Ray

Ray
レイ Rei
Mighty No. 9 Mighty Gunvolt (Burst) Ray as she appears in Mighty No. 9 Ray as she appears in Mighty Gunvolt Burst
Model Number	Ray. 1101
Full name	Raychel
Nickname	N/A
• Characteristics•
Race	Robot
Gender	♀ Female
Hair	None
Eyes	Blue
• Technical data•
Height	???
Weight	???
Xel	???
HP	During Boss Battle: 100 Units As a Playable Character/Mini Boss Battle: 32 Units
Abilities	Xel Absorption Variation Code
Weakness	ReXelection: Cryosphere
• Personal information•
Status	Active
Affiliation	???
Family	Dr. White - Creator Trinity - Sibling Mighty Numbers - Siblings
Friends	???
Allies	???
Enemies	???
• Appearances•
Games	Mighty No. 9 Mighty Gunvolt Burst
• Voice actors•
Japanese	Atsuko Tanaka
English	Carla Tassara
French	Marie Zidi
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Raychel, the Vermilion Destroyer (also referred to as Mighty No. 0), is a mysterious robot in Mighty No. 9 who serves as the main rival to Beck.

Appearance[]

Ray's color scheme is mainly black and red. Her outward thighs, hand, and arm cannon are a vermilion color, with her arm cannon having black and yellow triangles. Her helmet is also vermilion, having pointed ends and a light green center that resembles a brain. She also has lime green cables resembling hair. Her shoulder joints are red spheres. Her upper torso is a combination of vermilion and green, with two yellow circles. Her lower torso is black, with the right side resembling a mouth. Separating her torso from her legs are red fins. Her boots are mostly white, being red near the bottom. Her boots are also slightly heeled. Her left hand has clawed black digits and blades along her arm, while her arm cannon has four spikes than can extend into blades. Finally, she has a red cloak constructed of Xels.

Background[]

Ray's creation is shrouded in mystery and only hinted at through the fact that she was created by Dr. White.

Abandoned and her body deteriorating, Ray mainly fed on the Xels of other robots not only to survive, but also keep herself from disintegrating. Ray was confused as to how she was still alive and appeared to be in pain when running low on Xels. She has been watching Beck and believes him to be another "predator" because of his ability to absorb Xels. Ray is currently searching for Dr. White, believing that he has the answers as to why she is still alive and what's wrong with her, but to get to him she will have to defeat the Mighty Numbers. The first time Ray's existence is acknowledged is when she is at an abandoned lab from Cherry Dynamics, trying to hack through SANDA Technologies' system.

Eventually, Ray recognizes the other Mighty Numbers as her siblings and remembers Dr. White by his real name, "Bill", with Dr. White also claiming to know Ray's true identity. This suggests that Ray was a failed prototype created between Trinity and Pyrogen, with the same Xel-absorving ability Trinity has. It's unclear how Ray was reactiaved, but she may have somehow been reactivated by Trinity after she was reawakened by Gregory Graham.

After defeating eight of the Mighty Numbers, Ray went on to fight Trinity, but fainted after battling her. On Dr. White's orders, Beck rescued Ray and attempted to cure her. Afterwards, A crew was assigned to transport her to Sanda Technologies to receive further care, but as a result of her deterioration resurfacing, she woke up, and in a fit of despair, she emitted a massive energy discharge which destroyed the transport, injuring three workers in the process. It is suggested she had forgotten everything that had occured, still wanting to find Dr. White for answers. Dr. White noted that because of her decaying state, Ray had only 12 hours of life remaining after her escape.

During her campaign in Mighty Gunvolt Burst, it's shown that Ray somehow survived past the 12 hour period, presumably by absorving more Xels to replace what Beck had cleansed from her. Wracked with amnesia and long since forgotten past events, she entered Dr. White's VR world to find information about his whereabouts. Her search ended up being in vain, and her declining health and sanity ended up irrevocably crushing her very identity. This allowed her Berserk form to break free and kill the remains of her normal personality off to take over. Ray's status after this point is currently unknown.

Abilities[]

Ray is quite powerful, despite her condition, as she managed to topple most of her siblings with relative ease. Ray can also use the sharp claws on both of her hands to slash at opponents and can absorb Xels by performing a dash similar to Beck's. Similar to Beck's ReXelection ability, Ray can absorb Xels from defeating the Mighty Numbers and gain the ability to transform. These transformations are called Variation Codes. Unlike Beck, these Variation Codes only alter the appearance of her right arm.

