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{{quote|''"Oh, how I hate bandicoots."''
|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}VxExwI7TkPU Doctor Neo Cortex]''', ''Crash Twinsanity''}}
'''''Crash Bandicoot''''' is a video game series once seen as [[Sony]]'s unofficial mascot and its answer to [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] and [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. The games star the eponymous Crash Bandicoot, a [[Funny Animal|genetically enhanced marsupial]] and failed experiment on behalf of
The series is famed for its humorous cartoony tone ([[The Many Deaths of You|losing a life often forms an amusing slapstick death for Crash]] and nearly all levels (and even some of the characters) have ridiculously [[Punny Name
'''List of games:'''
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]'' (1997): One year after the original game, Cortex turns to Crash for help in an effort to prevent the planet Earth from facing certain doom. All the planets in the solar system will align soon, and, according to Cortex, create enough energy to tear the world apart. His solution to the crisis lies in crystals: in the aftermath of the original game, he discovered the Master Crystal, but that alone will not be enough... he needs Crash to collect 25 Slave Crystals so he can contain the energy of the planetary alignment and save Earth. {{spoiler|He's bluffing. He's actually going to use the crystals to power a massive Cortex Vortex and turn everyone on Earth into one of his brainless slaves}}.
▲* ''[[Crash Bandicoot 1996]]'': In an effort to create a bunch of anthropomorphic, hyper-intelligent animals to serve as an army to lead them to world domination, Dr. Neo Cortex and Dr. Nitrus Brio create the Evolv-O-Ray, a device that can mutate any animal into a super-strong, hyper-intelligent warrior, and the Cortex Vortex, a brain manipulation device that can make anyone and anything a blind follower of Cortex's orders. One of their first experiments with the Evolv-O-Ray is Crash, a bandicoot snatched from the local island wilderness and chosen to serve as the leader of Cortex's army. However, the Cortex Vortex fails on Crash, and he is discarded as a failed specimen while Cortex and Brio prepare to experiment on Crash's love interest, Tawna. The next day, Crash washes up on the shores of N. Sanity Beach and vows to defeat Cortex and rescue Tawna from his fortress, with the help of a native mask spirit named Aku Aku who wants Crash to take down Cortex so he'll stop polluting the islands.
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot
* ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'' (1999): The cast of the previous three games [[Go-Karting with Bowser|decide to organize a go-karting championship for no apparent reason]], until an invading alien named Nitros Oxide arrives, claiming to be the greatest racer in the galaxy and inviting the people of Earth to bring forth their fastest racer to compete against him in a race. Should Oxide win the race, however, he threatens to turn the planet into an intergalactic parking lot and make slaves of all its natives, so the logical thing to do is to organize a championship to see who gets the
* ''[[Crash Bash]]'' (2000): The Great Uka Uka decides that it's time to settle his conflict with Aku Aku once and for all, but Aku Aku informs him that they can't fight directly as it is forbidden by the ancients, so he instead suggests that they hold a contest to determine the resolution. Uka Uka relents, and they summon Crash and Cortex to choose their partners. However, Cortex chooses too many players (Koala Kong, Dingodile, N. Brio, Tiny Tiger
▲* ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'' (1999): The cast of the previous three games [[Go-Karting with Bowser|decide to organize a go-karting championship for no apparent reason]], until an invading alien named Nitros Oxide arrives, claiming to be the greatest racer in the galaxy and inviting the people of Earth to bring forth their fastest racer to compete against him in a race. Should Oxide win the race, however, he threatens to turn the planet into an intergalactic parking lot and make slaves of all its natives, so the logical thing to do is to organize a championship to see who gets the honour of racing against Oxide and saving Earth once again.
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot:
▲* ''[[Crash Bash]]'' (2000): The Great Uka Uka decides that it's time to settle his conflict with Aku Aku once and for all, but Aku Aku informs him that they can't fight directly as it is forbidden by the ancients, so he instead suggests that they hold a contest to determine the resolution. Uka Uka relents, and they summon Crash and Cortex to choose their partners. However, Cortex chooses too many players (Koala Kong, Dingodile, N. Brio, Tiny Tiger, and newcomer Rilla Roo), while Crash only has Coco by his side. Aku Aku forces Cortex to relinquish Tiny and Dingodile to the good side to make both sides even, and the contest finally starts.
* ''Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure'' (''XS'' in Europe, 2002): Cortex develops the Planetary Minimizer and uses it to shrink the earth. Crash learns of this and sets off to retrieve yet more crystals so that Coco can reverse the effects. This is the first game developed by Vicarious Visions. This is also the first ''Crash Bandicoot'' game developed for a handheld console (the [[Game Boy Advance]]). [[Nostalgia Level|The selection of]] [[Video Game Settings]] makes this game a bit of a portable version of ''Crash Bandicoot 2'', with a bit of ''Crash Bandicoot 3'' thrown in.
▲* ''[[Crash Bandicoot the Wrath of Cortex]]'' (2001): Intending to make up for his past failures, Cortex creates a secret weapon to destroy Crash -- a bandicoot named Crunch. To give Crunch the power he needs to accomplish this, Cortex frees the Elementals, a group of masks with destructive [[Elemental Powers|powers over]] [[Dishing Out Dirt|earth]], [[Kill It with Water|water]], [[Playing with Fire|fire]], and [[Blow You Away|air]]. Meanwhile, Crash and his friends become aware of the natural disasters occurring due to the Elementals, and use Coco's new Portal Chamber to once again collect crystals in order to seal away the Elementals again and stop Crunch and Cortex at all costs. This was the first game to make a leap to a next-gen console, developed by Traveler's Tales' Knutsford division and originally released on the [[PlayStation 2]] and later ported to the Xbox and [[Game Cube]].
* ''Crash Bandicoot 2:
* ''Crash Nitro Kart'' (2003): One day, Crash and his friends are going about their day when they are suddenly abducted by a UFO. Around the same time, Cortex is working on yet another plot to destroy Crash when he gets abducted as well. Crash and Cortex find themselves in a galactic racing circuit, where the ruler of the galaxy, Emperor Velo XXVII, forces them to race for his people's entertainment until they can go free, or let the Earth be destroyed. With no other choice, Crash and Cortex agree to participate in the races. The second racing game and the first console Crash game developed by Vicarious Visions, ''Crash Nitro Kart'' was to ''Crash Team Racing'' what ''The Wrath of Cortex'' was to ''Crash Bandicoot 3''.▼
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot Purple:
▲* ''Crash Nitro Kart'' (2003): One day, Crash and his friends are going about their day when they are suddenly abducted by a UFO. Around the same time, Cortex is working on yet another plot to destroy Crash when he gets abducted as well. Crash and Cortex find themselves in a galactic racing circuit, where the ruler of the galaxy, Emperor Velo XXVII, forces them to race for his people's entertainment until they can go free, or let the Earth be destroyed. With no other choice, Crash and Cortex agree to participate in the races. The second racing game and the first console Crash game developed by Vicarious Visions, ''Nitro Kart'' was to ''Crash Team Racing'' what ''Wrath of Cortex'' was to ''Crash 3''.
