Dear @neonbatteries, have you thought about doing a video about Skylander families? Sonic Boom has her chicks and also Eye-Brawl and Dive Clops are brothers!
Since Bumble Blast is technically classified as the beehive and not the tree body, I like to imagine that his soul is in the beehive itself, and the tree body is almost like an organic suit of armor that he connected himself to. And since he's the beehive, I also like to imagine that the magical honey in Bumble Blast allowed him to form a sort of psychic link with the bees he fights with. This is how the bees obey Bumble Blast so well, since he's basically using an extension of himself as a weapon And Stump Smash's contemplation of killing or sparing Kaos is super interesting. I had no idea he had a character arc of learning not to let his anger get the better of him. Which is a pretty good character arc for Stump Smash since his anger is a core part of his personality Really great video, keep up the good work
aight, one more for the road, 1. 1:42 There is actually a bit more details to his development history, such as the fact that initially Tree Rex didn't have his laser shooting arm but rather a club made from the red wood that would later become his arm, one of his earliest concept arts I think is extremely different to the design we have today, being more green with not many red accents, wielding and axe and having fly traps for hands, not really important when it comes to lore but it does still exist, the reason Neon Batteries says it's surprisingly short is because all he did is read it aloud from the wiki likely without even checking the actual source or even questioning if the wiki is correct, in this case it somewhat wasn't since there does exist a prototype figure of Tree Rex without his arm cannon but the club I mentioned earlier, meaning it wasn't exactly the start of his creation. 2. 2:50 The Giants were never "sent" 10 000 years into the future, they were assembled as the first team of Skylanders 10 000 years before SSA to directly fight the Arkeyan Empire alongside the Portal Masters of the time which we know pretty much nothing about and the so called free magicians of Skylands aka it seems pretty much anyone who didn't want to be slaves to the Empire, in the final battle at the City of Arkus the Giants confronted the Arkeyan King and his Iron Fist, and it was that same Fist that after the battle for reasons unknown banished the Giants to Earth, pretty much freezing them in time for those 10 000 years until we, the Player, find them. It's a small thing but it is still incorrect to say that the Giants were sent to the future on purpose, they didn't know they would end up stranded for thousands of years in an unknown world, it was all because of the Arkeyans themselves which the Giants had no control over. 3. 3:22 If you actually read any of the comments I left you would be able to get your hands on the actual books, just saying, also as far as Tree Rex's appearances go he also appeared in the short story from the 2014 Annual called "Total Kaos" where Kaos tried to infiltrate the Ruins and destroy the Core of Light by disguising every Skylander present as himself, eventually got tricked when the others played off of his ego claiming that all of them were the true Kaos prompting Kaos to stop his spell to prove them wrong, he also had plenty of mentions in the Book of Life and Undead, one of them for instance being that he once got a massive head ache caused by a family of woodpeckers claiming his wooden skull as their home. 4. 3:27 Stealth Elf and Wash Buckler fighting Trolls together did not in fact happen twice, the mention here refers to the time they and Pop Fizz fought off trolls in one of the Kaos Trap comics actually titled Trap Masters, aka Issue #0 of the IDW comics, if I'm wrong about this and there actually was a second time the two interacted directly I welcome anyone to correct me but from my memory Wash Buckler had appearances in the Time Twisters novel which did not mention Stealth Elf, Return of the Dragon King as one of the many background Skylanders, and in Rift Into Overdrive where he fought alongside Chill, Slam Bam and Zap to push back the attacking Dark Drow. 5. 3:47 The interesting thing about Quicksilver which you won't learn by watching this videos only is that it is found in all things in Skylands, it's basically the liquid magic found even in the most unmagical creatures like sheep, it isn't entirely explained how the Arkeyans got that Quicksilver out of something and used it but it's not so much as a rare resource, moreso it's hard to obtain/refine, still I don't personally think that a random factory in supposedly the middle of nowhere would "make" this incredibly powerful resource 6. 4:06 It doesn't say specifically how he became a Giant but we do know it wasn't just Giants fighting against the Empire, it is extremely likely that the Portal Masters of old sought out the Giants as worthy warriors against the Empire, and Tree Rex having already taken out an Arkeyan factory all by himself proved a worthy candidate 7. 