History Characters / Chew

* ButtMonkey: Has to eat rather vile things as part of his job, his hated by just about every single character on the cast, his boss more than all of them combined, and over the course of the series has had to eat a petrified dog, has had his partner bite his ear off, lost his job, forced to eat dead baseball players and had to eat his own sisters toe to take out her killer.

* ThrowTheDogABone: His relationship with Amelia is pretty much the only stable relationship of any sort he has. Toni also counts, being the only member of his family that dosen't hate or resent him. Then he becomes the darling of the FDA after a major bust.

* OutOfFocus: Really dosen't play any major role in events, likely due to being introduced fairly late.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Olive stabs his eyes out to insure he dosen't escape as easily next time.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Issue 31 onwards.

* {{Adorkable}}: His interactions with Amelia, his rather shoddy disguises and his call to Olive to try and have dinner with her all land him squarely in this territory.

* {{Adorkable}}

* BlackBestFriend: Savoy's [[spoiler: even after Savoy becomes a fugitive]]. He also serves as this to Tony and John.

* [[NoNameGiven No First Name Given]]

* BiTheWay: Sleeps with the male Applebee and the female Director Pena.

* BlessedWithSuck: Is a cipropanthropatic, someone who is able to see memories of anyone near her who is eating the same thing, including [[TheDon mob boss Don Federico Biscotti].

* HellHasNewManagement: When shot, Poyo went to hell. Poyo proceeded to kick the ass of every demon there before leaving to go back to life. [[spoiler: Once Poyo's there to stay, he is''the Lord of the Inferno.'']]

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: How he goes out.]]

* ArtificialLimb: All of their animal agents have bionic eyes.

* BadassGrandpa: In the DistantFinale: He has a bad leg, but it doesn't stop him from [[spoiler:leaping at the lead chicken alien and stabbing him right in the heart.]]
* BerserkButton: Harming his family. [[spoiler:The Collector's murder of Toni]] sent him into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and [[spoiler: Colby leading Olive into a battle that nearly got her killed earned him a beatdown.]]

* PapaWolf: Tries to beat [[spoiler: Colby]] into a pulp after he almost gets [[spoiler: Olive]] killed.

* TenchiSolution: How the LoveTriangle with Applebee and his USDA boss is resolved, to his horror. Luckily, sorta, [[spoiler:his marriage to Applebee ends this.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight/AscendedExtra: Issue 36.

* BewareTheNiceOnes/BewareTheSillyOnes: Falls into both tropes. She's sweet but will call you out on your bullshit and will kick your ass when needed. She's goofy, but she's also a highly trained NASA agent with CombatClairvoyance.

* ManOfKryptonite: : A self-inflicted example. [[spoiler: She eats nothing but beets in the weeks leading up to her death, making her immune to The Vampire's cibopathy so he couldn't steal her power.]]

* {{Acrofatic}}: Has a huge gut, but is more than

* TheUnreveal: We find out Chow how his own power, but we never find out what it is. All we know is that it's laughable.

* ArchEnemy: Becomes Tony's after [[spoiler: he murders Toni]]. The feeling becomes mutual after Tony refuses his offer to join him.

* EvilCounterpart: To Olive in the DistantFinale. He has a powerful and versatile food superpower like Olive but uses it to murder indiscriminately. His hair style looks like Olive's, and his rectangular SinisterShades look like Olive's rectangular classes.

Character Page for the Image Comics series Chew.

* {{Catchphrase}}: You little SHIT.

Character Page for the Image Comics series Chew

* {{Expy}}: Caesar Valenzano is ''very'' heavily based on [[Film/PulpFiction Jules Winnfield.]]

** Exemplified when [[spoiler: leading up to her death. She has to go through the motions of planning a wedding that will never happen, as well as set up events to get her final message to Tony across, all while knowing she's about to be brutally dismembered by a horrible monster]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Has three of her four limbs cut off while awake before having her neck snapped]].

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Issue 31 onwards.]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: She's the first major character death to occur in the comic.]]

* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: Thanks to a combination of her cibovoyance and her brother's cibopathy, she serves as a unique example of this to Tony during the "Family Recipe" arc.]]
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Leaves her toe behind so Tony can eat it and use what she learned to defeat The Vampire.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk at length about Toni without mentioning [[spoiler: her death at the hands of the Collector and subsequent SpiritAdvisor role to Tony]].

* BadassInANiceSuit: Their standard atire

** The biggest example of this is when Amelia calls about Tony being missing, and Chow states that he hopes Tony's dead.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler Has three of her four limbs cut off while awake before having her neck snapped]].

* TheDragon: Savoy's .

* FangsAreEvil

* {{BadassAbnormal}}: Though only slightly thanks to the cybornetic half of his face.

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The real agency depicted in a fictional way variant. The Chewniverse FDA is FAR more powerful than the real one.

* BerserkButton: Harming his family. [[spoiler:The Collector's murder of Toni,]] sent him into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and [[spoiler: Colby leading Olive into a battle that nearly got her killed earned him a beatdown.]]

* ByTheBookCop: Mere pages into the first issue, we see that Tony is willing to arrest his own brother. Played with in that it dosen't make him respect or obey applebee any more than he has to.

* HeroicBSOD: Goes though this after Toni is killed by The Collector, ruthlessly murdering his minions and generally focusing entirely on his work. He snaps out of it at the end of the "Family Recipe" arc thanks to a ThanatosGambit by Toni herself.
** Goes though a brief one in Family Recipe after he apparently eats too much of Toni's toe to get information from her to defeat The Collector. He snaps out of it after eating a Gallisberry in Chog Sauce, which allows him to get the rest of the info from her.

* PunnyName: Chu/chew
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Presumably, Chu doesn't get readings from his own saliva
* RevengeBeforeReason:
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bad Apples has him going on one to [[spoiler:avenge Toni]] that has him killing as many of the Collector's men as he can to flush out their boss. Deconsturcted as while it's effective it's also taking a clear toll on his sanity. He eventually stops after [[spoiler: Toni's chibopathy created SpirtAdvisor urges him not to continue, or he'll end up just like the Collector.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: While he was always fairly badass, he jumps up a level after Toni's death. Thanks to the skills he got from the dead baseball players Dan forced him to eat, he can now throw a deadly fastball, and the second Applebee tries to treat him like shit again for investigating his sisters murder, Tony gives him the mother of all dressdowns.

* ThrowTheDogABone: His relationship with Amelia is pretty much the only stable relationship of any sort he has. Toni also counts, being the only member of his family that dosen't hate or resent him.
** Recently he's the darling of the FDA after a major bust.
* TookALevelInBadass: He starts out fairly badass but after his kidnapping, his fastball takes it up a notch. [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven after eating Poyo. ]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Savagely beats [[spoiler: Coby]] for [[spoiler: working with Mason behind his back and taking part in an OP against his advice that nearly cost his daughter her life. ]]

* BiTheWay: Sleeps with [[spoiler: Applebee and Director Pena]]

* ClosetKey: For Applebee

* EnemyMine: He and Mason Savoy really don't like each other, but he still works with Savoy since he does realize the man is on to something regarding the bullshit chicken ban.

* StraightGay: At one point, he sends a taunting text to a criminal and his avatar is the Franchise/{{Terminator}} robot on a rainbow flag background. Besides that, there's no indication that he's actually bisexual beyond his 'romantic' relationships.
** He's also seduced his female USDA boss so he might be bisexual.
** This is confimed when he sleeps with a Reiviver in the Revivial crossover, also female and this time with no ulterior motive.

