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{{quote|Wes is a magician and regretfully, [[Sarah Nicole Hammer|Sarah's]] boyfriend. Because of this, Christian is very jealous and dislikes him much.|[[:Image:291-ACWesBck.jpg|Wes Iseli ''Animal Crossing'' card]]}}  
{{quote|Wes is a magician and regretfully, [[Sarah Nicole Hammer|Sarah's]] boyfriend. Because of this, Christian is very jealous and dislikes him much.|[[:Image:291-ACWesBck.jpg|Wes Iseli ''Animal Crossing'' card]]}}  
'''Wes Iseli''' (pronounced [wɛs ˈaɪzli])<ref>[[Mumble 4]], around 22 minutes in</ref> [[Emily|briefly dated]] [[Sarah Hammer]], Chris's long-time [[gal-pal]]. Wes is a magician in real life (available for birthdays, weddings, funerals and [[Michael Snyder|bar mitzvahs]]) and is currently married to another woman.
{{Infobox Person
| name = Wes Iseli
| image = WesIseli2.jpg
|name    = Wes Iseli
|aliases    = Walter Grisby<br>Wes-Li Sonichu<br>Wesley Iseli<br>Wasabi Rival<br>
|label3  = Date of Birth
|day      = 10
|month    = 11
|year    = 1977
|gender    = Male
|nationality    = [[United States|American]]
|race    = White
|occupation  = Magician
}}


Although [[trolls]] have been trying to contact Wes ever since they found his various online accounts, he hasn't offered any official statements on [[Chris]] or his involvement in [[Sonichu (comic)|the comics]]. Apparently, he doesn't feel the need to talk shit about some guy he barely knew just because he was jealous of Wes's relationship with an ex-girlfriend of his.
'''Wes Iseli''' (pronounced [wɛs ˈaɪzli], "wess EYES-lee;"<ref>[[Mumble 4]], around 22 minutes in</ref> born  10 November 1977) [[Emily|briefly dated]] [[Sarah Nicole Hammer|Sarah Hammer]], Chris's long-time [[gal pal|gal-pal]]. Wes is a magician in real life (available for birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs and funerals) and is currently married to another woman. He is also a [[Thinking with Portals#Merlin's Deal with Chris|descendent of the dark wizard.]]


==Wes Iseli in the comic==
Although [[trolls]] have been trying to contact Wes ever since they found his various online accounts, he hasn't offered any official statements on [[Chris]] or his involvement in [[Sonichu (comic)|the Sonichu comics]]. Apparently, he doesn't feel the need to talk shit about some guy he barely knew just because he was jealous of Wes's relationship with an ex-girlfriend of his.
[[Image:Sonichu05-P12.jpg|right|thumb|Wes-Li Sonichu apparently [[Chris and art|grows to about 20 feet tall,]] does an [[Wikipedia:Edward G. Robinson|Edward G. Robinson]] impression, and kidnaps [[Sarah Hammer]] in [[Sonichu 5|''Sonichu'' #5]]]]
Wes Iseli (later [[Retroactive continuity in Sonichu|retconned]] as "'''Walter Grisby'''") is one of the chosen three of the [[Anchuent Prophecy]], alongside [[Christian Weston Chandler (comic character)|Christian Weston Chandler]] and [[Sarah Hammer]]. Wes learned that he was the descendant of the [[Wasabi Clan]], and must take revenge upon the Cherokee's descendant, Chris. Wes, knowing of Chris' jealousy, accepts. So the two fight, and Wes almost wins until Sarah appears and breaks up with him. He then unites with Chris and Sarah to defeat the [[Wikipedia:Golem|golem]] made by [[Mary Lee Walsh]].


He appears again later to kidnap Sarah via magic at her wedding. Chris then beats Wes up ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' style, and Sarah thanks Chris.
== In real life ==
Wes Iseli was known to have dated Sarah Hammer at some point during Chris's [[Manchester High School|High School]] years. Chris claims to have originally been provoked into his [[Love Quest]] after becoming [[Chris and anger|enraged]] at seeing Sarah sitting on Wes's lap. Much like with [[Mary Lee Walsh]], this lead to a one sided blood feud with him, and he began to see Wes as a romantic rival and an enemy, even though Sarah saw Chris as nothing more than a friend and Wes himself probably barely even knew Chris as anything other than "that autistic kid Sarah hangs out with".


