Crash Twinsanity: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes Used In This Game: ===

* [[Awesome Aussie]]: Dingodile. Period.

'''Cortex:''' "I have no idea what you just said." }}

* [[Aborted Arc]]: At the end of the game's first world, the Evil Twins describe something called the 'Vice-Versa Reversa Device', which is sucking the goodness out of Crash's dimension, and depositing it into the Tenth Dimension. This is brought up once, in a cutscene, and is never mentioned again, and never comes up in-game.

* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: The 'Rollerbrawl' segments of the game, where you control Crash and Cortex in a literal ball of violence through Marble Madness-like levels.

* [[Big Eater]]: Moritz.

* [[Bottomless Pit]]: Averted in Jungle Rumble, where the pits clearly have a bottom, it just happens to be covered with spikes. Played straight in basically every other stage, though.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Upon meeting the Evil Twins, Crash and Cortex are less than impressed.

'''Moritz:''' [[Big Eater|"Chalky treats?! Ooh, ooh!"]] }}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dr. Cortex. Used as a snowboard, chased by angry bees, thrown around by his hated enemy. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|The list goes on.]]

* [[Crate Expectations]]: As per usual for the Crash games, crates litter each stage with no explanation. Only this time, you don't need to break [[Gotta Catch Em All|every single one.]]

* [[Creepy Crossdresser]]: Dr. Neo Cortex disguises himself as Coco in order to gain Crash's trust at the beginning.

* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: Cortex is a lot more invunerable and can do a lot more in cutscene. While playing as him... [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|not so much.]]

* [[Dean Bitterman]]: Madame Amberly, head of the Academy of Evil, is definitely this. She's not above openly mocking her students, current or otherwise.

'''Madame Amberly:''' "A scientist, are we? To me, you'll always be a ''little worm!''" }}

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Many of the villains/bosses from prior games make an appearance early on. Out of them, only Dingodile and N. Gin show up as bosses. After his first few lines of dialogue, Aku-Aku is demoted until the Uka-Uka boss, after which they appear together in two more cutscenes, and from then on are only found in crates and say nothing. Coco appears at the beginning, midway through the game, and at the very end, although she was originally [[What Could Have Been|going to be playable.]]

* '''[[Development Hell]]''': An ''astounding'' example of this. There's loads of missing content, unused ideas, and whole models that ended up getting thrown out. As a result, the game is pitifully unfinished, even if pretty fun.

* [[Dissimile]]: Cortex's description of his gathering all the villains together.

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Judging by his appearance at Crash's birthday party, Polar has gotten sick of being ridden around by Crash.

* [[Door to Before]]: Being a more free-roaming game, there are passageways back to previous areas. Strangely, few of the 'doors' actually are, most of them are platforms that appear out of nowhere, or start moving.

* [[Dual Boss]]: N. Tropy and N. Brio show up [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|out of seemingly nowhere]] to confront crash on a small floating landmass. N. Brio attacks Crash as a huge frog-like thing, and N. Tropy splits up the platform into bits and attacks Crash from a distance. N. Tropy is the only one you can actually attack, though.

* [[Dummied Out]]: As mentioned before, loads of content was lost due to time constraints. Lampshaded by Cortex as he activates the Psychetron.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Nina showed up in Crash Purple during this game's creation. She had a completely different personality, and was used [[They Just Didn't Care|without any permission from Traveler's Tales.]]

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Crash and Cortex's shaky alliance, along with Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka's.

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Everything's Worse With Evil Penguins]]: Evil penguins with jetpacks, who are [[It Makes Sense in Context|angry at Cortex for not paying them.]]

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Naturally, as it is a Crash game, but Nina gets in on the spinny fun as well.

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Madame Amberly is so fat she has to stay suspended by ropes, and has very, very visible jowls. Papu-Papu sort of counts, though the only bastardly thing he does is capture Cortex, and sic the villagers on Crash.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Late in the game, it's explained why the Evil Twins want revenge. {{spoiler|They were Cortex's pet parrots, from when he was a child. He warped them to the Tenth Dimension due to a malfunction with the Evolve-O-Ray.}}

* [[Gag Boobs]]: Madame Amberly's bust is rather [[Squick|sickeningly ample.]]

* [[Gang Plank Galleon]]: High Seas Hijinks takes place on N. Gin's battleship, full of pirates, rats, and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|missles.]]

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Many, many times, though one of the biggest examples is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the Moulin Cortex]].

* [[Evil Me Scares Me|Good Me Scares Me]]: In the cut material, Cortex was going to be terrified by his good conterpart in the Tenth Dimension. In other bit of cut material, Cortex was going to ''be'' his good counterpart, and Crash his evil counterpart.

** Turned right back around to [[Evil Me Scares Me]] with Evil Crash, who's scary to everybody.

* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: While paired up, Crash spins Cortex around, swinging him into enemies. He can also slam the flat top of his head down like a hammer, and toss him like a frisbee.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Coco shows up at Cortex's iceberg lab, and delivers a kick to his [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|crystals.]]

'''Cortex, wheezing:''' "My crystals!" }}

* [[Human Popsicle]]: Cortex is seen this way just before the title screen, frozen with Uka-Uka chasing him. Later on in the game, Crash and Cortex find Uka-Uka frozen in a different block of ice, and break him free.

