Wendy Testaburger

"I'm gonna kick your ass. That's what I'm gonna do!"
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"Will somebody do something? Every week, he gets worse and nobody does anything!"

Voiced in English by: Karri Turner (1996, pilot version of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"), Mary Kay Bergman (1997-1999), Eliza Schneider (1999-2003), April Stewart (2004-present)

Voiced in French by: Marie-Laure Beneston

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Margarita Coego (Seasons 1-2 and 6), unknown (Season 3), Rossana Cicconi (Seasons 4-5 and 7-11, and 2007 redub), Arianna López (Season 12 onwards and all redubs since 2010), María Fernanda Morales (Mexican dub and Warner Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub), Claudia Aline (Paramount Bigger, Longer & Uncut dub)

Debut: "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"

The kind-hearted, bright, outspoken, integrated, leftist, liberal, and jelly school body president of the Boys' class, and Cartman's second Arch-Enemy who also has a hidden scary side, which she lets loose when you fuck with her. She's also Stan's on-and-off love interest. She breaks up with him in season 7 due to believing he was bored with her, though they get back together with him at the end of season 11. However she (reluctantly) breaks up with Stan again in Season 20 due to the other girls believing he and the boys share the sexist opinions of notorious Internet troll skankhunt42 (although they appear to be together once more in The Fractured but Whole). Their relationship resumes in Season 26.

In the video game South Park: The Fractured but Whole, her superhero identity is Call Girl.

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Academic Athlete: She's one of the smartest kids in her class (rivaled perhaps only by Kyle) and also plays volleyball.
Action Girlfriend: In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", she beats up Cartman to a bloody pulp not too many episodes after getting back together with Stan.
All Girls Like Ponies: "Breast Cancer Show Ever" reveals that underneath her purple coat is a white tank top with a purple unicorn on it.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Generally subverted, but she does develop a crush on Cartman against her will after spending a day together in "Chef Goes Nanners". She gets over it by kissing him and getting him out of her system at the end, causing her feelings for him to vanish and making her realize that they were just superficial. She goes back to Stan later in the episode.
Almost Kiss: With Stan on four separate instances, all cut short by him barfing on her face.
All-Loving Hero: A more straightforward example of this than Stan. Wendy is very philanthropic and usually professes her concern for the less fortunate ones. In "Pinkeye", she donates her entire supply of candy to hungry children in Nairobi. However, she's not without her flaws, and has occasionally put her morality aside when it suited her, though this trait has diminished after she entered the fourth grade.
All of the Other Reindeer: Like Stan and Kyle, some of Wendy's more outspoken beliefs (such as her dislike of Paris Hilton and Photoshop) have gotten her shunned and ostracized by her peers, usually her female classmates on more than one occasion.
All Women Love Shoes: Downplayed in "the List", as she doesn't love shoes enough to commit graft over them, unlike Bebe, but she still briefly falters when the latter shows her the latest pair of shoes that she had acquired from Clyde thanks to her corruption, and she then proceeds to keep them after Bebe is arrested.
Always Someone Better: When it comes to halloween costume contests, she has beat both Kyle and Kenny on two different occasions, and she's sometimes portrayed as smarter than the former despite him being an A+ Student. She's also bested Cartman both in brute strength and manipulation on two instances, and her gambit in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" is the most deceitfully cruel ploy a South Park student has successfully executed in the first four seasons.
Amicable Exes: Despite initiating their breakup, she still tries to keep in touch with Stan during Seasons 7-11, but he mostly gives her the silent treatment or outright scoffs at her, and she states in "The List" that they didn't have a proper conversation since they had broken up. In the Bad Future, she's also happy to see him when they reunite in adulthood, and this time he at least tries to engage with her and her new husband.
And Then John Was a Zombie: In "Pinkeye", she's bitten in the chest offscreen by a Zombie and later turns into one of them. When he sees her in that state, Stan can't bring himself to kill her.
Anti-Hero: Generally Type 3 when she's not being a normal hero. Though she's the most straightforwardly heroic of her group, especially in early seasons where the others were much bigger jerkasses, she has a darker side that manifests when pushed. In "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", she's the most invested in saving Ike from the visitors but her first idea is using Cartman as bait to lure them out, which gets him abducted again. She also acts like a complete bully towards Cartman in "Breast Cancer Show Ever", but only after he intentionally pushes her into her Rage Breaking Point.
A-Cup Angst: She suffers from this in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" after the boys start chasing after Bebe for her newly developed breasts, even trying to get her elected as class president (just for her looks) despite Wendy already fulfilling that role. This angst quickly turns into D-Cup Distress when Wendy gets a boob job to deal with this, only for the boys to laugh at her disproportionately large breasts instead.
Ambiguously Evil: Though usually a polite and outspoken girl with a few unchecked flaws, "Tom's Rhinoplasty" is the only episode in which she acts like a complete Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, showing herself to be a complete Yandere at the end of the episode. Though her jealousy and hidden dangerous side still pop up every now and then, she has never come close to being this cruel, although it should be noted that she only resorts to this after a Humiliation Conga worth of failed attempts to impress Stan, and the other episodes in which she's the Butt-Monkey to someone else's antics also often end in misery for the source of her troubles, who is usually Cartman so nobody holds it against her. Whether she's holding a Mask of Sanity and her Jerkass Ball moments are her true self surfacing when under pressure, or she matured alongside the other boys (barring Cartman) as she entered fourth grade and became a more genuine if imperfect Nice Girl is unknown.
