History WesternAnimation / Chaotic

** Bodal acts smug and shows little gratitude towards his assistant Olkiex or Tom for helping him keep the Kiru City armory organized and in working order, and is also a brown-noser credit that will take credit for other people's work. Yet, he did help Tom when they first met, showing that he has some standards.

** ** Bodal acts smug and shows little gratitude towards his assistant Olkiex or Tom for helping him keep the Kiru City armory organized and in working order, and is also a brown-noser credit that will take credit for other people's work. Yet, he did help Tom when they first met, showing that he has some standards.

** Vlar, Maxxor's ancestor, is despised by his contemporaries for his acts of thievery from the local Kiru Village.

** Bodal is a smug, hyper critical little jerk who never shows any form of gratitude towards his assistant Olkiex or Tom for helping him keep the Kiru City armory organized and in working order, and is also a brown-noser who'll do anything to look good in front of Maxxor, including taking the credit for the work others did.
** Rivaling Bodal in jerkass [=OverWorlders=] is [[ScaryScorpions Sluhrk]], who attacks Peyton and Tom the moment that they enter his territory and unknowingly come across his water supply. He later follows them to Tianne’s home and tries to kill all three out of paranoia and spite.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Some of the creatures can be pretty nasty, but also genuinely nice to those they come to care about.

* ArcNumber: The number 7 is a recurring theme throughout the franchise (for example, Chaotic has 7 letters, and "Cothica" is just an anagram of that) and there were supposed to be 7 seasons. There are also 7 Codemasters, and if the first letters of their names are placed in a specific order, they can spell both "Chaotic" and "Cothica", to have a match against a Codemaster, players need to win in the Codemaster's drome a total of 7 times, and all Mugic abilities play a seven note melody upon activation.

* ArcNumber: The number 7 is a recurring theme throughout the franchise (for example, Chaotic has 7 letters, and "Cothica" is just an anagram of that) and there were supposed to be 7 seasons. There are also 7 Codemasters, and if the first letters of their names are placed in a specific order, they can spell both "Chaotic" and "Cothica", and to have a match against a Codemaster, players need to win in the Codemaster's drome a total of 7 times.

The ''Chaotic'' TV series ran for three seasons from 2006 to 2010, after which the show was canceled and the card game discontinued. It seemed like the series was dead until [[https://twitter.com/BCGannon32/status/1136027236002291712 a tweet]] from the show's creator, Bryan Gannon, revealed that there were plans to revive the series. In a later interview he confirmed that they were planning on rebroadcasting the original series to gage interest, and also bringing back the online game. If the series does well, they plan on rereleasing the cards and releasing the previously unreleased Fire and Stone deck. A mobile game is also in the works. The first season can be watched legally on Creator/AmazonPrime.

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[[caption-width-right:237:Let's get chaotic!]]

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

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 (seven official Battle Dromes run by the powerful and enigmatic Codemasters and a Beta Drome for practicing and anything-goes battles), 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 weren'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, 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.

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

* BewareTheQuietOnes: On the episode "An Easy Win", Peyton takes pity on Lulu, a girl who hasn't won a single battle since getting to Chaotic because she can't get use to being a creature, and attempt to [[ThrowingTheFight let her win a few battles against him in secret]] to be nice. When she starts winning she is over the moon with excitement, until she figures out that Peyton has been letting her win, and becomes ''furious'' at him for making her look like a loser because of this, and [[UnstoppableRage becomes much more dangerous in the final battle]].

** “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.
** Tom pulls out another of these in his match against [=CodeMaster=] Crellan. Before losing one of his creatures, he brings back the Modulation Mugic Klay and Krystella tricked him into using.[[note]]He and his friends were told it doubles a Creature’s energy, but it actually switches what attacks they do.[[/note]] Kaz is surprised since using it cost him Maxxor the first time, but Tom explains that Crellan will never expect it. Sure enough, it wins him his first [=CodeMaster=] match, casting it right before Cromaxx can use a really strong attack and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard kicking the code out of him with his own attacks.]]

* GogglesDoNothing: The original character design of Tom shows the similarity to Digimon. The goggles were removed for his design in the actual show.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In "An Easy Win", Sarah offers to face Peyton in a Drome Battle and let him win so he can get the 7th win he needs to challenge the Code Master. Peyton declines because it would be an insult to his honor as a Chaotic player. However, when Peyton battles Lulu in the Drome, he ends up taking pity on her and tries to throw several battles himself just to help her feel better. Once Lulu finds out he was letting her win, instead of her actually doing it herself, she becomes ''furious''. At the end of the episode, Sarah makes the same offer to Peyton again and seems to still refuse, only to whisper to her he accepts and will meet her at the Drome in a few minutes.

* HorrorHunger: Sarah has a VomitDiscretionShot upon being told that H'earring eats Dractyl scales, and even '''Dractyl''' is repulsed when he is told H'earring eats them.

* MasterOfDisguise: Iparu

* 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.”

* ShipTease: Tom and Sarah have a lot of it. ''Scavenger Scan'' and ''A Flux Too Far'', especially, are basically episodes devoted to them dating in all but name.

