Line #45 Manga/FatalChaos


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3	''Fatal Chaos'' is a Malaysian comic by Gempakstarz artist Benny Wong Thong Hou which was first published in the first issue of Starz Magazine. In April 2007, Fatal Chaos was transferred to Starz's sister magazine Gempak. On September 2007, artistic duties transferred to Juice (Norman Noh) under the alias [=GempakStarz=] when Ben resigned from Gempak. This series ran from the month of June 2004 to August 2008 in Gempak's 211st issue and was compiled into five books; ''Battle One'', ''Turbo EX'', ''3rd Strike'', ''4th Attack'' and ''Final Fight''.
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5	%% Do not plagiarize.
6	%% Source was stolen from Benny Wong's personal blog: https://worldsf.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/malaysian-comics-benny-wong-and-fatal-chaos/
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8	!!Tropes found in ''Fatal Chaos'':
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10	* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 16 focuses on the troublemakers who got beaten up by Phoebe, including the guy who got killed by the Ninja Masked Guy.
11	* AbortedArc: Strays away for Rex's main focus (the Royale Survivor Battles) to Rex's other focus (his true identity).
12	* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: [[spoiler:In order to save Max's soul, Rex has to play a card game with the Devil.]]
13	* AccidentalPervert: Rex towards Eva, at least twice. This trope being the main source of many, many misunderstandings between them.
14	* AnimeHair: Rex sports a very upwards spiky hair style before {{Art Evolution}} kicks in starting from ''3rd Strike''. Maybe his hair gel weakened after a lot of stress he faced since then?
15	* ArtEvolution:
16	** Ben has adapted a looser drawing stroke as of ''3rd Strike''. Most notable changes occur to Eva's muscles and [[AnimeHair Rex's spiky hair]], where they got toned down.
17	** Hey, one of the intermission questions include "Why is Eva so buff'" of all things.
18	%%* BadassBiker: The Judo Chick and Leo.
19	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Max thanks the artist for giving him a larger role in Chapter 22.
20	%% ** The two-part intermission defies this trope.
21	* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Eva was once talented with swords and formed a [[BattleCouple Battle Couple]] and a swordfighting club with Leo during their high school years. But at one point Leo questioned his declining strength (early on he lost to a challenger but Eva kicked the guy's ass effortlessly) thus challenging Eva into a brutal swordfight. Leo later blamed Eva for his declining skills. Since then, they broke up and Eva threw away her (back then) [[GenkiGirl Genki Girl]] personality and swordfighting altogether.]]
22	* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Rex was bullied by other kids at his orphanage because his mother left him there when he was born, implying that she is a prostitute. Berbakov's spirit inside Rex reacted to the host's fear and worry-let's say things did not end well for the bullies.]]
23	* ButtMonkey: Basically life's not kind to Rex. He evolves into a [[CosmicPlaything Cosmic Plaything]] starting from ''4th Attack''.
24	* CerebusSyndrome: The story takes a sharp turn once [[spoiler:Max is heavily injured by the Judo Chick.]]
25	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After causing a ruckus in his new college, he is forced to stand outside the college, wearing a freaking cat outfit. [[spoiler:It helps that the principal is a cat himself.]]
26	* CosmicDeadline:
27	** As Ben leaves Gempak, he handed over the series to be finished by the studio. Thus the entire ''Final Fight'' graphic novel is affected by this. Results include rushed plot, Rex is suddenly {{Easily Forgiven}} by Leo, and [[ArtShift back-and-forth change of artstyle]]. Fans were not happy with this.
28	** A similar situation occured in ''Manga/LeGardenie'' but it has a faster overall pacing compared to ''Fatal Chaos'' so it wasn't affected as much.
29	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Phoebe.
30	%%* {{Delinquents}}: When Rex is introduced, he is described as one of these.
31	%%** Phoebe too.
32	%%* DemotedToExtra: Poor Max.
33	%%-->Rex: Whoa, Max! What are you doing here? I thought you went back to Thailand!
34	* DirtyOldMan: Pakham wants your copy of ''Summer Fever''!
35	%%* EccentricMentor: Pakham.
36	* EvilIsHammy:
37	** [[spoiler: Max renders some nouns in all caps once he absorbed Berbakov's powers, overthrows the Evil Rabbit Boss and became its leader.]]
