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In what may be the world's only attempt at cross-comic retconning, Chris attempted to alter the plot of Alec Benson Leary's Asperchu comic from within the pages of Sonichu 10 during the course of his fued with him in January 2010.
History
After Alec began to include more Sonichu characters in his comic other than Sonichu himself, Chris quickly took notice, and much tard raging soon ensued. Whilst portraying Sonichu as homo was bad enough for Chris, apparently tarring the Chaotic Combo with the same brush was a step too far for him, and so he then decided to incorperate the Asperverse into his own comics cannon. In a phone conversation with Alec, Chris revealed that it was because he believes cartoon characters like his own to all really exist in some parallel universe, citing Who Framed Roger Rabbit as a template for this idea, and explaining that by making a work featuring the characters from his comic, he was therefore changing that parallel world into one in which they were homos, and his characters would supposedly resent that.
Chris's solution therefore was to retcon it in his comic that the events of Asperchu never really happened, and that all instances of his characters appearing in Asperchu were really just other Sonichus being forced to to play the characters by Alec. Makes perfect sense, right? A key component of showing this therefore, was the reader actually getting to see these actors. Thus it came to pass that Chris created six new throwaway characters from the Asperverse's versions of Sonichu and the Chaotic Combo. Of course, attempting to change the cannon of another author's comics without permission was nowhere near insulting enough for Chris to be satisfied, so he also placed Alec himself in the story and portrayed him as a kidnapper and rapist and stole several characters original to his comic too, just for good measure. Listed below are his bastardizations of each character, and what he did to make them that way.
Sonichu and the Chaotic Combo
In the world of Asperchu, Sonichu and the Chaotic Combo are a group of heroic vigilantes fighting an underground guerrilla war in the streets of CWCville to free the town from the despotic clutches of Ian Brandon Anderson and return the rightful Mayor to power. They are given much better characterization than Chris originally gave them, and just for kicks, Alec made Wild and Magi-chan gay to play off their obvious homosexual inclinations in Sonichu. Wild is seen to be in a relationship with Simonchu as a parody of his relationship with his sub-par knockoff Simonla in the main comics, and after Wild dies he also dates Magi-Chan. Over the course of the comic, the entire Combo is eventually wiped out, with Wild, Punchy and Angelica being murdered by Metal Asperchu to establish his status as a threatening villain, Bubbles covertly assassinated by Silvana Rosechu to help in an infiltration mission, and Magi-Chan later killed in the battle for CWCville, also by Silvana. Sonichu survived these events, and later went on to become a villain himself.
In Sonichu 10, Chris responded to the events of Asperchu by retconning it in his own comic. After destroying the 4cent building, Chris and Ultra Sonichu then flew away to Minnesota where the Asperchu comics take place and came across the actors who portrayed the Sonichu characters in Asperchu. Chris establishes that they were in fact different Sonichus and Rosechus, with different names and identities, who just so happened to look exactly like the characters we're more familiar with. They further explain that Alec had in fact captured them and were forcing them against their will to pretend to be the Chaotic Combo, and to pretend to die, and to pretend to follow Liquid Chris among other things, for reasons that will only ever make senses in Chris's autism riddled mind. They say that they had ever since been "praying to the real Christian Weston Chandler".
In addition to this, they also claim to have all been infected with Aspergers Syndrome by Alec, following Chris's belief that Aspergers Syndrome is both completely different from the supposedly not as harmful regular autism that he has, and that it is a literal disease that can be "caught" or "cured". Chris also gives this as the reason why the characters seemed to have personalities in Asperchu but were all cardboard cutouts in his comic; the Aspergers Syndrome gave them all social problems and made them act weird, like they did in the Asperchu comic when they had personalities. In Chris's mind, normal people act like saturday morning cartoon characters, like they do in his comic.
Ultra Sonichu then uses his Chaos Remedy to immediately cure them of their Aspergers and reverts them back into their old selves, (begging the question of why he couldn't instantly cure Chris's autism too), and the characters then one by one give their real names, show off the extremely minor design changes Chris made to differentiate them from his characters, and then list all the ways their lives had improved in the last ten seconds since they were cured.
In response to complaints in the mailbag that he was portraying himself and Sonichu as Messianic figures, Chris himself then arrives, having been absent outside of his role as narrator for the past few pages, and finds the newly regenerated Sonichus and Rosechus bowing down in prayer to him, having mistaken him for God. (Clearly being relieved of their Aspergers did wonders for their minds). Chris then takes the time out to explain to them that he was not really God, but merely his humble messenger on Earth.
