The Deep And Complex Histories Of The Skylanders Reformed Heroes

[@hamstermandoom5318]

Grave Clobber also changed elements from earth to somehow water

[@QuarterCal]

It's because he's blue. This is a joke, I could never reasone that one out

[@patrickkirchner2254]

It's because he died drowning? I found this on the wiki "Grave Clobber was once a great pharaoh who ruled the Golden Desert long ago. That was until his seven jealous brothers buried him in an underwater tomb while he was sleeping. But the remaining brothers still fought among themselves, and their infighting ultimately led to their kingdom falling apart and the family name being lost forever... almost. Because Grave Clobber eventually rose from his watery grave, and when he discovered what his brothers had done to their kingdom, he hunted each of them down and clobbered them. This was how he came to the attention of the Golden Queen, who now ruled the desert herself. She recruited Grave Clobber into her gang of Doom Raiders, but when the Skylanders defeated them once and for all, Master Eon thought that perhaps there was more to this mummy than meets the eye. He gave the old pharaoh a chance for redemption, and since nobody clobbered better than Grave Clobber, he was the perfect choice to be a Sensei trainer for the Brawler Class."

[@thequeenvsslime1]

its cuz in lore he was trapped in a waterry grave for years until breaking out

[@Mabry8002]

I was about to so that

[@Mabry8002]

So did ti kwan crow from dark to fire

[@NabbitCake]

Btw, Blaster-Tron's character is a paradox, the Skylanders bring him from the future, they redeem him, Blaster-Tron outlives everyone and becomes evil, he gets sent to the present again

[@_antisocialmedia6377]

maybe in the future the Skylanders disband and Past Wolfgang (who traveled to the future) finds Blaster-tron and swaps him back to evil? Supports the idea of the Skylanders being a ticking timebomb

[@ender01o66]

@@NabbitCake I don't see how it would be a paradox. We also see other Blaster Tron bots in the rocket steal arena.

[@metalsonic4.1therobothedge24]

I doubt that Remember his evil form is still bound to the crystal so it would become good again

[@se.224]

for Tae Kwon Crow, I like to think that after he became a sensei, someone dared him to change elements and he was so mad he somehow managed to do it, even if it doesn’t make any sense He was that angry

[@apollyon6855]

Maybe the sensei dare was enough for the element change, it was so out of character for him to do good that his dominant element changed

[@grimlockgreg3063]

Okay this might be a streach but I think I have an explanation of both Take Kwon Crow hating dares and changing element. For the dares: the reason he hates is because he may have lost someone close to him from one, in imagiators he says "No barrier can stop Tae Kwon Crow! Except maybe emotional barriers. But I'm working on that!" This implies that something happened to him in the past involving dares that scarred him DEEP (like maybe a freind, relative, or partner loosing there life to a dare) and that caused him to turn down a dark path. For the elemental change: He probably was originally a fire element before whatever happened to him to hate dare and sent him down a dark path. After becoming a Senseis, he was able to finally get some help with his trauma and allowed him to revert back to his true element

[@Haursite]

What I find most interesting about Hood Sickle is that he is the only one (as far as I'm aware) that was able to leave the undead element. Undead seems like the easiest element to switch into, with characters like Ghost Roaster, Hex, Fright Rider (and Ozzy), and presumably Wolfgang all not originally being a part of that element until their transformations. So Hood Sickle being able to leave that element really fascinates me. Maybe he's more powerful than we all suspected

[@IndigoTerraxice]

I love the idea of hood sickle giving krypt king a slight jumpscare and that being the start of the trap team hating him

[@amandatodd7197]

I really hope Skylanders gets popular again just so that we could get a show about the drama and infighting that happens at the Academy, because the drama must be good because the entirety of a branch hates a singular teacher for some reason and we don’t know why

[@TheRenownedRat]

I would love like a super long video explaining EVERY Skylander. But i know that would probably take a WHILE. I'll be honest. I've just been going on a nostolgia trip through my senior year. And being able to listen to this while sculpting would be AMAZING!

[@ninjaxel]

The fact that Blaster Tron can just fall on his back and accidentally turn the switch back to evil is so funny to me

[@Mad_Mike01]

I can just imagine a group of skylanders with blaster-tron are fighting a ton of enemies, then Blaster-Tron just trips and turns back evil.

[@ryanwebb309]

My theory for Hood Sickle changing elements is his scythe. No really, think about it: he has a one-sided scythe in Trap Team that allowed him to summon ghosts when he teleported. In Imaginators, his scythe is now double-sided and whenever he teleports, he leaves behind dark remnants.

