Fun fact: In South Park, Kenny has met his demise a whopping 126 times in total. This includes 97 times in the actual television series, 12 in the random assortment of South Park shorts, and 14 in the video games
ngl for a south park video idea i feel like a deep dive into kyles family would be super intreseting. i mean his dad is a troll, kyles got anger issues, his mom is sadly from new jersey, and ike is pretty much a genius
I too am far too invested in Kenny/Mysterion lore. Especially when you take the Lovecraftian stuff into account, that’s the cherry on top for me. Kenny does need a hug though, very badly. That scene where he shoots himself in front of the others begging them to remember actually made me so sad. (Though “Well, I’m tired, I’m gonna go to bed” *blam* was, by contrast, hilarious.) Also, no spoilers, but play the DLC! I only just played it recently and the final boss is awesome.
I've never actually seen an episode of sp but a drone crashed into me during a rehearsal and I've gotten nothing but "Oh my God, we killed Kenny" jokes since then.
Kenny has been banished by Cthulhu and killed by Satan... Twice... And he still returned, Kenny's version of immortality while not providing any special powers like Satan's or Cthulhu's, it's still superior in a way
Okay so by following this logic and how he still tried to commit suicide by fighting Cthulhu. I have come to conclusion that Kenny’s version of immortality is possibly a much different form of Immortality than anyone else on the list. The example on how I think immortality is probably bad but this is currently my best idea on how to explain it. Version 1-The closest thing I could think of a connection to is tardigrades. Tardigrades are said to live in pretty impossible environments which are the closest thing to the first time of immortality that everyone on the list besides Kenny and Jesus. Version 2-Now Jesus’s immortality is like how respawning in games work with there usually being sometime between dying and respawning. Version 3-Kenny’s version of immortality possibly works like this. If the thing that killed him is not an immortal no besides him remembers it but if he killed by immortal no one remembers his death no even him. So Kenny’s immortality is closet to the normal concept of immortality with him living forever.
Kenny is amazing. Mysterio he apparently uses to cheer up his sister, or try to stop terrible things. He liked nascar so he had a reason to be upset at cartman for ruining it. Kenny literally was like "ok" for having to protect heaven from Satan's army. also, have you seen him dance? cure to depreession
The video didn’t go into this, but Kenny’s parents got the curse after participating in a cthulhu cult, lured by the promise of free booze. Only people with a connection to cthulhu remembers Kenny’s deaths, from what I remember. But yeah, it’s something along those lines
Did you forget about Kyle? I'm not saying he is immortal, but he showed powers at least twice. Changing reality in Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000, and communicating with the microbiome in One For The Ladies.
Another question is can a power immortal kill a resurrect immortal permanently. It is said only an immortal can kill another immortal but technically speaking Jesus and Kenny can be killed by anyone. This begs the question, does their immortality play be quite the same rules as the other immortals or could they still get away with resurrecting infinitely even if killed by another immortal.
The funny thing is is that Cartman actually does remember Kenny dying in fact in the episode where Cartman owned the amusement park he stated that Kenny dies all the time and he was the only one who noticed anything up when Kenny came back from The Nightmare Dimension that Cthulhu sent them to
I think that was just meant to be a one-off joke. Theres really no evidence supporting that Cartman is special in any way compared to the other characters
Bradley also freaked out when he saw Mysterion afterwards. That trilogy, to me, has a slight plot hole in that Kenny could have potentially helped his friends realize he must have in fact have died by making them aware of that paradox. Kenny got sucked into the city of R'lyeh with them, but Kenny was with Mint Berry Crunch before they got rescued. They might have just thought "Wait... WAS he with us? Maybe Cthulhu missed him..." but whatever.
I don't think Mintberry Crunch was ever explicitly stated as being immortal in the show. He was just shown to be a super-powerful being. The only abilities he has shown is flight, super strength, and the ability to summon up attacks of mint and berries. He was strong enough to banish Cthulhu with these powers, but that doesn't necessarily mean he is immortal since the Great Old One wasn't killed in their battle. Admittedly, I haven't played TFBW, so if there is more to his powers revealed there than I have not seen it.
Henrietta mentioned that you can only defeat a immortal with another immortal. So if Mint Berry Crunch was able to defeat Cthulu than that means he's immortal.
@@NintendoMeister2260 mortals can defeat immortals. only immortals can kill immortals though and mintberry crunch didn't kill him he just sent him back to the alternate dimension so mintberry crunch could be mortal
I'm shocked about the lore about Kenny. I was thinking that Kenny gets killed in every episode. I also notice it might happen again in a future episode.
@@xp8969 They still do it. They just no longer make it a point to kill him *every* time. The last episode to come out (the second COVID special) has a bunch of kids throw Kenny off a bridge with a cement block on his feet. They drop him and it turns out the river is super shallow so he lives... He is stuck there all episode and the during the credits is when they show that he later tried to hop his way to safety, fell over, and drowned. I think season 7 (after he had been dead for almost all of 6) was when they began to kill him less and less, often making jokes about killing him without actually killing him. And the further you go the less it comes up, probably.
