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** One of the big sources of the squickiness comes from the fact that this ''looks'' like a kid-drawn comic - badly drawn figures, general lack of details - but then you notice that there are ''disturbing little details'' in the comic that the ''did'' manage to include. Sometimes you can't even notice them the first time you read the comic. As in "Oh my God...he's...he drew...that's a bloody ''codpiece'', that's what it is."
** One of the big sources of the squickiness comes from the fact that this ''looks'' like a kid-drawn comic - badly drawn figures, general lack of details - but then you notice that there are ''disturbing little details'' in the comic that the ''did'' manage to include. Sometimes you can't even notice them the first time you read the comic. As in "Oh my God...he's...he drew...that's a bloody ''codpiece'', that's what it is."
** Even more bonus [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Squick squick] points for the Rosechu photoshoot being traced from porn... <font color="#FFFFFF">including [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin] and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Transformers Transformers] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerverseSexualLust porn].</font>
** Even more bonus [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Squick squick] points for the Rosechu photoshoot being traced from porn... <font color="#FFFFFF">including [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin] and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Transformers Transformers] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerverseSexualLust porn].</font>
** In issue 11, one of the baby Rosechus is playing the Virgin Mary in a school play, she says "I'm the Virgin Mary, that's my story and I'm sticking to it."<sup>(this line is quoted verbatim from ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy Family Guy]''</sup>
** In issue 11, one of the baby Rosechus is playing the Virgin Mary in a school play, she says "I'm the Virgin Mary, that's my story and I'm sticking to it."<sup>* (this line is quoted verbatim from ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyGuy Family Guy]''</sup>
* StayInTheKitchen: Rosechu, strictly speaking, should be at least ''as'' powerful as Sonichu (in fact, she should actually be ''more'' powerful since she evolved from a Raichu), but her life revolves around shopping (and spending too much money when she does it), giving gifts to Sonichu, and [[DistressedDamsel getting kidnapped]]. [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Sonichu_Game_Talk This is even her entire storyline in Chris's hypothetical ''Sonichu'' game]].
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StayInTheKitchen Stay In The Kitchen]: Rosechu, strictly speaking, should be at least ''as'' powerful as Sonichu (in fact, she should actually be ''more'' powerful since she evolved from a Raichu), but her life revolves around shopping (and spending too much money when she does it), giving gifts to Sonichu, and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DistressedDamsel getting kidnapped]. [[Sonichu Game Talk|This is even her entire storyline in Chris's hypothetical ''Sonichu'' game]].
* StrangledByTheRedString: Every single couple.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrangledByTheRedString Strangled By TheRed String]: Every single couple.
** Punchy is hinted to have a crush on Angelica. Then he ends up with [[spoiler:Layla Flaaffy]].
** Punchy is hinted to have a crush on Angelica. Then he ends up with <font color="#FFFFFF">Layla Flaaffy</font>.
** Bubbles is with [[strike:Black Sonichu]] [[strike:Blachu]] Blake. They hide their relationship for no clear reason.
** Bubbles is with <strike>Black Sonichu</strike> <strike>Blachu</strike> Blake. They hide their relationship for no clear reason.
** When Reldnahc [[spoiler:is about to be cured of his homosexuality, there is talk of him getting back together with Kel. There is no mention of this in earlier chapters.]]
** When Reldnahc <font color="#FFFFFF">is about to be cured of his homosexuality, there is talk of him getting back together with Kel. There is no mention of this in earlier chapters.</font>
*** Reportedly, Chris has tried this in real life. Seriously, he walked around the mall trailing a piece of [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Red_string Red String]] with a construction paper heart, in the hope that he could "catch" a girlfriend with it, like with a fishing rod. That's fucked up.
*** Reportedly, Chris has tried this in real life. Seriously, he walked around the mall trailing a piece of [[Red String]] with a construction paper heart, in the hope that he could "catch" a girlfriend with it, like with a fishing rod. That's fucked up.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Sean's drug induced rant.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawmanHasAPoint Strawman Has A Point]: Sean's drug induced rant.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: In Issue 9, [=PandaHalo=] was burned alive and Ivy was strangled by elevator wire.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StuffedIntoTheFridge Stuffed Into The Fridge]: In Issue 9, PandaHalo was burned alive and Ivy was strangled by elevator wire.
