Rayman

* Rayman Legends
* Rayman Origins

## Appearances

### Appears in

Rayman, Rayman Junior, Rayman Designer, English with Rayman, Tonic Trouble (cameo), Rayman 2, Rayman: The Animated Series, Rayman M, Rayman Garden, Rayman Golf, Rayman Bowling, Rayman 3, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Rayman Kart, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends, Rayman Adventures, Rayman Mini, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

### Debut

Rayman is a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Ubi Soft as the first installment of the Rayman series. It was originally released in September 1995 for MS-DOS, Windows, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, and Sony PlayStation.

**Rayman** is the main protagonist of the video game series of the same name. Rayman was originally created in the early 1990s by French video game developer Michel Ancel. The character made his debut in the original *Rayman* game, published by Ubisoft in 1995. With his trademark lack of limbs and helicopter hair, Rayman has become a popular and recognizable video game character, and the series has continued to grow and develop across numerous platforms up to the present day.

### Appearance

Rayman was originally designed to simply be an athletic character with a full body, but because of complications rendering on game consoles, he was left without arms, legs and a neck – his hands, feet and head float around his body. The manual of *Rayman Origins* gives out a new explanation for Rayman's limblessness: the lack of Lums had the consequence of preventing the creation of his limbs. He has a huge round nose, and strawberry-blonde hair which he divides into two fronds (three in the original game). He has the ability to use his hair as a helicopter, which lets him glide across large spaces and make soft landings. His eyes are dark blue in colour, though in most official artwork they are coloured black; two pictures in the original game showed him with lighter blue eyes. While Rayman is unique in most of the games, other members of his unknown species are seen in the original game, notably the Magician, Tarayzan, the Musician and the Musician's wife and child.

Rayman is almost always seen in white gloves and a purple torso with a mysterious white ring on the chest, through which he gains new powers from Betilla the Fairy. The symbolcan also absorb the Silver Lums created by the fairies, and magically open the pillars containing the Four Masks of Polokus in *Rayman 2*. Up until *Rayman 3*, he wore a red neckerchief, which was then replaced with a red hood. He also wears shoes that are typically yellow and white, though the actual designs have changed throughout the series. *Rayman Raving Rabbids* is where he is seen wearing different clothing that has raised a few questions about his ‘limblessness’, as he sometimes looks as if he has knees, such as the disco costume with its trousers/pants. In *Rayman Origins*, his *Rayman 3* attire was used, but his hood and shoes are a little different. In *Rayman Adventures*, he wears a new attire. He wears a red bandanna around his hair, a sleeveless brown coat unbuttoned around the bottom alongside his red hood, revealing a white shirt, and has a brown belt around his waist with a gold buckle. His gloves are now brown and fingerless, and his shoes are the same kind Assassin Ray wears.