Wrecking Ball

Template:Characterbox (Skylanders) Template:Q Wrecking Ball is a large grub worm who is one of the playable Skylanders in the Skylanders series, first appearing in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. Buddy Wrecking Ball is available exclusively on Skylanders: Lost Islands during the month of May.

Background

Personality

Wrecking Ball can be reckless, destructive, and possess a giant appetite. He is lively, never content unless he smashes things up (never on purpose). In some media, he shows dog-like qualities.

Biography

Wrecking Ball was once a tiny grub worm about to become the main ingredient in an old wizard’s cauldron of magic stew. But when he was dropped in, the wizard was shocked to see the little grub devour all of the soup and emerge from the cauldron 20 times larger and with a long, sticky tongue. The poor old wizard was even more surprised seconds later, when Wrecking Ball proceeded to swallow him whole. Eventually he ran, quite literally, into the powerful Portal Master Eon, who was intrigued by how he came to be and impressed with his unique abilities.

Story

History

Once upon a time, Wrecking Ball was nothing more than a common or garden grub. His adventure began when he became a speciality ingredient in a wizard's magical stew. After being chucked into the cooking concoction, a curious occurence took place. The hungry little grub worm took a sip, and then a gulp, and ended up devouring the whole lot. When the wizard came in to check on his cauldron, instead of his tasty stew he found one enormous grub who had grown to over twenty times his original size. And as Wrecking Ball was still a little peckish, he popped the wizard in his mouth too - only to spit him straight back out again (even to a grub's standard's, the wizard tasted like a warthog!). The story soon spread, raising smiles across the Skylands world. Soon the plucky grub bounced into Master Eon, who evidently felt that the Skylanders could do with a serious stomach among their ranks.

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

After being banished from Skylands along with the other Skylanders, being a frozen statue was a living nightmare for Wrecking Ball. This lively, giant blue grub is never content unless he's smashing things around him (never on purpose). His thoughts were a mix between food and how to unleash his rapidly building energy.

Abilities

Having consumed an entire cauldron of magic stew, its effects not only made Wrecking Ball grow 20 times his normal size and enhanced him with magical energy, but also gave him a long, sticky tongue which he uses to lash at his enemies. He can also curl into a ball and steamroll into his enemies using the magical energy he uses as a forcefield. Wrecking Ball can also let loose out a burp of gas from his mouth to blow enemies away, and can also devour his enemies any shape or size to regain health if he has gained his Soul Gem ability.

Series 2

Series 2 Wrecking Ball retains his normal counterpart's abilities with the exception of him having grown a pair of tusks. His Wow Power is his ability to form a disco ball around himself like his forcefield attack and charge it at enemies.

Stats

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Quotes

Commercial Quotes

• "Not good!" - from The Beginning Trailer
• "Say what?" - from the Skylanders: Giants debut trailer.

Battle Cries

• "Wreck-N-Roll!"
• "Getting better and better!"
• "Looking pretty good!"
• "Now I look even cooler!" - when putting on a Hat
• "Ooh treasure, I wanna eat it!"
• "Ah! Could definitely do some damage in here!" - When opening a Magic elemental gate.
• "I'm on a roll!"
• "You got wrecked!"
• "Sure, I can roll with that!"
• "I dig the new name!" - When given a nickname

Character Trailers

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File:Meet the Skylanders Series 2 Wrecking Ball

 

See also

• Buddy Wrecking Ball

Gallery

• Wrecking Ball Trailer
  Wrecking Ball Trailer
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  Wrecking Ball in his elemental background
• Wrecking Ball Power Stat
  Wrecking Ball Power Stat
• Wrecking Ball in toy form
  Wrecking Ball in toy form
• Wrecking Ball's toy form on the Portal of Power
  Wrecking Ball's toy form on the Portal of Power
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  Wrecking Ball in game.
• Wrecking Ball in Crystal Eye Castle.
  Wrecking Ball in Crystal Eye Castle.
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  Wrecking Ball toy packaging
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  A prototype of Wrecking Ball's toy form
• CGI look of Wrecking Ball
  CGI look of Wrecking Ball
• File:Wrecking Ball waving.jpg
• Wrecking Ball's profile on the official Skylanders website
  Wrecking Ball's profile on the official Skylanders website
• Glow in the dark Wrecking Ball
  Glow in the dark Wrecking Ball
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  Wrecking Ball's Series 2 form for Skylanders: Giants.
• Series 2 Wrecking Ball's trailer screenshot
  Series 2 Wrecking Ball's trailer screenshot
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  Wrecking Ball's concept illustration
• Series 2 Wrecking Ball individual packaging
  Series 2 Wrecking Ball individual packaging
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  Series 2 Wrecking Ball Promotional Art

Trivia

• His missing teeth is the price all good grubs pay for eagerness in battle.
• Wrecking Ball reminded Master Eon of his favorite childhood pet.
  • The old Portal Master was also the one who named Wrecking Ball after the grub worm wrecked a few of Eon's statues.
• Wrecking Ball has a few similarities with the Nintendo character, Kirby. Both are cute, squishy and can devour their enemies.
  • Wrecking Ball also shares his tongue trait with another Nintendo character, Yoshi.
• Wrecking Ball resembles the Protopets from Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando.
  • He shares some few similarities with Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist, as both have huge appetites.
• His name, design and abilities very closely resemble characters from the video game Iggy's Reckin' Balls.
• Although Wrecking Ball's species is said to be a grub worm, he looks neither like a grub nor like a worm, possibly due to being magically enchanced.
• A wrecking ball is also a heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for demolishing large buildings.
• His prototype toy shows that he was originally intended to be an Air Skylander. This early idea was scrapped, and Wrecking Ball was moved from the Air element to Magic.
• His powers seem to be a mash up of two Ben 10 aliens, Upchuck and Cannonbolt. He has Upchuck's long tounge and ability to burp deadly burps, and Cannonbolt's ability to roll.
• There is a glitch that if you go with Wrecking Ball's Forcefield Ball Path, you can go through gates in the Lair of Kaos.
• In Spyro's Adventure, he apparently says "Wahoo!" like Zap when doing his Forcefield Ball attack.
• There is a glitch (known in the PS3, possibly in others) where, by disengaging his forcefield ball at the right time, you can go through the stairs in the Ruins.
  • This can also be done at Persephone's bluff.
• As shown in his Series 2 character trailer, his new Wow-Pow abilites include larger molars, and rolling in a disco ball that does more damage (all the while playing disco music).
• Without any upgrades, his tongue is light blue in color. In spite of this, the Tongue Whap picture shows the tongue pink.
• Wrecking Ball is similar to a Roly Poly bug.
• While performing in Wrecking Ball's Wow Pow Power, disco music can be heard playing while he is inside his Disco Ball forcefield.
• His catchphrase is a play on the phrase "Rock and Roll."
  • Coincidentally, "Rock and Roll" is Bash's catchphrase.
• Wrecking Ball, Sonic Boom, Hot Dog, and Warnado are the only four quadruped Skylanders who are not dragons.
• While his Series 2 figure gives him larger teeth, he has no upgrade that allows him this advancement in strength.