along with Stan, Butters, Craig, Token, Clyde, and Jimmy lured Cartman to a cabin and smashed all of his electronics. Later they discovered that Cartman was telling the truth and that was not Skankhunt. Kyle later felt tremendous guilt for his actions and even cried when viewing a class photo. Despite Cartman being ostracized from his male peers, Cartman was in contact with Kyle and Butters the most, but still did not rejoin their circle. After the conclusion of Season Twenty, Cartman was able to fully forgive Kyle and his former group of friends, as he is no longer isolated from them and rejoined his cricle of friends. Despite this, due to Cartman relapsing to his old ways prior to Season Twenty, he became a horrible boyfriend to Heidi Turner, often mistreating her and even tried to kill her, but Kyle called him out for it. Cartman also tricked Heidi into eating meat while knowing she is a vegan. Kyle, on the other hand, was constantly irritated by Cartman repeatedly calling Heidi derogatory and hurtful things, and not understanding how Heidi can go out with a person like Cartman. Heidi then reveals to Kyle that she tolerates Cartman's abuse because she does not want to admit to her friends that she made a bad decision when she became his girlfriend, as they are constantly criticizing her and not giving her the space she needs, causing her to double down. Kyle, along with Heidi's friends convinced Heidi to break up with Cartman, and she did. She also started a relationship with Kyle, though the outcome did not go the way as he hoped, he went along with. When Cartman found out that Kyle had stolen his girlfriend, he became furious and confronted Kyle about it in the school hallway, leading to a brief physical confrontation between the two, with Kyle knocking Cartman out. Cartman and Heidi later got back together after he manipulated her into taking him back, and he also got Heidi to inadvertently call Kyle a "dirty Jew".
Cartman revealed to Kyle that his brother, Ike bought a vape.
Rumors of a relationship have been spurred by Cartman on occasion but have never been endorsed by Kyle in any way, shape or form.
In all fairness for him ripping on Kyle for being a Jew, it is confirmed in Bigger, Longer and Uncut that he never means it.
In "Post Covid" and "Post Covid: The Return of Covid," it is implied that Kyle somehow provokes an instinctual hatred from Cartman, as without him, he unironically converted to Judaism, became compassionate to all creeds of people, and established a functional family life. However, upon reuniting, Cartman began to revert to his habits of belitting, undermining, and even attacking Kyle, as well as manipulating people into serving his schemes, which is behaviour his wife, Yentl, hadn't seen in him before, and manages to center him enough that he consciously realises his mistakes and reforms to his prior decent self as an adult.
=== Stan Marsh ===
Cartman and Stan are fairly good friends and don't argue as much as Cartman argues with Kyle. Although Stan usually spends most of his time with Kyle, there have been episodes where he has spent time with Cartman. In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", Stan and Cartman hang out at the boating rack, and Cartman even comments that it is great that they are hanging out with each other without Kyle, implying that Cartman at least would prefer to have a closer friendship with Stan. Stan meanwhile seems to be more accepting or at least tolerant of Cartman than Kyle and even Kenny at times, such as in "Fat Butt and Pancake Head". While Kyle is immediately distrustful of Cartman's truthfulness in his claim that he cannot control the actions of his hand (which has seemed to take on a life of its own), Stan gives Cartman the benefit of the doubt and admits that, with all the stuff that happens in South Park, Cartman could be telling the truth. Stan always called Cartman as "Fatass".
In "Weight Gain 4000", Stan making fun of Cartman for getting more weight by eating Weight Gain 4000 and calling Cartman as "Super Fatass".
In "Woodland Critter Christmas", Cartman made Stan the protagonist of his Christmas story (he is described as 'the boy in a red poof-ball hat'), showing that Cartman sees Stan as a heroic figure of sorts. In "Douche and Turd", Stan votes for Cartman's mascot instead of Kyle's, much to Kyle's dismay. Also, in "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus", when Stan appears to be the only boy who hasn't gotten their period, Cartman reassures him that he will get it one day.
