Line #16 WesternAnimation/GormitiTheLordsOfNatureReturn


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3	Based on the very popular Italian toy line of ''Toys/{{Gormiti}}'', ''Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return!'' is an episodic series fron Marathon Studio (also noted for ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeamGalaxy'') narrating the adventures of a group of [[KidHero young children]] with the duty of keeping the peace in the parallel universe of Gorm, once home to a mighty race of warriors. Not an insignificant task, indeed, since events on Gorm tend to have repercussions on the Earth itself... and the villains of the show, the people of the Volcano, seem to be intent on causing as much of a ruckus as possible! By calling the power of the ancient warriors, siblings Toby and Nick and their friends Lucas and Jessica can transform in Lords of Nature, gifted with the powers of (respectively) Water, Earth, Forest and Air, and fight against the people of the Volcano and their leaders, Magmion, Lavion and Deepdownfear. Episodes mostly revolve around the four kids balancing their superhero duty with real life, school and everyday activities... with the interesting variation that, in every mission, one of them (apparently selected at random) has to stay behind, in order to manage his/her friends' powers and give them instructions.
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5	Mostly for children, but still good fun and worth a look, provided you don't expect too deep a storyline. Not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit Gromit]]. It ''definitely'' shouldn't be confused with ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' either.
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7	The series was launched in 2009 and lasted for three seasons.
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9	!!''Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return!'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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11	* AchillesHeel: In his first appearance, Magmion wears an armor that covers most of his body, but leaves out his heels. This ends up causing his defeat when a hit on the back of his legs ends up being enough to knock him down.
12	%%* ActionGirl: Jessica is just as competent as her male friends.
13	* AdultsAreUseless: Played With. The human adults such as the teachers and parents play it straight, usually serving as exposition for the problem of the day if the kids haven't found any sign of Gorm threat yet, but don't do anything to actually help them. Averted for the Gormiti (most being adults), given they'll try to help the Lords in situations where they're actually present to help.
14	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Magmion doesn't die, but it's hard not to feel sorry for him when, after working so faithfully for Obscurio, his reward is to get his power drained in order to fuel the newly-awakened Incubion and Oneiron.]]
15	* AllThereInTheManual: The (now unaccessible) website for the show had a few informations that are not found in the show, such as Nick and Toby's parents owning a travel agency.
16	* AllThereInTheScript: The last names of Lucas (Wanson), Jessica (Herleins) and Gina (Woren) were mentioned only in official websites and never in the proper show.
17	* AllYourPowersCombined: The Season 2 finale has the main characters combine their powers all together in order to destroy [[spoiler:the Magor Codex]] once and for all.
18	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Volcano and Darkness Gormiti tribes have no good people between them. Season 3 has the two tribes being united into a single one, which is literally called "Evil tribe".
19	* AnIcePerson: Season 2 has Jessica getting ice powers, while in Season 3 is Toby that gets them.
20	* BadassBookworm: Nick. Smartest member of the team, he's also a powerhouse when he morphs into the Lord of Earth.
21	* BigBad: Magmion and Deepdownfear in the first season (Lavion tries, but [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain he just can't get the job done]]...), Obscurio in the second, Magor in the third.
22	* BigGood: Supreme Luminos in Season 2, the Old Sage in Season 3.
23	* BittersweetEnding: Season 2's finale. Gorm is saved and Obscurio is defeated, but [[spoiler:Supreme Luminos had to give his life in order for that to happen. Though, it's implied that he will be reborn someday.]]
24	%%* BlowYouAway: Jessica. And, of course, most Air Gormiti.
25	%%* BumblingDad: Mr. Tripp, Toby and Nick's father, fits this to a T.
26	* ButNotTooForeign: Gina, Jessica's best friend, is of Korean origins.
27	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Every season has its own transformation phrases for the main characters.
28	** Season 1: "Elemental powers flow! Gormiti, Lords of Nature Go!" "Power of the Sea!" "Strength of the Stone!" "Dominion of the Wind!" "Force of the Forest!"
29	** In Season 2, for the PowerArmor: "Indestructible as a mountain!" "Pure as New Growth!" "Eternal as the Tides!" "Power of the Untamed Wind!"
30	** Season 3 has a full new summoning: "Elemental Force of Stone!" "Eternal Power of the Forest!" "Elemental Energy of the Sea!" "Endless Flow of the Air!"
31	* CardCarryingVillain: Most Volcano Gormiti come across like this, with names such as Deepdownfear, Spider the Cruel or Wicked the Horrible.
32	* CatchPhrase:
33	** Supreme Luminos: "Witness the Might of Light!"
34	** Razzle: "Boys, there are troubles on Gorm." and "That's you, kid." (The phrase becames less frequent in later episodes where the kids get it by themselves, and disappears in Season 3 when he becomes the Old Sage's pet.)
