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- “Born to Burn!”
- —Eruptor's official catchphrase
Eruptor is a lava monster Skylander in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. His Series 3 counterpart is called Lava Barf Eruptor.
In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Eruptor is redesigned as a SuperCharger named Lava Lance Eruptor.
Character Development
Originally, Eruptor's Lava Barf attack was just lava bursting out the cracks in his body. After Activision's marketing department showed Toys For Bob the well-received reception of a launch trailer cinematic and a commercial campaign featuring the "Lava Barf" chant, the team immediately acted to rebrand Eruptor's secondary attack ability with no assets needing to be changed. Eruptor's bulbous physique would later provide the ideal candidate for a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon.[2]
Background
Personality
Eruptor is a hot head with a strong dislike for anything evil, so whenever something bad threatens his world, he quickly erupts... quite literally. When he isn't getting angry at the forces of Kaos, he's blowing a fuse and exploding with rage about smaller things, such as creaky floorboards and people not covering their mouths when they cough.[3] With his hot temper, Eruptor never shies away from speaking his mind. He also has a case of indigestion, prone to burping up a pool of molten lava whenever he feels nauseous, nervous or startled. A flaming force of nature, Eruptor still blows his top from time to time. He doesn't suffer fools gladly, but tries to keep his fiery temper in check.[4]
In Skylanders: Imaginators, Eruptor is portrayed as a nervous lava monster who is afraid of a lot of things, such as bugs and Rats.
Biography
Eruptor is a force of nature, hailing from a species that lived deep in the underground of a floating volcanic island until a massive eruption launched their entire civilization to the surface. He's a complete hot head -- steaming, fuming, and quite literally erupting over almost anything. To help control his temper, he likes to relax in lava pools, particularly because there are no crowds.
Story
History
Eruptor is a hot-headed lava beast who hails from the sweltering underground caverns of a volcanic island. Here, in the suffocating heat, arguments often boiled over. And lava creatures always argue. So it was no surprise when a ferocious fight broke out at a lava pool party. But this was no small squabble or shouting match. The fury of hundreds of fuming lava creatures created catastrophic pressure, until... KABOOM! The volcano exploded, scattering disgruntled lava creatures across Skylands.
The residents of Skylands had never seen lava creatures before and many misunderstandings followed. Lava creatures are not only sullen, stubborn and easily angered, they are also very hard to understand. Several villages were burned as a result. But the Skylands atmosphere had a quite different effect on Eruptor. He unclenched his jaw, took a long breath of cool air and felt a lifetime of rage subside. Nowadays, Eruptor is considered calm and sensible - by lava creature standards, at least. Still, trolls try his temper and Kaos causes crankiness, leading to Eruptor to as his name suggest - ERUPT! For this reason, Master Eon was pleased to invite him on board... although he tends to keep his distance.[5]
The Machine of Doom
Eruptor, along with Gill Grunt and Spyro, being pelted by flying fruits and vegetables.
Eruptor was one of the Skylanders who attended the special concert of Gill Grunt singing as a way to celebrate their latest victory over the forces of darkness (even though the lava monster had insisted that he would rather do something more fun – like boiling his own head). After Hugo and Flynn arrive to tell them of the Mabu Market being attacked by flying sheep, Master Eon sent Spyro, Gill Grunt, and Eruptor to investigate. There, they were attacked by flying sheep and thrown vegetables, which were later revealed to be the work of invisible trolls lead by a Spell Punk who were searching for an artifact called the Chattering Key, Kaos is after.
Upon discovering that the Chattering Key is an artifact used to unlock a tomb that contains an ancient Arkeyan weapon, Eruptor joins Spyro, Boomer, and Gill Grunt with Flynn on a quest to retrieve the key that lies in the Forest of Fear. At the Forest of Fear, Eruptor falls victim to the Fungus Rings of Despair, and his worst fears came to life as hallucinations, being trapped in cold and his eternal flame having gone out. He was later freed by Spyro, and the lava monster continues his trek with the other Skylanders. When the Skylanders retrieved the Chattering Key, Kaos appears, having captured Flynn, and forces them to give him the Key in exchange for Flynn's life. Kaos then uses an incantation to summon a tomb to the Pyramid of Just Rewards that contains the Arkeyan weapon, the Machine of Doom.
