Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure/Characters

The Skylanders
Listed in alphabetic order.

Bash
""Rock and roll!""

Ever since he was a young dragon, Bash has wished to fly. In an attempt to build up enough momentum to do so, he learned how to curl into a ball and roll at incredible speed. This training has toughened his skin into natural armor, but hasn't gotten him airborne as he'd hoped.
 * Berserk Button: Bash really doesn't like having the fact he can't fly mentioned.
 * Beware My Stinger Tail: It's got a spiked ball at its end.
 * Everything's Better With Spinning: With a Rolling Attack and a Spin Attack.
 * Spin to Deflect Stuff: Can learn this.
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons

Boomer
Like most trolls, Boomer loves to blow things up. But he wasn't interested in the trolls' war of conquest, so he turned against his kin and now blows stuff up FOR JUSTICE!
 * Heel Face Turn: Was originally in the troll army, but defected.
 * Mad Bomber: He's a good version however.
 * This is apparently a common trait among trolls. According to a scroll found in game, all their games are for some reason called "Boom!". Boomer just takes this trope Up to Eleven as far as his species goes.
 * My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The troll's love of war and conquest didn't sit well with him. So he saved a town from the trolls and defected. He's apparently the only troll to ever earn the honor of being a Skylander.

Camo
Camo is half-plant due to being hatched at the roots of the Tree of Life. As a result, he can make fruits and vegetables grow to the point of bursting almost instantly. Eon first noticed him when a melon blew up in his face, convincing the young dragon to join the Skylanders.
 * Green Thumb
 * Hybrid Monster: Dragon/Plant
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * Plant Person

Chop Chop
""Slice and dice!""

Created by the ancient Arkeyans with a fusion of technology and undead magic, Chop Chop is a skilled warrior with an indestructible shield. He has spent centuries looking for the vanished Arkeyans before being recruited as a Skylander.
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Dem Bones
 * Heroes Prefer Swords
 * Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: plus it can project forcefield in offensive ways.
 * Magitek

Cynder
Kidnapped as an egg by the evil dragon Malefor, Cynder was raised in the ways of darkness until Spyro rescued her. (Wait, this sounds familiar...) Anyway, she wishes to make up for all the evil she's done under Malefor, but many are wary of the dark powers she still commands.
 * Action Girl
 * The Atoner: Just like her Legend Of Spyro counterpart.
 * Back From the Dead: The Mabu kid Quigly asks if this happened to her.
 * Broad Strokes: Cynder's bio essentially states that some version of the Legend of Spyro trilogy happened in this continuity.
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Heel Face Turn: Just like her The Legend of Spyro counterpart.
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * Scale Color Dissonance/PurpleIsTheNewBlack: In the first two The Legend of Spyro games Cynder was black and red - in Skylanders she is now bright purple and pink, with even higher contrast than in Dawn of the Dragon.
 * Shock and Awe: Cynder's primary attack is her lightning breath.
 * Spread Shot: Her lightning breath can hit multiple enemies across a wide area, even without upgrades.

Dino-Rang
Dino-Rang came to the Skylands in a freak portal accident, taken from his home and his people far away. While helping the Skylanders fight for justice, he searches for the mythical Twin Diamond Boomerangs, believing they'll lead him to his destiny.
 * Battle Boomerang
 * Berserk Button: according to his biography, he hates being referred as a dragon.
 * Everything's Better With Dinosaurs
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy

Double Trouble
Hailing from the tropical regions of Skylands, Double Trouble was searching for spell ingredients when he found a lily said to multiply a spell's power. But after he ate it, he found it multiplied something else, giving him the ability to make half-size, exploding copies of himself.
 * Cool Mask
 * Me's a Crowd
 * Witch Doctor

Drill Sergeant
An ancient robot built by the Arkeyans, Drill Sergeant was buried for centuries until Terrafin wound up finding and reactivating him. Drill Sergeant swore to be Terrafin's servant in thanks, but Terrafin told him not to serve him at all - an order that Drill Sergeant has followed ever since.
 * Drill Tank
 * Rocket Punch
 * This Is a Drill

