History WesternAnimation / GormitiTheLordsOfNatureReturn

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Episode 3 features transformation sequences that were never reused in other episodes, with the kids being briefly shown into an intermediate stage while detransforming (basically their Gormiti form but with kid proportions), and Jessica is shown to be able to fold back her wings when going in closed places such as caves, something she never did again.

** 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 and Cerberion's Season 3 designs never had toys made of.

* LostInMediasRes: The show begins with everything being already settled up, without any kind of explanations about what Gormiti are, why the four main characters were chosen to become the new lords and many other things. To get a whole picture is necessary to know the story of the ''Gormiti'' toylines that came before the cartoon, with the comic book adaptation also including a straight prequel that tells Razzle's story.

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, Orrore Profondo (Deep Horror), Lavion and Magmion. 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.

!!''Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AchillesHeel: In his first appearance, Magmion wears an armor that covers most of his body, but leaves out his heels. This is how he's defeated in the episode.
* ActionGirl: Jessica is just as competent as her male friends.

* AllThereInTheManual: The full story of Gorm and its warrior races can be found in the toy line and related comics.
** The comic has a different vision of the series. The comic version have more toy-accurate character design (lacking the pupils in the eyes of every character except for Razzle and giving to the Lord of Air a less human appearance, with purple faces and no nose), but also have a completely different storyline and way different versions of Season 2 and 3's first episodes. It is also remarkable that, while in the Cartoon series leaving the Keeper's Primal Pad or switching it with another one of the kids is prohibited and dangerous, in a comic Toby and Jessica switch for three times their place.
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:In the last episode of Season 2, to destroy the Magor Codex.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Apparently, there are no good Fire Gormitis nor good Dark Gormitis.
* AnIcePerson: Jessica gets ice-based powers in Season 2. Toby does as well in the beginning of Season 3.

* BigBad: Magmion and Orrore Profondo in the first season (Lavion tries, but [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain he just can't get the job done]]...), Obscurio in the second, Magor in the third.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Season 2 is a mild case. Gorm is saved and Obscurio is defeated, but Supreme Luminos had to give his life in order for that to happen. Though, it's implied that he will be reborn someday.]]
* BlowYouAway: Jessica. And, of course, most Air Gormiti.
* BodyHorror: Lavion's claw looks like an octopus hooked on his arm. Also, Bombos and his talking nipples.
* BumblingDad: Mr. Tripp, Toby and Nick's father, fits this to a T.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Every creature's vital energy, transform us in Lords of Nature!" "Supreme power of Stone!" "Ancient force of Forest!" "Mystical Sea energy!" "Absolute control of Wind!"
** In the English version, it's "Elemental powers flow! Gormiti, Lords of Nature Go!" "Power of the Sea!" "Strength of the Stone!" "Dominion of the Wind!" "Force of the Forest!"

* CardCarryingVillain: Most Volcano Gormiti come across like this... especially Arachnos the Cruel and Orrore.
* CatchPhrase

* DeadpanSnarker: Lucas.

* DemotedToExtra: In Season 2 most of the human characters, except for Nick and Toby's parents, are nowhere to be seen. In Season 3 Gina and Paula just made cameos. For the Gormiti, in the first two season 2 episodes, season 1 characters are still around, then they disappear. In season 3, there are no traces of season 1 and 2 Gormiti.
* DesignatedVictim: When one of the kids has to get captured, it is usually Toby. So much that it was surprising when [[spoiler:a recent episode had Jessica in this position]].

* DirtyCoward: Lavor.
* TheDragon: Lavor to Magmion, and Bombos to Lavion. Magmion also has a ''literal'' dragon in the form of Drakkon.
** Season 2 has Magmion to Obscurio and Moloch, Cyclops and Blindscream to Magmion: the ''literal'' role is now for the twin-headed Ancient Guardian of Darkness, Cerberion.

* EnemyMine: Occurred once, [[spoiler: with Toby, Jessica and Lucas forced to do TeethClenchedTeamwork with Magmion and Lavion.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: 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.
** [[spoiler: Nick, Lucas and Jessica during the finale, though this is also temporary.]]
* EvilOverlord: Magmion, Obscurio, Magor.