With the help of the Chattering Key, the Skylanders enter the pyramid through the other side and reach the Machine of Doom before Kaos does. Boomer, fascinated by the Machine, tries to take control of it, but fails as it begins breaking apart and the pyramid was starting to crumbling. It was soon revealed that it was all Kaos' plan from the start, that he knew that the Skylanders would attempt to seize the Machine of Doom, which is really a trap made by the Arkeyans to capture those who attempt to control the Machine to destroy the Core of Light, and have the heroes buried alive. However, Kaos' plan fails as Boomer managed to control the Machine of Doom and uses it to escape the crumbling pyramid with the other Skylanders, and the Machine breaks apart. Upon their victory, Gill Grunt begins to sing, much to Eruptor's annoyance.
Spyro versus The Mega Monsters
When mega-sized animals started terrorizing around Skylands, Eruptor was sent to Flowering Fields to save it from a five-meter-long caterpillar. But Kaos, who claimed to have renounced his evil ways to battle evil-doers, have chased off the gigantic worm before Eruptor dealt with the problem.
Skylanders: Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King
Eruptor, Grim Creeper and Slam Bam were quickly dispatched by Master Eon to answer a cry for help in The Frozen Seas. They came upon an expedition of Ents being terrorized by Kaos' Cyclopses lead by Bloodshot and quickly defeated the horde, saving the Ents. During the struggle with Bloodshot, the Cyclops Gazermage managed to escape with a coin of Nefarion, the previous owner of the Mask of Power. The leader of the Ent expedition, Professor Splinters, lead the Skylanders to an underground world that was frozen over. Eruptor then came face-to-face with another version of himself being encased in ice.
Eruptor, Slam Bam and Grim Creeper pinned by the cave-in.
Master Eon teleported to their location and explained that Eruptor will eventually go back in time and become frozen in ice. As the old Portal Master recalled the history of the Nightmare King, Nefarion, history began to change around them as Professor Splinters turned into a servant of Kaos. Eruptor was about to attack the evil Splinters when Master Eon teleported them back to his citadel and explained that Kaos went back in time and changed the past. With Master Eon's help, Eruptor, Grim Creeper and Slam Bam were transported to the distant past when Nefarion reigned over Skylands. Once there, the three Skylanders came under attack by the Forest of Fire and were saved by the remaining Portal Master, Wizbit. However they were suddenly subdued by the weary Mabu, who was tricked by Kaos into believing that the Skylanders didn't arrive to help him stop King Nefarion.
Wizbit revealed to Kaos his creation, the Big Bad Ice Bomb, which he intends to use to freeze King Nefarion and end his evil reign. However the evil Portal Master deceived Wizbit by delivering him to King Nefarion and revealing the existence of the Bomb. Kaos then sent a rocky cave-in upon Eruptor, Slam Bam and Grim Creeper to bury them alive before retreating. Thanks to Slam Bam's ice sculpture, they were able to keep the rocks at bay for a while. Grim Creeper quickly shifted into his ghost form and was able to phase through the rocks to find help at Nefarion's castle. After a series of events, both Eruptor and Slam Bam were teleported out of the cave-in by Wizbit in time to confront Kaos and King Nefarion.
During the struggle, the Skylanders were able to retrieve the Mask of Power and allow Wizbit to scatter the pieces across Skylands. However there was still the threat of the Big Bad Ice Bomb going off. While King Nefarion fled, and Kaos and Glumshanks teleported back to the future, Eruptor sacrificed himself by swallowing the Big Bad Ice Bomb in order to buy his friends time to escape. With the timeline restored, Master Eon transported the group, including Wizbit, back to the present. Both Master Eon and Wizbit then used their power to unfreeze the Eruptor that was first discovered frozen in ice, the same Eruptor who went to the past to stop Kaos. Upon being revived, the lava monster burped up the remains of the Big Bad Ice Bomb which was revealed to be the Fire segment to the Mask of Power. However their victory was far from over, as Master Eon confirmed from the Book of Power that Kaos will indeed succeed in obtaining the full Mask of Power and wear it.
Trigger Happy Targets the Evil Kaos
Eruptor was one of the Skylanders whose powers were stolen by Kaos when he gained the Mask of Power. The lava monster's usual red body became blue as his lava veins became frozen, causing him to shiver. Eventually the Skylanders were able to defeat Kaos, regain their powers and destroy the Mask of Power.
