Gulp

Gulp
A render of Gulp from Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
Species	Unknown (possibly a dragon)
Affiliation	Ripto, Crush
First appearance	Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999)
Latest appearance	Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018)
Portrayed by	Gregg Berger

Gulp is a large, quadrupedal, green dragon-like character who serves as one of Ripto's two bodyguards, the other being Crush. Gulp first appears in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!. Gulp has two large horns protruding from his head, metal anklets above each foot, and two large laser guns attached to his back. Like Crush, Gulp has a large pointed tooth sticking out from his lower jaw.

History

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!

Spyro facing off against Gulp in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy remake of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!

In Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Gulp is the second boss, and he is fought at Gulp's Overlook in Autumn Plains. Like with Crush, Spyro needs to have collected every Talisman in Autumn Plains before he can fight Gulp.

Gulp first appears in the intro alongside Ripto and Crush. Here, Gulp is not wearing his laser cannons, and Ripto is seen riding on his back. Zoe grabs Ripto's scepter, and Gulp tries to eat her but ends up eating the scepter by accident instead. Later, when Spyro enters Crush's Dungeon for the first time, Gulp is seen in a flashback scene where Elora tells Spyro about how Crush, Ripto, and Gulp ended up in Avalar. It shows that after Hunter entered his birthday as the coordinates for the Professor's Super Portal, Ripto enters Avalar, and both Crush and Gulp land on top of him. As the Fairies take off with the Orbs to scatter them throughout Avalar, Ripto commands Gulp and Crush to take the Orbs from them, but they are unsuccessful.

When Spyro enters Gulp's Overlook for the first time, a scene is shown where Ripto is about to feed Zoe to Gulp as a reward, but Spyro arrives on time to rescue Zoe, and the boss fight begins. Gulp starts off with ten units of health. Throughout the battle, Gulp tries to charge into Spyro and land onto him. Gulp also tries to shoot light green laser balls at Spyro, and as Gulp takes more damage, he shoots out an increasing number of them at a quicker pace. To attack Gulp, Spyro must utilize various weapons that appear from eggs dropped by pterodactyls; this includes either charging a metal barrel at Gulp, using his flame attack on a bomb at him, or spitting out a small rocket at him. Gulp is capable of eating the weapons—if Gulp eats either a metal barrel or a bomb, he unleashes a wave of energy balls, but if Gulp eats a rocket he spits it out, and the rocket trails after Spyro around the arena. Eventually Spyro manages to defeat Gulp after hitting him ten times.

In the epilogue of the original PlayStation version, Gulp is shown living a new life at the Society for the Protection of Abused Zoo. The graphic shows a Gemcutter, a Hippo, and a Baby Turtle riding on his back.

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