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* ''Trivia/TheLegendOfSpyroTheEternalNight''
* ''Trivia/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon''
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* ActingForTwo:
** Creator/CoreyBurton voices both Volteer and Exhumor.
** Creator/JeffBennett voices both Cyril and Mole-Yair, as well as Scratch in ''The Eternal Night''.
** Besides voicing Terrador throughout the trilogy, Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson voices the Conductor in ''A New Beginning'', Gaul and Sniff in ''The Eternal Night'', and Prowlus and the Hermit in ''Dawn of the Dragon''.
* AscendedFanon: Apparently, [[http://dragonoficeandfire.deviantart.com/journal/Q-A-with-Jared-Pullen-lead-concept-artist-of-TLoS-556546930 Spyro and Cynder's relationship]] was this. Originally, the developers ''didn't'' see them getting together, but the [[OneTruePairing very vocal]] fans for them during the series made them decide to make it canon.
* AllStarCast: '''Is there ever!''' Even when the series [[TheOtherDarrin Darrins]] a couple times, they still managed to pull people like Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/ElijahWood, and Creator/ChristinaRicci, along with several prolific cartoon voice actors.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: Spyro's voiced by ''Creator/ElijahWood'' (however, Wood ''is'' admittedly a [[JustForFun/OneOfUs big nerd...]]). Sparx is Creator/DavidSpade in the first game, who is replaced by Creator/BillyWest for the second, and then ''he'' is replaced by Creator/WayneBrady for the final installment. Ignitus is Creator/GaryOldman, Cynder is Creator/CreeSummer in the first game, who is replaced by Creator/MaeWhitman for the second, and then ''she'' is replaced by Creator/ChristinaRicci for the final installment, and Creator/MarkHamill is Malefor (though his voice is heavily filtered, and he's been voice acting for a very long time).
* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: During the intro sequences for ''The Eternal Night'' and ''Dawn of the Dragon''. The Convexity flashback for ''The Eternal Night'' is redone with West and Whitman redoing the respective lines for Spade and Summer in ''A New Beginning'', and in the intro sequence for ''Dawn of the Dragon'' Ricci redid the "Spyro, stop!" line from the ending for ''The Eternal Night''.
* FollowTheLeader:
** The trilogy not so subtly wears its ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' influence on its sleeves, what with Spyro being voiced by [[Creator/ElijahWood Frodo Baggins]] and the movies debuting around the time these games were made. It's {{downplayed|Trope}}, though, as despite the aesthetics and such clearly bringing to mind ''[=LotR=]'' imagery, the plots only bare a passing resemblance to one another.
** It's clear that Dark Spyro only really exists because of the SuperPoweredEvilSide trope being ''huge'' in media around the mid-2000s.
%%** {{Subverted|Trope}} when it comes to it resembling [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender a popular early 2000s Nickelodeon cartoon]]. Despite the numerous similarities[[note]]Both staring a chosen one protagonist with control over the four elements trying to stop an army from destroying/taking over the world[[/note]], Legend of Spyro actually ''predates'' Avatar by a few months, making the similarities coincidental.
* HostilityOnTheSet: According to a former crew member of the sound editorial team for the first two games on Youtube, this was the reason Creator/DavidSpade got replaced as Sparx in ''Eternal Night''. Spade was apparently very difficult to work with in ''A New Beginning'', as he had never done voice acting in a video game before and didn't understand the process, giving the audio crew a hard time about how he didn't like it. Because of that, Spade wasn't asked back for ''Eternal Night'' and Creator/BillyWest was brought in to replace him.
* InternationalCoproduction: While the games were published by Sierra in the U.S., the first two games were developed by Krome Studios in Australia and the third by Étranges Libellules in France.
* NoBudget: Initially [[https://youtu.be/-Sh2GjLko90?t=29m52s a podcast with game developer Mike Stout]] says all three of the games had ''very'' small budgets, roughly 1,000,000$ per game. [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UZusjS4VG14o8pUjD54RSGdB6ESFWETSvDeI07LCqGk/ A recent interview]] with ''A New Beginning'' lead designer Cameron Davis later stated that the number was off the mark and the budget was 10,000,000$ per game, with 60/40 split between ''A New Beginning'' and ''The Eternal Night''. This is '''not''' big money for a video game to begin with, and the ambitious scope of the trilogy combined with this gave the producer and dev teams no end of trouble.
