History WesternAnimation / Chaotic

* OutsideContextProblem: The Blight breaks every single rule of the world of Chaotic. It is a malevolent green blob that rots everything it touches and attacks anything it sees. It is not a creature, as it also appears in Tom's scan of Prexxor Chasm when he scans the place. Attacks and Mugic of any kind have no affect on it. It is outright called a disease by Smildon, but that doesn't give much context to what it is or where it even came from.

* NeverSayDie: The show never once uses any term for death. However they make it very clear at points it is a definite possibility in Perim, especially towards the creatures. In the finale of M'arillian Invasion Tangath Toborn performs a HeroicSacrifice, casting an Mugic to freeze himself in the flooding ice caps of Glacier Plains so Perim does not flood. And in the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: in order to fight the Spirit Lands creature Vitog, Tangath Toborn's Sword of Ky'ath, his tie to the mortal plane must be destroyed to free him from the ice. Without it, Tangath cannot exist outside the Spirit Lands for long, and once the battle is concluded? He returns to the Spirit Lands and is given a funeral by all four tribes in Glacier Plains]]. Making it clear without using the words that Tangath Toborn is really dead.

* NeverSayDie: The show never once uses any term for death. However they make it very clear at points it is a definite possibility in Perim, especially towards the creatures. In the finale of M'arillian Invasion Tangath Toborn performs a HeroicSacrifice, casting an Mugic to freeze himself in the flooding ice caps of Glacier Plains so Perim does not flood. And in the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: in order to fight the Spirit Lands creature Vitog, Tangath Toborn's Sword of Ky'ath, his tie to the mortal plane must be destroyed to free him from the ice. Without it, Tangath cannot exist outside the Spirit Lands for long, and once the battle is concluded? He returns to the Spirit Lands and is given a funeral by all four tribes in Glacier Plains]]. Making it clear without using the words, that Tangath Toborn is really dead.

* NeverSayDie: The show never once uses any term for death. However they make it very clear at points it is a definite possibility in Perim, especially towards the creatures. In the finale of M'arillian Invasion Tangath Toborn performs a HeroicSacrifice, allowing himself to be engulfed in the flooding ice caps of Glacier Plains so Perim does not flood. And in the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: in order to fight the Spirit Lands creature Vitog, Tangath Toborn's Sword of Ky'ath, his tie to the mortal plane must be destroyed to free him from the ice. Without it, Tangath cannot exist outside the Spirit Lands for long, and once the battle is concluded? He returns to the Spirit Lands and is given a funeral by all four tribes in Glacier Plains]]. Making it clear without using the words, that Tangath Toborn is really dead.

* 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.
** Then again, it could be a DisneyDeath since characters who are said to have died in "4kids" shows, come back later (''e.g.'', Luffy from Manga/OnePiece Dub, Leather Head from TMNT). Although every Shredder aside from the 80s cartoon and Mirage Comics versions ''actually died'', Cyber Shredder in particular had a rather excruciating on-screen death.
** [[spoiler: He was frozen in waves. In the season finale of Secrets of the Lost City, it's revealed he's from the Spirit Lands, a sort of ghostly place. His sword is the only way he can stay in Perim. Another creature from that place wants to battle him. The only way free Tangath to stop this creature was to destroy his sword. After he stops the creature, he returns to the Spirit Lands. All four tribes hold a funeral for him at Glacier Plains]]. This time, it's a real death.
** While death is almost never ''mentioned'' on the show, many creatures are seen dying onscreen. The episode with the highest body count to date appeares to be "Warriors of Eternity", where many Mipedians were killed.

* 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 used 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 [[LetsGetDangerous becomes much more dangerous in the final battle]].

* 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 her deck is filled with Danians, and the queen (who she hasn't scanned) is the ''only'' female Danian.

*** Even Kaz and Sarah tend to be big jerks from time to time due to their being more open about their opinions of tribe superiority compared to others, having ego issues much more pronounced than Tom and Peyton, and can be quite condescending towards others, such as Sarah's penchant for calling people "losers". Perhaps the most notable example is how in one episode Chaor and some other Underworlders invade Kiru City and Tom states that he should warn Maxxor, then Kaz proceeds to smugly taunt Tom about how Maxxor is inferior to Chaor because he can't do anything without Tom's help, this despite the fact that Tom, Sarah and Peyton almost got killed moments before when Chaor attacked.

** The drome masters (or master, as it is the same voice for all dromes and never explained exactly who it is), who are essentially the referees in the dromes and whom we only get to hear and never see, can be this too at times.

---> '''Codemaster Hotekk:''' How did you pick your cards, eenie-meenie-miney-mo?

* TheBerserker: [[{{Kaiju}} Mipedian Warbeasts]] are amongst the strongest creatures in the game, but they become literally uncontrollable for players who try to use them in drome matches unless a Conjurer is on their team as Peyton learns the hard way when he uses Blazvatan for the first time without knowing of the mechanics and gets coded by his opponent who outwits him with a trap. It can also be sidestepped using [=BattleGear=] and/or Mugic that nullifies all creature abilities.

* DeathWorld: Prexxor Chasm is this even by Perim's standards thanks to its uncharted terrain and savage inhabitants, to the point of it being very difficult to obtain scans there. Kaz even mentions several rumors he's heard about players who won the location before Tom often coming back empty-handed, while some never came back at all. Then there's the Blight, a borderline EldritchAbomination that [[RunOrDie destroys everything in its path and is immune to almost anything thrown at it]].