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* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisaimedFandom Misamimed Fandom]: The comics are aimed at [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids kids and teenagers], yet contain gratuitous sex scenes and often center around Chris's 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImageBoard Image Board] trolls, which is even sadder considering how frequently Chris tries to appeal to his "true and loyal fanbase", which doesn't even exist.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisaimedFandom Misamimed Fandom]: The comics are aimed at [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids kids and teenagers], yet contain gratuitous sex scenes and often center around Chris's 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImageBoard Image Board] trolls, which is even sadder considering how frequently Chris tries to appeal to his "true and loyal fanbase", which doesn't even exist.
** One troll tactic was to try to give Chris the impression that Sonichu had acquired a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisaimedFandom Misaimed Fandom] [[Gay_4_Sonichu|in the gay community]]. A [[User:Champthom/Paper|fake paper]] was also written, detailing the supposed homosexual [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Subtext subtext] of Sonichu. Christian Weston Chandler is a [[Homos|raging homophobe with strong hints of "self-hating closet case"]], so it shouldn't be hard for you to imagine [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues how he reacted].
** One troll tactic was to try to give Chris the impression that Sonichu had acquired a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisaimedFandom Misaimed Fandom] [[Gay_4_Sonichu|in the gay community]]. A [[User:Champthom/Paper|fake paper]] was also written, detailing the supposed homosexual [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Subtext subtext] of Sonichu. Christian Weston Chandler is a [[Homos|raging homophobe with strong hints of "self-hating closet case"]], so it shouldn't be hard for you to imagine [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues how he reacted].
* MismatchedEyes: Chris, both in the comics and in RealLife, although the comic severely exaggerates this trait. Naitsirhc, being (at least in theory) Chris's opposite, has a red right and orange left eye.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MismatchedEyes Mismatched Eyes]: Chris, both in the comics and in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife 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.
* MoodWhiplash: "Panda died! Boo hoo for 2 frames! Let's go kick some Transformer ass like nothing happened!" A weird example of the trope in that the characters have an uncanny ability to completely forget that something absolutely awesome or something devastatingly tragic happened. It's as if the ''characters'' didn't notice the change of the mood in the situations.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoodWhiplash Mood Whiplash]: "Panda died! Boo hoo for 2 frames! Let's go kick some Transformer ass like nothing happened!" A weird example of the trope in that the characters have an uncanny ability to completely forget that something absolutely awesome or something devastatingly tragic happened. It's as if the ''characters'' didn't notice the change of the mood in the situations.
* MoralDissonance: 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 (''mentally deficient'' innocents, no less).
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralDissonance 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 (''mentally deficient'' innocents, no less).
** He blows up a building that offered free webservice because they didn't have good enough security features, then collapses another full of {{Jerk Ass}}es because they were mean to him. He brushes off these things or celebrates them.
** He blows up a building that offered free webservice because they didn't have good enough security features, then collapses another full of [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkAss Jerk Asses] because they were mean to him. He brushes off these things or celebrates them.
* MoralEventHorizon: Alec and crew kill Simonla, and in response they are put through what can be best described as a JokerJury before being found guilty and sentenced by the judge [[HollywoodLaw all at the same hearing, without the jury being given any time to deliberate]]. They are then sentenced to an execution where [[AFeteWorseThanDeath just about every character in the comic who was ever portrayed positively takes part in a wrathful execution of the whole bunch, involving mutilation and children taking part]]. We're then treated to a speech written by Chris [[SmallNameBigEgo in which he berates everyone for fighting about anything and talks about how his birthday will solve everything bad in the world ever]].
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon Moral Event Horizon]: Alec and crew kill Simonla, and in response they are put through what can be best described as a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JokerJury Joker Jury] before being found guilty and sentenced by the judge [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodLaw all at the same hearing, without the jury being given any time to deliberate]. They are then sentenced to an execution where [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AFeteWorseThanDeath just about every character in the comic who was ever portrayed positively takes part in a wrathful execution of the whole bunch, involving mutilation and children taking part]. We're then treated to a speech written by Chris [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmallNameBigEgo in which he berates everyone for fighting about anything and talks about how his birthday will solve everything bad in the world ever].
** While the final scene was unquestionably the most disgusting and horrible, it wasn't the Moral Event Horizon; that came much earlier when Chris destroyed a building full of innocent people and killed about 100 of them for making fun of him on the internet, made even worse by the fact that up until that point [[ThouShaltNotKill the characters of the comic didn't kill their enemies]]. The torture scene was awful, but by that point the characters were already irredeemable.
** While the final scene was unquestionably the most disgusting and horrible, it wasn't the Moral Event Horizon; that came much earlier when Chris destroyed a building full of innocent people and killed about 100 of them for making fun of him on the internet, made even worse by the fact that up until that point [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThouShaltNotKill the characters of the comic didn't kill their enemies]. The torture scene was awful, but by that point the characters were already irredeemable.
*** Right after that there was an intended example, where [[FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]] (who Chris [[PerverseSexualLust has a crush on]]) gushes over Chris and even kisses him, but is then revealed to be Silvana. It doesn't work, though, due to all of the comic's supposed antagonists being more likable than the heroes.
