Skylander

Skylanders
Species:	Various Creatures
Role:	Protagonists
Attacks:	Magic Powers Machinery Physical Abilities

The Skylanders are legendary heroes and champions, protectors of their world, Skylands, as well as the main playable characters in the Skylanders series. Using their powerful abilities, the Skylanders defended their world for generations, keeping peace and balance, until Kaos arrived and banished most of them to Earth, though others were sent willingly or through other means.

Recruited by Portal Masters or graduated from Skylanders Academy, a new Skylander's image is engraved onto the Book of Skylanders and is bound to it.

Abilities

Each Skylander is aligned to a single element: Air, Dark, Earth, Fire, Life, Light, Magic, Tech, Undead, and Water. The elemental alignment of each Skylander makes them strong against one element and weak against another element in the older games' Battle Arenas: Earth is strong against Tech, Tech is strong against Magic, Magic is strong against Undead, Undead is strong against Life, Life is strong against Water, Water is strong against Fire, Fire is strong against Air, and Air is strong against Earth. This "rock-paper-scissors" mechanic is somewhat offset by the variety of stats and abilities.

History

Fall of the Arkeyans

The original Skylanders, the Giants, prepare themselves for a final stand against the Arkeyans.

It was said that the Giants were the original Skylanders who banded together to fight an evil empire. Ten thousand years ago, the Giants battled against the tyrannical Arkeyans for the freedom of Skylands. In a final battle against the Arkeyans, the Giants were shot to Earth as a form of sacrifice, where they’ve been buried underground ever since. As the years passed, these enormous Skylanders were soon considered as a myth.

There has been hundreds of Skylanders in the past, and today, there are dozens, maintaining their role in protecting Skylands from the forces of darkness. Despite the fact that the Skylanders come from different realms and worlds, each knows it is their destiny to use their abilities to protect Skylands.

For generations, the Skylanders worked with the Portal Masters in keeping peace and balance in their world, battling the forces of darkness, and protecting the Core of Light. The Skylanders have an unbreakable bond with their Portal Masters. Though they are not servants, the Skylanders chose to serve their Portal Master and do so eagerly. They are also friends with the Fairies, particularly because fairies can turn treasure into upgrade magic that gives the Skylanders new powers and abilities, including fresh breath.

Cloudbreak Eruption

The SWAP Force Skylanders atop Mount Cloudbreak.

A hundred years ago, a group of Skylanders had protected the Cloudbreak Islands and its magical volcano that regenerates the magic in all of Skylands every one hundred years. During the peak of the previous eruption, an evil presence threatened the Ancient Elementals while they were performing the ritual that causes the volcano to erupt and spread the magic throughout the world. This sinister force summoned a swarm of Fire Vipers to attack the Elementals, but the team of Skylanders were able to defeat them in an epic battle. However, those Skylanders were caught in the eruption of the volcano and were banished to Earth, but not before the magical energies of the eruption granted them the ability to swap halves, thus turning them into a special team of Skylanders known as the SWAP Force.

A Purple Dragon's Adventure

The modern-day Skylanders were previously led by the veteran Portal Master, Master Eon, until The Darkness returned one day. Seeing the incoming threat, Eon called the Skylanders, including Spyro the Dragon, to prepare for battle as the evil Portal Master, Kaos, returned from his exile to once again attempt to destroy the Core of Light and rule Skylands as its emperor. By Eon's command, the Skylanders fought valiantly against Kaos's dark forces, but as they were winning the struggle, Kaos released his Hydra, who successfully destoyed the Core of Light in a devastating blast.

Shortly after the Core's destruction, all of the Skylanders were banished from Skylands to Earth, where they were turned into toys as a result of Earth bearing no magic, and waited for a new Portal Master to find them. Although Master Eon survived the destruction of the Core of Light, he became a spirit and was unable to fight Kaos and The Darkness, leaving the duty of leading the Skylanders to the new, young Portal Master. After Master Eon recruited the new Portal Master, the Skylanders made their suprising return to Skylands, arriving on the Shattered Island to save its Mabu inhabitants from a freak tornado that was ravaging their village. The heroes then began their quest to save Skylands from Kaos' tyranny with the new Portal Master guiding them.

