Smytus

**Commander Smytus** is one of the major antagonists in the *Body Guard Duty*. He is the former militaristic commander of the Cluster. He is voiced by Steve Blum.

## Background

Smytus works under Queen Vexus, though he is independent in nature and is often known to go off on missions of his own. When it comes to fighting King Spyro, Smytus typically wields a very powerful tool or weapon which he uses to gain a temporary upperhand, and often proves himself to be a very serious and formidable villain. However, he is eventually outwitted and defeated by Spyro and her friends one way or another.

In "Escape from Cluster Prime", when Vexus launched her invasion on the Earth, Commander Smytus was put in charge of enslaving every human, putting them to work building more robot troops for the Cluster’s army. When Skylanders rounded up a mini coup to force the Cluster to leave, Smytus set to detonate Earth instead. Once Spyro and Scootaloo had left Cluster Prime (now with Vexus dethroned and exiled, and with the golden computer chips returned to the robot citizens), she returned to save Earth from being annihilated by Smytus. In a last resort, however, Smytus set himself and his starship to self-destruct. Spyro and Scootaloo evacuated his ship of all her friends and allies, and promptly hurled it deep into space where the resulting explosion wouldn't harm her home planet.

## Appearance

Smytus resembles a large, heavily-built, green cybernetic beetle. His round, bulky, darkly-colored body is striped down the front with many different shades of deep green and yellow-green. He is clad in armored garments (which could possibly be his exoskeleton due to his insect-like traits), with thick, spiny gauntlet-like cuffs on his wrists, and rather short, thin legs with large, bulky dark green pointed boots covering his feet. He appears to have large beetle-like wings that run down his back, resembling a cape, and he possesses the ability to fly with them. A long, sharply-pointed regal-looking collar-like feature protrudes from each side of his neck, and his arms and legs appear to be armored with protective plates. He has beady, pale yellow-greenish eyes with slit pupils, and a rather large mouth lined with a row of straight blocky white teeth with a small but noticeable gap in the middle. A single long black antenna-like feature sticks up from the top of his head and extends out to the side. His rather square-shaped insectoid head is black, and his face is pale yellow-green.

## Personality

Smytus is very hawkish (militaristic), arrogant, self-centered, and ruthless. He has a loud, snarling, domineering voice, and is intimidating and bad-tempered, often boasting of his power and demanding respect and praise (to both his Cluster minions, and to the victims of his invasions). He longs to overtake planet Earth for the Cluster, and he is willing to take extremely drastic measures in order to punish and destroy humankind, even going so far as to set to detonate and annihilate the entire planet Earth (in *Escape from Cluster Prime*). Like Vexus, he strongly despises humans.

## Trivia

* Smytus’ name is likely derived from the word “smite”, which means “to defeat or conquer a people or land”. This is fitting due to the fact that Smytus is the power-hungry Cluster military commander, heavily bent on intergalactic conquest and defeating his enemies, in particular conquering planet Earth and enslaving and eliminating humanity.