Chris Killah
- Chris Killah is a human from the Dreamwave comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Chris Killah is a reporter who isn't afraid to be the story he's reporting on.
Killah cut his teeth at The Times, writing splashy, pathos-driven "special investigations" and exposés rehashing old stories in his signature style. From there he moved to MNT, the Music News Television network, where he cultivated his image as a sunglassed media vulture who always appeared at the worst possible moment bearing leading questions.
Killah's next goal is the cover of Newsweek. And if media mogul Iolus Monk has his way, he'll get it.
Fiction
Dreamwave Generation 1 continuity
In 2002, Chris Killah wrote a retrospective on the Ark II tragedy for The Times titled, "Reliving the '99 Ark II Tragedy: What Happened?: A Special Investigative Report by Chris Killah." Killah employed every fragment sentence known to man to forge his "investigative report", which consisted mostly of asking rhetorical or open-ended hypothetical questions. Prime Directive #1
Six months later, Chris Killah and his MNT news crew bribed their way onto a disaster zone in Tokyo to interview Bumblebee and Prowl about the massive deaths and disappearances. He promised his crew fat bonuses if they got a hot story.
Killah claimed his interview was set up by the US Administration to ease tension in the wake of the disaster, but it was actually the work of media mogul Iolus Monk who planned to fan the flames of fear for ratings. Framing the two Autobots against the destroyed city, Killah peppered them with speculative questions about the nature of the threat they faced and how terrified people should be. The flustered Bumblebee suggested that the strange lights previously reported by Hugo Fortuna could indicate the involvement of a third, unknown, alien race.
Sensing the interview was getting out of hand, Prowl forcibly cut it off by jamming the transmission from the crew's camera. They had been live on the air.
(Killah presumably got his Newsweek cover.) Hardwired
Associated characters
Joe Chuckry
Joe Chuckry is Chris Killah's MNT cameraman. He has a bulky build and red hair.
Tom Hyroon
Tom Hyroon is Chris Killah's MNT sound engineer. He's wiry and had salt & pepper hair.
Rhona Jay
Rhona Jay is Chris Killah's MNI field producer. She runs the broadcast van while her crew works live from the field.
Iolus Monk
Iolus Monk is a ruthless multimedia mogul who owns dozens of media outlets around the world, from The Times to Music News Television. He thinks Chris Killah represents the kind of news-as-entertainment that is the future and isn't afraid to grease a few palms to get his golden boy where he isn't supposed to be just so he can destroy a reputation. Monk owns every news outlet Killah has worked for.
