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However, the page also led to vast amounts of edit-warring, trolling, and complaining — all of which have caused many a headache on TV Tropes. Sometime in mid-2010, the main article was locked so that only administrators could edit it, and pared down to have a less negative tone. All the tropes pertaining to Chris in real life were also removed, as TV Tropes admins especially dislike negativity and/or complaining that pertains to real people. The pages for ''[[Asperchu]]'' were also cut down in a similar fashion. Many other TV Tropes articles on complaint magnets such as ''Ctrl+Alt+Del'' and ''Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt'' were faced with similar issues, leading to their pages being scrubbed and/or locked in a similar fashion. As with any other page that is locked, those wishing to make alterations to the article may inquuire at [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=gsjp7dldjh2dwdelcha2hu17&page=1 this] thread.
However, the page also led to vast amounts of edit-warring, trolling, and complaining — all of which have caused many a headache on TV Tropes. Sometime in mid-2010, the main article was locked so that only administrators could edit it, and pared down to have a less negative tone. All the tropes pertaining to Chris in real life were also removed, as TV Tropes admins especially dislike negativity and/or complaining that pertains to real people. The pages for ''[[Asperchu]]'' were also cut down in a similar fashion. Many other TV Tropes articles on complaint magnets such as ''Ctrl+Alt+Del'' and ''Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt'' were faced with similar issues, leading to their pages being scrubbed and/or locked in a similar fashion. As with any other page that is locked, those wishing to make alterations to the article may inquuire at [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=gsjp7dldjh2dwdelcha2hu17&page=1 this] thread.


The article once contained subpages for "Just Bugs Me" (now called Headscratchers), in which editors could raise questions about a work, and "Wild Mass Guessing", mainly for making joke-y predictions about a work's future. These were also deleted to help stem the complaining and trolling. At one point, a biographical article on Chris existed at the title "CWC". Its contents are unknown, but they were likely identical to the real-life section seen below. The "CWC" page was quickly deleted, and it was probably locked around the same time as the main Sonichu article to prevent re-creation. Another Sonichu-related page that disappeared in this timeframe was the one on ''[[Moon-Pals]]''.
The article once contained subpages for "Just Bugs Me" (now called Headscratchers), in which editors could raise questions about a work, and "Wild Mass Guessing", mainly for making joke-y predictions about a work's future. These were also deleted to help stem the complaining and trolling. At one point, a biographical article on Chris existed at the title "CWC". Its contents are unknown, but they were likely identical to the real-life section seen below. The "CWC" page was quickly deleted, and it was probably locked around the same time as the main Sonichu article to prevent re-creation. Another Sonichu-related page that disappeared in this timeframe was the one on ''[[Moon-Pals]]'', although this was as much due to that work going offline as it was for the negativity towards Chris.


Around the time that the Sonichu page was locked, the site introduced several more tabs to help in the diffusion of tropes. "YMMV" lists tropes that are subjective in nature; "Characters" is meant to list tropes that pertain only to an individual character; and "Trivia" for facts on a work that are not really tropes, but still worth noting. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sonichu's "YMMV" tab is also locked.) Several tropes, such as "So Bad, It's Horrible" and "Wall Banger", have migrated to a subsection called the "Darth Wiki" and their pages explicitly say ''not'' to list them on main articles.
Around the time that the Sonichu page was locked, the site introduced several more tabs to help in the diffusion of tropes. "YMMV" lists tropes that are subjective in nature; "Characters" is meant to list tropes that pertain only to an individual character; and "Trivia" for facts on a work that are not really tropes, but still worth noting. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sonichu's "YMMV" tab is also locked.) Several tropes, such as "So Bad, It's Horrible" and "Wall Banger", have migrated to a subsection called the "Darth Wiki" and their pages explicitly say ''not'' to list them on main articles.


Below is an archive of the ''Sonichu'' article on TV Tropes dating from approximately June 2010, shortly before admins took a chainsaw to it. Note that several tropes have since been renamed, while "Did Not Do the Research" has been deleted due to mass complaining and misuse. Also, TV Tropes no longer supports <strike>strikethrough</strike> code.
Below is an archive of the ''Sonichu'' article on TV Tropes dating from approximately June 2010, shortly before admins took a chainsaw to it. Note that several tropes have since been renamed, while "Did Not Do the Research" has been deleted due to mass complaining and misuse. Also, TV Tropes no longer supports <strike>strikethrough</strike> code due to abuse.
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But then, [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeyondTheImpossible standing resplendent above them all], there is Sonichu.  
But then, [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeyondTheImpossible standing resplendent above them all], there is Sonichu.  


