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- “Eat This!”
- —Food Fight's official catchphrase
Food Fight is a sentient artichoke who is one of the Life Skylanders in Skylanders: Trap Team. He is available in the console starter pack of the game along with Snap Shot.
Character Development
Food Fight was created like most Skylanders, in the form of random doodles. Toy and character director, I-Wei Huang, was trying to come up with a plant-based little critter, and explored lots of different ideas on a page. Food Fight started feeling very cute, but lacking any sense of a "hero", and doesn't look like he would do well in a battle. I-Wei then explored more on the character, trying to find a cool angle to take him. One aspect that he really liked with Food Fight, is the tactile feel of the spiky bits on his head. "There is something very primal about wanting to pick up an object, just to feel it with your fingers. I wanted that to be a big part of him, so he turned into a artichoke-ish character."
After deciding on an artichoke theme, I-Wei Huang played around with more porpotions, and explored different options for Food Fight. The next step was what weapon to give him. Since he is a cute little guy, I-Wei Huang wanted to balance Food Fight out a bit with a cool weapon. He explored through a few different guns types that shoot different veggies. In the end, the team went with something very simple: a Tomato gun.[2]
Background
Personality
Even though he's got a lot on his plate, Food Fight always has time for his teammates. He's an artichoke with a heart of gold.[3]
Biography
Food Fight does more than just play with his food, he battles with it! This tough little Veggie Warrior is the byproduct of a troll food experiment gone wrong. When the Troll Farmers Guild attempted to fertilize their soil with gunpowder, they got more than a super snack – they got an all-out Food Fight! Rising from the ground, he led the neighborhood Garden Patrol to victory. Later, he went on to defend his garden home against a rogue army of gnomes after they attempted to wrap the Asparagus people in bacon! His courage caught the eye of Master Eon, who decided that this was one veggie lover he needed on his side as a valued member of the Skylanders. When it comes to Food Fight, it’s all you can eat for evil!
Story
Trigger Happy Targets the Evil Kaos
Food Fight, Trigger Happy and Smolderdash battled a rampaging Water Viper that was attacking the Mabu Market. After defeating the creature, they were called back to Eon's Citadel by Spyro and were soon assigned to Wool Mountain by Master Eon to find the Magic segment to the Mask of Power. The Skylanders were soon attacked by Kaos and his Troll Bombers while searching for the Mask of Power piece, but with the efforts of both Spyro and Trigger Happy, they were able to drive off Kaos and find the Mask segment that had taken on the form of a sheep.
However soon after retrieving the segment, all of the Mask of Power segments were stolen by a Goliath Drow who was serving Kaos. Trigger Happy, along with the other Skylanders who previously took part in the search for the parts of the Mask of Power, teleported to Kaos' Kastle to stop Kaos from using the Mask of Power. Despite getting through the castle's defenses, the Skylanders were unable to stop Kaos from putting on the Mask of Power. With it, Kaos was able to steal the Skylanders' powers, including Food Fight's, leaving them defenseless. Before the evil Portal Master could finish the Skylanders off, they were safely teleported back to Eon's Citadel by Master Eon.
Despite losing their powers, the Skylanders were able to defeat Kaos, destroy the Mask of Power, and saved Skylands once again.
The Kaos Trap
When the Minis were touring the Skylanders Academy with Hugo, Food Fight became their Skylander chaperone. While looking around in the Heroic Challenge Arena, Kaos, who was disguised as Weeruptor, sprung a trap upon the young tourists and attacked them with a group of Trolls that were disguised as training dummies. Food Fight helped defend the future students and succeeded in driving Kaos off-campus with his tomatoes.
Return of the Dragon King
Food Fight was among the many Skylanders who attempted to stop Malefor from reaching the Skylanders Academy. Despite their efforts, they were defeated by the Undead Dragon King and their powers were absorbed by him via crystal, allowing Malefor to become more powerful. When Spyro destroyed Malefor's crystal, the powers of the Skylanders he stole, including Food Fight's, were returned to their rightful owners.
Gameplay
Food Fight has the ability to replant himself to spawn exploding artichokes, and shoot zucchini and tomatos from his gun. In Skylanders: Battlecast, he has the ability to also shoot grapes from his weapon, and summon large quantities of food to replentish and power up his allies. His Gear is a Ten-Gallon Hat, allowing the active fighter to heal and power up without using additional spells, and his special ability is Fruit and Veggies randomly attacking foe and healing ally.
Stats
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in Skylanders: Trap Team.
- Health: 260 (Lv. 20: 808)
- Speed: 60
- Armor: 18
- Critical Hit: 30
- Elemental Power: 25
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in Skylanders: SuperChargers.
- Health: 260 (Lv. 20: 780)
- Speed: ?
- Armor: 18
- Critical Hit: ?
- Elemental Power: 25
These are the starting and maximum Statistics for this Skylander in Skylanders: Imaginators.
- Health: 260 (Lv. 20: 780)
- Attack: 4 (Lv. 20: 54)
- Armor: 4 (Lv. 20: 29)
- Speed: 20 (Lv. 20: 50)
- Luck: 4 (Lv. 20: 24)
Warning: These stats are not used in any of the Skylander games. They are only listed for completeness reasons.
