Hunter: Difference between revisions

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

| attacks = [[Bullet]]s (''[[Rayman 1|Rayman]]'', ''[[Rayman Junior]]'', ''[[Rayman Designer]]'', [[Rayman Raving Rabbids (Game Boy Advance)|''Rayman Raving Rabbids'' (Game Boy Advance)]])

{{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 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 missile]]s with crazed smiley faces and red noses.

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.

[[File: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]]. In the game, 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!]].]]

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 a tube, shooting his red homing [[live missile]]s at the players, and eventually, coming out.

An artwork depicting a [[Hunter Bird|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 [[Hunter Bird|birds]]. However, one of them can be seen on the box art of the game, along with other scrapped enemies.