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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 magical powers and machinery, the Skylanders defended their world for generations, keeping peace and balance, until Kaos arrived and banished them to Earth.
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 Battle Arena: 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
- Blades
- Boom Jet
- Breeze
- Fling Kong
- Free Ranger
- Gusto
- Jet-Vac
- Lightning Rod
- Pet-Vac
- Pop Thorn
- Scratch
- Sonic Boom
- Stormblade
- Swarm
- Thunderbolt
- Warnado
- Whirlwind
Dark
Earth
- Bash
- Bop
- Crusher
- Dino-Rang
- Doom Stone
- Fist Bump
- Flashwing
- Head Rush
- Prism Break
- Rocky Roll
- Rubble Rouser
- Scorp
- Slobber Tooth
- Smash Hit
- Terrabite
- Terrafin
- Wallop
Fire
- Blast Zone
- Eruptor
- Fire Kraken
- Flameslinger
- Fryno
- Hammer Slam Bowser
- Hot Dog
- Hot Head
- Ignitor
- Ka-Boom
- Small Fry
- Smolderdash
- Spitfire
- Sunburn
- Torch
- Trail Blazer
- Weeruptor
- Wildfire
Life
- Barkley
- Bumble Blast
- Bushwhack
- Camo
- Food Fight
- Grilla Drilla
- High Five
- Shroomboom
- Stealth Elf
- Stink Bomb
- Stump Smash
- Thrillipede
- Tree Rex
- Tuff Luck
- Turbo Charge Donkey Kong
- Whisper Elf
- Zoo Lou
- Zook
Light
Magic
- Blastermind
- Cobra Cadabra
- Déjà Vu
- Double Trouble
- Dune Bug
- Enigma
- Hoot Loop
- Mini Jini
- Ninjini
- Pop Fizz
- Splat
- Spry
- Spyro
- Star Strike
- Trap Shadow
- Voodood
- Wrecking Ball
Tech
- Boomer
- Bouncer
- Chopper
- Countdown
- Drill Sergeant
- Drobit
- Drobot
- Gearshift
- High Volt
- Jawbreaker
- Magna Charge
- Sprocket
- Spy Rise
- Tread Head
- Trigger Happy
- Trigger Snappy
- Wind-Up
Undead
- Bat Spin
- Chop Chop
- Cynder
- Eye-Brawl
- Eye-Small
- Fiesta
- Fright Rider
- Funny Bone
- Ghost Roaster
- Grim Creeper
- Krypt King
- Hex
- Hijinx
- Night Shift
- Rattle Shake
- Roller Brawl
- Short Cut
Water
- Chill
- Dive-Clops
- Echo
- Flip Wreck
- Freeze Blade
- Gill Grunt
- Gill Runt
- Lob-Star
- Punk Shock
- Rip Tide
- Slam Bam
- Snap Shot
- Thumpback
- Thumpling
- Wash Buckler
- Wham-Shell
- Zap
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Trivia
- There's a dragon Skylander for each element, three of which are hybrids between dragons and another species (Whirlwind, Sunburn, and Camo).
- 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 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.
- Every Skylander has movement when entering the game in Skylanders: Giants.
- 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 are instantly teleported back home where they can heal and rest.
- In Skylanders: Swap Force, Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions used generic names for all the new Skylanders before the final names were decided upon.[1]
- With the exception of Spyro's Adventure, each main Skylanders game introduces a new group of Skylanders that are the title characters.
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