35	* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that Obscurio guy that possessed Toby in season 1? Anyone familiar with the toyline would know why he's a big deal, even before getting to season 2 where he becomes the BigBad.
36	* CoolOldGuy: The Old Sage, the original creator of the Gormiti race.
37	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Depending on the element powers of Gorm: brown for Earth, green for Forest, blue for Sea and light blue (purple in later seasons) for Air.
38	* CutShort: The final episode ends with [[spoiler:the main characters managing to retrieve the Eyes of Life from Magor's hideout, only to discover that they're damaged. The Old Sage tells them that they'll have to use their powers to restore them, and... that's it.]]
39	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Lucas.
40	* DemotedToDragon: All returning major Lava Gormitis in season 1 to Magmion. Then Magmion himself to Obscurio. ''Then'' Obscurio to Magor. It gets to a point where Magmion, who worshipped Obscurio to no end, mocks him and gives him no respect in season 3 when Obscurio's gifted a new power from Magor.
41	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Averted. Obscurio is too powerful for the children to fight directly, and is eventually defeated by the Lords Of Nature blasting Magor's Codex which allowed him to exist in the material world.]]
42	%%* DirtyCoward: Lavor.
43	* TheDragon: Lavor to Magmion, and Bombos to Lavion.
44	** Season 2 has Magmion to Obscurio and Armageddon, Moloch, Cyclops, Xiron and Blind Screamer to Magmion.
45	** Season 3 has Magmion and Obscurio to Magor.
46	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
47	** The third episode has a few stylistic choices exclusive to it that never reoccur for the remainder of the show:
48	*** The {{Transformation Sequence}}s of the main characters in their Gormiti forms are exclusive to the episode and were never reused for the rest of the series. Lucas, Toby and Jessica's sequences, in particular, briefly show them into transitional "kid-proportioned Gormiti" forms.
49	*** Jessica is shown being able to make her wings disappear when not needed, at example while entering a cave. This happens only in this episode.
50	** Early episodes of Season 1 feature a RunningGag where the kids have to make up some excuse to keep Nick and Toby's parents distant from the kitchen in order to have free access to the closet where the Temple of Elements is hidden. The gag vanishes midway through the season, and has only one brief reappearance in a Season 2 episode.
51	** Season 1 as a whole features B-plots set on Earth and regarding the regular lives of the kids, sometimes with whatever is happening on Gorm becoming some kind of hindrance for at least one of them. The latter two seasons reduce them to framing bits at the beginning and the end of the episode.
52	%%* EnemyMine: Occurred once, [[spoiler: with Toby, Jessica and Lucas forced to do TeethClenchedTeamwork with Magmion and Lavion.]]
53	* EvilCostumeSwitch:
54	** While being possessed by Obscurio in Season 1, Toby is briefly shown wearing a "bad guy" attire with a leather jacket, fingerless gloves and a bat-shaped belt buckle. It doesn't last long though.
55	** [[spoiler: The final episode has Nick, Lucas and Jessica being corrupted by Magor, with their Gormiti forms switching temporarily to a red and black color scheme.]]
56	%%* EvilOverlord: Magmion, Obscurio, Magor.
57	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Blind Screamer can remove his eyes and put them on his hands.
58	* FishOutOfWater:
59	** In episode 6, Obscurio possesses Toby's body... and shows how unfamiliar he is with the customs of Earth.
60	** Surprisingly subverted in season 3. When Magmion is in a subway station, he shows himself capable of using the speakers and makes the wagons work correctly. When Lucas sabotages his ride, he chalks it up to "stupid Earth machines".
61	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Up until Season 2, only Lucas had such qualities. In Season 3, all the kids become this, thanks to their new awakened powers. Why, Lucas becomes a friend to ''plants'', too!
62	%%* GadgeteerGenius: Nick and Jessica both have their moments.
63	* GenderFlip: In the toyline, Sea Gormiti Ancientjellyfish, Mantra and Swamptoad are referred to as females on their cards. The cartoon turns all of them into males.
64	%%* GeniusBruiser: Nick.
65	%%* GreenThumb: Lucas, along with FriendToAllLivingThings.
66	%%* HeroKiller: He hasn't killed anyone (yet), but Magor certainly doesn't screw around!
67	%%** [[spoiler: Obscurio qualifies for his final fight with Luminos, though somewhat subverted as Luminos was the one to sacrifice himself to give powers to the Lords.]]
68	%%* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Luminos in the last episode of Season 2.]]
69	* IdiotHero: Toby, though he does have his moments of brilliance.
70	* ImageSong: A rare Western example. A series of songs dedicated to the various characters were made, released in CD format and used in rotation as ending theme songs for the second half of season 1 and the first half of season 2.
71	* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: This happens to Lucas turning into his Gormiti form in "Lucas Goes Green", this also counts as a slow transformation to a tree and a slight ShapeshifterModeLock.