[@jaidentavira4062]

I believe I have a reason for why hoodsickle changed his elements. You see grim creeper isn’t actually death but just a ghost in sentient armor. Hood sickle is an entirely different species and because of the fact when you look at him, there’s really nothing that screams undead. The only thing he has was skull pads but that’s it. Two it’s because there’s already a skylander that’s a grim reaper so having another one wouldn’t make sense so he most likely was originally a dark element but probably asked dreamcatcher to switch his element for him to be more scary. But after trap team he went back to his old element to represent his reformation.

[@samolguy]

I once thought about it, and reached the conclusion that he changed to dark since it could be considered "creepier" than undead, as the initial fear of undead wasn't a thing anymore, it makes sense for a guy who scares people as his main occupation to switch to a new, mysterious element based around literal darkness and nightmares. How did he manage to do that? Dunno, but this is my best bet

[@Thesheepcreep]

1:41 grave clobber

[@fireembliam9090]

6:22 Grave Clobber was a Earth Element Villian and then change to become Wave Clobber a Water Element Sensei.

[@ender01o66]

My guess for why Hood Sickle changed element is, rather than using spirits as bombs, he uses Dark Remnant instead to be more ethical; hence being Dark now. Meanwhile Cynder and Ghost Roaster...

[@MC_Plush_Films.2005]

1:14 hands-down, one of the most badass Skylander catchphrases

[@ryman9741]

0:13 love how he had to photoshop in chompy mage into the group😂

[@captainchris817]

Not only did Eon make Hood a Skylander, who the entire Trap Team division unanimously *hated,* but Eon made Hood a Skylander that I take to be, in terms of the hierarchy of the Skylanders, one of the Trap Team’s *superiors.* Crazy work (I see the hierarchy going from “least” to “greatest” Giants, Senseis, Swap Force, Trap Team, and at the “bottom rank” being the Core and the Superchargers equally. I can imagine possibly swapping around the Trap Team and the Swap Force in the order, too.)

[@PortalMasterGreen]

I’d like to say my interpretation of the elements is ‘what magical source do they tap into to get their power’ so I think the idea of them swapping element is just due to them changing powers. Also this reminds me of the debate saying “if chop chop is arkeyan then can’t he tap into magic and tec too?” I think lore wise it’s also just the characters choice so that what they can do, and chose to do are separate things.

[@LoganWH8]

They wanted a villain turned Skylander for each element and had the water, fire, and dark slots left open, so they changed the three villains they wanted to fill those spaces.

[@olliesmith7578]

Grave clobber also changed from earth to water

[@kingmagnus4009]

And then Grave Clobber, who went from Earth to Water… While having BONE attacks as a trappable villain

[@ISS600]

4:22 The books and other supplementary, while not touching on this, give the impression that the Skylanders have strong bonds and a stronger enemy mines (enemy of my enemy is my friend). Like, the Skylanders love to antagonize and fight each other.

[@sparkieralloy36]

grave clobber changing from earth to water:

[@wizzbandit]

I didn’t know there was lore for Skylanders like this and it’s really neat. Also the fact that Blaster-Tron has a good and evil switch is hilarious.

[@Mana-ray635]

Grave clobber went from earth to water

[@ShockwaveLogicalEditz]

Blaster Tron being more Skilled than Knight Light is ASTONISHING to me.

[@Mad_Mike01]

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[@Irish_Enderman]

He's a robot so it kinda makes sense I guess, but when does it ever specifically say he's better than Knight Light?

[@knackriocr4140]

"Nobody else changed its type in an other game" Grave Globber starts sobbing Love these videos btw Keep the good work up

[@Delta274]

Grave clobber also switched elements from earth to water

[@hunterbennett757]

Hood Sickle and Tae Kwon Crow weren't the only villains-turned Skylanders to change elements, there's also Grave Clobber. He started as an earth element villain, but became a water element Skylander.

[@natememes370]

I think the reason why there is very minimal amount of environments that sometimes things are kept from certain groups of Skylanders, but also that it may just be that they think that this will help the greater good and to put past grudges aside for now.

[@trapx5909]

So we're not going to talk about blastertron being in a constant torturous time loop, constantly being forced to switch sides against his will?

[@Kingofportals]

I really would like to see a potential Skylanders Civil War in the future, that would be awesome.

[@antonissa8345]

I smell a fanfiction

[@SorielHDTBers]

There’s actually one other villain who switches elements in Imaginators, that being Grave Clobber from earth to water. And yeah, I don’t know why they do this either.

