Chip Whistler

Chip Whistler is the main antagonist of the Disney Channel animated series Big City Greens. He is the former CEO of Wholesome Foods and the main rival of Cricket Green and his friends and family.
==Background==
===Personality===
Chip Whistler is a cocky and arrogant man whose only concern seems to be making money and cash all day. He always feels the need to get even with, or outdo the "competition", which he believes he can due to his money. He can be rather petty as seen in "Feud Fight" where after he attacked Cricket with a tomato (after he had ceased fighting) Chip was quick to gloat his "victory" only for everyone to turn on him for attacking a child. Chip is also quite vain as after shaking hands with Bill Green, he was put off by Bill's missing finger to the point that he had to wipe his hands afterwards. As Tilly states at the end of "Supermarket Scandal", "his name fits his mouth", due to his chipped tooth.
===Physical appearance===
Chip is a tall orange-skinned man, presumably in his thirties or forties. He has neatly combed light blond hair with browning sideburns and a long soul patch on his chin. He constantly has his sunglasses rested on his head and wears a Bluetooth headset in his ear all the time. Chip's fashion is a laid back vegan design of a turquoise button-up shirt, brown pants that are rolled up to the hem and sandals. He also seems to wear a beaded anklet. While he is usually seen with perfect teeth, he has a large chip in the center of it after having accidentally eaten a fake apple, though he continues to repair it.
==Role in the series==
In Chip's debut episode, "Supermarket Scandal", he at first seems friendly towards the Greens, offering to buy a varied shipment of food from them for his supermarket. Bill declines on this, since he can only fill half the order, but Cricket offers to fulfill the order. He and Tilly do this by painting all sorts of things from their garage to look like fruits and vegetables, but after Bill tells them what could happen when the consumers find out their food is fake, they rush to Wholesome Foods to retrieve the fake food. However, Chip, unaware of this, eventually bites into an 8-ball painted as an apple, which chips his tooth and gives a literal meaning to his name. Furious, he blames the Greens for his broken tooth and vows vindictive revenge on them.
Since then, he has become something of a childish bully; trying to usurp the Greens from their spot in the farmer's market to trying to steal coffee beans from Cricket and Gloria in "Coffee Quest"; Chip tried to convince Gloria to work with him at Wholesome Foods, but she refuses, admitting that she's not from Big City like Cricket, and beats him up. After Cricket and Gloria escaped to safety, Chip promises this is not over yet and he will run Cricket and his family out of Big City someday.
In "Reckoning Ball", his father finally puts an end to this by having him work for the Greens. Over time, he seems to learn from his mistakes and finally takes over his father's company when he retires. However, Chip is revealed to have really been after gaining more power so that he can finally get back at the Greens, having used the Greens' kindness to trick them and his dad into thinking he has changed so he can gain his father's trust, and now that his dad is no longer around, he is free to execute more revenge against the Greens, especially Cricket.
In "Friend Con", Chip pretends to befriend Bill at Farm Con, but Cricket and Tilly soon discover that he is still evil and plans to impersonate Bill and usurp his keynote speech so he can ruin Green Family Farms.
In "Chipwrecked", Chip has been using his job as CEO poorly and as a result, he has been missing several meetings. When attempting to steal business from Big Coffee, Cricket, who has stopped taking Chip seriously, is not the least bit surprised and mocks him over his failures, calling him a joke and his plans will never succeed. Sure enough, after several injuries, Chip gets a call from Mr. Whistler who has heard of him missing out on his duties, almost admitting his hatred to the Greens in the process. Upon hearing advice from his dad to "put the company to work for him", Chip misinterprets his advice and fires Greg and Rose, replacing them with a squad of bouncers, then barges into Big Coffee where they dismantle it; Cricket tries to stop him, but was instantly outmatched. Chip then bribes Ms. Cho into retirement and fires Cricket and Gloria, leaving them jobless and mocking Cricket for the way he treated him and he would have been the same if it hadn't been for "his" advice. Chip then announces his project going to be right where the Greens' house is, leaving the Greens and Gloria worried over what will happen next.
In the very next episode, "Chipocalypse Now", he then proceeds to buy out the apartment building next door to the Greens and tears down both it and Big Coffee, replacing them with a bigger Wholesome Foods store. Then, he shows Mayor Hansock a forged petition demanding the Greens be exiled from Big City, and prepares to have the Greens' house torn down. While Tilly, Bill, and Alice defend their home, Cricket and Remy sneak in to Chip's office and find evidence that he forged the petition. Then, when all the Greens' friends come to their defense, Mayor Hansock declares that the Greens will not be exiled after all, and that instead Chip is fired from being Wholesome Foods' CEO and banned from the city himself. Furious that his plans have failed, Chip makes one last-ditch effort to kill Cricket with his helicopter, but he quickly jumps off the roof and lands safely in Bill's arms; upon trying to get them all at once, Cricket immediately sees a big flaw and Chip ends up running it into a telephone wire, stopping the helicopter mere inches from Cricket's face, which then sends him hurtling into the sky and out of Big City, but not before he hits his face on the helicopter's controls and chips his tooth again.
Chip's name was briefly seen in Bill's "potential best buddy list" in "Dependabill".
