Top 10 South Park characters

I like South Park. Unlike the Simpsons, they are still clever and it does not make me uncomfortable whenever they parody something that's popular at the moment. The Simpsons' Minecraft intro made me cringe.

The stories are often silly, but it's always been the characters that made them great. The creators have a knack for writing characters, all with a distinguishable personality. When given screentime or their own episode, you discover there aren't any background characters in this series.
The way they transformed Butters from background filling to a 5th main character was done effortlessly and succesfully, and as little screentime they had in the entirety of the series; both Tweek and Nathan caught our attention.

Here's my top list of South Park characters, from best to good enough:

1. Tweek

From the first time I met this character I liked him, he was the first South Park character I liked. His stress makes me laugh. Which is why it's upsetting that the creators did so little with him in the series and Tweek isn't really all that funny in the South Park RPG game.
Nevertheless, I remember the good scenes when looking at this character, and that's all that matters.
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2. Terrance and Phillip

The Canadians in general are funny, but of course Terrance and Phillip are their kings. While they often appear vulgaire and random, I like they have a normal and moral side to them. Any episode that features them is a win.
Love their silly voices.

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3. Ike

Kyle's little Canadian brother is by far the cutest character in the show, and while I miss the "kick the baby" skits, as Kyle has matured till the point he stopped abusing infants, Ike's small lines of dialogue are just great.
I wonder if the children who voiced him kept the swears in their vocabulary.

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4. Nathan

Nathan is a fairly new character, and even though I didn't really care for him in the Looney Tunes spin-off, the second episode that featured him made me realise how funny he actually is. 
I liked the running gags and there being another villain character who might rival Cartman one day. Knowing South Park, Nathan's personality will only get amplified; after all, Cartman wasn't really a sadistic villain in the first season, just a spoiled brat who went home alot.
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5. Timmy

His lines are simple, but he causes easy laughs.
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6. Butters

A sweet boy who keeps being the victim of, well, everyone else's actions. He often gets paired up with Cartman to be his slave, and really, I think the series needed that. Stan, Kenny and Kyle are simply becoming more intelligent and less involved with Cartman, they wouldn't help him take over the world.
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7. Jimmy

Jimmy is cheese itself, that's why it's hard not to love him.
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8. Cartman

As much as I like Cartman, he is down the list because I do feel that his evil personality is too big of a contrast compared to the personality he started out with in the series. Going from spoiled child to psychopathic genius is quite a leap, after all.
Even so, it's always fun to see how Cartman is able to manipulate his surroundings and always get what he wants. Except when the show decides he's a normal child again and he just quietly sits at the table having lunch after he tried to destroy the world with Cthulhu as his pet.
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9. Kyle

The interactions between him and Cartman are always enjoyable to watch, it's an interesting love-hate relationship and one of the more interesting relationships in general. Though I'm pretty sure the hate is stronger than the supposed "love". Hold your slash fanart.

But it's still a sad truth that Kyle only works as a person when Cartman is around; because honestly, Kyle has been too much of a goody-two-shoes lately. It isn't a bad thing, but in a show like South Park, it makes for a boring character.
While you have goody-two-shoes Butters, his character works because he's also naive till the point he's dumb, but Kyle is just too intelligent for the show in general.
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10. Kip

A character we won't be seeing back anytime soon, I'm sure, but his pathetic life amused me.