Enemies (Skywire)

This article lists the many enemies in the Skywire series. Some of these enemies made a cameo appearance in Nitrome Must Die as well.

Robotic pandas

 * Main article: Robotic pandas

Appearance
Seagulls are mainly white and have orange beaks and feet. They have a wind-up screw/key on them, and their bodies are rectangular.

Game information
Seagulls remain stationary above the track and drop bombs when the cable car goes under them. In most levels they appear in, their bombs take about a second to reach the cable car, making them easy to avoid in some cases.

In other cases, the track goes back under the seagull, so the bomb can hit the cable car. A variation is a seagull three times as long as a regular one, which drops three bombs. Seagulls are found in levels 3, 7, 8, 17, 23, and 29 of Skywire 2.

Parrots

 * Main article: Parrots (Skywire)

Camels

 * Main article: Camels

Kangaroos

 * Main article: Kangaroos

Appearance
Cobras are primarily purple, and so is their pot. Behind the cobra's head is its hood. Cobras also have two small teeth and a small pink tongue.

Game information
Cobras stay in pots on islands near the track and rise out of the pots when the cable car approaches. They come up, stay up for about two seconds, and go back down. They are only found in level six of Skywire 2.

Rhinos

 * Main article: Rhinoceroses

Appearance
Butterflies appear to look like normal butterflies, with a black body, pink wings, and two antennae. There are also two yellow spots with a light blue rim around the spots on each wing. They are propelled upward by what seems to be a two white helicopter blades which are attached to their antennae. Their tongue is also sticking out.

Game information
Butterflies spawn from the bottom of the screen and keep rising up and past the screen. The player will lose a life (and a passenger) if they come in contact with a butterfly. They stay stationary in one line and will keep going up. They are in levels 3 and 6 of Skywire.

Appearance
Turtles have checkered teal shells, black wheels, and a yellow antenna with a red top The turtle has a crazed look, with one pupil bigger than the other. Its head is green, and it has a red tongue.

Game information
Turtles roll on and jump across platforms with ramps near cable cars. They hurt the passengers if the cable car touches them, and will make the player lose a passenger. They first appear in level six.

Peacocks

 * Main article: Peacocks

Appearance
This robot looks like a pink rabbit. It has a pink head and two pink ears, and has a white platform under its head, this platform making it jump.

Game information
Rabbits bounce on platforms. They hurt the cable car, and the cable car will lose a passenger if it touches them. Rabbits only appear on level 7.

Appearance
Octopi are purple creatures with blue suckers and mouth, They also have a wind up switch on top of their heads.

Game information
Octopi swim under the sea surface and jump up about every three seconds. They move from left to right as they jump. Octopi only appear on level 6 of Skywire 2.

Appearance
Giraffes are yellow creatures with brown spots on their body and are made to come out of a box, the box they are in having white stars on the side.

Game information
Giraffes show only the head and the neck like geese. They pop out of boxes in midair every two seconds, and go back in for about another two seconds. There can be two giraffes popping out of a box at the same time. Giraffes appear on levels 9, 11, 13, and 26 in Skywire 2 and also appear on level 1 of Skywire.

Appearance
Eels look like large red snakes that fly. They move slow an in a circle in the air.

Game information
Eels fly in circles in midair or underwater. Two forms of eels exists - an entire eel that circles around with only a single gap between its mouth and tail, and two eels which move around in a circle with each eel chasing the other eel's tail. Eels rotate fairly slowly but are easy to get through. Eels are found in levels 9, 18, and 27 of Skywire 2.

Appearance
Frogs are light green frog-like creatures with legs that have springs to jump.

Game information
Frogs are situated on islands. They hop up and down about every three seconds, and are easy to avoid. If the cable car goes quickly enough, it can go under a frog while it is still hopping. Frogs are found in levels 11, 13, 16, 24, and 27 in Skywire 2 but also in Skywire on levels 1 and 20.

Appearance
Crabs are creatures with a short long orange body that has two red wheels on each side. Crabs also have long arms with orange pincers at the end, and also have very tiny eyes in the middle of their body.

Game information
Crabs go back and forth on islands. When the reach the end of an island, they reach out and pinch their pincers quickly, retract them, then start going towards the other end of the island. It takes a crab two seconds to travel across an island, and they click their pincers for about one second. Crabs only appeared on levels 12 and 24 of Skywire 2.

Appearance
This type of machines look like an pink elephant that flies using its big ears.

Game information
Found only on level thirteen, a pink elephant follows the player around and knocks out passengers if the elephant impacts the cable car. Although the elephant is rather slow, going in one direction for a long time can give it time to catch up in another direction.

Tirivia

 * The idea of an elephant that flies with its ears is a reference to Disney's Dumbo.

