Characters / Skylanders Academy

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Playable Characters: Air | Life | Undead | Earth | Fire | Water | Magic (Spyro) | Tech | Dark | Light | Guests
NPCs: Villains (Kaos, Trap Team Villains) | Other Skyland Dwellers
Other Media: The Mask of Power | Skylanders Academy

The current protectors of Skylands.^note Clockwise from the top: Spyro, Eruptor, Pop Fizz, Stealth Elf, Jet-Vac and Master Eon. Not pictured: Kaos and Glumshanks.

Team Spyro

In General

• Conservation of Ninjutsu: A unique example in that it isn't applied to any one on the team, but rather to every villain who battles them. Despite their and Master Eon's high belief in teamwork, the team actually tends to lose a majority of the time they fight together. And oddly, a majority of the moments when team members are fighting either on their own or in a team of two, they win a lot more.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Some of them don't start out on the best of terms, many of those relationships having Spyro in them. But thanks to Character Development, everyone starts understanding and care for one another, resulting in them becoming True Companions.
• Non-Indicative Name: The name of the team is never stated to be Team Spyro, but outside sources refers to them as such. Despite this, the actual leader is Jet-Vac, not Spyro.

Spyro

See his page here.

Stealth Elf

”And knowing you can do it is the key to hitting your mark."

Voiced by Ashley Tisdale (English)
Mimmi Olsen (Swedish)

An elf who's been friends with Spyro and Eruptor since the day they first enrolled in the academy. Although she appears to not be the social type and more the action type, she still cares for her friends.

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• The Ace: As the one on the team who during her school years was and still is the most dedicated to her training, she grew to become the best Skylander in terms of combat among the current ones, which is what made her the most recent Skylander who got to give a Skills, Element and Defense talk, an appointment only given to the most skillful. Cadets at the academy also want to be tutored by her for this reason, as when some were recieving their senior advisors in "Belly of the Beast", all of the cadets present (except Cynder, who immediately chose Spyro) wanted her.
• Ace Pilot: Her most used SuperCharger is the helicopter Stealth Stinger, which was also her signature vehicle in SuperChargers.
• Action Girl: The only female member of the main cast, and by far one of the most competent members of the team, capable of taking on Wolfgang in a hand-to-hand fight and win.
• Affectionate Nickname: Is often called "Elfy" by the other characters.
• Badass Adorable: A ninja who has super speed (that is more treated as teleportation), is had good at dual wielding and acrobatics, and have a plethora of ninja skills, and is also a cute dorky elf with Expressive Ears and is supportive and always there for her friends.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She’s a girl and she’s always wearing a crop top.
• Best Friend: She and Spyro are best friends.
• Blank White Eyes: Gives off the impression at first glance, until you notice that she actually has blue-white sclera and pure white pupils. Though those are only reserved for the audience, as Eruptor remarks in "Dream Girls" that she has completely white eyes that makes reading her emotions kind of difficult.
• Brain Bleach: Seeing Kaos' memories and fantasies due to Stealth Elf getting trapped in his head is something she is never gonna unsee.
• Broken Pedestal: Was this when she realized Eon was lying about having no knowledge of Strykore and came to the realization he'd also been lying about not knowing about the fate of Spyro's species. She seems to be over this by the next episode, however.
• Cool Mask: Actually averted for the most part in the show outside its opening. Unlike the games, where the bottom half of her face is always covered, she goes maskless here, only putting it on occasionally when in a combat situation.
• Deadpan Snarker: Whenever she gets enough of Spyro’s egotistical behavior.
• Dual Wielding: A pair of fist blades, which are her 3rd Tier attack upgrade from the game, the Elven Sunblades. Which, for added cool, are fashioned from a set of dragon fangs.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She does not take kindly to learning that Spyro is working for Strykore. It especially stings for her because she had the feeling that he was evil in some way, but was really hoping for it to not be true. But instead of wallowing in the revalation, she heads out of the room to tell the others.
• Expressive Ears: In addition to the usual drooping when frightened or nervous, when she gets mad or annoyed with someone, they flare out to the sides and twist forward to slightly resemble ram horns.
• Fangirl: To Ninjini, having looked up to her since Elf was a child. Her praise towards Ninjini stemming from being said fangirl is the motivation Ninjini needed to feel confident in her abilities and train Elf.
  • She also loves various In-Universe shows about fighting and everything in them. Everything except Berserker of course.
• Fate Worse than Death: Before she figures out that she is trapped in Kaos' head in "Space Invaders", she believes that she got killed and is in heaven. When she realizes where she actually is, she assures herself "No, not heaven".
• Forgot About His Powers: Her Super-Speed when she is invisible makes her a really dangerous enemy for the villains. So much that she doesn’t seem to use it that much because it would make for an unfair fight despite being highly useful. For instance, in the first episode, she is the only one of the Skylanders who makes no attempts to stop Kaos and take back the Book of Skylanders, instead just standing back while everyone else fails to do so.
• A Friend in Need: Upon hearing what the danger the team need to go to in order to turn Dark Spyro back into regular Spyro, Stealth Elf is the first one to speak up about being willing to do it for Spyro.
• Hates Being Touched: While she claims to dislike public displays of affection, she does sometimes do her own acts of hugging people. Seeing as she’s okay with that and not when others do it, it most likely is this trope.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: A non-verbal example. She says in "Space Invaders" that she doesn’t like public displays of affection, yet unleashes her own affections on Spyro from time to time.
• Morality Pet: Due to being Spyro's best friend, she is the one who Dark Spyro is the most cautious and concerned about hurting on orders from Strykore, like how he was hesitant to use a spell that would turn her evil and then after doing it, he heads out to save her from falling into darkness completely. It gets deconstructed, however, as she's also highly suspicious of him and all of his kind acts to her just fuels her suspicion.
• Nice Girl: She's selfless, heroic and very supportive, as long as they aren't too arrogant.
• Ninja: Her design definitely gives off this look.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being the Only Sane Woman of the group, she sometimes does do the same incompetent stuff her teammates do, such as believing themselves to be the ultimate protectors of Skylands in “Sky Hard” and helping Jet-Vac find his footing as a leader by treating him like a father in “Who’s Your Daddy?”.
• Only Sane Woman: She tends to be the voice of reason in her group.
  • In season 3, she's the only one who finds Spyro's new dark persona suspicious based on his explained reason for why it happened as well as other circumstances that surronds it, while everyone else doesn't question it.
• Parental Abandonment: She, like Spyro, grew up as an orphan. So during the holidays when all of her friends were visiting their families (or tagging along to someone else’s family in Spyro’s case), she was alone training at the academy. Doing this every holiday made her convince herself that being alone doing what she loved most of all makes her happy, which is why she has such a love for fighting and training.
• The Perils of Being the Best: She enjoys training and is at the top of the class in that regard, but she gets nervous about having to perform a SED talk (Skills, Elements and Defense), feeling like she isn’t up to the same standards as those who previously gave talks. With some encouragement from her friends and a fight against Dreamcatcher, she overcomes her insecurities.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Spyro and Eruptor.
• The Rival: To Berserker in the episode he appears in.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: When she discovers that Eon lied to her about knowing who Strykore is and figuring out that he must have lied about Spyro's ancestors as well, she tells Spyro first and never brings this up to Eon.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Her combat capabilities are clearly apparent and she wears a sleeveless crop top.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female member of the team.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Occasionally uses her teleportation to do this. Eruptor nearly has a heart attack when she does it to him in the first episode.
• Strong and Skilled: She is a master of maneuvers thanks to her speed and invisibility, and can use it to beat baddies twice her size.
• Super-Speed: While her poof ability seems like teleportation, she is actually super fast. She seems to also be faster when she is going invisible. Averted in Season 3, where she outright says that she teleports.
• Super-Speed Reading: In "The Hole Truth", she easily finishes the prison manual in a matter of seconds.
• World's Best Warrior: Is shown to be the most capable fighter of any present day Skylander and can win fights all on her own (when she teams up with her teammates, though, not so much).

Eruptor

”I AM NOT GRUMPY! (shoots lava out of his head) That’s, grumpy."

Voiced by Jonathan Banks (English)
Mattias Knave (Swedish)

A lava creature with a short temper and high emotional tipping points. Been friends with Spyro and Stealth Elf since they enrolled in the academy together.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: In the games, he was not portrayed as a particularly smart person, but not completely delusional. This show, however, has made him a genius ever since he was born.
• Adaptational Skill: His amazing analysis ability that allows him to freeze time and solve mysteries in seconds.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Part of him being a genius is being able to slow down time in his head and look at clues around the surrounding area to solve mysteries and/or figure out what happened. This immediately gets praised by the team and gets seen as a useful tool. When the praise of his newfound power gets to his head and him into trouble, he decided to bury this power within him for good.
• Bear Hug: Gives one to Dark Spyro in “The Truth is in Here”.
• Big Brother Instinct: The biggest one of his many Berserk Buttons is to harm Stealth Elf.
• Big Fun: Big, cheery and kind.
• The Big Guy: Doesn’t get many opportunities to show it, but he is the muscle of the team.
• Blessed with Suck: Views his genius as this at the end of the episode about it. He feels like it makes him full of himself and raises too many expectations of him, wishing to go back to being the regular Eruptor.
• Butt-Monkey: Not as bad as Glumshanks but things do tend to go badly for him.
• Cephalothorax: He has no head, his face instead being part of his torso.
• Depending on the Writer: In his focus episodes, he can be mature and be good at holding his emotions in check, but when he is a side character, he is much more emotional. He also seems to be flip-flopping between being more naive and actually being stupid.
• Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: In "Days of Future Crash", just before he, Dark Spyro and Crash Bandicoot are about to go back to their own time and leave the nightmarish Skylands, he finds the other timeline's versions of their friends frozen. Not wanting them to remain this way, Eruptor closes the portal back to their time so he and the other two can stay for a little while so they can help them.
• Dumb Muscle: Not Dumb exactly, but he does tend to be slower then the others.
  • However, his episode in Season 2 reveals he has a genius-level intelligence, completely inverting this trope.
• Genius Ditz: Turns out to be this, being actually super smart and is only hiding it because it gives him splitting headaches.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: In "Anger Mismanagement", he swallows Pepper Jack's burrito bombs. The explosion reduces him to a puddle of lava, which promptly reconstitutes back into himself.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Has this in the episode focusing on him. He gets better; then reverts back to his old self, albeit, later episodes do show him more generally even tempered.
  • Best demonstrated in the first episode when he literally blows his top and showers a field with lava when he's grumpy.
• Hidden Depths: Can whip up a mean batch of pancakes, and in general seems to be something of a foodie. And he's a lot smarter than he looks.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Needs to learn how to fully use his genius. Not because he doesn’t know how to use it, but because he doesn’t want to use it because it gives him headaches.
• Hyper-Awareness: In the form of a Sherlock Scan, however, using this talent gives him a massive headache and serious eye strain.
• Jerkass Ball: In “Elementary, My Dear Eruptor” (where his supergenius is introduced), he lets the usefulness of his analysis powers go to his head, believing that his powers should be the go-to solution after just getting praise for them.
  • Also in that episode, there is a scene where he discovers various characters’ secrets, claiming them to be safe with him when he just flat out said them without any regard for the people having said secrets. And unlike the above point, this is something that he never gets called out on.
• Magma Man: He's made of rock and lava and has fire based powers.
• Manchild: Aside from his tempar tantrums being of the explosive kind (quite literally), he has a hard time keeping his emotions in check as a whole.
• Mundane Utility: Often puts his immense natural body heat to use for cooking.
• Nice Guy: One of the nicest members of the team. He is the most supportive of his teammates and even if he has anger issues, he never directs it at any individuals (except maybe Spyro). His biggest act of miscreant is suspecting Kaossandra to be a mole for Strykore and even that is because he doesn’t want anyone of his friends to be the actual mole.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He appears to not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but is revealed to actually be a genius who can masterfully analyze rooms to solve mysteries and discover what happened in certain areas. He doesn’t use this because it gives him headaches. Since he doesn’t mention a way of turning off his genius, he likely is only pretending to be ditzy so nobody suspects him of actually being smart.
• Playing with Fire: He loves taking out enemies in fiery explosions.
• Red Is Heroic: He is a Skylander and is red, the main color of the fire element.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The cautious and friendly Sensitive Guy to Spyro’s Manly Man.
• Smarter Than You Look: He is revealed to have actually aced his previous tests and is a master of analyzing rooms to solve mysteries.
• Stress Vomit: In "Spyromania", he spews lava out of nervousness over being on camera.
• Supreme Chef: Loves cooking and often uses his body to heat up the ingredients.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Starts as this with Spyro. The lava creature is constantly annoyed by the dragon’s ego while the latter often teases the former for his temper. But in the end, they are still friends and develop themselves to become better.

Jet-Vac

”It’s high time you learn to do things the Skylander way!"

Voiced by Greg Ellis (credited as Jonny Rees) (English)
Göran Berlander (Swedish)
Martial Le Minoux (French)

An eagle-like bird who is one of the eldest Skylanders. He joins up with the three young Skylanders and serves as the team’s leader and engineer.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In both the games and the show, he gave his wings away to help a greater cause. But in the show, while it is implied that he did that, he also had a strict father who turned him into someone who’s afraid of admitting fear.
• Affectionate Nickname: JV.
• An Arm and a Leg: Apparently, he had wings once but lost them in a heroic act at some point.
• Animal Gender-Bender: Despite being male, he frequently lays eggs when he gets scared.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Sports some feather-like ones.
• Blue Is Heroic: His outfit is mostly blue and he is one of the oldest Skylanders of the academy.
• The Bore: According to Dark Spyro, he is the boring one of the team, and his lectures don't appear to be that exciting either. Even he himself seems to think so, as when he was under Dark Spyro's truth curse in "The Truth is in Here", he reads a student's teacher evaluation of him that says how boring his lectures is, which Jet-Vac describes as "horribly forthcoming".
• Bothering by the Book: When attempting to respond to a forest fire, he makes everyone sit down and read the SuperChargers' instruction manuals. By the time they've finished reading and got to the scene, two other Skylanders had already put out the fire.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Plops out an egg whenever he’s afraid. He sees his eggs as proof that he is not a competent leader due to his father tutoring him into seeing fear as a weakness.
• Cool Old Guy: He may be old enough to use "whippersnapper" unironically, but he knows exactly how to go undercover at a rock festival.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": He shows off some of his rock n' roll moves that he thinks will help him blend in with the crowd at the music festival in "Pop Rocks", and he ends up taking in too hard and pulls something. It happens again at the end of the episode.
• Egg-Laying Male: Lays eggs as a male bird and it’s not treated as something unusual. Though the exception to this is that they never hatch.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Becomes this with Spyro.
• Freudian Excuse: "Who's Your Daddy?" reveals that his behavior stems from a controlling father who essentially threatened to disown him if he ever made a mistake.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He is the team’s tech expert with his Vac-Gun being one of the most complex pieces of machinery in Skylands.
• Ice-Cream Koan: While he does sometimes have wise things to say, most of his attempts end up like this.
  Jet-Vac: The road not taken is a mystery because you took the other road!
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Strict towards his teammates (mostly Spyro) about doing how he thinks things should be done, but he still cares about them and wants to bring out the best in them.
• Jerkass Realization: Eon showing him the benefits of acting on impulse is what makes Jet-Vac realize that he’s been too hard on Spyro.
• Jerkass to One: To Spyro at the start of the show about the two’s different ways of acting during situations.
  • Later to Sprocket when she seems to be taking his place in the team.
• Jet Pack: Has one on his back, but doesn’t use it until season 3.
• The Leader: Despite the name of the team being named after Spyro, Jet-Vac is the actual leader.
• Never My Fault: In “My Way or the Sky Way”, he does not seem to see that his way of planning during a crisis can have consequences and when Spyro does the opposite to not let things get worse, Jet-Vac sees the problem as Spyro not knowing how to do things “the Skylander way”.
• Older and Wiser: He tries very hard to present himself as this by telling the younger Skylanders and cadets various messages and inspirational quotes that usually ends up Metaphorgotten. The other characters do appreciate the advice he's trying to give, but they are still confused by the way he's trying to tell them. In fact, it makes them view him as boring.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Of the two professors at the academy, Jet-Vac is the Blue and Pop Fizz is the Red. Jet-Vac is a more careful and collected person who believes highly that stuff should be done by the book while Pop Fizz is a Mad Scientist with no regards to safety.
• Second Episode Introduction: Although he had a few lines and actions of characterization in the first episode “Skylanders Unite!”, the following episode “My Way or the Sky Way”, is the episode that establishes Jet-Vac the most, giving him more character actions and explains a part of his backstory.
• Skewed Priorities: He believes that planning ahead instead of just acting is so important that he thinks hat fully understanding the team's SuperCharger vehicle should be done before they head out to stop the Falling Forest from burning down.
• The Smart Guy: Usually... until he needs to improvise.
• The Strategist: He prefers to make plans and act accordingly rather than improvising.
• Team Dad: Not to the extent of Master Eon, but it's there.
• Toothy Bird: Zig-Zagged. We don't see Jet-Vac with any teeth, which is normal. This was given a reason in an earlier draft of "My Way or the Sky Way" when an accident caused him to lose them because of his recklessness. But in "A Traitor Among Us", he has two toothbrushes in order to fight tooth decay better.
• Weapons That Suck: His Vac Gun's main feature is sucking in objects and then firing them back, just like it functioned in the games. It also has a magnet function which works pretty much the exact same way, only that it only works on metal.
• Weird Beard: His large ruff of feathers certainly gives the visual impression of one.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He grew up doing everything his father wanted him to do.
• You Remind Me of X: He tells Spyro that he used to be like the dragon when he was younger. Reckless, egotistical, a bit dumb and used to act first without thinking of the consequences, until he lost something valuable to him. He wants his teammates to plan ahead instead of winging it so the same thing doesn’t happen to them.

