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This is a list of characters appearing in the Spyro the Dragon video game series.

Main characters

Spyro the Dragon

Main article: Spyro (character)

Sparx

Spyro's constant companion, Sparx serves as an embodiment of the player's health meter and also assists in collecting nearby items. Sparx was also a playable character in Year of the Dragon, Season of Ice, and A Hero's Tail, his levels featuring gameplay similar to Gauntlet and various rail shooter games. In the Legend of Spyro games, Sparx is Spyro's foster brother. With Spyro having a separate health bar, Sparx serves primarily as a travelling companion. In this continuity, Sparx's role has been reduced to serving as the series' comic relief, often giving out humorous dialogue and sarcastic remarks. He's voiced by David Spade in A New Beginning, Billy West in The Eternal Night, and Wayne Brady in Dawn of the Dragon.

Supporting characters

Bianca

A young anthropomorphic rabbit introduced in Year of the Dragon as an apprentice to the Sorceress, shown wearing a dark hooded cloak. Bianca defected to Spyro's cause within the same game, and appeared in later games to assist Spyro. Bianca appears to have strong feelings for Hunter which can be seen at the end of Year of the Dragon when they kiss on top of the castle in the Evening Lake home.

Cynder

Cynder (voiced by Cree Summer in A New Beginning, Mae Whitman in The Eternal Night, and Christina Ricci in Dawn of the Dragon) was once a large, powerful black dragon who served as the primary antagonist in The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning. Initially, she came from the same brood of eggs as Spyro, and in truth the same size and age as him. As an egg she was seized by the Dark Master's forces and she was raised by them. Under the influence of the Dark Master's power, Cynder grew to adult size and strengthened quickly and was then able to defeat and capture the Dragon Guardians, collecting their power in the form of crystals and taking them to Convexity in order to free the Dark Master from imprisonment. After her defeat, Cynder returned to her original size and strength and was safely returned to the Dragon Temple.

In The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night, Cynder runs away from the Dragon Temple in the middle of the night. When Spyro confronts her, she tells him she is off to find her own place in the world, still blaming herself for what had happened. Spyro later encounters her in an arena on a pirate ship after being captured, and although they are ordered to fight, Cynder states that she only wants to buy time until they can both escape. Just then, the pirate ship is attacked by Gaul's forces, and Cynder is taken captive. Gaul tells her that the Dark Master will either take her back for being such a faithful servant, or he'll kill her. It is later revealed that Gaul was the one who took her egg to begin with. When Spyro confronts Gaul, Gaul orders Cynder to kill him, though Cynder fakes the fight so she can try to get Gaul's staff. After Spyro's battle with Gaul, Cynder saves Spyro from the Dark Master's clutches. She becomes frozen in time with Spyro and Sparx when Spyro uses his powers to save them all. Hopefully, they will be able to return to the world they belong in, reunite with the four dragon guardians, and the Chronicler, and eventually defeat the Dark Master, at last. Spyro also shows a bit of some feelings for the small black dragon seeing as how he constantly pursued danger in order to save her in "The Eternal Night".

In Dawn of the Dragon, she teams up with Sparx and Spyro in an effort to defeat her former master once and for all after finding herself linked to Spyro by a powerful binding spell. With the help of Hunter, she, Spyro, and Sparx manage to escape their captors and arrive at the Village of Avalar. However, the villagers aren't very trusting of the group. They distrust Spyro because he is much like Malefor was before he went mad with power, and they have severe distrust for Cynder because of her past. However, they soon gain the trust of the group after the group saves Meadow of Avalar, but not before she is told by a crooked and insane hermit that she can never escape her past. She follows the group to the Dragon City and helps defend it against Malefor's forces. After she and Spyro fail to stop The Destroyer, despite her cunning plan, Ignitus determines that the two must fight Malefor to save the world. After Ignitus seemingly dies in the effort, Spyro once again draws off of his dark energy, and Cynder manages to convince him to calm down and do what Ignitus wanted them to. After confronting Malefor, the evil purple dragon reveals that Cynder had been tricking Spyro into freeing him. Cynder denies it and claims she doesn't remember, but Malefor takes control of her and has her attack Spyro. Spyro doesn't fight back though, explaining that he no longer has anything to fight for. Cynder snaps back to her senses and helps Spyro defeat Malefor. After the battle, she apologizes for everything and tries to convince Spyro to escape with her. When Spyro refuses to go, Cynder says that she'll stay with Spyro until the end, telling him that she loves him. After Spyro restores the world, the two's fates are left unknown to the rest of the world, but she and Spyro both survived and are seen playing together.

