Spyro

* Series 1
* Series 2
* Mega Ram Spyro
* Dark Spyro
* Dark Mega Ram Spyro
* Legendary Spyro
* Skylanders Academy
* Dark Spyro (Skylanders Academy)

**Spyro** is a Skylander of the Magic element and the leader of the core Skylanders, who first appeared in Skylanders: Spyro's Advednture as one of the Skylanders that comes with the starter pack, alongside Gill Grunt and Trigger Happy. His series 3 counterpart is **Mega Ram Spyro** and he also has a **Dark** and **Legendary** counterpart. He is also the main prtagonist of the Netflix spin-off series, Skylanders Academy. In the game he is portrayed by Josh Keaton, but in Skylanders Academy he is voiced by Justin Long and Jason Ritter as Dark Spyro.

## Character Development

While looking for new ideas for the Spyro the Dragon, Activision and Toys for Bob tried multible concepts for the game. They tried doing a "Realistic, gritty Spyro", a "tiny Spyro", and an "Origami Spyro". Eventually the toys-to-life idea for Spyro's Kingdom came.

When the original concept of Spyro's Kingdom was on the underway, Toys for Bob originally had a character name "Fire Dragon" who was one of the playable heroes. Spyro was going to be the King of Spyro's Kingdom and you would go to him for quests. While he was originally going to be an npc, it didn't feel right to make a game called "Spyro's Kingdom", without Spyro as a playable character. So they replace Fire Dragon with Spyro and he would go out on many adventures.

During the development of the Skylanders universe, it was important for Toys for Bob to establish a new league of heroes, but also to honor the history of Spyro and Cynder. The end of the Legend of Spyro series left both Spyro and Cynder in a place that was left on a mystery. This allowed the team to reintroduce the two characters in a way that was very fitting for the Skylanders universe. It also allowed them to bring back the characters but also leave no time to give any back stories.

In Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Nat Loh was given the task of bringing Spyro to life. Spyro was one of the four Skylanders to first be introduced the the Legends of Spyro series. Spyro's move set was also inspired by his original move set from the Spyro's Kingdom series. Spyro was eventually finished with a slightly changed design that would soon be in the original Skylanders.

## Physical Appearance

Spyro is a male dragon with purple scales and an orange underbelly. He has a short snout which has two nostrals and he appears to have four visible fangs in his mouth. He has red eyes that seem to indent into his face. His head also has two short, curved, orange horns. He has an orange arrow-like formation at the tip of his tail and orange dorsal plates. He had three toes on each of his four paws with silver talons. He also has two wings with purple frames and orange webbing. In series two he had red armor on his wings that had one visible diamond on each on. In series three his horns where longer and more curved and the portion at the end of his tail was a slightly different size and shape.

His whole colorscheme has change for his Dark and Legendary counterparts. As Dark Spyro all his purple scales where now black, and his horns, dorsal plates, wings and tail bit where silver. As Legendary Spyro, his scales where blue, and all that was orange was now gold. He also has a Dark version of Mega Ram Spyro to which the same colorscheme.

In Skylanders Academy, both normal and Dark Spyro where featured. The only change difference was to the paws. Their front paws now had four toes presumably to be able to pick stuff up and the paws also all had orange portions underneath them.

## Personality

**In Game**

Although eagered and young at heart, Spyro is a very strong willed dragon who is fearless and brave; a born hero dedicated to protecting his world from all evil. He is always excited for adventure and will usually be the first Skylander to leap into action. He is usually a quick learner and able to learn in a matter of hours. Do to this he thinks that he can do anything but knows to put his abilities to do nothing but good. He however is usually disappointed when he dosen't learn these skills right away. Spyro can sometimes tend to b very headstrong and thinks he can do this by himself which resulted to him having many life struggles. He after many adventures however, became a better leader and saw the others where more than is teammates, they were his friends.

**Skylanders Academy**

Spyro tends to be very cocky and overconfident. For instance he originally wanted to name his potential team "Team Spyro" or just "Spyro", proving he is also self'centered. Despite this he always looks out for his friends as seen when they where frozen by Kaos. It was also proved that he suffers from stagefright in Dream Girls. He is also very heroic but as seen that as Dark Spyro he was very different. Although keeping most of his original personality, he was now pure evil.

## Story

**In Game**

Spyro game from a species of dragon that has wielded magic powers for many generations, he at some point decided to put this to good use, so he left his birth place and went to find Master Eon who let him join the Skylanders. He was once a normal until he became the core Skylanders' leader via his heroism. When the Core of Light was destroyed by Kaos, he along with the other Skylanders were saved by Eon who cast a spell and sent them to earth. He was then found by The Player who sent him back so he could once again fight evil. Whoever he can only stay in Skylands for a few hours at a time.

**Skylanders Academy**

Spyro was abandoned as an egg and hatched in the middle of no where. He was taken in by Master Eon after finding that he stopped three greebles at once. He was at the academy and made friends most closely to Stealth Elf and Eruptor. He did not graduate at first but after taking out Kaos, he did. He was put on a team until finding that Eon obliterated his dragon kind and left where he was turned evil by Eon's evil twin brother, Skrykore. He then acted as a mole to get the map to Arkus but was found out by Stealth Elf, and drank a serum that changed him back. But he also had to fight the physical version of Dark Spyro and presumably destroyed him. After defeating Kaos, he left to find his family with Eon.

## Powers and Abilities

**Basic Powers**

**Soul Gem Ability**

**Basic Upgrades**

 **Advanced Upgrades**

## Trivia

* His catchphrase is "All Fired Up"

* Throughout the games, Spyro's appearance has become slightly different.

* In the novels, he is the most legendary of all the Skylanders.

* As Dark Spyro, he is a Skylander in the actual game. But in Skylanders Academy, he is a villain.

* He is the leader of the first generation of Skylanders.

* For all his counter parts, he was voiced by Josh Keaton and just used filters for some of them, but in Skylanders Academy, he was voiced by Justin Long as his normal self and by Jason Ritter as Dark Spyro.

* In the game, he only has three toes on each paw, but in Skylanders Academy, he has four toes on his front paws and the added ones are thumb-like, presumably so he could pick stuff up.

* He has the most variants out of all Skylanders.