Pop Fizz

”Just do what I do whenever I can’t figure something out. Close your eyes and hope for the best!"

Voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait (English)
Dick Eriksson (Swedish)

A gremlin who is one of the eldest Skylanders. He joins up with the three young Skylanders after revealing himself to have been living in their basement and fights with potions.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Pop.
• Alchemy Is Magic: Uses potions to attack and is of the magic element.
• Anti-Magic: In one episode, he makes a potion that makes him immune to Wolfgang's music. Side effects include memory loss.
• Blue Is Heroic: His fur is dark blue and he is one of the oldest Skylanders of the academy.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While no one would doubt Pop Fizz' insanity, he makes some incredibly useful potions.
• Cephalothorax: He has no head, his face instead being part of his torso.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's completely insane, he tests his potions on himself, and he's the only one in Skylands who seems to understand what the word "irony" actually means.
• Dreadful Musician: While in the past he was in a famous music duo with Wolfgang, in the present, his tuba playing skills are not so much on point. And judging by other characters’ reactions to it, he doesn’t either seem to have a good singing voice.
• Genius Ditz: He is the team’s alchemist and is a professor at the Academy, but also a CloudCuckooLander.
• Hidden Depths: If it seems like he committed a crime, and there is not enough evidence for either side, he is willing to take the justice side and turn himself in.
• Honor Before Reason: When he seems to have committed bank robbery and can’t remember if he really did it or not, he believes that he should be arrested rather than try to remember what happened or prove otherwise.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He is a valuable member on the side of good, despite being insane. As such, he doesn't have nearly the same amount of growth as a character as the other team members and other characters have.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: In "In Like Flynn", he often gets left out as his friends and other characters don't even notice him being there, or even that he goes missing for half the episode. Even though we've never seen him been treated like this at any point prior.
• Older Than They Look: He was enrolled as a cadet at the same time as Jet-Vac, and the two of them are some of the oldest Skylanders who graduated from the academy. While Jet-Vac does look the part, Pop Fizz doesn't anything look like an elderly person. Flashbacks to his time as a musical duo with Wolfgang tries to make him look younger by making him not as hairy as he is in the present.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He's essentially the clown of the group.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Every time he makes a brand new potion, he uses the same test subject over and over - himself!
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Of the two professors at the academy, Pop Fizz is the red and Jet-Vac is the blue. Pop Fizz is a Mad Scientist who does things without thinking while Jet-Vac is a much more responsible Skylander who does things by the book and tries to get others to do the same. Pop Fizz also doesn't take his position as a professor that seriously, as he attends the graduation party Spyro throws for himself, Stealth Elf and Eruptor while Jet-Vac most certainly does not.
• Secret-Keeper: Played for Laughs. Spyro says that Pop Fizz is the perfect guy to tell a secret to because he will forget about it soon after.
• The Smart Guy: Of a sort.
• We Used to Be Friends: Used to be in a band with Wolfgang, but left because of Wolfgang's ego.

Other Heroes

Master Eon

”Who knows? You may have a more powerful beard than even mine waiting to sprout."

Voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos English)
Hans Wahlgren (Season 1 & 2), Anders Byström (Season 3) (Swedish)

The head of the academy- a powerful sorcerer who attempts to teach the Skylanders life lessons. He has acted as a father figure to Spyro ever since he found the dragon as a hatchling.

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• Adaptational Comic Relief: In the game series, he always acted as a wise leader to the Skylanders and their allies and as a Spirit Advisor to the player. Here, he has a lot more quirky hobbies, is more sustained to Amusing Injuries and the show doesn’t hide how much love and confidence he has for his magical beard and plays it for laughs mostly.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: At the end of season 3, he becomes a spirit after preventing a collapsing Conquertron from destroying the Core of Light.
• Avengers Assemble: "SKYLANDERS, UNITE!"
• Big Good: The head of Skylander Academy and training its heroes.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He is a strange man with a very odd fixation on his beard. He's also one of the strongest heroes in Skylands, a fairly competent leader, and on top of his magic, he has an entire martial art style based around his beard that's surprisingly effective.
• Cain and Abel: He is the Abel to Strykore's Cain.
• Cool Old Guy: He's been around for a while, but age hasn't slowed him down in the slightest.
• The Corruption: At the end of season 1, he has to use Kaossandra’s Book of Dark Magic in order to make a rift that will send Crash Bandicoot back to his homeworld. But in doing so, the darkness inside got a hold of him, which also makes him sick. In the following episode, the pressure for the Skylanders to find a cure rises when Eon is shown to become more and more influenced by the darkness, almost dropping Hugo off the academy all while screaming that he shall destroy him.
• Genius Bruiser: He's not bad in a fight (when he gets to partake, anyway), and is incredibly intelligent.
• Gone Horribly Right: After he had to banish all of the great dragons he was sworn to protect, Eon took care of the only one that remained in Skylands. And throughout Spyro's upbringing, Eon always told him of how he was destined for greatness, no doubt wanting Spyro to live up to the legendary dragons of old, and it helped Spyro get one of the highest admission scores ever. But he encouraged the dragon a bit too much, as it made him grow into an egomaniac who barely passes his classes towards his last years. And Eon is well aware that he has no one to blame but himself. Not to mention, all the implications of his greatness is also what eventually makes Spyro want to learn more about his dragon family, which was something Eon hoped would never happen.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When the Arkeyan Conquertron is about to fall over and crush the Core of Light, Eon rushes ahead and conjures up a barrier to protect it. However, he had shared his magic with Kaossandra earlier in the episode, making him not powerful enough to sustain the explosion from the robot, taking him with it.
• Hypocrite:
  • He teaches Dark Spyro in "The Truth is in Here" about how it is important to hear out other's opinions and understand other points of views, but in "Split" when he asks Dark Spyro whether he prefers moustaches or beards and he answers moustaches, Eon takes it personally, saying that a good Spyro "would never hurt his feelings like that".
  • When Strykore is released back into Skylands, Eon tells his comrades that from that moment onward, there will be no more secrets between them all and reveals his and Strykore's relation to each other. Despite this, he keeps another major secret hidden from them all; that he is Kaos' actual father, which he doesn't reveal until he's forced to do so.
• I Did What I Had to Do: In order to save Skylands in the past, Master Eon was forced to banish Spyro's entire species into another realm. He has held immense guilt over this ever since. When he tries explaining it to Spyro, he only ends up winning the dragon's resentment.
• It's All My Fault: He knows that he was the one who fed Spyro with so much praise during the dragon's upbringing that he's responsible for Spyro getting a massive ego.
  • After Spyro leaves him for what he did to Spyro's dragon kind, he blames no one else but himself for why that happened.
• Jerkass Ball: Towards Spyro in season 2, whenever Spyro keeps asking him about his kind. After a brief fight, he tells Spyro to just let it go.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: In the season 3 finale, he reveals that he is the father of Kaos.
• Manly Facial Hair: His beard is the source of his power, to the extent that, when deprived of it, he can't even get other people to notice him, much less heed his words. It's also literal, as he's able to manipulate it and fight with it surprisingly effectively.
• Manly Tears: In "The People vs. Pop Fizz", after he has to place Pop Fizz under arrest for alleged bank robbery and orders him to be put into custody, he uses his beard to wipe out a tear from one of his eyes.
• The Mentor: To the entire team, and Spyro in particular, he is a teacher.
• Mr. Fanservice: "Three Sides to Every Story" has him returning from the lake, wearing only a towel around his torso, showing off how muscular his body is◊.
• Must Make Amends: After he revealed to Spyro what he had done to his ancestors and seeing Spyro going to lengths such as visiting Malefor to find the world where they were sent, Eon becomes crippled with guilt for keeping this away from him and when Spyro does return to the academy, Eon says that he wants to make it up to Spyro by helping the dragon find his ancestors. Unfortunately, he tells all of this to Dark Spyro, who unlike regular Spyro, doesn't care about his ancestors and tells Eon that it is no big deal so he would stop bothering him in his mission to find the Map to Arkus for Strykore. At the end of the show, however, Eon getting Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence allows him to find the world where Spyro's family ended up, and offers him to follow Eon to it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After Spyro learns the truth about his kind, which leads to him confronting Malefor and being captured by Kaos.
• My Greatest Failure: Not being able to prevent Strykore from corrupting the line of dragons, which then forced Eon to use his magic to banish them to another realm, and he is not even sure if they survived.
• Oracular Head: As a Mythology Gag to the games, he'll occasionally do this when speaking to the Skylanders from afar.
• Papa Wolf: After Spyro goes missing at the end of season 2, Eon makes finding Spyro priority number one for him and the Skylanders. Also in “Touch of Evil” when he and the Skylanders knew that Malefor has him, Eon leads the Skylanders to attack Malefor, all so he can give them Spyro back.
• Related in the Adaptation: He is Kaos' father as revealed in the finale.
• Renaissance Man: He's not just the headmaster of the academy, he's also a teacher from time to time, a judge, an active defender of Skylands and fights in the battles against evil, has written an autobiography, and has also released a podcast about beards.
  Eruptor: For a guy running a magical academy, you sure have a lot of free time on your hands.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: After the Great War, Eon got rid of everything regarding what happened to Spyro's ancestors so that Spyro would never find out about what happened. Unfortunately, this is what not only fuels Spyro's desire to discover more about them even more, it also makes him more suspicious of Eon's knowledge about the subject. And when Spyro does figure out that Eon has been lying to him and plans to withdraws from being a Skylander because of it, that's when Eon is forced to reveal to Spyro what happened.
• Serious Business: His beard, and facial hair in general. He views himself as useless unless he has his beard on, treats shaving it like he's doing the ultimate sacrifice and has made a podcast about having beard.
• Tragic Keepsake: A fossil that resembles the end of Spyro's tail, which is from one of the young dragon's ancestors. He originally had it hidden under a rock in the Falling Forest, but when Spyro started getting curious about his dragon family, he had it moved to the relics room.

Hugo

Voiced by Harland Williams (English)
Jakob Stadell (Swedish)

Master Eon's assistant- tends to be either taking notes or suffering from the aftereffects of the plot.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: He's definitely more snarky and rude in this version.
• Blind Without 'Em: He gets a muddled sight whenever he loses his glasses.
• Butt-Monkey: Scared of what are normally harmless creatures, repeatedly falls victim to villains' plots, etc.
• Nerd Glasses: Continually sports a pair.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Hugo wants to be more heroic like the Skylanders even though he is currently Eon's assistant, and so takes any chance he can at making himself look like it, no matter if the one he's talking to actually meant to highlight it. Such as in "One Flu Over the Skylanders' Nest" where Eon asks him to assemble a B Team of cadets while he and the main team are stuck in quarantine, Hugo sees this as Eon finally recognizing his talents and appoints himself as the leader of the team.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has a deep-seated phobia of sheep. This is a bit of a problem because sheep are everywhere in Skylands. It's even the reason why Kaos was able to get his hands on the Book of Skylanders in the first place.

Cy

”I’m the real peel!"

Voiced by Dan Middleton (English)

An Imaginator created by the main heroes.

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• Anthropomorphic Food: Partially. His head is a banana, and it may or may not be edible.
• Birds of a Feather: He becomes friends with Bad Breath in "Belly of the Beast" over both of them being ostracized by other students.
• Catchphrase: "I'm the real peel!" His fondness for catchphrases soon rubs off on the main heroes.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He had a major appearance in at least one episode of the first two seasons, but is then inexplicably absent in the third season and is not even mentioned at any point, despite King Pen having an important role in the first episode.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Seeing as he was created by the team's imaginations and doesn't have much outside experiences beyond training with King Pen, he naturally becomes this. Best shown at the end of "Belly of the Beast", where he thinks that everyone was created by having their bodies stitched together by someone's imaginations.
• Guest-Star Party Member: No doubt as a promotion for the most recent game in the series, plus he's voiced by a notable Youtuber.
• Improbable Weapon User: He has guns built into his arms that shoot potatoes.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: He's made out of an assortment of mismatched parts. He has a banana head, Spyro's horns, dragon wings, a wooden tiki torso, robot arms, skeletal legs and wolf feet.
• Nice Guy: Kind to everyone. Even after other cadets were jealous of him for automatically becoming a Skylander, he holds no disdain towards them.

King Pen

Voiced by Daniel Wu (English)

A old ally of Eon.

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• Adaptational Wimp: Zig-Zagged. In the games, he’s the leader of the senseis and a great brawler. In the show, while he is still a good fighter, as he could defend himself against Kaos and Dark Spyro blindfolded in "Power Struggle", he still gets captured by them after he accidentally walks into an icicle that knocks him out, after he had already beaten them, no less. And in general, he spends a majority of his appearances being a Distressed Dude.
• Defiant Captive: Even when he's kidnapped by Strykore in "Power Struggle" and sentenced to torture so he will reveal where the Lost Island of Arkus is, he refuses to tell his captors anything. Subverted then, however, when Spyro simply threatens him with his new dark powers, he gives in and tells them what they want to know.
• Disappointed in You: Is not proud of Cy when he doesn’t seem to be able to help the team improve their teamwork the first time.
• Distressed Dude: He is taken captive and put in a weak state on two occasions. First in "Belly of the Beast" where he gets eaten by the Fire Viper and passes out from the heat inside of it and second in "Power Struggle" where he gets kidnapped by Kaos and Dark Spyro for Strykore. And according to Pop Fizz in the latter episode, King Pen getting kidnapped is a pretty common occurence.
• Logical Weakness: Being a penguin-like creature, he doesn't do well in overly-warm environments. After being Swallowed Whole by a Fire Viper in "Belly of the Beast", he's left delirious and barely able to move.
• Saying Too Much: In his delirious state, he lets slip a hint to the fate of Spyro's species.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • As one of Eon's oldest friends and allies, he is one of the few characters who knows about what actually happened at the end of the Great War, involving everything about Strykore and what happened to Spyro's family.
  • His line of master senseis holds the secret of where the Lost Island of Arkus is, and they always keep it well-guarded. Then it's revealed that King Pen actually don't know where the island is, just that the map to is somewhere inside Skylander Academy.

