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* FateWorseThanDeath: This is Cartman's fate in the revised future after sacrificing his happy life for the sake of everyone else. Cartman is forced to watch all of his peers live out happy and successful lives and ignore him while he's stuck homeless and miserable. Since Cartman is an AttentionWhore who [[{{sadist}} enjoys]] seeing other people miserable this fate truly is far worse than any death that Cartman could have possibly received.

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Kyle laments that for all the talent Cartman has displayed when getting whatever he wanted he never put them into any productive use in the revised future, which led to Cartman becoming a homeless alcoholic.

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Kyle laments that for all the talent Cartman has display when getting whatever he wanted he never put them into any productive use in the revised future, which led to Cartman becoming a homeless alcoholic.

** ''[[Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy Space Jam 2]]'' gets some flak as well with one of the positive effects of the weed Stan gives to Randy being that UsefulNotes/LeBronJames is unwilling to do it anymore because it supports Chinese censorship, with the rest of the crew abandoning the project and cheering as well.

* GrayingMorality: The conflict between Kyle and Cartman becomes morally grayer as adults compared to when they were children. As kids, it's clear that Kyle was an OnlySaneMan who always tried to do the right thing and had far higher morals than Cartman who committed atrocities out of pettiness or self-interest, especially towards Kyle. When they became adults,however, Kyle wanted to fix the future but for selfish reasons because he was miserable and jealous when Cartman got the happier life, while Cartman wants to prevent the future from being fix, but for more understandable reasons in that he's afraid he'll loose family if the future is change. Then Cartman decides to help Kyle fix the future where despite Cartman being the more selfless of the two, Cartman loses his happy life and becomes miserable in the new future while Kyle gets the happier life.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Ultimately, Cartman's fate of having to watch all of his peers live out happy and successful lives while he's stuck homeless and miserable is considered much crueler than any death that he could have possibly received, especially since Cartman had sacrificed his own happiness to ensure this future for everyone else.

* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Stan is a much more cheerful person in the revised future than he was during his childhood and previous timeline where he happily greats all of his friends and smiles all the way until being told about Cartman's presence.

* GrayingMorality: The conflict between Kyle and Cartman becomes morally grayer as adults compared to when they were children. As kids, it's clear that Kyle was an OnlySaneMan who always tried to do the right thing and had far higher morals than Cartman who committed atrocities out of pettiness or self-interest, especially towards Kyle. When they became adults however, Kyle wanted to fix the future but for selfish reasons because he was miserable and jealous when Cartman got the happier life, while Cartman wants to prevent the future from being fix, but for more understandable reasons in that he's afraid he'll loose family if the future is change. Then Cartman decides to help Kyle fix the future where despite Cartman being the more selfless of the two, Cartman loses his happy life and becomes miserable in the new future while Kyle gets the happier life.

* SwappedRoles:
** In the complete opposite of what their relationships with Cartman were like when they were kids, Kyle in the new timeline takes pity on Cartman for becoming a homeless addict while Butters has [[NoSympathy no sympathy]] for him and tells the others to forget about him.
** The lives of Stan and Kyle are the switched with Cartman in the revised timeline with Stan being a happy successful man and Kyle having a family of his own, while Cartman is the one who ends up becoming a lonely and miserable alcoholic.

* TheHero: Eric Cartman, of all people, becomes this after his HeelFaceTurn where he kills Clyde and comes up with the idea on how to repair the trio's friendship and fix the future.

* {{RetGone}}: Due to Cartman never meeting Yentl in the new timeline, his kids no longer exist.

* RedemptionEarnsLife: Cartman's two oldest children encourages their father to fix the future. Kyle's children in the fixed future greatly resemble Cartman's two kids in the past timeline implying that they were reincarnated as Kyle's kids as a reward for letting Cartman do the right thing while Cartman's youngest child completely disappears as punishment to trying to have Kyle killed in the past.

* HappinessInMinimumWage: Butters is a simple waiter whose been promoted to manager in the fixed timeline, instead of a wealthy and well-known SnakeOilSalesman. That said this is still treated as Butters good future over his previous life before he still retains his sanity, maintains his friendships with almost everyone, and actually enjoys doing his job.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters are usually good kids who happens to {{ButtMonkey}}s in their childhoods who suffer depressing fates in the BadFuture are given happy and successful lives in the good future.

** Kyle never had much luck in romance as a kid while he severed his relations with his friend, resulting in him living alone and having no friends in the bad future. In the good future, Kyle finds woman who he loves enough to marry and start a family with and is still friend with almost everyone, with Kyle's children considering his best fried Stan their HonoraryUncle.

** Stan is KnightInSourArmor during his childhood who lost his mother and sister, while his FirstLove, Wendy, marries someone else in the bad future. Stan becomes more [[TookALevelOfCheerfulness cheerful]] as an adult, his mother and sister are still alive, has a MaybeEverAfter ending with Wendy in the good future.

* AlasPoorVillain: Stan and Kyle pity how Cartman turned out, and several fans agree with them considering how he selflessly sacrificed his prosperity in the bad timeline in order to help everyone else.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Cartman's oldest children are aware about the high possibility of disappearing should the future change but accepts this nonetheless, telling Cartman to save the future so that he could prove to Kyle that he's wrong about his assumptions. {{Averted}} with Cartman's youngest child who sends Clyde to the past to kill Kyle to prevent the future from changing and him being RetGone.

* TheBusCameBack: After being conspicuously absent from the previous special, Ike Broflovski, Timmy, and Butters all show up. Even Heidi Turner makes a brief {{cameo}}, albeit in the past.