▲* ''[[Crash Bandicoot Purple Riptos Rampage]]''(''Crash Fusion'' in Europe, 2004): Cortex and Ripto agree to destroy Crash and [[Spyro the Dragon]] together using genetically altered Riptocs to trick them into fighting each other. This plan works for a while, but during their fight, Crash and Spyro realise what's really going on and team up to save their worlds from Cortex and Ripto. This game is a [[Crossover]] with the ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' franchise by Vicarious Visions. Shares a story with ''[[Spyro Orange the Cortex Conspiracy]]''. (''Spyro Fusion'' in Europe)
* ''[[Crash Twinsanity]]'' (2004): Cortex lures Crash into a trap in yet another attempt do destroy the bandicoot, but they are interrupted by the arrival of strange evil twin parrots from another dimension who want to destroy the world and seem to have some sort of grudge against Cortex. Crash and Cortex have no choice but to [[Enemy Mine|team up]] and stop the twins from wreaking havoc. Developed by Traveller's Tales' Oxford division.
* ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' (2005): A popular autoracing theme park with a high
* ''Crash Boom Bang!'' (2006): A Tasmanian devil called the Viscount is searching for the fabled Super Big Power Crystal as it has the power to grant wishes, but as his quest is ending in failure, he decides to con unsuspecting people into helping him, so he sends them invitations to the "World Cannonball Race". Of course, Crash and Cortex are among those who are invited. The Viscount sends the contestants to find and give him four stone tablets (so the location of the crystal can be revealed), but Cortex ruins everything by attempting to steal the map and ends up tearing it apart. This makes the Viscount confess the truth of the situation to everyone, so they are willing to help him find the Crystal in turn for a great sum of money. This is the second party game to be released, and is developed by Dimps, being the first game to be developed by a Japanese company.
* ''Crash of the Titans'' (2007): Cortex has been stealing mojo from the Temple of Zoom to create an army of Titans and is constructing a [[Humongous Mecha]] called the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doominator]]. He even goes as far as to capture Coco. However, Uka Uka decides to fire Cortex and appoint Nina in his place. She immediately takes over her uncle's operations and brainwashes Coco to work on the Doominator. Crash must stop Nina by "jacking" the various Titans they've created and using their powers to progress through the level. The first ''Crash
* ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'' (2008): Cortex and N. Brio reunite to develop a personal digital assistant called the NV in order to control the now-dormant Titans and bandicoots. Crunch and Coco become affected, but Crash does not, once again leaving it up to him to save the day.
* ''Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D'' (2008): A racing mobile game published by Activision. Cortex teams up with Oxide and they stage a racing tournament to challenge the protagonists, where the losing team is banished from N. Sanity Island. Later got a sequel titled ''Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2'' which is essentially the original improved in pretty much every area.
* ''Crash Bandicoot Mutant Island'' (2009): In a mashup of ''Crash of the Titans'' and ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'''s plots, Crash must stop Cortex when he creates a giant robot and begins distributing mind-controlling headsets to the inhabitants of the island. The game goes back to the days of old school side-scrolling platformers, with Crash running, climbing, jumping, and swinging throughout his journey. In contrast to the two games mentioned Titans are the game's bosses, where there are only 3 of them and in order to defeat them you must first climb them to tame them (by ''tickling'' them, no less) and once you've tamed them, they shrink down to a more affordable size and [[Defeat Means Playable|you can summon them at any time]].
* ''Crash Nitro Kart 2'' (2010): A Java-based mobile phone racing game that is a successor to ''Crash Nitro Kart'' [[In Name Only]], bringing back some familiar faces and adding a new one (a panda named Yaya).
* ''Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy'' (2017): A compilation rerelease of the first three games.
* ''Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled'' (2019): Remastered version of ''Crash Team Racing''.
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'' (2020): The first mainline entry in some time.
* ''Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!'' (2020 in [[Malaysia]]/2021): A mobile endless runner game.
* ''Crash Team Rumble'' (2023): A 4v4 multiplayer game. Season 3 featured a crossover with ''Spyro the Dragon''.
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* [[1-Up]]: They take form of Crash's iconic face.
* [[Action Girl]]: Coco, on occasion. (Especially in ''Wrath of Cortex''.)▼
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: The sewer levels in the second game has Crash running rather freely inside them. It becomes even more spacious in ''Crash Team Racing'''s Sewer Speedway, a whole race track in a giant sewer pipe.
* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: A few of the earlier games had levels where you run from a giant boulder (or a giant snowball, or a giant polar bear, or a triceratops...). The worst part being that you're running ''toward'' the camera, making obstacle dodging and box collecting very much a process of trial-and-error.
** Twinsanity has an [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Advancing Walrus of Doom]].
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Alongside characters with names like Crash, [[Biological Mashup|Dingodile]] and Nefarious, a lot of its characters have normal names, but with the exception of Coco, they're part of a pun (''Neo'' Cortex, [[Frankenstein|Victor and Moritz]]).
* [[Alien Abduction]]: ''Crash Nitro Kart''.
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: ''Crash Team Racing'' and ''Crash Nitro Kart'' have aliens of several different species as villains, and all of them speak perfect English. This is especially bad in ''Crash Nitro Kart'' where Velo speaks to ''his fellow subjects'' in English.
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The Japanese version of ''Crash Nitro Kart'' has a different theme song. It can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdBijrvVphI here].
** Some of the music in the Japanese versions of early ''Crash Bandicoot'' games were [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOTi5nBxjgQ altered as well]. For example, there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzX2JUqDuI this].
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: A staple of the series. Cortex has yellow skin, N. Tropy has blue skin, Nina has chalk white skin, as does N. Gin in the Radical games, and Von Clutch from ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' has green skin. Just about the only human characters who have normal skin colors are Papu Papu, N. Brio, N. Gin prior to the Radical games and Madame Amberly.
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: Crash was "cutened" up for the Japanese release. He even got a funky dance created by the Japanese that was carried back into the American versions. Some have speculated that this design change combined with Radical Entertainment's radical character redesigns that would make such things look awkward is what's making Radical's ''Crash Bandicoot'' games [[No Export for You|a no-go for the Japanese]].
* [[Animesque]]: All of the Trophy Girls in ''Crash Team Racing'' qualify to some extent, '''especially''' Megumi.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]: In the first three games, if you failed at a level a certain number of times, the game would give you a free Aku Aku mask (an extra hit point). It would also (after many, MANY more failures) turn miscellaneous boxes into checkpoints (respawn points for when you DO die).
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Crash Bandicoot has Doctor Neo Cortex. In the same series, there is also the rivalry between sentient voodooo mask twin brothers Aku Aku and Uka Uka.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', Aku Aku calls Uka Uka a "jerk". Not for his many crimes, such as trying to take over/destroy the world... but for sending their mother socks for her birthday. "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Honestly! Who sends socks to a magic mask with no feet]]?"
* [[Art Shift]]: ''Crash: Mind
* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: The Crash Bandicoot series takes place on a trio of islands near Australia, and yet the fauna, flora, natives, and ruins don't match the location and resemble a more South American wilderness. Justified in that their location to the rest of the world is unknown and that the scientists are supposedly the only ones who know of the islands' existence. [[MST3K Mantra]] also applies to this.▼
* [[Back Tracking]]: While the first game's lack of a crate-counter-save option (included in the checkpoints in the sequels) may hint that said game required this strategy (it didn't; dying usually requires you to start over the level in order to get the [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]), ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'' pretty much ''ran'' on this trope. It was actually what may or may not have discouraged many gamers from fully completing the game, especially given that [[Camera Screw|you couldn't rotate the camera]] (it zooms out if you backtrack, though) and, most infuriatingly, some levels are ''insanely'' difficult to backtrack. To wit: "[[That One Level|Diggin' It]]". You need to backtrack after getting a few crates in the skull route, in order to get roughly seven more crates or so. It wouldn't be so difficult if there wasn't an un-destroyable [[Mook Maker]], a [[Everything's Worse with Bees|beehive]]. And every Bee was defeatable, but you didn't see until it was too late; the only way you could expect it was its [[Hell Is That Noise|buzzing
▲* [[Art Shift]]: ''Crash: Mind over Mutant'' enjoys abusing Art Shift for its animated FMVs for no apparent reason other than to amplify its wackiness. Across the seventeen such scenes, there are twelve art styles used in total!
