Rayman fans: Hey, can we get a new Rayman game soon? Ubisoft: No but here’s Rayman snorting cocaine.

The Rabbids really did a number on rayman huh.

rayman getting replaced by an ai/clone is extremely topical and hilarious

That "Most replayed" feature is really something, huh?

to be honest I'd roll my eyes at any other innocent character turning dark but with Rayman and in this context it makes sense

Rayman went from beloved icon to a toon who has been scarred for life by one event.

What Rayman said from 2:34 to 2:48 perfectly describes how Ubisoft abandoned the Rayman Series and replaced it with the Rabbids Series.

The giggle and “am I happy?” Delivery was perfect and sounded cold as fuck, like he knew he had FULL control of the situation and room

They actually funded a whole series out of a premise you'd see in a raunchy Newgrounds video game parody

Rayman casually eating sushi and snorting coke off the back and ass of an naked anthro cow is low-key a vibe. What a sentence.

Bro Ubisoft has secretly been making an Rayman anime the whole time

Rayman swearing is as surprising as a young Sonic fan hearing Sonic say "Damn" in Shadow The Hedgehog and not knowing wtf they're supposed to do

It’s no wonder Rayman snapped being pushed aside while other characters get their time in the limelight and society treated him like garbage.

Giving Rayman a cocaine addiction is the last thing that ever came to mind.

Everyone has pointed out that Rayman's arc mirrors how Ubisoft has treated him, but nobody has pointed out how his status as an limbless alien surrounded by limbed folk mirrors how he's the only mascot platformer who has no limbs at all

As a person who’s never played a *single* Rayman game… Rayman was my favorite character in this show. The shift from being so innocent to being willing to massacre an entire room just makes perfect sense with the context, and it honestly makes me feel bad to see him go down this path, even if it’s what he should’ve done years ago.

They really made Rayman a walking analogy for using mascots to hide foul play. Eden is shown to be oppressing people who stand against them, which especially include hybrids most working in conditions that are comparable to slaves. Rayman thought the whole time he was providing hope to everyone in Eden including his hybrid brethren so to learn the horrors that his face was being used to cover up, along with his outburst against Red’s blatant specism causing him to be replaced with another Rayman sent him into the extremes. If I had to give a real world comparison, it’d be like if Mickey was a real person and learned all the fucked up stuff Disney does.

I like to believe a writer one day achieved new levels of fever dream, told the producers about the dumbest idea he's ever had, and they were like "...We could totally do that."

I guess this is what happens when you get ditched for some rabbits with the iq of a pebble

As much as I love the Rabbids, Rayman basically became the Ubisoft equivalent of Donkey Kong where even though he was the star of his own video games, The Rabbids ended up slowly hijacking the spotlight and before we knew it Rayman was in their shadow before being overwhelmed completely and now HE is the side character Rayman has every right to be pissed off

This Rayman is like a child actor whose life spiralled into alcohol and drug use as they got older

This whole show feels like a huge fever dream💀

Can I just say how much I love Rayman’s voice? Never heard of David Menken before watching this comp, but he absolutely _killed_ it here. He hit literally every note. I’ll be checking out more of his work for sure.

1:12 I love how, at first, it seemed like a joke, but it's actually a major plot point.

He literally deserves his own show.

Gotta give props to Rayman's voice actor. He somehow managed to capture his charm from the video games and give him a range of emotions we've never seen from him until now.

Rayman eating sushi off of a naked cow lady ended up becoming the most iconic moment in this while show yall are perverts

I'm convinced that the VA must be some kind of Rayman fan because he killed that delivery

It's interesting how Rayman is the only thing people seem to talk about in this series. I think that shows just how beloved this character truly is.

this entire video basically just made me understand Rayman's whole thing in this series

It's fucking insane that "Rayman starts gets shunned and starts doing drugs" is an a scenario in that exists and it's even more insane that said scenario STILL seems in character for him given his history

the fact they actually used the rayman origins ost at 3:20 makes me so happy

This makes Rayman singing "Sex Bomb" and the Rayman 3 ad where he was implied to be very well endowed make a whole lot more sense

can't wait for people to have him as their "literally me" character

"yeah he's cool but kinda edgy...." No you don't understand He becomes someone so violent that they can never hope to mince the truth or market him in a PG way He embraces his darker side because he knows Eden can't make Rayman lie to himself

The true main characters in this show are bullfrog and Rayman, they arguably did the most important stuff.

It was a good touch having Rayman make use of his ability to literally throw his hands like that. Honestly this is pretty well done. "Raymone" was tastelessly edgy but somehow didn't pull me out of the story. The message of being treated like a replaceable product and not a person is a very real thing. His reactions to what happened to him and how he wants to stand up for what's right make sense.

Why did they make rayman so goddamn unhinged. It’s so out of pocket and I LOVE IT.

