Neo Cortex

Dr. **Neo Periwinkle Cortex** (ネオ・ペリウィンクル・コルテックス, *Neo Periwinkuru Korutekkusu*), is both a fictional character and antagonist from the *Skylanders* series created by Eric Rogers. He is a professional evil scientist from a surface island from the other side.

He is a scientific genius stubbornly bent on world domination, usually by kidnapping animals from the wild and turning them into his minions with mutating technology. He views world domination as an act of vengeance for the ridicule he has suffered in the past.

He is known as the creator of DK and Crash. They was originally intended to be officers in his army of super animals, but the experiment failed and he couldn't control their minds. The big-headed doctor has had his plans foiled by DK and Crash ever since.

"*Defeated again! This is not fair! Maybe I should retire to a nice, big beach, with a nice big drink, and a woman, with nice, big... bags of ice for my head...*"

—Doctor Neo Cortex.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Lex Lang (English), Shōzō Iizuka (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Marcel Jonker (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Ricardo Rossatto (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

Neo appears as a short, typically yellow-skinned, large-headed human with a giant *N* symbol (which stands for "Nerd, or more appropriately- Neo") located on his forehead since at the age of 3. This N appears to be painted or branded on; since the N is shown to be metal-plated.

He is most often seen wearing a lab coat, with some sort of black clothing underneath, and donning leather gloves and boots. Cortex is balding, with hair only on the sides of his head and a thick strand on top. Whatever hair he does have is black and frazzled.

He is also shown to have a short beard and bushy eyebrows with the same color along with this. His eyelids are prominently red. The top of his head is typically depicted as being either unusually flattened or nearly-flattened towards the top. Cortex is a person of short stature, seldom being taller than Crash in any of them.

#### Younger

As a child at the Academy of Evil, Cortex's appearance was largely the same, the biggest difference being a full head of hair, trimmed eyebrows and lacking a beard. The N on his forehead is also depicted as lowercase rather than uppercase.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Yellow
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

"*I ruined the lives of so many, I can't be expected to remember them all...*"

—Dr. Neo Cortex, to Uka Uka.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Team Cortex
	+ Dr. Nitrus Brio
	+ Dr. N. Gin
	+ Cortex's Lab Assistants
	+ Uka Uka
	+ Ripper Roo
	+ Koala Kong
	+ Pinstripe Potoroo
	+ Komodo Bros.
	+ Dr. Nefarious Tropy
	+ Tiny Tiger
	+ Dingodile
	+ Nitros Oxide
	+ Rilla Roo
	+ N.Trance
* Kremling Krew
	+ K. Rool
	+ Klump
	+ Krusha
* Manky Kongs
* The Elementals
* Ghastly King
* Kamek
* Titan Mutants
* Doomlanders
* Kaos
* Glumshanks
* Ripto

### Family

* Nina Cortex (Niece or Daughter)
* The Evil Twins (former pets)
	+ Victor
	+ Moritz
* KAOS (creation)

### Neutral

* Papu Papu
* Eddie the Mean Old Yeti
* Fake Crash
* Apo-Apo
* Brain
* Madame Amberly

### Rivals

* Skurvy
* Team Oxide
	+ Emperor Velo XXVII
	+ Nitros Oxide
	+ Zam
	+ Zem

### Enemies

* Team Bandicoot
	+ Crash Bandicoot
	+ Aku Aku
	+ Crunch Bandicoot
	+ Coco Bandicoot
	+ Carbon Crash
* Nitro Squad
	+ Tawna Bandicoot
	+ Ami Bandicoot
	+ Megumi Bandicoot
	+ Liz Bandicoot
	+ Isabella Bandicoot
* DK Krew
	+ Donkey Kong
	+ Diddy Kong
	+ Dixie Kong
	+ Cranky Kong
	+ Wrinkly Kong
	+ Candy Kong
	+ Kiddy Kong
	+ Lanky Kong
	+ Chunky Kong
	+ Tiny Kong
	+ Funky Kong
	+ Dread Kong
	+ Karate Kong
	+ Ninja Kong
	+ Sumo Kong
* Penta Penguin
* K. Lumsy
* Ebenezer Von Clutch
* Pasadena O'Possum
* Yaya Panda
* Banana Fairies
	+ Banana Fairy Queen
* Farmer Ernest
* Apo-Apo
* Skylanders
	+ Spyro

## History

### Past

Neo spent his youth as the youngest son in a family of circus clowns. Unlike his family, which loved the spotlight and making people laugh, Cortex spent most of his time reading science books. He was always teased, and at the age of three, had an "N" tattooed on his head for "nerd" by a particularly evil group of circus performers. But soon, the torment stopped, after a "freak" explosion wiped out his entire family, leaving Cortex to fend for himself - though a sibling may have possibly survived, as Cortex's niece, Nina, is well known to him; however, Cortex may have married (or at least been in a relationship) and been Nina's father himself, as he says *"My daught... err... NIECE!*" - this was when Cortex decided that he would not rest until he ruled the world.

At the age of four, Cortex enrolled into Madame Amberly's Academy of Evil, a school for evil children. It was here that Cortex met up with his life-long associates, Nitrus Brio and N. Gin. But soon, the torture of bullying caught up with Cortex again, and he and Nitrus Brio decided to sneak out and go to high school, where they thought they would be revered for being the youngest people to ever graduate.

At the age of eight, both Cortex and Brio enrolled in high school. But even here they were mocked by the cruel teenagers, a tradition that became the story of his life. It was also at this age in which Cortex made his very first prototype of the Evolv-O-Ray on his own, although credit is given to both N. Brio and Cortex. He then made his pet parrots Victor and Moritz be his first test subjects. The experiment went wrong, sending the two twins into the 10th Dimension where they learned skills from the dimension and later returned for revenge on Cortex.

They suffered through high school together until another "freak" explosion blew up the entire building, as well as most of the surrounding town. By some amazing coincidence, they were far away from the detonation, two miles underground in an abandoned plutonium mine.

They decided to split and went on a world-smashing rampage. The terrible twosome, calling themselves the Cortex Commandos, left in their wake a trail of charred earth so monumental that they became international criminals. Seeking sanctuary from the various forces against them, they found three deserted islands off of the coast of Australia and set up shop. Soon, realizing that his puny body couldn't crush a fly, Cortex figured the only way to take over the world was to create an army that would do his bidding for him. In memory of his and Brio's "glory days", Cortex named them the Cortex Commandos. In a moment of diabolical genius, Brio came up with the ideas for the Evolv-O-Ray, an energy force capable of mutating common animals into intelligent super-beasts; and the Cortex Vortex, a device that trains the mutated animals to obey their master. Cortex, however, did not see one small problem with the machine.

## External links

* Dr. Neo Cortex *Wikipedia*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Bandipedia*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Crash Mania*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Heroes Wiki*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Skylanders Wiki*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Spyro Wiki*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Nintendo Wikia*
* Dr. Neo Cortex *Villains Wiki*