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Sonichu
Enjoy, Learn, and Stay Straight.

Go! Sonichu! Go out and zap to the extreme!
— Sonichu #1

Tell me about it on CWC. Geez, when you have me facepalming at you, you have got to be pretty bad off.
— David Gonterman on Christian Weston Chandler, emphasis added.

ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE!
—Dante Alighieri on Sonichu

Sonichu is a fan webcomic created by one Christian Weston Chandler, starring (at least initially) the titular Electric Hedgehog Pokémon and his friends. The comic itself would be remarkable only for its badness, but it has in recent years gained notoriety due to the author’s antics in response to trolling and other harassment. The result is a perversely-fascinating, deeply-dysfunctional, symbiotic relationship of sorts – Mr. Chandler’s creation has been saved from obscurity at the price of a “fanbase” devoted to making his life a living hell.

Sonichu started as some sort of Pokémon /Sonic The Hedgehog crossover world, and the first few issues focus on Sonichu’s origin, his meeting with his “heartsweet” Rosechu (based heavily on Amy Rose), and a supporting cast of other Hedgehog Pokémon of various types. But in issue #2 and from issues # 4-7, the series crystallizes into its present form, as Christian himself takes center stage and encounters and battles his enemies in real life, from mall cops to the dean of his local community college to internet trolls.

Due to criticism over such a self-centered plotline, Christian eventually gets trapped in a timestream, leaving Sonichu to take up his heroic mantle of defender of CWCville. The war against Encyclopedia Dramatica and "Four-Cent Garbage" rages on, interrupted by the occasional furry sex scene, until issue #9 when Christian returns and the series changes focus (again) to dating education.

Since this comic blurs the line between fiction and reality so much, a deep understanding of Christian Weston Chandler’s life and psyche is required to make any sense of it. The best source would be the CWCki, an entire wiki cataloging Mr. Chandler’s life and works, found here (warning: some pages and images are definitely Not Safe For Work or your mental health), while the even more NSFW Encyclopedia Dramatica page that started this whole mess can be found here. Mr. Chandler’s own websites tend to be hacked and deleted with some degree of regularity, but his own Sonichu wiki can be found here, but not for very long since some mystery troll (with an obvious connection to Vivian Gee) is trying to claim it.

Compare the Gonter Verse, Silent Hill, Hell.

Notable tropes present in the comic include:

  • Age Cut: Done in the Spring Break issue to show that certain characters are of legal age to be true loving couples.
  • All There In The Manual: As an example, WesLi Sonichu, one of many villains based on real life people, makes lots of references to magic tricks and props and the like. This is because Wes Iseli, the real life counterpart of the character, is an amateur magician. In no way does the comic bother trying to explain this to the reader. It takes multiple trips to the CWCki to understand just who the hell these heroes and villains are supposed to be.
  • Animesque: After Christian met Megan IRL, sweat drops, anime eyes, and other Japanese influences make an appearance.
  • Animated Actors: Supposedly Sonichu and Rosechu are married and have children "outside" of the comic... which makes it even more difficult to figure out on what level of reality all this insanity is taking place on.
    • Even the characters themselves are having trouble with telling the difference between their reality and in-universe fiction, such as Sonichu mistaking drawings of Rosechu in the nude as real candid photographs of her.
  • Art Evolution: Well… Chris’ self-insert character has stopped inflating/deflating at random due to Chris trying to draw himself realistically while at the same time denying his obesity. Also, his hair is now firmly glued to his head.
  • Artifact Of Doom: The Black Sonichu Medallion worn by Reldnahc.
  • Artifact Title: Despite the comic being called Sonichu, the rodent in question has been appearing less and less.
  • Author Appeal: Numerous references to anime and Adult Swim programs, a Monty Python quote or two, and most famously the “fanservice” of Rosechu making pornographic pictures of herself to try countering troll accusations of her having a “pickle”... and then claiming in Encyclopedia Dramatica she did it for women's rights.
  • Author Avatar: Besides writing an idealized version of himself into the comic, Chris uses Sonichu as a proxy to channel his rage about constant accusations of him being homosexual.
  • Author Filibuster: Played straight when the author avatar harangues the "Jerkops" (policemen who tried removing him from a mall) after defeating him, or Sonichu’s impassioned speech given to "Jason" on the top of "Four-Cent Garbage" building about trolling. What makes it funny is that it ties into patriotism and has a damn American flag in the back.
  • Bald Of Evil: A fair few of the male villains, possibly because Chris didn’t feel like drawing hair.
  • Berserk Button: Rosechu and pickles, Sonichu being called a homo.
  • Big No: Chris does this in one of the comics when he finds out he's been set up by a girl working in a coffee shop who said she wanted to date him. He has also apparently done it in real life at least once.
  • Biggus Dickus: The "Giant Penis Comic", which is Exactly What It Says On The Tin. It's an enormous and uncomfortably-detailed drawing of his own "duck," complete with a rather scary 45-degree bend in it. Brain Bleach, please.
  • Bile Fascination: Sonichu has approximately zero actual fans, but is nonetheless mesmerizing due to its sheer badness and as a look into the mind of its creator.
  • Boat Lights: Chris, both in the comics and in Real Life, although the comic severely exaggerates this trait. Naitsirhc, being (at least in theory) Chris's opposite, has a red right and orange left eye.
  • Bouquet Toss: Sarah excuse me, "Nicole" tosses her wedding bouquet to Chris at the end of Episode 12... even though wedding bouquets do not work that way.
  • Broken Base: Sonichu’s “fanbase” can be divided into roughly four groups – those who wish to antagonize Chris into providing further entertainment, those who pity him and wish that’d he get help, those who hate him for his viewpoints and actions, and those who have sensibly withdrawn in disgust. Individuals bounce from category to category as the Sonichu saga unfolds.
  • Captain Ersatz: The majority of the cast consists of Sonic recolors. Firstly, Sonichu is an ersatz that the author made sometime in the 1990s when a teacher wouldn't allow him to use Sonic the hedgehog or Pikachu in a class project due to copyright. We also have Simonla Rosechu, who was originally a (male) Fan Character created by a troll who's a fan of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, but Chris decided to change his gender and turn him into a Rosechu before using her in the comic.
  • Cliche Storm: There is almost zero originality here and I mean ZERO.
  • Combination Attack: Chrs-Chan Pure Pulse-Jolt Lance! [sic] So awesome and Animesque, it had to be misspelled both times it was used in the comics.
  • Completely Missing The Point: Oh where to begin...
    • One major one is the aforementioned Rosechu stripping naked to fight for women's rights.
    • In a recent issue, Sonichu gets an upskirt view of Rosechu, and reacts as you might expect.
      Rosechu's thoughts: "I love being appreciated and fully understood for my being, as well as my bod."
  • Copy Cat Sue: Sonichu himself, and Chris-Chan Sonichu (who is also a God Mode Sue)
  • Cross Popping Veins: In one picture of Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc.
  • Crossover: Of Sonic The Hedgehog and Pokémon, obviously. Sort of.
  • Defictionalization: 4-cent garbage.com is now a real Image Board, and since coming to the attention of the internet, there now really are several organizations dedicated to making Chris miserable.
  • Demoted To Extra: Sonichu himself takes a backseat to everyone else in the comic after issue #1.
  • Depraved Bisexual: Silvana
  • Depraved Homosexual: Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc. His sexual orientation is variously characterised as being integral to his villain personality, making Chris somewhat out of touch with social mores. At least Jack Chick deliberately rattles cages.
