The Menace
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| The Menace | ||
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| Alignment | Bad | |
| Appears in | Rayman Redemption | |
| Location | Brain Games | |
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| Attacks | Contact (spinning), surface damaging bombs, flame producing bombs | |
The Menace is the sixth main boss of Rayman Redemption, encountered in Playtopia, the new world. He is fought at the end of Brain Games.
The Menace is a unique boss, in that it starts as a single character, which splits into two in the middle of the battle. Rayman will have to defeat both to win. The Menace first appears as a green, monkey-like creature, with a head, an open mouth, a long tongue, and oversized disconnected hands and feet, like many characters in Rayman's world. Unlike most of them, though, the Menace lacks a torso.
He attacks Rayman by spinning around the arena, or standing in one corner and hurling blue bombs at Rayman. The bombs are not only able to hurt Rayman directly, but if they explode in the center, wooden part of the platform, the surface under them breaks, creating gaps through which Rayman may fall into the green fluid below and die instantly. It is best, therefore, for Rayman to stay close to the corners, where the metal plating prevents the platform from breaking.
The only way to damage the Menace is to punch him when he clings to a wall. After taking three hits, the Menace spins towards the center of the arena and splits into two - his red twin looks exactly like him, except with an angry, rather than playful, grin. The red twin's attack patterns are similar, except his bombs are yellow. These yellow bombs do not destroy the platform, but instead explode into two horizontally flying flames that can damage Rayman on either side of the explosion, unless he prudently jumps over them.
The remaining six hit points are split between the green and red Menace equally - once either of them takes three hits, he will drop to the ground and remain inactive for the rest of the battle. Once both of them fall, the battle is won.
Achievements
- Defeating the Menace grants the Playtime is Over achievement.
Trivia
- Just as the world Playtopia is not based on an existing world from Rayman 1, so is the Menace a new boss, and not a character returning from the original game.
- This is one of the few boss battles in the game, where Rayman can suffer instantaneous death by falling off the platform into a harmful fluid.