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* ''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).
 
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=== This game series provides examples of: ===
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]
* [[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.
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* [[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 ''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]]?"
* [[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.
* [[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 [[EverythingsEverything'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.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Win Adventure Mode as one of Uka Uka's team in ''Crash Bash'' and, in [[Mood Whiplash|an oddly dramatic scene for the series]], Uka will gain all of the crystals "[[Chewing the Scenery|AND ALL OF THE POWER]]" with Crash and Coco being forced into hiding.}}
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* [[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''.
* [[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'', and ''Crash: Mind over Mutant''; Uka Uka in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' (making him the [[Bigger Bad]] of the trilogy); Nitros Oxide in ''Crash Team Racing''; Crunch Bandicoot in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''; Emperor Velo XXVII in ''Crash Nitro Kart''; the Evil Twins in ''Crash Twinsanity'', and Nina Cortex in ''Crash of the Titans''.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The later games have some notable instances. In ''Crash: Twinsanity'', a skunk in one of the opening stages expresses his displeasure at having acted as a common enemy to get stomped on for ten years, and a group of penguins hold Cortex hostage for his power crystal, with him arguing that the reason that he couldn't pay them was because ''The Wrath of Cortex'' didn't sell as well as he had hoped. In ''Crash of The Titans'', Tiny Tiger berates Crash for not including him in the previous video game (''Crash Tag Team Racing''), and Uka Uka prolongs a cutscene so he can enjoy the dramatic music. ''Crash: Mind over Mutant'' features Nitrus Brio angrily shouting out how he was in the first game.
** Also, during some of the [[Enemy Chatter]] in ''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 ''Twinsanity'', but that was no fun for nobody".
* [[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|Big Bads]] like Cortex and Uka Uka drift into this on occasion though Coco is perhaps the biggest culprit...and stuff.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Poor, poor Cortex.
** Almost as bad as poor N Gin, or poor Crunch, or poor Crash, heck, nearly every character has undergone some horrible amount of [[Amusing Injuries]] in the franchise.
* [[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''.
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* [[Cross Dressing Voices]]: Cortex is voiced by Debi Derryberry in a flashback to his school days in ''Crash Twinsanity''. His appearance as a baby in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' is an aversion.
* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Ripper Roo after the first game.
* [[DaddysDaddy's Little Villain]]: Nina Cortex.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Nina again.
* [[The Dark Chick]]:
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* [[Double Unlock]]: [[Hundred Percent Completion]] in ''Crash Team Racing'' requires all 18 relics, which merely requires a solid time trial time in all 18 races. Oh, but one of those races is only unlocked by getting all 5 gems. Gems can be earned in cup races, which themselves are locked until you get 4 CTR tokens for each, and you need two out of four Boss Keys to even access the room with the portals to the cup races.
* [[Down the Drain]]: ''Warped'' has its underwater levels which are fun but become very annoying under Time Trial mode. It also had the 'Tomb Wader' level set in a nilometer where the water level constantly shifted. ''Wrath of Cortex'' brought back the underwater stages from ''Warped'', but due to somewhat poor level design and the horrible controls of the submarine, tended to be annoying even outside of Time Trial.
* [[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.
** Tiny Tiger, at least before ''Crash of the Titans''.
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** The late-game stages of the second and third Crash Bandicoot games also indulged quite a bit on this.
* [[Everything Fades]]: The [[Play Station]] 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.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys]]: Upon donning the NV in ''Mind Over Mutant'', Crunch seems to develop a fascination with monkeys. "Can't talk! Watching monkeys!"
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Penguins]]: Penta Penguin in Crash Team Racing.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Spinning]]: Crash's main form of offense.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: Sharks are recurring enemies in water levels.
** Somewhat averted with Nash from ''Crash Nitro Kart'' - he may be a shark, but he's actually quite adorable (if obnoxious). Coco refers to him as a "poor little shark-thingy".
* [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bears]]: "Un-Bearable" level in the second game.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]
* [[Evil Brit]]: Doctor Nefarious Tropy.
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* [[Fan Disservice]]: This is implemented on purpose in the "N Faux Mercial" cutscene of ''Crash: Mind over Mutant''.
* Fetish: Played for laughs in Mind Over Mutant: Walk up to the Architect in the Raticicle Kingdom while jacking a TK. As he speaks [[The Unintelligible|nonsense]], he has a translator with him all the time. Anyways, the Translator says "The Architect is not impressed by a telekinetic chicken. I disagree! I think that thing is hot!"
* [[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''.