Badass Adorable: She hired a group of Iraqis to shoot a woman into the sun and has shown herself to be able to engage in a violent fight if anyone makes insensitive comments about breast cancer.
Batman Gambit: In "Dances With Smurfs", after having to deal with Cartman harass her role as student body president endlessly during the morning announcements, make numerous ridiculous accusations about her supposedly being part of an Absurdly Powerful Student Council, such as claiming she led a Smurf-killing plot for their berries, and having Butters pee at her doorstep, Wendy decides to finally face him in an interview, which Cartman takes as an opportunity to pick on her more. However, she then proceeds to Beat him at his own game by actually going along with the role of smurf-killer, fabricating a follow-up story where Cartman bolstered the Smurfs' defiance and forced her to wipe them out, knowing that this would back Cartman into a corner and that his moron followers would eat such a story up. She then writes a book about the events and sells the rights for it to James Cameron, who then proceeds to make Avatar with the story (unwittingly plagiarizing Cartman's work in the process). Afterwards, she resigns as student council president and gives the title to Cartman forcing him to face the same barrage of libel and harassment that she used to face, which he does not take well.
Beat Them at Their Own Game: After failing an essay contest to him in the second episode, she has consistently proven herself to be able to do this to Cartman anytime he actively provokes her. She beats the tar out of him in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" in front of the entire school, out-gambits him in "Dances With Smurfs" by getting him elected as student body president, thereforere lieving him of his position as morning announcement student and leaving him to suffer the libel she used to endure at his followers' hands, and ruins his plot to get himself a special transgender bathroom by pretending to be transgender herself in "The Cissy". The Fractured But Whole also shows her to be a much more effective superhero than he ever was (not that it's too big of an accomplishment).
Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Despite hating the Stupid Spoiled Whore fad, she has actually resorted to this more than any other girl.
- Tries this when Stan develops a crush on Ms. Ellen, only for the latter to coincidentally show up wearing leather, thus stealing Stan's attention away from Wendy again.
- She also gets huge tits to get the attention from the boys in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", but ends up arriving after everyone learns their lesson, resulting in everyone just making fun of her.
- The ending of "The Hobbit" also culminates in this. Despite her attempts not to bow to the pressure, she winds up breaking down and altering a photo of herself to make herself into a bombshell to not be ostracized by her peers.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Develops with Cartman after the two are paired together for a debate over the new South Park flag in "Chef Goes Nanners". Bebe identifies that they have sexual tension and suggests that she should kiss him to get it out of her system. Wendy later does so, and all her feelings she had for Cartman completely vanish.
Berserk Button: Wendy does not take kindly to it when other women try to get between her and Stan. (See Kids Are Cruel and Karma Houdini.)
Beware the Nice Ones: She's generally a nice person but making an enemy of her is not advisable. Tom's Rhinoplasty is the biggest example of how threatening she can be.
Wendy: Don't F**k with Wendy Testaburger!
Birds of a Feather: Downplayed with Stan. While Stan is more easily burnt-out, a bit lazy, focuses far more on the adults in his activism and is more quick to gripe about people getting their act together instead of just questioning what they're doing, they're otherwise quite similar, being among the most mature, parentally inclined, athletic, ocassionally scofflaw and rejuvenating kids in their grade. In "Deep Learning", Stan forces this trope via using ChatGPT to respond to her texts in a romantic way, which made her believe that they shared more similarities than they actually do, and fall even more in love with him as a result.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She may seem nice, but fuck with her and she will reveal herself to be this. "Tom's Rhinoplasty" is a perfect example of such, where she hires a group of Iraqis to shoot an innocent woman into the sun under the mistaken impression that she was stealing Stan from her. "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" and "Doubling Down" also show this side to her.
Boys Have Cooties: Though not as much as some of the other girls, she has many instances of saying that boys are stupid, such as in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" and "Eat, Pray, Queef", after several boys do something stupid. One of her lines in "Phone Destroyer" when summoned as Call Girl is "boys are wimps!". However, in "Skank Hunt" she is reluctant to participate in the Gender War, but eventually goes through with it.
Brainy Brunette: Has dark hair and is one of the most intelligent students in her grade.
Brutal Honesty: In "The Hobbit", she bluntly points out the physical imperfections of her classmates and her own on several occasions, frustrated with everyone else's obsession to hid them with photoshop. However, nobody appreciates this and instead see her as a hater who is lashing out at other girls because they're more popular than her.
Butt-Monkey: Stan frequently pukes on her and, whenever she gets A Day in the Limelight, it's usually a Humiliation Conga.
Characterization Marches On: Started out as Stan's sweet and innocent crush before quickly becoming more liberal and insanely possessive of him. Her Clingy Jealous Girl jealous attitude was dialed back a bit in the later seasons, but she's also not as in focus as she used to be.
