Chowder

Articles About Chowder
Media	Main Series - Fusionfall

“	I'm not your boyfriend!	„
	~ Chowder to Panini

Background

Chowder is the main protagonist of the series Chowder. He is an apprentice under the learning of Mung Daal, who constantly causes problems for the great chef but means well. He strives to become a Master Chef just like Mung Daal. In several episodes, there is a gag that Chowder is fully aware he is in a cartoon. However, this does not seem to bother him, except for the episode "Brain Grub". By the end of the series, Chowder sings for 20 years and learns from Mung that he must grow up and mature or else he's holding back the lives of everybody, which he eventually does, getting his own family, marrying Panini, and getting his own apprentice.

General Information

Name: Chowder

Origin: Chowder

First Appearance: "The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin"

Latest Appearance: "Chowder Grows Up" (series), "OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Crossover Nexus" (Cameo)

Company: Cartoon Network (Production Company), Warner Bros. Television (Distributors)

Creator: C.H. Greenblatt

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Around 10, Around 30 in Chowder Grows Up (Chowder sang for 20 years)

Classification: Kid

Species: Cat-bear-rabbit hybrid

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Animal Physiology

Occupation: Chef

Ranking: Apprentice Chef, Master Chef (In Chowder Grows Up)

Affiliations: Mung Daal (former cooking master), Ambrosia (apprentice), Scraps (apprentice), Gorgonzola (friend/rival), Panini (wife), Panchowbies (children)

Enemies: Endive, Panini (As a kid, constantly claimed he wasn't her boyfriend)

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Chowder has the personality of a sweet, innocent, impulsive and friendly child who has a passion for being in the kitchen. Though he is still a child and is very emotional, crying over many things, even over receiving punishment. There have been times when he has a much darker side to his personality, especially when it's based off his passion towards becoming a chef. An example of this is in the episode "Chowder's Catering Company" where he was willing to knock Schnitzel, Mung Daal, and Truffles unconscious with a frying pan and stuff them into a single pickle barrel for the sake of keeping his catering business for Kevin and the rest of his species. Although he disbanded the aforementioned business in favor of saving his friends from certain death and relinquishing fulfillment of his dreams)

Threat Level: Street Threat (Chowder has on many occasions served as a threat to the kitchen. constantly caused Mung Dal's building to collapse or be destroyed)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: Varies with Cartoon Physics

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Chowder is regularly a weak, out of shape, fat kid. Though he has also done things such as eaten the entire episode. Can harm those who can harm him)

Durability: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Tanked a massive lightning bolt that caused a massive explosion from King of the Sky)

Striking Strength: Varies with Cartoon Physics

Lifting Strength: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Can casually lift Gorgonzola)

Travel Speed: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Normally fat and overweight, being unable to move fast. However he has climbed up to the top of a giant with Schnitzel before sun set, which required them to move this fast. Chowder moves as fast as a blur to grab the order from Truffles)

Attack Speed: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Moved so fast he ate all of his clothes in a split second)

Reaction Speed: Varies with Cartoon Physics

Stamina: Varies with Cartoon Physics (Normally gets tired out fast by the most basic of activities. Has the lung strength to spit for an entire day after being called Panini's boyfriend. Stood in an elevator for four days without tiring. Sang for 20 years straight without tiring)

Range: Below Standard Melee (Through his small size), Dozens of Meters with Elasticity (Can stretch his arms hundreds of feet away), Universal with Plot Manipulation & Time Manipulation (Can affect the entirety of his world through his plot and time shenanigans), Higher with Dimensional Travel (Like Schnitzel, All Chowder characters can leave the narrative and affect the scenes from the outside)