72	%%* KidHero: All four of our heroes aren’t even in their teens yet.
73	* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: During the first two seasons, one of the kids always had to remain on Earth and be the Keeper in order for the others to be able to go back and forth and summon their powers.
74	%%* KillItWithWater: Toby, and the Sea Gormiti in general.
75	%%* LampshadeHanging: When the guys receive their NextTierPowerUp in Season 2, Jessica complains that it’s “the worst day to be keeper ever”.
76	* LaughablyEvil: Lavion, whose evil plans are mostly focused on showing everyone how he is the greatest Volcano Gormiti around.
77	* LighterAndSofter: While the original ''Gormiti'' toyline had a very dark plot, which featured elements such as mass genocide, the tribes being cursed into a racial war for generations and betrayals, the show is more kid friendly and lighthearted.
78	%%* LightIsGood: Supreme Luminos, then Old Sage in season 3.
79	* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed with the Air Gormitis. They got a bright outfit but they tend to be aggressive to outsiders and have harmed their Lord Jessica (willingly or not) more than once.
80	* LimitedWardrobe: Outside of a few exceptions, the four main characters always wear the same outfits. Two of them were slightly altered for season 2: Lucas has a shirt of a different shade of green and Jessica changes from purple on blue to purple on white. Season 3 gives new default outfits to all of them.
81	* LittleMissBadass: Other than being the Lord of Air, Jessica is an orange belt in judo.
82	* LovableCoward: Razzle. Hey, the little lizard has no powers, so you can't blame him for hiding when things get rough.
83	%%* MerchandiseDriven: It's based on a toyline, take a wild guess.
84	* MindControl: Thoughtcatcher, a minor Volcano Gormiti, has this as his speciality.
85	* {{Mon}}: The Ancient Guardians could be considered this in Season 1, then in Season 2 they got [[SuddenlySpeaking the ability to speak]] and became more like... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Guardians of Gorm's most ancient secrets.]]
86	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Purposedly done during season 2. When Supreme Luminos gives the Mystical Armor powerup to the Lords, he will usually equip the armor of the Lord whose people is most prominent in the episode with an extra ability that can be used only once in order to save the day at the right time.
87	* NewSeasonNewName: The subtitle changes in every season. Season 1 is ''The Lords of Nature Return!'', Season 2 is ''Supreme Eclipse Era'' and Season 3 is ''Neorganic Evolution''.
88	* OlderThanTheyLook: While looking like a regular lizard, [[AllThereInTheManual comics and extra material show]] that Razzle is actually a dinosaur who was blessed by the Old Sage with human-like intelligence and eternal life in order to act as his agent to find the new Lords of Nature.
89	* ThePlan: The initial story arc of Season 2 has Magmion coordinating multiple attacks in order to get his hands on the magical artifacts needed to summon Obscurio back on Gorm.
90	* PlayingWithFire: Most Volcano Gormiti, as expected, have fire-based powers, albeit it's not the only kind of powers they can have.
91	* PowerArmor:
92	** Season 2 has the four Lords aquiring the Mystical Armors, golden armors that improve the abilities of the Lords when needed the most, usually by boosting new attacks or generating new ones. They can also be outfitted with one-use powerups in some dire situations.
93	** Season 3 introduces the Debris Armor, an ability exclusive to the Earth Lord where he manipulates nearby rocks and dirt to make an armor that, once struck by an enemy attack, immediately detaches from his body to counterattack with a shover of rocks thrown at high speed.
94	* PowersAsPrograms: Toby and Lucas got their powers switched accidentally in "Exchange of Powers" when Armageddon tried to steal their powers with a magical artifact and Jessica interrupted the transfer.
95	* PutOnABus:
96	** The first season has a bunch of recurring human characters for the Earth segments of the show, such as Jessica's friend Gina or the Pickney siblings. From season 2 onwards, the only recurring humans that keep appearing are Nick and Toby's parents. Season 3 has a blink-or-miss-it cameo of Gina in the first episode and Paula Pickney appears briefly in a later one, but that's it.
97	** On the Gorm side, Season 2 keeps around a few characters from the first season, but mostly as background filler with no dialogue, and eventually they all disappear (except for a few Air Gormiti who keep appearing even late into the season). Then Season 3 has no appearances of Gormiti characters from the earlier seasons that are not Magmion or Obscurio.
98	%%* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Moloch, Armageddon, Cyclops and Xylos, working under Magmion in Season 2.
99	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Unsurprisingly, the Lava Gormitis.
100	** [[spoiler: Nick, Lucas and Jessica become this too once corrupted by Magor in the finale. Amusingly enough, this was lampshaded by Jessica in the same episode, stating she wouldn't want to look like a Lava Gormiti upon finding a shirt with the same color scheme.]]
