South Park Season 13 Episode 2 – The Coon

"The Coon" is the second episode of the thirteenth season of the animated television series South Park. It first aired on March 18, 2009. This episode is a parody of several comics which have vigilantes as protagonists such as: The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, The Spirit, Watchmen, and other movies based on comic book superheroes by DC Comics or Marvel Comics.Cartman becomes a lone vigilante who wipes out crime in South Park. Though Cartman tries to bring talk about The Coon to South Park through word of mouth, nobody seems to care about The Coon's efforts. When he reports crimes to the Police Station, he is threatened to be thrown in jail and snubbed off. During class, Cartman tries to hype up an appearance from The Coon, saying he will be on top of a Walgreens. Cartman as The Coon shows up to the spot to find another superhero (who appears to be a child) that tries and succeeds in taking the Coon's place as the crime stopping icon. The other superhero's name is Mysterion. He actually is appreciated by the citizens and the police, angering Cartman. Butters makes a supervillian appearance as his former alter ego Professo Chaos, with his sidekick General Disarray. A running joke in the episode is the fact that Cartman can't be Mysterion because he's too fat. In return, The Coon's identity is mistaken for Bruce Villanch to South Park residents and not Cartman himself. At the end of the episode, Mysterion unmasks himself. However, it is unknown to the viewer who he really is due to the similar faces that the children of South Park share. All that is known is that Mysterion is a student in Mr. Garrison's fourth grade class and Cartman correctly guessed who he was earlier in the episode and that he cannot be Kyle Broflovski, who was seen in Mysterion's presence. That leaves the remaining characters as possible Mysterion suspects: Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, Tweek Tweak, Clyde Donovan, and Craig Tucker, all of whom Cartman guessed on the rooftop of Walgreens. Wendy Testaburger mentioned that Mysterion might be a girl, which leaves a possibility for Wendy to be Mysterion. Even though we are left guessing who Mysterion is, The Coon is officially the primary superhero of South Park at the end of the episode, while Mysterion sits in jail for being a vigilante.