The Otherworldly Hero (SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED)

Crash Bandicoot

Voiced by Eric Rogers (Season 1), Rhys Darby (Season 3) (English)

A hero from another world who is accidentally brought into the Skylands.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Unlike his appearance in his home series and in Skylanders Imaginators, Crash isn't a complete idiot in this show. He's not only able to speak, but has much greater deductive and reasoning skills. In fact, he basically acts as team leader for the duration of his episode.
  • When he reappears in the third season, Crash gets a few more of his classic Cloud Cuckoolander traits, being sillier in general, bad with tech, and occasionally outright foolish.
• Awesome Aussie: Crash has always technically been one, but since he's actually able to speak here, he has the accent to match.
• The Bus Came Back: Was originally only in season 1 for two episodes, one for a cameo and another for a full episode focusing on him, with it seeming like that would be his only appearances in the series, until season 3 brings him back for another two episodes, and serving a purpose in both of them.
• Catchphrase: "Extreme (insert contextual word here)!"
• 11th-Hour Ranger: He and Coco join the final fight against Kaos in the season 3 finale.
• Fake Australian: Speaks in an Australian accent, but is never voiced by an actual australian. In season 1, he’s voiced by series creator Eric Rogers and in season 3, he’s voiced by New Zealander Rhys Darby.
• Funny Animal: He used to be a normal bandicoot, until Dr. Cortex mutated him.
• Guest-Star Party Member: With a none too subtle statement by Eon that Crash might be getting his own show.
  Eon: Yes, Eruptor, Crash was quite the aspirational hero whose wacky adventures would make for addictive weekly viewing.
• Hero of Another Story: He was in the middle of saving Tawna from Dr. Neo Cortex when he was brought into Skylands.
• Leitmotif: The theme from his first game plays on occasion in the background. The characters acknowledge that they can hear it.
• Spin Attack: His main form of attack, of course.
• Suddenly Voiced: Crash is not known for being a talkative character. Normally, he's limited to saying short, simple words (most notably "Woah!"). Later games in the series, plus Skylanders Imaginators, made him into The Unintelligible, speaking only in an incoherent babble. The only prior examples of Crash talking are this Crash 2 promo video and the old commercials, if one could even count those.

Ka-Boom

Voiced by Billy West (English)
Urban Wrethagen (Swedish)

A veteran Skylander whose task is to defend the campus town near the academy. He also works as a Bouncer for certain events.

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• A Day in the Spotlight: Gets more focus in the season 3 episode "Sky Hard".
• Bouncer: He serves as this for the concert in "Pop Rocks", refusing to let anyone in without a ticket.
• Genius Bruiser: He's very large and powerful, but as it turns out he's also very intelligent.
• Hero of Another Story: He's one of the oldest Skylanders and is still active as one. It's just that he's not among the characters we focus on.
• Hidden Depths: Admits to being a fan of Brainteasers and historical romance novels.
• Serious Business: If he is hired to be a bouncer, then that's a job he's going to take very seriously. It's to the point where he won't even let people into their own house if a party's being held there until he sees their names on the list.
  Ka-Boom: I don't make the rules. I just enforce them, Eruptor. NAMES!

Snap Shot

Voiced by Fred Tatasciore (English)
Rennie Mirro (Season 1), Urban Wrethagen (Season 2 & 3) (Swedish)

A veteran Skylander and the warden of Cloudcracker prison.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: He retires from both of his job in the first episode of season 2, only for him to come out of it in season 3 to help better guard the Doom Raiders who had been recaptured.
• Accent Adaptation: While he has the same voice actor from the game series, Snap Shot talked in an Australian accent there, befitting his species. Here he talks in a British accent.
• Bad Boss: When he retired as the warden at Cloudcracker in “Spyromania”, he forces all the guards to attend his retirement party he himself organized and said that if they didn’t, he would cut their payment.
• Good Is Not Nice: As detailed in Bad Boss, he isn't the easiest Skylander to work with or for.
• It's All My Fault: Realizes that he's responsible for the Doom Raiders escaping from Cloudcracker at the end of “The Hole Truth”.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While he is at first very harsh towards Spyro, Stealth Elf, and Eruptor for sending all the Doom Raiders and Kaos to The Hole so they could escape, he does come around to realize that he is mostly to blame by not informing them about the consequences of The Hole, since it wasn't said in the training books. He then warns the three to be more cautious now when the Doom Raiders are on free foot.
• You Don't Look Like You: While nothing has changed in his form or physique, his scales are in a different pattern compared to the games.

Sprocket

”That’s why I’m here. To fix the stuff you don’t understand."

Voiced by Grey DeLisle (English)
Ayla Kabaca (Swedish)

A Skylander who specializes in technology. She joins the main team at certain points to replace unavailable team members.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: After Jet-Vac tries to shut her down from being the team's mechanic by ordering her around (out of his insecurities that she might be better to lead the team than him), she gets pushed to her limits and chews him out for his behaviour.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: Assists the main team several times during the second season, joining permanently in the last couple of episodes.
• Wrench Wench: She has built several inventions, like a grading machine and a power transporter. She is also the mechanic for the SuperChargers, as she gets a notification on her phone when there is something wrong with one.

Flynn

”No, I planned to do something really heroic and save the day at the last possible moment. Kinda my thing."

Voiced by Patrick Warburton (English)
Jakob Stadell (Swedish)
Emmanuel Curtil (French)

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• Adaptational Badass: He's more competent than his game counterpart, being more sincere in helping others and using his ego to drive them forward.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: In the games, he was introduced at the beginning of the first game and became a main-stay in the franchise. In the show, he doesn't appear until the third and final season, and near the middle of it as well.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Deconstructed. In “Off to the Races”, where he uses strict orders to push the Skylanders to give it their all so they can win the race. And while it might give them good results by putting them in high speed, it doesn’t last so long because the Skylanders end up exhausted, putting them behind in the race.
• Drives Like Crazy: His introduction in “In Like Flynn” has him driving his ship into the Academy, and then saying the school scraped his ship.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: In his gentlemen's duel with Fisticuffs, he uses the free shot given to him by the villain and seemingly hits way off the mark... only for Flynn to reveal he was aiming at the anchor hanging right above Fisticuffs' head.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Characters calls him Captain Flynn since he is a pilot, but it seems like Captain really is his first name, as he says himself when he introduces himself to regular Spyro in "Raiders of the Lost Arkus Part 1".
  Flynn: Flynn's the name, first name Captain, as luck would have it, also my profession.
• Indy Ploy: He had a “plan” to beat Fisticuffs by tricking him into standing under the anchor of Flynn's ship so it could be dropped on Fisticuffs. For this plan to work flawlessly…
  • Fisticuffs needed to have made his and Flynn’s duel a quickdraw, something Flynn didn’t plan.
  • Fisticuffs had to give Flynn a small gun while he gets a normal gun, so he can give Flynn a fair shot because the small gun is likely harmless.
  • Flynn using this free shot to shoot at the perfect angle for the bullet to hit the anchor on his ship.
  • Said anchor being just above Fisticuffs to land on him.
  • And lastly, the remote controlling the prison the Skylanders are in to fall out from Fisticuffs so Flynn can free the Skylanders and they can trap Fisticuffs himself in said prison.
• Just in Time: He has a habit of showing up just when the Skylanders are in need of a lift.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Implied. When he and the Skylanders starts getting ahead in the Skylands 500, he shouts "Are you proud of me now, dad?!" towards the sky.

Ally to the otherworldly hero (SPOILERS FOR THE LAST EPISODE)

Coco Bandicoot

Voiced by Tara Strong (English)

The sister to Crash Bandicoot. She and her brother join the Skylanders in the series finale to stop Kaos from destroying the Core of Light.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Zig-Zagged. She is mentioned by past Crash in "Days of Future Crash" and Crash was pulled from his world during the events of the first Crash Bandicoot game, despite the fact that she wasn't in that game at all. But in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, the Flashback Tapes there shows that she was mutated at the same time as Crash and was left at Cortex's lab after Crash escaped. But since It's About Time was released two years after her appearance here, it's more likely that the different versions of Coco were made separately and just so happened to fit together.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She’s a girl and she wears a crop top.
• Battle Boomerang: Coco's main weapon is a techno-boomerang that she can retract and keep on a holster connected to her belt.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Just like she is in the Crash Bandicoot series. She brings with her two gadgets, a boomerang strong enough to knock the Conquertron out of balance, and a gun that she uses to bring down two smaller robots Kaos summons.
• Last Episode, New Character: Her only appearance is in the series finale "Raiders of the Lost Arkus Part 2", making her the last character to be introduced.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite not accomplishing much in the fight against Kaos and his Arkeyan Conquertron, she did give her boomerang to Pop Fizz, who threw it so that it caused Kaos to almost destroy the Core of Light, forcing Eon to sacrifice himself to save it and turning into a spirit.

Academy Cadets

Bad Breath

”Everyone, plug your noses. It’s about to get funky up in here!"

Voiced by John DiMaggio (English)

A Skylander with putrid gas.

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• Aborted Arc: After Kaos' attack on the Skylanders in the pilot episode, Bad Breath was put on hold from becoming a Skylander due to how he couldn't control his burping because of said attack. This is never mentioned again aside from one instance where he said that he was about to become a Skylander, but never is it said if he's making progress in controlling his powers or anything similar.
• Adaptational Heroism: His species, Grumblebum, are never seen as anything other than enemies in Swap Force (the only game where they show up), while this guy is one who is studying to become a Skylander. He was even close to actually becoming one.
• A Day in the Limelight: Gets a major role in the season 2 episode "Belly of the Beast".
• Fartillery: Uses his burps as a means of attack, either to make his opponents faint or burp so hard that he makes a putrid cloud akin to a Fantastic Nuke.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: His stench makes him rather unpleasant to be around. He doesn't seem to mind, though.
• Gasshole: It's his name and his main power.
• The Grotesque: He looks as bad as he smells, with his mustache in particular looking like corny turds. He also seems to have deformed hands with his index and middle fingers being fused together.
• Lethal Chef: When it's revealed that he baked the pretzels at the Skylands Music Festival, Eon advises everyone there to not eat them, for understandable reasons.
• Token Heroic Orc: As confirm in the wiki, his species is Grumblebum, and while not a looker, he is easier on the eyes since he missing their extra eye and tree branch horns (Granted that might be due to a subspecies thing since there called Grumblebum Thrashers in the game).
• Original Generation: He's a character unique to the show, having never appeared in the games as either a playable character or NPC.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His terrible breath doesn't exactly impress his comrades.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Though it helps them escape a Fire Viper's stomach in "Belly of the Beast".

Hex

Voiced by Courtenay Taylor (English)

A fourth year cadet.

• Black Eyes of Crazy: Without Skull tethered to her, Hex is unable to keep the darkness within her under control, and her eyes turn an inky black as a result.
• Dark Is Not Evil: A witch wearing black who wields undead magic - and is firmly on the side of the good guys.

Skull

Voiced by Josh Robert Thompson (English)

Hex's familiar.

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• Barrier Maiden: When Hex chose him to be her familiar, it created a link between them that prevents Hex from being consumed by the darkness inside her, so it has to be connected at all times. So when Skull frees himself from the role in "Split Decision", Hex is instantly corrupted. However, Skull doesn't have to enter the role again to break the curse on her, he just has to recite a spell that will do it.
• Canon Foreigner: Hex uses skulls as one of her attacks in the games, and Skull is based on them.
• Jerkass: Even if he isn't the most supportive person, he does a lot of selfish thing like making the homework he and Hex are assigned about him.

Roller Brawl

Voiced by Jill Talley (English)

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Wind-Up

Voiced by Cedric Yarbrough (English)

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• Hypocritical Humor: At the end of "Belly of the Beast", when he and the other cadets apologize to Cy for how they ostracized him, he says that they all were created by being stitched together by various figments of imagination, promting the cadets to look at him in confusion, including Wind-Up, even though as a robot he probably also was stitched together from various parts and not born.
• Motor Mouth: He's an incredibly fast talker, and that's ignoring how he becomes faster when he winds himself up.
• Wind-Up Key: He has one sticking out of his head.

Food Fight

Voiced by Billy West (English)

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• Abnormal Ammo: He fires tomatoes out of his gun.
• Small Role, Big Impact: His one important act in season 3 is in ”Weekend at Eon’s”, where Food Fight accidentally hits Eon with one of his tomatoes and knocks him out. He then completely disappears from having any form of relevancy in the rest of the episode and the season as a whole. Despite this, this one act is the cataclyst that leads to Dark Spyro warming up to his friends again after being turned evil, which becomes his central conflict in the episodes following this one.

Chill

Voiced by Grey DeLisle (English)

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• Flat Character: Despite appearing in a good bunch of episodes, she gets very few lines and actions to do.

Flashwing

Voiced by Ashley Tisdale (English)

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• Flat Character: One episode shows her to have a narcissistic side, but other than that, she gets very few lines and appearances.
• Narcissist: In "Spyromania", Spyro tries to talk her about being a dragon, but she is too engrossed in her own reflection to notice he's even there.

Trigger Happy

Voiced by Billy West (English)

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• Flat Character: He only has lines in one episode and no other characteristics shown.
• The Gunslinger: He retains his golden guns from the games.

Cynder

”If anyone knows about getting a second chance to prove she’s not evil, it’s me."

Voiced by Felicia Day (English)

A new cadet at Skylanders Academy who is the daughter of the evil dragon king Malefor.

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• Action Girl: When the situation calls for it, she can actually hold her own.
• Actual Pacifist: Cynder doesn't want to hurt anyone, not even sheep. But when the situation calls for it, she will use violence to protect her friends.
• Adaptational Wimp: Well she's not exactly weak, but she's much less of a Blood Knight than her previous incarnations. She's outright hesitant to engage in physical combat unless it's absolutely necessary.
• Adaptation Personality Change: This version is far sweeter and more energetic than most.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the Legend of Spyro trilogy, Cynder had Ship Tease with Spyro that eventually led to them becoming an Official Couple. Here, she and Spyro are just good friends.
• Advertised Extra: Was one of the first things revealed about the second season and had a place in the trailer for it. But in the show itself, but after her introduction in episode 3, her background as the daughter of a villain isn’t touched upon and does nothing that’s exclusive to only her character aside from being the first one to give an amnesiac Dreamcatcher a chance in “Sheep(ball) Dreams”. It is only brought back as a plot point in the season finale.
• Big Damn Heroes: Jumps in and pushes back her father's strong firebreath with her Spectral Lightning to protect Spyro, her mentor and friend.
• Break the Cutie: This starts when Spyro (who at the time was unaware of Cynder's origins) told her that good guys are always good and bad guys are always bad. Cynder suffers a meltdown upon accepting Spyro's words, striking both friend and foe with her powers while also revealing that she is the daughter of the evil dragon king Malefor. She abandoned Team Spyro afterwards and returned to the Underworld where she began practicing her evil laughter in preparation of living up to Malefor's expectations. That is, until Team Spyro came to bring her back to the Academy and fought with her father Malefor in the process.
• Breath Weapon: Like Spyro, but with lightning.
• Casting a Shadow: Can turn into an intangible shadow.
• Daddy's Little Villain: At least, that's what Malefor wanted her to be... however, she had other plans.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Proves this when she chooses to be good, despite hailing from a line of evil dragon overlords.
• Forgot About Her Powers: Briefly in the Season 3 Part 2 finale "Raiders of the Lost Arkus, Part 2". She and Spyro fall down towards the abyss with their other teammates while clinging to one another, despite being having wings capable of flight.
• Go Through Me: Does this when Malefor fakes repentence, causing Cynder to believe her father was gravely injured. She becomes concerned and stands between Malefor and Team Spyro and Master Eon to keep the Skylanders from harming her father further, in spite of Eon warning her that brilliant acting runs in her family. This however gave Malefor the chance to capture Cynder and take her away.
• Heel–Face Turn: Becomes a battler for good against her father's wishes.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers this when Spyro unwittingly convinced Cynder that she can never be good since she was born bad. She later overcomes this when Spyro admits his mistake and encouraged her that she had the power to choose to be good.
• Psychic Powers: As of Season 3, Cynder has psychic abilities that allow her to see the best route to anywhere in the Skylands. In addition, she can create psychic blocks to prevent anyone from finding her location telepathically. As an added bonus, she even created a phone app called "Cynderz" that allows users to find the best routes to bypass traffic.
• Put on a Bus: At the end of season 2, she gets captured by her father after he tricks her, so she ends up not appearing in season 3 until the last two-parter episode.
• Rebellious Princess: Doesn't want to be next in line to become evil ruler of the Cadaverous Crypts, and instead joins the Skylanders against her father's wishes.
• Related in the Adaptation: In The Legend of Spyro reboot and the Skylanders game canon, she was just an egg Malefor kidnapped to use as a minion. Here, she's implied to be his biological daughter.
• Shock and Awe: Unlike Spyro, she can fire lightning bolts from her mouth.
• Teen Genius: According to Spyro in "Touch of Evil", Cynder is a Straight A student.
• You Don't Look Like You: Looks a lot more gentle and friendly than her original version, which even after her Heel–Face Turn looked somewhat intimidating.

Villains

Kaos

”It’s got everything an evil plan needs. Capturing, interrogation, general ne’er-do-welling."

Voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz (English)
Göran Gillinger (Swedish)
Gilbert Lévy (French)

The main antagonist of the series- a dumpy little sorcerer who is forever plotting to destroy the Skylanders and rule over everyone else.

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• Adaptational Badass: While initially far less of a threat than his game self, he catches up eventually and manages to be far more effective in combat than him. To note, Game Kaos was curbstomped in a fight with Golden Queen, while Kaos ends up becoming so powerful he can curbstomp all the Doom Raiders at once. Game Kaos is also is dependant on the Darkness for his powers and loses them all when its defeated for good, while Kaos' power is inherently his. He only got some permanent power boosts from Strykore and isn't affected when Strykore is beaten.
• Adaptational Dumbass: In Season 1, a lot of his schemes are less organized than what his game counterpart usually would come up with.
  • Season 2 mostly averts this but he can still fall into it from time to time.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: When looked at how his original game counterpart is, he's this in spades.
  • While he still wants to take over Skylands and has a anger problem, he is not as malicious in it, and doesn't inflict suffering upon others for the funsies, and when he does, it's at worst just petty acts. And despite his love for evil, he's actually not above doing kind acts, such as when Kaossandra disguised as Strykore tricks him into helping a sheep down from a tree in "The Truth is in Here". And being thanked by the sheeps for it makes him think that Good Feels Good.
  • Another big example is how much he loves his mother. Though he mostly wants to make her proud of him since she's a far more respected villain than what he is, there is still a genuine love for her and he can be willing to make something selfless for her. In "Days of Future Crash", it's shown that if he and his mother could get closer in any way, like fighting against a greater evil like the alternate timeline Glumshanks, they could open up about themselves, as Kaossandra likely revealed the connection the two have to Strykore and Eon, which helps Kaos abandon his evil ways and become a legit good guy who is pure of heart and can open Wumpan Puzzle Boxes.
  • Speaking of Glumshanks, he's also shown to not be as bad of a boss towards him. He still is one, no doubt about that, but as much as Kaos inflicts pain upon him, he still is the closest thing Kaos has to a friend, and he at times appreciates having someone nearby. However, though Glumshanks can also show appreciation for Kaos, if it comes to choosing between Kaos or Kaossandra, his loyalty lies with the latter.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In the games, Kaos despises the Doom Raiders due to their refusal to join him after he freed them, going as far as to temporarily ally himself with the Skylanders in order to ensure their defeat. Here, the Doom Raiders are Kaos' childhood idols whom he openly looks up to. He even has a crush on the Golden Queen; a stark contrast to their aminosity in Trap Team.
• Adaptational Wimp: While he also was a Butt-Monkey in the games, he was at least seen as a threat to Skylands, has underlings at his disposal and proved that he can sometimes make good plans. In the show, he has no fancy gadgets or armies, makes plans that are generally not thought through (jarring, as he made a plan that almost succeeded in the pilot) and comes across more as a nuisance than a threat. He grows out of it.
• Admiring the Abomination: He celebrates the destruction of Skylands in "The Skylands are Falling!", which stems from him being happy that the Skylanders will too be destroyed.
• Antagonistic Offspring: While it seems to be averted at first, due to Kaossandra being his mother, it later is played straight as Kaossandra is just keeping up a villainous act to keep Strykore locked up in his sealed prison, corrupting her with darkness which is likely what turned her son into who he is. This trope gets played even more straight when it is revealed that Eon is Kaos’ father. And after learning about this, Kaos plans to enact revenge on his parents for lying to him about his upbringing.
• Ascended Fanboy: In season 1, his biggest idols in evil were the Doom Raiders, and at the end of the season, he gets an invitation to join them, which he takes.
• The Atoner: In the second half of season 2, Kaos wants to make peace with his mother after siding with the Doom Raiders against her. And it's not Pragmatic Villainy, it is something he does out of the goodness of his heart.
• Bad Boss: Kaos is almost completely heartless towards Glumshanks and takes many opportunities to torture him, both during his schemes and sometimes just for the sake of it. But keyword on "almost", as for one, it's nowhere near as bad as it is in the games and second, there are the moments where Kaos shows that he appreciates having someone nearby, and not just to torture them.
• Bald of Evil: So much so that his baldness becomes the focus of one episode. More on that in the trope below.
• Baldness Angst: Shows up in "Beard Science". On his way to what he believes is a date with the Golden Queen, he meets several people who stops him because they at first see him from a perspective where it looks like he has hair, before seeing that he doesn't, to which they then leave him. When Kaos then gets to Golden Queen, he finds out that she already has a boyfriend in the form of Wolfgang, and says that she loves his fur. This fuels Kaos' angst even more, so he uses a spell that will give him the most fabulous hair in all of Skylands, which happens to be Master Eon's beard.
• Baldness Mockery: Unbeknownst to him, there are a lot of insulting nicknames towards his bald head said by everyone. And in "Beard Science", he's looked down by some people because he doesn't have hair.
• Basement-Dweller: His lair is actually a tiny castle constructed around his mothers' castle's old outhouse. She attempts to force him to move out by making him get a job and pay rent, which didn't last.
• Berserk Button: Belittling or otherwise underestimating him. He might take it for awhile, but he will get tired of it, and every person who's done this ends up paying for it.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Kaos is mostly Powerful, but Incompetent, but if something happens to him or anyone close to him or he has gotten enough of being pushed around by bigger villains than him, he will gain a power level and take the moment more seriously.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Wants to be seen as the Skylanders’ biggest enemy and wants to conquer Skylands for himself, but is overshadowed by the Doom Raiders.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • The Doom Raiders used to be Kaos' favorite villains to the point where Kaos collects comic books and action figures based on them. He sided with them in "Assault on Skylander Academy" instead of his mother because he felt like they would allow him to grow stronger as opposed to Kaossandra. It has a rocky start, but he does eventually become an honorable member... or so it seemed. It all starts when Golden Queen orders them to commit lamer and lamer crimes, which even some members like Chompy Mage don't like, but doesn't speak up about it because she's the leader and they have to follow her. This initially leads to Kaos wanting to upstage Golden Queen as the leader, but that changes when he learns that she has just been using him to try to find Kaossandra's castle to enact revenge on her, to which he leaves as soon as he can, having lost all respect for them. Later on in season 3, Kaos breaks them^note Only Wolfgang, Pepper Jack, Dreamcatcher and Chompy Mage though out of Cloudcracker, but it isn't him wanting to do something good for them, but instead wanting them to serve as his pirate crew. Their growing hostility throughout the season guarantees that they will most likely never be on good terms with each other ever again after they split.
  • After picking the Doom Raiders over his mother in the season one finale, Kaos comes to regret that decision and wants to make up to her for it. But then he meets Strykore, who tells Kaos that he is his father, and Kaos gets to hear from him that Kaossandra sided with Eon against Strykore and betrayed him back in the Great War. This makes Kaos finally understand why Kaossandra has refused to teach him how to grow his powers and why she has been so harsh towards him since the day he was born, because he reminds her of Strykore. He could also not stomach the fact that she double-crossed the person who is Kaos' father, so while Kaos does later free her from Golden Queen's Magic Touch, it was only to tell her that he now knows who Strykore is and all the secrets she has kept hidden from him, and takes back all the magic he had previously given her alongside every bit that's her own, and the next time they encountered each other, Kaos tells her that he's never going to forgive her for betraying Strykore. But he still has some love left for her, as he misses her when Mother's Day rolls around in "Road Rage".
• Butt-Monkey: Kaos gets no respect from anyone besides Glumshanks and is often mocked for his large head.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He lives for evil and wants to becomes the worst of the worst. He also collects miniature figurines and comic books based on his favorite villains like a Loony Fan.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He can come off as this because of his love for evil that’s taken to extremely high degrees.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. Kaos spends all his life trying to destroy the Skylanders and take over Skylands that often ends in failure which results in him having no other occupation and still having to live with his mother, so other villains like the Doom Raiders don't take him seriously. But when Kaos manages to become more powerful, it comes as a surprise to them. This combined with Kaos looking up to them like he’s a fan also allows them to manipulate him for their own benefits while making him believe that he is rising up to be as big a threat as they are, which happens in the second half of season 1, where Kaos in some episodes is Demoted to Dragon. What also adds to that last point is his mother not teaching him how to be a greater sorcerer and become just like her, keeping him in his Big Bad Wannabe status, so he chooses to rather be with the Doom Raiders than his own mother in “Assault on Skylander Academy” because he believes the most notorious evil-doers in all of Skylands can help him grow more as a villain compared to her. It isn't until after he shifts his priorities from succeeding in taking over Skylands to trying to make amends with his mother that he leaves this area.
• Defector from Decadence: In the season 1 finale, "Assault on Skylander Academy", when he has to choose between going with his mother or the Doom Raiders, he chooses the Doom Raiders because his mother refuses to teach him how to become a stronger sorcerer like her without any reasons.
• Demoted to Dragon: Fitting as he's more of a Big Bad Wannabe than the show's real villain, a few episodes in the second half of season 1 has Kaos more in a supporting role to the Doom Raider who's the actual villain of the episode, like Chef Pepper Jack in "Anger Mismanagement" and Wolfgang in "Pop Rocks". He also becomes this after Strykore is released back into Skylands.
• Despair Event Horizon: He reaches this in "The Skylands are Falling!" where he doesn't dare to do evil acts because the Skylanders will just be appearing before he can even commit it because of their Evil-Scope. He regains his exhilaration when Skylands is about to get destroyed in the same episode, because it means the Skylanders will be going down with it. But when the day has been saved and the episode is over, Kaos goes back to his normal "take over Skylands" schtick.
• Disappeared Dad: He has only known who his mother is, and never thought about his father until “Who’s Your Daddy?” (episode 10 of season 2). Invoked, because his mother and father didn't want him to know the truth of it.
• The Dog Bites Back: After trying to please Strykore throughout season 3, only to be imprisoned in an underwater cell. He decided to take the Fist of Arkus for himself, as revenge. The first thing he does with it, after telling off Strykore, is use the giant robot he controls with it to smack the Doom Raiders around as payback for mutinying against him.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: During his first mission as an offical Doom Raider, he notices that they don't treat him with the same dignity as they do towards each other (except for Broccoli Guy), like how he doesn't have any important role to play and that they shoot down his ideas and warnings. So when the mission is successful in parts thanks to him, he doesn't believe their praises for him are genuine and tells them about how he used to worship the ground they walk on when he was a fan and now when he's a member, he was hoping that they would be treating him with the same amount of respect as they do towards each other. Instead they say that they do respect him, but the episodes following this suggests that this is a lie and they plan to trick Kaos into using his new and stronger powers for them.
• Electric Torture: He tries to use this to get King Pen to tell him, Strykore and Dark Spyro where the map to the island of Arkus is. It doesn't work.
• Enemy Mine: In "Elementary, My Dear Eruptor", after Broccoli Guy betrays him, Kaos teams up with Eruptor to take him down.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He can never hide the fact that he really do love his mother and wants her to be happy. Until the end of season 2 when he learns what she did to Strykore, whom Kaos at the time thought was his father.
• Expy: He's essentially a wizard version of Invader Zim.
• Final Boss: He ends up outplaying Strykore and stealing the Fist of Arkus for himself, becoming the final villain of the series.
• Flying on a Cloud: He can control clouds to use for transportation. He stops using this method once he grows stronger with his magic in the season 2 finale, which gives him the power of flight.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Relative in this instance. At the end of "Assault on Skylanders Academy", he is faced with choosing between siding with his mother or the Doom Raiders. He chooses the Doom Raiders after Golden Queen manipulates him into questioning his mother on why she refuses to teach him to use his magic more effectively without eleborating on why.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: After he gains his power boost, he becomes strong enough to beat down several Skylanders Cadets that gave the Doom Raiders trouble, impress the Golden Queen (who, mind you, had all but dismissed him as just a worthless tag-along), and scare the hell out of Chompy Mage with a single magical blast. If the show continues this trend, Kaos may become as formidable as, if not more than, his game counterpart. This continues, with him eventually managing to outplay Strykore and become the Final Boss, coming closer to destroying the Core of Light than anyone else in the entire series.
• Hidden Depths: The season 1 finale reveals he resents his mother for never teaching him any of her magic nor giving him any opportunity to prove he could be as powerful as she was. He is also shown to care about her, as he seems genuinely torn when having to chose between her and the Doom Raiders, and seems heartbroken when she refuses to justify her attitude toward him.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: He can be capable of doing nice things, especially to his mother.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Manages to get his hands on the Iron Fist of Arkus before Strykore and therefore becomes the villain the Skylanders need to defeat instead of Strykore.
• Hypocrite: At the start of season 2, he finally becomes a Doom Raider member, but is put off all the crimes mostly just being Poke the Poodle. This is neglecting the fact that many of his crimes in season 1 were of the same sort, and not any more effective than theirs.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: When he took up a career as a pirate captain in season 3, he came up with the pun "Pirating is such sweet sorrow" and has been dying to find an oppurtunity to use it. He finally gets his chance in the series finale, when he uses the Arkeyan Conquertron to fling away the Doom Raiders' ship as revenge for them tossing him aside.
• I Believe I Can Fly: After getting more power from Strykore and taking all of Kaossandra's power, Kaos gains the ability to fly.
• I Have Many Names: They are all named after his giant head, and he doesn't even know about them, as he is surprised when he hears Spyro list some of them.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: He looks up to well regarded villains like his mother and the Doom Raiders and wants to be as powerful and cunning as them.
• An Ice Person: One of his magical powers is freezing objects, which he uses on the Book of Skylanders in "Skylanders Unite!" to freeze every Skylander and Eon.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's the Butt-Monkey of the series, with perhaps only Glumshanks having it worse. This eventually changes at the end of season 1, but not enough so that he doesn't allow himself to be manipulated by greater villains like the Golden Queen or Strykore.
• In-Universe Catharsis: He says that it felt good when he enacted his revenge on the Doom Raiders and drove them out of Kaossandra's castle for invading it.
• Lame Comeback: He says himself in “Pop Rocks” that he is not good with “on-the-fly one-liners” when he and Spyro encounter each other. This was perfectly shown two episodes prior where his insults to Wolfgang and the other Doom Raiders were so pathetic that his idols lost all respect that they had built up for Kaos in the episode. Stealth Elf, who was trapped inside Kaos’ mind throughout the episode, put it best; “he can’t even insult properly!”
• Large Ham: Just as shouty here as he is in the games.
• Lethal Chef: Every Thankstaking he cooks his own dish for the table that his mother and Glumshanks calls the highlight of the evening. The Doom Raiders however, know that Kaos’ family lie to him to make him happy and tell him how terrible his cooking actually is.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Kaos loves evil-doing and wants nothing more than to spread mayhem. His father, Eon, is a fighter for good and even founded a academy to train heroes.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Not that he is very smart to begin with, but his crush for the Golden Queen tends to make him act even dumber than usual.
• Magical Camera: And the interesting thing is that he actually IS the camera. His mark on his forehead can be used to take pictures and store them in his memory. But just like any person, he can lose those pictures if he can't remember them well or focus on them. He only ever uses this though in season 1 to learn of the original location of the Core of Light.
• Manchild: He obsesses over his Doom Raider figurines, his comics, and his bed even resembles a crib.
• Mirror Character: To Spyro. Both are in learning of what they're capable of and want to learn more about their own powers as well as discovering new ones to be the best of their respective sides to not only fight for said sides the best they can, but also to make an impression on those closest to them. Both have arrogance problems and they want to know more about family members they know little about (Kaos’ father for him and Spyro’s ancestors for him). And when they learn the truths of their respective searches, they do not take it well and sees it as a betrayal from someone they used to hold dear whom was responsible for banishing what they were searching for. And they are both sons of Eon, with the difference being that Kaos is his physical son while Spyro is his adopted, even if it’s not treated as a father-son relation.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Kaos can take a lot of guff and is surprisingly loyal, but once he's pushed to his breaking point by the people he works for, he showcases a natural talent for treachery.
  • After Strykore sends him to a cell underwater after Kaos finds the map to Arkus for him to get Kaos out of the way for Strykore's plan, Kaos then plans to beat him to the Iron Fist of Arkus to show Strykore that he's making a big mistake.
• Near-Villain Victory: In the very first episode, where he could have gotten away with his plan if he had not forgotten to re-freeze the Book of Skylanders.
• Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Deconstructed. He is shown collecting comic books and action figures of various villains around Skylands, especially the Doom Raiders because he is a big fan of them. Being so obssessed with evil has turned him into a Basement-Dweller living in his mother's guest castle because he is incompetent in actually making evil schemes that would be effectful. His mother tries in one episode to get him to get a real job so that he can do something else, but Kaos would much rather keep going at what he's doing at home.
  Kaossandra: I just wanted you to get out of the house for one day instead of wasting your time on ridiculous plots to defeat the Skylanders! Be a productive member of society instead of a guy who basically still lives at home in his mom's basement.
  Kaos: Well mother, when you put it like that, it's way more fun hanging out here and plotting evil, so I choose this!
  Kaossandra: Of course you do. At least I tried.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Plays two different roles in two different trios.
  • In the original trio of Kaossandra’s castle, he is the mean to Glumshanks’ Nice and Kaossandra’s In-Between. While his mother is the more respected villain, he commits more evil acts than her and generally loves being a villain more than her. Especially when it turns out Kaossandra isn’t even a villain at all.
  • Later in season 3, he becomes the In-Between to Strykore’s Mean while Glumshanks remains the Nice, and it’s not only because Strykore is an even more vile villain than Kaos is. Kaos shows throughout the season that he has some shades of goodness in him, making him more redeemable than Strykore.
• The Nicknamer: He has a habit of giving his assistants nicknames, as shown with Glumshanks, and in "Elementary, My Dear Eruptor", he calls Broccoli Guy by a total of eight different nicknames.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Most of the time, he is completely harmless due to his immaturity and stupidity, but every now and then, he is shown to have skills with dark magic that can make him a real threat. Spyro was unable to defeat him without the help of the other Skylanders in the pilot, he once managed to take on the whole main cast while in astral form, and he was shown giving a hard time to Eon at least once. After learning some magic from his mother's book, he becomes considerably more powerful.
• One-Man Army: He takes down all the Skylanders and cadets that are defending the academy in "Assault on Skylander Academy" all on his own.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Many of his disguises don’t cover his face or even his entire head, and nobody ever recognizes him.
• Pass the Popcorn: He munches on popcorn while Strykore tells him, Dark Spyro and Glumshanks his plan to find the Iron Fist of Arkus to destroy the Core of Light.
• Pet the Dog: His mother in season 3 tries to make him commit this trope by turning into Strykore and tricking Kaos into doing good. And he actually did a pretty good job at it, suggesting, like Kaossandra wants to, that he has a Hidden Heart of Gold.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: In Season 3, he finds a pirate ship and plans to use it to find the Lost Island of Arkus to earn Strykore’s approval, and breaks the Doom Raiders out of prison to serve as his crew. Aside from never finding the island, they are also not good at actually being pirates, being unable to find any treasure. Kaos even allows himself to be tricked by a toy store owner in their quest for food.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: Kaos has a lot of powerful magic at his disposal (with his potential increasing over time), but his inability to form decent plans and overenthusiasm often prevent him from using these powers to their fullest.
• Pride: Be warned, if anything ever goes right for Kaos, he will believe that this means he is a way greater villain than he actually is.
• Put on a Prison Bus: At the end of the series, his and Glumshanks'final punishment, as well for all of the Glumshanks clones, is to be locked up yet again at Cloudcracker,
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: After he gets more power bestowed upon him by Strykore, his eyes become red when he uses them.
• Related in the Adaptation: The finale reveals that Eon and Kaos are father and son. Which would also make him and Spyro adoptive brothers.
• The Resenter: It becomes apparent that Kaos is well aware everyone sees him as an incompetent idiot and deeply resents it. He resents his mother for belittling him and refusing to actually teach him magic or how to be a proper villain. This resentment spreads to the Doom Raiders as they continue to belittle and mock him. This seems to be a large reason behind his villainy, as he's desperate to invalidate his mother and others' opinions of him.
  • He also becomes jealous of Dark Spyro for being Strykore's more preferred minion as opposed to him who is Strykore's son. So throughout season 3, Kaos tries to find the Lost Island of Arkus on his own to show Strykore that he would be a much better second hand to him than Spyro.
  Kaos: But, he's only been evil for like, ten minutes! I've been evil way longer than that!
• Robot Master: In the series finale, he puts on the Iron Fist of Arkus and awakens an Arkeyan Conquertron that he can control with the fist via it being a Motion Caption Mecha.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Every single one of Glumshanks' sarcastic quips and jokes goes over his head. When they believe that they are about to share their last moment together, Glumshanks apologizes to Kaos for being sarcastic in his praises to him, to which Kaos reacts with shock as he realizes it for the first time. Glumshanks immediately backpedals.
• Shock and Awe: The type of form Kaos' magic take most of all is dark lightning bolts.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He is most known throughout Skylands as the guy who tries the most to defeat the Skylanders, which makes him think of himself as one of Skylands’ greatest villains when the fact that he has failed so much and that he still lives with his mother makes him come across more as pathetic.
• Smarter Than You Look: He looks like a complete idiot, and acts like it often, but he's less an idiot and more had to self teach himself to be evil because his mother refused to properly teach him and actively opposed him being a villain. When properly motivated, he can be frighteningly smart. The finale sees him having been smart enough to memorize the Map to Arkus before giving it to Strykore, so when Strykore betrays him, he beats Strykore to the Fist of Arkus and usurps the plan right from under his nose.
• Squishy Wizard: Kaos is really someone who should stay in the distance and attack with magic, as when he gets into melee brawls, it only takes a couple of punches from the opponents for Kaos to get knocked down.
• The Starscream: When he becomes a Doom Raider member, he plans to control more of their operations so he could become the new leader. Until he learns that the Doom Raiders were just using him to find his mother’s castle, which makes him leave the gang.
• Still Sucks Thumb: He is shown sucking his thumb when he sleeps in "The Skylands are Falling!"
• Super Gullible: Kaos wants to become one of, if not the greatest villain in Skylands, and looks up to more notorious and proficent villains like the Doom Raiders and Strykore in hopes of becoming more like them and is ecstatic over being able to work with them, since they also promise to help him reach his fullest potential. But this blinds him from understanding that they just use him for their own gains, but when Kaos realizes the truth, he will be taking revenge on them.
• This Cannot Be!: His reaction when he finally realizes that Eon is his actual father instead of Strykore.
• Took a Level in Badass: He gets a considerable power boost after reading his mother's book, to the point he can now defeat Chompy Mage and take on multiple Skylander cadets. By the end of season 1, he has impressed the Golden Queen enough that she genuinely accepts him into her Doom Raiders.
• Underestimating Badassery: Others consistently underestimate him, especially other villains. Literally every villain to do this ends up regretting it.
• Unskilled, but Strong: At first. Despite all his failings, its shown multiple times he has a lot of sheer power, he's just largely self-taught, which holds him back. Once he does get a magical power up and more experience, he gets a lot more dangerous.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: The incompetent and immature Laughable Lackey to Strykore’s Vile Villain.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Kaos can get the chance to escape from the Skylanders whenever his plans fails and he takes that chance, such as in "My Way or the Sky Way" where he gets beaten up by Jet-Vac and Spyro, but before the fight is over, Kaos gets away by bombarding them with lizard gizzards that he kept in his gizzard costume.
• Villain Protagonist: The episodes “The Hole Truth”, “Space Invaders”, “Touch of Evil” and “Power Struggle” feature Kaos either as the main character or one of the main characters.
• Villainous Friendship: Seems to have one with Glumshanks. Sure, he abuses and mistreats the guy, but he also always seems happy to see him and delights in showing off whatever evil plan he's working on to him.
• Villains Out Shopping: Including, but not limited to: Trying to get a job, going to a spa, reading comics, going on dates with Golden Queen (the moment he had the chance), eating at public restaurants, going to a roast made for him, attending yoga and competing in the Skylands Pet Show (with Glumshanks as the pet).
• We Win, Because You Didn't: When a giant ball of darkness is about to destroy Skylands, Kaos starts celebrating this as a victory for him even though he will also be destroyed, because the Skylanders will be destroyed as well.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy:
  • Part of his motivation for destroying the Core of Light is his belief that it will impress Kaossandra.
  • In season 3, his main motivation is to make his (persumed) father Strykore proud of him, as the guy is the dreaded Light Eater and one of the biggest and most evilest villains ever seen in Skylands' history.
• Who's Laughing Now?:
  • The first thing he does upon getting his power up is overpower Chompy Mage and scare the crap out of him, and fully intended to kill him if the Skylanders hadn't shown up.
  • He manages to pull this on Strykore of all people. After being betrayed once his usefulness had passed, he reveals he memorized the Map to Arkus and beats Strykore to the Fist of Arkus, hijacking his plan right from under his nose.
  Kaos: I now know exactly how to get my revenge on you.
  Strykore: Please, I'd like to see you try.
  Kaos: (donning the Fist of Arkus and summoning the Arkeyan Conquertron to Strykore's visible shock): You were saying?
• Worf Had the Flu: He's spent most of his villainous career being largely self-taught and with his mother actively sabotaging his progress as a magician. He starts to feel his bones as he schemes his way throughout the show.
• Xanatos Gambit: In ”Touch of Evil”, to try and get Spyro from Malefor to release Strykore back into Skylands, Kaos offers the dragon king the choice to either willingly hand Spyro over or not. If Malefor does give him Spyro, Kaos gets what he came for with no problems, and if Malefor doesn't, Kaos will strike him down with his new powers, take Spyro anyway and tell Strykore that Malefor refused to collaborate. Malefor chooses the former, as even he knows Strykore is someone you do not want to mess with.

