Coon and Friends

Coon and Friends is a superhero team introduced in the series' 14th season and an ongoing storyline in the series. They have been proven to be incredibly popular and spawned a plethora of new fanfiction, fan art, and alternative universes.
The superhero personas allow Cartman, Kenny, Timmy and Bradley to exhibit new dimensions to their characters.
==About==
A superhero union formed by the recognizable brand name of the Coon, these kids work together to fight crime and injustice by selling lemon bars and donating the profit to charity, and occasionally telling their parents on people. Though it initially charged hefty "union" dues and was run with authoritarian values, it later became a democratic organization when the Coon was kicked out by their butler. Their arch-foe is the villainous and powerful Professor Chaos... who spends a lot of time locked up in their bunker.
They each have their own complicated origin stories and special powers: Toolshed has mental control over all power tools, The Human Kite can fly and shoot lasers out of his eyes, Tupperware is a cyborg rebuilt with "Tuppeware parts", Iron Maiden is indestructible, Mint-Berry Crunch is an alien named Gok-Zarah from a distant galaxy, and Mysterion can't die.
After their thrilling adventure solving the Gulf crisis, they later opened sign-ups to new members, such as Fastpass, Wonder Tweek and Super Craig, in hopes of promoting themselves and launching a new cinematic universe and Netflix series, and despite defeating their enemies Professor Chaos and Mark Zuckerberg, they were split into a bitter civil war.
The game South Park: The Fractured But Whole focuses on this civil war and the player's role in bringing the team back together, uniting them with Professor Chaos and neutral Call Girl and fighting kingpin Mitch Conner.
==Fanon and Fandom==
Well before "The Coon" aired, occasionally fanfics involved the kids taking on superhero personas, both playing them as children in a game or trying to add real dimension to the characters, but there was no canon framework for doing so.
The release of "The Coon" prompted speculation surrounding the "Who Is Mysterion?" question, such as "Mysterion Returns", and a handful of fanfics that took a more serious approach to the Mysterion character.
When the Coon saga came out, however, it had a much more profound effect on the wider fandom, prompting dozens of fanfics carrying on the Coon and Friends storyline and often placing them in a much more serious context, sometimes treating the kids' abilities as if they were real. "Mysterion Rising" by the chuckinator was one of the most prominent of these fanfics that used the superhero saga as a way to add depth to the characters, and author Chuckinator also created a community focused on "Coon and Friends" fanfics by other authors. Many of these works took inspiration from the darker tone of the Coon trilogy and the depth it added to Kenny and Bradley's characters, using it as a sandbox to dig deeper into the characters.
The release of South Park: The Fractured But Whole helped increase the popularity of Coon and Friends, while adding popular characters Craig, Tweek, and Wendy to the roster allowing most prominent children a role within the theme.
===Popularity===
There are 289 works tagged with South Park: The Fractured but Whole on Archive of Our Own, 175 works tagged as Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, and 22 works tagged Coon and Friends.