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Kaos

Element: Kaos^note Originally planned to be Magic during the development of Trap Team.

Needs no introduction.

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"Fear My Giant Floating Head!"

Voiced by: Richard Steven Horvitz

The arch-enemy to the Skylanders and the franchise’s Big Bad. He is a Dark Portal Master and is bent on taking over Skylands, no matter how many times he’s lost or going to lose to the Skylanders. Before the events of Spyro’s Adventure, he destroyed the Core of Light, spreading the darkness through Skylands and turning Eon into a spirit. When the Skylanders and their allies go on their quest to reconstruct the Core of Light, Kaos takes it upon himself to stop them.

To view tropes about the Sensei version of him, go here.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: He was in love with Roller Brawl and did everything to succeed in winning over her affection. When Roller Brawl’s five older brothers stepped in, Kaos had an army of Drow kidnap them, leading Roller Brawl to join the Skylanders in the fight against evil and to rescue them.
• Ace Pilot: If you buy the SuperChargers Dark Edition Starter Pack, you will get the Kaos Trophy with it, allowing you to race as Kaos in the Doom Jet in Sky races, and he is just as skillful at racing as the Skylanders and other villains (although he can never be raced against, and can only be playable by the player).
• Actor Allusion: Kaos is a complete Large Ham, fitting to be played by someone like Richard Steven Horvitz. He also has a Take Over the World motif, similar to Horvitz’ most famous role. Expect a few more references to that show as you read.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Whenever his name is paired up with a word that starts with a “C”, it is changed to a K just for alliteration’s sake, such as “Kastle Kaos” and ”Kaos Klones”.
• Addressing the Player: After having infected himself with the power of Traptanium towards the end of Trap Team, he gains the power to see everything, including the Portal Master on Earth, to which he takes the opportunity to intimidate them. He continues to talk to them throughout the final level and his boss battle.
  • Also happens at the beginning of SuperChargers, and this time without the power of Traptanium. This time he boasts to the Portal Master about how he has pretty much conquered Skylands and taken some allies to the Skylanders capture before disconnecting the portals between Earth and Skylands.
• Advancing Boss of Doom: The first phase against Robo-Kaos in Giants has him chasing the Skylander down a bridge in a hallway, destroying the bridge as he walks towards the Skylander.
  Robo-Kaos: So…you’d probably better start running here.
• All There in the Manual: Do you want to know how he managed to escape from his trap, build the Sky Eater and capture Eon, Hugo, Cali and Flynn? All of those questions are answered in the prequel comic “Rift into Overdrive”.
• Ambiguously Human: He has the skin, body parts and other traits of a human, but his sharp under teeth, short figure and dark powers suggests that he instead is one of Skylands’ many races.
• And I Must Scream: He is sent to Earth at the end of Spyro’s Adventure; and similarly to what he did to the Skylanders, he becomes a toy with him being alive on the inside. The start of Giants shows him managing to return to normal and returning to Skylands.
• Arch-Enemy: Is this for the Skylanders as a whole, especially Spyro
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Lampshaded by his mother. When Kaos has a goal, be it one of the Eternal Sources or one of the Ancient Elementals, his plan for his troops basically boils down to “get there, fight anything that gets in our way and hope that we will accomplish what we set out to do”.
• Attack Its Weak Point: In two of his boss fights.
  • As Robo-Kaos fights Ermit and the Machine Ghost in their Arkeyan Robot, he will hold them down with The Iron Fist of Arkus at the platform where the Skylander is standing, leaving it opened to be attacked.
  • Super Evil Kaos has four phases and all of them involve this trope. First the Skylander needs to destroy his toes as he tries to squash them, then they need to destroy the crystals on the inside of Kaos’ mouth, then destroy the crystals on Kaos brain and lastly, the Skylander needs to make their way over to a cannon in order to fire themselves at Kaos’ mark on his forehead, finally bringing the giant down.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: After he gets buried in a pile of petrified darkness, he comes out as Super Evil Kaos and grows into becoming as huge as a skyscraper.. Heck, one phase of the fight takes place inside his mouth and another inside his skull.
• Bad Boss: He never shows any respect to Glumshanks. Shooting down any ideas he comes up with and have him serve as Kaos’ personal punching bag.
  • In the final battle of Spyro’s Adventure, he straight up kills his evil versions of the Skylanders because they are incapable of defeating the player Skylander and uses their experience points to boost the replacements. And in the Wii version, he uses the experience to heal HIMSELF.
  • And in SuperChargers, upon hearing that his troll minions have been complaining (Glumshanks simply said complaining without mentioning what they’re complaining about), Kaos believes them to be complaining about him and prepares to eject two barracks of them. And according to one of his dairy entries, after he fires Glumshanks, workplace dissatisfaction among the trolls working at the Sky Eater are at an all-time high.
• Badass Boast: In Giants when the final battle starts, Robo-Kaos appears behind the Skylander on the bridge it’s on while saying this.
  Robo-Kaos: “Behold! It is I, Kaos, and as you can see... I AM AWESOME!”
• Bald of Evil: Though some old pictures in the level Kastle Kaos in Giants show he had an afro when he was younger.
• Baldness Angst: One of the experiments in Kaos’ Fortress is making a serum that will hopefully grow his hair back.
