Spyro the Dragon/Characters

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Original Series

Characters from the original Spyro the Dragon series. This counts all games through the original PS 1 game to Shadow Legacy on the DS. While this series, The Legend of Spyro trilogy, and Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure technically share some characters, we'll be giving them separate entries, because their characterizations differ across the series. Skylanders character entries can be found on their own page.

Spyro

The Purple One himself. He's a young dragon living in the Dragon Realms. He can do the usual dragon things: Breathing fire, flying, hitting things with his horns... In the first game, he saved the world because he was the only dragon not transformed into crystal. After that, though, he became a member of the Frequent World-Saver's Club.

Sparx

Spyro's best friend, and his health meter. With firefly magic, he keeps Spyro safe from harm. Inquisitive and helpful, he and Spyro stick up for one another through thick and thin.

Gnasty Gnorc

The main villain from the first game; a powerful and brutal gnorc who was banished from the Dragon Kingdom and allowed to reign free over the dragon dumping grounds, which became known as Gnasty's World. When a dragon called him ugly on a TV interview, he reacted by turning every dragon (except Spyro) into crystal, and turning their gems into gnorc minions.

  • Big Bad: Of the first game. He's later The Dragon to Red in Hero's Tail
  • Demoted to Dragon: In Hero's Tail he's Red's Dragon. Suprisingly, it takes a lot more effort to defeat him as The Dragon than when he was the Big Bad.
  • Carry a Big Stick: He's always seen with a large mace which doubles as a magic wand.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: As mentioned above, he enslaves all the dragons because they called him ugly. To be fair, he was probably just looking for an excuse to use that spell anyway...
  • Flat Character
  • Get Back Here Boss: He spends most of his boss fight running away from you.
  • Informed Attribute: His strength - he goes down in two hits. For clarification, that's one less hit than the gnorc thief enemies in the first level hub.
    • More explicit in A Hero's Tail; when he pounds his mace to the ground, it's strong enough to send large lumps of rock falling from the ceiling, as well as create shockwaves. He also takes a lot more effort to take down compared to the two hits it took originally.
  • Power-Up Magnet: His ability to grab gems.
  • Shock and Awe: In A Hero's Tail he has trapped a sort of thunder-fairy in his mace, and thus he can cast lightning bolts and zap you.

Hunter

Another one of Spyro's good buddies, this, er, hunter lends his bow to Spyro's cause. Other than that--well...

Elora

A Faun from Avalar, and the series' first female character, she appears in Ripto's Rage as an associate of Hunter and the Professor. She is the one who tells Spyro to collect the Talismans and guides him on his quest to defeat Ripto.

  • First Girl Wins: More like Only Girl Wins, but she and Spyro do seem to have an implied interest in each other.
  • Put on a Bus: Despite Hunter, Moneybags and the Professor having large roles in the games post-Ripto's Rage, Elora disappeared entirely except for a cameo at the end of Year of the Dragon.
  • The Bus Came Back: After being entirely absent for the whole game, she appears in a cutscene at the end of Year of the Dragon to celebrate Spyro's latest victory.

The Professor

Another of Spyro's associates from Avalar, the Professor is a mole who is an unrivalled expert in superportal technology. He has a base in the Forgotten Worlds and later seems to move to the Dragon Worlds full-time. He has close ties to two other characters - his ex-lab experiment Agent 9, and his nephew Blink.

Moneybags

A greedy bear from Avalar whose main purpose throughout the series is to extort gems from you (sometimes in ludicrous amounts) in exchange for services (i.e. unlocking levels, opening passages and teaching you abilities) essential for progression. In Year Of The Dragon he is found in the Forgotten Realms where he apparently works for The Sorceress, though he is willing to help you if you bribe him.

Bianca

A rabbit who starts out as The Dragon (no pun intended) to The Sorceress in Year of the Dragon, but after a Heel Face Turn falls in love with Hunter and becomes one of Spyro's allies. A skilled sorceress herself, her magical abilities have proven to be helpful several times.

Ripto

The main villain of the second game. Ripto had enlisted Crush and Gulp to wage war before he was accidentally warped to avalar by Hunter. Upon arrival, he set about enslaving the worlds in which his reign brought disaster upon Avalar until he was eventually defeated by Spyro.

  • Bad Boss: He can be a jerkass to his minions. However, it's shown that he actually does care about them to some extent.
  • Big Bad: Of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Returns as the Big Bad of Enter The Dragonfly.
  • Card-Carrying Villain
  • Disney Villain Death: In the final battle he tries to flee via a mechanical bird. But after a dogfight with Spyro, he dies when he falls into a pit of boiling lava which was under the arena. However, he somehow survived that and returned for his revenge in Enter The Dragonfly.
  • Evil Sorcerer: Played straight in the second game.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not to Spyro himself, but to Crush and Gulp. He mourns the loss of Crush and gives Gulp a generous offer if he successfully manages to kill Spyro.
  • Large Ham
  • The Napoleon
  • Obviously Evil
  • One-Winged Angel: At the end of the final boss battle of Enter The Dragonfly he turns into a gigantic troll-like monster to try and kill Spyro.
  • Shout-Out: His name is similar to the katakana for "Spyro".
  • Villainous Breakdown: When defeated in Enter The Dragonfly, he goes into a temper tantrum and yells about how much he hates dragons before escaping.

Crush

One of Ripto's minions next to Gulp. He wields a club as a weapon. He dies while battling Spyro when he accidentally causes rubble to fall from the ceiling which lands on top of him.

Gulp

One of Ripto's minions next to Crush. He has two giant laser cannons on his back. He dies while battling Spyro.

The Sorceress

The main villain of Year Of The Dragon. A vain, selfish, tyrant who ruled the Forgotten Realms. She kidnapped all the baby dragons during the Year Of The Dragons so she could kill them for their wings so she could become immortal, forcing Spyro to come rescue them. Bianca was formally her Dragon but once she discovered the Sorceress' true intentions, she performed a Heel Face Turn and helped Spyro defeat her. In the running for the most evil Spyro villain.

Ember

A pink dragoness introduced in A Hero's Tail, who is shown to have a crush on Spyro.

Flame

A supporting character in A Hero's Tail.

  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Voiced by Tara Strong, and sounds remarkably similar to Timmy Turner.
  • Palette Swap: Flame is basically Spyro with red scales instead of purple ones. There are some subtle differences (a wider snout on Flame, for example) but they're still really similar. Without going into the Model Viewer, it's hard to notice.

Red

The villain of A Hero's Tail. Formerly a dragon elder, his lust for power led him to be banished. He returns to the Dragon Realms years later, using Dark Gems to fuel his power.

The Legend of Spyro Trilogy

There's a separate page, here.

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

Also has it's own page, here.

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