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Malefor
| Malefor | |
| File:Malefor.jpg | |
| Species: | Dragon |
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| Born: | Dragon Realms |
| Homeworld: | Mountain of Malefor |
| Appearances: | The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (Mentioned) The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (Flashbacks) The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (First Full Appearance) |
| Voice Actor: (English) | Mark Hamill (2007-Current) |
| Attacks/Actions: | Elemental Powers Convexity Fire Convexity Comet Dash Convexity Bomb Convexity Breath Convexity Sheild Fire Fire Bomb Ice Ice Shard Bomb Electricity Earth Elemental Fury Melee Combat Aerial Combat Fly Exposing Other Dragons To Darkness Wind Convexity |
Malefor (マレフル Marefuru in Japanese), also known as the Dark Master (ダークマスター Dāku Masutā in Japanese), is the main antagonist of The Legend of Spyro series.
Malefor is in many ways the exact opposite of every Spyro villain before. Tying in with The Legend of Spyro series have a much darker setting, Malefor is depicted as completely evil, and possess no comedic elements to his character. He is Spyro and Cynder's archenemy and true foe. Malefor was trying to get rid of "all" of the dragon eggs in "The Year of the Dragon", to prevent the birth of another purple dragon like himself. During "The Year of the Dragon". This evil dragon is known as Cynder and is the main villian in The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning. Malefor was Cynder's master and used her to get out of the Dark World.
Personality
Malefor is decipted as completely evil, possessing no comedic elements. He is ruthless, sadistic, extremely cunning and deceitful, destructive, violent, and as name dictates and represents, he is downright malevolent; he is the complete opposite of Spyro. While Spyro does good and wishes to protect the world he lives in, Malefor seeks destruction of it, and will use all he can to finish what he started. He seems to personify the Deadly Sin of Gluttony for his craving for power. Though he seems to possess none as he believes that it his nature to destroy the world. So he probably does not consider himself evil, despite that his actions are. But like all villains, he undervalues the true power of love when he uses Cynder to kill Spyro for his unacceptance of the alleged truth of the purple dragons' natures, only for her to break his bind when Spyro reveals his love for Cynder.
Story
Early Life
Malefor was a purple dragon and a talented one at that. He mastered fire, ice, earth, electricity, and many other elements non thought to known. The Dragon Elders willingly taught him how to master the elements, but his power kept on growing. When he would not stop, the Elders banished him to exile. After that, he took on the title the Dark Master and built a fortress. He recruited an army not of dragons but of Apes and taught them how to artificially harness the power of the gems, which are the Dragons' lifeforce. His malice was so great, that it split the Earth and created a pit of dispair called the Mountain of Malefor, also called the Well of Souls, where he was imprisoned.Imprisoned form the portal of Convexity.
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
During the Year of the Dragon, Malefor sent his Ape army to the Dragon Temple, under the command of his servant Gaul, the Ape King, to destroy all of the Dragon eggs to prevent the next Purple Dragon from being born. Though it might be that he really wanted to capture the Purple Dragon's egg so he could use him to free him, and used the idea of killing him to destroy the other eggs to prevent an overwhelming army against him or to scare his enemies. Gaul also captured Cynder's egg, so she could serve Malefor and bring him back. Gaul used Malefor's dark powers to corrupt and influence Cynder, transforming her into a large, evil dragoness with greater strength and agility at an unnaturally fast rate. Cynder and Gaul then set out to bring Malefor back.
Cynder goes on a journey to open the Convexity portal which imprisoned her master's soul. Her Ape army scatters and leaves the land in ruins. Cynder's ultimate plan is to capture each of the Dragon Guardians during a battle which may seem to be a ruse for her to snatch all the guardians while they were distracted to fend off their enemies, and drain their energies into crystals which she would use to release Malefor from his prison. Spyro, the newly born Purple Dragon, and his adoptive brother, Sparx the Dragonfly, travel across the land and rescue each of the four Dragon Guardians after Cynder drains their energies into crystals. She then goes to Convexity and places the last one into the portal containing her master. Spyro uses his full power and defeats Cynder, returning her to normal size. As the portal opens, he saves Cynder and the three escape the collapsing Convexity dimension as Malefor's spirit emerges. After they get back to the Dragon Temple, Spyro and Cynder watch the sky, wondering if Malefor will soon return. While resting off the weakness from the battle, Spyro dreams of the battle and how he saved Cynder, hearing Malefor's voice in his head, calling his name.
