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Characters of the Rayman video game series who first appeared in the party games Rayman M and Rayman Raving Rabbids.

  • For tropes applying to the titular character, check the Rayman sheet.
  • For Globox, the Teensies, Razorbeard and Henchman 800, check the Rayman 2: The Great Escape sheet.

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Rayman M

    Henchman 1000 

Voiced by: Joe Sheridan

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An newer model of Robo-Pirate seen in every version of Rayman M/Arena/Rush.


  • Arm Cannon: Just like the standard Henchman model, his left hand is a blaster gun.
  • Baritone of Strength: Befitting his more refined design, he has a very deep, robotic voice.
  • Dashing Hispanic: Seems to be designed like one.
  • Hook Hand: His left hand can also be this, since unlike most examples, it's also retractable.
  • Leitmotif: A country rock-esque tune.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A hispanic robo-pirate.
  • Superior Successor: Stated in the French manual for Rayman M to be a perfected version of the standard Henchman model, which is backed up by his more refined design and his having a normal hand rather than a Hook Hand. However, a mistranslation in the English version resulted in him being called an older version instead.

    Tily 
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Voiced by: Jodie Forrest

A tiny fairy who appears in every version of Rayman M/Arena/Rush.


  • Curtains Match the Window: Mostly; in early official artwork, her hair was a dark purple, while her eyes are a lighter shade.
  • The Cutie: A diminutive little fairy with a cutesy design.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Hates vermicelli soup, according to the GameCube and Xbox descriptions in Arena.
  • Forced Transformation: Upon death in battle mode, and upon finishing races, she seems to forcibly transform into a butterfly.
  • The Hyena: She frequently laughs, particularly whenever she wins a game or takes out an opponent.
  • Leitmotif: A string-based piece with a fantastic feel.
  • Not Quite Flight: Utilises this when boosting, flying along the floor.
  • The Prankster: Likes to pull tricks on her friends, according to the GameCube and Xbox descriptions in Arena.
  • Remember the New Guy?: She just appears in M with no real introduction or explanation as to how she knows Rayman and his friends.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Seems like a vertically challenged version of Ly.

    Razorwife 
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Voiced by: Lee Delong

The wife of Admiral Razorbeard, who is apparently even more evil than her husband. Appears in every version of Rayman M/Arena/Rush.


  • Beehive Hairdo: Has a blue one.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She's essentially a female Razorbeard, with all the cruelty that would imply.
  • Henpecked Husband: Apparently makes one of Admiral Razorbeard; the manual says she's even more bossy than her husband.
  • Leitmotif: An Operatic-style theme.
  • Obnoxious In-Laws: According to the manual, Razorbeard's mother blames her for his failure as THE bad guy.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Razorbeard's wife, who was never mentioned or even implied to exist in Rayman 2.

    Dark Rayman 
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Yet another Evil Knockoff of Rayman, he is a red-eyed, red-fisted version of Rayman with an 'X' instead of an 'O' on his body. Only appears in the Gamecube/Xbox versions of Rayman Arena.


  • Evil Knockoff: Of Rayman, though his connection to other similar knockoffs like Bad Rayman from Rayman and Raymesis from Origins is debatable.
  • Floating Limbs: A trait shared with the original Rayman.
  • Palette Swap: He's essentially a recolored Rayman with no notable differences gameplay-wise. He isn't even treated as his own character, but rather a Rayman skin.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes have bright red sclera compared to Rayman's white and Bad Rayman's yellow. He is also yet another Evil Knockoff of the original Rayman.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Perhaps one to Bad Rayman of the original Rayman.

    Dark Globox 
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An uglier, stupider, and more evil version of Globox. Only appears in the Gamecube/Xbox versions of Rayman Arena.


  • Ax-Crazy: Loves causing all kinds of destruction in his rampages. His profession is described in the manual as "walking disaster".
  • Evil Knockoff: Of Globox.
  • Extreme Omnivore: His description in Arena's manual mentions one of his likes as "Eating. (A lot. Of everything. Of anything. All the time.)"
  • Leitmotif: A bizarre vocal piece with a ska-style guitar backing.
  • Spectacular Spinning: His flight technique and boost animation has him spinning like a tornado.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: Although he doesn't actually have legs per say, Dark Globox has a huge upper half and short lower half.
  • The Unintelligible: Doesn't speak a single decipherable word.