* WeCanRebuildHim

Another cibopath. He is an agent of the FDA who mentors Tony when he first joins. He murdered health inspector Evan Pepper and believes that the government is covering up the truth about the bird flu epidemic. It is implied that he lost a significant other in the epidemic, the fallout of which sends him on the run, costs Tony an ear, and turns him and Tony into mortal enemies. While he has the same powers as Tony, he is much fatter and is seen eating food besides beets, getting far more pleasant or tolerable visions from his food.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He reveals to Tony late in the story that his cibopathic powers are far superior to his own and he's somewhat resentful that Chu just has to take a few licks or bites to get what he needs while Savoy has to consume whole chunks and bodies.
* AntiVillain: He's ruthless, amoral, and willing to result to kidnapping, backmail, and murder to find out the truth behind bird flu and stop the vampire. Conversely he clearly does care about Olive and Ceaser, has a point about the chicken ban, and is going after the same mass murderer the FDA is. [[spoiler: This is exemplified by his final actions: He does force Tony to eat him.. but only after trying his damndest to make an alliance with him and saving Amelia from some E.G.G. members.
* ArchEnemy: His betrayal and constant meddling in the lives of the Chus deeply hurt Tony to the point that Issue 56 revealed that in spite of fighting deranged cults, depraved serial killers, corrupt politicians, and inhumane corporations for years, Tony thought of Savoy as "his greatest enemy."

* ConspiracyTheorist: When it comes to the truth behind the bird flu epidemic

* DespairEventHorizon: Hits it hard in the 55th issue

* EvilCounterpart To Tony. He's a chibopath like Tony, but one willing to work far outside the law and outside moral decency.

* TheMole: In The FDA
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Often has to consume lethal quantities of a person to gain all their knowledge.

* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about him too much spoils the main mystery of the first Arc. His actions in "Last Suppers" also qualify, as they both give away part of the overarching mystery of the series and set up the final arc.
* WeakButSkilled: The weakest cibopath in the series, but easily the wiliest who supplements his meagre powers with brute strength and a keen tactical mind.

A hitman who works for Montero. He claims to be a deep-cover FDA agent who worked with Mason Savoy and didn't know he'd gone rogue. Turns out this is itself a cover as he was working with Savoy to find out the truth behind the bird flu epidemic. He forms close friendships with Tony and Colby after being reinstated.
* BlackBestFriend: Savoy's [[spoiler: Even after Savoy becomes a fugitive.]] He also serves as this to Tony and John.
* TheDragon: Savoy's
* HollywoodCyborg: Mild example. After [[spoiler: The Collector's CurbStompBattle with the FDA]] he gets a crab arm.

* HeterosexualLifePartner

An agent with an unamed power that allows him to tell what something he eats is made of. Temporarily replaces Chew in the FDA, but sticks around.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Appears to be autistic, but it's never stated on-page
* ChekhovsGunman: Shows up in a few panels two arcs before he's properly introduced

* UglyGuyHotWife: Played for Laughs

Chief Director of the FDA

* DaChief.

* AscendedExtra: During Blood Puddin.

* NumberTwo: Of Director Lamode

!!Tropes applying to all of them

Tony Chu's brother. A professional chef, he is strongly opposed to America's new poultry prohibition law which creates tension between himself and his brother. He lost his cooking show when he accused the government of lying about the bird flu while on camera. He's recently gotten a ressurgence in popularity folllowing the FDA easing up on the chicken ban.
* BigBrotherBully: To Tony as a kid. He's somehow even WORSE to him in present day.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Was very protective and fond of Toni so much so that [[spoiler:when she dies, he immediately offers up his services to Tony to get back at the Collector.]]

* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Despite ''cooking'' chicken, he doesn't seem to eat it that much. [[spoiler:This saves his life, as it means he's not affected when Tony is forced to send out the chicken-eater kill-code and wipe out every human who has eaten chicken recently in the final volume.]]

** The biggest example of this is when Amelia calls about Tony being missing.. and Chow states that he hopes Tony's dead.

** Olive also counts. The two have a very close, loving relationship despite Chow's intense hatred of her father. The DistantFinale shows she visits him [[spoiler:And Tony, who lives with Chow by that point.]] frequently.
* PetTheDog: His first in-story action we see is him trying (in vain) to warn Tony about the bounty on his head that Montero set up.
** He helps Colby [[spoiler:cook up Poyo in order to give Tony the power to stop the Vampire and avenger Toni]]
* TooDumbToLive: Continually gets involved in poultry-dealing, despite knowing that it's illegal and that his own ''brother'' is a cop, is perfectly willing to send him to jail for the crime, and his brother can track down if he was involved in making anything poultry related. To put this in perspective, Tony tries to send him to Jail in the first comic, and only doesn't thanks to his bosses FDA protection, and Chow is fully ware Tony was moved to the FDA, yet continually brings chicken and other kinds of poultry around him. [[spoiler:Ironically, he actually survives the chicken-eater kill-code.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Takes over as main character for the "Space Cakes" arc.
** ADeathInTheLimelight: This too, by the end.

