Electoon

Electoon
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Alignment	Good
Appears in	Rayman, Rayman (Game Boy Color), Rayman Origins, Rayman Mini
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Portrayed by	Gabrielle Shrager (Rayman Origins)
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Species	Electoon
Status	Friend
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Electoons, sometimes known simply as Toons, are the stuff of Polokus's dreams and the substance from which the Glade of Dreams was created. They feature in several games in the Rayman series, most notably the original Rayman and Rayman Origins. They appear as small, pink, benevolent creatures with round bodies and blond ponytails.

Description

Rayman being cradled by a group of Electoons.

Electoons are composed of magical energy; together, hundreds of them revolve around the Great Protoon. The Electoons and the Great Protoon appear to balance and stabilise each other. Physically the Electoons resemble small pink balls with large eyes, blue shoes and, with the exception of their appearance in Rayman Mini, blond ponytails. When Mr Dark steals the Great Protoon at the very beginning of the game, the Electoons lose their natural stability and are scattered all over the valley. They are then captured and imprisoned in cages by Mr Dark's minions. More detail is given in the Game Boy Color version, which explains that Mr Dark captured the Electoons in order to steal their energy and use it for himself.

Electoons express gratitude towards Rayman when he rescues them, as shown by the small heart icons that appear over their heads. The antithesis of Electoons are Antitoons (also known as Darktoons) – malevolent, blue, more masculine creatures which are highly similar to them. Antitoons are the stuff of nightmares, and are spawned by Jano, a creature born of Polokus's First Bad Dream.

The name ‘Electoon’ is derived from the term ‘electron’.

Appearances

Rayman and its spin-offs

An Electoon charging its telescopic fist.

Rayman breaks an Electoon cage with his telescopic fist.

In the original Rayman game, they are kept in cages in groups of seven (or more in the Atari Jaguar version), and in each of the game's eighteen levels – excluding the final one – there are six cages. In total, there are 102 cages throughout the game, all of which Rayman must break in order to enter the Candy Château. Whenever they are set free, they will cheer, show love for Rayman, and walk on their own, often ending up falling into water. They can also use their hair as a helicopter like Rayman does. It is possible that Rayman is actually made up of Electoons, as when he loses a life, his body parts turn into Electoons which quickly shoot up in the sky. Further evidence for this can be found in the image used to represent the Dream Forest, in which an Electoon can be seen charging up its telescopic fist to ambush a Livingstone, and an early version of the game, in which Rayman himself is represented by an Electoon on the world map. In Rayman 2, Rayman reverts to orbs of energy whenever he dies – Electoons are also beings of energy. However, Rayman Origins contradicts this theory, as the game's manual and official website states that Rayman is actually made up of Lums.

The Game Boy Color version of Rayman

In the Game Boy Color version of Rayman, Electoons are referred to as just ‘Toons’. There are thirty-eight cages of Toons in total.

Rayman Origins

Electoon symbol in Rayman Origins.

The irrepressibly happy Electoons are the stuff of the Maker's dreams and contained in all of Bubble Dreamer's Creation.

As the bad dreams worsen, more and more Electoons become imprisoned by bombastic Hunters, who pepper the bucolic Glade with their belligerently live ammunition, and their terrifyingly ridiculous lackeys, the Lividstones. As a result, the very fabric of the Glade of Dreams begins to unravel, and the connections that the Electoons once formed between the lands start to to dissolve.

—Manual, Rayman Origins

The Electoons return in Rayman Origins. In this game, Electoons not only are the creatures that connect the different areas within the Glade of Dreams, but also are the stuff of dreams, the only magical source able to keep Polokus in peace and serenity, stopping him from creating nightmares.

After Rayman, Globox, Polokus and some Teensies wake an old Granny with their obnoxious snoring, they get captured as well as some Electoons. With Polokus turning out of his mind, Rayman and his friends venture in the search for Electoons. In-game, there are cages in secret areas and at the end of each level. Some of the secret areas can be easily found if the player listens to the Electoons' constant cries for help. The player can also free more Electoons by collecting a certain amount of Lums and giving them to the Magician. Collecting enough Electoons will unlock new characters back at the Snoring Tree and give access to both boss battles and Tricky Treasure levels.

Early gameplay footage and one of the game's trailers show that the characters would have had a different death animation. When an enemy or a player died (the latter is only shown with Rayman, but the rest of the playable cast presumably would have had this happen to them too), a bluish puff of smoke would appear and, akin to Rayman's animation when he lost a life in the original game, Electoons would fly out of it, quickly shooting up into the sky shortly after. This would eventually be scrapped in favor of the characters being bubblized when they were defeated.

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  Electoons with Rayman, Globox and the Grand Minimus in Rayman Origins
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  The Electoons as they appear once a cage has been broken in Rayman Origins

Rayman Mini

Electoons make an appearance in the mobile game Rayman Mini as collectibles, which can only be received if the player manages to grab every Lum in a level. Once obtained, Electoons can be used to get outfits for Rayman, Globox, Barbara, and, as of version 1.2.0, the Teensies. Notably, the Electoons in this game do not have their blond ponytails, a trait that is shared with the Darktoons of this game.

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  The Electoons as they appear after a level is completed.
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  An Electoon icon.

Rayman: The Board Game

While Electoons do not physically appear in Rayman: The Board Game, yellow versions of their Rayman Mini icons appear on the six-sided die.

Gallery

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  An Electoon skiing. The credits of the original Rayman show that most of the game's characters went on holiday after Mr Dark's defeat.

Names in other languages

Language	Name
English	Electoon Toon (GBC only)
Chinese (simplified)	电子 (PC, PC manual, PC series manual) 美梦球 (mobile achievements)
Chinese (traditional)	光精靈
Dutch	Electoon Toon (GBC only)
French	Électoon Toon (GBC only)
German	Electoon Toon (GBC only)
Hebrew	אלקטרון Electron
Italian	Electoon Toon (GBC only)
Japanese	エレクトゥーン トゥーン (GBC only)
Korean	일렉툰
Russian	Электун
Spanish	Electoon Electón (Jaguar and Saturn manuals only) Toon (GBC only)

See also

• Antitoon
• Polokus