Chip Chase (SG)

"No one is really disabled as long as they have courage."

CHIP is Spike's best friend. He is a computer genius who can operate almost any memory bank set in front of him, including Teletraans I & II. Spike is sometimes envious of Chip's ability to alter and create new functions for computerized machines --often done with Wheeljack's help. Although his scientific talents are great, Chip is physically handicapped -- paralyzed from the waist down -- and must be confined to a wheelchair. This makes his especially vulnerable during Decepticon attack -- although his courage shines through in any desperate situation.

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:
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.

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 Yale 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.

MUX History:
Chip assisted Spike, Sparkplug and Carly, helping the Autobots to construct Autobot City.