** Exemplified leading up to her death. She has to go through the motions of planning a wedding that will never happen, as well as set up events to get her final message to Tony across, all while knowing she's about to be brutally dismembered by a horrible monster.
* BewareTheNiceOnes/BewareTheSillyOnes: Falls into both tropes. She's sweet but WILL call you out on your bullshit and will kick your ass when needed. She's goofy, but she's also a highly trained NASA agent with CombatClairvoyance.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Has all her limbs cut off while awake before having her neck snapped.
* DefiantToTheEnd

* NeckSnap
* NiceGirl: The single nicest person in the cast, and one of the few people not to treat Tony like shit.
* PosthumousCharacter: Issue 31 onwards.

* ManOfKryptonite: : A self-inflicted example. She eats nothing but beets in the weeks leading up to her death, making her immune to The Vampire's Chibopathy so he couldn't steal her power.
* NeckSnap: Courtesy of the Collector

* SacrificialLion: She's the first major character death to occur in the comic.

* SpiritAdvisor: Thanks to a combination of her cibovoyance and her brother's cibopathy, she serves as a unique example of this to Tony during the "Family Recipe" arc.
* ThanatosGambit: Leaves her toe behind so Tony can eat it and use what she learned to defeat The Vampire.
* WillTheyOrWontThey:With Paneer. They do.. right before her death.

* BadassAbnormal: Has Chibopathy stronger than her Dad, who until Mason met her was the strongest Chibopath Mason had ever encountered. Not only that, but she then gains the ability to sculpt weapons out of food on top of that.
* BlessedWithSuck: Averted. While she has a stronger version of her dad's Chibopathy, she can turn it on and off.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou:Played with. He really did, as Tony was in no shape to care for her following Min's death. It was the fact he never came back for her that soured their relationship.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Slowly but surely towards Tony.
* EmoTeen

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Is routinely rude to Rosemary. If it were anyone else, she'd be seen as a brat. But since i'ts a cover for her activities with Mason and Rosemary is an awful person who cared more about herself than about her brother being abducted....
* MundaneUtility: Uses her powers to accel in school.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Averted.

* BlessedWithSuck: Is a cipropanthropatic, someone who is able to see memories of anyone near her who is eating the same thing, including [[TheDon mob boss Don Federico Biscotti.]]

Tony's older sister who raised Olive for him. As a result she dosen't like him that much.

* PetTheDog: Is in tears following [[spoiler: Olive getting her face slashed by The Collector and doesn't blame Tony for it at all, and instead lets him join in worrying about his daughter with not a hint of drama. ]]

* AmazonBrigade: Other than the pet sidekicks, the entire department is staffed with women trained in combat.

* NonHumanSidekick:

An incredibly badass fighting rooster who is later converted into a [cyborg by the USDA.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Fought a penguin version of him during the Bad Apples arc and reguarly fights giant abominations for the USDA.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Tony needs to get stronger to stand a chance against the Collector and Poyo can take care of himself. Colby crunches the numbers [[spoiler:and snaps Poyo's neck so he can feed him to Tony who'd never dream of killing the rooster.]]
* HellHasNewManagement: When shot, Poyo went to hell. Poyo proceeded to kick the ass of every demon there before leaving to go back to life. [[spoiler: Now that Poyo's there to stay, he is now ''the Lord of the Inferno.'']]

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: How he goes out. ]]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot

* StoryBreakerTeamUp: The reason he's reguarly unavaliable: He's too Badass to be defeated.
* WeCanRebuildHim

* WomanScorned: Reacts to [[spoiler: Colby and Applebee's marriage]] by [[spoiler: Not sending Poyo to help, resulting in most of the FDA horribly injured and countless deaths.]]

The first USDA agent introduced in the series sent to Yamapalu to investigate a series of murders. She ends up teaming up with tony.. and then becomes the first on page victim of the Vampire.