Skylanders: Giants
Eruptor, along with Spyro, Gill Grunt, Stealth Elf, and Stump Smash, are still frozen as toys on Earth and were put in a display inside a toy store called Toy World. They were few of the Skylanders who witnessed Kaos breaking free of his statue-like form due to his power as a Portal Master. When Kaos noticed the frozen Skylanders and taunted them, Eruptor and the other heroes agreed with Stump Smash when the tree creature angrily declared that if he could move, he'd be 'dropping the hammer' on Kaos right there and then. Afterwards, the present Skylanders could do nothing but watch as Kaos returned to Skylands with the use of a nearby Portal of Power.
Skylanders: Imaginators
Eruptor was one of the Skylander Storytellers of the game. He met up with the main Skylander at the Mushroom River and accompanied them along the dangerous route to find Kaos. He later helped the Skylander in the Abandoned Amusement Park make a giant cake in order to infiltrate Kaos' Kastle.
Relationships
Slam Bam
Despite their elemental differences, both Eruptor and Slam Bam are firm friends, united in their fight against the forces of the Darkness.[6]
Avril
As shown in Imaginators, the lava monster and the frost elf don't exactly get along. Avril often tries to talk sense into Eruptor, though seemingly with little success. Likewise, Eruptor thinks that many of Avril's ideas are crazy. The extent of their relationship suggests that they may not like each other at all, like when Eruptor called Avril "frost face" and Avril accused Eruptor of setting a frozen dungeon on fire (which he denied).
Gameplay
Eruptor has the power to hurl and spew fireballs of molten rock, and unleash a lava plume all around him like a volcanic eruption.
In Skylanders: Battlecast, Eruptor can control magma with a larger range of abilities. With energy cost halfway through, he can create a variety of effects by opening thermal vents and heat waves; notably, he can also turn Gear into Molten Metal by using Metalmorphosis and submerging it in lava. His Special Ability is Scorching Fumes, increasing his team's spell damage, and his signature gear is a Magma Core, that creates fire spells.
Stats
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: 290 (max. 580)
- Speed: 35 (max. 83)
- Armor: 18 (max. 48)
- Critical Hit: 30 (max. 80)
- Elemental Power: 46 (max. 96)
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 80
- Defense: 85
- Agility: 25
- Luck: 35
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: ???
- Speed: ??
- Armor: ??
- Critical Hit: ??
- Elemental Power: ??
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 95
- Defense: 95
- Agility: 35
- Luck: 60
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: ???
- Speed: ??
- Armor: ??
- Critical Hit: ??
- Elemental Power: ??
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 90
- Defense: 90
- Agility: 35
- Luck: 65
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in the Skylanders games.
- Health: ???
- Speed: ??
- Armor: ??
- Critical Hit: ??
- Elemental Power: ??
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 110
- Defense: 95
- Agility: 35
- Luck: 70
Abilities
| Basic Abilities Eruptor can walk through lava fields and his attacks temporarily light up darkened areas in the Crawling Catacombs. |
Wow Pow Ability
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| Lava Lob | Eruption |
Mega Magma Balls
Lava Barf
Lava Barf 2: Barf Harder | ||||||||||||
 Lob blobs of lava at your enemies. |
 Erupt into a pool of lava, damaging enemies all around you. |
 Shoot up to 3 Magma Balls at a time that do extra damage.
 Hold Attack 3 to charge up a powerful stream of projectile lava barf.  Press Attack 3 to release Magma Balls, then hold Attack 3 to eat them and immediately barf them back for extra damage.
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| Basic Upgrades Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods. | ||||||||||||||
| Big Blob Lava Throw | Fiery Remains | Eruption-Flying Tephra | Magma Ball | |||||||||||
 Lava Blob attack gets bigger and does increased damage. |
 Lava Blobs leave behind pools of flame when they hit the ground. |
 Lava balls shoot out while performing the Eruption attack. |
 Spit out Magma Balls. | |||||||||||
| Magmantor |
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| Heavy Duty Plasma | Lava Blob Bomb | Beasts of Conflagration | ||
 Lava Blobs bounce and travel further. |
 Lava Blobs explode and damage nearby enemies. |
 Lava Blobs do increased damage in the form of a fiery beast. |
| Volcanor |
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| Quick Eruption | Pyroxysmal Super Eruption | Revenge of Prometheus | ||
 It takes much less time to perform an Eruption attack. |
 Eruption attack does increased damage. |
 Eruption causes small volcanoes to form, doing extra damage. |
| Magma Core - Gear | Thermal Vent | Metalmorphosis | ||
 Common |
 Common |
 Rare |
| Pyroclastic Blast | Heat Stroke | Scorching Fumes - Special Ability | ||
 Epic |
 Rare |
 Ultimate |
| Chain Reaction |
 Unknown |
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Magma Fireball (Active) | |
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1 enemy |
Mana cost: 1 | |
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Lava Eruption (Active) | |
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[All Enemies] |
Mana cost: 3 | |
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Tremendous Power of Lava (Passive) | |
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When the turn begins, grants the [DEF UP] 5% Effect on yourself for 2 turn(s). Additionally, grants the [Shield] 5% Effect on yourself for 2 turn(s) if you fall into the Break status. |
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Skylanders can use abilities depending on their level.