• Because Destiny Says So: Kaos believes ruling Skylands is his destiny, even if there is little to no proof of that being true.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being an Expy of Invader Zim, he manages to destroy the Core of Light and defeat the Skylanders in his first on-screen appearance. If the Skylanders hadn't just so happened to land on a world were a Portal Master lived, he'd have won. In fact, he actually wins at the start of SuperChargers, becoming the Emperor of Skylands and unleashing The Darkness. In general, as silly and comical as he can be, Kaos is the Big Bad for a reason.
• Big Bad: He was the antagonist of Spyro's Adventure and has continued to be so throughout the franchise, though he's excluded from the 3DS games barring SuperChargers Racing. Because of this standing, his description in the Villain Vault from Trap Team simply reads "Needs no introduction".
• Big "NO!": In Swap Force after the Skylander uses a cannon to fly into his forehead, defeating him.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the intro to the Super Evil Kaos battle in Swap Force, Kaos notices that his enemy name hasn’t appeared on screen yet, so he waves his finger to signal for it to appear.
  • He also talks over the credits in Trap Team, commenting on the developer names.
• Brought Down to Normal: Thanks to The Darkness being sealed away at the end of SuperChargers, Kaos loses his powers and is forced to "join" Skylands Academy as "Official Ultimate Evil Consultant of Ultimate Evil".
• Blade Below the Shoulder: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos, he transforms his arms into Traptanium Blades halfway through the fight.
• …But He Sounds Handsome: The first arc of the IDW comics has Kaos inflitrate Skylanders Academy disguised as Weeruptor. When the other minis mock Kaos and calling him a shrimp, the disguised Kaos starts complimenting himself as Weeruptor, leading to confusion among the other minis and Hugo. Kaos quickly realizes what he's doing and claims to just be joking.
• Butt-Monkey: Constantly belittled by his servants and family, and always underestimated. Even the Skylanders, his rivals who he has nearly killed many times, show no respect to him whatsoever.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Trying to conquer Skylands is pretty much his entire life and he loves every second of it, except the part where he always loses.
• Catchphrase: Uses quite a few through out the games.
  • He's a big fan of adding the word "doom" to just about everything
  • "FEAR MY [MacGuffin]!"
  • "Hello, Sky-Losers!" used whenever he meets the Skylanders.
• Catchphrase Insult: As mentioned above, he refers to the Skylanders as "Sky-Losers". He also has one for the Portal Master, calling them "Poser Master".
• Chaos Is Evil: It's in the name, after all.
• The Chessmaster: Kaos might seem foolish and dimwitted, but when he tries, he can be frighteningly intelligent with his planning when he really tries. Best shown in the IDW comics, where he manages to enact a complex plan to both escape his imprisonment, steal the last shard of the Darkness, and get away before the Skylanders even realize he was doing anything. He then spends the next few months in hiding, building the Sky Eater and a massive army, even training Elite Mooks.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: In Trap Team, where he first turns over to the Skylanders’ side to defeat the Doom Raiders after they abandoned him. And later in the game, he (obviously) betrays the Skylanders and claims the Ultimate Weapon.
• Cool Crown: Wears one in SuperChargers. After the game is beaten, you can win it from him if you beat him in Skystones Overdrive.
• Creative Sterility: In Imaginators, Kaos have trouble creating effective Doomlanders thus showing his lack of imagination. He never put any thought into his Doomlanders' personality or purpose other than being the ultimate "bad guy". This heavily contrast with the Imaginators, whom were given more characteristics and a purpose outside of being more than just "Skylanders". Later on in the game, he even gives up on using Doomlanders to take over Skylands and instead uses his and Brain's combined Mind Magic to easily hypnotize the entirety of Skylands into following them.
• Create Your Own Hero: He’s responsible for making motivations for so many creatures of Skylands to become Skylanders that he might as well take that up as a career.
  • Slam Bam once lived on a glacier home to the sweetest ice cones in Skylands. When Kaos was unsuccessful in his scavenging of the island of the ingredient for what makes them so delicious (It was simply peppermint), he had the entire island blown up. Slam Bam was left floating on a small island of what was left of the glacier until he eventually met Eon, and became a Skylander.
  • When Sprocket discovered that he was behind her uncle’s disappearance for reasons unknown (probably so he could have a capable mechanic), she immediately made a battle suit and joined the Skylanders to find him.
  • He had a crush on Roller Brawl and took her brothers prisoners when they stepped in, leading to Roller Brawl becoming a Skylander.
  • He is the one who brought Star Strike to Skylands after an attempt to rid himself of the Skylanders forever. Although he first thought he found a new friend, it didn’t take long for the alien to blast him and get appointed to Skylander for just that.
  • When Wild Storm was working as a mercenary, Kaos took advantage of him to scout through a base belonging to the pirates of Skyhighlands while claiming it was to steal their treasure. Wild Storm got captured, but luckily broke out. Now Wild Storm is working as a Skylander to get revenge on Kaos.
  • One of his first creations with Mind Magic was a clone of himself. Unfortunately, the clone wanted his own brand of success separate from Kaos, and joined the Skylanders to defeat his creator.
• Dark Is Evil: In Skylands, evil is often associated with darkness and Kaos gains all his powers from the darkness.
• Deadpan Snarker: When his trap is in the portal with him inside, he snarks at every accomplishment the Skylander does.
