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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 Dr. N. Cortex, resident [[Mad Scientist]] and [[Take Over the World|world conqueror]], and more often than not the two wind up butting heads against one another, either for Crash to thwart Cortex's evil plans or just [[Go-Karting with Bowser|racing go-karts against one another]]. The games are mostly platform or action/adventure.
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* ''[[Crash Bandicoot 1996(video game)|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 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 3: Warped]]'' (1998): In the aftermath of Crash 2, an evil elemental mask named Uka Uka is freed from his underground prison, and is revealed to have been the true mastermind behind Neo Cortex's schemes. Seeing as Crash had already collected all the crystals and gems on Earth at the end of Crash 2 and the planet is left without a proper power source for Cortex to use for his next scheme, Uka Uka decides to recruit a scientist by the name of N. Tropy to create the Time Twister, a time machine which Cortex and Uka Uka can use to retrieve the crystals from past and future eras. With the help of Uka Uka's counterpart, Aku Aku, Crash and Coco Bandicoot race to the Time Twister to collect the crystals again before Cortex and Uka Uka get a chance to do so.