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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Thanks to the weed future Stan gave his father, people came together in the present and apologized for the actions they did because of the stress of the pandemic. This leads to a future where the cast all have happier lives. Except for Cartman.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Thanks to the weed future Stan Future!Stan gave his father, people came together in the present and apologized for the actions they did because of the stress of the pandemic. This leads to a future where the cast all have happier lives. Except for Cartman.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In the old timeline, Cartman moved on from his hateful views by getting married and finding faith through Judaism. In the new timeline, Cartman never met his wife and stayed the same throughout his childhood. So when Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink alcohol and yell at people, they pity him for what he's turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start and everything that happened to him afterwards was his own fault.

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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In the old timeline, Cartman moved on from his hateful views by getting married and finding faith through Judaism. In the new timeline, Cartman never met his wife and stayed the same throughout his childhood. So when Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink alcohol and yell at people, they pity him for what he's turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start and everything that happened to him afterwards was his own fault.fault for being a hate-filled jackass.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In the old timeline, Cartman moved on from his hateful views by getting married and finding faith through Judaism. In the new timeline, Cartman never met his wife and stayed the same throughout his childhood. So when Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink alcohol and yell at people, they pity him for what he's turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start and everything that happened to Cartman afterwards was his own fault.

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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In the old timeline, Cartman moved on from his hateful views by getting married and finding faith through Judaism. In the new timeline, Cartman never met his wife and stayed the same throughout his childhood. So when Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink alcohol and yell at people, they pity him for what he's turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start and everything that happened to Cartman him afterwards was his own fault.
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* TookALevelInKindness: The new future version of Shelly seems to be a lot nicer towards Stan, though she still calls him a turd. It helps that she's an adult now and just grew out of being a big sister bully and a brat.

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* TookALevelInKindness: The new future version of Shelly seems to be a lot nicer towards Stan, though she still calls him a turd. It helps that she's an adult now and just grew out of being a big sister bully BigSisterBully and a brat.
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* SkewedPriorities: Apparently Clyde thinks that letting everyone know that he is an anti-vaxxer is more important than anyone trapped in Quarantine getting any sort of help.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Invoked by Butters and it's a rather tragic example. When Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink and yell at people, they pity him for what he turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start for his sociopathic behaviour and bigotry, everything that happened to Cartman was his own fault. The tragedy is that Cartman did redeem himself by getting married and finding faith through Judaism but since Cartman never got married in the new timeline, he only has himself to blame for turning into a drunken hobo.

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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Invoked In the old timeline, Cartman moved on from his hateful views by Butters getting married and it's a rather tragic example. When finding faith through Judaism. In the new timeline, Cartman never met his wife and stayed the same throughout his childhood. So when Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink alcohol and yell at people, they pity him for what he he's turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start for his sociopathic behaviour and bigotry, everything that happened to Cartman afterwards was his own fault. The tragedy is that Cartman did redeem himself by getting married and finding faith through Judaism but since Cartman never got married in the new timeline, he only has himself to blame for turning into a drunken hobo.fault.

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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Invoked by Butters and it's a rather tragic example. When Stan and Kyle see that Cartman has become an abrasive homeless man who does nothing but drink and yell at people, they pity him for what he turned into since he never did anything with his life. Butters rebukes their pity by telling them that Cartman was more or less doomed from the start for his sociopathic behaviour and bigotry, everything that happened to Cartman was his own fault. The tragedy is that Cartman did redeem himself by getting married and finding faith through Judaism but since Cartman never got married in the new timeline, he only has himself to blame for turning into a drunken hobo.



* PsychopathicManchild: In the new timeline, Cartman still wears his childhood clothes, lives on the road as a hobo, and screams obscenities at people.



* UncertainDoom: Future-Clyde is killed by Cartman before he gets the chance to murder Past-Kyle, however, the timeline is reset when the boys' relationship is repaired. With the timeline rebooted, Shelly and Sharon are alive and well, whereas Reboot-Clyde is nowhere to be seen despite having no reason to go into the past in the new timeline.

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* UncertainDoom: Future-Clyde is killed by Cartman before he gets the chance to murder Past-Kyle, however, the timeline is reset when the boys' relationship is repaired. With the timeline rebooted, Shelly change in the timeline, Kenny, Shelly, and Sharon are alive and well, whereas Reboot-Clyde Clyde in the new timeline is nowhere to be seen despite having no reason to go into the past past. Either implying that he just wasn't seen in the new timeline. party, or he couldn't make it, or Clyde died because he was unvaccinated.



