- “Darkness Falls!”
- —Blackout's official catchphrase
Blackout is a black dragon who is the Dark Core Skylander in Skylanders: Trap Team.
Background
Personality
Despite knowing of his sinister origins, Blackout shows bravery, compassion, and encouragement towards others. Like all Skylanders of his element, Blackout sees no relation between the Dark element and The Darkness.
Biography
Blackout hails from the Realm of Dreams, where the collective imagination of all the creatures in the universe come together to create beautiful wonders... and terrible nightmares. At a young age, he was recruited into the Dark Stygian – a Dragon Clan whose chief responsibility was to create nightmares for evil creatures as a way to discourage them from doing more villainy. But the clan began to abuse their power, and soon spread nightmares far and wide for its own amusement. But Blackout would not stand for it. So he learned to teleport directly into the nightmares the clan created and fought the creatures within. Eventually, the nightmares reached as far as Master Eon, who witnessed Blackout’s courage within his own dreams. After helping him put a stop to the Dark Stygian, Eon then made Blackout a Skylander, serving as the protector of the Realm of Dreams and beyond!
Story
Light in the Dark
Spotlight and Blackout checking out their surroundings.
After eating a piece of candy and being unconscious for an unknown amount of time, Blackout and Spotlight found themselves inside a strange place with an opening at the top. However, before they could do anything, the area started to become flooded with candy, threatening to drown the two Skylanders. Both Spotlight and Blackout were unable to break themselves out on their own, but by combining their Light and Dark powers, the two dragons managed to escape. They discovered that they had been inside a giant piñata with Arkeyan ruins, and quickly flew away to alert Master Eon. From afar, Pain-Yatta announced his plans of a "candy catastrophe" that the Skylanders wouldn't be able to stop in time.
After reporting back to Master Eon at the Skylanders Academy about what happened to them, Spotlight and Blackout soon discovered through Gearshift's report that Pain-Yatta used their Light and Dark powers to create an army of candy warriors to rule Skylands. Upon learning about Pain-Yatta's plan, Master Eon sent Spotlight and Blackout back to the Arkeyan ruins in order to find out any clues about the attack. Once there, the two dragons were ambushed by a horde of candy warriors until Knight Light and Knight Mare came to assist their fellow Skylanders. However they were soon confronted by Pain-Yatta, who released a wave of candy upon the four Light and Dark Skylanders.
Blackout, Spotlight, Knight Light and Knight Mare became imprisoned inside Pain-Yatta's giant pinata to power him and his army of candy warriors during their impending conquest over Skylands. Should they use their powers of Light and Dark to try and escape their prison, they would only make Pain-Yatta and his army stronger. Eventually the Skylanders concocted a plan to overload the pinata with their powers, causing it to explode and allowing the Skylanders to escape. Despite absorbing the Light and Dark energies to empower himself, Pain-Yatta suddenly became sick from taking in too much power and his candy warriors around Skylands dropped to pieces, resulting in Pain-Yatta's defeat. At the Skylanders Academy, Master Eon congratulated the Light and Dark Skylanders for their efforts in saving Skylands once again with their Light and Dark abilities.
Relationships
Spotlight
Despite Spotlight being in the opposite element, Blackout is in good terms with the light dragon.
Gameplay
Blackout can fire orbs of darkness from his horn and summon black holes with a flick of his wings. Using the powers of the Dark element, he can teleport through his black holes from one to place to another. His wings are elastic, allowing Blackout to stretch his wings and whip them at enemies.
Stats
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: 260 (max. 520)
- Speed: 60 (max. 108)
- Armor: 24 (max. 54)
- Critical Hit: 40 (max. 90)
- Elemental Power: 35 (max. 85)
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 130
- Defense: 70
- Agility: 150
- Luck: 30
Abilities
| Basic Abilities These abilities are available from the start of the game. |
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| Wing Whip | Shadow Orbs |
Supernova Black Hole
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 Press Attack 1 to perform a Wing Whip. Press Attack 1, Attack 1, Attack 1 for a combo attack. |
 Press Attack 2 to shoot Shadow Orbs, which leave behind Darkness energy shockwaves. |
 Shoot 2 Black Holes on top of each other to create a Supernova Black Hole. | ||||
| Basic Upgrades Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods. | ||||||
| Black Hole | Darkness Overload | Shadow Blade | Take it Black | |||
 Press Attack 3 to open up Black Holes that pull enemies in - hold and release the button to teleport yourself. |
 Shoot a Shadow Orb into a Black Hole to create an explosive eruption. |
 Jump and press Attack 1 to turn into a spinning Shadow Blade. |
 Black Holes hold enemies longer and they do more damage. | |||
| Wing Warrior |
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| A Spinning Finish | Whip It Up | Warp Speed | ||
 Press Attack 1, Attack 1, Attack 1 for a Ground Pound combo. Press Attack 1, Attack 1, Attack 1, Attack 1 to charge ahead as a Shadow Blade. |
 Wing Whip, Shadow Blade and Warp Speed attacks do more damage. |
 Hold Attack 1 to repeatedly teleport through enemies and piercing them with your horn. |
| Prince of Darkness |
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| Dark Energy Clouds | Under the Cover of Darkness | Cloud Gravity | ||
 Shadow Orbs explode into massive Dark Energy. |
 Blackout receives less damage when inside Dark Energy Clouds. |
 Hold Attack 2 to lift enemies inside a Dark Energy Cloud and damage all nearby enemies. |
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Whip Wings (Active) | |
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[1 enemy] |
Mana cost: 2 | |
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Shadow Blade (Active) | |
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[1 Enemy] |
Mana cost: 4 | |
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Distorted Speed (Active) | |
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[1 Enemy] |
Mana cost: 3 | |
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I'm A Living Dream (Passive) | |
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[SELF] |
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Dream Area (Leader) | |
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[SELF] |
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Skylanders can use abilities depending on their level.