===Fictional character biography===
The trio of [[Sonichu]], [[Rosechu]] and [[Black Sonichu]] in Chris's early ideas before the comic started, existed to represent the "hero, lover and rival" triangle that Chris believed himself, Sarah and Wes to fulfill as well, with Chris [[Ego|obviously]] cast as the hero, and Wes as the villain. This is evident in the [[Chris + Sarah's Life-Shares]] story, in which he represented himself and Sarah as Sonichu and Rosechu, and when Wes was brought up in passing, Chris included a drawing of Blake holding a magic wand and magician's hat, complete with helpful annotation pointing out that he was evil. Chris would later come up with unique Sonichu forms for himself, Wes and Sarah instead of using Sonichu, Rosechu and Blake as stand-ins, and these new Sonichu forms would go on to be featured in the [[Sonichu (comic)|''Sonichu'' comics]].
In [[2003]] Wes Iseli was dating [[Sarah Hammer]], and so he met her "friend," Christian Chandler. Christian was immediately jealous of Wes, and in a development that sure sounds plausible, Wes became equally fixated on Chris, even though Chris had nothing he wanted. As Sarah and Wes's relationship progressed, they drifted away from Christian.


Their paths would cross when [[Sonichu]] discovered the Anchuent Prophecy and Christian used his [[medallion]] to activate the anchuent powers of the Cherokee and Wasabi clans, which would be bestowed on the reincarnations of the Cherokee chief, his queen, and his Wasabi rival. Wes received a vision of what appeared to be a nine-year-old wearing a robe and wizard hat (presumably the Wasabi chief), explaining the powers of the Fireshock Pendant and imploring him to use it to seek revenge on Chris-chan.
Chris also included avatars of Wes in his homemade ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' cards, for both his human form and his Sonichu form in each, (though in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' cards the human Wes Iseli was just named as "A [[JERKS|Jerk]]").


[[File:WesIseliAsperchu.jpg|thumb|left|Suffice to say, Wes Iseli was much more badass in ''[[Asperchu]]''.]]
Wes (under comic alias Walter Grisby) was mentioned in the infamous [[Chris Loses It]] video. In that video, Chris, after performing a spectacular act of [[tard rage]], pretends to call Walter Grisby, asking him "Who threw the frisbee?", before yelling at the telephone and [[:Category:Videos with Camera Abuse|throwing it]] at the [[PSEye]].


Now possessing the memories of his past life, Wes-Li attacked Christian and Sonichu not only over their own bad blood but that of their past lives—specifically the [[Wasabi]]s' desire to obtain the [[Cherokian crown]]. The two battled in their [[Electric Hedgehog]] forms, and as usual Christian was very nearly defeated until a third party arrived to save him; [[Saramah]] attacked Wes-Li to stop the fight and make peace between them.
Wes made an appearance on the TV series ''{{w|Penn & Teller: Fool Us}}'' and successfully fooled them, on a season 7 episode aired on 6 [[July 2020]].


Saramah immediately broke up with Wes-Li upon seeing his cruelty toward her friend, which left Wes-Li unmotivated to battle [[Count Graduon]]. However, with some prompting from Chris-Chan he held up his end of the prophecy and Graduon was finally defeated. Wes-Li refused to look his fellow Hedgehogs in the eye as Chris transported them back home from [[CWCville]].
Chris, in a chat with [[The Place]] from 1 [[February 2021]], described a [[daydream]] about ancestors of Sarah and Wes being wizards alongside Merlin and guided by Chris.<ref name=merlindream>[[Thinking with Portals#Merlin's Deal with Chris]]</ref>


Wes would continue to obsess over Sarah Hammer up to the day of her wedding to [[William Spicer]]. Using his Wes-Li form, he stormed the chapel to abduct Sarah, but Chris-Chan valiantly rescued her with help from [[Sailor Megtune]] and [[Megagi]].
== In the comic ==
[[File:Wls.PNG|thumb|Wes-Li is pissed.]]