In "Fun with Veal", when Stan was hospitalized with 'vaginitis', Cartman seemed concerned and was relieved that Stan was saved just in time. This is a rare occasion when Cartman has put his friends in front of his own personal gain, as he helped Stan stop people from eating veal even though he did not get anything in return for it and would be starving himself for days. He also tells the FBI negotiator that "There's a sick kid up here" (referring to Stan) when negotiating to release the calves, showing that he is worried about Stan's health.
In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", Cartman tell Stan that they've "created a monster" when Butters is stalking towards the girls and called them "bitches" by "paying money for kisses".
It is implied that in "Prehistoric Ice Man that Stan considers Cartman his second best friend. When Stan and Kyle fell out in the episode, Stan claimed that his new best friend was Cartman (as did Kyle), but they both claimed that 'Cartman sucks as a best friend' when they made up. This could be because Stan really values his best friendship with Kyle. Either way, it is clear that Stan does consider Cartman as a close friend. Also in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Cartman wants to kick Kyle and Tweek out of the group, but doesn't want to kick out Stan, which implies that Cartman likes having Stan as a friend.
However, in "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants", Cartman declares that he hates Stan because Stan loves animals. Even so, In "Trapped in the Closet", all three boys de-friend Stan after he becomes the leader of Scientology. As the boys leave, Cartman turns to Stan and says, "I still hate Kyle more than you". The two can also be said to be friends because they admitted to "being friends" in front of the home school kids.
In some episodes Stan is shown having a strong hatred for Cartman, even if Cartman isn't doing anything. In "Trapper Keeper" when the cyborg says he has to kill Cartman, Stan asks if he can do it, and prepares to shoot Cartman before the cyborg decides against the idea. Although Stan is much more tolerant of Cartman than Kyle is, he often holds Cartman in very high contempt for his unacceptable behavior. In "Sexual Healing", Stan and Cartman were seen playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 together, hinting that despite Cartman's behaviors, Stan still considers him a "friend". However, in "Bass to Mouth", when Mr. Mackey claimed that Cartman killed himself for being fat when the school faculty "threw him under the bus", Stan was more concerned with keeping Eavesdropper from posting its "biggest story" than with any injuries Cartman may have suffered.
===Kenny McCormick===
Because of Cartman's selfish personality, his friendship with Kenny isn't as obvious as Stan and Kyle's, and it sometimes looks fake, but it is clearly existent. They're also shown to share a sense of humor, as can be seen in the episode "How to Eat with Your Butt" when Kenny and Cartman continue an elaborate joke, despite Stan and Kyle's objections.
On the other hand, while they often insult one another openly, with Cartman once declaring his hatred of Kenny purely because they were alone together, a close friendship nonetheless exists between both boys, and they have considered themselves each other’s best friend for years. Before his complete transformation into the vile sociopath we know today, Cartman had mourned at Kenny’s funerals, and exhibited concern over his well-being. Even after his alteration of character, Cartman has admitted multiple times at his deathbed that he felt both him and Kenny were best friends. Kenny as well also mentions in his will that he “feels sorry for [Cartman” and leaves him his most valuable possession. While Stan and Kyle often bond over mutual trust and similar beliefs, Kenny and Cartman often seem to bond over vices and mischief. They have shared secrets, such as when they borrowed Stephen Stotch's drone, and have also been to Casa Bonita together on occasion, but often disagree nonetheless, most notably during the bitter Console Wars, and of course, on the methods of superheroism, coming to a head when Cartman teamed up with the mighty Cthulhu.
Cartman asked Stan and Kyle why Kenny doesn't want to take Shop Class, which Stan replied that Kenny is such a wuss.
Cartman drank of Kenny's remains as well his body was possessed by Kenny's soul. 
While most episodes depict the boys as ignorant of Kenny's deaths, Cartman has acknowledged them more than any other character on the show, openly mentioning that he "dies all the time" on one occasion, though this has not been fully consistent. He has also been visited by Kenny's spirit after his passing, and after mistaking his ashes for chocolate milk mix, hosted Kenny's spirit for several episodes during the sixth season.
