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* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosmicKeystone Cosmic Keystone]: The Sunstone. It gets forgotten the issue after it's introduced.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosmicKeystone Cosmic Keystone]: The Sunstone. It gets forgotten the issue after it's introduced.
* [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/Main/Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} 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.
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** Unintentional, but Rosechu's "profile." It's so sexist, how can you not laugh?
** Unintentional, but Rosechu's "profile." It's so sexist, how can you not laugh?
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CureYourGays Cure Your Gays]: Chris' anti-gay vaccine. The fact that he donated some of his own blood to create said vaccine raises some hilarious unintended implications [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever if you know anything about how vaccines are made]. Also, it's stated that you need pure heterosexual blood to make it, and yet Future Chris is still alive at that point.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CureYourGays Cure Your Gays]: Chris' anti-gay vaccine. The fact that he donated some of his own blood to create said vaccine raises some hilarious unintended implications [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever if you know anything about how vaccines are made]. Also, it's stated that you need pure heterosexual blood to make it, and yet Future Chris is still alive at that point.
* http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier Darker And Edgier]: Issue 10, which features Chris torturing four people to death in the most brutally inhumane ways- including snapping their bones, shooting them at point black range, electrocuting someone until they end up a burned husk, and forcing a girl with the emotional maturity of a fourth grader to drill someone to death.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier Darker And Edgier]: Issue 10, which features Chris torturing four people to death in the most brutally inhumane ways- including snapping their bones, shooting them at point black range, electrocuting someone until they end up a burned husk, and forcing a girl with the emotional maturity of a fourth grader to drill someone to death.
*Not to mention the grotesque, graphic (considering that it is supposed to be a comic for children) sex scenes.
*Not to mention the grotesque, graphic (considering that it is supposed to be a comic for children) sex scenes.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathIsCheap Death Is Cheap]: Averted as far as characters exclusive to his fictional universe goes. His argument against killing off [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShallowLoveInterest Simonla] is that it would be terrible to deprive Wild Sonichu of his girlfriend.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathIsCheap Death Is Cheap]: Averted as far as characters exclusive to his fictional universe goes. His argument against killing off [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShallowLoveInterest Simonla] is that it would be terrible to deprive Wild Sonichu of his girlfriend.
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** You would think he could have just solved the underage problem by pointing out that Sonichus presumably ''do not mature and age at the same rate as humans''. They are hedgehogs, after all.
** You would think he could have just solved the underage problem by pointing out that Sonichus presumably ''do not mature and age at the same rate as humans''. They are hedgehogs, after all.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyepatchOfPower Eyepatch Of Power]: Jason Kendrick Howell, which unfortunately means a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MetalGearSolid Big Boss] look-alike has been dragged into the comic. Howell actually [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit planned this], sending Chris a picture of Big Boss and telling him it was a photo of him.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyepatchOfPower Eyepatch Of Power]: Jason Kendrick Howell, which unfortunately means a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MetalGearSolid Big Boss] look-alike has been dragged into the comic. Howell actually [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit planned this], sending Chris a picture of Big Boss and telling him it was a photo of him.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: If people are mean to you on the Internet, you can mass murder them, and celebrate their deaths by declaring a holiday.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Family Unfriendly Aesop]: If people are mean to you on the Internet, you can mass murder them, and celebrate their deaths by declaring a holiday.
** Reginald Sneasel subplot in ''Sonichu 9'': attempting to sabotage other people's relationships out of [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] is completely justified. ([[ItsAllAboutMe That is, of course, unless you try to sabotage Christian's "relationships"]] - [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Chris_Drops_the_N-Bomb in which case you deserve to die]].) An even if you fail to break them up, don't worry, just delve into some public self-pitying and someone will hook up with you out of pity.
** Reginald Sneasel subplot in ''Sonichu 9'': attempting to sabotage other people's relationships out of [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreenEyedMonster jealousy] is completely justified. ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsAllAboutMe That is, of course, unless you try to sabotage Christian's "relationships"] - [[Chris Drops the N-Bomb|in which case you deserve to die]].) An even if you fail to break them up, don't worry, just delve into some public self-pitying and someone will hook up with you out of pity.
** Sub-Episodes: loitering in the store with the stated intent to bother female customers is A-OK. People who try to make you stop doing that are all [[KickTheDog autistic-kicking]] [[CompleteMonster complete monsters]] who want to prevent you from finding love and make you stay [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Virgin_with_rage virgin with rage]] forever - and for that reason, it's OK to hurt them.