I think you forgot one potentially immortal character. In the episode where the Parents are trying to cancel Terrance and Philip, Kenny’s dad was thrown at the building and died, but came back in the next episode
Returning to this video after a while as I don’t remember if it was mentioned but fun fact about Kenny’s immortality is that it’s referenced as far back as season 4 in the Nambla episode where at the end Kenny dies and his parents have a new child (having attempted to have one the whole episode) and they decide to name him Kenny in memory but also mention how this has already happened 50 something times
It's interesting that the super immortals aren't human and the resurrections immortals are. Kind've implying that the resurrection type is only available to humans. As well, canonically Cartman is the only one who seems to remember Kenny's deaths.
Ever since I first started watching South Park as kid, Kenny has always been my favorite. Whenever Kenny is not dying, his personality has always shown that he is a true homie. Sacrificing himself on multiple occasions, helps take care of his family or his sister at least. The dude once snorted what was essentially space cocaine, and is pretty much responsible for the Earth not being destroyed by aliens. Kenny is a real G. I also forgot to mention that Kenny is a Magic the Gathering GOD.
I think you forgot about Member berries. Randy tried to kill them, but without success, yet other berries can easly kil each other, which would confirm immortal logic of South Park.
I don't think Jesus could kill Satan, Manbearpig, Cthulu or Mintberry Crunch. However, given how Kenny's powers work, I think he could. What if he were killed via consumption? Given what happened when Cartman consumed his ashes, we could assume Kenny would take partial control of the being that ate him, and thus be able to kill the being, or subject it to the power of another immortal to be killed.
My favorite immortal (and character in South Park) is definitely Satan. He is SUCH a character and his development throughout the series is one of my favorites as well. I'm wondering (and kind of hoping) they may explore the possibility of his character returning via resurrection; as most of the heaven associated immortals have had immortality via resurrection, and he has (re-)entered heaven now.
You forget every single dead person. (Particularly in hell) since whenever they are killed they come back. I mean where else are they going to go, Detroit?
Funny how right before I got the notification for this video I was watching the South Park movie on RU-vid. I can’t get enough of that movie’s musical numbers.
Captain Hindsight wasn't bitten, a retro-active spider got into the controls of a machine he was hooked up to whilest trying to improve his natural hindsight, but it instead boosted it to "superhuman levels"
There was a mistake in the video. Kenny was “permanently” dead in the Season 5, Episode 13 (Kenny Dies). He didn’t return in season 6 until Season 6, Episode 17 (Red Sleigh Down) at the literal end of the episode.
Thanks, but no I actually said he was dead for season 6, and that he comes back for season 7. I know he technically reappears at the last moment of season 6 but that's just kind of playing semantics, he is dead all of season 6 and is back as a part of the show in season 7
5:25-5:38 Actually *waking up in his bed* and *his mother giving to him* are one in the same, since Kenny’s parents put him in his bed. Also Kenny’s either 9 or 10 years old now.🤔
I think maybe all of SouthPark is immortal or not aging. Because it’s a show yes but in one of the more recent series we saw Terrance and Phillip get a Netflix series and suddenly they’re elderly. I hope if the show ever does end they go super lore heavy and self aware that the characters have stayed in fourth grade for years
from what I know kenny is the only person to know that he died, other than the viewer. This would make south park either from kenny's point of view making him the main character, or just the omnipotent cameraman pov.
I think Kelly (from the rainforest episode) might have some powers as she is someone able to save Kenny (possibly by the fact that she renames him) the other being hanky and we know he has powers
5:35 I like to think that pacifier is Kenny's phylactery, he swallows it as he ages back up overnight, and its never truly destroyed in his many deaths due to the lovely human shield constantly around it in the form of his body
i think terrance mephesto and jason white are also somewhat immortal, terrance died in mecha streisand but still appears as a background character and he even gets his own card in phone destroyer. jason white still appeared in later episodes even after his death in season finale
My interpretation of the way that Kenny's immortality works is that he can only come back if his body is destroyed in some way, even if it isn't completely destroyed. This could explain why he's absent in post-covid until the future is fixed - in the future, there may be a way to ensure that a body never decays over time, meaning that Kenny's soul is still trapped inside his body. This could also explain why the rats always come to eat him if his body is still intact upon his death - they're agents of Cthulu destroying Kenny's body so that he can be resurrected. Once his body is destroyed, his soul is freed to move on to the afterlife, like in bigger, longer, and uncut and best friends forever, or to stay on Earth, which could serve as an explanation for how he's able to possess creatures and objects after Cartman drinks his ashes. I think he also has a great deal of agency in his soul's fate once his body is destroyed, which is why Dead Mysterion's ult in tfbw shows Kenny being able to choose to keep helping his friends on Earth rather than move on to heaven, a choice which he seems reluctant to make. I also think that his immortality functions even when killed by an immortal being. He is an immortal, after all, so shouldn't he be able to kill himself? The Coon and Friends episodes and tfbw show him ending his own life, and since that means he was killed by an immortal, he should stay dead, but still comes back. In my opinion, this make his immortality the most powerful out of all of the immortals (except maybe God) because it means that his soul will always live on and be able to have freedom over what it does and where it does it, and so long as the future doesn't break his revive system, he'll always be able to go back into his body. And even if his body is perfectly preserved, he could still just possess someone and carry on as if he had been resurrected.