Starting Powers
- Fireball (Primary Attack): Press (Y) to throw a ball of lava at Eruptor's enemies.
- Fireburst (Secondary Attack): Press (X) to make Eruptor explode in a quick blast that damages nearby enemies. Eruptor can keep moving during a Fireburst.
Upgrades
- Volcanic Eruption (requires level: 2): Hold (X) to make Eruptor explode in a large volcanic blast, damaging enemies all around him.
- Burning Bounce (requires level: 5): Eruptor's Fireball (Y) will bounce once, reaching more distant enemies.
- Meteor Trail (requires level: 8): Sprint (A) or Double Jump (B) (B) to ignite a fiery trail behind Eruptor. This trail will damage nearby enemies.
Mystic Seeker Scroll
- Gain a 20% Speed bonus while in the Radiant Isles. The scroll for this upgrade can be found in Ashburrow.
Quests
Basic Quests
- Monster Masher: Defeat 1000 enemies.
- Chow Hound: Eat 50 pieces of food.
- Arena Artist: Complete an arena without taking any damage.
- Battle Champ: Win 10 PvP matches.
- Heroic Challenger: Complete a heroic challenge without taking any damage.
Elemental Quests
- Elementalist: Cause 7500 elemental bonus damage.
- Bombardier: Defeat 25 enemies with bombs.
- Steamer: Defeat an evil Water Minion.
Unique Quest
- Pizza Burp: Eat 10 pizzas.
Basic Quests
- Bad Guy Basher: Defeat 1000 enemies.
- Fruit Frontiersman: Eat 15 fruit.
- Flawless Challenger: Complete a non-Story Mode level at full health.
- True Gladiator: Win 10 PVP matches.
- Totally Maxed Out: Reach level 20 and purchase all Upgrades for this Skylander.
Elemental Quests
- Elementalist: Deal 7500 elemental bonus damage.
- Mega Melter: Defeat a total of 25 Ice Geargolems.
- Bombardier: Defeat 30 enemies with bombs.
Unique Quest
- Pizza Burp: Eat 10 pizzas.
Quotes
Battle Cries
- "Born to Burn!"
- "Fire good!"
- "Fire it up!"
- "Whee!"
- "This fire is stoked!"
- "Feed the flame!"
- "Too hot to handle!"
- "Gettin' warm!"
- "Burnin' it up!"
- "You got burned!"
- "Volcanic victory!"
- "Can't beat the heat!"
- "Can't slow this lava flow!" - When opening a barrier
- "Blazin' a trail!" - When opening a barrier
- "Into the fire!" - When entering an elemental zone
- "On fire!" - When leveling up
- "I'm boilin' over!" - When leveling up
- "Burn and earn!" - When opening a treasure chest
- "Boil the spoils!" - When opening a treasure chest
- "My flames are growin'!" - When viewing stats
- "Burnin' up the charts!" - When viewing stats
- "Lookin' hot!" - When putting on a hat
- "Hope this is flame resistant..." - When putting on a hat
- "What's in a flame...uh, name!" - When given a nickname
- "Name the flame!" - When given a nickname
- "I'm startin' to cool!" - Unused idle line
- "Such a slow burn..." - Unused idle line
Battlecast Quotes
- "Rock and roll!" - scanned in
- "Start the fire!"
- "My turn to burn!" - when selected
- "Ready for action!"
- "The heat is on!" - Battle Introduction
- "Born to burn!"
- "In the hot seat!" - swapping in
- "Let's fire it up!"
- "Passing the torch!" - swapping out
- "Time to cool off!"
- "Bigger and better!" - rank up
- "Forging ahead!"
