Nathan

{{South Park character
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|gender = Male
|race = Caucasian
|hair = Dirty Blond
|age = 10
|job = Student<br>Drug Dealer<br>Criminal Mastermind
|voice = [[Trey Parker]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768561/|title="South Park" Up the Down Steroid (TV episode 2004)|publisher=IMDb.com}}</ref>
|relativename1 = [[Nathan's Parents]]
|appearance = "[[Up the Down Steroid]]"
|relation1 = Parents
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{{Quote
|Shut up, Mimsy!
|Nathan's catchphrase whenever he slaps Mimsy
}}
'''Nathan''' is a mentally handicapped student at [[South Park Elementary]] who was first seen in the [[Season Eight]] episode, "[[Up the Down Steroid]]". He was later seen at summer camp in "[[Crippled Summer]]", during the fundraiser in "[[Handicar]]", and competing in the science fair in "[[Moss Piglets]]". He is usually accompanied by his lackey, [[Mimsy]], and frequently serves as a rival/antagonist of [[Jimmy Valmer]].

He also appears as the main antagonist in the South Park The Fractured But Whole DLC "[[Bring the Crunch]]". 

==Background==
[[File:Nathan Captain.jpg|thumb|left|Nathan in "Crippled Summer".]]
Nathan sold steroid medication illegally to [[Jimmy Valmer]] during the events of "[[Up the Down Steroid]]". This led to Jimmy physically abusing [[Nancy|his girlfriend]] and [[Sarah Valmer|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 was in "[[Crippled Summer]]" at the summer camp [[Lake Tardicaca]], a summer camp for the disabled. Every summer, the camp splits into two teams, who compete for the camp championship in a series of games. 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 for 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 loathe. However, Nathan's lackey, [[Mimsy]], continuously botches-up Nathan's plans, which causes Nathan to suffer a bite from a black Mamba snake, painfully attacked by Native Americans, comically raped by the [[Tardicaca Shark|shark]], and finally blown himself 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 hating Jimmy and threatens Mimsy for his stupidity.

His third major appearance was in "[[Handicar]]", where he again plays the main antagonist (along with Mimsy as his sidekick). He attempts to sabotage the fundraising efforts of [[Timmy]]'s new transportation business, which is earning allot money towards the class goal of returning to Lake Tardicaca summer camp.

He appears again in the [[Season 19]] trilogy. [[PC Principal]] makes him the editor of the [[Super School News#Super School Newspaper|Super School Newspaper]]. Nathan is later revealed to be working for [[Leslie Meyers]]. In [[PC Principal Final Justice]], Nathan holds Jimmy hostage and reveals he has been getting the PC people to work with ads. He has a new girlfriend, known as [[Classi]]. Nathan then plans for a tragedy in [[The South Park Gun Show]], but Classi objects. He hits her and is consequently beaten up by her.

===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===
Nathan is a capable drug dealer, being able to handle money and sell steroids to the other students. He is also seen selling accounts for different streaming services in "[[Basic Cable]]".

=== Criminal Record ===
He has committed and shown example of various criminal activity throughout the series.
* '''Distribution of Illegal Substances: '''during the events of "[[Up the Down Steroid]]". He sold steroid medication to Jimmy Valmer, ones that do not appear on any given urine test. This crime would result in Nathan in serving a year in juvenile hall as well as a $1,000 fine.
* '''Attempted Murder: '''Throughout the episode "[[Crippled Summer]]" he makes several attempts -- all of which fail due to him leaving Mimsy in charge -- to cause Jimmy's death throughout the Lake Tardicaca camp games.
* '''Violation of explosives and fireworks laws: '''In the same episode, Nathan plants a C4 explosive in the ukulele Jimmy plays during the solo of the "Tardicaca" Hula Gal. This action is illegal because it was attempted murder and the use of plastic explosives without a license. In the episode "[[Handicar]]" during the Wacky Race, he detonates a remote explosive which was supposed to kill Timmy and HandiCar, but thanks to Mimsy, he blows up the Zipcar instead.
* '''Contract killing: '''In [[South Park: The Fractured But Whole]] during the "[[Bring the Crunch]]" DLC, Nathan has hired drug-addicted criminals dressed as Halloween monsters to kidnap and kill the counselors at Lake Tardicaca so that the authorities can shut down the camp so that he never has to go every summer again. This is then foiled by The New Kid, Professor Chaos (Butters), Fastpass (Jimmy),Doctor Timothy (Timmy), and Mintberry Crunch before he could do so with the last remaining one.

==Appearance==
The most notable appearance of Nathan is that his head is always looking up at an angle, usually to one side, or he might just have a comically large chin. Nathan has squinty eyes, long dark blond hair and wears tinted glasses. On most occasions, he wears a dark gray buttonless jacket with red trim and an orange shirt underneath, gray baggy pants and green sneakers with white stripes. He talks in a low, raspy voice.
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==Personality==
Nathan has Downs syndrome. He also likely has some form of sociopathy, as evidenced by his plots in "[[Crippled Summer]]". While all his plots fail in a fairly cartoonish manner, the intention behind them (i.e. getting Jimmy and his friends stabbed, murdered, poisoned, raped, or bled to death) hints at poor mental health.

