Transformers

Optimus Prime, brutally murdering Sarah Jackson.

Transformers are robots in disguise which are more than meets the eye. Chris has been fascinated with the Transformers since he was young. Even now, well into adulthood, he invests his Transformers toys with great significance, and Transformers have become a major presence in his Sonichu (comic) comics.

Transformers in Chris's life

While Chris isn't a dedicated collector, the jumbled mass of crap that fills his room includes several Transformers toys. Of particular note is his Optimus Prime toy, which he has often used as a sort of totem to reinforce his heterosexuality. When Clyde Cash forced him to "admit" that he was gay, Chris held his Prime toy tightly throughout the video in question, which he later explained was a way of asserting his straightness in spite of his words.

In Christian Weston Chandler's FUTURE MESSAGE, Chris compares his Transformers and My Little Ponies as ways of studying the traits of the opposite gender and using them as roleplay models. It's possible that Chris really does practice what he preaches, and might pick Transformers and My Little Ponies as comforting remnants of his (actual) childhood from the '80s and '90s. By sheer coincidence, an unaired Transformers PSA urged children to treat the opposite gender as equals and not to jump to stereotyped conclusions. Had it aired, who knows what could've happened? You know, besides Chris immediately disregarding good advice, as usual.

Some of Chris's favorite popular music comes from the soundtrack to the Transformers movie. He once recorded a video of himself singing Stan Bush's "Dare," and downloaded a number of other songs from the soundtrack - like "Dare To Be Stupid" by "Weird" Al Yankovic - from Rhapsody.com.

Transformers in Sonichu

While they were not originally part of the Sonichu oeuvre, Transformers slowly creeped into the spotlight. Bagget's "Decepti-clone" "Change-Bot" Crackder was the first to join the series, in Sub-Episode 7. Episode 20 introduced a flood of new Transformers, though, including Punchy's motorcycle Prower and several others.

Chris's attempts at drawing Transfomers are typically awful, but he does even more artistic violence to their famous logos. The Autobots' logo in CWCville is a light and dark striped circle, with a red and white checkered pattern on the inside and a red face on the center that barely resembles the Autobots' true logo. This odd logo is due to the fact that the Autobots in CWCville are also referred as "Samurai Pizza Bots" (swiped from another of Christian's favorite anime series, the Samurai Pizza Cats), so the symbol is supposedly a pizza. But while the Autobots have to suffer the humiliation of being associated with pizzas, the Decepti-clones' logo is just plain idiotic; not bothering to redraw the Decepticons' symbol (probably it's far too complicated for our "artist"'s little mind), he just drew a weird spiked yellow shape filled with purple. It reads "The Private Villa of Corrupted Citizens", with the initials "PVCC" written with a green-apple color.

Transformers elsewhere

For reasons that remain difficult to determine, Chris chose to depict the 18-wheeler that killed Sarah Jackson with Optimus Prime's distinctive red and silver paint job. Either Chris intentionally drew a Transformer crushing his would-be sweetheart, or (more likely) the image just bubbled out up of his infamously limited imagination.

Sonichu Special 4 features Chris shooting his rival CChanSonichuCWC with what looks very much like an early Megatron toy. The real-life version of the toy appears in some of Chris's videos - in CWC is Angry he shot at a picture of Adam Stackhouse with the "gun," while in the War Paint Video he used it to threaten his enemies in general.

See also

• Samurai Pizza Bots, Chris's failbots of CWCville.