Intelligence: Below Average Intelligence (Chowder can't write. Chowder unintentionally poisoned a dish and failed to get it to sell. Didn't know to put the spoon in the spoon drawer), Supergenius Intelligence with Brain Grub (After eating Brain Grub Chowder understood his reality and realized everything was a cartoon and that nothing was real)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements (Is a skilled dancer, becomes a master chef in Chowder Grows Up), Multilingualism (Chowder can understand Schnitzel's language), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Chowder characters have on countless ocassions acknowledged the fourth wall), Social Influencing (Sung with the Sour King, eventually making them all dance along with him and agree that his empire must fall . Inspired his apprentice Scraps to cook, not being scared when he usually is), Sheer Will (Fought off the "big guns" from Panini, where it makes his will fade), Cartoon Physics (High Potency. Chowder's cartoon physics creates immense fourth wall breaks that warp the vary narrative, destroys the animation, and allows him to come back from animation destruction via his real world actor), Reality Warping (Chowder caused the animation to melt, showing the white background), Small Size (Types 2 and possibly lower. As revealed at the end of the Grubble Gum episode, there exists Chowders that live in the grubble gums that larger Chowder's eat, essentially meaning there are smaller and smaller Chowder's existing in smaller worlds), Body Control & Elasticity (Chowder can extend his legs to be larger so he can walk faster, Chowder is capable of fitting himself inside of containers and boxes that are smaller then him), Alternate Replacements (Chowder and co. have actors in the real world that can do various odd jobs to return back all of the animations and people that were erased, regenerating back their forms. All characters in Chowder have a version of themself outside of the narrative that can freely manipulate or destroy the animation as they please, being completely unaffected by the events in it. As revealed at the end of the Grubble Gum episode, there exists Chowders that live in the grubble gums that larger Chowder's eat, essentially meaning there are smaller and smaller Chowder's existing in smaller worlds), Regeneration (High-Godly; Chowder and co. have actors in the real world that can do various odd jobs to return back all of the animations and people that were erased, regenerating back their forms. Chowder has referenced the brain grub episode, where he turned off all of reality at the end, implying everyone regenerated back from it. Fully regenerated his body when it was all in a cast. Chowder can grow his eyes bigger, lose them, and then instantly regenerate them back), Time Paradox Immunity (Alternate Timeline; His past self traveled to the future to reject the future without any repercussions), Acausality (Irregular Causality; All characters in Chowder have a version of themself outside of the narrative that can freely manipulate or destroy the animation as they please, being completely unaffected by the events in it), Divine Protection (The Chowder characters are protected by their creator), Adaptation (When Chowder's entire body was frozen his brain created beings inside of his head to help him to unfreeze his brain, gaining a resistance to freezing), Non-Standard Interaction (Chowder can interact with Kimchi, whose a floating bad smelling cloud. Chowder can interact and talk with his past thoughts), Broadway Force (Sung with the Sour King, eventually making them all dance along with him and agree that his empire must fall ), Surface Scaling (Chowder was able to scale up a flat surface), Dimensional Travel (Like Schnitzel, All Chowder characters can leave the narrative and affect the scenes from the outside), Cloth Manipulation (Chowder could suddenly create new clothes for himself), Pseudo-Empowerment (Chowder can have Kiwi cheer him on in the from outside the episode if he ever gets too scared), Duplication (Chowder can create a double duplication to sneak up on people), Clairvoyance (Chowder's gut can tell him where to go and how to find a customer even without a map), Flight (Schnitzel tells Chowder to not touch anything so he starts to fly), Size Manipulation (Chowder can grow his eyes bigger, lose them, and then instantly regenerate them back), Invisibility (Gazpacho was able to turn invisible noting that it's a surefire way to get away from crazy women with Chowder responding that it doesn't work because women can smell fear implying he can turn invisible as well), Fusionism (Chowder can fuse with beings like Funji), Consumption (Can eat large amounts of food without having a noticeable change in his body. Has devoured entire marching bands. Has devoured the entire episode before. Noted by Mung Dal that Chowder's stomach is a bottomless pit. Chowder's mouth can hold an entire stand. Chowder can eat watermeleons that outweigh his entire body and shoot out objects he's eaten in his body as weapons. Can consume an entire room of cold grease), Vacuum Manipulation & Air Manipulation (Chowder's mouth can operate like a vaccum and suck things in from afar. Ate his blanket and random mahjongg pieces), Time Manipulation (Can speed up scenes within the animation to speed up time consuming events. Can fast forward to the end of the episode), Time Travel (Can go into the past through someone reaccounting a story. His past self traveled to the future to reject the future), Erasure (Metaphysical Erasure; Erased Truffles by saying she wasn't in an episode, completely removing her from the episode), Plot Manipulation (Narrative Manipulation; Traditional; Has shown to be able to affect scenes, flipping them and speeding them up at will. Can write on the animation itself. Chowder grabs a pencil and erases the scene writing a new one in. Can say that someone is not in an episde, completely removing them from the episode. Ripped parts of the animation off. Should be able to do the same as Schnitzel, who can bring in the next scene to skip over parts. Mung Dal and Schnitzel accidentally cut part of the animation off during a building montage. Gazpacho can tell the animation to come closer to him. Mung moved the animation to make Chowder go closer to the house), Hair Manipulation (Chowder could grow a beard in the credits), Age Manipulation (Turned himself old and young), Biology Manipulation & Transformation (Type 2; Transformed parts of his body to having bigger ears, lips, and fully transformed himself into Truffles), Pseudo-Teleportation (While Chowder was sneaking around he ended up going from inside of a hot dog vendor to inside a guy's hat).
Resistance to Extreme Heats (Survived the extreme heats of the Shamhara Dessert), Air Manipulation & Biological Manipulation (Chowder was able to resist the air currents the King of the Sky blew down on him while a cloud was trying to punch him down, with winds so strong they took the color out of Truffles), Fragrance Manipulation (Chowder can stand the smell of Kimchi who upon Mung Dal smelling him, his face slowly detorioated and caused people to faint upon smell), Ice Manipulation (Broke out of his brain freeze that froze his entire body), Battlefield Removal (If Chowder has too much sweetness in his mouth, he can return back to where he got removed from), Possession (Chowder resisted Funji's possession where he had full control of both of them during fusionism), Plot Manipulation (Narrative Manipulation; Reader Authority; All characters in Chowder have a version of themself outside of the narrative that can freely manipulate or destroy the animation as they please, being completely unaffected by the events in it)

