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

In 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 bullets; 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 the Gameboy 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 Livingstones'. Their hats cover completely their faces. The only resemblance that these Hunters have with the original ones are their mallet-wielding bullets.

In Rayman Origins, they make another appearance, having a greater resemblance with the Hunters from 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 [[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 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 bullets as ammo. Instead, they use big live bullets with crazed smiley faces and red noses.

==In ''[[Rayman]]''==

Hunters make their first appearance in [[Rayman 1|the original ''Rayman'' game]], in the level [[Pink Plant Woods]]. They can be found in each of the game's worlds; this makes them the second-most common enemy in the game, after the [[Antitoon]]s. Hunters never move, they are static enemies that continually clean their guns with their neckerchiefs, aim them while sniggering, and then shoot a bullet at Rayman. A Hunter can only be hurt when he is cleaning his gun, as its gun blocks Rayman's [[telescopic fist]] when he is aiming it at him. Hunters' [[resistance]] is average. Their slow mallet-wielding bullets always move horizontally and are relatively easy to dodge, but have a wide range; Rayman is likely to get hurt if surprised by them.

 

==In ''[[Rayman Designer]]''==

A variety of Hunters also appears 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 first game]]. Ingame, these big armoured Hunters bear little resemblance to their counterparts in the original, but the hammer-wielding bullets they fire are exactly the same.

These Hunters have a much lower resistance, being defeated with one regular punch. However, they protect themselves with their guns, and in order to make them vulnerable, Rayman must put his Goth costume on, and use the ability to spit gum to shoot at their cannons. With their guns filled with sticky bubble gum, the Hunters will be distracted, trying to pull it out. In that momment, Rayman can defeat them.