* FishOutOfWater: In episode 6, Obscurio possesses Toby's body... and shows how unfamiliar he is with the customs of Earth.

* GadgeteerGenius: Nick and Jessica both have their moments.
* GenderFlip: In the toyline, Sea Gormiti Ancientjellyfish, Mantra and Swamptoad are referred to as females on their cards. In the cartoon, they have male voices.
* GeniusBruiser: Nick.
* GreenThumb: Lucas, along with FriendToAllLivingThings.
* HeroKiller: He hasn't killed anyone (yet), but Magor certainly doesn't screw around!
** [[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.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Luminos in the last episode of Season 2.]]

* ImageSong: Curiously for a Western production, there is one for every Gorm tribe, Volcano Lord, the Ancient Guardians, the Eyes of Life, the Old Sage and Gorm Island, all collected in a CD.

* KidHero: All four of our heroes aren't even in their teens yet.
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: One of the kids always has 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.
** Season 3 does away with the Keeper, but the kids still need to be together to transform.
* KillItWithWater: Toby, and the Sea Gormiti in general.
* LampshadeHanging: When the guys receive their NextTierPowerUp in Season 2, Jessica complains that it's "the worst day to be keeper ever".

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the source material.
* LightIsGood: Supreme Luminos, then Old Sage in season 3.
* 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. It helps to know that prior to the cartoon, [[spoiler: they had effectively betrayed the rest of the tribes to serve Magor in exchange for power, making their present behavior the result of a slow HeelFaceTurn.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: With some exceptions: In season 2 Nick and Toby dress like in Season 1, while 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 clothes to all 4 of them.

* MerchandiseDriven: It's based on a toyline, take a wild guess.

* OlderThanTheyLook: While looking like a regular lizard, [[AllThereInTheManual comics and extra material show]] that he 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.
* ThePlan: Magmion kicks off the second season with one that works almost perfectly [[spoiler:and brings Obscurio one step closer to being unsealed.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Most Volcano Gormiti. Some of them, however, have some much less obvious powers...
* PowerArmor: The Golden Armors in Season 2. Also in Season 3 one of the new powers of the Earth Lord is summoning a stone armor that absorbs enemy attacks and then shatters to pieces targeting whoever was attacking him.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Moloch, Armageddon, Cyclops and Xylos, working under Magmion in Season 2.

* RubeGoldbergDevice: Episode 4 shows that both Toby and his dad can make pranks in this way.

* SealedEvilInACan: Obscurio, at least in Season 1.
** In Season 2, [[spoiler:the Army of Darkness, Incubion and Oneiron included]], qualifies.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Jessica looks even more pretty in a dress.
* ShipTease: Season 3 has mild Ship Tease moments, which seem to alternate between Toby/Jessica and Nick/Jessica. It's like Marathon is deliberately trying to mess with the shippers...

** 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 a direct clone of 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).

* SmugSnake: Lavor. Oh so very much.

* TheStarscream: Burning Maul has been cast out of the Volcano tribe for this reason.

* TeamPet: Razzle is something between this and a MentorMascot.
* TimeSkip: One year passes between Season 2 and Season 3

* ToylessToylineCharacter: 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, Moles, Branchripper, The Wise Destroyer, Alos and the Severe Guardian) appeared, along with a few from Series 2 (Groundmuncher, Tormentor, Helico and Vorticus), who were not in the aforementioned blindbag wave.

* TransformationSequence: 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.

* VillainDecay: Orrore. He came across as a serious threat in the toyline, but in the show, he seems to have lost much of his competence.
** Armageddon was an almost unstoppable BigBad in the toyline, but here, he's just one of Magmion's minions. He's still powerful, but nowhere near the unholy terror he used to be.
** Lavion went from NightmareFuelStationAttendant to SmallNameBigEgo.
* WeHaveReserves: Lavor's attitude towards his underlings is... less than stellar.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Air Gormiti can get like this at times, using debatable means to protect their own people. [[spoiler:In the backstory, Orrore Profondo once used this trait to manipulate them into a FaceHeelTurn, causing a huge schism in the tribes.]]

