History NightmareFuel / Skylanders

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team'', who's essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz, and just read what she says after you trap her, which is ParanoiaFuel. Creator/TaraPlatt does a great job highlighting her PsychopathicManchild-slash-BrattyTeenageGirl personality, and it shows.

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team'', who's essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz, and just read what she says after you trap her, which is ParanoiaFuel. Creator/TaraPlatt does a great job highlighting her PsychopathicManchild/BrattyTeenageGirl personality, and it shows.

*** [[spoiler: With the shadow tendrils, purple/crimson color scheme, DarkIsEvil theming, spiky vines, and lasers, the Darkness starts looking quite a bit like [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Dharkon]].]]

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team'', who's essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz, and just read what she says after you trap her, which is ParanoiaFuel.

* Near the end of ''Skylanders: Trap Team'', Kaos is empowered by The Ultimate Weapon's Stinkocity and Traptanium, becoming Traptanium Kaos, which allows him to ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou see the Portal Master through the fourth-wall]]''. He then planned to not only conquer Skylands, but to also pull the new Portal Master from their world and trap them in Traptanium. During his boss fight, Kaos actually makes an attempt to pull the player Portal Master from their world, but luckily only manages to pull their personal belongings into Skylands instead. His appearance also becomes rather creepy, with him first having a rocky appearance with his bottom half resembling that of a Trap, but he soon develops massive Traptanium Blades and large black bird wings.

** [[spoiler: Even in flashbacks, it is terrifying.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Brought into the world when the Ancients used a Rift Engine that led to its realm (later dubbed the Dark Rift Engine)]], it laid in wait during the age of the Portal Masters, and while the Skylanders of the time tried to stop the Spell Punks from reawakening it, they fail, and the Darkness remerges, leading to all of Skylands quaking and being swept in a wave of fear as a shadow looms over the Spell Punk keep. It then gives out a terrifying BadassBoast.]]

** [[spoiler:Feeding into Kaos' delusions of grandeur, he pushes Kaos to do a KickTheMoralityPet moment into firing Glumshanks and actually manages to destroy the Core of Light, the one thing that could destroy him. And since he disregards Glumshanks' concerns that eating all the sky in Skylands means destroying it, he shows himself as more [[EvilerThanThou megalomanical]] than Kaos.]]
** [[spoiler:Once Kaos starts hesitating in destroying Skylands, though, he is entirely willing to threaten him (with a VoiceOfTheLegion to boot) and take away his powers. His words afterwards are almost a DealWithTheDevil.]]

** [[spoiler:Even after Kaos is defeated using his power, The Darkness is able to prevent Flynn, Cali, and Glumshanks from activating the Dark Rift Engine to send him back to his home dimension. Taunting them with how resilient they were, it almost seems like [[TheBadGuyWins he'll win by absorbing all the magic in Skylands]], had Kaos not decided to reject him and turn on the Dark Rift Engine. Even then, he proceeds to do a VictoryFakeout by trying to pull himself out of the portal created by the Dark Rift Engine, and actually starts using the remains of the destroyed Sky Eater to forge demonic-looking armor, complete with horns, [[AbsurdlySharpClaws wicked looking claws]], and glowing red lenses, with the "lenses" of his helmet resembling the irises of a [[GruesomeGoat goat]], being horizontal slits. With all this, it becomes obvious that the Darkness is the [[SatanicArchetype Satan]] of Skylands.]]

** While in the first game [[spoiler:it]] was more of a mindless force of evil, [[spoiler:it eventually reveals ItCanThink, and proves why it calls the shots. After Kaos absorbs enough magic, it's able to develop the ability to speak (with Creator/IkeAmadi giving him an EvilSoundsDeep baritone voice), and uses his new skill to become a FauxAffablyEvil ManipulativeBastard, using Kaos as a puppet.]]
** [[spoiler:Feeding into Kaos' delusions of grandeur, he pushes Kaos to do a KickTheMoralityPet moment into firing Glumshanks and actually manages to destroy the Core of Light, the one thing that could destroy him. And since he disregards Glumshanks' concerns that eating all the sky in Skylands means destroying it, he shows himself as more megalomanical than Kaos.]]
** [[spoiler:Once Kaos starts hesitating in destroying, though, he is entirely willing to threaten him (with a VoiceOfTheLegion) and take away his powers, proving [[EvilerThanThou far more villainous]] than Kaos. His words afterwards are almost a DealWithTheDevil.]]

