Playable Characters: | Air | Life | Undead | Earth | Fire | Water | Magic (Spyro) | Tech | Dark | Light | Guests
NPCs: Villains (Kaos, Trap Team Villains) | Other Skyland Dwellers
Other Media: The Mask of Power | Skylanders Academy
When Kaos destroyed the Core of Light, the two hidden elements Light and Dark vanished alongside their Skylanders, stranding them in their realms. They returned and revealed themselves to Skylands once again by the events of Trap Team, when Cloudcracker Prison got blown up.
Despite being powered by the most dangerous element of them all, being fueled by the very Darkness the Skylanders have fought for ages, Dark Skylanders are able to resist the ominous force and use their powers for the good side. They specialize in operating in the shadows, and utilizing dark magic to summon voids and black holes.
- Blank White Eyes: Every single Skylander of this element, including Hood Sickle, though his eyes are red in art and pink in-game, don't have any pupils.
- Color Motifs: Black and Purple. While black obviously fits the most for this element, in several connections to the Dark element it is mixed together with purple, such as in Midnight Museum where the color scheme is both of these colors. Among the Skylanders themselves, only Nightshade and Hood Sickle really fit into this, as Blackout and Knight Mare are more black mixed with green and Starcast is with blue.
- Dark Is Not Evil: All Dark element Skylanders firmly believe that the Dark element and the Darkness are unrelated.
Core Skylanders
Blackout
Blackout was once a member of the Dark Stygian, a dragon clan which created nightmares for villains. When the rest of the clan started abusing their powers for kicks, he rebelled and started fighting their creations from the inside. Which is how he wound up in Master Eon's dreams and became a Skylander.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: He was an Attack type Skylander in Ring of Heroes after the revamp, initially being an Expert type.
- Casting a Shadow: In a couple of flavors, including black holes and shadow orbs.
- Defector from Decadence: Rebelled against his clan when they started spreading nightmares around for fun.
- Dream Weaver: In his backstory. He hails from a clan that made nightmares for villains to Scare 'Em Straight, then learned to fight those nightmares from the inside once they started abusing their power.
- Rubber Man: Can extend his wings into whips, or curl himself into a buzzsaw.
- Teleport Spam: One of his combo upgrades.
Trap Masters
Knight Mare
A Dark Centaur who guarded the Oracle of Stones, an enchanted Dark Skystones game that can predict the future, as well as unleash a curse upon Skylands if asked the wrong questions seven times, until a gang of Bicyclopes stole it. She charged into battle to retrieve it and beat the Bicyclopes before they could ask their seventh question.
- BFS: She wields a Traptanium flamberge.
- Casting a Shadow: She's the Dark element Trap Master, and can also create shadow versions of her enemies to fight them with.
- Combat Medic: She was a Support type Skylander in Ring of Heroes, both pre- and post-revamp, before the game closed down.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being of the Dark element, she is no less heroic than any other member of the Skylanders.
- Instrument of Murder: Her battle horn can stun enemies and make shadow clones to fight for her.
- Jousting Lance: She uses her flamberge for this purpose.
- Punny Name: Her name is "nightmare" with Xtreme Kool Letterz, pointing out her connection to the dark element. Also, she is an armored female centaur, making her a literal "knight mare".
- Our Centaurs Are Different: With dark green armor and a huge lance.
SuperCharger
Nightfall
A Dreadwalker who preferred to dive into the Black Abyss surrounding her homeworld in her submarine, the Sea Shadow. When a Leviathan threatened her home, she held it back with everything she had so that her people could evacuate.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: She was an Attack type Skylander in Ring of Heroes, both pre- and post-revamp, before the game closed down.
- Gas Mask, Longcoat: Her ensemble has this look, though she's wearing a greatcoat if you want to get pedantic.
- Gravity Sucks: The Sea Shadow features a black hole projector, ominously called the "Abyss Cannon".
- Prehensile Hair: She actually uses hers to walk around, and it certainly seems to be the source of her Whip Lash attacks.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Stormblade's Red in the comic arc "Secret Agent Secrets".
- Shoulders of Doom: Understated, but she wears a greatcoat in the style of a 19th-century officer's uniform, complete with epaulets.
Senseis
Starcast
An alien that appeared when Eon wished on a star for a creature that can be a Ninja Sensei to appear. Or because Pop Fizz wished on the same star to get out of anger management with Eon. No matter whose wish came true, it was clear that Starcast was the Ninja Sensei Eon was looking for.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: He was an Attack type Skylander in Ring of Heroes, both pre- and post-revamp, before the game closed down.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: His origin story, appearance, mystical power, and even his name make it not that much of a stretch for him to be related to Star Strike (listed under Skylanders Debuting In Swap Force). If true, then the females of their species are small, humanoid and lack visible feet, while the males are colossal four-armed hunchbacks.
- Hammerspace: He visibly summons more throwing stars into his hands once he's thrown his current stock.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has four arms.
- Ninja: One who doesn't make use of more traditional means of misdirection as he can naturally turn invisible.
- Ninja Log: A very strange variation, wherein he does vanish and make his foes target something else, but in this case, the "log" is a living doppelganger of himself that fights back.
- Stock Ninja Weaponry: Uses his four arms to throw shurikens.