'''Cortex:''' "Mighty Uka-Uka!"<br />

'''Uka-Uka:''' "Who has released me from my icy tomb? My, my, can it be? Crash and Cortex? I don't know whether to kiss you, or ''kill you!''"<br />

* [[Human Snowball|Human And Bandicoot Snowball]]: Crash and Cortex end up in one of these near the end of Slip Slide Icecapades.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Mecha Bandicoot. {{spoiler|Also the Evil Twins' four-legged robot that serves as the final boss.}}

* [[Implacable Man]]: Cortex himself proves to be one of these, even more than in the previous games. He manages to come back from a deep freeze, survives pits of spikes, can be thrown into explosive crates, tossed into freezing water, into bottomless pits, into enemies, and all manner of other things that would kill Crash himself.

** Subverted in that while playing as him you're just as vunerable as Crash is, and he can be killed in the Doc Amok stages. Also if he's left standing somewhere, waiting for Crash to join up with him again, he'll be instantly killed by any hazard that comes into contact with him. Thankfully if only Cortex dies, Crash doesn't lose a life.

* [[Incoming Ham]]: "Cower you fools before the awesome might of...The Evil Twins!"

** Dr. Cortex displays this as well.

* [[Interdimensional Travel Device]]: The Psychetron, Cortex's gigantic interdimensional portal generating machine. Also the technology the Evil Twins use to warp reality, letting them pass through dimensions.

* [[Jungle Japes]]: The first few levels are this, when they're not [[Palmtree Panic]], to invoke the feel of the original Crash Bandicoot.

* [[Living Statue]]: The Tikimon boss. A huge, invincible, four-armed totem god, who coincidentally has [[Attack Its Weak Point|bad indigestion.]]

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Cortex is one of these momentarily, thanks to the Evil Twins' reality-warping powers.

'''Cortex, speaking too fast to be intelligible''' "Ishallcrushyoulikethepunyruntsyouare, youarenothingtomeforIamthegreatandallpowerfulNeoCortex! Howdareyoumock, manhandleandmanipulateme! Restassured, Iwilltakemyterriblevengeanceupon..." ''[He stops, panting heavily.]'' }}

* [[NameTron]]: The device used to take Crash and Cortex to the tenth dimension is called... The Psychetron. [[Rule of Cool|For some reason.]]

* [[No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom]]: Handily averted by greatly opening up the stages and adding secret areas.

* [[Nostalgia Level]]: Most of the first world counts, specifically Jungle Rumble and Totem Hokem. The first is a throwback to the first stages of the original [[Crash Bandicoot]], and the second is a throwback to the native fortress stages, complete with a recreation of Papu-Papu's hut, [[Continuity Porn|down to the textures.]]

* [[Punny Name]]: Quite a few levels have pun names, like Ant Agony, which takes place in the Evil Twins' lair, and predominately features their ant-like [[Mooks]].

* [[Quest Giver]]: Subverted with Farmer Ernest, who offers to give Crash a crystal if he defeats the worms stopping his Wumpa Trees from growing. Cortex shoots him and steals the crystal.

* [[Retcon]]: Cortex did in fact create the Evolve-O-Ray, Nitrus Brio only perfected it.

** Although it's far more likely that Brio ''did'' create the Evolve-O-Ray, and Cortex stole it.

* [[The Starscream]]: Almost ''every'' prominant ally of Cortex turns on him after hearing of the Twin's supposed treasure. Dingodile even directly attacks the doctor at one point.

* [[Supervillain Lair]]: Cortex's massive Iceberg Lab.

* [[Tactical Suicide Boss]]: Cortex seems to have forgotten about the first game, and continues to fire returnable plasma balls at Crash.

* [[Take That]]: While [[It Makes Sense in Context|discussing finance with some penguins]], Cortex drops this line.

* [[This Is a Drill]]: The Evil Twins' ant minions seem to like drills a lot. In Cavern Catastrophe, you meet up with one of their gigantic drill crawlers, the sides of which come down to let out troops. There are also ant minions with drills on their heads, letting them tunnel underground, or charge at Crash.

* [[Toilet Humour]]: To be expected, as the script was written mostly by former [[Ren and Stimpy]] writers, but this also means it's [[Actually Pretty Funny]].

* [[Uberwald]]: The Academy of Evil is designed like this.

* [[Daddy's Little Villain|Uncle's Little Villain]]: Cortex's [[Blatant Lies|adorable niece]], Nina. Though we're not informed of anyone else in the Cortex family, leaving the 'niece' thing a little ambiguous.

* [[Underground Level]]: Cavern Catastrophe, which takes place deep underground N. Sanity Isle. It serves mostly as a tutorial level for the Crash-Cortex team gameplay, when you're not controlling the both of them in a [[Big Ball of Violence]].

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: During the final boss, Crash runs away, leaving Nina and Cortex to fight it themselves. {{spoiler|He comes back in the final stage of the boss, driving the Mecha Bandicoot, which he uses to defeat the Evil Twins' [[Humongous Mecha]].}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Several hours worth of content was removed from the game, including several returning characters, new levels and a [[Villain Song]] for Dr. Cortex entitled "Take a Walk Inside My Brains". Two members of the development team released a great deal of information on these removed items, which can be viewed here: http://www.crashmania.net/?menu=ts&page=concepts

* [[You Can Panic Now]]: After telepathically [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|removing Cortex's brain from his head through his ear]], Victor lets him go with this line as Moritz gestures for him to go.

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