Drobot
Drobot was always fascinated by mechanical devices, so when he found some Lost Technology he studied it and used to build a set of armor. His new gear includes lasers, spinning gear shooters, flight enhancement gear, and a deep booming voice synthesizer, all of which he uses to defend the Skylands.
 * Eye Beams / Frickin' Laser Beams: His primary attack is to shoot rapidfire, long-range energy beams from his eyes. The "Master Blaster" path of upgrades also adds wing blasters.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Drobot built his suit of Powered Armor himself using some lost technology he came across and his backstory implies he tinkered around a good bit beforehand.
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * Powered Armor: Drobot doesn't actually posess wings.
 * Spread Shot: His secondary attack is to launch a pair of metal blade-gears that can rebound off of walls; the "Clockwork Dragon" path of upgrades allows him to launch three at once.

Eruptor
Eruptor's people once lived deep underneath a volcano until an eruption sent everything up to the surface. As for Eruptor himself, he's said to have an absolutely volcanic temper.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Magma Man

Flameslinger
Flameslinger is such an incredible archer that he wears a blindfold just to prove his skill. He also saved a fire spirit in his youth, who granted him a magic bow and fire boots in gratitude.
 * The Archer
 * Arrows On Fire
 * Blindfolded Vision: Fireslinger is a blindfolded Archer. He does it simply as a Self-Imposed Challenge.
 * Fertile Feet: Inverted; he can have trails of flame trail behind him (but they're not permanent, keeping this out of Walking Wasteland).
 * Our Elves Are Better
 * Tricked Out Shoes: They can leave a path of flames in his wake.

Ghost Roaster
Once a simple chef, Ghost Roaster was turned into a ghoul after falling into the Valley of the Undead. He then consumed an entire ghost village, for which he was chained to a spiked ball as punishment. Eon heard of this and recruited Ghost Roaster, feeling a ghost-eater could be useful - as long as he only eats evil spirits.
 * Epic Flail
 * Evil Laugh
 * Skull for A Head
 * Token Evil Teammate: Ghost Roaster's bio suspiciously lacks any heroic deeds in his past. Eon just thought it'd be better to have a ghost-eater on his side.

Gill Grunt
"'"Fear the fish!""

Gill Grunt is a gillman soldier who met a beautiful mermaid during one tour of duty. He kept a promise to return to her after his tour, but she had been kidnapped by pirates in the meantime. He continues to search for her, and has become a Skylander to put a stop to such evil.
 * Fish People
 * Harpoon Gun: And with one upgrade, it can be upgraded to fire a large ship anchor as a Charged Attack.
 * Knockback: His power-hose attack inflicts relatively little damage, but is explicitly noted to push enemies backwards when it hits.
 * Spread Shot: One path of upgrades enables him to fire a triple spread of harpoons.

Hex
""Fear the dark!""

Hex was once a powerful elven sorceress who entered the underworld to confront Malefor, the Undead Dragon King. However, she returned... changed, becoming an Undead herself. Many are now suspicious of her dark powers, but Eon continues to have faith in her.
 * Action Girl
 * And Then John Was a Zombie
 * Bad With the Bone: Many, if not all of her spells are skull- or bone-shaped. Her toy even shows her holding a spectral skull.
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Lady of Black Magic
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While most of the characters have a few, Hex gets the noteable distinction of having defeated Malefor (though not actually kill him). If this world's Malefor is half as bad as his The Legend of Spyro counterpart, that's no small feat.
 * Our Elves Are Better

Ignitor
On his first quest as a knight, Ignitor was deceived by a witch into wearing a cursed set of armor; he thought it was fire-resistant but dragonfire instead turned him into living flame within the armor. Predictably, he makes the best of this, but still seeks revenge on that witch for tricking him.
 * Animated Armor
 * Cursed With Awesome
 * Flaming Sword

Lightning Rod
Lightning Rod once lived in the Cloud Kingdom, beloved for his heroic deeds and good looks. But it wasn't enough for him. He eventually met Spyro, whose stories of his adventures in faraway lands inspired him to seek out Eon and join the Skylanders.
 * Badass Beard
 * Expy: Bearded lightning-bolt-slinger? Talk about Zeus.
 * Fog Feet
 * Shock and Awe: Throws lightning bolts

