Whether a fictional character like Kenny is a "psychopath" depends heavily on which Kenny you mean (e.g., The Walking Dead, Dead Rising, Cobra Kai), but generally, fans debate if they're driven by trauma and rage (like in TWD), are clinical psychopaths (like in Dead Rising), or simply wounded individuals, with Dead Rising's Kenny being a literal psychopath representing envy, while TWD's Kenny shows extreme traits due to loss but isn't definitively a clinical psychopath.
Personality. Kenny was a sadist and a sociopath whose main goal was to obtain power, and his personality was molded around this goal. As such, he was a ruthless and manipulative individual who did not hesitate to do anything to get the job done, including a murderer or a traitor.
Kenny wanted power, and his personality was molded around this goal. He was a ruthless individual who did not hesitate to do anything to get the job done, including murdering children or betraying his allies.
After his brutal beating at the hands of Carver coupled by the death of Sarita, Kenny becomes incredibly vicious, aggressive, hostile, brutal, and mentally unstable, even towards his fellow group members including Clementine (due to Sarita's death/Infection).
Kenny let Shawn die, fired at people who were holding hostages without a plan which got Walter (and possibly Alvin) killed, fell for Jane's trap, and got himself killed by not wearing a seatbelt if you go with him in S3.
TL;DR: Kenny isn't a bad person, but he's not a great one either. He's meant to display how love and trauma can twist together into something dangerous. People defend him because they feel for him, but that dosen't excuse the clearly obvious abusive patterns he displays throughout the story.
His often muffled and incomprehensible speech—the result of his parka hood covering his mouth—is provided by co-creator Matt Stone.
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Clementine can attack Marlon, but regardless of if she does or not, the player is presented with a choice to lock Marlon in the basement, kick him out, or have him replaced as leader. Either way, AJ shoots him dead.
Kenny slices Eren's forehead open to help the latter transform.
King Fritz is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Source of all living matter) of the Attack on Titan franchise. He was the King of Eldia roughly 2,000 years ago who used the power of one of his slaves, Ymir, to expand his empire.
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Kenny's life as a serial killer began with him killing Military Police, using the persecution his family had faced as an excuse to show off the strength he was so proud of. That all changed when he attempted to kill Uri Reiss, a Titan shifter who easily overwhelmed Kenny.
He is in constant pain both physically and emotionally and keeps his face behind his hood to make it harder for others to read his emotions. He doesn't want anyone to know just how much pain he's in since no one can understand. Kenny's hood is the equivalent of hiding yourself behind a mask.
If I remember right, Kenny's dream was to get the titan power, just so he could see the world the same way Uri did. Kenny had a group of people who were super motivated to help him reach his dream, even willing to die for it.
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That night, Patrick is visibly sick with a cough. He heads to the shower room, covered head to toe in sweat, leaving sweaty footprints in his wake. He turns on the water, and not long after, drops to the floor and dies from an unknown flu. He later reanimates.
Originally, Kenny was based on a school friend of South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone who wore an orange hoodie that, not unlike Kenny's distinctive signature outfit, covered his face with its hood, and he frequently seemed to vanish from school for days at a time (prompting Stone and Parker to joke that ...
The Lord holds thee now." Yep, that's Kenny's tombstone in the opening credits. It reads: "Sleep well, little child. The Lord holds thee now."
Years later they made an entire story explaining that there is a curse where every time he dies his mom gets pregnant again and births a new Kenny and nobody remembers that he died. Since then they just kill him randomly once in a while. They kinda explained it during his time as Mysterion.
Character inspiration
In a 2000 interview Trey said that the real life Kenny was the poorest kid in the neighborhood and wore an orange parka that made it difficult for anyone to understand what he was saying.
Jessie, as portrayed by Alexandra Breckenridge in the television series (left) and in the comic book series (right). In both media, Jessie is living in an unhappy, abusive marriage with her husband Pete and her son Ron (and Sam in the TV series) in the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
Kenny is also known to be very emotionally involved with the events in the story. He is loyal to those who treat him well, but unforgiving to those who don't. He has proven to be a rather tough survivor of the apocalypse, being able to handle himself in most situations. Most of the group respects him for this.