  Kaos: Blah, blah, blah. Hoorah, another Skylander does annoyingly well. Ugh, like I’m so surprised.
• Death from Above: In his battle in Spyro’s Adventure, he will use his flying throne to try and squash the Skylander. This is what leaves him open for damage, however, and he doesn’t use said throne for any other attack.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Even Kaos is not exempt from this, unless the player doesn't have the Kaos Trap.
• Demoted to Dragon: In SuperChargers, where The Darkness manipulates Kaos into going along with his own goals, letting Kaos go through the same type of treatment HE gives to his own minions.
  Kaos (earlier in the game): You see that, Glumshanks? THAT is how you handle your minions!
  The Darkness (towards the end game) You see that, Glumshanks? Now that is how you handle your minions.
• Department of Redundancy Department: He loves using the words "doom", "ultimate" and "evil" so much that he sometimes uses them all more than once in one sentence. The biggest example arguably coming from SuperChargers where he nicknames the Sky Eater "The Doomstation of Ultimate Doomstruction".
• Determinator: No matter how many times he's beaten, he always shows up in the next game with yet another Evil Plan.
• Discard and Draw: After losing his powers due to him turning against The Darkness in SuperChargers, he stumbles upon the power of Mind Magic in Imaginators.
• The Dog Bites Back: After The Darkness pressures him into going along with destroying Skylands because that’s what The Darkness wants, Kaos is the one who disposes it by turning on the Dark Rift Engine.
• Doomy Dooms of Doom: All the time. His Water spell in the first game summons "Doom Sharks", he calls his evil Imaginators "Doomlanders"... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
  • Though he does subvert it once in Imaginators, when he summons "the Purple Doomlander Knight of Cataclysm".
  Kaos: Thought I was going to say "doom", didn't you?
• Dramatically Missing the Point: At the end of Giants as Kaos, Glumshanks and the Arkeyan Conquertron is fleeing from the falling City of Arkus, Kaos misses that the robot is shutting down and misinterprets the deactivation countdown because he's so blindly focused on something that was a Near-Villain Victory for him.
  Arkeyan Conuertron: Three.
  Kaos: That's right! The three of us will turn around right now to go back to get my iron fist.
  Arkeyan Conuertron: Two.
  Kaos: Yes, to the island. I just said that! What is wrong with you, robot?
  Arkeyan Conuertron: One.
  Kaos: But I haven't won yet. That's why we need to go back.
  Arkeyan Conuertron: It has been a pleasure serving you, Emperor Kaos. All systems deactivating now.
• Dual Wielding: When Ultra Traptanium Kaos has half of his health left, he draws out two swords and attacks with them, creating lasers on the ground.

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• Easily Forgiven: At the end of SuperChargers after the Darkness is beaten, after all that Kaos did that helped it grow into the monster it became, he is allowed to stay at Skylander Academy until he can get his powers back. Naturally, he’s right back to being evil in the next game.
• Enemy Mine: After the Doom Raiders ditch him, Kaos decides to team up with his mortal enemies, the Skylanders, to take them down. Granted, once they’ve all been stopped, Kaos ends the alliance so he can use the Doom Raiders' Ultimate Weapon.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: It's implied he genuinely cares about the Wilikins, which he created as his only friends as a kid.
• Even Evil Has Standards: After being betrayed by the Doom Raiders, Kaos seeks help from the good guys to help take them down. More specifically, it's the Golden Queen's extremely petty reasons and plans that drive his conflict. Kaos doesn't like taking orders from anyone, not even from The Darkness, who is the source of all his powers and the ultimate force behind ALL evil. And although he wants to rule Skylands as it is his self-proclaimed destiny, he doesn't want to destroy it.
• Evil Is Hammy: He's probably the most hammy person in the entire series.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Frees the Doom Raiders from Cloudcracker Prison to have them serve him. They instead throw him under the bus and later ditch him when he gets too arrogant because of their different motives.
• Evil Is Petty: When he has Eon captured in the underworld in SuperChargers, he checks in with Moneybone, the one responsible for guarding Eon, every thirty minutes just to hear how much the former Portal Master is suffering.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Normally, his voice is rather light, and not subtle at all, but it gets much deeper when he uses his holographic head and when he is Robo-Kaos, Ultra Traptanium Kaos or Super Kaos.
• Evil Wears Black: Wears a black robe and is the Skylanders’ number one enemy.
• Expy: It's been commented that Kaos is basically a slightly more competent Zim; even down to the same voice actor.
• The Exile: Before Spyro’s Adventure, he used to be banished to the Outlands after his plans were foiled, but that couldn’t stop him from trying again. But when he got beaten in the game, he instead was banished to earth, in the hopes that it would take a longer time for his next evil scheme or that he would never return.
• Eye Beams: His Huge Holographic Head is able to shoot laser beams when he is playable as a trappable villain. He also does this in the Beginning Trailer, where he uses it to destroy the Core of Light (this doesn’t happen in the main game. There he instead uses his Hydra.
  • As an Arkeyan, Robo-Kaos is also capable of shooting lasers from his eyes during the battle. Although he probably wouldn’t have known about it had the Machine Ghost not said it out loud.
