Line #16 WesternAnimation/RaymanTheAnimatedSeries


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3	[[caption-width-right:250:From left to right; [[KindheartedSimpleton Lac Mac]], [[GuileHero Rayman]], [[GirlyGirl Betina]], [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Cookie]] and [[FairyCompanion Flips]]]]
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5	Running for only four episodes in 1999, this is ''the'' most obscure piece of media connected to Creator/{{Ubisoft}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' video game series. This series starts out with Rayman as a captive in Rigatoni's circus, along with new characters Lac Mac, Cookie, Betina, and Flips. After escaping the circus, they have to find their way through the city of Aeropolis, with Inspector Grub hot on their trail.
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7	Where exactly this all fits in the ''Rayman'' continuity is anyone's guess. Notably, Razorbeard, the antagonist of ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'', does show up in the first episode, although he is reduced to a minion of Rigatoni. The series was supposed to run for 26 episodes, so it might have tied in at some point.
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9	!!Tropes include:
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11	* AdaptationalWimp: Razorbeard, the BigBad of ''Rayman 2'', is an incompetent lackey.
12	* AllCGICartoon: A very early example.
13	* AlliterativeName: {{Inverted}} with L'''ac''' M'''ac'''.
14	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Betina's species is not confirmed but she looks like a human girl. In this case, she would qualify as a TokenHuman.
15	* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "High Anxiety", when the asylum staff mistake Grub for one of the patients, Grub tells them he's a police officer, to which the staff member retorts "And I'm the fire chief!".
16	* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' series.
17	* BigBad: Rigatoni.
18	* BottleEpisode: The last episode takes place almost entirely in Grub's house.
19	* ButtMonkey: Both Cookie and [[TheKlutz Grub]].
20	* CanonForeigner: Lac Mac, Cookie, Betina, Flips, Rigatoni, Inspector Grub, and everyone else barring Razorbeard and Rayman himself have ''never'' appeared anywhere in the games.
21	* CartoonCreature: Cookie is [[InformedSpecies supposed to be a mole with a large snout, but looks like some sort of dog-like creature.]] Everyone in the woodland town counts as these.
22	* CaptainColorbeard: Razorbeard.
23	* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Cookie is the prime example of this towards Rayman and his friends (Lac Mac being the only one who doesn't scorn or show resentment towards him).
24	* CutShort: The show was canceled after four episodes and never gave a conclusion to the story.
25	* DemotedToExtra: Razorbeard, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'', is reduced to a lackey of Rigatoni and is only seen in a single episode.
26	* DramaticIrony: The second episode ends with TheReveal that the escapees' new hideout is right above Grub's house.
27	* DrivesLikeCrazy: PlayedWith in "No Parking", where Lac Mac started to drive from the backseat, where Rayman stops him so he could get everyone to safety.
28	* EurekaMoment: Upon seeing Lac Mac's metal-bending trick, Rayman and Betina both realize that he could use his strength to help the group finally escape from their cages.
29	* GuileHero: Rayman uses his wits and ideas for the majority of the series more often than he uses his powers like in the second episode.
30	* GreatEscape: The first episode.
31	* HeroAntagonist: Inspector Grub, who's just doing his job as a police officer by trying to catch what he believes to be a group of criminals because of his semi-bumbling nature.
32	* IdiotBall: Similar to a [[Film/TheLastAirbender certain film]], the prisoners fail to realize that Lac Mac, being able to bend steel bars, should be able to escape from his cage with relative ease until Rayman tells them.
33	* IJustWantToBeFree: What kicks off the plot; Rayman and friends are slaves in Rigatoni's circus, and escape in the first episode. Rigatoni hires Grub to recapture them.
34	* InNameOnly: This series has very little ties to the original games. Aside from the appearance of Razorbeard (who was DemotedToExtra anyway, and has no connection to his video game counterpart) and Rayman himself, you would never guess this had anything to do with the games at all.
35	* InstrumentalThemeTune: The main theme for the series contains no lyrics.
36	* TheKlutz: Also Inspector Grub, he's a bumbling detective whose clumsiness is played with in both episodes "High Anxiety" and most especially "Big Date".
37	* KindheartedSimpleton: [[TheBigGuy Lac Mac]] obviously has low intelligence, but he has not once shown any malicious mean bone in his body and cares a lot about his friends. And in spite of his [[{{Gonk}} ugly]] and [[DumbMuscle stupid appearance]], he's more of a good fellow than one would imply. Especially when the audience sympathizes with how he is treated at the circus and has shown to be a good friend towards Rayman and his friends.
38	* MondegreenGag: In "High Anxiety", when the doctor asks Cookie to read an eye chart, he reads off "G-U-R-A-Q-T-I-N-V-U". This ends up sounding like "Gee, you are a cutie, I envy you" to the doctor and he gets flattered by what Cookie said.
39	* PaperThinDisguise: Rayman fools Inspector Grub by disguising himself as a tourist with a fold-out sign, a teacup to hide his hair and a poor British accent - despite doing nothing to cover his big nose and FloatingLimbs, this disguise fools Grub so thoroughly that he only realizes he's talking to one of the criminals he's supposed to be catching when said criminal takes off the teacup.
40	* PrisonEpisode: The third episode, where the heroes venture into an asylum to break Cookie out.
41	* PunchClockVillain: Inspector Grub. In the final episode, Rayman and his friends even set up a date for him.
42	* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Happens in the asylum from "High Anxiety".
43	* ShipperWithAnAgenda: In "Big Date", the gang secretly help Grub with the titular date on the basis that if he has a girlfriend, he'll be too busy to pursue them anymore.
44	* ShoutOut: A few jack-in-the-boxes looking like Ed from ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble'' are spotted in the second episode.
45	* SingingTelegram: In the last episode, after Grub's date goes wrong due to his clumsiness, Rayman tries to salvage it by posing as a singing telegram at his date's house, offering her flowers and another date with Grub at the movies.
46	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A [[DumbMuscle strong yet dumb]], friendly, primarily blue-and-white creature who happens to be a friend of Rayman? Are we talking about Globox or Lac Mac?
47	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: This appears rather occasionally (e.g "No Parking" and "Big Date" being prime examples), with Betina being the {{Girly Girl}} to Flips' {{Tomboy}}ish Girl.
48	* WrongfullyCommitted:
49	** In the third episode, Cookie gets taken to the hospital for a checkup, but when the doctor learns about Cookie's anxiety by scanning his brain, he gets sent to the asylum beneath the hospital. To make matters worse, Inspector Grub is also visiting the asylum to see his mother, so Rayman and friends try to bust Cookie out.
50	** Grub ends up on the receiving end when the orderlies mistake him for another patient.

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