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Revision as of 22:10, March 22, 2013
| Zap | |
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| Element: | Water |
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| Species: | Water Dragon |
| Gender: | Male |
| Role: | Skylander |
| Attacks: | Electric Bolt Water Surge Electro-Slime Mega-Volt Wave Rider |
| Appears in: | Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Universe Skylanders: Cloud Patrol Skylanders: Giants Skylanders: Gill Grunt and the Curse of the Fish Master Skylanders: Swap Force |
| English Voice Actor: | Jeff Bergman |
- “Ride the Lightning!”
- – Zap's official catchphrase
Zap is a water dragon Skylander from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.
Background
Personality
Zap is a friendly and mischevious water dragon, being quite revered by the majority of the sea creatures of Skylands who see him as a true dedicated guardian of both the seas and Skylands. He enjoys racing, being able to outstrip almost any opponent, and excels at everything he turns his claws to.
Biography
Zap was born into the royal family of water dragons, but a riptide washed him to a distant sea, where he was raised by electric eels. Growing up, he excelled in everything and even created a special gold harness that allows him to carry an endless electrical charge and shock things at a great distance. Zap also proved to be a gifted racer, outstripping any opponent... with the possible exception of the dolphins. With them, it became a good natured challenge to see who could keep up with Zap. But an electric current in his wake often reminded them who they were dealing with. Despite his mischievous streak, Zap grew to be a true protector of the seas and Skylands.
Story
History
Born into a royal family of water dragons, Zap was well known at court as a show-off swimmer and all-round mischief maker. But one afternoon young prince Zap found himself quite literally in deep water. A riptide had sucked him out into open ocean and beyond, to faraway shores. Soon, Zap found himself surrounded by slippery and shocking. A school of electricl eels was swimming around him, spitting out sparks and sizzles. Zap held out a wet foot to say 'hello' when... YEEOWWW! Well, his mother had warned him electricity and water don't mix. The electric eels felt sorry for the unplugged youngster and decided to raise Zap as one of their own. To fit in, he even built himself an electric harness with an endless charge. Now, Zap can hurl a white-hot electric bolt length of ten sheep fields.
Zap continued as a champ in the water and often left dolphins buzzing in his electrical wake. News of his swimming exploits soon reached the ears of Master Eon, who immediately signed him up.[1]
Relationships
Electric Eels
Zap treats the school of electric eels who adopted him as his family. To better fit in, the water dragon constructed an electric harness that carries an endless charge.
Dolphins
Zap has a long running feud with the dolphins, due to the fact that he regularly shocks them by accident when they ride the waves together, and Zap usually takes offense at the dolphins saying the shocks are no accident... and sometimes they're right. When they race together, the dolphins also have long insisted that Zap uses his power to electrify the water to his advantage. This isn't actually true... at least when he's racing.
Abilities
Using his special golden harness he created as a child to mimic the electrifying power of his adopted parents, Zap can breathe bursts of electricity and spew electrical surges of water at his enemies. He can also leave a trail of slimey water behind him to slow down (and when hit by a spark, electrify) foes. Once upgraded enough he can ride a wave, if you do not travel with it then the wave goes off by itself, but still damages foes.
Stats
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: 260 (max. 520)
- Speed: 50 (max. 98)
- Armor: 24 (max. 54)
- Critical Hit: 30 (max. 80)
- Elemental Power: 25 (max. 75)
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 30
- Defense: 70
- Agility: 65
- Luck: 65
Abilities
| Basic Abilities Like all water skylanders, Zap can swim. |
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| Lightning Breath | Sea Slime Slide |
Love for the Sea
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 Zap spits out pure electricity. |
 Zap slides on a trail of sea slime that enemies will become stuck in. |
 Regenerate health in water. | ||||
| Basic Upgrades Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods. | ||||||
| Electro-Slime | Stay Awhile | MegaVolt | Wave Rider | |||
 Sea Slime can be electrified by Zap's Lightning Breath. |
 Zap's Sea Slime stays electrified much longer. |
 Lightning Breath does more increased damage. |
 Zap can summon (and ride) a great wave that washes away enemies. | |||
| Tesla Dragon |
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| Lightning Strikes Twice | Electric Wave | Tesla Storm | ||
 Lightning Breath bounces off of enemies, objects and walls. |
 Wave Attack does increased damage. |
 Lightning breath attack does even MORE increased damage. |
| Slime Serpent |
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| Strength in Numbers | Charged with Punishment | More Electro'd Slime | ||
 Create more Sea Slimes. |
 Automatically electrify all Sea Slimes. |
 Enemies take even more damage when stuck in electrified Sea Slime. |
Character Trailers
Character Development
Zap was originally a slime character called Cyclops Snail. Cyclops Snail, which Michael Graham described as "this little blue water slug that zipped around, left a little pool of sludge behind him, and he would scream and shoot electricity. He was just so weird — really fun, but totally bizarre. After some feedback, we changed him from blue to purple, but then it was 'you can’t have two purple characters, because Spyro is purple.' Then we got an early version of what Cyclops Snail’s toy might look like, and we thought, 'Oh my gosh, these don’t look at all detailed, not in the way that we want them to be.’ He was revised again, made of oil and now called Tarclops, and that was the final straw. The character evolved so much, by the end, character designer I-Wei Huang at Toys For Bob felt that everything he liked about the character was gone, so we thought, let’s just scrap it — we’ve got to go in a different direction."
But in a way, you’ve already played as Cyclops Snail; you know him as Zap. "We reimagined the character,” says Graham. “Same moves, actually; he plays exactly the same way as Cyclops Snail did. And even Zap went through a little evolution. His original concept didn’t have his scuba tanks, and we shortened his snout quite a bit."[2]
See Also
Gallery
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Zap Trailer -
Zap eats Sealocks -
Zap in packaging -
Zap in toy form -
Zap blasting Chompies -
Zap vs. Terrafin in Battle Mode. -
Screenshot from the official Skylanders website -
Zap in Skylanders: Universe -
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Zap's toy form in CGI -
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Series 2 Zap toy
Trivia
- Zap is one of the five dragon Skylanders who cannot fly. The other four are Bash, Camo, Flashwing, and Sunburn (the latter two are shown to fly outside of the game).
- He is the only one of the nine Dragon Skylanders without claws on his toes (his feet resemble those of a frog's).
- When Zap speaks, his voice is gurgley as if he has water in his mouth.
- His toy form has a bigger splash in the pedestal unlike other Water Skylanders to contain his four-legged frame.
- Zap is the successor of the his original incarnation, Cyclops Slime or Tarclops, a scrapped Skylander.
- In Skylanders: Giants, his voice is much squeakier compared to his dialogue in Spyro's Adventure.
- Zap is voiced by Jeff Bergman, who is also very notable for voicing the modern Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, etc.
- He and Stump Smash can regain health in water with their Soul Gem abilities.
- During development, Zap was originally going to be without his electric gold harness.
- Unlike the other eight dragons, Zap appears to be amphibous instead of a reptilian due to being a water dragon.
