Vincent Clemmons

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name = Vincent Clemmons
nickname = Butters
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caption = Vincent "Butters" Clemmons in "Normal Is the Watchword"
portrayer = Adam Hendershott
creator = Rob Thomas
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gender = Male
first = Normal Is the Watchword
(episode 2.01)
last = Look Who’s Stalking
(episode 2.20)
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age =
occupation = Student
title =
family = Van Clemmons (Father)
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episode = 4
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Vincent "Butters" Clemmons is a fictional character portrayed by Adam Hendershott on The CW television series "Veronica Mars".

Background

Vincent is a tenth grade student who, when he was a freshman, was pantsed by an 11th grade athlete in gym class. The subsequent humiliation he was made to endure resulted in him finding his reputation ruined and the nickname “Butters” (a nod to the hapless "South Park" character Butters Stotch) was given to him by the school's student body as a result. Vincent vowed revenge and that following fall, the jock who had humiliated him and those who did nothing to save him but instead laughed at his suffering and helped spread the story of the incident and the Butters nickname, found themselves having failed mandatory drug tests, essentially barring them from playing sports in their final year of high school.

Veronica Mars was drawn to Butters as a suspect, mainly because her best friend Wallace (who was present when Vincent was pantsed but had done nothing to save him, as well as spread the story and the Butters nickname throughout the school) found himself as one of the athletes who failed their drug test. Wallace pled his innocence, convincing Veronica to investigate Butters as the person responsible for his false positive test results.

Veronica later saw Vice-Principal Van Clemmons acknowledge Vincent as his son. This caused Veronica to further suspect Butters as the culprit, though Veronica quickly changed her mind when she discovered evidence the real culprit was a conclave of parents who rigged the drug tests of the top athletes of Veronica's school so that their children could gain the spots opened up in the wake of the mass suspension of athletes.

Butters has been a quasi-regular since then, often sparing verbally with Veronica over her constant accusations of the character plotting against the more popular students at the school over his being bullied. This was further fuelled when Butters’s only friend Marcos Oliveres was killed along with several other classmates in the bus crash (caused by Cassidy Casablancas although this is not revealed until the final of season 2.) When Marcos parents sued the school over their son's death, someone began to target the family, leaving them reminders of their son to torment the parents about his death. When the family were left a recorded message of their son's voice, Veronica tracked the recording to Butters' house. Veronica discovered that Butters and Marcos secretly ran the local pirate radio station, ‘Ahoy, Mateys!’ that was infamous for its vicious slandering of the popular cliques at school.

Veronica accused Butters of aiding his father, Vice-Principal Van Clemmons, in trying to get the parents of his friend to drop their lawsuit in exchange for his dad turning a blind eye to his son's illegal radio operation. But Butters told Veronica that he hadn't had much contact with Marcos since the summer, when he came back from summer camp and quit the radio show without telling Butters why. Veronica later found out summer camp was an anti–gay camp he was sent to and proving that Butters was innocent and that the real culprit was the Marcos' friend Ryan, who had a crush on Marcos and who sought to make the Oliveres suffer the same way they made their son suffer in regards to his potential homosexuality claiming that he wouldn’t have been on the bus in the first place if he wasn’t trying to win back his parents love.

Butters develops a crush on Mac later in series 2, much to her disgust, and she is forced to attend Logan’s “anti-prom” with him. Butters plans a huge night including a dinner on a mock-pirate ship before the party.

Appearances

Season 2

* 2x01 Normal Is the Watchword
* 2x08 Ahoy, Mateys!
* 2x19 Nevermind the Buttocks
* 2x20 Look Who’s Stalking

Notes

* The VM Butters always being accused of plotting against the popular kids is in some ways similar to the SP Butters' unsuccessful plans, as alter ego Professor Chaos, to get revenge on the less wimpy "South Park" characters.