  • Dethroning Moment Of Suck: Difficult to pin down. The comic started out bad and then somehow went further downhill once Sonichu all but disappeared from it, and the addition of sex scenes certainly didn’t help matters. But probably the worst thing to come from Chris’ magic markers would be ShecameforCWC.JPG, a pornographic drawing of him and his friend Megan, uploaded because “he needed sexy pictures.” This was evidently the final straw in a relationship already strained by stalker-ish tendencies and sexual harassment, and Megan has since moved as far away from Chris as possible. Chris doesn’t seem to understand what he’s done, blames Encyclopedia Dramatica for “twisting” the image against him, and has since reuploaded the picture that cost him what might have been his only friend.
  • Deus Ex Machina: Magi-chan is "psychic", which means that he can teleport anyone in and out of action and explain, out of blue, what the heck the other characters are supposed to actually do in these stories. Psychic powers - the perfect putty to fill in massive plot holes.
  • Did Not Do The Research: Oh, so many examples. To begin with, Chris thinks he can actually make money off this…
    • In the very first episode, the rainbow's colors go red, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple, light purple.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Chris inflicts a horrible curse on the Jerkhief that results in the loss of the poor guy's family, home, and everything he owns. Why? As payback for an almost beating that Chris nearly suffered. This was supposed to be an awesome moral victory for Chris, who was meant to be the obvious hero in this situation.
    • Likewise, in a (real life) situation where CChanSonichuCWC (AKA Liquid Chris), a guy tricking Chris into thinking that people are confusing him and Chris, trolls Chris by having a girl named "Kacey" pretend to be conflicted in regards to who to be in love with. Liquid tricks Chris into thinking that he has gotten Kacey to marry him (which was pretty easy considering how messed up poor Chris is). However, Chris responds by making a comic in which Liquid kidnaps Kacey and threatens Chris and Kacey with a small knife. So how does Chris respond? He pulls out a pistol and shoots Liquid in his calves. Kacey's parents are proud of him for doing this.
  • Distaff Counterpart: Crystal, Chris's Dream Sibling.
  • Does Not Like Men: Chris hates the entire male population for stealing all the women; excluding himself, his father and the president, or as he likes to put it, 0,000000000004% of the male population (4% times 10 to the power of -12).
  • Does Not Like Pickles: Chris vehemently dislikes pickles because they remind him of a certain male body part. This hatred is incorporated into the comics, serving as a Weaksauce Weakness for Sonichu and a Berserk Button for Rosechu.
  • Egopolis: CWCville (pronounced "quickville"), which is composed of the creator's initials, CWC, because everybody loves Chris.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Yawning Squirtle, a stoned-looking Squirtle who appears in only one panel in Episode 18, is widely considered to be CWC's best/only good character. Bill the Scientist and the Boulder-Dropping Whale are similar few-frame favorites.
  • Everything's Better With Rainbows: The rainbow formed from Sonichu's creation, which turned a Raichu into Rosechu and made eggs that would eventually hatch into the Chaotic Combo and Silvana. After Chris realized that the rainbow was heavily associated with a certain group of people, he has since redrawn a gratuitously gay-looking page to instead have a slim, trim version of himself leaping in front of the Pearly Gates.
  • Evil Twin: Played straight (heh) with Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc, who is the complete opposite of Chris, a member of Team Rocket who later came out of the closet.
  • Evil Tower Of Ominousness: The 4-Cent Garbage Headquarters, all 66+6 floors of it.
  • Expansion Pack Past: The Chaotic Combo were originally birthed by the rainbow created when Sonichu became a Sonic/Pikachu hybrid, in the late 90s, at the same time as Sonichu. Supposedly this created all the Sonichus at once, except then Chris started adding in more and more Sonichus, some of whom were said to be older than Sonichu or Rosechu. Of course, Chris only noticed the non-continuity error problem with this setup: all his Rule34 pics were of underage characters. Thus, Chris dropped two retcons: one, that the Sonichu eggs were sent back in time so everyone was 18, and then retconned that countless Sonichu eggs were sent all throughout time and space. That poor, fragile timeline...
    • Taken to extremes on CWCipedia, where Chris drops all manner of information we should have had a long time ago (like Sonichu and Rosechu being married and having children) or dolloping loads of plot that bloats the already crossover-laden series like nothing else.
  • Eyepatch Of Power: Jason Kendrick Howell, which unfortunately means a Big Boss look-alike has been dragged into the comic.
  • Fatal Flaw: Just like in Real Life, despite being such a fantastic guy that everyone loves, Chris just can't get a girl (which he blames on the "Infinitely High Boyfriend Factor", believing that the reason he can't find a Boyfriend-Free Girl is because they're all already taken, and the fact that his criteria for such a woman are improbably strict certainly doesn't help). And later on in the comic, he can't hold ONTO a girl. He's actually gone through about three or four gal pals since he entered the time void, although only two had appearances in the comic (and both said they would wait for him).
  • For The Evulz: All of the villains have little motivation towards tormenting Chris beyond “because.” Apparently they just don’t want him to find True Love. Virginia is for Virgins, after all.
  • Freud Was Right: Two of the narmy lines listed below, as well as the, um, interesting image of a pistol on this page.
  • God Mode Sue: Chris, with the power stored in his Medallion High School Ring, can become Chris-Chan Sonichu, a very powerful entity who has a singular weak spot (which actually doesn't even hinder him that much) and can defeat most of Chris's enemies with only a little effort. Even without his Sonichu form, Chris has Combo Platter Powers out the woz. He can use all other Sonichu powers, magic spells, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards turned real, and psychic powers. Before the comic even began, Chris was a frigging Power Ranger and had a damned Autobot for a car. He's so powerful that he essentially negates the point of the title character even existing. Chris apparently realized this after his "fans" informed him of this, and comic book Chris has been sealed in a mirror.
  • Gratuitous Japanese: Jiggliami's song "War of Love" (a ripoff of "Love is War" by Miku Hatsune, "written" by one of Chris's "sweethearts") in Episode 18.
  • Groin Attack: Called 'Kicking them in the Sourdough Area' in Chris terms. He does it to a Jerkop in Subepisode 1, and is recommended by Chris as the ideal form of self-defense against both regular and king-sized Jerkops in Sub-Episode 6.
  • Greek Chorus: In some of the early Sonichu centered comics, Chris.
  • Green Eyed Monster: Chris is quite guilty of misandry, since he detests every other male on the planet (with a handful of exceptions) as a romantic rival. Wes Iseli in particular became a villain in the comic since he was dating Chris’ friend Sarah, thus denying Chris a chance with her.
  • Heel Face Turn: Black Sonichu Blachu Blake.
  • Idiot Plot: The entire goddamn comic.
  • Idol Singer: Jiggliami.
  • IKEA Erotica: Rosechu actually says "Insert Rod A into Slot B" before sex with Sonichu. It's intended to be erotic, apparently.
  • Incest Is Relative: All of the Sonichus and Rosechus have been known to call Chris their father. Some of them are in relationships with each other. Interpret that as you will.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: The "Anchuent Prophecy" was originally believed to be a simple typo, until someone realized it was meant to be a pun on Pikachu. And lo, there was much facepalming.
  • Inferred Holocaust / No Endor Holocaust: We are told that the Jerkops swell their numbers using a hypnotic ray gun that only affects the mentally impaired. That's kind of offensive on its own, but it also means that when the heroes do battle with them, they're actually beating the hell out of tens of innocent, retarded people. No character has thus far seen fit to raise this dilemma.
    • In issue 9 one mention is finally made of the idea of rehabilitating. The characters still beat the brainwashed Jerkops just as mercilessly, however, so nothing has changed in that regard.
  • Informed Ability: Punchy is apparently a master of "random-access humor", but, as of the beginning of Sonichu 9, has never used it.
  • In The Hood: Jason Kendrick Howell conceals his Eyepatch Of Power with a voluminous cloak.
  • In The Name Of The Moon: Chris and his “dream sibling” Crystal often announce their status of warriors of love and honesty, while Sailor Megtune is fond of these speeches as well.
  • Kamehame Hadoken: Christian's "Curse-ye-ha-me-ha," which is tragically performed in real life in a non-parodical manner.