The fact that rayman was eating sushi off of a cowgirls ass is comical to me

Ridiculously good show. I enjoyed the whiplash from it taking itself ultra seriously and then just being a batshit crazy parody of your favourite icons growing up. Feels like a very natural progression of Rayman honestly, comparing the first and third games’ tonal shift.

If Rayman hadnt stopped fighting for a long time he would have put up a MUCH better fight against Red. Rayman canonically beat a gang of space pirates that enslaved over 100,000 lives, shook an entire constellation, can punch people so hard that they explode, but after he left his dimension he seemed to have gotten sloppy, forgetting that he is indeed supposed to be a hero with great power. Poor rayman :c

Believe it or not, this isn't actually the first time Rayman has appeared on tv

Seeing rayman be alcoholic and a coke sniffer is some chip and Dale type shit, and I'm all for it

Do people just *forget* how lewd the comedy of the series has gotten at times? Like, I don’t think this is *that* far out of character at all, this is still the same dude for certain, just pushed to an extreme point.

Rayman going postal unironically went hard as *fuck*

Every scene in this show his basically his treatment in real life, from popular platform icon as much as Mario and Sonic to completely forgotten character for a decade who got his retribution thanks to a DLC

Gotta say I love that transition with the mirror getting shattered in the bathroom. I don't know if that was homage to something else but if it was original, then big ups.

He sounds exactly like how I always imagined he would sound!

It does kinda hurt my soul a little bit to see an icon of my childhood portrayed in this light, but honestly its just nice to see him around again.

Ironically enough, this is pretty in character of Rayman considering he might look like a friendly creature, but he can get pretty matured realistically like this too. It's kind of proven within the advertisements of Rayman 3.

The voice actor has so much energy. It's so weird to see my childhood hero in this way, but it fits so well to his actual history in real life. Funny for Ubisoft to be so self aware!

4:52 bro sounded like baki

If Ubisot made Conker's Bad Fur Day but with Rayman instead

4:33 Dear God, Rayman turns weakness into strength from the absence of limbs, so long have I never seen his hand move away from him.

Who would’ve guessed that a character who snorts cocaine and kills people would be fighting alongside Mario

You gotta understand, this works so well on Rayman of all characters because its not so far off from what they did to his game series

I'm surprised how much they did with Rayman. I was expecting one stupid cameo and I ended up seeing a whole character arc. 😂

The fact he can detach his hands legs and maybe his head? from his body and move them around independently across a decent distance actually opens up some interesting and horrifying possibilities for an anti-hero...

3:48 the voices have announced. *_mass manslaughter_*

Honestly, of all of this, my favourite part is that little Judo Chop he does. It's a nice call back to the fact that Rayman can actually "dislocate" his hands, it was even the basis of an entire game plotline.

rayman 4 revenge and alcohol

I feel bad for Rayman about all the crap that he's been through and this animation tells us that video game characters can't all be nice all the time.

3:55 Me when I lose the most useless and pointless causal 1v1 of my life

@3:58 the shadow from his hairline on his eyes makes them look even more demonic, idk if it was intentional for that to look that way but its such a cool little detail

You have to admire the balls of Ubisoft. Could you ever imagine the likes of Nintendo having Mario portrayed like this? I mean sure, Rayman isn't their top IP right now, but still, having a child friendly mascot take a turn like this... Feels more like something you'd see in a web parody, not an official series! Then again, they are a French company. Experimental stuff is hardly something the Europeans are adverse to. EDIT: Dang, that's a lot of likes! Thank you!

Damn, this is what Rayman felt when Ubisoft replaced him with those Rabbits. Damn, give Rayman more love and Games.

Drunk Rayman feels relatable

4:58 bro think he Heisenberg 😭💀🤦🏾‍♂️

I get it. I understand why Rayman hates those Rabbids now.

This is one of the many reasons I love this show. Imagine Nintendo displaying Mario as a depressed 30-some nobody who lives with his brother doing mushrooms in his spare time. But in an ironic low effort meta self-aware way.

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What ten years without a game does to a mf Edit: specifically 2:36

This video is basically Rayman getting to his breaking point

I wouldn't mind an actual adult Rayman show tbh.

So, are we not going to question why he was eating off a cow-lady or who the cow lady was? 2:21-2:27

This perfectly defines how rayman has been treated

Fun fact: Rayman is voiced by David Menkin, who also voiced Malos from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Barnabas from Final Fantasy XVI.

So we not only do we have a cursing, alcoholic, coke-snorting Rayman, but also a Shin-chan parody at 1:30, furry bait at 2:23, The Sims at 3:18 and it's all voiced by the same dude as Malos from Xenoblade 2?! Of course it has the same director as Peepoodo

Still think the whole series plays out like an edgy 14-year-old's dark fanfic, but the bit where Rayman laughs and goes "Am I happy?!... Oh no... no I'm not" kinda hits. That last part of the old, innocent him bleeding out in those last moments of agony and anger through his change of tone.

