Headscratchers / The Legend of Spyro

• Didn't Hunter find Spyro, Cynder and Sparx in the post-credits scene of The Eternal Night? Why did the Grublins find them before Hunter did in Dawn of the Dragon?
  • Story retcon by the change in game developers. While it is clear that Hunter found the three heroes trapped in crystal in the epilogue of The Eternal Night, Etranges Libellules changed that story detail to the Grublins finding Spyro, Cynder and Sparx first before Hunter did, with the Grublins accidentally leading Hunter to them.
• Why is Chief Prowlus in Dawn of the Dragon able to tie up Spyro and Cynder with the vaguely explained evil magic chain that was forged by Malefor? Ignitus and the moles say they don't recognize the design, so Malefor probably didn't pick it up from someone else. Alternate Character Interpretation, anyone?
  • He used a crystal that attracted the magic chain. Considering there's a heavy use of magic in their world, it's not unlikely a chain similar to it exists but is less powerful or the like. Along with that, the Hermit, who everyone apparently knows of, has a great deal of knowledge of Malefor, so it's possible he knew how from him.
  • Having a way to restrain or contain some of Malefor's lesser magical creations would be a prudent survival tactic for anyone not capable of a dragon's raw might. Prowlus (or the Hermit) magics a crystal to restrain the chain, and subsequently also the young dragons attached to the chain.
  • Alternatively, the chain necklaces WERE forged by someone else long ago, and subsequently acquired by Malefor's forces. The Cheetah tribesmen may have either inherited other relics, or equally stumbled onto the like and figured it out by experimentation.
  • Or it can also be plot convenience due to the rushed development time, with the developers needing a reason to hold Spyro and Cynder hostage in the Cheetah Village and convince the cheetahs that they were harmless.
• Shortly arriving in Warfang, Spyro and Cynder become separated from Hunter by debris during the attack on the city. Hunter states that Spyro and Cynder won't be able to get through and instructs the two dragons to go and find Ignitus somewhere in the city. But given the gameplay mechanics of free flight in the previous levels, and from Spyro and Cynder's large wingspan, why didn't they just fly over the debris to reach Hunter?
  • Localized downdrafts probably. Those are always in places where the game designers didn't want Spyro to have genuine free flight.
• How did Spyro and Cynder AGE when they were trapped in the amber time crystal, which is clearly solid matter?
  • Perhaps it is similar to time displacement. They're not in synch with the current timeline, but as soon as the crystal is broken, they've still aged the appropriate amount, just remained unaffected by the collapse of the Well of Souls.
    • Although in the planned Krome Studios adaption for Dawn of the Dragon, Spyro and Cynder would've remained young dragons when discovered by Hunter (as evident by the post-credits scene of The Eternal Night). The updated teenage look for Spyro and Cynder was the result of the change in art style with Etranges Libellules, the story producers wanting the two dragons to maintain the free flight feature and to take advantage of the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles at the time.
• Does anyone else think that Cynder was naturally of the Fear element? On top of her coloration, the "icon" for Fear is a silhouette in the shape of Cynder's head.
  • Since it seems to be that "element = color," maybe she was naturally Shadow-type, especially given how it also forms her "flame-style" move. The game treats Poison as her default, but maybe that was the fault of the darkness.
  • The most popular element considered to be her natural one is Wind, as it's the only one without an 'evil' attribute. However, the Chronicler said that her elements were rare and obtained from darkness, not that they were evil in and of themselves. It's also implied Malefor invented all or most of her elements before his fall to evil, so they're likely not evil in and of themselves, so who knows?
• How did the Destroyer travel across the world without running into any oceans that would halt its progress or stall it? The continent Dawn of the Dragon took place in is surrounded by water.
• How did Malefor become a Draco in Leather Pants to certain fans?
  • Being voiced by Mark Hamill?
  • I point thee to Sephiroth. All it takes is "sexiness" for someone to consider an evil bastard redeemable.
  • Also worth noting that, from what we see, the fans see him as something of a victim of prophecy. He sees that Purple Dragons are faetd to end one world and build a new one, and he simply goes along with that belief. That he does so eagerly and persistently and pushes other purple dragons into it against their will, is irrelevant to them.
• Why did they replace Billy West with Wayne Brady as Sparx in Dawn of the Dragon? David Spade was notoriously difficult to work with in A New Beginning, which was why Sparx was recast. But I don’t see why Billy West couldn’t come back. Unless they wanted a running gag of characters being recast between games.