Hunter

A cool cheetah who first appeared in Ripto's Rage! to help train (and sometimes challenge) Spyro with various tasks. While he's a loyal friend and marginally knowledgeable with basic tasks, he seems to have trouble grasping the severity of Spyro's mission and can be relatively naive and gullible, leading him to being captured or tricked easily. Hunter developed a crush on Bianca in Year of the Dragon, and in the same game, had 4 playable minigames of his own, one in each the speedway level, He was a fully playable character in two levels of A Hero's Tail. Like his name implies, he is a very skilled bow and arrow hunter, and is strong and agile. He often prides himself in him applying his species' speed to everything he does, and expresses minor jealousy or pride when Spyro beats him at something, respectfully.

In the The Legend of Spyro series, "Hunter of Avalar" is a figure similar to Hunter, who appears at the end of The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night. In The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night, he appears to be a bowman who has been captured on the pirate's ship. He is only seen at the end when Spyro is frozen in time with Sparx and Cynder, but he had written a letter to Spyro earlier whilst on the ship, explaining that he knew about Spyro's powers and hoped they would someday meet. Hunter is voiced by Blair Underwood.

Ignitus

Ignitus is a orange dragon, and a master of fire, who is the first Guardian Spyro encounters and becomes the closest to him; he is the one who sends Spyro off to locate the other three Guardians. Ignitus, unlike the other guardians, was not captured by Cynder, and spent his time before the events of the game in hiding until Spyro found him. Upon his return to the Dragon Temple, he teaches Spyro the art of Fire Breath.

After Spyro frees Terrador at Munition's Forge, Cynder chases him until she is stopped by Ignitus, who is then captured. After a final discussion with the remaining guardians, Spyro ventured to her lair and rescued him; however, Cynder escaped with the last of the powered crystals, thus triggering the final confrontation in Convexity.

In Dawn of the Dragon, Ignitus leads the other dragon in a battle against a fire golem and The Destroyer. After Spyro and Cynder fail to stop The Destroyer, he leads the two young dragons through the Belt of Fire, where he seemingly sacrifices his life to ensure their safe passage. However, he is later shown meeting with The Chronicler, whom passes on his duties to Ignitus. Ignitus then looks through the books, wondering where Spyro and Cynder are. He's voiced by Gary Oldman in all three games.

Moneybags

A snobbish anthropomorphic bear with a lust for gems, Moneybags first appeared in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and also appeared in "Spyro: Year Of The Dragon" and Enter the Dragonfly, where he impeded Spyro's progress, opening up new passages, released unlockable characters, or granting new abilities for Spyro for "a small fee". Moneybags also appeared in A Hero's Tail and Shadow Legacy, but with a different characterization, serving as a shopkeeper from which the player could purchase various items.

Sgt. Byrd

An anthropomorphic penguin first appeared and introduced in Year of the Dragon, Sgt. Byrd is a soldier penguin armed with various weapons (such as a rocket launcher), and able to fly (attributed to being raised by hummingbirds). Sgt. Byrd was also playable in Attack of the Rhynocs, in missions that involved rescuing his fellow soldiers; he also appeared in A Hero's Tail for flying missions. He also appeared in Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy.

The Professor

An anthropomorphic mole who first appeared in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, He brought Ripto and Spyro to Avalar and he assists Spyro by creating various devices and gadgets. He also made an appearance in "Spyro: Year Of The Dragon", helping Agent 9 in his level. It appears that he entered Agent 9's labs after he tried to use his portal to get to the dragon realms, but the coordinates were out of date, sending him to the "forgotton worlds" instead, and hence, finding Agent 9 Labs.

Antagonists

Gnasty Gnorc

The main antagonist in the first Spyro game, Spyro the Dragon, where he imprisoned all dragons (except for Spyro) in crystal and stole the dragons's treasure and used magic to turn them into monsters. Spyro fought against Gnasty Gnorc's minions (called 'Gnorcs', a race of gnome / orc hybrids), eventually reaching Gnasty Gnorc's home world, where he confronted and defeated him. Gnasty Gnorc later appeared as in A Hero's Tail as a level boss and one of Red's minions himself.

Malefor

The main villain of the The Legend of Spyro series who is officially known as the Dark Master. In The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, his forces raided the Dragon Temple and stole Cynder's egg, as well as forcing all of the Dragon Guardians to flee and Ignitus to save Spyro's egg. Spyro defeated Cynder and returned her to her original form, but not before she collected enough energy to free the Dark Master.

According to The Chronicler in The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night, the Dark Master was the first purple dragon ever to be born. He was a gifted dragon, quickly learning all of the breaths despite not being a dragon of those types. However, he became corrupted by his own seemingly limitless power and was sealed away. It is said that he can corrupt the minds of even the strongest dragons, which can be seen in both Cynder and Spyro's cases.