The Chew Toy: She can sometimes fall victim of jokes, like being puked on by Stan or picked on by Cartman numerous times.
Child Prodigy: She's probably the only one to surpass Kyle as far as brains go in the fourth grade and is the class president. She's also shown to be very knowledgeable when it comes to politics (which she probably gets from her mother who is on the city council) and on top of her intelligence she's also a talented athlete.
Clingy Jealous Girl: In her less extreme moments in regards to her affection for Stan. She even gets triggered when a 95 year-old woman compliments a picture of him in a bunny outfit via Facebook at one point.
Cute and Psycho: "Tom's Rhinoplasty" begins with her sweetly suggesting that she and Stan go on a cardboard cruise date together, and ends with her sending her substitute teacher on a one-way rocket trip to the sun, complete with a Nightmare Face.
The Cutie: In the earlier seasons, Wendy was, for the most part, an innocent little Nice Girl with a cutesy voice, save for her notorious Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Jerkass Ball episode in "Tom's Rhinoplasty".
Dark and Troubled Past: In "Deep Learning", she reveals that she had something traumatic happen to her at her home when she was 6, and entrusted said information only to Stan through texting. Unfortunately, Stan never read it.
Damsel in Distress:
- In "Pinkeye", she's bitten by zombies and turns into one, and is later cured when Kyle kills Kenny, who was the original zombie.
- She's framed and arrested for using ChatGPT on her phone, but is saved when Stan uses the AI to rewrite the episode so that they get a Happy Ending.
A Day in the Limelight: "Weight Gain 4000", "Tom's Rhinoplasty", "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", "Breast Cancer Show Ever", and "The Hobbit" all feature her as The Protagonist. She's also a Deuteragonist or major character in "Pinkeye", "Chocolate Salty Balls", "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", "Chef Goes Nanners", "Dances With Smurfs", "Pajama Day", and "Deep Learning".
Dude Magnet: She attracts the most onscreen boys out of her female peers (apart from "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", where her new boobs turn off the boys after Bebe started concealing hers). She has an on-and-off relationship with Stan and was in a brief relationship with Tolkien. Also, Cartman, Butters, and Clyde have expressed a strong attraction to Wendy, much to her disgust.
Everyone Has Standards:
- In "The Hobbit", she gives up her fight against photoshop when Kanye West tearfully explains to her how it gave his fiancée Kim Kardashian a chance to stop being seen as a hobbit and feeling happy with herself, which Wendy appreciates and shows sympathy towards despite her initial disdain for the celebrity.
- She's very much against body-shaming and bullying, but when asked to filter all hateful comments from Cartman's social media accounts, she elects to face detention instead without skipping a beat.
- Though she's very progressive and can have somewhat of a short fuse, she's as scared of PC Principal as the other students, as shown in "Pajama Time" where she jumps when he addresses her and is visibly distressed after her conversations with him.
Flanderization: Started out as an everyday token female with the occasional...episodic quirk (see "Tom's Rhinoplasty"). Later on she pretty much became the Lisa Simpson and Brian Griffin of the show, alternating between a Soapbox Sadie or just a specific liberal mouthpiece for Stone and Parker.
Girly Bruiser: She has no problem beating up Cartman in a pink hat and unicorn shirt for making offensive comments on breast cancer. She also moonlights as superhero Call Girl.
Good Is Not Nice: Can get aggressive and self-righteous when she feels ignored, and often lashes out at Stan for being Innocently Insensitive, but she's usually Rightly Self-Righteous, especially when dealing with Cartman.
Good Is Not Soft: In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", after several attempts at finding common ground with him, she completely declares war on Cartman, even after he eats his underwear in an attempt to appease her. She later completely wipes the floor with him at the end of the episode, adding in a few kicks for good measure even after he was already on the ground.
Go-Getter Girl: She's athletic, academic, and an activist, and in "Post Covid: Return of Covid", she made it into Harvard as an adult.
Graceful Loser: After Cartman forces her to throw their fight by telling on her in "Breast Cancer Show Ever", she is disheartened but still accepts the defeat with dignity. It's only when Cartman starts rubbing his victory on her face that she decides to go Honor Before Reason and beats the tar out of him with no concern for the consequences.
Granola Girl: She worries a lot about the environment, and her first onscreen essay involved the suffering of bottle-nosed dolphins. In "Bike Parade", her custom bicycle for the parade is recycling themed.
Green-Eyed Monster:
- She became jealous of Bebe's newfound popularity in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" to the point where she got breast implants in an attempt to get her popularity back, likely also to become more popular than her.
- She's capable of being jealous of Stan and the possibility of him being interested in other girls without getting to a murderous extent, as seen in "You Have 0 Friends".
- Subverted in "The Hobbit", where she was frequently accused of being jealous of her friends when she advocated against Photoshop.
Guile Hero: Usually to deal with Cartman's various schemes is to dismantle them through her wits.

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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Has shades of this with Bebe, mostly in the earlier seasons. They're established to be close friends in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" where they hang out in the background earlier and Bebe later comes over to Wendy's house to give her a makeover to win Stan back. She also later goes to Bebe for advice on how to overcome her Belligerent Sexual Tension with Cartman in "Chef Goes Nanners".
