Ripto

Template:Characterbox Template:Q Ripto (リプトー Riputō in Japanese) is a short Dinosaur and one of Spyro's greatest opponents in the Spyro series, who first appeared in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!. He is a persistent enemy of Spyro, appearing in several games. Ripto has two minions, Crush and Gulp, who serve him and carry out his orders.

He was the main villain in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, Spyro: Season of Flame, and Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs. He shared this role with Dr. Neo Cortex in Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy.

Personality

Ripto is a despicable madman who enjoys power simply for the sake of it. He delights in causing all sorts of trouble and havoc with his magic. Like the Forgotten Worlds' evil queen known as the Sorceress, Ripto is a dictator who typically sends out his minions, Crush and Gulp, to do his dirty work (though they are both unintelligent).

In truth, Ripto despised his small stature, and he took it out on the world to prove that his wrath was much bigger and scarier than his modest size suggested. Frustrated, short tempered and spiteful, Ripto pulled off deception and trouble that would suit a large, intimidating creature.

As a dinosaur, Ripto was unable to properly use magic like dragons do. This lead to Ripto's hatred of dragons, and is why he is so relentless in destroying them. One thing is for certain: he's an ill-tempered villain who despises being called short (this is displayed when Spyro called him "shorty").

Abilities

Ripto's only known ability is to conjure various magic spells at his disposal using his scepter.

Story

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!

As a Riptoc who hated dragons, Ripto enlists Crush and Gulp at Molten Crater in order to help him wage war on their race. When attempting to warp from one world to another, the threesome is accidentally intecepted by the Super Portal in Avalar thanks to Hunter's mistake. Upon arrival, Ripto sets about enslaving Avalar and all of its realms. Thinking fast, Elora takes measures to hinder his progress, shutting down the Super Portal to prevent reinforcements from arriving, and delegating Zoe and her fellow fairies to scatter the orbs (which power it) across all the realms of Avalar.

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Ripto, Gulp and Crush in Avalar.

Sometime afterwards, Ripto trails Hunter, Elora, the Professor, and Zoe to the depths of the Glimmer and watches them summon a dragon (who turns out to be Spyro) by means of a portal. After destroying the portal that brought Spyro into Avalar, Ripto became enraged at the sight of the dragon. The tyrant is forced to retreat, however, when Gulp accidentally devours his scepter, but not before vowing to deal with Spyro later.

During his reign in Avalar, Ripto succeeds in turning the citizens of some of the realms against each other, causing outbreaks of war between some realms and within others. These quarrels are soon resolved by Spyro when he travels to each realm and intervenes.

Spyro battles and defeats Crush and Gulp successively. At the climax of Spyro's battle with Gulp, Ripto seemingly meets his end when the throne he was sitting on tilts back and he plummets into the abyss of the Autumn Plains homeworld.

However, Spyro discovers that Ripto survived, managing to steal the Super Portal's power crystal for a new scepter before locking himself into the castle in the Winter Tundra. In his arena, Ripto tries to test the power crystal on his new scepter on three sheep, but the fodder run off before the tyrant's attack can reach them, angering him. Spyro arrives and volunteers to be a target for Ripto's power crystal, mockingly promising to stand still. Ripto agrees but finds that Spyro is prepared to fight to the bitter end. During their final battle, Ripto reveals his magically-created, mechanized version of Gulp, as well as a large mechanical bird, both of which he uses for attacking and protection throughout the conflict. However, Spyro ultimately triumphs by knocking the tyrant into a pool of lava.

It is revealed in the epilogue of Ripto's Rage! that Ripto survived his battle with Spyro and was being used as a toy by one of the Spyro's friends, an adult dragon.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon

In the epilogue of Year of the Dragon, Ripto and Gnasty Gnorc were holding a summit to discuss "The Spyro problem".

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

One year later, Ripto successfully attacked the Dragon Realms, scattering the Dragonflies far and wide and leaving the young dragons defenseless. Once again, he was foiled by Spyro during a battle in which he turns into a giant monster.

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy

Later, he formed an alliance with Dr. Neo Cortex to destroy Spyro and Crash Bandicoot and take over the world but also their enemies allied and defeated them.

Gallery

• Ripto angrily pointing.
  Ripto angrily pointing.
• Ripto's Monstrous form in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
  Ripto's Monstrous form in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
• Spyro uses a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Ripto
  Spyro uses a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Ripto
• File:Ripto.jpg

Trivia

• Ripto got his name because Spyro's Japanese Katakana name (スパイロ) looked like the word "Ripto".

• He appeared in the epilogue of Spyro 3 with Gnasty Gnorc discussing the "Spyro Problem". A picture of him can be found, oddly enough, on the underside of Spyro's Skateboard.

• Also in Spyro 3, a skateboard trick, the Raging Ripto, is named after him. This is performed by doing either two front flips or two black flips and three side rolls, essentially a Gnasty Gnorc with a extra roll. It is the highest scoring trick in the game, giving 3000 points the first time it is performed.

• As a dinosaur, Ripto apparently has a good sense of smell, as when he arrives in Avalar, he sniffs the air to conclude dragons weren't there. And in Spyro's arrival in Glimmer, Ripto immediately smells Spyro's presence before actually noticing him.

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The scepter error

• Ripto is one of the main villians to make numerous recurring appearances in the Classic Spyro games, despite his apparent defeat in Spyro: Ripto's Rage!.
• Despite the implication that Gulp had swallowed Ripto's Scepter in Ripto's Rage prior to recreating it with the Power Crystal, during the boss fights against Crush and Gulp and the "Gulp Defeated" cutscene, Ripto is actually seen holding his Scepter.

• Despite Ripto's apparent hate for dragons, one of his servants, Crush, is a riptoc that somewhat resembles a dragon, only his wings are VERY tiny (barely noticable in Spyro 2: Riptos Rage!) and is given a club, and supposedly cannot breathe fire.

• Emperor Percival Tachyon, the main antagonist in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, is rummored to be based on Ripto: they are both evil dictators who hate the species that the protagonist is (Ripto hating Dragons, Tachyon hating Lombaxes).
  • Tachyon also uses a scepter, but it's unknown if he is a wizard, like Ripto.