** [[spoiler:Even after Kaos is defeated with his power, The Darkness is able to prevent Flynn, Cali, and Glumshanks from activating the Dark Rift Engine to send him home. Taunting them with how resilient they were, it almost seems like [[TheBadGuyWins he'll win by absorbing all the magic in Skylands]], had Kaos not decided to reject him and turn on the Dark Rift Engine. Even then, he proceeds to do a VictoryFakeout by trying to pull himself out of the portal created by the Dark Rift Engine, and actually starts using the remains of the destroyed Sky Eater to forge demonic-looking armor, complete with horns and glowing red lenses, with the "lenses" of his helmet resembling the irises of a goat, being horizontal slits. With all this, it becomes kind of obvious that the Darkness is the [[SatanicArchetype Satan]] of Skylands.]]

* How about [[UltimateEvil The Darkness]] in general in ''Superchargers''?
** While in the first game it was more of a mindless force of evil, it eventually reveals ItCanThink, and proves why it calls the shots. After Kaos absorbs enough magic, it's able to develop the ability to speak (with Creator/IkeAmadi giving him an EvilSoundsDeep baritone voice), and uses his new skill to become a FauxAffablyEvil ManipulativeBastard, using Kaos as a puppet.
** Feeding into Kaos' delusions of grandeur, he pushes Kaos to do a KickTheMoralityPet moment into firing Glumshanks and actually manages to destroy the Core of Light, the one thing that could destroy him. And since he disregards Glumshanks' concerns that eating all the sky in Skylands means destroying it, he shows himself as more megalomanical than Kaos.
** Once Kaos starts hesitating in destroying, though, he is entirely willing to threaten him (with a VoiceOfTheLegion) and take away his powers, proving [[EvilerThanThou far more villainous]] than Kaos. His words afterwards are almost a DealWithTheDevil.
-->''"You can rule the universe [[PuppetKing in my name]], or you can spend the rest of eternity. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Just. Being. You.]]"''
** Even after Kaos is defeated with his power, The Darkness is able to prevent Flynn, Cali, and Glumshanks from activating the Dark Rift Engine to send him home. Taunting them with how resilient they were, it almost seems like [[TheBadGuyWins he'll win by absorbing all the magic in Skylands]], had Kaos not decided to reject him and turn on the Dark Rift Engine. Even then, he proceeds to do a VictoryFakeout by trying to pull himself out of the portal created by the Dark Rift Engine, and actually starts using the remains of the destroyed Sky Eater to forge demonic-looking armor, complete with horns and glowing red lenses, with the "lenses" of his helmet resembling the irises of a goat, being horizontal slits. With all this, it becomes kind of obvious that the Darkness is the [[SatanicArchetype Satan]] of Skylands.

** Feeding into Kaos' delusions of grandeur, he pushes Kaos to do a KickTheMoralityPet moment into firing Glumshanks and actually manages to destroy the Core of Light, the one thing that could destroy him. And since he disregards Glumshanks' concerns that eating all the sky in Skylands means destroying it, he shows himself as more megalomanical than Kaos

** Even after Kaos is defeated with his power, The Darkness is able to prevent Flynn, Cali, and Glumshanks from activating the Dark Rift Engine to send him home. Taunting them with how resilient they were, it almost seems like [[TheBadGuyWins he'll win]], had Kaos not decided to reject him and turn on the Dark Rift Engine. Even then, he proceeds to do a VictoryFakeout by trying to pull himself out of the portal created by the Dark Rift Engine, and actually starts using the remains of the destroyed Sky Eater to forge demonic-looking armor, complete with horns and glowing red lenses, with the "lenses" of his helmet resembling the irises of a goat, being horizontal slits. With all this, it becomes kind of obvious that the Darkness is the [[SatanicArchetype Satan]] of Skylands.

