History WesternAnimation / PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures

* CompositeCharacter / GenderFlip: As opposed to Pinky being male in [[WesternAnimation/PacMan the first animated adaptation]] and in some Americna media, Pinky is female here, just as she was in the original games. Pinky is also similar to Sue from the first cartoon.

* CompositeCharacter / GenderFlip: As opposed to Pinky being male in [[WesternAnimation/PacMan the first animated adaptation]] and in some Americna media, Pinky is female here, just as she was in the original game. Pinky is also similar to Sue from the first cartoon.

* CompositeCharacter / GenderFlip: As opposed to Pinky being male in [[WesternAnimation/PacMan the first animated adaptation]] and earlier games, Pinky is female here. Pinky is also similar to Sue from the first cartoon.

** Dr. Buttocks, in spades. While he may be a ButtMonkey ([[JustForPun pun intended]]) and stereotypical mad scientist, he also nearly wiped out all life on the planet via Ghosteroid, which he was able to summon through a scheme no more difficult than any other he's ever prepared.

* ThreeAmigos: Pac-Man, Spiral, and Cylindria.

* ThreeAmigos: Pac-Man, Cylindria, and Spiral.

* VoicesAreMental: Averted with ghostly possessions, particularly in the episode "The Great Chase!" where Betrayus possesses his mother. It basically leads to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Tabitha]] [[WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes St.]] [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Germain]] playing Betrayus for an entire episode.

* [[spoiler: VictoryIsBoring: Betrayus experiences this in "Rip Pac Packle." Pac disappeared into a wormhole and appeared 70 years later. Betrayus finally won, but after seeing Pac, he admitted to having missed Pac, having no one to battle or sling insults at.]]

The series could be seen on weekends on Creator/KidsClick until the block ended in 2019.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Pac is back!]]

** [[spoiler: Seeming subverted in ''Invasion of the Pointyheads. Check the WhamEpisode and WhamLine for more details]]

** In "The Adventure Begins Part II", the Ghost Gang try to disguise Pac-Man and his friends as ghosts by pouring sewage over them. Subverted though by the fact a guard isn't fooled by all this due to them not being see through.

* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: One of the bad guys' plan was to steal Pac-Man's brain leaving him as brainless vegetable.

* AdaptationalBadass: Pac-Man himself, actually. This version can actually chomp ghosts ''without'' the use of power-ups (Though he does need them to keep it up for too long). Of course, this being the franchise that ''invented'' power-ups, he gets even more rough and tough by eating Power Berries, each with wildly different abilities.

** Dr. Buttocks, in spades. While he may be a ButtMonkey (insert groaning at the IncrediblyLamePun) and stereotypical mad scientist, he also nearly wiped out all life on the planet via Ghosteroid, which he was able to summon through a scheme no more difficult than any other he's ever prepared.

** There's also Count Pacula, the Pac-Man Universe version of a vampire[[note]]A possibly unintentional shout out to "Pacula" from the Hanna-Barbera Pac-Man series, although that one was more like Frankenstein's Monster.[[/note]], residing in the Netherworld, who has the ability to hypnotize both Pac-Worlders and ghosts and upon the hypnosis, he tells them to silly things: having Skeebo act like an ape, Spiral hop on one leg, and at the request of Buttler, make Dr. Buttocks swim like a blowfish and squeal like a pig.

--> '''Pinky''': Well sure but what does that have to do with anything?

* CliffHanger: The season 2 finale episode, "New Girl in Town" had Spheros' niece reveal to Pac-Man that she may have seen his parents alive and well and whispered to him the last location she saw them to avoid Betrayus' worm-like spies from picking up on it. As the scene irised out, it was clearly setting up the next season for Pac & the gang to travel outside of Pacworld and begin international adventures as they prepared to finally find his parents......and then the show got cancelled.

* BottleEpisode: "Rip Van Packle." There's some slightly modified character models for the elderly versions of Cyli, Spiral, etc but there isn't a lot of complex animation in the episode and the lighting is much duller than usual. It's pretty obviously filler, especially since [[spoiler:it turns out to be AllJustADream and therefore completely pointless in the end anyway.]]

** Pointy heads use these.

** [[spoiler: Seeming subverted in ''Invasion of the Pointy Heads. Check the WhamEpisode and WhamLine for more details]]

** As if the show weren't enough of a love letter to classic arcade games, The Pointy Heads being [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of one of the alien types from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_invaders Space Invaders]]''[[note]]Which was made by Creator/{{Taito}}, and whose game paved the way for Namco's own VideoGame/{{Galaxian}} in 1979, one year after Space Invaders was released[[/note]]. They have the same silver (white) coloring, tentacles, and uh, pointy heads, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/SpaceInvaders-Gameplay.gif as the aliens that appear on the top row.]]

* SummonBiggerFish: Accidentally done when a battle between ghost, pointy head and Pac-Worlder accidentally awoke the Cosmic Overlords.

* [[spoiler: VictoryIsBoring: Betrayus experiences this in "Rip Pac Winkle." Pac disappeared into a wormhole and appeared 70 years later. Betrayus finally won, but after seeing Pac, he admitted to having missed Pac, having no one to battle or sling insults at.]]

* WeaksauceWeakness: The Pointy Heads are grossed out by ghost eyeballs.

** "Invasion of the Pointy Heads" is another. When Apex and his troops are at the eve of victory, we have him saying this bombshell:

** In one episode Pac did some sort of spiral attack with his legs, yet during "The Great Chase", he needed a Power Berry to do it. Although that berry might be a case of increasing a natural ability (Not all berry show a form change, take for example the kung fu berry, or that berry that uses the pac-worlder retractable limbs and increase bouncing to the point of ricochet ball.)

* AbsenteeActor: The Ghost Gang are absent in "Driver's Pac", "Jurassic Pac", and "The Great Chase!".

* {{Meganekko}}: Cylindria

* AdaptationNameChange: In this series, "Pac-Man" is just a nickname, and his real name is "Pacster". In most continuities, "Pac-Man" IS his real name.