History Characters / SouthParkEricCartman

*** "Lame." (alternate of the above)

** In a deleted scene of "Reverse Cowgirl", he is one of the kids that genuinely tries to help Clyde laugh and [[EvenEvilHasStandards even looks saddened at Butters's joke about Clyde accidentally killing his mom]].

* TheChewToy: Any time Cartman suffers, it's because he deserves it.

* BoringButPractical: Cartman himself is at the receiving end of this, where the best way to actually deal with Cartman is to just ignore him. It works because Cartman is such a massive AttentionWhore he can't stand people ignoring him, yet is unable to do anything when they don't fall for his manipulations. The boys decide to ignore Cartman, which drives him insane to the point where he thinks he's a ghost. Heidi decides to ignore Cartman after breaking up with him for the final time, while Cartman is unable to follow through with his threats of killing himself. Even his mother decides to ignore him when he is unable to manipulate her into getting breast implants, instead winding up with them himself. In fact, ignoring him is how everyone manages to permanently end his threat in the revised future, where after cutting all ties and contact with Cartman, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation he goes mad from loneliness]] and ends up becoming a friendless, homeless, and miserable alcoholic who does nothing but scream insults at people while possessing none of the manipulative and scheming tendencies he use to have.

* BoringButPractical: Cartman himself is at the receiving end of this, where the best way to actually deal with Cartman is to just ignore him. It works because Cartman is such a massive AttentionWhore he can't stand people ignoring him, yet is unable to do anything when they don't fall for his manipulations. The boys decide to ignore Cartman, which drives him insane to the point where he thinks he's a ghost. Heidi decides to ignore Cartman after breaking up with him for the final time, while Cartman is unable follow through with his threats of killing himself. Even his mother decides to ignore him when he is unable to manipulate her into getting breast implants, instead winding up with them himself. In fact, ignoring him is how everyone manages to permanently end his threat in the revised future, where after cutting all ties and contact with Cartman, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation he goes mad from loneliness]] and ends up becoming a friendless, homeless, and miserable alcoholic who does nothing but scream insults at people while possessing none of the manipulative and scheming tendencies he use to have.

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* HatedByAll: Due to his revolting habits, horrendously personality, and being possibly the biggest example of a {{Jerkass}} in all of WesternAnimation, just about everyone in South Park hates Cartman's guts, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes including his own friends]]. In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", while he's afraid that nobody will think he's cool anymore after [[IWasBeatenByAGirl Wendy beat him up]], the entire fourth grade class tells him point-blank that they ''never'' thought he was cool and couldn't possibly think any lower of him than they already do. Only [[AllLovingHero Butters]] has any tolerance for him, and even he's admitted at times that he doesn't care for Cartman either. [[spoiler: It reaches its peak in the revised future, where Cartman has become so hated that everyone has cut him out of their lives entirely, resulting in him becoming an alcoholic miserable hobo who has no friends or family, did nothing with his life, and spends the rest of his days drunkenly screaming at everybody (even Butters has NoSympathy for him)]].

* GeniusDitz: Can easily manipulate people and appears to be able to speak fluent Spanish, French, and German at age 9, but is otherwise completely clueless about a lot of things.

* HairTriggerTemper: He's shown to be quick to anger and to have a chip on his shoulder about anything destroying his fun or train of thought. This is best shown in the episode "T.M.I.", where he gets angry simply because he thought that the school had a poster of boys' penises on the wall and that he had a 2.1 inch penis, and in his Season 21 relationship with Heidi (pre-DistaffCounterpart Heidi, at least), with "Doubling Down" showing that he apparently ragged on her feelings, called her a whore multiple times and pushed her in front of a car, all in one day.
* HatedByAll: Due to his revolting habits, rude personality, and being possibly the biggest example of a {{Jerkass}} in all of WesternAnimation, just about everyone in South Park hates Cartman's guts, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes including his own friends]]. In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", while he's afraid that nobody will think he's cool anymore after [[IWasBeatenByAGirl Wendy beat him up]], the entire fourth grade class tells him point-blank that they ''never'' thought he was cool and couldn't possibly think any lower of him than they already do. Only [[AllLovingHero Butters]] has any tolerance for him, and even he's admitted at times that he doesn't care for Cartman either. [[spoiler: It reaches its peak in the revised future, where Cartman has become so hated that everyone has cut him out of their lives entirely, resulting in him becoming an alcoholic miserable hobo who has no friends or family, did nothing with his life, and spends the rest of his days drunkenly screaming at everybody (even Butters has NoSympathy for him)]].