- Strength: 60
- Defense: 60
- Agility: 80
- Luck: 140
Abilities
Basic Abilities These abilities are available from the start of the game. |
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Tomato Launcher | Blooms of Doom |
That's How I Roll
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Primary Ability Launch exploding tomatoes. |
Secondary Ability Plant artichoke traps, which also explode. |
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Basic Upgrades Skylanders can buy new abilities from Persephone/Power Pods. | ||||||
Extra-Ripe Tomatoes | Green Thumb | Zucchini Blast | Blooms of Bigger Doom | |||
Price: 500 Tomatoes do more damage. |
Price: 700 Tomatoes that hit the ground grow into plants. Collect them for more powerful shots. |
Price: 900 Deliver a Zucchini Blast. Does heavy damage over a wide area. |
Price: 1200 Blooms of Doom make bigger explosions. |
Tomatologist |
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Heavy Harvest | HeirBOOM Tomatoes | Bad Aftertaste | ||
Price: 1700 Tomatoes picked up from plants are bigger and do even MORE damage. |
Price: 2200 Detonate tomato plants with a Zucchini Blast. |
Price: 3000 Enemies damaged by exploding tomato plants will take damage over time. |
Grape Shot | Ten Gallon Hat - Gear | Leafy Greens | ||
Common |
Rare |
Common |
All You Can Eat | Feast of Fury | Fruits and Veggies - Special Ability | ||
Rare |
Epic |
Rare |
Root of Strength |
Rare (Currently Unobtainable) |
Zucchini Shot (Active) | ||
1 enemy |
Mana cost: 3 |
Tomato Shooter (Active) | ||
1 enemy |
Mana cost: 3 |
Breed Improvement (Passive) | ||
1 enemy |
Skylanders can use abilities depending on their level.
Starting Powers
- Tomato Splat Pistol (Primary Attack): Press (Y) to shoot two tomatoes that spawn little sprout on the ground which deal damage over time.
- Boom Cloud (Secondary Attack): Press (X) to set an artichoke landmine.
Upgrades
- Zucchini Blast (requires level: 3): Hold (Y) to charge a big blast, release to shot [sic] when charge is complete.
- Giant Bloom Cloud (requires level: 6): Press (X) to set a bigger artichoke landmine.
- Tomato Roller (requires level: 9): Hold (X) to hop on a giant tomato and roll over nearby enemies.
Quotes
Battle Cries
- "Eat This!"
- "My turn!"
- "Oh yeah!"
- "Yeah!"
- "Hyper and riper!"
- "Now who's green?"
- "The time is ripe!"
- "Airborne!"
- "What a blast!"
- "That's ripe!"
- "Fresh start!"
- "Second nature!"
- "The time is ripe!"
- "Do I have to clean this up?"
- "A real cornucopia!"
- "Ooh, essential minerals!"
- "Growth spurt!" - when leveled up
- "Veggie power!" - when leveled up
- "All the right ingredients!" - when checking stats
- "A healthy menu, of awesome!"
- "Huh, my numbers are growing!
- "Uhh, does this look out of season?" - when wearing a hat
- "I look totally fresh!"
- "Eat your heart out!"
- "That's a hearty-sounding name!" - when given a nickname
- "Hm, good pick!"
Battlecast Quotes
- "Ripe and ready!" - scanned in
- "Go green!"
- "The time is ripe!" - when selected
- "My turn!"
- "Back again!" - swapping in
- "Fresh start!"
- "Time to recharge!" - swapping out
- "Rest time!"
- "Veggie power!" - rank up
- "Growth spurt!"
- "Naturally!" - Summoning a Gear
- "Just right!"
- "I like it!" - Summoning a Relic
- "Ripe!"
- "Good pick!" - randomly when playing spells
- "Sweet!"
- "Eat up, everyone!" - All You Can Eat
- "Snacks for all!"
- "Something extra!" - Ten-Gallon Hat
- "Energy charge!"
- "Choke on this!" - Grape Shot
- "Take that!"
- "Time for a pick-me-up!" - Leafy Greens
- "Veggie boost!"
- "Let's get them!" - Feast of Fury
- "Go team!"
- "Bottom of the barrel...!" - when defeated
- "Choked on that one..."
- "That's gonna leave a bruise." - defeat at the end of battle
- "Not cool!"
- "You got served!" - KOed an enemy
- "Eat that!"
- "That was fresh!" - Victory
- "Eat your heart out!"
- "Hey, not cool!" - when idling/poked
- "Hay-lo!"
- "Oooh!"
- "Hey, simmer down!"
- "(chuckling)"
- "Hey, not cool!"
- "Don't play with your food."
- "Power burst!" - Card Level Up
- "Still growing!"
Trailer Quotes
- "It's tough to trap them without Traptanium crystals. The prison was made of the stuff, but now it's all gone." - The Discovery trailer
- "Eat. My. VEGGIES!!" -Multiple occasions
- "Tomato Paste, In Your Face! - Inside the Trap Trailer
Character Trailers
See also
Gallery
Trivia
- Food Fight shares some similarities to Trigger Happy in the following ways:
- Both have a similar body shape.
- Both have guns for weapons.
- Both come in starter packs.
- Both use unusual items for ammunition (Trigger Happy uses coins, Food Fight uses tomatoes, artichokes and zucchinis).
- He is the third character to be voiced by Billy West, the other two being Fire Kraken and Freeze Blade.
- Although he is actually a Core Skylander, Food Fight is often mistaken as a Trap Master.
- One of Food Fight's prototype designs resembles the Pokémon Ivysaur.
- Food Fight is one of two different food-based Skylanders, the other being Shroomboom. In his case, he is based off of an artichoke.
- He bears a resemblance to the Pirate Henchmen.
- Food Fight makes a cameo in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 as a part of graffiti artwork done by Danny Williams.[4]
References
- ↑ New Toys, New Tricks for Skylanders Trap Team. (Date Posted - Apr 23, 2014). IGN.
- ↑ SDCC Panel, Skylanders Character Development. (Date Posted - Aug. 6, 2014). Blogger.
- ↑ Skylanders Universe: The Complete Collection (2015), page 93
- ↑ Activision: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2 Remaster Concepts. (Date Posted - Sep. 10, 2020). Artstation.