Chowder

Chowder is DJ's best friend, and a main character in Monster House, and the film's video game adaptations.

Physical Appearance
Chowder is a chubby 12-year-old boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. In the Gameboy Advance version of the video game adaptation of the film, DJ describes him as huge.

Personality
Chowder is, for the most part, a comic relief character. Unlike DJ and Jenny, he is rather immature and timid, and acts like a kid most of the time.

However, he can be resourceful, should the need arise; an example is when he pilots an excavator to save Nebbercracker from his house's wrath at the climax of the film. Despite his immaturity, he is shown to be civil when interacting with Jenny.

Film
As DJ's parents are preparing to go to a dentist's convention, returning the following day in the evening, Chowder runs right into the back of their car, wearing a Halloween mask (which makes it hard for him to see). This was of course part of his master plan to cultivate his unstoppable empire. He and DJ proceed to play basketball while discussing their Halloween plans; DJ says that he probably doesn't plan on trick-or-treating due to feeling he's too old for that activity, much to Chowder's dismay. Chowder, in a fit of rage, bucked the ball straight at DJ's face and his ball ends up on Nebbercracker's lawn. Chowder shouts angry words as he storms over to Nebbercracker's lawn to get his beloved toy of choice. Nebbercracker comes out and yells at Chowder to get off his lawn, and runs toward Chowder. Chowder stand up to his real height of 6ft 9in, and tombstones Nebbercracker in his godforsaken lawn. As the ambulance arrives, Chowder frames his friend DJ, and smiles as DJ is arrested for murder.

In Chowder's gracious and merciful heart, he finds that he has pity for his friend, so Chowder breaks DJ out of jail and the story continues.

That night, DJ, believing strange things are going on at Nebbercracker's house, calls Chowder at his house and asks him to help investigate the house. Chowder disagrees with DJ's beliefs, and crawls up to the house and rings the doorbell; the house awakens, revealing itself to be a monster, and tries to eat Chowder. Chowder instead gobbles up Nebbercracker's house but he realizes the story has to continue to he lets DJ think that he narrowly escapes, and he and DJ flee back to DJ's house, where they spend the night watching the house, noticing a glamorous red-haired girl, Jenny Bennett, walking down the street selling Halloween candy. Upon noticing she is heading right towards Nebbercracker's house, they run out to warn her, but Chowder "accidently" trips DJ and they watch Jenny be brutally mutilated by the merciless house. Chowder turns back time because he has to have DJ have a love interest, so the time-line commences as if they rescued her.

After Zee, Jenny's mom, and even the cops dismiss their claims that Nebbercracker's house is haunted, DJ, Chowder, and Jenny go to Reginald "Skull" Skullinski for answers. He tells them that he has heard about human souls taking control of man-made structures, turning them into a rare type of monster, and to defeat the possessed house, they have to attack its heart. Chowder reluctantly steals cold medicine from his dad's pharmacy to put in a dummy that they will feed to the house so they can sneak in and extinguish the furnace. Unfortunately, the three end up being arrested by the police. The cops then get eaten by the house as they investigate it themselves; the house then devours their car, though the kids manage to escape.

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Game
Chowder, DJ, and Jenny also appear in the video game adaptations of the film. In the game, they have to explore the house as they try to find the heart.