History Characters / SouthParkKennyMcCormick

* GutturalGrowler: Kenny's usual, unmuffled voice is the highest pitched of the boys. As Mysterion, he masks it with a [[BadassBaritone deep]], raspy voice to hide his identity and sound intimidating.

** As an adult Kenny grew a large bushy beard and wears a hat and sunglasses at all times.

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into=] [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness SesquipedalianLoquacity]], [=which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into {{Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness SesquipedalianLoquacity}}, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness SesquipedalianLoquacity]], which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquacity, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into {{SesquipedalianLoquaciousness}}, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

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--> ''To wit, I have found nothing wrong with this remote place, and I must admit it will be with some melancholy I will leave this island and return home. I saw this chick in a bikini on the beach too. She had the nicest boobs ever.''\\

-> ''To wit, I have found nothing wrong with this remote place, and I must admit it will be with some melancholy I will leave this island and return home. I saw this chick in a bikini on the beach too. She had the nicest boobs ever.''\\

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* {{SmallRoleBigImpact}}: In the Post-Covid specials, he's already dead and has a single line in a pre-recorded video. However, his death prompts Stan to return to South Park for his funeral, and his scientific research of [[spoiler:time travel]] drives the entire plot.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the Post-Covid specials, he's already dead and has a single line in a pre-recorded video. However, his death prompts Stan to return to South Park for his funeral, and his scientific research of [[spoiler:time travel]] drives the entire plot.

[=** Kenny's letter from Hawaii in "Going Native" is a shining example:=]\\

[=** In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]\\

** Kenny's letter from Hawaii in "Going Native" is a shining example:

** [=In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.=]

-> *** ''To wit, I have found nothing wrong with this remote place, and I must admit it will be with some melancholy I will leave this island and return home. I saw this chick in a bikini on the beach too. She had the nicest boobs ever.''\\

** In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.

->''To wit, I have found nothing wrong with this remote place, and I must admit it will be with some melancholy I will leave this island and return home. I saw this chick in a bikini on the beach too. She had the nicest boobs ever.''\\

* In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.

*** In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.

''Kenneth.''\\
** In his adulthood it's stated that Kenny's scientific aptitude has grown into SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which makes him seem unintelligible to the layman.

''Kenneth.''

-->--'''Kyle'''

* DreadfulMusician: Like seemingly every child in the Unites States, Kenny has no talent with the recorder. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with every other musical instrument he's been seen playing, which includes (among others) drums, bass, and zampoña. With some training he also becomes a talented singer.

** Also subverted in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid'', when [[spoiler:he dies from contracting COVID while using TimeTravel to stop the pandemic from happening in the first place. However, this gets undone in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid'' when the rest of the boys succesfully create a new future]].

* OutOfFocus: He gets the least amount of individual spotlight out of all of the four boys (and even some other regulars), especially after his RunningGag deaths were omitted. He tends to get ADayInTheLimelight at least OnceASeason to moderate it, and generally does a lot more from the "Coon and Friends" trilogy onwards. In recent seasons, however, his role has diminished again.

An immortal, hedonistic, vulgar, but courageous and selfless boy that comes from a very poor family that often has to struggle to survive. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain He used to get killed off]] OncePerEpisode only to come back to life later, but that's not the case anymore... usually, since Parker and Stone were getting tired of killing him off in every episode and running out of original ways to kill him. He almost always speaks with a muffled voice, with various levels of intelligibility.

* AssShove: In the Post-Covid specials, he [[spoiler:hid a flashdrive of his research up his ass. Stan has to retrieve it manually from his corpse.]]

* TheFaceless: Downplayed. His eyes are visible but everything else is covered by his hood, except in certain episodes[[note]]TheMovie, "Good Times with Weapons", "The Losing Edge", "Broadway Bro Down", "Meet the Jeffersons", "You're Getting Old", and "Major Boobage". Also in "The Coon" and the "Coon and Friends" trilogy as Mysterion.[[/note]] His princess outfit in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' would apparently [[WhatCouldHaveBeen have been]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StickofTruth/comments/2adnci/old_princess_kenny_design_his_reflection_in_the/ another example]], but was scrapped for the current design that puts the costume over his parka (most likely because the linked design would have made him unrecognizable and, due to the art style, [[WigDressAccent too much like an actual female]]). The times he's appeared without his hood on the show (following TheReveal from the movie) have all happened without any attention being drawn to it, to the point that it takes many viewers a little while to realize that the messy-haired blond kid is actually Kenny.

* NeverBareheaded: Until the movie, his head was never seen without being covered by his parka. There are select scenes where he's unhooded (at Stan's birthday party in "You're Getting Old", at the pool in "Broadway Bro Down", and on the baseball team in "The Losing Edge"), but he doesn't speak and the audience is left to pick him out of the crowd.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While he's usually the most good-natured out of the four boys, there are times where he's more than willing to engage in Cartman's selfish behavior. In "Whale Whoress", like Cartman, he didn't remotely care about protecting dolphins and whales, but pretended like he did in order to get on television. And in "[=DikinBaus=] Hot Dogs" he's perfectly willing to go along with Cartman's idea to take portions of Butters' earnings from his job, ostensibly to start a business of their own, but truly just so that he and Cartman could live comfortably off someone else's paycheck.