This is definitely the alternative universe version of Rayman of what he looks like after not getting his own video game for decades after Rayman Legends

Honestly if there's one more Rabbids game without Rayman in it, this is a plausible path for him to take.

So first he makes his comeback with Mario and now he's already hit rock bottom. Jesus Ubisoft just give this man a game!!

Rayman here is such a good character. He's not just some asshole who grew an ego and became blind to the situation. He was fed the exact same lies and flase hoods as everyone else. When Red called him out you can see it genuinely upset him and he was right to be angry. But one mistake, one moment of genuine emotion, one line off script. Completely replaced. You can see him literally go through the five stages of grief so fast too. Denial at losing his place, anger at being replaced, bargaining to get his job back, depression of how he was actively involved in the current state of the world and acceptance at reality that his life is over but he can still make a difference by saving a single life. But the sad part is that it was still manipulation. Sara fisher was no doubt the one who sent that message given her speech in the last episode. In the end Rayman was always a pawn. A tool. Just in the hand of a different person. Edit: Actually thinking back the denial part makes more sense for him denying reality and feeding lies to people. That makes more sense now that I think about it but forgot to change it before posting the comment.

He honestly should’ve been the main character

Love how nobody is talking about anything other than rayman with this show.

2:41 Wait i'm probably out of context but this line fits so well to the Rayman treatment in his franchise he got replace by Rabbids and just imagine if that fake Rayman is a disguised Rabbid, honestly i don't think so but if it's that the case this is a 10/10.

I used to have a crush on rayman This is lowkey strengthen it

Rayman and Bull frog are all I care about in this show I love it

2:23 Who in their right mind decided that Rayman would be eating Sushi off of a naked bull girl?

I wasn't so sure at first about how they took Rayman's character when I started the series. It felt like every other "childhood character you love is now adult and obscene" trope we see in modern media. But as the series went on, I actually really began to love the writing of him, and the path they were going for. Being a "Hybrid", Rayman is considered part of a largely discriminated minority, and was struggling before being made into Eden's mascot. It's shown that he had been greatly dehumanized in the process, becoming a shill for all of Eden's lies and propaganda. But some of his humanity persists, most notably shown when he protests against Niji Red's active racism towards "interdimensional alien scum," and when he privately tries to justify his actions to the Board of Directors. The "racial minority used by a company and turned into a corporate super-star" story is a sadly realistic one, and is thankfully being touched on more in the present with shows like this and The Boys (take A-Train in season 3, for example). Did I ever think Rayman was going to be one of these examples? Never in my life. Am I loving it every second of the way? Yes. Releasing Rayman's character by letting him get back at his abusers and off the entire Board of Directors was not only insanely satisfying to see, but it also greatly builds up interest for what comes next. Admittedly, giving Rayman a trenchcoat, twin tommy guns, slicking back his hair and changing his name to "Ramon" was a little silly, but that's what I love about this show. It finds a good balance between story-driven, violent action and goofy humor, something other adult-oriented shows fail to do. I can't wait for the next season!

bro thinks he's Heisenberg at the end 💀

It's really fucked that the reason Rayman has gotten popular recently was because people came to see him at his lowest point. Like a child actor that grew up and suddenly does drugs now so now a lot of people have eyes on that actor now all of a sudden

So uhh, a bit of explanation and spoilers: Rayman here is a refugee from Dimension X who lived in Eden after the Rabbids destroyed his homeworld. Now, Rabbids here are not the tiny, annoying pranksters we know; they're eldritch abominations the size of houses. Now stuck in this new world, Rayman has grown a fondness for the animal-humanoids known as Hybrids despite the general discrimination towards them, mostly because he suffered that same prejudice despite working his way up and getting a proper education. His potential was recognized by Eden's top brass and hired him as their reporter and spokesperson, but over time, the various atrocities unfolding before him ate away at his sanity. At the apex of it all, Niji 6's Red, Eden's top hero, acted as a complete discriminative prick on live TV, causing him to cuss him out also on live TV. Eventually, the top brass fired Rayman for his outburst and replaced him with a replica, causing him to snap. A mysterious message on his TV told him to seek out Bullfrog for answers, but the latter only shows hard proof that Eden was only using Rayman to hide their atrocities and the damage he's done from his work as a voice for Eden, as well as the horrible future if he continues his actions. Overcome by guilt and a desire for revenge, he arms up and slaughters the entire top brass himself, from codenames Alpha to Omega. Sigma is spared because she's actually Sarah Fisher, the main antagonist, who was absent during Rayman's rampage.

4:24. There you are. That’s a very naughty hand. Rayman ate in this show. XD

This is rayman's shadow the hedgehog arc

this show was amazing, from the opening, down to the very last scene

I love how deadly serious Rayman was. He is one of my favorite characters. Very good animation.

4:46 what a decade without games and being in the shadows does to a mf

I like how we can easily tell the most replayed part of the video

"That's a _very_ naughty hand~" 😏🤚