4:17 I don't intend to diss the headcanon but just gonna explain that we know next to nothing about who was the "first Giant" or if there even was a first Giant in the first place, and it also isn't just Ninjini and Tree Rex being actually pretty old even before joining the Giants, both parts of Eye-Brawl fought against each other for at least a century before combining their powers, Crusher is mentioned to have been considered young when he was 3 000 years old in the A to Z of Skylands and Hot Head mentions being nearly 200 thousand years old in Time Twisters (Golems live for a long while), so that's already an entire half of the team that could be considered the "First Giants" based purely on age. Edit: I actually missed that lore as well but as someone else in the comments pointed out it is actually confirmed that Tree Rex is the very first giant in the Complete Collection book. 8. 6:57 It's Kaos we're talking about, the guy stole the First Flame (a torch lighted up by the Eternal Fire Source) just to light up his birthday cakes with it, used a whole bunch of resources in one of his lairs just to try and make a hair tonic for himself and let's not forget one of his firstr ever plans to dominate Skylands which was just to make a bunch of statues of himself all around Skylands and hope everyone would just accept they're important and start treating him as a ruler, that is actual lore taken from the games directly 9. 8:00 I like how you previously mention other version of the backstories of different Skylanders and now you just chose not to do that, the other three versions of Stump Smash's backstory mention how he himself destroyed the machines and punched through all the trolls himself, it wasn't just one whack even by the backstory you mention itself since it later says how Eon heard "the ruckus", the ruckus likely referring to Stump Smash destroying all of the machines 10. 8:24 "if the wiki is correct on the placement of these stories" just casually admits there is no actual research done on these videos but I digress, yes the Mask of Power books take place before SSA, same for Machine of Doom, it's confirmed in the books themselves and the books are confirmed to be canon by the writer if I recall correctly, it also wasn't necessarily "his own story", he did play a part in it and had the focus on him for this book but it's one of the eight books in the series total, they have their own individual stories but they all tie back to the overall plot of the series 11. 9:06 This is moreso just a nitpick but with the way it's worded I gotta clarify, the Bone Dragon also attacked Glumshanks, and he fled alongside with the Skylanders, it's not that the Bone Dragon and Glumshanks teamed up 12. 9:50 the Life Fragment of the Mask of Power was not in fact the Dragon itself, though Kaos thought it was the dragon directly Stump Smash noticed it carried something within his chest, a lifeless stone heart granted to the creature by a grateful wizard after the dragon saved him, the novels often propose something else as a fragment of the Mask of Power before revealing the actual one, in Lightning Rod's book the Skylanders initially thought the Land Whale was the Air fragment only to realize it was the tower that served as Cyclops Queen's zoo, with Gill Grunt's book the Skylanders thought the Fish Master's Crown was the Water fragment but then Gill Grunt noticed the stinky rag it was carried in and it was revealed to be the fragment and so forth. 13. 9:55 I find it funny how Neon Batteries didn't even mention how Glumshanks was treated in this book, everything to hit that 10 minute mark I guess, as far as other appearances go Stump Smash has an extremely small cameo in one of the comics and has his own short story in the Book of Life and Undead where he asked Flynn for a casual flight in his balloon when Flynn also casually crashed into a side of the mountain right into a Trollverine camp which was like an all you can smash buffet for Stump Smash, after beating the trolls and getting back home it's established that Stump Smash tries to catch a ride with Flynn at least once a week in hopes of finding more trolls to wallop, in the same book it's also mentioned how he misses the sound of the wind flowing through his branches and while he can't exactly make that sort of music anymore as learning to play delicate instruments with mallets is tricky he supposedly plays a mean xylophone
THANK YOU FOLIA FOR CLEARING THINGS UP!! Why is it when we get lore videos for this series, it’s always half assed like this?? Also they forgot about ambush and even barkely… so much for a “all tree Skylanders” video and it’s not even all of them
@@geetzyfily yeah that part iffed me too but to a lesser extent, Ambush was already featured in a previous video I feel and Barkley doesn't really have lore, still would be nice to hear him exist but eh
It's never said on the wiki, but Tree Rex is the first Giant. Also, have you ever noticed that Tree Rex and the Arkeyan King look similar? They're supposed to be foils character and design wise, right? Am I crazy? (I am crazy, but am I wrong?)