Hidden Depths:
- In "Tom's Rhinoplasty", Wendy reveals that she's fluent in Arabic, talking to the agents she hired to launch Ms. Ellen into the sun. Of course, the Batman Gambit she pulls on her, Stan, and Mr. Garrison is a hidden depth in itself.
- "Deep Learning" implies she was going through a self-hatred phase throughout Season 26, and she confided her problems in Stan through texting. The specifics of these depths remain hidden for Stan and the audience, however, since Stan didn't actually read her messages and had instead used Open AI technology to respond for him.
Humble Pie: On a handful of occasions, she tends to be broken down by an event before she has to chance to fully build up:
- In "Tom's Rhinoplasty", Stan wins dinner with Ms. Ellen, who becomes their permanent teacher, and receives news that her grandma had died.
- In "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", she loses her boyfriend to Bebe because of the latter's new-developed breasts, and undergoes a painful breast implant operation just to be mocked the next day for her over-sized breasts.
- In "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", she eventually succumbs to peer pressure and dresses more like a whore. When her friends still refuse to invite her to their party, she asks Mr. Slave for advice on how to become one.
- Played with in "The Hobbit", where it switches back and forth between being this all-around and slightly more low-key Gossip Evolution. She has her anti-Photoshop comments waved off as her being a "hater" and "jealous" and then she is periodically threatened by being sent to the "jelly-school" as well as ostracized by her peers, and is ultimately pressured into altering her photograph just so she can be accepted (with her crying all the while).
Hypocrite: She has an issue practicing what she preaches, and is often criticised for it, such as in "Weight Gain 4000" and in "The Hobbit".
- Her claim that she's the biggest feminist at the school can be hard to take seriously considering she had a woman killed because her boyfriend had a Precocious Crush on her, and episodes like "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", "Marjorine", and The Stick of Truth show that she's not above slut-shaming other girls.
- Her Clingy Jealous Girl tendencies are also quite unwarranted considering she's the one who flirts with other boys the most despite being in a relationship, such as Gregory in The Movie, Eric Cartman in "Chef Goes Nanners" (whom she kissed in front of Stan himself), Bridon Gueermo in "Elementary School Musical", and the New Kid in The Fractured But Whole.
- In "Deep Learning", while she's right that Stan has a serious problem with communication, she herself is no expert, dismissively having Bebe acting as a mediator between them instead of going to him herself in "Raisins", and neglecting to tell him about having changed her mind about dressing up as Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy for Halloween in "Pinkeye", causing him to show up as the former and become the laughing stock of the school.
- Episodes like "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" and "The Hobbit" have her criticise celebrities who promote changing your body image to get other people's attention, despite her go-to move to get Stan's attention is to do exactly that, such as getting a risqué makeover in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" and getting plastic surgery in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society". Even in the former two episodes, she eventually succumbs to the fad, though the former has her snap out of it thanks to Mr. Slave's influence.
Hysterical Woman: She screeches her lungs out throughout "Tom's Rhinoplasty" due to her frustration with Stan ignoring her, at one point drawing the attention of the entire cafeteria.
Kyle: You're acting like a freak, Wendy.
Wendy: NO, I'M NOT ACTING LIKE A FREAK!!!
Imaginary Love Triangle:
- In The Movie, when Stan thought she had a thing for Gregory of Yardale.
- Then with Kyle in "Follow That Egg!", where they are paired up for the egg sitting project, which makes Stan jealous.
- And then with Bridon Gueermo in "Elementary School Musical", where Stan thinks he's lost Wendy to Bridon just because she admires Bridon's talents.
- In "Tom's Rhinoplasty", she believed Ms. Ellen returned Stan's affection.
Informed Deformity:
- She mentions having pimples on her forehead and crooked bottom teeth in "The Hobbit", but these aren't visible to the viewers.
- Hilariously, in "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", Cartman mocks her by pointing out her "huge freaking hooters", while in "#Rehash" (14 seasons later), he mocks her by describing her as "flat as a pancake". Throughout the show (barring her brief plastic surgery in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"), she has mostly resembled the latter remark, but so have the other girls barring Bebe.
Jerkass Ball: Usually a Nice Girl, but can still exhibit varying degrees of antagonism Depending on the Writer.
Jerkass Has a Point:
- She yells at Stan a lot, especially in later seasons, but most of her legitimate grievances with him rarely get through his head, making it understandable why she would be so frustrated. Considering that in her worst Jerkass Ball moments from the earlier seasons ("Tom's Rhinoplasty" and to a lesser extent "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society") she lashes out at other people because Stan was ignoring her, her holding him accountable for his flaws is a show of maturity in comparison.
- She's vicious towards Cartman in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" and refuses to forgive him even after he eats his underwear for her sake because she knows any display of humility that he shows is a fallacy. A few scenes later, he gets her to forfeit the fight by playing dirty and telling on her parents, all the while Playing the Victim Card and mocking her behind their back, proving her right.
