Gormiti

Gormiti is an Italian toyline, intended for children around 7-10 years old, but still managing to find some popularity even among older fans. It had a lot of success and is currently being exported all over the world, especially in Spain.

The story takes place in a fictional universe called The Island of Gorm, populated by peaceful creatures called Gormiti (sing. Gormite) and protected by the mysterious Wise Old One. But one day, the evil sorcerer Magor awakened from his century-long slumber in Mount Volcano and created a group of evil, murderous Gormiti of Lava and Magma, who stormed upon Gorm and razed it mercilessly. The Wise Old One, powerless to do anything to stop Magor and his minions Lavion and Magmion, was forced to run away... but not before creating a new artifact, the Eye of Life, with which to repopulate the Island of Gorm when the time would be right. The Lava and Magma Gormiti, in their greed, ended up plundering so much that what was left was not enough to sustain them, and were forced to go back to Mount Volcano and wait until the island had recovered enough... and that was when the Wise Old One returned, giving birth to new Gormiti thanks to the Eye of Life. New tribes arose - the Gormiti of Air, Forest, Earth and Sea - and joined forces to fight against Magmion and Lavion, eventually managing to defeat the Lava and Magma Gormiti and seal them. But a wrathful Magor, in revenge, cursed the Gormiti into fighting each other for power and supremacy, ending the peace on Gorm...

A cartoon series inspired by this toyline, Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return, was created by Studio Marathon and is currently airing in a few countries. Launched in 2009.

This toyline provides examples of:


 * Exclusively Evil: All Volcano and Darkness Gormiti. Justified in that Magor and Obscurio created them.
 * Big Bad: Magor, Obscurio.
 * Big Good: The Wise Old One, the Supreme Luminescent
 * Dark Is Evil
 * Defector From Decadence: At first, he had more of a My Country, Right or Wrong attitude, but in the end, Magor's cruelty became too much for him to bear.
 * Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Avoided. No tribe has a definite advantage over the others.
 * Evil Sorcerer: Magor.
 * Face Heel Turn:
 * Fragile Speedster: Most Air Gormiti are like this.
 * Lethal Lava Land: Mount Volcano.
 * Magma Man: The Volcano Gormiti.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Orrore Profondo.
 * Mighty Glacier: Most Earth Gormiti.
 * My Country, Right or Wrong:
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: A lot of Gormiti, even good-aligned ones, have some pretty intimidating names.
 * Noble Demon: Obscurio. Make no mistake, he is evil... but he's got far more honor than Magor.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Obscurio's attitude towards the Supreme Luminescent.