Craig Tucker is a member of the boys' fourth grade class and the boyfriend of Tweek Tweak as of the episode "Tweek x Craig". He is a troublemaker and is known for often flipping people off. He owns a guinea pig called Stripe.
He is voiced by Matt Stone.
Appearance[]
Craig wears a blue jacket and a matching blue chullo hat with a yellow puffball on top. He wore yellow mittens in "How to Eat with Your Butt". In the early seasons of the series, he wore blue jeans, but in more recent seasons, he wears high-waisted black pants. The fact that his legs are longer is clearly visible in "South Park is Gay!", where he and three other boys from his class wear identical clothes, because Craig's pants appear much longer than the others. Underneath his hat, Craig is shown to have short black hair (similar to Stan Marsh).
In "T.M.I.", it's listed that he has grown the most in height out of all the boys, along with Kenny and Kyle, all three gaining 2.4 inches. This implies he may be one of the tallest (if not, the tallest) boys in the class, especially since he appeared to be taller than the others even before his growth. One of the reasons he may be tall is that both his parents are shown to be the tallest adults in the town.
Personality[]
Craig seems to be one of the most cynical, stoic, deadpan kids from his class, having a darker personality than the rest of the characters, a trait exaggerated by his deeper-than-average voice. He has been described as pragmatic, monotone and ironic.
Craig is implied to have bad behavior, and is referred to as "the biggest trouble-maker" in his class by Eric Cartman in "Tweek vs. Craig". Craig has a habit of flipping people off, sometimes to express irritation, anger, or disdain towards them, sometimes as a reflex. This is a trait the official South Park website states is learned from his family, who are all seen flipping each other off in "Tweek vs. Craig". His habit of flipping people off has been shown much less in later episodes, although a later incident regarding flipping off the principal of school ended up with him in detention.
Quotes[]
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Don't worry, Stan, I don't think the fight's even gonna happen. Cartman said that Wendy's already begging him to call it off. |
” | —Craig to Stan about Wendy in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" |
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Tom Saltzman says you just glued a piece of glass to an iPad cover and you're faking it. |
” | —Craig in "HUMANCENTiPAD" |
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I can't be something just because everyone wants me to be. I have to be myself. |
” | —Craig to Tweek in "Tweek x Craig" |
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Trivia[]
- In "Quest for Ratings", when Craig's school program is canceled, the teacher orders him to be castrated. It is never specified whether this was actually carried out.
- Craig likes a show called Red Racer. This is a play on the show Speed Racer.
- Craig can be seen rioting with the children at the Nebraska mall in "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!"
- In "Le Petit Tourette" Craig is jealous of Cartman and expresses it by saying "If I could say (whatever Cartman said before) to (whoever Cartman said it to), I would be soooooooo happy." In "Pandemic 2", Craig says "Last week was my Birthday. My grandma gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I was soooooooo happy." Later on in that episode, he says "...as for me, I was returned home by homeland security. My parents were soooooooo happy." This could be a minor catchphrase of his.
- Craig is also a fan of Lord of the Rings as seen in the season 6 episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", in which he takes the role of Boromir from the movie. When Cartman says that the sixth graders can't stand water, Craig thinks it's stupid and decides to go back to the Harry Potter kids instead to play with them (along with the kindergartner Filmore, who takes the role of Gimli the Dwarf).
- Craig's alter-ego in "South Park: The Stick of Truth", Feldspar the Thief, is a reference to the character "Craig Feldspar" from the show Malcolm in the Middle.
- Craig is one of the only two kids who has three different Fantasy incarnations, the other one being Clyde, who has different costumes for different incarnations. However, Craig's costume remains the same, likely due to the same reason that he has a rather simple costume in The Fractured But Whole.
- Craig might have a cat because his sister can be seen holding one in "Major Boobage".
- In the episode "Lil' Crime Stoppers", one of several children playing FBI refers to himself as Agent Tucker.
- In the episode "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)]]", Craig actually dies in Cartman's dream. When the bus tilts, he can't hang on and falls out, screaming. He survives in real life.
- Craig's birthday was in the episode "[Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling".
- Craig's yellow poof on top of his hat is the same as Cartman's.
- Craig's tendency to flip off people is shown to stem from his family, who constantly flip each other off during dinner in "Tweek vs. Craig".
- Many fans believed that Craig was possibly related to Red due to the resemblance between Thomas Tucker and Skeeter, who was thought to be Red's father. It was speculated that due to the similarities in their fathers, that he and Red were cousins and that Red's surname may be Tucker. This theory was disproved in "The Pandemic Special" which showed that Red had different parents.
- There is a green version of Craig waiting in line at Cartman Burger in "Ass Burgers". It's possible that it's Craig wearing another set of clothes or just another character. However, it is widely believed that this is not, in fact, Craig, as a normally-dressed Craig is shown in the previous scene. The "green Craig" is also seen eating lunch all the way back in the Season One episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty" at the South Park Elementary cafeteria.
- Craig weighs 45 lbs (20.4 kg), as revealed in "Tweek vs. Craig".
- Craig has spoken in every season since his first speaking role in Season Three.
- Craig, along with Tweek, is the first child character in the series to be in a same-sex relationship.
- Craig is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as seen by the poster of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) in his room in "The End of Serialization as We Know It".
- According to Cartman in the episode "The List," Craig has "fucked up" teeth.