35 Facts About Kenny McCormick

Kenneth McCormick is a fictional character and one of the four main protagonists in the adult animated sitcom South Park, alongside Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman.

Kenny McCormick was a third, later fourth-grade student who commonly has extraordinary experiences not typical of conventional small-town life in his hometown of South Park, Colorado, where he lives with his poverty-stricken family.

Kenny McCormick is animated by computer to look as he did in the show's original method of cutout animation.

Since the sixth season in 2002, the practice of killing Kenny McCormick has been seldom used by the show's creators.

Kenny McCormick attends South Park Elementary as part of Mr Garrison's fourth-grade class.

Kenny McCormick has a younger sister who is shown with his family in the season nine episode "Best Friends Forever", but does not reappear until the 15th season episode "The Poor Kid", where her name is revealed to be Karen, whom he loves unconditionally.

Kenny McCormick is regularly teased for living in poverty, particularly by Cartman.

Kenny McCormick's superhero alter ego, Mysterion, first appeared in the season 13 episode "The Coon", as a rival to Eric Cartman's eponymous supervillain alter ego.

Kenny McCormick is not revealed to be Kenny until the season 14 episode "Mysterion Rises", the character's third appearance as part of a three-part story arc.

In "Cherokee Hair Tampons", Kenny McCormick gets irritated and offended when Stan laments Kyle's critical condition while utterly ignoring Kenny McCormick's past demises.

The duo insisted they grew tired of upholding the tradition of having Kenny McCormick die in each episode.

For much of season six, Kenny McCormick remained dead, though he still appears to possess Cartman's body, and both Stone and Parker entertained the idea of eventually bringing the character back.

For most of the season, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman fill the void left by Kenny McCormick by allowing the characters Butters Stotch and Tweek Tweak into their group, paving the way for those characters to receive more focus on the show; nevertheless, Kenny McCormick returned from the year-long absence in the season six finale "Red Sleigh Down", has remained a main character since, and has been given larger roles in episodes.

Mr Kenny McCormick exclaims, "God, this must be the fiftieth time this has happened", to which Mrs Kenny McCormick quickly replies, "Fifty-second".

Kenny McCormick is frustrated and angry that no one can remember him dying every time he regenerates and longs to know the source of his power, which he views as a curse.

In South Park: Post Covid, as a millionaire scientist in the future finding the cause of COVID-19, Kenny McCormick dies due to a time travel experiment that got him a variant named COVID Delta+ Rewards.

In South Park: The End of Obesity, Kenny McCormick was killed by Tony the Tiger in is his first on-screen death since "The Pandemic Special".

Kenny McCormick was the poorest child in the neighborhood and often skipped school, causing Parker and his friends to jokingly say he died, only for him to return to school later.

An unnamed precursor to Kenny McCormick first appeared in the first The Spirit of Christmas short, dubbed Jesus vs Frosty, created by Parker and Stone in 1992 while they were students at the University of Colorado.

In tradition with the show's animation style, Kenny McCormick is composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors.

Kenny McCormick is not offered the same free range of motion associated with hand-drawn characters; his character is mostly shown from only one angle, and his movements are animated in an intentionally jerky fashion.

The effect of Kenny McCormick's speech is achieved by Stone mumbling into his own hand as he provides Kenny McCormick's lines.

Kenny McCormick speaks unmuffled during some of these instances, in which case co-producer Eric Stough provides Kenny's voice.

Kenny McCormick is amused by toilet humor and bodily functions, and his favorite television personalities are Terrance and Phillip, a Canadian duo whose comedy routines on their show-within-the-show revolve substantially around fart jokes.

Kenny McCormick is shown to desire intercourse in the episode "The Ring", when Kenny McCormick gets a girlfriend and is overjoyed to find out that she has a reputation as a slut.

Kenny McCormick is lecherous, and often portrayed as being eager to do and say disgusting things in an attempt to impress others or earn money.

Kenny McCormick uses his disguise to protect his sister Karen, as revealed in "The Poor Kid"; however, in all of his guises, Kenny is depicted as being uncommonly selfless, dying for the sake of others and spending all of his time working so he could buy his little sister a doll.

When Cartman complains, "You're never going to be a real princess", Princess Kenny McCormick responds angrily to Cartman, calling him a "ball-licking lesbian".

Kenny McCormick was featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, listening to Cartman tell his version of the film's titular joke, and in "The Gauntlet", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth that aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

Kenny McCormick appears in six South Park-related video games: In South Park, Kenny McCormick is controlled by the player through the first-person shooter mode who attempts to ward off enemies from terrorizing the town of South Park.

In South Park: Chef's Luv Shack, a user has the option of playing as Kenny McCormick when participating in the game's several "minigames" based on other popular arcade games.

In South Park: The Stick of Truth, Kenny McCormick can be selected as a companion over the course of much of the game.

In South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Kenny McCormick is seen as his alter-ego Mysterion.

Kenny McCormick's deaths are well-known in popular culture, and was one of the things viewers most commonly associated with South Park during its earlier seasons.

Kenny McCormick's deaths have been subject to much critical analysis in the media and literary world.