101	* RubeGoldbergDevice: Episode 5 has both Toby and his father pulling pranks on eachother by the usage of elaborate contraptions.
102	* SaveBothWorlds: What happens on Gorm may have aftereffects that manifest on Earth.
103	* SealedEvilInACan: In season 1, Obscurio (who, according to the lore, was supposedly vacuumed inside a dimensional bubble alongside the precedent generation of Gormiti lords) was revealed to be still technically on Gorm as his soul was sealed inside a crown designed after his horns. This is however changed in the second season, where his physical body is brought back by Magmion.
104	* SelectiveObliviousness: The only one who still doesn't see that Gina has an obvious crush on Lucas is Lucas himself... and the kid is usually pretty sharp!
105	* ShapeshifterModeLock: Lucas into his Gormiti form in "Lucas goes Green" (he is also turning into a tree).
106	* ShoutOut:
107	** The whole series takes more than a bit from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', always popular in Europe. ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' is the main influence, not only due to the whole premise of children becoming elemental monsters to fight villains from their same type in another world, but also the character of Jessica, who is basically an {{Expy}} of Izumi/Zoe (blonde, wearing in purple and blue, a fashionista, associated to the wind, with a mon form that looks a cross between Kazemon and Zephyrmon).
108	** The setup also resembles ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', with Toby and Nick having more than a passing resemblance to Odd and Jeremie in appearance, roles and personality.
109	%%* SmugSnake: Lavor. Oh so very much.
110	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Jessica is the only female Lord of Nature. There are a few female Gormitis here and there, but they're rarely seen.
111	* TheStarscream: During season 1, multiple Volcano Gormiti appear to act on their own uniquely to dethrone Magmion and become the new lord of their tribe. Deepdownfear and Thoughtcatcher are two of the most obvious examples, alongside Fiery Hammer whose backstory has him being exiled from the Volcano tribe territories due to his costant tentatives of taking Magmion's place and is then shown trying every possible way to come back.
112	* SuddenlySpeaking: In Season 1 the Ancient Guardians are just wild beasts and make only grunts and roars. In Season 2 and 3 they suddenly start talking for no reason whatsoever.
113	%%* TeamPet: Razzle is something between this and a MentorMascot.
114	* TimeSkip: One year passes between Season 2 and Season 3.
115	* TokenMinority: Lucas is the only black kid in the group.
116	* ToylessToylineCharacter:
117	** A peculiar form. ''Gormiti'' came first as a blindbag minifigure series in 2004, with the minifigure line linked to the cartoon's first season being the seventh wave in the line. This wave featured the four Lords of Nature, the three main Volcano bad guys, and a series of 4 Gormiti for each tribe (two are reinventions of Series 1 characters, the other two are reinventions of Series 2 characters), except for the Volcano tribe getting 7 dudes (of which only one - Bombos - was actually found in blindbags with the remainder of the set being released as a bonus with the first release of the 6" action figures line). But in the cartoon, almost every character from the first two waves of the toyline (minus Blind Fury, Hideoutfinder, Gravitus, Mole, Branchtearer, The Wise Destroyer, Alos and the Severe Guardian) appeared, along with a few from Series 2 (Eartheater, Tormentor, Helico and Whirlwing) who were not in the aforementioned blindbag wave.
118	** On a second point, the Lava Soldiers and the other generic Gormiti who appeared since Season 1 got their figures only during Season 3 (both in the blindbag line - with each one being released in two different poses - and in special packs featuring 20 hard rubber figures of a single tribe's mooks). Half subverted because, as soon as figures for the Lava Soldiers were released, the cartoon introduced a new design for them, which never got toys of its own.
119	** Fenision never had a toy at all in all three seasons of the cartoon. The only figures of him are either a minifigure released as part of a Gorm Island kit released in weekly rations in newsstands or the ones released before the cartoon's release and show him in a pre-HeelFaceTurn state, with a different color scheme. Also, Tentaclion's Season 3 design was never made into a toy.
120	* TransformationSequence:
121	** Every character has 3-4 variations of their sequence, and in the latter half of Season 1 they start to be sometimes extended by splicing in StockFootage of their attacks at the end.
122	** As a peculiar tidbit, episode 3 of Season 1 features Nick's transformation sequence being played backwards to show him losing his powers.
123	* VillainDecay: Compared to their depiction in the original toyline, all the Volcano lords who are not Magmion have been demoted to be more ineffective and or comedical.
124	%%* WeHaveReserves: Lavor's attitude towards his underlings is... less than stellar.
125	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Air Gormiti can get like this at times, using debatable means to protect their own people.
126	* YouDontLookLikeYou: Compared to the others, Nick’s Gormiti form receives the most extreme overhaul in Season 2.
127	%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Magmion fell victim to this in Season 2.]]

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