Crash Bandicoot

"Woah!"

## Voice actors

### English

Brendan O'Brien (English, 1996-1998, 2000-2003 {Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced}, 2003)
Billy Pope (English, 1999)
Steven Blum (English, 2003)
None (2004)
Jess Harnell (English, 2005-2019)
Scott Whyte (English, 2020)
Eric Rogers (Skylanders Academy, Season 1)
Rhys Darby (Skylanders Academy, Season 3)

## Alignment and character traits

### Likes

Wumpa fruits
Sunbathing
Pancakes
Playing with yo-yos
Running
Taking naps

### Dislikes

The thought of Coco being harmed
TNT crates
Nitro crates
Falling

## Friends and Enemies

### Friends

Coco Bandicoot (sister)
Crunch Bandicoot (adoptive brother)
Aku Aku
Tawna (girlfriend)
Polar
Pura
Baby T
Dingodile (in It's About Time)
Dr. Neo Cortex (sometimes)
Dr. N. Brio (in Cortex Strikes Back)

### Enemies

Dr. Neo Cortex
Dr. N. Brio
Dr. N. Tropy
Uka Uka
Dr. N. Gin
Koala Kong
Tiny Tiger
Ripper Roo
Dingodile (formerly)
Fake Crash (in N-Tranced)
Crunch Bandicoot (formerly)
Nitros Oxide
Pinstripe Potoroo

*"Uh-oh!"*
-**Crash's very first line**

**Crash Bandicoot** is the titular character and main protagonist of the *Crash Bandicoot* series. Originally planned to be named Willie the Wombat, he is an Eastern Barred Bandicoot living on N. Sanity Island, who was captured and evolved by Doctor Neo Cortex.

## Why He's Great

1. Naughty Dog once referenced the development of Crash as a character both "goofy yet heroic", and being able to portray it very well.
2. He can spin into place, creating a tornado, which helps him fight against enemies that can kill or hurt him in one shot.
3. He always finds a way to defeat bosses, no matter how ridiculous or powerful.
4. His iconic dance which he does after completing every level.
5. He has saved the world multiple times from numerous maniacal villains like Doctor Neo Cortex, his creator.
6. He is a very emotional character who is quick to laugh and quick to cry.
7. While he has a danger-loving, fearless nature and loves a good fight, he prefers relaxing in the sun and rarely seeks out trouble deliberately.
8. He genuinely cares about his little sister Coco, and will stop at nothing if the bad guys threaten her or her life.

## Bad Qualities

1. Crash's personality is hard to pinpoint, sometimes varying from game to game.
2. He was flanderized in *Crash Tag Team Racing*, where he is portrayed as demented in and took pleasure in torturing innocent animals, park drones, and even himself (it should be noted that the game is criticized for its over-caricaturistic or even complete change in character personalities).
3. Even before his flanderization, he's quite dumb, to the point he confuses a poorly disguised Dr. Cortex for Coco.

## Trivia

* Crash was purposely designed with no neck to make his design simpler and take fewer polygons to render. He is the only Bandicoot in the series (not counting his "Fake" or "Evil" duplicates) to be designed in such a way, with other bandicoot characters such as Coco, Crunch and Tawna having far more human-shaped anatomy.
* As revealed by Cortex in the flashback tapes in *It's About Time*:
	+ Crash's real name is "Crashworth Cortex the First" but Cortex nicknamed him as "Crash" for short.
	+ The shorts he wears belonged to Cortex and were handed down to him.
	+ His birthday, as chosen by Cortex, is July 19th.
* In Japanese versions of many games, Crash is able to speak, though he still doesn't speak very often and only does so in short and simple phrases, but he can speak full, fluent sentences in *Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken*, the manga series based on *Cortex Strikes Back*. This happens again in his appearances in the *Skylanders Academy* episodes "The Skylands Are Falling!", "Crash Landing", "Days of Future Crash", and "Raiders of the Lost Arkus, Part 2".
* Crash's design is different in Japan, having had his teeth made smaller and his eyes bigger (with Pac-Man eyes) to appeal better to the Japanese market. This design is included as a secret costume in *Crash Tag Team Racing*, as well as being featured in *Crash Boom Bang*, a Japanese developed title.
* He and Cortex had been the most requested IP's in the *All-Stars Battle Royale* franchise by Sony.