[@neonbatteries4389]

@@SorielHDTBers he switched to WATER?!?

[@SorielHDTBers]

@@neonbatteries4389 Yeah, I really don’t know either.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

​@@neonbatteries4389Yes, because in his backstory, he was buried in an *underwater* tomb. That's it. They only wrote that to justify it, and it's so forced.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

​@@neonbatteries4389Apparently, they switched him because they needed some former villain to be a water Sensei in Imaginators. That's the only reason.

[@NabbitCake]

@@neonbatteries4389 Which is stupid, because Imaginators already had Kingpen as a the Water Brawler

[@CalebCarmichael14]

Grave Clobber also switched elements

[@MakinItRain24-7]

Plot twist: they changed elements for marketing convenience

[@familyfun_1014]

Just wait until he hears about grave clobber

[@regularphill]

I know it was about to drive me mad lol.

[@ElijahP-vk6ix]

Your skylanders knowledge is cool and i hope a new skylanders series that tell all the skylanders and villains backstorys will be made soon

[@abthedragon4921]

OK so a lot of stuff to say here. First off, there is actually another reformed villain Skylander that switched elements: Grave Clobber. He started in the Earth Element in Trap Team but then they switched him to the Water Element when he became a sensei in Trap Team. Also, this might just be a me thing but I think his element change makes the least sense to me. When he was in trap team I figured he would be in the undead element. I mean, he's a mummy and one of his attacks is literally summoning bones out of the ground. Sure, he has stone as part of his body and he works for the Golden Queen who is also part of the earth element but still. Him being part of the water element honestly made no sense to me and I have a feeling that like several villains they wanted to include him so they retconned a few things so he could be included. This is what I think happened with a lot of villains that became sensei Skylanders in Imaginators because some changes seem off to me. Like some make sense: Golden Queen wields a staff and turns stuff into gold so her being an Earth Sorcerer makes sense. Dr. Krankcase wields a good gun and is a half machine mad scientist. Alright, just give him another goo gun and boom Tech Quickshot. Tae Kwon Crow becoming a fire ninja kinda makes sense because he had ninja stars as his secondary attack in tap team and his move set/aesthetic never really screamed dark element honestly. But some of the others, are odd like Bad Juju and Chompy Mage basically going from sorcerer types to a swashbuckler and bazooker respectively. I'm kinda rambling at this point but like you said in the video, I think Activision just wanted to include fan favorite villains but the fan favorite villains weren't exactly evenly distrusted by element and weapon type so they "reworked" a few of them to fit the new game. Also, as for your theory about why Blaster-Tron is in the light element, it makes sense to me because many Tech Skylanders have a steampunk aesthetic which would become outdated with how Skylands seems to function in the future.

[@alexslusher16]

Uncultured People: "Skylanders is just a stupid Childish Toys to Life Game that is SUPER Expensive." People of Culture: "Skylanders has SO much Lore that not a lot of people even realize exists or understand. Did you know that the villains you capture in Trap Team become Skylanders and help defend Skylands?"

[@Cloud_Breaker]

Fantastic video 👏👏👏

[@neonbatteries4389]

@@Cloud_Breaker thanks! I know this sounds strange but did you watch the custom skylander video?

[@Cloud_Breaker]

I actually don’t think I did. Do I need to check it out??? ;)

[@neonbatteries4389]

@@Cloud_Breaker I suggest you do, I have another one on the way

[@Cloud_Breaker]

Will do 😅

[@neonbatteries4389]

@@Cloud_Breaker you don’t have to if you don’t want, it’s just the way I type

[@SinkableOne]

Nice video man can’t wait to see what other skylander content you have in store

[@Boldrick_One-Eye]

The reason hood sickle became dark is cause you could use him to glitch past dark trap master gates

[@giant6254]

TRUE I am 100% certain the elemental gate requirement for the second star in trap team is solely made because of that glitch

[@monke7919]

It might be possible that hoodsickle is actually naturally a dark skylander and he was corrupted with the undead element like the other 2 cases you mentioned of that happening

[@thecommenter90]

Kaos (apparently) was a clone in imaginators, that is why you can play him. A lot of people didn't really like that explanation, I am fine with it I guess. Also Kaos is the only skylander with his own element.

[@Idoks117]

I love that some people do sky landers still

[@kwasioppo5951]

You have been doing a lot of these videos. Great work.

[@machincort]

kaos was magic in superchargers and neutral in battlecast while he heve his own element in trap team and imaginators

[@machincort]

also in roh all darkedition skylanders are dark element and also light flashwing?????

