Butters is an illegitimate child born Leopold Gaylord Palin in Ohio on September 11, 2001 to a teenage girl and her unknown boyfriend. Leopold was put up for adoption, and three years later, a young couple named Linda and Stephen "Chris" Stotch were having their honeymoon in Ohio. They drove by an orphanage, and Linda noticed Leopold in the window. She begged her husband to adopt him, and he gave in, after five hours. The couple went in, and adopted Leopold, and took him with them to their hometown of South Park, Colorado. Chris and Linda gave him the nickname "Butters", which is the name he uses to this day. Ever since he moved to South Park, he has hated the town, and wants to destroy it.