A cibopath who pretends to be a vampire and learns things by drinking blood. He has a yet-unexplained interest in the space program.
* ArchEnemy: Becomes Tony's after he murders Toni. The feeling becomes mutual after Tony refuses his offer.
* BigBad
* BloodSucking: :The Vampire has discovered that cibopathy works nearly as well with blood as it does for flesh. He makes an exception for those with special abilities. Those recipes? Call for meat.
* ChefOfIron: Thanks to a number of pilfered abilities and culinary experiencse, the Collector was one of the finest chefs in the series in addition to being one of its deadliest individuals.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Thanks to a combination of knowledge of an obscure food related art and eating an entire judo team, he hands the FDA their asses when they try to bring him in. ]]

* MegaManning: Like all Chibopaths, however unlike the others, he focuses on this specifically, trying to gain as many food abilities as possible.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He's a cibopath, not actually a vampire; a explanatory page in "International Flavor" confirms that there is no such thing as vampires, but the fear that the idea thereof inspires is real, and the power of harnessing that fear is undeniable...

* JerkassHasAPoint: As it turns out [[spoiler: Chicken really IS doom and the Chicken aliens nearly destroy the earth because no one listened to that warning. ]]
* KarmaHoudini: She gets [[spoiler: A position as ambassador to the Chicken Aliens and never gets punished for her actions. However.]]

* ReligionOfEvil: Founder of The Divine Order of the Emaculate Ova, a terriorist cult recurting "food weridos" to help in their acts of terrorism. It's also strongly implied their working with EGG.

Amelia's PsychoExBoyfriend. A sports writer with an obsession with writing a tell all about dead baseball players sex lives, Amelia dumped him due to him never shutting up about the idea. After getting encouragment by his buddies to finally write the book, he decides to kidnap Tony to get the info.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes; Suprisngly enough, but he has a group of loyal friends who are more than willing to help him with his insane scheme.

* MoneyDearBoy: The reason for his book.

* PsychoExBoyfriend: He kidnaps Amelia's current boyfriend, uses Tony t,o further his own career, then tries to sell him off once he's done with him and then finally after Amelia rescues Tony, tries to rape her before Tony kills him.

* AxCrazy: Dangerously unhinged. Taken UpToEleven in the final issue where he's [[spoiler: Grown into a massively powerful psychopath who keeps murdeirng people just to get Olive's attention. ]]

* JokerImmunity: In the DistantFinale. Justified as [[spoiler: He's immortal, though Olive does her damdendest to make breaking out hard for him.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Nothing is known about his powers. [[spoiler: Not even years into the future. All that's known by then is that he gets MORE as time goes on.]]

** [[spoiler: Confirmed as of issue 60, having grown to become a notorious criminal who Olive comes across wading in a pool of blood from murdered civilians. It's stated in the same issue that he has escaped from the highest levels of security multiple times. His powers are STILL unknown, with him seemingly getting new ones each time he dies.]]

* HappilyMarried: To Tony as of issue 41

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Overexerts her powers to craft a code that will let Tony kill all chicken eaters and thereby avoid planetary extinction.]]
* IntrepidReporter: On the ocasions she doesn't do food stories and upon learning where Poult Plus comes from.

* AscendedExtra: During Sour Grapes. He becomes [[spoiler: Tony's partner after his falling out with Colby]]
* ButtMonkey: Has been beaten up, hit by a truck and [[spoiler: brainwashed.]]

** [[spoiler:His rather illegal love for eating chicken gets him killed by Tony's deadly subliminal message in the 59th issue.]]
** He also gives some to an EGG agent who would've gotten off easy due to a clean record by breaking [[spoiler:her]] jaw. While she'll be given a comfortable suite at an FDA supermax prision, she'll be eating through a straw the whole time.
* SixthRanger: Temporarliy joins the FDA at the begining of "Blood Pudding" due to [[spoiler: the FDA being short handed after the vampire injured most of their agents. ]]

Director of NASA with a crush on Toni

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Toni.

* EvenEvilHasStandards Shows visible regret after drugging and kidnapping Sage.