The 27th season of South Park, which abruptly became the 28th season earlier this month, has brought back a number of old characters who haven’t been seen in quite a while, including Jesus and his former boxing opponent, Satan. And it seems that the Devil has once again found himself in a toxic relationship with a horny dictator.
A lot of viewers have seemingly been very pleased by the focus on these South Park legacy characters, no doubt because they’ve been largely brought back in the service of broader ideological arguments about life in 2025, not just as part of some creatively-bankrupt stab at memberberries-esque nostalgia bait.
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But, as one fan recently pointed out on Reddit, there’s a very good reason why Satan hasn’t been a part of South Park for the past seven years: He died. And for a while it seemed as though his death were permanent, unlike a certain orange hooded fourth-grader.
Back in Season 22’s “Nobody Got Cereal?” the show walked back its earlier criticisms of Al Gore’s environmental panic, revealing that the monstrous climate-change allegory known as Manbearpig is, in fact, a very real threat that we should definitely be freaking out over.
In order to save the town from the vicious beast, the boys turn to Satan for help. The horned Skeet Ulrich superfan then battles Manbearbig in the streets of South Park in a scene that was evidently patterned off of that crappy Edward Norton Hulk movie. But he gets badly hurt during the brutal melee and ultimately succumbs to his wounds.
Now that Satan is back, a number of fans expressed surprise that he didn’t return from the dead by exclaiming, “Where was I gonna go, Detroit?” as Saddam Hussein did upon his return to Hell (which was later quoted by Satan’s new beau, Chris).
Although, to be fair, Saddam was always going to end up back in Hell and/or Detroit. But at the end of “Nobody Got Cereal?” Satan’s spirit exits his body and ascends to Heaven, sprouting angel wings in the process. It was a fitting, borderline touching, exit for a character who had been a part of the show since the very first season.
Maybe at some point in the future, Disney will buy Paramount and greenlight a 10-episode limited streaming series explaining how Satan went from a divine ghost to the father of Donald Trump’s “butt baby.”
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