===Butters Stotch===
Butters has become Cartman's most frequent victim. Butters sees Cartman as his good friend and treats him as so but in later episodes he treats Cartman the same as everybody else. But, Cartman takes advantage of this and finds Butters extremely easy to manipulate and convert to his point of view, or get him to do what he wants.
While the foundation of Butters and Cartman’s relationship has largely been driven by Cartman’s selfishness and Butters’ kind, earnest desire to listen to his problems, comfort him after his failures, help him with any scheme he suggests and allow himself to be manipulated in unspeakable ways, the two have gradually the two boys have developed a genuine friendship over the years and Butters’ naivete seems to have invited Cartman to trust and confide in him in ways he rarely has with the other boys. Butters has picked up a number of habits from Cartman both positive and negative, including transphobia and misogynism, but has also notably pushed back on occasion and stood up to Cartman.
In "Going Native", Cartman witnessed Butters beats up Scott Malkinson and later locked himself in the boys' restroom, causing him to warn the boys in attempt to solve Butters' problem.
In "Eat, Pray, Queef", Cartman, Butters and the other boys were excited of the part ii of the Terrance and Phillip Blood Rage. But sadly disappointed about the Queef Sisters. Cartman brought a present for Butters for getting sick due to a girl queef at his face. Cartman, the other boys and all male adults used Butters' sickness as prove of queefing, causing to ban queef forever as well returning Terrance and Phillip. 
===Heidi Turner===
Eric Cartman has a surprising history with Heidi Turner that goes back quite a while.
When Cartman began to lead a Church in South Park at the end of the kids' third grade year, he attracted the attention of kids far and wide throughout the town including a girl named 'Marcy'. The church ended up to be a get-rich-quick scheme resulting in her father's death.
Heidi and Cartman were later partnered for the fourth grade egg project and despite a mutual dissatisfaction with the initial choices, the two took care of their egg. When Cartman damaged the egg, he asked Mrs. Garrison to give Heidi a better grade in hopes of averaging it for both of them, it's still altruistic by Cartman standards. On a side note, he received four days of detention from PC Principal for referring to Heidi as "clitty litter".
When the girls were harassed online by a troll named skankhunt42, Heidi was the first to openly accuse Cartman of being behind it despite his denial. The troll's continued abuse eventually drove Heidi to quit Twitter and the to would later form an unlikely friendship when Cartman was cast out of social media by his friends. Apologizing for her earlier accusations, they began comfort each other over the isolation they found themselves in.
They took their relationship even further when Heidi settled Cartmans dilemma as to whether girls do have balls. The experience of seeing hers in the dark with a flashlight triggered a spiritual awakening for Cartman and they officially became a couple. The two of them constantly held hands hang out and referred to each other by pet names like "boo" or "babe". Despite the disgust and disbelief of their classmates Heidi and Eric would defend each other and work to create positive changes in the school.
Their relationship however started to show a lack of depth on Cartmans behalf. Despite how Eric showed to be genuinely happy and protective of being with Heidi, Cartman doesn't actually respect her, he just talks about respecting her. A common phrase he had used was to constantly say how Heidi's "really smart and funny" but after a foreboding chat with Butters along with seeing Heidi cleverly solving a real problem for the first time, Cartman becomes convinced that Heidi, (and all women), are not only not funny but conspiring against men.
Eventually things soon took a rocky turn as Cartman could not bother to be honest or even stand being around Heidi, convincing his friends she was mentally abusive. He would even go so far as to nearly kill her by pushing her in front of a car and by having a witch try to abduct her (because of her lack of time management skills). Heidi however remains with him in part due to his threats to kill himself if they ever break up but also as a reaction to the constant criticism she gets from her friends causing her to double down. Eventually she attempts to avoid this by adopting Cartman's views, further alienating herself from the people who care about her.