  • Kudzu Plot: Not a traditional example of this, because the isn't really all that complex, but people who read both the comic and have followed the real-life drama probably can't help but feel that there's just no way Chris can tie up the trolling-inspired plot threads into anything resembling a comprehensible whole. (If Chris bothers at all, that is.) We've already seen Billy Mays being introduced as Chris's "bodyguard" out of blue (never seen before, likely never to be seen again), one "galpal"'s house getting blown up with no good explanation, and we're on the edge of our seats and thrilled to find out how Chris will handle the Ivy plotline now that she's gone and he has gone through one more girlfriend in real life. But never worry! Chris apparently solved all of the plotholes by bringing in Transformers.
  • Lampshade Hanging: Quoth Mary Lee Walsh, "Eh... first we’ve had the parodic transformations, now we actually have a pretty girl sailor soldier? What a kooky world."
  • Legion Of Doom: In issue 7, all the previous villains (excluding Metal Sonichu) team up and try to take over CWCville.
  • Life Embellished: 90% of the comic, especially the sub-episodes. And because it’s Life Embellished, Chris gets to win his fights and explain why he’s right and his enemies wrong.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Chris is almost exclusively depicted in his “Ernie Shirt.”
  • Loads And Loads Of Characters: There are tons of characters in this comic, all of which are either characters from different canons, poor rip-offs of characters from different canons, or people from real-life who have the misfortune to find themselves in CWCville.
  • Lolicon: Zapina, who "just turned 14-years cute,” wants to pose nude for women’s rights just like all the other female characters, but in a bizarre inversion of There Should Be A Law can't because of those "dumb" laws. Bonus squick points for the "dumb laws" comment being made by one of the adult characters, not Zapina.
    • Villain Jason Howell is portrayed as having a leashed 17-year-old girlfriend/slave with whom he does things "illegal in all 50 states."
  • Mac Guffin: The seven Sonichu Balls (not what you’re thinking, though Sonichu’s genitalia is examined in worrisome detail in issue #8), reminiscent of the Dragonballs and Chaos Emeralds. Their full powers have yet to be explored, though it’s likely they’ll be used to bring Chris back from his bus trip.
  • A Man Is Not A Virgin: Averted. As in Real Life, the comic version of Chris is fully committed to his “Love Quest”, and isn’t shy about declaring to the world that he is still a virgin. A Virgin With Rage, to be precise.
  • Mary Suetopia: CWCville, where all benefit from the wise and magnanimous rule of Christian Weston Chandler. “Tobacky” and alcohol are banned, though the mayor has recently abandoned his principles and gotten on the booze.
  • The Mayor Who Doesn’t Do Anything: Despite being CWCville’s mayor, Chris delegates his duties to assistant Allison Amber, leaving him free to loiter around business as part of his Love Search or fight the forces of evil.
  • Memetic Mutation: How the comic and its creator became "famous" amongst the Image Board crowd, and, like a virus, has now spread to TV Tropes.
  • Misaimed Fandom: The comics are aimed at kids and teenagers, yet contain gratuitous sex scenes and often center around Chris’ personal life and problems, things that kids don’t need to see and wouldn’t be interested in respectively. Beyond that, almost the entirety of his audience is made up of Image Board trolls, which is even sadder considering how frequently Chris tries to appeal to his "true and loyal fanbase", which pretty much doesn't even exist.
  • Moral Dissonance: As noted above, the Jerkops are made up, at least in part, of people under mind control. It is never implied that the heroes attempt to break this control or even that they feel remorse over having to pulverise innocents.
  • My Girl Is Not A Slut: Pretty much averted with every single goddamn Rosechu in this comic. When they're not out shopping, they're either having sex or stripping "for women's rights." And dare I say a word about "Rage Against the Garbage?"
  • Narm: "Well, after eating my eight daily McNuggets, I'm ready to pull out my Attraction Sign and get a Boyfriend-Free Girl". Among so many, many others.
    • From episode 14 we have these two awesomely out-of-context lines: "My two balls!" and "I cannot be deprived of my balls." This troper just can't believe those are real lines...
  • Narm Charm: Barely qualifies. Some parts contain enough typos and awful dialogue to evoke the awesomeness that is "Half Life Full Life Consequences", but not enough to really make the comic enjoyable on its own.
  • Names The Same: Crystal Weston Chandler the “dream sibling” of Chris, and Crystal Weston Chandler the divinely-ordained future daughter of Chris, as revealed by God and Jesus in his dreams. The trolls are having a field day with the Freudian implications of all this.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The Giant Penis Comic, and the rest of Chris’ Rule 34 artwork.
  • Offhand Backhand: Done by Chris to a Jerkop in Sub-Episode 1.
  • Off Model: The character designs are barely consistent. Case in point: a Jerkop that went from square to spherical within the same page.
  • Orwellian Editor: Chris has gone back to earlier comics and changed the names of characters based off of real life people. Mary Lee Walsh was given a new name and he denies that she was based on his college dean, but that the character was meant an evil clone of her...or something. Which was never mentioned at all in the originals, of course.
    • In point of fact, his retcon was that the character in the comic is the "original" Mary Lee Walsh (and, in particular, the Dean of his college) who was replaced, in the real world, by a good counterpart. Yes, rather than retconning just in the comic, he retcons real life.
  • Painful Rhyme: "Sonichu's Ode to Rosechu" uses lance/radiance, and the more obvious tweet/heartsweet. Groan.
  • Pair The Spares: When Layla and Punchy hook up, Reginald (who'd had a crush on Layla) and Angelica (who Punchy use to have a crush on) follow suit...after Reginald tells Angelica how he tried to sabotage Layla and Punchy hooking up and she decided he was justified in doing so.
  • Pals With Jesus: Both God and Jesus have appeared in-comic to congratulate Ivy on being Chris’ future mate. Since Ivy was a troll, this raises some interesting theological questions.
  • Panty Shot: Later episodes have a lot of shots of Rosechu's panties, one of which even got Chris banned from Deviant ART the second time.
  • Parody Retcon: Chris believes that calling his comic a parody will allow him to make money off it. Yeah. It's worth mentioning that pretty much all "fan" creations are true parodies/satires.
  • Poes Law: Many optimists out there refuse to believe that Sonichu and its creator aren't just elaborate satires of fanfic culture, so-much-so that the CWCki specifically addresses the issue in its FAQ.
  • Pokémon Confusion: Your average CWCville Pokémon has about a 50/50 chance of being either a regular Pokémon or a humanoid Poké-person with clothes and breasts.
  • Plagiarism: Many (possibly all) of the jokes in Sonichu are lifted verbatim from Family Guy, Excel Saga, Monty Python and various Adult Swim shows. Bonus fail points for often reproducing them without the context that made them funny.
  • Power Trio: Averted. Chris, Sarah Hammer and Wes Iseli were destined to stop the evil Count Graduon, but then after he met Megan, Chris wrote both of them out of the comic.
  • Psychic Powers: Magi-Chan, complete with Pstandard Psychic Pstances.
  • Punch Clock Villain: IRL "Jerkops" are just doing their jobs, though in-universe they're explicitly evil and hate love, and especially despise virgins like Chris.
  • Put On A Bus: Metal Sonichu is still up on the moon, waiting for his comeback. Chances are, Chris has forgotten about him completely. Sarah Hammer, aka Saramah Rosechu, after she got married to Jack's Knight William Spicer. Chris' dream sister, Crystal Weston Chandler was removed when she was trapped in the "dark mirror" by Mary Lee Walsh and Count Graduon. Christian himself was removed for a brief period of time after he was lost in the time void.
  • Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Male: Rosechu's heroic "face-rape" of Jason Kendrick Howell, a clear victory for the forces of good.
