History YMMV / TheLegendOfSpyroANewDawn

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This fic is often credited as the first major adventure fic of the ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' franchise, be it classic, legend, or otherwise. When it was posted, it was often considered one of the best fics in the archive, trying a lot of things that have never been done before in it. However, in this day and age where "[[FandomSpecificPlot post-DotD template]]" fics are so common to the point of being generally hated by most people in the fandom, ''A New Dawn'' tends to be viewed as yet another sub-par "post [=DotD=] template" fic at best, or [[FollowTheLeader the cause of post DotD template fics in the first place]] at worse. (Despite the fact that, other than being an adventure set after [=DotD=], it [[{{Misblamed}} doesn't actually use a lot of the clichés]] that plague post [=DotD=] template fics and many are outright opposites of how A New Dawn did it.)

* RonTheDeathEater: Averted. One of the reasons Ember is the EnsembleDarkHorse is just how different she is from the self-absorbed ClingyJealousGirl she's often portrayed as. Instead of instantly becoming TheRival to Cynder, she and Cynder become best friends very quickly. [[spoiler:In fact, her reaction to finding out she'd been hitting on Spyro when he's already mates with Cynder is to go into a HeroicBSOD over the fact she'd not figured it out sooner and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feeling extremely guilty over the pain her flirting had caused them]].]]
** WordOfGod has it one of the writer's main reasons for including her in the story in the first place was being sick and tired of her getting the RonTheDeathEater treatment and wanting to make a more complex and likeable version of the character that was still true to her original character from the classic games.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tyrania]] stands in stark contrast to the [[AntiVillain relatively sympathetic]] [[BigBad Deadlock]]. Tyrania carried out three [[FinalSolution genocides]], [[GenocideFromTheInside one of which was of her own species]], so that she could re create her race and make herself empress. Tyrania [[BadBoss kills her own minions]] just for fun, captures people to use as slaves, and has a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] with a window for her viewing pleasures. When confronted, she slowly kills Ember's father while Ember is ForcedToWatch, and then prepares to kill Spyro, Cynder, and Ember. Her endgame is to enslave the dragon race and kill any that are too weak to be used. A cruel gargoyle with [[EvilLaugh the laugh of a lunatic]] who [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming loved the sound of screaming]], Tyrania stood to show just how much of a monster Deadlock ''was not''.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This fic is often credited as the first major adventure fic of the ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' franchise, be it classic, legend, or otherwise. When it was posted, it was often considered one of the best fics in the archive, trying a lot of things that have never been done before in it. However, in this day and age where "[[FandomSpecificPlot post-DotD template]]" fics are so common to the point of being generally hated by most people in the fandom, ''A New Dawn'' tends to be viewed as yet another sub-par "post [=DotD=] template" fic at best, or [[FollowTheLeader the cause of post DotD template fics in the first place]] at worse. (Despite the fact that, other than being an adventure set after [=DotD=], it [[{{Misblamed}} doesn't actually use a lot of the clichés]] that plague post [=DotD=] template fics.)

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This fic is often credited as the first major adventure fic of the ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' franchise, be it classic, legend, or otherwise. When it was posted, it was often considered one of the best fics in the archive, trying a lot of things that have never been done before in it. However, in this day and age where "[[FandomSpecificPlot post-DotD template]]" fics are so common to the point of being major SnarkBait for most people in the fandom, ''A New Dawn'' tends to be viewed as yet another sub-par "post [=DotD=] template" fic at best, or [[FollowTheLeader the cause of post DotD template fics in the first place]] at worse. (Despite the fact that, other than being an adventure set after [=DotD=], it [[{{Misblamed}} doesn't actually use a lot of the clichés]] that plague post [=DotD=] template fics.)

** Empress Tyrania probably crossed this eons ago when she committed genocide ''three times'' just to [[AGodIAm make herself the self proclaimed goddess of the Gargoyles.]] Onscreen, she crosses this by [[spoiler:killing Ember's father Blaze slowly and painfully right in front of her...then ''laughs!'']]

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tyrania]] stands in stark contrast to the [[AntiVillain relatively sympathetic]] [[BigBad Deadlock]]. Tyrania carried out three genocides, [[GenocideFromTheInside one of which was of her own species]], so that she could re create her race and make herself empress. Tyrania [[BadBoss kills her own minions]] just for fun, captures people to use as slaves, and has a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] with a window for her viewing pleasures. When confronted, she slowly kills Ember's father while Ember is ForcedToWatch, and then prepares to kill Spyro, Cynder, and Ember. Her endgame is to enslave the dragon race and kill any that are too weak to be used. A cruel gargoyle with [[EvilLaugh the laugh of a lunatic]] who [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming loved the sound of screaming]], Tyrania stood to show just how much of a monster Deadlock ''was not''.