• Falsely Reformed Villain: After his capture in Trap Team, he started showing signs of reformism, such as giving out cotton candy at the Skylander Academy graduation day in the prequel comic to SuperChargers “Rift into Overdrive”. In actuality, he was just faking it all, as he was growing stronger with the help of the last fragment that’s left of The Darkness locked inside the Academy, allowing him to leave his trap whenever he wanted. The cotton candy he gave out to everyone was even infected with a nap time charm, which was used for his next plan; steal said last fragment of darkness and use it to power the Sky Eater, leading into the events of SuperChargers.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. He believes that he should be able to handle everything that comes his way easily due to his status as a Dark Portal Master, which leads to him Underestimating Badassery when it comes to the player Portal Master and their Skylanders.
• Fate Worse than Death: Although he still expresses desire to destroy the player, in Trap Team, Traptanium-powered Kaos hints that he may be willing to let the player live...by trapping them forever in Traptanium to be displayed as a trophy.
• Final Boss: In every game except SuperChargers. Usually he has some gimmick related to the story to go along with his fight, too. He usually doesn’t play this role in the 3DS games, where a different villain appears, but he does in SuperChargers where he hijacks Pandergast’s airship in the final event to attack the Skylanders.
• Flunky Boss: In four final boss fights against him.
  • Spyro’s Adventure has him fighting alongside the evil versions of Skylanders you’ve fought throughout the game and his hydra, though the latter is more an enemy that sends out attacks from the background than a true boss.
  • In Giants, he brings out Arkeyan minions to fight with him in response to Ermit and the Machine Ghost aiding the Skylander.
  • In Swap Force, the second phase against Super Evil Kaos has him putting the Skylander in his mouth where his only attack is to slam his teeth to create shockwaves. So he throws in Chompy Rustbuds and Gear Golems to do the fighting for him. Later, once the skylander gets ejected out of his mouth and enter his brain, Kaos will summon bigger forms of some Trolls, Cyclops and Arkeyan minions to deal with them.
  • And in Imaginators, every Doomlander fought throughout the game appears in the fight against Super Kaos (as well as the Sentinel Doomlander who is someone who only appears in the final battle due to there only being ten levels and Kaos being the final boss in the tenth one).
• Forehead of Doom: He has a big forehead to show off the magical emblem on it. Surprisingly for someone like him, Kaos never calls it this trope.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In Trap Team, a Traptanium-powered Kaos actually threatens the player directly. It goes as far as him pulling random crap out of the real world trying to bring you into Skylands during his fight. SuperChargers ups the ante having him not only directly show the player all the damage he's done and precautions he's taken to prevent his defeat, but even using his portal to shut down the portal network entirely to directly cut the player off from Skylands (at least until Hugo manages to reconnect to Earth). All in the first half of the intro cutscene.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: With Spyro in the spin-off comic “Mirror, Mirror”, forcing the two enemies to team up to restore themselves to normal.
• Friendless Background: Grew up without any friends and had to create his own in the form of Wilikins.
• Funny Afro: Paintings of him found in Kaos Kastle in Giants shows that he used to have an afro when he was younger.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: In SuperChargers, Kaos is invited to race in Pandergast's races even when he is steering the Sky Eater to destroy Skylands, and nobody bats an eye at it. This happens as well in SuperChargers Racing, although it is unclear if that game takes place during the normal SuperChargers.
• Gone Horribly Right: In Imaginators he clones himself, but the clone is just as obsessed with victory as the real Kaos and rebels against him.
• Gonk: Part of his motivation to leave his home. Kaos received many insults because of his hideous looks, despite being described as being born a prince. He eventually got enough, abandoned his royal name and left his home with Glumshanks as his only company.
• Goofy Print Underwear: He's shown to be wearing a pair as Super Evil Kaos.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Is prone to screaming in anger when things are going south for him.
• Hated by All: With the exception of Glumshanks and his mother (who is trapped in a mirror prison currently), just about everyone in Skylands either hates Kaos or wants nothing to do with him. This also extends to other villains like the Doom Raiders, who while thankful to him for freeing them, aren't automatically willing to work for him just because he did that. And his dynamic with Brain shows how easy it is for Kaos to himself make his allies want to turn on him because of his harsh tongue, low temperance, and incompetence.
• Healing Boss: At two different points. First in the Wii version of Spyro’s Adventure after his last trio of Evil Skylanders has been beaten and he uses their experience points to bring his health back to full. Second in Trap Team. Ultra Traptanium Kaos heals himself after the first and second phases are over, which ends when there is half and a quarter of it left respectively.
• Hero Killer: Downplayed, but when he blew up the Core of Light, the explosion banished all the current Skylanders to earth, robbing Skylands of its current greatest protectors.
• Heroes Act, Villains Hinder: As he sees the Skylanders and their allies in their quest to rebuild the Core of Light, he decides to take action and try to stop them from gathering the Eternal Sources needed for it. Downplayed in the fact that the heroes are only doing it to fix a mess Kaos started.
• Hidden Depths:
  • It turns out as a kid he created the Wilikins because he had no friends. It's heavily implied while he eventually left them, Kaos genuinely cares about them and created the dimension shifters explicitly to protect them from his mom. While he never interacts with them, the fact they live right next door to his castle and he never harms them implies he does genuinely care about them.
  • While he believes it is his destiny to rule Skylands, he doesn't want to know how he will accomplish it even if he was given the chance, because he prefers to surprise himself with what evil plot he comes up with next.