I don't remember if it was actively said he is the first Giant, but it would make sense, besides him only Bouncer and Crusher literally started their adventure by going against the Arkeyan Empire, the other Giants did somewhat unrelated things to the entire situation so narratively it does make sense
@@trapx5909 ah okay now I see why I haven't noticed it before, it's not mentioned directly in his bio but rather in the personality section, thank you very much for pointing me to that lore, I actually would've missed that
I just playing through Swap Force and that got me thinking. Stump Smash is not a Treeman? 😱 Wait, hold up, i just read the wiki. According to the developer Eric Carter, the Treemen are Stump Smash's distant relatives. So i was half correct on that one 🤔😂
i would love to make wood puns (WOULD, not WOOD), but i had a revelation yesterday that i forgot to put in text, so let the AA Dude light up his neon at this cognitive atrocity: Skylanders and My Little Pony have the same naming conventions. ergo, Skylanders is MLP but intended for boys.
what is your source for sent 10 000 in the future for the giants? bc can't find it otherwhere than in the frensh novel and iirc it wasn't translated like thit in the english vertion
@@trapx5909 in the french book that is not cannon in english (it got shorted in english and it no longer makes sence) the fist of arkus locked them in a prison 10 000 years ago and eon broke it onely now. but it is a little wird bc the book was made after a superchargers bookand it has 1 mention of it in the first chapter
BE AFRAID OF THE BARK 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🌳🌳🌳
5:20 I can’t believe this actually got mentioned.
I love how most of these backstories basically come down to: Don't mess with nature!
For some reason I always thought he was saying “BE AFRAID OF THE PARK!!!!!”
i thought he said "be afraid of the fog!" i have no idea why.
What a nice tree. I love trees *very loud base boost*
7:26 his bark is probably green because of moss
Now that explains kaos tree dilema
Dear @neonbatteries, have you thought about doing a video about Skylander families? Sonic Boom has her chicks and also Eye-Brawl and Dive Clops are brothers!
Since Bumble Blast is technically classified as the beehive and not the tree body, I like to imagine that his soul is in the beehive itself, and the tree body is almost like an organic suit of armor that he connected himself to. And since he's the beehive, I also like to imagine that the magical honey in Bumble Blast allowed him to form a sort of psychic link with the bees he fights with. This is how the bees obey Bumble Blast so well, since he's basically using an extension of himself as a weapon
And Stump Smash's contemplation of killing or sparing Kaos is super interesting. I had no idea he had a character arc of learning not to let his anger get the better of him. Which is a pretty good character arc for Stump Smash since his anger is a core part of his personality
Really great video, keep up the good work
Tree Rex is the GOAT man, THE GOAT!
DROP THE HAMMER 🗣️🗣️🗣️
5:20 Camman18 catching strays in skylanders video is wild 😭😭😭
Who?
@@Perdix64 a minecraft youtuber who hates the birch wood type for some reason 😭
you should really do a video on nefarion, the mask of power and his spellpunks shenanegans
aight, one more for the road,
1. 1:42 There is actually a bit more details to his development history, such as the fact that initially Tree Rex didn't have his laser shooting arm but rather a club made from the red wood that would later become his arm, one of his earliest concept arts I think is extremely different to the design we have today, being more green with not many red accents, wielding and axe and having fly traps for hands, not really important when it comes to lore but it does still exist, the reason Neon Batteries says it's surprisingly short is because all he did is read it aloud from the wiki likely without even checking the actual source or even questioning if the wiki is correct, in this case it somewhat wasn't since there does exist a prototype figure of Tree Rex without his arm cannon but the club I mentioned earlier, meaning it wasn't exactly the start of his creation.
2. 2:50 The Giants were never "sent" 10 000 years into the future, they were assembled as the first team of Skylanders 10 000 years before SSA to directly fight the Arkeyan Empire alongside the Portal Masters of the time which we know pretty much nothing about and the so called free magicians of Skylands aka it seems pretty much anyone who didn't want to be slaves to the Empire, in the final battle at the City of Arkus the Giants confronted the Arkeyan King and his Iron Fist, and it was that same Fist that after the battle for reasons unknown banished the Giants to Earth, pretty much freezing them in time for those 10 000 years until we, the Player, find them. It's a small thing but it is still incorrect to say that the Giants were sent to the future on purpose, they didn't know they would end up stranded for thousands of years in an unknown world, it was all because of the Arkeyans themselves which the Giants had no control over.
3. 3:22 If you actually read any of the comments I left you would be able to get your hands on the actual books, just saying, also as far as Tree Rex's appearances go he also appeared in the short story from the 2014 Annual called "Total Kaos" where Kaos tried to infiltrate the Ruins and destroy the Core of Light by disguising every Skylander present as himself, eventually got tricked when the others played off of his ego claiming that all of them were the true Kaos prompting Kaos to stop his spell to prove them wrong, he also had plenty of mentions in the Book of Life and Undead, one of them for instance being that he once got a massive head ache caused by a family of woodpeckers claiming his wooden skull as their home.