Starting Powers
- Black Slashes (Primary Attack): Press (Y) to three times to perform a brutal combo.
- Anti-Gravity Bullet (Secondary Attack): Press (X) to shoot a Anti-Gravity projectile that will explode and create a zone that damages enemies over time. Shoot another one close t it and they will produce a big Shadow Geyser!
Upgrades
- Black Sphere (requires level: 3): Hold (X) to shoot a Black Sphere. When this projectile touches something, it creates a Black Hole which attracts enemies and damages them. As soon as the Black Hole is created, Blackout is teleported instantly to it and damages enemies when he gets out.
- Spiky Orb (requires level: 6): Hold (A) to transform into a spiky frightening orb.
- Warp Fencer (requires level: 9): Hold (X) to charge Blackout's warping abilities. Once changed, he will get in the void and teleport to the baddies to attack them super fast.
Quotes
Battle Cries
- "Darkness Falls!"
- "Bring on the night!"
- "Lights out!"
- "Out of the shadows!"
- "Eclipsing the competition!"
- "The dark before the dawn!"
- "Dark and dangerous!"
- "Watch out!"
- "Sharpening my wings!"
- "Black as night!"
- "Afraid of your shadow... Or mine?!"
- "A shot in the dark!"
- "Lights off!"
- "Under the cover of darkness!"
- "Sliding through!"
- "Never a shadow of a doubt!"
- "Made in the shade."
- "A dragon's keep!"
- "The dark before the dawn!"
- "Clear the way!" - when switched in
- "Night time!"
- "Total eclipse!" - when leveled up
- "Pitch black!"
- "Tipping the scales!" - when opening a treasure chest
- "Casting a long shadow. Very long." - when viewing stats
- "Overshadowing all others."
- "There'll be no hiding wearing this hat!" - when selecting hat
- "A fine hat to keep me shaded."
- "Let's keep this name a mystery for now..." - Giving a nickname
- "A powerful name for me."
Character Trailers
Gallery
Trivia
- Blackout is the only core Skylander of the Dark Element as of Imaginators.
- A statue of Blackout is spotted along with the other Skylander statues in the Collection Chamber of the Eternal Archives in the Nintendo 3DS version of Skylanders: Trap Team. This was an early teaser of the character before he was officially announced along with Spotlight, Knight Light and Knight Mare in December 2014.
- His name refers to the common term for a power outage.
- Statues of Blackout can be seen on the ledges of the Midnight Museum.
- The Legendary Treasure, Legendary Gargoyle, is based on Blackout.
- Blackout's wings appear in the design of the Dark towers in Kaos Doom Challenges.
- He bears a resemblance to the Changelings and the Pony of Shadows from the television series, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, as both are black-skinned, winged individuals with white eyes.
- His dark skin color, dream teleportation and manipulation, horn and wings, and night motif also makes him similar to Princess Luna aka Nightmare Moon from the same series.
- One of his upgrades, Shadow Blade, shares a name with a weapon from Mega Man 3 and a move from Morrigan Aensland from the Darkstalkers series.
- Although Blackout has wings, he cannot fly. However, the Cloud Gravity upgrade from his "Prince of Darkness" path allows him to fly over enemies for a short time.
- There is a glitch that if the "Cloud Gravity" is used and then the auto-cut scene interrupts this attack, Blackout becomes invulnerable to all attacks from enemies and Trappable Villains, and never loses health. This works in all levels and on any difficulty setting. After this glitch is performed, the player can keep this glitch even if they can change the level infinite times, switch to a playable villain or fall off the platforms. The only way to cancel out this glitch is to either remove Blackout from the portal or simply perform the "Cloud Gravity" again. This glitch was removed in Skylanders: SuperChargers.