Prism Break
Prism Break was once a fearsome, antisocial rock golem, until he was buried in a cave-in. Freed a hundred years later, Prism Break had not only had a change of heart but the earth's pressure had transformed parts of his rocky body into powerful crystals, which he decided to put to use in the defense of the Skylands.
 * Emerald Power: Literally; an upgrade that enhances his attack power also turns his crystals green.
 * Frickin' Laser Beams: Unlike Drobot's, however, they are at least instantaneous beams of light energy, though they do have a more limited range.
 * Groin Attack: When he was freed from his imprisonment, one of the miners hit him with a pick-axe in "an area Prism Break doesn't like to talk about". Although it's not explicitly said, it's safe to assume he got hit... *puts on shades* ...in the stones.
 * Kamehame Hadoken: One of his attacks is one of these.
 * More Teeth Than the Osmond Family: Best seen on his portrait.
 * Power Crystal
 * Sealed Badass in A Can

Slam Bam
Slam Bam lived a simple life on a glacier, making ice sculptures and ice surfing. That is, until Kaos destroyed the glacier, leaving him to drift on an iceberg for days until he landed on Eon's Island.
 * Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti
 * An Ice Person
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous

Sonic Boom
A gryphon who hoped to protect her hatchlings, but a wizard was able to find her and curse her eggs; the chicks would hatch, but return to being eggs within moments and hatch again in an endless cycle. Making the best of a bad situation, she taught her chicks how to fight when hatched, and joined the Skylanders to protect others from suffering this kind of evil.
 * Action Girl
 * Action Mom: She's even able to get an assist from her chicks.
 * Cursed With Awesome: She trained her cursed hatchlings to assist her in battle anytime she needs them with effectively no risk to them. Sure, probably not pleasant for her, but certainly helpful.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: Her primary attack is a blast of sonic energy.
 * One-Hit-Point Wonder: Not Sonic Boom herself, but her baby hatchlings -- they vanish in a puff of baby feathers the moment they take any damage, and the player must toss them again.
 * Our Gryphons Are Different: Sonic Boom resembles an opinicus, with her eagle's head and wings, but lion's tail, and four clawed legs.
 * Spread Shot: Her sonic breath already has a wide area of effect, but the "Medea Griffin" path of upgrades enables Sonic Boom to toss all of her eggs simultaneously, in a spread pattern.

Spyro
""All fired up!""

A legendary purple dragon from a faraway land, Spyro is famous for his many adventures - perhaps you've heard of some of them. Having been invited to join the Skylanders, Spyro now protects the Skylands just as fiercely as he has fought evil elsewhere.
 * Breath Weapon: Standard-issue dragon fire, but it's at least upgradable.
 * Composite Character: His bio gives him the personality of classic Spyro but also calls him a legendary Purple Dragon like the Legend of Spyro character. Cynder's backstory even implies he's fought this world's Malefor and has a history with Cynder.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: "Dark Spyro" has been noted as using evil energy without being corrupted by it.
 * Death From Above: Spyro's strongest move is his headbash, purchaseable after finding his Soul Gem.
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * Playing With Fire: Even his dash attack has hints of flame to it, although it's not actually a fire attack.
 * Purple Is Powerful: Mentioned in a nod to his Legend counterpart, but hasn't been demonstrated.
 * Ryu and Ken: The three versions of Spyro. Regular Spyro (coming with the console releases) is Ryu, Dark Spyro (coming with the 3DS version) is Ken, and Legendary Spyro (Toys R Us exclusive) is Akuma.
 * Spreadshot: Spyro's firebreath can be upgraded to a spread of three fireballs.
 * Use Your Head: His dash attack, as well as his dive-bombing headbash attack.
 * You Don't Look Like You

Stealth Elf
""Beware. I'm deadly!""

