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{{quote|text=The Magician will help you throughout your quest. He's always willing to trade you [[Electoon]]s for [[Lum]]s, which will help you unlock new worlds and maps. At your service, his magic hat will provide tips and tricks galore to help you survive.|sign=Manual|source=''[[Rayman Origins]]''}} | {{quote|text=The Magician will help you throughout your quest. He's always willing to trade you [[Electoon]]s for [[Lum]]s, which will help you unlock new worlds and maps. At your service, his magic hat will provide tips and tricks galore to help you survive.|sign=Manual|source=''[[Rayman Origins]]''}} | ||
'''The Magician''' is a major character in the [[Rayman (series)|''Rayman'' series]]. He makes his first appearance in the original ''[[Rayman 1|Rayman]]'', where he seems to be a member of [[Rayman]]'s limbless species. His next major role is in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', where he is revealed to be a [[Teensie]]. In the intermediate years, the Magician also appeared in several educational spin-offs of the original game, such as ''[[Rayman Junior]]'' and ''[[English with Rayman]]''. | '''The Magician''' is a major character in the [[Rayman (series)|''Rayman'' series]]. He makes his first appearance in the original ''[[Rayman 1|Rayman]]'', where he seems to be a member of [[Rayman]]'s limbless species. His next major role is in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'', where he is revealed to be a [[Teensie]]. (According to unused dialogue from this game, his real name is '''Ales Mansay'''.) In the intermediate years, the Magician also appeared in several educational spin-offs of the original game, such as ''[[Rayman Junior]]'' and ''[[English with Rayman]]''. | ||
[[File:Magician R1 hat.png|thumb|right|320px|Throughout the game, the Magician can be found hiding inside his top hat.]] | [[File:Magician R1 hat.png|thumb|right|320px|Throughout the game, the Magician can be found hiding inside his top hat.]] | ||
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Instead of providing bonus areas, the Magician now helps Rayman to solve the many problems (spelling and mathematical problems for the young player) throughout the journey. When Rayman starts a level, the Magician will give him an overview of the specific tasks he needs to do in order to complete it. After that, his hat will appear several times, and each time Rayman passes one, the Magician will either ask a new question or remind him of the level's task. At the very end of the last stage in the level, he will appear somewhere once the final task is done, and when Rayman finds him, he mostly does a different performance, such as doing a dance or rapping 90's style, while praising Rayman for what he has done. | Instead of providing bonus areas, the Magician now helps Rayman to solve the many problems (spelling and mathematical problems for the young player) throughout the journey. When Rayman starts a level, the Magician will give him an overview of the specific tasks he needs to do in order to complete it. After that, his hat will appear several times, and each time Rayman passes one, the Magician will either ask a new question or remind him of the level's task. At the very end of the last stage in the level, he will appear somewhere once the final task is done, and when Rayman finds him, he mostly does a different performance, such as doing a dance or rapping 90's style, while praising Rayman for what he has done. | ||
===''Rayman Origins''=== | |||
[[Image:Magician.png|thumb|right|250px|The Magician in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'']] | [[Image:Magician.png|thumb|right|250px|The Magician in ''[[Rayman Origins]]'']] | ||
The Magician makes his next appearance in the sequel game, ''[[Rayman Origins]]''. The Magician is first encountered at the beginning of the game: he is found inside his distinctive top hat, which is sitting on the ground outside [[the Snoring Tree]]. Each time one of the players jumps on the hat, the Magician offers a few words of advice. The hat appears in many places throughout the game, and the players can jump on it at any time for tips relevant to their current situation. However, there are some hints at his darker side; he makes sarcastic comments, and has little concern for the heroes, beyond using them as a source of [[Lum]]s. Sometimes he even questions Rayman's position as a hero. | |||
At the end of each level, he is seen holding a test tube which he uses to count the number of Lums collected by the players. In exchange for certain numbers of Lums, he gives the heroes [[Electoon]]s, but if the players reach the top of the test tube, they receive a [[Lum Medal]]. In these post-level screens, the Magician can be seen fully: he is revealed to be a [[Teensie]] rather than a member of Rayman's species, and his hair is now grey rather than blonde. | |||
[[Image:Char-mr-dark.png|thumb|right|320px|The Magician as [[Mr Dark]], or perhaps Mr Dark himself, in ''[[Rayman Origins]]''. He never appears this way in the game.]] | |||
In [[The Reveal]], the final level of the [[Moody Clouds]] and the game itself (excepting [[Land of the Livid Dead (Rayman Origins)|the Land of the Livid Dead]], a bonus level), the heroes reach what they think is [[Mr Dark]]'s headquarters, only to find the Magician working the controls of the diabolical machinery encountered throughout the level. Caught, the Magician spins round and gleefully rips the golden star off his hat before pulling a lever, causing the heroes to fall down a trap door, where they must fight mechanical recreations of the [[Daisy]] and [[Mockingbird]] bosses. Once these have been defeated, the heroes climb back to the office of the Magician, where he distracts them with a disco number before running away. The heroes must them pursue him through a storm of falling debris and broken machinery as the Moody Clouds begin to disintegrate. Eventually the Magician hops onboard an airship, and the heroes must pursue him on the backs of their [[mosquito]] friends. Eventually the airship crashes into the fiery core of the Moody Clouds, causing an enormous explosion. The heroes fall from the sky and land back at [[the Snoring Tree]], where the game began. | |||
The game does not make it clear whether the Magician is an admirer of [[Mr Dark]], or Mr Dark himself. According to an early version of the game's script, a much more complex storyline was once intended. The Magician, real name Ales Mansay, was bullied and ostracised by the other [[Teensie]]s at magic school for his poor magical abilities. Although he helped Rayman to overcome Mr Dark in [[Rayman 1|the original game]], the Magician secretly admired the villain's dark and mysterious nature, and wanted to emulate him. He also developed a hatred for the [[Polokus|Bubble Dreamer]], whose nightmares had repeatedly overcome [[the Glade of Dreams]] and were a constant threat to its inhabitants. The Magician concocted a plan. He hid a microphone in [[the Snoring Tree]], so that the heroes' snoring would irritate and ultimately start a war with the [[Livid Dead]]. Throughout the game, he pretended that he was still a friend of the heroes, allowing him to collect [[Lum]]s from them in exchange for [[Electoon]] which they could use to reach new levels. The Magician used these Lums to power his mechas: gigantic machines which he was building to take over the Glade of Dreams, imposing order and eliminating the chaos of the Bubble Dreamer's nightmares. Eventually the heroes reach the Magician's headquarters in the [[Moody Clouds]] and put a stop to his plans. | |||
Almost all of this storyline was removed from the final version of the game. It is unknown whether the developers changed their minds about the storyline itself, or removed it for some other reason. In its final state, the game seems to imply that the Magician is no more than an alias of Mr Dark; this conclusion is supported by the game's manual, which claims that Mr Dark is in the game. However, there are some hints that the original storyline may still be the case: a microphone disguised as a flower can indeed be seen in [[the Snoring Tree]], and the walls of the Magican's headquarters are decorated with posters which show silhouettes of a different-looking Mr Dark, with a wide-topped hat and long, spindly arms. One of the Magician's posters even says ‘♥ Mister D’. | |||
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[[Category:Friends from Rayman Origins|Magician, The]] | [[Category:Friends from Rayman Origins|Magician, The]] | ||
[[Category:Teensies|Magician, The]] | [[Category:Teensies|Magician, The]] | ||
[[Category:Villains|Magician, The]] | |||