Moskito

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• This article is about the character's role in Rayman fan games. For the character in official games, see Moskito.

Moskito
Moskito
Alignment	Bad
Appears in	Rayman Redemption, Rayman ReDesigner
Location	Moskito's Nest, the End of the World (as Dark Moskito)
Portrayed by	{{{portrayed by}}}
Resistance	(Rayman Redemption) (Rayman ReDesigner)
Attacks	Sting, spiky fruits, energy projectiles
Sex	{{{sex}}}
Species	Mosquito
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In Rayman Redemption

Moskito is a gigantic red mosquito, with purple feet and proboscis. He is the first major boss in Rayman Redemption, encountered in Moskito's Nest, the final level of the Dream Forest.

When Moskito is first encountered, he chases Rayman with a giant spiky fruit. During the battle, he attacks Rayman by trying to poke him with his proboscis and uses spiky fruits of various sizes to attack. Like Bzzit, Moskito has a new attack in Rayman Redemption - while hovering in the air above the arena, he moves from side to side and launches energy projectiles down at Rayman.

Moskito later appears as parts of the Dark Chimera, his wings and body being merged with Space Mama, his wings and head fused to Mr Skops, and finally his head combined to Mr Sax and Space Mama. He's ultimately seen in the ending, having turned good and carrying a pile of six visible Electoons on his back alongside Bzzit across an area of the Dream Forest that's most likely Anguish Lagoon. Six more Electoons are also seen, half of them happily flying around Moskito while the other three are carried by Bzzit, while a large-eyed fish cheerfully jumps out of the water. Unlike Moskito who is completely unfazed by the weight he's carrying, Bzzit appears tired and struggles to carry half the Electoons, implying Moskito may be physically much stronger than Bzzit.

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  Moskito and Bzzit in the ending.

He is also available as a skin for Bzzit, both in his classic and Dark Moskito appearances. Moskito's skin can be picked up in Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and the skin of the mosquito's dark doppelganger can be obtained during Dark Rayman and Dark Moskito's boss battle, briefly appearing at the bottom of the screen. Additionally, the Greenskito and Beeskito skins are named after Moskito, despite them being intended for Bzzit.

Moskito as Dark Moskito in the True Boss Rush.

Moskito is fought again as part of the Boss Rush, and is replaced by Dark Moskito during the True Boss Rush, also changing his projectile attack to a pattern more similar to Bzzit's.

As Dark Moskito

Near the end of the game, at the beginning of the End of the World, Rayman and Bzzit encounter Moskito in his Dark form, with Dark Rayman riding him. In this appearance, he has a blue body, pink feet, wings and proboscis, and glowing yellow pupil-less eyes, similar to those of Dark Rayman. During the aerial battle, both mosquitoes attack by launching energy projectiles from their proboscises. Dark Moskito can be acquired as a skin for Bzzit during this same fight, the collectible appearing at the bottom near the beginning of the battle.

Dark Moskito is encountered again in the True Boss Rush, replacing Moskito and attacking with a similar pattern to Bzzit while performing his aerial project attack. He then appears again under the same colours during the Dark Rayman boss battle.

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  Dark Moskito in the True Boss Rush.

Achievements

• Defeating Moskito grants the Pesky Moskito achievement.

In Rayman ReDesigner

Moskito returns from Rayman Redemption in Rayman ReDesigner, but as a flying invincible chaser, carrying his massive spiky fruit. He's available from the second page of the editor's enemies tab, and can be flipped, or be spawned or despawned by gendoors and killdoors.

As an aerial chaser, he only reacts to stopping mechanisms, which will stop him permanently. He only starts moving and chasing Rayman when he's about between six and fourteen tiles away from him, making his trademark buzzing sound upon noticing Rayman.

Additionally, he's once again available as a skin for Bzzit, and his music theme can be selected in the level editor. Dark Moskito returns as well, both as a skin for Bzzit and as Dark Rayman's ride if chasing Rayman while he's on Bzzit's back. Moskito's yellow and red spiky fruits are also available as separate obstacles, including the big red one since version 1.3.0.

A carving resembling both Bzzit and Moskito can be found on a wooden fence in the Caves of Skops template.

Trivia

• In Rayman Redemption's early production, Moskito was intended to be replaced by the now removed Woodbot boss, who would have chased Rayman and would have been fought in the same location as Moskito. The idea was that it would have been repetive to fight another mosquito after Bzzit. This was changed as it would have been too different from the original Rayman, it wouldn't have fit the name of Moskito's Nest, and the new boss fight with the Treecutter was mostly spent waiting around for an opportunity to attack.
• When playing in 16:9 aspect ratio, two plant walls will frame Moskito's fighting area. As most returning bosses, this was done in order to not stretch the original background art and to keep gameplay the same between 4:3 and widescreen formats.
• Unlike Dark Rayman and his True Boss Rush variation, Moskito and Dark Moskito do not change appearance when the player picks any of their skins, both in Rayman Redemption and Rayman ReDesigner.
• Curiously, Moskito's icon in Rayman ReDesigner's level editor takes the appearance of Bzzit. If intentional, this may be a reference to the original Rayman 1 chase in Moskito's Nest where the mosquito carrying the spiky fruit appeared to be Bzzit.
• Prior to Rayman ReDesigner's version 1.0.0, Moskito would sometimes not properly react to chaser stopper mechanisms.