Despite trying to help Cartman for the better, Heidi ending up becoming more like her boyfriend herself, adopting his attitude and becoming fat and self loathing. She began to adopt his self-loathing and bad attitude and by blaming everything else instead of her toxic relationship, Heidi fell in a downward spiral with only her boyfriend and the torment of others to sustain it. Only after an adventure with the boys in which she visited the places in which her romance with Cartman was born was she able to reflect on her relationship and how it transformed her for the worse. She then held Cartman at gunpoint blaming him for the person she became, but soon realizes that she has been engaging in self-victimization ever since she started her relationship with Cartman. She decides to abandon the victim-hood lifestyle and break up with Cartman. Cartman tries to get Heidi to take him back by threatening suicide but the attempt failed as Heidi is now fully aware of Cartman's manipulative nature and simply leaves him.
The two haven't had much onscreen interactions since then, but it can be assumed that they are currently on bad terms since their final break-up. Heidi is shown sitting far from Cartman in her two appearances in "The Problem with a Poo" implying that she’s intentionally trying to avoid him. Likewise Cartman claims to have anxiety in "Buddha Box" because he can no longer trust or stand people anymore, including Heidi, and in "Board Girls" he insults her and the other girls for reading the rule books to win at board games and Heidi ignores him. In "Basic Cable", Scott Malkinson asks Cartman for love advice mentioning how he and Heidi were together a long time and Cartman tells Scott that girls and relationships are diabetes times ten showing that Cartman is still bitter about the break-up.
===Wendy Testaburger===
Cartman has always had a rivalry with the intelligent and level-headed Wendy Testaburger, his buddy Stan's girlfriend and one of the smartest students at South Park Elementary. They argue in class on a frequent basis, and he has targeted her for humiliation on more than one occasion. Cartman is known to taunt Wendy for her liberal and environmentalist views, and often refers to her as a hippie or a tree hugger. However, in "Chef Goes Nanners", after they were working together on the flag debate, he entertained her by talking through two action figures. During this encounter, they found out that they had a lot in common with each other. When Wendy kissed him at the presentation to get her emotions out of her system, he was pleased and facially bragged to Stan about it. He later seemed dejected when Wendy told him her feelings for him were gone which obviously proved he fancied her. It is believed his taunting of her is his way of "pulling pigtails". Like Stan and Kyle, Wendy also called Cartman as "fatass".
In "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", after Wendy grows adult-sized breasts, Cartman and the other boys laugh at her, and Cartman calls her a "stupid bitch".
In the episode "Breast Cancer Show Ever", Cartman treats Wendy's plea for breast cancer awareness as a joke, and subsequently she beats him up, leaving him in a pool of his own blood.
In "Dances with Smurfs", Cartman began a smear campaign against Wendy. He consistently accused Wendy of hating Smurfs and repeatedly called her derogatory names. He wrote What Happened to My School?, a book about Wendy's supposed sexual exploits, and held a book signing, selling the books for $5 each. This is likely an act of revenge against Wendy as he may still hold a grudge against her after she beat him up in "Breast Cancer Show Ever".
He has simultaneously described her as having "huge frickin' hooters" and being "flat as a pancake". If anything, it shows he's a little bit preoccupied with her chest.
===Chef===
Cartman maintained a friendly relationship with his neighbor Chef until the latter's departure and later death, crying when he left town and admitting to Butters that he genuinely cared about him. Chef also played a crucial role in curing Cartman when Kenny's soul was trapped inside his body. Chef is the only recurring character, besides Cartman's own mother, that he has never shown any selfish interest towards.
=== Tweek Tweak ===
Tweek is one of Cartman's friends. In "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", Cartman witnessed Tweek was abducted. While wearing Child Trackers, Cartman tell Tweek along with Stan and Kyle when saying it was so weak.
=== Craig Tucker ===
Craig is one of Cartman's friends who is a troublemaker. When going to Mr. Mackey's office, Cartman caught Craig flipping him off as well called him a "son of a bitch". In Tweek vs. Craig, Cartman reminded his friends that Craig is the biggest troublemaker in their class due to him flipping people off. Craig flips Cartman off. Cartman tells Craig that Mr. Slave might be a Pakistani. In Professor Chaos, Cartman (as well Stan and Kyle) amazed that Craig of his thoughts of saying "You guys are dumb" as well considered it an interesting choice and Cartman declared to Craig that he got a powerful stuff. In "Eat, Pray, Queef", while going to watch Terrance and Phillip, Cartman demanded to Craig to get his "bitch-ass" from his seat and sit at the floor because they are in Cartman's house. Cartman, Craig and the other boys got disgusted and angry of the Queef Sisters as well they teamed up with the men to get rid of queefing, which ended up into a success.
