History WesternAnimation / PacMan

* HalloweenEpisode: Oddly enough, the residents of Pac-Land knew about Halloween, but not Christmas, at least [[ChristmasSpecial until Santa showed up.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Pinky often tries to change his shape in order to avoid being chomped. It never works.
* PityTheKidnapper: In "Pac-Baby Panic", when Mezmaron kidnaps Pac-Baby and tries to ransom him, this scenario happens quickly. When Pac-Man shows up to agree to Mezmaron's demands, the villain ''begs'' him to take his kid back.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: According to this cartoon, Clyde's full name is "Clyde [[MysteriousMiddleInitialQ.]] [[SpeciesSurname Ghost-Monster]]".

** In the second season premiere, "Here's Super-Pac", the Ghost Monsters come after Pac-Man with a tank armed with a "guk gun". Pinky tells Inky to load it; when Inky asks "With what?" Pinky replies, "With ''guk'', what else?" while holding up a can of something labeled "Guk".

* NamedByTheAdaptation: According to this cartoon, Clyde's full name is "Clyde Q. [[SpeciesSurname Ghost-Monster]]".

* SpiritualSuccessor: Later games in the franchise take influence from this series. ''Pac-Land'', ''Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures'', and even the VideoGame/PacManWorld trilogy[[note]]Plus the kart racing game Pac-Man World Rally.[[/note]] seem at least partly based on this cartoon. A [=YouTube=] comment [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTmeclHdWp8 here]] sums it up.
--> '''Comment''': Keep in mind this cartoon established the "Pac-lore" of Pac-man. Such as why people worship trees in ''VideoGame/PacManWorld2'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures Ghostly Adventures]]''. The fact that it inspired the game ''VideoGame/PacLand'', and of course Pac-Man having a family in a small town.

* EyeBeams: One time Super-Pacn [[JustEatGilligan fries]] Pinky off the bat with them: "Now you'll see why the girls in the galaxy say I have ''the hottest eyes in town''!"

* NonActionBigBad: Mezmaron seems incapable of actually fighting (and has lost quite a few of his dark, scary robes after confronting Pac Man), although he has led a few schemes personally. The show's flow seems to imply the worst thing that can happen to a pac-person is to be chomped which deflates them but they can recover. Exactly what Mezmaron could even do to them, is one the series never really explores.

* BigBad: Mezmaron is the only human in Pac-Man's world. He wants to take over the Power Forest, and the ghosts work for him. Pac-Man himself is the forest's Chief of Security, so he's the primary obstacle in Mezmaron's plan. It's never explained what he plans to do with all those power pellets. As the lone recurring human character, he's our lone reference point for scale. Several episodes have Mezmaron mention that by taking over the Power Forest, he'll control all the "pac-power" in Pac-Land, and thus easily conquer the populace.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: In ''VideoGame/MsPacMan'', Sue is orange like Clyde, here she's dark blue. Also, the ghosts are purple when vulnerable instead of dark blue like the games, possibly due to Sue's colour.

* DarthVaderClone: Mezmaron has a Darth Vader esque face mask, but no helmet.

* AdaptationalBadass: Clyde and Sue in most incarnations of ''Pac-Man'' are considered the least threatening ghosts, due to their AI pattern causing them to break off a chase whenever they get close to their target. Here, they're treated as the leader and second-in-command.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: In ''VideoGame/MsPacMan'', Sue is orange like Clyde, here she's dark blue. Also, the ghosts are purple when vulnerable instead of dark blue like the games.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the original game, Blinky is considered the hardest of the four ghosts, due to his AI pattern being the only one that focuses on simply beelining straight towards Pac-Man, and even growing faster as the game goes on. In the cartoon, he's the comedically incompetent coward, and panics if he so much as ''thinks'' someone has a Power Pellet.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the original game, Blinky is considered the hardest of the four ghosts, due to his AI pattern being the only one that focuses on simply beelining straight towards Pac-Man, and even growing faster as the game goes on. In the cartoon, he's the comedically incompetent coward.

* GenderFlip: Pinky is female in the franchise, but whoever was in charge of the cartoon series must've confused their gender, since all the ghosts in the original game looked the same save for color, and made Pinky a male here.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the original game, Blinky is considered the hardest of the four ghosts, due to his AI pattern being the only one that focuses on simply beelining straight towards Pac-Man, and even growing faster as the game goes on. In the cartoon, he's the comedically incompetent coward.

* GenderFlip: Pinky is female in the franchise, but in this cartoon series, Pinky is male.

* CanonForeigner: Mezmaron appears in the cartoon, but not in any of the games. Some have theorized that the Ghost Witch of Netor from ''VideoGame/PacMan2TheNewAdventures'' was a homage to Mezmaron. Pac-Man's boss Grump has also never reappeared, although the idea of other Pac-People besides the core yellow family ''did''.

* ChristmasSpecial: Christmas Comes to Pac-Land

* SpiritualSuccessor: Later games in the franchise take influence from this series. ''Pac-Land'', ''Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures'', and even the VideoGame/PacManWorld trilogy[[note]]Plus the kart racing game Pac-Man World Rally.[[/note]] seem at least partly based on this cartoon.