All previous powers and abilities, Genius Intelligence (With Brain Grub, increases Chowder's intelligence massively to the point that he realizes he's in a cartoon), Enhanced Social Influencing (Through changing the world of Chowder with his brain grub powers, Chowder made the viewer cry), Electricity Manipulation (Forms electricity around his brain that he can shoot out), Plot Manipulation (Story Manipulation; Traditional; Chowder used his brain power to transform the entire show, changing the entire plot and everyone's lives), Erasure (Space-Time Erasure; Through Chowder getting rid of his brain, he erased the entire show leaving him, Mung, Truffles, and Schnitzel in a void)

Clairvoyance (Has a book in Mung Dal's house that lets him read the script), Flight (With Kimchi, Chowder can ride on him and fly), Poison Manipulation (With Burple Nurples, accidentally poisoned them where if the person eats it they could get extreme poison), Ice Manipulation (Chowder along with Mung can make food that even tasting instantly freezes the person), Reality Warping (With Grubble Gum, the gum is so stick that one can rip off the very animation from scenes), Size Manipulation (With Cinnamini, can shrink things down to small sizes), Broadway Force (With the singing beans, got the entire town to dance to their song), Battlefield Removal (Type 2; With the Puckerberry, it can pull you into your own stomach if you eat it), Light Manipulation (In the credits Chowder ate an unknown food that made light come out of his mouth), Darkness Manipulation (Chowder drinking all of the midnight mint turned everything dark), Life Manipulation (Chowder can draw objects to life with mustard marker as shown in the credits), Sleep Manipulation (With Blormed Milk, can put someone to sleep for a long time, needing Roasted Cloffee to wake them back up), Transmutation (With Funji, can turn anything to mold if he touches it), Fire Manipulation & Breath Attack (Through eating Dancing Diablos Chowder can breathe out fire that burns away the very animation), Soul Manipulation ( With Pizzazz, a special spice that swaps the souls of people into opposite bodies).
Resistance to Sleep Manipulation (With Roasted Cloffee, can keep one awake and can wake one up that was putto sleep with Blormed Milk)

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Equipment

• Kimchi: Kimchi is Chowder's pet and was first introduced in "The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin". He is a stink cloud, but is commonly referred to and seen as a fart given his pattern of speech, odor, and appearance. Due to his smell, no one likes being near him, however Chowder doesn't mind and has gotten used to his stench over the years. Chowder can use him to fly or overwhelm an opponent with his smell.