* Near the end of ''Skylanders: Trap Team'', Kaos is empowered by The Ultimate Weapon's Stinkocity and Traptanium, becoming Traptanium Kaos, which allows him to ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou see the Portal Master through the fourth-wall]]''. He then planned to not only conquer Skylands, but to also pull the new Portal Master from their world and trap them in Traptanium. During his boss fight, Kaos actually makes an attempt to pull the player Portal Master from their world, but luckily only manages to pull their personal belongings into Skylands instead. His appearance also becomes rather creepy, with him first having a rocky appearance with his bottom half resembling that of a Trap, but he soon develops massive Traptanium Blades

** Even after Kaos is defeated with his power, The Darkness is able to prevent Flynn, Cali, and Glumshanks from activating the Dark Rift Engine to send him home. Taunting them with how resilient they were, it almost seems like [[TheBadGuyWins he'll win]], had Kaos not decided to reject him and turn on the Dark Rift Engine. Even then, he proceeds to do a VictoryFakeout by trying to pull himself out of the portal created by the Dark Rift Engine, and actually starts using the remains of the destroyed Sky Eater to forge demonic-looking armor, complete with horns and glowing red lenses, with the "lenses" of his helmet resembling the irises of a goat, being horizontal slits. With all this, it becomes obvious that the Darkness is the [[SatanicArchetype Satan]] of Skylands.

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team'', who's essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz and is also one of the few villains who [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou actually directly threatens the player]] after being trapped, stating that she'll find out how they sleep, which is ParanoiaFuel in and of itself. Had she been less comedic, she wouldn't have felt out of place

* Near the end of ''Skylanders: Trap Team'', Kaos is empowered by The Ultimate Weapon's Stinkocity and Traptanium, becoming Traptanium Kaos, which allows him to ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou see the Portal Master through the fourth-wall]]''. He then planned to not only conquer Skylands, but to also pull the new Portal Master from their world and trap them in Traptanium. During his boss fight, Kaos actually makes an attempt to pull the player Portal Master from their world, but luckily only manages to pull their personal belongings into Skylands instead.

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team'', who's essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz and is also one of the few villains who [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou actually directly threatens the player]], stating that she'll find out how they sleep, which is ParanoiaFuel in and of itself.

* Superchargers gives us Kaos' latest creation, the ''[[DoomsdayDevice Sky Eater]]'' (or, if you find the name too scary, the ''[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doomstation of Ultimate Doomstruction]]''), which is designed to do '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin EXACTLY when the]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt name implies,]]''' tearing open rifts as it proceeds to destroy Skylands, as well as disable Skylands' portal network so that Skylanders '''''CANNOT USE PORTALS AS MEANS OF TRANSPORT.''''' Now [[OhCrap remember what you use to bring your Skylanders to Skylands?]] Oh, and the magic the Sky Eater consumes? That's used to empower [[spoiler:[[UltimateEvil the Darkness]] '''AND A HYDRA HATCHLING.''' Yes, apparently the Hydra from ''Spyro's Adventure'' had a BABY.]] There's a reason Eon assembled the Superchargers in the first place: the Rift Engines, an alternate means of portal transport, are not connected to the main portal network, so the Skylanders simply switched to those until the portal network got back up.

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team''. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz and is also one of the villains who actually directly threatens the player, stating that she'll find out how they sleep. She is essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise/ANightmareonElmStreet Freddy Krueger]].

* Roller Brawl's backstory reeks of AdultFear, and it's a shockingly realistic scenario. She grew up as the youngest of six siblings, but ended up the target of Kaos' VillainousCrush after becoming one of the toughest jammers in the Undead Roller Derby League. When her brothers stepped in to protect her, he had them kidnapped and taken prisoner. Once the magic is removed, it's the story of a celebrity who finds herself the target of an AbhorrentAdmirer, but when her siblings try to protect her from said admirer, they are kidnapped by him, and she doesn't know where they are now.

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team''. Her levels are a MindScrew, she can absorb dreams and bring nightmares to life, and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head. It gets much worse when you read her backstory, where she's stated to have driven entire villages into insanity ForTheEvulz and is also one of the villains who actually directly threatens the player, stating that she'll find out how they sleep. She is essentially Skylands' equivalent to [[Franchise / A Nightmare on Elm Street Freddy Krueger]].