  • Real Life Writes The Plot: Interfere with Chris’ love quest or troll him hard enough, and you too could appear in an issue of Sonichu to be beat up by mutant hedgehogs.
  • Retcon: Several. Chris changed the names of characters who are based on real people, because a troll posing as Shigeru Miyamoto tricked him into it. Chris have independently changed names and drawings he feared could be viewed as homosexual subtext, most noticeably a Splash Panel which has been entirely redrawn due to its original rainbow background. CWCki has a more in-depth list of retcons here.
  • Rule 34: Not only does the creator make 34 of his own characters (and people he knows from real life), but his "fans" are also more than willing to draw their own.
  • Sealed Evil In A Can: Count Graduon, the oddly named evil spirit defeated long ago by the Cherokee and Wasabi tribes.
  • Sdrawkcab Name: Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc.
  • Secret Relationship: Bubbles and Blake keep their relationship a secret because... well, it's never really stated.
  • Schedule Slip: Averted, since the comic doesn’t have much of a schedule to slip from. Updates can come any number of months apart, and it apparently took several years to finish the first issue after Sonichu’s inception. As of writing, however, Chris is trying to get his act together by updating the CWCipedia with daily comics (most likely after Kasey and her dad told him off about being such a slacker) and hasn't missed a day yet, but it's only a matter of time before Chris slips is already starting to slip less than a week in.
    • This is surprising, since it seems it's pretty much planned out (he's doing volume 9 but has a preview of 10 already), the guy has no life or job and the comic looks like shit.
  • Shallow Love Interest: Rosechu. She pretty much only exists to show that Sonichu is STRAIGHT.
    • Ivy O'Neil in the comics can be considered this too. She's told by God and Jesus that her true love is to be Chris himself once he escapes from the mirror, and she accepts this without question or protest. She's pretty much not characterised at all, either.
  • Shilling The Wesley: Chris in the comic. His hedgehogs have nothing but praise for him.
  • Shock And Awe: Sonichu, like most Electric Hedgehog Pokémon, is ostensibly a lightning user.
    • Oddly, even though most of the characters are described as "Electric Hedgehog Pokemon", Sonichu is the only one who uses electric powers with any kind of regularity.
  • Shout Out: There are several intended shoutouts throughout the series, but they all come off as (or, using the titular character as a hint, are) ripoffs.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: Sonichu and Rosechu. To a lesser extent, the other couples count too.
  • Sissy Villain: Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc. Because he’s gay, after all.
  • So Bad Its Horrible: My Immortal has a sort of grandeur to it, since it has been carefully constructed to be as terrible as possible. This is no parody. This is a man's life - his failures, his neuroses, his fantasies, his warped worldview - proudly displayed for the world on paper and pixels. Reading Sonichu and learning about its author is nothing less than a descent into someone's personal hell, made all the more terrible for the fact that the author intends for the experience to entertain us. That we would purchase it. There is no joy, no fun in CWCville, there is only layer upon layer of horror.
  • Spotlight Stealing Squad: The comic eventually centers mostly on Chris and his troubles, at least until he gets Put On A Bus. Unfortunately, Chris has made it clear that he’s getting out of that mirror next issue.
  • Squick: Highlights of Issue #8 include detailed descriptions on how Sonichu sex works, the aforementioned Rosechu "photoshoot", and resident anti-hero Black Sonichu unwittingly having sex with a hermaphroditic Rosechu. I wish I were making this up. Other issues include “face rape” and cameltoe crotchshots.
    • One of the big sources of the squickiness comes from the fact that this looks like a kid-drawn comic — badly drawn figures, general lack of details — but then you notice that there are disturbing little details in the comic that the did manage to include. Sometimes you can't even notice them the first time you read the comic. As in "Oh my God…he's…he drew…that's a bloody codpiece, that's what it is".
    • Even more bonus squick points for the Rosechu photoshoot being traced from porn... including Meg Griffin porn.
  • Stay In The Kitchen: Rosechu, strictly speaking, should be at least as powerful as Sonichu, but her life revolves around shopping (and spending too much money when she does it), giving gifts to Sonichu, and getting kidnapped. This is even her entire storyline in Chris's hypothetical Sonichu game.
  • Strangled By The Red String: Every single couple. The red string is even mentioned on one page.
  • Surfer Dude: Jamsta Sonichu is supposed to fill this role (see note on Totally Radical below). Comes off as a Dumbass DJ instead.
  • Take That: Chris inserts people he doesn't like (Mary Lee Walsh, "Jerkops", Jason Kendrick Howell, "Clyde Cash", etc.) into the comic so that he can beat up on them. Ironically, the villains end up being the only characters who are likable. That's really not saying much, but still.
  • Thirty Sue Pileup: Christian Weston Chandler, Sonichu (an idealized Christian Weston Chandler), Rosechu (an Author Appeal Mary Sue), Mary Lee Walsh (a Villain Sue), Naitsirhc (same), Reldnahc Ha-Taque (same), Reginald Sneasel (a backup Sue for Chris while he's in the time void), but especially, especially, Chris-Chan Sonichu (a God Mode Sue), as well as...
    • Purity Sue: Rosechu, Sailor Megtune, Christian Weston Chandler.
  • Totally Radical: The characters' use of slang is rather outdated for a comic that's supposed to take place in the noughties, and Chris seems to obtain most of his music knowledge from Guitar Hero. Would someone who was up on all his youth culture terminology name a character "Jamsta Sonichu"?
    • Let's also not forget the "zap to the extreme" line, quoted on this very page.
  • Transformation Trinket: The Sonichu Medallion allows Chris to transform into his super-powered fursona. Until the real-life medallion was destroyed by trolls. Then Chris retconned that it was actually his high school ring that gave him his powers, thus creating a new Mac Guffin for his hatedom.
  • Ultimate Evil: Count Graduon.
  • Unfortunate Implications: Chris's attitude towards black people seems a bit un-PC. He's also a raging homophobe, but there's nothing implicit about that.
    • To say nothing of the fact that the Jerkops are all hypnotized "slow-minded/mentally handicapped adults" as mentioned in Sub-Episode 6. So Yeah.
    • Crystal Weston Chandler, both of them. To quote the CWCki: “since [Chris’] notions of the perfect girlfriend, the perfect sister, and the perfect daughter so easily intersect, it is hard not to arrive at a conclusion involving incest.”
    • Due to the rules Chris made up for Rosechu's reproductive organs, apparently she could only nurse her young while aroused.
  • Unstoppable Rage: When Jason Kendrick Howell throws a pickle at Rosechu, she snaps, strips naked, and claws the shit out of his head while face-raping him. So Yeah.
  • Unusual Euphemism: "China" and "Duck", among others.
  • Viewers Are Morons: Unsupprising, as Chris thinks his IQ is around 350. Thus he feels the need to talk down to people who impersonate doctors, Nintendo Executives, and famous artists/inventors.
  • Wall Banger: The series is infamous for so many of these moments. Perhaps the greatest one is Dating Education…yes, like sex ed, but with dating instead of sex, and the textbook is a book written by a 9-year-old.
  • Wall Of Text: Either the characters do lengthy explanations of what they're going to do, or offer lengthy rants after their non-victory.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?: For a supposed kids' comic, it has a lot of sex in issue #8. These scenes were later taken out of the comic proper after a troll posing as Shigeru Miyamoto tricked him into doing so, but on the last place Chris hosted the comic they could still be seen on a secret section of the website.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Anything remotely phalic (in CWC's view, anyway) besides his own 'duck' makes Sonichu whimper, whine, and gag. Even pickles on a burger.
  • The Wiki Rule: CWCki is a wiki dedicated solely to listing every single mishap and flaw of Christian Weston Chandler, whereas CWCipedia is Chris's own wiki, which he also uses to host his comic.
  • Writer On Board: Although it's hard to tell what the personalities of most of the good guys are, since they don't really have one, it's awfully strange that they all have the same opinions on sex, homosexuality, and religion that Chris has, and do not mind sharing them when Chris is unable to.
