Kaos (Skylanders Academy)

**Kaos** is the main antagonist of the Netflix cartoon series *Skylanders Academy*, based on the popular video game franchise. He serves as the main antagonist of Seasons 1 and 2, and the central antagonist-turned-final antagonist of Season 3.

He is a power-hungry and unstable wizard who wants to destroy the Core of Light and take over the Skylands once and for all. He isGlumshanks's master, Kaossandra and Eon’s son, Strykore’s paternal nephew, Spyro’s adoptive brother and arch-nemesis (hence the dragon was adopted by Eon), and Dark Spyro’s rival.

Like his video game counterpart, He is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.

## Personality

Kaos takes pleasure in spreading havoc and darkness through the universe. He constantly seeks his mother's approval in the hopes that she will teach him how to become a user of darkness like she is. Unlike the game canon counterpart, which would rather rule Skylands than destroy it, Kaos revels in apocalyptic events regardless of if he caused them or not.

Also, unlike the game canon counterpart, Kaos appears to have little sense of self-preservation, and rather than sending minions and tricking people into realizing his goals, he does and oversees the work himself no matter the risk, leading to worse punishments when he's eventually caught. Another contrast with his game counterpart is that he admires the Doom Raiders rather than hating them for their feeble goals to take over Skylands.

## Biography

When it comes to the evilest villains not tall enough to ride a roller coaster, accept no substitutes. Kaos lives up to his name and strives to bring his style of disorder and disaster in his attempts to take over Skylands. Plotting his world domination from his “guest castle” behind his mother’s estate, he hopes the whole “taking over Skylands” thing will finally win her approval. And until he gets it, he’s just going to scheme harder, bigger, and eviler to gain control of all the isles in Skylands. Should he succeed, you just might have to kiss the Skylanders goodbye...forever!

## Appearance

Kaos is very short, slender, and bald. He has tan skin and red eyes. He wears a black robe, lots of black eye makeup, and has the blue symbol made of parallel triangles representing his father, Eon, on his head. In addition, he has two large, tusk-like teeth protruding from his lower jaw.

## Abilities

Unlike his game counterpart whose dark powers were granted to him, Kaos possesses dark magic of his own, with powers ranging from bolts of dark electricity, dark magic bubbles, ice spells, and forcefields; as well as mental abilities, such as creating mental recordings of images, telekinesis, and astral projection. He can also create additional enchantments to magical objects, such as a magic lens that could see into the future transformed into a lens that sees into future acts of villainy.

Near the end of Season 1, his dark magic was amplified after Kaos was exposed to the power of his mother's magic spell book, though at the cost of weakening Kaossandra's magic throughout Season 2. Though he restored it to her temporarily, Strykore tricked him into taking it from her again, as well as giving him much more powerful spells from the book.

Despite being much physically weaker and out of shape than most other characters on the show, Kaos is quick to dodge and recover from attacks, and his robe is fireproof enough to deflect fireballs on contact.

## Trivia

* Kaos is one of the few characters to have kept their original voice actors from the games.
* Though Kaos has no apparent design changes at first, his outfit under the robe is different though only seen in brief moments, wearing much thicker trousers and hiker boots instead. However, his proportions overall are still gangling and odd as they are in the main canon.
* His being called Steve—probably short for Steven—by Spyro is likely a reference to the full name of Kaos' voice actor, Richard Steven Horvitz.
* Kaos' disguises fool most characters no matter how obvious or simplistic, such as a small wig; aside from comedic effect, he doesn't know the reason behind their effectiveness.
* Though his age in the games is unknown, Kaos is a young adult compared to real-world ages.
* Kaos' favorite movie is *Unsilence of the Lambs*, which he has gone as far as to record with his astral power.
	+ His favorite movie, *Unsilence of the Lambs*, is a parody of the movie *Silence of the Lambs*.
* When the emblem on his head turns red, as seen in *Touch of Evil,* it is likely a reference to his evolved form in *Trap Team.*