Alternatively, the Stick of Truth could have been Cartman playing the game for the game's sake - despite the Stick being an artifact of omnipotent power in-game, he knows that in the real world it's just a stick.Cartman may have ultimately decided that recruiting the New Kid was worth the risk since their tendency of being a Heroic Mime assures him that the New Kid won't ask for much in return for their loyalty and therefore may have no interest in seizing control of Coon and Friends. Additionally, Cartman may have figured that if they recruited the New Kid, they might again grow powerful enough to surpass him and possibly upstage him (just as how in the Fighters of Zaron game, the New Kid worked their way up to becoming King and unified both Kupa Keep and the Drow Elves).If the New Kid has made those choices in canon, Cartman likely figured giving the New Kid any friendliness would just bite him in the ass and sees the mere act of letting them join Coon and Friends as a chance for the New Kid to earn back his trust, which would make Cartman's own betrayal all the more ironic. Cartman's more dickish behavior toward the New Kid would also make sense depending on what choices the player has made back in Stick of Truth, more specifically whether or not the New Kid has switched sides with Kyle or has decided to fight Cartman at the end of the school siege.By comparison, he's much more manipulative and selfish when he's the Coon, trying to frame others to get his way and even taming Cthulhu to destroy the things he hates. In the show, when the boys are playing around with a fantasy setting, Cartman tends to be more heroic and determined to complete their mission as seen in episodes like "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" and "Make Love, Not Warcraft". Cartman being more of a jerk to the New Kid this time around coincides with his Coon character and the change from fantasy setting to superhero setting.Should the New Kid be a girl, the New Kid’s mother’s momentary pause before referring to her child as “him” in the beginning of The Stick of Truth could be seen in retrospect as her simply trying to adjust after changing her daughter’s gender identity in an attempt to hide her from the government.Then again, that just begs the question of how they failed to notice their biological sex should they be biologically female. So of course people will refer to her by her biological sex. Throughout the entirety of The Stick of Truth, she never once spoke (until the very end of the game, uttering classical "Screw you guys, I'm going home") let alone clarified her transgender status. While the confusion regarding the New Kid actually being a girl is generally Played for Laughs, it does make sense if she's a trans girl. Something they really did do in the last game, so technically, that really is part of their backstory. Possibly coincidental, but the New Kid's backstory consists of them walking in on their parents doing the dirty.Also doubles as a dig at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where Daredevil, their closest analog to Mysterion, is relegated to a Netflix series.Naturally Cartman wants to downplay Kenny's role in the franchise. Alternatively, it's been established in the show that Kenny is both a more popular hero than Cartman ("The Coon") and the others' preferred leader (the "Coon and Friends" trilogy). Why does Mysterion/Kenny get relegated to Netflix? The Coon/Cartman likely did it as a dig because he's poor.He'll gladly take away your game if you don't give him what he wants. His ultimate displays magazine covers and posters all about him. This could be seen as a dig at those wanting to skip the cutscenes and getting straight to the gameplay, but this could also be Cartman throwing another tantrum but directing his vengeance at you, the player. Keep it up and he'll eventually just skip the entire game and send you straight to the end credits sequence instead. If you attempt to skip the opening cutscene, The Coon/Cartman instead interrupts saying you don't want to skip it.
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