• High-Altitude Battle: At the end of the Fantasm Forest level in Swap Force, there is a short fight against Kaos in his flying machine.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Twice. In Swap Force, he yoinks the rug out from under his own mother, while in Trap Team, he takes over as the main threat after all of the Doom Raiders are captured.
• Huge Holographic Head: Kaos uses one in Spyro's Adventure to look more intimidating than he really is, but Eon isn't that impressed. It comes back in Trap Team during his Kaos Doom Challenges and as one of his attacks when he is playable after being trapped.
  Kaos: My head is awesome, I tell you! Fear it! Fear my GIANT FLOATING HEAD!
• Humiliation Conga: In Imaginators, where he might not have been at his high-game, still goes through a lot of stuff at the end. He has to hear Brain’s remarks towards him and his incompetence, Brain turns on him towards the end of the battle and when he’s defeated, he and Glumshanks are shrunken and put into a jar.
• Humongous Mecha: As Robo-Kaos, naturally.
• Hypocritical Humor: When attacked by the player in Trap Team, one of his quips is "Hey, stop cheating! That's my job!"
• I Shall Return: As he is sent to earth at the end of Spyro’s Adventure, he screams out to the heroes that this is not the last they’ll see of him.
• Incoming Ham: Most of his entrances in the games has him making an Evil Laugh, showing that he’s hungry for some scenery.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Really Zig-Zagged, because Kaos is capable of almost succeeding in taking over Skylands. But his downfall usually occurs because of his incompetence in certain areas, his pride, his attitude, and even not doing much in actually stopping his enemies from stopping him. All of this makes him become just as much a Not-So-Harmless Villain who is capable of gaining the upper-hand and can be a threat as he is a Psychopathic Manchild who faces failure a lot. And when he’s already that pathetic in the games, the Netflix show goes above and beyond in how pathetic he is there.
• Infinity +1 Sword: In Trap Team. He has some of the most powerful attacks among all the villains and even Skylanders, including one that refills his cooldown timer. And he is also the final villain that can be trappable in the story mode, if counting away the Adventure Packs. But he is at least guaranteed to be useful in the Doom Challenges and the final Arena missions, and you need a special Kaos Trap to trap him.
• Irrational Hatred: Kaos has a completely ridiculous dislike of trees, holding them in disdain and believing them to be plotting against him (he calls them "bark-covered betrayers"), and upon activating the Arkeyan Conquertron, he has the Giant Mecha shoot trees with glee. This also applies to tree people that serve him, like the Evil Knock Off of Stump Smash, and one of his first acts as Robo-Kaos is to declare trees as enemies of the state.
• Joker Immunity: He will always be the main antagonist of the games, no matter how many of his plans fail or what sort of punishment he gets for them that can slow him down. So much so, that when Imaginators turned some of the villains captured in Trap Team into senseis, the actual Kaos isn’t one of them, but instead a clone of him.
• Just You and Me and My GUARDS!: In the final battle of Spyro’s Adventure, he calls on his Evil Skylanders and his hydra to aid him in the fight while the Skylander is all on its own.
• Karma Houdini: Despite being the driving force behind the Darkness almost destroying Skylands, he is never given any big punishment and is even allowed to stay at Skylander Academy until he gets his powers back so he can go back to his attempts of conquering Skylands.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: So in a way, him getting shrunken and put in a jar at the end of Imaginators could be seen as his punishment for what he did in SuperChargers.
• Kick the Dog: One of his first acts after he becomes an Arkeyan Conquertron's master is too use the robot's lasers on trees and sheep. While the trees were Kaos' target, the sheep got involved just because they were nearby.
• Kick the Morality Pet: How much of a Morality Pet Glumshanks is to Kaos can be debatable, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal when he gives in to The Darkness’ demands and fires Glumshanks.
• Kneel Before Zod: Whenever he shows himself to the heroes, he mentions at least once about how he wants his enemies to bow down before him.
• Large Ham: You thought Ripto from Spyro 2 was cheesy? Kaos puts the cheese on the ham itself. Whenever he's speaking softly, expect him to put further emphasis on the last word of the sentence. Though conisidering that he's voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz...
• Laser-Guided Karma: His fate at the end of the first game is being banished to Earth himself like he did to the Skylanders.
  • Another example is in the final installment of the Mask of Power series, where Kaos is responsible for turning Hugo into a sheep. When his latest plot to destroy the Core of Light fails and he loses the newfound power he got his hands on, Kaos himself (as well as Glumshanks) gets turned into sheep by Eon.
  • In SuperChargers, The Darkness manipulates Kaos into agreeing to help the Darkness become more powerful and ruling the universe, and when Kaos starts to hesitate, The Darkness starts pressuring him by taking away his powers to show how much he relies on the darkness, essentially turning Kaos into his minion. And now when Kaos is a minion, he finally experiences what he has put Glumshanks through under all his years as Kaos' servant.
• Last of His Kind: According to Wolfgang, Kaos is the only Portal Master left in Skylands.
• Laughably Evil: He might be an utter riot to listen to, but don't underestimate him.
• LEGO Body Parts: Happens to him and Glumshanks at the end of Swap Force.
• Marathon Boss: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He has a stupendous amount of health, keeps players at bay with powerful shockwaves, and heals off nearly 40% of his health every time he changes phases.
