History Characters / SouthParkKennyMcCormick

* LovedByAll: As an adult, he's a renowned WhealthyPhilantropist whom even NASA holds in high esteem. Because of this, there's huge turnout at his funeral. He apparently remains as this even in the revised future, as everyone cheers for him when he shows up at South Park alive.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: {{Downplayed}}. Despite being a charitable guy at heart, His kindness does not extend to animals: He's the most excited to hunt and fish with Jimbo in "Volcano", allegedly set Mr. Garrison's cat on fire sometime before "Do the Handicapped Go To Hell?", repeatedly squeezed cats for their urine in "Major Boobage", outright told Stan that he didn't care about whales and dolphins in "Whale Whores", and the card for Inuit Kenny in ''South Park: Phone Destroyer'' shows him ripping a tusk out of a dead walrus. The song "Hell isn't Good" from TheMovie also implies that one of Kenny's hobbies was throwing rocks at birds.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: {{Downplayed}}. Despite being a charitable guy at heart, His kindness does not extend to animals: He's the most excited to hunt and fish with Jimbo in "Volcano", allegedly set Mr. Garrison's cat on fire sometime before "Do the Handicapped Go To Hell?", outright told Stan that he didn't care about whales and dolphins in "Whale Whores", and the card for Inuit Kenny in ''South Park: Phone Destroyer'' shows him ripping a tusk out of a dead walrus. The song "Hell isn't Good" from TheMovie also implies that one of Kenny's hobbies was throwing rocks at birds.

* TheHeart: "The South [=ParQ=] Vaccination Special" cements him as this for the four boys. It's shown that dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for a year has caused the group to splinter and Kenny is only thing holding it together. Stan, Kyle, and Cartman are all reluctant to end their "broship" because they know how much it will hurt Kenny. Exemplified in the Post-Covid specials, where his desire to heal their friendship spurs him to [[spoiler:research time travel and change the past so they never fought and split up in the first place.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: He doesn't treat Butters any better than the other boys, but Butters admits he's the only one he likes because Kenny's honest about his flaws and never makes any bones about what he is.

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

* ForgottenFallenFriend: ZigZagged, as due to Cthulhu's curse, their friends only forget about his death ''once'' he comes BackFromTheDead, making him a "Forgotten Revived Friend". However, several episodes show the boys completely forgetting or ignoring his existence after their TheyKilledKennyAgain line (if they say the line at all). Furthermore, while he has been given a few funerals, his corpse is almost always left behind to be eaten by rats.

->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt Stone]] (normal muffled voice, Mysterion, and ComicBook/IronMan costume), Creator/MikeJudge (''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''), Eric Stough (unhooded), Creator/LexLang (adult narrator in "The Scoots")

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** As an adult, Kenny has stopped muffling his voice, but he's stated to never communicate in layman's terms, which makes him a different kind of unintelligible.* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In early seasons, Kenny's deaths were treated as a normal occurrence to the point that the other characters are aware or weren't phased by them at times. [[BreakingtheFourthWall Certain episodes like "Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut" and "Cartmanland" even make light of it.]] In "Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut", Kenny simply appears out of thin air. Nobody even notices except Stan, who simply greets Kenny as if he'd just walked into the room. When he returns from his extended death in "Red Sleigh Down", the other boys again simply greet him as if he'd just walked up to them. However, [[RetCon from Season 7 onward and as of the Mysterion arc]], the only ones that can remember his deaths anymore are Kenny himself and his parents since they now cause a mind wipe to everyone else whenever he resurrects.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In early seasons, Kenny's deaths were treated as a normal occurrence to the point that the other characters are aware or weren't phased by them at times. [[BreakingtheFourthWall Certain episodes like "Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut" and "Cartmanland" even make light of it.]] In "Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut", Kenny simply appears out of thin air. Nobody even notices except Stan, who simply greets Kenny as if he'd just walked into the room. When he returns from his extended death in "Red Sleigh Down", the other boys again simply greet him as if he'd just walked up to them. However, [[RetCon from Season 7 onward and as of the Mysterion arc]], the only ones that can remember his deaths anymore are Kenny himself and his parents since they now cause a mind wipe to everyone else whenever he resurrects.

