Butters Stotch

Leopold "Butters" Swanson Stotch
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Character Information
Gender	Male
Age	8
Hair	Blonde
Occupation	Student
Religion	Roman Catholic
Voice	Matt Stone
Appearances

Leopold "Butters" Stotch (voiced by Matt Stone), is a character in South Park; his nickname is a play on the word butterscotch. Butters has a large tuft of blond hair on top of his head, and wears an aquamarine jacket, with dark green trousers. His birthday is on September 11th - Having a birthday that's the same day as a National Tragedy is one of several misfortunes he has endured

Personality

Butters is described as having a submissive and friendly personality. He is rather naïve for his age, believing whatever is told to him, and because of this he is often a target for abuse. Butters is very submissive and gives in to peer pressure very easily. Butters has also been known to always follow rules given by his elders, even when he doesn't understand the consequences he could receive from the other kids. He is consistenty portrayed with a virtue and willingness to trust that leads to misfortune and abuse. Despite his seemingly simple personality traits, Butters is occasionally shown to have a savant-like grasp of mathematics, quickly adding and multiplying huge numbers at other's behest. He is somewhat eccentric, and so many of his peers call him a "dweeb" or "gaywad". Butters is known to usually be polite, as he doesn't swear as much as some of the other main characters, instead preferring to say "Oh, fiddlesticks" or "Oh, oh, hamburgers!"

Despite his usual naiveté, Butters has shown wisdom beyond his years. Butters first falls in love with a girl, only to end up heartbroken when he realizes that she is just using him for money. Though Butters is sad, his reaction displays maturity and he tells Stan that such immense sadness only comes after losing immense happiness, and it makes him feel alive to know he loved someone that much. He later states, "I'd rather be a crying pussy than a faggy goth kid." Butters has also shown insight, when he is sent to a Christian conversion camp for appearing to be bi-curious. Although everyone around him tells him that his bi-curiosity is making him "confused" (despite the fact that Butters is not actually bi-curious at all), Butters stands up for himself by stating, "I am sick and tired of everyone telling me I'm confused! I wasn't confused until people started telling me I was. I'm not confused... My name's Butters. I'm eight years old, blood type O, and I'm bi-curious. And even that's okay. Because if I'm bi-curious, and I'm somehow made from God, then I guess God must be a little bi-curious himself!". Butters is also commonly seen in the bathroom with his pants pulled completely down with his shirt pulled up to his chin. In the episode "Awesom-O' he tells his new robot Awesom-O (who, in reality, is Cartman, in a prank) that he has to wear diapers to school because he has a herniated colon, and he can't control his sphincter, which is why he sticks a medicinal suppository in his rectum, which "Awesom-O" helps him with afterwards. Butters loves to dance, and later we find out that Butters is unfortunately responsible for the deaths of at least 17 people through two different tap dancing accidents due to his nasty habit of having his shoe fly off during the routine.

It has been shown that Butters also lacks self-esteem, because he almost never stands up for himself and as a result, he is the one who mostly gets the dirty work when the boys come up with an idea.

Character history

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Butters is happy.

Butters has evolved as a character. He is mainly portrayed as the social outcast of his class, chosen often for tasks that his friends did not want to do themselves. Sometimes Butters even allows himself to be blamed for other peoples crimes, when the boys ask Bebe if she would like to join them throwing rocks at cars, Butters tells her "It's great, you get to throw rocks at cars and if the driver gets angry, you blame me".

Butters went on to be in the main group for the month following Kenny's death. During this time, he continued to be treated like an outcast by his new friends. Kyle, Stan, and Cartman all openly bullied Butters, telling him he wasn't as cool as Kenny. Several episodes focused on the boys exploiting Butters' kindness for money or fame. Ultimately, Butters is expelled from the group for being "too lame" and adopts a super-villain alter ego, "Professor Chaos", as a means to get revenge against the group and society for rejecting him.

Since then, Butters has continued to be a major character. He has returned to his role of being the social outcast of the show, always being chosen to be the guinea pig and scapegoat for his friends, taking the role from Pip Pirrup, who has since dissapeared without explanation. His relationship with the main four has improved considerably, as he is often seen playing with them, perhaps indicating that the other boys have finally accepted Butters. Butters also continues to be Cartman's target for both help and abuse and could be considered to be Cartman's pawn.

Relationships

Butter's Parents are very strict, authoritarian parents. They are often psychologically abusive to Butters, constantly berating and grounding him for things that are entirely beyond his control, such as for having an "unappealing" face (his regular face) and for the events in Imaginationland which prevented him from going home and helping his mother clean the basement. They have also beaten him physically. This has evidently affected Butters psychologically, as he often tells himself off when his parents are not around to do it. Other examples of the abuse Butters has received from his parents include his mother trying to drown him in a car when she wants to commit suicide, being physically beaten after Eric Cartman prank calls his parents, being sold to Paris Hilton for $250 million, being rejected when they think he's bi-curious and being forced to wear a bag over his head for making "silly faces" (even though it's his regular face).

Professor Chaos

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Butters as he appears as his evil alter ego "Professor Chaos".

Butters's alter ego is "Professor Chaos", a supervillain/mad scientist that appears to be inspired by Marvel super-villains. He adopted this personality after the boys kicked him out of their group. His costume consists of a dark green cape, bracers, and a helmet: all self-made. His bracers and helmet are constructed of lightly crumpled aluminum foil with a red jewel in the helmet.

Butters seems to use Professor Chaos to express his repressed rage about being socially isolated as well as his desire for attention and respect. He spreads chaos with his sidekick, General Dissaray. However, the "mayhem" is initially very minor: sabotaging soup orders at Bennigan's and hiding chalkboard erasers from a classroom, for example. Although they develop more sinister plans, such as flooding the Earth with a garden hose, the group has yet to succeed in exacting revenge upon society