Eric Cartman (South Park)

Cartman is a mentally deranged 8 year old who lives in South Park Colorado his closest friends are Kyle Broflovski,Kenny Mccormick and Stan Marsh all of who he has clashed with. his main rival being Kyle due to his anti-semitism though Cartman is intolerant of basically everyone .because his mother Lianne fails to discipline him Cartman has become a bigoted, spiteful and manipulative person. in early seasons Cartman was capable of compassion and was more of an Anti-Hero but that changed in the episode Scott Tennorman must die and has hence mostly been portrayed as an evil Sociopath with few exceptions.Cartman,s anti-Hero role was displayed when he felt genuinely empathetic to Stan,s Sister Shelly after she was dumped by her boyfriend Skyler and helped Shelly take revenge on him and again when he bonded with his cell-mate Romper Stomper after being imprisoned for hitting Token Black with a rock  and smuggled disney land in for him by crapping it out .his selfish tendancies remained however and when the boys got into the business of stealing teeth With Loogie it was he who decided to   betray Loogie and form their own group responding with callousness when Loogie tried using Kenny as a hostage.in the same episode Cartman and the other boys tried to steal some money from a boy who is terminally ill.When Kyle needed a kidney transplant Cartman took advantage of the situation trying to exstort money out of Stan  however Stan was able to get the better of Cartman by sucscessfully plotting to manipulate him into signing a release form which permitted Kyle to take the kidney.Cartman proved to be adept at trickery when he convinced town residents that God wanted them to give him money much to Stan and Kyle,s disgust. the nun Sister Anne managed  to disband Cartman,s church by having Jesus close it. Cartman was then sent to Mexico as punishment for his sins. When he was sent to Fat camp Cartman took advantage of the situation  by selling the kids junk food outraging their parents who blamed the camp which caused the kids feel regret and confess resulting in Cartman being banished and sent back to South Park.in an attempt to get rid of his mother,s boyfriend Cartman called the police telling them he had molested him Which led to all the kids doing it and Cartman tempraliarly becoming Mayor .Cartman,s really sinister turn happened when he suffered the torment of Scott Tennorman and sought revenge by arranging For Scott,s parents to be murdered and made into chilli which he then fed to Scott.When Cartman later learned that Scott,s father Jack was his biological parent he was horrified though only because it meant he had a ginger dad. in spite of this Cartman did have a twinge of guilt which left him depressed when he accidentially made the Thompsons think their mising Son had been found.when the problem had been resolved Cartman returned to his old unempathetic self and laughed at Kenny,s death.When Kenny became ill Cartman used this to convince congress to legalize stem cell research so he could make his own Shakey,s pizza  though in all fairneess Cartman did cry over Kenny,s illness before he knew he could profit from it.regardless of this Kyle belived Cartman had been feigning sympathy the whole time and gave him a violent beatdown to pay him back. another interesting aspect to Cartman is his strange sense of morality,he,s perfectly fine with murder but dislikes dishonest parents and started a company where kids can pay him to have poop smeared on their walls something Butters Stotch(Cartman,s main bullying victim) once utilised.When Cartman and the boys toilet papered a teacher,s house Kyle became regretful Which caused Cartman to make an attempt on his life which fell through.When Butters was arrested Stan and Kenny also became remorseful wanting to confess after failing to talk them out of it Cartman himself decided to tattle on them faking guilt which got him a lighter punishment. When Kyle was  told by his mother Sheila that he could take 3 Friends to Casa Bonita Cartman was estatic until Kyle informed him that he wasn,t going  and Butters was invited instead.Cartman tried to gain Kyle,s favor by attacking crippled boy Jimmy Valmer and making out that he had been insulting Kyle but Kyle saw through this.When Cartman later told Kyle that he hoped they could still be friends Kyle was touched and told him he could come if Butters wasn,t able to make.this was then revealed to have been a calculated plan by Cartman Who was able to persuade Butters that the world was ending and he had to hide in a bomb shelter unfortunatley for Cartma Butter,s disappearence genuinely saddened Kyle and made him decide to postpone going there for a week. the next Week Cartman was exsposed but only after spending some time there which made him consider the whole thing worth it.When Cartman learned there was a cash price for the special olympics he pretended to be retarded in order to win but this plan quickly fell through due to his lack of athletic ability. in one of his many attempts to humiliate Butters Cartman posed as a robot hoping to learn an embarrasing secret about him but learned Butters had a tape of him dressed as Britney spears making out With a cardboard Cutout of Justin Timberlake.despite Cartman,s attempt to destoy the tape His scheme was ultimately exsposed and Butters gladly got his vengeance by showing the tape to their class.When Cartman  jumped off a roof he made some obvious guesses about things which caused gullible Policeman Harrison Yates to think Cartman was a psychique and utilise him in their several murder cases.When Cartman came into conflict with other psychiques he chose to blame them for murders having them arrested which therefore removed his competition.Cartman again tried to take advantage of Kenny by launching a campaign to get his life-support removed so he could inherit Kenny,s PSP but ultimately proved unsucscessful. Cartman also had a rare moment of Compassion in the Episode Errection Day in which he  helped Jimmy with his love life with no ulterior motive. When Cartman made a presentation in class mocking gingers to get at Kyle.Kyle and Stan chose to get revenge by dying his hair ginger while he was asleep.this backfired however as Cartman began rallying the gingers to kill all non gingers though he was prevented from doing so When Kyle told him the truth. in the episode Smug Alert Cartman saved Kyle,s life though only due to the enjoyment he got out of bullying Kyle.after Cartman tricked a kid into sawing off his own leg Lianne tried to get Cartman help to improve his behaviour but everyone she got to help was damaged by Cartman,s clever psychological torture with Super Nanny being driven into a mental institution.eventually Lianne enlisted the help of Ceaser Milan and learned to treat her son like a dog.due to this Cartman decided to kill his mother but his hevily repressed conscience prevented him from going through with it and convinced him the changes were for the better sadly Lianne,s deperate need to have a friend caused Cartman to revert to his selfish ways.When Cartman got aids as result of a blood Transfusion Kyle was very amused.in retribution Cartman then injected Kyle with aids.Cartman may have a soft spot for animals as he once hid kittens in his attic to protect them from authorities but this is questionable as Cartman has been showing abusing his cat Mr Kitty in various episodes.at the beginninng of season 13 Cartman was  revealed to despise the jonas brothers and actively went out of his way to Save Kenny from their infulence.Cartman also was once a pirate and took Kyle hostage but the government ignored his crime assuming Cartman was a hostage because of his skin-colour. in the episode dead Celebrities Cartman was portrayed as genuinely loyal to his idol Billy Mays and sincerely tried to help his ghost.after Cartman took over the morning announcements he used his power to turn the students against Stan,s girlfriend Wendy Testaburger(this may have been done in revenge after she beat him up for mocking Breast Cancer and his attempts to chicken out of the fight failed) Cartman even went as far as to say she killed the smurfs.Wendy was able to get the better of him by giving him her job as school president which caused people to blame him for the school,s failures  Many seasons later Cartman started dating Heidi Turner and temporaliarly improved but that didn,t last long as he revealed his true colors when he attempted to Control Heidi with Manipulation and Abuse.