* NoExportForYou: The trilogy was never translated into Japanese.
* TheOtherDarrin: Sparx and Cynder have had a different voice actor for every game in the trilogy -- Creator/DavidSpade[=/=]Creator/BillyWest[=/=]Creator/WayneBrady, and Creator/CreeSummer[=/=]Creator/MaeWhitman[=/=]Creator/ChristinaRicci, repectively. This is lampshaded by Sparx near the beginning of the third game.
-->'''Sparx''': Hey, Spyro, man, you're alive.\\
'''Spyro''': Sparx! It's good to see you too! You okay?\\
'''Sparx''': Huh, you know, little stiff, [[TheOtherDarrin voice keeps changing]], but I'm good.
* ShrugOfGod:
** When the last installment of the trilogy, ''Dawn of the Dragon'', was carried over to Étranges Libellules, the producers of the trilogy allowed Étranges Libellules free reign to make "adjustments" to character designs, including sudden color changes to Cynder that conflict with the lore establish around purple dragons.
** The creators of the trilogy intentionally left Spyro and Cynder's fate at the story conclusion open to interpretation.
* UncreditedRole: None of the foreign voice actors were credited inside the game. For example, in the French dub, Cyril was miscredited to Laurent Morteau, and Malefor was miscredited to Creator/PierreHatet. However, both characters were voiced by Creator/MartialLeMinoux.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The trilogy's low development budget means that a great deal of story and setting elements couldn't be included in the final games. For specifics, see [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/SpyroTheDragon the franchise page]].
* WordOfGod:
** Jared Pullen, the lead artist of the trilogy, has [[http://that-spyro-guy.deviantart.com/ a deviantART account]] where he answers questions about the games, goes into what they weren't able to fit into the trilogy, and further elaborates on things that weren't fully elaborated on in the games. Before he created his account, he answered fan questions in [[https://www.deviantart.com/dragonoficeandfire/journal/Q-A-with-Jared-Pullen-lead-concept-artist-of-TLoS-591799120 an interview]] about ''The Legend of Spyro''.
** The purple energy that Spyro, Cynder, and Malefor wield at various points is called Aether, which comes in two forms -- Light and [[TheCorruption Dark]]. Ordinarily only purple dragons can use Aether, but Cynder can do so as well due to having been mutated by Malefor's dark power, which is also responsible for Spyro's [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Dark form]]. When used offensively as Dark Aether, it is a torrent of plasma with power comparable to a particle accelerator.
** Despite Spyro and Cynder [[spoiler:appearing at the end of ''Dawn of the Dragon'' seemingly alive, the story producers of trilogy [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210517215940/http://skylandsacademy.com/showthread.php?tid=402 confirmed]] that they left the two heroes' ultimate fate open to interpretation, allowing the fans to decide whether Spyro and Cynder are alive or not.]]
** Cynder's natural element is implied to be Wind, with her other elements being a result of her corruption by Malefor's power.
** Spyro's parentage would've been revealed in stages across ''The Legend of Spyro'' trilogy, [[spoiler:that his biological father would've been either Ignitus or Malefor. However while this goal was never fully developed in the final games, Jared Pullen personally maintains that Ignitus is Spyro's biological father and threw hints of it from the design phase. Malefor was even intended to cloud Spyro's mind with the lie that he was his father, but it never panned out.]]
** Malefor is permanently stuck in his Dark Form, as he's embraced the darkness so thoroughly that, unlike Spyro and Cynder, there's no difference between his true personality and his Dark Form, effectively making it just a SuperMode instead of a SuperPoweredEvilSide.
** Malefor was intended to be the hope of Dragonkind and to have been beloved by all as "the Great Protector", with the statue in the Dragon Temple depicting him in an honorable light, and Prowlus comparing Spyro's current self to Malefor at the same age. Now the temple statue of Malefor serves as a reminder of how things for Dragonkind should've been and how a regrettable tragedy befell them. It makes Malefor's NotSoDifferentRemark BreakingSpeech even more effective.
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