''[http://archive.cogsdev.org/cwcipedia/index.php?title=Sonichu_Comic_Collection Sonichu]'' was a <strike>fan</strike> [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation TRUE and ORIGINAL] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Webcomic webcomic] created by one Christian Weston Chandler, starring (at least initially) the eponymous Electric [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Hedgehog] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlei015gc004kw4 Pokémon] and his friends. The comic itself would be remarkable only for how [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Webcomics unbelievably bad it is], but it has in recent years gained notoriety due to the author's antics in response to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Troll troll]ing and other harassment. The result is a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BileFascination perversely-fascinating], [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DysfunctionJunction deeply-dysfunctional], symbiotic relationship - Mr. Chandler's creation has been saved from the curse of obscurity at the price of a "fanbase" devoted to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeusAngstMachina making his life a living hell.]
''[http://archive.cogsdev.org/cwcipedia/index.php?title=Sonichu_Comic_Collection Sonichu]'' was a <strike>fan</strike> [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation TRUE and ORIGINAL] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Webcomic webcomic] created by one Christian Weston Chandler, starring (at least initially) the eponymous Electric [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Hedgehog] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Pokemon Pokémon] and his friends. The comic itself would be remarkable only for how [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Webcomics unbelievably bad it is], but it has in recent years gained notoriety due to the author's antics in response to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Troll troll]ing and other harassment. The result is a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BileFascination perversely-fascinating], [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DysfunctionJunction deeply-dysfunctional], symbiotic relationship - Mr. Chandler's creation has been saved from the curse of obscurity at the price of a "fanbase" devoted to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeusAngstMachina making his life a living hell.]