* CompleteMonster: Empress [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tyrania]] stands in stark contrast to the [[AntiVillain relatively sympathetic]] [[BigBad Deadlock]]. Tyrania carried out three genocides, [[GenocideFromTheInside one of which was of her own species]] so that she could re create her race and make herself empress. Tyrania [[BadBoss kills her own minions]] [[ForTheEvulz just for fun]], captures people to use [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil as slaves]], and has a [[TortureCellar torture chamber]] with a window for her viewing pleasures. When confronted, she slowly kills Ember's father while Ember is [[ForcedToWatch forced to watch]], and then prepares to kill Spyro, Cynder, and Ember. Her endgame is to enslave the dragon race and kill any that are too weak to be used. A cruel gargoyle with [[EvilLaugh the laugh of a lunatic]] who [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming loved the sound of screaming]], Tyrania stood to show just how much of a monster Deadlock ''was not''.

* CompleteMonster: Empress Tyrania. ''Big time''. She carried out ''three'' genocides, including her own species, just to [[AGodIAm make herself be worshipped as a god]]. She keeps a torture chamber with a window so she can watch and regularly blows up her own worshippers for kicks. She keeps slaves and made the slave master her sadistic [[TheDragon Dragon]] just to make sure they're miserable as physically possible. She then invades the Dragon Realms, completely intent with the idea she'll need to perform a genocide or two to weed out those no good for slave labor, in fact, she relishes it! When the group finally confronts her, she taunts them over this and [[spoiler:''kills'' Ember's father in a slow and sadistic manner and enjoys every second of it.]] She's so evil that [[spoiler:Kage believes that even [[EvilIsNotAToy absorbing her energy could have dire consequences]].]] Ironically, her sadism leads to her demise, as she purposefully drew the battle out as long as she could just to enjoy their suffering, which allowed them to discover her weakness. Reader response universally dub her a monster. She was intentionally made an utterly irredeemable CompleteMonster to be a {{Foil}} for the sympathetic Deadlock.

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Cyros. She abuses her brother, is plotting to become queen of the Naga by any means, and is willing to do anything to get the power to do so...because she thinks Pyrus betrayed her after promising her to let her be the crown princess only to take it himself (though she only knows her side of the story and not his). [[BrokenBird Because of this, she no longer trusts anyone and just wants to get enough power that no one will ever be able hurt her like that again]].]]

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This fic is often credited as the first major adventure fic of the ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' franchise, be it classic, legend, or otherwise. When it was posted, it was often considered one of the best fics in the archive, trying a lot of things that have never been done before in it. However, in this day and age where "[[FandomSpecificPlot post-DotD template]]" fics are so common to the point of being major SnarkBait for most people in the fandom, ''A New Dawn'' tends to be viewed as yet another sub-pair "post [=DotD=] template" fic at best, or [[FollowTheLeader the cause of post DotD template fics in the first place]] at worse. (Despite the fact that, other than being an adventure set after [=DotD=], it [[{{Misblamed}} doesn't actually use a lot of the clichés]] that plague post [=DotD=] template fics.)

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This fic is often credited as the first major adventure fic of ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' franchise, be it classic, legend, or otherwise. When it was posted, it was often considered one of the best fics in the archive, trying a lot of things that have never been done before in it. However, in this day and age where "[[FandomSpecificPlot post-DotD template]]" fics are so common to the point of being major SnarkBait for most people in the fandom, ''A New Dawn'' tends to be viewed as yet another sub-pair "post [=DotD=] template" fic at best, or [[FollowTheLeader the cause of post DotD template fics in the first place]] at worse. (Despite the fact that, other than being an adventure set after [=DotD=], it [[{{Misblamed}} doesn't actually use a lot of the clichés]] that plague post [=DotD=] template fics.)

** WordOfGod: One of the writer's main reasons for including her in the story in the first place was being sick and tired of her getting the RonTheDeathEater treatment and wanting to make a more complex and likeable version of the character that was still true to her original character from the classic games.

