Moneybags

**Moneybags** (マネーバグス, *Manēbagusu*), is a fictional character and deuteragonist from the *Skylanders* series. He is a bear from Avalar and an upper-class, money-grubbing and somewhat deceitful con man who is infamous for charging anyone of their exorbitant fees, paid in Gems, in order to advance in the game (whether it would be by learning a new skill, unlocking doors, making passages, or releasing an ally). The costly prices are eventually paid much to the delight of Moneybags (in one instance he refused to admit a password to a door until Spyro coughed up; when he did, Moneybags revealed the password to be "Gullible").

"*I haven’t made such easy money since the Sorceress bought that mayonnaise for sunscreen.*"

—Moneybags.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Neil Ross (English), Masuo Amada (Japanese), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

### Appearance

* Hair Color: Brown
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Family

* Minibuck (nephew)
* Mrs. Bob (wife)
* Marshall (son)
* Marvin (son)
* Buckswell (son)
* Merton (son)

## Notes & Trivia

* His given name, Moneybags, is a actually his surname (revealed in *Spyro: Shadow Legacy*, given his family has the name as their last name)
* In *Ripto's Rage!*, Moneybags can sometimes be seen wearing different colored suits. For example: Moneybags wears a denim blue coat, a sky blue dress shirt, and a blue pendant (instead of his usual black suit jacket and green or violet pendant) when he is encountered at Crystal Glacier. This also makes him one of the few recurring characters to have multiple outfits in the same game.
	+ This may just be due to the cold, however, as Moneybags appears to turn blue all over.
* In the Crystal Islands, Moneybags threatened to turn Spyro into a blue hedgehog if he didn't hand over the gems required to lower the bridge. This is a reference to Sega's *Sonic the Hedgehog*.
	+ In the same level he told Spyro at another point that he knows a little bit of magic himself, if given enough gems. This seemed like an obvious lie just to get more gems. However, in the following game, *Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly*, he is seen performing a little bit of magic with his hand (indeed when given gems). This is despite being from the species of creatures unable to perform nor sense it, as said by Tomas in *Spyro: Shadow Legacy*.
* His appearance has changed several times. In *Spyro: A Hero's Tail*, he dresses with an Indian style and talks with an accent. In others, he dresses more for the higher class with a suit and a monocle.
* In *Spyro: Year of the Dragon*, every time Spyro released one of the other playable characters, Moneybags would always get attacked by them and forced away: Sheila kicked him into a wall after pretending to forgive him for keeping her in a cage, Sgt. Byrd used one of his BAM missiles to blast him away, Bentley whacked him angrily with his club (even asking Spyro for one more whack), and Agent 9 humiliated him by using his laser to "make him dance."
* Through glitching, many of Moneybags' areas and required of payments that are skippable, most of them being possible in *Year of the Dragon*.Note, however, that these areas will still be locked until you complete the game, and Moneybags will not drop any gems when you chase him because you did not give him any.
* The Japanese voice actor of Moneybags, Masuo Amada, also voiced Jecht in the Japanese version of *Final Fantasy X*. It's also interesting to note that Jecht's English voice actor, Gregg Berger, also voiced Hunter and Ripto in the English version of *Ripto's Rage!*
	+ Neil Ross, Moneybags' English voice actor in *Year of the Dragon*, also voiced Bentley in the same game.
* In *Spyro: Year of the Dragon*, when you get your money back from Moneybags, all previous places where Moneybags asked a fee, and you didn't pay, get unlocked.
	+ It's also possible to bypass Moneybags, with the Swim-in-the-Air and (for Evening Lake) Dead Mode glitches, to enter Sheila's Alp, Sgt. Byrd's Base and Bentley's Outpost. Once these worlds are completed, their sub-areas in other worlds are automatically unlocked.
	+ It is also possible to bypass some events in *Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!* by various methods.
* In the *Skylanders* series, the character Auric bears a striking resemblance to Moneybags, and may have been based on him.
* Even if one attempts to perform a skill that Moneybags teaches without paying him, Spyro can not perform it.
* In *Spyro: Ripto's Rage!/Gateway To Glimmer,* Moneybags occasionally mentions what he plans to purchase with the Gems that he receives from Spyro, such as a condo in Hurricos and a Lizard Burger shack in the Skelos Badlands.
	+ He also mentions having a house in Aquaria Towers, despite the fact that the entire area is underwater.
* On more than one occasion, Moneybags has proven to be willing to aid villains and enemies if it involves making a profit. This is especially seen in *Year of the Dragon*.
	+ If spoken to after activating the portal to Zephyr in Autumn Plains, he will say "Those darn birds in Zephyr never paid me for all the bombs and TNT barrels I gave them…," implying that he sold the Breezebuilders weapons for an assault on Zephyr.
	+ In a similar fashion, during the cutscene in which Ripto steals the Power Gem from the portal in Winter Tundra, Ripto claims to have bought the bombs he used from Moneybags.