History YMMV / Skylanders

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Trap Team'' features the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Secret Sewers of Supreme Stink]] level, where you encounter a race of fishfolk who locked themselves inside the sewers to stay clean and talk about the "great germ outbreak", and how they are safe from it by never leaving their sewers. Trap Team came out in 2014, and [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic 6 years later the fishfolk become much more sympathetic]].

* CompleteMonster: The Darkness is the source of all evil in the franchise, with the ultimate goal of the total destruction of Skylands followed by domination of the universe. Having terrorized Skylands in the past before being driven off, The Darkness continued to [[TheManBehindTheMan influence and corrupt]] many evil beings over time. [[ItCanThink Revealing its intelligence]] in ''Superchargers'', The Darkness happily aids [[Characters/SkylandersKaos Kaos]] in powering the Sky-Eater before hijacking the scheme and persuading Kaos to destroy Skylands instead, eventually threatening him when [[EvenEvilHasStandards he shows reluctance]]. The Darkness's other, more personal crimes include wiping out Voodood's tribe, destroying Boom Jet's home village, and nearly corrupting Spyro into Dark Spyro. Fully comprehending morality and choosing to embrace evil, The Darkness proves to be a [[VileVillainSaccharineShow dark villain in an otherwise lighthearted setting]].

* CompleteMonster: [[GreaterScopeVillain The Darkness]] is the source of all evil in the franchise, with the ultimate goal of the total destruction of Skylands followed by domination of the universe. Having terrorized Skylands in the past before being driven off, The Darkness continued to [[TheManBehindTheMan influence and corrupt]] many evil beings over time. [[ItCanThink Revealing its intelligence]] in ''Superchargers'', The Darkness happily aids Kaos in powering the Sky-Eater before hijacking the scheme and persuading Kaos to destroy Skylands instead, eventually threatening him when [[EvenEvilHasStandards he shows reluctance]]. The Darkness's other, more personal crimes include wiping out Voodood's tribe, destroying Boom Jet's home village, and nearly corrupting Spyro into Dark Spyro. Fully comprehending morality and choosing to embrace evil, The Darkness proves to be a [[VileVillainSaccharineShow dark villain in an otherwise lighthearted setting]].

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Many people had doubts that this series would be a success. ''Spyro'' fans, in particular, believed the franchise would fail automatically based on what they hate about ''Skylanders'' (Spyro's redesign, the toys-to-life gimmick, etc). Instead, the ''Skylanders'' series has crossed the $3 billion in sales threshold, with over 250 million toys sold since 2011. Consequently, the series ended up being one of the top twenty highest-selling video game franchises of all time. Unfortunately, Activision milked the series to death, causing ''Superchargers'' and ''Imaginators'' to fall short of their respective sales goals. ''Trap Team'' also sold less than its predecessor, ''Swap Force''.

** In terms of [=NPCs=], Mags is either a funny, likable, ally with some interesting lore behind her or she is annoying and needs to shut up.

** Hex got some of this too; whereas her actual dress is rather sober and covers everything but her face and fingers, you will probably easily find art of her in {{Stripperiffic}} goth attire with AbsoluteCleavage, when she even wears something. And of course, don't expect her to have decayed skin or anything similar. They apparently forgot she was supposed to be an undead.

** The Wii versions of Swap Force and Trap Team count as well; Lower audio quality, terrible graphics and lighting, and quite glitchy.

** Dreamcatcher in ''Trap Team''. She doesn't have so much health and only three attacks that are all easily avoidable. She shoots tornados across the arena one at a time that can be hit to shoot them back at her, she can summon small claws that disappear with one attack and sheep that don't hurt you, but jumps on the floor to make parts of it fall down, but they are also defeated with just one attack. The floor falling a short while after you step on it sound scary, but gives you time to get off (not to mention the lack of fall damage in this game). Finally, her forcefield is easily deactivated by destroying the beds behind that, you guessed it, are destroyed with one hit. Combine that with her always being open for attack without any other defenses and compared to the [[BulletHell other Doom Raider boss battles]], you might be able to beat her without taking damage.

