Rayman, some happy memories of mine. (Spoilers, like you haven't played them all already)

I apologise for not updating.

Wait, no I don't. I'm evil, I can do whatever the hell I want.

Recently I went back to playing the PS2 for no particular reason. I was just looking through the games and Rayman 3 was sitting there just wanting me to play it. And play it I did.

I quickly moved on to Rayman 2, and I thought about the villains. The Hoodlums and the Henchmen, Andre and Razorbeard.

Mr. Dark may kick ass, but the game doesn't give him any character, and Rabbids? What Rabbids?

So here it is. 2 vrs 3. Robot pirates vrs Evil fairys in sacks.

First, the leaders. Andre vrs Razorbeard. Here there is really no competition, Razorbeard wins as a villain. Andre is an interesting character, but he is not threatening in the slightest. In fact, at the start of the game he just walks around in normal Hoodlum gear instead of building himself a cloth mech or something.

Or like a Hoodstomper with cannons on it. That would be freaking awesome.

But because Andre was in the basic Hoodlum form, he got himself eaten. And then all he could really do was make Globox drink plum juice every now and again. Even in the final fight, Andre was never a threat.

Razorbeard on the other hand was a legimate danger. He knew what he was doing, he used tactics to control the world (He went straight to the heart, the source of EVERYTHING'S power, whereas for Andre it was his ultimate goal, not his initial plan) and he already had an army when he decided to take over the world instead of making one as he went along. And Rayman never even bothered him personally until the final battle. And what did Razorbead do? He bought a fucking mecha to fight him in. This is a guy who knows how to destroy his foes.

Even better? Razorbead is never defeated. Rayman stops him from taking over the world, sure, but he just jumps in an escape pod and flies out of there. He could come back at any time he wants, and if these guys are robot pirates, that means something built them. That means there must be a Robot Pirate factory out there somewhere, and Razorbeard is probably in it right now building something nasty to blow the crap out of Rayman.

He looses points for racing against Rayman in the multiplayer games, but those aren't canon.

Now for the basic enemies. Henchmen vrs Hoodblasters or whatever those guys are called.

This one is a little harder. Henchmen by themselves are utterly useless lazy idiots, while Hoodlums are... Useless lazy idiots. They're both as effective as eachother in actual combat, so I'll have to think outside of the box a little.

Hoodlums are made of a group of Black lums (Or just one Black lum, it's never really clear) inside a cloth sack. I have no idea where the fireball gun comes from.

Henchmen are Mechanical robots created from what can only be scrap that are also somehow pirates. They have a fireball gun instead of a hand, and a hook instead of the other hand.

Now I'm going to give Hoodlums points here for having more of a personallity than the Henchmen. The Henchmen were robot pirates, but they were still robots, and they acted like robots, while the Hoodlums were actually alive and completely chaotic.

So that's one to each side so far, now for how dangerous they are as a whole.

This is a difficult choice. The Henchmen managed to destroy the heart of the world, splitting it into 1000 lums (and then razorbeard freaking eats a part of it.) and then proceeded to enslave the powerless survivors. They essentially took away the super powers of EVERYTHING on the planet in one swift attack.

The Hoodlums didn't make as big as an impact, but they spread so freaking fast. Think about it, the first cutscene was the first Hoodlum ever created. By the time you've made it to the second level, this one black lum has become hundreds of black lums, which have become hundreds of Hoodlums, and they've created explosives based around plum juice, as well as huge freaking bases around the place, and the WAR ZEPPELIN, in the time it took you to beat the first level. The only reason they failed to get at the heart of the world is because Rayman was so close to it to begin with, and because Andre is an idiot and got himself eaten by the comedy character.

I'm not so sure who should win. The Henchmen made the biggest actual effect, but the Hoodlums could have been absolutely devastating if they had a proper leader. Or maybe the lack of real direction is why they're so dangerous.

Honestly, I think this is an impossible choice. Frankly a choice between the Hoodlums and the Henchmen is like one between Chaos and Order. Except both of them are evil.

If I had to choose judging from what I've just said, it would be a draw.

If I had to choose without thinking about it, Henchmen would win. Because they have Robotic Ninja Pirates.