* BodyHorror: Lavion's claw looks like an octopus hooked on his arm. Also, Bombos and his [[{{Squick}} talking nipples]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Magmion fell victim to this in Season 2.

**

%%* TeamPet: Razzle.

%%* YouGoGirl

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Lucas.

%%* DirtyCoward: Lavor.

%%* KidHero

%%* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the source material.

* ShesAManInJapan: Not exactly that, but... in the toyline, Sea Gormiti Ancientjellyfish, Mantra and Swamptoad are referred to as females on their cards. In the cartoon, they have male voices.

* UltimateEvil: Obscurio in Season 1. Season 2 shows normally Obscurio and makes Magor the new UltimateEvil. Then Magor appears in Season 3.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Magmion fell victim to this in Season 2. [[MoralEventHorizon Curse you,]] Obscurio!]]

** The comic has a different vision of the series. The comic version have more toy-accurate character design(lacking the pupils in the eyes of every character except for Razzle and giving to the Lord of Air a less human appearance, with purple faces and no nose), but also have a completely different storyline and way different versions of Season 2 and 3's first episodes. It is also remarkable that, while in the Cartoon series leaving the Keeper's Primal Pad or switching it with another one of the kids is prohibited and dangerous, in a comic Toby and Jessica switch for three times their place.

%%* AdultsAreUseless

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Apparently, there are no good Fire Gormitis.

* BigGood: The Supreme Luminescent/Supreme Luminos in Season 2, the Old Sage in Season 3.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Season 2 is a mild case. Gorm is saved and Obscurio is defeated, but the Supreme Luminescent had to give his life in order for that to happen. Though, it's implied that he will be reborn someday.]]

** Supreme Luminescent/Luminos: "Witness the Might of Light!"

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Episode 3 features transformation sequences that were never reused in other episodes, with the kids being briefly shown into an intermediate stage (basically their Gormiti form but with kid proportions), and Jessica is shown to be able to fold back her wings when going in closed places such as caves, something she never did again.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Blind Scream can remove his eyes and put them on his hands.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Supreme Luminescent in the last episode of Season 2.]]

* ImageSong: Curiously for a Western production, there is one for every Gorm tribe, Volcano Lord, the Ancient Guardians, the Eyes of Life, the Wise Old One and Gorm Island, all collected in a CD.

* LaughablyEvil: Lavion, whose evil plans are mostly focused on showing everyone how he is the greatest Volcano Gormite around.

* MindControl: Thought Ripper, a minor Volcano Gormiti, has this as his speciality.

** 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)
** 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 enver had a toy.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: While being possessed by Obscurio in Season 1, Toby is briefly shown wearing a "bad guy" attire with a leather jacket, FingerlessGloves and a bat-shaped belt buckle. It doesn't last long though.

%%* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld

* AchillesHeel: Magmion's weak point is exactly that.

* AdultsAreUseless

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Season 2 is a mild case. Gorm is saved and Obscurio is defeated, but the Supreme Luminescent had to give his life in order for that to happen. Though, it's implied that he will be reborn someday.]]

** Nick: "I already knew it!"
** Toby: "Yours! With no comeback!" (Used only in merchandise stuff. What it means is actually unknown.)

* CoolOldGuy: The Old Sage.

* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Orrore Profondo.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucas.

* DirtyCoward: Lavor.
* TheDragon: Lavor, to Magmion; and Bombos to Lavion. Magmion also has a ''literal'' dragon in the form of Drakkon.
** Season 2 has Magmion to Obscurio and Moloch, Cyclops and Blindscream to Magmion: the ''literal'' role is now for the twin-headed Ancient Guardian of Darkness Cerberion.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Toby, possessed by Obscurio, but only for 2 minutes.]]

* FishOutOfWater: [[spoiler:In episode 6, Obscurio possesses Toby's body... and shows how unfamiliar he is with the customs of Earth.]]

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: The Supreme Luminescent in the last episode of Season 2.]]

* KidHero

* LaughablyEvil: Lavion. Just Lavion.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the source material.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Razzle - he's possibly a TimeAbyss, if the comics are anything to go by.

* TeamPet: Razzle.