- "Sizzling!" - Summoning a Gear
- "Rocking!"
- "Some extra help!" - Summoning a Relic
- "Bringing the heat!"
- "Smoking!" - randomly when playing spells
- "Red hot!"
- "Plenty to go around!" - Magma Core
- "Let's rock!"
- "Incoming!" - Pyroclastic Blast
- "Get a load of me!"
- "These are heating up!" - Metalmorphosis
- "Two words: fire proofing."
- "Too hot to handle!" - Heat Stroke
- "Can't take the heat!"
- "Feeling the heat!" - Thermal Vent
- "Heat blast!"
- "And down I go." - when defeated
- "Smothered out..."
- "I didn't see that coming..." - defeat at end of battle
- "That was just a warm up...!"
- "You got burned!" - KOed an enemy
- "You're toast!"
- "I came, I saw, I burned!" - Victory
- "You better back off!" - when poked
- "Friendly reminder, I barf lava."
- "Huh?"
- "I'm here."
- "You should stop now, really!"
- "Heh heh heh!"
- "Blazing a trail!" - Card Level Up
- "I"m on fire!"
Commercial Quotes
- "Alright, you ready Jet-Vac?" Just Like Swap Force trailer
- "We're combining powers!"
- "I'm flying! No, I'm barfing!"
- "I am Eruptor! Born to Burn!" Eruptor commercial
- "When I get in there, I'm gonna (burps)" Boomtime commercial
- "I can't help it! I just (burps)" Boomtime commercial
- "Uh-oh, ships make me barf!" Pirate Seas commercial
- "Guys, it's Saturday!" Boom Party commercial
- "I'm trying! I don't blend with anything!" Easter commercial
- "Go Swap Force!"
- "There will be fire!"
- "Who, Fryno? Have you seen his powers?!" New Powers Extravaganza commercial
Character Trailers
See also
Gallery
Trivia
- As a LightCore, his mouth lights up.
- When Eruptor sings he often sings his favorite song: The 1st movement from Beethoven's 5th symphony.[7]
- There is a glitch with most Eruptor toys from series 1 that after time cannot be read by the Portal of Power, making them unplayable.
- Eruptor, Stump Smash, Prism Break, Drill Sergeant and Countdown are the only bipedal Skylanders without hands.
- Series 2 Eruptor has his "Lava Barf" upgrade, giving him four extra spikes on his head.
- Eruptor and Bouncer are the only Skylanders who don't sing their names while playing the music box on Flynn's Ship.
- Eruptor had more commercial and trailer appearances than any other Skylander.
- Eruptor is the only Skylander to be seen in every main trailer (i.e. The Beginning, Tall Tales, Just Like SWAP Force, and The Discovery).
- Despite having new Wow Pows, he, Trigger Happy and Gill Grunt are the only Series 3 Skylanders whose appearances remain the same as before.
- Eruptor's mouth originally only had two teeth.
- Eruptor is noticeably similar to Hot Dog:
- Eruptor, Prism Break, Gill Grunt, Jet-Vac and Pop Fizz are the only Skylanders so far to have four versions (series) of themselves, including LightCore.
- At the end of the Up Down commercial, a Series 2 Eruptor is mistakenly displayed instead of the LightCore.
- In 2014, a balloon of Eruptor was made in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, representing the Skylanders franchise.[8]
- An Eruptor balloon can be seen in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time in the level, Off Beat.
- He is the only Skylander with an evil counterpart named after him.
- Eruptor is the only Fire Skylander with a Series 3 figure.
- In the "Easter Surprise" trailer, Eruptor is the only returning Skylander to be shown with a series 1 figure. [9]
References
- ↑ Keythe Farley’s portfolio. keythefarley.
- ↑ Senior character Gameplay designer. (Date Posted - Jan. 12, 2021). Nat Loh Website.
- ↑ Skylanders Universe: Book of Elements - Fire and Water, page 19
- ↑ Skylanders Universe: The Complete Collection, page 62
- ↑ Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - Official Sticker Book, page 23
- ↑ Skylanders: Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King, Kindle Edition, page 12
- ↑ The 27 Hidden Secrets of Skylanders. (Date Posted - Dec. 20, 2011). One of Swords.
- ↑ Official Skylanders: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® Eruptor Balloon Featurette. (Date Posted - Nov 24, 2014). YouTube.
- ↑ Easter Surprise - (Date Posted - Mar. 21, 2013) Youtube
