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Stanley "Stan" Marsh is the most prominent member of Stan's Gang and is one of South Park's main characters along with Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick, and serves to be the main protagonist of the franchise.
He is described as friendly, knowledgeable, helpful, and relaxed, and is also the most tender and sensitive of the main characters. He is also the oldest of the four main boys, having his tenth birthday in "You're Getting Old", previously have had his ninth birthday in "Whale W*****".
He is also a big fan of John Elway.
Stan is kind, sweet, socially awkward, loving and sensitive. He is loosely based on his creator Trey Parker himself.
He has a bad habit of pinching the bridge of his nose and saying 'Dude' when upset. Stan has asthma brought up in "Sexual Harassment Panda", but it is never brought up again.
When Cartman is going through Stan's belongings in "Sexual Harassment Panda", Cartman says he wants Stan's asthma inhaler.
Stan's two main best friends are Kyle and Kenny respectively, with Kyle being his very best friend, or “super-best-friend.” He is frequently seen around them, as well as with his on-and-off girlfriend, Wendy Testaburger.
His real name is Stanley Marsh, but he is rarely called by it in the show, and every character just calls him Stan Marsh, including himself (except in 'Clubhouses', he called himself Stanley Marsh when playing secret agent).
According to 'You Have 0 Friends', he is very good at Yahtzee.
Stan Facts[]
Despite the fact that Cartman celebrated his birthday first, whether this be canon or the script was rewritten with Cartman celebrating his birthday in "Damien" and Stan and Kyle sharing the same birthdays respecting as Trey Parker and Matt Stone with May coming before October, Stan is the oldest of the four main boys of South Park and he is the only one to have been voiced by Trey Parker since the show's start in 1997.
He is known to be a semiskilled musician, as he plays both drums and guitar.
Stan has a habit of pinching the bridge of his nose and shutting his eyes tightly when frustrated, saying phrases such as "Dude".
Stan's girlfriend is currently Wendy Testaburger, who he has known since the early days of the series. Despite occasional break-ups, the two have reconciled multiple times and have a strong connection. Wendy even showed her loyalty to Stan by beating up Eric Cartman when he insulted Stan. Stan also has a bad habit of constantly vomiting when speaking to her out of love sickness, or at least he used to (which may or may not be bad for his asthma, most especially since he does it so frequently, or at least did).
When he gets shocked or surprised, he exclaims: "Whoa dude!".
Stan has asthma, according to "Sexual Harassment Panda".
Stan has a major board game addiction, and he is seen spending most of his time playing board games to distract himself from his previous addiction to ‘Freemium’ games. He is seen playing board games with his friends, such as Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, Clyde, Scott, Butters, Nichole, Tammy and Tolkien, as well as sometimes even his grandpa. His room is filled with board games and he collects them, also joining board game clubs at school, and wishing the website BoardGameGeek a ‘Happy 20th Anniversary.’[5]
He is shown to be good at painting, often seen painting and customizing miniatures for his board games, and they end up looking very good at the end, making him a talented artist. He also has a tendency to express his frustrations and emotions through song, and his character is portrayed as having a strong affinity for nature, animals, and the outdoors.
Stan is the only one of the four boys to never contract a terminal disease (Kenny contracted muscular dystrophy in "Kenny Dies" and Kyle and Cartman HIV and/or AIDS in "Tonsil Trouble").
He is a huge fan of John Elway.
His birthday, like Trey Parker's, is October 19th.
Catchphrases[]
- "Aw, awww!"
- "OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED KENNY!!"
- "Dude, this is pretty f**ked up right here."
- "Dude, weak."
- "Weak."
- "Kenny's soul is trapped in Cartman's body!"
- "I'm starting to think this is really a bad idea."
- "I don't know."
Background[]
Stan attends South Park Elementary as part of Mr. Garrison's Fourth Grade Class (formerly Third). Stan's father Randy is a geologist, and his mother Sharon is a secretary at Tom's Rhinoplasty. He briefly had a stepfather in "Clubhouses" named Roy.
Catchphrases and Mannerisms[]
Since its beginning, the series has had a running gag where when Kenny is killed, Stan will announce, "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" Kyle will then follow up with: "You bastards!".
Stan's often-used catchphrase during the early seasons was "Dude, this is pretty f**ked up right here," which originated in the second The Spirit of Christmas short, though the profanity was bleeped out. In recent episodes, however this catchphrase has faded.
Another one of his catchphrases is "Whoa dude!". (Cartman even mimicked this catchphrase saying "Damn Ken!" to Kenny after blowing up the "future-telling device" because it was of "too advanced technology" in the episode "Marjorine").
In many episodes, Stan sums up the episode's main points in a small speech that often begins with, "You know, I learned something today." However, it is more common for Kyle to do it, and a few other characters such as Cartman and the Mayor have as well. Stan is often shown with his hands in his coat pockets as he walks, or when in deep thought.
In the later episodes, Stan also has a habit of pinching the bridge of his (unseen) nose and shutting his eyes tightly when frustrated or exasperated, saying phrases such as "Oh no." A good example of this is in "ManBearPig" where he does this motion when on the phone with Al Gore. Another example is in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", when he does it all the way home from the set of Wheel of Fortune. His mother is also seen doing the motion in that scene. He also does it the whole time when the reporter is talking to Randy in "Goobacks". The gesture seems to be a learned habit developed by his constant frustration with his parents. Kyle also has a mannerism like this, often closing his eyes when stressed. This is not uncommon with Stan and Kyle, often throughout the series being criticized as having the same personality.
Stan often groans, "Aw-awww!" when he is upset or in disbelief, which seems to be an inherited habit; his father does this sometimes as well. This is the same catchphrase Trey Parker used in the 1998 sports comedy film BASEketball. Other characters also utter that line.
If he agrees with someone or is unsure of something, he will often state "sure" or "yeah" in a very dull, unimpressed manner. Whenever he gets mad, frustrated, or gets dragged into something, he often says "Goddamnit!", not to be confused with Cartman's catchphrase, "Aw! God-damn it!" Often in school, he would say "Oooooh....." with a slightly higher pitched tone than his normal voice. He will often express shock with "Jesus Christ!" This is evident in "Super Fun Time", "Scott Tenorman Must Die" and "About Last Night...".
Criminal Record[]
Eco-terrorism/breaking and entering: Attempts to save baby cows' lives by stealing them from Farmer Carl Denkins and locks him Cartman, Kyle, and Butters in his room. Originally it technically is not terrorism but soon Cartman gives demand for a missile, an arsenal of weapons, and the name for veal changed to tortured baby cows. In "Free Willzyx", him and his friends break into SeaWorld Park and steal the orca named Jambu. The boys were tricked by two employees into believing the whale wanted to be free and misses its family on the Moon. The boys eventually succeed with sending the whale to the Moon with the help of the Mexican Aeronautic Space Agency. During the events of "Whale W*****", he joins the anti-whaling reality show Whale Wars and sinks many Japanese whaling ships with a flare gun and Molotov cocktails. He, Kenny, and Cartman get arrested by the Japanese and put in a prison cell together. In "Ass Burgers", he broke into a random building while drunk and under the manipulation of the Secret Society of Cynics and began randomly firing an Uzi gun which contained several restaurant owners plotting to shut down Cartman's hamburger business.
In "The Pandemic Special", Stan breaks into the Build-A-Bear Workshop after it is forced to close because he is desperate to build a bear for Butters.
Illegal downloading: In "Christian Rock Hard", he downloads songs illegally which get him, Kenny, and Kyle arrested. However he never knew this law existed.
Arson/framing: In "Pre-School", he and the others got Trent Boyett to set a fire in their preschool classroom and frame Trent for the crime, and in "Butt Out". However both of these arson's were accidental and unintentional and therefore do not count on his criminal record.
Filing a false police report: In "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", he lied to the police about his parents and his sister sexually abusing him.
Hit-and-run: In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", Stan and Cartman drove a boat into a beaver dam, which resulted in the flooding of Beaverton, and the deaths of 'hundreds of millions', despite the population of the town being only 8,000. It was also reported that people were looting, raping, and resorting to cannibalism (even though the people reporting those crimes might have either be exaggerating or lying). However this was also an accident because Stan did not know that this accident would go very far and does not count on his criminal record.
Piracy: In "Whale W*****", he sinks a Japanese boat. However, this does not count because the Whale Wars show was supported by national television. Illegally downloading music can also be seen as a form of piracy.
Infecting a piece of property: He dirtied up and germed a urinal by defecating in it in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", ultimately de-sanitizing it, as only urine belongs in urinals.
Violation of firearm laws/threatening with a deadly weapon: In "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", Stan held Kyle's head at gunpoint and began to threaten him before revealing that he was the one who defecated in the school urinal simply to avoid missing out on recess. He was eventually punished by Mr. Mackey for it.
Attempted murder/Assisted suicide: Stan has attempted to kill Cartman with a laser gun when Cartman almost destroyed the world with his trapper keeper in "Trapper Keeper". In "Spontaneous Combustion" he and Kyle tied Cartman to a cross, knowing full well that he would die, in order to give Kyle's dad a resurrection. He has also been known at attempting to murder his own grandpa (at his grandpa's request). However he unintentionally or hesitantly attempts these assisted suicides.
Murder: In "Pinkeye", he and Cartman killed many zombies by cutting them in half with chainsaws. What neither of them knew at the time that all they had to do was kill the original zombie, Kenny.
Attempted unlicensed (and underaged) surgery: In "Cherokee Hair Tampons", when Cartman refused to donate his kidney to a dying Kyle, Stan tries to take it by force by breaking into his house and removing it with a saw, however Cartman outsmarts him by using the "Kidney Blocker 2000" to prevent this.