[@earthboundfan9446]

Y'know after this kinda had thinking villians like hood sickle and blastertron and some other villians were sometimes normal opponent's in trap team some of them are understandable like blastertron since he could have been mass produced but other's it's kinda more hard to think why there might be more of them I know it's due to trap team's devlopment but im kinda thinking on a ingame lore reason

[@Yummdonut_owo]

Okay so here it is Grave Clobber, earth to water Hoodsickle, undead to dark Tae kwon Crow, dark to fire

[@Rothen0303]

They really shot themselves in the foot by having all the new skylanders in imaginators have battle classes

[@Yummdonut_owo]

@@Rothen0303 and it could've been a lot better, for example, King pen, water Brawler Grave Clobber, water... Brawler?

[@LuminousMossEater]

Im very exited to se the original skylander sequal :DDD

[@willwispagaming8144]

I feel like tae kwon krow changed because he left his dark ways and imbraced his true power fire like eon said to

[@jaidentavira4062]

That’s actually the actual reason

[@trainfan-ks5hk]

Still wish we had the evillikins as senseis loved all of them

[@Darigosh]

Chop chop is an Arkean troop that's not just Arkean armor it his body same with krypt king but he is a ghost possessing it

[@Lexie-nc2vl]

Amazing video please do Fiesta next man I’d love to see him in one of your videos!!!!

[@treyharn3824]

Couldn't the reason blastertron became the light element be used to explain the others just somehow absorbed other elements off screen or something along those lines

[@lucasrivi1465]

Hood sickle is in love with persephony. That is canon

[@odstergamer9371]

Dreamcatcher used to be friends with Persephone as well.

[@machincort]

grave clobber also changed element

[@TMDTheMaskDirector-ye5oe]

What really baffles me is how and why the Doom Raiders chose to be good, they’re a villainous organisation and in Imaginators they’re technically working alongside the same people who put them in prison.

[@Darigosh]

It's literally that or to new cloudcracker prison so most became skylanders

[@TMDTheMaskDirector-ye5oe]

@@Darigosh I know, I just see why they’d willingly become senseis.

[@ISS600]

They chose to be good and become Senseis because it was that or go back to the newly-rebuilt Cloudcracker Prison. And since being imprisoned sucks...they picked the redemption path.

[@TMDTheMaskDirector-ye5oe]

@@ISS600 I know, someone else has told me less than a week ago.

[@ISS600]

@@TMDTheMaskDirector-ye5oe 👍👍👍

[@_antisocialmedia6377]

another really weird note on Blaster-tron is... well... he doesn't have any agency let's look back at past robots: Drill Sergeant, Bouncer, Magna Charge, maybe Spy Rise, Wind Up, Jawbreaker, and Gear Shift, all of these guys are still sentient and sapient robots (you could argue against Drill but he's had his own agency ever since Terrafin told him to, it's a gray area), they make their own decisions and do whatever they want, meanwhile, the supposedly high-tech Blaster-tron speaks in emotional analysis and has no agency of his own, he literally got reprogrammed to be good, is this because he was a mass-produced war machine? Well, no, Bouncer was meant to fight for Arkus but he's his own person, this supposedly futuristic robot is less advanced than modern tech, but on top of all that, it also makes the Skylanders look *really* shady. Now, I've joked the Skylanders don't run background checks due to them hiring people like Trig, but they're normally portrayed as altogether altruistic with rare exceptions like Ghost Roaster, but the whole 'let's just plain reprogram Blaster-tron and give him no sense of self' thing is... really weird, it's oddly morally gray for them, I was kinda hoping you'd touch on the moral implications of fundamentally changing someone's personality like that but eh, elements are interesting too.

[@mm123gchannel9]

My take is that it could be that Blaster-tron was intentionally made to lack agency of his own so he can follow his adjective to the letter. It’s harder to control a solider if they rather act on their own accord and debate your commands. Why else would there be a good and evil switch if he wasn’t designed to be a one track minded drone?

[@_antisocialmedia6377]

@@mm123gchannel9 if it's meant to be a soldier, why is there a Good/Evil switch? I know evil tends to be card-carrying in Skylands, but why would they make a way for Blaster-tron to them become good? Plus, the Arkeyans, the most oppressive warlords in all of Skylands, who had actual slaves, still gave their robot soldiers agency. And still, the Skylanders are filled with mechanics, why would none of them try to give Blaster-tron a life of his own? It's oddly cruel to just kinda... take advantage of Blaster-tron's limited programming when there are tons of robots among the Skylanders' ranks.

