Crash Bandicoot

**Crash Bandicoot** is the main protagonist of the *Crash Bandicoot* series. He appeared in The Lost Scene, where he encounters Sharon Maximus.

## Description

Crash Bandicoot is an expressive, wacky, lazy, and somewhat dull-witted, genetically enhanced bandicoot created by the evil scientist, Dr. Neo Cortex. He was originally made to be part of Cortex's army of mutants but after the Cortex Vortex failed to mind control him, the bandicoot fled from his castle. Upon realizing Tawna was held captive, he traveled across islands to save Tawna and halt Cortex's plan, defeating his other experiments and allies on the way. Afterwards, Crash lives on Wumpa Island with sister, Coco, a masked spirit and father figure, Aku Aku, and reformed ally, Crunch, usually rising up to the task whenever a crisis is averted by Cortex or other threats.

## Trivia

* In a YouTube video posted in July 2018, animator Butch Hartman revealed he created his own designs for Crash's prototype, Willy, during his time at Hanna-Barbera.
* At the time of its initial release, the character was considered the "unofficial mascot" of Sony, rivaling Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic.
	+ According to Crash's character profile in *Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!* is described that he loves wumpa, yo-yos, pancakes and running and he hates Doctor Neo Cortex, TNT crates, Nitro crates and falls.
* As revealed by Cortex in the flashback tapes in *Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time*:
	+ His real name is "Crashworth Cortex the First" and "Crash" is a nickname.
	+ 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.
	+ Crash 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".

* According to *The Crash Bandicoot Files*, released by Dark Horse Comics, Crash would've constantly impersonated other famous pop-cultural icons, similar to his portrayal in the commercial.

* In *Cortex Strikes Back* and *Warped*, Crash's burn death animation is re-used from *Crash Bandicoot*.

* In real life, eastern barred bandicoots have stripes on their back, hence their name.

* 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.
* In the *Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2011*, Crash was voted as the eleventh best video game character.
* In one of Crash's early designs, he was going to have a tail which was cut due to the limitations of the PlayStation. In real life, bandicoots have long hairless tails.
* One of Crash's concept designs had him wear a black mask, making him resemble *Zorro*.
* Crash has been confirmed to be one of the most popular western video game protagonists in Japan.
* During 2007, Crash had been crowned as a symbolic mascot for the School and Youth Programs, as a part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
* Although not being an official character in the game, according to statics, Crash, along with Cortex had been the most requested IP's in the *All-Stars Battle Royale* franchise by Sony.

* 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.

* In Chinese localisations, Crash is referred to as a wolf (狼) instead of a bandicoot (袋狸).