For someone who we can barely understand, Kenny McCormick has certainly left a huge
impression. Not only that, throughout all the muffled vulgarities and wisdom he shares,
he’s gained a reputation for being one of the most heroic people in South Park.
That said, he has a dark side as well. And today, we’re exploring both sides of him.
I'm Kifinosi with WickedBinge and these are Kenny McCormick Deeds: Good to Evil
Now, we want Kenny to live long enough to see this list so let's start with Kenny’s
Good Deeds, starting from the bottom and working our way to the most heroic deed.
Let’s take a look at the time Kenny accompanied Butters to Hawaii.
In the episode going native, Butters is acting very strange, beating up Scott Malkinson and
berating everyone at his school except for Kenny. When Butters decides to go find his
roots in Hawaii, Kenny accompanies him both to get Butters access to the plane and to keep him
company knowing Butters' erratic emotional state. The locals said that Kenny must prove
his worth by partaking in a traditional Hawaiian waterfall causing Kenny to fall down a waterfall.
Even after failing his trial, Kenny proves his worth by bringing the Hawaiian locals a supply
of ingredients they need to make for chi-chis. Kenny's respect for the Hawaiian people and for
Butters is quite admirable given how much they put him through. We're putting this at the bottom of
the Good category as it could be argued that Kenny is enabling Butters and the Hawaiians'
bad behavior to an extent but as usual, he's doing what he needs to do to help his friend.
But Kenny won't just stop at protecting Butters as he also guards the citizens of South Park
under his superhero persona Mysterion. When Cartman dawns his superhero persona the Coon
for the first time, he is constantly upstaged for a much more efficient kid crime fighter,
that being Mysterion. While The Coon does what he does for attention and admiration (which he does
not receive), Mysterion is actually proficient at his vigilante occupation. Mysterion stops a lot of
criminal activity such as thwarting Professor Chaos and General Disarray when they threaten
to blow up a hospital. Mysterion later reveals himself to be Kenny feeling that he owes that
to his fellow residents. We're putting this one somewhat low in the Good category as vigilante
justice is a complicated issue even though we know that Kenny is doing it for the right reasons.
Kenny’s heroic acts do predate Mysterion as we have to remember the time when he electrocuted
himself to restore a hospital's electricity. Many point to Kenny's later Deeds as signs
of his heroism but if you really think about it, Kenny has been sacrificing his life for
others as early as season 2. When Mephisto is shot before revealing the identity of Cartman's father
he is hooked up to life support at Hell's Pass hospital. Unfortunately, a huge blizzard causes
a power out in the building and everyone must find a way to restore it so that Mephisto, along with
the other patients on life support, are able to live. After splitting into two groups, Team B,
who consists of Kenny and... well just him, goes out into the blizzard and finds generator which
is missing a wire to connect cords. Selflessly, Kenny uses himself as the connecting generator,
restoring power to the hospital but electrocuting himself to death in the process. Kenny is aware
that he does come back to life at this point but we can't overlook the copious
amount of pain he puts himself through in order to save the lives of those who don't come back.
While saving hospital patients is important to him, he's also very protective when it comes
to his family. That's why the Bronze Medal for Kenny's Greatest Deed goes to, well, pretty much
everything he does for his sister Karen. While Kenny was always known to have an older brother
named Kevin, his younger sister Karen was a later addition to South Park's cast. Despite this,
Kenny's relationship with Karen has been explored much more thoroughly than Kevin's ever was. Karen
and Kenny are shown to be very close, with Kenny protecting her from danger on several occasions.
Karen considers Kenny's superhero persona Mysterion to be her guardian angel and Kenny
doesn't even take credit for his actions. When Kenny gets a job at City Wok, he uses
all of the money he made to buy Karen a doll she wants which is really one of the sweetest things
he's ever done. Kenny's relationship with Karen is much better than Stan or Kyle's relationships
with their siblings as while Kyle does truly love Ike, Kenny never punted his sister for following
him to school. This makes Kenny not only the best friend but also brother you could ever ask for.