[@jaidentavira4062]

@@_antisocialmedia6377because alot of the past robots in skylanders were either originally organic, or made to have emotions. Blaster-tron comes from the future which we don’t see any arkeans or signs of their tech. Meaning blaster tron is a different type of robot all together.

[@marshalllovelady8915]

@neonbatteries4389 you gotta do a video on Chill bill and Brockley guy they are the arena announcers for imaginators and i think they might have some interesting lore behind them

[@beyond2921]

graveclober also swiched

[@austint4139]

It’s really funny to me that all of the doom raiders evolved forms are canon and there all just outfits that people give them 😂

[@sentinel_01]

I love how you are ignoring the fact that grave clobber switched from Earth to water

[@HallowEevee]

Yea Grave Clobber, Tae Kwon Crow, Hood Sickle and Spyro are all cannonly characters that have or can switch elements

[@MarcusBriggle-go5be]

​@@HallowEevee How Spyro?

[@HallowEevee]

@MarcusBriggle-go5be it's cannon that the Skylanders Spyro, just like his OG/Remastered and Legends counterparts can manipulate and control powers of every element.

[@jaidentavira4062]

@@HallowEeveethat’s the thing he can manipulate and control elements but not change his own.

[@HallowEevee]

@jaidentavira4062 Nope he can change Elements

[@YouSoJames]

u should do a video on all the villains who worked with the doomraiders

[@SillyGoober-2612]

Can the next one be about more of the trap masters (short cut, gusto, jawbreaker)

[@AngryGremlin01]

I still firmly believe Chef Pepperjack should have been the Fire Sensei instead of Tae Kwan Crow

[@poisonoussnake2022]

What Battle Class would he be?

[@AngryGremlin01]

@@poisonoussnake2022 I was thinking either swashbuckler or bazooker

[@Kogum.]

Lets gooooo

[@Crystal-pro-2024]

Honwstly, they may have just made hood sykle dark, as a referance to how his twliportation coukd clip ibto some dark gates, ruining the serprise of the new eliemnts

[@radoslawsoldyga2935]

man broke in to so many dark elemental gates it permanently changed his element, that's hella based.

[@Crystal-pro-2024]

​@@radoslawsoldyga2935 unfathomably so

[@RiffRift]

grave clobber is wireder.

[@LaggerKnight]

Hawkmoogus

[@PandaGod100]

Grave Clobber also changed

[@loganfrandrup6590]

I think another question could be asked, lore wise, is why so many technological villians in trap team are not of the Tech element in the first place? Like Krankenstein, Shield Shredder, Fisticuffs, and Scrap Shooter are all mechanical beings made of wood and they all look very similar, but why are they Air, Life, Dark, and Fire elements respectively? Surely at least 1 of them would have been Tech, right? I could see the argument for some of them, but why is Fisticuffs Dark? Also, a similar question could be asked about Grinnade(Who is Fire), and Lob Goblin(Light)? Or why Eye-Five and Eye Scream are Light and Dark dispite their similarites as nightmarish beings.

[@veggietablefruit]

the simple reason for the tech element is because they wanted to have a lot of villikins (wood puppet villains) in the game but the tech element was already full from all the troll mechs, so they splattered them around other elements

[@benjaminvergara3109]

Ok I like the video, but. Where is grave clobber?

[@sliversnake150]

now that I think about didn't he also technically change elements too.

[@QuarterCal]

Could you cover giants next?

[@shanesouthwood8413]

Question about the character you use, why did you make it resemble a vessel from hollow knight did you just like how it looked or is it other reasons

[@Layallwince]

Do grim creeper next

[@PronominalTerra439]

neat

[@Depresso2012]

It kinda sucks how his non skylander related content under preforms, because like neon batteries is probably going to run out of things to talk about skylanders soon and he’ll loose a lot of his audience because he would not really be able to talk about skylanders as much since he covered like tons of it

[@Pancakewaffle301]

Aaaaaaand also starcast has long range when aurora ha short range

[@Mad_Mike01]

Grave Clobber?

[@ronin026]

Hood sickle is badass😶🫡

[@crockstonyt]

Skylanders supports rehabilitation for convicts??!!

[@poisonoussnake2022]

Apparently

[@crockstonyt]

Couldn't beings in Skylands just learn how to control different elements? Spyro IIRC can control more than just fire, but usually just sticks to fire-based attacks. Not to mention that if a creature in Skylands doesn't inherently belong to any element, could it learn any element it wanted?

[@J.T1487]

Also kaos(?)

[@pacos601]

No views in 26 seconds Bro fell off