Unlicensed (and underaged) surgery: In "Jared Has Aides", he, Kyle and Cartman preformed unlicensed liposuction on Butters with a hose in order to get him thinner in hopes of getting money from a weight loss scam. They even framed Butters by simply running away and hiding, causing yet another grounding for Butters from his parents.
Theft: Cartman misled him into stealing a boat which ends up breaking a beaver dam. But this is mostly Cartman's fault.
Black marketing: In "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000", Stan came up with a plan with the boys in breaking into any rich kid's house and placing a tooth under their pillow and have their parents place money under their pillow only for them to steal it from them afterwards. Though this idea was already used by a boy named Loogie who started a business in doing these and ended up joining his business, thought one of the members of the American Dental Association suspected this and was later caught by them but was not punished for due to Kyle's rather unusual altering reality abilities. Since this is black marketing, this act was illegal and branded on his criminal record.
Underaged smoking: He along with the rest of the three of the main four boys smoked in order to not be like the anti-smoking group Butt Out!, because the Butt Out! people said to all the students in the auditorium that if they (all the students auditorium) never smoked, then they would be just like them.
Underaged drinking and underaged alcoholism: He was given alcohol by a group of people who supposedly had Asperger's Syndrome, because they all literally saw the world as "shit" in the episode "A** Burgers". They consistently make Stan drink to do "missions", and although Stan later said he was through with that group, he still had a bottle of whiskey in his drawer. However, he had few alternatives because he apparently requires alcohol to cure himself of his cynicism.
Indecent exposure: In "Butterballs", Stan's awareness video about bullying fails and the school ends up being sued by Dr. Mehmet Oz. Stan resorts to going to San Diego, stripping his clothes, and masturbating (or rather dancing) in public though he was never arrested for this act and this rather amused San Diego's populace. He performed this act again in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" when he successfully raised awareness of how horrible ziplining was for him. He also joined the "wieners out" movement and exposed himself in "Wieners Out".
Damage of property: In "S**** Hunt", Stan and the rest of the fourth grade boys except for Kenny, destroy all of Cartman's electrical devices into believing he was S****hunt42. Later on, he and the other boys regretted what they did when they figured out that Cartman was not S****hunt42.
Underaged driving: Stan has committed the crime of underaged driving in episodes like "Towelie", "Red Sleigh Down" , "Bloody Mary", "Night of the Living Homeless", and "Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow". Though in "Red Sleigh Down" and "Two Days Before The After Tomorrow", it was not a car he drove underaged but a sleigh and motorboat respectively. These still count as underaged driving.
Grounded Moments[]
Like the other South Park boys and Butters, Stan is also rarely grounded. He usually does not understand why he gets grounded after doing something that causes him to be grounded and unlike the other boys, Stan's grounding limit is usually determined by a random time by his parents and is usually not set to two to three weeks. Stan has been grounded on the following occasions:
- "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!" - For sneaking out of his house to go Nebraska with the other boys.
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Stan was grounded for two weeks by Sharon Marsh for going to see the R-rated film Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire, which caused Kenny's death when tried to imitate a stunt seen in the film.
- "Proper Condom Use" - Stan was grounded for ten months for masturbating his dog, Sparky in front of his family's book club during one of their meetings. His grounding was immediately lifted when Randy and Sharon found out that Stan had no knowledge of sexual education.
- "Fun with Veal" - For stealing the baby cows from Farmer Carl Denkins' ranch and defying his parents, Randy and Sharon Marsh.
- "Butt Out" - For smoking outside school, but it was not mentioned.
- "Goobacks" - Stan was grounded for calling the people of the future "Goobacks", which was a timecist slur in a fast food restaurant. His grounding was lifted after Randy's job was stolen by one of these people from the future.
- "Titties and Dragons" - Stan was grounded for supposedly defecating in a man's garden. However, Kyle and Cartman were the real culprits, and framed Stan so the kids wanting PlayStation 4 consoles on Black Friday would be leaderless. He later sneaked out, infuriating his mother, who called Randy, who was more concerned that Stan was in the mall during the deadly Black Friday rush.
Leadership[]
Stan shows his leadership skills as (Pirate) Captain Marsh of the Sea Shepherd in "Whale W*****". He sinks several of the Japanese boats to protect the whales and dolphins in the Ocean until their boat was hit by Japanese kamikaze planes. Stan is often selected to be the captain of assorted sporting events such as captain and pitcher of the baseball team in "The Losing Edge" and captain/quarterback in football as seen in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride". When the boys are playing police in "Lil' Crime Stoppers", Stan acts in the role of a lead detective during the investigations. Although there is no specific leader within his primary group of friends, Stan is often the one to motivate the other boys, due to his moral beliefs, as seen in episodes such as “Fun with Veal” and when he was the first to talk to Butters in “Going Native”. Superhero Alter Ego
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Talents[]
Music[]
In earlier episodes, such as "Summer Sucks" and "World Wide Recorder Concert", Stan began to show an aptitude for music. He is also shown to be capable of writing music, as seen in "Chef Aid".
In "Something You Can Do with Your Finger", he and the boys started a boy-band group named Fingerbang. They made a video for the song "Fingerbang" and performed it at the South Park Mall.
In "Die Hippie, Die", he was seen playing guitar. He was also seen playing a guitar in "Smug Alert!", where he wrote and performed a song about the importance of hybrid cars.
In "You Got F'd in the A", his father taught him how to line dance to the song, "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus. He and the rest of The South Park Diggities participated successfully in a dance competition with The Orange County Crew.
In "Christian Rock Hard", the boys formed a rock band, called Moop. The group refused to play their music in a protest of illegal music downloading on the internet.
Stan has been shown to be able to play Guitar Hero very well in "Guitar Queer-O". He was able to successfully achieve his goal of scoring 1,000,000 points with Kyle in cooperative mode.
In "Night of the Living Homeless", he and the boys sang "California Loves the Homeless" to a large crowd of homeless people, in an effort to drive them away from South Park.
In "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling", the boys formed a Peruvian flute band with Craig Tucker. They played "Mary Had a Little Lamb" at an outdoor mall in Colorado, where they were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security.
In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and "Eat, Pray, Queef", Stan was shown to be a talented vocalist.
In "Elementary School Musical", in an effort to become more popular, like Bridon Gueermo, he and the boys performed a musical number, similar to those of High School Musical.
In "Butterballs", his musical talents were shown again, where he was shown to have written and directed the musical video for "Make Bullying Kill Itself", a "lip-dub" video aimed to stop bullying.
In "The Cissy", he is shown singing "Feeling Good on a Wednesday" in the "Cissies" bathroom.
In "Band in China", Stan forms a heavy metal band called Crimson Dawn, which consists of him as the lead singer, Kenny as bassist, Butters as the lead guitarist, and Jimmy as the drummer.
Sports[]
Stan is very athletic, and is regularly the captain or star player of his school's sports teams, except in basketball where Kyle is the best player in the school, and dodgeball where Pip Pirrip is the best player. Stan was the quarterback of the school football team in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride". In baseball, he is seen hitting home runs and is the pitcher (though this is rare in professional baseball) and apparent captain of South Park's team in "The Losing Edge". Stan and the other boys also play baseball (a sport they hated and he is described by Craig he hates baseball more than any other boys) in "Child Abduction is Not Funny". He was also a member of the South Park dodgeball team that won the world championship and was on the pee-wee hockey team when he was 4 years old, revealed in "Stanley's Cup". Stan also coached a pee-wee hockey team that episode and showed he quit from hockey after failing to win a hockey game for the team on a 'breakaway'. His favorite sports team, regarding the setting, Colorado, is the Denver Broncos. He also manages to go from a beginner skier to a near-professional in only two days in "Asspen" (thanks to the timely use of a montage). The episode ends with him successfully skiing the K-13, "the most dangerous run in America", in order to beat a much older man who repeatedly insulted him and challenged him to the run. He also tries out for the South Park wrestling team in "W.T.F.", but leaves after the coach makes Butters do a "gay" move on Cartman. In the episode, he goes on to form a wrestling league with the other boys.
Weaponry[]
For his age, Stan appears proficient with weaponry. In "Red Sleigh Down", he was able to hold an M16 assault rifle (but did not actually use it), and in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", he was able to get hold of a handgun. In "Good Times with Weapons", Stan wields a pair of tonfa. In "Whale W*****", Stan was able to take a flare gun and fire a flare into the fuel storage of a Japanese whaling ship, resulting in the whole ship blowing up. He commandeered the Sea Shepard in the same episode and sunk a fleet of Japanese whaling ships with a rather impressive arsenal for a 9-year-old, including Molotov cocktails and a large caliber deck gun. His proficiency is probably a result of his Uncle Jimbo's influence. He was also able to kill Scuzzlebutt in "Volcano". Also, in "Make Love, Not Warcraft", he uses the Sword of a Thousand Truths successfully (however, this is in a video game). He also broke into a building while wielding and firing an Uzi gun at random areas of the building while intoxicated in "Ass Burgers".
Voice Acting[]
In "Cartmanland", Stan changes his voice in order to get into Cartman's theme park, Cartmanland, pretending to be a child named "Mick Ganer". In "A Very Crappy Christmas", he changed his voice to sound like Cartman in order to finish a Christmas short; the two of them are also voiced by the same person, Trey Parker.
Future[]
In the future timeline set in South Park: Post Covid, he becomes an online whiskey consultant for Post-Modem Beveragetainment Online Services, living with a personified Alexa as his personal assistant.
In an alternate timeline seen at the end of South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid, he becomes a chief master sergeant in the United States Space Force, having returned from Mars to attend a party at Denny's Applebee's Max.
