Toad (Rayman Legends)

Toad
Alignment	Bad
Appears in	Rayman Legends, Rayman Adventures, Rayman Mini, Rayman: The Board Game
Location	Toad Story, Land of the Livid Dead, the Rabbit Hole, the Trunk
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Attacks	Contact
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This article is about the amphibian enemies found in Rayman Legends, Rayman Adventures and Rayman Mini. For the creatures in Rayman 3, see Toad.

Toads are amphibian enemies which appear in Rayman Legends, Rayman Adventures, Rayman Mini and Rayman: The Board Game. Although similar in species, they shall not be confused with the toads in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, as they bear a less primitive behavior and act more aggressively with Rayman and his friends.

Description

In appearance, they are considerably different to regular toads, with small legs and arms and no visible webbed fingers. Their most noticeable feature is their green egg-shaped body covered in boils, surrounded by a big loincloth-like belt. They slightly resemble Polokus as he appears in Rayman 2: The Great Escape.

Toads come in three other common variants: Red Toads, who can breathe fire, use flamethrowers and wear jetpacks; Underwater Toads, who fire electric projectiles and wear a diving suit; and Spy Toads, whose rifles also fire electric projectiles, but wear infiltration suits.

A giant version called the Armored Toad is the boss of Toad Story and possibly the leader of all toads.

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  3D model from the E3 Rayman Legends trailer
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  Parachutist toads on the painting for Toad Story

Appearances

Rayman Legends

In Rayman Legends, toads are, along with the Lividstones, the most common kind of enemies in the game. They are mostly found in Toad Story.

Toads act as wild barbarians, and invade small towns populated by defenseless Teensies, causing war and disaster. They usually just carry a machete with them, though some will also carry a wooden shield, which can be outsmarted with Murfy's tickle ability or just with a stronger punch. Some toads prefer standing on stilts to avoid danger, and can be defeated by reaching their altitude or simply calling Murfy to break their stilts. Their strategies also involve air ambush with parachutes, similar to those used by the Lividstones. Some toads will even run at Rayman with their machetes, making a battle cry. Like most of the enemies, toads can be defeated with one hit.

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  A toad in Ray and the Beanstalk
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  Toads in Enchanted Forest - Invaded

Toads notably make an appearance in 3D in the E3 2013 trailer for the game, in which they fight Barbara, who has come to help Rayman escape from the grip of the Armored Toad.

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  Barbara facing an army of toads in the E3 2013 trailer for the game
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  Barbara jumping on defeated toads in the trailer

Rayman Adventures

In Rayman Adventures, toads are also found in Toad Story and behave identically to those in Rayman Legends.

It also appears that Lividstones and Toads are at war with each other. No longer allied by the Dark Teensies, they tend to fight for territory. In many levels of Toad Story in Adventures, the Lividstones will invade the territory of the Toads. Within the levels, Lividstones and Toads show signs of winning the battles that are taking place, but due to the player interfering, the battles usually end in a stalemate with a Francky and Oger preparing to fight each other only to have the player defeat both of them.

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  Toads appearing with the Lividstones.
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  A Toad stomping a Lividstone.
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  Rayphael bouncing off of a Toad.

Rayman Mini

In Rayman Mini, toads of a regular size are found in the Rabbit Hole and the Trunk, where they act as bosses for those worlds. From version 1.3.0 onwards, they also appear in "Life on a String", the music level set in the Trunk.

The single toad from the Rabbit Hole stomps the floor, causing the tunnels to collapse, while those from the Trunk shoot at the heroes using the same guns and electric projectiles as the Underwater Toads from Rayman Legends. One of them can be defeated by being crushed with spikes.

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  A toad stomping the floor in the Rabbit Hole
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  A toad with a gun in the Trunk
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  Rayman crushing a toad using a spiked platform in the Trunk

Rayman in the Phantom Show

While toads do not physically appear in Rayman in the Phantom Show, the third DLC of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, a western-themed toad appears on posters in the Western Set. A prop of one also appears in Act 1 of the Phantom's song, Phantom Returns; the Phantom, emphasizing how Rayman's punch is weak, punches a prop of a toad on a spring, only for it to hit him and send him flying.

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  The toad poster in the Western Set

Rayman: The Board Game

Toads are set to be included as enemies in Rayman: The Board Game. They will appear on the Jungle board.

Trivia

• Some toads hum five notes of the composition Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner after releasing their parachutes.