Nathan

Nathan is a minor character in South Park. He is first seen in "Up The Down Steroid" and at summer camp in "Crippled Summer"



Background
Nathan sold steroid medication illegally to Jimmy Valmer during the events of "Up the Down Steroid". This led to Jimmy physically abusing his girlfriend and mother in a fit of 'roid rage but winning all of the events in the Special Persons Olympics. Afterwards Jimmy felt guilty for cheating and confessed to the Olympic committee resulting in his forfeit of the medals he won.

Nathan's second appearance, is at Lake Tardicaca, a summer camp for the disabled, where every summer, the camp splits into two teams who compete for the camp champion. While Jimmy is the beloved leader of the camp's blue team, Nathan is the sinister leader of the Red team, which has lost to the blue team three years running. Furious at having lost to Jimmy so often, he creates assorted plots aimed at not only ruining the blue team's chance at victory, but also will result in the death of Jimmy, who Nathan confesses to loath. However, Nathan's lackey, Mimsy continuously botches-up Nathan's plans, which causes Nathan to suffer a lethal bite from a Black Mamba Snake, painfully attacked by Native Americans, comically raped by the shark, and finally be blown up. While being rushed to the hospital, Jimmy, who is crowned king of summer camp, and who is unaware of Nathan's loathing, gives Nathan his crown in a sign of goodwill. Nathan however confesses to hate Jimmy, and again threatens Mimsy for his stupidity.

Appearance
The most notable appearance of Nathan is that his head is always looking up. Nathan has squinty eyes, long dark blonde hair and wears glasses. He talks in a sort-of low raspy voice.

Personality
Nathan has down syndrome, which he appears to have a fairly advanced form of due to his intelligence. He also likely has some form of sociopathy or insanity, as evidenced by his plots in Crippled Summer. While all his plots fail in fairly cartoonish matter, the intention behind them (i.e. getting Jimmy and his friends stabbed, murdered, poisoned, raped, or bled to death) hints at poor mental health.

Physical Strength
Each individual problem that hits Nathan would be fatal in real life, IE: A bite from the Venomous Black Mamba causes death fairly quickly, arrows at high velocity to the center mass are often causes of death by Exsanguination, the weight of a full-grown shark on top of a human is fatal, and finally a close-range explosion with the explosive Composition 4 is instant death, this is probably referring to the Looney Tunes theme throughout the episode where characters would survive things normally fatal to human beings.

Leadership
Nathan plans out the attacks and is the boss over Mimsy, he is also the team captain for the red camp.

Music
Nathan is able to play the notes on the bomb rigged ukulele correctly inadvertently exploding on him instead of Jimmy.

Business
Is capable of handling money and selling steroids to the other students.

Relationships
Nathans only friend is his lackey Mimsy who does whatever Nathan tells him. He abuses Mimsy verbally ans physically for their failures in the various plots against the blue team at the summer camp.

Trivia

 * Nathan appears to have Down Syndrome.
 * While Nathan normally talks in a fairly adult and intelligent manner (although his voice sounds a bit as if he has a speech impediment), he adopts a more childish voice when addressed by the adult counselors.
 * Nathan's relationship with Mimsy, is similar to that of the Warner Brother cartoon characters, Rocky and Mugsy.
 * All of Nathan's various plots that backfire throughout the camp games are similar to the Laff-A-Lympics.
 * It has been speculated by some fans that Nathan and Mimsy will return as an ongoing antagonistic team in Jimmy's life.
 * Nathan has connections to high level steroids that can fool drug tests, something more likely to be sold to adult athletes; how he obtained these drugs is a mystery.

Quotes
Nathan:Shut Up Mimsy! "Crippled Summer".

Prominence

 * Up The Down Steroid
 * Crippled Summer