Kenny also travels through space and time. That's why the Silver Medal for Kenny's Best
Deed is going to when he created a time machine to save everyone's future. In the South Park:
Post Covid specials which take place forty years in the future, Kenny has been spending most of
his adult life researching coronavirus looking for both an origin and a cure. Upon find a USB
drive in the ass of Kenny's corpse, Stan, Kyle and Cartman find out that Kenny was working on
a top-secret time travel experiment which he used to travel into the past which caused him
to catch coronavirus and die. He also heavily criticizes Stan, Kyle and Cartman for allowing
the virus to tear them apart. In The Return of Covid follow up special, Stan, Kyle and
Cartman use Kenny's time machine to travel to the past to help their younger selves preserve their
friendship. This results in a better future for everyone with the exception of Cartman who ends
up as a homeless alcoholic. We all have Kenny to thank for giving Stan, Kyle and Cartman the
technology to save the future showing that while he didn't prevent coronavirus, Kenny certainly
made it easier for almost everyone to deal with. The Gold Medal for Kenny's Best Deed is going to
when he reversed the events of the war in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In this film Kenny
dies and is sent to hell where he has to deal with Sadam Hussain and Satan. While initially
torturing Kenny, Satan later confides in him when going through a rough patch in his relationship.
Satan and Sadam do eventually break free on Earth after a war breaks out between Canada and America.
They almost enslave humanity but thanks to Kenny, Satan stands up for himself and kills Sadam. Satan
grants Kenny one wish which Kenny uses to reverse the events of the war. This is one of the most
noble things ever done by any character in South Park with Chef reminding Kenny that he will go
back to hell. Granted, Kenny knows death for him is never permanent but regardless, he could have
wished for something else selfish like a lot of money or learning the hidden secrets behind his
immortality. However, Kenny would rather save the lives of the people who can't come back to life,
which is extremely honorable and more than enough to rank as his most heroic deed.
That does it for our Good category… we now get to the dark side.
Let’s take a look at Kenny’s bad and even downright evil deeds…
Starting off this category is the time Kenny became a cat pee addict. When the students of
South Park find out they can become extremely high off of cat pee, Kenny tests this out and
finds himself in a Heavy Metal inspired world where he's surrounded by beautiful women and
excessive violence. When his friends snap him out of this fantasy, Kenny becomes very angry
and punches Cartman in the process. Kenny goes from bad to worse when he collects cats
around town and uses their urine to get high, ignoring all of his friends' concerns about his
new addition. Kenny does eventually learn from his mistakes... sort of, getting high on life to take
him to that world instead. Addiction is a serious problem so we can't totally get mad at Kenny here,
especially since despite the episode's ending, we never see him getting high like this
afterward. Just remember drugs are bad, m'kay? Punching Cartman after withdrawal isn't Kenny's
worst violent offense as we would argue throwing a ninja star at Butters is more reprehensible.
When the boys purchase weapons and pretend to be anime characters, they encounter Professor Chaos
who acts as their villain. While play fighting, Kenny throws a shuriken which lodges itself into
Butters' eye. To avoid getting into trouble for playing with weapons, the boys dress Butters up
as a dog when he wanders off and is taken to an animal shelter. We're putting this at the lower
end of the bad category as Kenny didn't have any ill intent with his action, he was simply caught
up in the moment and forgot to discern reality from fiction. Also dressing Butters up like a
dog to get out of trouble wasn't exactly moral either but all the boys were complicit in that
so we won't single him out. Definitely not among the smartest or kindest actions from Kenny though.
As much pain as Butters went through, Kenny has deliberately attempted to do much more violent
acts such as his attempted murder on Cartman. Cartman becomes upset thinking that he will never
achieve his dream of becoming a NASCAR driver, believing he will never be poor and stupid enough
to qualify. After he manipulates his way into participating in a race, Cartman crashes his car
and kills eleven people, further perpetuating the negative stereotype that NASCAR drivers
and fans are unintelligent. This infuriates Kenny to no end thus leading him to devise a
plan to murder Cartman. Kenny tries to smuggle a sniper rifle into one of Cartman's NASCAR races
which is confiscated by security. Kenny then switches to plan B and jumps on Cartman's car,
hopping onto stop him in the process. Usually, attempted murder would be ranked as a much worse
offense but considering Cartman was killing people in the process of becoming a NASCAR driver, it
could be argued that Kenny was actually protecting the lives of potential victims. Regardless, this
is definitely one instance where we feel Kenny's idea of vigilante justice went way too far. The
future specials do show that Cartman becomes a homeless alcoholic so maybe he'll be poor and
stupid enough to live out his NASCAR dream once again without potentially being killed by Kenny.
