History WesternAnimation / Chaotic

* GreyandGrayMorality: None of the tribes are 100% in the right all the time, some of them are jerkasses, some of them are downright despicable, and alternatively some of them really are heroes, but there's no purely evil tribe or purely heroic tribe.

** CoolTom is a grade-A version. He let Tom almost get coded while he got an Ice Cloak scan in the Overworld Barracks, and then actively tries to take Tom's friends away and making them his own. '''He is not quiet on this point when they battled in the Drome.'''

* MindManipulation: This ability is pretty much the M'arrillians' bread and butter. There is also one Underworlder (Opto) who possesses the ability.
** Do they lose the ability after they're defeated in the Season Finale of M'arrillian Invasion? They're still around, but no mind control.
*** Well, all their mind controlled minions DID snap out of it after [[spoiler:Aa'une died]].

* BrokenAesop: Played for Laughs. In a Battle of the Sexes episode, Peyton declares that guys are better and then wins by using only female monsters. The rest of the cast can't figure out what this means.
** It's more like he's saying girls aren't better than boys. Just that Crystella isn't better than him.
** By season two, he's turned this into a RunningGag.
** There is also the episode where the gang befriends a new Tom, lavishing all of old Tom's previous positive attention on him. Fed up, old Tom wagers their friendship on a match. He wins, but his friends call him on it telling him that they'll be friends with whomever they choose. Simple Enough, but it becomes jarring once you recognize that the unfortunate implication that his friends weren't actually TREATING him like their friend.
*** They did the same thing to Sara when a cute girl showed up in a close episode cute girl dumped them.

* BiologicalMashUp: Borth-Majar. They can fight only while merged together.

* IdiotPlot: Chaotic Crisis involves [[spoiler:Kaz's [[EvilTeacher science teacher]]]] receiving scans from the [=UnderWorlders=] in exchange for the technology to travel between dimensions. Did he not stop to consider that if Chaotic was invaded, ''all his scans would be worthless''? ([[spoiler:ItWasAllJustADream though.]])

In Perim the four Tribes are at a centuries-long war that sought to find the Cothica, the supreme and ultimate power in all of Perim, as well as seek to retribution on the Tribe(s) that they blame for its disappearance. As the game has progressed into ''M'arrillian Invasion'', the fifth forgotten Tribe, the M'arrilians, was released from its imprisonment behind the Doors of Deepmines and is now wreaking havoc across all of Perim in order turn it into one big ocean. The process of oceanification is done by practically ''melting the ice caps'' of Perim. One year later, ''Secrets of the Lost City'' begins. The four high muges of Perim, Najarin, Enre-hep, Kopond, and Lore preform a ritual that raises Kaizeph, the levitating lost city of elements, from the depths of Lake Ken-i-po. The city becomes a new hub of activity for the Tribes. Over in the dig sites of the City of Kehn-Sep, the creatures have finally uncovered the Cothica Tablet. Though the tablet answers many long-debated questions, apparently not everyone likes the answers.

* {{Cyberspace}}: The world of Chaotic may possibly be like this, since it's based on an online game -- yet another similarity to Digimon.

* Grey andGrayMorality: None of the tribes are 100% in the right all the time, some of them are jerkasses, some of them are downright despicable, and alternatively some of them really are heroes, but there's no purely evil tribe or purely heroic tribe.

* GreyandGrayMorality: None of the tribes are 100% in the right all the time, some of them are jerkasses, some of them are downright despicable, and alternatively some of them really are heroes, but there's no purely evil tribe or purely heroic tribe.

* GreyandGreyMorality: None of the tribes are 100% in the right all the time, some of them are jerkasses, some of them are downright despicable, and alternatively some of them really are heroes, but there's no purely evil tribe or purely heroic tribe.

*** Somewhat subverted in the fact that, while they never do say "die" or "kill" they do however make it explicitly clear that death is a real factor in Perim, especially in the second season which took a considerably darker tone than the first season.

'''''Chaotic''''' is a Danish [[TradingCardGame trading card game (TCG)]] turned animated series that broadcasted on "4kids"TV and now airing on ''The [=CWkids=]'' and Cartoon Network.

'''''Chaotic''''' is a Danish [[{{trading card game}} trading card game (TCG)]] turned animated series that broadcasted on "4kids"TV and now airing on ''The [=CWkids=]'' and Cartoon Network.