• Kitchen Utensils: As a training chef, Chowder has access to various kitchen utensils he can use as weapons or to cook with.

Optional Equipment

• Burple Nurples: Burple Nurples are a burping food that are the focus dish of the episode of the same name. In that episode, Chowder accidentally adds rat poison to the Nurple recipe in place of Snore-iander. Mung Daal did everything in his power to keep Chowder from eating them and subsequently feeding them to the citizens of Marzipan, not knowing they're poisoned.

• Blormed Milk: Blormed Milk is a drink that can put anyone who consumes it to sleep. It was seen in "The Heavy Sleeper." It is the show's equivalent to warm milk. If too much blorm root is added, it will make the milk extremely powerful. When Chowder did this, Mung Daal fell asleep for several hours after ingesting the tainted dish. The only way to wake whoever consumes it from the effects of Blormed Milk is to give them roasted cloffee.

• Brain Grub: Brain grub is a food made to make the person who eats it become smarter. It was shown that items that are used for school (Calculator, Math book, etcetera) are used to make this recipe. Chowder himself ate too much of it, vastly increasing his intelligence.

• Cinnamini Powder: Cinnamini Powder is a spice used for special recipes to shrink any kind of foods. Cinnamini is a spice which its name is similar to cinnamon. It is seen in the episode, The Cinnamini Monster. During the episode, Mung Daal reveals cinnamini to the viewers and tells about its shrinking properties. Mung, Chowder, and Shnitzel proceed to find the food. Chowder accidentally becomes shrunk, and meets the Cinnamini Monster.

• Dancing Diablos: The Dancing Diablos (or the hot fiery peppers as some people call it) are the hottest peppers in the world. They have eyes, mouths, and there covered in green fire. They can burn anything. If one or more of these are eaten whole then your stomach literally becomes an oven, causing you to breath fire whenever your mouth is open until the peppers have passed. Chowder accidently swallowed them making him breath fire when he opens his mouth.

• Finger Paints: Finger Paints appear as disembodied fingers(with bones inside) coating in a thin layer of colored paint. They are apparently edible, though since they have nails this is presumably not advised. They come in sets like crayons, in Finger Paint Boxes, only seen in the episode 'Paint the Town'. They are capable of making drawings come to life, they can also talk, capable of shouting 'No more!' when the paint runs dry. With them, Chowder drew himself 'an electric guitar' (who turned out to be Pepperjack) and immediately proceeded to make Chowder Land, along with residents such as 'Fishquack' and 'Chickenbark'.

• Funjl: Funjl is a mischievous mold pixie. He often lies and is now trapped in a jar. He appeared in "The Moldy Touch," tricking Chowder to be his friend into putting mold on everything. Anything Funji touches turns into mold.

• Grubble Gum: Gubble Gum is a type of gum that is really sticky. It first appeared in the episode of the same name. When you eat Grubble Gum, you can blow the gum to any shapes you desire. Swallowing a whole bunch of it makes you blow giant bubbles. It appears to be very colorful and tasty but very risky to swallow as side affects include, but not limited to, irritability, Tennis Elbow, toenail discolouration, 'Big Nose' Syndrome, Happy Liver disease, Mobius loops, fat beats, explosive diarrhea, implosive diarrhea, and more.

• Magic Mustard Marker: The Magic Mustard Marker is magic because you can write drawing on the air. Chowder done this before and drew a strange looking cake. If you draw a type food you can eat without the taste of mustard. Mung Daal once took a bite on the strange cake drawing but it had a bad taste. This was seen around in puppet form on the end the show while showing credits.

• Midnight Mint: A drink that causes everything to turn dark when Chowder drinks it.

• Puckerberry: The Puckerberry is an exceptionally sour fruit. Chowder ate one in The Puckerberry Overlords. If ingested, it can cause effects such as watering eyes, extreme flatulence, a puckered face, jitters, and implosion (caused by the consumer's body being pulled inside itself by the lips puckering inward so much). The implosion vortex gets stronger over time until consumer ends up in his/her own mouth.

