10/24/07

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Crash Bandicoot Characters

These are from Wikipedia
Not all of the Characters are recorded here

Crash Bandicoot

Crash Bandicoot is the main character of the series. Once an ordinary bandicoot, he was subjected to the experiments of Dr. Neo Cortex and Dr. Nitrus Brio by mutation with the Evolvo-Ray and placement in the Cortex Vortex with the intention to serve as a Cortex Commando. However, the machine rejected him, leaving him to flee the lab soon after, triggering the events of the first Crash game.


He is of adequate intelligence and muscle and has a foolish personality. During the events of Crash 1, Crash was only armed with a spin attack and his jumping prowess, but in successive games, Crash often comes equipped with various other abilities; these have included a slide attack, belly flop, and high jump. His favorite food is Wumpa Fruit, which looks like a red and yellow apple. (hehe)

Coco Bandicoot
Voiced by: Vicki Winters, Hynden Walch, Debi Derryberry, Haruna Ikezawa, Ema Kogure, Satomi Arai, and Risa Tsubaki

Coco Bandicoot is Crash's younger sister. With different brain and muscle prowess from her brother, Coco is a genius who frequently manages a laptop. In Crash Bandicoot 2, she made her debut as a sufficient character, advising Crash throughout his adventure. She became a playable character in Crash Bandicoot 3, spending most of her levels operating a vehicle. Alongside her hacking skills, she is a big fan of Kung-Fu movies, showing off a karate kick and a stomp powerful enough as to create a shockwave, both revealed in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.

Aku Aku

Aku Aku is the spirit of N. Sanity Island. To obstruct Cortex's plot for world domination, he advises Crash and Coco during their mission and also protects them; when he is summoned three times in a row, he can grant them temporary invincibility. It is not until Crash Bandicoot 3 that Aku Aku is seen speaking fluent English.


Polar
Voiced by: Debi Derryberry, and Satomi Kōrogi

Polar is Crash's pet polar bear cub. He helps Crash through the Arctic levels in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and is a playable character in Crash Team Racing and hidden character in Crash Nitro Kart. He also has a minor role in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage in the polar bear racing levels, which are similar to the ones found in Crash Bandicoot 2, but are from a side perspective.

Pura

Coco's pet tiger cub. He helps Coco navigate the Great Wall of China in Warped, and he is a playable character in Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart and Crash, Boom, Bang!. In Crash Team Racing he was available from the start, but in Crash Nitro Kart he was a hidden character. However, he was not playable in the Game Boy Advance version of the game.

Baby T

A T-Rex who was discovered by Crash during Crash Bandicoot: Warped. Crash helped Baby T hatch from his egg and then rode him through some of the levels, using him to traverse swampland. After defeating Cortex and Uka Uka, Crash takes Baby-T back home to N Sanity Island. Baby T does not appear again after this, and is the only character from the original trilogy to do so.

Fake Crash

A bandicoot with thick eyebrows and a noticeable overbite. He first appeared in Warped, making cameo appearances in several levels. It wasn't until N-Tranced that he was given a proper role as a villain. However, near the end of the game, he turned good, and actually helped Crash defeat N. Trance. He also reappeared in Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Team Racing as an unlockable racer and in Crash Bandicoot Carnival, the Japanese Crash Bash.

Crunch Bandicoot
Voiced by:
Kevin Michael Richardson, Chris Williams, Yūji Kishi, Masafumi Kimura, and Shinya Fukumatsu


Crunch Bandicoot was originally a superweapon created by Doctor Neo Cortex, made for the sole purpose of destroying Crash Bandicoot. He has had a change of heart since then, and he now works with the Bandicoots.

Antagonists

Doctor Neo Cortex
Voiced by Brendan O'Brien, Clancy Brown, Lex Lang, Shōzō Iizuka, and Yōsuke Akimoto

Doctor Neo Cortex is a balding mad scientist with a giant 'N' on his head. Each time he attempts a sinister plot for world domination, Crash always obstructs him one way or another, much to his disgust. His ultimate dream is to retire to a beach with a woman at his side.

Lab Assistants

The Lab Assistants are subordinates of Cortex, their sole job being to hinder Crash and his friends on their mission. All Lab Assistants mainly wear their trademark circular eyeglasses and lab coats. However, their attire may change depending on the current stage. They are described as "cybernetic organisms", and have living flesh over robotic innards.


