Craig Tucker

Craig Tucker is one of the 4th graders who attends South Park Elementary in the series South Park. He is voiced by Trey Parker. His last name was revealed to be Tucker in Pandemic.

Appearance


He wears a cold-blue jacket, black pants and a blue aviator hat with a yellow puffball on top. In older seasons, he wore blue jeans instead. He's been shown to have two hairstyles; In "South Park Is Gay!" he has black hair, however in "The Losing Edge" he's shown with brown hair in a style similar to Stan's. In "Lice Capades", he once again has black hair. He is fairly thin, as revealed in "Tweek vs. Craig". He weighs only 45 pounds. Craig appears to be taller than most because of his long legs. In "Quest for Ratings", the teacher sent Craig to have his testicles removed, which may have been exaggeration, but may have no testicles since that episode. His last name, "Tucker", was revealed in the episode, Pandemic.



Character
Craig has bad behavior and said to be the biggest trouble-maker in class, most likely not just for his habit of flipping people off. Because of this, he always goes to Mr. Mackey's office. Many scenes with someone going to Mr. Mackey's office show Craig sitting outside.

Craig has notable leadership skills, as he is the leader of his own gang and he lead the plans to deal with Mark Cotswalds. Craig's assertiveness can sometimes lead to bullying, like in Hooked on Monkey Phonics.

Tourette's Syndrome?
He is notorious for flipping people off. In "Tweek vs. Craig", it is suggested that this is either a normal form of communication in his family, or that they all suffer from Tourette's Syndrome. When accused of having done so, he will often deny his actions, even immediately after. If the first possibility is correct, then he may be so used to doing it, that he doesn't give it any thought anymore. Craig's habit may have come from the fact that he is bad at verbal insults and instead he proceeds to flip them off.

In "Le Petit Tourette", he repeatedly states that he would be "sooooo happy" if he could say some of the things Cartman gets to say (Cartman has fooled people into believing he has Tourette's Syndrome, and can't control what he says). While this initially implies that he doesn't have TS, it might simply be that his tic is flipping people off, and he simply wishes it was uncontrollable swearing.

Gang
Craig is the leader of a gang who are social rivals with Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. They first appeared in "Tweek vs. Craig", were first acknowledged in "How to Eat with Your Butt", but they were first viewed as rivals in "South Park is Gay!. Cartman refers to them as "Craig and those other guys". The group usually consists of Craig, Clyde, Token, and sometimes Tweek, Jimmy, or Jason. Craig and Clyde seem to share/alternate in leadership of this group, although, given by their designation, Craig is the primary leader.

Craig seems to feel more competitive towards the main characters than even his gang (see below). In "Quest for Ratings", he opened a television show in the school entitled "Animals Close-Up With a Wide-Angle Lens", which rivaled against their news show. On the other extreme, he seems eager to help them at other times, as in "Free Willzyx", where he is one of the boys trying to get the orca back to it's "home" on the moon.

Feud with Tweek
In "Tweek vs. Craig", the boys, on account of a bet they had made, claimed to Tweek and Craig that each had insulted the other, and convinced them to fight. When it turned out neither of them knew how to fight, they had them trained for it. Craig was trained by Cartman, in Sumo wrestling. After the fight, both boys were hospitalized, but the kids fooled them into fighting again.

In recent seasons, they have been shown to stop hating each other, as Tweek is a regular member of Craig's gang.

Family
His first name indicates that he may be of Scottish descent. This is further supported by the fact that the surname "Tucker" originates in England.

Craig is the only member of his family with black hair (his mother being blond and his father and sister being redheads). One possibility is that he dyes his hair black, which would go to great lengths to explain why his hair was brown in "The Losing Edge". However, none of his known family members have brown hair either, unless his mother is also a natural brunette, and dyes her hair blond. A third possibility is that one or more of his ancestors had brown hair, and he inherited the color from several generations ago. In some fan work, Craig's black hair is said to be from Asian decent, meaning he would be adopted.

In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", as Token is walking around South Park, looking sorrowfully at the others, he walks past the Welfare office. We see Craig and his parents stepping out of the office at the same time. While Token may have been exaggerating in his thoughts about how poor everyone else in town is, this might imply that Craig's parents are jobless, or that their job/s don't provide enough income for them to get by on it alone.

It is hinted in "My Future Self 'n' Me" that he does not have a good relationship with his parents.

Thomas


Thomas is Craig's father. He is tall and portly He wears a blue sweater and brown trousers. Under his sweater is a white shirt. He has orange-red hair, although he seems to be balding. Thomas is considered one of the rednecks in town. In Free Willzyx he said the whale told him his dad was going to enter his room naked or beat him up. Since it was just 2 pranksters at the aquarium it may not have happened. He has the same name as Tom Tucker, the news anchor (along with Diane Simmons) of Channel 5 WQHG Quahog on Family Guy, another name mistake.

