Crash Bandicoot

**Crash Bandicoot** is the titular character and main protagonist of the series of the same name. He is an Eastern Barred Bandicoot living on N. Sanity Island, who was captured and evolved by Dr. Neo Cortex. Throughout the series, Cortex is Crash's usual arch-enemy and is always defeated by Crash in order to keep peace around the island. Crash is often accompanied by his ally, Aku Aku, the series' deuteragonist. In the earlier games, he tended to say *"Whoa!"* whenever he got killed. In most games, he speaks gibberish with a very basic knowledge of the language spoken in the game.

Crash was originally designed by Charles Zembillas and Jason Rubin, and his original name was *Willy the Wombat* (alternatively spelt *Willie*). After rejected pushes from Universal Interactive Studios to name the character something more "family-friendly", such as "*Wez*", "*Wuzzles*" or "*Wizzie the Wombat*", Naughty Dog decided to name him "*Crash*" after his tendency to break crates, along with shuffling the species of a few characters to accomodate for Crash's recently-decided name.

Crash is snatched out of the wild by Dr. Neo Cortex and subjected to his experiments. Cortex plans to make Crash the general of his 'Cortex Commandos' for world domination. However, the experiment failed, and Crash escaped from Cortex's castle. When Tawna, a bandicoot whom Crash grew romantically attached to during imprisonment in Cortex's castle, was selected to be the next in Cortex's experiment, Crash made it his duty to save her. After traveling throughout the Wumpa Islands and defeating Cortex's minions, Crash defeated Cortex, rescued Tawna and made it back home.

After Crash defeated Cortex, he is told by Coco to bring an extra battery for her, since her old one was fried. However, Crash is summoned by Cortex to collect Crystals in order to "save" the world. In reality, Cortex plans to use Crash to collect the Crystals in order to enslave everyone on the planet. N. Brio, however, having seemingly turned a new leaf after being replaced by N. Gin as Cortex's assistant, informs Crash that he needs to collect the Gems in order for him to destroy the Cortex Vortex and foil Cortex's plans. After collecting all 25 Crystals, Cortex congratulates Crash, however Coco interrupts the call and informs Crash of Cortex's true intentions. Crash defeats Cortex and sends him flying in space, however the Cortex Vortex remains undestroyed.

However, when Dr. Neo Cortex decides Crash is unfit to be the general of his army, the two become enemies as Crash sets out to defeat all of Dr. Neo Cortex's henchmen and eventually takes on the main villain himself.

After Cortex calls a group of destructive masks called The Elementals for help and creates a bandicoot called Crunch, Crash and Coco are told by Aku Aku to go ahead and collect the Crystals before they do. During their adventure, they face Crunch multiple times, and they collect the Crystals. They then engage Cortex in his space station, and defeat him. This turns Crunch good, and they celebrate. If the player has collected all of the Gems, there is a true ending where Cortex and Uka Uka are teleported into an arctic area, and Uka Uka is angry at Cortex for his plans failing once again.

Uka Uka is awakened when the remains of the Cortex Vortex crash into a nearby temple. Aku Aku senses his evil twin brother's awakening, and expresses panic about it. Aku Aku, Crash, Coco, and Polar quickly enter the house, and Aku Aku tells them that Uka Uka has awoken and that long ago he locked in a prison, and that he must be stopped. He then takes Crash and Coco to The Time Twister and tells them that they must retrieve the Crystals before Cortex and Uka Uka do. After collecting all of the Crystals, Crash and Coco defeat Cortex and Uka Uka, however, in the ending, Uka Uka proclaims that there are still the gems, and that he and Cortex still have a chance to triumph.

After collecting all of the Gems, Crash and Coco defeat Cortex and Uka Uka, and send them alongside N. Tropy into a volcanic area. Cortex and N. Tropy (as babies) fight over Uka Uka, and that was the end, or was it? Aku Aku says that the Time Twister machine could no longer hold itself together, and that they were lucky to escape.

After the events of *Warped*, Crash along with Coco and Aku Aku lived peacefully on N. Sanity island, with their enemies seemingly gone for good. After years of failure, Cortex and N. Tropy successfully travel back forward in time to a short time after the events of *Warped*. Aku Aku senses this disturbance and, fearing the Earth's safety, urges Crash to go to N. Sanity Peak to investigate. Within the mountain Crash encounters a sleeping Lani-Loli. Crash picks up up off of his pedestal, which causes the ground beneath them to collapse, dropping them directly into the path of an ancient beast. After a brief chase, Crash and Lani-Loli jump off of a cliff, landing right next to Aku Aku and Coco, who are investigating a quantum rift. After Lani-Loli explains the other quantum masks must be assembled to seal the rifts, Crash and the others set off through the rift.

