History Characters / SouthParkFamilyMembers

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He used to be the more laid back of the Marshes earlier on, and one of the saner adults overall. Now... not so much...

* BookSmart: Biggest example on the show, as he's a GradeSkipper by two years and seens to be completely self-taught in most of the prerequisite academic knowledge.

* CheatingWithTheMilkman: On a strange and uncharacteristic whim, she sleeps with the hologram version of Music/TupacShakur after Randy got back home to warn her about the holograms, to which the latter reacts indignantly. Must be part of her extreme doormat and indecisive submissive housewife nature.

* CheatingWithTheMilkman: On a strange and uncharacteristic whim, she sleeps with the hologram version of Creator/TupacShakur after Randy got back home to warn her about the holograms, to which the latter reacts indignantly. Must be part of her extreme doormat and indecisive submissive housewife nature.

* CheatingWithTheMilkman: She in a strange and uncharacteristic whim sleeps with hologram Tupac Shakur after Randy got back home to warn her about the holograms, which Randy reacts furiously. Must be part of her extreme doormat and indecisive submissive housewife nature.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Shoots herself when Stan unintentionally burned Shelley alive when he burned down Tegridy Farms, after the pandemic ended.]]

* NiceGirl: One of the nicest adults and parents.

** Despite hating Tegridy Farms, "The Pandemic Special" and ''The Return of Covid'' show that she does Randy's weed too.

* AbusiveParents: If there was any doubt before, he's become very much this of the emotional kind once the family moves to Tegridy Farms. He constantly belittles his family for not wanting to be involved in the business and ignores their own activities and needs in favour of getting high. It gets to the point where Stan and Shelley are positively gleeful about the prospect of Randy being given a lengthy prison sentence.

* AbusiveParents: Used Ike as a scapegoat to avoid punishment in "Members Only" and did nothing to make the situation better for him. In the next episode, he starts out using emotional blackmail to make him comply and when Kyle asked him why he did it he [[KickTheDog responds by]] giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech accusing him of not having a sense of humor. It's amazing they didn't let him be bombed in Denmark.

* AbusiveParents: Not all the time but Stuart can be emotionally abusive to the point that him yelling at Karen because she asked if they could get ice cream from Sodasopa in "The City Part of Town". Plus all the DomesticAbuse with his wife can't be too healthy either. "The Poor Kid" addressed this but ended with him getting his kids back. It is heavily implied that they cannot even be called parents at all due to how free range Kenny is. With the advent of Mysterion during the events of the Coon vs. Coon and Friends arc, it could even be said that Kenny is the true parent of the family rather than them being in any way responsible for their children.

Bridon's abusive father, who is obsessed with Broadway musicals.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Aside from the insane things he has been a part of, he is a normal, well-meaning father. He can be selfish but he has shown that he genuinely loves his wife and children. This fades away during Season 23, as he grows increasingly selfish and cruel, before he starts [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagging]] between being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and a total {{Jerkass}} as he has numerous HeelRealization{{s}}, then forgets about them after a while, then has another one, rinse and repeat.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Especially during the obsession phases, but even outside of that Randy's out there even by South Park standards. He's prone to nonsensical and poorly thought-out ZanyScheme{{s}}, has utterly bizarre fetishes (including for ''cooking shows'', of all things), and is generally completely divorced from reality on a good day.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's repeatedly, often brutally, outsmarted his big brother and, despite being less independent than him, knows [[TheChessmater how to consistently get what he wants]] and not to waste a good opportunity, ranging from moral ones to whatever he generally fancies.

* KarmaHoudini: He becomes one of these in Season 23, where he gets away with selling out to the Chinese government by killing Winnie The Pooh, letting them use his weed to frame student protesters, and killing numerous homegrown weed owners to get a monopoly on the weed business, at least until [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Post Covid...]].

* AbusiveParents: Used Ike as a scapegoat to avoid punishment in "Members Only" and did nothing to make the situation better for him. In the next episode, he starts out using emotional blackmail to make him comply and when Kyle asked him why he did it he responds by giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech accusing him of not having a sense of humor. It's amazing they didn't let him be bombed in Denmark.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: In "Grey Dawn."
* OutOfFocus: Though his appearances were infrequent to begin with, he was non-existent for several seasons before reappearing in Season 16's "Cash for Gold." By season 21 he now lives in a retirement home, explaining his absence from the Marsh household.

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* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler: She, of all people, provides one in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' when she realizes how "fucking lame" vampires are (as well as gift bags)]].

* TakeThat: Towards the more negative aspects of PC culture.

->'''Voiced by:''' Adrien Beard (2000-2002), [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] (2002-present) (Steve Black), Creator/MonaMarshall, Eliza J. Schneider (2000-2001), Creator/AprilStewart (2008-present) (Linda Black)

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", when he is forever known as "The 'Nigger' Guy" when he says the n-word on ''national television''.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The show's crowning example of this trope, when accounting for the other degrees of uselessness of the adults. Highlights include: going out of his way to pick fights at Stan's Little League games, blurting out the N-word on Wheel of Fortune, and ejaculating a gallon of semen all over a mobile computer room after watching porn.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In the episode "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", when he is forever known as "The 'Nigger' Guy" when he says the n-word on the game show "The Wheel of Fortune" on ''National TV''.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Randy had a different look back in Season 1, most notably in his hairstyle. He was remodeled into his permanent design come his first Season 2 episode, "Chickenlover".
** He also has [[NoBrows no eyebrows]] in "Volcano".

* GivingTheSwordToANoob: The [[TropeNamers nominal]] noob.
* GoodParents: Before his level in jerkass.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Randy can be impulsive, but he was creeped out by Mr. Jefferson's inappropriately childish behavior.

* AnythingThatMoves: In her younger years, she slept with almost the entire adult population of South Park, including the women and the less attractive individuals.

** Early episodes tended to depict Liane as far more hedonistic all around. A lot of Cartman's politically incorrect mentalities he would claim to be taught by her. Some episodes also suggested she was only superficially devoted to her son, not even noticing when something had happened to him in "Starvin' Marvin" and the original pilot and even going through with executed him in an early revision of TheMovie. Compare this to weak-willed but genuinely caring mother she is later seasons who is at least ''trying'' to figure how to raise her son properly.