Following that, Metal Asperchu shows up and randomly attacks them, leading to a boring fight scene in which he is of course destroyed in about thirty seconds. Chris and Sonichu then head inside to go and destroy Alec's Xbox 360 for some reason, whilst the new Sonichus gang up on and mercilessly beat Alec for drawing them poorly.
Mitch Sonichu
| “ | Flyin' high and lookin' fine! | ” |
| Trisha Rosechu, on Mitch Sonichu's new look. | ||
Mitch Sonichu is an interesting example of Chris's alterations, in that he was in fact an attempt to change Asperchu himself into a bland Sonichu character, rather than just Chris retaking what he believes to be his original characters, as was the case with Sonichu and the Chaotic Combo.
Chris had indicated in a previous phone call with Alec that he believes cartoons to exist in a parallel reality, and he also believes that what is written in comic books can influence and change that cartoon universe. Whilst Chris has given conflicting accounts of just how much power the author has over the characters in his comic books, like how he believes Sonichu acts completely of his own free will in his comic but the same is not true of Asperchu, he seemed to hold the view that Asperchu was independent enough from Alec that he would resent the name he had been given and would be aware of the fact that he was deliberately written to be a loser with a mental disability. As such, it can be inferred from this that Chris saw the character of Mitch as the person who Asperchu apparently "really" wanted to be, and he changed him into Mitch in his comic as some bizarre act of charity to the fictional character, though he probably still did it more to spite Alec than anything else.
Asperchu was changed into Mitch along with Sonichu and the Chaotic Combo, and also took part in the fight with Metal Asperchu shortly afterwards. He was prominently featured in the comic, even ahead of the Sonichu analogue who was retconned into Michael Sonichu, and he seemed to be portrayed as the effective "leader" of the group, after his transformation at least. As "Mitch", he was yellow with brown highlights present on the ends of his ears and the base of his tail. He had a soul patch and wore a lumberjack-style flannel shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. He was supposedly smarter, more confident and better-looking than his previous self.
After this, like most characters that Chris introduces according to events that occur around him, Mitch fades into the background character and is never seen again.
Basement Rosechus
| “ | You just had them in prison and you treated them like hamsters... You know, just keep them in cages, giant hamster wheels, giant water bottles, nn...and food pellets. | ” |
| Chris, Alec Benson Leary Phone Call 6 | ||
The Basement Rosechus are a group of four Rosechus supposedly rescued from the basement of Alec Benson Leary in Sonichu 10, following shortly after the defeat of Metal Asperchu. Starved, dirty and traumatized, they are the first characters that actually seem congruous with the grim backdrop of CWCville.
In typical Chris style, each is distinguished by some form of impairment or distinctive costume rather than any genuine personality. After being given a motivational speech by Sonichu, they are promptly stuffed into one of CWCville's soup hotels, most likely to be forgotten about.
They may have been created in response to the then latest issue of Asperchu, as immediately following Chris's retcons in Sonichu 10 earlier on, Asperchu had continued as normal, featuring the funeral of the Chaotic Combo and introducing the character of Rosechu into the comic for the first time. Whether they were made to also retcon the Asperchu version of Rosechu into another character or whether they were just made for the sake of demonizing Alec further remains unknown.
Not long after publishing the pages featuring these characters, Chris released a video with one of his classic anti-sincere apologies, backing off from the implication that Alec would entertain himself by abusing and raping innocent women. According to Chris's retroactive accounting of the situation, the Basement Rosechus were merely kept in large cages and forced to run on a "giant hamster wheel", as if that's any better.
Essentially the regular Rosechu, right down to a proclivity for strutting around in slutty clothes, but famished and dirty in appearance. The end of her tail appears to have been chewed on at some point. She is possibly the leader of the group by virtue of being the most bland.
A Rosechu in a waifish-looking wedding dress. She was apparently betrothed to Asperchu but was declared too weak and feeble and was cast aside. Speaking with strong religious overtones, it could be said she is set-up to be an Angelica clone were this sort of accusation of unoriginality not redundant by now.
Interestingly, Bride's backstory seems to have also been an attempt to demonize Asperchu along with Alec, implying that he was some kind of sidekick to her captor; a story inconsistent with his earlier depiction as being a victim just as much as her or the others.
A bald Rosechu with rickets and square eyes. Inadvertently or otherwise, her tail resembles a hockey stick.