▲* [[Back Tracking]]: While the first game's lack of a crate-counter-save option (included in the checkpoints in the sequels) may hint that said game required this strategy (it didn't; dying usually requires you to start over the level in order to get the [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]), ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'' pretty much ''ran'' on this trope. It was actually what may or may not have discouraged many gamers from fully completing the game, especially given that [[Camera Screw|you couldn't rotate the camera]] (it zooms out if you backtrack, though) and, most infuriatingly, some levels are ''insanely'' difficult to backtrack. To wit: [[That One Level|Diggin' It]]. You need to backtrack after getting a few crates in the skull route, in order to get roughly seven more crates or so. It wouldn't be so difficult if there wasn't an un-destroyable [[Mook Maker]], a [[Everything's Worse with Bees|beehive]]. And every Bee was defeatable, but you didn't see until it was too late; the only way you could expect it was its [[Hell Is That Noise|buzzing.]]
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Coco and arguably Crash himself.
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* [[Beard of Evil]]: Cortex sports one, and N. Tropy has a rather unique one.▼
* [[Body Surf]]: Crash throught ''Crash of the Titans''. [[People Puppets|"Jack" a Spike]] with Aku Aku, then keep Body Surfing on up the chain of more powerful mutants!▼
* [[Boss Only Level]]: The original trilogy did this with all their bosses.▼
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Tawna in all her appearances, Liz the Trophy Girl in ''Crash Team Racing'' and Coco Bandicoot starting with ''Crash Nitro Kart''.
* [[Beam-O-War]]: Aku Aku and Uka Uka have one of these during the final boss fight in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''.
▲* [[Beard of Evil]]: Cortex sports one, and N. Tropy has a rather unique one.
* [[Better Than It Sounds/Video Games A-F|Better Than It Sounds]]: An anthropomorphic marsupial exacts revenge on a balding scientist.
* [[Big Bad]]: Doctor Neo Cortex in ''Crash Bandicoot'', ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back''
* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: ''Crash Twinsanity'' has this as a gameplay feature during moments when Cortex just gets too pissed off at Crash and the two end up as this. The player then has to roll them like a hamster ball through the upcoming obstacle course. If the ball is left still, an [[Idle Animation]] will play of one of the two characters getting the upper hand, including one where Cortex... spanks Crash...
* [[Big Little Brother]]: Light example. Coco is often slightly taller and significantly [[Wise Beyond Their Years|more intelligent and sane]] than her "big brother" [[Cloudcuckoolander|Crash]] (granted this depends on the [[Depending on the Writer|creative]] [[Depending on the Artist|team]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Von Clutch occasionally throws some German into his otherwise mostly English dialogue
* [[Blackout Basement]]: Common in the series:
▲* [[Body Surf]]: Crash throught ''Crash of the Titans''. [[People Puppets|"Jack" a Spike]] with Aku Aku, then keep Body Surfing on up the chain of more powerful mutants!
* [[Bonus Stage]]: The first ''Crash Bandicoot'' had bonus stages that could be gotten to by collecting three of certain items. The later games had two on each level, which you just had to step on a pad to get to, although one of them would only show up if you got to a certain point without dying.
* [[Bootstrapped Theme]]: ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'''s main theme became the theme of the whole series for a while.
* [[Boss Arena Idiocy]]: In the first game, Ripper Roo is '''invincible'''. The only way to harm him is to jump on TNT that's moving down the river between the two platforms and hope that the explosion hurts Ripper Roo. In the third game, Doctor Nefarious Tropy is... ''not'' invincible. However, he has you at the far end of the arena from him, and thus you can't do a thing, not having a distance attack. Until he switches the platforms to create a direct trail to him... and then takes that moment to catch his breath and stop attacking you.
** In the same game, Dingodile, who is also not invincible. However, he is protected by a barrier of crystals... until he decides to blast you with his flamethrower through it, destroying large chunks of it with each shot.
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: A staple of the series, usually accompanied with a whistling sound as Crash falls to his doom.
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Crash Bandicoot and Doctor Neo Cortex in ''Crash Twinsanity'', though Cortex initially considers it a combination of his brilliant intellect and Crash's vacuous stupidity at first. In the end, most of the time Crash just winds up whacking things with Cortex.
** Also, the Komodo Bros. Komodo Joe is lean yet intelligent, Komodo Moe is brawny yet... not so intelligent. The two make a
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Done a LOT in the series. In ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'', Crunch is brainwashed by Cortex to work with the Elementals and try to kill Crash. In ''Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced'', Crunch, Coco and Fake Crash are brainwashed by N. Trance into trying to kill Crash. In ''Crash Nitro Kart'', N. Trance brainwashes Polar, Pura and Dingodile to form an entire race team to put against the Bandicoot. In ''Crash of the Titans'', Coco is brainwashed to work on the Doominator (thus trying to wipe out Wumpa Island... and kill Crash). In ''Crash: Mind
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The later games have some notable instances. In ''Crash
** Also, during some of the [[Enemy Chatter]] in ''Crash of the Titans'', the Voodoo Bunnies are discussing Uka Uka's personality issues, saying that he's feeling self-conscious about not having a body, and mentioning that "He had body briefly in ''Crash Twinsanity'', but that was no fun for nobody
* [[The Brute]]: Tiny, a gigantic, overly muscled brute of a thylacine, who prefers attempting to stomp Crash flat or smashing him with his muscles.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]:
{{quote|'''Park Drone:''' Again, you come back to haunt me?! Like some kind of haunting thing?! Haunting... and coming back?!}}
** Actually seems to be a favored trope with the newer Radical games, a large amount of random gameplay quotes not devoted to cultural parody humor usually have the characters go blank and irregularly mangle their sentence, outtake style. even [[Big Bad
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Poor, poor Cortex.
** Almost as bad as poor N Gin, or poor Crunch, or poor Crash
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Most of the main villains as of ''Crash Bash''.
* [[Cat and Mouse Boss]]: Crunch with Py-Ro in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''. Crash must run away from Crunch for a while, and soon finds a FLUDD-like waterpack, reversing the scenario.
* [[Chased by Angry Natives]]: This happens to Crash near the end of the "Totem Hokum" level in ''Crash Twinsanity''.
* [[Check Point]]: They tend to come in form of crates marked with "C".
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Coco's transpalooper (aka "the purple thingy")}} in ''Crash of the Titans''.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Pasadena O'Possum of ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' may count as a female version, constantly flirting with the title character, [[Depending on the Writer|the returned gesture varies from having somewhat mutual attractions to feeling physically sick]].