- Similarly, she lashes out at Butters, Lisa Berger, Stan, and the cheerleaders in "The Hobbit" and points out their physical flaws (as well as her own) with no restraint because they kept falling for the photoshop craze and using it to hide their imperfections instead of learning to be comfortable with them. Despite her legitimate points, Mr. Mackey points out several times how her abrasiveness in dealing with the situation only serves to her own detriment.
Jerkass to One: Downplayed since she wasn't particularly mean compared to other characters, but from Seasons 13 to Season 20, she had a lot less patience with Stan than she did with Cartman or her girl friends, even when he wasn't doing anything. In Season 13 and 14 especially, most of their interactions involved her raising her voice against him for petty reasons, and while Stan Took a Level in Jerkass himslef following said seasons, Wendy was still prone to acting condescending and passive aggressive towards him when he made a mistake, and in "Skank Hunt", she breaks up with him as part of a protest against all boys (which he had nothing to do with and in fact had actually tried to help their cause). In "Deep Learning" (after they've gotten back together following the gender war), she seems to be a lot more patient and supportive with him, and values communication above all else even when he's holding the Jerkass Ball.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be preachy and insensitive, and prefers making sure everyone acknowledges the worlds' problems than acknowledging her own, but she genuinely cares about helping people and making the school a happier place for everyone. She also has more patience with Cartman than the average person, and is usually content with hearing out even his takes on subjects. Regarding Stan, though she can be jealous and a tad impatient with him, she has shown to care about his well-being and sincerely wants him to do better when he falters.
Karma Houdini: She never got any kind of punishment for having an innocent woman killed out of jealousy. unless Kyle did something about it when he found out.
Kids Are Cruel: One of the earliest and extreme examples of just how cruel the students could go, mainly due to her having an innocent woman killed just because she thought said woman was stealing Stan from her.
Little Miss Badass: Despite not getting into fights much, she's proven herself to be a competent fighter, and is more than capable of kicking Cartman's ass, as shown in "Breast Cancer Show Ever".
Laser-Guided Karma: In "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", she Slut Shames Bebe behind her back after the latter's breasts cause Stan and the other boys to become attracted to her. Later in the episode, she gets implants out of jealousy, and is mocked by the other boys (who have already gotten over their obsession) for it.
Love Interests: For Stan. They break up for a few seasons but get back together in "The List". However, she breaks up with Stan again in Season 20's "Skank Hunt" (though it was out of peer pressure due to the girls conspiring with each other to get revenge on the boys, assuming that one of them shares the sexist views of internet troll skankhunt42; as such, she showed a lot of reluctance). They appear to have gotten back together in The Fractured But Whole. Their relationship resumes in "Deep Learning".
Miss Swears-a-Lot: She is shown to cuss frequently like the boys, and she's no stranger throwing a Precision F-Strike when she's pissed off, even if it's against a teacher. In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", she drops this against Cartman.
Wendy: You're gonna fucking die!
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Zig-Zagged between her and Stan. Wendy is outspoken, strong-willed, and passionate, while Stan is a sensitive and compassionate animal lover. She is also the one who always initiates the kisses and he always goes along when she wants a date. However, besides that Wendy is very girly and Stan has plenty of traditionally masculine interests and is often a Determinator himself. He is also prone to standing up for her, but will let her handle her own fights.
Meaningless Villain Victory: In "Tom's Rhinoplasty", she succeeds in getting Ms. Ellen out of the picture (and out of the planet) and getting Stan to notice her again. She never once stops to think that there's no way Ellen's relationship with Stan would work out, as he was 8 and she was an adult (and a lesbian), and Ms. Ellen had outright stated multiple times that there was nothing between her and Stan. Notably, Stan already felt sorry for her when she used Crocodile Tears to sell the deception, and they reconciled in their next interaction, making her scheme even more pointless.
The Medic: In the "Post Covid" specials, she addresses herself as a doctor, and is the one most invested in getting Clyde vaccinated.
Misplaced Retribution: When she feels ostracized, she's prone to attacking her rivals in popularity, such as Ms. Ellen in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" and Bebe in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" to a lesser extent. She's also lashed out at an entire group of people for the actions of a few in both "The Hobbit" and "Skank Hunt" (though it was in a fit of frustration in the former and out of peer pressure in the latter). In "You've Got 0 Friends", she also yells at Stan because another woman complimented him on Facebook, despite him not even having read the message.
Morality Pet:
- She's one of the few students whom Mr. Garrison seems to hold in high regard. She manages to talk him down from killing Kathie Lee Gifford in "Weight Gain 4000" (though Mr. Hat had other plans), he invites her into his house for advice in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", he stops Cartman's jokes on breast cancer (in one of his few competent moments as a teacher) in "Breast Cancer Show Ever", and she's the only student he specifically asks for when everyone has bailed on his class in "South ParQ Vaccination Special". The fact that she bizarrely always seems to win the Halloween costume contests (hosted by him) also imply she's somewhat of a Teacher's Pet. On her part, aside from being overjoyed at his return in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" and getting the class to apologize to him for "disrespecting" his class in "Pajama Day" (both of which had ulterior motives to them), her opinion of him is mostly negative, especially after he became president, but she seems to respect him a tad more than most other characters.