* WouldHurtAChild: Clyde has no reservations shooting Kyle's past self. He's only stopped when Cartman shoots him instead.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Clyde has no reservations about shooting Kyle's past self. He's only stopped when Cartman shoots him instead.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The weed that Randy gives Stan before he goes back to the past. Said weed is left by Stan at Past Randy's doorstep. After researching it and replicating it, it turns out it makes people forgive each other and apologize for acting like dicks during the pandemic, allowing everyone to become much better.


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* LaserGuidedKarma: After selfishly refusing to get vaccinated and threatening to trap everyone in South Park for more than three decades, Clyde is shot dead by Cartman after he tries to kill Kyle in the past.


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* TheReveal: There was nothing special about Randy's weed, nor was it to Kenny's research. Kenny just wanted to get high while he was time traveling.


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* TookALevelInKindness: The new future version of Shelly seems to be a lot nicer towards Stan, though she still calls him a turd. It helps that she's an adult now and just grew out of being a big sister bully and a brat.
** Heck, everyone seems to become a better person after the trio fixes their friendship, with some help from the weed Stan brought with him... Except for Cartman.
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* LoveRedeems: Cartman's marriage actually brought the best in him, as his wife convinced him to help Stan and Kyle despite the high chance of losing his family and happiness in his life. This is further evident by the Cartman in the new timeline, who becomes a hobo who spends his days yelling profanities at people more successful and wears his childhood clothing. Without his wife's influence, Cartman stayed the hate-filled bigot who does nothing but blame everyone else for his own misery as he yells at people for being better than him.


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* UncertainDoom: Future-Clyde is killed by Cartman before he gets the chance to murder Past-Kyle, however, the timeline is reset when the boys' relationship is repaired. With the timeline rebooted, Shelly and Sharon are alive and well, whereas Reboot-Clyde is nowhere to be seen despite having no reason to go into the past in the new timeline.
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-->'''Cartman:''' FUCK YOU, BUTTERS!!
-->'''Butters:''' ''*angrily*'' FUCK ''YOU'' ERIC!! ''*coldly closes blinds*''

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-->'''Cartman:''' FUCK YOU, BUTTERS!!
-->'''Butters:''' ''*angrily*''
BUTTERS!!\\
'''Butters:''' ''(angrily)''
FUCK ''YOU'' ''YOU'', ERIC!! ''*coldly ''(coldly closes blinds*''blinds)''
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* TheDogBitesBack: While Stan and even Kyle feel bad for the pathetic state Cartman is in the good future, Butters, Cartman's biggest punching bag, dismissively tells them not to waste time feeling back for Eric again.

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* TheDogBitesBack: While Stan and even Kyle feel bad for the pathetic state Cartman is in the good future, Butters, Cartman's biggest punching bag, [[NoSympathy dismissively tells them not to waste time feeling back bad for Eric again. again]], [[WhosLaughingNow even snapping back at him when their old dynamic reemerges.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: While Stan and even Kyle feel bad for the pathetic state Cartman is in the good future, Butters, Cartman's biggest punching bag, dismissively tells them not to waste time feeling back for Eric again.
-->'''Cartman:''' FUCK YOU, BUTTERS!!
-->'''Butters:''' ''*angrily*'' FUCK ''YOU'' ERIC!! ''*coldly closes blinds*''
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Stan and Kyle have to time travel.

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Stan and Kyle have work with the rest of their friends to finish Kenny's research on time travel.travel so they can go back and stop the pandemic, while Cartman secretly tries to stop them.
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* KillerRobot: Kyle's Alexa unit turns into a mechanical monstrosity that tries to kill him when he lashes out at her. Stan yells at him how to get it to shut up. Both Alexas activate this mode when Butters tries to sell them on [=NFTs=].


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Darwin is not shown in the new future, leaving what happened to him completely unknown.
* WouldHurtAChild: Clyde has no reservations shooting Kyle's past self. He's only stopped when Cartman shoots him instead.
* YouCantFightFate: Randy calls out over this Wendy and the others when they question him about where he fucked the pangolin so they can stop him. The new future reflects this, with China still having taken over and Covid still happening despite all the other changes made.
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* AbusiveParents: Stephen and Linda abandoned Butters grounded in his room for sixteen years, which caused him to become insane.

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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the Pandemic ended, Butters was left grounded in his room by his parents, [[AbusiveParents who abandoned him for sixteen years]] and caused him to turn into an insane [=NFT=] business man.