=== Clyde Donovan ===
Clyde is one of Cartman's friends. In "Death", Cartman and Clyde took their anger on Kyle for his mother, Sheila Broflovski ruining their fun of watching Terrance and Phillip. In "Eat, Pray, Queef", Cartman, Clyde and the other boys were looking forward to see Terrance and Phillip Blood Rage part ii, but was sadly disappointed and disgusted of the Queef Sisters. Carrtman revealed Clyde threw up on his way back to his home.
=== Doctor Lout ===
Doctor Lout is Cartman's eye doctor who he hates for always making fun of him with expense fat jokes and callin' him as his "little piggy". He stapled glasses on Cartman's head.
=== Mr. Garrison ===
Like all his classmates, Cartman absolutely hates Mr. Herbert Garrison because he is a sick weirdo when the latter ridiculed him
=== Mr. Mackey ===
Cartman seem to be close with Mr. Mackey.
=== Richard Adler ===
Mr. Richard Adler is Cartman's shop class teacher. He understand of Mr. Adler's explaination of shop class. When Mr. Adler asked who is the biggest troublemaker, Cartman declared it is Craig because he flips people off.
== Family ==
=== Liane Cartman ===
Liane Cartman is Cartman's mother. His mother spoiled him too much. He ordered his mother to get him whatever he wants. Liane grounded Cartman whenever he did such troubles for 3 weeks. Despite this, these two still love each other. His mother reminded that Cartman is not fat, he's big-boned. When Tweek was abducted, Liane worried if her son, Eric would be abducted. She bought a child tracker to force Cartman to wear which he says it is so weak. She later stick together with Cartman (which is worse than child tracker).
=== Fluffy ===
Fluffy is Cartman's pet pig. Cartman brought Fluffy with him to do some science of attempting to splice her genes with Kyle's elephant but was impossible. Cartman and the boys made Fluffy drunk with Kyle's elephant to have a sex but managed from the help of Chef. He sees Fluffy's piglet resembles to Mr. Garrison but won first place in the science project.
=== Jack Tenorman ===
Jack Tenorman was Cartman's biological father who had an affair with his mother, Liane. He unknownly killed his father and his wife as well feed their chilli to his half-brother, Scott Tenorman. After learning the truth about his father, Cartman seem to regret for killing Jack.
=== Scott Tenorman ===
Scott Tenorman is Cartman's older half-brother and second arch-nemesis (after Kyle). Cartman feeds Scott with his parent's chilli. Scott swore revenge on Cartman. He revealed to Cartman that he is his half-brother. He tries to feed Cartman of the chilli he previously feed Scott but escaped due to the Super Best Friends but he will be back for Cartman. Cartman swore revenge on his brother as well one day he will make Scott pay.
=== Harold Cartman ===
Harold is Cartman's maternal grandfather. These two are very similar. His grandpa calls him as "Little Eric".
=== Mabel Cartman ===
Mabel was Cartman's maternal grandmother. Like with Liane, Mabel claimed that Cartman is not fat, he's big-boned. Cartman visited his grandmother's funeral. Mabel gave Cartman 1 million dollars which he dreamed of.
=== Stinky Cartman ===
Stinky Cartman is Cartman's uncle.
=== Lisa Cartman ===
Lisa Cartman is Cartman's aunt.
=== Fred Cartman ===
Fred is Cartman's older cousin.
=== Fat Bob ===
Bob Cartman aka Fat Bob is Cartman's uncle.
=== Alexandra Cartman ===
Alexandra is Cartman's cousin.
=== Unnamed Cartmans ===
Unnamed Cartmans are both Cartman's uncle and aunt.
