Fortnite's next big collab: South Park

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How exactly is Epic gonna mech this work?

Fortnite's latest (inevitable) collab is almost here: South Park will be coming to Epic Games' battle royale/everything game on Jan. 9, according to teasers from Fortnite's social media accounts. Exactly how Fortnite and South Park will cross over isn't clear. How will the likes of 10-year-olds Cartman, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle fit into Fortnite bodies?

Epic and the South Park team haven't confirmed precisely how the crossover will work ahead of Friday's launch. The only thing we do know is that South Park content is coming, based on a teaser image that features Butters loading into a five-player lobby, with Lil Whip as his Fortnite skin of choice. (Butters also happens to be playing Fortnite on MacOS, but maybe that's not heralding anything specific.)

Given the size and stature of the main cast of South Park, fans are expecting a few possibilities for the collab. One, the kids of South Park may simply be Sidekicks, the unkillable cosmetic partners that Epic Games introduced to Fortnite in fall 2025. A recent SpongeBob SquarePants crossover relegated the absorbant and yellow lil' guy to Sidekick status, rather than turn him into a gun-wielding goofball.

Alternatively, the South Park kids may be geared up similarly to Bart and Lisa Simpson, who wore mechanized exoskeletons to fit the silhouette of Fortnite's adult-sized competitors (and prevent two kids from holding semiautomatic rifles) during the game's The Simpsons crossover.

Personally, I'm hoping for a third option: Give the South Park kids adult bodies, either inspired by their ninja forms from "Good Times with Weapons" or their normie adult bods from "South Park: Post COVID." Or something wholly original that recognizes that squat, 2D cartoon characters simply don't fit in Fortnite's 3D world.

We'll know more about Fortnite's South Park event soon, but expect the unexpected. Hell, maybe Satan's finally getting his shot at a Victory Royale.

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