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Tawna, Crash's girlfriend from the first game, was pretty much removed from the series from the second game and onward, after her intended character design was [[Bowdlerize
** Jason Rubin (the co-creator of the ''Crash Bandicoot'' series) revealed that shortly after the original ''Crash Bandicoot'' was released, [[Tomb Raider (video game)|Lara Croft]] (ironically) took the gaming world by storm, causing the marketing director of Universal Interactive Studios (the one responsible for the meddling in the first place) to leave.
* [[Collision Damage]]: Colliding with just about any enemy will send Crash flying to that Australian outback in the sky. Same goes with Coco and, in ''N-Tranced'', Crunch.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: In ''
* [[Crate Expectations]]: ''Crash Bandicoot'' not only sees levels filled with crates, but destroying all of them in all levels are required to reach the full [[
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]
* [[Creepy Twins]]: ''Crash Twinsanity''.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Ripper Roo after the first game.
* [[Daddy's Little Villain]]: Nina Cortex.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Nina again.
* [[The Dark Chick]]
* [[Death Course]]: The ''Crash Bandicoot'' games are mostly a combination of the various types of Death Courses, with most of the pitfalls included.
* [[Death Trap]]: Cortex lampshades their general ineffectiveness.
{{quote|'''Dr. Cortex''' (while lecturing the Grimlies on killing Crash quickly): And no death traps that take ten flipping hours.}}
* [[Defeat by Modesty]]: Getting hit by a scimitar in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' will cut Crash's pants off, causing him to shamefully slink away while attempting to cover his [[Goofy Print Underwear|pink polka-dot boxers]].
* [[Degraded Boss]]: Several of the bosses in the series, most notably Ripper Roo, Tiny
* [[Denser and Wackier]]: Sort of. The series was already rather comical and zany, but had some plausible amount of drama in story and characterization to give an occasionally dark and serious atmosphere. By the time of Radical's takeover, this is thrown completely out the window, with endless slapstick, cultural references and demented characterization completely taking over the story narrative.
* [[Dissimile]]: From ''Crash Twinsanity'':
{{quote|'''Cortex:''' Three years I spent alone in the frozen Antarctic wastes! ''And I missed you!'' And so, I've
* [[Divine Chessboard]]: Aku Aku versus Uka Uka, with the heroes and villains used as champions.
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: Doctor N. Gin ''loves'' this trope. Also, the Doominator robot.
* [[Double Jump]]: A recurring power in the series, starting from the third game.
* [[Double Unlock]]: [[
* [[Down the Drain]]: ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' has its underwater levels which are fun but become very annoying under Time Trial mode. It also had the
* [[The Dragon]]: Pinstripe Potoroo in ''Crash Bandicoot'', Doctor Neo Cortex in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'', Py-Ro the Fire Elemental in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''. Tiny and N Gin also often act as [[Co-Dragons]] to Cortex through the series.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Koala Kong in the original game.
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** Also, Komodo Moe (his brother Joe is the "smart" one).
* [[Dummied Out]]: The first game had a completely finished level called "Stormy Ascent" cut from the final version. The level resembles "Slippery Climb" in terms of design, only it's [[Scrappy Level|A LOT harder]]. The level was probably cut due to difficulty on account of being the hardest level in the original game and is probably the hardest level in ''the entire series''.
** ''The Wrath
* [[Dynamic Difficulty]]: Added checkpoints and bonus hits in the form of a free Aku Aku mask if you die enough.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Keys and random colored gems in the first game, and arbitrarily awarded gems and secret portals in the second. The first game also has the annoying issue of only being able to save in bonus rounds (which cannot be reattempted), and there are no crystals. Instead, you have to fight your way through the islands in order to defeat Cortex. Cortex also has a
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Cortex's full name is Neo Periwinkle Cortex.▼
* [[Enemy Chatter]]: The Xbox 360 version of ''Crash of the Titans'' has an achievement for listening to enemy chatter.
* [[Escort Mission]]: ''Crash Twinsanity'' includes two Doc Amock sequences, wherein Doctor Cortex is forced to run down a preset path (while being harassed by bees, their nest and a honey-hungry bear the first time around, and by Crash's evil duplicate in the second), while Crash must take another path whilst disabling the hazards on Cortex's route. The sequences were generally well accepted, thanks to its exhibition of the game's excellent Cortex-abuse-centric
▲* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Cortex's full name is Neo Periwinkle Cortex.
* [[Eternal Engine]]: The third quarter of the original ''Crash Bandicoot'' consists mostly of this (levels such as "Heavy Machinery", "Cortex Power" and "Generator Room"), with Crash roaming through Cortex's enormous power plant which, on the surface, doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose other than to dump tons and tons of radioactive sludge into the nearby oceans.▼
▲* [[Escort Mission]]: ''Crash Twinsanity'' includes two Doc Amock sequences, wherein Doctor Cortex is forced to run down a preset path (while being harassed by bees, their nest and a honey-hungry bear the first time around, and by Crash's evil duplicate in the second), while Crash must take another path whilst disabling the hazards on Cortex's route. The sequences were generally well accepted, thanks to its exhibition of the game's excellent Cortex-abuse-centric humour.
** The late-game stages of the second and third ''Crash Bandicoot'' games also indulged quite a bit on this.▼
▲* [[Eternal Engine]]: The third quarter of the original ''Crash Bandicoot'' consists mostly of this (levels such as Heavy Machinery, Cortex Power and Generator Room), with Crash roaming through Cortex's enormous power plant which, on the surface, doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose other than to dump tons and tons of radioactive sludge into the nearby oceans.
▲** The late-game stages of the second and third Crash Bandicoot games also indulged quite a bit on this.
* [[Everything Fades]]: The [[PlayStation]] One games just showed enemies flying into the distance after being slapped by the titular character. Unless you jumped on them, in which case they disappeared in a cloud of smoke, occasionally being flattened first.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Upon donning the NV in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', Crunch seems to develop a fascination with monkeys. "Can't talk! Watching monkeys!"
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: Penta Penguin in ''Crash Team Racing''.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Crash's main form of offense.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: Sharks are recurring enemies in water levels.
** Somewhat averted with Nash from ''Crash Nitro Kart''
* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: "Un-Bearable" level in the second game.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: From the crabs near the beach to the futuristic lasers, they're all barring Crash's way in his adventure.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Doctor Nefarious Tropy.
* [[The Evil Genius]]: Dr. Neo Cortex, mad scientist, wannabe world dominator, and general dickhead to animals... which causes Crash's adventure in the first place. Also all of the other doctors.
* [[Exploding Barrels]]: TNT and Nitro crates, as well as actual barrels in a few levels.
* [[Exposed Animal Bellybutton]]: Crash originally had one, but it stopped appearing starting in ''The Wrath of Cortex''.
* [[Expressive Mask]]: Aku Aku and Uka Uka, literally.
* [[Expy]]: The large majority of the cast have evolved into expies or parodies of celebrities or pop culture figures via Radical's redesign of the franchise (
* [[Extended Gameplay]]: Both of the GBA ''Crash Bandicoot'' games have this. If you beat the final boss with all the gems in ''The Huge Adventure'', all the bosses in the game {{spoiler|become a [[Biological Mashup]]}}, and you're subjected to {{spoiler|[[Chasing Your Tail|a race to the end of an extra level]] before the boss hits you.}} ''In N-Tranced'', collecting all the gems allows you to avert {{spoiler|Doctor Nefarious Tropy's [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]}} and give you a batch of new levels, climaxing with a battle with {{spoiler|Doctor N. Tropy himself.}}▼
** It is perhaps worth noting that half of these Expies in fact have closer connection to previous [[Expy|Expies]] of said celebrities. For example, Tiny and the Ratnicians probably closer resemble Dederick Tatum (Mike Tyson) and Prof. Frink (Jerry Lewis) from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' respectively than the actual figures they are based on.▼
▲* [[Expy]]: The large majority of the cast have evolved into expies or parodies of celebrities or pop culture figures via Radical's redesign of the franchise (eg. Crunch is an expy of Mr T, N. Gin is one of Peter Lorre, Tiny of Mike Tyson). One of the larger critisms of the Radical titles is how unique characterization has been replaced with stock characters and parodies.