After Kaos's defeat in his lair, three of the Skylanders (Spyro, Gill Grunt, and Trigger Happy) returned to the Ruins with the captive Kaos, and Hugo later banished the evil Portal Master to Earth where he was shrunk and turned into a toy. However, Master Eon hinted to the new Portal Master that the journey with their Skylanders was only the beginning.

The Return of the Giants

Five of the Skylanders still frozen in our world in Skylanders: Giants

The Skylanders are still trapped on Earth, frozen as toys. A few of them have been collected and placed inside displays of a toy store called Super Toy Planet where the toy form of Kaos was also housed in. However, Kaos broke free of his statue-like form due to his Portal Master status, and the frozen Skylanders inside a toy display nearby could do nothing but make idle threats to Kaos as the evil Portal Master taunted them before returning to Skylands with the use of a Portal of Power.

Meanwhile, the new Portal Master had recovered a Giant, and Master Eon sought them out in order to save Skylands once again from a new threat. The Skylanders, and the Giants, prevailed in stopping Kaos from ruling Skylands with an army of Arkeyan robots.

The Trap Team

When a group of most notorious villains called the Doom Raiders terrorized Skylands without mercy, a group of Skylanders called the Trap Team were called forth to track down these evildoers and put to a stop to their plans. These Skylanders wielded legendary Traptanium weapons that allowed them to defeat the Doom Raiders and imprison them in the most impenetrable fortress called Cloudcracker Prison. Many years later however, Kaos destroyed the prison, which not only freed the villains, but also hurled the Trap Team far away from Skylands to Earth where they were found by the new Portal Masters. In the wake of the explosion of Cloudcracker Prison, the foundation of Skylands was fractured, unleashing two new elements: pure light and complete darkness.

The SuperChargers

For his latest scheme, Kaos used the power of The Darkness to create a large machine of destruction called The Sky Eater. This massive construct disconnected the portal network between Skylands and other worlds including Earth, at first preventing the Portal Master and their Skylanders from reaching Skylands. To combat this threat, a special team of Skylanders, known as the SuperChargers, was assembled. Piloting vehicles powered by the legendary Rift Engines, these Skylanders were able to travel through portals between Skylands and worlds beyond.

List of Skylanders

Air Air Strike Bad Juju Blades Boom Jet Breeze Fling Kong Free Ranger Gusto Jet-Vac Hurricane Jet-Vac Lightning Rod Pet-Vac Pop Thorn Scratch Sonic Boom Stormblade Swarm Thunderbolt Warnado Whirlwind Wild Storm

Earth Barbella Bash Bop Crusher Dino-Rang Doom Stone Fist Bump Flashwing Golden Queen Head Rush Prism Break Rocky Roll Rubble Rouser Scorp Slobber Tooth Smash Hit Terrabite Terrafin Shark Shooter Terrafin Tri-Tip Wallop

Fire Blast Zone Ember Eruptor Lava Lance Eruptor Fire Kraken Flameslinger Flare Wolf Fryno Hammer Slam Bowser Hot Dog Hot Head Ignitor Ka-Boom Small Fry Smolderdash Spitfire Sunburn Tae Kwon Crow Torch Trail Blazer Weeruptor Wildfire

Life Ambush Barkley Boom Bloom Bumble Blast Bushwhack Camo Chompy Mage Crash Bandicoot Food Fight Grilla Drilla High Five Shroomboom Stealth Elf Super Shot Stealth Elf Stink Bomb Stump Smash Thrillipede Tree Rex Tuff Luck Turbo Charge Donkey Kong Whisper Elf Zoo Lou Zook

Magic Blastermind Buckshot Cobra Cadabra Déjà Vu Double Trouble Dune Bug Enigma Hoot Loop Mini-Jini Mysticat Ninjini Pain-Yatta Pop Fizz Big Bubble Pop Fizz Splat Spry Spyro Star Strike Trap Shadow Voodood Wrecking Ball