Iseli was briefly seen attending the conference of villains following Christian's disappearance into the [[Time Void|time void]].
As the author of the comic, when Chris first made [[Sonichu 2|Sonichu #2]] he was given the unique opportunity to [[Chris and reality|revise his personal history with Wes]] at his leisure. Comic Wes differs from his real life counterpart in that whilst the real Wes Iseli broke up with Sarah, moved on, married another woman, probably forgot Chris ever existed and is now  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcybvGOvmrY running a charity which helps fight Parkinson's Disease], Comic Wes appears to have [[Chris and his Ego|held a grudge against Chris]] ever since he first met him while he was dating Sarah, in spite of Chris having nothing he wanted and Wes having no reason to care about Chris. Dialogue also indicates that he was still dating Sarah by the time the trio first gained their powers, as Sarah "breaks up" with him halfway through Episode 8.
 
=== Wesley Iseli/Walter Grisby ===
Wes Iseli (later [[Retroactive continuity in Sonichu|retconned]] as "'''Walter Grisby'''") was one of the chosen three of the [[Anchuent Prophecy]], alongside [[Christian Weston Chandler (comic character)|Christian Weston Chandler]] and [[Sarah Nicole Hammer]]. Wes learned that he was the descendant of the [[Wasabi Clan]], and upon gaining his powers his own ancestor implored him to take vengeance upon the [[Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan]], who was now Chris. Wes, knowing of Chris's jealousy towards him, accepts.
 
He later finds both Chris and [[Sonichu]] out on the "rough terrain" just outside [[CWCville]], and the two fight, not only over their current feud, but also over the Cherokee/Wasabi war in the ancient past, over the [[Cherokian Crown]]. Wes grabs the crown out of thin air during the fight (implying he stole it from Chris, which was [[Chris and writing|never depicted]]) and eventually the fight ends when Sarah appears and pins Wes against a tree with a lightning arrow, just as he was about to defeat Chris. Sarah breaks up with him, he whines a bit, [[Chris and hypocrisy|Chris tells him to suck it up and move on]], and he then unites with Chris and Sarah to defeat the {{w|golem}} summoned by [[Mary Lee Walsh]] and [[Count Graduon]].
 
[[Image:Sonichu05-P12.jpg|thumb|Wes-Li Sonichu apparently [[Chris and art|grows to about 20 feet tall]], does an {{w|Edward G. Robinson}} impression, and kidnaps [[Sarah Hammer]] in [[Sonichu 5|''Sonichu'' #5]]]]
 
In [[Sonichu 5|''Sonichu #5'']] he appeared again to use his magical powers to kidnap Sarah at her wedding to [[William Spicer]]. Despite ostensibly not wanting to be kidnapped, Sarah neglects to employ any of her Anchuent powers, and thus Chris must take him down. This being the early days of the [[Megan]] Saga, Chris drew heavily from anime themes in this issue, so Chris and Wes did battle via [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|children's card games]] rather than an actual fight. Chris loses (again), proving for a second time that Wes was a superior fighter to him, but he and Sarah are saved by [[Sailor Megtune]] and [[Megagi La Skunk]], and the wedding continues without issue.
 
Iseli was briefly seen in [[Sonichu 7|''Sonichu #7'']], attending the conference of villains following Christian's disappearance into the [[Time Void]]. Given that the conference was run by Mary and Count Graduon, the evil that Wes was destined to defeat alongside Chris and Sarah, the prophecy seems to have gone horribly wrong. [[Chris and writing|Chris, naturally, does not address this]].
 
Wes was last seen in the comic in [[Sonichu 9|''Sonichu #9'']], appearing on a grand total of two pages. First early in the issue, where he was seen scouting around the city in preparation for the [[Private Villa of Corrupted Citizens|PVCC]] attack, assisted by [[Reldnahc Ha-Taque]] and [[Silvana]], and later on again, when he calls Mary and tells her that a magic dome was protecting the [[CWCville Shopping Center]] from attack, and that they needed Mary to come down there personally to get through. He is never seen fighting in this issue, and it is to date his final appearance.
 
