Spyglass Pirate
‘You incompetent imbecile!’ —Admiral Razorbeard on the Spyglass Pirate.
| Spyglass Pirate | |
|---|---|
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| Alignment | Bad |
| Appears in | R2, RR, RDS, R3 |
| Sex | Male |
| Species | Robo-Pirate |
| Status | Slave |
The Spyglass Pirate [source], also known as the Creole Pirate [source], and Lunette, is a unique Robo-Pirate character who appears in Rayman 2: The Great Escape and its remakes, as well as making cameo appearances in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc and Rayman Dictées.
Description
The appearance of the Glasses Pirate is somewhat different from those of the other Robo-Pirates. While he is still robotic, he looks more like a slightly chubby stereotypical pirate. The lower part of his mechanical body is coloured green to resemble trousers. He wears a yellow scarf covered with red polka-dots around his waist, and has a red-and-white striped bandana tied round his head. A pair of armless black sunlasses cover his eyes. Like most Robo-Pirates, he is noticeably taller than Admiral Razorbeard.
The Glasses Pirate appears to have been in charge of the ground operations during Admiral Razorbeard's campaign. He was a mechanical genius, and created many dangerous devices.
Role in the games
The Spyglass Pirate's role in the N64, PC, Dreamcast and DS versions of Rayman 2 is very small. He appears in many cinematics in which he reports to Admiral Razorbeard regarding Rayman's progress and whereabouts, but does little more. In every version, he debuts in the cinematic preceding Rayman's first visit to the Bayou.
PlayStation version/Rayman Revolution
In the two Sony versions of Rayman 2, the Spyglass Pirate is given much more importance. At multiple points he encounters Rayman and brings with him a difficult challenge. The lackey first strikes chronologically in Rayman Revolution, in which he leads the attack on Clark and Rayman at the entrance to the Rainbow Creek. His next appearance, also Revolution-exclusive, is a boss fight: the Spyglass Pirate jumps into the Boss Biditank to personally battle Rayman. The Spyglass Pirate next encounters Rayman in both the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions at the end of the Tomb of the Ancients, where it is seen that the Glasses Pirate is controlling Clark via remote control. The Glasses Pirate makes his final chronological appearance solely in the PlayStation version, at the end of the Gloomy Island, where he makes his final attempt to get rid of Rayman with his remote-controlled Robot Dinosaur, which he had been using to search for the fourth Mask of Polokus. Fortunately for Rayman, the Glasses Pirate had forgotten to fill up the Robot Dinosaur's fuel tank, and the Baby Globoxes escape with Rayman. This is the only time dialogue occurs between the lackey and Rayman.
Before the final boss battle in the Crow's Nest, Admiral Razorbeard says that he will punish the Spyglass Pirate for his consistent failure to stop Rayman by seeing how well he would swim in molten lava. He then orders the Spyglass Pirate to prepare the Grolgoth for him in the meantime. However, it is not clear whether this punishment was ever carried out, and the fate of the Spyglass Pirate remains unknown.
Appearances
- The Bayou (cinematic)
- Globox's House - Skull Cave (Revolution only)
- The Precipice (cinematic) (Rayman 2: The Great Escape only)
- The Pirate Factory (Rayman Revolution only)
- The Tomb of the Ancients
- Gloomy Island (PlayStation version only)
- Hoodlum Headquarters (Several statues of the Glasses Pirate can be found in a secret room, along with statues of various other Robo-Pirates)
- Bonus Stage (In Rayman 2, after a level is passed with all of its Yellow Lums collected and all of its cages broken, the player can access a Bonus Stage where they control a baby Globox racing against the Spyglass Pirate.)
- Rayman Dictées (What appears to be a statue or replica of the Spyglass Pirate can be briefly seen.)