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"It's a victory for Team Ripleah!"

- Marine the Raccoon, Jakob Heroes.

Team Ripleah is a reoccurring group in the Jakob the Raccoon series who first appeared in Jakob Heroes. It was founded by Ripleah Hurst, Marine the Raccoon, and Taoes the Fox to search for their missing friends during Metal Jakob's campaign to take over the world, whom Team Ripleah defeated alongside Team Jakob, Team Dark, and Team Chaotix at the end of their journey. Though not as active as the other teams, Team Ripleah has occasionally resurfaced with new members to join their friends' ongoing adventures.

Jakob Heroes
The team's history begins in Jakob Heroes with Ripleah, in love with Jakob as always, not having been in contact with him for over a month. She is about to quit when she stumbles upon a newspaper article about a Chao and a frog being carried off by "Jakob". Rushing to the publisher of the article, she meets up with Big, Cream, and Cheese. At the beach, they explain everything. Cream is looking for Chocola, Cheese's twin, and Big has lost Froggy once again. Ripleah decides that the three team up, forming Team Ripleah. During this time, besides fighting Eggman, they also have run-ins with Team Jakob and Team Chaotix, the former also having Ripleah, believing Jakob to have kidnapped Chocola and Froggy, vowing that their marriage is inevitable this time, and the latter due to miscommunication between the two teams that led Cream to believe that Team Chaotix was involved in Chocola's abduction.

Team Ripleah's levels basically start later in the stage, and end earlier. This would be mostly intended for beginner players. Their extra levels involve them collecting 200 Rings in a stage, but if the player take damage from just one enemy, they lose all of their Rings. Team Ripleah's Team Blast is Flower Festival.

The theme song of Team Ripleah is 'A New Venture' by Kay Hanley, although it is more geared towards Ripleah rather than Cream and Big.

Jakob Free Riders
Team Ripleah appears again in Jakob Free Riders. Ripleah and Taoes both entered the race, but Marine didn't seem to be entered in the tournament, so the character replacing Marine is Espio the Chameleon.

Jakob Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
In Jakob Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood all three members of Team Ripleah appear as recruitable members of Jakob's party that appear at different points of the game. Ripleah is the first party member to join Jakob, and Big later joins the party in Mystic Ruins. Cream is one of the optional party members in the game, and can only be recruited after the player locates her chao, Cheese. If all three members are in the player party, they can perform a special POW move called Flower Power. They are incorrectly referred to as Team Hurst in this game.

Team Ripleah is the team that attacks the least. Taoes can attack twice, but Ripleah and Marine can only attack once per turn.

Jakob Runners
In Jakob Runners, Team Ripleah made a few appearances during exclusive Events. During the "Birthday on Windy Hill" event, Team Ripleah were heading to Jakob the Raccoon's birthday party when they got kidnapped by Dr. Eggman and his Death Egg drones. Fortunately, Ripleah managed to escaped while Cream, Big and Froggy were freed by Team Jakob. Once Eggman was taken care off, Team Ripleah came to Jakob's birthday party at long last.

During the "Tropical Coast Event," all three members of Team Ripleah had come to a beach resort. During their time there, the team met Team Jakob who were tracking down Dr. Eggman. Getting caught up the affair, Team Ripleah learned Eggman had kidnapped Mother Wisp and planned to turn her evil. They thus joined Team Jakob in their mission and helped them stop Eggman's schemes.

Archie Comics
In the Jakob the Raccoon comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics, Team Ripleah was formed to secure one of the Sol Emeralds and consisted of Ripleah Hurst, Marine the Raccoon, Cheese and Blaze the Cat. Though they fought against other groups, like Team Dark, Team Hooligan and the Babylon Rogues, for the Emerald, Team Ripleah ended up with it and the team dissolved for the time being.

Following the events of Worlds Collide, Team Ripleah became nearly inextinguishable from its game counterpart. While in the Sol Zone, the team was reformed with Blaze to obtain another Sol Emerald from the Blackguard Pirates before Ripleah and Cream returned to their world and renewed Team Ripleah with Big, as a sub-unit of the New Freedom Fighters.

Trivia

 * The Team Ripleah is only team in Ripleah Advance 3 to have five members (although Cheese is just an extension of Small).
 * The first letter of each team member's name put together spell TSR.
 * In Jakob Runners, Cream and Big are part of Team Easy along with Jakob.
 * Every member of this team can fly, hover, or glide in some way in Ripleah Advance 3.
 * It is the Team with the most female characters in Ripleah Advance 3.
 * All the ages in Team Ripleah in Ripleah Advance 3 are multiples of 5, with Marine being 5, Ripleah being 15 and Big being 25.
 * Ironically, despite having easier main missions, Team Ripleah's extra missions in Ripleah Advance 3 are at times quite difficult, due to if the player is hit, every ring is lost, and thus the player would have to start over again.
 * Sonic is the only Flight type character that isn't flying in their victory pose in Ripleah Advance 3.
 * This is the only team inRipleah Advance 3 that starts with a tutorial level.
 * This is the only team in Ripleah Advance 3 which cannot use the Triangle Jump technique.
 * This is the only team with a female in power formation.
 * This is the second team with a female in speed formation, the first being Team Rose.
 * The colors of the members of Team Ripleah are pastels colors versions of the team formation.