▲* [[Extended Gameplay]]: Both of the GBA ''Crash Bandicoot'' games have this. If you beat the final boss with all the gems in ''The Huge Adventure'', all the bosses in the game {{spoiler|become a [[Biological Mashup]]}}, and you're subjected to {{spoiler|[[Chasing Your Tail|a race to the end of an extra level]] before the boss hits you
▲** It is perhaps worth noting that half of these Expies in fact have closer connection to previous Expies of said celebrities. For example Tiny and the Ratnicians probably closer resemble Dederick Tatum (Mike Tyson) and Prof. Frink (Jerry Lewis) from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' respectively than the actual figures they are based on.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: This is implemented on purpose in the "N Faux Mercial" cutscene of ''Crash: Mind
* [[Fetish]]: Played for laughs in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'':
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: ''Crash Bandicoot'', ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'', ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' and ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''.
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Tiny until Radical's character redesigns.
* [[Flunky Boss]]: Papu Papu in ''Crash Bash''.
* [[Follow the Money]]: Wumpa Fruit, especially when it seems to be hovering over a bottomless pit.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Doctor Neo Cortex: "Well, actually it's pretty fun. You should try it. Y'know, riding around in huge, rumbling machines and whatnot? Very stimulating."
* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: The Park Drones in ''Crash Tag Team Racing''.
* [[Genre Roulette]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Cortex in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''. Despite being [[The Dragon]] to your stereotypical villain.
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: The fight against Cortex in ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back''.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The [[Fan Nickname|Trophy Girls]] in ''Crash Team Racing''. Not only do they have noticeable chests, but they also come with [[Jiggle Physics]]... in an '''E-rated''' game!
** Some games also contain quite a bit of innuendo in the dialogue, such as Cortex requesting "a woman with nice, big... bags of ice for my head!", in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'', yelling out "My crystals!" in a wheezing voice after dropping his Power Crystals (caused by Coco kicking him in a [[Groin Attack|very delicate area]]) in ''Crash Twinsanity'', and several other examples.
** The 100% completion ending on ''Crash Team Racing'' says that one of the trophy girls is posing for "Bandiboy" magazine, which May or may not be related to [[Playboy]].
** ''All'' of Cortex's dialogue [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fab3xrfThz8 at the end of ''Crash
{{quote|"How long have you had ''that'' in your pants?"}}
*** Half the stuff Cortex says in that game, period. A notable example for [[Refuge in Audacity|how sheerly audacious it is
{{quote|Coco: "Cortex, why do you keep doing stuff like this?"
Cortex: "Well, actually it's pretty fun. You should try it! [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|You know, riding around in huge rumbling machines and whatnot?]] [[Camp Straight|Veeery stimulating!"]]
Crash ''(and the audience)'': *take* "Buh?"
** Not to mention the cutscene in ''Crash Twinsanity'' where Crash and Cortex go through the Moulin Cortex: "Are those ''real''??".
{{quote|Cortex: ''(in the same building)'' "Mother?!"}}
* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]: Judging by the way the original developers handled the franchise, ''Crash Bandicoot'' seemed to have a bit of this going on with Doctor Neo Cortex, specifically in ''Crash Team Racing'' where the good guys and bad guys are all just go-karting along before the plot happens... and then they all go-kart around some more.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Several of Crash's death sequences in his second and third [[PlayStation]] games reveal he wears pink polka-dot boxers.
** The Wizard enemies in the third game have white boxers with pink dots.
** At the end of ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', Cortex fights Crash in his red polka-dot briefs after he [[Hulking Out|hulks out]] of his clothes.
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: Only if spinning doesn't work.
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: N. Sanity Beach and the surrounding tropical forests in many of the ''Crash Bandicoot'' games.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Happens to Cortex (via Coco's well-placed kick) in ''Crash Twinsanity'' ("My crystals!"), and Crash also does this to a Grimly in the opening demo movie of ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant''.
* [[Ground Pound]]: Crash Bandicoot gains a Ground Pound attack in the second game, with which he can belly-flop onto unsuspecting enemies or bust open metal-enforced crates that would otherwise seem impenetrable.
* [[Guest Fighter
* [[Guide Dang It]]: The secret levels, starting off in the original, where you had to guess which levels gave which colored Gems, allowing you to get the normal Gems. The third game had 2 secret levels that almost certainly needed to be performed either by accident, or with a guide. One had you crash into a specific sign in a motorcycle level, and another had a trigger where you had to get to a bonus gem level, and then die on a certain enemy, which
** Not to mention the second game's secrets. In that game, you had to fall down a hole that normally would kill you, body slam on a specific point and go back after being thrown off Polar once finishing a level.
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Crash has shoes, gloves and ''pants
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Crash alternates between this and [[The Unintelligible]], for a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TTrB0c3tc very good reason].
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?|How Do You Like Them Wumpas]]
* [[Hub Level]]: Most of the hubs from ''Crash Bandicoot 2'' onwards are small rooms with a bunch of doors, but ''Crash Team Racing'' has a bigger hub akin to ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]''. ''Crash Twinsanity'', ''Crash Nitro Kart'' and ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' have one hub per world.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Tiny Tiger before the Radical Entertainment games.
* [[Humans Are
▲* [[Hundred-Percent Completion]]: Several ''Crash Bandicoot'' games have taken it all the way up to 120% and above. ''Crash Bash'' features up to 200%, but good luck getting there.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Crash.
* [[Idle Animation]]: He either plays with a yo-yo or the [[Follow the Money|fruit]].
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: N. Tropy is rather fond of throwing out time-related puns.
* [[Indy Escape]]: Every platformer game in the series has at least one of this.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Used with Polar in the second game. While [[Iron Butt Monkey|Crash]] [[The Many Deaths of You|can kill himself in numerous ways]] in the snow levels, the little bear cub is shown making his way out of each obstacle completely unscaved (in one, Crash's angel is even shown ascending upward carrying the still alive and unharmed Polar in his arms). Used near identically with Pura in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' (at least one instance subverts this, however, with Coco jumping out of harm's way just before the baby tiger runs smack into a pile of barrels).
* [[Infinite
* [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: Though Cortex may be the top butt monkey, Crash seemingly goes through the largest amount of horrific [[Amusing Injuries]] throughout the series' run, depending on how many lost lifes (and thus brutal cartoon deaths) you suffered during gameplay anyway.
* [[I See London]]: In addition to the [[Defeat by Modesty]] entry above, in ''Crash Bandicoot 3'', hitting a Wizard enemy with the Fruit Bazooka (in the North American version) or any attack ([[Difficulty by Region|in the European version]]) will strip him to his underwear.
* [[Is This Thing On?]]: Neo Cortex's first line in ''Crash of the Titans''.