* The villain Dreamcatcher from ''Trap Team''. Her levels are a MindScrew, she eats dreams and has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. She's also a disembodied floating head.

* Near the end of ''Skylanders: Trap Team'', Kaos is empowered by The Ultimate Weapon's Stinkocity and Traptanium, becoming Traptanium Kaos, which allows him to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ''see the Portal Master through the fourth-wall]]''. He then planned to not only conquer Skylands, but to also pull the new Portal Master from their world and trap them in Traptanium. During his boss fight, Kaos actually makes an attempt to pull the player Portal Master from their world, but luckily only manages to pull their personal belongings into Skylands instead.

* Near the end of ''Skylanders: Trap Team'', Kaos is empowered by The Ultimate Weapon's Stinkocity and Traptanium, becoming Traptanium Kaos, which allows him to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ''see the Portal Master through the fourth-wall'']]. He then planned to not only conquer Skylands, but to also pull the new Portal Master from their world and trap them in Traptanium. During his boss fight, Kaos actually makes an attempt to pull the player Portal Master from their world, but luckily only manages to pull their personal belongings into Skylands instead.

* Shroomboom and his fellow sentient mushroom were born in a pizza topping garden owned by Kaos and were on the verge of becoming his dinner. An added story detail is included that although Shroomboom saved himself and his fellow mushroom brethern, it is believed a family of pineapple chunks weren't lucky.

->''"Think I sound crazy? Perhaps. I was [[SealedEvilInACan locked in a jar for thousands of years,]] but I can also prove this claim, and take you to a place known as [[EldritchLocation NIGHTMARE WORLD.]] Want to go?"''
--> -- '''Brain''', ''Skylanders: Imaginators'' [[note]][[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot You don't get to go there.]][[/note]]

* This one is more likely to weaken with age as well but, Hood Sickle's redesign in ''Imaginators'' takes his grim reaper/executioner vibe UpToEleven. With a catchphrase of "Any last words?", he's way less friendly than any of the reformed villains. Which is fitting, as he was never actually evil, [[AllThereInTheManual according to his backstory]], but simply very, very committed to his job of being ominous and frightening. It's also worth noting that his new combat style revolves around summoning and [[YourSoulIsMine consuming fragments of the souls of his slain foes]] to power up his attacks.
** Eon actually exploited this fact when he recruited Hood Sickle as a Sensei, as his Sentinel-class trainees are ''always'' perfectly attentive during his lessons, being absolutely terrified of their teacher.

* The Wilikin village in ''Giants'' is eerie enough, but one of the houses in Facadeville seems to have a female Wilikin ghost running around through the air that you can't interact with other than standing under her to make her stop. On top of this, the furniture is floating off the ground and the music is replaced with a version that has childlike laughing in the background. The other Wilikin never mention the house.

** Another Grave Clobber one, for older audiences, it might not be, but it definitely would be for most kids: during The Golden Desert in Trap Team, you fight a villain him. The first thing he says? "''I'M GOING TO BURY YOU.''"

* This one is more likely to weaken with age as well but, Hood Sickle's redesign in ''Imaginators'' takes his grim reaper/executioner vibe UpToEleven. With a catchphrase of "Any last words?", he's way less friendly than any of the reformed villains.

* Shroomboom and his fellow sentient mushroom were born in a pizza topping garden owned by Kaos and were on the verge of becoming his dinner. An added story detail is included that although Shroomboom saved himself and his fellow mushroom brethern, it is believed a family of pineapple chunks weren't lucky.

* A witch tricked Ignitor into wearing a magical suit of armor that was said to resist fire from a dragon. When a dragon's fire rained down on him, Ignitor was instead transformed into a flame spirit who was forever bound to the cursed suit of armor, which turned out to be cursed.

* A witch tricked Ignitor into wearing a magical suit of armor that was said to resist fire from a dragon. When a dragon's fire rained down on him, Ingitor was instead transformed into a flame spirit who was forever bound to the cursed suit of armor, which turned out to be cursed.