What if Spyro was any other color?..

SavageNymph · Sep 03, 2009 6:49 PM

This might sound stupid, but what if the creators of Spyro made him in another color besides purple. Would he still be popular like he is today? The question just came to my mind and I thought I should share it.

P.S : If this sounds retarded, you can lock it if you like. Only if it sounds pointless.

Sheep · Sep 03, 2009 6:55 PM

I think he would be as famous with another color too, but, yes purple fits him tongue

DarkMaster · Sep 03, 2009 6:57 PM

i think he would still be famous, but purple fits him well

spyroandcynder4ever · Sep 03, 2009 7:26 PM

I think regardless what color he'd be he would be famous but i think purple fits him well.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Sep 03, 2009 11:56 PM

famous, but not AS famous. =P

what other male, purple, dragons do you know of? it's a unique thing about him that made him more popular. if he was black, for instance, it'd be nothing special. there's a lot of black dragons out there. =P

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cheesypower · Sep 04, 2009 12:20 AM

Now, the colors of dragons are usually these:

red
blue
green
black
bronze
gold
silver
gold

the fact that spyro is the only purple dragon means that anything to do with a purple dragon, you think: spyro. also, purple is a color that is rarely used for anything, so it is very distinctive. also, purple represents spirituality, nobility, enlightenment, wisdom, and reliability. most of those are a good reference to spyro, no?
except for wisdom. big_smile

SavageNymph · Sep 04, 2009 2:50 AM

Dracokon wrote:

On the outside it would seem that regardless of whatever color he is his original game that started the franchise would have sold well anyways, because being 2009 we can look back and say without a doubt "yes that game sold very well".
However one of the reasons why I think a different color would affect Spyro in a negative way is because you don't see very many purple dragons in mainstream media. Shrek's dragon is red, Saphira is blue, and lots of "general use" dragons are green by default. Even gold/yellow is a semi-common color... and Charizard took the monopoly on orange for a while. Purple is kind of an uncommon color with dragons, so when they made the choice to make Spyro purple they chose well - because then at that time there was only 1 popular purple dragon, Spyro. When you saw a purple likeness of a dragon you thought Spyro, you didn't mull it over through a few other characters because there's only 1 that came to mind.
So, I voted "no". Purple works for Spyro, and I think he's adorable. :3
edit: WOW totally took too long writing this post, 36IStillLikeSpyro36 beat me!

Okay! ^_^ I find Spyro unique with a purple color as well.

SavageNymph · Sep 04, 2009 2:52 AM

cheesypower wrote:

Now, the colors of dragons are usually these:
red
blue
green
black
bronze
gold
silver
gold
the fact that spyro is the only purple dragon means that anything to do with a purple dragon, you think: spyro. also, purple is a color that is rarely used for anything, so it is very distinctive. also, purple represents spirituality, nobility, enlightenment, wisdom, and reliability. most of those are a good reference to spyro, no?
except for wisdom.

Yes, they are. Thanks for stating what you think :3

midget_roxx · Sep 08, 2009 2:48 PM

purple is lameest. Blue is teh best

Cesna · Sep 09, 2009 1:03 AM

If Spyro was any other color, Malefor would have to match it, then it would start an epic chain of re-designs of color and possibly personalities. Plus, purple is what the blindfolded monkey hit on the dartboard.

Jackson117 · Sep 23, 2009 8:00 AM

Well considering Spyro is a Fire drake in the orginials. I have to consider him to be a fire drake..

TLOS since purple dragons are more closer to Cornverity and that stuff i get the idea he might be black..

Also wasn't spyro going to be green but changed to purple since it looked too much in the background

Sir not appearing here · Sep 23, 2009 6:52 PM

I think blue would be a great color but purple fits Spyro a lot better in my opinion.

MrXLink · Sep 23, 2009 7:59 PM

Purple fits him well.
If you see such a small dragon in green or blue, with the original Insomniac graphics (Why, insomniac, why?!?), it looks kinda normal for a dragon. purple is unique and very well chosen.

dragon protector x · Sep 23, 2009 11:01 PM

Exactly what cheesy said. Spyro prolly would have been brushed off because it was about a colored dragon EVERY ones used to seeing, but haveing him purple is creative, its out side the box. I think that since he is purple he kind of draws a little more attention to him self. Because very very few people would acctualy think makeing an entire thing for a purple dragon. In other games the purple dragon would get maybe a line of just look smexy in the background.

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