2010-05-06, 08:36 PM
Rob Wrote: [color="#000080"]
No matter how hard I try reading TVTropes entries they make no sense to me. I don't know what are you talking about now. I really don't get the idea. [/color]
What's there to not make sense of?
Lemme simplify it then. Cartman committs the most heinous acts possible, and no matter what happens, he never gets his proper comeuppance. He's a Karma Houdini, because he always manages to escape the retribution of bad karma. Example is Cartman lying about having Tourette's syndrome so he can get away with cussing and it begins to backfire on him when he starts spouting out personal secrets. He nearly gets caught by Chris Hanson into spilling the truth as well as reveal embarrassing secrets only to have a swarm of pedophiles enter the studio and they all suicide upon seeing Chris Hanson. In the midst of the mayhem Cartmen never revealed the truth, and gets away with it.
This contrasts to someone like Black Mage from 8-Bit Theater, who is batsh'it crazy and is far more destructive than Cartman, but because the universe exists just to make Black Mage miserable in which makes him want to blow up the world, I can excuse his heinous acts because not only is the comic based on black comedy, he gets all kinds of wacky karmic retribution that almost always sets him back to square one of whatever he tries to achieve or makes his achievements not worth the effort. At least Black Mage knows how to make his carnage and destruction hilarious. I liked Cartman when he was just a loud mouthed fat kid trying to fit in/do his own thing. Now he's a bigoted insensitive jerkass monster who makes anyone that you ever hated in real life seem like a nice person in comparison.