Wrong note

Wrong note
Alignment	Bad
Appears in	Rayman, Rayman Junior, Rayman Designer, Rayman (Game Boy Color)
Location	Band Land, Airy Tunes
Portrayed by	{{{portrayed by}}}
Resistance
Attacks	Contact
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Wrong notes are enemies from Band Land in the original Rayman game and Airy Tunes in its Game Boy Color adaptation. They are present in different forms, but all of them hurt Rayman. In musical terminology, the regular variety corresponds to "eighth notes" or "quavers".

Moving wrong notes

Moving wrong notes are invincible enemies that appear in the original Rayman game, Rayman Junior and Rayman Designer. They slide on musical staves, patrolling on preset areas and regularly opening their mouths. Even though they cannot be beaten, their small size and their basic behaviour makes them quite easy to dodge, provided Rayman is sliding at a slow enough pace, so as not to get surprised by them.

In Rayman Designer, there are two types of notes, simply titled Note 1 and Note 2. The only difference between them is how they react to types on the map.

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  A moving note, as it appears in the original Rayman game.
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  A moving note opening its mouth.

In the Game Boy Color version of the original game, moving wrong notes have a similar aspect, but instead of sliding on musical staves, they bounce around and open their mouths at regular intervals.

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  A wrong note with its mouth open
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  A wrong note bouncing
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  An early version of the moving wrong note

Mr Sax's wrong notes

Mr Sax's various attacks consist in blowing notes of different types at Rayman.

Notes of the first type look exactly like moving notes, except that one hit is enough to throw them back to the sender. Mr Sax can blow up to three of them at a time. They can also be found on Rayman's way when he is pursued by Mr Sax: in this case, they float in the air, and punching them will send them at the boss.

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  Mr Sax blowing a note.
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  A static note which can also be punched at Mr Sax.
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  A note punched back by Rayman.

Notes of the second type, called fragmentation notes, are round notes which explode in the air and free eight tiny invincible wrong notes, looking similar in appearance to notes of the first type, which then spread outwards. Mr Sax can blow up to three of them at the same time, making it much harder to dodge the tiny notes.

Just as the regular notes correspond to quavers, this variety corresponds to the whole note or semibreve (as it bursts into 8 eighth notes).

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  Mr Sax blowing a fragmentation note.
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  A fragmentation note exploding.
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  Tiny notes appear after the fragmentation note explodes.

Notes of the third type, called explosive notes, follow a curved trajectory and explode on the ground. They are the same shape and size as notes of the second type.

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  Mr Sax blowing an explosive note.
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  The effect of an explosive note.

Static wrong notes

Static wrong notes are found throughout Band Land in the original Rayman game, Rayman Junior and Rayman Designer. They cannot move and all Rayman can do is avoid them. They are much larger than the other types, except for the tiny ones that are found in Rayman Junior.

In Rayman Designer, these types appear in the map editor.

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  The notes are sharp.
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  Tiny notes from Rayman Junior.

In the Game Boy Color version of the original game, static wrong notes are all black and do not have a face.

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  Static wrong notes in the Game Boy Color version of Rayman
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  An early version of the static wrong notes

Names in other languages

Language	Name
English	Wrong note (manuals) Note (Rayman Designer)
Dutch	Valse noot
French	Fausse note (manuals) Note (Rayman Designer)
German	Falscher Klang (manuals) Note (Rayman Designer)
Hebrew	תו שגוי Tav Shaguy
Italian	Grossa nota
Japanese	不協和音 Fukyōwaon
Spanish	Falsa nota