* BreatherBoss: The Battle for the Enteral Fire Source in ''Spyro's Adventure''. For coming so late in the game, this fight was oddly easy. The elemental attack Kaos uses isn't too hard to dodge and while strong in their own right, the Fire Skylanders summoned (Eruptor, Flameslinger, and Sunburn) can be easily beaten with a Water Skylander, which most players will have (Gill Grunt). Compared to the fight that comes before (The Eternal Undead Source) and the fight that comes afterward (Kaos himself) and even the levels that come before and after it, this battle is a well-needed refresher.

* JerkassWoobie: Ghost Roaster. While him [[spoiler: selling out his fellow Skylanders to Spellslamzer]] was a major jerk move, it becomes way more understandable when he explains that with all the new Skylanders showing up with brand new gimmicks and powers leave him and the other originals in the dust and despite everything he has done, he gets [[DudeWheresMyRespect no respect]] from anyone. InUniverse, Stormblade even points out he has a very good point and ''still'' sees him as a hero, which ends up turning him back to the side of the Skylanders.

** The first game had a troll character named Boomer, had the series continued into 2019 they would have certainly made an “OK Boomer” joke at his expense.

** In VideoGame/GenshinImpact, Creator/KeithSilverstein voices Zhongli, the [[DishingOutDirt Geo]] [[PhysicalGod Archon]], who has an elemental skill that lets him summon a pillar of stone. Dino-Rang and Bash, who are also voiced by Creator/KeithSilverstein and of the [[DishingOutDirt Earth element]], can also summon pillars of stone.

* UncannyValley:
** [[http://images.wikia.com/spyro/images/b/b9/Fari.PNG Persephone]]. Players have pointed out the uncanny resemblance to [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]].
** InUniverse, the Wilikin are a race of wooden doll people who creep out almost everyone who interacts with them.
** Trigger Happy's grin takes up most of his face, so when he's frowning (in his defeated pose), he just looks plain wrong.

** The Wii versions of Swap Force and Trap Team count as well.

* BreatherBoss: The Battle for the Enteral Fire Source in ''Spyro's Adventure''. For coming so late in the game, this fight was oddly easy. The elemental attack Kaos uses isn't too hard to dodge and while strong in their own right, the Fire Skylanders summoned (Eruptor, Flameslinger, and Sunburn) can be easily beaten with a Water Skylander, which most players will have(Gill Grunt). Compared to the fight that comes before(The Enteral Undead Source) and the fight that comes afterward (Kaos himself) and even the levels that come before and after it, this battle is a well-needed refresher.

* PortingDisaster: ''Spyro's Adventure'' received a hasty port to the PC. The options menu does not allow you to change any graphics settings and sound often completely cuts out at certain pre-rendered cutscenes. To make it worse, there was no subtitles feature for these scenes, so you end up with Eon simply mouthing at you or Kaos and Glumshanks mouthing at each other with the player having no idea what's going on. There were also random crashes at various places, such as the beach levels. This may be why none of the sequels had any versions released on PC.

** As composed largely by ''Music/LorneBalfe''. It's actually on par with most animated films. Special mention goes to the first game's [[https://youtu.be/Ok-e5zWZehI theme]], which was also composed by Music/HansZimmer.

* {{Woolseyism}}: A minor one. The German version of ''Skylanders: Swap Force'' changes Baron Von Shellshock's nationality from German to French (and renames him Baron de Shellshock) and has a voice actor that's fluent in both languages voice him and have him pronounce German words the way a natural French speaker would.

*** In terms of voice actors, Bash's crush on Flashwing is this when you consider that Bash and Hawk Moth [[Creator/KeithSilverstein share the same voice actor]], and that Emilé's character design is based on Flashwing's voice Actress Creator/TaraStrong.

*** In terms of voice actors, Bash's crush on Flashwing is this when you consider that Bash and Hawk Moth [[Creator/KeithSilverstein share the same voice actor]], and that Emilé's character design is based on Flashwing's voice Actress Creator/TaraStrong