Chuy
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Aliases: Bigfoot Status: Recurring
Chuy is a genuine Sasquatch. When Chris mistakes him for a costume, Chino corrects him flat out: “That’s no costume. He’s really a Bigfoot” (3328). He’s introduced in Nature Sucks in all caps as BIGFOOT (2071), met not on any camping trip but on a weed run: Chino takes what he calls a shortcut through the Ominous Forest on the way to Mr. Dealer’s new dispensary (1975), and he and Homeboy stumble onto a redneck pot field with a Sasquatch guarding it. His name doesn’t come from the rednecks who show up later. That’s a common misreading of the scene. Bigfoot does a “perfect Chewbacca-like noise” for Chino and Homeboy on request (2135), then does it again moments later, “oblivious to the tension,” just as armed rednecks step out of the trees (2153); it’s that second impression that earns him his nickname on the spot: “You tell ‘em, Chuy!” (2157). Only afterward, in a separate beat, does the fat redneck squint at him and misidentify him as “that Chewbacca fella from that Star Trek movie” (2159), a mix-up the narration plays as its own joke, not the source of the name. From there the text folds the two identities into a single creature without comment: “Bigfoot, now Chuy, squeezed through the door” (2427). His first meeting with the boys also settles the dominance question permanently: after his second roar cracks mid-way into something pubescent, Chino drops his pants for a side-by-side comparison, “That’s right, cabrón. I AM the donkey show,” and Chuy, worldview shattered, just sighs and sits down between them.
Underneath the size he’s easygoing and eager to please, but he’s touchy about being doubted or disrespected. Asked whether he even remembers how to work a stopwatch, he answers with “a string of deep, offended growls” and keeps grumbling, “clearly not done being insulted” (3378, 3382). Chino extends him the same defensiveness on his behalf: correcting Mr. Dealer’s “it” with “He’s not an ‘it.’ He has a name, and his name is Chuy!” (3922), and doing the same to a captive who calls him “the Sasquatch” and claims “it doesn’t need money” (4908, 4910). He’s also capable of real violence in defense of the crew: Chino credits him with killing “a shit ton of racist rednecks” to get them out of the forest alive (2457, 2465), and much later he erupts through a door glowing with “a brilliant white light,” hurling bodies aside alongside Homeboy to free a captive Chino (7212, 7214). By the end of his first day with them he’s already folded into the crew, sprawled on the couch at Chino’s place with a joint and a beer like he’d always been there (2497).
The Adventures: Volume 01
From the forest fight in Nature Sucks on, Chuy stays tied to Chino and Homeboy: he carries the catatonic Homeboy back to the apartment “like a weary warrior carrying his wounded brother from the battlefield” (2357), struggles to wedge himself into a chair built for human proportions (2429, 2439), and eventually snaps its arms off outright when Chino’s retelling of the story brings up his near-taxidermy experience with the rednecks again (2445, 2447), the same broken chair Mr. Dealer is still complaining about, off-page, when the pair come looking for jobs in Mrs. Dealer and the Edibles Factory; Chuy himself isn’t present in that story, only referenced (3920, 3922). The forest fight itself earns him his place: when the boys flee the redneck militia and come back war-painted, they find him standing over the carnage with an AR-15 in each hand, and the three seal it with a group hug in the middle of the battlefield. “Bigfoot lives matter.” He turns up as their unlikely fitness coach for the park training montage in Mary Jane’s Four Dimensional Adventure, introduced there as “Chuy (the Sasquatch)” (3239) and taking the job of pushing them to their limits with total solemnity (3241, 3243). In There Can Be Only One he’s brought along to help bury a body in the Ominous Forest, hauls Chino and Homeboy bodily out of the grave they dug (4874), gets written into the payout when Chino demands his cut too, “And Chuy. Chuy wants a thousand dollars, too” (4906), and instinctively clamps a hand around Killian’s throat the moment he tries to bolt, only letting go when Uncle Rob tells him to (4966, 4972). His biggest moment comes in Big Trouble in Chinatown, where he’s part of the crew at the underground Kumité: eating an entire roasted duck “bones and all” without explaining how he got it (6500, 6504, 6508), catching the eye of a dwarf who asks “How much for your dog?” and pitches him as a moneymaker in the ring (6558, 6562), and ultimately breaking down a door glowing with power, hurling General Pain’s men aside as he and Homeboy storm in to free the captive Chino (7212-7216).
The Adventures: Volume 02
- El Duende: Sits in on the Cesar Millan session, calmly takes Loki’s leash from the bickering Chino and Homeboy, unclips it, and walks into the Ominous Forest with him (now Rawr).
- Uncle Rob and the Edibles Factory: Joins the mansion hookah session; offers his and Rawr’s help with the dispensary.
- Mr. Bitches and the Emporium of Sex: Stays home gaming with Rawr while the boys run the Emporium delivery.
- The Man of Iga: Wrestles with Rawr on the apartment floor; gets banned from King Taco with him (Rawr turned the manager into a ferret). Lays out General Pain’s minions on the gangplank; strokes Rawr after the blast.
- Of Rednecks and Vampires: Provides the coven intel from the Ominous Forest; joins the assault team covered in branches.
- The Return of Dos Santos: Meets the crew at the forest edge with Rawr, ignores Homeboy’s greeting, and commandeers the Gremlin’s back seat.
- The Emperor of the Universe: Plays cosmic frisbee with Rawr at the barbecue (trash can lid, teleporting catches).
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