38	---> [[spoiler:'''(While struggling with Judo Chick)'''...I'm on the receiving end of all things '''REX!!''' Why me?!!]]
39	---> [[spoiler:'''(after taking over Evil Rabbit)''' I, '''MAX''' will decide everything, and this will be the dawn of a new war....]]
40	---> [[spoiler:'''(Encounter with Leo)''' '''HELP ME'''?! You are being ''so helpful'' that it hurts!]]
41	** [[spoiler:This extends to his new {{Mooks}} as well. ]]
42	---> [[spoiler:"UNDERSTOOD!!" "ALL HAIL MAX!" ]]
43	* {{Homage}}: The girls printed on the Emperor, Citizen and Slave cards resemble Lemon, Apple and Kiwi respectively from ''Manga/LeGardenie'', which is another series created by Ben himself.
44	%%* ImplausibleBoardingSkills Phoebe applies these skills as her fighting style.
45	%%* TheIngenue: Eve.
46	* InsaneTrollLogic: Eva suspects that Rex murders an Evil Rabbit thug just because [[HitlerAteSugar she hates Rex and Rex is a troublemaker therefore he must be the murderer]]. [[NotHelpingYourCase Rex's awkward style of deduction on the case doesn't help either...]]
47	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rex.
48	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the cast, especially towards [[ButtMonkey Rex]].
49	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Leo's signature weapon. Sometimes it is even drawn longer than his height.
50	* KillerRabbit: Taken to literal levels with Evil Rabbit, which uses this trope as the gang's motif. [[spoiler: The motif originated from the founder that was [[ForcedTransformation polymorphed into a miniature humanoid rabbit]] as a result of Berbakov's attack(who posessed Rex's pregnant mother) in the past. Since then he started his own evil organization to hunt for Berbakov and steal its powers.]]
51	* LawyerFriendlyCameo:
52	** [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku, Freeza,]] and [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] had cameo appearances in the intermission.
53	** Another chapter also showed Goku and Vegeta as college students!!
54	%%* LeParkour: The first half of Volume 4 relies heavily on these.
55	%%* LittleMissBadass: Cleo.
56	* NeverBareheaded: Phoebe is barely seen without something on her head. The intermission revealed that she's actually bald (the hat is used to hold her wig) but since it is the [[PlayedForLaughs intermission we're talking about the canonity of this is so questionable]]...
57	* NoNameGiven: The Judo Chick. Combined with InNameOnly, she never used the aforementioned fighting style after her allegiance to Evil Rabbit was revealed.
58	%%* NotHelpingYourCase: Every single thing Rex does.
59	* ParentalAbandonment: Rex's mother left him at an orphanage as soon as he was born. No traces of his father either.
60	%%* SacrificialLion: The troublemaker who got killed by the Ninja Masked Guy.
61	%%* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Rex]]
62	%%* SiblingYinYang: Eve and Eva, Leo and Cleo.
63	* SmokingIsCool: Phoebe. Averted later on due to depicting characters smoking in media is a big no-no in conjunction to the anti-smoking campaigns in Malaysia.
64	* SoreLoser: At one point The Judo Chick gets ticked off over a game against Phoebe. {{Disproportionate Retribution}} ensues.
65	* StockFootage:
66	** ''Final Fight''. The same reaction panels were reused several times for the same character with minor edits. Entirely redrawing the characters would result in an artstyle clash, since Juice's (the art director for the final story arcs) style is different than Ben's. See {{Cosmic Deadline}} above for the reason of this trope.
67	** The "playing card game with the Devil" chapter is also guilty of this, but there is no particular reason behind it, since it took place before ''Final Fight''.
68	* SmugSnake: The Judo Chick flaunts her martial arts strength even before she is known as an Evil Rabbit member.
69	* TitleDrop: Phoebe mentioned if [[spoiler:Berbakov!Rex]] is let loose the world will be in a "Fatal Chaos".
70	%%* TokenMiniMoe: Cleo.
71	* TrickedOutGloves: Cleo has a pair of hand-knitten gloves that gives her [[SuperStrength Super Strength]]. No explanation is given on its origins aside from the fact that they belong to her.
72	%%* Tsundere: Eva, more to tsun-tsun.
73	* WeirdnessMagnet: Rex. [[spoiler:Pakham coerced him to stay away from his family anymore because Eva was blinded by the enemy chasing after Rex.]]

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