Eric Cartman

Eric Cartman, also known as A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000, The Coon, Time Child, Ming Lee, Bad Irene, The Rad Russian, The Dawg and Grand Wizard King, is one of the main characters from the South Park series.
== Charactah Account ==
The fat kid of the group. Incredibly sadistic, narcissistic, bigoted, and sociopathic but the other boys keep him around because they know he won't get along well with anyone else. One of the most well-known and polarizing characters of the show. Among other things, he hates hippies, Jews, gingers, Wendy Testaburger's liberal views, people making fun of his weight, and the "random" humor of Family Guy.
Cartman is often shown to be a poor student, but excels in leadership and team organization which usually involves exploitation of others weaknesses. Although having his origins as a secondary role as the comic foil, Cartman has evolved into a character of stunningly articulate manipulative talents and techniques. His abilities are deeply Machiavellian in nature, and his character follows closely in the footsteps of other famous manipulators such as the character Iago from William Shakespeare's Othello. In several episodes throughout the series, he employs this skill to get what he wants.
== 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
* Friday Night Funkin': Doubling Down
* South Park
* South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
* South Park Mega Millionaire
* South Park Rally
* South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
* South Park: Phone Destroyer
* South Park: Tenorman's Revenge
* South Park: The Fractured But Whole
* South Park: The Stick of Truth
== Trivia ==
* Cartman has Kenny's eyes, due to the events in the subplot of "The Succubus".
* Kyle has one of Cartman's kidneys due to the events of "Cherokee Hair Tampons".
* It is most likely that Cartman is the youngest of the four friends. His birthday was in the first season, and it's been clear that he turned 8, while the other boys already were 8 years old. However, Stan made it clear that Cartman and all the other boys were ten years old in "Crack Baby Athletic Association" while Stan was still nine years old only to turn ten two episodes later. It could be that the birth dates of all the boys were called out randomly and their permanent birthdays set in later. This mix up made Stan the youngest of the four boys.
* Cartman is mostly known by his family name, and most characters, including Stan, Kyle, Wendy, and Token, call him by his surname.
* In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", it is shown that Stan and Kyle pick on Cartman because he is fat, not because of his many crimes.
* Cartman has been shown to go to great lengths to get revenge on people who did relatively minor things. An example is in "Tsst", where Cartman made a kid saw off his own leg and get him sent to the hospital just because the kid called him chubby. Despite this, he never does something like this on any of his friends, despite the fact that they have called him much worse names than "chubby". He also has never arranged a gambit to get Wendy's parents killed like he did Scott Tenorman's, despite the fact that what Wendy did to Cartman was worse than what Scott did. Why he has not done these things yet is not yet known, although it is shown that Wendy can occasionally outsmart Cartman and turn his schemes against him. Cartman may not have sought extreme revenge on Wendy due to his feelings for her; it is shown that he likes Wendy in "Chef Goes Nanners". Cartman sends a fake police report to a psychiatrist's wife, who then commits suicide; It can be assumed that he knew she would do so, as he is a master of manipulation.
* Cartman maintains somewhat friendly relationships with most of the boys at his school and is shown playing with them on occasion, despite the fact that all the kids openly hate him, though this is considered a love/hate relationship that he shares with the boys.
* In the episode "Chickenpox", the boys sleep at Kenny's house. When they rolled out their sleeping bags, Kyle and Stan both had Terrance and Phillip and Cartman had Urkel from Family Matters on his.
* According to the girls, Cartman is the ugliest boy in their class, likely because of his weight. He is the only one not invited to the girls' party in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset".
* In the "The Unaired Pilot", Cartman was originally scripted to have a father and a sister. However, they had no speaking lines and were cut for the official pilot onward.
* In the episode "It's a Jersey Thing" he (along with Dog Poo) was raped by "the Snooki", an evil creature from Hell.
* In the episodes "It's a Jersey Thing" and "It's Christmas in Canada", Cartman is shown to cry when physically attacked.
* He is the only one of the fourth graders to have noticed Kenny's reoccuring deaths, as shown in "Cartmanland".
* Cartman saved Kyle for the sole reason to pick on him and have something to do in "Smug Alert!", despite his apparent desire to kill or get rid of Kyle.