* [[Jiggle Physics]]: The only reason Naughty Dog's character designers thought it was a good idea to include Papu Papu as a boss in the original ''Crash Bandicoot'' was because the animators loved to animate jiggling fat.
* [[Jungle Japes]]: The first levels/world in practically every ''Crash Bandicoot'' game.
* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Von Clutch's extremely stereotypical German accent in ''Crash Tag Team Racing'', although this is probably intentional.
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Parodied in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', when Brio randomly yells "Hadoken!" in one of the early cutscenes.
* [[Lame Comeback]]: Coco to Nina in ''Crash of the Titans'':
{{quote|'''Coco:''' Your... hair is dumb!}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The fact that Crash and the other bandicoots do not resemble the real life creatures on which they are based is randomly mentioned by N. Gin in ''Crash of the Titans'', during one of his lunatic tirades: "YOU DON'T EVEN LOOK LIKE A BANDICOOT!"
** More fun with N. Gin: during his levels in ''Crash of the Titans
** "Oh, c'mon! He didn't even have a cup!"
** The absence of Crash and Coco's parents is lampshaded in ''Crash Tag Team Racing'': if Crash spin-attacks Coco, one of the things she says is "I'm telling mom... if we had one!".
*** This is also referenced in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', when, if spin-attacked by Crash, Coco says something to the effect of "I'm telling mom! Who is she, anyway?".
* [[Large and In Charge]]: Papu Papu, Madame Amberly.
* [[Large Ham]]: Doctor Neo Cortex and Doctor Nitrus Brio are especially hammy in the Radical Entertainment era of the series.
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** '''Brio:''' ''Strike him with your large man-hand!''
** Not to mention N. Gin, especially in the Radical Entertainment era.
** N. Tropy certaily qualifies
** The Bratgirls from ''Crash of the Titans'' and ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant''. "Red rover, red rover!"
* [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]: Crunch Bandicoot in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''.
* [[Last Lousy Point]]: ''Crash Team Racing'' has a Last Lousy Relic. You need all the relics for a rematch against [[Big Bad]] Nitros Oxide, but to get the last relic, you needed to unlock a secret race, which required five gems. Each gem in turn requires four
* [[Laughably Evil]]: EVERY-SINGLE-VILLAIN. Uka Uka may count as [[Knight of Cerebus|a subversion]] [[Characterization Marches On|early on]], though quickly gains his own comical traits as the series trades hands.
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Ripper Roo, after being exposed to different experiments from Doctor Cortex, became a raving, laughing lunatic. In fact, after his brain was tampered with, all of his dialogue consists of insane laughter with subtitles to translate.
** He almost did talk in
* [[Law of One Hundred]]: Collect 100 Wumpa Fruit to earn a new life.
* [[Lean and Mean]]: N. Tropy, Komodo Joe.
* [[Leitmotif]]: In the earlier titles, the majority of boss characters had an individual theme that was remixed throughout each of their appearances. Cortex in particular has an eerie guitar riff used in his faceoffs in all three of the original games.
* [[Life Meter]]:
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The [[PlayStation]] 2 version of ''The Wrath of Cortex''.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Every single villain in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' franchise is either a mad scientist (usually with a first name starting with the letter N, which lends itself to [[Punny Name
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: The series features lots of humorous death animations, intended to prevent players from snapping their controllers in frustration from dying over and over again. Notable examples include 'death' animations where Crash never actually dies like, for example, being mounted and kissed by a huge toad who turns into a handsome prince. ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' even featured a set of collectible Die-O-Rama [[
* [[Mascot with Attitude]]: One of the few who have managed to fare better than the rest.
* [[Matrix Raining Code]]: Appears at the beginning and end of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-g4H63JAi0 4th cutscene] of ''
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Several characters, mostly the villains (some of whom have punny names, as mentioned above).
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: Whenever you lose an Aku-Aku mask due to getting hit, you'll be invincible for a few seconds. In the racing games, if you fall into a pit, Aku-Aku or Uka-Uka will momentarily cover you as you're being put back on track.
* [[Mercy Mode]]: Dying too many times in a given level will cause you to start re-spawning with mask power ups, which let you survive an extra hit. Even more death, even with the masks, leads random boxes to turn into checkpoint boxes.
* [[Minecart Madness]]: "Dragon Mines" in ''Crash Team Racing'', "Compactor Reactor" and "Ghost Town" in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''.
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Tiny and N. Gin are for the large part just idiots loyally following Cortex's orders. This trait is more prominant in the Radical incarnations, though as early as ''Crash Nitro Kart'', the two are noticeably less malicious and calculating than their master.
* [[Mirror Match]]: Fake Crash.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Dingodile, Rilla Roo
* [[Mook Maker]]: Would you believe a [[Everything's Worse with Bees|beehive]] (see [[Back Tracking]] above)? [[Primal Fear|*shudders*]]
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Doctor Neo Cortex, evil.
* [[Motive Decay]]: From the beginning of the series, Doctor Cortex was motivated to [[Take Over the World]] by a combination of [[They Called Me Mad]] and [[The Napoleon|abuse related to his short stature]]. From ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' onward, his schemes are mostly carried out [[Demoted to Dragon|as a service to his boss Uka Uka]]. At other times, he either specifically attempts to get rid of Crash ([[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''Crash Nitro Kart'' when Cortex ponders how he can defeat the Bandicoots before recalling his original world domination goal) or does what he does [[For the Evulz]].
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: In ''Crash of the Titans'', Coco is dismayed at {{spoiler|Nina}}'s plans to crush Wumpa Island with the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doominator]] robot: "Our house is there, and all our stuff! Oh, and maybe Crunch."
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Crash Bandicoot, Crunch Bandicoot
* [[The Napoleon]]: While the majority of scientists in the series are vertically challenged, Cortex is suggested to have suffered the most psychological trauma from this, even going so far as to create a "Planetary Minimizer" to shrink the entire earth to the size of a wumpa fruit.
{{quote|'''Dr Cortex:''' Finally after all these years of abuse, who's the little guy now?}}
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: ''Crash Bandicoot 2'' and ''Crash Bandicoot 3'' aren't by any means easy, but the original game takes the cake. The fact that you can only save in bonus rounds makes it even worse. Gems are also different in the first game:
** Brutal side paths that hold little value besides some crates you need to break to get the gem for the level. Later games would have no crates on these paths and give the player a second gem instead.
** You have to finish the whole level from start to finish in one life, including levels like "Sunset Vista" which may be longer and is certainly more difficult than any single level in the second and third games.
** In the second game, it will tell you how many you're missing just before the finish, and the third game keeps count for you during the level. In the first game, there's no sign of whether you have all of the crates at the end of the level, just a message afterwards saying "Great! But you missed 4 [of the most cheaply hidden] crates [of all time]."
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Peter Lorre as Doctor N. Gin, Mike Tyson as Tiny Tiger, Mr. T as Crunch Bandicoot, Jerry Lewis as the Ratnicians, Orson Welles as Doctor N. Brio.
* [[No Damage Run]]: Well, at least a No Death Run
* [[Non Lethal Bottomless Pits]]: ''Crash of the Titans'' and ''Crash: Mind
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: N. Gin's Weapons Factory in ''Crash of the Titans''.