    Globette 
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As shy as her friend, she is yet a fierce competitor when it comes to racing. Globox himself is never sure he can defeat his beloved friend.

A female friend of Globox. Only appears in Rayman Rush, the PlayStation version of the game. Oddly enough, she uses Dark Globox's theme music and lower-pitched versions of Tily's voicelines.


  • Composite Character: She seems to be a mix between Uglette and Dark Globox. She's a female member of Globox's species who heavily resembles Uglette, but she uses Dark Globox's theme music. Several of her voicelines are also pitched-down versions of Tily's, despite the latter still being playable in Rush.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She's essentially a female Globox.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Uglette, Globox's wife in Rayman 2. Some assume she's the same character, but her color is a bit different. She also wears a bow similar to one of Globox and Uglette's daughters, Bimbette, although it's smaller.

Rayman Raving Rabbids

    The Raving Rabbids 
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"BWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

A group of cute, but crazy rabbits who are known for their ear-piercingly loud scream. They seem, and are, stupid as hell, but they are actually surprisingly organized, enough to capture Rayman and force him to play games in an arena. They got so popular that they completely took the focus away from Rayman for a good while, until Rabbids Go Home and Rayman Origins came along.


  • Always Chaotic Evil: In the original game, the entire species are insane and malicious creatures who enslave other beings and live for chaos, with no real exceptions to the rule. In the subsequent games... well, they still live for chaos, but they fall more into Chaotic Stupid.
  • Ax-Crazy: The Rabbids are extremely violent and often brutalize other creatures whenever they feel like it. If no said creatures are around, they'll settle for brutalizing each other instead.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Some of their games include holding baby Globloxs in cages, throwing cows like hammer-throwing, and torturing pigs in many creative ways, all played for laughs
  • Beware the Silly Ones: These bunnies may be clumsy and goofy, but remember that they captured Rayman, the hero of the Glade of Dreams, and forced him to play all sorts of crazy minigames for days on end.
  • Big Bad: Collectively, of Raving Rabbids, making this an case of Antagonist Title. Prior to the final version, They had an Emperor who resembled Jabba the Hutt, as shown in conceptual artwork.
  • Breakout Character: The Rabbids quickly became more popular than Rayman himself, to the point of hijacking his series for years before they were split up.
  • Characterization Marches On: As a whole since their introduction, The Rabbids began as an undefined invading antagonist force in Rayman games (with their final origin being bullied natives of the Glade of Dreams who collectively snapped), they began invading reality come their second game on, until shifting to finding a home in Rabbids Go Home. After that, they shifted again into being more of a curious, but still chaotic, race of explorers who's washing machine method of travel allows them to more broadly integrate and explore other universes such as Journey to the West and, of course, Super Mario.
  • Comedic Sociopathy: Are both on the giving and receiving end of this.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: They are known for their loud "BWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!", which they scream at the top of their lungs pretty much every time they appear.
  • Dumbass No More: In Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, many of Rabbids appear to be much more civilized than they're usually portrayed as, some notable examples including the two new Rabbid heroes Edge and Rabbid Rosalina. This is of course Lampshaded in Kingdom Battle where Princess Peach is told that they were way were before creating this new version of the Mushroom Kingdom.
  • Goofy Buckteeth: They are a bunch of moronic rabbits, each with widely-spaced buckteeth.
  • Hair-Raising Hare: These bunnies aren't so cute. They're loud, obnoxious and absolutely psychotic.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes very little to set them off, as just one example, the intro to Raving Rabbids 2 has Rayman throwing an empty soda can to distract two guards with the noise, only for said guards to eye each other angrily and take each other out.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite being utterly insane, Rabbids are surprisingly good dancers. Apart from that, they're surprisingly good at a number of things, such as construction, militarization, manufacturing and mechanics.
  • Iconic Sequel Character: The Rabbids debuted in Raving Rabbids, approximately 10 years into the Rayman series' run, and quickly became so popular they eclipsed Rayman himself.
  • Killer Rabbit: They look cute and cuddly, but are completely psychotic and capable of overpowering Rayman himself through sheer numbers.
  • Made of Iron: In general, the Rabbids can take a ridiculous amount of slapstick but suffer no lasting injuries.
  • Meaningful Name: They're rabid rabbits.
  • National Weapon: Plungers are their iconic tool of trade.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their eyes turn red whenever they scream. Rabbids 2 actually shows a more visible shift that leads to their outbursts in its intro.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Infamous for this: they basically stole the entire show after their first appearance, to the point that the next few games in the series were about them, and didn't feature Rayman at all, much to his fans' dismay. Fortunately for them, come Origins and Legends, the two series have finally split apart.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Noticeably less antagonistic ever since their status as Breakout Characters was established. In the first game, they were actively cruel and malevolent, kidnapping and mistreating Rayman and Globox's children. Starting with the second game, you play as them, and while they still cause a lot of mayhem, it's more due to stupidity and insanity than any true evil intentions. By the time of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, some of them are actively heroic.
  • The Unintelligible: The Rabbids don't talk, instead communicating through incoherent babbling and loud screaming. Their latest appearances explains this away as being "rabbidese" and/or forgo it for regular voicework outright.
  • Villain Protagonist: In the games where they are in the spotlight front and center, they lack real heroic motivations and commit questionable at best and atrocious at worst actions. Most notably in Rabbids Go Home, where they invade the human city and steal their stuff (including their clothes, and in some cases helpless people). It gets to the point that during the last parts of the game the overworld has pretty much resorted to a battlefield between the two sides.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: According to Ly in the Gameboy Advance version of the game, the Rabbids were the nicest creatures that had gradually been bullied by other creatures, therefore going bad and taking their pain out on the entire world.