=== Elvin Cartman ===
Elvin is Cartman's younger cousin. He is similar to Cartman when he says "Sweet" and "Kickass".
=== Florence Cartman ===
Florence is Cartman's great grandmother.
=== Howard Cartman ===
Howard Cartman is Cartman's criminal uncle. His uncle always been in the TV in the dinner table.
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==Trivia==
* Though Trey Parker has alleged he is a "little Archie Bunker," this allegation is at best only partly true, as Archie would not do some of the things Cartman did, such as cross-dress and even have more mental issues, as shown when Cartman held a tea party for his dolls. Unlike Bunker, Cartman was even willing to accept the possibility of having a racial minority father. 
*Cartman along with his own namesake theme park Cartmanland from the titular Season 5 episode of South Park, share similarities with the sinister monarch Bowser (with World Bowser and Bowser Land) from the Super Mario Bros. franchise and the mad scientist Dr. Eggman (with Eggmanland and Robotnikland) from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe.
*Contrary to popular belief that Cartman's name is derived from German war-pilot Erich Hartmann (which would reflect his love of Hitler and the Nazis), Trey and Matt confirmed in an online interview that Cartman's name is based on someone with the surname "Carpman".
*Trey Parker has stated to achieve the effect of Cartman's voice, he simply uses the same voice he uses for Stan while "adding a lot of fat to it". While he originally voiced Cartman naturally and did not need assistance in having his voice pitched up, he discovered after a couple seasons of doing the voice that it was very stressful on his vocal cords, so he gradually phased out the raspiness of Cartman's voice. Cartman's voice also changed after the season 3 episode "The Red Badge of Gayness", in which he [Parker] voiced Cartman with a Southern accent, and thus Parker found the weinge difficult to shake off. Cartman's voice has since gotten lower and less harsh since Parker began digitally tweaking his voice, and also in earlier episodes Cartman's speech was nearly incomprehensible while now one can easily understand him when he speaks.
*Trey Parker and Matt Stone have repeatedly stated that Cartman is their ultimate favorite of all the characters in the show.
*In the 1996 unaired pilot episode, Cartman is depicted as having both parents and a younger sister. However the father and sister were scrapped, leaving only Liane.
*Cartman's Fingerbang outfit bears a striking resemblance to the late Elvis Presley's outfit from his later years.
*Eric Cartman oddly has a page on the music database website , with the only item in his discography being a 1998 CD of a single "Come Sail Away", which was featured on Chef Aid: The South Park Album. Although there is a picture of the CD on the site, it is presumably rare as there is no proof of its existence anywhere else. Him and Chef are the only characters to contribute to the album, and many others appear in the 1999 album Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics. These characters all strangely have a page on Discogs, even though on other music databases they don't.
*The South Park cover of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" famously sung by Eric Cartman from the episode "Whale Whores" was added to the Rock Band music store and became popular on the internet. This makes him and Timmy Burch the only characters to have their own songs featured in Rock Band.
* Eric Cartman, Kenny McCormick, Chef, Mr. Hankey, and the one-shot Mr. Ose are added as artists on Spotify, Amazon Music, and possibly other music streaming services due to their credits in the 1999 album Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, as well as the many other erroneously named characters, "Mr. Mackey, The School Counselor", "Mr. Garrison, The 3rd Grade Teacher", "Kyle Broflovski with Special Celebrity Guest", "Satan, The Dark Prince", "Shelly Marsh, Stan's Sister", "Juan Schwartz and the South Park Children's Choir", "South Park Children's Choir", The Broflovski's", "Mr. Hankey with Stan, Kyle and Cartman", "In the style of Adolph Hitler", "Stan Marsh and Wendy Testaburger", and most oddly, "Early 50's recording by Cowboy Timmy". The formerly mentioned characters are the only ones who are added by their proper names. The erroneous additions (using aliases as official names and adding collaborations as if they were a band and not just giving them correct pages as two separate artists) are corrected on Discogs.
*In Block 13 (the Kuwaiti parody of South Park), Cartman's counterpart is Abboud.
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