South Park has introduced a lot of characters over the years.
Some are well-meaning and even lovable.
And then there are the demented characters who become memorable
among the fanbase for the worst reasons.
There are a lot of reprehensible visitors to
this small Colorado town, but among them, who are the worst?
I’m Brad with WickedBinge and this is South Park Villains: Evil to Most Evil.
For this list, we’ll be covering the more memorable characters or forces who have
earned the title of villains.
Some will be one time appearances while others will be
residents from the mountain town we’ve come to know and despise.
Coming in as our least evil, we have Trent Boyett.
While he was a violent kid, capable of causing a lot of harm, we gave him some
leniency.
We see in flashbacks that Trent wasn’t the best kid, picking on classmates
and starting fires even in preschool, but we’re
willing to believe he would have grown out of it if given the chance.
After all, the whole reason he wound up arrested was because he
was blamed for a crime he didn’t commit.
He was in the wrong place, wrong time and his past actions destroyed his credibility,
even with his teacher trying to communicate Trent was innocent.
When he was hunting down Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Eric, Trent made
it clear that he only wanted to punish them for making him suffer.
He attacked the boys that our protagonists hired to go after
him only because they were in his way for revenge.
Trent didn’t manage to get his closure, getting locked up again.
But maybe we’ll see him in a future episode?
The second least evil villain’s tears are so yummy...
Scott Tenorman.
He was a little odd to place.
On the one hand, he was a teenager that took to bullying, like many older
boys shown on the show.
After all, the sixth graders are always shown in the early
seasons to thrive on terrorizing the younger kids.
But Scott stood out as being very shifty with how he went about using and mocking
the kids in town.
And Eric became his favourite to pick on.
With that said, we’re going to go ahead and say that he didn’t
deserve to be fed his parents dead bodies in home cooked chilli.
We felt we had to place the force of Walmart on our list.
When the superstore comes into South Park, it ends up being an evil
entity that drains the town of all life that doesn’t
center around the store.
When the town gets a Walmart where Stark's Pond used to be,
it starts influencing the residents to spend all of their time and money there.
We can’t rank it lower though since this is South Park
we’re talking about.
We hear about a lot of towns being affected by the shopping center,
but the people of South Park are known for being very obsessive and over the top
when it comes to anything they deem new and exciting.
Even when Walmart is gone, they manage to still cause trouble by building
up a local shop to be the same sort of powerhouse.
Up next we have Leslie.
A living embodiment of an advertisement, her specialty is
getting in a person’s head to tell them what they want to hear, giving them the illusion
of getting what they want.
But there was a lot that was still unclear about her character.
How much of her actions was she really aware of?
How much did she remember from her past work?
And since she was a creation blending humanity with technology, how
much was she in control of her own actions?
For these reasons, we didn’t feel right about placing her lower.
But there’s no doubt that she was good at manipulating others
and using sympathy to protect herself.
Next we have the short-lived character Damien.
The son of Satan, he caused a lot of chaos in the episode where he appeared.
Causing people to have animal parts, making demands to see Jesus so his father can fight
him.
However, Damien reveals before he has to return to Hell that he only does evil
because he has to.
He expresses that he only wants to make friends like other children
get to.
While Damien did make an appearance in The Stick of Truth, we haven’t seen him
featured in any other episodes.
Hopefully that will change in the future.
We couldn’t have a list without mentioning Mel Gibson.
Though the man knows story structure, he also does not know when to quit.
We can respect his passion for his work, but chasing down a bus of people just to get
a couple of bucks back from some kids unhappy with your movie is not a way to go.
And the braveheart face paint was overkill.
But though he’s reckless and, let’s face it, insane, he wasn’t the worst celebrity
to visit the town…
Next up is a truly infamous creature: ManBearPig.
Once believed to be a figment of Al Gore’s imagination, it’s later revealed
that ManBearPig was a very real threat, being used as a metaphor for climate change.
The creature is always seen acting violent and willing to rip anyone and everyone to
shreds, and even nearly kills Kyle during Imaginationland.
