No matter what Boom Jet did, he always had to be the best. He could be seen day and night above his home in the Billowy Cloudplains gunning his engines and performing daredevil maneuvers as he trained to become the best sky surfer in all of Skylands. Unfortunately, Boom Jet never had a chance to compete for the championship because a day came that changed his life forever. The Darkness had come. And with his town on the verge of being completely consumed by the ominous evil force, Boom Jet took action. Using his incredible flying skills, he raced from house to house, rescuing all of the citizens and carrying them to safety… just before The Darkness destroyed his homeland. It was then he realized the protection of Skylands was more important than personal glory, so he sought out Master Eon to offer his services to the Skylanders. If you look closely in the Just Like Swap Force trailer, Night Shift's fangs are slightly drenched with blood. One of his missions in Lost Islands, "Catching Fire", shares the name of the second book of the Hunger Games series.

Bolting Blob (requires level: 9): Hold (X) to create a large water sphere. Release (X) to toss the sphere in the air and shoot it with a lightning bolt, creatubg a large electric explosion that damages enemies and fully charges all water puddles in a large area. Hollow Knight: The Defender's Crest, a Charm bestowed by Dung Defender, surrounds the Knight with clouds of strong dung odor that continuously deal damage to enemies. The toys are broken up into elemental groups — Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Life, Undead, Tech and Magic. Scattered throughout the game levels are gates that only open when a character of the corresponding element is present — a fire gate requires a fire Skylander.Possibly as a pun, Team Spyro in Skylanders Academy is known as the core Skylander team, both for being the first to be called to missions and for being composed entirely of Core Skylanders. In Skylanders: Swap Force and onward, Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions used generic names for all the new Skylanders before the final names were decided upon. [3] In newer games, some Skylanders keep these placeholder names in the in-game files even after their debut, though most are eventually updated. The way he bites is similar to a recent fiasco at the 2014 FIFA World Cup match between Italy and Uruguay, where Luis Suarez bites Giorgio Chiellini.

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Stink Bomb was mentioned by Hurricane Jet-Vac when he is talking to Buzz at the Skylanders Academy. Bunga in The Lion Guard loves this trope. Honey badgers have a skunk-like stink gland and he particularly likes using it on Mama Binturong after she vows revenge on him for wilting her tuliza flowers. Once, he and his female friend Binga work together to release a double stink bomb. He and Night Shift are seen in most of the commercials of Swap Force, including the intro of the game. They're always seen swapping with each other. When Blades went off to face the Machine Magus on his own, Night Shift, Bouncer and Trigger Happy followed suit after realizing that Blades may be fighting a losing battle. They managed to rescue Blades before Magus could finish him off, and with their combined efforts as a team, the Skylanders defeated the Drow. After the mission, Night Shift's sound judgement came true as Blades apologized for his behavior and the Skylanders officially welcomed him into the team. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002): Stinkor's ability is consistently put to effective use in this series.

His voice actor, Tom Kenny, is best known for portraying SpongeBob SquarePants, The Ice King from Adventure Time, and is also the current voice of Spyro in his main video game series - first performing the role in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage (known as Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer in Europe). Batman: The Brave and the Bold: One of Baby Face's minions is Polecat Perkins, so named for his ability to secrete a noxious odor from his armpits. Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you.

The Warping Vortex path further upgrades Night Shift's teleportation ability, allowing him to, when fully upgraded, create a vortex that pulls in enemies. The Close to Doom upgrade allows this vortex to deal damage, although the damage is small. This path is primarily for crowd control, allowing the Skylander to pull together many enemies that would otherwise take too long to defeat one at a time, or to pull away enemies that are too dangerous to deal with at the moment. As seen in Ring of Heroes, most Skylanders are on average much smaller than a human. However, as the Giants in the game are not to scale, their true relative size is unknown. Night Shift's voice actor, Maurice LaMarche, is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, The Brain in Animaniacs and Pinky And The Brain. LaMarche is also the current voice actor for Doctor Nitrus Brio from Crash Bandicoot as of Crash: Mind over Mutant in 2008.He is the first Skylander to have the name of his element in his name (the second is Wildfire and the third is Spitfire).