* ObfuscatingDisability: In "Up the Down Steroid", he pretends to be mentally challenged so that he can win the Special Olympics. Unfortunately, he doesn't take into account that while not disabled, he's by no means ''athletic'' like the other contestants are, [[LaserGuidedKarma resulting in him getting last place in every event]].

* KickTheDog: Many times. Beating Token with a rock, trying to kill his mother ([[EvenEvilHasStandards which he thankfully did not go along with]]), everything involving a social outcast, infecting Kyle with HIV, having Butters being beaten up by his parents, the whole run of "Ginger Kids", "Ginger Cow", "The Coon" and "Mexican Joker", and his abuse and manipulation of his girlfriend just to name a few.

* KickTheDog: Many times. Beating Token with a rock, trying to kill his mother ([[EvenEvilHasStandards which he thankfully did not go along with]]), everything involving a social outcast, infecting Kyle with HIV, the whole run of "Ginger Kids", "Ginger Cow", "The Coon" and "Mexican Joker", and his abuse and manipulation of his girlfriend just to name a few.

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* MadeOfIron: Usually played for laughs, but keep in mind, this kid has survived getting run over by cars, getting beaten to a bloody pulp more than a few times, falling from buildings, and even survived getting struck by lightning!

** A RunningGag throughout the show his him threatening to beat up Kyle, only to run away wailing when Kyle lightly slaps him. In "Return of Covid", this looks like it's about to happen... but after a pause, Cartman jumps him and they actually fight on equal footing.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 5. He was at worst a stupid SpoiledBrat {{Jerkass}} from the beginning, but on several occasions his friends came off even worse as they would occasionally bully him when he hadn't even bothered them and for the most part came off as an AntiHero or JerkWithAHeartOfGold. However, from Season 5 (more specifically the Scott Tenorman episode) onwards, he's become a [[LackOfEmpathy cold]], [[ManipulativeBastard calculating]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{Jerkass}}, his friend can never reach his cruelty, and he's normally a VillainProtagonist.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Cartman is this to his everyone living in South Park where his influence would bring the worst of their personalities with one example being Heidi Turner who become [[DistaffCounterpart a female version of Cartman]] after dating him for so long only to return to her NiceGirl self after breaking up with him. Sure enough when everyone decides to cut Cartman out of their lives entirely the town is finally able to grow in a positive direction with the townsfolk living genuinely happy lives while Cartman is stuck being a homeless and miserable alcoholic whose all alone because no one wants to deal with his influence.

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%%* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Yes, even Cartman occasionally has these moments when he's playing with the other boys.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Cartman is this to his everyone living in South Park where his influence would bring the worst of their personalities with one example being Heidi Turner who become [[DistaffCounterpart a female version of Cartman]] after dating him for so long only return to her NiceGirl self after breaking up with him. Sure enough when everyone decides to cut Cartman out of their lives entirely the town is finally able to grow in a positive direction with the townsfolk living genuinely happy lives while Cartman is stuck being a homeless and miserable alcoholic whose all alone because no one wants to deal with his influence.

* ShipperOnDeck: For [[TokenMinorityCouple Token/Nichole]]. He goes to ridiculous feats to get them together.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: A

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: As of season 5, any display of sympathy that he might garner is usually squandered by an even bigger display of [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]], to the point where most of his friends (save for Butters) already have their guards up any time he shows any outward kindness, which comes to bite him in the ass in "Skank Hunt" and "Post Covid" when his genuine (if insensitive) attempts at being a feminist and a Jewish family man respectively are seen as nothing but a façade by his peers, who then act accordingly and end up causing him to revert back to his usual {{Jerkass}} self.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Most of his portrayals in the video games, [[VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth particularly the]] [[VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole modern]] [[VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer installments]], tend to portray him in a positive light, well as postive as you can get with an FatBastard who prides himself in being antisemitic.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Most of his portrayal in the games, [[VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth particularly the]] [[VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole modern]] [[VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer installments]], tend to portray him in a positive light, well as postive as you can get with an FatBastard who prides himself in being antisemitic.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: As of season 5, any display of sympathy that he might garner is usually squandered by an even bigger display of [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]].

* KickTheDog: Many times. Beating Token with a rock, trying to kill his mother ([[EvenEvilHasStandards which he thankfully did not go along with]]), everything involving a social outcast, infecting Kyle with HIV, the whole run of "Ginger Cow", "The Coon" and "Mexican Joker", and his abuse and manipulation of his girlfriend just to name a few.

** He only cares about himself and getting whatever he wants, and is perfectly willing to lie, cheat, manipulate, and commit mass murder to do so. In one episode, when Kyle is in dire need of a kidney transplant and Cartman is the only match, Cartman blatantly refuses to do so unless he's paid $10 million for it, forcing Stan and the other people of South Park to resort to trickery to get said kidney.