But unlike many on this list, ManBearPig is a near mindless beast.
It doesn’t appear to have a lot of control
over its own actions.
While we drop him down a little further than others due to the extent
of its actions, we don’t feel right about calling it
more evil since there wasn’t much intent put into its violence.
Next up we have Nathan.
Thriving on a hate for Jimmy, he is always trying to be seen
as the endearing young man that he...well, he just isn’t.
Over time, Nathan has learned to use his disability to his advantage, staying
under the radar as he sells drugs and participates in other illegal activities.
He allows PC Principal to use him as ammunition to try and stop the Super School News newspaper
and attempts to get Jimmy killed more than a few times at summer camp.
Unfortunately for Nathan, though he does get away with a lot, he normally gets some form
of punishment for his bitterness and desire for revenge.
Because of his antics over the years, we had to include Randy Marsh.
One of the most erratic members of the town, you know the
episode is going to have a bunch of ridiculous moments when Randy is a focus.
He claims to have values he stands behind, but more often than not, Randy is the cause
of mass hysteria and confusion.
He neglects his family for a good time and often
gets into trouble with the amount of alcohol he drinks.
He’s willing to do anything for status, often letting his ego make his choices
for him.
The most we can say is that there are times he tries to bond with his children,
but he’s also guilty of killing a kid while dressed as Spiderman, causing the town to
break down when everyone becomes obsessed with their debt, tries killing people after
being influenced by the Blockbuster...The list goes on for miles.
Next is the Prince of Darkness himself, Satan.
Though he is the lord of darkness, he’s mostly shown to be understanding of humanity,
explaining why people sin and taking the time to tell Stan why addictive behavior
is so crippling in certain people.
His story is a tragic one, with him shown to always be
seeking out a partner that will make him happy and not treat him like garbage.
While not the best dad, he’s not shown to flat out
beat Damien like some other parents on the show do to their own children.
Satan even stopped his plans to take over the Earth in
Bigger, Longer, Uncut when he got rid of Sadam and Kenny offered to give up his soul
for the safety of his friends and family.
Up next we have Mr Garrison.
And to a lesser extent, Mr Hat.
Since Mr Hat was an extension of Mr Garrison and his internal
struggle with himself, we felt it was fitting to
place them in the same ranking.
Garrison is a mess of a person, always seen struggling
with his identity and what he wants out of life.
He takes his anger out on everyone else, lashing out at his students and the other
residents of the town.
His anger even gets him enough attention to have him run for president.
Garrison may have been one of the brighter minds of South Park, but he was also
one of the most unstable and unpredictable.
Let’s not forget Rob Reiner.
Appearing to help teach children the dangers of smoking,
he was not the great guy he presented himself to be.
After taking a tour with the boys of a tobacco factory, Reiner approached Eric
with the offer to star in a commercial.
Unfortunately for Eric, the ad was set up to lie about Eric having lung cancer from
secondhand smoke, after which Reiner tried killing Eric to hold up the lie, claiming
it was for the greater good.
While we have no problem with people becoming aware of the
dangers of smoking, hunting down children or anyone else just to try and scare the
masses onto your side is a very drastic and irrational tactic.
Next is Ike’s former teacher, Ms Stevenson.
We had to include her for her abuse of her position as a teacher to seduce Ike into a
relationship he clearly wasn’t ready for.
Ms Stevenson clearly had a lot of problems.
She was convinced that she and Ike were soulmates and tried to get him to commit suicide
with her.
Always singing a catchy tune, we have Mr Gueermo next.
Your typical overly strict father character, he is seen always demanding
his family think and act how he says.
And when he doesn't get his way, his go-to is to slap his son and wife until they give
in.
The reason he's placed here on our list is because by the end of the episode, his
methods are ineffective.
Once his son and wife stand up for themselves, he’s left with
just adapting to how they want to live their lives.
Next is an early season villain, Veronica the succubus.
When the boys are at risk of losing Chef to a new bride, they confide in
Mr Garrison who suggests that the woman is a succubus from Hell, intent on seducing Chef
in order to slowly drain the life from him.
