Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog)
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 Chaos as seen in his most recent appearance, Sonic Battle.
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| Game series | Sonic the Hedgehog |
| First game | Sonic Adventure |
| Creator(s) | Unconfirmed |
| Voice actor(s) | EN: N/A (2005-) JP: N/A |
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| Species | Elemental water spirit |
Chaos is the main enemy in the video game Sonic Adventure for the Sega Dreamcast. Chaos is an immortal, ageless god-like creature that seems to be composed entirely of water, but is also said to be concentrated chaos energy (in Sonic X, Eggman implies that it is composed of "Chaos energy in a liquid state"). It was trapped inside the Master Emerald for 3000 years before being released by Dr. Eggman in a bid to conquer the world. It was also the original guardian of the Chaos Emeralds, Chao, and the Master Emerald. In Sonic Adventure he absorbed the negative energy of the Chaos Emeralds to become his final and strongest form.
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[edit] History
Chaos was once good. It protected the Chao and guarded the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald. However the leader of the Echidna tribe, Pachacamac, tried to steal the Emeralds so he could use them against his enemies. His warriors stormed the shrine where the Emeralds were, harming many Chao in the process. Chaos, in a fit of rage, vanquished them by absorbing the power of the Chaos Emeralds. Pachacamac's daughter, Tikal, not wanting to see the world destroyed, sealed herself and Chaos within the Master Emerald.
[edit] Present Day
Chaos lay in wait for many centuries until Dr. Eggman, having read ancient tablets describing the fall of the Echidnas and Chaos, released it by shattering the Master Emerald. Chaos swears to follow Doctor Eggman as it knows that he can get the Chaos Emeralds back for it.
Eventually, Eggman's plans, as always, fall through at the hands of Sonic and his friends. So Chaos abandons him and collects the Emeralds itself. Once they are in its possession, it absorbs the negative powers of the Emeralds and discards them. This proves to be the means to its downfall as Sonic absorbs the positive energies of the Emeralds and transforms into Super Sonic, eventually defeating it and in the process ridding Chaos of its evil mindset and turning it back to Chaos Zero. It is now known to appear during upcoming disasters as shown in Sonic Battle.
[edit] Chaos' Forms
Chaos' form and skills change and increase with every Chaos Emerald that it absorbs. Over time it develops from a humanoid water creature to a horrible, world-destroying monster.
[edit] Chaos 0
This is the base form of Chaos before it has absorbed any Chaos Emeralds. It is humanoid, and about five feet tall with bright green eyes. Its brain is visible in this form through his watery exterior. Sonic Adventure begins with Sonic fighting Chaos 0 outside the City Hall in Station Square. Its attacks include extending its arms to punch, spinning around with its arms extended and jumping onto lightposts in order to get out of Sonic's range.
In Sonic Adventure 2, Chaos Zero (as it is called in-game) is a secret character that can be unlocked by getting all A's in Rouge's missions. After that, it will be playable as a treasure hunter in 2-Player Mode. In Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Chaos Zero is an initially available character. It is a very slow character, but has powerful attacks. In this game, Chaos Zero can glide, climb and dig just like Knuckles and Rouge, and it also gains three new attacks: "Chaos Impact", a powerful ground punch that creates a small earthquake, "Chaos Strike", a blue energy pulse that harms and confuses enemies, and "Chaos Bind", a move which freezes the air around the enemy for 30 seconds.
Chaos latest appearance in this form is in Sonic Battle, where it is the slowest character in the game but its extendable limbs give it a much wider attack range than it appears to have.
[edit] Chaos 1
After Chaos absorbs one Chaos Emerald, it is virtually unchanged except for a line of bones that travel down its right arm into its hand, where the Emerald is located, and as such the arm becomes bulkier. He briefly appears in Sonic Adventure after Sonic or Tails fights Eggman for the first time, and is never fought. Knuckles also meets Chaos 1 in the Hotel room just before Chaos 1 transforms into Chaos 2.
[edit] Chaos 2
Chaos is much stronger after absorbing two Emeralds. It is taller and more muscular. The bones that were in Chaos 1's right arm now run along both of Chaos 2's arms and now both hands have Emeralds. Its head has moved forward, giving it a more unpleasant appearance, the horns on his head have also changed position to give it a hammerhead style look. It has also developed new powers like a blue energy shield to prevent frontal attacks and the ability to transform into a huge ball, several small orbs, or waves of water. Knuckles the Echidna fights it in the Hotel Restaurant in Station Square. Sonic, Knuckles and Tails later meet Chaos 2 by the pool of water in the Mystic Ruins just before Chaos 2 becomes Chaos 4.