It should be noted that ManBearPig will never die unless we found a good countermeasure to global warming, as ManBearPig is a metaphor for global warming.
Welp here is a lil mistake Mint Berry crunch is never mentionned as being immortal. His only action was to drag Cthullu back to Ry'leh , not to kill him and he never died once and came back. He is a super hero but as far as we know, he is mortal, just like Captain Konstat. Concerning Kenny, I'm a bit sad about the idea that everyone forget about his death. It's interesting in a story point but contradict an idea that Kyle and Stan were fully aware of his demise each time 'Oh my god ,they killed Kenny! " "You Bastard!" To the point that they were actually pissed when someone stole their line ( I don't have the reference sadly) or surprised to see Kenny still living in "The brown note", and not surprised to see him appearing out of thin air. I don't mind it that much because south park canon is kind of feeble but I think it was interesting to point it out. I don't think I have more insight on this theme, but I did not really expect to see such a video to be honest ! Nice work , I really enjoyed it
I wonder if Mecha Streisand is immortal. It took a lot of super powered, potentially immortal celebrities to defeat her. And she wasn’t even killed in the 200 saga, merely distracted by the super best friends.
For Manbearpig so warmed the world, that he gave his only forgotten son, so that whosoever should believe in him should surely Paris, and have super serial.
I'm not sure how much content there is for a video, but I'd love to see a character study of Kenny. He has a tendency to be a prop or a background character unless the story is specifically focusing on him, but he has some consistent character traits. He can have an addictive personality and will try anything once since dying is not a permanent thing. He's genuinely skilled at a lot of stuff (hell, look at how he can actually fight well as Mysterion) and he really cares about his sister. I don't ever hear anyone talking about it, but "The Poor Kid" is one of my favorite episodes of the show because it's a Kenny heavy story and really shows off some of the things that makes him tick.
@@Johnny2Cellos Awesome! Definitely looking forward to it. I feel like he's really underappreciated since other characters like Randy, Cartman, and Butters tend to be more popular than him.
Nice video! Also, don’t know if it’s mentioned but I’m pretty sure the Mayor is an immortal too cause I remember in one episode she kills herself and in some episodes later she’s back, so technically unless i missed something she can respawn too
One thing about kenny. It seems his power has some kind of untold rule about dieing every day apposed to dieing over time. Back in the episode kenny dies it was over several days Spoilers for the covid specials!! In the specials we see kenny die for real again. Over time by covid plus. It seems that if kenny dies by something that takes more then a day he can not come back to life as easily
Kenny isn’t the only immortal McCormick. Mr. McCormick - not Stuart, but a different character entirely from season 1 - died in the first episode he appeared in, yet still appeared in the background of other episodes. Weird obscure immortal.
i do a really bad cartman impression and i use it to make fun of my father. he realised that it was cartman and brought us bigger longer and uncut to watch. mu proudest moment lmao
ACTUALLY Kenny probably resurrects exclusively through his mother's re-births, since in "Cartman joins NAMBLA" both of Kenny's parents say that the birth of the "brand new Kenny" has happened "at least 50 times", while his mother is sure that it's happened 52. And that was season 4. That one was a special case, since she was already pregnant, but it's pretty confirmed that Kenny's immortality is tied to his parents' rituals at the Cthulhu meetings.
@@Johnny2Cellos I don't remember the episode nor the occasion. Can you be more specific? Also, that could be before they actually decided to make Kenny's revivals more than just a joke, so the lore could still be that he always revives via births.
Im sure we all know that satan's fight against manbearpig was inspired by the 2008 incredible hulk fight against abomination with some scenes matching up to the movie
I love these videos because they let me know I am not alone in my crazy South Park conspiracies. ~ It's interesting that Kenny and Jesus are the same kind of immortals. Also, would Mr. Hankey be an Immortal by chance? He is the Christmas poo. That being said I think Santa is immortal he would just come back like Jesus and Kenny.
I often wonder if Ned is also an immortal being seeing as all the near death experiences he has yet always comes away unscathed like in the second episode ever volcano when he is lit on fire or when he is dragged around by man bear pig just to show up later
Manbearpig is the representation of climate change. Trey & Matt did not believe in it so they made the first episode. Years later they came around and decided that climate change is in fact real, hence the second episode.
I'd make the argument for two separate clades of immortals, ones who are super powerful and can only be hurt by each other(God, Satan, Cthulu, mintberry) and ones who can't stay dead(Jesus and Kenny) It's likely that only powerful immortals can kill eachother, whereas undying immortals are truly immortal.
I personally kinda believe that cartman is immortal but just hasn’t realized yet since he hasn’t died and he’s one of the only characters to bring up how Kenny dies all the time
ive never watched a single episode of south park, if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to guess what the next word is going to be id 100 die 2:34