Appearance[]
Stan has blue eyes and a medium-light skin tone. He has short, straight black hair with shaggy bangs and two cowlicks on top of his head. He is mostly shown wearing a brown coat with a red collar, a royal-blue winter cap with a red pom-pom ball on top of it and matching rim on the edging of the cap, and dark-blue jeans. Under his coat, he either wears a red and blue baseball shirt or a white t-shirt/V-neck. He also wears a blue Terrance and Phillip shirt to bed and a green suit for special occasions. In some episodes, it is clear he has black hair (like his father Randy) when his hat is partially or completely removed - this was first seen in "A Very Crappy Christmas". When his hat is removed, it is seen that he has short, straight hair with black shaggy fringe. Despite having blue eyes and being described as having blue eyes in "A Very Crappy Christmas", "Good Times with Weapons" has an animation error with the anime appearance of him where he has brown eyes.
As a metrosexual, he wears an upgraded-looking version of his everyday-look hat and he also wears tinted sunglasses and a revealing, mesh, fishnet top that exposes his chest, nipples, stomach, and abdomen.
All of the boys' hats are removed and their hair is seen for an extended period during the shower room scene in "Lil' Crime Stoppers", although Kenny's head is only seen from behind. Stan also apparently has blue eyes, as noted by Kyle when Butters draws their cartoon forms in "A Very Crappy Christmas", but this is uncertain, because Kyle said it was similar because he had a sharper nose, so it could have been a mistake.
In "The List", he ranked third in the initial corrupt list of which boy was cutest. However, he was not mentioned among those who had to change places due to the corruption, so it is possible that he remained the third cutest boy, behind Clyde (who was actually in the bottom five somewhere) and Tolkien.
In the original Christmas short, he had a different appearance; his hat was the same, but it was fully red, he also had a dot as a nose and his jacket was blue.
In Season 22 and the beginning of Season 23, he wore a light brown ringer t-shirt with "100% HEMP Tegridy Farms" written on it in black instead of his jacket.
In "Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special", Stan wore a green t-shirt inside of his jacket unbuttoned.
In the future timeline set in South Park: Post Covid, his hair is graying on the sides, and he has a five-o' clock shadow. He wears a red long-sleeved shirt with brown vest, blue pants, and black shoes.
The animation of the series doesn't show eye color but it is said in "A Very Crappy Christmas" to Butters that Stan's eyes are blue. (Along with Kyle having a sharper nose than what Butters made, despite the animation rarely showing children animated with noses).
- To see images of Stan Marsh, visit Stan Marsh/Gallery.
Personality[]
Stan is generally the most tender and sensitive of the four boys. For example, in "Kenny Dies", he finds it difficult to see Kenny in his ill state, and in "Raisins" he becomes depressed after losing his girlfriend to Tolkien. Also, in "Fun with Veal", Stan is the only one who stopped eating meat completely when the boys found that veal was actually "tortured baby cow meat". However, in some episodes he does not seem to care when people die, as in "Dances with Smurfs" and "Chef Goes Nanners". Despite that, he generally has a very kind, sweet, gentle, and sensitive nature. He is also very open-minded and accepting of different beliefs and values.[6]
Stan is often very moral. This is evident in "Cherokee Hair Tampons", when he, Kenny, Timmy, and Butters challenged the character Miss Information and her shop of alternative medicine, in "Super Best Friends", when he helped battle David Blaine's suicidal cult, and in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" where he accuses the psychic medium, John Edward, of being a fake. In this episode he also gained possession of his own show (while trying to prove that cold reading was fake) and battled with John Edward in a "Psychic Showdown". Stan is also shown to be a pacifist, as he is often the one who breaks up fights between his friends, especially Kyle and Cartman, and he prefers to find peaceful solutions to problems.
Stan showed some heroism in "Cherokee Hair Tampons" by stating he would gladly donate a kidney to Kyle, even if it "hurt a whole lot". In "Whale W*****", he was also the only one in South Park to stand up and help whales and dolphins that were being slaughtered by the Japanese. He was angry that the cast of Whale Wars was not doing enough to help whales and dolphins and took matters into his own hands. It also shows Stan is a whale and dolphin lover and he tells the Japanese that it was a cow and a chicken that nuked Hiroshima, not a whale and a dolphin, in order to save them all being wiped out by the Japanese.
He is usually the one who is unaffected by the many scams, cults, and mass influences that South Park has been subjected to, and has a knack for seeing through falsely glorified practices and celebrities. In "Trapped in the Closet" and "Ass Burgers", he is the only one of the boys shown to believe in scams, cults, and that an alien makes everyone see things normal. Conversely, sometimes Kyle takes on this role, and it is Stan who is the gullible one, such as in "Chinpokomon", or the metrosexual trend in "South Park is Gay!".
However, Stan has been shown to have an overwhelmingly clearer understanding of scams and corporate corruption than anyone else in South Park, and has an especially good grasp of the dangers of cults. It is notable that despite his kindness and friendly nature, he has a tendency to ridicule, make enemies out of, and/or bring shame to a very large number of celebrities that are shown in a poor light within the show. This may be because his father (Stan's major adult influence) has shown to be rather incompetent and immature, so Stan is suspicious and distrustful of adults.
Stan and Kyle's personalities tend to be similar, especially in the earlier seasons, but are not quite interchangeable, and they have developed more distinct and complex personalities during the show's run. Still, they are considered the closest friends out of the four, though Cartman and Kenny do not have a close bond of their own.
Stan's depression is also a recurring theme throughout the show. He became terribly depressed when Wendy broke up with him in "Raisins", briefly joining the Goth Kids. Stan also became incredibly depressed and adopted a cynical world view in "You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers", where everything to him literally sounded and looked "like shit". In "Ass Burgers", he uses alcohol to make the world seem happier.
Stan may suffer from asthma, as an inhaler was shown among the things Cartman claims in "Sexual Harassment Panda", although this was never mentioned in the series again.
Stan is an avid animal lover - he gets a dog in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride". He resists the influence of his uncle Jimbo to hunt in "Volcano" (he mentions this in "Death"), became a P.E.T.A. member in "Douche and Turd" (although he had the choice of joining them or being killed), tried to save baby cows in "Fun with Veal", and attempted to return a goat to its rightful owners in "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants". Although well-intentioned, these interventions often lead him and his friends into serious trouble. Stan (as well as the rest of the boys from 4th grade) also went to Mexico and managed to get the Mexican Space Program to take an orca to the moon in a bid to save it (with all the kids in South Park having been led to believe he was a killer whale from the moon) in "Free Willzyx". In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", after he and Cartman crash a boat into a beaver dam and swim to shore, seeing the boat blow up, Stan says, "I hope we didn't hurt any beavers." In "Fun with Veal" he briefly turned to vegetarianism, but he quickly gave it up when he was plagued by a disease that literally "turned him into a p****", sprouting actual vaginas on his body, a disease called Vaginitis. He also sets out to save the whales and dolphins from the Japanese in "Whale W*****". It is revealed in "Rainforest Shmainforest" that he is afraid of snakes.
Stan is shown to sympathize with others, most evidently seen in "ManBearPig", in which he partially defends Al Gore because he feels sorry for him, due to him "not having any friends". However, when this pity backfires and lands him in a cave where Al Gore almost (unintentionally) drowns him, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny (where they blame Stan for getting them trapped because he was nice to him), he lashes out and brings Al Gore into a cold, hard reality, shouting, "Stay away from us, asshole! I only felt sorry for you because you didn't have any friends! But now I know why you don't have any friends! You just use Manbearpig as a way of getting attention for yourself because you're a loser!" This does not affect Al Gore, however, as he dons a cape and says he will go and make a movie starring himself (An Inconvenient Truth). Ironically, Al Gore is also responsible for the deaths of Stan and everyone else in "Imaginationland, Episode III", even though they were revived by Butters.
When angered, Stan is often quite reluctant to continue/do anything that will further contribute to the obscurity or direness of the situation. This is shown in "Woodland Critter Christmas" after he finds out the Critters, whom he helped, were giving birth to the Anti-Christ, he decided not to attempt to set things right (although did eventually after much nagging from the episode's narrator) also in this episode, we found out that Stan was a Christian. Technically, though, this was not him - just a fictional version of him created by Eric Cartman for his Christmas story. For the first seven seasons of the show, Stan's sporadic girlfriend was Wendy Testaburger. In the early days of the series, a running gag would be that Stan would throw up out of nervousness whenever Wendy spoke to him. As the show progressed, however, the Stan-Wendy storyline diminished greatly. In the penultimate episode of the seventh season, "Raisins", Wendy had Bebe tell Stan that "she breaks up", for Tolkien, causing Stan to go into extreme depression and join the Goth Kids. He recovered, thanks to Butters, who was dealing with his own heartbreak and had decided that he would rather be "a crying little p**** than a f**** goth kid". Stan eventually got over the break-up by telling Wendy "you're a b****" and giving Tolkien the middle finger while saying "Tolkien, right here, buddy". Wendy has played a much smaller part in the series since this episode. It became apparent that Stan had some lingering feelings for Wendy in "Follow That Egg!" when he grew insanely jealous of Kyle working with her. He, however, decided to show her up by responding to her compliments with "as if I give a crap about what you think, Wendy". At the end of "The List", however, Stan and Wendy reconciled. They inadvertently have an adventure together, and at the end, Wendy admits to having a good time with Stan and believes he has changed since they were last together. They lean in to kiss, but in a near-exact copy of a scene at the end of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", Stan pukes on Wendy. Their status as boyfriend and girlfriend is affirmed in "Super Fun Time". Also, in the Season Thirteen episode, "Butters' Bottom B****", Butters tries to get Wendy to work for him in his "Kissing Company" referring to her as a "b****" and Stan says "Butters, Dude, you can't call my girlfriend a b****" and threatens to hurt him if he continues. On some occasions (more common in the earlier seasons), Stan is shown to bully and/or rip on people when he and Cartman mention that they sat on a kid and farted on him. He and Cartman also beat up a random third grader when they enter fourth grade. He also threatens Butters for attempting to steal the video from him in "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" while trying to get to the video store.