* CompleteMonster: Empress Tyrania. ''Big time''. She carried out ''three'' genocides, including her own species, just to [[AGodIAm make herself be worshipped as a god]]. She keeps a torture chamber with a window so she can watch and regularally blows up her own worshippers for kicks. She keeps slaves and made the slave master her sadistic TheDragon just to make sure they're miserable as physically possible. She then invades the Dragon Realms, completely intent with the idea she'll need to perform a genocide or two to weed out those no good for slave labor, in fact, she relishes it! When the group finally confronts her, she taunts them over this and [[spoiler:''kills'' Ember's father in a slow and sadistic manner and enjoys every second of it.]] She's so evil that [[spoiler:Kage believes that even [[EvilIsNotAToy absorbing her energy could have dire consequences]].]] Ironically, her sadism leads to her demise, as she perposefully drew the battle out as long as she could just to enjoy their suffering, which allowed them to discover her weakness. Reader response universally dub her a monster. She was intentionally made an utterly irredeemable CompleteMonster to be a {{Foil}} for the sympathetic Deadlock.

** Boss Kaze crosses this by [[spoiler:threatening to kill "have his way with" Delilah after she's captured.]]
** Empress Tyrania probably crossed this eons ago when she commited genocide ''three times'' just to [[AGodIAm make herself the self proclaimed goddess of the Gargoyles.]] Onscreen, she crosses this by [[spoiler:killing Ember's father Blaze slowly and painfully right in front of her...then ''laughs!'']]

* CompleteMonster:
** The Warden, TheDragon to Empress Tyrania. The guy is a sadistic prison master who rules over the Gargoyle slave mines. Unlike the rest of the Gargoyles, he's fully sentient and able to make his own choices. He's got a magic collar that causes anyone afflicted with a curse to experience [[AgonyBeam horrible agony from so much as touching him]] or attacking him indirectly. He gleefully uses this to force the slaves to work themselves half to death and torture them ForTheEvulz. He's seen torturing a poor Cheetah just to unwind after his earlier encounter with Tyrania left him furious, outright saying the only thing the Cheetah did wrong was because the Warden ''said'' he did something wrong. Tyrania's attack on the Dragon Realms was also his idea to begin with. This all comes back to bite him, though, because [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack the slaves brutally attack him]] once the curse is broken thanks to Sparx.]]
** Empress Tyrania. ''Big time''. She carried out ''three'' genocides, including her own species, just to [[AGodIAm make herself be worshipped as a god]]. She keeps a torture chamber with a window so she can watch and regularally blows up her own worshippers for kicks. She keeps slaves and made the slave master her sadistic TheDragon just to make sure they're miserable as physically possible. She then invades the Dragon Realms, completely intent with the idea she'll need to perform a genocide or two to weed out those no good for slave labor, in fact, she relishes it! When the group finally confronts her, she taunts them over this and [[spoiler:''kills'' Ember's father in a slow and sadistic manner and enjoys every second of it.]] She's so evil that [[spoiler:Kage believes that even [[EvilIsNotAToy absorbing her energy could have dire consequences]].]] Ironically, her sadism leads to her demise, as she perposefully drew the battle out as long as she could just to enjoy their suffering, which allowed them to discover her weakness. Reader response universally dub her a monster. She was intentionally made an utterly irredeemable CompleteMonster to be a {{Foil}} for the sympathetic Deadlock.

* CompleteMonster: The Warden, TheDragon to Empress Tyrania. The guy is a sadistic prison master who rules over the Gargoyle slave mines. Unlike the rest of the Gargoyles, he's fully sentient and able to make his own choices. He's got a magic collar that causes anyone afflicted with a curse to experience [[AgonyBeam horrible agony from so much as touching him]] or attacking him indirectly. He gleefully uses this to force the slaves to work themselves half to death and torture them ForTheEvulz. He's seen torturing a poor Cheetah just to unwind after his earlier encounter with Tyrania left him furious, outright saying the only thing the Cheetah did wrong was because the Warden ''said'' he did something wrong. Tyrania's attack on the Dragon Realms was also his idea to begin with. This all comes back to bite him, though, because [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack the slaves brutally attack him]] once the curse is broken thanks to Sparx.]]