** Sub-Episodes: loitering in the store with the stated intent to bother female customers is A-OK. People who try to make you stop doing that are all [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KickTheDog autistic-kicking] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompleteMonster complete monsters] who want to prevent you from finding love and make you stay [[virgin with rage]] forever - and for that reason, it's OK to hurt them.
** People you (claim to) love are disposable and easily replaceable. [[SkewedPriorities Your dog on the other hand...]]
** People you (claim to) love are disposable and easily replaceable. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SkewedPriorities Your dog on the other hand...]
** Being gay makes you more evil than [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Beel being Hitler's assistant]] or [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/File:Jason_Kendrick_Howell.jpg keeping a sex slave]].
** Being gay makes you more evil than [[Beel|being Hitler's assistant]] or [[:File:Jason_Kendrick_Howell.jpg|keeping a sex slave]].
* {{Fandom}}: [[{{Hatedom}} Inverted]]. There has been literally only one person other than Chris to admit to actually liking ''Sonichu''. Even assuming it wasn't a troll, she certainly stopped after Chris publicly berated her.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fandom Fandom]: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hatedom Inverted]. There has been literally only one person other than Chris to admit to actually liking ''Sonichu''. Even assuming it wasn't a troll, she certainly stopped after Chris publicly berated her.
* FanFicChopSuey: Though it is mostly a combination of Pokemon and Sonic, random characters from completely unrelated franchises will inexplicibly show up, from [[{{Futurama}} Richard Nixon's head-in-a-jar]] to [[{{FamilyGuy}} Meg Griffin]] to BillyMays. In recent issues, the Transformers have also shown up, albeit heavily plagarized versions of the ''TransformersAnimated'' cast. ([[TheBumblebee Bumba-Lumba?]])
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanFicChopSuey Fan Fic Chop Suey]: Though it is mostly a combination of Pokemon and Sonic, random characters from completely unrelated franchises will inexplicably show up, from [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Futurama Richard Nixon's head-in-a-jar] to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]] to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BillyMays Billy Mays]. In recent issues, the Transformers have also shown up, albeit heavily plagiarized versions of the ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformersAnimated Transformers Animated]'' cast. ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBumblebee Bumba-Lumba?])
* FatalFlaw: Just like in RealLife, despite [[GaryStu 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).
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatalFlaw Fatal Flaw]: Just like in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife Real Life], despite [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GaryStu 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).
* FetishRetardant: Everything that is meant to be erotic, due to the sloppy coloring, terrible perspective, and OffModel nature of ''everything''...
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FetishRetardant Fetish Retardant]: Everything that is meant to be erotic, due to the sloppy coloring, terrible perspective, and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OffModel Off Model] nature of ''everything''...
** And if that doesn't do it, just remember: if it's meant to be erotic, Chris was masturbating to it when he drew it. That's a guarantee.
** And if that doesn't do it, just remember: if it's meant to be erotic, Chris was masturbating to it when he drew it. That's a guarantee.
* FiveManBand: The [[strike:Chaotix]] Chaotic Combo. Granted, they [[FlatCharacter don't have any personality]], but let's classify them to our best:
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand Five Man Band]: The <strike>Chaotix</strike> Chaotic Combo. Granted, they [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatCharacter don't have any personality], but let's classify them to our best:
** TheHero: Wild Sonichu
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero The Hero]: Wild Sonichu
** {{The Lancer}}/{{The Smart Guy}}: Magi-chan Sonichu
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLancer The Lancer]/[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy]: Magi-chan Sonichu
** TheBigGuy: Punchy Sonichu
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBigGuy The Big Guy]: Punchy Sonichu
** TheChick: Both Bubbles and Angelica Rosechu
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChick The Chick]: Both Bubbles and Angelica Rosechu
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Anytime anybody dies in the comic, their survivors take a panel or so to say "we've got to move on" and do just that. Possibly because the author is a borderline sociopath who does the same thing in real life.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForgottenFallenFriend Forgotten Fallen Friend]: Anytime anybody dies in the comic, their survivors take a panel or so to say "we've got to move on" and do just that. Possibly because the author is a borderline sociopath who does the same thing in real life.
* ForTheEvulz: 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.
* ForTheEvulz: 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.
* FreudianExcuse: [[strike:Mary Lee Walsh]] "Slaweel the Witch" hates love because she's a social outcast who isn't loved herself.
* FreudianExcuse: [[strike:Mary Lee Walsh]] "Slaweel the Witch" hates love because she's a social outcast who isn't loved herself.

Revision as of 16:19, 11 June 2010

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.

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 ascendent 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.