  • Write Who You Know: The author writes both Real Life friends (mostly his so-called "Sweethearts") and enemies into the story.
  • Your Mileage May Vary: Many say this is So Bad It's Good due to the sheer patheticness. Others find it unbearable to read. You've been warned.

But the Sonichu phenomenon cannot be contained by the comic itself. Because Christian Weston Chandler’s life is inextricably intertwined with the stories he writes and his interactions with his fanbase, just as many tropes can be applied to his not-so-private life as to his comic. Sonichu has also inspired a unique type of Fan Fic, the “trollfic” (not to be confused with a Troll Fic), a normal fanfic with the characters' moral alignments usually flipped. Meanwhile the blogcasts and chat channels the author uses to communicate with people can be more interesting than the actual comic, and offer profound insights into the mind of Mr. Chandler.

Tropes found in trollfics, trolling in general, chat logs, blogcasts, and Real Life include:

  • Acceptable Targets - There is a list of reasons on CWCki to advise against White Knighting for Chris - for starters, he's homophobic, sexist, refuses to get counseling for autism, and, as a major selling point for trolls, he always gets over getting trolled, or is oblivious to his mocking.
  • Adaptation Distillation: Vivian Gee’s audiobooks are infinitely better than the actual comics. Chris's own audiobooks? ...Not so much.
    • Angrish: Vivian’s commentary occasionally lapses into this as a result of the subject matter. “WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTlfkdsrtbdfgnvetndgnd”
    • Catch Phrase: From Vivian’s commentary, “Look at that ____, god damn!” “oh god that face!” “HONOR ROLL MY ASS.”
    • Crowning Music Of Awesome: To make up for the lack of fun in the comics, Vivian amuses herself through her selections for the background music. Transformation sequences (even for males) are accompanied by the Sailor Moon theme, infiltrations are set to pieces from Metal Gear Solid, Darkbind Sonichu’s leitmotif is apparently “Frog’s Theme”, and “Go Go Power Rangers” plays whenever the Chaotic Combo is fully assembled. There’s also fun soundtrack dissonance, such as the Spring Break episode opening with “The Day of Lavos.”
    • The Danza: IRL-Jason Kendrick Howell voicing Sonichu-Jason Kendrick Howell in his audiobook episode.
    • Lemony Narrator: Dethchemist, the dulcet-toned narrator. Usually he just does a good job reading the dialogue, but when he does describe the action, he can be slyly snarky.
    • MS Ting: Vivian's audiobook presentations of the comics are littered with snarky commentary, which does a lot to make them bearable.
    • Tsundere / French Jerk: Vivian has shades of this; she seems to appreciate having an audience, yet she realizes that this forces her to suffer through the comics. “Thanks for watching you fucking whores!”
  • Air Guitar: Chris doesn't know how to play guitar. He is apparently decent at Guitar Hero, though, so he'll sometimes pretend to strum along to songs on his guitar. The problem? So far, aside from a song he played on Guitar Hero, none of the songs have had a guitar. There is something unfathomably hilarious about Chris clicking a game controller in pretend-tune to horns and synthesized piano.
  • Animated Adaptation: Sonichu: The Animated Series, which is no longer on YouTube.
  • Artifact Of Doom: The Relics of Fail, a treasury of home-made... mementos.
  • Baka: The CWCki uses the nineball as its bookmark symbol.
  • Berserk Button: People "stealing" Sonichu is just about the only thing that makes Chris visibly angry. So naturally, that's what most of the best trolling revolves around.
    • Also, being called a homo occasionally results in him yelling that he is STRAIGHT.
    • Chris also went completely ballistic several times when Liquid Chris managed to start getting trolls to call him Ian Brandon Anderson.
    • Being called fat also makes Chris snap. He's actually not that heavy, but he's in intense denial that he's overweight at all.
  • Bishonen: In real life, Liquid Chris is boyishly handsome, if a bit geeky-looking (though the costume probably has something to do with that), but he tends to get this treatment in fanart.
  • Brutal Honesty: Chris simply doesn’t seem to possess a sense of shame, and is perfectly willing to upload nudes of himself, sex tapes, or reveal nausea-inducing personal information. “Honest” for Chris seems to be “tell everyone you meet about your sex life (or lack of it) and any disgusting biological conditions.”
  • Butt Monkey: A definite Real Life example, Chandler is the entire internet's punching bag. Everyone mocks him, no one defends him, and on a few occasions, people who've tried to help him got so fed up with his self-centered, obstinate personality that they gave it up and became trolls themselves.
  • Caught With Your Pants Down: The aptly-named video "Bob Walks In." No wonder he wants to cut down the internet.
  • Choose Your Own Adventure: "Choose Your Own Adventure, At Your Own Pace", two CYOAs with Christian as the main character. One scenario, "Christian Weston Chandler in Lost in Wal-Mart" has him... get lost in Wal-Mart, while the other, "Christian Weston Chandler in Gay Date Rape Forever", has him accidentally go to a Gay Bar.
  • Completely Missing The Point: In his "Message to the Future" he encourages everyone to stay straight because "everything else is vice, as said by Doctor Kinsey." The statement "everything else is vice" was part of a larger statement in which Kinsey was saying that this was what society says and that it was not a particularly effective deterrent.
    • In the phone call to Kacey's dad, Chris complained about how hard it was to pull weeds.
      Kacey's dad: "My grandma pulled weeds. My grandma had arthritis and pulled weeds."
      Chris: "I'm sorry your grandma had arthritis."
  • Create Your Own Villain: Chris has managed to do this a couple of times. CChanSonichuCWC just started out doing impersonations of Chris for fun. It was after Chris first angrily told him to stop doing it that he became Liquid Chris and started using his impersonations as a way of trolling him. Ivy originally just wanted a shout-out in a video, but after Chris begged her to be his sweetheart, she just ran with it.
  • Creator Breakdown: Frequently occurs whenever the trolls get the better of Chris, resulting in "stress" (which he conveniently blames for everything that can't be excused away with his autism).
  • Crowning Moment Of Awesome: We need one of these too:
    • I'd like to nominate the Father Call.
  • Crowning Moment Of Funny: So many, but Your Mileage May Vary:
    • Ickeriss66 and the destruction of the first medallion.
    • The Jew In The Pickle Suit coming to rescue a girl that they'd set up to date Chris.
    • The Ivy Saga, up until the Thirty Xanatos Pileup forced trolls to abort. This came complete with Chris leaving a message on his ED page claiming that he knew Ivy was fake due to police investigation. Two months later, he's dedicated a video to the memory of Ivy, who he now thinks killed herself due to his lack of faith.
    • Possibly the same trolls getting Chris on the booze.
    • Clyde Cash (one of the main trolls behind everything funny that has happened to Chris) got Chris to dress normally, act somewhat normal, and generally not act like himself at all, editing parts of the video to sound like Chris was faking his iconic nasal, high-pitched tone. It ends with Chris mocking famous trolls, saying he's not autistic, and works to support his parents. Many trolls shat bricks, until they realized Chris would have had to go to ridiculous lengths to fake what he's known for. Even the most dedicated of trolls wouldn't have started a seven year deception.
      • Chris then made it quite clear by then making a video claiming he had trolled everyone. This revelation of sorts would then lead to the Liquid Chris Saga, arguably a series of CMoF, whereby a guy on YouTube posted videos of himself posing as Chris. They were amusing (and disturbingly accurate) on their own, but how Solid Chris reacted to him made it even funnier. He even got his own Crowning Moment Of Awesome when he played “More Than A Feeling” on guitar after the real Chris posted a video of himself playing the song on Guitar Hero.