- Also for Stan, especially in earlier seasons when he was more bratty and obnoxious. Though he's not above ignoring her feelings when he's got something else in mind, he's prone to getting invested in causes (or pretend he's getting invested) just because she is. Notable examples are "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", "Weight Gain 4000", The Movie, "Follow That Egg", "Cock Magic", and "Oh Jeez". He also occasionally forgoes his passive demeanor to stand up for her, such as in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" and "Dances With Smurfs".
Nice Girl: At her best, she is usually very friendly, sympathetic toward others, and often is more than happy to help out Stan and his friends whenever they encounter a problem.
Nightmare Fetishist: In early seasons, she bizarrely gets in the mood to give Stan a Smooch of Victory at the climax of an episode, which happens right after Cartman had been kidnapped in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", in the middle of a zombie corpse infested morgue in "Pinkeye", after having her substitute teacher framed and killed in "Tom's Rhinoplasty", and right after Kenny had sacrificed himself to erase the events of the American-Canadian war in The Movie.
No Holds Barred Beat Down: Subjects Cartman to a very brutal one in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" when Cartman pushes Wendy too far by continuously mocking a cause she was trying to promote.
No-Respect Guy: Stan rarely gives her credit for the things she does for him, and her causes are generally ignored by her classmates, teachers, and parents alike. She's also this among her circle of friends, who are all quick to turn their backs on her the moment she goes against a trend they like, with Bebe even threatening to kill her in "The List" for attempting to expose her fraud. "The Hobbit" is a prime example of this, as her tirades against the photoshop craze are all dismissed by her authority figures who all accuse her of being "jelly", and the one time she's invited to an interview with Tom and Tammy Thompson, she's just made fun of.
Not So Above It All: She's as prone to this as Stan and Kyle, and gets as much flak from it as the others.
- In "The List", she fights alongside Stan to uncover the fraud behind the forgery of the cute boys list. When she learns that Bebe, Jenny, Lola, and Red had tampered with the list to boost Clyde's popularity just so that she could date him and get free shoes from his dad's store, she's initially disgusted, but falters for a second when she realizes just how well crafted the shoes actually were. It takes Stan calling her out on it to set her straight, and reinforce that it still doesn't justify what they did (not that it stops her from taking the shoes for herself once the scheme has been uncovered).
- As an adult in "Post Covid: Return of Covid", she gets the merit of being outsmarted by both Cartman and Butters^note when she not only tells him everything about Kenny's plan to erase the pandemic (wholeheartedly believing his Heel–Faith Turn unlike Kyle) and gets stabbed in the back as a result, but she also falls for Butters' NFT scam and likely loses all her money. When Stan and Kyle go back and realize Cartman had stolen all the lab equipment, Wendy apologizes to the former, lamenting how foolish she had been to trust Cartman again after everything.
Official Couple: With Stan; their relationship has been an established part of the show since the first episode. While it's had its ups and downs and they've even broken up on occasion, Stan and Wendy will always get back together by the end.
Only Sane Woman: Mostly among her female peers in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", "The List", and "The Hobbit". All three episodes involve Wendy's friends participating in a trend which she knows is bad and tries to talk them out of it, before eventually succumbing to peer pressure.
Opinion Override: Is obsessed with standing up for groups of people she feels are discriminated against — and is mocked for it by Cartman & friends as an example of Political Overcorrectness, at least until PC Principal shows up, whereupon she's fantastically overshadowed by him.
Out of Focus: Her prominence often fluctuated throughout the series run;
- Wendy first lost her major character status to Kyle when Kyle's personality began resembling hers (around Season 4), eliminating the need for many episodes centered around Stan and Wendy.
- When she broke up with Stan, her screen time took an even sharper drop. She only had two major roles ("Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" and "Follow That Egg!") and after "Cartoon Wars Part 1" never spoke again until Season 11's "The List" where she and Stan got back together. She has come back into the spotlight since then and, much like Kenny, has gotten more screen time, though it appears to be for good reasons rather than averting this trope.
- Her role diminished again in the four seasons after her breakup with Stan in season 20. While she still had roles and speaking roles, she never interacted with Stan and the majority of her speaking roles were brief minor appearances during scenes involving the girls as a whole. After a supporting role in the "Post Covid" specials, she regained her supporting character status starting in Season 25, being a major focus of "Pajama Day" and "Deep Learning".
Passionate Sports Girl: Though she's usually content with being a cheerleader, in "Cock Magic" she takes the girls' volleyball game very seriously, which is why in "Weiners Out", the boys' go-to attempt to reconcile with the girls involve going to her team's latest game to support them, which she appreciated before Butters decided to ruin it.
Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The pink girls to her boyfriend's blue boy. He wears blue jeans and a blue hat with a red margin and a red puffball, while she wears a pink beret.
Pink Means Feminine: Has a pink beret and despite not being the most girly of the female students, is still quite feminine. Her room's walls are also pink and decorated with stickers.
Precision F-Strike: From The Movie:
Fuck Gregory! Fuck him right in the ear!
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Outspoken, strong-willed, and passionate, she is the red to Stan's, who's more stoic and deadpan, blue.