• Mark of the Supernatural: The facemark on his forehead is what grants him his dark powers, although it is of unknown origins. In fact, the origin is so unknown that when The Darkness removes it to pressure Kaos into going through with the destruction of Skylands, Kaos simply refers to it as his “thing”.
• Master of All: In Trap Team as a trappable villain, he has an attack that allows him to shuffle through the eight original elements (as Light and Dark are locked until a Skylander or Trap of those elements are placed on the portal and Kaos never adds them to his cycle after they’re unlocked), with all having their own attacks:
  • Water creates a waterfall where the symbol is placed that does small amounts of damage for a short time.
  • Life makes a leaf storm that is almost the same as water, except that it does more damage for fewer hits.
  • Fire damages all enemies near as well as shoots out small fireballs.
  • Air lifts enemies up in the air.
  • Tech shoots out an electrical attack.
  • Undead causes an explosion of ghouls.
  • Earth causes the symbol to bounce in place, damaging nearby enemies.
  • Magic fully restores his villain cooldown timer, making him the only villain that can be fully playable without the need to switch back to the Skylander^note If you don't count a glitch in the Secret Sewers of Supreme Stink that works for any villain.
• Me's a Crowd: One of his attacks during his boss fight in SuperChargers is to create duplicates of himself, with the real one being the one who has a crown.
• Mirror Boss: Yes, he can fight himself in Trap Team. Also in Imaginators, only there it’s against a clone of himself.
• Mood-Swinger: According to Glumshanks in Ring of Heroes, this is the reason why Kaos has so few friends, if any at all.
• Mook Maker: In Imaginators, where he uses Mind Magic to create Doomlanders that the Skylander fights at the end of each level^note With the three exceptions being Scholarville, The Golden Arcade and The Lair of Kaos.
• My Beloved Minions: Subverted in Spyro's Adventure. After you've beaten all three of his evil versions of Water Skylanders, he reacts with concern over his minions being beaten, which makes it seem like he values them, as well as the other evil Skylanders you'll be fighting later on. But during the final battle, he shown to not value them at all as when one group of them fails in defeating the player Skylander, Kaos kills them and use their XP to power up the next group.

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• The Napoleon: Is barely taller than all his troll minions, but is still a Dark Portal Master that controls armies of creatures larger than him.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Of course with a name as destructive as "Kaos".
• Near-Villain Victory: Happened in the first game, where he managed to destroy the Core of Light, allowing the Darkness to be spread throughout Skylands. It was foiled when the Skylanders and their allies rebuilt the core.
  • Also in Giants, where he got to the Island of Arkus and the Iron Fist of Arkus and awakened his robot army before the Skylanders even got there. If getting ready to send out said army hadn’t taken enough time for the Skylanders to stop him, Kaos definitely would’ve won.
• Never My Fault: Kaos has had many moments where he refused to see that he had no one to blame but himself, but he has nowhere near as many in the first five games as he has in Imaginators alone. He views there being nothing wrong with his “incomprehensible genius” and blames everything else for his failed Doomlanders. From them being incompetent in their job, to Mind Magic for being something he doesn’t understand and the Ancients for all their secrets related to it, to Brain for his advice on making better Doomlanders being useless because Kaos is unable to use them in effective ways. But the biggest case happens during his boss fight, where he fights alongside all the Doomlanders you’ve fought throughout the game. A bit into the fight, Kaos tells Brain that the Doomlanders Brain has summoned sucks, when they are the exact same Doomlanders Kaos himself created. If this doesn’t scream Smug Snake, we don’t know what does.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If he in Swap Force hadn’t told Flynn and Tessa that he at the moment is filling the Cloudbreak volcano with petrified darkness to corrupt the magic within, the heroes wouldn’t have known what he was up to and where he was doing it in order to stop him.
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Happens when he is defeated in Spyro's Adventure, he, clearly light-headed after the battle, says "Fear my giant floating head" before falling on the ground.
• Noodle Incident: According to Terrafin, he owes the Dirt Shark five dollars.
  • ''Terrafin Battles the Boom Brothers'' answers what happened. It was a bet between the two of them that the Skylanders would be victorious over Kaos that day, with them winning the day and Terrafin the bet. Kaos still hasn’t paid him to this day.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: For as much of a joke character as he is, he DID manage to turn Eon into a spirit and destroy the Core of Light before the first game even started.
• Obviously Evil: Seriously, just look at this guy and tell us his design isn’t screaming; I AM EVIL. Grotesque face with face tattoos and a Mark of the Supernatural, black clothes and dark powers. As for him, he revels in the fact that he’s evil from top to bottom.
• Oh, Crap!: At the end of Spyro’s Adventure, when he’s realizing he’s about to be banished again, and this time to a place unknown to him.
• One-Winged Angel: As Super Evil Kaos from being evilized by petrified darkness, where he turns into a gigantic purple monstrosity with incredible power. Happens again with Trap Team as Ultra Traptanium Kaos, but it's considerably more impressive.
  • To get this straight: in Trap Team, Kaos uses Traptanium to turn into a crystalline hybrid with glowing white eyes, Traptanium blade-arms and giant black wings growing from his back that can fire off dark energy pulses, fire Traptanium swords, and even see through the fourth wall.