Glumshanks

”Wonderful, sir. I’ll add skull-waxing to my resumé."

Voiced by Norm Macdonald (English)
Jakob Stadell (Swedish)

Kaos' Beleaguered Assistant- constantly forced to take the brunt of Kaos' abuse and tries to keep him on the straight and narrow (with little success).

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• Adaptational Badass: In a sense. In the games, Glumshanks was an Extreme Doormat who was always the pain magnet in a plethora of scenes, especially those with Kaos. In the show, however, he is much better at standing up to his master and has a lot more self-determination. Though that could be because Kaos has become an Adaptational Wimp in the show.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the games, he was little more than Kaos’ Beleaguered Assistant and he seemed to play that role in the show as well. That was until “Days of Future Crash” showed that he had an own desire to rule Skylands to get revenge on Kaos for the torture he’s bestowed on Glumshanks over the years. But on the positive side, he doesn’t show those signs at any other point and even tries to stop Kaos from destroying the Core of Light in the finale.
• Affectionate Nickname: Glummy.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Poor guy is constantly bullied by Kaos.
• Butt-Monkey: Kaos treats him like a punching bag both physically and emotionally.
• Character Development: Downplayed, but “Days of Future Crash” shows that during season 1 he wanted to control Skylands for himself and get revenge on Kaos. As he doesn’t show any signs of this at any other point after “Crash Landed” where he rose to power in an Alternative Timeline, works with Kaossandra to stop Strykore, and even tries to halt Kaos from destroying the Core of Light means he grew past all of it and wants to live in a Skylands that’s free.
• Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much his only way of communicating with Kaos or anyone else. Unfortunately for him, a lot of his snarks completely go over Kaos' head.
• The Dog Bites Back: When he becomes the ruler of Skylands in an Alternative Timeline, one of his first actions is to get revenge on Kaos.
• Double Agent: He becomes one for Kaossandra to spy on Kaos and Strykore while serving them both in the season 2 finale.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Sort of; he doesn't really have an agenda of his own, but the only reason he works for Kaos apparently is because Kaossandra asked him to keep an eye on him for her. His loyalty belongs to her first, and he sticks with her in the season 1 finale when Kaos choses the Doom Raiders over her.
• Evil Overlord: A season 3 episode has him take over the Skylands due to Dark Spyro and Eruptor pulling Crash Bandicoot into the future. Without Crash grabbing Kaossandra's dark spellbook, Glumshanks was able to grab it and use the dark magic to make himself the ruler.
• Foil: To Dark Spyro in season 3. Both work as Double Agents for two different alignments (Glumshanks for the good guys and Dark Spyro for Strykore). Both work for Strykore, but Glumshanks, as said, is also against him while Dark Spyro is loyal to him. Dark Spyro is solely focused on completing his mission for Strykore while Glumshanks wants to live life and accomplish other things. And lastly, Glumshanks can stand against his master (mostly Kaos) while Dark Spyro grows to fear Strykore when the former starts bonding with his former friends.
• Guilt by Association Gag: Discussed. He gets put behind bars alongside his boss in "Raiders of the Lost Arkus Part 2" even though it was Kaos on his own who almost destroyed the Core of Light, with Glumshanks even trying to stop it from happening. But as Kaos is arrested for him still having a criminal record, Glumshanks wonders why he thought that all of his assisting to Kaos would be forgotten just because he went against him this one time.
• Hidden Depths: He has a lot of artistic hobbies and seems to have had a long theater career before working for Kaos.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Well, he isn't exactly more powerful than his master when it comes to magic, but he definitely is much smarter, better educated and has more common sense. In a Bad Future where he got ahold of Kaossandra's dark spellbook and was corrupted by it, he managed to win completely. Given Strykore wasn't there, it also implied he was smart enough not to release Strykore.
• Insult Comic: He started taking up stand-up as his alias The Unknown Troll Comic and was hired to host Kaos' Roast in "Split Decision". Kaossandra tasks him to be this to take the oppurtunity to see just how much more powerful Kaos has become compared to her becoming weaker by insulting him to the point where he lets out all his anger in a powerful blast. Glumshanks follows his mission, but doesn't just make jokes at the expense of Kaos, but at the Doom Raiders as well, showing he would be an insulting comic even if it wasn't on orders from Kaossandra.
• Lean and Mean: Averted, he’s more Affably Evil than mean.
• Made of Iron: Lampshaded by him, as he thinks it’s because of all the pain Kaos has bestowed upon him.
• Me's a Crowd: Strykor creates multiple clones of him to serve as his army.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between:
  • In the original trio of Kaossandra’s castle, he is the Nice to Kaos’ Mean and Kaossandra’s In-Between. Glumshanks is definitely the easiest of the trio to get along with thanks to his multiple hobbies. Later on however, he switches places with Kaossandra and becomes the In-Between while she joins the heroes in the fight against Strykore.
  • He stills remains the Nice when paired with Kaos as the In-Between and Strykore as the Mean, as he serves the role of double agent to Kaossandra.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Despite working with Kaossandra to stop Strykore’s plans, he himself says that it still doesn’t erase years of being Kaos’ servant and assisting him which is why he is locked behind bars alongside his master in the finale.
• Noble Top Enforcer: He isn't not particularly malevolent, and would much rather have a normal life than be a minion to an Evil Overlord wannabe. Subverted in the Bad Future from Season 3, where he becomes an Evil Overlord himself. Of course, he got the power from Kaossandra's spellbook, which is known to corrupt its users.
• Non-Action Guy: Not much of a fighter. This extends to the army of clones Strykor made of him, who openly refuse to fight Kaos when Strykor orders it.
• Only Sane Man: He is completely aware of all the stupidity surrounding Kaos’ plans and knows when things are going south.
• Our Trolls Are Different: In his case, he looks closer to a Goblin, though he is still referred to as a troll.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Same as his boss, the disguises for him barely cover his face. Lampshaded by him.
  Pop Fizz: Hey, don’t I know you?
  Glumshanks: Not in this hat, you don’t.
• Put on a Bus: Not to the extent of some other characters, but he doesn’t make as many appearances in season 3 as he did in seasons 1 and 2 with one of those appearances being him in an Alternative Timeline, meaning it's not the same Glumshanks we know.
• Put on a Prison Bus: At the end of the series, his and Kaos' final punishment is being locked up yet again at Cloudcracker, which also happens to all of the clones of Glumshanks.
• Renaissance Man: He worked at a theater before moving over to being the servant for Kaossandra and Kaos. And while staying there he tried stand-up comedy as the Unknown Troll Comic. Some of the schemes he helps his master or even the Doom Raiders also gives him more occupations, such as working as the waiter at Pepper Jack's restaurant. And as a servant he does many other jobs, such as cleaning Kaos’ head to make it as bright as possible.
  Kaos: We may have found you another career.
  Glumshanks: Wonderful, sir, I’ll add skull-waxing to my resumé.
• Secret Relationship: A non-romantic version with Kaossandra. The two of them are actually great friends with each other when Kaos isn't around. As soon as he shows up, the two of them rush to hide it by making it seem like Kaossandra is just as mean (if not meaner) to Glumshanks as Kaos is.
• Straight Man: His entire point to the show is to point out his boss' stupidity.
• Token Good Teammate: Of Strykore’s team in season 3. Glumshanks is the only one who’s against him taking over Skylands.
• Undying Loyalty: To Kaossandra. Both times she was facing a foe (Golden Queen and the Doom Raiders the first time and Strykore the second time), Glumshanks chose her side immediately.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Kaos’ plan in the pilot involves him dressing up as a sheep and Glumshanks dressing up as sheep herder, and he feels very comfortable in his outfit.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Had the chance in the first half of season 2 to pursue his dream of studying at the Skylands Community College, but after Kaos leaves the Doom Raiders, he gets Glumshanks kicked off.

