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Dark Spyro (Skylanders Academy)
Template:SkylandersWikia Template:PageSpoiler Template:Youmay Template:MediaCharacterbox Template:Q Dark Spyro is the evil counterpart of Spyro created after Strykore consumed Spyro's light energy, corrupting him into this dark state. He made his debut in the Season 2 finale of Skylanders Academy, before becoming a main character in Season 3.
Background
Personality
Dark Spyro, as his name suggests, is the pure evil counterpart of Spyro; the complete opposite of the hero's goodness and heroism. While Spyro fights for the Skylands, Dark Spyro seeks to help take over it with his master, Strykore. He is ruthless, maniacal, devious and couldn't care less about his friends; a real jerk who enjoys lying and manipulating those he once loved and cared.[1]
While working as a double agent at Skylanders Academy, Dark Spyro puts on a false friendly facade to avoid suspicion. He is shown to be irritated if something doesn’t turn out the way he planned or if he is pestered by Team Spyro or other characters. Working along with the Skylanders is considered “torture” to him.
Over the course of being a double agent at Academy, Dark Spyro grows to see the rest of Team Spyro as friends and became hesitant in wanting to help Strykore; a sign that his good counterpart is still left within him. However once Strykore forces the darkness in Dark Spyro to take over him again, Dark Spyro reverted back to his pure evil state, but briefly regained his fondness for his friends before completely succumbing.
Abilities
Being fueled with darkness, Dark Spyro can breathe dark fire and channel dark energy through his horns. He can also control technology, including SuperCharger vehicles.
Biography
This season, purple is the new evil. The only thing more powerful than Spyro, one of the most heroic, capable, and popular Skylanders ever, is one powered purely by darkness. And that spells trouble for the rest of the Skylands! With orders from his dark master to infiltrate the Academy as an undercover spy, Dark Spyro will stop at nothing to succeed in this catastrophic plan - and he’s going to do it all right under his best friends’ noses! New powers, a new look, and a new mission, this is one fire-breathing flying dragon you don’t want to make angry. You won’t like him when he’s angry.
Story
Season 2
Dark Spyro was born shortly after Strykore robbed Spyro of his light energy in Touch of Evil. The dark dragon initially possessed an urge to take up two parking spaces at once and saw the Skylanders as his enemies.
Season 3
After getting situated at Kaossandra's Castle in Power Struggle, Dark Spyro was called to Strykore to go over the wizard’s master plan to destroy the Core of Light. To find the location of the Iron Fist of Arkus, an item powerful enough to crush the Core, Dark Spyro and Kaos were sent to capture King Pen, the only one who knows the location to the lost island of Arkus. They were able to capture the penguin Sensei and brought him back to Kaossandra's Castle.
Dark Spyro was able to easily interrogate King Pen into revealing the existence of the Map to Arkus, which is stationed somewhere at Skylanders Academy. Strykore then enlisted Dark Spyro to infiltrate the Academy as an undercover spy to find the map to Arkus, all the while gaining back the trust of the Skylanders that his dark appearance was a result of his battle with Malefor. The dark dragon slipped away to start his mission before Team Spyro arrived to rescue King Pen. Afterwards, he finally met with the Skylanders, Master Eon and Kaossandra at Skylanders Academy, posing as their old friend.
After convincing the Skylanders that he was still the normal Spyro, Dark Spyro began his mission to find and steal the Map to Arkus in The Truth is in Here. While there, he discovered that his dark powers allow him to control technology, allowing him to conjure up a plan to influence Master Eon into telling the truth where the Map to Arkus is by programming Eon's phone to brainwash him. However, Dark Spyro accidentally brainwashed the entire Academy except Master Eon, causing discord among the Skylanders and cadets who couldn't stop telling the truth and began fighting amongst themselves.
When affected inhabitants directed their anger towards Dark Spyro, he instinctively released a surge of lightning that cured everyone from the brainwashing. Master Eon commended Dark Spyro for his help in stopping the truth-telling fiasco, something Eon suspected to be the work of Strykore. When Dark Spyro tried to return Eon's phone back after fixing it to secretly brainwash him, Eon refused and decided to go retro by getting an old fashioned phone.
Relationships
Spyro
Dark Spyro sees his good counterpart as his "weaker self". He wanted to destroy Spyro, claiming that there can only be one Spyro.
Strykore
Dark Spyro sees Strykore as his master and willing serves him. However, because of his cockyiness, they are frequently at odds when he accidentally steps over boundaries or tries to dismiss his master's concerns.
Stealth Elf
At first, Dark Spyro wanted nothing to do with Stealth Elf and would be quick to dismiss any suspicion she held for him. However over the course of working with the Skylanders, he grows to see Stealth Elf as his best friend like his regular counterpart, discovering that, despite his evil nature, he couldn't bring himself to kill her.
Gallery
Trivia
- Dark Spyro combines aspects of his original incarnation from The Legend of Spyro and his canon counterpart:
- His appearance is (nearly) the same as his canon counterpart.
- Like his original incarnation from the console version of The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, he speaks with a more sinister voice; but, unlike in that instance, instead of speaking in a darker version of his normal voice, his voice (actor) changes completely.
- His new voice actor is Jason Ritter, best known for voicing Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls.
- His voice actor change in this form was made with the intent to sell a Spyro with a similar appearance and personality, but with an uncanny feeling that it's not quite the same person.[2]