Still to this day, Wes's final fate remains unknown. Whether he was counted among the brainwashing victims freed by Chris or not has never been stated, and depending on whether or not Wes was acting of his own free will in helping Mary and the PVCC, he may or may not be the last surviving villain other than [[Clawdorf]] and [[Metal Sonichu]] after the [[Sonichu 10|''Sonichu #10'']] purge.


===Wes-Li Sonichu===
===Wes-Li Sonichu===
[[File:FlameSnipers.jpg|thumb|right|Wes-li's Flame Sniper (left) compared to Sailor Mars' Flame Sniper (right).]]
[[Image:FlameSnipers.jpg|thumb|Wes-li's Flame Sniper (left) compared to Sailor Mars' Flame Sniper (right).]]
 
Wes-Li Sonichu (pronounced [wɛzlaɪ], "Wez-lie", according to Chris's [[videobooks]], and as "Wesley" according to the [[Audiobooks]]) is the [[Electric Hedgehog Pokémon]] form of Wes Iseli when he is transformed by the Fireshock Pendant empowered by the [[Anchuent Prophecy]]. Although the prophecy foretold that Wes-Li, [[Chris-Chan Sonichu|Chris-Chan]], and [[Saramah Rosechu|Saramah]] would work together to defeat [[Count Graduon]], Wes's spitefulness toward Chris and his bitterness at having been rejected by [[Sarah Hammer]] would lead him to use his powers for evil.
Wes-Li Sonichu (pronounced [wɛzlaɪ], "Wez-lie", according to Chris's [[videobooks]], and as "Wesley" according to the [[Audiobooks]]) is the [[Electric Hedgehog Pokémon]] form of Wes Iseli when he is transformed by the Fireshock Pendant empowered by the [[Anchuent Prophecy]]. Although the prophecy foretold that Wes-Li, [[Chris-Chan Sonichu|Chris-Chan]], and [[Saramah Rosechu|Saramah]] would work together to defeat [[Count Graduon]], Wes's spitefulness toward Chris and his bitterness at having been rejected by [[Sarah Hammer]] would lead him to use his powers for evil.


Wes-li's attack is Flame Sniper, where he has a bow and arrow made from fire. The name and attack itself are another rip off from [[Sailor Moon]].  
Prior to the retcon, Wes-Li was a passable pun. With the name change, it makes absolutely no sense that a person named "Walter Grisby" would have an alter ego that does not resemble his name in any way - unless one knows the background of this character. Renaming him something like "Wal-By Sonichu" was something Chris did not bother with.


Prior to the retcon, Wes-Li was a passable pun. With the name change, it makes absolutely no sense that a person named "Walter Grisby" would have an alter ego that does not resemble his name in any way - unless one knows the background of this character.
Curiously, Wes-Li is one of the more detailed Sonichus that Chris has made, which is saying something given the [[Chris and art#Tracing|cookie-cutter]] nature of most of the other characters Chris has designed.
 
As he is not featured much, Wes-Li Sonichu is not seen to possess anything like the absurdly vast array of powers that Chris-Chan Sonichu does. He is however, seen using the Pokémon moves Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Mega Kick and Sky Uppercut, as well as a move known as the Flame Sniper, in which he uses a bow and arrow made of fire to shoot at a target. The name and attack itself are another rip-off from [[Sailor Moon]]. With help from Chris-Chan and Saramah, Wes-Li can also use the "Team Blast: Blue Fireball Attack", but being the stupid Deus Ex Machina finishing move it is, the attack is used only once to destroy Graduon's golem and is never used again. It is also ripped off from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Heroes]]''.
 
=== Wasabi Rival ===
[[File:Wasabi rival.jpg|100px|thumb|left|The Wasabi Rival or the Pope? YOU DECIDE!]]
 