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*** Half the stuff Cortex says in that game, period. A notable example for [[Refuge in Audacity|how sheerly audacious it is,]] particularly given that he's talking to Coco specifically.
{{quote| Coco: "Cortex, why do you keep doing stuff like this?"<br />
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!"]]<br />
Crash ''(and the audience)'': *take* "Buh?" }}
** Not to mention the cutscene in ''Twinsanity'' where Crash and Cortex go through the Moulin Cortex: "Are those ''real''??".
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* [[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 - instead of killing you, would take you to a secret stage.
** 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!'' However he is lacking a shirt.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Crash alternates between this and [[The Unintelligible]], for a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TTrB0c3tc very good reason].
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Voice]]: [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|Greg Eagles]] as Aku Aku, [[Zatch Bell|Debi]] [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron|Derryberry]] as Coco, [[Spongebob SquarePants|Clancy Brown]] as Doctor Neo Cortex [[Talking to Himself|and Uka Uka]], [[Maurice La Marche]] as Doctor Nitrus Brio, Susan Silo as Madame Amberly, [[Corey Burton]] as Doctor N. Gin and Doctor N. Tropy, [[Futurama|John DiMaggio as Uka Uka]].
** The Japanese version of the series features [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as Crash, [[Kenichi Ogata]] as Aku Aku, [[Shozo Iizuka]] as Doctor Cortex, [[Fumihiko Tachiki]] as Tiny, etc.
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples|How Do You Like Them Wumpas]]
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* [[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'' game.
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* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The [[Play Station]] 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|Punny Names]] such as N. Gin, N. Brio, N. Tropy, N. Oxide and N. Trance) or a hideously mutated anthropomorphic animal created by said mad scientists.
* [[Mad ScientistsScientist's Beautiful Daughter|Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daught... Er, Niece!]]: Nina Cortex.
* [[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 [[FM Vs]], which demonstrated the various, comedic ways in which Crash could off himself.
* [[Mascot With Attitude]]: One of the few who have managed to fare better than the rest.
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* [[Mirror Match]]: Fake Crash.
* [[Mix and Match Critters]]: Dingodile, Rilla Roo, and the Titans.
* [[Mook Maker]]: Would you believe a [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bees|beehive]] (see [[Back Tracking]] above)? [[Primal Fear|*shudders*]]
* [[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Doctor Neo Cortex, evil.
* [[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, and Doctor Nefarious Tropy.
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* [[Oh God With the Troping]]: Used with the Ratnicians. Said enemies are a parody of Jerry Lewis' "Nutty Professor" character.
* [[One Up]]
* [[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 ''Warped''.
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* [[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]]
* [[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 2'', and Pura the tiger, along with a baby T-Rex in ''Warped'').
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Ripper Roo in the first two games.
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* [[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 (Video Game)|"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 ''Tag Team Racing'' is this for Radical Entertainment, thought not spelling the promoted product outright so as to avoid getting sued by [[FOX]], it being a [[Licensed Game]]:
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* [[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]]'', ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''[[Braveheart]]'', ''[[Gremlins]]'', ''[[Lost in Space]]'', ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'', ''Pop Idol''/''[[American Idol]]'', ''[[The Matrix]]'', the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' meme [[Leeroy Jenkins]], ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', ''[[Super Mario]]'', ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', [[My Space]] 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]], [[LO LcatsLOLcats]], ''[[Three Hundred]]'', ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Street Fighter]]'', and many others.
** 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 (Literature)|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]]..."
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** The yellow mech that Crash uses in the space station levels of ''Wrath of Cortex'' bears a close resemblance to the one used in ''[[Alien|Aliens]]''.
** 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.
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* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: At the end of ''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]]
* [[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.
* [[Take That]]: Ads for ''Crash Bandicoot'' on the original [[Play Station]] had a guy dressed as Crash show up at Nintendo headquarters with a megaphone to taunt "[[Super Mario Bros|Plumber-Boy]]". "You're hurting my elbow!"
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* [[The Unintelligible]]: Crash, of course, varies between this and [[Heroic Mime]], but another example would be the Architect from the Ratcicle Kingdom in ''Mind Over Mutant''. He has a female translator to relay what he's really saying to Crash, however, it is possible to make out random words thrown into his unintelligible dialogue.
** 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].}} In ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' though the pivot of Crash using this trope, it is possible to make out coherant words and even whole sentences out of his incoherant babble at times.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: Uka Uka does this in the real ending of ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''.
* [[Victory Pose]]: The Crash Dance.
* [[Video Game Lives]]
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** 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.
 
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