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** [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 [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].
** 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].
** "[[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!]]"
* [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.
* [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.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NamesTheSame Name's 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.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NamesTheSame Name's 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.
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*** Which, since they did die in real life as far as Chris knows, is physically impossible. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WallBanger Until you realize Chris believes people who go to Heaven when they die can come back whenever they want.]
*** Which, since they did die in real life as far as Chris knows, is physically impossible. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WallBanger Until you realize Chris believes people who go to Heaven when they die can come back whenever they want.]
** Then he took out two of his enemy characters not through an honorable fight, but having them realize homosexuality is wrong, that Chris was right, and suddenly be content to commit suicide by jumping down their building's 72-story elevator shaft (which is 72 floors because the building which contained evil was [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NumberOfTheBeast 66+6 floors tall]. Obviously, making it 666 feet tall wouldn't have been [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic logical]). Never mind that there are so many better options to change their ways besides death.
** Then he took out two of his enemy characters not through an honorable fight, but having them realize homosexuality is wrong, that Chris was right, and suddenly be content to commit suicide by jumping down their building's 72-story elevator shaft (which is 72 floors because the building which contained evil was [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NumberOfTheBeast 66+6 floors tall]. Obviously, making it 666 feet tall wouldn't have been [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic logical]). Never mind that there are so many better options to change their ways besides death.
* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Rosechu's heroic "face-rape" of Jason Kendrick Howell, a clear victory for the forces of good.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale Rape Is Okay When It's Female On Male]: Rosechu's heroic "face-rape" of Jason Kendrick Howell, a clear victory for the forces of good.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Interfere with Chris' love quest or troll him hard enough, and you too could appear in an issue of ''Sonichu'' to be beaten up by mutant hedgehogs.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLifeWritesThePlot 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 beaten up by mutant hedgehogs.
** Throughout January and February 2010 he was repeatedly ordered to kill Simonla Rosechu because she was based on Asperpedia contributor Evan's character, and Evan didn't want her in the comic anymore. After persistently refusing, Chris lost his site. He then decided to finally [[http://www.hsienko.com/asperchu/index.php?title=Guest_Comic_By_Christopher_Christian_Ricardo_Weston_Chandler/Page_2 kill Simonla]] in order to get his site back. After her [[{{Narm}} death scene]], Magi-Chan stated that he knew who killed Simonla. And what a surprise - turns out that Asperpedia trolls were behind it. So Chris [[DethroningMomentOfSuck has them all tortured]] [[MoralEventHorizon to death]].
** Throughout January and February 2010 he was repeatedly ordered to kill Simonla Rosechu because she was based on Asperpedia contributor Evan's character, and Evan didn't want her in the comic anymore. After persistently refusing, Chris lost his site. He then decided to finally [http://www.hsienko.com/asperchu/index.php?title=Guest_Comic_By_Christopher_Christian_Ricardo_Weston_Chandler/Page_2 kill Simonla] in order to get his site back. After her [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm}} death scene], Magi-Chan stated that he knew who killed Simonla. And what a surprise - turns out that Asperpedia trolls were behind it. So Chris [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DethroningMomentOfSuck has them all tortured] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon to death].
*** Also, he immediately weaseled out of Simonla's death by introducing her nearly-identical daughter to the comic. Since that's just ''another'' gender-flipped version of Simonchu (who thanks to the additional spines, actually looks ''more'' like Simonchu than Simonla did), we can probably expect the site to get shut down again pretty soon.
*** Also, he immediately weaseled out of Simonla's death by introducing her nearly-identical daughter to the comic. Since that's just ''another'' gender-flipped version of Simonchu (who thanks to the additional spines, actually looks ''more'' like Simonchu than Simonla did), we can probably expect the site to get shut down again pretty soon.
* {{Retcon}}: Several. Chris changed the names of characters who are based on real people, because a troll posing as ShigeruMiyamoto tricked him into it. Chris has independently changed names and drawings he feared could be viewed as [[HoYay homosexual subtext]], most noticeably a SplashPanel which has been entirely redrawn due to its original rainbow background, and several drawings of a Raichu were redrawn to change the shape of its tail, proving Rosechu evolved from a female Raichu to alleviate ViewerGenderConfusion. [=CWCki=] has a more in-depth list of retcons [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Retroactive_continuity_in_Sonichu here]].
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retcon Retcon]: Several. Chris changed the names of characters who are based on real people, because a troll posing as [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShigeruMiyamoto Shigeru Miyamoto] tricked him into it. Chris has independently changed names and drawings he feared could be viewed as [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay homosexual subtext], most noticeably a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SplashPanel Splash Panel] which has been entirely redrawn due to its original rainbow background, and several drawings of a Raichu were redrawn to change the shape of its tail, proving Rosechu evolved from a female Raichu to alleviate [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerGenderConfusion Viewer Gender Confusion]. CWCki has a more in-depth list of retcons [[Retroactive continuity in Sonichu|here]].
** The funny thing about the Rosechu issue is that he could have just said that the design of Rosechu was before most Pokemon had distinctions between genders (the exceptions being the Nidorans).
** The funny thing about the Rosechu issue is that he could have just said that the design of Rosechu was before most Pokemon had distinctions between genders (the exceptions being the Nidorans).