In "Long Goodbye", it is revealed that Chip Whistler had seemingly died after the events of "Chipocalypse Now" and was buried outside of Big City. A gravedigger passes by a gravestone belonging to Chip Whistler and tells his dog that he was "the biggest jerk who ever died". As he tries to recall the family that he used to mess with, a hooded figure, unseen by the gravedigger, appears and is revealed to be Whistler, plotting his revenge on the Greens once more and promising their troubles are only beginning.
In "Chipped Off", Chip pulls his former employee Greg into the sewers and reveals himself. He then explains that he survived the helicopter crash thanks to his parachute but stumbled into a tree. After entering a nearby diner, he learns from a news story that the wreckage from his helicopter was found and he was presumed dead, but his ban from the city was still active if he wasn't. He then snuck back into the city disguised as a ghost to scare the Greens, but learns from Gloria they had moved back to the country. While drowning his sorrows with milkshakes at the diner, the waitress there tells him he could be anything he wants to be. He then creates a persona called "Norm Alguy" to sneak back into the city and tries to start over, but still wasn't happy. While talking to himself in the mirror, his reflection tells him he should embrace his true self and destroys his tooth with a hammer, which leads him into the sewers. After learning the Greens were back in Big City, Chip prepares to take revenge on them, and everyone else who sided with them. After explaining his story to Greg, he tells him that he needs his help to do and lowers his hood, revealing a scar he got from an incident with a rat and begins to laugh evilly as Greg laughs uneasily.
==Other appearances==
Chip appeared in the Broken Karaoke short "Evil as Can Be" stroking his goatee with David Xanatos, Rippen, and 2nd dimension Doofenshmirtz. During the song, Darcy questions if he should even be there, but Flintheart Glomgold vouches for him by mentioning the events of "Chipocalypse Now".
==Trivia==
*Chip can be seen as a dark parallel to Cricket, as they were both raised by their respective fathers, who are farmers, and are both careless and immature at times. However, Cricket cares for the well beings of other people, especially his friends and family, whereas Chip is more self absorbed, even caring for his own father. As such, Chip serves as an example to Cricket of what he might have become if he didn't have the love of his friends and family by his side to teach him what's right and wrong.
**Chip's hair and skin tones are also a sort of reverse of Cricket's; while the former has light skin and dark hair, the latter has dark skin and light hair.
*Much of his antagonism towards the Greens (and other related people) is purely his own fault. As a matter of fact, Bill Green seemed totally oblivious to any animosity until the episode "Reckoning Ball".
*He has filled his chipped tooth with composite resin and indestructible bonded polymer, which according to him is very toxic, "but worth it."
*Contrarily, his father is the total opposite of him; calm, friendly and a hard worker who expects the best out of people.
*"Reckoning Ball" is the first episode where Chip is the main character, making him the first villain in the show to serve as a protagonist.
*Chip is in many ways similar to Gloria Sato, as both characters had their life throughout the course of the show heavily influenced by the presence and actions of the Greens' family, in particular of Cricket. However, while Gloria disliked the Greens initially she grew to eventually like them and appreciate their efforts; Chip was originally neutral towards the Greens and quickly became more antagonistic and aggressive towards the family.
*Chris Houghton admitted that Chip wears a little bit of make up; particularly some "eyeliner or a slight contour".
*On the day "Chipocalypse Now" aired, Ariel Vracin-Harrell posted an image depicting Chip and Cricket happily standing next to each other while Chip was in a grave with his own tombstone and Cricket was holding a shovel. This implied that Chip was gone for good, having been killed following his final appearance in the episode. However, this turned out to be a reference to the season three finale "Long Goodbye", where Chip is revealed to have faked his own death.
*In the climax of "Chipocalypse Now", Chip was not arrested by Keys or the Mayor for trying to kill Cricket and his family (and by extension, everyone who stuck up for them) with his helicopter. In reality, it is extremely illegal to murder someone and this would have gotten him in even more trouble, as pointed out by Keys in "Reckoning Ball" to begin with.
*In "Chipocalypse Now", Bill was shown searching for various city apartments (in the family's price range) to move to should the Greens fail. This implies that despite Chip's plan, they will not leave Big City no matter what happens to them.
*Though not intended when designing the character, Chip has major similarities to Donald Trump. Both are businessmen who have unusual blonde hair and orange skin.Chip Whistler based on Donald Trump
**In fact, both of them can be known to get pretty crazy when it comes to things like plans backfiring on them, like for Chip, trying to run the Greens out of the city but ending up getting banned; for Donald Trump, saying that the 2020 election was stolen when Joe Biden ended up winning the election.
**Also, both his voice actor and Donald Trump were born in New York State.
==Gallery==
Chip Whistler.png|Chip before becoming CEO of Wholesome Foods.
Profile - Chip Whistler.jpeg|Chip after getting a new tooth.
Coffee Quest - Chip wants Gloria to work with him at Wholesome Foods.png|Gloria and Chip fighting over a bag of coffee beans.
Coffee Quest - Gloria spin-kicks Chip.png
Chipwrecked - Chip aquires Big Coffee.jpg|Chip and Miss Cho making a deal to sell Big Coffee to him.
Chipwrecked - 'Who's a joke now'.jpg
Chipocalypse Now still 2.jpg
Chipocalypse Now - Chip Whistler in the Intro.jpg
Chipocalypse Now still 3.jpg
Chipocalypse Now - Chip 'It's Bull Time boys'.jpg|Chip announcing to send in the bulldozers in "Chipocalypse Now".
CHIP WITZLER.jpg
Cricket and Chip memories.jpg|Chip's confirmed "demise".
==References==
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