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.