Kaossandra (BEWARE OF SPOILERS)

”When I’m through with my work, you and I are going to have a very long talk about your future in this family. Or lack thereof."

Voiced by Catherine O'Hara (English)
Charlotte Ardai Jennefors (Swedish)

Kaos' mother, a dark sorceress with an even darker secret. She wants Kaos to stop hanging around his lair all day and do something productive with his life.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the mainline continuity, Kaossandra is a straightforward villain who intends to conquer all of Skylands. Here, her goals are far more selfless in that she's keeping an even greater evil sealed away. It also turns out that she was once a heroic figure whose personality was corrupted by the dark magic she used to imprison Strykore, and upon the latter's return, Kaossandra unhesitatingly joins the side of the Skylanders in order to ensure the safety of the realm.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Her mainline counterpart is a Faux Affably Evil Card-Carrying Villain, whereas in this continuity, she's far more serious and stern. Rather than encouraging her son's villainy, Kaossandra wishes to prevent Kaos from going down that dark path.
• Barrier Maiden: She's been holding back Strykore for a very long time and when her power wanes, it allows him to influence Skylands more and more.
• Brought Down to Normal: At the end of season 2, Kaos uses Strykore's power to drain her of her own dark magic.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She might use dark magic, but aside doesn't actually do anything evil. This is because she's trying to hold back Strykore.
• Deadpan Snarker: Given who her son is, Kaossandra understandably has quite a few choice words in regards to Kaos' antics.
• The Corruption: The dark magic she used to imprison Strykore corrupted her into a villain. Despite this, she retains her selfless goals and her friendship with Eon. Once Kaos strips her of her dark powers, she reverts to her old self.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Why do we rarely see her partake in evil aside from getting her book of spells back in the season 1 finale? Because she is busy using her powers to keep Strykore locked up in said spell book.
  • In Season 3, she and Eon bicker Like an Old Married Couple, with the latter complaining that she talks in her sleep. Turns out that Eon is actually Kaos' father.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Subverted, as while she isn’t as active in evil as her son or the Doom Raiders are, has her own castle that she only lets Kaos stay at because he’s her son and is regarded as a much more powerful sorceress, it is because she is using her powers to keep Strykore locked up in his prison for the greater good. And when he is freed, she teams up with the heroes to stop him.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Kaos releases Strykore and steals her dark powers, she joins the side of the Skylanders. Possibly justified due to the corruptive nature of said powers.
• Hidden Depths: It turns out she really isn’t a villain and is just pretending to be one to keep Strykore hidden away from Skylands. She also does care about Kaos, but can’t show it because she doesn’t want to embrace the evil in Kaos so he grows up to become like Strykore.
• I Have No Son!: When Kaos chooses the Doom Raiders over her in the season 1 finale, she tells him to never show his face in her castle again. Thankfully, Kaos' decision to sacrifice his powers to aid her welbeing earns him her forgiveness.
• Light Is Good: Her magic is more lightly colored compared to Kaos' blackish, and she is later revealed to only have been forced into evil and is using her powers to keep a great evil away from Skylands.
• Named by the Adaptation: The series actually gives her a name as the games simply refer to her as "Kaos' Mom".
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between:
  • Was originally the In-Between to Kaos’ Mean and Glumshanks’ Nice. While she was more respected and regarded as a more dangerous villain, she is not as active in evil-doing as her son and spends more time keeping Strykore at bay. She still is not as social and agreeable as Glumshanks. At least until season 3, when she and Glumshanks switch roles, as while she joins the good side against Kaos, Glumshanks still stays on Strykore’s side as a Double Agent.
  • Among the three sorcerers, she is once again the In-Between to Strykore’s Mean and Eon’s Nice. While Eon always remained on the side of good and Strykore got corrupted by darkness, she was only corrupted after having to seal Strykore into the void and was only on the side of evil to keep Strykore hidden from Skylands.
• Pet the Dog: "Thankstaking for the Memories" reveals that for every Thankstaking dinner she has celebrated with Kaos, she told him white lies that the terrible dish he makes every year is the highlight of the evening. With how harsh she has been shown to be towards him in previous episodes, for her to do this every year is an incredibly kind act to do.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her outfit is almost all black with some red borders and she is the mother of Kaos. Except that she was only keeping up an evil persona to justify why she has dark powers that she uses to keep Strykore at bay.
• Secret Relationship: A non-romantic version with Glumshanks. When Kaos isn't around, she's very friendly with him, and they intend on hiding this from Kaos by making it seem like she's just as mean to Glumshanks as he is.
  • Had this with Master Eon.
• Tough Love: She does care for her son, but is unwilling to fully show it because she doesn’t want him to rise to the same level as her and become the next Strykore.
• Walking Spoiler: She has a lot of hidden things about her that connects to revelations later in the show.
• We Used to Be Friends: Was friends with Golden Queen before their interactions in the show turned them into rivals.
  • Also with Strykore before he got corrupted by darkness by his own will.
• You Are in Command Now: Becomes the new head of the academy when Eon was vaporized.
• You Remind Me of X: When she spends a mission with Stealth Elf, she tells the elf that she sees her as a younger version of herself.

Malefor

"You convinced Cynder, my only child, to join your team of Sky-fools - and renounce her birth right as my evil heir - and you think I will just let bygones be BYGONES?!"

Voiced by Jim Cummings (English)

Evil dragon king of the Cadaverous Crypts and father of Cynder.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Very Downplayed. He's still a very evil person and extremely dangerous, but unlike his Legends and IDW counterparts, he seems to genuinely care for Cynder on some level rather than just treating her as his pawn. This makes him the only one of the three Malefors to have anything resembling a redeeming quality.
• Adaptational Wimp: He's still very powerful, but both his Legend of Spyro and comic counterparts are nigh unstoppable juggernauts requiring absurd amounts of effort to take down. While Malefor is strong enough to curbstomp Spyro, a larger group of Skylanders are able to rather easily subdue him, whereas his comic counterpart curbstomped a much larger force numbering at least 40 after being enhanced by the powers of just 3 Skylanders.
• Arch-Enemy: To Spyro and his ancestors.
• Archnemesis Dad: Becomes this to Cynder once she joins the Skylanders.
• Bad Boss: He sent a Mabu minion into a store (Vampire's Secret) to check on Cynder, before eating said villain.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He has the outward of appearance of a goofy parent and a Card-Carrying Villain. He's also a giant dragon who can Curb Stomp Spyro.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He has some imposing feats to his name, such as being the King of the Underworld and the sworn-enemy of Spyro's ancestors. But aside from those, Malefor himself is very inactive, as he simply sits in the underworld and would rather wait for someone to come to him until he actually makes any acts. He also claims to have contributed in the disappearance of Spyro's family, but according to Eon, he had no part to play in it at all. Season 3 does try to justify why he doesn't do much by having him say that he and his minions cannot go out of the underworld because they aren't strong enough.
• Climax Boss: He's the main antagonist of "Raiders of the Lost Arkus Part 1", the penultimate episode, where he tries to stop the Skylanders from rescuing Cynder from the underworld.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of Spyro's encounters with Malefor has consisted of Spyro getting beat up while failing to do anything beyond making the dragon king mad.
• Decomposite Character: Most details regarding the Legend of Spyro Malefor are split between this incarnation and Strykore.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Genuinely cares for his daughter Cynder.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He doesn't consider non-evil beings (such as the Skylanders) as 'friends' to Cynder, and is angered when he learns that Cynder was shown more about true friendship by the Skylanders than he ever could.
• Evil Laugh: He is prone to letting these out, usually chuckling to himself when he thinks.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of Jim Cummings.
• Eye Scream: Subverted. Spyro tries blasting Malefor in the eye with a fireball, and all it does is make him mad.
• I Have No Son!: He does not take the news of Cynder's Heel–Face Turn well.
  When next we meet, you will not be my daughter. You will be my enemy! And I am not saving you any tacos!
• Final Solution: Proudly brags about playing a role in Spyro's kind being all but extinct and gladly plans to finish the job with him. While this entailed helping Strykore corrupt them and force Eon to banish them, it still effectively made them extinct in Skylanders for all intents and purposes.
• It Has Only Just Begun: Says this to Spyro, after pinning Spyro down when finally capturing him.
• Knight of Cerebus: While he has more comical qualities than his counterparts, he's still far more serious and dangerous of a threat compared to previous villains, and his introduction starts the series down a more serious path.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In ”Touch of Evil”, he gives Spyro over to Kaos only because Kaos says that Strykore is back and that Malefor could avoid a lot of trouble with him if he goes along with what Kaos wants, implied to be because even Malefor knows how imposing Strykore is.
• Large Ham: He's a villain voiced by Jim Cummings.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In "Touch of Evil", he uses his brilliant acting skills to trick Cynder into thinking he's sorry for all he's done to her to lower her guard and being able to capture her. One season later, and when the Skylanders come to the Underworld to rescue Cynder, Spyro also uses acting to trick Malefor into having his eyes closed so he and his friends can escape from him.
• Laughably Evil: In stark contrast to both his counterpart from The Legend of Spyro and his Skylanders IDW Comics counterpart, this Malefor spends a good chunk of his debut episode talking about how Cynder was not at the mall and enjoying taco night in between his attempts to destroy the Skylanders for entering his realm. Until he discovered that Spyro is the last of his species that were Malefor's sworn enemies.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's big, fast, can easily crush and bat around small Skylanders like Spyro.
• Manipulative Bastard: Has the trait of brilliant acting running in his family, and he uses it to fake repentance to get Cynder to lower her guard, thinking her father was gravely hurt. This allowed Malefor to recover and easily capture his daughter.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Much like his other incarnations.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Malefor does this to Spyro in "Touch of Evil", even when the young dragon is already too weakened and emotionally strained to free himself and fight back.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His dark scales and molten Volcanic Veins give him this appearance and he certainly has the evil part down.
• Redemption Rejection: Spyro attempts to reason with Malefor to do the right thing of sending Spyro to where his family was banished to without a fight and that they don't have to be enemies. Instead of choosing to help Spyro, Malefor took this chance to continue his attack on the young dragon, as Spyro is responsible for turning the dragon king's only child Cynder to the side of good and renounce her birthright as evil heir to the throne.
  Malefor: (to Spyro) You convinced Cynder, my only child, to join your team of Sky-fools, and renounce her birthright as my evil heir, and you think I'll just let bygones be bygones?!
• Remember the New Guy?: He is according to Eon a very formidable foe who has been active in Skylands since the Great War, and yet when he was mentioned for the first time, not even Team Spyro knew who he was.
• Revenge Before Reason: Justified, since Spyro is not only the last member of his dragon kind Malefor is sworn enemies with, the young dragon is responsible for turning Malefor's only child Cynder to the side of good and renounce her evil birthright.
  • Later subverted, when Kaos came for Spyro to take the dragon away at Strykore's request. Malefor lets go of his revenge in exchange of not making new enemies.
• Sealed Army in a Can: He has an army of undead warriors, but lacks the power to bring them out of the Underworld to attack the Skylands.
• Volcanic Veins: With the exception of his wings and underbelly, his scales have what seem like glowing cracks in them with hot magma bubbling within.
• Would Hurt a Child: Malefor will not hesitate to attack and attempt to destroy young heroes, including a Skylander who is the last young descendant of a dragon race he is sworn enemies with.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Wants Cynder to succeed him as evil heir to the throne.
• You Don't Look Like You: In the IDW Skylanders comics, Malefor was a near-exact replica of his original design. This version, however, takes a lot of liberties, including Volcanic Veins and a much darker shade of violet (nearly black, in fact).

Strykore (SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED)

”I don’t react well to my servants talking back."

Voiced by Fred Tatasciore (English)
Göran Gillinger (Swedish)

Also known as "The Light Eater", Strykore is a dark villain that was the instigator of the Great War in his attempt to destroy the Core of Light and take over Skylands. When he was beaten, he was sealed away in the endless void by Kaossandra. He was later freed at the finale of Season 2 to finish what he started.