Appearance
Orcas appears as big black whales, with white eyes and a white chin. They have some metal black fins attached to their body. Upon jumping out of water, orcas open their mouth revealing small white teeth and a purple tongue.

Game information
Orcas at first stay underwater, ready at the surface. When the skywire car goes above an orca, it jumps up from the water, reaches a point, and goes back down again. They are easily avoided, but if the player dawdles and stays still as the orca jumps up from below the car, the whole car is swallowed by the orca. Of course, since the passengers are dead, the level must be restarted. Orcas are in levels sixteen, seventeen, and twenty-four of Skywire 2.

Appearance
They look like piranhas with a yellow body and a purple mouth.

Game information
Piranhas stay underwater. They only swim back and forth along a set horizontal line, They are less easy to avoid than other enemies, because they swim at a moderate speed. Piranhas appear in levels 16, 22, 24, and 26.

Appearance
Hippopotamuses have a purple head, with small eyes and ears. They have a big mouth.

Game information
Hippopotamuses consist of only a head. They attack by opening their jaws open, disconnecting them from their body, and these jaws farther and farther away until they snap back together. There are two variations of hippos, one big and one small. Both variations of hippos take five seconds to open their mouth and then one second to close. They only appear on level 18.

Appearance
They look like gorillas with a brown face and orange arms and legs.

Game information
Gorillas hold onto the track by their hands. A gorilla takes its right hand off the track, then its left hand. Both hands stay off the track for about two seconds, giving the cable car time to travel between hands, and then past the gorilla.

In the second level they appear in, they move slightly to the right when they change hands, and when they reach the end of the track they go back to the left. Gorillas only appear on levels 19 and 25.

Appearance
Bees have a yellow face, a yellow and black body, a propeller, and a spike. They appear to fly.

Skywire series
Bees first appear in Skywire 1 on levels 17 and 28. Bees fly in straight lines with many other bees infinitely behind them. They go slowly to the right with spaces between each bee. Unfortunately, in the level they appear in, the wire is shaky at the same place where bees are flying. They appear only in Skywire 2 on level twenty-one.

Nitrome Must Die
Bees appear in Nitrome Must Die, moving in right lines, in and out of pipes. They move in groups with very little space, so the player either has to get injured to kill them, use a weapon which fires upward, or (if possible) jump up on another platform and fire at the bees, or constantly jump upwards and fire at them. They have mild health and are easy to kill, and splatter orange blood on the ground when killed. Multiple lines of bees may appear in one level (Floor 3).

Appearance
A group of monkeys makes a chain that moves. The monkeys have a grey face, a blue body, and a blue tail.

Game information
Monkeys swing in chains, holding onto a hook that seems to hold onto the sky. They are in chains of four, and take about two seconds to go from one side to the other, leaving ample time for the cable car to pass by. Monkeys first appear in Skywire level 20 and in levels 21 and 25 of Skywire 2.

Pufferfish

 * Main article: Pufferfish

Appearance
Ducks look like a yellow duck with two black and white squares as eyes. They have also got a yellow wing and a dark-red beak. Upon diving underwater their eyes seem to turn red and their bodies get divided into three sections.

Game information
The duck goes horizontally back and forth on the water surface, and it follows the cable car. Whenever the cable car goes directly below it (underwater), the duck dives down into the water and comes back up. Since the duck dives down in one direction only, it is easy to avoid. The duck appears on level 26.

Appearance
It looks like a green big crocodile head with small eyes and some yellow teeth.

Game information
The alligator is only a head that travels on the track behind the cable car. It starts at the beginning of the level behind the cable car. Throughout the level it follows the cable car, opening and closing its jaws.

Its jaws can hit the car when they open even if the car is on different parts of the track. If the cable car is too slow and the alligator catches up, the alligator will eat the car like the orca and initiates a game over. The alligator debuts on level 27 of Skywire 2.

Appearance
Bats are black bats that have a red mouth and move like the player and never stop moving. They smile.

Game information
Bats spawn at the beginning of the level track and go through the track just like a cable car. They are quite fast for enemies, and in the level they appear in, the track goes very close to itself and overlaps many times, making bats hard to avoid. New bats spawn about every ten seconds. Bats first appear on Level 10 of Skywire and on level 28 of Skywire 2.

Appearance
Whales are very big robots that have a blue head and a light blue mouth.

Game information
Whales swim back and forth, three times left and three times right, under the water's surface. They take two seconds to move and they shoot out very tall spouts of water, that stay up for about two seconds. Whales only appear on level 29 of Skywire 2.

Hedgehog

 * Main article: Poly

Squirrels

 * Main article: Squirrels

Flies

 * Main article: Flies (enemy

Appearance
They look like big brown moles with small eyes and ears. They have a pink mouth, with a small nose and a white tooth. Under them,there are holes. They are enemies in Off The Rails.

Game information
They hide in their hole and some seconds later they go out the hole.