As warned in the title, this will have heavy Skylanders Issue 9 and Return of the Dragon King spoilers. The comics are on Comixology, pretty easy to find, so if you want to have the entire thing no need to run to the nearest comic book store as soon as you read this.
But back on topic, the comic implied greatly that the Legend of Spyro and Skylanders series are connected, which hasn't happened before as most things in the former were rewritten(such as Malefor's role as un-living but still handling things behind the scenes until recently, and Mount Boyzitbig/Munitions Forge being now Ka-Boom's homeland) or just Classic lore being very vaguely implied.
For those who don't care about spoilers or have seen it already, here are the exact panels that brought it up in the comic:
(the picture is big and I really don't like stretching the page, plus it's easier to read separate)
Now, this isn't the only time it was implied that Skyro is connected in some way to his previous incarnations. In the very first book, Spyro is shown to have been recruited by Eon in Summer Forest,which is a location in Avalar(and described as "far away from Skylands' furthest frontiers"). His biography also mentions that the Ancients recorded his adventures in the other dimension, but in the Skylanders Annuals' timeline the Ancients are from dozens of millenia ago - which either means Skyro's world isn't connected to Skylands' time or they were recording exploits from another Spyro.
But what exactly is the connection between all of this? That's the discussion I'm proposing now. Feel free to post your wall of text theory or just drop by a suggestion, since without official confirmation, small excerpts are what we have to begin with anyway.
My theory below,spoilered for people who don't want any conflict with their headcanon:
As I said in other threads, in my opinion it could be like the Zelda franchise - an evil purple dragon and a good one just happen to clash by fate, again and again, for unknown reasons.Skylanders Malefor definately wouldn't put his sentence that way just for his defeat in the LOS version, so it isn't the second time.
But then one might ask - who'd be the Malefor for Classic? For that,there's the Sorcerer, from Shadow Legacy which is coincidentally the first time the LOS writers worked on the game, and they do to this day. He's also an incredibly prideful and mean purple dragon, though he's only giant and quadrupedal in his transformation. When defeated, he mentions going back home to survive, and is shown as a strange-looking soul leaving the Dragon World in the ending. It might be a huge stretch and confirmation bias might've gotten in the way, but it's just strange to have happened similarily three times by the same writers(though ROTDK was written by VV's writer, but he probably got tips from them) in entirely different canons.
But then one might ask - who'd be the Malefor for Classic? For that,there's the Sorcerer, from Shadow Legacy which is coincidentally the first time the LOS writers worked on the game, and they do to this day. He's also an incredibly prideful and mean purple dragon, though he's only giant and quadrupedal in his transformation. When defeated, he mentions going back home to survive, and is shown as a strange-looking soul leaving the Dragon World in the ending. It might be a huge stretch and confirmation bias might've gotten in the way, but it's just strange to have happened similarily three times by the same writers(though ROTDK was written by VV's writer, but he probably got tips from them) in entirely different canons.
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