Stan is frequently embarrassed or infuriated at the stupidity of his parents and the other adults of the town, and he often goes against what his parents do. This is prominently shown in "My Future Self n' Me" when he finds out about the actor portraying his future self and goes so far as to trick Randy to cut the hand off of the actor to try and get them to admit they lied. In "Child Abduction is Not Funny", the escalating paranoia over child abductions leads the parents to send all the town's children away, in fear that they (the parents) will abduct their own kids. As the children wander off on their own, Stan remarks to Kyle, "Dude, sometimes I think our parents are really stupid," and as they rejoin their families at the conclusion of the episode, "Jesus Christ, dude, they've done some stupid crap before, but, Jesus Christ....." In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" he admits to breaking a beaver dam, and the adults assume that this was instead a message urging them not to waste energy on pointing the finger of blame. After several failed attempts to explain that it actually was him who broke the dam through everyone saying "I broke the dam", he shouted, "I BROKE THE FUCKING DAM!" and explained the exact sequence of events without any effect on the adults. The rather displaced cynicism that he exhibits when dealing with adults, as well as his inability to be impressed by celebrities or fads may also come from the fact that, due to his parents, he has probably never respected or trusted adults. Also in "Crème Fraiche", he says "You guys, my dad is r******* but he is not that r*******" when Cartman presents his idea to Stan on how to trick Randy into not wanting to cook.
In "Trapped in the Closet", Stan was thought to be the leader of Scientology having scored the highest thetan levels since L. Ron Hubbard and was quickly approached by Tom Cruise, whom Stan called an average actor. After hearing this Tom Cruise shouted, "I'm a failure in the eyes of the prophet!" and locked himself in Stan's closet. After unsuccessfully attempting to get him out, Stan shouts down the stairs to Randy, "DAD! Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet!" (which is a reference to the rumors that Tom Cruise was gay, with "coming out of the closet" meaning when a gay man admits he is gay). Stan is later told that Scientology is fake and that if he writes anything almost everyone would believe it and he could make up to $3 million. Later on, when he reads his new writings to his loving public, his morality objected to it and he told everyone that Scientology was fake and that it was a wrong way to answer the many questions. Stan was then sued by almost everyone, including Cruise and the head of the church, without anyone taking any action until he lost his temper, shouting, "Well go on then! SUE ME!"
In "Douche and Turd", he is the only kid in the school who finds the option of voting between a giant douche and a turd sandwich "ridiculous". He is beleaguered by Kyle, the school officials, and his parents, eventually bringing Puff Daddy to South Park to tell him about the Vote or Die campaign, and then chased Stan around town with a gun and literally told him to "vote or die". He is later banished from town for not voting and is rescued by PETA members, the leader of which tells him that in actuality all elections are between a douche and a turd, which convinces him to go back to town to vote.
In "The Passion of the Jew", he is disgusted with The Passion of the Christ, calling it a "snuff film" and going, along with Kenny, to Mel Gibson's house to get their money back. Mel Gibson turns out to be insane and rabidly masochistic, and attacks the two of them with a gun in a manner reminiscent of Daffy Duck after Stan calls him "daffy". Stan and Kenny then steal the money from Gibson's wallet and flee back to South Park, pursued by him. Later, when Gibson asserts that Stan cannot say that his film sucks because it is saying that Christianity sucks, Stan counters by saying that Christianity is fine, but focusing on how people died ends up with really bad results, convincing the town that Mel Gibson was wrong all along.
In "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus", Stan is led to believe he is the only boy of the four that has not yet had his period, and is left out by the other three due to him not being "mature enough". He later uses the only question available every two millennia to ask God (who had come down to Earth briefly) why he has not given him his period. After a long pause, God states the obvious: that he is a boy and should not get periods. The episode ends with everyone trying to kill Stan for using the one and only question on something as ridiculous as that.
In "Fantastic Easter Special", he was made a member of a rabbit-worshipping cult-like group called the Hare Club for Men, which his father, grandfather, and the entire male side of his family has been members in for generations.
After his tenth birthday in "You're Getting Old", Stan became extremely cynical, viewing almost everything as "shit" and even seeing people poop out of their mouths. His cynicism becomes so serious his friendship with the other characters is destroyed. His parents also separate, causing Stan to move out of his childhood home, though it was shown in the next episode.
In "Ass Burgers", the follow-up to "You're Getting Old", Stan is shown to still be depressed. Everything is still viewed as "shit" to him, he rides the bus alone, and appears uninterested in everything around him, later bursting out in class. Mr. Mackey tries to talk Stan out of his depression, to which Stan breaks down, crying, wanting everything to go back to what it was. Mr. Mackey incorrectly assumes that Stan developed Asperger syndrome from his flu shot last year. Sharon brings Stan to a clinic to get help, which is a front for a group who sees the world as Stan does. The temporary cure for Stan's cynicism is alcohol, which Stan takes to see the old world. Finally happy again, Stan observes the old world, watches a movie, then sees Kyle to attempt to reestablish and save their friendship. Kyle tells Stan they need to move on, angering a drunken Stan, who gives Kyle the finger, saying "Fuck you, Kyle, you're a piece of shit!" As Kyle dejectedly walks away, Stan says "...Kyle, I love you." Only to tell Kyle off again, and once again proclaim his love. Stan is later captured by a group of restaurant owners trying to shut Cartman Burger down. At sniper point, the group forces Stan to ask Kyle what the secret ingredient is. After an ensuing shoot out, Stan refuses anymore of the alcohol saying he would be happy with everything going forward. Stan was optimistic of a new life, new adventures, until Randy drives up, telling him everything worked out with his mom. Stan is seen stunned as Sharon and Randy move back in, and he shares a picnic with Wendy. The closing moments of the episode show everything has returned to normal, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman come in his room saying they going off to see Zookeeper 2: Zoo-Keepier. Stan chases after them to watch it, but not before taking a sip of whiskey he hid in his room.
Family[]
Randy Marsh[]
Randy is Stan's father. They generally have a good relationship, although Stan often gets annoyed by Randy's obsessiveness (this is especially true with the video camera), pushiness, and melodramatic antics. Randy also tends to be very naive, which exasperates Stan all the more. Like the rest of the family, the relationship was getting bad due to Randy videotaping everything the family did in "Pandemic" but Stan may have been indifferent due to the Peruvian flute bands. Stan also dislikes his father's stubbornness, alcoholism and general stupidity.
Outside of Randy's antics, Stan seems to enjoy being around his father. Randy taught Stan how to dance in "You Got F'd in the A", and went to extra measures to help Stan win in "Pinewood Derby", although the extra lengths of cheating may have simply been to defeat a rival family.
Randy seems to want to live his life through Stan to an extent, but also to prevent Stan from his failures. In "Something You Can Do with Your Finger", Randy was enraged at Stan attempting to form a boy band, because he had a firsthand taste of fame and failure from it. In "Stanley's Cup", Randy woke up from a nightmare of Stan missing the winning shot in his pee-wee hockey game, and was emotionally unstable at the end when Stan's team lost to the Red Wings. He does seem to want to have a stronger relationship with Stan. In "Make Love, Not Warcraft", he logs onto Stan's teamspeak during the battle with the nerd and asks to play with Stan and his friends, despite him being weaker than all of the 4th graders' characters. In "Guitar Queer-O", Randy sees the boys playing Guitar Hero, and, thinking they like playing guitar, wants to teach them how to play the real instrument.
In "Fun with Veal", Randy grounded Stan for stealing baby calves and defying his parents. In "Grey Dawn", Randy, Stan and the other boys escape from old people who were driving at the same time. Stan tells Randy that he need to tell the seniors that they cannot drive anymore, which Randy reveals isn't very simple. In "Eat, Pray, Queef", Stan and Randy commonly hates queefs when one of Stan's friends, Butters Stotch, got sick after he got queefed by Samantha Dunskin. They both left the dining table after getting fed up with Sharon queefing at the table. Stan and Randy joins with all the men and boys to ban queef for life, which ended in their success. In "You're Getting Old", Randy tries to bridge another gap by listening to Tween-wave, while this serves as a chance for him to live his failed dreams, he tries to share his passion for the music that Stan and his friends hear, but he cannot. At the end of the episode, Randy and Sharon separate, Randy talks to a gloomy-looking Stan, and he drives off, with their house in his side mirror. In "The Losing Edge", Stan gets embarrassed whenever Randy fights the other team's dads during baseball games and gets arrested by the police. Upon realizing that this will disqualify Stan and the others from the game, Stan cheers Randy on to beat up Bat Dad and the South Park Little League Baseball Team is disqualified. Stan thanked Randy by calling him the greatest, much to Randy's joy.
Later in "Ass Burgers", towards the end of the episode when Stan was finally ready to accept change, Randy and Sharon reconciled, with everything going back to the way they used to be with the only exception of Stan still drinking alcohol which was not referenced again.