''Sonichu'' started as some sort of ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pokemon Pokémon]/[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]'' crossover world, and the first few issues focus on Sonichu's origin, his [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeetCute meeting] with his "heartsweet" [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChick Rosechu] (based [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainErsatz heavily] on [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SonicTheHedgehog 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeEmbellished Christian himself takes center stage] and encounters and battles his enemies in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife real life], from mall cops to the dean of his local community college to internet [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Troll trolls]. Needless to say, the supposed main plot, a search for the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin Sonichu Bal]- sorry, [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retcon Sonichu Crystals], in order to use their powers to free Christian's [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DistaffCounterpart Distaff Counterpart] and "dream sibling", Crystal, from a mirror the aforementioned dean have trapped her in, takes a backseat.
''Sonichu'' started as some sort of ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pokemon Pokémon]/[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]'' crossover world, and the first few issues focus on Sonichu's origin, his [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeetCute meeting] with his "heartsweet" [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChick Rosechu] (based [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainErsatz heavily] on [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SonicTheHedgehog 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeEmbellished Christian himself takes center stage] and encounters and battles his enemies in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife real life], from mall cops to the dean of his local community college to internet [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Troll trolls]. Needless to say, the supposed main plot, a search for the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin Sonichu Bal]- sorry, [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retcon Sonichu Crystals], in order to use their powers to free Christian's [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DistaffCounterpart Distaff Counterpart] and "dream sibling", Crystal, from a mirror the aforementioned dean have trapped her in, takes a backseat.
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* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CriticalResearchFailure Critical Research Failure]: Chris has made it clear he knows jack-shit.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CriticalResearchFailure Critical Research Failure]: Chris has made it clear he knows jack-shit.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossPoppingVeins Cross Popping Veins]: In one picture of Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossPoppingVeins Cross Popping Veins]: In one picture of Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Crossover Crossover]: Of ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]'' and ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlei015gc004kw4 Pokémon]'', obviously. Sort of.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Crossover Crossover]: Of ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]'' and ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Pokemon Pokémon]'', obviously. Sort of.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Awesome]: See [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThatUs Take That Us] below.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Awesome]: See [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThatUs Take That Us] below.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment Of Funny]: "I'm Jesus, s'up?"
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment Of Funny]: "I'm Jesus, s'up?"
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** Chris's official explanation for his blatant textwalling is that [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowDontTell it's much faster, easier and more cost-effective to just have the characters say what's happened instead of actually drawing it], considering he adds the text in the speech bubbles digitally.
** Chris's official explanation for his blatant textwalling is that [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowDontTell it's much faster, easier and more cost-effective to just have the characters say what's happened instead of actually drawing it], considering he adds the text in the speech bubbles digitally.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhamEpisode Wham Episode]: The end of issue 10 is one of the most shocking twists in the comic... ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WallBanger for]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DethroningMomentOfSuck all]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon the]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids wrong]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EpicFail reasons]''.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhamEpisode Wham Episode]: The end of issue 10 is one of the most shocking twists in the comic... ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WallBanger for]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DethroningMomentOfSuck all]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon the]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids wrong]'' ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EpicFail reasons]''.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle3aa6c4mw What Do You Mean, It's For Kids?]: Chris has claimed several times that the comic is for kids (he's said that it'd be rated [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MediaClassifications TV-Y7]), despite the sex and all the other things no sane parent would allow their child to see.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids What Do You Mean, It's For Kids?]: Chris has claimed several times that the comic is for kids (he's said that it'd be rated [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MediaClassifications TV-Y7]), despite the sex and all the other things no sane parent would allow their child to see.
** He uses the 'They'll see it eventually and it's a natural part of life' argument when called on it.
** He uses the 'They'll see it eventually and it's a natural part of life' argument when called on it.
** And when someone called him out on that, he blamed the FCC for "slipping on their ratings."
** And when someone called him out on that, he blamed the FCC for "slipping on their ratings."
*** He holds his comic as being morally superior to ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asperchu Asperchu]'' because he would be willing to censor the gratuitous sex scenes with various fruits over the genitals, and he already censors the swearing. Not exactly very effective. Meanwhile, not only does ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asperchu Asperchu]'' not even claim to be for kids, Alec can more easily censor his own works, because bleeping offensive words is easy, because the pornographic activities in his comic are background scenes and not relevant to the plot, and because his comics are drawn on a computer, so if Alex uses layers, he can easily remove them.
*** He holds his comic as being morally superior to ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asperchu Asperchu]'' because he would be willing to censor the gratuitous sex scenes with various fruits over the genitals, and he already censors the swearing. Not exactly very effective. Meanwhile, not only does ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asperchu Asperchu]'' not even claim to be for kids, Alec can more easily censor his own works, because bleeping offensive words is easy, because the pornographic activities in his comic are background scenes and not relevant to the plot, and because his comics are drawn on a computer, so if Alex uses layers, he can easily remove them.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlerax1116nu5ji 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShigeruMiyamoto 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.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShigeruMiyamoto 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.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Mouse?]: Crystal? Metal Sonichu? Oh, yeah. ''Those'' characters. The former gets freed from the mirror as Chris hastily tries to tie up all the loose ends.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Mouse?]: Crystal? Metal Sonichu? Oh, yeah. ''Those'' characters. The former gets freed from the mirror as Chris hastily tries to tie up all the loose ends.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaksauceWeakness Weaksauce Weakness]: Anything remotely phallic (in CWC's view, anyway) besides his own "duck" makes Sonichu whimper, whine, and gag. Even pickles on a burger. (The real life Chris seems to share this weakness, as he seems unable to even say the word "dick" without grimacing in disgust.)
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaksauceWeakness Weaksauce Weakness]: Anything remotely phallic (in CWC's view, anyway) besides his own "duck" makes Sonichu whimper, whine, and gag. Even pickles on a burger. (The real life Chris seems to share this weakness, as he seems unable to even say the word "dick" without grimacing in disgust.)
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* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WishFulfillment Wish Fulfillment]: While all the issues have contained some this, issue #10 is, despite being unfinished, by far the heaviest and by far the worst in this category. It has Chris losing his virginity to his future wife, creating his perfect world by brutally killing and injuring his Internet-based enemies and taking down their websites forever and performing a complete eradication of homosexuality and asexuality, and finally: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Making out] with [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerverseSexualLust Meg Griffin from Family Guy].
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WishFulfillment Wish Fulfillment]: While all the issues have contained some this, issue #10 is, despite being unfinished, by far the heaviest and by far the worst in this category. It has Chris losing his virginity to his future wife, creating his perfect world by brutally killing and injuring his Internet-based enemies and taking down their websites forever and performing a complete eradication of homosexuality and asexuality, and finally: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Making out] with [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerverseSexualLust Meg Griffin from Family Guy].
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWikiRule The Wiki Rule]: [[Main Page|CWCki]] is a wiki dedicated solely to listing every single mishap and flaw of Christian Weston Chandler, whereas [http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcipedia CWCipedia] is Chris's own wiki, which he also uses to host his comic. The CWCki also [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesInOtherWikis links back to this page] as a brief catalogue of everything that's wrong about Sonichu.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWikiRule The Wiki Rule]: [[Main Page|CWCki]] is a wiki dedicated solely to listing every single mishap and flaw of Christian Weston Chandler, whereas [http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcipedia CWCipedia] is Chris's own wiki, which he also uses to host his comic. The CWCki also [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesInOtherWikis links back to this page] as a brief catalogue of everything that's wrong about Sonichu.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitledr2p2k8t Wouldn't Hit A Girl]: Averted. Christian's [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorAvatar Author Avatar] has no qualms about beating up <strike>Mary Lee Walsh</strike> Slaweel Ryam.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WouldntHitAGirl Wouldn't Hit A Girl]: Averted. Christian's [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorAvatar Author Avatar] has no qualms about beating up <strike>Mary Lee Walsh</strike> Slaweel Ryam.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMaths Writers Cannot Do Maths]: CWCVille's currency is split up into C-Quarters, W-Quarters, and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment C-Quarters.] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CriticalResearchFailure 10 C-Quarters] make up 1 W-Quarter, and 10 W-Quarters make up 10 C-Quarters. Yes, they'd look different, but how does this not look confusing on paper?
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMaths Writers Cannot Do Maths]: CWCVille's currency is split up into C-Quarters, W-Quarters, and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment C-Quarters.] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CriticalResearchFailure 10 C-Quarters] make up 1 W-Quarter, and 10 W-Quarters make up 10 C-Quarters. Yes, they'd look different, but how does this not look confusing on paper?
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WriterOnBoard Writer On Board]: Although it's hard to tell what the personalities of most of the good guys are, since they [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatCharacter 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.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WriterOnBoard Writer On Board]: Although it's hard to tell what the personalities of most of the good guys are, since they [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatCharacter 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.

