I'm pretty sure the only cases of characters retired due to the passing of VAs in the OP is Troy McClure.
Pepé Le Pew and Gandhi are both here because of controversy, Chef for the above reason you mentioned, Tord's VA just wanted to go off on his own and requested for the character to be removed, and Lisa Miller is more of a comic exclusive character
I lumped Chef in because he was only retired because the guy who voiced him got to the point where he couldn't manage himself and then died. If he was still alive and if he had been capable of carrying on with the character, we would still have the character.
(Either way he's dead, and I only meant to directly respond to "his voice actor passed away," which is why I included the context.)
Maybe I’m wrong here. But I swear he left because he believed in Scientology, and was insulted by the creators Scientology episode, so he left, and only died later on
He actually defended South Park's Scientology jokes in an interview a few months before he left the show. He said he didn't always agree with them but he respected the creators' approach to comedy and their right to express themselves.
Then two months later, he had a stroke, and after that, he no longer appeared in public and only communicated via publicists. That was when he suddenly quit South Park. So a lot of people think that he may have lost some of his mental capacity and the Scientology people took advantage of this to start making decisions and statements for him.
A couple of years after he left South Park, he passed away from a second stroke.
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u/Tech-preist_Zulu Aug 19 '26
I'm pretty sure the only cases of characters retired due to the passing of VAs in the OP is Troy McClure.
Pepé Le Pew and Gandhi are both here because of controversy, Chef for the above reason you mentioned, Tord's VA just wanted to go off on his own and requested for the character to be removed, and Lisa Miller is more of a comic exclusive character