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
Gaul and his Ape army find the Well of Souls and set up their base there. Gaul plans to resurrect their master on the Night of Eternal Darkness and release him from the Well of Souls. He also captures Cynder, who leaves the Dragon Temple because she still blames herself for what happened, to lure Spyro in his unaware stage. He tells Cynder that he can either take her back as Malefor's servant or kill her. Cynder refuses and is held prisoner by Gaul. Spyro, who has developed romantic feelings for her, and Sparx set out to rescue Cynder and eventually make it to the Well of Souls where Spyro confronts and fights Gaul. During the celestial moons' eclipse, Malefor's dark influence takes control of Spyro's mind and he destroys Gaul just as he planned from the start. Cynder saves Spyro from Malefor. The Mountain then begins to collapse, trapping the three. Spyro uses his Dragon Time powers to save them, encasing them in crystal. After the eclipse, Malefor finally escapes from the Well of Souls after his master and secret planned succeeded, and plagues the world.
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
Voice actor: Mark Hamill
After three years of being trapped within a crystal, Spyro, Sparx, and Cynder finally awaken to stop Malefor from destroying the world. After going on a long journey, Spyro and Cynder make it to Malefor's Lair where they confront Malefor. He taunts Spyro by saying that they have more in common than just their color. Spyro denies that he is anything like Malefor, who entraps the young Dragon in an energy chain around his neck. He then reveals that his influence over Cynder has not completely diminished and that she had led Spyro to free him. Cynder both denys Malefor's words and says that she no longer knows, to which Malefor replies by taking control over her again and activating her darkside locked within. She attacks Spyro repeatedly and demands that he fight back while Malefor assures Spyro that there have been many Purple Dragons before them and that the history of their kind has been to dominate the world and not save it; during each age, the Golems of the Deep and the Destroyer would serve the Purple Dragon in order to bring about the "Great Cleansing". This may be just a belief and not an actual fact.
Spyro denies Malefor's statements and continues to be struck by Cynder while Malefor laughs maniacally. Cynder angrily asks why Spyro won't fight back. Spyro sadly declares that it is because Cynder has left him nothing to fight for. This breaks Malefor's hold on Cynder. Malefor becomes enraged and chains Cynder to Spyro with the same energy cord around Spyro's neck, binding them together. After a long battle against Malefor, Spyro and Cynder manage to defeat him. However, Malefor's servant, the Destroyer, manages to jump into the maw of the Earth, breaking it apart. Spyro and Cynder then fight him again while they are descending into the Earth. After a final energy blast against Spyro and Cynder, Malefor is knocked to the ground, where he is pulled into the Earth by several Dragon spirits that appear to be "The Ancients", the dragons who trained Malefor. Spyro manages to use his powers to keep the world together, ending Malefor's malice for good.
Trivia
- Malefor may be a variation of the name "Valefar", a Christian demon and Duke of Hell.
- His name might be composed from the Latin noun malum (-i,neutrum) - evil; and Greek foreo - i carry; meaning ˝The carrier of evil˝, or maybe ˝The source of evil˝.
- The Dark Master (or DM) is usually a name given to the main villan in an RPG.
- Malefor may be more clever than he appears, and as parts of his plans turned out to be part of a ruse to trick Spyro in releasing the evil dragon, it may be that the rest from the start all were. It may be that Malefor pretended to send his Apes to kill Spyro, but since the young purple dragon would be the key to free Malefor, this action of assassination was probably itself a ruse to scare his enemies, and that maybe along with Cynder, who would be used to bring Malefor back with all his powers, Spyro's egg would also be stolen as well so he could be corrupted and used to free Malefor after Cynder completed her stage. And despite Ignitus' interference in saving Spyro from that fate, the young dragon's part would still be played, as he would be lured to the Mountain of Malefor to save Cynder for his love for her, and unwittingly free Malefor. How Cynder seems to betray the people she loves though is unknown.
- Malefor is voiced by Mark Hamill, the actor who played as the hero of Star Wars. Some might say that Spyro's actor, Elijah Wood, who portrayed The Lord of the Ring's protagonist, plays against Malefor's actor's role as Star War's champion as a little joke of when the two legends of the famed trilogies oppose each other in a battle for glory.
- In the movie Dragons destiny of fire there is a dragon called Vildrok that is very similar to Malefor because: both want to destroy the world, both are evil, both kill the main protagonist parents (Vildrok just killed Jhon Jhon s mother and slave his father but Malefor kill both Spyro s Mother and Father), both are the main antagonist.