Although they generally had an okay relationship back then, it has become a lot more strained in recent seasons, in the several instances when Randy's irrational behavior and periodic alcoholism aggravate his son, along with the fact that his dad not only caused COVID-19, ruining his life[7], but also moved to a “stupid weed-farm” in the episode “Tegridy Farms”, that he absolutely resents and hates living in. The last time they showed care for eachother was in “PC Principal Final Justice” where Stan assured his dad that he loved him, but now Stan finds his father and his antics plain stupid. Ever since they moved to Tegridy Farms, Stan has openly told his dad he hates him, and publicly told all of South Park how he hates his dad, and living on the farm, even creating a heavy-metal song about his hatred for it in “Band in China”. He blames his troubles regarding the farm on his father, like the fact that it takes him an hour to get to school now. In “Season Finale”, Randy was in police custody with the possibility of being in jail for a long time, Stan was nothing but excited and overjoyed at the idea of Randy being incarcerated, as his mom told him that they will probably have to sell the farm and move back to town, and live their lives without the marijuana business and without Randy. Stan was especially incredibly sick of his dad in “The Big Fix”, as Randy was trying to get Stan to invite Tolkien and his family over for dinner as Randy wanted to invite Tolkien’s father to be his business partner, as having a black business partner would be “good for business.” In this episode, Tolkien ends up moving infront of Tegridy Farms, leaving Stan extremely happy that he finally has someone to play with that lives nearby his house (as it is an hour away from town), however Randy does not take kindly to this and drags Tolkien out of the house (as he is now rivals with his father, since both of them sell weed on their farms, creating competition) which leaves Stan choleric at his dad. This doesn’t matter in the end, because Stan ends up inviting Tolkien over to Tegridy Farms anyway, much to Randy’s dismay, and Stan visits Tolkien’s farm himself frequently.
In “Spring Break”, Stan is trying to ignore his father’s stupidity the entire episode as Randy keeps on throwing vile parties while Sharon and Shelley are on vacation for the entirety of Spring Break, which leaves only Stan and Randy at home (when Tolkien isn’t visiting, and when Randy hasn’t thrown a party, along with random people and pr*stitutes.) Randy is also trying to get Stan to join him while he parties throughout the episode, although Stan is disinterested the entire time, as he just wants to play Warhammer 40k with Tolkien all break.
Sharon Marsh[]
She is Stan's mother. His relationship with her is often more stable than that with Randy. However, she has told him that she considers his happiness and Shelley's happiness secondary to her own (yet this was likely a joke on parents breaking up, because Sharon has never demonstrated this behavior aside from in Clubhouses, instead commonly displaying the opposite.) She freaked out when Stan was missing in "Pandemic" (he had been arrested by the military), taking the arguments with Randy about the video camera to the next level, as their son could be in danger. It is shown that Sharon reads Stan bedtime stories, to which Stan falls asleep happily and with ease, in “Cartoon Wars Part I”. Stan's jacket is also almost the same as Sharon's shirt. Stan is very similar to Sharon in the way he is level headed, and it is likely that they have a good, loving relationship with each other, with them regularly and openly reminding eachother that they love one another.[8] Sharon also refers to Stan affectionately on multiple occasions, with many nicknames, such as “My/Mommy’s little angel.”[9][10]
In "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!", Stan tries to get permission from Sharon of wanting to go to Cartman's family's house with his friends, but she disallowed it. Stan then disobeyed his mother and left with his friends. His mother later found out Stan left. In "Fun with Veal" when Stan and his friends steals baby calves, Sharon demanded Stan to open his door but he refused and defied his mother, as well as talked back rudely, insulting everyone that eats veal. However, he, himself, was shocked by this aswell afterwards, and wasn’t expecting to say such things. Sharon then grounded Stan for defying his parents. In "Eat, Pray, Queef", Stan gets disgusted of Sharon queefing and causing him to leave the dinner table as well going with his dad, Randy. However, this doesn’t really mean much as the entire town was disgusted with the queefing.
In “Spookyfish”, Stan has a killer-fish, that was gifted to him by his Aunt Flo, who had killed a man in his room, to which upon discovering the man’s body, along with Stan screaming beside it, Sharon immediately assumed it was done by Stan albeit his protests. Because of this, Sharon runs to Stan and immediately starts comforting him, asking him “What have you done, baby?” Yet without waiting for a response, Sharon tells him that it’s okay nonetheless, and tells him: “Now, don't worry, Stanley. Mommy's going to hide the body. Nobody's going to take my baby away.” Before dragging the body away, and she is later seen hiding multiple bodies that were killed by the fish throughout the episode. This episode says a lot about Sharon’s relationship with her son, as she is willing to cover up crimes that “Stan” committed and will support and comfort him nonetheless.
When Randy pulled out a gun on Stan in “PC Principal Final Justice”, Sharon immediately jumped to his defense, pointing her own gun at Randy aswell, telling him to leave Stan alone, because of this, Shelley claims: “ Why are you always taking Stan's side?!” And “ You're always acting like Stan can't do anything wrong!” although Stan quickly got defensive claiming that she doesn’t always take his side. In “Dead Kids”, Randy was extremely distressed over Sharon’s emotional outbursts over school shootings, to which after a long fight, Sharon finally admits that she was too emotional and she should stop. Due to this, when they get a phone call that Stan had been shot in one of these shootings, Randy asks Sharon if they should get down there, to which Sharon replies, “It’s not the end of the world.” The episode ends here, however, it was implied that they showed up eventually, after leaving him there for a long time, as Stan is shown in an arm sling afterwards.[11]
Shelley Marsh[]
She is his violent and abusive teenage sister. She frequently insults him by calling him and his friends turds and physically harms him. However, she refuses to let anyone else harm him, as seen in "Pre-School" when Stan asked for her advice on what to do about the bully Trent Boyett. After asking for her help, she seemed to genuinely listen to his problem. Also, Stan even stated at one point that she used to be somewhat nicer to him before she got her headgear installed. She sometimes is nice to Stan, but would later prefer to run him over with a lawnmower. However, she has not been violent to Stan since "Over Logging", and they have an okay relationship. In the future, (South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid) when Stan visits South Park again for the holidays, he is overjoyed to see his mom and Shelley, even giving her a hug, to which Shelley smiles and says, “Why are you acting so weird, turd?” (Stan also replies to this saying he doesn’t know, he’s just really happy to see them for some reason.)
Shelley is also based off of Trey Parker’s sister, who used to bully him, but cared a lot for him nonetheless, defending him whenever he needed it.
Marvin Marsh[]
He is Stan's paternal grandfather. He is 102, confined to a wheelchair, and a tad senile. He continually addresses Stan as "Billy", and occasionally asks Stan to kill him, as he is tired of living, and is over 100 years of age. It turns out that this is a family trait involving the men in the Marsh family, dating back at least a couple of generations. He is said to have had the same relationship with his own grandfather. Since he also has problems with addiction, along with Stan (and also Randy), they are shown playing board games together to distract from their own addictions, as Marvin was addicted to gambling, while Stan was addicted to ‘Freemium’ games, alongside other things.
In ”Hummels & Heroin”, He supplies Stan drugs to smuggle in cushions (unknowingly to the latter) for birthday entertainers in exchange for German Hummels, so he would be the "top b****" in Shady Acres. At the end of the episode, he successfully becomes "head b****".
Overall, Stan seems to love his grandpa a lot, as he visits him frequently and is very thankful to whatever his grandpa gives him, even if it’s a really gay bolo-tie, and he refused to take it off, although he knew it looked really gay and he would be made fun of by his friends for it, simply because it was a gift from his grandpa. (In Cash For Gold.) In this same episode, Stan is trying to help his grandpa throughout the episode, not only saving him from scams run by online jewellery shopping network (that Marvin has fallen for before, losing a lot of money) but also by going through many troubles and travelling throughout his weekend, just to get a gift for him, a framed picture of his old border-collie, Patches, which he had in his youth, after hearing his grandpa talk about how much he loved that dog, yet couldn’t remember how her face looked like anymore.
Grandma Marsh[]
Stan has very little contact with his grandmother, due to the fact she is hospitalized with a debilitating illness and also separated from Grandpa Marsh. However, she is an avid Facebook user and often has her son Randy bully Stan into checking his Facebook in regards to messages and posts she sends him.
Jimbo Kern[]
He is Stan's maternal uncle, who often tries to appear as the “Cool Uncle” infront of Stan and his friends. This always backfires though, as he lets them do things like swearing a lot, blurting obscenities, drink alcohol, and even drink gasoline, which ends up harming them greatly.[12] Jimbo cares for his nephew, but he gets frustrated by Stan's animal-loving nature. In "Volcano", Jimbo seemed to give up on Stan because he refused to shoot anything. All the same, at the end of the episode when Stan shot the Scuzzlebutt, Jimbo still got upset and explained that one should not shoot just anything, especially not when it just saved your life. He then tells Stan that he'll always be his nephew, and he'll always love him, even if he is a sissy.
Flo Kimble[]
She is Stan's great-aunt on his mother's side of the family. She was first seen and killed in "Spookyfish". Although he was initially upset with the idea of her staying, as his mom turns into a “total b****” whenever she gets a visitor, he quickly changed his mind upon hearing that she brought him gifts, going “Wow, really?! Hey, I love Aunt Flo!” However, this was short-lived, as he changed his mind once he saw what the gift was, a spooky fish.
Sparky[]
Sparky is Stan's dog, who is a homosexual. He has had many gay relationships, to Stan's chagrin, including one with Clyde's dog, Rex. In the end, Stan comes around to accepting the fact that his dog is gay (I'm sorry I tried to change you, Spark. I just didn't understand.), finding out that being gay wasn’t actually a bad thing at all, and he was one of the first people in South Park to accept homosexuality, claiming “Being gay is just part of nature, and a beautiful thing”, all in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride". In this same episode, Sparky had also gone missing for a while, running away due to the fact his owners didn’t accept the fact he was a homosexual, and Stan was very distressed while looking for him, being unable to play in the big game or do anything before he found Sparky, and he missed him a lot, telling him “I missed you old pal, you really had me scared.” He went through many troubles to find him, and when he did, he assured Sparky he would never let it happen again.