* RougeAnglesOfSatin ''and'' WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Both in the comic itself and in anything else he writes. Even though he types out his comic's dialogue, he doesn't bother to spell-check, so some rather terrible typos slip through - even though he has had no trouble whatsoever going back and altering captions and dialogue for the sake of retconning (and when he does, he neglects to fix his typos along with it). He also has a tendency in written correspondence to go ALLCAPS or Randomly Capitalize Words for no Reason Whatsoever.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RougeAnglesOfSatin Rouge Angles Of Satin] ''and'' [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma Wanton Cruelty To The Common Comma]: Both in the comic itself and in anything else he writes. Even though he types out his comic's dialogue, he doesn't bother to spell-check, so some rather terrible typos slip through - even though he has had no trouble whatsoever going back and altering captions and dialogue for the sake of retconning (and when he does, he neglects to fix his typos along with it). He also has a tendency in written correspondence to go ALLCAPS or Randomly Capitalize Words for no Reason Whatsoever.
**He even has a character named '''Merried Seinor Comic'''.
**He even has a character named '''Merried Seinor Comic'''.
** It is "last rites," NOT "last rights."
** It is "last rites," NOT "last rights."
** My favorite recurring Sonichu typo is "dood" for "good."
** My favorite recurring Sonichu typo is "dood" for "good."
* [[RuleThirtyFour Rule 34]]: Not only does the creator make 34 of his own characters (and people he knows from real life) and upload it to EncyclopediaDramatica in "protest" of the site, but his "fans" are also more than willing to draw their own.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleThirtyFour Rule 34]: Not only does the creator make 34 of his own characters (and people he knows from real life) and upload it to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EncyclopediaDramatica Encyclopedia Dramatica] in "protest" of the site, but his "fans" are also more than willing to draw their own.
** Chris sometimes even encourages his "fans" to draw 34 for him, including one instance where he demanded that a troll draw a picture of Rosechu "masturbatin' and squirtin'" to make up for [[SlashFic slash art]] of himself and Sonichu.
** Chris sometimes even encourages his "fans" to draw 34 for him, including one instance where he demanded that a troll draw a picture of Rosechu "masturbatin' and squirtin'" to make up for [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlashFic slash art] of himself and Sonichu.
* RunningTheAsylum: Apparently after finishing ''Sonichu 10'' Chris decided that playing video games and raging against [=CWCki=] is more interesting than updating his comic, and thus he stopped updating it. At the end of April 2010 his [[{{Troll}} TRUE and HONEST fans]] realized that if they want to see new issues they have to draw them themselves - which they did, and then found a way to make [=CWCipedia=] Sysop upload them to Christian's wiki. So far the fans' run resulted in [[spoiler:deaths of Bubbles, Sandy, Wild and Sonichu's and Rosechu's kids (and technically also Angelica, though apparently she got better), Sonichu and Rosechu breaking up and Christian's Sonic recolors finally realizing that the mayor of [=CWCville=] is [[{{Understatement}} somewhat incompetent]].]] Sadly Chris couldn't stand someone writing and drawing better than he does and removed fan-created pages.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningTheAsylum Running The Asylum]: Apparently after finishing ''Sonichu 10'' Chris decided that playing video games and raging against CWCki is more interesting than updating his comic, and thus he stopped updating it. At the end of April 2010 his [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Troll TRUE and HONEST fans] realized that if they want to see new issues they have to draw them themselves - which they did, and then found a way to make the CWCipedia Sysop upload them to Christian's wiki. So far the fans' run resulted in <font color="#FFFFFF">the deaths of Bubbles, Sandy, Wild and Sonichu's and Rosechu's kids (and technically also Angelica, though apparently she got better), Sonichu and Rosechu breaking up and Christian's Sonic recolors finally realizing that the mayor of CWCville is [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Understatement}} somewhat incompetent].</font> Sadly Chris couldn't stand someone writing and drawing better than he does and removed fan-created pages.
** At the end of May 2010 Vivian Gee took control of [=CWCipedia=] and started uploading her new comic "Sonichu Season 2" to the wiki.
** At the end of May 2010 Vivian Gee took control of CWCipedia and started uploading her new comic "Sonichu Season 2" to the wiki.
* SailorEarth: [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Sailor_Megtune Sailor Megtune]].
* SailorEarth: [[Sailor Megtune]].
* ScheduleSlip: It only took Chris six days to start slipping when he finally set up a regular schedule for himself after Kacey and her father told him off for being such a slacker - before that, updates could come any number of months apart, and it apparently took several years to finish the first issue after Sonichu's inception. Even so, Chris plans his comics far in advance (with previews for forthcoming issues already available), so he really has no reason for his {{Schedule Slip}}s other than being a LazyArtist.
* ScheduleSlip: It only took Chris six days to start slipping when he finally set up a regular schedule for himself after Kacey and her father told him off for being such a slacker - before that, updates could come any number of months apart, and it apparently took several years to finish the first issue after Sonichu's inception. Even so, Chris plans his comics far in advance (with previews for forthcoming issues already available), so he really has no reason for his {{Schedule Slip}}s other than being a LazyArtist.
** After being called out on his Schedule slips several times, Chris wrote a CharacterFilibuster [[http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcipedia/index.php/Issue_10/Page_98 that says he doesn't need one.]] And later he wrote an entire rant on this subject, claiming (among other things) [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/CWC_Blog#March_2010 that Honest, True and Loyal fans are as bad as trolls and Mary Lee Walsh if they want him to update his comic regularly]].
** After being called out on his Schedule slips several times, Chris wrote a CharacterFilibuster [[http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcipedia/index.php/Issue_10/Page_98 that says he doesn't need one.]] And later he wrote an entire rant on this subject, claiming (among other things) [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/CWC_Blog#March_2010 that Honest, True and Loyal fans are as bad as trolls and Mary Lee Walsh if they want him to update his comic regularly]].

Revision as of 21:58, 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.