    • The events with the impersonator culminated in Chris-chan challenging him to a singing contest in order to prove his identity as the real Chris. Yes, you did read that correctly. What makes this particularly funny is that, while the impersonator had a relatively decent voice, Chris is pretty much flat-out terrible.
      • Liquid Chris won the contest fair and square; one of the real Chris's appointed judges voted for the impostor. The impostor declared himself the winner (and therefore the real Christan Weston Chandler) and excused himself from You Tube to allow himself to prepare for the future. The videos and phone calls following this are unbelievable.
      • Real Chris then backpedalled and claimed the contest was never to prove who was the true CWC, despite the fact that he said it was when he started the whole thing.
  • Darker And Edgier: Some fics put the series in a darker prospective, Sonichu Finale in particular. More recent examples are Sonichu Is Dead and the fic it's based on.
  • Dead Baby Comedy: Chris attempted this by comparing Clyde Cash's imminent downfall to the freaking World Trade Center attacks. Needless to say, it failed. Horribly.
  • Dethroning Moment Of Suck: ShecameforCWC.JPG involved Chris raping a gal-pal on paper. Then came the nude photos. Then the tape of him with his blow-up doll.
  • Did Not Do The Research: A Girl who Brought Down the World accurately portrays Chris as the homophobe he is. However, he is equally fearful of lesbians and homosexual men, despite it being common knowledge that IRL Chris respects the gay population-the female half, to be precise.
    • At time the fic was written he liked lesbians, but that might not be the case anymore (1:01-ish, if you don't want to expose yourself to too much ear rape).
    • Also, Chris has no idea how copyright works; he seems to think that a character is automatically copyrighted the minute you create him, and that mashing together two existing properties makes something legally original.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: Much of what is known about Chris was not gained through hidden cameras or in-depth investigating, but volunteered by the man himself in what is suspected to be an attempt to get the trolling to stop. In other cases, Chris will casually mention in a chat session something that most reasonable people would keep to themselves. For example: Clyde Cash brought up pictures of Chris wearing his mother’s undergarments, and Chris responded by revealing his severe incontinence. Strangely, Chris doesn’t seem at all embarrassed by this, and only gets upset after direct insults.
  • Draco In Leather Pants: Mary Lee Walsh is portrayed in trollfics as a beautiful, benevolent woman intent on destroying the Wretched Hive / Peoples Republic Of Tyranny that is CWCville. The real Mrs. Walsh isn't particularly glamorous, but she seems to be a pretty good college dean.
  • Dreaming Of Things To Come: According to Chris, "it was fortold [sic] unto me in multiple dreams" that he would one day be the father of Crystal Weston Chandler, lending divine credence to his Love Quest.
  • Driven To Suicide: The trolls use this card quite a bit. First off, Ryan Cash's fake suicide over Chris threatening to stop making comics was Clyde Cash's motivation for becoming head of The Miscreants and trolling Chris. After months of trolling did little to affect his target, Clyde followed in his little brother's footsteps and pretended to have shot himself in the head.  * After that, Chris would later hear that Ivy had killed herself after he broke up with her when he found out she wasn't real. The comics are also the leading cause of suicide in plush hamsters.
  • Egopolis: In troll fics, CWCville is often presented as one of the authoritarian style.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Bob Chandler (Christian's geriatric father) is amazingly popular with trolls, despite arguably being worse than Chris.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Bluespike managed to force some trolls-the same trolls that had tricked Chris into taking pictures of himself in his mother's underwear-to feel sorry for the manchild about forty minutes into his hour long confrontation.
    • Vivian’s commentary for the end of issue #6 just kinda trails off, since there’s nothing particularly funny about someone missing a beloved pet.
    • Not to mention the troll backlash that came from the "Twin Falling Towers" video.
    • And of course, see the David Gonterman quote above.
  • Even The Guys Want Him/Stupid Sexy Flanders: If the comments on this video are any indication, Kacey's dad (or at least his voice) fits these. To quote one YouTuber: "I'm a perfectly straight man and I must say that Matthew's voice is hot."
  • Evil Counterpart: Liquid Chris... is arguably the good counterpart.
  • Evil Versus Evil: On the one hand you've got an absolutely vile person who's a racist, a homophobe & a borderline sociopath among other evils, but let's face it, his opponents aren't really much better than a gaggle of schoolyard bullies. Whoever wins, human decency loses.
    • Even Guru Larry is on the trolls' side. It's really hard to root for anyone at this point.
  • Frivolous Lawsuit: He's now threatening to sue Liquid Chris and ViviG for "selling" Sonichu merchandise. Said threats not exactly effectual.
  • The Fundamentalist: Chris is quick to condemn homosexuals to the fires of hell, but like many fundamentalists is blind to his own transgressions in the eyes of God – he draws pornography, threatens to murder people, has made getting laid the focus of his existence, and wears an idol around his neck almost all the time. The CWCki offers a fascinating study of his religious beliefs.
    "I PRAY TO GOD AND JESUS TO KILL JASON KENDRICK HOWELL!"
  • Gaslighting: Liquid Chris. It counts because the target, albeit already mentally defective, became more mentally defective.
  • Glasses Pull: While not always having to do with trolls, Chris dramatically takes off his glasses in his You Tube videos whenever he wants to make a point. This results in him occasionally putting them back on only to dramatically whip them off again.
  • Guilty Pleasure: The life of Chris himself. Mostly schadenfreude.
  • Happy Place: CWCville, to a large extent. It seems strange that Mr. Chandler would put his mortal enemies in there with him, but this at least makes it possible for him to defeat them. To outside observers, on the other hand, CWCville is strongly reminiscent of Silent Hill, a place of mutated monsters that fight and rut for their creator’s amusement
  • Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today: All the friggin time! Even Sonichu started doing it in episode 20.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Guru Larry from That Guy With The Glasses, formerly a part of ScrewAttack as ScrewAttack Europe, is in the trolling scene and has even interviewed Chris.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: It's quite easy to send Sonichu into this territory, and the darker fanfics easily qualify. One that comes to mind is A Girl who Brought Down the World, which is based more upon the author himself than the actual series. Told from the view of a young girl (at least at first), this Na No Wri Mo project shows what just might happen should anyone as insane as Chris get into power. It's... worrisome.
    • The fanfic "Chris Gets Laid." Especially the beginning. The whole thing is filled to the brim with High Octane Nightmare Fuel, but how it starts is just... oh god.
      • Recommended listening during the reading session is, of course, entries from the Silent Hill soundtrack. "Betrayal" works well for the climax.
    • This trollvid. Look at the picture of Chris closely and you'll notice that he's slowly aging.
    • Vivian’s video “please…why…please…why…why…”, an intensely disturbing theory about what’s going on in Chris’ head concerning the Megan Saga.
    • One must wonder what the trolls posing as Chris's sweethearts must deal with. While his displays of affection are creepy enough, imagine being the one actually receiving them. His declarations of love seem to get crazier over time too: compare this video for Julie to this one for Ivy (well, for her pet crabs, but besides), for example. And that's not including his newer videos aimed at Kacey...
  • Ineffectual Death Threats: Again, all the freaking time!
    • "I'LL BREAK YOU DEAD!!"
    • "DIE, YOU!"
    • "I'll SSSTRANGLE that Clyde Cash!"
    • One of the most unsettling examples is him apparently threatening to kill Youtube user vivitheg and her family. Why? She made audiobooks of the comics, with annotations that mock the various plotholes, inconsistencies and so on. Chris only really noticed them when she announced that DVDs of the audiobooks would be released, and that's when he started raging over her trying to make money off of Sonichu. This was then followed up with Vivian leaking an e-mail he sent to her, in which he wished for her to die of a "goddamn heart attack". It's no wonder some people think Chris has anger management issues.