Sparky made a second appearance in "Proper Condom Use", during which Stan played "Red Rocket" by masturbating Sparky, as he did not know what masturbation was or that what he was doing was sexual, since he was tricked by the fifth graders into thinking it was cool. In "Good Times with Weapons", his fur was used to make Butters look like a dog. Although Sparky has had on and off appearances, being absent for long amounts of time, yet also having random episode cameos, Sparky hasn’t been shown in a very long time and it is safe to say that he is no longer present, as Stan claims in “Help, My Teenager Hates Me!”, “I had a dog that was gay!” It is possible they let go of Sparky before moving to Tegridy Farms, as he was shown watching TV with the Marshes shortly before they moved.
Evil Goldfish from the Parallel Universe[]
The goldfish Aunt Flo gave Stan, who killed many people, including her and Kenny, and framed its owner, Stan, for it. Sharon nearly went insane covering up these murders in an effort to protect her "precious, handsome little boy".
Roy[]
Roy was Stan's stepdad. After Sharon "divorces" Randy in "Clubhouses", she immediately "marries" Roy (though it is actually more likely as presented from the timeline that his parents were starting out on a trial separation). Roy is shown to be extremely emotional, and possibly bi-polar, particularly whenever Stan attempts to speak. Where one moment he tried to be 'friendly' with Stan, he immediately begins screaming that Stan is ungrateful and does not let up on him. He seems obsessed with cutting firewood, forcing Stan to do it for an entire day. Sharon and Roy stayed together until Sharon reconciles with Randy in Stan's Clubhouse, and the two of them proceed to have sex. Roy meanwhile is held captive in a beartrap set by Stan. What happened to him afterward is unknown, but it can be assumed that he died while being hung from the beartrap.
Relationships[]
Stan is one of the leaders of the male student population in South Park Elementary, and therefore is well acquainted with most of the students. He is one of the few characters that always gets along with the girls, and was voted third cutest by them in "The List". He is respected and liked by pretty much everyone. He also has gone out of his way to make peace with his fellow students and help them out, like when he tries to make things right with Tolkien Black after Randy says the N-word on "Wheel of Fortune" (thinking he would win money) in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson".
Kyle Broflovski[]
His best friend out of his three best friends and his best friend in general (his favorite friend out of his three best friends), Kyle feels the same way about Stan, and the two have been close since very young childhood, but really all three of them have, as revealed in the episode "Preschool", also Butters. Stan cares very fondly and cares deeply for Kyle but can be coerced into disloyalty, as shown in "Guitar Queer-O" by cheating on him with a stranger named Thad Jarvis after being pressured into it, by ditching him in the "Black Friday" episode-trilogy due to Kyle lying to him about the whole PS4 vs Xbox thing, being disloyal to Kyle and the rest of the superhero league of the boys in their class in the "Fractured But Whole" video game as Toolshed (Although that was simply because he liked the Freedom Pals more than The C*** and Friends, and was forgiven by Kyle after they both joined the Freedom Pals and agreed to help eachother) and by betraying them again in the "Snow Day" video game. He is usually however, still very sympathetic and very empathetic when it comes to Kyle, as offering one of his own kidneys to give to Kyle when the latter had kidney failure in the "Cherokee Hair Tampons" episode and so on. The two still have their spats, such as what to name a frozen caveman in a block of ice, or fighting over whether to stay or leave a cult that made them shave the hair off their heads and to wear dress clothes, a cult that promises happiness. The two have even gotten into physical fights before. Stan's friendship with Kyle does not stop him from getting into petty jealousies when it comes to his on-again-off-again girlfriend Wendy Testaburger, getting jealous over Kyle getting paired up with her and Kyle being a good father figure with Wendy in the episode "Follow That Egg!", although having jealousy over Wendy is not something unlike Stan and vice-versa (especially in the movie Bigger, Longer & Uncut with Gregory, or “Elementary School Musical“ with Bridon Gueermo) However, they cleared things up, and Kyle reassured Stan by saying “I would never go out with my best friends ex-girlfriend.” to which Stan apologized for ever accusing him. Stan's friendship with Kyle also does stop him to hold him at gunpoint, possibly with threatening intentions by doing so, although he didn’t actually shoot him, and this was mostly played for jokes. as shown in the episode, "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce".
The two still share a tight and close bond, though. Although Kyle bailed on him during depression in the episode "You're Getting Old", it was after Kyle tried his best to adjust to Stan’s negativity and support his needs in the previous episode (Ass Burgers), also trying to remain close friends with him despite the depression by frequently going to his house, calling him, etc, and at some point he couldn’t take it anymore, as it was making him depressed too. They end up repairing their relationship and going back to normal by the end of the episode, however, something similar also happened in an episode prior to this two-parter (Raisins), where Kyle tries long and hard for Stan to get over his break up with Wendy, trying to set him up with new girls, trying to cheer him up, showing genuine concern for him, and trying to bring him back home when Stan runs away to become a goth kid due to his inner turmoil. It is worth mentioning that Kyle tried to bring Stan back by saying things like “Everyone cares about you, and everyone wants you to come back.” And “Goddamnit, dude, your mom and dad want you to come home.” Suggesting that Kyle was one of the people who cared about him and wanted him to come home, aswell as the fact that Stan’s parents went to Kyle for help with bringing Stan home. After Stan continuously rejects the idea of returning back home, Kyle storms off, giving up on bringing him back. Once again, they repair their relationship by the end of the episode, after Stan learnt to deal with break ups the right way, and Kyle responded to this by saying “It’s good to have you back, dude.” The two generally and genuinely love each other, and will often have each other's back through thick and thin. Stan and Kyle have a long and good history, and even though the two of them broke off their friendship in the episode "Super Best Friends", the two did still get back together as friends at the end of the episode, claiming that they were both eachothers “Super-Best-Friends”, and their friendship became even stronger, with them repeatedly kicking Cartman in the balls together to end the episode after he teased them by asking them if they wanted to “get a room so they could makeout for a while” and talking about how sweet their aforementioned interaction was.
Stan often tries to stay away from conflict, due to him being sick of arguments all the time, which is why he tries to stay out of Kyle and Cartman’s tiffs and spats. However, he makes it obvious that he is always on Kyle’s side of the argument, and sometimes defends him, telling Cartman to stop whatever he’s doing wrong. This was shown in "The List" when Stan said: "Lay off, Cartman, you're next to last.", in “Insecurity” When Stan told Cartman “Cartman, dude, not now.” or “You’re Not Yelping” where Stan told Cartman to “Stop it.” Cartman also claims in “#REHASH” that “Stan is such a douchebag. He just agrees with Kyle no matter what.” When the main four core boys aren't having a fun adventure altogether and only two of them are shown on screen having a fun time or a crazy adventure together, the pair is usually Stan and Kyle. The two usually have a good relationship, save for a few episodes where they get into minor scuffs or arguments, however, they always repair their relationship by the end of the episode, or the episode that comes after.
Eric Cartman[]
Even though Stan does not really consider Cartman a friend, the two are often seen together. Stan always calls Cartman as "fatass". In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", Stan and Cartman hang out at the boating rack, and Cartman even comments that it is great that they are hanging out with each other without Kyle, implying that Cartman at least would prefer to have a closer friendship with Stan. Stan meanwhile seems to be more accepting or at least tolerant of Cartman than Kyle and even Kenny at times, such as in "Fat Butt and Pancake Head". While Kyle is immediately distrustful of Cartman's truthfulness in his claim that he cannot control the actions of his hand (which has seemed to take on a life of its own), Stan gives Cartman the benefit of the doubt and admits that, with all the stuff that happens in South Park, Cartman could be telling the truth.
In "Chinpokomon", Stan greet Cartman and calls him fatass. Cartman angrily greet Stan by calling him a dickhole.
In "Death", Stan calmed Cartman down when giving him Snacky Cakes after Stan's grandfather, Marvin insulted him.
In "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", Stan, Cartman, the two boys and Ike managed to sneak into the Terrance and Phillip movie. When the Mothers Against Canada was formed to take actions on Canada, Cartman tell Stan that it is "fucking weak", which Stan agreed by saying "How could things be any worse?"
In "Woodland Critter Christmas", Cartman made Stan the protagonist of his Christmas story (he is described as 'the boy in a red poof-ball hat'), showing that Cartman sees Stan as a heroic figure of sorts. In "Douche and Turd", Stan votes for Cartman's mascot instead of Kyle's, much to Kyle's dismay. Also, in "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus", when Stan appears to be the only boy who has not gotten their period, Cartman reassures him that he will get it one day.
In "Hooked on Monkey Fonics", when Cartman declared he is going to be homeschooled because he got ridiculed by Mr. Garrison, Stan tells to Cartman that he doesn't wanna to be homeschooled and called Cartman as "fatass".
In "Fun with Veal", when Stan was hospitalized with 'vaginitis', Cartman seemed concerned and was relieved that Stan was saved just in time. This is a rare occasion when Cartman has put his friends in front of his own personal gain, as he helped Stan stop people from eating veal even though he did not get anything in return for it and would be starving himself for days. He also tells the FBI negotiator that "There's a sick kid up here" (referring to Stan) when negotiating to release the calves, showing that he is worried about Stan's health.
It is implied that in "Prehistoric Ice Man that Stan considers Cartman his second best friend. When Stan and Kyle fell out in the episode, Stan claimed that his new best friend was Cartman (as did Kyle), but they both claimed that 'Cartman sucks as a best friend' when they made up. This could be because Stan really values his best friendship with Kyle. Either way, it is clear that Stan does consider Cartman as a close friend. Also in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", Cartman wants to kick Kyle and Tweek out of the group but does not want to kick out Stan, which implies that Cartman likes having Stan as a friend.
However, in "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants", Cartman declares that he hates Stan because Stan loves animals. Even so, In "Trapped in the Closet", all three boys de-friend Stan after he becomes the leader of Scientology. As the boys leave, Cartman turns to Stan and says, "I still hate Kyle more than you". The two can also be said to be friends because they admitted to "being friends" in front of the home school kids.
