Professor

Professor
File:Professor Reignited.png Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Species:	Mole
Gender:	Male
Family:	Sis (sister) Blink (nephew) Willard (foster nephew)
First appearance:	Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999)
Latest appearance:	Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018)
Portrayed by:	Tom Kenny (1999–200, 2018–present) Jess Harnell (2004)

The Professor is another main character in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!. This ingenious mole is the uncle of Blink the Mole, and Spyro's colleague and companion in Spyro: A Hero's Tail.

Physical Appearance

Original Design (1999-2000)

In the second and third games, the Professor is very stout with a large head, teal eyes, grey hair, and eyebrows. He wears glasses, a white lab coat, and black shoes. In A Hero's Tail, he is slightly taller, and his hair and eyebrows have become white.

Reignited Design (2018)

In the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the Professor is slightly taller, his fur is a similar color with a darker complexion on his head. His hair is white, and his eyebrows are much bushier and also has two strands on top of his head. His lab coat is more detailed with a collar, pockets, and buttons, and he also wears dark brown pants. His eyes are mainly closed, but they open to reveal green eyes whenever the Professor is surprised.

Personality

The Professor is an intellectual individual who's always looking for solutions. He's always seen carrying around a pencil and his notepad to write down the coordinates from his studies.

In Spyro: Shadow Legacy, the Professor is, stangely, portrayed as a more scientific mole, having no belief in the existence of magic, despite being around it in the previous games (notably in Spyro 2 and 3).

Story

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!

In the Winter Tundra, the Professor was with Hunter, Elora, and Zoe when he was working on a new Super Portal, but disaster struck when Hunter inputted a wrong code, bringing Ripto, Crush, and Gulp into Avalar. After the orbs were scattered around Avalar by Zoe's friends, the Professor decided to bring a Dragon into the world to rid of Ripto when the group heard that he disliked Dragons. He, Hunter, and Elora secretly created a portal in Glimmer. Within time, Spyro came through and decided to help them gather the Orbs, which were used to power the portals.

After Spyro defeated Gulp, the Professor was with Elora and Hunter back in the Winter Tundra. He revealed to have obtained a Power Crystal for the Super Portal, hoping to use it to send Spyro home. But suddenly, Ripto rolled a bomb, and the explosion knocked all the orbs off the Super Portal. Before the Professor can retrieve the Power Crystal, Ripto threatened to turn him into "the world's smartest pile of ashes" if he made any attempts to reach the crystal. Ripto then stole the Power Crystal to be used for his new scepter and locked himself inside of the castle.

After Ripto was defeated, the Professor activated the Super Portal, allowing Spyro to go to Dragon Shores, the place Spyro wanted to go to since the beginning of the game.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon

In the Forgotten Worlds, the Professor gave Agent 9 some training when the Rhynocs invaded his laboratory. After the Sorceress's first defeat, the Professor and Elora met with Spyro, where The Professor later told Spyro that he tried to get to the Dragon Realms, but the book he bought was out of date "by a thousand years." Agent 9 nearly blew a secret Hunter had told them to keep from Spyro, but the Professor was able to distract the Agent 9 by claiming that there was a Rhynoc in a bush.

Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs

The Professor guided Spyro and Sparx to his Secret Lab and wanted to show them a few surprises, one being a machine that can look through the fabric of space via peephole and the other being his automated assistant Butler. However Butler grew out of control, forcing Spyro to temporarily shut him down with one of the lab's electronic conduits. This unfortunately caused the Professor's Peephole Machine to overload, granting Ripto access into the secret lab. With the Professor's warp device in his possession, Ripto teleported Spyro away and was successfully able to take over the Professor's laboratory.

Spyro and Sparx were then tasked with traveling throughout the Realms to recover twelve 'Hearts,' to open a passage back to the Professor's lab and confront Ripto again. After gaining all the Hearts, Spyro and Sparx entered Chateau Ripto to put a stop to Ripto's plan and save the Professor. They discovered the Professor dangling over a vat of lava within Ripto's throne room. After Spyro and Sparx defeated Ripto, they rescued the Professor and warped back to his secret lab.

Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy

The Professor teamed up with Coco Bandicoot, after they were both kidnapped by Dr. Neo Cortex's niece, Nina Cortex.

Spyro: A Hero's Tail

The Professor showed Spyro a video with several Gnorcs and the fallen dragon, Red, and explained that the Gnorcs are mining Dark Gems for their leader, and has even allied with Gnasty Gnorc. The Professor then sent Spyro on his quest, and he requested that Spyro visited Moneybags first. The Professor is notable for helping Spyro activate a machine used to transport him from various realms. He later helped him experiment with another machine that puts him in a ball, so he can adventure through the levels called the Ball Gadget.

The Professor helped Spyro through a hologram after each boss in each realm is defeated. After Spyro defeated Red the first time, the Professor informed him that Red's new lair somewhere under a volcano on Volcanic Isle. The mole went on to find Red on his own, convinced that the villain was weak enough to be stopped. When Spyro got to Red's Laboratory, he discovered that the Professor was captured by the evil dragon and forced into making robotic minions for him. When Spyro was battling Red, the Professor accidentally used a machine to turn Red into a giant-sized dragon. Spyro soon defeated Red, and the Professor shrank the evil dragon down in size and captured him in a jar, mentioning that the shrunken dragon would be of use in his laboratory.

Spyro: Shadow Legacy

When the Calamity struck, the Professor was back in Avalar when he became trapped in the Shadow Realm shortly after helping the Bonebuilders in Skelos Badlands. After being freed by Spyro, and once he bested the Fire Minion, the Professor took Spyro to the Forgotten Worlds via airship. There, the Professor reunited with his family, Sis, Blink, and Willard, and was surprised by Sis's intelligence when she created a magic detector for Spyro to use.

Profiles

“Sharpen your wits by listening to the Professor. He may challenge you to some brain teasers. He will also give you valuable information to solve some of Avalar's confusing riddles.”

– Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! manual

“Spyro’s old friend The Professor also has a research lab in the Forgotten Worlds and as it turns out, Agent 9 was many years ago his prized pupil! Unfortunately, while The Professor was studying abroad in Avalar, his lab had fallen into disrepair.”

– Spyro: Year of the Dragon game manual, page 13

“This guy's so old he's beyond the senior discount. Now the Professor tends to his secret lab, researching future projects to help Spyro in his adventures.”

– Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs, page 17

Voice portrayals

Voice Actor	Appearance
Tom Kenny	Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Jess Harnell	Spyro: A Hero's Tail

Voice portrayals in other languages

Language	Voice Actor
French	Martial Le Minoux (2004-present
Japanese	Takanobu Hozumi (2000)
Italian	Gianni Quillico (2004-present)

Gallery

For this subject's image gallery, see Professor/Gallery.

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Trivia

• Although he didn't appear in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, the Professor's idle sound set from Ripto's Rage! is reused in this game for the character Porkins, and the other mouse professors, most notably his "Ah-ha!" and "No..." voices.
• As shown in the Reignited Trilogy, the Professor now has closed eyes (since he is above ground and can't see very well like real moles), but he has opened them on some occasions in cutscenes of Ripto's Rage!.
• In Spyro: Shadow Legacy, the Professor is portrayed as a scientific man who doesn't believe in the concept of magic, despite being around magic in Avalar in the previous games.

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