As much as he believes in his own version of justice, Kenny has had moments where he
became the true villain of the scenario. That's why the Bronze Medal of Evil is going to his
stint as Princess Kenny, which was even worse. If Mysterion is the persona Kenny uses to represent
his most selfless and noble traits, Princess Kenny is where he portrays himself as the most deceitful
and mischievous. When the boys divide themselves into two categories to decide if they will all
get X-box Ones or Playstation 4s, Kenny joins Cartman's alliance as Lady McCormick. While
Cartman initially conspires with Kenny believing Kyle will betray them, it turns out Kenny was the
one to switch sides for no other reason than Catman wouldn't let him play as a princess.
This we won't hold against Princess Kenny too much but her actions in South Park: The Stick
of Truth are another story. At the end of the game, the characters have the titular Stick of
Truth taken away from them by government agents, Kenny betrays the party and joins the agents to
use the Stick's powers. Many fans have commented that they felt this was a very out of character
action for Kenny who is usually portrayed as South Park's biggest hero. We would argue that,
while this is a very out of character action for Kenny to do, this is not at all out of
character for Princess Kenny who has a history of betraying her friends. As we stated previously,
he just gets way too caught up in his roles and apparently all is forgiven as
he joins the group as Mysterion for the events of The Fractured but Whole. As cute as she is,
we're kind of dreading the next day Princess Kenny emerges to betray her friends again.
The Silver Medal of Evil is awarded to the time Kenny tried to prevent his parents from
having another child. In the episode Cartman Joins Nambla, Kenny learns his parents are
having another baby and immediately becomes worried, knowing his family's low income and
the possibility of the child killing him. While we understand his concerns, Kenny goes way too far
with his reaction when he tries several drastic actions to prevent the baby from being born.
This starts with hitting Stuart in the crotch with a baseball to prevent his fertility. This
doesn't work and Carol gets pregnant, leading Kenny to spike Carol's vodka with birth control
pills. Stuart drinks it instead, causing him to vomit and poop excessively. Kenny then takes
Carol and Stuart on a really intense theme ride called the John Denver Experience, not recommended
for pregnant women. Even though Carol is fine the repercussions fall once again on Stuart who
ends up breaking his nose. Kenny's last resort is chasing his mother around with a plunger,
with Stuart following them to a hotel where a NAMBLA meeting is occurring. This causes the
NAMBLA members to mistake Stuart for Butters in the dark and proceed to, um, "have their way" with
him." Poor Stuart goes through a lot here because of Kenny's actions which weren't even necessary in
the first place. At the end of the episode, Kenny dies and is reincarnated into the body of Carol's
fetus which is probably what he should have tried to do in the first place considering it happens
all the time. Stuart would have been grateful. The odd thing is, when Carol and Stuart finally do
have another child, Kenny becomes a really great older brother to Karen so he has adapted to the
situation well despite his initial apprehension. But we have to give the Gold Medal of Evil to
that time he got Sarah Jessica Parker killed. When the four boys write a really disgusting
story called The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, they include Sarah Jessica Parker as a topic due
to finding her really ugly. When their parents find the book they blame it on Butters leading
everyone to heap praise on him for such a "thought provoking" story. In retaliation,
Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny attempt to get the book banned. Cartman suggests that they do this
by dressing Sarah Jessica Parker up as a moose so that a hunter will shoot her and they can
blame the death on Butters' book. Stan and Kyle are against this but Kenny surprisingly agrees,
resulting in Sarah Jessica Parker's demise. Even though it was Cartman's plan we're still calling
this the worst of Kenny's deeds giving his compliance in the indirect killing.