In some episodes Stan is shown having a strong hatred for Cartman, even if Cartman is not doing anything. In "Trapper Keeper" when the cyborg says he has to kill Cartman, Stan asks if he can do it, and prepares to shoot Cartman before the cyborg decides against the idea. Although Stan is much more tolerant of Cartman than Kyle is, he often holds Cartman in very high contempt for his unacceptable behavior. In "Sexual Healing", Stan and Cartman were seen playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 together, hinting that despite Cartman's behaviors, Stan still considers him a "friend". However, in "Bass to Mouth", when Mr. Mackey claimed that Cartman killed himself for being fat when the school faculty "threw him under the bus", Stan was more concerned with keeping Eavesdropper from posting its "biggest story" than with any injuries Cartman may have suffered. This seems to be a recurring theme, as Stan did not care for Cartman’s possible suicide in “Put It Down” either, and instead, laughed at the “pathetic” voicemail Cartman had sent Heidi.
Kenny McCormick[]
Although Kenny and Stan do not seem to share the same bond that Stan and Kyle do, Stan sees Kenny as a close friend. In "Kenny Dies", out of the 3 boys, Stan has the hardest time dealing with Kenny dying, and cannot even bear to see him in the hospital. When Stan finally realizes that Kenny passed on "for good", he feels like he is Kenny's worst friend (until they hear about Cartman's selfishness). The two boys often hang out with one another when Cartman and Kyle get into their arguments and Stan and Kenny do not want to listen to it, such as in "The Passion of the J**.” In "Best Friends Forever", Stan and Kyle fight against Cartman to not have Kenny's feeding tube removed to save Kenny's life.
However, in "Cherokee Hair Tampons", when all hope seems lost to save Kyle and Stan breaks down crying in front of Kenny because of Kyle's impending death, he does not seem to care or even acknowledge the fact that Kenny dies all the time. This angers Kenny and makes him leave Stan to go home - which in turn causes his death by walking under a falling piano, and even then Stan still fails to notice or care.
During the first five seasons, Stan would almost always be the first to react in horror by saying, "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!", after one of Kenny's classic deaths. Of course, immediately after, Kyle would say "You Bastards!" and he would not acknowledge Kenny again after that. The only times that Stan would treat Kenny's death with immediate unconcern was when he was preoccupied with something important such as in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", and "Gnomes". In "Chef Goes Nanners", both Stan, Kyle, and even Gerald Broflovski, show a complete lack of horror or concern for Kenny's death after he eats dozens of anti-acid tablets and drinks water at which point he explodes. Instead all of them laugh and clap, finding that particular death "a good one".
In “C*** vs. C*** and Friends", Kenny as Mysterion tries to convince Stan and Kyle about the truth of his deaths and that they never remember, even to the point of shooting himself to prove it. Much to Mysterion's dismay, this does not work as no one who sees it remembers.
Butters Stotch[]
Stan's friendship with Butters is fairly decent; he can be friendly to Butters, hanging out with him in "My Future Self n' Me" when the two of them learned the truth behind "Motivation Corp", to using Butters as a scapegoat (along with Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny) or as a "guinea pig" for the boys' antics, such as in "Jared Has Aides". In "Going Native", Butters tells Stan that he is a "kid who thinks that the entire planet revolves around him and only cares about his image". Otherwise, whenever Butters stands up to Stan, he does so towards all the boys: "You're all fake and stuck up! The only kid here with any sense of dignity is Kenny, and the rest of you have your heads up your butts!" ("Going Native"). Butters and Stan have also had more amicable moments. In "Raisins", Stan defended Butters' speech ("No, Butters, that doesn't sound stupid at all.") and ditched the goth kids when he realized, "[Butters] is right. I like life a lot more than hating it." At the end of "Guitar Queer-O", Butters took Stan's place in the game, and told Cartman that he wanted to be the betrayer when he reached a celebrity-like status.
Butters also revealed to Stan alone that he had a big secret, that he was Professor Chaos. Although Stan took it to mean that he was coming out of the closet, and that his secret was being gay, he said he was okay with it, responding with “It’s fine if you’re gay Butters, I don’t care.” In "Butters' Bottom B****", Stan is against Butters for trying to get his girlfriend, Wendy, to start selling kisses for money. Stan even threats Butters to stop or he'll "kick his ass". In "Going Native" upon hearing that Butters had beat up Scott Malkinson and locked himself in the boys' bathroom, Stan is the one who takes the lead and tries to convince him to come out. Stan and the other boys also try to lecture Butters that he cannot beat up someone who has diabetes, but they were met with nothing but harsh and personal insults by Butters. In, “A Scause For Applause” Butters hypes up and cheers Stan on while he argues with Craig Tucker. In “Band in China”, Butters is apart of Stan’s metal band, and comforts Stan when he cries about how this band was going nowhere, meaning he was going to have to live on a farm forever.
Wendy Testaburger[]
Stan is the first of the four main boys seen getting his first kiss during a flashback in "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)", but not the first to actually do so. Stan also doesn't like anyone calling Wendy a b****, or insulting her.
Wendy dumps Stan for Tolkien in "Raisins", which drives Stan into a state of depression and even causes him to briefly join a local goth clique. After this, the two spent two seasons barely on speaking terms and rarely saw each other eye-to-eye. However, the two still had feelings for each other lingering in the air, as seen in "Follow That Egg!", in which Stan worries about getting paired with Wendy on a school project and is jealous when she ends up paired with Kyle. However, at the end of "The List", the Season Eleven finale, the two both work together to expose the secret corruption of Wendy's school list-making society and ultimately reconcile at the end, in a near copy of the end scene of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe": Wendy is about to kiss him, when he vomits in her face. This was the last time he threw up on her, even when she kissed him a few times later in the series.
Their reconciliation was confirmed in the Season Twelve episode, "Super Fun Time", in which they pair up at their school field trip by holding hands, refusing to let go for a long time, and Stan confirms Wendy is once again his girlfriend. In "Breast Cancer Show Ever", he is concerned about Wendy fighting Cartman but feels that he could not do anything about it. However, he cheers her on when she beats him up. "Elementary School Musical" concerns Stan's efforts not to lose Wendy to a popular boy at school called Bridon Guermo by singing songs based on the style from High School Musical, despite Wendy's reassurance that she will not leave him and that the whole school likes Bridon. Wendy also kisses Stan on his cheek when she closes her locker and leaves, and Stan does not throw up. It is shown however in "You Have 0 Friends", that after the second time they resumed their relationship, she does not plan on letting him go for any other girl. She even goes so far as to judge him by his Facebookaccount rather than him in real life should she see his status say single and or see any other girls' comments on his Facebook page.
In "Ass Burgers", she becomes increasing concerned about Stan's cynicism, and tries to talk Kyle into talking with Stan about it, but he refuses. Both Stan and Wendy are shown at the end of the episode sitting on a picnic blanket, presumably reconciling their relationship once again.
In "Butters' Bottom B****", when Butters is annoying Wendy to try to "use kisses for money" and calling her as a b****, Stan is against it.
In "Go Fund Yourself", Stan breaks up with Wendy due to him starting a start-up company with Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Butters. However, they get back together at the end of the next episode.
In "S**** Hunt", Wendy breaks up with Stan due to the actions of internet troll S****hunt42; all of the girls stated that his actions spoke for the boys' opinions.
In "Oh, Jeez", Stan is seen in a restaurant with Wendy, promising her he will change. Bill Cosby points out that if he is only changing to get her back, then he is being selfish. Stan tells Wendy not to give up on boys because "I miss, you Wendy." Before Wendy can respond, Butters berates Stan, calling him a traitor and ruins the moment.
Stan and Bebe, in "Follow That Egg!".
Bebe Stevens[]
Bebe has not been seen interacting with Stan very frequently but she has been seen as a sort of messenger between him and Wendy, as shown in "Raisins", where she told Stan that Wendy was breaking up with him. Later on in the episode, Stan sought her for advice on how to win back Wendy.
In the episode "Clubhouses", Bebe dares Stan to jam a stick up his pee hole.
Bebe also worked with Stan on a school project in "Follow That Egg!" but he showed anger towards her because he was mad at Kyle for being with Wendy. Bebe then became disgusted with him. Despite that, she and the rest of the girls voted him the third cutest boy in class in "The List", helps him capture Wikileaks in "Bass to Mouth", and sang Happy Birthday to him in South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid. She is also one of the few people to be shocked and concerned of Stan when he yelled out of depression. Bebe is also one of the few people to be shocked to see him fight his best friend.
Craig Tucker[]
Stan and Craig are somewhat rivals in episodes "Pandemic", "Pandemic 2: The Startling", as they both fight because Craig is upset that they took his $100. In "South Park is Gay!", they both argue that Craig is gayer than Stan, Cartman, and Kenny. Stan and Craig generally do not hang out. Furthermore, Stan's parents and Kyle's parents agree on preventing their kids from associating with Craig because Craig is seen as a big troublemaker and having a bad influence on Stan and Kyle in "Pandemic". Despite the rough points, they seem to be on better terms later in the series as seen in "You're Getting Old", where Craig is attending Stan's birthday party and is seen smiling while there. They can go from being completely against eachother (for example. in A Scause For Applause) to working together, laughing together, and generally getting along (for example, in Bass to Mouth.)
Tolkien with Stan Marsh enjoying some Popsicles
Tolkien Black[]
Generally, Stan and Tolkien appear to be on relatively good terms, often sitting and talking with each other at the lunch table.
However, in "Raisins", they experienced some friction after Tolkien started going out with Stan's ex-girlfriend, Wendy. Stan flipped them both off at the end of the episode.