The Wasabi Rival was the ancient alter ego of Wes Iseli in the ''Sonichu'' comics. According to ''[[Sonichu 2]]'', the [[Wasabi Clan]] were contemporaries of the Ancient Cherokee. One of the Wasabi, presumably a leader figure of some sort, somehow determined that stealing the [[Cherokian Crown]] from his  [[Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan|rival]] would allow him and his tribe to rule the world. This led to a bitter rivalry between the ambitious Wasabi man and the Cherokian Leader. Despite their differences, the Cherokian Leader and his Wasabi Rival were eventually able to forge a temporary alliance against the greater menace of [[Count Graduon]]. Together, the Wasabi and Cherokee defeated Graduon, imprisoning him within a magic scepter for centuries.
 
Years later, when the [[Anchuent Prophecy]] was at last fulfilled, the Wasabi Rival appeared in a vision to his reincarnation, Wes Iseli, in order to instruct him in use of the Fireshock Pendant. Exactly how and why the Wasabi Rival is able to communicate with Wes like this is not explained. He  teaches Wes how to use all his powers and sends him off to his first battle.
 
Notably, even though the entire reason Wes had the powers at all was because Count Graduon had come back and needed to be stopped again, something the Wasabi Rival should have known was the priority at that moment, he still told Wes to go after Chris and steal the [[Cherokian Crown]] anyway. Either that crown is ''really, really important'', or the Wasabi Rival just enjoys being a douche from beyond the grave.
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==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
<center><gallery>
Image:290-ACWes.jpg
Image:290-ACWes.jpg|Human Wes. Note that everything is on fire behind him.
Image:291-ACWesBck.jpg
Image:291-ACWesBck.jpg|Page quote is from this card.
Image:292-ACWesLi.jpg
File:Wes.PNG|Another drawing of Wes that, of course, [[Chris and art|doesn't look anything like the first one]]. Note the Fireshock Pendant and rabbit in a hat.
Image:293-ACWesLiBck.jpg
Image:294-YuWesLi.jpg|'''Yu-Gi-OH SHIIII!''
Image:295-WesLi.jpg|Flame on, bitch!
Image:295-WesLi.jpg|Flame on, bitch!
Image:140-AJerk.jpg|Chris, ripping himself off.
Image:296-FireshockPendant.jpg|Fireshock Pendant
Image:296-FireshockPendant.jpg|Fireshock Pendant
Image:140-AJerk.jpg|Chris, ripping himself off.
Image:294-YuWesLi.jpg|It's just not as impressive without the flame background.
</gallery>
Image:292-ACWesLi.jpg|And even less so with the ''Animal Crossing'' logo.
File:127-LevelBattle.jpg|[[Chris-Chan Sonichu]] takes on a villain.
Image:293-ACWesLiBck.jpg|Notice how the human Wes has no star sign, but Wes-Li does.
File:Wes_li_xbox.jpg|Wes Li plays [[HEXbox]], further cementing his villainous status.
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Revision as of 17:09, 4 December 2023

Wes is a magician and regretfully, Sarah's boyfriend. Because of this, Christian is very jealous and dislikes him much.
Wes Iseli Animal Crossing card
Wes Iseli
Information
Name Wes Iseli
Date of birth (1977-11-10) November 10, 1977 (age 46)
Also known as Walter Grisby
Wes-Li Sonichu
Wesley Iseli
Wasabi Rival
Gender Male
Race White
Nationality American
Occupation Magician

Wes Iseli (pronounced [wɛs ˈaɪzli], "wess EYES-lee;"[1] born 10 November 1977) briefly dated Sarah Hammer, Chris's long-time gal-pal. Wes is a magician in real life (available for birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs and funerals) and is currently married to another woman. He is also a descendent of the dark wizard.

Although trolls have been trying to contact Wes ever since they found his various online accounts, he hasn't offered any official statements on Chris or his involvement in the Sonichu comics. Apparently, he doesn't feel the need to talk shit about some guy he barely knew just because he was jealous of Wes's relationship with an ex-girlfriend of his.

In real life

Wes Iseli was known to have dated Sarah Hammer at some point during Chris's High School years. Chris claims to have originally been provoked into his Love Quest after becoming enraged at seeing Sarah sitting on Wes's lap. Much like with Mary Lee Walsh, this lead to a one sided blood feud with him, and he began to see Wes as a romantic rival and an enemy, even though Sarah saw Chris as nothing more than a friend and Wes himself probably barely even knew Chris as anything other than "that autistic kid Sarah hangs out with".

