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| Kyle Broflovski | |
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| Age: | 9Trey Parker |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Red |
| Job: | Student |
| Religion: | Jewish |
| First appearance: | The Spirit of Christmas |
| Voiced by: | Matt Stone |
Kyle Broflovski is a fictional character in the Emmy-award-winning American animated series South Park. Voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone, Kyle is one of the show\'s four central characters, together with Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman. Stone has asserted that the character is loosely based on himself and his experiences growing up in suburban Colorado.
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His mother, Sheila Broflovski, is very overprotective; she instigates a war between the USA and Canada in the feature-length movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut because of Canadian natives Terrance and Phillip\'s extremely scatological R-rated movie. Mrs. Broflovski is very prone to "making a mountain out of a molehill" whenever she thinks something is threatening her son. Kyle\'s father Gerald Broflovski is a lawyer, but Kyle reiterates that despite his father\'s profession, they are not as wealthy as Token Black. Kyle also has an adopted younger brother, Ike Broflovski. Ike\'s birth parents are Canadian. He also has a cousin that appeared in "The Entity" and "The Losing Edge", also named Kyle.
He wears a bright green ear-flapped cap (or ushanka), a bright orange jacket with black-edged pockets with a dark green collar, dark green pants and lime-green mittens or gloves. He is rarely shown without his cap, but without it he has a bright red-to-auburn Isro. In "Good Times with Weapons", his anime self is shown to have either brown or violet eyes.
He is one of few Jewish characters in the show, though he shows a very Deist point of view throughout the course of the series. For instance, rather than integrating Jewish Mysticsm and Religious ideas with Science, he rather puts down supernatural explanations and prefers to see things scientifically rather than religiously. For instance, when Cartman claims to have Psychic powers and Kyle displays plausible psychic ability, he dismisses it saying that there is a reasonable explanation. He is considered by some to believe in God as First Cause and take on the religion of his parents out of respect for them (the latter being increasingly likely as he has actually met and seen Jesus, who is the reason for the Christianity-Judaism split). Cartman\'s most frequent topic to tease Kyle over is his religion, and because of this, Kyle is very insecure about his origins, and is more defensive than he is proud. He does not seem to know much about Jewish traditions or beliefs, as when his little brother, Ike, was going to have a bris in "Ike\'s Wee Wee", he thought Ike\'s entire penis was going to be cut off, rather than just the foreskin (this may be due to the fact that Kyle had his Brit milah at a younger age).
When angered or frustrated, Kyle has a tendency to clench his fists and growl or yell angrily. Kyle and Cartman share the AB negative blood type, as revealed in the episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons". It was also revealed in this episode that Kyle is a diabetic.
Kyle typically displays the highest moral standards of all the boys, even though he lies in "Are You There God? It\'s Me, Jesus". Kyle also usually gets higher grades than his associates, and often provides the sober thought to plans or ideas made by the other boys. As Kyle is the most rational of his peers, he usually acts as the protagonist to Cartman\'s antagonist. Kyle is on better terms with Stan Marsh, although they occasionally argue. Apart from Butters, Kyle is the most caring and compassionate of the boys. It is also revealed that he has no rhythm in "Rainforest Schmainforest". In the episode "Cartman\'s Silly Hate Crime" it is shown that Kyle is able to speak pig latin fluently. Kyle hates Eric Cartman, as he points out in many episodes, like "Kenny dies" and "Scott Tenorman must die"
Besides Kenny, Kyle becomes sick more often than any of the other boys, likely due to his Type One diabetes. He experiences a painful infected hemorrhoid when Cartman inherits $1 million from his grandmother and uses it to buy his own amusement park in "Cartmanland"(though this could be psychosomatic, as the hemorrhoid disappears as soon as Cartman loses his park). He also needed a kidney transplant (that only Cartman could provide) in "Cherokee Hair Tampons". In the episode "Guitar Queer-o", sickness apparently prevents Kyle from practicing playing Guitar Hero as much as Stan does, and in the episode "Death Camp of Tolerance", he succumbs to the physical effects of torture before Stan and Cartman. However, in the episode "Chickenpox" he is the only person in his class who does not easily catch chickenpox, even after playing a game in which Kenny (who had chickenpox) spat into his mouth and he had to swallow it while saying "ookymouth" (an activity suggested by his mother in hopes that her son would catch chickenpox). He does catch it in the end, collapsing onto the ground melodramatically, though this only occurs after prolonged exposure to the sick Stan and Cartman. Probably the most serious illness Kyle has "contracted" so far is HIV, given to him by Cartman. However, thanks to Magic Johnson (and his cash), he is cured of the disease.
| South Park characters | |
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| Main characters (The Boys) | Eric Cartman · Stan Marsh · Kyle Broflovski · Kenny McCormick |
| Other major characters | Butters Stotch · Chef · Mrs. Garrison |
| Family members | Gerald and Sheila Broflovski · Ike Broflovski · Jimbo Kern · Stuart and Carol McCormick · Liane Cartman · Randy and Sharon Marsh · Stephen and Linda Stotch · Others |
| Recurring characters | Jesus · Saddam Hussein · Satan · Terrance and Phillip |
| Others | School children · Townsfolk · School staff · Families · Minor characters · Fictional species |
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