Kenny McCormick



Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick is the tetartagonist of the American TV show, South Park. He attends the 4th grade class at South Park Elementary. He is best friends with Stan, Kyle and Cartman.

History
Early versions of the character first appeared in Parker and Stone's two pre-South Park shorts, "The Spirit of Christmas" (1992 and 1995). In the first Spirit of Christmas short, the character resembling Kenny is unnamed, while the character resembling Cartman is named Kenny. The unnamed Kenny-like character also speaks unmuffled in the first short. Both of these characters get killed in the short. In the second Spirit of Christmas, a character with both Kenny's appearance and name appears and dies. Kenny's first South Park appearance within the series was alongside Kyle, Cartman and Stan in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe".

Kenny is most famous for dying in almost every episode in the first five seasons of South Park. He is also easily recognizable for almost always wearing an orange parka (or just having his face hidden) that covers most of his face and muffles his speech. In the episode "Mysterion Rises" Kenny, who is revealed to be the superhero Mysterion, reveals that he has the power to never die and that he just wakes up in his bed after some time. He is then upset that his friends never express that they remember him dying. The character was taken off the show in the fifth season episode "Kenny Dies" but returned in the following season, at the end of "Red Sleigh Down" and has since been a regular character; however, he now only dies occasionally. In most of the episodes in the 10th and 11th seasons, he tends to recede into the background, though this tendency seems to have ended with the 11th season finale. Throughout the tenth and twelfth season, Kenny did not die once. Kenny died three times in total in Season 13, five times in Season 14 and once in Season 15.

Appearances in South Park Universe
List of Kenny's appearances through-out the South Park Fanon Universe.