Randy Marsh

Randy Marsh, also known as Steamy Ray Vaughn, Lorde, The Amazingly Randy, N- Word Guy and Karen, is a character from the South Park series.
== Charactah Account ==
Stan's dad, a geologist (and thus the only non-mad scientist in South Park; sometimes) turned cannabis farmer. Deficient in common sense, but makes up for it with great passion and enthusiasm for... well, whatever happens to be the focus of the episode. The de facto leader of the town whenever they face a threat. He tends to be the main character in storylines involving the adults of South Park, and thus is the adult figure that most interacts with the boys in the main plot.
Randy is often portrayed as an intelligent but simultaneously dim-witted, quick to think, naive man, while all the same a caring, doting father. However, he is also obsessive and when he gets engrossed in something, his personality turns to the exact opposite. He becomes immature, childish, and dumb during the obsession phases. He has a habit of being led astray by new fads or events, like many of the characters. All the same, he has also been known to go completely against such things, though his reasons are usually selfish and immature. He will also try to do a heroic thing but will then be distracted due to a selfish reason as seen in "Insheeption". However, this was caused by Mr. Mackey because Randy ignored the psychiatrist's wanting about Mackey's dream being so unstable.
Another aspect and common trait of Randy is that he will often take up a cause, but they hypocritically abandon that cause or objective whenever he sees it as something that will damage his reputation or finds something else that will be beneficial for himself or his family. Such instances of this are in "Margaritaville", when he led the townspeople to abandon all material possessions and economic activities in order to "please the economy", but when Kyle decided to pay for everyone's debt, he was one of the people in line who chose to have his debt paid for, immediately abandoning his previous beliefs. Another instance is in "Naughty Ninjas", when he sought out Officer Barbrady to shoot kids who they thought were part of ISIS. But when he found out that they were just playing ninjas and Officer Barbrady accidentally shot David, he immediately blamed Officer Barbrady, along with the Mayor and her staff. When Officer Barbrady reminded Randy that he'd told him "to shoot some kids", Randy insists that he was saying it as a question and tries to shift all the blame from him and target the very person he'd sought out for help. 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* South Park
* South Park Season 2
* South Park Season 3
* South Park Season 4
* South Park Season 5
* South Park Season 6
* South Park Season 7
* South Park Season 8
* South Park Season 9
* South Park Season 10
* South Park Season 11
* South Park Season 12
* South Park Season 13
* South Park Season 14
* South Park Season 15
* South Park Season 16
* South Park Season 17
* South Park Season 18
* South Park Season 19
* South Park Season 20
* South Park Season 21
* South Park Season 22
* South Park Season 23
* South Park Season 24
* South Park Season 25
* South Park Season 26
=== Comics ===
* South Park Annual
=== Movies ===
* South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
* South Park: Post Covid
* South Park: Post Covid - The Return of Covid
=== Video Games ===
* Pinball FX2
* South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
* South Park: Phone Destroyer
* South Park: The Fractured But Whole
* South Park: The Stick of Truth
== Trivia ==
* Randy holds a Doctorate Degree in Geology despite having dropped out of high school which was revealed in "Something You Can Do with Your Finger".
* Randy's animation has been edited more times than other characters: his original appearance in Season One, his new design in Season Two that lasted until Season Eleven, with a different hair and slightly different outfit, and a cleaned-up design from Season 11 forward with thinner, more subtle pockets and collar.
* A Randy Marsh look-alike can be found on The Simpsons episode, "Krusty Gets Kancelled" where he appears as a cameraman in Gabbo's studio. This is either a prototype, inspiration, or a coincidence.
* According to promotional material for South Park: The Stick of Truth, Randy is head of South Park Elementary's parent-teacher association.
* Randy's Twitter handle is @GettinRandy55, as seen in "Safe Space".
* It was revealed in "Clubhouses" that Randy is the only adult in the show who likes Terrance and Phillip, although in the movie, he is seen protesting.
* Randy's DNA results by DNA And Me showed he is 43% Northern European, 37% Mediterranean, and 18% Southwest Asian which was the same genetic compound as the average British person, and out of this he was discovered to be 2.8% Neanderthal (one of the modern-day humans' predecessors which would actually explain Randy's moronic and violent behavior).
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Randy Marsh at South Park Archives
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