Leslie Meyers is the main antagonist of South Park's 19th season. She is a living advertisement sent out to destroy South Park for an unknown group. She is Jimmy Valmer and PC Principal's arch-nemesis.
Description[]
She has long, black hair that is similar to Jenny Simons's in appearance with bouncy ends. Formally, her hair is brown and straight. She wears a yellow shirt with a black and white robot head on it (similar in appearance to the Reddit alien mascot, Snoo), green pants, and a large yellow headband. After being 'murdered' by PC Principal, her head is shown to be filled with a strange glowing blue liquid and machinery.
Personality[]
Although she seems kind and friendly, she is cold and uncaring about human life or their well-being, as evidenced when she beat up Jimmy Valmer, even after he saved her from the newsmen's murder attempt, in order to carry out her plan. She is also very manipulative, as she emotionally manipulates both Jimmy and Kyle into helping her, even pretending to be attracted to the latter in order to advance her plans. Despite her robotic mannerisms, she does have some degree of emotion, such as happiness and surprise.
Abilities[]
Vocal Manipulation[]
As an ad, she is shown to be able to perfectly imitate anyone's voice, as shown when she imitates President Barack Obama in "PC Principal Final Justice". Her natural voice is an almost robotic monotone, a clue that she is not as she seems. Also as an ad, she can take human form, and unlike humans, has blue jelly-like blood when PC Principal kills her.
Manipulation[]
As an ad, she is also very cunning and manipulative. She successfully turns Jimmy, who is fully aware of her essence, into helping her escape from the Newsmen. Even the perfectly calm and rational Kyle was completely convinced that Leslie was not an ad.
Jamming[]
Leslie can interrupt transmissions and insert ads in media. She uses this power to distract the Newsmen, making them unable to surveil so that she can have enough time to entice Jimmy.
Strength[]
Leslie is shown to be incredibly strong, able to beat Jimmy unconscious with punching and break the ceiling open just by throwing Jimmy at the ceiling. She does all of this with no visible signs of stress or even effort. She is also durable enough to briefly withstand an assault from PC Principal.
Biography[]
At first she seemed like a normal talkative fourth grader who always found herself at the receiving end of PC Principal's anger do to talking during his speeches about social tolerance. But it's revealed she is "special"; a living advertisement. Her existence is to make sure advertisements take over the world. Leslie is willing to fake kindness, manipulate, and hurt others (as shown with Jimmy) to make sure she succeeds in her plan of world domination comes to fruition.
Throughout the first seven episodes of Season 19, a recurring gag would show Leslie being repeatedly called out by PC Principal from time to time for talking to other students during assemblies, with him usually repeating some variation of “Dammit Leslie, shut your fucking mouth!”.
However, for the last three episodes of Season 19, she turns out to be the Bigger Bad of the Season. In Naughty Ninjas, after Officer Barbrady was fired yet again, he joins the newsmen to uncover a sinister secret about Leslie. In Sponsored Content, Jimmy was being tested by newsmen for his unique ability to distinguish what is an ad and what is not, after Barbrady protected Jimmy from a shady GEICO salesman. During the trials, Jimmy is then tested to have a talk with Leslie. To Jimmy's horror, after having his first conversation with her, he finds out she is in fact, an ad.
Her true colors are unveiled in Truth and Advertising, when Jimmy did everything he could to tick Leslie off to uncover what she has planned. After finding out what would happen to enemies like her, Leslie distracts the observing newsman with an ad during her last interrogation with Jimmy before deciding to escape with him. However, the newsmen get mad at Jimmy, since they believe he is listening to his dick, rather than to reason. Officer Barbrady lets them escape, since he was not willing to shoot another child, despite being ordered to kill them for turning their backs on them. Jimmy and Leslie then storm right into school newsroom, where Nathan was put in charge by PC Principal, after firing Jimmy in the previous episode, due to his actions, such as labeling his PC crowd "pussy crushers". While trying to confront Nathan about the lies of advertising, Leslie double-crosses Jimmy by brutally beating him up and then orders Nathan to finish him off. At the end of the episode, she requests Kyle Broflovski's help and his social security number, before running off with him.
In the season finale, PC Principal Final Justice, Leslie manipulates Kyle to defend her and turn him against Stan, Randy and PC Principal while she sets her plans into motion behind his back. She was able to trick the Army that arrested PC Principal by pretending to be President Obama into letting him go with a catch. However, PC Principal finds out about her actions and behavior, and calls her out, like he usually does in Season 19. Leslie claims that ads cannot be stopped and will always find ways to get around ad-blockers. PC Principal then proceeds to expel her from school, before punching right through her face in retaliation for being used as a red herring, thus, killing her off and putting an end to her schemes.
Trivia[]
- She is a homage to Ava from the 2015 sci-fi film Ex Machina who is also a gynoid. The way she used Jimmy is similar to how Ava manipulated and used Caleb to escape her human captors.