Chip Whistler is the main antagonist of the Disney Channel animated series Big City Greens.
He is the former manager-turned-CEO of Wholesome Foods who carries a deeply spiteful grudge against the Greens and seeks to run them out of Big City as revenge for chipping his tooth. This makes him the arch-nemesis of Cricket Green and the Green family as a whole.
Appearance[]
Chip is a tall and slender man with blond hair that has dark brown on sides shaven off. He has orange-colored skin. His most prominent physical feature is one of his teeth, which is missing as a result of being "chipped" every time Chip fails to defeat the Greens, he continually replaces this tooth with dentures until finally replacing it with one made of titanium. though eventually it too breaks, leaving Chip still without his tooth. In season 4, He gains his scar over his left eye.
Chip first wore a light teal green shirt and khaki pants, with dark brown sandals and an anklet on the left calf of his leg, a single wireless earbud in his left ear, and sunglasses on the top of his head.
After becoming CEO, he first wore a grey suit with light green accents, and later a black suit with a dark blue inner shirt and a golden tie.
During his exile from Big City, Chip now wears a black hoodie with a dark grey trench coat layered on top, black fingerless gloves, red pants and black shoes.
Personality[]
| “It's me, the truth. Listen, Chip, being angry and vengeful is what makes you feel alive. But you haven't been alive. Trying to make "Norm Alguy" happy isn't gonna make the real Chip happy!” |
| —Chip’s inner self |
Chip is a cruel, malicious, egotistical and arrogant man whose only concern seems to be making money. However, he is also petty and takes everything personally and won't stop until he childishly one-ups anyone who has done him wrong like in "Feud Fight" where he sets up a Wholesome Foods stands at the food market just to get back at the Green family for ruining his teeth despite Cricket giving him a fair warning.
Chip is also shown to be immoral and he doesn't acknowledge the wrongness of his actions like in that same episode where when Cricket offered peace and cooperation, Chip hit him with tomatoes instead, which not only made him look bad but also costed him potential customers and half of his employees for harming Cricket, a child, when they realized what a jerk he was, despite Cricket giving up. However, he still blames the Greens, mostly Cricket, for his actions and continues acting immaturely while still suffering the ramifications of his actions.
Chip’s behavior eventually leads to his own downfall when he attempts to get rid of the Green family by destroying their house, which resulted in him being opposed by every other resident from the city and then him being banned from the city by the Mayor.
After being banned, it seems that Chip has descended into some sort of madness due to his obsession as he tries to murder the entire Green family using his helicopter while sadistically smiling and laughing, and months later after that he is still determined to plot against the Greens.
When he sees on the news that everyone believes he died when the helicopter crashes, Chip decides to literally become a ghost, and using a bedsheet, sneaks into the Greens’ house, intending to scare them away from the city. By this time however, the Greens are no longer in Big City, having moved to their old house in Smalton. This makes Chip fall into a depression, tormenting the Greens having been his goal for a long time.
After some reflection and a random encounter with a regular guy, Chip decides to become a normal person, adapting the name “Norm Alguy” and managing to get a job and a girlfriend, easily integrating himself into society under his new persona and even managing to be successful in life.
However, the monotony of his new life starts getting to him, and after a series of specific events, such as his girlfriend laughing at a terrible joke and his boss overworking him, Chip starts to realize he is not happy with this life. He has another breakdown when he encounters a family very similar to the Greens moving to Big City, mimicking when the Greens themselves moved there. The boy, who looks very similar to Cricket, becomes very rude to him and even kicks him, leaving Chip with a desire for revenge and remembering the very family he resents so much, especially Cricket.
After confronting his inner self in the bathroom, Chip realizes that being vengeful and petty is the only thing that makes him happy, and to fully embrace his old self, he chips his own tooth so that he’ll never forget who he is. Now back to his old self and with a reignited desire for revenge, Chip starts to spy on the Green family using his Norm Alguy personal so that they won’t recognize him.
Not only did Chip became more vengeful than ever, it’s shown that he got smarter too, since he came the closest to defeating the Greens when he trapped them all in an escape room he rigged during Halloween so that they’ll be trapped forever, only failing because Cricket didn’t succumb to Chip’s temptations of escaping alone and wasn’t as selfish as Chip had hoped, managing to escape on his own and rescuing his family in the process. It’s shown during this time that Chip has become more sadistic too, preferring to trap the Greens instead of murdering them like last time and tormenting them by exploiting their individual weaknesses, even managing to be successful in demoralizing them by making them believe Cricket ditched them all in order to escape the puzzle room alone, without the knowledge that the video was fake. His sadism is also shown when the red buttons he claimed would help at least one of them escape were rigged into releasing snakes into the room instead should they press them.
While Chip is more sadist and smarter than before, his impatience and anger remained, shown when he forcefully pulled away the monitor he was using to spy on Cricket when the boy didn’t acted the way he wanted to, breaking his other front teeth and creating a bigger gap, which angered him further. Despite his plan failing, Chip manages to sneak away from the room and leave the Greens still unaware that he’s still around. As they leave the escape room, Chip is heard laughing, clearly not done with the Greens and still intending to get revenge on them another day.
Chip’s intelligence is further shown when he reminiscences about how the Greens always manage to defeat him. He figures that since they’re a family, they work as a unit, bringing him to a disadvantage. To counter them, Chip works to find a family of his own, starting with thief couple Bella and Bash. He also targets Remy Remington, knowing that he’s rich as well as Cricket’s best friend. He even manages to trick Vazquez to leave Remy alone in the house. After the couple quit, this didn’t discouraged Chip, willing to get Remy on his own, who keeps booby trapping him. He encounters the Order of the Fang along the way, who also want to capture Remy in order to get revenge on their former member Vazquez. At first they want nothing to do with Chip, but after he showed great resilience against Vazquez’s pummeling, not only are they impressed, but they name him their leader, and with his girlfriend discovering his secret and being on board with his plan, Chip is now more dangerous than ever, having his own family and team at last and even more determined on revenge against the Greens.