In the show, Tom Majors and his friend Kazdan Kalinkas enjoy the mildly popular Chaotic TCG as a recreation. Kaz, being the one with the glasses, always tells Tom of his adventures in Perim and his matches in Chaotic. Tom usually dismisses such stories as a fanboyism -- that is, until he receives a mysterious password after one online match. He enters it into his Chaotic tie-in device called a scanner and is transported to the pocket dimension "Chaotic". Here players gather to play in the eight Dromes, where they transform into the creatures from the game and defeat each other in combat. It turns out that when you port to Chaotic, you also leave behind a version of yourself on Earth to go about normal life. As if all that wren't enough, you can also port into the actual world of the card game, Perim. There players can use their scanners to scan locations, creatures and items with their scanners, gaining the ability to use them in the game. Tom makes some new friends, Sarah and Peyton, as well new enemies, Klay and Krystella. Along the way the characters manage to get wrapped up in some dangerous adventures.

The real-life card game seems to take place separate from the TV series, with no humans turning up and featuring only the high fantasy world of Perim.

In Perim the four Tribes are at a centuries-long war that sought to find the Cothica, the supreme and ultimate power in all of Perim, as well as seek to retribution on the Tribe(s) that they blame for its disappearance. As the game has progressed into ''M'arrillian Invasion'', the fifth forgotten Tribe, the M'arrilians, was released from its imprisonment behind the Doors of Deepmines and is now wreaking havoc across all of Perim in order turn it into one big ocean. The process of oceanification is done by practically ''melting the ice caps'' of Perim. One year later, ''Secrets of the Lost City'' begins. The four high muges of Perim, Najarin, Enre-hep, Kopond, and Lore preform a ritual that raises Kaizeph, the levitating lost city of elements, from the depths of Lake Ken-i-po. The city becomes a new hub of activity for the Tribes. Over in the dig sites of the City of Kehn-Sep, the creatures have finally uncovered the Cothica Tablet. Though the tablet answers many long-debated questions, apparently not everyone likes the answers.

** It's more like he's saying girls aren't better than boys. Just that Crystella isn't better than him.

* FauxActionGirl: Sarah, although she has a lot of Scan Quests, is very rarely seen in an actual Drome Battle.

* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey, It's That Voice!]]: '''''[[JasonGriffith GRIFFITH!]]'''''

* NeverSayDie: Surprisingly Averted in ''M'arillian Invasion''. In the second episode of the 3-part season finale. [[spoiler: The second in command of the Overworlders, Tangath Toborn, casts a mugic to freeze time so the melted ice-caps of Glacier Plains don't flood Perim. He is unable to get out of the way in time. It takes effect after he's engulfed in the flood, causing him to drown.]] This is surprising because this happens in a show made by "4kids", who removes ''every single'' mention of death in their shows and the anime they dub.

* ShaggyDogStory: In one episode, someone steals a piece of Danian battle gear that Sarah was attempting to scan, so she recruits Tom, Kaz, & Peyton to engage in a ChainOfDeals that will allow her to get a card version of it. After much hassle on their part, including Kaz having to give up one of his prized cards, they manage to obtain it, only for Sarah to reveal that her Danian friend caught the thief while they were busy and she already scanned it.
* ShoutOut: The M'arrillian's former name was "[[HPLovecraft The Deep Ones]]"

* ArcNumber: 7

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Most of the [[LizardFolk Mipedians]] are nicer to the humans than the Overworlders, Underworlders or Danians.

* {{Bizzarechitecture}}: Castle Bodhran in the card game. Supposedly there are are doors below your feet, stairs ascend sideways and floors are seen where ceilings should be, but no matter where you stand, you’re always right side up. The card's flavour text even uses the trope name: ''This strange stronghold is built in a style that might be best called “bizzarechitecture.”''

* Bizzarechitecture: Castle Bodhran in the card game. Supposedly there are are doors below your feet, stairs ascend sideways and floors are seen where ceilings should be, but no matter where you stand, you’re always right side up. The card's flavour text even uses the trope name: ''This strange stronghold is built in a style that might be best called “bizzarechitecture.”''

* AllJustADream: The episode called [[spoiler: Chaotic Crisis]] where the creatures of Perim [[spoiler: invade Earth.]]

* XanatosGambit: In one episode Chaor's army corners the M'arrillians in a marsh of oil before sending it all up in a massive inferno, only to find when the smoke clears that not only did he not harm any of the M'arrillians (they simply hid beneath the oil until the flames died down), but the whole reason they came to the marsh in the first place was to lure him and his army away from Underworld City so that Lord Van Bloot could conquer it for them.

* DifferentAsNightAndDay: Krystella's twin Jysella