In The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, it is revealed that his real name is Malefor, which also explains the true name of the Well of Souls; The Mountain of Malefor. According to the cheetahs of the Village of Avalar, Malefor was a lot like Spyro when he was young. After failing to destroy the Dragon City, Malefor unleashes The Destroyer upon the world to "cleanse" it. While Spyro and the others attempt to stop it, Ignitus mentions that Malefor draws of the power of destruction, which is the difference between he and Spyro. When Spyro confronts Malefor, Malefor reveals that Spyro was the one who freed him, and it was because Cynder had tricked him. Malefor reveals that it is the destiny of all purple dragons to "cleanse" the world by releasing The Destroyer. Malefor takes control of Cynder, but when Spyro doesn't fight back, Cynder is freed and Malefor attempts to kill them both. Spyro and Cynder both defeat him, but Malefor reveals that he cannot die. However, five dragon spirits appear and seal Malefor once again, ending his reign of terror.

Pirates

In The Eternal Night, Spyro and Sparx run into a group of dog/ape-like pirates that later capture them when they destroy one of their "attractions" and force Spyro to fight in their arena. Their leader is Skabb, who has two talking parrots named Scratch and Sniff that speak for him since he is too unintelligent to speak for himself. Sparx intensely hates the parrots but seems to hate Sniff the most. The pirates also took the Manweersmalls, Hunter of Avalar and Cynder prisoner aboard their nut sack ship. Spyro defeats Skabb and escapes the pirates' ships. Sparx comically punches Sniff knocking him out cold. Scratch is voiced by Jeff Bennett and Sniff is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson

Red

The main antagonist of Spyro: A Hero's Tail, a large red dragon, who used magical Dark Gems to corrupt the Dragon Worlds. He was a Dragon Elder, but became power-crazed, and was banished by the Dragon Elders for attempting to overthrow their leader. In his shameful exile, he set up home in an active volcano, where he discovered huge deposits of corrupting Dark Gems, which could drain the life force of healthy plants and animals, and make the world a very evil place, in which Red decided would be the perfect place for him to rule unquestioned. With his new found power, he allied with Gnasty Gnorc and Ineptune(Evil Queen of the Ocean), and then attempted to take over the world again, this time using Gnasty's army of Gnorcs.

Red is of an immence height, and has blood-red scales, and boasts jagged purple spines and horns on his head and down his back, which symbolise the corruption the Dark Gems have brought upon him. He like other Dragon Elders carries a magical staff, but instead of a Light Gem as its source of power, Red's has a Dark Gem, with which he commands all of the other's to do his bidding. He appears to be in full control of the Gnorc army as well, as when Gnasty is defeated by Spyro, they still mindlessly serve him - and even let themselves be turned into robots in Red's Laboratory; with the forced work of the captured Professor; under Red's volcanic lair. Red was finally defeated by Spyro after the Professor accidentally changed him into a huge robot, and the Professor shrunk him down to the size of a mouse, and claimed that the now tiny, un-dangerous; (but no less evil) Red; would be useful in his own lab, claiming him to be of a more manageable size.

Ripto

The title villain of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Ripto is a diminuative but powerful reptilian sorcerer with a purple cape and a single horn on his forehead. Upon being accidentally transported to the realm of Avalar, he announces that he will be taking it over due to the fact that no dragons were native to the area. After an initial confrontation with Spyro and Avalar's residents, he fled to various locales within Avalar; Spyro pursued and confronted Ripto's two minions, Crush and Gulp, and eventually confronted Ripto himself, winning the battle using the assistance of "Power orbs" created by The Professor.

Despite his sound defeat at the end of Ripto's Rage!, Ripto became a recurring villain in the Spyro series, appearing as the main antagonist again in Enter the Dragonfly. He also appeared in Season of Flame, Attack of the Rhynocs, and even the crossover title Spyro Orange and Crash Purple. These reacurences made him the most common villain in the franchise, as well as making him the known nemesis of Spyro until A New Beginning introduced Malefor.

The Sorcerer

The primary antagonist of Spyro: Shadow Legacy. A wizard wearing a hooded black cloak who sought to control the "Shadow Realm" and trap residents of the Dragon Realms and other locales within. The Sorcerer appeared several times throughout the game as a silent observer of Spyro's feats, teleporting away upon notice, and revealed his true identity only at the end when Spyro confronted and battled him. The Sorcerer was defeated, but not destroyed; he fled the realms and Spyro assumed he would later return.

The Sorceress

The primary antagonist in Year of the Dragon, an anthropomorphic dinopotamus who sent her apprentice, Bianca, to the Dragon Realms to steal dragon eggs, for use in a spell to assure her continued immortality. Bianca later betrayed the Sorceress and helped Spyro to confront the Sorceress, where she was defeated twice.