==Abilities==
===Physical Endurance===
Each individual problem that hits Nathan in the episode "[[Crippled Summer]]" would be fatal in real life: A bite from the venomous Black Mamba causes death fairly quickly; arrows at high velocity to the center of mass often cause death by exsanguination; the weight of a full-grown shark on top of a human is fatal; a close-range explosion of C4 leads to instant death. Nathan's inexplicable survival throughout the episode follows a common ''Looney Tunes'' theme, where characters survive normally fatal catastrophic events.

==Relationships==
=== Mimsy ===
[[File:Nathan_&_Mimsy.png|thumb|Nathan and Mimsy in "[[Black Friday]]".]]
Nathan's only friend is his lackey [[Mimsy]], who does whatever Nathan tells him. He abuses Mimsy verbally and physically for their failures in the various plots against the blue team at the summer camp. Just as Nathan is about to order Mimsy to do another plot to kill Jimmy, a [[Francis (Special Ed)|teammate]] says "Gee, I wish our team captain was as awesome as Jimmy", could probably hint that a lot of people don't like him.

=== Jimmy Valmer ===
[[File:WarComing.jpg|thumb|Nathan and Jimmy.]]
Nathan harbors an utter hatred and jealousy towards Jimmy and has schemed several ploys to get him killed, but they always backfire on him. In his first appearance in "[[Up the Down Steroid]]", he sells steroids to Jimmy to help him compete in the Special Olympics, but has since developed a one-sided rivalry with him. Jimmy has either remained oblivious to Nathan's disgust towards him or simply hasn't let it bother him.

=== Timmy Burch ===
In "[[Handicar]]", Nathan tried to sabotage [[Timmy]]'s new Handicar taxi service just to get out of summer camp.

=== Leslie Meyers ===
Nathan is always the mastermind, but not with [[Leslie Meyers]]. In [[season 19]], Nathan is revealed to be the lackey of Leslie, he replaces [[Jimmy]] as the [[Super School News|school newspaper]] writer and puts sponsored contents as well as fake news on it. He is ordered by Leslie to hold Jimmy hostage, in his loft at [[CtPaTown]].

Nathan explains that "I'm just gonna make sure I'm on the right side of it", which implies that he actually fears Leslie's inhuman powers. He earns a big fortune by working for Leslie though.

=== The New Kid ===
Nathan's plan was foiled by the New Kid during [[Bring the Crunch]], and he blames the New Kid about his painful endurance of mind-rape, this results in Nathan's grudge. The hatred enhanced when the New Kid farted on him, but he still hates Jimmy more.

==Family==
The relationship between Nathan and his parents is terrible overall, it is possibly the main reason behind Nathan's morbid mind.

Nathan finds it hard to communicate with his parents, so he barely confides in. For instance he suffers at the Tardicaca Summer Camp every year, but his parents know nothing about this, until "[[Handicar]]". Nathan doesn't have much respect for them either.

On the other hand, his parents are totally carefree and they pay no attention to him. It is revealed in "[[Handicar]]" that they send Nathan to summer camp just to ensure their own trip to Italy.

==Trivia==
[[File:Nathan_facebook_profile.png|thumb|80px|Nathan facebook profile]]
*While Nathan normally talks in a fairly adult and intelligent manner, 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, [[w:c:looneytunes:Rocky and Mugsy|Rocky and Mugsy]]. This similarity is further referenced when it is revealed in "[[Handicar]]" that Nathan has a Rocky and Mugsy poster in his bedroom.
*All of Nathan's various plots that backfire throughout the camp games are similar to the [[wikipedia:Laff-A-Lympics|Laff-A-Lympics]].
*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.
*Nathan's parents know he does not like summer camp, but act like they don't understand him so they can go on trips without him over the summer.
*Nathan's icon can be found in the ''[[South Park: The Stick of Truth]]'' files, indicating that he was going to appear in the game but got cut from it for undisclosed reasons.
*Nathan, along with Mimsy, are featured as bosses in the DLC for [[South Park: The Fractured But Whole]] in [[South Park: The Fractured But Whole/DLC|Bring The Crunch]].

==Quotes==
* "Shut up, Mimsy!"
* "Yes counselor Steve, I like the fun canoe."
* "Let me give you guys a hot news flash: If you want to hurt a crippled kid, you don't break his FUCKING LEGS!"
* "And I thought a shark was bad."

==Prominence==
* "[[Up the Down Steroid]]" - Sells steroids to Jimmy.
* "[[Crippled Summer]]" - Tries to sabotage Jimmy's team winning the summer camp games.
* "[[Black Friday]]" - Seen on the PS4 side.
* "[[A Song of Ass and Fire]]" (cameo) - Seen on the PS4 side.
* "[[Titties and Dragons]]" (cameo) - Seen on the PS4 side.
* "[[Handicar]]" - Tries to stop Timmy from raising money for summer camp.
* "[[Where My Country Gone?]]" (cameo)
* "[[Safe Space]]" (cameo) - Seen in the hallways.
* "[[Tweek x Craig]]" - Seen at the school assembly.
* "[[Sponsored Content]]" - Becomes the new school newspaper writer.
* "[[Truth and Advertising]]" - Still the school newspaper writer.
* "[[PC Principal Final Justice]]" - The secondary antagonist, takes Jimmy hostage at his apartment but gets beaten and betrayed by his prostitute/girlfriend: [[Classi]].
*"[[Moss Piglets]]" - He tries to win the annual special education science fair.
*"[[Basic Cable]]" - Sells a Disney+ account to [[Scott Malkinson]] in exchange for doses of his insulin.


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