  • Internet Backdraft: A troll convinced a thirteen-year-old kid to fake being a woman and call Chris. Chris, like with many other "Gal-Pals", got an obsession with "her", and the events that followed lead to phone sex and a leaked sex video (don't worry — it's Chris and his blow-up doll pretending the doll to be the kid, when he didn't learn of the gender). When some of the trolls found out about the age, there was a huge troll backdraft... and it was on ED of all places.
  • Internet Tough Guy: He has threatened people with Frivolous Lawsuits and Curse-ye-mehas because they mocked him or plagiarized his work. It doesn't work if the work is derived from another Intellectual Property.
  • It Got Worse: Initially, /v/ only knew two things about Chris. He made a horrible fancomic, and he stalked girls at the mall. Now the trolling has a separate board dedicated to trolling Chris and an entire wiki documenting his life. This happened in the space of a few years.
    • Also, Chrissy's life in general.
  • Kayfabe: For example, Billy Mays from PVCC is not dead and was replaced by Anthony Sullivan, and Ryan and Clyde Cash did not kill themselves.
  • Lawful Stupid: Chrissy's definition of being "True" seems to mean "Believe anything the girl you are talking to says".
  • Legacy Character: Many trolls adopt the persona of the Man in the Pickle Suit, a shadowy and nefarious figure that Chris believes masterminds the trolling efforts.
  • Logic Bomb: At one point during “A Girl who Brought Down the World,” the Author Avatar must stop Chris from having sex with her. She does this by telling him that he can have sex with her, but only if it's a threesome with another man. Cue Chris leaving the room in confusion.
  • Love At First Sight: Basically every single couple in the comic, while Chandler himself is a big proponent of this as well, falling in love with pretty much any female he has extended contact with, and on one occasion actually proposing to a woman he had never actually met. He seems to think he'll marry the first woman he has a successful date with.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: On the silly end of the spectrum is Chris making videos for his girlfriend’s pet hermit crabs and hopping around like the Easter bunny. On the scary end of the spectrum are videos like For My Sweetest Ivy.
  • Meaningful Rename: In 1989, after "the bear," a performer in a bear costume playing in a band at the local mall, confused Christopher's name for Christian, the young Mr. Chandler took it as a sign from God to change his first name to Christian.
  • Memetic Molester: Chris. Especially regarding poor Megan.
    • The Megan fiasco is actually quite unsettling when you find out more about it; from the e-mails she sent him telling him to stop touching her, to his attempt to take her to a hotel in an apparent bid to have sex with her.
    • The scariest part of the whole thing is that Chris claimed that if he hadn’t drawn porn of his best friend, he “might actually have done something really dumb and stupid.” Jesus. Christ.
  • Memetic Mutation
  • Minor Injury Overreaction: Count Graduon, the head honcho villain of the comics, is named for Chris's graduation, at which he cried because he didn't get an award for his art "skills". Most villains based on real people are demonized versions of those who were upholding the law against public solicitation of sex and gave him the appropriate punishment.
  • Mission From God: Chris will get laid. Not to prove his heterosexuality. Not because that's what he thinks being an adult is all about. No, he will get laid so that he may father Crystal Weston Chandler, because GodJesus commands it.
  • Money Dear Boy: Chris, after wishing death on her several times, made Audiobook director Vivitheg a peace offering via email, apologising for his rash attitude. He then asked that he be paid for 25% of any profits made from anything related to the Audiobooks. Smooth, Chris.
  • Mood Whiplash: Regular viewers of his online hijinks alternate between sympathy for Chris on the one hand and angry impatience with his conceited idiocy/occasional expressions of prejudice on the other. Just about every comments section for his videos has several people remarking that they "remember why" they don't always feel sorry for him.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Bluespike, though there is some debate as to whether it was making Chris destroy his medal and put the remains where the sun doesn't shine or yelling at him to burn down his house.
    • There's also Bluespike being a thirteen-year-old and having phone sex with Chris. This enraged a great deal of Chris trolls.
    • Chris himself has done a couple of things that could be considered MEHs, such as the creation of ShecameforCWC.JPG or his reaction to Panda's supposed rape (or really, anything involving Chris and rape, as he has a rather... skewed opinion on the subject). If not those two, his recent mocking of 9/11 certainly counts. It even pissed off the trolls!
      • Don't worry, he apologized... and reused the Twin Towers picture... as candles on a cake... aflame... which he snuffs out.
    • He spent half a year mourning the death of his dog. It is known that he broke down in tears over it half a year after the event transpired. Panda, on the other hand? Twelve hours later he was cybering with Julie.
    • And speaking of Bluespike, during the conversation he clearly cared more for his PSN than he did "Julie."
  • Names The Same: Whoever Ian Brandon Anderson really is, he's probably not the frontman for Jethro Tull.
  • Nausea Fuel: “Recycling.” Why why WHY would you film yourself... ugh...
  • Paper Thin Disguise: Liquid Chris. The scary part is that Chris thinks people are actually falling for it.
    • Chris himself apparently tried this in a series of phonecalls to Liquid's girlfriend, impersonating Liquid. It didn't work, but Kacey humored him and played along.
      • The best part is that both Chris and Kacey forget that Chris is supposed to be impersonating Liquid. Chris doesn't catch on.
    • Chris once also attempted to infiltrate an IRC conversation between major trolls. With the nickname of "SonichuClone". While claiming to be a thirty year old troll named Bill Riley. Using this◊ as his picture.
  • Paranoia Fuel: Many of us love videogames and cartoons (Japanese and otherwise) that are probably intended for people younger than ourselves. Many of us have had romantic difficulties in past. Some of us may write our own webcomics, or other Troper Works. And many of us are terrified of being like Chris, the ultimate otaku, a terrifying mirror held up to anime, manga, and video game fandom.
    • It's even worse for people with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. This Troper has Asperger's, and after reading this page is close to swearing off any attempts at writing or romance.
    • Another frightening thought: if anything we produce, either in real life or online, becomes such an object of derision as to inspire entire wikis devoted to our failures.
    • Furthermore, if you were Yuji Naka or Satoshi Tajiri and learned how badly some guy got messed up over your creative works.
  • Peoples Republic Of Tyranny: The True and Honest Lovers' City of CWCville, named “in a way similar to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.” A place where Chris’ initials are plastered everywhere out of "love,” a non-elected “mayor” makes dictatorial decrees, the autocrat's secretary has to do all actual administrative duties while the head of government runs around chasing tail, what sparse buildings dot the landscape are run-down and lopsided, and the only relief in sight is a guerilla movement headed by the dean of the town college.
  • Pet The Dog: One of the trolls, Vivian, sent Chris's dad a present for his 82nd birthday.
  • The Pollyanna: Chris is regularly harassed and humiliated, but rest assured he'll be back on Youtube beaming about his latest endeavour in no time.
  • Pop Station: Chris's version of Vivi Gee and Dethchemist's Sonichu audiobook.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Chris. He easily fits the “manchild” part, and may qualify as a psychopath as well.
  • The Rainman: Unfortunately averted. Chris’ autism has unfairly brought him no benefits at all.
  • The Reason You Suck Speech: Pretty much all of them. Basically anything that CChanSonichuCWC ('the impersonator', 'Brown Chris', 'Liquid Chris') posts.
    • There has been at least one time Chris has delivered a very effective The Reason You Suck Speech ... to himself.
      • Kacey's father gave Chris what is essentially a 2 hour long version of this in a phonecall.
  • The Remake: The deviantART member gabmonteiro9389 is redoing Sonichu and giving it awesome art. The crap story is still there, but at least the eyesore isn't.
  • The Rival: Liquid Chris; a literal rival in the singing contest. In his videos, Liquid shows himself as a sort of God Mode Sue Doppelganger to Chris, copying his mannerisms and (claimed) skills. Liquid claims to have grown up and taken his creation Sonichu to future success in the video game and comic industry, much to the chagrin of regular Chris.
  • Sadistic Choice: Bluespike/Julie/Max is a master at this.
