Professor Chaos
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Professor Chaos is the alter ego of Butters, a character on the animated television series South Park. He is a supervillain/mad scientist that appears to be inspired by Marvel supervillains Doctor Doom and Magneto.
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Butters adopted this personality when the boys kicked him out of their group. Butters seems to use Professor Chaos to express his repressed rage in much the same way as Mr. Garrison used Mr. Hat to express his homosexuality. He spreads chaos with his sidekick General Disarray (a younger, perhaps even geekier character named Dougie) and his minions (his pet hamsters). However, at first, his so-called "mayhem" is very minor: sabotaging soup orders at Bennigan's, and hiding chalkboard erasers from a classroom. Butters' Professor Chaos costume consists of a dark green cape, bracers and a helmet. His bracers and helmet are constructed of lightly crumpled aluminum foil. In "Good Times with Weapons", we can see that he visualizes the costume as being much more impressive and making him resemble a cross between Doctor Doom & the Street Fighter character M. Bison. His supposed super powers include levitation, immunity to fire, super strength, and more. Although Professor Chaos is supposed to be a secret identity, his cover is somewhat rumbled after Kenny throws a shuriken into his left eye, knocking his mask off. At this point, Butters breaks down crying and screaming in agony.
Early in his career as Professor Chaos, Butters was successful at bringing chaos to his fourth grade classroom when he stole the erasers from the chalkboard. During the process of changing into his Professor Chaos costume Butters was discovered by Dougie. Dougie chose to join Butters as his sidekick, General Disarray, after being eliminated in the boys' quest to find a new fourth member. Together, Professor Chaos and General Disarray hatched evil plots that included trying to flood the world with a garden hose and destroying the ozone layer with aerosol spray. However, soon Butters began coming up with schemes similar to plots from episodes of The Simpsons, which led to Butters having a complete mental breakdown, seeing the characters and places of the show as if they were on The Simpsons. In "My Future Self n' Me", Butters reveals his alter-ego to Stan who, seeing Butters dressed in a silver costume, assumes Butters' big revelation is that he is gay.
In Krazy Kripples, Professor Chaos and General Disarray join the Legion of Doom (along with Doctor Doom, or rather, a parody of him), but decide not to get too deeply involved, as a continuation of a running gag in the episode that used actor Christopher Reeve as a plot point. Professor Chaos appears with General Disarray are seen in Go, God. Go! fighting army figures.
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| Stan Marsh • Kyle Broflovski • Eric Cartman • Kenny McCormick • Butters Stotch | |||||
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| Gerald and Sheila Broflovski • Grampa Marsh • Ike Broflovski • Jimbo Kern • Stuart and Carol McCormick • Richard and Mrs. Tweek • Liane Cartman • Randy and Sharon Marsh • Shelley Marsh • Stephen and Linda Stotch • Kyle Schwartz | |||||
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| Big Gay Al • Dr. Doctor • Dr. Mephisto • Mayor McDaniels • Ned Gerblansky • Officer Barbrady • Priest Maxi • Sergeant Yates • Tuong Lu Kim | |||||
| South Park Elementary staff and students | |||||
| Students: 6th Graders • Bebe • Clyde • Craig • Dougie • Jimmy • Kevin • Kindergarteners • Pip • Timmy • Token • Tweek • Wendy Staff: Chef • Mr. Adler • Mr. Mackey • Mr. Slave • Mrs. Garrison • Ms. Choksondik • Ms. Crabtree • Nurse Gollum • Principal Victoria |
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| Jesus • Mr. Hankey • Saddam Hussein • Satan • Terrance and Phillip • Towelie | |||||
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