Now, I get that you are wondering why I didn't just make this into a normal fanfic. I only did this because I got bored and watching Skylanders Academy reminded me of this theory: That all the Spyro games are completely canon to each other.

Now, onwards with what I was gonna say...

Hopefully most of you know about the major theory that the original, Legends, and Skylanders games are all canon and in the same universe.

During the Skylanders Academy episode, ¨Return to Cynder¨, we are introduced to the...weirdly...different version of Malefor.

(No, not the one from the Return of the Dragon King comic.)

When Malefor first notices Spyro, he mentions about having fought Spyro before, but with our favorite purple hero not even remembering the big bad purple grape that is Malefor. So the part that Dawn of the Dragon lead right into Skylanders actually makes some sense. With Spyro and Cynder´s souls being connected together from the binding they received in DotD, Malefor was also brought along for the ride, but he retained his memories from so long ago, while Spyro´s memories were fragmented, causing him to forget about the whole saving the world part. And with there being a purple dragon every 10 generations, its safe to assume that the Malefor we see in Skylanders Academy, is the same big bad purple grape that was voiced by Mark Hamill back in DotD. just in a new body and new voice.

(Mark Hamill was set to voice him for Skylanders Academy, but he was busy with Star Wars at the time. Read the Spyro Wiki page on Skylanders Malefor if you dunno what I´m talking about.)

(And yes, I know that he was voiced by Mark, don´t judge me for figuring that out after I just completed DotD a few days ago.) Sorry for the short post, but I had to get this out of my head.