Name: Cartman, aka Eric Theodore Cartman, aged nine, voiced by Trey Parker. Show: South park, 1997 to present. Set-up: Cartman is one of the four main characters – and for many people their favourite – in insanely subversive and joyously vulgar animated comedy South Park. His equally foul-mouthed schoolboy side-kicks are Stan, Kyle and Kenny. Cartman is eccentric to the point of being evil and is a bigot and a racist. He’s basically the fat kid. Standout moments: The whole of the episode Scott Tenormann Must Die, when he decides to kill the aforementioned eighth grader who’s scammed him out of $16.12. Memorable catchphrase: “Beeeeeefcaaaaaake!” “Respect my authorit-ay!” “I’m not fat, I’m big boned” “Screw you guys, I’m going home” Lowest ebb: Getting Santa Claus shot down by Iraqi terrorists. Infecting Kyle with AIDs. Planning to destroy rival animated TV show Family Guy. Big screen potential: Done and dusted with 1999’s superb South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Sadly, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker say a sequel is out of the question as the movie is so quintessentially South Park and Cartman can’t really go it alone without his buddies. Why is she a hero? He’s the cartoon connoisseur’s hero of anti-heroes and just so gloriously un-PC in our increasingly PC times. Factoid: Cartman is fluent in Spanish and Japanese, and also has passable German and French. All the better to insult foreigners.