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• Abusive Parents: As soon as Kaos releases him from his prison, Strykore doesn’t show any affection towards him, snarks at him and only cares about destroying the Core of Light. Subverted, as he was only pretending to be his father.
• Backstab Backfire: Betraying Kaos led the latter to turn against him and seize the Iron Fist of Arkus for himself.
• Bad Boss: Why yes, the Greater-Scope Villain of the show would obviously not be nice to his subordinates.
  • He really doesn't treat Dark Spyro well. When he shows up in Spyro's room to check on his process, he yells at him for his lack of progress in his mission to find the map to the lost island of Arkus while Strykore himself accomplishes very little as well, and when Spyro protests, Strykore decides that means it's time for him to "tighten his grip".
  • Strykore is also horrible to Kaos, his supposed son, despite the fact that it was all thanks to him that Strykore even got released into Skylands again. Aside from not thanking Kaos properly for the deed, Strykore tosses him aside immediately. Strykore isn't even kind to Kaos for when the latter brings him the map to Arkus, and pulls a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness instead.
  • Ironically, Glumshanks, the show's resident Beleaguered Assistant, isn't shown to be as harshly treated as the other two, even if he and Strykore shared a lot less screentime together in comparison. In the few scenes they do have, beyond caging Glumshanks in Kaossandra's castle by strapping a tracking device around his leg and having a forcefield around the castle keeping outside contact by phone out, Strykore isn't as physically abusive or insulting to him as Kaos was.
• Berserk Button: Don't you dare bring up his inability to grow a beard. It seems like caring a lot about facial hair runs in the family.
• Beyond Redemption: During his final fight with Eon and Kaossandra, the latter tells the former that Strykore stopped being his brother a long time ago, right after Strykore tries to get Eon to lower his guard by talking about how close they were long ago. When Eon and Kaossandra then are sealing him within the endless void again, they do so without any hesitations.
• Big Bad: Grows to be this near the end of Season 2.
• Blunt "Yes": In "Power Struggle", Kaos asks him if he's really going to send Dark Spyro over his own flesh and blood to scout Skylanders Academy, to which Strykore just says "yes". Kaos had not prepared any responses for that answer.
• Break Them by Talking: Strykore attempts this during his and Eon's climactic battle in the series finale. Strykore brings up how they used to be so close back in their years of studying, which causes Eon to let his guard down so Strykore can get a cheap blow at him. Luckily, Kaossandra was also there to bring Eon back to reality before he could be fully affected by Strykore's lies.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Eon's Abel.
• Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series and hasn't been in any of the games.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Dark Spyro at one point suggests that with the element of surprise still on his side, he should take down the Skylanders one by one. Strykore shoots this idea down, believing that if Spyro were to do that, he would never be able to find the map to Arkus' Island, due to them playing the long game and should prioritize finding it. If he were to defeat the Skylanders, it would just become more difficult since the academy would then go into higher alert, especially since around this point, it already was at high alert because Eon had just suspected that a spy for Strykore was present.
• The Chessmaster: Towards the end of season 2, Strykore leads the Doom Raiders to Kaossandra's castle where the Golden Queen turns Kaossandra into gold and locks away Kaos and Glumshanks in the guest castle. Kaos and Glumshanks then conduct a plan to give Kaos an escape and look for a spell in Kaossandra's spell book to defeat the Doom Raiders and undo the gold spell on his mother. So when he meets Strykore in Kaossandra's meditation chamber where the book is stored, Strykore tells Kaos that he is his father and that Kaossandra betrayed him in the Great War, flushing down all the love Kaos had grown for his mother throughout the season. And by telling Kaos that he, the dreaded "Light Eater", is his father, he makes Kaos even more excited to free him. The only thing Strykore did not account for in his plan is that Kaos still wouldn't powerful enough to free him, but luckily, Kaos knew exactly where to find a being who is pure enough that the light Strykore consumes from them is enough to set him free, in this case, Spyro.
• Cold Ham: Has a deep voice and is prone to overacting.
• The Comically Serious: Only when he is interacting with the much more comedy oriented Kaos and Glumshanks.
• The Corrupter: When Strykore consumes the light energy of an individual, he turns them into an evil and dark version of their former selves.
• The Corruption: Before he became The Corrupter, Strykore's greed and pride led to him finding dark spell books which warped his mind with darkness, turning him into the villain we know him as.
• Decomposite Character: Most details regarding the Legend of Spyro Malefor are split between this guy and the Skylanders version of Malefor.
• Didn't Think This Through: Cloning Glumshanks to serve as his troll army, given that Glumshanks is a Non-Action Guy. When Strykore orders them to attack the Arkeyan Conquertron in the final episode, they don't feel like it and walk away mostly in annoyance rather than objection.
• Disproportionate Retribution: During his search for the Island of Arkus, Strykore tried to get a troll army to serve him, and after they turned down the offer, he "might've" vaporized them to another dimension. After hearing this, Glumshanks understands that it is not a good idea to ask for a raise.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs. When Dark Spyro asks him if he should wear a spike collar or a bandana, Strykore thinks he should take the bandana because the spike collar is trying too hard.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Fitting for the biggest threat to Skylands' peace.
• Evil Twin: He didn't start out this way, but during his time when he was studying with his brother and Kaossandra, he grew arrogant and greedy, which resulted in him finding illegal spell books that corrupted him and turned him into Eon's evil twin.
• Evil Uncle: Turns out that he's Eon's twin brother, making him this to Kaos.
• Evil Wears Black: In contrast to his twin brother and similarly to Kaos, Strykore wears a black robe and a dark helmet.
• Flat Character: He doesn't get that much characterization outside of wanting to destroy the Core of Light and being a terrible boss. In other words, just being evil.
• Foreshadowing: A very strong clue that he is not in fact Kaos' father is how he had no idea who Glumshanks was after his revival in spite of the fact the troll is Kaossandra's longtime manservant.
• Gonk: He looks exactly like Eon, just with pale skin and without a beard. That's enough to not make him attractive, as Eon at least still looked decent even without beard.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Strykore was responsible for starting the Great War between light and darkness. He was the most feared being in all of Skylands and responsible for corrupting Spyro's ancestors who protected the Core of Light, forcing Master Eon to banish them to another dimension. Even in the present day, he is still active despite being banished to the void by Kaossandra. His first course of action in the story is in "Crash Landing" where he bestows more power through Kaossandra's evil spell book onto Kaos, which leads to Kaos choosing to side with the Doom Raiders over his mom in the following episode, thus Kaos has rebelled against the one who locked up Strykore in his void prison. Then when Kaos has left the Doom Raiders and makes up with his mother, Strykore makes a plan that involves using the Doom Raiders to get Kaos to him and then freeing him all while destroying the new-found trust built between Kaossandra and Kaos.
• Hated by All: He earned this status when he initiated the Great War and became The Dreaded. So much so that Eon and Kaossandra could erase all physical evidence of his existance and nobody in Skylands from the time of the war wanted to pass on the knowledge of Strykore, only about "The Light Eater". In the present, there are two characters who have any sort of fondness for him, Kaos and Dark Spyro. But that gets to be short-lived. Dark Spyro gets vanquished and Kaos went against Strykore after he casted him aside. And after finding out that Eon is his actual father, Kaos most likely will not be thinking about Strykore anymore.
• Hijacked by Ganon: He's set up as the show's big bad, only for Kaos to keep the Iron Fist of Arkus for himself. Although Kaos doesn't use it against him.
• Hypocrite:
  • He constantly projects his image in front of Dark Spyro without any warning, but he acts annoyed when the latter suddenly contacts him.
  • He tells Dark Spyro that they're playing "the long game", yet is impatient over his minion's lack of progress in finding what he needs.
• Jerkass: He only cares about accomplishing his goal of destroying the Core of Light, and views nobody as an equal.
• Knight of Cerebus: While his interactions with Kaos are still comical, he's also integral to the reason Spyro's dragon ancestors were banished to another dimension, and makes the tone shift to a more dramatic one. And on a sidenote, he is the only villain of the show who at no point engages in Villains Out Shopping activities that takes place in public areas, instead spending time alone.
• Lack of Empathy: After Dark Spyro was discovered as his spy, Strykore doesn't show any remorse about losing his most trusted minion. Adding in that Strykore tended to shout at Spyro for his slow progress in finding the Map to Arkus and it shows that Strykore saw Spyro as nothing more but a tool for his plans.
• Large and in Charge: He towers over all of his henchmen.
• Leaking Can of Evil: In spite of being sealed in the Endless Void, Strykore is still able to bestow his power to others, empower villains around Skylands and disrupt technology like a plague.
• Lean and Mean: He has the same slim body structure as his brother and couldn't be more evil if he had tried.
• Leave No Witnesses: In "Power Struggle", after finding out from King Pen what he needs to do to find the Island of Arkus and putting together the plan for it, Strykore's next action is to kill King Pen. Of course, he's not allowed to go beyond "get rid of all the evidence".
• The Long Game: This is the strategy he comes up with for his hunt for the Island of Arkus. Which is that Dark Spyro is gonna infiltrate Skylanders Academy as The Mole and look for the map to the island, which is said by King Pen to be there. So when Dark Spyro is starting to abandon the mission in favor of bonding with his friends, Strykore loses his patience more and more until he decides to "tighten his grip", which means forcing the darkness inside Dark Spyro again so he goes back to being Strykore's evil minion.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He claims to be Kaos's father, which is later proven to be false.
• Manipulative Bastard: Strykore tricks Kaos into thinking that he is the latter's father so Kaos would release him. He keeps the illusion up throughout the entire season.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He isn't called "The Light Eater" for nothing. Even Malefor, an evil dragon king, appears to fear Strykore and doesn't want to face his wrath.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Towards the end of "Off to the Races", had he not stopped Dark Spyro from returning to Flynn with the screwdriver, the Skylanders would've never found out Spyro's true alignment and Strykore would not have lost his minion.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Plays the Mean (of course) in two different groups.
  • In the trio with him, Kaos and Glumshanks with Kaos as the In-Between and Glumshanks as the Nice. The other two show some signs of redeemability (Glumshanks working as a double agent for the heroes and even being against Kaos taking over Skylands and Kaos showing that he has a Hidden Heart of Gold) while Strykore is void of any redeemability.
  • Also the Mean to Kaossandra’s In-Between and Eon’s Nice. He fell into darkness and evil by being corrupted by it after reading illegal spell books while Eon always remained on the side of good and Kaossandra only being on the evil side to keep Strykore at bay.
• Obviously Evil: Looking like a dark version of Eon, the show’s Big Good, isn’t a very welcoming appeal. Despite that, when Eon recaps what happened before and during the Great War, Strykore looked exactly the same then as he does now, even before he was corrupted by darkness after reading illegal spell books.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • His reaction to Kaos putting the Fist of Arkus on.
  • He has a bigger one when he realizes Eon just opened the dimensional rift to banish him again.
• Oracular Head: Throughout season 3, Strykore checks in on Dark Spyro using this method. All without any regard that the Skylanders might burst in on the scene and see him.
  Dark Spyro: Strykore, what are you doing? Someone could see you.
  Strykore: And they will be dealt with.
• Orcus on His Throne: Dark Spyro is the one who does all the heavy lifting of locating any way to find the Island of Arkus while Strykore remains in Kaossandra's castle. Even though "The Truth is in Here" shows Strykore at one point doing his own work, it's never shown to be as effective as Spyro's work.
• Palette Swap: He's basically a beardless Eon with differently colored clothes and longer horns on his helmet.
• Power Parasite: Consumes the light energy of others to fuel his own power.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: He is completely evil, wears a black robe, and his dark powers makes him glow red when he uses them.
• Red Baron: Known as "The Light Eater" for his ability to get stronger after eating the light energy of a creature. This moniker of his seems to be the only thing known about him in the present, as while Kaos doesn't know anything about Strykore, he did know about the name.
  Kaos: Wait, so you're the one they used to call "The Light Eater"?
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes and is one of the most dangerous beings in Skylands. His red eyes are even the first thing the audience ever sees of him, letting us know from the start that this guy means bad news.
• Satanic Archetype: Black color scheme? Check. Horns? Thanks to his helmet, check. Dark powers? Check. Scary name? Aside from his normal name, he is called “The Light Eater” because of his ability to eat the light from creatures, so check.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Was defeated by Eon and imprisoned by Kaossandra, stopping the Great War. Until he was freed at the end of Season 2. Until the finale of season 3, where he was resealed in the Endless Void.
• Seven Deadly Sins: As the Greater-Scope Villain of the show, Strykore fits well into every single one, both in the past before the Great War and the present.
  • Pride: Eon says that part of Strykore's greed for power stemmed from him growing more arrogant and wanting to take the easy way to become the most powerful sorcerer of Skylands, which is what lead to him reading illegal spell books and getting corrupted by the dark magic in them.
  • Greed: As explained, Strykore's pride fed his greed into wanting more and more power.
  • Gluttony: As the Light Eater, Strykore gets more powerful the more light he devours, and with the combined arrogance and greed that grew within him, he would just want more and more.
  • Lust: Strykore has an lust for power, and after he was corrupted by the dark magic in dangerous spell books, he became obssessed with destroying the Core of Light, which was why he started The Great War.
  • Sloth: He mostly relies on Dark Spyro to find the way to the island of Arkus rather than try to make any progress himself. Downplayed because we don't know if it's because he takes many long breaks or because he's doing the best he can but he can't get anywhere.
  • Wrath: He grows angrier and angrier at Dark Spyro for not making progress in finding the map to Arkus and instead spending time with the other Skylanders, which prompts him to pop up more and more around him. And his appearances around Spyro is what eventually exposes their allegiance.
  • Envy: There isn't anything Strykore does that's particularly envious, but there is the possibility that he wanted Spyro's dragon family to work under him instead of Eon, given that he corrupted every single one of them in the Great War, which forced Eon to banish them to another dimension, making Strykore's envy partially responsible for them being gone. And as he grows closer and closer to getting freed back into Skylands, King Pen fears that he would be after Spyro, the only dragon of that dragonkind left in Skylands. Oh, and Strykore is also jealous of Eon being able to grow a beard while he can't.
• Skewed Priorities: When Dark Spyro reveals to him that there is high alert at the academy because a mole is sensed to be there, Strykore tells him that he should be less concerned about being discovered and instead think about what will happen to him if he doesn't find the map to Arkus.
• Smug Snake: His powers has made him see himself as someone all-powerful who fears nothing, no matter how much stronger and dangerous his opponent could be. Not even when Kaos betrays him and takes the Iron Fist of Arkus for himself. Strykore simply thinks he and his army of Glumshanks will be able to beat him.
• Start of Darkness: Strykore became more greedy and arrogant when he was studying magic with Eon and Kaossandra and wanted to become the most powerful sorcerer in Skylands, which resulted in him getting his hands on spell books that corrupted him and made him succumb to the dark side. Wanting the Darkness to spread over Skylands so that he could conquer it, Strykore started The Great War so he could get a better shot at destroying the Core of Light. The war resulted in him losing and being imprisoned in an endless void.
• Super Smoke: One of his powers is to turn into a mass of darkness, making him nigh untouchable.
• Tranquil Fury: The times Dark Spyro speaks against him, he returns it by speaking about the threats of doing so in a calm voice.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite all the things Kaos does for Strykore, he can't care less about him.
  • He uses Kaos to free himself from his prison and after that, feel like he has no use for him and does nothing to repay him.
  • The smallest praise he can bestow to Kaos after their fight with the Skylanders in "Power Struggle" is that Kaos didn't mess up that much, even though without him, Strykore would've been sucked up by Jet-Vac's Vac Gun in his smoke form.
  • When Kaos gives him the Map to Arkus, what does Strykore do? Send him to a cell underwater, of course!
• Un-person: After he was sealed away by Kaossandra, ending the Great War, no records or proof of his existence was left by Eon and his allies, most likely in an attempt to keep the truth hidden.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: The imposing and sinister Vile Villain to Kaos’ Laughable Lackey.
• Villain Teleportation: A brief moment in "Raiders of the Loat Arkus Part 2" has Strykore teleporting behind Eon to catch him by surprise.
• Villainous Breakdown: He starts to have one after Kaos takes the Fist of Arkus before he can, but it really kicks in after Eon opens the dimensional rift to banish him again, being left in rage and desperation as he's thrown in.
  Strykore: You heroes are so SAPPY!
• Villains Out Shopping: When Spyro at one point calls him to report his situation, Strykore tells him that even powerful lords of darkness need some alone time, meaning that he does other things that aren't trying to take over Skylands.
• Walking Spoiler: The ending to season 2 and a majority of season 3 can’t be discussed without talking about him.
• We Used to Be Friends: He, his brother and Kaossandra were True Companions many years ago, but that was destroyed once Strykore got corrupted by evil spell books and he initiated the Great War in an attempt to destroy the Core of Light so that he and the Darkness could rule Skylands.
• You Have Out Lived Your Usefulness: When he gets the Map to Arkus from Kaos, he thanks him by sending him to a cell underwater.

Spoiler Character

Dark Spyro

See the Spyro page.

Doom Raiders

In General

• Adaptational Wimp: They don't retain the same level of threat they posed in the game (not helped by Broccoli Guy of all villains being a member now), and while they do keep their powers and even get new ones, they never use them for anything vile and are only doing regular or outright harmless crimes, as opposed to what happened in Trap Team where they built a doomsday device to control Skylands. And in some of the numerous times they engage in mundane activities, nobody bats an eye and lets them participate like they weren't villains at all.
• Adapted Out: Dr. Krankcase and the Gulper are not members in the show. Gulper does get mentioned at one point, although he seems to be a stand-alone villain.
• Dwindling Party: At the end of season 2, Golden Queen is split off from the group when the other flee Kaossandra's castle while the Queen is sent flying through Skylands by Kaos. And after the rest have been locked up yet again at Cloudcracker Prison, Kaos breaks them all out except for Broccoli Guy, leaving only Wolfgang, Chompy Mage, Pepper Jack and Dreamcatcher left as the group.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Initially the group with some of the greatest villains in Skylands, the Doom Raiders become less and less threatening as the show goes on. Starting in season 2, Golden Queen starts leading them to commit lamer and lamer crimes because of how focused she is on getting revenge on Kaossandra, and while they do take over her castle towards the end of the season, it only happened thanks to the help of Strykore, and their victory is short-lived due to Kaos getting bestowed more power from him and driving them out. Then in season 3, they are reduced to a group of failing pirates under the command of Kaos who can't even plunder villages properly.
• No Honor Among Thieves: While they present themselves as a unified league of the worst villains in all of Skylands, Assault on Skylander Academy shows that none of them would hesitate to backstab the others for a taste of power. When they realize that Kaossandra's dark book of spells is being held in the academy, they make a plan to meet up and steal it together. Instead, each of them heads to the academy early in their own camouflage to try and sneak in to claim the book for themselves, only to run into each other. Even the Golden Queen planned to sneak in by herself, implying that she would gladly ditch her underlings if she thought she didn't need them anymore (the only one not to perform a double-cross was Broccoli Guy, who thought everyone was heading to the beach instead).
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In the first two seasons, the Doom Raiders mostly saw Kaos as someone to manipulate in their favor and weren't that put off by him. But in season 3, they are more openly hostile towards him because of how incompoent he is as a pirate captain.

Golden Queen

Voiced by Susan Sarandon (English)
Charlotte Ardai Jennefors (Swedish)

The leader of the Doom Raiders, and Kaos' object of affection.