4. 3:27 Stealth Elf and Wash Buckler fighting Trolls together did not in fact happen twice, the mention here refers to the time they and Pop Fizz fought off trolls in one of the Kaos Trap comics actually titled Trap Masters, aka Issue #0 of the IDW comics, if I'm wrong about this and there actually was a second time the two interacted directly I welcome anyone to correct me but from my memory Wash Buckler had appearances in the Time Twisters novel which did not mention Stealth Elf, Return of the Dragon King as one of the many background Skylanders, and in Rift Into Overdrive where he fought alongside Chill, Slam Bam and Zap to push back the attacking Dark Drow.
5. 3:47 The interesting thing about Quicksilver which you won't learn by watching this videos only is that it is found in all things in Skylands, it's basically the liquid magic found even in the most unmagical creatures like sheep, it isn't entirely explained how the Arkeyans got that Quicksilver out of something and used it but it's not so much as a rare resource, moreso it's hard to obtain/refine, still I don't personally think that a random factory in supposedly the middle of nowhere would "make" this incredibly powerful resource
6. 4:06 It doesn't say specifically how he became a Giant but we do know it wasn't just Giants fighting against the Empire, it is extremely likely that the Portal Masters of old sought out the Giants as worthy warriors against the Empire, and Tree Rex having already taken out an Arkeyan factory all by himself proved a worthy candidate
7. 4:17 I don't intend to diss the headcanon but just gonna explain that we know next to nothing about who was the "first Giant" or if there even was a first Giant in the first place, and it also isn't just Ninjini and Tree Rex being actually pretty old even before joining the Giants, both parts of Eye-Brawl fought against each other for at least a century before combining their powers, Crusher is mentioned to have been considered young when he was 3 000 years old in the A to Z of Skylands and Hot Head mentions being nearly 200 thousand years old in Time Twisters (Golems live for a long while), so that's already an entire half of the team that could be considered the "First Giants" based purely on age. Edit: I actually missed that lore as well but as someone else in the comments pointed out it is actually confirmed that Tree Rex is the very first giant in the Complete Collection book.
8. 6:57 It's Kaos we're talking about, the guy stole the First Flame (a torch lighted up by the Eternal Fire Source) just to light up his birthday cakes with it, used a whole bunch of resources in one of his lairs just to try and make a hair tonic for himself and let's not forget one of his firstr ever plans to dominate Skylands which was just to make a bunch of statues of himself all around Skylands and hope everyone would just accept they're important and start treating him as a ruler, that is actual lore taken from the games directly
9. 8:00 I like how you previously mention other version of the backstories of different Skylanders and now you just chose not to do that, the other three versions of Stump Smash's backstory mention how he himself destroyed the machines and punched through all the trolls himself, it wasn't just one whack even by the backstory you mention itself since it later says how Eon heard "the ruckus", the ruckus likely referring to Stump Smash destroying all of the machines
10. 8:24 "if the wiki is correct on the placement of these stories" just casually admits there is no actual research done on these videos but I digress, yes the Mask of Power books take place before SSA, same for Machine of Doom, it's confirmed in the books themselves and the books are confirmed to be canon by the writer if I recall correctly, it also wasn't necessarily "his own story", he did play a part in it and had the focus on him for this book but it's one of the eight books in the series total, they have their own individual stories but they all tie back to the overall plot of the series
11. 9:06 This is moreso just a nitpick but with the way it's worded I gotta clarify, the Bone Dragon also attacked Glumshanks, and he fled alongside with the Skylanders, it's not that the Bone Dragon and Glumshanks teamed up
12. 9:50 the Life Fragment of the Mask of Power was not in fact the Dragon itself, though Kaos thought it was the dragon directly Stump Smash noticed it carried something within his chest, a lifeless stone heart granted to the creature by a grateful wizard after the dragon saved him, the novels often propose something else as a fragment of the Mask of Power before revealing the actual one, in Lightning Rod's book the Skylanders initially thought the Land Whale was the Air fragment only to realize it was the tower that served as Cyclops Queen's zoo, with Gill Grunt's book the Skylanders thought the Fish Master's Crown was the Water fragment but then Gill Grunt noticed the stinky rag it was carried in and it was revealed to be the fragment and so forth.