    Pink 

A recurring miniboss in the first game's on-rail shooting segments. Initially a, well, pink Rabbid unlike all the others (spherical head, consistently red eyes, and a thin body), Pink at some point became a robotic skeleton who rides around in a crawling quadriped mech with an infinite supply of missiles.


  • Early-Installment Weirdness: a symptom of such. He was initially a major figure among the rabbids, alongside Sergui and Professor Barrancco, but was shifted out when The Rabbids as a collective group were made the antagonists. Arguably got it worse than the other two, as the GBA version gives him is initial pink organic look, and made him out to be something of an Evil Genius among the Rabbids, while the Wii console version makes no allusions to it other than being a particularly unnerving-looking and challenging robot mini boss during the shooting segments.
  • Mecha-Mook: Aside from his part as a mini boss, Pink controls a giant robotic Darktoon for one of the boss fights in the GBA version, which serves as a Puzzle Boss.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Unlike other rabbids, his were initially this by default as an organic pink bunny. As a full robot, Pinks eyes are more alarmingly large and intensely glowing pink lights. One of the levels in fact, accentuates it, but placing him in a darkened graveyard.
  • Timed Boss Battle: failing to beat him in the Wii version in a certain time can cause him to leave eventually, depriving the player the score for beating him during the shooting segment.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: Downplayed. In the Wii version, Pink is a mini-boss, but he takes a lot more effort to take down thanks to shielding himself most of the time, and while it's not hard to figure how to best him, the constant stream of other rabbid enemies can distract an unfocused player from his attacks and moments of vulnerability.
  • You Don't Look Like You: His appearance has varied fairly wildly between appearances:
    • A pink furred Rabbid without a mech
    • A pink furred rabbit with his trademark mech and an eyepatch.
    • A skeletal buck-toothed robot with huge eyes and his mech.

    Sergueï 

A giant, black-furred Rabbid who acts as the Rabbids' main enforcer and Rayman's jailer.


  • Affably Evil: Played for Laughs. The manual calls him a softy, and says "His joie de vivre and his strong sense of repartee make him a very pleasant companion." Oh, and some of his favorite tricks include "grinding phalanxes [and] switching your clavicles".
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Completely vanished after the first set of games.
  • Defrosting Ice King: Actually appears to warm up to Rayman during the latter's imprisonment. Although he initially starts each day dragging Rayman to the arena before roughly throwing him in, Sergueï gradually starts letting Rayman walk there himself before eventually celebrating Rayman's continual victories with a full-on orchestral performance.
    • To put in perspective, the first set of challenges have him as the above mentioned Jailer, The last set have him act more as Rayman's bouncer who's vigilantly protecting him from a long line of his Rabbid fans.
  • Final Boss: In the DS version of Raving Rabbids, where he pilots a stange ship, though he remains The Unfought in the console versions.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Noticeably more monstrous and realistic than any of the other Rabbids.
  • Put on a Bus: Does not appear after the first Rabbids game apart from a cameo on the box art of the second one.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: A giant Rabbid with black fur and Red Eyes, and a nasty piece of work. At least at first.