  • Secret Test Of Character: Both Clyde and Bluespike used these on Chris. He failed all of them.
    • Clyde worked with PandaHalo to claim she was raped and pregnant with his child. Chris treated the rape like it was an affair and agreed to give the hypothetical child to Clyde the moment he offered to do so. Later, Panda made use of the Australian Brushfires to fake her death. Chris moved on to Julie in less than twelve hours.
    • Speaking of Julie, during his hostage negotiations with Bluespike, he caught on to the secret test (He had to pick Julie or his PSN account)and picked Julie, expecting that he'd pass the test and get the PSN back for making the right choice, revealing that Chris sees women on the same level of overpriced gaming consoles.
  • Self Deprecating Humor: In a FAQ, the CWCki wonders “who really has no life here: Chris, or the people who obsessively document and debate everything he does?”
  • Self Inflicted Hell: Chris is basically strangling himself with his internet connection.
  • Self Fan Service: Mary Lee Walsh went from being an old, fugly hag in canon to being a beautiful lady in trollfics.
    • Justified in that, her being Chris's rival, the Image Boards are obviously going to prefer a more flattering design.
    • Also justified as a result of Memetic Mutation. Chris's art style is so crude that at first most people couldn't tell she was supposed to have gray hair, the only real visual indication of her age in the comic. Early "fan" artists assumed she was younger and had blond hair instead of a yellow helmet. The design just stuck afterward.
  • Shoutout: Metal Gear Solid is very popular with CWC trolls, which can be seen in their antics and parodies; shoutouts to the series are so rampant that it warrants its own page on the CWCki. To a lesser extent, Earthbound references (especially of Giygas) are also common, though mostly only in fanvids.
  • The Slacker: At the advice of his father, Chris has declined to seek a job, and instead subsists on his “monthly tugboat,” $800 of Social Security funding. Records show that American taxpayers’ money have bought Chris a PS 3 and literally gone up his ass. He’d fit the trope perfectly were it not for his puritanical views on drugs (although his recent exposure to drinking may change this).
  • Small Name Big Ego: Despite there being at most ONE Sonichu fan, Chris has confused the people watching him out of horror for a devoted fanbase, and still entertains dreams of Sonichu video games and merchandise. During the Miyamoto Saga, Chris believed that the big man of Nintendo himself wanted to meet with him, and even made a slideshow presentation about a proposed Sonichu game (which turned out to be mostly about Chris and his creations), in which he claimed professional-level drawing skills.
    • Even worse, he was certain that Miyamoto would be more honored to meet him.
    • Chris's madness has been growing to the point where he seems convinced he can curse people, and has been falling back on "my Love Quest is a divine mandate!" more and more. Be afraid.
    • Most of Chris's narcissism seems to stem from the few contests he has won during his lifetime, one being a raffle he entered as a child for $1000 worth of Sega games and won by sheer, dumb luck, and another being a GameStop Guitar Hero contest he won after his Fan Haters voted for him in droves, which lead him to believe that his work had a sizeable fanbase. Ever since then, Chris has been obsessed with success (he threw a massive hissy fit when his high school neglected to reward him for his art skills, and another when he lost a Parappa The Rapper-themed contest and accused the winner of cheating), and frequently appeals to his "True and Loyal fanbase" for help against the trolls.
    • It's recently gotten worse: Apparently, Christian has recently copyrighted the name Sonichu with absolutely no thought of the repurcussions he could suffer if Nintendo and/or Sega discover his completely unoriginal character. Big Ego indeed.
  • Sock Puppet: What Chris tends to do to convince himself and the internet at large that he has a fanbase that doesn't consist entirely of trolls - one such instance being a Parappa The Rapper themed contest where he posted comments about his own videos to hype himself up.
  • Split Personality: In an August 30th web address, Christian stunned observers by holding a conversation between himself and “Christopher,” a la Smeagol and Gollum. This has been incorporated into a number of trollfics.
  • Squick: There’s pictures out there of the author wearing his mother’s underwear or diapers, and these are the good pics because at least he’s wearing something.
  • Stalker Shrine: The worrying Megan Shrine.
  • Stalker With A Crush: When he’s looking for a girlfriend, Chris camps out “attraction locations” and scares the bejeesus out of store customers or library patrons. When he has a girlfriend, Chris scares the bejeesus out of observers with his displays of devotion and obsession over them.
  • Story Arc: The CWCki has divided Chris’ recent history into “sagas” based upon who he was angriest with/infatuated with at the time.
  • Stylistic Suck: Liquid Chris's paper medallion and incredibly half-assed fake fatness (the latter dispensed with altogether after the first few videos). These features only served to wrankle Real Chris further, who didn't take the cue that this was not a sincere attempt at impersonation.
  • Take That: "A Girl who Brought Down the World" has all the appearing trolls portrayed as a bunch of insane anarchists, who only want to see the world burn at the hands of Chris because they believe it to be funny.
  • Third Date Nookie: Chris has an unshakable belief that if you can make it to the third date, sex is automatic. This pops up in the comics as well.
    • Actually, he views sex as a payment that must happen by the third date at the latest. He's on record as claiming that he'd do it on the second date if the girl was ok with it.
  • Too Spicy For Yog Sothoth: The #tropers MST channel's attempt to take on the comic led to several contributors taking a break from MS Ting and the MS Ting system being completely revamped. This is the same channel that laughed at The Easy Breather.
  • Troll Nickname: Liquid Chris and Solid Chris. Also "Snorlax" and "The Internet Lumberjack" for Barb and Bob.
  • Trash Of The Titans: A video tour of Chris’ house revealed room after room almost completely filled with heaps of junk. Cue troll attempts to get the Greene County Health Department to condemn his home.
  • Unreliable Narrator: Chris's stories about how he got kicked out of various locales tend to differ significantly from third-party reports.
    • Though when pressed, Chris will reveal the truth.
  • What An Idiot: During the Julie Saga, Chris was convinced that Wiki Walk: While researching Sonichu and the life of its creator, you just get pulled deeper and deeper by those potholes and links, learning more than you ever wanted to know about this person.
  • The Woobie: Cole Smithey, Chris's half brother (they share the same mother). He was routinely abused by his mother and her stepfather growing up, has been visited by her once since Chris was born, and his mother has lied about and refuses to disclose his biological father's identity. Surprisingly, Cole is a successful film critic who plays guitar in a jazz band and is happily married - the exact opposite of Chris.
    • One also can't help but feel sorry for the other innocent bystanders who are being plastered across the internet as a result of Chris’ antics.
    • Chris… well, it’s hard to think of anyone who deserves what the trolls have put him through. But on the other hand, the more you learn about him, the harder it is to sympathize.
      • Considering how much of it Chris brings on himself, and what a horrednously screwed-up and prejudice person he is, this is more him being the victim of Disproportionate Retribution than a genuine Woobie. Although as trolling goes up, so does his mental instability...
  • Wretched Hive: Some interpretations of CWCville.
  • Writers Cannot Do Maths: "With the infinitely high Boyfriend-Factor, I am not fond of about 99.999999999996% of the total male population, with a margin-of-error of the 4 billionth of a percent (for about 100 men) of whom are okay acquaintences." There aren't enough men in the world for that percentage to be accurate to that many significant figures.
    • "[That's why they call it the Xbox 360; you take one look, turn 360° and walk away]...very appropriately called is a damn 120°, 130° whatever, whatever the half of 360° is."
  • Xanatos Sucker: Chris meets a girl on the internet. She asks for a password/damaging photos/a prized possession. A white knight, citing past examples, speculates that the girl’s a troll, but Chris refuses to listen. Later, the girl turns out – surprise! - to be a troll. Chris meets another girl on the internet. She asks for...
  • You Fail Biology Forever: Recycling.
  • You Fail Sex Ed Forever: For the sake of your sanity, take our word for it.
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