u/Putrid-Seaweed111

I feel like Cartman's been castrated over the course of the show. His schemes aren't as intense as they used to be, he wins even less and the wins he does get aren't that cool. Outside of the whole Heidi arc and getting Kyle sent to ICE, nothing he does is that messed up.

A good example of what I mean would be him in TMI vs him in Mexican Joker. In the former, he gets away with making his therapist's wife kill herself. Sure, he loses at the end of the episode, but he still gets away with indirect murder.
Contrast that to Mexican Joker. The episode opens up with him getting Kyle sent away by ICE, but almost immediately after, Stan calls ICE on him. He gets punished almost immediately after so it lacks impact when he does do messed up stuff.

I feel like we won't have him pulling Scott-Tennorman level stuff again because it'd either blow up in his face before it can be completed or he'd instantly get comeuppance for it so he looks more pathetic and not an actual threat. Butters is more capable of starting shit than he is nowadays.

TLDR; take Cartman off his meds.

It's no secret that Kenny barely has any screentime. This is a common complaint. Heck, Trey and Matt have outright called him a prop and it's been acknowledged in-universe that he doesn't do much. Stan in The Jeffersons:

>Dude, whatever. At least you finally get to do something.

Cartman in Lice Capades

>And this is exactly what Kenny would do: stand here and say nothing!

the entirety of The Scoots, Stan again in The Woman in The Hat

> Like, Kenny, I haven’t heard you sat anything in like, four months.

But even though they've been self-aware about this on several occasions, they've haven't made much of an effort to give Kenny that much to do. Some people suggest having Kenny lose his hood permanently. While I'm not entirely against this, I have a different idea that doesn't have Kenny lose his hood. And that idea is...

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Make Kenny Cartman's go-to partner instead of Butters.

They're best friends, after all. The necklace (Kenny has the other half in Stick of Truth), Kenny was his partner before Butters took that role, they both have no problem screwing over Butters (Scrotie McBoogerballs, Dikinbaus), they both share an immature sense of humor (the period joke on Ms Nelson) and Kenny is the most likely to join Cartman's shenanigans out of the main 4 (Kyle almost always opposes him and Stan is apathetic).

Plus, Matt and Trey's 3 favorites are Cartman, Butters and Randy. Being tied to one of them increases your chances of getting relevance. Having Kenny be adjacent to Cartman would give him more screentime. Plus, it's not like Butters completely disappears, he just has stuff to do that doesn't involve Cartman.