• Roasted Cloffee: Cloffee is a special beverage that can keep you awake and used to wake someone up after drinking too much Blormed Milk. Cloffee also appeared in The Sleep Eater, because Chowder used it to stay awake so that he wouldn't turn into a monster.

• Shrinky-Pinky Spice: A spice that shrinks one's clothing.

• Sing Beans: Sing Beans are singing beans that first appeared in Sing Beans. They are different shades of green with faces. As they sing they can get entire crowds to parade with them.

• Pizzazz: Pizzazz is a special spice. It is seen in "A Little Bit of Pizzazz!". It swaps the personalities of more than one thing.

• Tootin' Fruit: The Tootin' Fruit is a fruit that appeared in The Toots. It is a fruit that makes a lot of toots from trumpets and expands when it does so. When the Tootin' Fruit is eaten by itself, it causes whoever ate the fruit to inflate and get really terrible gas that sounds like a song, and may even cause whoever ate it to toot so far they fly into the air.

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Notable Techniques

• Breaking Down the Fourth Wall: Breaking down the fourth wall is one of Chowder's most well known qualities, though Chowder isn't the only character who breaks the fourth wall, he seems to do it most often, with the most infamous fourth wall break involving Chowder changing the show entirely and, in the end, shutting it down completely.

• Eating: Unlike the average person, Chowder's consumption allows him to swallow entire people, bands, and more, trapping them within his stomach where they can only escape if he spits them out. Along with this, after eating he can spit out what he's eaten as weapons.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Chowder normally attempts to eat things along with using his fourth wall breaking to mess with the animation/plot.

Weaknesses: Chowder is incredibly scatter-brained, forgetting sometimes what he's doing and acting like an overall idiot. Chowder is very gullible, being capable of easily being tricked to do what someone wants. Chowder has an immense appetite to the point that he'd do anything for food. Has a very short attention span.

Trivia

• He is named after a special soup and in fact his name reflects his low intelligence.
• He seems to be an introvert, as he is shy and prefers to spend time indoors.
• Chowder's relatives have never been shown, though he does address Mung as "papa" as he sees him as a father figure, despite the two being completely unrelated.
• The longest period of time he can go without eating is two hours.
• He has broken the fourth wall more than any other character and seems to be able to manipulate the reality of the show since he can make Truffles disappear by saying "you are not in this episode".
• He is shown to eat about anything causing Mung and Shnitzel to sometime utilize him as various tools like grass cutters, drill or digger. He also can be used as a storage space.
• The only time he was bothered being in a cartoon was in "Brain Grub".
• The voice actor of Chowder is the voice actor for Gumball in the pilot episode of The Amazing World of Gumball.
• Chowder models are also available on Steam Community, for Garry's Mod (Gmod).
• He appears similar to the Pokémon Munchlax, who is similar both visually and characteristic-wise.
• Chowder has terrible handwriting and his writing is barely readable
• In the episode "Endive's Dirty Secret", Mung revealed that Chowder is a robot, possibly the inspiration for Bonnie in Five Nights at Freddy's and drawing inspiration from GIR of Invader Zim.
• His pink boxer short underwear have been exposed in several episodes.
• In the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes crossover episode "Crossover Nexus", Chowder is one of the many Cartoon Network heroes that was summoned and defeated by Strike.
• He makes a background cameo appearance in the episode of a C. H. Greenbalt-created Nickelodeon series Harvey Beaks, "Fee & Foo's First Birthday".
• In "The Fire Breather", Chowder is shown to know Spanish.
• He's similar to Eric Cartman from South Park, being overweight and wearing a hat that he seldom removes.
• Although Chowder's eyes are presented as simple white circles for dots, his eye color has been shown to be blue as seen in A Little Bit of Pizzazz and My Big Fat Stinky Wedding.
• His appearance is similar to Champa from Dragon Ball Super or the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.
• Chowder doesn't just break the fourth wall in the show, but he does it in other media as well. In FusionFall, he'll sometimes say to the player, "Help! I think I'm trapped in a video game!"

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