Tech Boomer Bouncer Chain Reaction Chopper Countdown Dr. Krankcase Dr. Neo Cortex Drill Sergeant Drobit Drobot Gearshift High Volt Jawbreaker Magna Charge Ro-Bow Sprocket Spy Rise Tread Head Trigger Happy Double Dare Trigger Happy Trigger Snappy Wind-Up

Undead Sprocket Chop Chop Chopscotch Cynder Eye-Brawl Eye-Small Fiesta Fright Rider Funny Bone Ghost Roaster Grim Creeper Hex Hijinx Krypt King Night Shift Pit Boss Rattle Shake Roller Brawl Bone Bash Roller Brawl Short Cut Wolfgang

Water Chill Dive-Clops Echo Flip Wreck Freeze Blade Gill Grunt Deep Dive Gill Grunt Gill Runt Grave Clobber King Pen Lob-Star Punk Shock Rip Tide Slam Bam Snap Shot Thumpback Thumpling Tidepool Wash Buckler Wham-Shell Zap

Dark Blackout Hood Sickle Knight Mare Nightfall Starcast

Light Astroblast Aurora Blaster-Tron Knight Light Spotlight

Kaos
	Kaos (Sensei)

Unplayable Skylanders

Some Skylanders introduced or mentioned in Skylanders Academy are currently not playable in the games. It is unknown if some of them are still on the team.

• Bad Breath
• Cobalt the Brave
• Sharon the Victorious
• Edwin the Meek at First but Eventually Brave and Victorious

Gallery

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  The 32 Skylanders in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

Trivia

• There's a dragon Skylander for each element, four of which are hybrids between dragons and another species (Whirlwind, Sunburn, Camo, and High Five).
• All of the Skylanders originally spoke their own gibberish languages in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, but as the project went on, Toys for Bob decided to give fourteen of them actual English lines.
  • Since Skylanders: Giants, every Skylander can speak full English lines.
• All Spyro's Adventure Skylanders have at least one (and some as many as four) unique animations that only run when they're getting upgraded. They are some of the most complex and creative animations in the game. However, in recent games, no Skylander has animations when being upgraded.
• When a Skylander travels through a portal, it is usual for them to yell out a fierce battle cry when they appear. In fact, every year, there is a contest to see whose battle cry is the loudest; the most frightening, and the best for making milk shoot out from people's noses.
• When Skylanders are defeated in battle, they do not die, but are instantly teleported back home where they can heal and rest.
• In Skylanders: Swap Force and onwards, Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions used generic names for all the new Skylanders before the final names were decided upon. In newer games, some Skylanders keep these placeholder names in the ingame files even after their debut, though most are eventually updated.
• With the exception of Spyro's Adventure, each main Skylanders game introduces a new group of Skylanders that are the title characters.
• So far none of the Starter Pack Skylanders (except for the ones in Skylanders: SuperChargers, which are randomly earned through treasure chests) have their Soul Gems in the first chapters of their respective games.
• In the Future of Skylands, it is implied that at some point in Skylands' history that the group will be extinguished or suffer an unknown fate, as the Mabu Defense Force will take their role and bring up frequently that the Skylanders are thought to be gone.