* CompleteMonster: The Warden, Empress Tyrania's {{Dragon}}. The guy is a sadistic prison master who rules over the Gargoyle slave mines. Unlike the rest of the Gargoyles, he's fully sentient and able to make his own choices. He's got a magic collar that causes anyone afflicted with a curse to experience [[AgonyBeam horrible agony from so much as touching him]] or attacking him indirectly. He gleefully uses this to force the slaves to work themselves half to death and torture them ForTheEvulz. He's seen torturing a poor Cheetah just to unwind after his earlier encounter with Tyrania left him furious, outright saying the only thing the Cheetah did wrong was because the Warden ''said'' he did something wrong. Tyrania's attack on the Dragon Realms was also his idea to begin with. This all comes back to bite him, though, because [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack the slaves brutally attack him]] once the curse is broken thanks to Sparx.]]
** Empress Tyrania. ''Big time''. She carried out ''three'' genocides, including her own species, just to [[AGodIAm make herself be worshipped as a god]]. She keeps a torture chamber with a window so she can watch and regularally blows up her own worshippers for kicks. She keeps slaves and made the slave master her sadistic {{Dragon}} just to make sure they're miserable as physically possible. She then invades the Dragon Realms, completely intent with the idea she'll need to perform a genocide or two to weed out those no good for slave labor, in fact, she relishes it! When the group finally confronts her, she taunts them over this and [[spoiler:''kills'' Ember's father in a slow and sadistic manner and enjoys every second of it.]] She's so evil that [[spoiler:Kage believes that even [[EvilIsNotAToy absorbing her energy could have dire consequences]].]] Ironically, her sadism leads to her demise, as she perposefully drew the battle out as long as she could just to enjoy their suffering, which allowed them to discover her weakness. Reader response universally dub her a monster. She was intentionally made an utterly irredeemable CompleteMonster to be a {{Foil}} for the sympathetic Deadlock.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Deadlock. The only reason she's doing any of this is because she's had a horrible life. Her own parents wanted nothing to do with her because she was born with three heads, and she suffered a great deal of bullying for being a "freak" for most of her life. Then she finally got a mate named Andreas who loved her for who she was and a job at the temple she loved and was respected for as a nursery dragoness. She had two clutches of eggs with him as well, which she loved with all her heart. Then it was all stolen from her in one night, Andreas and her second clutch of eggs destroyed the night of the raid along with the others (which destoys her job as well). The pain of this drove her insane and now she wants to take revenge on those she blames for it. Yeah, she's doing horrible things, but her past is so horrific it's hard not to feel bad for her.

** Empress Tyrania. ''Big time''. She carried out ''three'' genocides, including her own species, just to [[AGodIAm make herself be worshipped as a god]]. She keeps a torture chamber with a window so she can watch and regularally blows up her own worshippers for kicks. She keeps slaves and made the slave master her sadistic {{Dragon}} just to make sure they're miserable as physically possible. She then invades the Dragon Realms, completely intent with the idea she'll need to perform a genocide or two to weed out those no good for slave labor, in fact, she relishes it! When the group finally confronts her, she taunts them over this and [[spoiler:''kills'' Ember's father in a slow and sadistic manner and enjoys every second of it.]] She's so evil that [[spoiler:Kage believes that even [[EvilIsNotAToy absorbing her energy could have dire consequences]].]] Ironically, her sadism leads to her demise, as she perposefully drew the battle out as long as she could just to enjoy their suffering, which allowed them to discover her weakness. Reader response pretty much universally dub her a monster. She was intentionally made an utterly irredeemable CompleteMonster to be a {{Foil}} for the sympathetic Deadlock.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Commander Gaia. She was only working with Grendel because she truly loved him...and then he goes and stabs her in the gut, telling her she has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]]. She dies a sobbing, broken wreck muttering that she loved him.]]

* FridgeHorror: Empress Tyrania tells one of her Gargoyle troops to clean the skeletons out of her torture chamber. While that's bad on it's own, [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] when you realize that Gargoyles don't leave skeletons behind, meaning she's not torturing Gargoyles to death there...

* AndTheFandomRejoiced:
** Quite a few reviewers were quite excited by Ember's characterization due to it subverting the RonTheDeathEater treatment she normally gets.
** Readers were quite excited to hear there will be a sequel.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Deadlock. The only reason she's doing any of this is because she's had a horrible life. Her own parents wanted nothing to do with her because she was born with three heads, and she suffered a great deal of bullying for being a "freak" for most of her life. Then she finally got a mate named Andreas who loved her for who she was and a job at the temple she loved and was respected for as a nursery dragoness. She had two clutches of eggs with him as well, which she loved with all her heart. Then it was all stolen from her in one night, Andreas and her second clutch of eggs destroyed the night of the raid along with the others (which destoys her job as well). The pain of this drove her insane and now she wants to take revenge on those she blames for it. Yeah, she's doing horrible things, but her past is so horrific it's hard not to feel bad for her.

* TheWoobie: Cynder, big time. In addition to the stuff that ''already'' happened to her, she has to deal with having her child kidnapped, a psychotic dragoness tormenting her in her dreams, and [[spoiler:discovering that while she was BrainwashedAndCrazy, she killed her own mother]]! And then there's in "New Allies", [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel where we discover just how she got her metal blades]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast the other, related parts of her past that are explored]]...

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Cynder's description of how she got her metal tail and wing blades. She had the bone ones torn out and the metal ones ''slowly forged into her bones '''while she was completely awake!'''''

!!{{YMMV}} Tropes in this [[FanFic Fanfiction include:]]