As it turns out, Garrison was right.
When the boys sing There’s got to be a Morning After in reverse, Veronica’s true form is
revealed and she’s dragged back into Hell.
The Halloween special favourite, Stan’s Goldfish, is next.
One of the villains to feature in an early Halloween special, this fish is
responsible for the death of several residents of the mountain town.
But we cut the pet some slack because though a terror, the fish
came from a pet store linked to a darker reality.
And that brings into light a lot of questions on how much say the fish had in
its own actions.
Next on our list we’re placing Cthulhu and his followers together.
After an oil drill accidently reaches another dimension, Cthulhu
rises to do a ton of mass destruction.
Cthulhu is initially easy to brush off as mindless, but it’s pretty easy to sympathize
with him being pushed around by Eric.
As for his followers, they were not so easy to forgive.
We learn that Kenny’s parents were members, leading to Kenny gaining his inability to
stay dead.
While Kenny has done a lot of good throughout the series, both as Mysterion
and as himself, this cult led to endless suffering for an innocent child.
Next we have the powerhouse, Mickey Mouse.
South Park has poked fun at a lot of franchises, and Disney is no exception.
When the Jonas Brothers were shown gaining popularity and touring, always promoting the
purity rings, Mickey was shown to be the one pulling the strings.
And when there was the chance of his employees talking back to
him and not giving him his way, Mickey put a stop to it in a very brutal fashion.
In one scene, we see him beat one of the brothers
to the ground before kicking him over and over again, demanding submission.
And when things were at risk at the concert, Mickey
had no issue holding our main protagonists hostage, unknowingly spilling his true
intentions before a national audience.
Even after being exposed, Mickey didn’t pull back
to regroup and find a way to save his image.
Instead he became a flame breathing giant, terrorizing the city.
Next on our list is Grandma Stotch.
As we covered in a previous listing, Butters doesn’t
have the best life.
His parents don’t believe him about a lot of things and punish Butters
for almost everything he does.
Or doesn’t do.
And one of the many times his parents dropped the ball was when they allowed Grandma
Stotch to be around their son.
This woman is bitter and malicious.
Whenever she’s around Butters, she allows the worst of
herself to come out.
Hitting the young boy, stabbing him with forks under the table and
mocking him for being a coward.
A character that has fallen far from grace, we have Gerald Broflovski next.
Or maybe we should call him by his troll name: Skankhunt42.
Gerald was once regarded as one of the most sensible members of South Park, though
always displayed as greedy for more money and better stuff to fill a big house.
But over the years, he’s channeled his narcissism into becoming a troll online.
Now, trolls are annoying enough to deal with, but Gerald was relentless, attacking everyone
that crossed his path.
Men, women, children...His harassment even led to a woman
taking her life and marking him as an enemy of Denmark.
And when his life was on the line with the other trolls, Gerald made
the sleazy call to try to throw his own kid under the bus.
We’re placing the infamous Mecha Streisand next.
When Barbara came to South Park, seeking out the Triangle of Zinthar, she was
more than happy to toture the boys with her singing.
Power-hungry and egotistic, she goes on a rampage as her Mecha form,
stopping only to sign an autograph.
Luckily she was defeated, the Diamond of Pantheos still stuck around to do more damage.
While he wasn’t present on the show long, we have to include Charles Manson.
In an early episode, Stan, Kenny and Kyle accompany
Eric and Leanne to visit more of the Cartman family in Nebraska.
During the holiday, Eric’s Uncle Howard shows up in the
home by sneaking into the basement, his cellmate in tow.
The episode is an odd one, with Charles Manson being converted by a special
of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The episode showed a divide between Stan and his parents and it ended with, oddly
enough, Charles Manson telling Stan the importance of family before turning himself in
to the police.
But we still have to drop him down far on the list for what landed him in jail
in the first place.
We can’t forget Sadam.
While there have been a few warlords on the show, Sadam
was a special case.
He was a major player in a couple of episodes after the movie
Bigger, Longer, Uncut.