Awaking in the forest with no memory of who she was, she was adopted by a ninja-like creature and raised in the art of stealth. She now searches to find where she came from.
 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Fragile Speedster: In the 3DS version, at least. She can't take a hit but she's your best bet for any speed challenge and the only one of the starters who stands a chance in the second half of Dark Mirror
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
 * Ninja Log: Her special attack is to vanish and leave a decoy in her place. After upgrading, they're dummies that fight back.
 * Knife Nut
 * Our Elves Are Better
 * Reverse Grip

Stump Smash
Originally a magical tree, Stump Smash awoke from a long nap to find that trolls had cut down the entire forest - including himself. He's still upset over the incident, and has vowed to protect Skylands from such incidents happening again.
 * Drop the Hammer: He even uses the phrase as one of his battle cries.
 * Plant Person
 * When Trees Attack

Sunburn
Sunburn is the Skylands' only known dragon/phoenix hybrid, granting him rare magical powers like the ability to teleport. While he is very proud of what he is, this also makes Sunburn a target for those who want to capture and study him for their own ends. Being a Skylander provides him not only with the chance to use his powers for good, but more importantly with protection from anyone who would hunt him.
 * Breath Weapon
 * Hybrid Monster: Dragon/Phoenix
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * The Phoenix
 * Teleporters and Transporters: His teleport move also inflicts Collision Damage.

Terrafin
A land shark from the dirt seas, Terrafin was the local lifeguard until the heat from a massive explosion fused the sand into glass. He turned to boxing, becoming a champion until he by chance met a Portal Master and decided to fight as a Skylander.
 * Everything's Even Worse With Sharks
 * Good Old Fisticuffs
 * Sand Worm

Trigger Happy
""Aye, ayayay!""

Nobody knows where this gremlin came from but... he likes guns. And shooting stuff. And shooting more stuff. And ... well, you get the idea.
 * Bling Bling Bang: Trigger Happy uses "gold guns" that fire gold coins.
 * His other attack is throwing an exploding gold safe. That can be upgraded to a more damaging exploding gold pot of gold coins, and that can be upgraded to an even more damaging single (but ginormous) exploding gold coin. And that single coin is yet even more damaging if it comes up heads.
 * The Gunslinger: Not only does he use guns, his backstory is pretty much what you'd expect from a western gunslinger.
 * Guns Akimbo
 * More Dakka: Dude's called "Trigger Happy"; what do you think?
 * Overly Long Tongue: One trailer even shows it to be prehensile.
 * Trigger Happy
 * Wave Motion Gun: His strongest Charged Attack, the "Golden Yamato Blast", packs so much punch that not only can it clear an entire screen of Mooks with one shot, but the recoil from firing it forces him backwards quite a distance too.

Voodood
During his rite of passage in the Cave of Trials, Voodood discovered a dragon skeleton with the legendary Axe Reaver where its heart would be. Taking the dragon's skull and the axe as his own, Voodood became a decorated warrior and protector of his people, joining the Skylanders after becoming the last of his tribe.
 * An Axe to Grind
 * Dark Is Not Evil: He's an orc wearing a skull, and yet a good guy.
 * Skeletons in The Coat Closet

Warnado
A turtle hatched in a rare Enchanted Twister, Warnado eventually adapted to it and learned how to use the wind. Now he only gets dizzy when standing still.
 * Spin Attack
 * Turtle Power

Wham-Shell
King of a peaceful underwater civilization, Wham-Shell repelled an invasion of trolls drilling for oil, though the invasion did scatter his people far and wide. He's since joined the Skylanders to defend against these sorts of atrocities.
 * Ancestral Weapon: Wham-Shell's mace has been passed down from one king to the next for generations.
 * Giant Enemy Crab: He's vaguely crustacean-like, anyway.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something

Whirlwind
Whirlwind is half-dragon, half-unicorn; unfortunately both races' jealousy makes her an outsider (the dragons covet her beauty, the unicorns envy her ability to fly). Nonetheless, when trolls hunted both species, she jumped to their defense. The result... well, let's just say that evil beings are now terrified of rainbows.
 * Action Girl
 * All of the Other Reindeer: Got this treatment from both of her species.
 * The Dreaded: The trolls invoked Whirlwind's wrath by hunting both races who she's descended from. The resulting Roaring Rampage of Revenge was so great that she's now feared quite greatly by the forces of evil. Yes, the dragon/unicorn hybrid who shoots rainbows from her horn is The Dreaded!
 * Everything's Better With Rainbows: Well, not for her enemies it's not.
 * Killer Rabbit: Is far more deadly than you'd expect from something that's half-unicorn and shoots rainbows.
 * Hybrid Monster: Dragon/Unicorn
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When the trolls started hunting the two races she's a hybrid of, she went on one of these that made her The Dreaded to evildoers.
 * Tragic Mulatto: Wasn't accepted by either species due to her hybrid nature. This did not stop her from going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the trolls for hunting them though.
 * Winged Unicorn: Whirlwind is a half dragon, half unicorn, but for some reason has feathered wings instead of dragon ones, giving her the look of one of these.

Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball started out as a grub worm, to be used as an ingredient in a wizard's magic potion. Surprisingly, he swallowed the entire potion, swelling to enormous size. Then he swallowed the wizard.
 * Big Eater
 * Gasshole
 * Overly Long Tongue
 * Rolling Attack
 * Team Pet: He seems to have more of an animal-level intelligence than a human-level one.
 * Token Amoral Teammate: There's no indication that Wrecking Ball is smart enough to understand right and wrong.

Zap
Zap was born a prince of water dragons, but was swept away by a riptide and adopted by electric eels. There, he not only built a harness to store and discharge electricity, but he also became an excellent speed swimmer, with only the dolphins able to be a match for him.
 * Breath Weapon: He spits balls of electricity as his primary attack.
 * Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons
 * Raised By Wolves - err, eels instead of his own dragonkind.
 * Shock and Awe: Though he learned the how-tos from being raised by electric eels, he has to use a special harness to provide the electricity for it.

Zook
Zook is one of a race known as Bambazookers, who spent their entire lives standing in one place - until Zook realized that he could move away from his spot. He became a famous hero, and hopes that he'll gain even more fame as a member of the Skylanders.
 * Bamboo Technology: Literally, as he has a bamboo carved bazooka.
 * BFG
 * Glory Seeker
 * Plant Person

Eon

 * Big Good: The leader of the Skylanders.
 * Spirit Advisor

Hugo

 * Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Odd when compared to the other NPCs, such as Flynn, Cali and some Mabu villagers.
 * Nerd Glasses

Flynn
"I don't know, the whole thing seems kind of egotistical, to me. I mean, you don't see me walking around bragging about all the great things I've done."
 * Casanova Wannabe
 * Hey It's That Voice: Patrick Warburton
 * Hypocritical Humor: His opinion of credits:


 * Small Name, Big Ego: Self proclaimed greatest pilot in Skylands who flies you around in his balloon.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal: Gets one during Kaos' post defeat rant at the end. Cali approved.
 * Throw the Dog A Bone: In the end, after trying to impress her all game and failing, he finally manages to get her approval by giving Kaos a Shut UP, Hannibal.

Cali

 * Action Girl: Not that she's ever shown beating up evil, but she's a self-proclaimed tough girl.

Persephone

 * Strange Syntax Speaker: Persephone, the fairy who you buy new abilities for your characters from has a very... weird way of saying things.

T-Bone

 * Dem Bones
 * Hurricane of Puns: Naturally adept at making bone- or death-related puns.

Kaos
"Kaos: My head is awesome, I tell you! Fear it! Fear my GIANT FLOATING HEAD!"
 * Actor Allusion: Sounds and acts a lot like a far more competent version of Invader Zim
 * Bald of Evil
 * Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being an Expy of Invader Zim, he manages to destroy the Core Of Light and defeat the Skylanders in his first attack. If the Skylanders hadn't just so happened to land on a world were a Portal Master lived, he'd have won.
 * Big Bad: In the console and PC version.
 * Expy: It's been commented that Kaos is basically Invader Zim by another name; even down to the same voice actor.
 * Huge Holographic Head: Kaos uses one to look more intimidating than he really is, but Eon isn't that impressed.


 * Laughably Evil
 * Large Ham: You thought Ripto from Spyro 2 was cheesy? Kaos puts the cheese on the ham itself.
 * Laser-Guided Karma:
 * The Napoleon
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Of course.
 * The Unfavorite: According to the tie-in novel, The Machine of Doom, Kaos was this. Harsh.

Hektore
The Big Bad of the 3DS version.

Malefor

 * Evil Overlord: Rules the underworld.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: As if Malefor wasn't already one, he gets the title "The Undead Dragon King".
 * The Undead: Is the king of the underworld.
 * Villain Of Another Story: Appears in a major role in the background stories of several Skylanders, is described as the king of the underworld, and has a history with Spyro and Cynder, but never actually appears in the story itself.