[edit] Chaos 3
Chaos 3 was never shown in Sonic Adventure due to the circumstances of absorbing two Emeralds at once. However, in Sonic X, it looked similar to Chaos 2, only less bulky.
[edit] Chaos 4
Chaos changes considerably after absorbing four Chaos Emeralds. It is now a huge shark-like creature with razor like fins. It fights Sonic, Tails and Knuckles in a small pond in the Mystic Ruins, but is defeated. Its new powers include being able to fire energy waves, swimming at high speeds, creating water explosions, and turning into four balls that bounce toward the player. If Chaos 4 is out of water it simply floats in the air. The third and fourth Emeralds Chaos absorbed are now located in its belly.
[edit] Chaos 5
Chaos 5, like Chaos 3, was never shown in Sonic Adventure due to the circumstances of absorbing two Emeralds at once. In Sonic X, it looks similar to an overgrown shrimp.
[edit] Chaos 6
After absorbing six emeralds, Chaos has changed dramatically once again. It is no longer even vaguely humanoid, but a twenty-five foot tall scorpion-like creature. It also has eight or more eyes, a bulldog-like head and a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth. Its tail is tipped with a pendulum type blade. Both Sonic and Knuckles fight Chaos 6 on the Egg Carrier and Big the Cat fishes Froggy out from inside Chaos. Chaos' new powers include creating powerful shockwaves and trying to inhale enemies to eat them. He can also make dozens of spikes stick out of his body and smash enemies with his huge tail. The Emeralds it absorbed are now all around its body.
[edit] Perfect Chaos
After absorbing the negative energies of all seven Chaos Emeralds, Chaos has become a god of pure destruction and chaos. It has become a giant snake-like beast with a mouth extending far beyond its eyes, which for the first time have pupils that resemble a reptile's. At the base of its snake-like body seems to be a huge whirlpool and cyclone. It has large tentacles extending from its base. Perfect Chaos' new powers include creating small tornadoes and fireballs and firing a huge energy beam from its mouth. In Sonic X, Perfect Chaos gains a few more powers, like absorbing projectiles like a sponge and then shooting them back at the attacker through its mouth, using its tentacles to attack, and creating crystal spires and an energy shield. It is the last boss in Sonic Adventure, where only Super Sonic has the power to take it down. It should be noted that Perfect Chaos' energy beam has an uncanny resemblance to Godzilla's Atomic Ray and that Perfect Chaos himself looks like Godzilla's rival Biollante. Also the fact that it destroyed a city may have led SEGA to giving it resemblances to kaiju.
In its Perfect form, Chaos was quickly able to shoot down Eggman's Egg Carrier 2, which was a failsafe in case Chaos rebelled.
Some say that Perfect Chaos is Chaos' negative super form. In the Sonic X comic book, in which it absorbed the positive energy of the emeralds to take down Eggman's mecha, Chaos' positive super form simply looked like an oversized version of Chaos 0 with the seven Emeralds in its forehead.
[edit] Artificial Chaos
Artificial Chaos are robotic enemies that appear in Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog. The latter explains that the renowned scientist professor Gerald Robotnik had built them as experiments, and based them on "a god of an ancient culture", which is, of course, Chaos. After being created, the experiments went out of control and starting attacking anyone in sight.
In Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow himself appears to have a flashback to his time on the ARK, during the time when the Artificial Chaos went out of control. In the flashback stage, the player can choose to find and destroy them all, or simply stay away to make sure the professor is safe. In any case, the experiments were subdued, and it seems they were perfected as they appeared in Sonic Adventure 2, where they protected the Space Colony ARK. In the stage "The ARK" in Shadow the Hedgehog, Black Doom states that "they are ours now", suggesting that the Black Arms somehow took control of the Articial Chaos.
The Artificial Chaos are generally large pillars or floating orbs of water, with a mechanical head shaped like Chaos 0's towering on top. They exist in two different versions; P-1 and P-100. P-1:s fight by stabbing their enemies with quick, extremely accurate tentacles of water, or by firing lasers from their green eyes. P-100 Artificial Chaos can split their liquid bodies into dozens of small blue drones (known as Cells) that are controlled by the floating robotic head, but are not armed with lasers. Some Artificial Chaos seem to lack any intelligence or aiming abilities at all, and simply spin around, shooting lasers in random directions.