Mrs. Tucker


She is Craig's mother. she has long, blond hair, and wears a dull-green dress, with a white collar, a white belt around her waist, and white buttons going down all the way. Craig's nasally voice is most likely inherited by her, as she has a nasal voice too. Craig apparently does not care much for her.

She also appears in Tooth Fairy Tats as the mother of the little boy named Billy who needs a bone marrow transplant. She has a different last name.

Younger Sister


She closely resembles Millie, one of Craig's classmates. She has the same color patterns as Millie, though her hair is in long, higher-up pig-tails, as opposed to Millie's short, drooping ones.

Rebecca and Skeeter?
Main articles: Rebecca and Skeeter

Thomas closely resembles Skeeter, a frequently seen townsperson. (The main differences in their appearance are that Thomas is taller, has a rounder face, and balding.) This resemblance might imply a relation; perhaps that of siblings. If this is so, Rebecca (once called Bertha), Skeeter's daughter and one of Craig's female classmates, would also be his cousin.

Stripe
Craig apparently has a pet guinea pig named Stripe. Stripe has never been seen, and all we know of him is that Craig does not like it when he is insulted. Knowing this, Cartman riled Craig up in "Tweek vs. Craig" by saying that Tweek had said that Craig stuffs Stripe up his rectum before going to bed.

Grandmother
Craig's grandmother appears in flashbacks in Pandemic 2: The Startling

Clyde Donovan
Clyde is a member of Craig's gang. Clyde sometimes leads the group which suggests that he and Craig share the spot of the leader, but the position has been confirmed to be Craig as the group is collectively named "Craig and those other guys". Craig and Clyde have hugged before. It seems that Craig mostly hangs out with Clyde.

Prominence
Craig, at the beginning of the series, was only a background student, but was featured more prominently since season three as a secondary character. Currently, he mainly shares Clyde's role of being another student who speaks a lot, but also has another importance that he and his friends are social rivals of the main characters. Craig is prominent and is mentioned many times whenever students are seen.

(Craig gets sent to Mr. Mackey's office for repeatedly flipping people off. First use of Craig as a secondary character.)
 * Rainforest Schmainforest

(Craig is fooled into the challenge of fighting Tweek, and vice versa.)
 * Tweek vs. Craig

(Craig successfully sues Wendy for sexual harassment after she touches his thigh.)
 * Sexual Harassment Panda

(Craig leads the other boys, and directs them on what to do about Mark Cotswalds.)
 * Hooked on Monkey Phonics

(Craig, wearing a spaceman helmet, directs the couple to Treasure Cove, where they'll find a phone.)
 * The Wacky Molestation Adventure

(Craig and his gang are invited over by Stan and Kyle to see the Thompsons, who have buttocks where their heads should be. First mention of Craig's gang.)
 * '''How to Eat with Your Butt

(Craig is a candidate for the boys' fourth friend.)
 * Professor Chaos

(Craig and his gang are in conflict with the main characters because they persist that they're gayer.)
 * South Park is Gay

(Craig and his gang play "ninjas" with the main characters.)
 * Good Times with Weapons

(Craig's show, Animals Close Up With a Wide-Angle Lens, is crushing the boys' [minus Kenny, but with an extended gang] news show.)
 * Quest for Ratings

(Craig and Stan search in Mexico for a cheap space program.)
 * Free Willzyx

(Craig, Token, and Clyde confront Cartman at his "Goodbye, Kyle" party and ask him why Kyle isn't there.)
 * Smug Alert!

(Craig works as Cartman's right-hand man in the investigation on who has lice. He also has many lines in this episode.)
 * Lice Capades

(Craig tells Cartman he hates him and slams the door in his face.)
 * Tsst

(Craig, believing Cartman to have Tourette's Syndrome, is miserably jealous of him because he gets away with saying terrible things about people.)
 * Le Petit Tourette

(Craig is among the boys who are in the background for the episode [His gang, Cartman, Kenny etc].)
 * Guitar Queer-o

(Craig is among the secondary fourth graders [Token, Clyde, Bebe, etc.] who have a small part in the episode. He was twelfth on the first list, but it is hinted by Bebe that he was placed very high on the real list.)
 * The List

(Craig joins with the boys to perform in a pan flute band to make easy money. This plan backfires, however, and the five are sent all the way to Peru. He is angry that the boys wasted his birthday money, and constantly complains about how they swindled him out of his money, which irritates the boys. However, he is the only one who can stop the Furry Death.)
 * Pandemic

(Complains about the situation. Defeats the Guinea Pirate and stops the Furry Death.)
 * Pandemic 2: The Startling