     Professor Barrancco 

A visibly much-abused Rabbid Scientist with a permanent head cast and black eye. He's tellingly cloned himself, and one of said clones becomes the leader of the invading forces of 2.


  • All There in the Manual: as with other early Rabbid characters, his genius, as well as cloning project, is all stated in the first manual of the first game, otherwise a player would be forgiven for only thinking of him as a much abused, but otherwise unremarkable bit player Rabbid.
  • Baby Of The Bunch: apparently it's why he's subject to so much abuse despite his brains.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He may be pitiful at a glance, but promo material paint him has scarily component and dressed in an equally threatening medical uniform, capturing humans to subject to the minigames. What appears to be either him or a clone also leads the invasion that the second console game introduces.
  • Butt-Monkey: A Butt-Monkey among Butt-Monkeys is certainly not the best place to be, and its a wonder he survives as long as he does apart from his clones. One of the earliest (and easiest) mini games has you just bashing the good Professor over and over with a hammer, as many times as you can within the allotted time then watching how big the resulting lump that comes out of his head becomes in order to determine the score.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration: He's mentioned to be currently working on a cloning project, while multiple copies of him appear in various minigames and apparently die.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: with the in-universe explanation that he's actively cloning himself
  • Took a Level in Badass: His first incarnation is a rather meek but brilliant punching bag the other rabbids seem to force into misery during the first console game. His clone steps up his game impressively in the sequel, leading the fleets and trying to take over the live-action world.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: If the original Professor did indeed survive to the next game properly, he was replaced by his 3rd clone, but we never get a definitive answer as to what happened to him.
  • You Don't Look Like You: The "Making of Raving Rabbids" has Barrancco wearing a labcoat, a medical mask, and giant glasses, as opposed to his more iconic head bandage and black eye.

     Barrancco 3 

The third clone of Professor Barrancco (see above), and the most ambitious. Lacking his progenitors injuries, but retaining his distinctive red and blue eyes, he leads the rabbids to start becoming a full-on invasion force utilizing flying submarines.

He has perhaps endured the longest out of the original Rabbids charcters, appearing in multiple games, as well as being a main character of Rabbids Invasion .


  • All There in the Manual: similar to his basis, you wouldn't necessarily know he's a clone, a genius, or a reoccurring antagonist within the Rabbids series of games without doing your research from external sources. He just sort of appears in the intro of the second game as the apparent main antagonist to set up the scenario, and one would be forgiven if they didn't know he and his future appearances were the same character, considering his distinguishing physical characteristic can be easy to miss.
  • Ambition Is Evil: wants to Take Over the World, and seems much more driven in comparison to other Rabbids goofy antics.
  • Breakout Villain: Out of all the characters in the first two games, Barrancco 3 has had the most appearances:
    • the main antagonist of 2
    • reprises the main villain role in Alive and Kicking
    • a minor villain in Travel in Time
    • A Villain Protagonist of the tv show Invasion, his most recent appearance.
  • The Guards Must Be Crazy: Manages this despite being the guards leader. To his credit, he's highly suspicious of Rayman while he's in his Paper-Thin Disguise (a crude mask and a plunger gun) right up until he does the iconic Rabbid scream (thanks to inhaling helium beforehand).
  • Left Hanging: The second game sets him up as the main antagonist at the start, making Raymans infiltration and stopping his invasion from the inside while indulging in globe trotting antics the premise. For most of the game the on-rails shooting sections are implied to be furthering this narrative, but there's no conclusive end to it ultimately, unlike the first games scenario.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Managed to do this to the Rabbids as a whole dmfor the second game, impressive given how chaotic they're known to be.
  • Villain Protagonist: As a main character in Rabbids Invasion.


Alternative Title(s): Rayman M, Raving Rabbids

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