South Park/Tropes A-D: Difference between revisions

* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: PETA is so insistent on paralleling vegetarianism with civil rights that they promote [[Interspecies Romance]].

* [[Animation Anatomy Aging]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: All main characters verge on anti-heroism on occasion, though Cartman often verges on [[Villain Protagonist]]. Usually they learn their lesson at the end, however, and often are shown to be morally superior to the adults in town.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Satan, though his antivillainy isn't really of the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] variety so much as the loser variety. His [[Card-Carrying Villain|expressed pride in his role in the world]] is always watered down [[Refuge in Audacity|by the way his gay lover, Saddam Hussein, treats him]]. (See the movie, where Saddam interrupts his "my time to rise" speech to say "I love when you get all biblical, you know how to turn my crank!") This show takes [[Sympathy for the Devil]] to a [[Literal Metaphor]] extreme. In addition, Hell is a decent place, besides the torture, and far better than the alternative (spending eternity with overexcited Mormons).

* [[Anyone Can Die]]

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Parodied in 'Pandemic', as Randy's incessant camcordering of the disaster gets on Sharon's nerves. And it turns out {{spoiler|[[Not with the Safety On, You Won't|he didn't have a tape in it]]}}.

** In "Cartmanland", Kyle is at near-death from a hemorrhoid. To answer your question, no, hemorrhoids can't kill you. However, this was intentional given the show's nature.

* [[Art Shift]]: Done several times: see "[[Pokémon|Chinpokomon]]", "[[The Simpsons|The Simpsons Already Did It]]", "[[Anime|Good Times With Weapons]]", "[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Major Boobage]]", and "[[World of Warcraft|Make Love Not Warcraft]]".

* [[Ashes to Crashes]]: Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, believing them to be chocolate milk mix. As a result of this, Kenny's soul becomes trapped inside Cartman, providing a story arc for the next few episodes.

* [[Ash Face]]: "Summer Sucks" ends with the town covered in ash. Chef arrives from vacation to find everyone in [[Blackface]] and orders everyone to get in line for a butt kicking.

* [[Asian Speekee Engrish]]: Basically every single Asian character. Honourable mention goes to "''fucking Mongoriansh!''" Funnily enough, both creators are fluent in Japanese.

** Taken to extremes in one episode where a Japanese man and Chinese man argue with each other with the nearly the exact same accent and can't understand each other.

* [[Ass Shove]]: Happens to Cartman. A '''lot.'''

* [[Ate His Gun]]: They ''love'' this trope.

** Butters is told to do this by a meme-hating teacher in "Faith Hilling". He ends up frozen in his seat with the gun in his mouth for nearly the entire episode's length.

* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Played for laughs with Scott the Dick in "Royal Pudding." At first, it appears to be played straight, but a change in the camera angle reveals that he's actually seven feet tall.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Stan and Kyle were originally Author Avatars for Trey and Matt, but they slowly grew out of it as the show progressed. In one interview, they said something along the lines of "He's supposed to be Stan, and I'm supposed to be Kyle... but really we're both Cartman."

** Terrance and Phillip also occasionally serve as author avatars for the duo, reflecting the reactions Trey and Matt expected their show to get from parents, most notably in [[The Movie]]. Terrance has black hair, as does Matt, while Phillip has blond hair, as does Trey - likely deliberate.

* [[Author Tract]]: Particularly in later seasons.

* [[Ax Crazy]]:

* [[The Bully]]: In "Butterballs" Butters is secretly bullied and beat up by his own grandma. She even follows him to school and bullies him in the bathroom. It's a running gag in the episode where people go to the bathroom to find a bully there waiting there for him.

** Cartman seems to be the most evident in South Park Elementary, once even spearheading a tirade of abuse on a kid until he committed suicide. [[Characterization Marches On|In earlier episodes]], Stan and Kyle also had shades of this, it's implied even Cartman suffered heavily from them.

* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Randy Marsh. ''Dear God Randy Marsh.'' He makes [[The Simpsons|Homer Simpson]] look like [[Leave It to Beaver|Wally Cleaver]]. Some of his brilliant exploits include:

** Attending Little League games for the express purpose of getting into fights with competing team members' dads.

** Driving drunk, then after attending [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] {{spoiler|shaving his head chemo-style and residing himself to a wheelchair under insane delusions of disease.}}

** Listening to music he really perceives as shit, then performing said music in order to be "cool" and "in tune with" the "kids today".

* [[But Thou Must!]]: In the episode ''Woodland Critter Christmas'', after Stan {{spoiler|kills the mountain lion and finds out that the animals he had helped to build a manger are actually Satan worshipers}} he repeatedly refuses to {{spoiler|take her now-orphaned cubs to learn how to perform abortions. With a forceful "[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|YES. HE. DID!]]" the scene jump-cuts to an abortion doctor, with Stan and the mountain lion cubs there.}} Stan is not amused.

** Earlier than that, Stan attempted to stay home after learning the Critters' true nature.

He knew that only by going to the forest could he--

''(Stan finally gives in and leaves the house.)'' }}

* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]:

** Several episodes and [[The Movie]] reference or, God forgive, portray zoophilia [[Played for Laughs|for comic effect]].

** In a strange variation, Cartman attempts to train a pony to bite Scott Tenorman's penis off. He builds an effigy of his enemy, and attaches a hotdog to represent the pe--well, you can picture it. Cartman is dismayed when, instead of biting the hotdog, the horse fellates it. It becomes a [[Funny Background Event]] while Cartman has a conversation with Jimbo and Ned.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: Lemmiwinks and Wikileaks in ''Bass to Mouth''

* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: Sorry if you came to [[La Résistance]] hoping for [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|punch and pie]].

* [[Church of Happyology]]: Quite notably averted. Even ended the episode by daring them to sue.

* [[Circumcision Angst]]: Subverted: Kyle thinks they're going to cut off his brother's penis!

* [[Cliché Storm]]: Invoked in "About Last Night..." is intentionally full of [[Heist Film]] cliches.

* [[Clip Show]]: Spoofed in "City On the Edge of Forever", in which all the flashbacks are incorrect and all inexplicably end with the characters involved eating ice cream.