A paraplegic Rosechu who had apparently gone without a wheelchair for most of her existence. Sonichu graciously gives her one. Has a missing ear for unexplained reasons. Wants to have a long, soapy bath, which she probably won't be able to feel anyway.
Alec's other characters
As mentioned above, whilst Chris was screwing around with a comic that wasn't his to alter, he decided to go all the way and outright stole several characters original to Asperchu, rather than just his own, the most prominent being Asperchu himself, transformed into Mitch. However, Chris also stole several other characters from the series, or more specifically, two of them.
The first is Metal Asperchu, the primary villain of the Asperchu series in the early issues of the comic. In he original comic, he was created by the troll lord Sinestro as a way to track down the seven Chaos Pickles he needed for his vauge but evil plan. He was based on Asperchu for unknown reasons, and quickly became independent of his master, ignoring his commands and later outright betraying him, all for the ultimate goal of collecting the Chaos Pickles. He was also the one who killed Wild, Punchy and Angelica.
In Sonichu, he was basically turned into a random robot attacker, with no more threat or menace than your average Jerkop, and he was drawn more like a megaman villain than his original design. Given the character was a major source of conflict in Asperchu, and Chris hates conflict or tension of any kind, he was introduced in Sonichu 10 for the sole purpose of being destroyed as quickly as possible, to get rid of all that unwanted drama or build-up. He is implied in the comic to be working for Alec Benson leary, and he addresses Chris in the dialouge as the "original creator". Whether this is in references to Chris's status as the original creator of the characters he had just changed, or whether this was reffering to Metal Asperchu being based on Chris's Metal Sonichu is unknown.
The second character Chris steals is Asperchu's Grandma Snorlax, a parody of Barb, who sometimes featured in scenes set at Asperchu's house in the original comic, often seen propped up against the sagging wall of the house. In Asperchu, she gets a one panel cameo as Sonichu flies over towards the house before he meets the Asper-Combo, seen in the background propped up behind the house, just like in Asperchu. Why Chris bothered to include her at all when her only real purpose as a character is to make fun of his mother is not clear. She doesn't say anything, do anything, and she is never seen again or mentioned by anyone else. She's just sort of there.
Alec himself
And of course, Alec himself was also included in the comic as the diabolical hamster/Rosechu rapist who had captured the Asper-Combo and infected them with Aspergers Syndrome, as part of his evil plan to...make them pretend to be the real Chaotic Combo and act out their fictional deaths? What Alec's actual goal in the comic was is never really explained, but it can just be assumed that like every other Sonichu villain, he was just evil for the sake of being evil. After Metal Asperchu was defeated, the gang of seven Sonichus all ganged up on him and beat him up in vengeance, off panel of course. He was later put on trial and killed for the murder of Simonla.
Alec's reaction
| “ | Hey bitches! Razzle Dazzle! | ” |
| Mitch Chu, making his fabulous debut. | ||
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Rather than comply with this "extreme electric makeover", however, Alec simply accepted Mitch Sonichu as a new character and ignored the rest of Chris's changes.
Mitch Chu is a character who appeared in Asperchu 1, as Alec's response to the alterations Chris sought to impose. He is, unlike Mitch Sonichu, a completely separate character from Asperchu, and it is implied that he was at one point raped by Ian Brandon Anderson as a young Sonee. Due to the complicated nature of each character's origins building on the other, Sonichu, Asperchu, and Mitch are frequently confused for one another by Ian (though this is also poking fun at his difficulty in identifying people).
As a not-so-subtle response to the quite camp nature of Mitch Sonichu's EXTREME ELECTRIC MAKEOVER, Mitch Chu is rather obviously gay and seems to hold steady employ as a stylist. Nonetheless, Mitch readily joins heroes Sonichu and Simonchu in their battle against Ian Brandon Anderson, until his tragic death at the hands of Bionic.
In retaliation, Alec took Mitch sonichu and simply renamed him Mitch Chu, making him a character in his own comic, as well as in Sonichu Revolution where Mitch recounts about his confusing origins. Mitch was recast as a gay hairstylist, since makeovers are gay. Whisp became Whispy, Punchy's slow-in-the-minds cousin who speaks Spanish.
After making these modifications, Chris stated in a blog post that, whilst he has no association to Alec or his comic, he would "forgive" Alec for his wrongdoings if he introduced his changes into the Asperchu comic. Alec declined and continued with his comic unaltered, although he would introduce a character based on Mitch Sonichu.
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