The worst part about wanting to play a character from South Park is having to rewatch South Park. In the same way that the worst part of wanting to play a long standing DC comics character is having to reread (or at least skim) every major book they've been in, when over half of those books were garbage.
I often compare my love of south park to my love of DC comics, because they're both equally abusive relationships.
Some of my fav characters from both franchises are characters the head writers hated at some point or another, and have openly resented the idea that anyone liked them.
Both have surprisingly complex characters that far too often have that characterization ignored in order for the writers to use the character as a prop or mouth piece to push an agenda, or to drive some dumb ass plot.
Both rely on unreliable fan wiki's as a resource for collecting and updating character information, because God forbid they make, curate and update their own character Bibles.
And while both are capable of putting out really extraordinary and well crafted pieces of media, close to 65% of what both produce is either meh or outright infuriating.
and with both I have a hard time recommending them as a whole because their quality is so inconsistent. instead I just push specific comics/episodes
But at least with meh comics, I can skim them. There's no real skimming episodes of a TV series (though I have started skipping to the next episode if Kenny dies, unless I really like that episode, cuz fuck it)
oh there are some video essays that can help you speedrun kenny & analyze his character development
let me see if I can find them
Why Kenny is the MOST IMPORTANT Character in South P...
Overanalyzing Princess Kenny
ooo! I would love that! thank you!!!
YES! I love that YouTuber! He's great at breaking down south park content
Thank you for linking these!
Thank you for linking these!
yw!
me, doing a canon review for Rachel Leighton/Diamondback: Shut up Crossbones!
owls_in_moss: God! the curse of loving a comic book character -shakes fist-