Christopher Thorndyke

Christopher Thorndyke is the main human protagonist and a supporting character of the Sonic X anime series. He is the son of a wealthy father and mother, however he is very lonely due to the fact that his parents are always busy.

Chris met Sonic when the hedgehog was drowning at the bottom of Chris' family pool (due to the fact that Sonic cannot swim). After befriending him they went on multiple adventures together and had a practically unbreakable bond. Eventually, when Sonic had to go back to his homeworld to prevent the two dimensions from merging, Chris turned off the portal before Sonic could go in and ran off with him, unwilling to let his new friend go. Chris had some sense talked into him by Sonic and he was last seen being carried off by Sonic back to his parents before Sonic went home.

6 years later

Chris, now 18 and a genius inventor, went to Sonic's world through another portal, but when he arrived, he was suddenly trapped in his 12 year-old body. It was soon explained that time was different in Sonic's world so in other words 6 years in Chris' world was like 6 months in Sonic's world. Chris' mind was unaffected by the change and his intelligence played a big role in the battle against the Metarex. After the Metarex were defeated, Chris realized he had to go home or the barrier between the worlds would collapse and Chris would be stranded there forever. Eggman, despite being his enemy, built a pod that would bring him back to the human world. Chris said one final goodbye to Sonic before returning to the human world for good.

Reception

Chris was is often disliked by American and European audiences because it's believed he took Tails' role as Sonic's sidekick, stealing Amy's role in redeeming Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic Adventure 2 arc, and having more to do with the Anime than Sonic. However, most of this criticism is nonsense because the only thing Chris was is just another best friend for Sonic, and Chris's sidekick role was only used in season 3 when Tails was too busy to help Sonic, and that is called a fill-in. And Chris taking Amy's role to redeem Shadow was just a form of variety. The Sonic Adventure arc was an adaption of the Sonic Adventure video game, making an adaption without giving it a little variety would make the adaption less interesting because viewing something that you have already seen in the the source that the adaption was based on would be boring and uninteresting. And the Anime was equally both about Sonic and Chris, that is because they are both the main protagonists. Audiences believed the Anime was more about Chris because Chris had more screen time than all of the other characters including Sonic. That happened in most episodes of season 1, but that started to happen less once season 2 and season 3 came along,

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