* SportsDad: “The Floundering Father” features one of these in the form of Buzz Sr., a former online player who quit to coach his son Buzz Jr. His loud and abrasive coaching rub the gang the wrong way, leading to them challenging him and him discovering that a Drome match isn’t as easy to do as he thought.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Season 2 features the four tribes ending their hostilities to bring down the M’arillians. Season 3 opens with the alliance falling apart due to cheating and disagreements concerning a race.

** In one episode, when Tom, Kaz, Peyton, and Sarah, begin to travel back in time to ancient Perim, they enter the territory of creature known as Voorx, who demands they pay him something in order to pass through it. Peyton attempts to pay him with a piece of lint from his pocket hoping Voorx won't know what it really is. However, the moment Peyton gives it to him, Voorx immediately identifies it as lint, which is now soggy due to Voorx being made of out of water, and becomes angry. Just because the creatures of Perim are different from Humans, doesn't mean they don't known what a certain material is, even if it comes from another world.

** Nothing is truly secret, eventually someone is going to find out about something you have hidden or try to keep exclusive; like a time portal to the past. Especially if you’re someone like Kaz, intent on bragging about your gains when everyone wants you to keep quiet. Sam Shady put it best: “You don’t REALLY think you can keep a portal to ancient Perim secret, do you? Players who aren’t as clueless as you are gonna figure it out sooner or later.”

* TeamPet: Kaz’s Underworld informant He'arring, though probably a lot different, seems to fill this role.

* VictoryIsBoring: Drew the Skater manages to get a copy of Hoton just after he learned Allmageddon, and proceeds to thrash everybody he battles against...which gets boring real fast since the attack is so powerful and difficult to avoid that it eliminates any sense of challenge from the game.

* WitchWithACapitalB: Used (possibly) in episode 12. Peyton mentions tripping over Krystella's "broomstick" and Krystella responds that he (Peyton) sees strong female players as witches. In episode 5, after she speaks, Peyton imitates the sound of a bus pulling over and says the "witchmobile" just pulled in.

* OffModel: Certain Creatures' designs in the show don't look much like their card artwork.
** Ixxik is probably the most notorious example; his show appearance has a radically different horn shape and body color than his card artwork, to the point where you could mistake the two for entirely different Creatures if he wasn't name-dropped.
** Throughout Season 1, Takinom was shown with red skin, while she has yellow skin on her card artworks. This was corrected in Season 2 onward.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Subverted in "Lord of Treachery": Needing to develop a strategy to defeat Lord Van Bloot, Kaz just so happens to encounter a player who uses a scan of Van Bloot at the exact moment he's looking for one. However, [[spoiler: the player turns out to be in league with Van Bloot, reporting Kaz's strategy to him, allowing him to prepare a counter.]]

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

** 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. [[spoiler:That particular match was intentionally rigged as part of a sting operation, though, so it's debatable whether they do this in an actual challenge match.]]

* TeamPet: Kaz’s Underworld informant He'arring, though probably a lot different, seems to fill this role

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%%* TeamPet: He'arring, though probably a lot different, seems to fill this role

** Being a series about a Virtual world based on a Card game, Episode 18 of the first season shows us the "Allmageddon", a very powerful AOE attack that makes the player that can use it pretty much invincible, the episode plays it very straight and deconstructs it, with the player that can use it getting sick of people chasing him to challenge him to a match, and defeating it required Peyton using a very specific Battlegear with very specific timing ''and'' landing in very specific locations, which in turn required him to sacrifice a Creature just to buy time to set it up. Notably, it's implied that the player in question, Drew, isn't actually a very good player himself - he's never shown winning a battle using anything but Allmageddon, showing just how overpowered it is.

** Being a series about a Virtual world based on a Card game, Episode 18 of the first season shows us the "Allmageddon", a very powerful AOE attack that makes the player that can use it pretty much invincible, the episode plays it very straight and deconstructs it, with the player that can use it getting sick of people chasing him to challenge him to a match, and defeating it required Peyton using a very specific Battlegear with very specific timing ''and'' landing in very specific locations, which in turn required him to sacrifice a Creature just to buy time to set it up.

The ''Chaotic'' TV series ran for three seasons from 2006 to 2010, after which the show was canceled and the card game discontinued. It seemed like the series was dead until [[https://twitter.com/BCGannon32/status/1136027236002291712 a tweet]] from the show's creator, Bryan Gannon, revealed that there were plans to revive the series. In a later interview he confirmed that they were planning on rebroadcasting the original series to gage interest, and also bringing back the online game. If the series does well, they plan on rereleasing the cards and releasing the previously unreleased Fire and Stone deck. A mobile game is also in the works.

* {{Animorphism}}: A majority of creatures which can be transformed into (Lahd, Tangath Toborn, ect.) are either based off of real world animals or are anthropomorphic animals.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Several creatures appear in episodes in card form or in a seconds long cameo before appearing in episodes fully or partially focused on them. For example, Ulfhedinn, Tom's opponent's WeaponOfChoice in "Shifting Sands" is used and [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomped]] in "The Thing With Bodal" on the team of Tom's opponent in that episode, Tank.