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• And You Thought It Would Fail: Many people had doubts that this series would be a success. The series has now gained somewhere around 700 million dollars in sales. That's even more than Wreck It Ralph and Rise Of The Guardians!
• Broken Base: There are some fans that are willing to at least give it a chance or actually like it, despite the negative outcry from a lot of them. Some are happy that Spyro's personality is supposed to be like his Classic Self.
  • Cynder broke the base again. Legend fans were quite pleased, Classic fans weren't. Many fans wanted a clean break from previous continuities...
  • Some Skylanders even break the base. Sprocket for example has some people hating her just because she looks "too human", while others think she's a refreshing change of pace in adding some diversity to the teams. Some merely dislike her because they already have her and they have to wade through dozens of Sprockets to find what Skylanders are available in the stores next.
• Complaining about Games You Don't Play: From about day one, Skylanders has taken a lot of flak, mostly for being either a general defilement of the Spyro franchise or for being a gigantic merchandising ploy. The "merchandising" complaint makes some sense when you consider that Activision ran another series into the ground, but still.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: As composed by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe. It's actually on par with most animated films. Special mention goes to the game's theme.
• Critical Dissonance: Fans were really not looking forward to it, and many are making a big deal about how little respect they have for the game or hope in its ability to sell. Critics, meanwhile, are often very warm to the new game, taking it for the toyetic kids' game that it is, and quite like it.
• Dancing Bear: Without the toy gimmick, it's just another Platformer/Beat 'em Up. (A perfectly enjoyable Platformer/Beat 'em Up, by all accounts, but nothing special.)
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Boomer and Stealth Elf seem pretty popular. The latter is kind of obvious, the former because of his gameplay, personality, and this commercial. Sonic Boom also has her fans, primarily due to her sympathetic backstory.
• Game Breaker:
  • From Spyro's Adventure, we have Terrafin and Ghost Roaster who are really good at dodging, Hex who can set up a super-powerful wall while she safely fire away from behind it, and Boomer whose ground pound attack hurts a lot of targets at once and stuns.
  • From Spyro's Universe, Tech Skylanders are really good for the Sky Defense minigame, where their machine gun Limit Break can mow down multiple mooks with ease.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the Skylanders, Whirlwind, is part unicorn and can fire rainbow energy rays as her main weapon. The Big Bad is named Kaos. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic will be reminded of the season two premiere, with a villain named Discord and Elements of Harmony emitting rainbow energy. Also, as of Giants there is a character voiced by Tara Strong (which is not surprising, as she's all over the place, including MLP:FIM' Twilight Sparkle.)
• Memetic Mutation: Cyndertits! ^note A joke amongst The Legend of Spyro fans, referring to Cynder's... er... breast-shaped "scale pattern". Was picked up quickly by notable Spyro fanartists.
• Self Fanservice: just check at Deviantart, you'd be surprised how much arts there are about naked Stealth Elf, often with very exaggerated curves when compared to the skinny action figure.
  • Hex got some of this too; werheas her actual dress is rather sober and cover everything but her face and fingers, you will probably easily find art of her in Stripperiffic goth attire with Absolute Cleavage, when she even wears something. And of course, don't expect her to have decayed skin or anything similar : they apparently forgot she was suppposed to be an undead.
  • It doesn't take long for Ninjini, Chill and Sprocket to get fan-serviced either. As a deviantART member once reacted:
  "God dammit....you just cant stop yourselves, can you? Gotta draw EVERY HUMANOID Skylander like she's some kind of god damn porn star!"
• Shipping: while the game doesn't provide any visible romance between the Skylanders themselves (due to their personnalities and relationships never being explored except in the biographies and trailers), this hasn't stopped the fans from already imagining some shippings. Aside from the obvious Spyro/Cynder due to them being based on Legend of Spyro, Flameslinger/Stealth Elf seems to have become quite popular (logically due to the fact both are from the same specie).
  • Even Les Yay have been imagined already, mainly with Stealth Elf/Hex.
  • As of Giants, "Bashwing" (Bash/Flashwing) has taken wing due to Bash developing a crush on Flashwing in her backstory.
• That One Sidequest: Some of the Heroic Challenges can be a nightmare for certain characters. For example, Drobot's HC requires the player to kill 100 green Chompies while avoiding the purple ones (although you are forgiven if you kill just one). Thing is, there is quite a ton of the purples in the dungeon, and they are also aggressive. Good luck trying to complete this challenge with characters with ranged weapons (you can accidentally shoot a purple off-screen) or wide-ranged attack (the purples will gang up on you).
  • Any challenge marked "Warning! This can be tough!" has the potential to become this. Like Drobot's challenge above, these often require precision, destroying some targets while avoiding others; and some Skylanders are just no good at avoiding collateral damage.
• The Woobie: Sonic Boom. She went to hell and back to find a safe place to have her eggs and some rotten wizard decides to put a curse on them so they can always return to their eggs after a short period, meaning she'll never see her babies get to grow up. This didn't stop her from teaching them to kick butt, however.
• Uncanny Valley: Persephone◊. Players have pointed out the uncanny resemblance to Chucky