[edit] Theme songs
- "ENEMY: CHAOS" plays during the battles against Chaos 0, 2 and 4.
- "ENEMY: CHAOS ver.6" plays during the battles against Chaos 6.
- "ENEMY: Perfect CHAOS 1st" plays during the first half of the battle against Perfect Chaos. It is the first verse and chorus of "Open Your Heart" on loop.
- "ENEMY: Perfect CHAOS 2nd" plays during the second half of the battle against Perfect Chaos.
- "Chaos Battle" plays if you battle Chaos 0 during the Story Mode of Sonic Battle.
[edit] Other Media
[edit] Archie Comics
The Archie Comics echoed the Sonic Adventure storyline, with a number of variations. Chaos and Tikal were both imprisoned in a Black Chaos Emerald, which was broken open by Robians under the control of Dr. Robotnik. This continuity also featured the Freedom Fighters, who assisted Sonic and Knuckles in the victory over Perfect Chaos.
[edit] Sonic the Comic
In the UK Sonic the Comic comics published by Fleetway, Chaos is depicted as a much more intelligent and evil beast. Rather than being captured within the Master Emerald, Chaos was actually imprisoned by the Echidnas in a mystic container of some sort (showed fairly briefly). Robotnik somehow got a hold of this container, but never unleashed Chaos from his prison. However, his assistant Grimer released him when he saw that Robotnik was depressed after losing to Sonic so many times; Chaos would devastate the planet and Robotnik would, in exchange for being made leader, use his old Chaos Nullifier device to defeat the monster. Unfortunately, Grimer hadn't realised that the Nullifier didn't work and thus Chaos couldn't be stopped...
In the comics, Chaos has a 'fear factor' that instills anyone near him with incredible fear when they are around him, to the point where they fall to their knees petrified. Unlike in the game, in the comic Chaos can talk (though in his first attack he seemed little more than a beast) and is actually a transformed Prosecutor of the Drakon Empire, transformed by Chaos Energy back during the ancient war between the Drakons and the Echidnas.
Chaos attacked the Floating Island in order to absorb the Chaos Emeralds, regaining his intelligence as he came into contact with them; Knuckles was forced to jettison the Emeralds, this sacrificing the Island, and the Freedom Fighters tried to locate them before Chaos could. Unfortunately, Robotnik - attempting to bring about Mobius' destruction - deliberately set things up so they couldn't trace the Emeralds and Chaos would get them all first. The creature transformed into Perfect Chaos (which resembled Chaos 6 from the game). Eventually Super Sonic (who at this point in the comic was separate from normal Sonic) absorbed all of Chaos' energy and Chaos reverts back to his fish state.
In the Fleetway adaptation, Chaos' most infamous act was murdering one of Sonic the Comic's longest running characters, Johnny Lightfoot.
In the unofficial online continuation of Sonic the Comic, Chaos in his fish state became the unlikely companion of Big the Cat. Trapped in this form Chaos is completely powerless and has to rely on the dimwitted Big to aid him in regaining a new body.Although, after giving into hunger Big apparently eats Chaos.(Though it was not shown, but heavily indicated)
[edit] Sonic X
Sonic X episodes 27-32 follow the plotline of Sonic Adventure, resulting in Chaos' presence in those episodes in several of his many forms. However, Chaos' origins differ in the fact that he is described as "liquid Chaos energy" rather than the "God of Destruction".
[edit] Trivia
- In Sonic Adventure 2, it is shown that Chaos has two fictional soft drinks named after itself; Chaos Cola and Chaos Soda. Billboards advertising the drinks appear in several stages.
- Also in Sonic Adventure 2, Chaos 0 can be seen on billboards advertiseing a fictional movie named Planet of the Chaos, apparently based on Planet of the Apes.
- There are special Chao classified as "Chaos Chao".
| Heroes | Sonic (Super Sonic) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Cream | Silver | Big | Chaotix (Vector, Espio, Charmy) | Blaze | Mighty |
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| Neutral/Anti-heroes | Shadow | Rouge | E-123 Omega | Chaos | E-102 Gamma | Emerl | Babylon Rogues | G.U.N. |
| Villains | Dr. Eggman | Metal Sonic | Fang the Sniper | Badniks | E-Series | Biolizard | Black Arms | Black Doom | Mephiles |
| Miscellaneous | Gerald Robotnik | Maria | Tikal | Chao | Princess Elise | Vanilla | Flicky | Minor characters | Echidnas | Aliens | Deities | List of all game characters |