Claw Shot: In Mighty Gunvolt Burst, Ray can shoot her buster arm off as a projectile. The damage output is high, but it has a short range and is slow.

Collapse Ray: An intensively-powerful laser cannon fired from her mouth in her Berserk form, which goes long as the screen. Used in her boss-only attack in Mighty No. 9, and can be used as an attack in Mighty Gunvolt Burst. This move drains her health if used in the latter.

Development[]

On October 14, 2014, The Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter had its 75th update which contained a riveting teaser of a future (potential) DLC containing a new character. Within the teaser, it seemed to show what appeared to be a malicious being. It stood in front of a surprised Beck while surrounded by fallen Mighty Numbers, who were shown to have holes around their bodies.^[1]

Many fans were quick to speculate that this new character was the rumored "Mighty No. 0", however, when the character was presented as such, the Mighty No. 9 Twitter pointed out that "it is NOT Mighty No. 0... but a different entity".^[2] The identity of this new character was an absolute mystery until the 77th update, when her name and back story were revealed.^[3] Within this new information, it was said that this entity, Ray, was to serve as Beck's rival.

On April 28, 2015, it was revealed that Ray's DLC (An "Abandoned Lab" Stage, a new boss, and after defeating Ray, unlocks her to use in the main story) would be packed into the Retail version of Mighty No. 9, and it would be free for all backers of the Kickstarter. It has been confirmed that if you do not buy the retail edition of Mighty No. 9, you can still buy her off the Playstation Store/Nintendo Eshop/Xbox Live Store.^[4]

Two years later, during an event promoted by the website Dengeki Online in 12/12/2015, Keiji Inafune talked extensively about Mighty No. 9 and confirmed RAY as one of the Mighty Numbers, going as far as to refer to her as the "Mighty No. 0". He also suggested there may be more Mighty Numbers than those shown in-game.

Battle Theme

Plundering Claw

Battle Theme (Retro Version)

Plundering Claw (Retro Version)

Trivia[]

Ray's design appears to be based on Zero.EXE and Bass.EXE from the Mega Man Battle Network series. She's also likely based on Omega from the Mega Man Zero series and Sigma from Mega Man X series, especially Mega Man X8.
Ray sounds like the Japanese word 零/れい/レイ (rei, meaning "Zero").
Ray's characteristics bears similarity to Kamen Rider Beast from Kamen Rider Wizard,as both served as rival to the protagonist and require to devour certain energy for survival.
She feeds on Xels like a vampire.
It was somewhat debated whether or not Ray was male or female, due to the website referring to Ray as an "it". Many, however, suspected that Ray was a female due to having a somewhat feminine physique (many pieces of the concept art shows she has breasts and wide hips), and she was confirmed to be female in an update released on June 22, 2015.^[5]
Ray bears an uncanny resemblance to several robots from the Getter Robo franchise. She primarily resembles the design of Getter-1 as seen in Getter Robo Armageddon, and also shares the ability to consume robots with Shin Getter Robo from the Getter Robo Go manga. In addition, the single cutter on her left forearm and her fierce eyes appear to borrow heavily from the Black Getter, also from Getter Robo Armageddon.
In the first fight against Ray, if you die right as you beat her a glitch can occur. The cutscene where she makes a hole in the floor plays out but there is no sound. After that, you respawn back at the start of the stage (still with no music). Any enemies you dealt with before are gone and the door won’t open. The only way to fix this is if you exit the stage.
Thanks to Deep Silver, Ray is a playable character in DLC. The DLC was given to all backers, and comes with physical copies of the game. Otherwise, the DLC is $4.99.
Unlike Beck, Ray does not use ReXelection, but instead uses Variation Codes, which transform her right arm only.
It's unknown if Ray's campaign happens before or after her meeting with Beck in the Vermilion Destroyer stage.
The decaying part of Ray's face resembles of the main character of the classic novel The Phantom of the Opera, a mysterious figure who used to live in an underground lair and wore a mask to hide his facial deformities. Additionally, the name of Ray's stage theme is " Love Hidden Under the Mask".
By the staff and in-game, her name is erroneously written in all caps as "RAY" for unknown reasons.