References

Skylanders

Air Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Lightning Rod - Sonic Boom - Warnado - Whirlwind Skylanders: Giants Jet-Vac - Swarm Skylanders: Swap Force Boom Jet - Free Ranger - Pop Thorn - Scratch Skylanders: Trap Team Blades - Fling Kong - Gusto - Thunderbolt Skylanders: SuperChargers Hurricane Jet-Vac - Stormblade Skylanders: Imaginators Air Strike - Bad Juju - Wild Storm Minis / Eon's Elite Breeze - Pet-Vac / Elite Whirlwind Alt Decos Egg Bomber Air Strike - Legendary Blades - Legendary Free Ranger - Legendary Hurricane Jet-Vac Legendary Jet-Vac - Mystical Bad Juju - Polar Whirlwind - Power Punch Pet-Vac Lost Islands Alter Egos Buttered Pop Thorn - Gourmet Gusto Dark Skylanders Skylanders: Trap Team Blackout - Knight Mare Skylanders: SuperChargers Nightfall Skylanders: Imaginators Hood Sickle - Starcast Alt Deco Steel Plated Hood Sickle Ring of Heroes Alter Egos Shadow King Pen - Shadow Spitfire - Shadow Spyro Earth Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Bash - Dino-Rang - Prism Break - Terrafin Skylanders: Giants Crusher - Flashwing Skylanders: Swap Force Doom Stone - Rubble Rouser - Scorp - Slobber Tooth Skylanders: Trap Team Fist Bump - Head Rush - Rocky Roll -Wallop Skylanders: SuperChargers Shark Shooter Terrafin - Smash Hit Skylanders: Imaginators Barbella - Golden Queen - Tri-Tip Minis / Eon's Elite Bop - Terrabite / Elite Dino-Rang - Elite Terrafin Alt Decos Dark Golden Queen - Dark Slobber Tooth - Granite Crusher - Jade Flashwing Legendary Bash - Legendary Tri-Tip - Nitro Head Rush - Steel Plated Smash Hit Lost Islands Alter Egos Birthday Bash - Rocky Egg Roll - Sundae Slobber Tooth Fire Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Eruptor - Flameslinger - Ignitor - Sunburn Skylanders: Giants Hot Dog - Hot Head Skylanders: Swap Force Blast Zone - Fire Kraken - Fryno - Smolderdash Skylanders: Trap Team Ka-Boom - Torch - Trail Blazer - Wildfire Skylanders: SuperChargers Lava Lance Eruptor - Spitfire - Hammer Slam Bowser Skylanders: Imaginators Ember - Flare Wolf - Tae Kwon Crow Minis / Eon's Elite Small Fry - Weeruptor / Elite Eruptor Alt Decos Dark Blast Zone - Dark Hammer Slam Bowser - Dark Spitfire - Dark Wildfire Eggsellent Weeruptor - Hard-Boiled Flare Wolf - Instant Spitfire - Jade Fire Kraken Legendary Ignitor - Molten Hot Dog - Mystical Tae Kwon Crow - Volcanic Eruptor Lost Islands Alter Egos Cupid Flameslinger - Flip Flop Fryno Battlecast Alt Deco Card Obsidian Hot Head Life Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Camo - Stealth Elf - Stump Smash - Zook Skylanders: Giants Shroomboom - Tree Rex Skylanders: Swap Force Bumble Blast - Grilla Drilla - Stink Bomb - Zoo Lou Skylanders: Trap Team Bushwhack - Food Fight - High Five - Tuff Luck Skylanders: SuperChargers Super Shot Stealth Elf - Thrillipede - Turbo Charge Donkey Kong Skylanders: Imaginators Ambush - Boom Bloom - Chompy Mage - Crash Bandicoot Minis / Eon's Elite Barkley - Whisper Elf / Elite Stealth Elf - Elite Zook Alt Decos Dark Turbo Charge Donkey Kong - Dark Food Fight - Dark Stealth Elf Dark Super Shot Stealth Elf - Eggcited Thrillipede - Gnarly Barkley - Gnarly Tree Rex Instant Food Fight - Instant Super Shot Stealth Elf - Jingle Bell Chompy Mage Jolly Bumble Blast - Legendary Bushwhack - Legendary Stealth Elf - Legendary Zoo Lou Lost Islands Alter Egos Autumn Stump Smash - Builda Grilla Drilla - Fireworks Zook - Frosted Food Fight Light Skylanders Skylanders: Trap Team Knight Light - Spotlight Skylanders: SuperChargers Astroblast Skylanders: Imaginators Aurora - Blaster-Tron Alt Decos Legendary Astroblast - Solar Flare Aurora Ring of Heroes Alter Egos Light Flashwing - Light Hex - Light Jet-Vac Magic Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Double Trouble - Spyro - Voodood - Wrecking Ball Skylanders: Giants Ninjini - Pop Fizz Skylanders: Swap Force Dune Bug - Hoot Loop - Star Strike - Trap Shadow Skylanders: Trap Team Blastermind - Cobra Cadabra - Déjà Vu - Enigma Skylanders: SuperChargers Big Bubble Pop Fizz - Splat Skylanders: Imaginators Buckshot - Mysticat - Pain-Yatta Minis / Eon's Elite Mini Jini - Spry / Elite Spyro - Elite Voodood Alt Decos Birthday Bash Big Bubble Pop Fizz - Dark Spyro - Enchanted Hoot Loop - Enchanted Star Strike King Cobra Cadabra - Legendary Déjà Vu - Legendary Spyro - Love Potion Pop Fizz Power Blue Splat - Punch Pop Fizz - Royal Double Trouble - Scarlet Ninjini Lost Islands Alter Egos Buddy Wrecking Ball - Charming Cobra Cadabra - Hoppity Pop Fizz - Mystic Star Strike Tech Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Boomer - Drill Sergeant - Drobot - Trigger Happy Skylanders: Giants Bouncer - Sprocket Skylanders: Swap Force Countdown - Magna Charge - Spy Rise - Wind-Up Skylanders: Trap Team Chopper - Gearshift - Jawbreaker - Tread Head Skylanders: SuperChargers Double Dare Trigger Happy - High Volt Skylanders: Imaginators Chain Reaction - Dr. Krankcase - Ro-Bow - Dr. Neo Cortex Minis / Eon's Elite Drobit - Trigger Snappy / Elite Boomer - Elite Trigger Happy Alt Decos Kickoff Countdown - Legendary Trigger Happy - Legendary Bouncer - Legendary Jawbreaker Nitro Magna Charge - Power Blue Trigger Happy - Springtime Trigger Happy Lost Islands Alter Egos Knockout Jawbreaker - Lucky Boomer - New Year's Countdown Battlecast Alt Deco Card High Noon Trigger Happy Undead Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Chop Chop - Cynder - Ghost Roaster - Hex Skylanders: Giants Eye-Brawl - Fright Rider Skylanders: Swap Force Grim Creeper - Night Shift - Rattle Shake - Roller Brawl Skylanders: Trap Team Bat Spin - Funny Bone - Krypt King - Short Cut Skylanders: SuperChargers Bone Bash Roller Brawl - Fiesta Skylanders: Imaginators Chopscotch - Pit Boss - Wolfgang Minis / Eon's Elite Eye-Small - Hijinx / Elite Chop Chop - Elite Ghost Roaster Alt Decos Candy-Coated Chopscotch - Dark Wolfgang - Frightful Fiesta - Legendary Bone Bash Roller Brawl Legendary Chop Chop - Legendary Grim Creeper - Legendary Night Shift - Legendary Pit Boss Nitro Krypt King - Quickdraw Rattle Shake Lost Islands Alter Egos Fortune Funny Bone - Grill Master Chop Chop - Hallows' Eve Hex - Skeletal Cynder - Snowler Brawl Water Skylanders Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Gill Grunt - Slam Bam - Wham-Shell - Zap Skylanders: Giants Chill - Thumpback Skylanders: Swap Force Freeze Blade - Punk Shock - Rip Tide - Wash Buckler Skylanders: Trap Team Echo - Flip Wreck - Lob-Star - Snap Shot Skylanders: SuperChargers Deep Dive Gill Grunt - Dive-Clops Skylanders: Imaginators Grave Clobber - King Pen - Tidepool Minis / Eon's Elite Gill Runt - Thumpling / Elite Gill Grunt - Elite Slam Bam Alt Decos Dark King Pen - Dark Snap Shot - Dark Wash Buckler - Instant Dive-Clops Instant Snap Shot - Legendary Chill - Legendary Slam Bam - Missile-Tow Dive-Clops Nitro Freeze Blade - Winterfest Lob-Star Lost Islands Alter Egos Admiral Thumpback - Holiday Wash Buckler - Merry Snap Shot - Surfer Slam Bam Other Skylanders Skylanders: Imaginators Kaos - Imaginators