PC Principal replaced Principal Victoria at South Park Elementary in season 19.
The change occurs at the beginning of the 2015 season, when Principal Victoria is removed from her position after the school’s controversy over political correctness. PC Principal arrives as her replacement and immediately makes “being PC” a central force at the school.
The character is a muscular, intensely outspoken administrator whose worldview is shaped by modern campus-style political correctness. Although he begins as an exaggerated and threatening authority figure, the season gradually gives him more nuance and establishes him as a recurring member of South Park’s adult cast.
Season 19 was unusually serialized for South Park, with storylines and character developments carrying across multiple episodes. PC Principal’s appointment is therefore more than a one-episode staffing change: it helps define the season’s satire of social language, activism, privilege and institutional culture. Strong Woman is associated with PC Principal later in the series, but she did not replace Principal Victoria.