Chip Chase


 * Chip is a human character from the Generation 1 continuity family.



Chip Chase is a human ally of the Autobots and Spike Witwicky's best friend. Suffering from some unknown malady, Chip uses a wheelchair. He isn't defined by his disability though, but rather by his geeky, genius-level skills with computers, programming, and electronics.

He also has tremendous upper body strength.

"Courage!"

Generation 1 cartoon

 * Voice actor: Michael Horton (US), Keiichi Nanba (Japan)



Chip Chase came to the attentions of the Autobots as a friend of Spike Witwicky and the whiz behind Dr. Alcazar's antimatter formula project. Though the Decepticons stole the antimatter formula, Chip memorized the data.

Chip has a remarkably advanced (or at least ridiculously expensive) desktop computer for 1984. It contains, among other things, a 16 Million color monitor (Chip's view of the Decepticons was no different than Prowl's), a microphone, dial-up networking, speakers, and a sound card that could interpret Prowl's speech. Maybe he's friends with Ethan Zachary.



Chip once tore a floppy disk apart with his bare hands. This may explain why Optimus Prime is keen to stay in his good books. His superhuman abilities shine when he correctly identifies Skywarp's missile is of the heat-seeking variety before it even does anything to suggest as such.

Chip is a graduate of Yal University, is able to survive acid rain, is able to stand (despite the wheelchair) , and once saved the world by getting Thrust to shoot Teletraan I.

He once told a group of Autobots that "No one is really disabled as long as they have courage." If any human was an illustration of this, it's Chip Chase.

Scramble City OVA


Chip can be seen alongside Spike, Sparkplug and Carly, helping to construct Autobot City.

Binaltech
When Prowl's Laser Core was lost to subspace in a GT Transfer accident (a technology he himself helped to create), Chip Chase volunteered to sacrifice his very own soul in order to breathe life into the now-lifeless Prowl-2, stating "Twenty years ago, we met thanks to an online message from you. Your battle computer was down, and in its place, I—" while something flashed in the back of his mind: "Your intelligence and personality are already in this frame. In which case..." With the help of Ratchet and Wheeljack, Chip's consciousness was transported into Prowl's frame. The new entity created in this fusion is virtually indistinguishable from Prowl's old persona, thanks to copies of the original Prowl's Memory Core and Datatrax, while a separate neurocomputer handles Chip's thought processes. Meanwhile, Chip's real body is stored in stasis in an EDC medical facility.

Transformers: The Game (2007)
He apparently owns a chain of fast food burger joints (Named "Chip Chase's" oddly enough) with his face on the packaging. Wonder if the TV ads are as scary as the ones featuring the Burger King.

Trivia

 * Chip and Carly never appeared in the same episode during the entire US run. Coincidence!? Shocking dual identitity?!?! (Or maybe the two of them just can't stand to be in the same room for whatever reason...) ''The only time they're both seen on screen is near the beginning of the Scramble City episode. Blink twice and you'll miss 'em.