In "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", Tolkien was incredibly upset that Randy Marsh had said the N-word on national television; the situation was worsened when Stan claimed to understand how black people feel when they hear the word n word. However, their feud is resolved by the end of the episode when Stan understands that he could not possibly know how it feels.
Despite the feud between Tegridy Farms and Credigree Weed (two marijuana farms which each of their fathers own) since "The Big Fix", the rivalry between Randy and Steve do not translate onto the boys. Both Stan and Tolkien are seen visiting each other houses to play Warhammer 40k or other board/video games frequently, and they are very good friends, albeit with Randy's objection when Tolkien visits Tegridy Farms. Stan is really grateful that he finally has a friend that lives nearby his house (as he lives an hour away from school) and spends a lot of time with Tolkien for this reason.
Red with Stan, Clyde, Jimmy and other children at the start of the "Make Bullying Kill Itself" music video
Red McArthur[]
In "Stupid Spoiled W**** Video Playset", at Bebe's party, she held Stan down and tried to kiss him. This was most likely because all the girls were acting like w**** during the episode. Aside from the aforementioned instance, they have not interacted one-on-one.
In "Butterballs", after Stan voiced his dissatisfaction over bullying, Red congratulated him, saying "at least someone in this school has some balls." However, he incurred Red's wrath (as well as that of the whole school) at the end of the episode after Butters stood up to his grandmother, saying the Make Bullying Kill Itself video made all involved "look like uncaring idiots". Red is also among the kids visibly shocked at Stan exploding with frustration in class in "Ass Burgers".
The New Kid entering Shelley's room with Stan in The She-Ogre.
The New Kid[]
In South Park: The Stick of Truth, the ranger Stan Marshwalker, alongside The Bard, becomes the New Kid's combat buddy at High Jew Elf King Kyle's decree, and befriends them after they help him reclaim his iPhone from the "She-Ogre." If the New Kid sides with the humans during the attack on the school, they will be forced to fight Stan and his "trusty wolf companion." Following this however, Stan seems to bear no ill will toward the New Kid, expressing disbelief that there is even a choice between the New Kid fighting Kyle or Cartman, implying he still believes the New Kid will ultimately side with them. He later leads the pirates in an assault on the outside of Clyde's Fortress while the New Kid and their other buddies assault the interior.
In South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Toolshed calls the Coon and Friends out to the playground in order to thank the New Kid for their help in preventing his dad from drunk-driving. He returns the favor by lending the power of his sandblaster to clear the "lava" blocking the U-STOR-IT.
The New Kid using their fart powers to power Stan's sandblaster.
After discovering that the power of New Kid's farts lets him use the "Sandblaster" ability without an air-compressor, Toolshed declares that he and the New Kid "make a good team." Toolshed recognizes that the Coon and Friends "are nothing without the New Kid," and is the only Freedom Pal not to immediately cast suspicion upon the New Kid's apparent desire to switch franchises.
Nichole Daniels[]
In "Board Girls" Nichole is revealed to be a big board game buff, along with Stan and minor characters Tammy Nelson and Kelly Pinkerton-Tinfurter. While she and Stan never interacted much on screen besides their brief fangirling over BBG, Stan thinks she is cool to play with.
Scott Malkinson[]
Stan is usually shown to say rude things about Scott. He rips on his lisp and diabetes most viciously in "Elementary School Musical" and even mocks him as a grown man in Post Covid. Though Scott throws the first punch at Stan in the "South ParQ Vaccination Special" that turns into a crowd-wide brawl. However, he did show concern for him when he got beaten up by Butters in "Going Native".
Bill Allen and Fosse McDonald[]
Bill and Fosse are shown as Stan's rivals who dislike each other. The first instance of their rivalry appears in “Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride”, with Bill and Fosse making fun of Stan for having a gay dog. In “An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig”, They compete against Stan for the science fair first prize. Bill and Fosse are also seen teasing Stan in “Pinkeye”, due to the fact that he is wearing a Raggedy Andy costume. This rivalry is revisited in “Lil' Crime Stoppers”, with Stan having to get Sarah Peterson's doll back from Bill and Fosse.
Gary Harrison[]
After approaching Gary with the intention of "kicking his ass", Stan realizes that Gary is actually a very nice person. Gary and Stan start hanging out together, though Stan becomes a little reluctant to participate in this developing acquaintance, as the other boys, notably Cartman, began teasing him for "being in love". Finally, after hearing the story of The Book of Mormon, Stan decides that Mormonism is ridiculous, and he no longer wants to be Gary's friend over his religion. The next day, he tells Stan off for being unable to look past his religion, telling him to "suck my (his) balls".
Veronica Crabtree[]
Stan hated Ms. Veronica Crabtree for her overbearing attitude. He called Veronica as a "fat b****", "ugly s****" and "fat, ugly b****" whenever she yelled at him.
Herbert Garrison[]
Mr. Garrison is Stan's homeroom teacher. However, Stan hates Mr. Garrison (as much the other kids do) for being a sick weirdo. In "Chickenpox", Stan is angry at Mr. Garrison and called him a "son of a b****" as well what kind of a sick weirdo is he for giving him homework while he is sick in a hospital. Even though Sharon tries to lecture Stan, Stan tells his mother about Mr. Garrison when he really is a sick weirdo which Randy agreed with Stan when Mr. Garrison is truly a sick weirdo. In "The Death Camp of Tolerance", Stan and his classmates shown disappointed that Mr. Garrison has been promoted to a new 4th grade teacher after the death of Diane Choksondik. In "South ParQ Vaccination Special", Stan is more disappointed when Mr. Garrison is back againn after what happened with Margaret Nelson.
Trivia[]
- Stan is the only one of the four who has never contracted a terminal illness, as both Kyle and Cartman contracted AIDS in "Tonsil Trouble" and Kenny contracted muscular dystrophy in "Kenny Dies".
- Stan has never had a terminal illness, but he did develop a strange illness where vagina sores grew on his body from not eating meat in "Fun wth Veal".
- Stan has been shown to be an animal rights activist: he protected baby calves from slaughter in "Fun with Veal", joined PETA (though only to survive because if he did not do so, he would have starved in the wilderness) in "Douche and Turd", and headed the Whale Wars crew for a while in "Whale W*****".
- In episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", the Warcraft executive tells Randy they need to get the sword to a great knight, by the name of 'LUVS2SPWGE'.[13] However, at the start of the episode, when viewing Stan's game screen you can read Stan's character name is "Staniscool".
- Before Season Four, Stan was never seen without his hat, even when he was in bed.
- Stan is the last one of the four boys to have a supernatural power at one point. Kyle has disappeared and briefly became an omniscient being by studying existentialism in "The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000". Cartman has the ability to see and hear ghosts, and the ability to fire electricity at people in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Kenny has had the power of immortality throughout the series. Stan obtains momentaneous powers, like flying, apparent telekinesis/superforce, and projecting fire from hands and mouth, when Satan possesses him in order to fight Beelzaboot in "Freemium Isn't Free".
- Stan has said "Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here" on at least three Christmas specials: "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!" and "Red Sleigh Down". He says these when something strange happens. In "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", he says it when Mr. Hankey appears. In "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!", he says it when him and the others go to celebrate Christmas with "Charlie Manson". And in "Red Sleigh Down", he says it when Jesus is shot by an Iraqi.
- Stan has a somewhat stronger digestive system than many others do as shown in "Dead Celebrities" since he is able to eat at Chipotle without bleeding out his ass afterwards. Cartman even remarks that Stan has a "golden rectum of the gods".
- Stan has asthma. In "Sexual Harassment Panda", Cartman takes Stan's inhaler.
- Stan's anime counterpart from "Good Times with Weapons" bears a large resemblance to Capcom's character "Ryu" from Street Fighter.
- So far, Stan is the only one of the boys who has not shown any gender-swapping tendencies. Cartman was shown dressed up as Britney Spears in "AWESOM-O", Kyle had a female avatar in "Make Love, Not Warcraft", and Kenny dressed like a princess in three of the last four episodes of Season Seventeen and South Park: The Stick of Truth.
- As of "201" Stan is the only one of the four boys who does not have a redheaded parent.
- Stan is depicted as a jock by the goth kids in "Breast Cancer Show Ever".
- Stan is the only one of the four boys not to have the "Oh my god, They killed..." quote about him.
- Just like his friend Kyle, Stan has a 'personal disease'. Kyle has diabetes while Stan has asthma.
- Stan is shown to have Nosocomephobia, or a fear of hospitals, in early seasons of the show, specifically in the episodes Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut and Kenny Dies.
- He is the only one of three of the four boys to be shot who has only been shot off-screen.[14]
Absences[]
- Season Three
- Season Four
- "Pip"
- Season Ten
- Season Eighteen
- "Handicar" (appears in a deleted scene)
- Season Twenty
- Season Twenty-Five
- Season Twenty-Seven
Video Games[]
South Park: Phone Destroyer[]
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References[]
- ↑ FAQ - South Park Studios. southparkstudios.com.
- ↑ As seen in "You Have 0 Friends".
- ↑ Post-Covid takes place 38 years into the future, according to The Return of Covid.
- ↑ "South Park" Cartman Gets an Anal Probe (TV Episode 1997). IMDb.com.
- ↑ BoardGameGeek Anniversary Video
- ↑ “Look—I was one of the first people ever to say there was nothing wrong with being gay.” In: Help, My Teenager Hates Me!
- ↑ The Pandemic Special
- ↑ Spring Break
- ↑ Spookyfish
- ↑ Cartoon Wars Part I
- ↑ A Boy And A Priest
- ↑ Volcano
- ↑ Stan’s character name in World of Warcraft is LUVS2SPWGE. Just thought you should know that.. @SouthPark on Twitter.com.
- ↑ "Dead Kids"
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