#toilet exploding voltorb

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Sonichu 10 Page 82

Caption: A few minutes later…

Police tape: Do not cross do not cross

FIRST RESPONDER: Oh, this is not looking good. We need to get to the hospital.

LOU PEREZ: I’ll let Chris know.

LOU PEREZ: Big C., Officer Perez here. A toilet exploded from a Voltorb that self-destructed on remote command.

LOU PEREZ: Miss Simonla Rosechu fell victim, and she was injured bad. We’re rushing her to the hospital.

CHRIS {over walkie-talkie}: Dang… I copy that. Thank you, Lou.

CHRIS {on TV}: Simonla was not mine to begin with, as she was originally based off of Simonchu. I edited her CWCipedia bio page to state that she was not based on Simon.

MAGI-CHAN: Lou, these two were in close league with Simonla’s killer.

LOU PEREZ: Good job Magi-Chan; we’ll take ‘em in.

SIMONLA: Wild, I don’t think I’m going to make it… take my lucky shark tooth.

Lou Perez, one of the officers seen earlier this issue, surveys the restroom carnage and explains the situation to Chris. Chris’s response to hearing that one of his beloved hedgehogs was gravely wounded and is not long for this Earth? “Dang.”

As Simonla is rushed away from the scene of her injury, Chris’s apology for her creation echoes from his earlier speech is stated. Chris also didn’t think through the meta implications of talking about the CWCipedia inside Sonichu itself - is the CWCipedia a website in the world of Sonichu as well?

Chris fails proportions once again as it appears that the EMTs attending Simonla are barely taller than her stretcher.

Magi-Chan presents Lou with Evan and Simonchu, already describing them as Simonla’s killers despite Simonla not having passed on at this point. For some reason, Simonchu disappears from the story until the next issue here - he’s not tried and he’s not executed, and he’s not sent to the Amish farm in the revision. It’s possible Chris forgot he included him in this section, or that he was so furious at the humans that forced him to kill Simonla that he forgot about their fictional henchman, or it’s possible that the revision he codified seven years later was in the back of his mind even at the time, and thus Simonchu was let off lighter as he was coerced into the attack?

Before Simonla is hurried into the ambulance, she lets out a few last words, saying her goodbye to her lover by handing him her “lucky shark’s tooth”, a pendant based on the Core Drill pendant Simonchu wears. It wasn’t apparently very lucky here, as she was wearing it when she was fatally injured. Trolls are quick to note that she is only shown post-explosion from the waist up, implying that the majority of her injuries were to her legs and crotch.

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Sonichu 10 Page 81

Sign: Ladies

Sign: Out of order

Sign: Men

Sign: Out of order

ALEC BENSON LEARY: He he

SFX: *tinkle*

CHRIS {on TV}: Evan had originally given permission for me to use his Simonchu, but for some odd reason, he chose to withdraw that permission.

CHRIS: Thank you all. I am Christian Weston Chandler, mayor of CWCville, Virginia. Have a good and safe day.

SFX: BOOM

SIMONLA: Aaaaaugh!!!

CHRIS: What was that?!

CHRIS: Police! Medics! Check out the situation!

Another hooded figure sneaks into the single-stall women’s restroom at the CWCville Mall, and quicky hides in the corresponding men’s room, quietly giggling. It’s likely he was stalking Simonla, and waiting for this very moment. As Simonla audibly pees, the figure reveals himself to be Alec Benson Leary, in his first onscreen appearance. Notably, Chris had no idea what Alec looked like, hence here he is depicted is blonde, while the real Alec has dark hair. 

As a strange touch, Simonla is shown to be spinning her tail drill around as she uses the toilet.

A Voltorb, a Pokemon famous for using the moves Self-Destruct and Explosion, peers out from behind the toilet, silently waiting for its cue to detonate. As Chris finishes his speech, the Voltorb explodes, fatally wounding Simonla.

This cartoonish plot (often said to have been lifted from a similar scene in the 1989 movie Lethal Weapon 2, but as there’s no other evidence Chris has seen that film it’s likely a coincidence, and in that film the toilet explosion was non-lethal) comes in direct violation of Chris’s promise to Evan - that he would have Simonla be injured and die on screen. The explosion was censored by the door of the bathroom and later, Simonla dies in the ER. There’s no blood anywhere in this sequence, though there will be plenty in the next. It’s also quite silly and poorly thought out - what would Alec have done if, say, there was a line outside this single stall women’s room, and he had no ability to access the women’s room immediately before Simonla entered without drawing suspicion? Or what if Simonla had gotten up from her chair not to go to the restroom, but to get water or go outside? Would Alec then have been forced to swiftly retrieve the conspicuous Voltorb from the restroom and then wait to replace it? And, given that Simonla got up very shortly before the end of the speech, what if she had decided to hold it until Chris finished speaking and the crowd dispersed, meaning again that Alec would likely be noticed? Or if, by some absurd measure, Evan had succeeded in downing the jumbotron, causing the survivors to panic and flee? Chris was under pressure to off Simonla very quickly, so he didn’t care that the plot to kill her was nonsensical.

In the snippet of his speech, Chris goes out of his way to describe Evan pulling out of his support for Simonchu in Sonichu as “odd”, implying he saw nothing wrong with the creation of Simonla and expected Evan to feel the same.