* TheUnintelligible:
** Usually Kenny's speech is muffled by his parka, allowing his dialogue to be far more profane than the other characters' at times. However, there have been a few occasions where he has taken off the hood and been able to speak intelligibly, such as the end of the movie, "The Jeffersons", and whenever he appears as Mysterion. Later episodes tend to get rather creative in using Kenny's voice unmuffled while still maintaining his ambiguity.
** A couple of episodes have people who've known Kenny for a while, such as Kyle, translating Kenny's mumblings for people who've just met him. People who've known Kenny for a long time can often learn to understand what he's saying, even including longtime viewers.
** Oddly enough, even though Kenny still wears his hood as "anime" Princess Kenny (complete with female wig), he can speak intelligible (but purposely mangled) GratuitousJapanese. "PURINSESU KENNI ASSISUTO!" Additionally, when Kenny dressed up as ComicBook/IronMan for Halloween, the mask simply added a metallic reverb to his voice rather than muffling it completely (the voice was provided by Matt Stone himself).
** If you watch certain episodes on DVD however, turning on English subtitles can provide translations to most of his dialogue.
** As an adult, Kenny has stopped muffling his voice, but he's stated to never communicate in layman's terms, which makes him a different kind of unintelligible.

* TheUnintelligible:
** Usually Kenny's speech is muffled by his parka, allowing his dialogue to be far more profane than the other characters' at times. However, there have been a few occasions where he has taken off the hood and been able to speak intelligibly, such as the end of the movie, "The Jeffersons", and whenever he appears as Mysterion. Later episodes tend to get rather creative in using Kenny's voice unmuffled while still maintaining his ambiguity.
** A couple of episodes have people who've known Kenny for a while, such as Kyle, translating Kenny's mumblings for people who've just met him. People who've known Kenny for a long time can often learn to understand what he's saying, even including longtime viewers.
** Oddly enough, even though Kenny still wears his hood as "anime" Princess Kenny (complete with female wig), he can speak intelligible (but purposely mangled) GratuitousJapanese. "PURINSESU KENNI ASSISUTO!" Additionally, when Kenny dressed up as ComicBook/IronMan for Halloween, the mask simply added a metallic reverb to his voice rather than muffling it completely (the voice was provided by Matt Stone himself).
** If you watch certain episodes on DVD however, turning on English subtitles can provide translations to most of his dialogue.
** As an adult, Kenny has stopped muffling his voice, but he's stated to never communicate in layman's terms, which makes him a different kind of unintelligible.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: At one point, his surname was spelled with a "K".

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* CatchPhrase: "Woo-hoo!", usually said when excited about something; it being sometimes sexual.

** they voted him the seventh cutest boy in the class despite Cartman's claims that his poverty would hurt his chances (although said list turned out to be a forgery so it's unknown where he actually stood).

* ChickMagnet: Despite being poor, Kenny still has a number of girlfriends over the course of the series: Kelly from "Rainforest Shmainforest", Tammy from "The Ring", and an unnamed girl (possibly either of them) in Season 20.

* ChickMagnet: Despite being poor, Kenny still has a number of girlfriends over the course of the series: Kelly from "Rainforest Shmainforest", Tammy from "The Ring" and an unnamed girl in Season 20.

* CoolBigBro: This guy puts on his superhero alter-ego just to cheer his little sis up, and in "City Part of Town" used the money he's earned to buy Karen a new doll.

* ChickMagnet: Despite being poor, Kenny still has a number of girlfriends over the course of the series.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Think about how poor he is or how he's ignored. His perverted nature has also been exaggerated, though granted this has arguably broadened his character as well.

* BigBrotherInstinct: You don't want to mess with Karen [=McCormick=]. Mysterion will come and kick your ass, [[WouldHitAGirl even if you are a girl]]. In "The City Part of Town", when his father screams at Karen to get a job if she wants stuff and she runs off in fear, he death stares his dad as he walks off to comfort her. At the end of the episode, Kenny gets her a new doll just to make her happy.

* WouldHitAGirl: If you mess with Karen [=McCormick=], Kenny will invoke this one. He's also seen beating up two girls in "Faith Hilling" from a rival group.

* TheUnreveal: Mysterion is forced to go public with his true identity, unmasking himself before the entire town. Since he keeps his hood on, [[OnlySixFaces he looks just like the majority of able-bodied caucasian kids]]. Everyone in-universe is still able to recognize him though.

** Subverted. In the episode "Kenny Dies", he is hospitalized, and nearly the entire episode is taken seriously (at least as seriously as South Park can be taken). He dies at the end of the episode and remains dead throughout the entire next season, showing up only as a ghost or in flashbacks.