Fanon/Night Of The Livid Dead

Livid Dead is the 7th episode of The Adventures Of Rayman, and is also the Halloween special. It takes place in the Land of the Livid Dead during a fall festival.

Synopsis

It’s Halloween, and Rayman’s friends want to scare him, though they are all in for a big surprise when they see real ghosts.

Plot

On Halloween night, Rayman is waiting for his friends at the fall festival at the Dead Door (the door to the Land of the Livid Dead). When his friends finally arrive, they tell him to go on ahead and walk into the door, and that they will be along soon, which he does. The friends get ready to use their costumes to scare him. Just after they enter, however, Ray of the Dead appears out from behind a tombstone with a granny and a ghost. The former tells them that they finally have 6 people to frighten, and they get excited, even saying “This is gonna be fun.”

As a bunch of the friends’ plans fail to frighten Rayman, he says that he doesn’t believe in ghosts. However, as the team prepares for their next attempt, they decide to split up. As they are trying to execute their plan, the livid dead play spooky pranks on Rayman, unbeknownst to him, thinking that his pals are doing it, but this time he actually feels fear. After seeing Ray of the Dead and the rest of the livid dead, he frantically runs for his life. Meanwhile, other grannies and ghosts are playing jokes on Globox and everyone else, causing them to also feel fear. When everyone meets back up again, including Rayman, they all tell each other that they saw ghosts, as Rayman points in front of him where Ray of the Dead and the granny and ghost from before are, who chase them through the Land of the Livid Dead.

When the team finds a place to hide, they discover that Chuck has gone missing, and they find him stuck on top of a dead tree surrounded by ghosts. They then hatch a plan to rescue him. They find sheets and use them to disguise themselves as ghosts. Murfy and Barbara tell the livid dead where they last saw the heroes, while Rayman, Globox, and Jack rescue Chuck. Afterwards, Ray of the Dead and the rest of the Livid Dead (who still think they’re ghosts who betrayed them) come back and chase the gang throughout the Land of the Livid Dead through cemeteries, dead trees, and haunted houses, until they finally get back to the dead door, where the ghouls block the exit, and as it seems that they are surrounded, Jack has an idea. They take their disguises off and immediately lunge out at the Livid Dead. This scares all of them (including Ray of the Dead) and sends them all running away in terror, as the friends laugh. They then walk out the Dead Door, where Mister Death says “I told you so.” Rayman tells his friends that this was the best Halloween ever, and the gang decide to enjoy the fair. Afterwards, Grub decides to check out the Land of the Livid Dead, only to get spooked and chased by Ray of the Dead and the rest of the ghouls, ending the episode.

Trivia

-When Mister Death says “You’re in for a scare,” he may be referring to the TV show Goosebumps.

-Will Byers, a character from the show Stranger Things, makes a cameo in the line to the Dead Door. This is because he featured in a Halloween trailer for Rayman Legends.

-In one of the shots from the second ghost chase, there is a bird’s eye view of the heroes running through a maze where the livid dead are pursuing them. This is a reference to the arcade game Pac Man.

-The whistling noise that Ray of the Dead makes is the same one that Death makes in the movie Puss In Boots: The Last Wish.

-The way the 6 friends scare the undead is a reference to Foxy’s jumpscare from Five Nights At Freddy’s 2.