The trio of Sonichu, Rosechu and Black Sonichu in Chris's early ideas before the comic started, existed to represent the "hero, lover and rival" triangle that Chris believed himself, Sarah and Wes to fulfill as well, with Chris obviously cast as the hero, and Wes as the villain. This is evident in the Chris + Sarah's Life-Shares story, in which he represented himself and Sarah as Sonichu and Rosechu, and when Wes was brought up in passing, Chris included a drawing of Blake holding a magic wand and magician's hat, complete with helpful annotation pointing out that he was evil. Chris would later come up with unique Sonichu forms for himself, Wes and Sarah instead of using Sonichu, Rosechu and Blake as stand-ins, and these new Sonichu forms would go on to be featured in the Sonichu comics.

Chris also included avatars of Wes in his homemade Animal Crossing and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, for both his human form and his Sonichu form in each, (though in the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards the human Wes Iseli was just named as "A Jerk").

Wes (under comic alias Walter Grisby) was mentioned in the infamous Chris Loses It video. In that video, Chris, after performing a spectacular act of tard rage, pretends to call Walter Grisby, asking him "Who threw the frisbee?", before yelling at the telephone and throwing it at the PSEye.

Wes made an appearance on the TV series Penn & Teller: Fool Us and successfully fooled them, on a season 7 episode aired on 6 July 2020.

Chris, in a chat with The Place from 1 February 2021, described a daydream about ancestors of Sarah and Wes being wizards alongside Merlin and guided by Chris.[2]

In the comic

Wes-Li is pissed.

As the author of the comic, when Chris first made Sonichu #2 he was given the unique opportunity to revise his personal history with Wes at his leisure. Comic Wes differs from his real life counterpart in that whilst the real Wes Iseli broke up with Sarah, moved on, married another woman, probably forgot Chris ever existed and is now running a charity which helps fight Parkinson's Disease, Comic Wes appears to have held a grudge against Chris ever since he first met him while he was dating Sarah, in spite of Chris having nothing he wanted and Wes having no reason to care about Chris. Dialogue also indicates that he was still dating Sarah by the time the trio first gained their powers, as Sarah "breaks up" with him halfway through Episode 8.

Wesley Iseli/Walter Grisby

Wes Iseli (later retconned as "Walter Grisby") was one of the chosen three of the Anchuent Prophecy, alongside Christian Weston Chandler and Sarah Nicole Hammer. Wes learned that he was the descendant of the Wasabi Clan, and upon gaining his powers his own ancestor implored him to take vengeance upon the Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan, who was now Chris. Wes, knowing of Chris's jealousy towards him, accepts.

He later finds both Chris and Sonichu out on the "rough terrain" just outside CWCville, and the two fight, not only over their current feud, but also over the Cherokee/Wasabi war in the ancient past, over the Cherokian Crown. Wes grabs the crown out of thin air during the fight (implying he stole it from Chris, which was never depicted) and eventually the fight ends when Sarah appears and pins Wes against a tree with a lightning arrow, just as he was about to defeat Chris. Sarah breaks up with him, he whines a bit, Chris tells him to suck it up and move on, and he then unites with Chris and Sarah to defeat the golem summoned by Mary Lee Walsh and Count Graduon.

Wes-Li Sonichu apparently grows to about 20 feet tall, does an Edward G. Robinson impression, and kidnaps Sarah Hammer in Sonichu #5

In Sonichu #5 he appeared again to use his magical powers to kidnap Sarah at her wedding to William Spicer. Despite ostensibly not wanting to be kidnapped, Sarah neglects to employ any of her Anchuent powers, and thus Chris must take him down. This being the early days of the Megan Saga, Chris drew heavily from anime themes in this issue, so Chris and Wes did battle via children's card games rather than an actual fight. Chris loses (again), proving for a second time that Wes was a superior fighter to him, but he and Sarah are saved by Sailor Megtune and Megagi La Skunk, and the wedding continues without issue.