  • In Imaginators, Kaos has Brain give him a super form akin to Dragon Ball with spiky, glowing blue hair. However, Brain eventually gets fed up with Kaos and decides to side with the Skylanders, powering them up while taking away Kaos' advantages, turning him into a Clipped-Wing Angel.
• Only Friend: Glumshanks is this to him, despite how one-sided it is.
• Pet the Dog: Admits that he doesn’t find Tessa to be as annoying as some of the other people at Skylander Academy after the end of SuperChargers when he and Glumshanks tells the Skylander what can be done after the game is beaten.
• Playing with Fire: In the final phase against Super Evil Kaos, his only attack is to fire a beam of fire from his hands.
• Power Gives You Wings: He grows out wings when the third and final phase against Ultra Traptanium Kaos starts.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He joins forces with the Skylanders to give them a helping hand in taking down the Doom Raiders in Trap Team. Already from that, he's doing it for a selfish and villainous motive, which is to defeat the Raiders out of revenge for them dumping him, and so that he doesn't have any real competition in taking over Skylands. And when all the Doom Raiders has been captured, Kaos unsurprsingly betrays the Skylanders so he can take control of the Ultimate Weapon.
• Pre-Final Boss: In SuperChargers, where he is fought before the Darkness, the actual final boss of that game.
• Promoted to Playable: Is first playable as a trappable villain with his own special Trap in Trap Team, then in SuperChargers and SuperChargers Racing he's playable in Sky races using a special trophy. He finally gets his own figure in Imaginators (though here, you're actually playing as a clone of him that he created).
• Psychopathic Manchild: Even if he is able to sometimes make plots that gets him close to conquering Skylands, he is still very immature and goes slightly loony when things doesn't go his way.
• Purple Is Powerful: When he gets buried under a pile of petrified darkness crystals, he turns into a purple giant, capable of creating shockwaves with his feet and teeth and can even fire flames with his hands.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are red and go along nicely with his Obviously Evil appearance.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: He is the last trappable villain in the story mode of ''Trap Team'', though aside from now fighting with the Skylanders, he doesn’t act any different. He throws insults at the Skylanders and retains his massive ego. And “Rift into Overdrive” shows that there was never any reformness in him to begin with.
• Robot Master: He gains control over the entire Arkeyan army when he takes the Iron Fist of Arkus, turning into an Arkeyan robot himself.
• Rotten Rock & Roll: The kind of music most associated with Kaos is foreboding orchestral, mixed together with dubstep in Trap Team during his boss fight and villain theme. In that same game, Kaos has the final and hardest level for Skale-tones Showdown sub-game, and the genre he represents is rock.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Does this at several points, like in Trap Team when he sees a clock held by Da Pinchy because he never wants to see a clock again after having been stuck to one.
• Screw Destiny: Inverted. In SuperChargers, he starts the game gleefully destroying Skylands with the Sky Eater in his latest plan to rule over it, and he gets even more excited about it after The Darkness gives him the idea of them ruling over the universe after they make The Darkness, and therefore the Sky Eater, all powerful by destroying Skylands in its entirety. But as the game nears its conclusion, he grows more and more uneasy about destroying Skylands to instead rule the universe as he believes it’s his destiny to rule Skylands. If he destroys Skylands, he destroys his own destiny, and that becomes Kaos’ main reason to not want to go along with destroying Skylands. But when The Darkness threatens to remove his powers and his “thing”, reverting to a powerless Kaos, he goes along with it almost immediately, with a scowl on his face.
  • Although, Kaos does get all of his powers from the same Darkness that is now urging him to destroy Skylands, who views Kaos as an underling to do HIS bidding. So by being the one to fully activate the Dark Rift Engine, getting rid of The Darkness, Kaos defies something that was decided for him, and by the source of his powers that he uses to try to take over Skylands no less.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: At the end of the first game, he's sent to the human world where he's turned into a statue just like the Skylanders and ends up in a house's yard where he's attacked by a dog. He escapes in Giants, now in a toy store.
• Self-Serving Memory: In the credits of Trap Team, he says that he doesn’t recognize any of the Skylanders aside from Terrafin, whom Kaos says owes him five dollars, even though it’s the opposite that is true.
• Shipper on Deck: If he's talked to in the hub world after chapter 16 in Trap Team, he says that he finds Flynn and Cali to make a cute couple, followed up by saying that he hates cute couples.
• Shockwave Stomp: In the first phase against Super Evil Kaos, he attacks by stomping his feet, creating shockwaves.
• Shrunken Organ: In Swap Force, the Skylander falls into Super Evil Kaos' ear and into his head, his brain is comically small, and possibly microscopic if he was normal size.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In Ring of Heroes, where he loses the Book of Dark Magic that’s later found by the Doom Raiders to be used for their schemes, prompting the Skylanders to go after them with the end of the game being the only time he meets the Skylanders and even then, he’s never fought. The only other thing he did is motivate Pain-Yatta to want the book for himself.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite giving off Card-Carrying Villain vibes, Kaos can show himself to be a good planner. His attacks on the Ancient Elemental for example, be as straightforward as they are, almost succeeded, and they along with Kaos’ other plans are usually foiled through no fault of Kaos’ own. And when his original plan fails, he immediately goes into the next one, and chances are that the next plan is as effective as the first one, showing that he looks at situations from different angles. He also appears to have a way with technology. He has a whole laboratory to himself in his home castle in Giants, he (allegedly) used Petrified Darkness to create a gun that can turn people evil in Swap Force, and he was behind the creation of the Sky Eater in SuperChargers. Though given his high-inflated ego, this can lead to him becoming a...