* StylisticSuck: Chris' imitation of Alec's art style in Issue 10, which he considers "badly drawn" and significantly inferior to his Hand-Drawn True and Original artwork. Chris trying to draw badly ''deliberately'' is a sight to behold, considering his standards. It should also be considered that in imitating Alec's interpretation of the cast of ''Sonichu'', themselves ''SonicTheHedgehog'' recolors, Chris essentially created a copy of a copy of a copy.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StylisticSuck Stylistic Suck]: Chris' imitation of Alec's art style in Issue 10, which he considers "badly drawn" and significantly inferior to his Hand-Drawn True and Original artwork. Chris trying to draw badly ''deliberately'' is a sight to behold, considering his standards. It should also be considered that in imitating Alec's interpretation of the cast of ''Sonichu'', themselves ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog]'' recolors, Chris essentially created a copy of a copy of a copy.
* SuperEmpowering: Chris can give people, like his dog, superpowers.
* [SuperEmpowering Super Empowering]: Chris can give people, like his dog, superpowers.
* SureWhyNot: Chris's adaptation of the [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Sonichu_Fan_Promo Sonichu Fan Promo series]] in Issue 9, one of the few troll-created fanworks that Chris has actually approved (with minor alterations). He didn't realize it was designed to mock him.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SureWhyNot Sure Why Not]: Chris's adaptation of the [[Sonichu Fan Promo|Sonichu Fan Promo series]] in Issue 9, one of the few troll-created fanworks that Chris has actually approved (with minor alterations). He didn't realize it was designed to mock him.
** The disparity of naming the Sonichu species after the eponymous hero despite it being canon that he was not the oldest living member of said species was quickly pointed out. When a 'fan' asked Chris if this was because same characters had lived in isolation from anyone qualified to classify them, Chris quickly latched onto this solution.
** The disparity of naming the Sonichu species after the eponymous hero despite it being canon that he was not the oldest living member of said species was quickly pointed out. When a 'fan' asked Chris if this was because same characters had lived in isolation from anyone qualified to classify them, Chris quickly latched onto this solution.
* SurferDude: Jamsta Sonichu is ''supposed'' to fill this role (see note on TotallyRadical below). Comes off as a DumbassDJ instead.
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurferDude Surfer Dude]: Jamsta Sonichu is ''supposed'' to fill this role (see note on [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TotallyRadical Totally Radical] below). Comes off as a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DumbassDJ Dumbass DJ] instead.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Chris was forced to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim kill off]] the character [[http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Simonla Simonla]] (NSFW) He immediately has her replaced by her daughter Sandy who is the [[GenerationXerox exact same character]] with some minor athstetic differences. She immediately gets revenge on the ''[[{{troll}} person responsible]]'' for her mother's death while saying "At least I will not have this issue to deal with in my teen years..." ensuring [[AngstWhatAngst she won't have any angst to define her as a character]].
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Suspiciously Similar Substitute]: Chris was forced to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DroppedABridgeOnHim kill off] the character [[Simonla]] (NSFW). He immediately has her replaced by her daughter Sandy who is the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenerationXerox exact same character] with some minor athstetic differences. She immediately gets revenge on the ''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Troll person responsible]'' for her mother's death while saying "At least I will not have this issue to deal with in my teen years..." ensuring [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AngstWhatAngst she won't have any angst to define her as a character].
* TakeThat: Chris inserts people he doesn't like (Mary Lee Walsh, "Jerkops", Jason Kendrick Howell, "Clyde Cash", etc.) into the comic so that he can beat up on them. Ironically, the villains end up being the only characters who are [[RootingForTheEmpire likable]] (given this comic, that's not saying much). Also, this could be considered a reversed trope, mostly because the people which Chris presents as villains tend to mock Chris' pathetic attempts at "revenge" (Like Jason) or simply ignore it (Like Wes Iseli).
* TakeThat: Chris inserts people he doesn't like (Mary Lee Walsh, "Jerkops", Jason Kendrick Howell, "Clyde Cash", etc.) into the comic so that he can beat up on them. Ironically, the villains end up being the only characters who are [[RootingForTheEmpire likable]] (given this comic, that's not saying much). Also, this could be considered a reversed trope, mostly because the people which Chris presents as villains tend to mock Chris' pathetic attempts at "revenge" (Like Jason) or simply ignore it (Like Wes Iseli).
* TakeThatUs: An unintentional one happens during Sean's stoned rant.
* TakeThatUs: An unintentional one happens during Sean's stoned rant.

Revision as of 22:34, 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.