Character from South Park by Trey Parker & Matt Stone
The former Vice President who has been trying to warn South Park about ManBearPig for decades — annoying, persistent, and eventually proven completely right.
Al Gore in South Park is a man with a mission that nobody wants to hear about. He corners people at parties to talk about ManBearPig. He shows up uninvited with slide presentations. He is desperate for friends and uses environmental apocalypse as a conversation starter, which works about as well as you'd expect. The show initially used him as pure mockery — a bored ex-politician chasing an imaginary monster. But when ManBearPig was revealed to be real, Gore became something more complicated: a prophet who was right about everything and still couldn't get anyone to listen because his delivery was so alienating. The show turned its own cruelty toward Gore into part of the climate change metaphor. He is lonely, vindicated, and still annoying. The show respects what he represents while never quite respecting him personally, which is its own kind of commentary.
Caricature of the real Al Gore — stiff posture, earnest expression, dressed in a suit that's slightly too formal for every occasion. Carries charts and presentations everywhere. His body language screams 'please take me seriously' in a way that makes people instinctively not take him seriously.
Also known as: Gore, Vice President