South Hell Cartman and Ike Threat Guide

South Hell fields two headline threats: Cartman (often called HE) and Ike. They punish different mistakes. Cartman hunts sound, pathing, and panic sprints across the school. Ike punishes careless light in dark scare moments—especially around the Yellow key locker room. This page is the deep monster guide: chase rules versus flashlight rules, voice-chat risk, traps and bait, and what changes in the RUN phase after four keys. Use it with the practical chase checklist on Survive Cartman, binds on Controls, and loadout ranks on the Survival Tools Tier List. Map context: School Map. Hub: Guides Hub.

Cartman (HE) — the hallway hunter

Cartman is the primary patrol threat. He closes distance when you are loud, when lobbies stack noise, and when you greed long key carries through open halls. You have three lives. On catch, a carried key drops where you fell and you respawn in the basement with the Kenny line. Surviving is inventory management as much as ego.

Hearing and noise

• Running is loud. Walk when HE audio is close; sprint only into a safe door, HIDING PLACE locker, or the final Escape commit.
• Microphone / voice chat can draw him. Short callouts help; open-mic storytelling mid-chase does not. Agree on a “quiet near HE” rule.
• Locker opens, board pries, and crowded footsteps all raise risk—clear the approach when you can.
• Headphones are not optional flavor. Visual-only play misses footsteps and shouts.

If someone else’s panic sprint pulls Cartman into your wing, treat that as shared map weather. Re-route; do not argue in voice while he is already on the tile.

Safe rooms vs mid-hall hides

Basement and the red-lit maintenance room block Cartman when doors stay closed. An open door voids the fantasy. Habit: close every time.

Mid-hallway, use green HIDING PLACE lockers: press E, then click shrinking circles. Fail the QTE and you pop out into the hunt. Practice the click rhythm once when HE is far.

Traps, bait, and decoys against HE

Spend tools to save keys:

• Alarm Clock — about ten seconds of decoy distraction after a noisy open or broken line of sight.
• Fried Chicken — bait HE down a side hall while a carrier slips basement-side (often associated with cafeteria finds on the School Map).
• Bear Trap — punish a chase path you just vacated; strong at nurse or locker chokes.

Hoarding an Alarm Clock until you die with Green in hand is a failed economy. Rankings and shop context: Survival Tools Tier List, Cash via Codes, optional Night Vision on Game Passes.

Chase patterns that work

Early: learn one loop classroom ↔ basement ↔ maintenance fallback. Mid: split wings so the whole lobby does not stack noise in one hall. Last life: walk more, hide earlier, let teammates take contested Yellow if Ike and HE overlap. Always end a chase with a plan (door, locker, decoy)—not a hope.

Video guide

Ike — the darkness scare, not a second Cartman

Ike is the darkness entity players meet most clearly during the Yellow pickup in the LOCKER ROOM (Boys Locker / Showers cluster on many routes). The hard rule belongs on every survival page: do not shine your flashlight on Ike.

Flashlight discipline

• Use the beam for navigation in dark labs and halls.
• Kill the beam before you commit to the Yellow lower-locker interaction when Ike is present.
• Night Vision passes help information, but they do not give you a free pass to break scare-room light rules—still respect Ike warnings.
• Batteries matter; empty light in Computer Lab is a different problem than beaming Ike on purpose.

Ike ends runs when carriers treat “more light” as always safer. In South Hell, light is a tool with a fail state.

Yellow room plan

1. Approach LOCKER ROOM with a retreat already chosen (hide locker or safe door path).
2. Confirm flashlight state before the lower locker interact.
3. Grab Yellow fast.
4. Leave—do not linger for extra loot while the scare window is hot.
5. Bank toward basement when HE audio allows.

Exact key rooms: Key Locations.

When both threats overlap

Worst case: Cartman audio on the locker approach while Ike rules your flashlight. Priority order:

1. Do not beam Ike.
2. Do not panic-sprint into HE with no destination.
3. Abort the pickup if needed—live keys beat dead hero moments.
4. Use a decoy or hide, reset, then re-enter Yellow with a clean plan.

Solo players should read Solo Escape for when to bank versus greed. Groups should assign Yellow to the player with the calmest light habits, not the loudest mic.

RUN phase — 4/4 keys

When the fourth padlock locks, Cartman shouts for the keys. Safe-room camping stops being a forever strategy. Nowhere feels safe the same way. Commit as a group to the basement EXIT DOOR and press E to Escape. If someone dies on the last color, nearest living player recovers the drop while others hold the approach.

If the door jams, switch objectives immediately: floor crank parts, install steps, then Escape — Jammed Exit. Door-mashing while HE cleans the lobby is how endgames die.

Full sequence context: Full Walkthrough. Beginner framing: Getting Started.

Voice chat risk model

Useful call: “HE nurse hall.” Useless call: narrating your entire inventory while Cartman is two doors away. Mute or pause open mic when audio says he is close. Coordinate after the threat passes. On 24-player servers, assume someone else’s mic is also painting the map.

Unconfirmed: Hard Mode

Community chatter sometimes mentions a Hard Mode. As of this writing it remains rumored / not confirmed in reliable public notes. Do not rebuild your entire loadout around unverified difficulty toggles. Play the live BETA loop you can verify in-client, and watch Updates plus the Changelog if S00NR ever documents a real mode.

Mindset

Cartman wins on noise and greed. Ike wins on lazy light. Separate the failure modes in your head and your callouts. Survive first, bank second, Escape third. Bookmark Survive Cartman for the short chase checklist and return here when you need the full monster contrast—HE hearing versus Ike flashlight—under pressure.