• Smug Snake: Especially present in Imaginators, where he thinks he should be able to use Mind Magic to create the most powerful beings to have them serve as his army. It fails, and when that happens, he doesn’t think any of it is his fault.
  Glumshanks: Well, it sounds like you got the magic part down. You're just missing the mind part.
• Sore Loser: Should you beat him in Skystones Overdrive after clearing SuperChargers, he does not take his loss well, from accusing the Skylander of cheating to blaming Glumshanks despite the troll having nothing to do with the game.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name is pronounced “Chaos”, but is written with a K instead.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos, he can create Traptanium swords out of nowhere and fire them at you.
• Subverted Catchphrase: When he summons the Knight Doomlander, he talks as if the Doomlander is gonna have "doom" as a title to itself like every other thing Kaos creates, only for him to pull a Bait-and-Switch and instead use "cataclysm". He then asks the Skylander if they thought he was about to say "doom".
• Take Over the World: His overall goal is to crown himself Emperor of Skylands.
• Taken for Granite: Suffers this fate at the hands of the Golden Queen, who turns him into a gold statue after one outburst too many from the runt.
• Talking to Themself: In SuperChargers, he imagines Glumshanks after having fired the troll to have someone to talk to about his unwillingness to destroy Skylands.
• Team Rocket Wins: This is how SuperChargers starts off. He has built a station known as the Sky Eater (or as he calls it, “The Doomstation of Ultimate Doomstruction") that can eat up the entire sky in Skylands and leave behind giant rifts in its place, making him a bigger threat than he has ever been before.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In Trap Team, after the Doom Raiders dump him, he does the "unthinkable" and goes to team up with the Skylanders and their allies to help them take the Doom Raiders down. And Kaos makes it clear throughout the game that he hates every second of it.
• Threatening Shark: One of his favorite attacks to use is his Doom Sharks. It is the first attack he unleashes on the player Skylander as the Water Source is the first time they meet and both him as a trappable villain and his clone is capable of summoning them.
• Time Capsule: SuperChargers’ version of story scrolls are recordings of Kaos’ diary about his accomplishments in that game that are meant for future generations of evil to hear about.
• The Un Favourite: According to the tie-in novel, The Machine of Doom, Kaos was this. He was a prince, but was rejected by his own father for being short, smelly and bald, in contrast with his brothers, who were tall, charming, and blessed with long, flowing locks. Harsh. Giants, however, implies that he was an only child; and pictures show that his parents weren't much better-looking.
• Underestimating Badassery: What typically leads to his downfall. He looks down on the player Portal Master for being an apprentice when they are more than capable of taking Kaos down. But after Kaos infects himself with Traptanium, he gains the ability to see everything, including the Portal Master. Realizing that the person he now can see is the one who always stops him, Kaos now targets them. And with this knowledge going into SuperChargers, he disconnects the portals between Earth and Skylands, rendering the Portal Master powerless, showing that he is no longer guilty of this trope. Until Imaginators where he seems to have forgotten about them.
• Use Your Head: In Giants, when he in his Arkeyan form is fighting Ermit and the Machine Ghost, they get into a locked-hands position, and Kaos' solution to this is to bash his opponents with his giant robot head.
• Villain No Longer Idle: After his minions failed to evilize three of the Ancient Elementals in Swap Force, Kaos decides to go all out on his assault on the Fantasm Forest and the mission to evilize the Ancient Tree Spirit, including being there himself to supervise everything. And at the end of the level, it shows that him being Orcus on His Throne is Justified, as when his plan fails, he gets captured by the Skylanders.
• Villainous Lineage: Ermit says in Giants that Kaos is part of the Kaos clan, a group of sorcerers who terrorized Skylands years ago, and in the very next game, we meet his mother, who is shown to be as evil as her son is. This does however contrast with the backstory he's given in Machine of Doom that plays into what a Story Scroll in Spyro's Adventure established about him, where he grew up as a prince, but was The Unfavorite to his much more loved and handsome brothers, which made him leave his family to make it on his own.
• Villains Want Mercy: At the end of Spyro’s Adventure when he’s about to be banished again, he suggests that he and the heroes split Skylands between light and darkness. As expected, his enemies don't want to bargain.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Downplayed, as his mother can be as serious as Kaos is in taking over Skylands, and Kaos can be subject to embarrassing moments. But she takes much more glee in what she’s doing while Kaos is more focused on it.
  Kaos’ Mom: Lighten up, Kaos. What’s the point of being so deliciously evil if you can’t enjoy it? You know when I attacked the Cloudbreak Islands, I did it with an evil smile on my face.
• Weaker in the Real World: Subverted. After being banished to Earth by Eon after he was beaten in the first game, the next one shows that because of Kaos’ status as a Portal Master, he can break free from his toy-like state and even use a portal to travel back to Skylands.
• You Have Failed Me: In the first game, if the current trio of his evil versions of Skylanders fail to defeat the player’s Skylander, he will kill them and use the XP left by them to level up the next trio.

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