*** Right after that there was an intended example, where [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin] (who Chris [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerverseSexualLust has a crush on]) gushes over Chris and even kisses him, but is then revealed to be Silvana. It doesn't work, though, due to all of the comic's supposed antagonists being more likable than the heroes.
** A lot of the things the ''real'' Chris has said, talked about, and even spoken about can evoke this. One could say that him drawing porn of Megan is this (Chris says that he had to do it, or ''[[RapeAsDrama he could have possibly went too far]]''), ''laughing at 9/11'', and wishing the Deaths of all the people who troll him. Suffice to say, the AuthorAvatar is only ''marginally'' worse, it's ''even worse'' when you consider that ''the comic is his own sick WishFulfillment''.
** A lot of the things the ''real'' Chris has said, talked about, and even spoken about can evoke this. One could say that him drawing porn of Megan is this (Chris says that he had to do it, or ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeAsDrama he could have possibly went too far]''), ''laughing at 9/11'', and wishing the deaths of all the people who troll him. Suffice to say, the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorAvatar Author Avatar] is only ''marginally'' worse, it's ''even worse'' when you consider that ''the comic is his own sick [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WishFulfillment Wish Fulfillment]''.
** WishFulfillment? He actually believes that fiction exists in a WhoFramedRogerRabbit -esque dimension. [[FridgeHorror Which means...]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint he ruined]] WildMassGuessing [[RuinedForever FOREVER]]!
** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WishFulfillment Wish Fulfillment]? He actually believes that fiction exists in a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit]-esque dimension. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeHorror Which means...] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompletelyMissingThePoint he ruined] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing Wild Mass Guessing] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuinedForever FOREVER]!
* MostCommonSuperPower: Mary Lee Walsh has this not just in fanart, but in the later issues as well.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostCommonSuperPower Most Common Super Power]: Mary Lee Walsh has this not just in fanart, but in the later issues as well.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Pretty much ''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 let's not even get into "Rage Against the Garbage"...
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyGirlIsASlut My Girl Is A Slut]: Pretty much ''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 let's not even get into "Rage Against the Garbage"...
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|* {{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''.
|* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm 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''.
** Episode 14 contains these two awesomely out-of-context lines: "My two balls!" and "I cannot be deprived of my balls."
** Episode 14 contains these two awesomely out-of-context lines: "My two balls!" and "I cannot be deprived of my balls."
** Episode 6: "Ow! I hurt in three places!"
** Episode 6: "Ow! I hurt in three places!"
** [[http://www.hsienko.com/asperchu/index.php?title=Guest_Comic_By_Christopher_Christian_Ricardo_Weston_Chandler/Page_2 Simonla's death scene]] was particularly hilarious. She died from an ''exploding toilet.''
** [http://www.hsienko.com/asperchu/index.php?title=Guest_Comic_By_Christopher_Christian_Ricardo_Weston_Chandler/Page_2 Simonla's death scene] was particularly hilarious. She died from an ''exploding toilet.''
** The scene from ''Sonichu 10'' where [[http://archive.cogsdev.org/cwcipedia/index.php?title=Issue_10/Page_39 Chris yells "I AM A MAN!" and punches a guy]] is quite narmy in itself thanks to being badly drawn (even by Christian's usual standards) as well as being a part of obvious author's WishFulfillment, but it's also made unintentionally funny when you notice its (probably not intended) similarity to [[AtopTheFourthWall certain reviewer's]] CatchPhrase.
** The scene from ''Sonichu 10'' where [http://archive.cogsdev.org/cwcipedia/index.php?title=Issue_10/Page_39 Chris yells "I AM A MAN!" and punches a guy] is quite narmy in itself thanks to being badly drawn (even by Christian's usual standards) as well as being a part of obvious author's [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WishFulfillment Wish Fulfillment], but it's also made unintentionally funny when you notice its (probably not intended) similarity to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AtopTheFourthWall certain reviewer's] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatchPhrase Catch Phrase].
** "[[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/You_know_what,_I_HATE_ME_TOO!!! I set my ASS ON FIRE!]]]"
** "[[You know what, I HATE ME TOO!!!|I set my ASS ON FIRE!]]]"
* NarmCharm: Barely qualifies. Some parts contain enough [[RougeAnglesOfSatin typos]] and awful dialogue to evoke the awesomeness that is ''FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences'', but not enough to really make the comic enjoyable on its own.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NarmCharm Narm Charm]: Barely qualifies. Some parts contain enough [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RougeAnglesOfSatin typos] and awful dialogue to evoke the awesomeness that is ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Half Life Full Life Consequences]'', but not enough to really make the comic enjoyable on its own.
* NamesTheSame: 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.
* NamesTheSame: 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.
* NightmareFuel: The Giant Penis Comic, and the rest of Chris' {{Rule 34}} artwork.
* NightmareFuel: The Giant Penis Comic, and the rest of Chris' {{Rule 34}} artwork.

Revision as of 20:25, 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 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.