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For several years, TV Tropes has featured an article on Sonichu. As is the case with nearly any work, the article chronicled "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations". Being the massive pile of fail that it is, Sonichu provided plenty.

However, the page also led to vast amounts of edit-warring, trolling, and complaining — all of which have caused many a headache on TV Tropes. Sometime in mid-2010, the main article was locked so that only administrators could edit it, and pared down to have a less negative tone. All the tropes pertaining to Chris in real life were also removed, as TV Tropes admins especially dislike negativity and/or complaining that pertains to real people. The pages for Asperchu were also cut down in a similar fashion. Many other TV Tropes articles on complaint magnets such as Ctrl+Alt+Del and Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt were faced with similar issues, leading to their pages being scrubbed and/or locked in a similar fashion. As with any other page that is locked, those wishing to make alterations to the article may inquuire at this thread.

The article once contained subpages for "Just Bugs Me" (now called Headscratchers), in which editors could raise questions about a work, and "Wild Mass Guessing", mainly for making joke-y predictions about a work's future. These were also deleted to help stem the complaining and trolling. At one point, a biographical article on Chris existed at the title "CWC". Its contents are unknown, but they were likely identical to the real-life section seen below. The "CWC" page was quickly deleted, and it was probably locked around the same time as the main Sonichu article to prevent re-creation. Another Sonichu-related page that disappeared in this timeframe was the one on Moon-Pals, although this was as much due to that work going offline as it was for the negativity towards Chris.

Around the time that the Sonichu page was locked, the site introduced several more tabs to help in the diffusion of tropes. "YMMV" lists tropes that are subjective in nature; "Characters" is meant to list tropes that pertain only to an individual character; and "Trivia" for facts on a work that are not really tropes, but still worth noting. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sonichu's "YMMV" tab is also locked.) Several tropes, such as "So Bad, It's Horrible" and "Wall Banger", have migrated to a subsection called the "Darth Wiki" and their pages explicitly say not to list them on main articles.

Below is an archive of the Sonichu article on TV Tropes dating from approximately June 2010, shortly before admins took a chainsaw to it. Note that several tropes have since been renamed, while "Did Not Do the Research" has been deleted due to mass complaining and misuse. Also, TV Tropes no longer supports strikethrough code due to abuse.