** Cortex's power station is even worse. Huge pits of bubbling toxic green waste are scattered about, there's exposed electric machines and red hot pipes and steam all over, the generator room is pitch black and has exhaust flowing around indoors, and metal platforms without rails are suspended over toxic goo or bottomless pits. At least Pinstripe gives a clear warning to be careful in the lowest part of the power station
* [[No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom]]: The series tends to play like this a ''lot''. Especially noticeable in the Naughty Dog era when most developers were attempting the opposite with the jump to 3D, ironically making it stand out as one of the few 3D games that stuck to the old linear style that dominated past eras.
** Averted with some levels on ''Crash Twinsanity'', some sections of ''Crash of the Titans'' and ''Mind Over Mutant'' as a whole
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: ''Crash Twinsanity'' opens with a jungle level, which very much evokes the mood of the (usually early-found) jungle levels of the first two games in the franchise.
* [[Not in the Face]]:
{{quote|'''N. Gin''': "Not my throat! I need that for swallowing!"}}
* [[Offer Void in Nebraska]]: Doctor Neo Cortex's and Doctor Nitrus Brio's commercial for the NV in ''Crash: Mind
* [[Oh God With the Troping]]: Used with the Ratnicians. Said enemies are a parody of Jerry Lewis' "Nutty Professor" character.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Doctor Nitrus Brio in the first ''Crash Bandicoot'' game, who drinks his own [[Psycho Serum]] to mutate into the penultimate boss. {{spoiler|Cortex}} drinks this same serum in ''Crash: Mind
▲* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Doctor Nitrus Brio in the first ''Crash Bandicoot'' game, who drinks his own [[Psycho Serum]] to mutate into the penultimate boss. {{spoiler|Cortex}} drinks this same serum in ''Crash: Mind over Mutant'' {{spoiler|as the final boss}}.
* [[Party Game]]: ''Crash Bash'' and ''Crash Boom Bang!''
* [[Pass Through the Rings]]: Rings of Power in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''.
* [[People Puppets]]: Crash "jacking" the Titans in ''Crash of the Titans''.
* [[Planet Terra]]: Played with. Earth and Terra are separate planets, and one of the inhabitants of Terra believes Earth to be a copy of it.
* [[Playing Tennis With the Boss]]: Koala Kong and Doctor Neo Cortex in ''Crash Bandicoot'', Doctor Neo Cortex in ''Crash Twinsanity'', Coco Bandicoot in ''Crash: Mind
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The Power Crystals and Gems.
* [[Positive Discrimination]]: Arguably Coco early on while acting as the token female, super intelligent, [[Women Are Wiser|closer to Earth]] and near equally skilled physically as her brother (even if outdoing [[Idiot Hero|Crash]] intelligence-wise isn't exactly much of a challenge). Notably as more female characters were inserted, Coco started to gain her own [[Took a Level In Dumbass|idiotic]] and [[Took a Level in Jerkass|obnoxious]] tendancies.
* [[Power Trio]]: Crash, Coco and Crunch or Crash, Coco and Aku Aku depending on how you look at it.▼
* [[Power-Up Food]]
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Crash, Coco and Crunch or Crash, Coco and Aku Aku depending on how you look at it.
* [[Powerup Mount]]: Each of the Naughty Dog games had one such animal per game, with two levels in each game dedicated entirely to riding them through their respective obstacle courses (an unnamed wild boar in ''Crash Bandicoot'', Polar the polar bear in ''Crash Bandicoot 2'', and Pura the tiger, along with a baby T-Rex in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'').
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Ripper Roo in the first two games.
* [[Pyromaniac]]: Dingodile. "Break out the butter... gonna make ''toast''!"
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* [[Recycled in Space]]!: ''The Island of Dr. Moreau'' SET IN AN AUSTRALIAN ARCHIPELAGO, DOING [[Looney Tunes]]!
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: While most of the [[Funny Animal]] cast are implied to have been created by Cortex or his fellow [[Mad Scientist]] cronies, a good few seem to randomly appear out of nowhere, with no implication of Cortex's hand in their existance. Even Coco seems like a random entry unless [[All There in the Manual|you have read bios]] stating she was created by Cortex shortly after Crash.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Played straight with the Komodo Bros
* [[Running Gag]]: The "pancakes" gag throughout ''Crash of the Titans'', and the arguably more amusing "eating sandwiches whilst going to the bathroom" gag in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant''.
* [[Sadist Show]]: The newer Radical interpretations lean into a video game example somewhat, with a lot of the cast, good or bad, tending to both [[Comedic Sociopathy|envoke and suffer]] [[Amusing Injuries|a heafty amount of abuse
* [[Save Game Limits]]: In the original ''Crash Bandicoot'', the only way to save your game (or collect a password) was to go from the overworld map into a level, collect a series of hidden bonus tokens and beat the ensuing bonus level, or collecting a gem by beating a level without dying while breaking all the crates in the area. And when you restored the game, you snapped back to just three lives. Fortunately, the sequels made it easy to save your progress in-between levels and keep your lives.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Uka Uka, of course.
* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: Bandicoot, of course.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The very first game has the canonical ([[Mind Screw|despite being right in the middle of a non-canon ending that makes Cortex]] [[The Unfought]]) [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] that, about Cortex, gives [[Chrono Trigger|"but the future refused to change"]] a run for its money in terms of creepy ways to write a sentence:
{{quote|"But evil geniuses [[Understatement|are harder to squash than cockroaches
* [[Shameless Self Promotion]]: One of the text hints in ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' is this for Radical Entertainment, thought not spelling the promoted product outright so as to avoid getting sued by [[
{{quote|"Have you played ''[[The Simpsons Hit
* [[Shark Tunnel]]: The [[Racing Game]] spinoffs ''Crash Team Racing'' and ''Crash Nitro Kart'' each include a [[Shark Tunnel]] as an underwater track, "Roo's Tubes" and "Deep Sea Driving", respectively.
* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Played or subverted, [[Depending on the Artist]], [[Cloudcuckoolander|Crash]] and [[Child Prodigy|Coco]] interchange between being the shortest of the team. The not-too-bright Crunch is consistantly taller than either of them however. Played more consistantly straight with the villains, with the vertically challenged [[Mad Scientist|Cortex]] being ''much'' smarter than large henchmen like [[Dumb Muscle|Tiny]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: Especially in the later games, there are many references - both visual and aural (some of which are homages or outright pastiches) - to movies and other aspects of popular culture. ''Crash of the Titans'' contains several, including ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''[[Braveheart]]'', ''[[Gremlins]]'', ''[[Lost in Space]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''Pop Idol''/''[[American Idol]]'', ''[[The Matrix]]'', the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' meme [[Leeroy Jenkins]], ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', ''[[Super Mario]]'', ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', [[Myspace]] and many others. Hell, its title itself [[Clash of the Titans|is one]].
** ''Mind Over Mutant'' continues this trend, with references to ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', [[Michael Jackson]], [[LOLcats]], ''[[300]]'', ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Street Fighter]]''
** The earlier games in the series tend to have shout outs in some of the level titles. Examples include "[[Tomb Raider|Tomb Wader]]" "[[The Terminator|Sphynxinator]]", "[[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]]", "[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Weathering Heights]]" and "[[Smokey and the Bandit|Smokey and the Bandicoot]]".
** ''Crash Nitro Kart'' features Cortex's line "[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Tiny]]...".
** One of the promo images for ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'', featuring a [[Cool Shades|shades-wearing]] Crash and Coco on a motorbike, with one of Crash's eyes glowing red, is a blatant reference to the ''[[Terminator]]'' franchise.