13. 9:55 I find it funny how Neon Batteries didn't even mention how Glumshanks was treated in this book, everything to hit that 10 minute mark I guess, as far as other appearances go Stump Smash has an extremely small cameo in one of the comics and has his own short story in the Book of Life and Undead where he asked Flynn for a casual flight in his balloon when Flynn also casually crashed into a side of the mountain right into a Trollverine camp which was like an all you can smash buffet for Stump Smash, after beating the trolls and getting back home it's established that Stump Smash tries to catch a ride with Flynn at least once a week in hopes of finding more trolls to wallop, in the same book it's also mentioned how he misses the sound of the wind flowing through his branches and while he can't exactly make that sort of music anymore as learning to play delicate instruments with mallets is tricky he supposedly plays a mean xylophone
THANK YOU FOLIA FOR CLEARING THINGS UP!! Why is it when we get lore videos for this series, it’s always half assed like this?? Also they forgot about ambush and even barkely… so much for a “all tree Skylanders” video and it’s not even all of them
@@geetzyfily yeah that part iffed me too but to a lesser extent, Ambush was already featured in a previous video I feel and Barkley doesn't really have lore, still would be nice to hear him exist but eh
It's never said on the wiki, but Tree Rex is the first Giant.
Also, have you ever noticed that Tree Rex and the Arkeyan King look similar? They're supposed to be foils character and design wise, right? Am I crazy? (I am crazy, but am I wrong?)
I don't remember if it was actively said he is the first Giant, but it would make sense, besides him only Bouncer and Crusher literally started their adventure by going against the Arkeyan Empire, the other Giants did somewhat unrelated things to the entire situation so narratively it does make sense
@Folia.. they did state Tree Rex was the first in the 2014 complete collection book
@@trapx5909 ah okay now I see why I haven't noticed it before, it's not mentioned directly in his bio but rather in the personality section, thank you very much for pointing me to that lore, I actually would've missed that
Next can you do a vid about skylanders guest stars? Bowser, donkey Kong, crash and cortex?
HE SHARES MY NEADCANON OF NINJINI BEING THE FIRST SKYLANDER
3:27 elite reference
I feel like you could do a video just to explain the Lore of the Giants
I just playing through Swap Force and that got me thinking.
Stump Smash is not a Treeman? 😱
Wait, hold up, i just read the wiki.
According to the developer Eric Carter, the Treemen are Stump Smash's distant relatives.
So i was half correct on that one 🤔😂
Great video man!!!! Please do Fiesta for your next video it be great to see what you think about him!!!!
Great video as always.
Maybe for a future episode, you could do one featuring Master Eon. I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of lore surrounding that character.
I always wonder why an element in skylanders based on Pokémon’s Grass type isn’t called Grass.
i would love to make wood puns (WOULD, not WOOD), but i had a revelation yesterday that i forgot to put in text, so let the AA Dude light up his neon at this cognitive atrocity:
Skylanders and My Little Pony have the same naming conventions.
ergo, Skylanders is MLP but intended for boys.
BRR agrees probably
Day 6 of asking for a video covering the monster marsh villains
Can we see Camo, Bushwhack and Stink Bomb next
what about ambush?
hey @neon batteries can you do the elf's next
what is your source for sent 10 000 in the future for the giants? bc can't find it otherwhere than in the frensh novel and iirc it wasn't translated like thit in the english vertion
I think he was confused on when the Giants got sent to Earth, them being sent 10,000 years ago, and popping back up now.
@@trapx5909 in the french book that is not cannon in english (it got shorted in english and it no longer makes sence) the fist of arkus locked them in a prison 10 000 years ago and eon broke it onely now. but it is a little wird bc the book was made after a superchargers bookand it has 1 mention of it in the first chapter
Thank you for this
If you could do a video on Pit Boss, Hot Head, Eye Brawl, Double Trouble, High Volt, and Slam Bam
to continue on the debate of the last vid it is said was braught BY the be and wans't transformed into a bee or something
their are youtube videos of skylands lore
Bro uploaded a A League of Legends video not going to say anything but you shot yourself in the foot
Bro these are not complex💀💀
And look at crap wiki isn’t researching
I think they are complex :)
Hes just talking about skylander backstories why are you being mean
@@Miniyoshi2000 how
@@mahdhdkkagsjs9700 because I’m unhappy