Rattle Shake is a rattlesnake cowboy who is a SWAP Force Skylander in Skylanders: Swap Force. He is of the Undead element. His Swap Force Ability is Bounce. He has a Frito-Lays exclusive glow-in-a-dark variant, Quickdraw Rattle Shake.
Character Development[]
During development, Rattle Shake was originally designed as a zombie cowboy with detachable legs, armed with normal or phantom pistols. His Swap ability was originally Dig. Another concept had his legs replaced with a patchwork serpent's tail, and his ghost pistols became a mini-gun made from bones. In the end, Rattle Shake became an anthropomorphic snake, originally wielding a snake gun in each hand.[1]
His snake gun was also inspired from the boomerang attack of the scrapped Skylander, Breezewing.[2]
Rattle Shake was initially poorly received during kid playtesting. There were two main reasons for this: First, his secondary attack made him spring backwards, which was confusing for young players, and secondly, he originally fired little snakes instead of snake venom, which was seen as creepy by the young playtester because he was "shooting his children".[3]
Background[]
Personality[]
Shake's enemies think he is sinister. In fact, so do some of his friends, but you can be sure that he's no slippery character - Rattle is a virtuous viper.[4]
Biography[]
Some say Rattle Shake was the best tracker in the Cloudbreak Islands. Others say he could strike the center of a gold coin at a thousand paces. But the legend of Rattle Shake was immortalized when he found himself trapped by the Black Hat Gang, the infamous group of cowboys who literally were large cows... and evil ones at that. They threatened to plunder the local village unless Rattle Shake led them inside the magical volcano Mt. Cloudbreak, where they hoped to discover enchanted treasure. Badly outnumbered, the ever calm Rattle Shake magically summoned every snake in the area and overtook the notorious bovines in an epic fight. The tale of his heroism was heard by Master Eon, who then recruited him to the Skylanders.
Gameplay[]
Stats[]
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Abilities[]
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Quests[]
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Quotes[]
Battle Cries[]
- "Go Ahead - Snake my Day!"
- "You are hisssstory!"
- "I always look good."
- "Hmm, Scaling my way up!"
- "Gold rush!"
- "Bulls-eye!"
- "No fang, no gain!"
- "Rattle it up!"
- "No bark and all bite!"
- "Too easy!"
- "Snake rattle and roll!"
- "Call a draw!"
- "Away I go!"
- "Powered up!" - level up
- "More power!" - level up
- "Winding through!" - gate
- "Snaking along" - When opening a gate
- "A striking new look!" - When given a hat
- "Oooh, I look rather sharp!"
- "An excellent new name!" - when name gets changed
- "This name RATTLES my mind!"
- "A cool place to rattle around!"
- "Springing up!" - When using a magic circle
Commercial Quotes[]
- "Except Kaos, eh?" - Just Like SWAP Force trailer
- "It's true, amigo, you truly do suck!" - Hitting the Wall commercial
- "Think again my friend! We can swap sixteen ways!" - Stinky commercial
Character Trailers[]
See also[]
- Quickdraw Rattle Shake
Gallery[]
