hearing about David Carradine's autoerotic asphyxiation death after testing positive for sex addiction. Butters is also known for being gullible, quickly believing anything told to him by others and tending to do whatever he is told to do with little protest, no matter how ridiculous these things seem to be. As such, he is always made an unknowing accomplice in Cartman's various devious schemes. There are cases, however, where Butters has shown a darker side, such as in episodes like "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" and "Butterballs"; in the latter of which he viciously assaulted Dr. Oz and verbally castigated his abusive grandmother. In other media Butters appears as a nameless background character with only one line in the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Butters plays a major role in the three-episode "Imaginationland" story arc, which was reissued straight-to-DVD as a full-length feature in 2008. Butters is the main playable character in South Park Imaginationland, a mobile game for the iPhone loosely based on the show's Imaginationland trilogy of episodes. In the video game South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, Butters can be selected as a playable character used to establish a tower defense against the game's antagonists. He also appears in a major role as a companion fighter in the video game South Park: The Stick of Truth, where he plays as a paladin, where his abilities include healing, holy damage, and summoning Professor Chaos who can inflict a variety of status-affecting attacks on enemies or shielding the players. In the superhero-themed sequel South Park: The Fractured but Whole, he appears as Professor Chaos and is an antagonist. A DVD box set of 13 Butters-centric episodes, A Little Box of Butters, was released in September 2010. A pinball game revolved around the character entitled "Butters Very Own Pinball" (named after the season five finale "Butters' Very Own Episode") is playable on the mobile app video game South Park Pinball. References Bibliography External links Leopold "Butters" Stotch at South Park Studios American male characters in television Child characters in television Child characters in animated films Fictional characters based on real people Television characters introduced in 1997 Fictional characters from Colorado Fictional elementary school students Male characters in animated series Male characters in film South Park characters Television sidekicks Fictional henchmen Video game bosses Video game protagonists Fictional characters with alter egos Fictional victims of domestic abuse