The Tony Hawk Pro Skater games take place in a world where the average human is hardier and more athletic than humans in our universe.
Hence anybody being able to hop on a board and skate like a pro, and how falling from the top of a building causes no permanent damage except screwing up a combo.The Tony Hawk Pro Skater universe is a dimension crossroads.
Hence the cameo characters. The crossroads has a strong connection to the Marvel universe, explaining why so many games have Marvel characters.Alternatively, the Tony Hawk games take place IN the Marvel Universe.
And Tony Hawk and his fellow pro skaters are a mutants in this universe, with the powers of super-durability and super-athleticism.Tony Hawk does not actually exist.
He's just a mascot created by Activision to sell their skateboarding games. All of his public appearances at sports shows and the like are just part of a massive viral marketing campaign.- The only thing against this is that, unless he is a Time Lord, Tony Hawk was active for years as a pro skater prior to the series' creation.
Tony Hawk is a Time Lord.
'nuff said.Eric Sparrow is a Pyromaniac
Think about it, how did he he piss off the drug dealers? He lit one of their trucks on fire, and in the final level he's dropping either matches or molotov cocktails behind him to make you crash, and in the Manhattan level, he just happens to be near a burning taxi and comments rather fondly about it.- Plus, he mentions torching action figures with the player character when they were younger. He REALLY seems to have a thing for fire...
Iggy is the canonical protagonist of THUG 1 and 2
His given backstory in THAW of once being a pro skater who left the life behind because of publicity issues is basically the plot of THUG 1, and we know he's met and competed against most of the real world pros from each game. To top it off, in one cutscene Iggy is seen performing the Soul Skater trick, the default Create-A-Trick from THUG 1's story mode. We already know THUG 2's protagonist is the same as THUG 1's because the opening cutscene shows the player character skating in the New Jersey level from THUG 1, and once again is shown to be doing the Soul Skater trick.]Possible Guest Skaters for the future remakes
- Crash Bandicoot
- Spyro the Dragon
- Someone from Overwatch (likely Tracer, Soldier 76 or D.Va)
- Master Chief and Arbiter from Halo
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Conker from Conker's Bad Fur Day
- Marcus Fenix from Gears of War
- Jago from Killer Instinct
- Cooper from Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Skate Heaven in the 1 + 2 remake is actually just a VR simulation
It would explain the pixelated theme of the level.