Relationship Revolving Door: With Stan. Though they've been each other's main love interests for the duration of the show, and they're implied to have carried their relationship into adulthood in the revised future, they've also gone through multiple rough patches, which tends to be the focus of episodes revolving around them, such as in "Pinkeye", "Tom's Rhinoplasty", "Chef Goes Nanners", "You've Got Zero Friends", "Gluten Free Ebola", "Cock Magic", and "Deep Learning". They've also suffered two Break-Up/Make-Up Scenarios that have lasted (at least) four seasons each.
Ridiculously Successful Future Self: Though not as ridiculously successful as Stan' and Kenny's (and not as surprising considering she was already ambitious and intelligent as a child), Wendy's revised future self made it into Harvard, and it's possible she did as well in the Bad Future.
The Rival: Starting with "Breast Cancer Show Ever", she and Cartman are enemies. This doesn't prevent some tension from being present.
Satellite Love Interest: She's not this all the time, but in some episodes her role is to exist to indirectly motivate Stan to do something to impress her. Examples are The Movie, "Elementary School Musical" and "Cock Magic".
Shipper on Deck:
- In "Clubhouses", she tries to get her best friend Bebe and Stan's best friend Kyle together so that the four can hang out at Stan's clubhouse. Though Bebe was eager to go along with it (since she liked Kyle's ass), Kyle was repulsed by the thought of kissing a girl, and the whole thing crumbled after Wendy dared the two to kiss, whereupon the latter ran away in disgust. At the end of the episode, the meetings continue but with Clyde as Bebe's date instead.
- In "Tweek X Craig", while her presentation on Yaoi was a way to celebrate the new Asian-American students that had come to the school, there was no reason why all the art she showcased had to be of Tweek and Craig. She's also distraught when the former cries as part of their stage breakup, and gives Craig a Death Glare for supposedly breaking Tweek's heart.
Showing Up Chauvinists: When Wendy feels like a Double Standard is being done against her by boys, she goes out of her way to counterattack. The prime example of this is in "Eat, Pray Queef", where she combats the boys' love for toilet humor by having a pudgy girl queef on Butters' face.
Signature Headgear: Her pink beret, rarely seen without it. She wears a violet one when attempting to get Stan's attention in "Tom's Rhinoplasty", and a red one when dressed as a boy for the Fingerbang band.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While talent and confidence are also high on her list, se gets together with Stan because he's a genuine Nice Guy, and wants him to be the best version of himself that he can be. Notably, she's quick to call him out when he holds the Jerkass Ball, sometimes even breaking up with him after he either ignores her or treats her poorly.
- In The Movie, she initially shows some interest in Gregory, especially after he starts protesting against WWIII alongside her, but leaves him for Stan when he insults Stan for failing his mission even though he had actually rescued Terrance & Phillip. What cements her attraction to Stan in the movie is seeing him use a speech she had previously given to her disinterested classmates to try and change the minds of the parents, showing that he had actually listened to her.
- In Deep Learning, she falls even more in love with Stan when she sees him put an effort in improving his communication when she asked him to (even if his effort was using ChatGPT to reply to her texts, which she didn't know).
Sixth Ranger: More often than not in the first few seasons. Especially prominent in Season 1 as well as isolated episodes such as "Something You Can Do with Your Finger".
The Smart Girl: Among the female student population, though she'll also often fill the role either when Kyle isn't around or when he's focused on a single-minded goal instead of multiple ones. She's repeatedly shown to be crafty, academically competent and the go-to person for political backing, and made it into Harvard as an adult according to "Post Covid: Return of Covid".
The Smurfette Principle: She was probably the only prominent female child character in the show's early days, before Bebe and Heidi—the only other female students with established personalities—became more major characters. She also plays this role when serving as the Boys' Sixth Ranger.
Soapbox Sadie: Most of her school papers have her preach about a particular cause that she feels is unjust, and by season 6, pretty much nobody takes her stances seriously anymore, to the point where Garrison doesn't even listen to the presentation she was giving in "Informative Murder Porn". This gets toned down later on, and she has given up on several of these causes to salvage her social standing, but it's still a major part of her character.
Straw Feminist: Downplayed. She self-identifies as "the biggest feminist at the school", and she always combats any Double Standard that she comes across, but her hypocresy, short fuse, and self-righteousness can make her unpopular among her classmates, and even the girls see her as a buzzkill on occasion, with "The Hobbit" being a particular low point for her social standing. However, she works with boys regularly, and barring some Jerkass Ball instances, she's is still among the saner classmates. Her character is also rarely portrayed in a manner that directly lampoons her beliefs much like Cartman, Randy, or Mr. Garrison often are. In Season 20, where the girls as a whole are at their least sympathetic, it's her friend Nelly who takes the lead against the boys, and Wendy is visibly reluctant to participate in the gender war.
Teacher's Pet: Though he did underrate her paper in "Weight Gain 4000", she's still one of Mr. Garrison's most liked students, and she unfairly wins all Halloween costume contests despite looking like everyone else. He even allowed her to come to his house for advice in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset".
The Tease: She's very flirty with boys she likes, and her introduction in the first episode has her handing Stan a letter asking him to meet her at Stark's Pond after school for a kiss.