* TransformationSequence: Every character has 3-4 variations. In the second part of Season 1 they start to spice them up inserting random StockFootage of them using their special attacks. In Episode 3 of Season 1 their powers went down and part of Nick's sequence is played... backwards.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld

* WorfHadTheFlu: Some people are already crying FauxActionGirl after Jessica's somewhat lackluster performance in one of the latest episodes. Despite the fact that, you know, [[spoiler:Obscurio's spell had greatly weakened the Air people, and despite the fact that she ''still'' managed to outsmart and defeat ''Armageddon'' in the end]]. [[RealWomenDontWearDresses Girls just can't win, can they?]]
** In a more recent episode, Toby fell victim to this when the Volcano Gormiti [[spoiler:began heating Gorm's core to set Incubion and Oneiron free]], therefore draining the water from the Sea people territories.
** And generally, the second half of Season 2 and Season 3 have the Evil Gormiti attack a single tribe giving it a problem (Air People being angry with everyone, Sea People becoming self-centered and refusing to help each other out, Earth People constantly tripping...)
* YouGoGirl

* {{Mon}}: The Ancient Guardians could be considered this in Season 1, then in Season 2 they got [[SuddenlyVoiced ability to speak]] and became more like... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Guardians of Gorm's most ancient secrets.]]

* SuddenlyVoiced: 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.

** [[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.

** The comic has a different vision of the series. The comic version have more toy-accurate character design(lacking the pupils in the eyes of every character except for Razzle and giving to the Lord of Air a less human appearance, with purple face and no nose), but also have a complete different storyline and way different versions of Season 2 and 3's first episodes. Is also remarkable that, while in the Cartoon series leaving the Keeper's Primal Pad or switching it with another one of the kids is prohibited and dangerous, in a comic Toby and Jessica switch for three times their place.

* BigGood: The Supreme Luminescent in Season 2, the Wise Old One in Season 3.

* BodyHorror: Lavion's claw looks like a octopus hooked on his arm. Also Bombos and his [[{{Squick}} talking nipples]].

** In Season 2, for the PowerArmor: "Indestructible like a montain!" "Pure power of Rebirth!" "Eternal power of Tides!" "Unstoppable power of Wind!"
** Season 3 has a full new summoning: "Bursting power of Stone!" "Eternal Power of the Forest!" "Vital Energy of Water!" "Infinite Energy of Wind!"
* CardCarryingVillain: Most Volcano Gormiti come across as this... especially Arachnos the Cruel and Orrore.

** Supreme Luminiscent: "Admirate the power of Light!"
** 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 disppears in Season 3 when he becames the Wise Old One's pet.)
* CoolOldGuy: The Wise Old One.

* DemotedToExtra: In Season 2 most of the human characters, except for Nick and Toby's parents, are nowhere to be seen. In Season 3 Gina and Paula just made cameos. For the Gormiti, in the first two Season 2 episodes Season 1 characters are still around, then they disappear. In Season 3 there are no traces of Season 1 and 2 Gormiti.

* MindControl: Thought Ripper, a minor Volcano Gormite, has this as his speciality.

* NewSeasonNewName: The subtitle changes in every season. Season 1 is ''The Lords of Nature Return!'', Season 2 is ''The Supreme Eclipse Age'' and Season 3 is ''The Neorganic Evolution''.

* ShesAManInJapan: Not exactly that, but... in the toyline, Sea Gormiti Ancientjellyfish, Mantra and Swamptoad are referred as females on their cards. In the cartoon, they have male voices.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Jessica is the only female Gormiti.

* ToylessToylineCharacter: 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, Moles, Branchripper, The Wise Destroyer, Alos and the Severe Guardian) appeared, along with a few from Series 2 (Groundmuncher, Tormentor, Helico and Vorticus), who were not in the aforemented blindbag wave.

* VillainDecay: Orrore. He came across as a serious threat in the toyline, but in the show he seems to have lost much of his competence.

** And generally, second half of Season 2 and Season 3 have the Evil Gormiti attack a single tribe giving it a problem (Air People being angry with everyone, Sea People costantly sleeping, Earth People costantly tripping...)