Spyro the Dragon (character)

Spyro the Dragon
Spyro the Dragon, The Legend of Spyro, and Skylanders character
Spyro the Dragon, as he appeared in the 2002 video game Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
First game	Spyro the Dragon (1998)
Created by	Insomniac Games
Designed by	Charles Zembillas
Voiced by (English)	Carlos Alazraqui (1998) Tom Kenny (1999–2002) Jess Harnell (2004–2005) Elijah Wood (2006–2008) Josh Keaton (2011–2015) Matthew Mercer (2016-present) Justin Long (2016-present) (TV series)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Akiko Yajima (1999–2000) Manabu Ino (2013–present) Masahito Kawanago (2016–present) (TV series)

Spyro the Dragon is a title character and the protagonist of the Spyro series. He appears in Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, The Legend of Spyro, and later became a part of the Skylanders series.

First introduced in the 1998 video game Spyro the Dragon, Spyro is a young, energetic, violet Dragon with orange medium-sized wings, large, curved horns (most of the time), a spiral-shaped spike on the tip of his tail, and spikes resembling a mohawk. He is noticeably smaller than most other dragons portrayed in the series; a characteristic that aids him in the first game. In the original series, most dragons are depicted as bipedal; however, Spyro is depicted as quadrupedal. In the newer series, his back-story was that two thieves were running through the dragon realms and the dragons stopped them. They had two eggs, and the dragons adopted them as their own. They later hatched into Spyro the Dragon and Sparx the Dragonfly. This Dragonfly is responsible for keeping Spyro alive and displaying his health.

Spyro was created by Charles Zembillas for the game Spyro the Dragon. During the development of the game, Spyro was originally going to be green, but the developers thought it was a bad idea because he would blend in with the grass areas, so they eventually changed him to purple.