For the Just Bugs Me and Wild Mass Guessing pages, see this page.



Go! Sonichu! Go out and zap to the extreme!
Sonichu #0
Tell me about it on CWC. Geez, when you have me facepalming at you, you have got to be pretty bad off.
David Gonterman

There is Artemis' Lover. There is Agony In Pink. There is The Girl Who Lived. There is My Immortal. There is My Inner Life. Many demonstrations could be made for the ascendant terribleness of such works, putting them above all lesser bad fanworks.

But then, standing resplendent above them all, there is Sonichu.

Sonichu was a fan TRUE and ORIGINAL webcomic created by one Christian Weston Chandler, starring (at least initially) the eponymous Electric Hedgehog Pokémon and his friends. The comic itself would be remarkable only for how unbelievably bad it is, 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 - Mr. Chandler's creation has been saved from the curse of 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. Needless to say, the supposed main plot, a search for the Sonichu Bal- sorry, Sonichu Crystals, in order to use their powers to free Christian's Distaff Counterpart and "dream sibling", Crystal, from a mirror the aforementioned dean have trapped her in, takes a backseat.

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 changes focus (again) to dating education (no, not sex education) and Christian's crude interpretation of how relationships work.

The last chapter of issue 9 depicts a lengthy battle against invading forces from the PVCC, and ends with Sonichu and friends beating them with as much resistance as a team of Mary Sues typically gets. Christian's Author Avatar is released from the timestream shortly afterwards, and this cues the beginning of Issue #10, which can best be described as a combination of undisguised Wish Fulfillment and Christian's attempt to get back at his internet antagonizers by turning both his avatar and Sonichu into bigger God Mode Sues than ever, via the Sonichu Crystals Balls, and depict them punishing in-comic representations of his enemies by either killing or injuring them, destroying their property or making them pray to him for forgiveness. As the story progresses, Christian's feud with his "enemies" from real life becomes increasingly more disturbing, and its culmination in issue #10 finale can be most charitably described as the ultimate proof that Christian is in dire need of psychiatric help. It's worth noting that in this issue Christian frequently derailed the plot so he could devote several pages to "punishing" comic books versions of people who "wronged" him most recently; by contrast, (supposedly) important plot threads (such as Crystal being trapped in Dark Mirror Hole, or Christian's feud with college dean) were resolved quickly and anticlimactically. This sequence of events create probably the most unplanned and, for newcomers, incomprehensible storyline so far in Sonichu. Christian (once again) promised that in the future issues he will give the spotlight to Sonichu and that his Author Avatar won't appear so often. However, he isn't famous for keeping his promises (having made this exact one before), so future issues can be expected to be similar storyline-wise to Sonichu 10, with new real life-based enemies introduced as more trolling undoubtedly will continue to rain down upon him. (That is, of course, assuming there will be new issues at all, which might not happen in the foreseeable future. Christian hasn't uploaded any new pages since February 2010 and is deeply offended even by mere suggestions that he should update his own webcomic. It seems that he decided to devote his time to more entertaining activities instead, such as masturbating, playing video games and whining about them on the internet, continuing his Quest For Sex on the internet, condemning internet and claiming that he is "active within his community".)

Since this comic blurs the line between fiction and reality so much, a deep understanding of Mr. 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 (warning: some pages and images are definitely Not Sage 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. He used to have his own Sonichu wiki which could be found here; however, in response to trolls hacking and vandalizing his precious wiki (again), on 27 May 2010 he announced his decision to "relinquish what was the Cwcipedia" while "keeping ownership of what it was before yesterday". In response Vivian Gee and Alec Benson Leary took control of CWCipedia and claimed all rights to Sonichu; at the beginning of June 2010 the control of CWCipedia apparently was taken over by a mysterious individual who may or may not be the TRUE and HONEST CWC.* Well, actually it's definitely not CWC, but it's fun to pretend otherwise. And who knows, maybe it's a beginning of new saga...

Compare the Gonter Verse, Silent Hill, Hell. See also Asperchu and Moon-Pals, two much better series that you probably should be reading instead of this one, if you aren't already.

Please note that several links on this page are not work safe. Don't forget to keep the Brain Bleach close by should you decide to visit any of them, worksafe or otherwise.




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 FanFic, 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.