Butters Stotch

Prompt

Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a major character in his home series. He is a fourth-grader in South Park Elementary. Butters' role gradually began to increase after he replaced Kenny during his temporary removal during his death (kinda). This allowed Butters to gain more screen time and further develop his character. He is the "innocent child" in the group and Cartman's most exploited and possibly best "friend". Butters has made appearances since 1997, though initially as a background character. He gets his first speaking role during that one moment. He later receives a speaking role in his own movie.Butters was seen sporadically during his growth, going from a social pariah to mean-spirited bully.One time, Butters was adopted by Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman as their fourth friend when Kenny 'died'. Butters even had his own spotlight episode.Butters found himself as the new fourth friend, being put down and treated like a total outcast by his new friends. Kyle, Stan, and Cartman all openly bullied Butters, telling him how he is not cool like Kenny. Cartman in particular took perverse pleasure in making Butters suffer, to the extent that, he pretended to be Butters on the phone and bad-mouthed his parents, just so he could watch them abusing him. Several instances show the boys having Butters dress up as Kenny or simply call him Kenny or Not-Kenny, possibly to cope with their loss.Butters would remain on as the fourth member of the gang for four more episodes; two of the episodes continued the plot of Butters being abused but downplayed it and in the case of ending the episode just as Butters was about to be beaten (with Cartman being beaten up instead). Ultimately, Butters is expelled from the group for being "too lame" and adopts his super-villain alter ego "Professor Chaos" as a means to get revenge against the group and society for rejecting him. Butters would run around for several episodes as Professor Chaos, only to have no one care much about his plots since many of them had, though Butters did not realize it, already occurred on episodes of the animated series The Simpsons.