* Cartman's farts are shown to be highly toxic and even deadly in "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants" when an American man in Afghanistan smells the inside of the cargo area Cartman farted in, and he throws up and appears to have died. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny's surviving could be due to their constant exposure of his farts, and have thus gained a tolerance / resistance to its fatal effects.
* Cartmans farts are apparently harmless if they imbued with food and ingested, as no one gets sick from eating them in "Ass Burgers", at least until the people who ate them realize what they were eating.
* Cartman is shown to undergo several things that would most likely help him psychologically; he sees a therapist in "T.M.I.", which screws him, as in the end his penis is still below average; he goes to Fat Camp in "Fat Camp", and resolves to lose his weight, but is then kicked out, and he is left crying and eating a donut; Cartman makes an altruistic shift in personality in "Tsst", when Caesar Milan successfully rids Cartman of his dark side, only for it to return to him when his mother, despite knowing what she did to him before, makes him turn back to his normal self.
* "1%" marks the first time he possibly makes an advance in psychological health, as he kills all of his stuffed animals, who he gave voices and personalities, to the point that one even insulted him in an earlier episode, severing a dangerous psychological attachment to his stuffed toys, even if it was through a delusional episode.
* Cartman's stuffed animal Clyde Frog was decapitated by Kyle in a fit of rage after he was infected with AIDS by Cartman in "Tonsil Trouble", but was not given a funeral, and in fact survived, and was repaired, presumably by his mother.
* If Cartman has split personalities, then he has, or rather had, at least five; Clyde Frog, Peter Panda, Muscleman Marc, Wumpletumpkins, and Polly Prissypants. If Mitch Connor / Jennifer Lopez is included, then he would still have one left.
* As shown in the 1992 short The Spirit of Christmas, the design of Cartman was originally going to be used for Kenny. As shown, when Frosty kills 'Cartman', Kyle yells "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!"
* According to "1%", Cartman has the cholesterol levels of a 70-year-old man. Cartman's bigotry and greed has actually saved people. In "ManBearPig", his intent to sneak all of the "treasure" he found actually gave Stan, Kyle, and Kenny a head start before Al Gore flooded The Cavern of The Winds, which had probably saved them from drowning. In "The Snuke", Cartman's bigotry against the Muslim student Baahir led to the discovery of the snuke in Hillary Clinton's vagina, as well as the British Plan to invade America and unend The American Revolution, which prevented a nuclear device from going off in South Park, saving thousands of lives, most likely more, and even possibly saving America from being taken over by The British.
** In "The Poor Kid", Cartman's greedy nature also led to Child Services being alerted to Kenny's Foster Families abusive nature, as he tried to go to Hawaii by using Child Services and getting his mother arrested. This led to him ratting out his foster parents, the same ones as Kenny's, and helping the foster children get sent back to their homes. However, Mysterion's interference would have probably led to the same thing, as he did get them drunk off of a can Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.
* Cartman gave only Clyde Frog a funeral in "1%", but neglected to give one to Peter Panda and his other stuffed toys after they died. This could be due to Cartman's favoritism of Clyde Frog, or due to his panicking from Peter Panda's death and trying to protect his other stuffed animals, only for them die one by one throughout the night.
* Cartman's fear of being branded as "The Poor Kid" is actually very legitimate, as in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", after he is arrested for hitting Token Black with a rock, Clyde Donovan is then branded as "The Fat Kid", and is thus treated just as Cartman was, being called several names.
** Also, in "Here Comes the Neighborhood", Token Black is ridiculed for being "The Rich Kid", and thus not be like the other kids, who can't afford everything he has. Token then invites several black families to South Park, and is left out again. When Token goes back to the others, they tell him how they make fun of his being his rich because they make fun of everyone for being something else; Cartman being fat, as well as many other things, Stan being in love with Wendy, Kyle for being a Jew, Kenny for being poor, and Butters for being a wuss. This shows that the children go out of their way to find something that can insult and rip off each other for, and will transfer that insult to the next person if the present one is not around.
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== External Links ==
* Eric Cartman at South Park Archives
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