Not only was Sadam known for his bloodlust and craving of
power, but among the fanbase he’s mainly seen as the guy that treated Satan like trash
when they were dating.
Sadam is controlling, whether it be in relationships or when it
comes to taking over the world during the end of days.
It was nice to see Satan finally learn to stand up to him.
A character we all love to hate to some degree, we have Eric Cartman next.
One of the main protagonists, he’s also seen to be
an enemy more than a few times.
In fact, the amount of stuff Eric is guilty of could be
a video all on its own.
But to name a few: He used a makeshift church to scam people out
of thousands of dollars.
He wanted to be a hero simply for the fame of it.
He held Kyle at gunpoint while they were at risk of dying
just to get a satchel of gold.
He fed a boy's parents to him using chilli.
He tried getting his girlfriend kidnapped and possibly killed
just because he was tired of her.
The list goes on and on.
The only reason we don't place Eric lower on this list is because we do
see that he is capable of being well behaved after Ceaser helps Linda discipline him.
We learn that Eric is a hurt kid who uses anger and animosity as a defense.
And there's been a few times he's actually risked his
life to save Kyle in particular, though he would
never admit aloud that he did.
Some of the worst parents on the show, we have Linda and Stephen Stotch next.
Their treatment of their son is well known, whether you watch every episode or not.
They’re known for grounding Butters for ridiculous reasons, but they’ve also been
guilty of some other insane….parenting methods.
For instance, in an early episode, we have what seems to be a normal family dynamic,
with Linda asking her son if he could spy on
his father to see what Stephen had planned for their anniversary.
But when Butters unknowingly reveals that his father is sleeping
with other men, Linda snaps.
Her solution is to drown her son in the car and
hang herself.
When that failed, the couple made up a story about their son being kidnapped.
And that’s just one of the earliest examples of their poor judgement.
As for Stephen, he was the first to jump on board
with the idea of selling Butters off to Paris Hilton, telling Butters if he wanted to avoid
being sold, he’d have to dig coal to earn the money himself.
And when Paris was taken out by Mr Slave, Stephen’s response was
to ground Butters since he now couldn’t be
sold away to the celebrity.
Taking our bronze medal of evil, we have Christopher Reeve.
We mentioned him in our celebrity listing, but we think his actions
were so revolting, we had to include him here among the villains.
Once an actor that played one of the most iconic superheroes,
in this universe he fell from grace in the worst possible way.
At first, he seems like a celebrity hired to help promote the use and
understanding of stem cells.
But the more he’s seen, the more monstrous he becomes,
flat out feeding on unborn children to make himself stronger.
Our Silver Medal of Evil is split between three equally evil organizations: NAMBLA,
the group of Catholic Priests, and the Super Adventure
Club.
Three completely different groups that are seen throughout the series,
but the thing that connects them is the reprehensible exploitation of children.
NAMBLA was one of the groups the boys encountered early on, and they were happy
to give a bunch of ridiculous justifications for their actions even as they were being
arrested.
The Catholic Priests had been unveiled by Father Maxi in a later episode.
But even after Maxi tried exposing them, they refused to stop their actions.
Instead they tried to get Maxi to admit to participating
and thought the reason Maxi was there was to find a way to get the young boys of
South Park to not expose him.
As for the Super Adventure Club, they weren’t focused
on a particular group or region.
They went all over the world to find victims and more
members to brainwash, including the beloved Chef.
Of course, we had to give the gold medal of evil to The Woodland Critters.
First appearing in a South Park Christmas special,
these characters look cuddly enough at first glance.
Until you realize these have become the most feared even among the evil
do-ers in Imaginationland.
They display in their first appearance that they’re incredibly
manipulative and are experts at using guilt to get their way, much like the kid who
created them.
Blood orgies, torture, sacrificing one another to appease the dark lord…
These are some messed up characters, even by villainous standards.
Really, they’re meant to be a representation of the most pure
form of evil so we felt it was safe to give them the Gold Medal.
But what do you think?
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