** The yellow mech that Crash uses in the space station levels of ''The Wrath of Cortex'' bears a close resemblance to the one used in ''[[Alien
** The cutscene after the [[Boss Battle]] against Tiny Tiger in ''The Huge Adventure'' has Uka Uka referring to Cortex's minions as [[The Three Stooges|"three of your stooges"
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Crash and Coco.
** Aku Aku and Uka Uka much?
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: While no one surpasses [[Iron Butt Monkey|Crash or Cortex]] in this form of cruelty, the female cast often suffer a fair amount of [[Amusing Injuries]]. In her playable appearances, Coco even suffers [[The Many Deaths of You|numerous comical demises]] for losing a life similar to her brother.
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: The Iceberg Lab in ''Crash Twinsanity'', the Ratcicle Kingdom in ''Crash: Mind
** ''Crash Bandicoot 2'' seems to take place during winter, as snow is a common feature on the islands. Notably, quite a few snow levels have a gorgeous sunset coloration.
* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: Being set in Australia, this was bound to averted.
* [[Smelly Skunk]]: The Stenches. A aversion of this is the skunks in the first game and ''Crash Twinsanity''.
* [[Speech Impediment]]: Doctor Nitrus Brio used to have one in the early ''Crash Bandicoot'' series, but was removed later on.
* [[Spin Attack]]: Crash's basic and signature enemy slaying move.
* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: Komodo Joe in ''Crash Team Racing''.
* [[Stealth
* [[Stock Scream]]: The Howie Scream is heard in the first two games.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Kinda stretching it, but in the climax of ''Crash Bandicoot 3'', Aku Aku holds Uka Uka off while you take on Cortex. Only problem? Aku Aku helps form half the danger of the fight thanks to friendly fire.
* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: At the end of ''Crash of the Titans'', Crash utters his first proper word: {{spoiler|"Pancakes!"}}. Crash appears to be just as stunned as Coco and Crunch at this development.
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: Crash will choke and then go lifeless the moment he enters deep water.
* [[Tactical Suicide Boss]]: Oh, Cortex... Why do you bother shooting at Crash with [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|green]] lasers that can be spun back at you, when you could simply have continued with the red and blue ones that couldn't? Also, lowering your energy shield at the same time you blow open a hole in the floor with mines is [[What an Idiot!|just asking for it]], really...
* [[Take Me Instead!]]: Cortex does this in ''Crash Twinsanity'' to save Nina from Crash's evil doppelganger.
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* [[Temporary Platforms]]: Especially the first game.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Coco Bandicoot.
* [[That Poor Cat]]: Used in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant''
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: Uka Uka does this in the real ending of ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: The second [[Boss Battle]] in ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'' sees you facing the Komodo Brothers, Joe and Moe. They are shown to have been training by throwing swords towards one another, before they see that Crash has arrived. Once the fight is started, Joe is spun at Crash, while Moe tosses his magically respawning blades at him.
* [[Toilet Humour]]: Cortex's unfortunate little "stuck in a pipe" incident in ''Crash Twinsanity'', and, of course, the Stenches' little... "gas problem".
* [[
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Coco in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' and ''The Wrath of Cortex''.
** N. Brio in ''Mind Over Mutant''.
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Just about every character that wasn't already dimwitted. Tiny and Crash may count as subversions actually.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Coco compared to her [[Cheerful Child|more innocent persona]] in earlier games is a much more [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] and [[Lack of Empathy|apathetic]] [[Bratty Half-Pint|brat]] in the Radical titles. Crash also became a [[Comedic Sociopath|sadistic]] [[Screwy Squirrel|prankster]] in ''[[Crash Tag Team Racing]]'', though this was toned down in later titles.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailer for ''Crash of the Titans'' reveals that
* [[Trick Boss]]: N. Gin in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' starts in a robot not too different from the one he used in the game before (he even tells the player he'd "made a few modifications" to the old robot he used in ''Crash Bandicoot 2''), which uses similar attacks to the old one. Needless to say, it goes down after you shoot the same areas, [[Turns Red|only for it to flee, and dock with a much larger spacecraft]], complete with tougher weaponry and a new life bar.▼
▲* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailer for ''Crash of the Titans'' reveals that {{spoiler|Cortex is replaced by Nina}}.)
▲* [[Trick Boss]]: N. Gin in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' starts in a robot not too different from the one he used in the game before (he even tells the player he'd "made a few modifications" to the old robot he used in ''Crash 2''), which uses similar attacks to the old one. Needless to say, it goes down after you shoot the same areas, [[Turns Red|only for it to flee, and dock with a much larger spacecraft]], complete with tougher weaponry and a new life bar.
* [[Unexpected Shmup Level]]: The battle against Doctor N. Gin in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' was basically a rail shooter.
* [[The Unfought]]: In ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'', Uka Uka is introduced as the man behind the man, an extremely powerful mask that was sealed away for thousands of years. You never really fight him, all he does is act as an obstacle during the final boss battle. This isn't so bad (a mask is kind of hard to make into a full boss), but it gets really annoying in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'' where there was a perfect opportunity to fight him. In that game, every boss is Crunch absorbing the powers of an elemental mask. There are four elemental masks, five bosses, you'd expect the final boss to be the recurring boss using Uka Uka's power, right? Nope. Instead, he just uses the other four masks at once, and Uka Uka does absolutely nothing during the fight except pull Cortex back to safety after you attack him.
** Uka Uka does have boss fights in ''Crash
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Crash, of course, varies between this and [[Heroic Mime]], but another example would be the Architect from the Ratcicle Kingdom in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant''. He has a female translator to relay what he's really saying to Crash
** Averted in Japanese localizations (considerably the first, where he says "LET'S GO!" (in Japanese, obviously) should only you start the level) and, {{spoiler|1=for the first time ever in non-Japanese continuity, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBb7QRMCto ''Crash of the Titans'']
* [[Victory Pose]]: The Crash Dance.
* [[Video Game Lives]]
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Debi Derryberry's take on Coco was initially rather high pitched and feminine. Throughout the titles, her voice eventually became deeper pitched and more obnoxious sounding, a tone much akin to one of Derryberry's [[Jimmy Neutron|other roles]].
** Lex Lang also used a near perfect replicant of Clancy Brown's soft spoken deep voice for
* [[The Voiceless]]: Coco in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''
** And, again, Japanese version adds a couple of grunts to her. Because, actually, it did almost the same for Crash.
* [[Wasted Song]]: Papu Papu's boss theme from the original ''Crash Bandicoot'' is surprisingly good, but considering the boss is ridiculously easy to beat ([[Hard Levels Easy Bosses|even by this series' standards]]), few players ever heard very much of it.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: The first game, as well as the racing spin-off ''Crash Team Racing'' did these, with humorous intent. Interestingly though, one of the bosses, Ripper Roo, is stated as studying and becoming an academic, [[Continuity Nod|and in the next game you find him in a gigantic library, and you disrupt his studies]]. (Un)fortunately, Doctor Nitrus Brio didn't stick to his bartending.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Coco, albeit less and less as the series continues.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Coco.
* [[X-Ray Sparks]]: Happens to Crash starting in the second game when he gets electrocuted. His boxer shorts also become visible.
▲* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: The ''Crash Bandicoot'' series takes place on a trio of islands near Australia, and yet the fauna, flora, natives
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