First of all Crash and the others end up in the wasteland, where they encounter N. Gin, who is holding Akano prisoner to use him as a power source for his mech. The group proceeds through the wasteland, and Crash (or Coco) defeats N. Gin, setting Akano free and sending him tumbling through another quantum rift. Lani-Loli quickly dashes after him, with the bandicoots following behind him.

Afterwards, the group ends up Salty Wharf, where both Crash and Coco are kidnapped by pirates. Tawna quickly shows up and sets them free. The bandicoot siblings quickly recognise her, and come to realise that she isn't from their universe. They have a brief interaction with the siblings explaining their current quest. Tawna encourages them but quickly takes her leave, insisting that she works alone, yet promising to help them out on the side.

At the end of Salty Wharf, Crash finds Akano resting on a table. He attempts to pick him up, only to drop him on his toes. Akano briefly threatens the bandicoots before Lani-Loli explains their mission, prompting Akano to lead the group through another quantum rift, leading to Tranquility Falls.

At Tranquility Falls the group quickly encounters N. Brio, who offers a reward in return for going through his "tests". The bandicoots soon reach Brio and defeat him. After being defeated, Brio transforms into a pterodactyl and tries to attack again, only to suddenly lay an egg, then fly away in embarrassment. Crash picks up the egg before being dragged away by Coco.

After journeying through Mosquito Marsh, Crash and Coco encounter Kupuna-Wa, the quantum mask of time. Kupuna-Wa gives Crash a quick grandmotherly kiss before informing them that she can see big things happening in the future. The group then proceeds through the next quantum rift, ending up in the 11th dimension.

In the 11th dimension Cortex talks to Crash via a hologram, threatening him with his evil plan, and demanding to meet him at the top of the mountain. After Cortex lures Crash down the mountain in a chase, Crash ends up facing Cortex on his airship. Crash soon defeats him, sending Cortex onto the ground in front of the bandicoots. Cortex begins to have a bit of an existential crisis, shuffling towards Crash on his knees and desperately asking if this constant fighting was all there ever be, to which Crash responds with an awkward shrug. After N. Tropy appears via a hologram to break off his alliance with Cortex and explain his plan to wipe clean all of time and space, Cortex suggests that the bandicoots team up with him to save the multiverse. Crash joyfully accepts, running over to Cortex, hugging him tightly and nuzzling him.

After venturing through the Eggipus Dimension, Crash and the others encounter Ika-Ika, the quantum mask of gravity. With all four quantum masks together again, the gang sets off to stop N. Tropy's plan. The next quantum rift lands them in Nitros Oxide's ship, right on top of Dingodile and Tawna. The gang overhear N. Tropy and N. Tropy (F)'s plan as they explain it to Oxide, and make their way through the ship post-haste. Coco finds Nitros Oxide's Hovercraft, but before the bandicoot siblings can use it to get to the rift generator, Tawna ties them up and jumps in herself, insisting that it's too dangerous for them and that she should do it alone.

Crash and Coco are untied by Dingodile and Cortex, and they proceed through Oxide's ship and find another hovercraft. They try to use it to fly to the rift generator, but end up crash-landing on Bermugula. With the help of some shnurgle cubs, Crash navigates the planet and finds a large rift that takes them straight to the generator.

Crash, Coco, Cortex and Dingodile arrive at the rift generator just in time before Tawna is killed by N. Tropy (F). N. Tropy (F) decides to kill Crash and Coco instead, and tosses Tawna at their feet before teleporting her, Dingodile and Cortex away. Crash and Coco end up passed out on a floating rock before being awoken by Akano and led through a rift back to the generator. Crash and Coco soon defeat the Tropies, and Crash celebrates by doing an obnoxious dance. The quantum masks then send Crash and the rest of the gang to the Sn@xx dimension to wind down. After everyone gets something to eat, Cortex betrays everyone, kidnapping Kupuna-Wa and fleeing in his airship. Crash and Coco quickly give chase, jumping along cargo falling out of the back of the blimp before meeting Cortex up on top. Cortex expresses his plan to use Kupuna-Wa to travel back in time to stop Crash from ever being created before generating a massive rift to travel back to Cortex Castle in 1996.

After travelling through the castle, Crash and Coco confront Cortex, who's holding his past self, as well as all four quantum masks, captive. Cortex tries to kill the bandicoots with use of the quantum masks and a large machine, which fails as always, ending with Cortex collapsed on the ground. Past Cortex wakes up and goes into the other room to proceed with his experiment, which is Crash's run through the Cortex Vortex. Crash and Coco watch this on a screen, only for Crash to accidentally knock over a power source, causing past Crash to be rejected by the Cortex Vortex. The quantum masks banish present Cortex to the end of the universe, and the masks and bandicoots finally return home to play video games to celebrate their victory.

In the secret ending, a narrator shows where the characters are now after the events of the game. As it nears an end, Crash Bandicoot is shown to be the one narrating. And just as he said, he's doing just fine...

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