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* ShipTease: Stan and Wendy have this in the fixed future. It's also worth noting that Wendy's husband Darwin is not in this future, meaning that he never met Wendy in this timeline.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Contrary to what Kyle suspected, it's revealed here that Cartman in the BadFuture has indeed become a better person. Though he's initially violently resistant to Stan going back to the past to change the future due to it likely meaning the erasure of Cartman's loving family, he's convinced by his wife's horror at his actions to let Stan travel back in time.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Contrary to what Kyle suspected, it's revealed here that HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Cartman in the BadFuture has indeed become a better person. Though he's initially is very violently resistant opposed to Stan going back to the past to change the future due to it likely meaning the erasure of Cartman's loving family, sliding back into some of his childhood behavior in the process, but he's convinced by his wife's horror at his actions to let Stan travel back in time.time, showing that, contrary to what Kyle suspected, Cartman has indeed become a better person.
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* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and again, Space Jam 2.

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* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and again, [[Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy Space Jam 2.2]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Cartman has a moment of this after his wife reacts with horror to him beating up Kyle.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Shockingly, ''Cartman'' is actually convinced after some resistance to sacrifice his own happiness in the BadFuture to ensure that everyone else's lives have a chance to be better in the new timeline.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Contrary to what Kyle suspected, it's revealed here that Cartman in the BadFuture has indeed become a better person. Though he's initially violently resistant to Stan going back to the past to change the future due to it likely meaning the erasure of Cartman's loving family, he's convinced by his wife's horror at his actions to let Stan travel back in time.
* HeroicSacrifice: Shockingly, ''Cartman'' is actually convinced after some resistance to sacrifice his own happiness in the BadFuture to ensure that everyone else's lives have a chance to be better in the new timeline. timeline.
* {{Irony}}: Somewhat depressingly, Cartman in the new timeline is the only one of the friends to end up with a terrible life, despite his BadFuture counterpart arguably sacrificing the most by allowing Stan to fix the timeline.

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* BrickJoke: Clyde says that the COVID vaccine gives people titties on their head. Guess what he tells his past self when he travels back in time.



* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In the new future, Cartman is a homeless miserable bum instead of a happy rabbi with a loving family.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In the new future, Cartman is a homeless miserable alcoholic bum instead of a happy rabbi with a loving family.



* TookALevelInBadass: Contrary to his child self who always found himself on the losing end of fights with Kyle, Adult Cartman can not only fight, he actually beats Kyle down.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Contrary to his child self who always found himself on the losing end of fights with Kyle, Adult Cartman can not only fight, he actually beats Kyle down.down.
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* KarmicJackpot: In the new future, Stan is now an astronaut with his family still alive and stable, Kyle has a family with kids who consider Stan an HonoraryUncle, Kenny is still a successful scientist and alive, and Butters is sane and working as a restaurant manager.
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* DramaticIrony: In the new future, Kyle laments that Cartman never did anything with his life. Unbeknownst to any of them, Cartman in the BadFuture actually sacrificed his own happiness to ensure the timeline would get fixed.


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* HeroicSacrifice: Shockingly, ''Cartman'' is actually convinced after some resistance to sacrifice his own happiness in the BadFuture to ensure that everyone else's lives have a chance to be better in the new timeline.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Thanks to the weed future Stan gave his father, people came together in the present and apologized for the actions they did thanks to the stress of the pandemic. This leads to a future where the cast all have happier lives. Except for Cartman.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Thanks to the weed future Stan gave his father, people came together in the present and apologized for the actions they did thanks to because of the stress of the pandemic. This leads to a future where the cast all have happier lives. Except for Cartman.

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* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Stan getting back with his friends, he didn’t become stressed out to the point he burned down the farm. Which leads to Sharon and Shelly being alive in the new future.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Thanks to the weed future Stan gave his father, people came together in the present and apologized for the actions they did thanks to the stress of the pandemic. This leads to a future where the cast all have happier lives. Except for Cartman.



* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and Space Jam 2.

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* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and again, Space Jam 2.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In the new future, Cartman is a homeless miserable bum instead of a happy rabbi with a loving family.
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* TookALevelnBadass: Contrary to his child self who always found himself on the losing end of fights with Kyle, Adult Cartman can not only fight, he actually beats Kyle down.

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* TookALevelnBadass: TookALevelInBadass: Contrary to his child self who always found himself on the losing end of fights with Kyle, Adult Cartman can not only fight, he actually beats Kyle down.
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* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and Space Jam 2.

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* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and Space Jam 2.2.
* TookALevelnBadass: Contrary to his child self who always found himself on the losing end of fights with Kyle, Adult Cartman can not only fight, he actually beats Kyle down.
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Stan and Kyle have to time travel.

* TakeThat: To [=NFT=]s and Space Jam 2.

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