Doctor N. Gin
Voiced by Brendan O'Brien, Corey Burton, Quinton Flynn, Nolan North, Kazuhiro Nakata, and Mitsuru Ogata

Doctor N. Gin is a defense industry phycisist-turned-cyborg, with half of his face encased in metal and a missile lodged into his head. He became Cortex's right hand man in Cortex Strikes Back and has been so since, apparently a school friend of his. His name is an obvious pun of the word "engine". In Crash Tag Team Racing, N. Gin has a masochistic, bipolar, deppressive and effeminate personality.

Doctor Nefarious Tropy
voiced by Michael Ensign, Corey Burton, Masaru Ikeda, and Haruo Satō

Doctor Nefarious Tropy or N. Tropy for short, is the self-proclaimed master of time and quantum warp technology. He is an acquaintance of Uka Uka, called upon the latter to help take over the world in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. It is commonly stated that he can be seen causing time paradoxes for laughs.

N. Tropy made his debut in Warped as the third boss in the game. Upon his defeat, the Time Twister Machine fell into disarray, trapping Cortex, Tropy, and Uka Uka in a time prison and morphing the first two into infants. N. Tropy plays a minor role in
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, in which he attends Uka Uka's bad guy convention. He acts as an obstacle throughout the levels in the game. N. Tropy's latest appearance in the main series was in Crash Twinsanity as the fifth boss alongside Doctor Nitrus Brio when they, using the vast resources from Doctor N. Gin's company, hunted for treasure. They were easily thwarted by Spyro the Dragon. It seems now that N. Tropy is no longer working aside the likes of Cortex, but instead working with N. Brio, although still on the same side as Uka Uka.

In Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, N. Tropy is entrusted by Uka Uka with the task of aiding him in universal domination. To do this, N. Tropy kidnaps Coco and Crunch, as well as Fake Crash, who he believes to be the real Crash. He then enlists N. Trance to hypnotise them into joining him. However, Crash manages to turn the bandicoots back to normal, before defeating N. Trance and N. Tropy. In the kart racing games Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart, N. Tropy is master of the relic races, and can be unlocked by beating all his ghosts in Time Trial mode. N. Tropy has a cameo appearance in Crash Boom Bang! in the "Silhouette Quiz" minigame.
Tropy is, needless to say, a nefarious and smug character as opposed to the short temper of Doctor Cortex, with a smooth British accent to match. He appears to be the smartest out of all the doctors, but he tends to get frustrated when he repeatedly misses his target, and as a result tires easily. This usually works to Crash's advantage and results in Tropy's many defeats to the hands of the bandicoot.

The creators of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped have stated that because the plot of Warped involved time travel, a time travelling boss was called for. This led to Nefarious Tropy's initial creation.
Tropy's shortened name is a pun on the term "entropy", a measurment of chaos, randomness, and disorder.


Uka Uka
Voiced by Clancy Brown, Alex Fernandez, John DiMaggio, and Ryūzaburō Ōtomo

Uka Uka is the power above Cortex and his minions. Despite being twin brothers with Aku Aku, they are exact opposites. Ever since Aku Aku imprisoned him long ago, he has always advised Cortex's plots for world domination, but now he is free because of Cortex's failure in Cortex Strikes Back. He is apparently of equal power to his brother.

Tiny Tiger
Voiced by Brendan O'Brien, John DiMaggio, Chris Williams, Nolan North, Fumihiko Tachiki, and Masafumi Kimura

Tiny Tiger is a follower of Cortex. He is considerably strong, but he is very unintelligent, usually speaking in third person whenever he refers to himself. He sometimes attacks with a spear, as evidenced in Crash Bandicoot 3 and The Huge Adventure.

Dingodile
Voiced by William Hootkins, Dwight Schultz, Nolan North, Keisuke Ishida, and Hajime Iijima

Dingodile is a follower of Cortex, created by the fusion of a stray dingo and a crocodile. It is unknown who Dingodile's creator is, as it has been stated to be both Dr. Cortex and Dr. N. Brio on separate occasions. Dingodile always sports a large flamethrower wherever he goes. He supposedly opened up a pet shop at the end of Crash Team Racing.

