Chipp Zanuff

**Chipp Zanuff** (チップ=ザナフ, *Chippu Zanafu*) is a character in the *Guilty Gear* series, who was first introduced in *Guilty Gear*.

## Character Design

Chipp Zanuff is portrayed as a tall and muscular, but thin young man with white hair sticking out in all directions. Chipp wears a black tank top tucked into a pair of free light trousers with two straps on the left hip, shod in high closed shoes with large buckles, and small gloves on his hands. He is equipped with a short, curved blade attached to his right glove that goes up along his arm to his shoulder. In addition, he is armed with hidden shuriken and kunai. In battle, he uses techniques of Ninjutsu, ki-based energy attacks used by ninja.

## Personality

Chipp Zanuff is shown in game as a straightforward and simple-minded man, impatient and quick-tempered, but unable to get angry for a long time, and believes that failing is simply a chance to improve. He rarely loses hope, constantly striving to become stronger and improve his skills. Chipp possesses a great love of Japan, and even claims to have been born there, and not in America; but his image of the country is largely idealized and has little to do with reality. Chipp's non-Japanese origin is given away by his speech: some of his lines during combat consist only of the stereotypical Japanese words, usually known to foreigners, for example, "harakiri", "kamikaze",and even "Fujiyama geisha"

## Powers & Abilities

Chipp is very skilled with his arm-blade, and is quite adept at using kunai and shuriken. He has the characteristic abilities of a Japanese ninja, such as invisibility, illusions, duplication, teleportation, and superhuman speed. He is easily able to run at hypersonic speeds and has performed impossible feats such as permanently splitting a waterfall in half with a ki-enhanced slash. He is one of the few western practitioners of Ki and is remarkably proficient in Ninjutsu, preferring to use energy, lightning, ice and flame-based Ki techniques. He also seems to have knowledge of seals that can bind an enemy's movement or destroy them.

## Musical Themes

* **Suck a Sage** - *Guilty Gear*
* **Suck a Sage II** - *Guilty Gear X* and *Guilty Gear XX*
* **Child of the Wild** - *Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload* Korean OST
* **Drumhead Pulsation** - *Guilty Gear Isuka*
* **Flash Hider** - *Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-*

## References and Allusions

* Named after bassist Chip Z'nuff from the band Enuff Z'nuff.
* His theme song in the main Guilty Gear games sounds somewhat like the Megadeth song Last Rites/Loved to Death. As well as the Iron Maiden song Back in the Villiage.
* Chipp's physical appearance and personal backstory is based on musician Billy Idol. While some bands were notorious for drug abuse in the 1980s, Billy was said to have been one of the more serious lone celebrities to engage in hardcore drug use until reforming after a near fatal motorcycle crash in February of 1990.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Chipp ended up in Brooklyn when he was sucked into the portal. With that, people call me the Brooklyn Ninja as he come out of the shadows and stop the criminals. When meeting the Turtles, he was amazed yet curious about them. After some explanation, he joins the Turtles.

## Trivia

* Chipp's gimmick of being a "ninja" of foreign descent is the reason he utters words like "sushi," "sukiyaki" and "Fujiyama geisha" -- stereotypical Japanese words that would be known to a non-Japanese -- during and after battles. However, since the release of Λ Core (*Accent Core*), Chipp uses real Japanese words for his attacks.
* In his profile in *Guilty Gear*, it is shown that Chipp was born in America, but he considers himself as Japanese.
* Chipp's move the Banki Messai is based off the Ryuuko Ranbu from the King of Fighters series which is used by the character Ryo Sakazaki. Also in the Street Fighter series the character Dan Hibiki uses a similar move called Hissho Buraiken, although the move is much harder to land on oppenents when compared to the similar move found in Guilty Gear and King of Fighters.
* Chipp is the only character able to triple-jump naturally, without the aid of any glitches.
* Despite being one of the fastest characters Chipp also one of the lowest defense stats. This is even comically alluded to Blazblue's "Teach me, Miss Litchi" gag segment when she was telling Ragna that his defense is almost as low as Chipp's.