Editing Kyle Broflovski (section)

===Death===
Matt and Trey gave very serious consideration to removing Kyle from the show during the fourth and fifth seasons, due to his many similarities with Stan and a desire to elevate Butters as a main character on the show. A press release was issued by Comedy Central in mid-2000 suggesting one of the boys would move away, and Matt and Trey have mentioned "[[Cripple Fight]]" intentionally experimented with the kids' dynamic without Kyle around, while "[[Cherokee Hair Tampons]]" and "[[Cartmanland]]" portrayed him as a very sickly character who could die of illness. They eventually found he was too distinctive a character to lose, and began focusing on his rivalry with Cartman, as well as altering his character by fleshing out his personality from Stan's (making him more compassionate, intelligent, focused on morals, and of course- notably shortening his temper.)  

Instead of killing Kyle, Matt and Trey decided while producing "[[Kenny Dies]]", initially merely intended to be a single instance of Kenny's death being taken seriously, to kill Kenny off instead... it lasted about a year.

Kyle did seem to briefly die in "[[Imaginationland Episode II]]", and was declared as such at the Pentagon by top scientists, but was successfully revived by Cartman, so Kyle could make good on his end of the bet.

Kyle's momentary death parodies a revival scene from the movie "The Abyss".

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