Crash Dance

The Crash Dance is a famous dance that was originally performed by Crash Bandicoot and would go on to be performed by other characters in the Crash Bandicoot franchise.
==Overview==
It first appeared in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back when Crash successfully collects a gem and returns it to the Warp Room or after defeating most bosses. This was reprised in Crash Bandicoot: Warped. An extended version also appeared in the Japanese adverts for the game and in the title screen of the Japanese version of Warped. At the end of Crash Twinsanity, Dr. Cortex ends up in Crash's brain after a scheme backfired. He was surrounded by miniature versions of Crash, who all started to perform the dance.
A variant of the Crash dance can be seen in Crash Bandicoot: Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken. The variant shown is when Crash puts out his fists and brings then back in. Crash does the small section of the dance when Crash and Aku Aku get their first "Power Stone". 
Crash also performs it when he wins a race in Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled on the victory podium. In Nitro-Fueled, Crash sometimes performs a simplified version of the dance in the seat of his kart upon winning a race.
The dance also appeared in the Japanese version of Crash Tag Team Racing, and all versions of Crash of the Titans and Crash: Mind Over Mutant where Crash would sometimes perform the dance as an idle animation.
A unique version of the dance exists in the files of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, where it oddly only covers the Japanese Warped extension of the dance and not the signature portion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecjYCTcLhb8 Likewise, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time featured Crash doing the dance in gameplay within promotional material, but this doesn't actually occur in the game itself, only existing within the files. Though short variations of the dance are performed by Crash after N. Tropy and N. Tropy (female) are defeated and in the ending after Cortex is banished to the end of the universe.
Fake Crash has his own variation of the dance, as first seen in Crash Bandicoot: Warped. He would reprise his version of the dance in the victory podium in Crash Team Racing and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, along with all his appearances in the N. Sane Trilogy.
Coco has a variation of the dance as well, first shown in CR Crash Bandicoothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k722kIEyPyk, Crash of the Titans and Crash: Mind Over Mutant. While playing as her in the N. Sane Trilogy, she will perform her variation of the dance when Crash performs his.
Spyro also has his own variation of the dance in the Spyro Party USA mini game found in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage.
==Appearances==
*Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
*Crash Bandicoot: Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken
*Crash Bandicoot: Warped
*Crash Anywhere
*Crash Team Racing
*Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (cut)
*Crash Nitro Kart
*Crash Party USA
*Crash Twinsanity
*Crash Tag Team Racing (Japanese version only)
*CR Crash Bandicoot
*Crash of the Titans
*Crash: Mind Over Mutant
*Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
*Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
*Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
*Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!
==Video==
thumb|300px|left|The full Crash Dance in the Japanese version of Warped
==Gallery==
Fake Crash on island.jpg|Fake Crash parodying the dance.
Page omake.jpg|The manga variation of the Crash dance.
CrashNSaneCoco.jpg|Crash and Coco doing both the Crash dance in the N. Sane Trilogy.
CrashDanceNST.gif|GIF of the dance in the N. Sane Trilogy.
CTR Victory Crash Dance gif.gif|Crash and Coco performing the dance at the end of Nitro-Fueled's adventure mode.
IAT crash dance.gif|Promotional GIF of Crash performing the dance in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.
==Trivia==
*The dance was introduced in a Japanese commercial to the first Crash Bandicoot game, before debuting it in game in Cortex Strikes Back. It was created by Megumi Hosoya, the Sony marketing manager that served as the inspiration for the character of Megumi in Crash Team Racing and Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
*In the N. Sane Trilogy, Crash's pelvic thrusts were replaced with the former viral trend Running Man.
*The Japanese bonus video in Cortex Strikes Back heavily features Crash and occasional live action guest dancers doing the Crash dance.
*One of Crash Bandicoot: Warped's animated Japanese bonus videos also centers around Crash doing the dance onstage for a large audience.
*An instructional dance VHS tape called Crash Dancing!! was released in Japan to show how to perform the Crash Dance.
*The ending turnaround of the dance bears a striking resemblance to a move Michael Jackson performed in the Thriller music video.https://youtu.be/OVvFieq14pQ?t=893 It is unknown whether this was intentional or just a coincidence.
*In Astro's Playroom, on the right-hand side's lower platform at the start of the GPU Jungle area's Renderforest level, a Bot in a Crash mask and clothes can be seen performing the N. Sane Trilogy version of the dance continuously near some Wumpa fruit and destroyable Bounce Crates whilst Aku Aku floats around and another Bot in a backwards cap records on camera. Hitting the Bot will interrupt the dance and cause the mask to fly off, before being put back on and resuming the dance. Astro Bot can also do unrelated dances alongside the Bot.
== References ==
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