Stendy

Stendy is the het ship between Stan Marsh and Wendy Testaburger from the South Park fandom.

Canon
In Season 1 Episode 1, titled 'Cartman Gets an Anal Probe'. When Wendy Testaburger was introduced, Stan is shown to have feelings toward her, though he denies it after Cartman teases him about it. Wendy gives Stan a letter about meeting her at the Stark's Pond after school, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Chef all give him some suggestions about it. The episode ends with both of them trying to kiss, after Stan stopped puking once when talking to Wendy; Though it ends up in him puking again. The episode implies that they've had a crush on one other for a while, even before the show began. When Stan gets a crush on their new teacher in 'Tom's Rhinoplasty', Wendy tries repeatedly to win back his affections. She was frustrated the whole episode, and so she tried a lot of things to get rid of her: Tried to threat her, give her dead animals, and try to ruin her image by spreading "things" about her. She also tried to deal with it peacefully, by trying to have a 'make-over' to make Stan notice her again (This kind of thing also happened during "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"). When this doesn't work, she resorted to violence by first hiring people to harass Garrison to make him come back, and then hires people to fling the teacher into the sun. At the end of the episode, she starts a party to celebrate and even had an 'Eclipse Shoe Box' to witness her teacher's end better.

"I told her... Don't. fuck. With. Wendy. Testaburger."

There are several other examples of Wendy becoming jealous, such as Wendy mistaking an interaction between Stan and one of his grandmother's friends as romantic in 'You Have 0 Friends.' Stan also becomes jealous at moments, like when Wendy and Kyle are paired up in 'Follow That Egg!' and Stan spends the majority of the episode upset about it.

During Season 2 Episode 9 'Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls', Wendy and Stan went to "Film Festival Movies" together. At the end of the Episode, Wendy realizes that Stan didn't enjoy the movies much and apologizes.

Sometimes I forget that, even though few Independent films are great, most of them suck ass."


Stan writes a song for Wendy during Season 2 Episode 14 'Chef Aid'. He asks Elton John to play it on the 'Benefit Concert' for Chef, but as he starts singing it, the whole concert got sabotaged.

They first break up in the Season 7 Episode 14, 'Raisins', where Wendy dumps Stan so she can date Token. This causes him to fall into a depression and become goth for a short period of time. During this, he writes a poem about his feelings for Wendy, which includes the lines "I miss you so much, babe. Want to hold you in my arms again, girl.", much to the goth kids' annoyance.

They get back together in Season 11 Episode 14, 'The List', after Stan enlists Wendy's help to uncover the truth behind the girls' ranking of the boys.

- Yeah well.. I guess a lot of things change, don't they?"
At the end of the episode, Stan vomits before Wendy can kiss him, though this is the last time the gag is used.

Wendy breaks up with Stan once more in Season 20 Episode 2, 'Skank Hunt', mostly due to pressure from her friends and not out of her own desire to do so. In 'South Park: The Fractured But Whole', a video game which takes place after the events of Season 21 Episode 4, 'Franchise Prequel', they are shown to have gotten back together again.

In the later seasons, Season 26 Episode 4; Wendy is seen trying to fix the main problem of their relationship: Lack of Communication

Summary
They both genuinely like each other, but immature at moments, an example of this is the gag wherein Stan had the tendency to puke whenever Wendy talks to him because his feelings for her make him nervous.

They both have their moments, and scenes where they try to maintain their relationship. Stan is the type wherein he faces difficulty in expressing his emotions, and struggles to create a deep bond with people, Wendy often mistakes this as Stan not liking her, but they're trying their best to do their part. They both have bad habits that negatively affects their relationship, but in the end, they are still kids, trying to figure out what's okay to do, and what's not. Both of them have a hard time opening up to each other, but they're in the process of it (Since Wendy opened up to Stan during S26, EP4, although Stan wasn't being completely honest, it just shows that Wendy is willing to do so if they genuinely tried communicating, anyway, Stan seems to have felt guilty because of his dishonesty, and hopefully they get better in the future.)

Fanon
Stendy is the most popular het pairing in the fandom, the most popular het pairing for Stan, and is the most popular ship for Wendy. It is the second most popular canon pairing behind Creek. The pairing's largest rival in fandom is Style, with a good amount of fanfics putting them in a love triangle. Stendy has 1,476 works on Ao3, and alot of fanfics focus on the turbulent nature of their relationship.

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