Token Good Teammate:
- Of her female friends. Wendy isn't an angel, but she's more noble than the other girls. She was the only one who didn't take part in faking a list just to get free shoes from Clyde and while she took part in the gender war in Season 20, she was shown to have a conscience and didn't want to go through with it (she even waved at the boys during a volleyball game despite the feud still happening).
- She was also this of the boys while serving as the Sixth Ranger in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". She was the only one who genuinely cared about saving Ike from the visitors, as Kyle mainly wanted to avoid being grounded for losing him, Stan and Kenny were mostly apathetic to the ordeal, and Cartman actively refused to believe the visitors were even real. Wendy even puts her date with Stan on hold to help in the rescue mission.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Bebe and Red's girly girls. Downplayed since they all have some feminine and masculine traits, but Bebe and Red tend to conform more to feminine trends and behaviors than Wendy, being more into shoes, dressing in skimpy outfits, and getting obsessed with manipulating their image to impress boys. Wendy is also the most foul-mouthed and probably physically toughest of the three.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Wendy is somewhere between this and Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak. At the very least, she is less conventionally feminine than the other girls in her peer group. While they are all quick to act like spoiled girls, scheme to get fancy new shoes, or manipulate their image with Photoshop to impress and attract boys, Wendy is the most likely of the group to defy these trends as much as possible. She is also very headstrong, confrontational, and political, as well as pretty foul-mouthed when she's angry, and has also demonstrated considerable fighting prowess. That said, she has one of the girliest appearances of all the main girls and has a fondness for pink in her wardrobe. Then there's her bedroom, which looks incredibly girly. She is also part of the school's cheerleading squad and sometimes partakes in certain feminine activities with her friends if she doesn't dismiss them as demeaning.
- Notably, while in the midst of admonishing Bebe for thinking great shoes can justify corruption, she's momentarily distracted by how great that particular pair of shoes are.
Took a Level in Badass: Taken Up to Eleven in "Breast Cancer Show Ever", where she takes down Cartman in a playground fight and brutally assaults him.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Zig-Zagged. In early seasons, despite her jealous streak and hidden malicious side, she was still the politest character in the boys class. Starting around Season 13, her growing frustration with her peers' apathy and ignorance shortened her fuse a lot, and she became much more quick to lashing out at other people. This becomes a problem in "The Hobbit" where her legitimate concerns surrounding photoshop are overshadowed by the cavalier and brutally honest way she goes about it, making everyone think she's just being jealous.
Took a Level in Kindness:
- In Season 1, while still presented as a sweet and precocious Granola Girl most of the time, Wendy still had a dark side that put some of her kindness in question, such as being willing to use Cartman as live bait for the visitors in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and getting her substitute teacher framed and killed out of jealousy in "Tom's Rhinoplasty", and also got Stan humiliated in "Pinkeye". Starting in Season 2, and despite still having multiple Not So Above It All moments, she's been consistently depicted in a much more sympathetic light, and Stan's apathy and insecurities became the main reason for their relationship problems instead of her jealousy.
- After four seasons of being Out of Focus and being mostly shown in a negative light (at least compared to early seasons), Seasons 25 and 26 show her consistently as a patient and understanding Nice Girl, likely thanks to the timeline being revised so that everyone cuts each other some slack following the pandemic.
Tuckerization: Her name is based on 'Wendy Westaburger', the wife of one of Matt Stone's friends.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: In the bad future, Wendy has grown into a striking woman. Her husband on the other hand looks quite pudgy, with a ridiculous fashion sense and perpetually-smug expression.
Vigilante Man: She's an unaffiliated superhero in Fractured But Whole, and seems to be the only one (outside Mysterion) who works as a superhero outside of the kids' glorified LARP.
Vocal Evolution: She had a very high-pitched, cutesy voice in the earliest episodes. In more recent seasons, her voice has become much more mature and womanly, fitting with her character development.
Wise Beyond Their Years: She even complains about breast cancer rather than finding breasts hilarious like an average Elementary School girl.
Women Are Wiser: Comes off as more level headed than Stan much of the time, at least in most of their interactions in the four seasons immediately followed by the Gender War (which is saying something considering Stan's own personality). Played with in earlier episodes where both of them were near equally childish and obnoxious.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Her Jerkass Ball moment in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" comes after a brutal Humiliation Conga involving her boyfriend ignoring her in favor of their substitute teacher in spite of all her attempts to win him back, and hearing that her grandmother had died, which Principal Victoria casually blurts out with no sensitivity.
Yandere: Do not get between her and Stan. However, this was greatly toned down since the show's beginning, when she killed the substitute teacher, because Stan had a crush on her. Nowadays, the worst she will do if she feels jealous is to complain.
Yaoi Fangirl: She was the one that introduced Yaoi to the school by showing a slideshow of Tweek X Craig art and describing it as a wonderful thing. In Fractured But Whole, she gets excited if Tweek or Craig use their combined Ultimate while she's on the field.
Call Girl: Can I see that again?
Super Craig: There will be no encores.
You Go, Girl!: When she's fighting Cartman, these are the reactions she gets.

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