Nina Cortex
Voiced by Susan Silo, Amy Gross, Debi Derryberry, Satomi Kōrogi, and Chihiro Kusaka

Nina Cortex flanked by two of her Brats and Uka Uka

Nina Cortex
is Doctor Neo Cortex's niece, with mechanical arms that are used to grab on to things and punch enemies, and apparent goth mannerisms. She was developed for Crash Nitro Kart when it was being developed by Traveller's Tales, and then used in Crash Twinsanity as a playable character. She is also a playable character in Crash Tag Team Racing, and the main antagonist in Crash of the Titans, replacing her uncle very early in the game.

Nina made her first appearance in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage. She is seen having incredible running prowess, being able to keep up with Polar for a good length of time without showing signs of fatigue. In Crash Twinsanity, Crash Bandicoot and Neo Cortex go to the Academy of Evil to find her so that she can help them save the world. After Cortex finds her, she must make her way through the rooftops to get out of the school. During the game she is kidnapped by Crash's evil counterpart, named Evil Crash, in another dimension, but in the end she is able to help defeat the Evil Twins. In contrast to her previous appearance, she does not display much personality, not speaking at all throughout the game (with the exception of a single "Huh?" in the final cutscene).

In Crash Tag Team Racing, Nina Cortex's personality is radically different from her portrayal in Ripto's Rampage. In this game, she is seen attempting to obliterate the Bandicoots with Doctor Cortex and Doctor N. Gin. Also, in the same game, Nina is disliked to the extreme by Coco Bandicoot, who has a rivalry against her. Nina, on the other hand, doesn't appear to hold anything specific against her female opposite. She looks the same way when she appeared in Twinsanity, except her height has changed, making her shorter. At one point in the game, Nina gets a part-time job in order to purchase the Angsterator car, going as far as to practically begging Crash to help her get the job.

Nina is normally depicted as easily annoyed and has a pessimistic look on life, much like a stereotypical goth. However, she is depicted quite differently in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, having a childish speaking pattern, referring to herself in the third person, and calling Spyro a "purple puppy". Nevertheless, she doesn't appear to notice the intense grudge Coco holds against her, let alone know that she exists.

In Crash of the Titans, Uka Uka replaces Neo Cortex with Nina after growing tired of his incompetence. Nina managed to brainwash Coco during the adventure. She eventually battles Crash in a giant spider robot body, her way of "if you want something done right".

The Titans
Main article:
Titans (Crash of the Titans) On Wikipedia
The Titans are the main enemies in the game Crash of the Titans.

10/22/07

Why I like Crash of the Titans

Why? ... My dad works at Radical Entertainment! I'm not incredibly familiar with it, since I never could play the game. I don't have any of the systems it goes on. Usually I only play the PC games. I used to have a Nintendo Gamecube but we got rid of it. I don't remember why. Gamecube is so old now, anyways.

A lot of my friends like this game also!! Angus in my class soooo wants me to give him the Nintendo DS version to him. Breanna is just a crazy fan of Crash.

I think they should make a game for the PC. I asked my dad. He says he's not the boss. (I don't know who the boss is. Sorry.) He just finished the 2007 version of the game. I just hopes he buys something to play it on.

I brought the XBOX version of the game to school once, and I'm glad I didn't get in trouble. Phew.
(You might be thinking, yes, Angus was definitly asking for it then!!!)

Crash of the Titans Introduction

Crash of the Titans is an action-adventure game published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by Radical Entertainment in Vancouver, BC for the Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 2, and Playstation Portable; the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance (NTSC only) versions of the game were developed by Amaze Entertainment. It was released in North America on October 2, 2007, in Europe on October 12, 2007, and in Australia on October 25, 2007;a Japanese release date has yet to be announced.

The game's story centers on the discovery of a new mysterious substance known as 'Mojo', which the antagonist of the series, Doctor Neo Cortex, plans on using to create a huge army of loyal mutants out of the inhabitants of the Wumpa Islands. The protagonist of the series, Crash Bandicoot, must stop Cortex's plot by utilizing the new technique of 'jacking' to take control of the mutated 'Titans' and destroy the Titans while collecting the mysterious mojo himself.