The Immortal Beings of South Park
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Published 2021-09-25
South Park is obviously not a show that is primarily watched for its lore, but for a topical animated comedy series, it sure does feature a surprising amount of it. Sure, much of this comes in the form of parody, but through all of these parodies and references the show has established a pretty fascinating series of ideas and lore that I have a ton of fun diving into. A surprising piece of worldbuilding that has come up many times over the series is the idea of immortal beings, with the show featuring many of them and even establishing and reinforcing its own rules for these types of characters. So today let’s take a deep dive into the many immortal beings of South Park.
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All Comments (21)
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it is so fitting that kenny shares a category with jesus christ.
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Kenny taking off his hood at the end of Bigger Longer Uncut is one of the greatest moments in film history.
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Fun fact: In South Park, Kenny has met his demise a whopping 126 times in total. This includes 97 times in the actual television series, 12 in the random assortment of South Park shorts, and 14 in the video games
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The hidden ”joke” for the South Park Movie, was that Kenny’s death, return to Earth and ascending into Heaven was based of Jesus’ death, sacrifice, resurrection and ascension to Heaven. Since both Jesus Christ and Kenny have remained dead for 3 days only for them to return and die for everyone’s sins, before returning to Heaven.
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Kenny has been banished by Cthulhu and killed by Satan... Twice... And he still returned, Kenny's version of immortality while not providing any special powers like Satan's or Cthulhu's, it's still superior in a way
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ngl for a south park video idea i feel like a deep dive into kyles family would be super intreseting. i mean his dad is a troll, kyles got anger issues, his mom is sadly from new jersey, and ike is pretty much a genius
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I too am far too invested in Kenny/Mysterion lore. Especially when you take the Lovecraftian stuff into account, that’s the cherry on top for me. Kenny does need a hug though, very badly. That scene where he shoots himself in front of the others begging them to remember actually made me so sad. (Though “Well, I’m tired, I’m gonna go to bed” blam was, by contrast, hilarious.) Also, no spoilers, but play the DLC! I only just played it recently and the final boss is awesome.
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The funny thing is is that Cartman actually does remember Kenny dying in fact in the episode where Cartman owned the amusement park he stated that Kenny dies all the time and he was the only one who noticed anything up when Kenny came back from The Nightmare Dimension that Cthulhu sent them to
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My dude Kenny oughta be the most enlightened immortal to ever exist, having experienced death so many times.
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You forgot kyle's cousin kyle, almost certain he's immortal
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I think Jesus has some additional powers, perhaps they weren’t deemed “super” enough during the Easter special discussion. Notably he seems to have a healing touch, as he healed Santa’s broken legs in Iraq. …and having finished writing this statement, I have to applaud South Park on making it possible for such a statement to be made.
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I've never actually seen an episode of sp but a drone crashed into me during a rehearsal and I've gotten nothing but "Oh my God, we killed Kenny" jokes since then.
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I honestly adore Kenny out of the group. Its upsetting to think at one point they were gonna phase him out. Tho I do like Butters and Jimmy too.
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Santa could still be immortal, there are many forms of immortality and one that is very common in fiction is eternal life. Eternal life doesn't protect you from any kind of damage and you can still be murdered like anyone else but you are immune to natural causes like old age. This would be type 1 of the 9 main types.
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Satan is one of the best character in South Park, he’s a lad.
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Kenny and Jesus being in the same group is hilarious. More than it should be
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Kenny is amazing. Mysterio he apparently uses to cheer up his sister, or try to stop terrible things. He liked nascar so he had a reason to be upset at cartman for ruining it. Kenny literally was like "ok" for having to protect heaven from Satan's army. also, have you seen him dance? cure to depreession
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I don’t know if it’s official or not, but I like to think that new kid from the South Park games is immortal like Kenny because he dies twice in two uncontrollable cutscenes in the first game
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