Iseli was briefly seen in Sonichu #7, attending the conference of villains following Christian's disappearance into the Time Void. Given that the conference was run by Mary and Count Graduon, the evil that Wes was destined to defeat alongside Chris and Sarah, the prophecy seems to have gone horribly wrong. Chris, naturally, does not address this.

Wes was last seen in the comic in Sonichu #9, appearing on a grand total of two pages. First early in the issue, where he was seen scouting around the city in preparation for the PVCC attack, assisted by Reldnahc Ha-Taque and Silvana, and later on again, when he calls Mary and tells her that a magic dome was protecting the CWCville Shopping Center from attack, and that they needed Mary to come down there personally to get through. He is never seen fighting in this issue, and it is to date his final appearance.

Still to this day, Wes's final fate remains unknown. Whether he was counted among the brainwashing victims freed by Chris or not has never been stated, and depending on whether or not Wes was acting of his own free will in helping Mary and the PVCC, he may or may not be the last surviving villain other than Clawdorf and Metal Sonichu after the Sonichu #10 purge.

Wes-Li Sonichu

Wes-li's Flame Sniper (left) compared to Sailor Mars' Flame Sniper (right).

Wes-Li Sonichu (pronounced [wɛzlaɪ], "Wez-lie", according to Chris's videobooks, and as "Wesley" according to the Audiobooks) is the Electric Hedgehog Pokémon form of Wes Iseli when he is transformed by the Fireshock Pendant empowered by the Anchuent Prophecy. Although the prophecy foretold that Wes-Li, Chris-Chan, and Saramah would work together to defeat Count Graduon, Wes's spitefulness toward Chris and his bitterness at having been rejected by Sarah Hammer would lead him to use his powers for evil.

Prior to the retcon, Wes-Li was a passable pun. With the name change, it makes absolutely no sense that a person named "Walter Grisby" would have an alter ego that does not resemble his name in any way - unless one knows the background of this character. Renaming him something like "Wal-By Sonichu" was something Chris did not bother with.

Curiously, Wes-Li is one of the more detailed Sonichus that Chris has made, which is saying something given the cookie-cutter nature of most of the other characters Chris has designed.

As he is not featured much, Wes-Li Sonichu is not seen to possess anything like the absurdly vast array of powers that Chris-Chan Sonichu does. He is however, seen using the Pokémon moves Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Mega Kick and Sky Uppercut, as well as a move known as the Flame Sniper, in which he uses a bow and arrow made of fire to shoot at a target. The name and attack itself are another rip-off from Sailor Moon. With help from Chris-Chan and Saramah, Wes-Li can also use the "Team Blast: Blue Fireball Attack", but being the stupid Deus Ex Machina finishing move it is, the attack is used only once to destroy Graduon's golem and is never used again. It is also ripped off from Sonic Heroes.

Wasabi Rival

The Wasabi Rival or the Pope? YOU DECIDE!

The Wasabi Rival was the ancient alter ego of Wes Iseli in the Sonichu comics. According to Sonichu 2, the Wasabi Clan were contemporaries of the Ancient Cherokee. One of the Wasabi, presumably a leader figure of some sort, somehow determined that stealing the Cherokian Crown from his rival would allow him and his tribe to rule the world. This led to a bitter rivalry between the ambitious Wasabi man and the Cherokian Leader. Despite their differences, the Cherokian Leader and his Wasabi Rival were eventually able to forge a temporary alliance against the greater menace of Count Graduon. Together, the Wasabi and Cherokee defeated Graduon, imprisoning him within a magic scepter for centuries.

Years later, when the Anchuent Prophecy was at last fulfilled, the Wasabi Rival appeared in a vision to his reincarnation, Wes Iseli, in order to instruct him in use of the Fireshock Pendant. Exactly how and why the Wasabi Rival is able to communicate with Wes like this is not explained. He teaches Wes how to use all his powers and sends him off to his first battle.

Notably, even though the entire reason Wes had the powers at all was because Count Graduon had come back and needed to be stopped again, something the Wasabi Rival should have known was the priority at that moment, he still told Wes to go after Chris and steal the Cherokian Crown anyway. Either that crown is really, really important, or the Wasabi Rival just enjoys being a douche from beyond the grave.

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