Hunter: Difference between revisions

| image = [[Image:Hunter-RaymanOrigins.jpg|320px|''Hunter'']]

| appears in = ''[[Rayman 1|Rayman]]'', ''[[Rayman Junior]]'', ''[[Rayman Designer]]'', [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|''Rayman Raving Rabbids'' (Game Boy Advance)]], ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', ''[[Rayman Legends]]''

| location = [[The Dream Forest]], [[Band Land]], [[Blue Mountains]], [[Picture City]], [[the Caves of Skops]], [[Candy Château]] (Atari Jaguar version and ''[[Rayman Designer]]'' only), [[Forest (world)|Forest world]], [[Jibberish Jungle]], [[Jibberish Jungle|Ticklish Temples]]

| resistance = [[Image:Lifebar3.png|''3 HP'']] (''[[Rayman 1|Rayman]]'', ''[[Rayman Junior]]'', ''[[Rayman Designer]]'')

[[Image:Lifebar1.png|''1 HP'']] ([[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|''Rayman Raving Rabbids'' (Game Boy Advance)]], ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', ''[[Rayman Legends]]'')

| attacks = Hammer-bullets, contact, live bullets

{{quote|text=These trigger-happy fools are more trouble than you might think. Bombastic Hunters pepper [[the Glade of Dreams|the Glade]] with random live ammunition. Though dressed rather ridiculously in pink, these men are verrry dangerous and surprisingly sharp shooters despite their bulging eyes.|sign=Official site|source=''[[Rayman Origins]]''}}

'''Hunters''' are recurring enemies in the [[Rayman (series)|''Rayman'' series]]. They are static enemies, turning towards [[Rayman]] to shoot at him with their guns. They are first encountered in the [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]] and its spinoffs, ''[[Rayman Junior]]'' and ''[[Rayman Designer]]''. They make a return in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', where they are revealed to be the masters of the [[Livingstone]]s. A variety of Hunters also appears in [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|the Game Boy Advance version of ''Rayman Raving Rabbids'']], but they bear little resemblance to the Hunters in the other games.

In [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]], Hunters are limbless creatures with purple bodies, white hands and a red neckerchief, much like [[Rayman]]. However, they have big, cleft chins, bald heads with only two hairs, and stylish moustaches. They carry several ammunitions on their chests, which they seem to use to reload their guns. Their guns shoot slow-moving [[bullet]]s; as the [[bullet]] glides through the air, a small door opens on its top and an arm extends from it. The arm waves a large wooden cartoonish mallet back and forth endlessly.  

In [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|the Game Boy Advance version of ''Rayman Raving Rabbids'']], a different kind of limbless Hunters make an appearance. These Hunters have huge armoured bodies, and wear brown perforated explorer hats, similar to the [[Livingstone]]s'. Their hats cover completely their faces. The only resemblance that these Hunters have with the original ones are their mallet-wielding [[bullet]]s.

In ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', they make another appearance, having a greater resemblance with the Hunters from [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]]. However, like other returning characters, Hunters now have limbs, looking more [[human]]. They have several features of a stereotypical leading safari man, with a gigantic monocle (similar to the [[Bubble throwing clown|Water clown]]s') a combed hairstyle, and an enormous moustache. However, their clothes have extravagant colours: A purple coat, a pair of purple shorts (both wrongly described as "pink" on the launch website) and a red neckerchief with white spots. Their hairy hands and yellow, sharp teeth suggest that, like the [[Livingstone|Lividstones]], Hunters possibly also have a poor personal hygiene. Like the original Hunters, they carry their ammunitions on their chests and have enormous cleft chins. This is the only appearance in which Hunters don't use mallet-wielding [[bullet]]s as ammo. Instead, they use big live bullets with crazed smiley faces and red noses.

[[Image:Chasseur.gif|frame|class=sprite|A Hunter in [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]].]]

At the end of the game, Hunters seem to become good people after [[Mr Dark]] is defeated, as there's a picture of a happy Hunter having a tea party with [[Betilla the Fairy]] during the credits sequence.

In ''[[Rayman Designer]]'', there are two types of Hunters, simply titled '''Hunter 1''' and '''Hunter 2'''. Hunter 1 is identical to the Hunter which appears in [[Rayman 1|the original game]]. Hunter 2 on the other hand, although very similar, will shoot his [[Bullet|projectiles]] launching upwards rather than in a straight line forward. After gaining a bit of height they will then fall down in front of the Hunter making them harder to avoid.

==In [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|''Rayman Raving Rabbids'' (Game Boy Advance)]]==

[[Image:Hunter_RRR_GBA.png|frame|class=sprite|A Hunter, as seen in [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|the Game Boy Advance version of ''Rayman Raving Rabbids'']].]]

A variety of Hunters also appear in [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|the Game Boy Advance version of ''Rayman Raving Rabbids'']]. They can only be found in the [[Forest (world)|Forest world]], a [[the Dream Forest|Dream Forest]]-inspired area containing plentiful references to [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]]. Ingame, these big armoured Hunters bear little resemblance to their counterparts in the original, but the hammer-wielding [[bullet]]s they fire are exactly the same.

[[File:Hi-Ho Moskito! 10.jpg|thumb|left|A Hunter in the level [[Hi-Ho Moskito!]].]]

The Hunters return in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'' and later the [[Back to Origins]] mode in ''[[Rayman Legends]]''. Their behaviour is similar to the Hunters from [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]]. They keep static, aiming horizontally at the players and then shooting blue live [[bullet]]s. However, these [[bullet]]s are much slower compared to the mallet-wielding [[bullet]]s, and players can ride on them without getting harmed (similarly to [[shell]]s), and use them as platforms in order to get to the Hunters, who usually stand in high places. Some Hunters shoot red live [[bullet]]s, which act as homing missiles and follow the players for a certain period; those [[bullet]]s are more dangerous, and players cannot ride on them. It is however possible to direct the homing missiles at the enemies themselves, which unlocks an achievement on Xbox 360 and a trophy on PlayStation 3 called [[Back At You!]]

Hunters are not as common as the original ones, appearing only in jungle levels like the [[Jibberish Jungle|Ticklish Temples]]. Like most of the enemies in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', Hunters can be bubblized with one single attack and take four [[mosquito]] shots to be defeated. During [[the Reveal]], a Hunter, along with several [[Livingstone|Lividstones]] can be seen escaping in the [[Warship]] with [[the Magician]], revealing a possible alliance. During the [[mosquito]] sequence, the Hunter is hidden inside of a tube, shooting his red homing bullets at the players, and eventually, coming out.

An artwork depicting a scrapped featherless [[bird]]-like creature can be seen, with a burned moustache and holding a scared Hunter's monocle. It is unknown what relationship was intended to be between Hunters and those [[bird]]s. However, one of those [[bird]]s can be seen on the box art of the game, along with other scrapped enemies.

Hunters return, but they only appear in the [[Back to Origins]] levels.

*They are the only characters in the franchise to have five fingers.

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