Ancient Grome: Sunny Villa serves as the title image for the trope page.

American Kirby Is Hardcore: Both region boxes have a dynamic cover, but compared to the badass scowls on the NTSC cover above, most of Spyro's friends have happy or vacant expressions on the PAL version ◊.

Alliterative Name: Four of the six Gnome Wizards in Crystal Islands have that: The Marvelous Magnifico, the Fantastic Frederico, the Astounding Arturo and the Magnificent Marvello.

wagging their tails or scratching themselves with their paws.

All Animals Are Dogs: Many of the baby dragons show this behavior, e.g.

Enchanted Towers has Pablo, Jasper and Mowat. Seashell Shore has Sebastian and Stanley alongside Snappy and Slappy.

Also the case with some realm residents.

Examples range from 'Tom' to 'Pee-wee' to 'Thelonious' (who is female!).

The baby dragons all have some diverse names.

Buson and Basho also don't think to fly over all the obstacles they have Sheila clear for them.

Acrophobic Bird: Homer the firefly runs away from a gator instead of flying.

The Invincibility Power-Up can allow Spyro the ability to swim through it for a limited time.

Acid Pool: Rivers and lakes of glowing green Acid can be found in Lost Fleet and purple ones throughout Midnight Mountain and the Super Bonus Round.

They have feminine voices and wear dresses, but their faces are masculine.

Ambiguous Gender: The cat-fairies of Cloud Spires.

100% Completion: Awards you with a new level, Super Bonus Round, which is filled with treasure and ends with one last showdown with the Sorceress.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon contains examples of: This game, along with the first game and Ripto's Rage!, was remastered on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch with updated graphics as a part of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, with the latter two ports coinciding with the franchise's 20th anniversary. Byrd, Bentley, and Agent 9, has to recover all the dragon eggs and make sure the baby dragons get home safely. Now Spyro, with the help of his new friends Sheila, Sgt. Spyro follows her and ends up in the Forgotten Worlds, where an evil sorceress rules. But they're stolen en route by a white rabbit thief who disappears into a strange hole.

In the Year of the Dragon, a rare event that happens every 12 years, mass numbers of new dragon eggs are brought to the Dragon Realms.

Released in 2000, the actual Year of the Dragon. The third Spyro the Dragon game, and the last to be developed by Insomniac Games for the PlayStation. Argus: Find the eggs and bring them back, Spyro.

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