Sabreman

Sabreman was originally the main character of the Sabreman series games released by Ultimate Play The Game, although since then has made cameos in several of Rare's games and later in 2004 starred once again in his own game for the Game Boy Advance titled Sabre Wulf.

Sabreman's appearance in Banjo-Tooie was not much more than as a minor character. Banjo and Kazooie discover his frozen body on the Icy Side of Hailfire Peaks clutching a familiarly-shaped treasure. But just trying to heat him up won't help, because he is dead. The first step in rescuing this lost explorer is to use Mumbo to bring him back to life, but still leaves poor Sabreman cold in the snow; you must heat him up with Fire Eggs, Hatch or Dragon Kazooie. Then Banjo must use the Taxi Pack to bring him back to the Fire Side of Hailfire Peaks. Once all is done and well, Sabreman will give the pair the Jiggy he found and hit the hay, where he sleeps perpetually for the remainder of the game.

Notably, while Sabreman sleeps, he talks in his sleep and says "I wonder what adventures await me...maybe I'll ride a dolphin." As at the time, Rare was still part of Nintendo and their next platform had been going by the codename of "Dolphin", many players speculated that Rare was using this as foreshadowing for a future next-gen Sabreman title. If this title ever existed, it's never been leaked and Sabreman's future game was released on the Game Boy Advance instead. A later next-gen Sabreman title, Sabreman Stampede, was a reworked version of Donkey Kong Racing, a title Rare had been working on for Nintendo until their purchase by Microsoft. Sadly, while beta footage of the game leaked in 2008 showing the game was now a full-fledged platforming adventure, the game was quietly cancelled in 2007. The only "next-gen" appearence of Sabreman was in the 2009 Banjo-Tooie port.

Sabreman makes a small cameo in the Jolly Roger's Lagoon course of Banjo-Pilot.