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• Adaptational Curves: On the lower half at least, her hips are larger.
• Adaptational Wimp: While still certainly a threat, her plans and overall threat level are far smaller than in the games, where she plans to create a doomsday device and steal all the treasures in Skyland. She's also limited to her ability to turn others to gold, whereas her game counterpart has far more powers this version never shows.
• Adapted Out: Her game self was obsessed with gold.
• All Take and No Give: How she uses Kaos. She and the other Doom Raiders never accepted him into them because they wanted him to grow into a better villain or because they respected him, but because they could use his growing powers for themselves. All of their praises towards him is to simply rile him into using his powers more and keep serving under the belief that they respect him.
• A Twinkle in the Sky: In Season 2, Kaos traps her in a magic ball and kicks her to who knows where.
• Barrier Warrior: Golden Queen later demonstrates the power to surround herself in a protective shield of golden energy. Only a massive Energy Ball from Eon is shown to be the only thing that can pierce through it.
• Big Bad: Of Season 1. She's a much worse threat than Kaos, and Kaossandra doesn't really take an active role as a villain. The following seasons end up pushing her off the side to make way for Strykore and Kaos.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Ends up becoming this as the show goes on. After serving as the most threatening antagonist of Seasons 1 and 2, she gets ousted by Kaos and Strykore as the main threats, with the former literally her kicking her away at the end of Season 2. And while she does come back in Season 3, it's to simply terrorize a random village, leading to her being defeated by Dark Spyro and Jet-Vac puppeting an unconscious Eon, then locked back up in prison for good.
• The Bus Came Back: After seemingly being launched away into nowhere by Kaos, Season 3's "Weekend at Eon's" has Golden Queen return for one final solo appearance.
• Broken Pedestal: Kaos had a massive crush on her and idolized her and the Doom Raiders. As time continues, he starts to realize she's not exactly the kind of villain he looked up to, which is due in part because of how she and the others manipulate Kaos into helping them while not doing much to repay the favor.
• Came Back Strong: After being sealed in an energy sphere by Kaos (and later being inadvertently freed by him), she reveals she had been working on better perfecting her armor, now able to generate an energy barrier that can repel most attacks.
• Deadpan Snarker: Well, who wouldn't be when dealing with Kaos?
• Demoted to Extra: Only has one appearance in Season 3 since Kaos broke the other Doom Raiders (except for Broccoli Guy) out of prison to work as his pirate crew.
• Evil Genius: She was the one to come up with the escape plan that got the Doom Raiders out of Cloudcracker Prison.
• For the Evulz: In "Weekend at Eon's", after having spent months being sealed inside a sphere by Kaos and sent flying through Skylands, she blows off her steam from it by terrorizing the town that's near the academy.
• Hand Blast: When she's not turning others into gold by touch, she's unleashing golden beams to do so.
• Interspecies Romance: Implied to be in a relationship with Wolfgang.
• The Magic Touch: Her power allows her to turn anything she touches into gold.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Golden Queen's downwards spiral in villainy after her conflict with Kaossandra at Skylander Academy is something even the Doom Raiders find disappointing, but none of them stands up to her about it because they still feel that they have to follow all of her orders.
• Poke the Poodle: At the start of Season 2, she starts leading the Doom Raiders into committing more and more lamer crimes, such as doing a dash-and-dine and prank call Skylanders Academy. According to Chompy Mage, this is because she started to fall off after her conflict with Kaossandra in the Season 1 finale.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has bright red rubies for eyes.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Kaos ends up trapping her within a bubble of darkness she can't break out of and kicks her away. Ironically, he ends up later clipping her prison with his later acquired pirate ship and freeing her, with her not even realizing him and her Doom Raiders were on it.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: She doesn't tolerate it when the other Doom Raiders would double cross her or the whole group, but she herself is willing to do the very same thing, as shown in "Assault on Skylander Academy". When she's questioned on this by Dreamcatcher, her response is that she can do whatever she wants because she is the leader.

Wolfgang

Voiced by James Hetfield (English)
Anton Olofsson Raeder (Swedish)

The muscle of the Doom Raiders- a big wolf guy who plays the electric guitar and frequently beats up Kaos.

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• Achilles' Heel: Should the strings on his Bone Harp get cut, his hypnosis will wear off.
• Adaptational Skill: In both the games and the show, he can use his bone harp to attack. While in the games it’s just simply the notes that hurt enemies, in the show it has turned into hypnosis.
• Adaptational Villainy: His bio in the game describes him as a Tragic Monster who was once a musician when he accidentally discovered a music that literally hurt people, and turned into a werewolf as a result of people shunning him for it. His origin in the Academy series pretty much is the complete opposite- he actually was very successful as a rockstar, to the point he ended up letting his ego get the best of him and created a melody allowing him to mind control people.
• Berserk Button: Whatever you do, don’t call him “dog” in any way.
• The Brute: While he resorts to his hypnosis to attack, he also has the most brawn of the group.
• The Dragon: He generally acts as second-in-command for the Doom Raiders, with Golden Queen apparently also being his girlfriend, much to Kaos' chagrin.
• Dreadful Musician: Can use his bone harp to attack the Skylanders with loud sounds.
• Evil Former Friend: He used to be in a band with Pop Fizz called "Pop and the Gang", but Wolfgang stole the spotlight and started using his rock and roll skills for evil purposes.
• Interspecies Romance: Was in one with the Golden Queen, who is a gold statue.
• It's All About Me: In his past, when he was in a musical duo with Pop Fizz, he started becoming more egotistical and used his music for solos and to hypnotize the audience into liking his music rather than earning it.
• Mass Hypnosis: Can hypnotize an entire stadium with his music.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When he and Pop Fizz perform together his behavior reminded Pop Fizz of how the Skylander turned down their band because of Wolfgang’s ego, leading to his downfall.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: He refers to himself as a werewolf, but spends all his time as a man-wolf with no apparent human form, and is fully in control of himself.
• The Power of Rock: He has the power to hypnotize people with his music.
• Top-Heavy Guy: He has broad shoulders, but spindly legs.
• We Can Rule Together: In "Pop Rocks" he tells Fizz Pop they would have been great, until Fizz left the band to join the Skylanders because Wolfgang was using his powers for evil and had a big ego.
• We Used to Be Friends: Was in a band with Pop Fizz, but let his ego run amok and made their concerts all about him, turning the gremlin against him and left the band.

Chef Pepper Jack

Voiced by John DiMaggio (English)
Urban Wrethagen (Swedish)

An evil chef and member of the Doom Raiders.

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• Anthropomorphic Food: He's a humanoid chili pepper.
• Evil Chef: His specialty is to cook up dishes that will incapacitate the heroes- like chili so spicy it gives nearly all the Skylanders massive indigestion and ate through the ground.
• Near-Villain Victory: His plan in "Anger Mismanagement" almost succeeded and was stopped by Eruptor through no fault of either Pepper Jack or Kaos' own.
• Ragin' Cajun: He has a thick Cajun accent.
• Supreme Chef: Used to be the finest chef in Skylands before turning to evil.

Chompy Mage

Voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos (English)
Dick Eriksson (Swedish)

A Chompy-obsessed sorcerer and member of the Doom Raiders.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: He might hold conversations with a hand puppet, but he's one of the Doom Raiders' more dangerous members.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Subverted, he talks to a hand puppet, but the puppet seems to have some degree of sentience. A more clear display of this is his showing in "The Hole Truth". While the other Doom Raiders (sans Broccoli Guy) combine their elemental attacks to tear a rift in their prison to escape through, Chompy Mage just points his puppet at the rift as if it's actually casting magic... despite absolutely nothing happening.
• Consulting Mister Puppet: He always talks to his puppet and, strangely enough, it sometimes replies.
• Evil Brit: Unlike the games, Chompy Mage has an English accent in the show.
• Hand Puppet: He has one of a Chompy that he often talks to.
• Human Sacrifice: After capturing Spyro in "Crash Landing", he attempts to sacrifice him for a Chompy summoning spell.
• The Minion Master: He can summon hordes of Chompies to attack the Skylanders.
• No-Sell: While he can control Chompies, his power has no effect on purple Chompies at all. No reason for this is given, though given how rare they are in the games, he might never have actually gotten his magic accustomed to taming them.
• Spanner in the Works: In "Return to Cynder", by confessing his disapproval of the latest crimes the Golden Queen makes the Doom Raiders do to Kaos, he unknowingly assisted in building Kaos' motivation to leave the gang a few episodes later.

Broccoli Guy

"Broccoli is bad for you!"

Voiced by Cedric Yarbrough (English)
Freddy Åsblom (Swedish)

Technically a member of the Doom Raiders, but isn't respected at all.

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• Anthropomorphic Food: He's a talking piece of broccoli.
• Beware the Silly Ones: In "Elementary, My Dear Eruptor", he uses his staff to absorb all the elemental powers, becoming bigger and more dangerous.
• Catchphrase: "Broccoli is bad for you!"
• Demoted to Extra: Only makes a cameo for Season 3 when it's revealed that Kaos broke the other Doom Raiders out of prison, leaving Broccoli Guy behind.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In his powered up form, his voice goes from meek and whiny to commanding and almost demonic.
• Eye Beams: When empowered with enough elemental energy, Broccoli Guy can fire yellow beams from his eyes.
• Fog Feet: He doesn't have any visible legs, and just sort of floats around.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Absolutely nobody likes him, not even the Doom Raiders, to the point where Broccoli Guy is on the edge of being Hated by All. They only keep him around for his healing magic. In fact, insulting Broccoli Guy is how Dreamcatcher endears herself to Golden Queen. And in episode 3 of season 3, Kaos breaks all of the Doom Raiders (aside from Golden Queen who wasn't there) out of prison except for Broccoli Guy, to which Snap Shot says "Who can blame him?"
• Funny Afro: It comes with being a piece of anthropomorphic broccoli.
• Harmless Villain: He is by far the least threatening member of the Doom Raiders, and he even makes Kaos look competent by comparison.
  • Averted briefly in Season 2. He displays the ability to absorb elemental powers from the environment and living beings, increasing both his size and magical power. His new self intimidates Kaos into submission and if it weren't for the rest of the team and Eon coming to the rescue, he likely would have killed Eruptor by draining all of his Fire elemental energy.
• Mana Drain: His staff allows him to do this, siphoning energy from his surroundings, like taking Life energy from a field of grass and making it wither away. Goes into Life Drain territory when he almost successfully saps Eruptor of all his power.
• Poke the Poodle: His attempts at villainy are pathetic. This includes growing broccoli and having a toothbrush in his prison cell that has non-regulation bristles.
• Put on a Bus: Was left in his prison cell by Kaos and the Doom Raiders when Kaos broke them out of Cloudcracker Prison.
• Support Party Member: He has healing powers, although he has yet to demonstrate them in a clear fight. When the other Doom Raiders have no use for him, he just cheers the others on.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Has bright yellow eyes and is evil... when he tries.

Dreamcatcher

Voiced by Parker Posey (English)
Elina Raeder (Season 1 & 2), Mimmi Olsen (Season 3) (Swedish)

A Doom Raiders member and a defector from the Academy.

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• Amnesiac Dissonance: When she briefly gained amnesia, she was actually a Nice Girl.
• Dream Stealer: She uses her powers to infiltrate people's dreams and give them nightmares. She ends up giving everyone a massive phobia of sheep (except for Stealth Elf, who went through several sleepless nights, saving her from Dreamcatcher's plan).
• Flying Face: She's just a giant head with no body.
• For the Evulz: It's fun for her.
• Good Is Boring: Her reason for joining the Doom Raiders.
• Obviously Evil: She's a Bad Liar when it comes to hiding her plan to make everyone at the academy afraid of sheep. She tries to blend into the crowd by making it seem like she's a victim of the plan too, but her reactions to the sheep are delayed and poorly acted. And she appears to be very glad she didn't have to pretend anymore when Stealth Elf figured it out.
• Scare 'Em Straight: She was sent to the Academy by her parents to set her straight. It didn't work.
• Valley Girl: She has the voice of one.

Other Villains

Fire Viper

Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker (English)

A massive fire serpent who is one of the many villains that terrorize Skylands.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: A minor case, but the Fire Viper villain in the series has a pair of wings in order to fly, while the one faced as a boss in Swap Force didn't. Oddly enough, the Fire Viper hologram the cadets fight has its wings cut off in battle, but was shown to still be able to travel through the air without them.
• Abusive Parents: He disciplines his son by swallowing him whole and regurgitating him.
• Kill It Through Its Stomach: He doesn't die from it, but Fire Viper is kept from digesting the Skylanders when Bad Breath unleashes a horrifically smelly belch within him, sickening the monster to the point of puking everyone up and allowing them to attack him directly.
• Ridiculously Small Wings: Him and the rest of his family have these. Despite said wings being at least a fraction of their size, he can fly just fine with him.
• Snakes Are Sinister: A monstrous flying serpent that doesn't hesitate to eat his enemies. This also extends to his family.
• Snake Talk: Befitting of a snake, he talks in a raspy voice while dragging out his s's.
• The Voiceless: It didn't speak a word during its appearance in season 1, only to speak full sentences in season 2 and 3. This is because the writers didn't have time to show Fire Viper's intelligence in Season 1.
• Villain Decay: Inverted. A holographic Fire Viper is used for the easiest training exercise in Skylanders Academy. But in season 2, an actual Fire Viper proves to be a far greater threat.
• Villainous Glutton: Eats King Pen, Cy, Team Spyro and their assigned students, a total of 13 characters, in Belly of the Beast.

Greebles

A species known for causing mayhem.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In Swap Force, the Greebles were more neutral than full-on evil as evident by them being Minion with an F in Evil at first and only becoming more evil after getting hit by the evilizer. In the show, they are evil without them needing to be corrupted by anything.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Unlike in the games where every Greeble was yellow at first and then turned purple when evilized, here the Greebles' are a variation of yellow, green and blue.
• Would Hurt a Child: In the very first scene of the show, some Greebles encounter the newly-hatched Spyro and plan to eat him.

Bomb Shell

Voiced by Chris Cox (English)

A turtle who plants bombs wherever he goes.

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• Cartoon Bomb: His bombs come with a little lighter attached to them.
• Karma Houdini: In "The Skylands Are Falling", he successfully gets away with demolishing Eon's new bronze beard monument while the Skylanders were distracted with other vandals, and never faces any punishment for it in the rest of the episode. He later gets arrested at some point and sent to Cloudcracker Prison in "Sky Hard", only to escape out of his cell when Kaos unleashes the prisoners to slow down the Skylanders (though he mainly leaves to finally use the bathroom). While all of the Mabu prisoners are sent back to their cells, Bombshell is left unaccounted for by the end and presumably managed to escape off-screen.
• Mad Bomber: He likes to plant bombs near important things to blow them up. Why? Because he can.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Uses bombs to attack his enemies.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Bombshell successfully blowing up Eon's statue at the start of "The Skylands Are Falling" is what leads to Spyro wanting to taking down evil before it happens, causing him to overuse Pop Fizz's evil-scope. This causes the unused evil from each foiled crime to gradually form a condensed sphere of pure evil that almost consumes all of Skylands at the episode's climax.
• Villain Team-Up: With Fisticuffs in "It Techs Two" where the two attempt to destroy the Core of Light.

Fisticuffs

Voiced by John DiMaggio (English)

A Wilikin with a chainsaw arm with a giant hand on it.

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• Chainsaw Good: Not the usual example, but his right arm consists of several bladed grinders that he can spin to shred anything that comes into contact with them.
• Crazy-Prepared: After suffering a loss against Team Spyro at some unspecified point in the past, he acquired a set or orbs that form into a large energy cage big enough to contain the whole group in the off chance he ran into all of them again. He ends up having to use it when the group just so happens to encounter him on a random island.
• Evil Is Petty: After a small area on his frame suffers some water damage from a storm, Fisticuffs feels he is justified in tearing apart the entire jungle he is in to find the best replacement wood, uncaring of how that would affect the local wildlife. Stealth Elf and Eruptor call him out on how selfish that is, only for him to attack them.
• Power Fist: Fisticuffs has a huge right hand that he can use to punch and grapple his opponents.
• Villain Team-Up: With Bombshell in "It Techs Two" where the two attempt to destroy the Core of Light.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: "In Like Flynn" has him saying he is afraid of woodpeckers.

Berserker

A drow who's known as "The Greatest Ninja Who Ever Lived Ever". He is a famous fighter on fighting show but is also an evildoer.

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• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: When he takes Hugo captive to eat him before his fighting matches, he first makes him write greeting cards to his mother to celebrate the various holidays because Berserker can't write.
• Heel: He acts like one during the time he is shown on TV, but outside of it he is in general a pretty nasty guy. From bullying people he deems inferior to him on live TV to having no troubles eating Mabus.
• I Shall Taunt You: At the start of "I Dream of Ninjini", he mocks Stealth Elf on live television daring her to battle him, which is a challenge she accepts.
• Large Ham: Fitting for someone who embodies the Heel archetype.

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