Zoids: Chaotic Century: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"See you on the battlefield!"''|[[On the Next Episode of Catchphrase]]}}

 

 

''Chaotic Century'''s story follows Van Flyheight, a teenager who spends much of his time [[Hover Board|Hover Boarding]] around the local desert ruins for kicks. One day, he's pursued by a local bandit and forced to flee into said ruins, where he discovers a set of [[People Jars]] in a previously inaccessible part of the structure. In one, he finds a [[Robot Buddy|small and unusually intelligent dinosaur-like zoid]]; from another emerges [[Girl in A Box|a young girl]], who proves to have [[Mysterious Waif|no memory of her past]] but experiences [[Oracular Urchin|occasional visions of a mysterious nature]]. Van promptly names the girl Fiona (which she called herself when initially asked her name, but seemed to forget as soon as she said it) and the zoid Zeke (after his father's Command Wolf). Zeke proves to have mysterious powers of his own when he instantly revives an old, abandoned Shield Liger, allowing Van to fight off the bandit and return home.

''Guardian Force'' picks up after a [[Time Skip]] of several years, during which the Empire and the Republic have worked together to form an elite military group: the eponymous Guardian Force, dedicated to ending conflicts before they can become full-blown wars. Van, naturally, has joined on behalf of the Helic Republic; his Imperial counterpart is Thomas Schubaltz, who becomes his partner. The two of them, eventually joined by their friends from ''Chaotic Century'', quickly uncover a plot that threatens the entire world. This time, the mystery revolves around Zoid Eve, and the emergence of several new villains, each with the own organoid. The final conflict, when it occurs, takes place over ''eight full episodes'' without running into [[Ending Fatigue]], saturating the series with nearly toxic levels of awesome.

 

 

== General ==

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The Empire is shown as a mix between Germany and the Byzantines. The Helic Republic, meanwhile, more resembles the United States.

* [[The Federation]]: The Helic Republic.

** [[The Hero]]: Van.

** [[The Lancer]]: Irvine.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Death Saurer, Death Stinger, Geno Saurer, Geno Breaker, Berserk Fury.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Van's parents died, Raven's parents died, who knows what happened to Rudolph's and Fiona's parents.

* [[The Rival]]: Raven is this to Van.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Death Saurer and Death Stinger.

* [[Sissy Villain]]: Prozen comes across as one of these; for starters, the man wears high heeled boots.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: The first Death Saurer is not as powerful as the Death Stinger, and the Death Stinger is not as powerful as the ''true'' Death Saurer.

* [[The Stoic]]: Karl Schubaltz.

* [[Super Robot]]: The Organoids and any Zoid they're merged with.

* [[Hope Spot]]: In Raven's introductory episode, he goes on a rampage, destroying countless zoids. Cue Van's appearance in the Shield Liger! And then Raven proceeds to ''demolish'' him, and only withdraws due to orders from above.

* [[Kid Hero]]: Van. He's ''fourteen'' in the Japanese version, but the dub [[Woolseyism|changes it]] to seventeen.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Fiona.

* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Fiona displays some traits of this.

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: The gravity cannon, as may be imagined from the name, fires ''miniature gravitational fields'' at its target; it's later used to shoot {{spoiler|Van, Zeke, and the Blade Liger at the True Deathsaurer}}.

* [[Aborted Arc]]: Guardian Force left a lot of subplots unresolved and hanging (some of which were leftovers from Chaotic Century).

* [[Big Bad]]: Hiltz.

* [[Bokukko]]: Reese likely qualifies, between her early outfit (the later catsuit, less so) and using "boku" in the Japanese version.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Raven}} pretty much goes through one after {{spoiler|Shadow temporarily dies}}, and {{spoiler|Reese}} goes through one shortly after as well to the point where they both fight against Hiltz and the Death Saurer at Zoid Eve.

* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]: The Attack Booster of the Blade Liger. Amusingly first tested on Moonbay's ''Gustav''.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Used almost word-for-word between {{spoiler|Raven and Van}} when the former saves the latter from a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] late in the series.

* [[Running Gag]]: Moonbay referring to ''[[Insistent Terminology|her]]'' Ultrasaurus, and Irvine correcting her.