Once he puts his plan of revenge into motion, it’s shown how he, with his girlfriend and the Order of the Fang’s help, manage to manipulate the Mayor of Big City into hiring his Norm Alguy persona and convince him to build a statue in the Mayor’s honor, in reality a fortress in the image of Chip. He then frames the Greens with putrid products that explode all over the city sewers, and fooling everyone into believing it was the Green’s products and that they are responsible for the pollution, Chip manages to capture the family he resents so much.
When Gramma confronts him about why he didn’t just kill the family instead of putting such a complicated plan into motion, Chip explains that murdering them wasn’t going to be enough for him, wanting them to feel what he felt when the entire city was against him. To further show his sadism and thirst for revenge, Chip holds the Green family captive on top of his statue fortress and reveals to them and also the citizens how he plans on blowing up Big City with bombs placed all over the sewers, blocking all the means of escape around the city, intending to kill everyone inside as punishment for siding with the Greens and intending to force the family to see them all die, including their friends Remy and Gloria.
When Cricket manages to escape and make him lose the key to the bombs, Chip orders the rest of his family to be tortured, and is impressed with the boy when he manages to defeat his minions, but when he recovers the key, he gives Cricket the choice between saving the city or stopping him from escaping. He’s quite shocked when Cricket chooses the latter, fighting him on top of the statue and noticing Cricket’s rage for him.
For all his hatred, Chip is not above begging for his life, for when Cricket has him at his mercy, he tries to reason with the boy. Cricket saves his life after some encouragement from his sister, pointing to Chip he wouldn’t have done the same for him had the roles been reversed and wanting to be nothing like him. Cricket is proven right when, after saving Chip’s life, instead of feeling grateful or changing his ways, immediately tries to kill Cricket, blinded by his own hatred for the kid. This proved to be his downfall since he trips on Cricket’s missing teeth, which fell during their fight, crashing against the wall and losing all of his own teeth in the process. Chip and his followers are then arrested for their crimes, and he can only watch with disdain the news about his arrest and the Greens having their names cleared.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Wholesome Squad
- Mr. Whistler (father)
- The Chairwoman of Wholesome Foods
- Rose
- Anyone else who works at Wholesome Foods except the ones that have quit or got fired by him (all formerly)
- Greg
- Babe (girlfriend)
- Order of the Fang
Enemies[]
- The Green Family (archenemies):
- Cricket Green (Sworn Nemisis/Good Counterpart)
- Tilly Green
- Bill Green (former “close friend”)
- Nancy Green
- Alice Green
- Gloria Sato (briefly his employee)
- Remy Remington
- Vasquez
- Mayor Hansock
- Officer Keys
- Rose (possibly)
- All of his former employees whom he fired or quit
- Everyone else in Big City who supports the Green Family
Trivia[]
- Chip is thought to be the show's main antagonist due to his rivalry towards the Green family and making plans to take them out of Big City. While he does become the primary antagonist of Season 2, he only has four appearances in it.
- However it is later revealed in Season 3 that he will return to wreck even more havoc against the Greens.
- Chip can be seen as a dark parallel to Cricket as they are 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 while Chip on the other hand, is more selfish and absorbed and only cares for himself than other people, even his own father. Chip serves as an example of what Cricket 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 can also be seen as a dark parallel to Gloria as they're both ambitious, determined by their careers, took their families for granted, and developed animosity toward Cricket. However, Gloria’s hatred for Cricket went away due to getting to know him better while Chip’s never went away due to his arrogance. Gloria cares about her parents and made up with them while Chip took advantage of his father's trust and when his father retired, he used his position as CEO to run Cricket and his family out of Big City. Gloria is a hard worker who uses her hard-working skills to achieve her goals but knows when to settle down by sacrificing her job at Wholesome Foods to help Cricket get into Chip's Office and with the help of the Greens, she opens up her cafe while Chip uses all his time as CEO to focus on the Greens and not his usual CEO duties and he doesn't see his employees as people. Chip serves as an example of what Gloria might become if she didn't learn to accept Cricket and his family and put others before her career.
- Despite being an archenemy of the Greens, he doesn't interact with or meet Nancy Green until "Chipocalypse Now", although he was aware of her existence as seen in his Green conspiracy board.
- Although he is childish and somewhat incompetent, Chip is by far the most sadistic and dangerous villain in the entire series.
- As a running gag everytime he gets defeated, one of his teeth gets "chipped", and the back of his chipped tooth is broken, and while he talks while it's broken, part of the whistling is heard, hence his name.
- Though not intended when designing the character, Chip has major similarities to. Both are businessmen who have unusual blonde hair and orange skin.[2]
- 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 ends up getting banned, for Donald Trump, saying that the 2020 election was stolen when Joe Biden ends up winning the election.
- And both his voice actor, and Donald Trump where born in New York State.
- Ironically, while Chip’s main goal was to make the Greens leave Big City forever and he faked signatures to make seem like every other resident hated the Greens, it was Chip who ended up being hated by everyone and who left Big City forever as he was banned from it.
- Chip was partially successful in running the Greens out of Big City, the only difference is that they left on their own terms and still keep their Big City house. Due to Chip’s actions, Gloria lost her job and went to live with the Greens, and with Grandma’s help managed to get her own Cafe, her earnings, along with the Green’s own business, helped them make enough money to buy their old house in Smalton, and while they still visit Big City, they don’t live there anymore.
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- ↑ Chip Whistler based on Donald Trump