History WesternAnimation / Chaotic

** Chaotic, in addition to having seven letters in its name, has seven official Battledromes with seven Codemasters to run them.

* AlliterativeName: For the humans, there is Kazdan "Kaz" Kalinkas, and for the creatures, Tangath Toborn.

* InsistentTerminology: It's not a lizard hat, it's "Mipedian-themed headgear."

* {{Nerd}}: Kaz.

* AmazonianBeauty/{{Beastess}}: Intress, [[http://chaotic.wikia.com/wiki/Intress in the card game anyway]]

* {{Insistent Terminology}}: It's not a lizard hat, it's "Mipedian-themed Headgear".

''Chaotic'' is a Danish [[TradingCardGame trading card game (TCG)]] turned animated series that broadcasted on [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids TV]] and later on Cartoon Network.

* AesopAmnesia: There is 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. In another episode the boys do the same thing to Sarah when a cute girl showed up and they proceeded to ignore Sarah all episode.
* AmazonianBeauty /{{Beastess}}: Intress, [[http://chaotic.wikia.com/wiki/Intress in the card game anyway]]

* ShoutOut: The M'arrillian's former name was "[[Creator/HPLovecraft The Deep Ones]]". Their higher-ranking members, being bioluminescent cephalopod monsters with mind-control powers, are pretty much exactly the sort of thing Lovecraft would come up with.

* WeaponOfChoice: Tom has Maxxor and, later on, Tangath Toborn, until he gets Maxxor back; Kaz has Chaor and, seemingly due to his tendency to show up on Kaz's teams, Rarran; Sarah has Lore and Wamma, and finally Peyton has Zhade and Marquis Darini. Meanwhile, Klay uses Barath Beyond in nearly every match in early episodes, although he later begins to use Lord Van Bloot.
** A notable one is a player named Brad, whose Chaotic name is Tartareker. When Tom faces him in a 6-on-6 match, Tartareker lives up to his name by having his whole team be composed of only Tartarek. Justified as it is during a Beta Drome match where anything goes.

** A notable one is a player named Brad, whose Chaotic name is Tartareker. When Tom faces him in a 6-on-6 match, Tartareker lives up to his name by having his whole team be composed of only Tartarek.

* GenderBender: When players become their cards, they're not solely limited to their own gender. Kaz, a fervent Underworld player will frequently use Takinom in matches, and Tom has used Intress more than once. This happens every time Sarah enters the Dromes, since she her deck is filled with Danians, and the queen (who she hasn't scanned) is the ''only'' female Danian.

* ChekhovsGun: “Everything is in Flux” starts with Tom and Kaz getting scans of Iron Pillar, with Kaz pointing out that even cards players don’t usually put in their decks can be useful. The end of the episode has Tom use Iron Pillar to shut down Klay’s Flux Bauble strategy and win the match.

* GenderBender: When players become their cards, their not solely limited to their own gender. Kaz a fervent Underworld player will frequently use Takinom in matches, and Tom has used Indress more than once.

* DeadpanSnarker: In the first episode, one of the robots hates the first reactions to new players, since they all say the same thing. And is also annoyed by their reactions of seeing a talking robot.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It's a collectible card game where each Creature can be its own card, so...

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The Mugic colors happen to be color-coded for the Tribe that can use them. Colorless Mugic can be used by anyone, Blue Mugic for the Overworld, Red for the Underworld, Yellow for the Mipedians, Brown for the Danians, and Black for the M'arrilians. The players' Scanners match these colors after the ArtEvolution. (Codemasters' are white, for those who were wondering, though Crellan is the only one known to specialize in tribless creatures, the only other one whose deck is known, Hotekk, uses a mixed tribe deck, though both specialize in "past" creatures)

* DarkIsNotEvil: Underworlders say that the Overworld tribe is responsible for the war over the Cothica.
** LightIsNotGood: On the ''other'' side of the spectrum, the Overworlders are arrogant and are sometimes willing to ShootTheDog. Don't let the teamwork system fool you; they can be ''pretty'' petty.
** Peyton even told Tom in one episode, when he was complaining about the Mipedians attack on Castle Bodhran from an earlier episode, that no tribe is [[GreyAndGreyMorality all good or all evil]] and each has their own good & bad members.

** It is also implied that they can control various aspects of Chaotic, as all of the battles in "Fighting Friendly" had the creatures used equipped with just the battlegear for precisely that location, despite the fact the location is supposed to be random.

** While never stated outright, Sarah heavily implies in the first episode that if you die while in Perim? You die in the real world as well as evidenced when Tom is almost killed saving Mezzmar from Nauthilax. A later episode subverts this, stating that death in Perim just locks you out of Chaotic and Perim for good.

*** Another of the nastiest is a boy named Elliot, known for being a scan hog who's always looking for customers to sell or trade his scans for. In the episode "Out in the Cold", Kaz has to venture into a highly dangerous location to try to aid Raimusa against an attack by Phyrithion (which Kaz is accidentally responsible for causing), and his friends try to get a scan of the location to study it so they can warn Kaz of the dangers, but Elliot flat-out refuses to help despite both Kaz and Raimusa's lives being in danger. He has to be goaded into a match against Tom just so the group can get a chance to explore the location, which Elliot uses just to promote his scans, and even then Elliot outright sadistically, SlasherSmile and all, taunts Tom about possible dangers ahead that could well mean Kaz's demise or tries ending the match as quickly as possible so Tom and the others won't get chances to warn Kaz of the dangers, laughing about it afterwards while stating that adding drama will boost his scan business.

** While never stated outright, Sarah heavily implies in the first episode that if you die while in Perim? You die in the real world as well as evidence when Tom is almost killed saving Mezzmar from Nauthilax.

** While never stated outright the first episode implies heavily that if you die while in Perim? You die in the real world as well as evidence when Tom is almost killed saving Mezzmar from Nauthilax. Sarah implies this is the case.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: the specialty of [=HotShot=], a player who challenges Underworld players using [[PlayingWithFire non-Underworlders that excel at fire attacks]]. Kaz tries to pull this on him with his own team of fire attackers, but it doesn’t work.

* BigEater: Peyton

* TheBigGuy: Peyton, again

* {{Geek}}: Kaz

* {{Nerd}}: Kaz

* MonsterOfTheAesop: Tom’s opponent in “Shifting Sands,” SlickNick, is an exaggerated version of how Tom acted in the beginning of the episode. While Tom got over his grudge against the Mipedians, SlickNick starts and ends the match putting down non-OverWorlders, even calling Tom’s mixed tribe board “disgusting.”

** Hoton's card artwork gives him a face and bill reminiscent of a duck, while his show appearance is based more on an owl.

* TheSmartGuy: Kaz, and to some extent Sarah

** Crellan first faces Tom using only his Ursis against Tom's full six-man team in a beta drome match... and wipes the floor with five of Tom's six Creatures, using a combination of his unique Prexxor Chasm location, Ursis's brute force, and the Droskin, a Battlegear that makes Ursis ''completely immune to attacks''. However, he confides in Tom that he believes it's more about the player than the cards themselves, and true to his statement Tom nearly beat him on the final turn. In their official match, Crellan fields even stronger cards, including a support Creature that can ''endlessly revive his main fighter''.