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* [[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back/YMMV|Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]
* [[Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped/YMMV|Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped]]
* [[Crash Team Racing/YMMV|Crash Team Racing]]
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* [[Badass Decay]]:
** Crunch started out as a gruff, musclebound bandicoot with a cybernetic arm who sports army pants and boots. He went from being Crash's defiant [[Evil Counterpart]] (despite being {{spoiler|mind controlled by Cortex}} the ''entire'' game) who can change into powerful [[Rule of Cool|elemental forms]] in his debut in ''The Wrath of Cortex''... to being an annoying, [[Dumb Muscle]] Mr. T knockoff (
** Arguably Coco as well, while her intelligence made her arguably more [[The Hero]] than [[Idiot Hero|Crash]] in
** Let's not forget Tiny Tiger. Tiny started out as an angry, roaring monster who talked in [[Hulk Speak]]. As time went on, they started showing off his [[Dumb Muscle|stupidity]] more for comical moments, such as in ''Crash Nitro Kart''. And then in ''Crash of the Titans'', he somehow transformed into a Bengal Tiger from a Tasmanian Tiger, got his intelligence upped, and began acting like a campy Mike Tyson knock-off who idolizes Crash, and only attacks him because he's hired to do so.
* [[Broken Base]]: The fandom. Oh, dear God, the fandom. There are the fans who refuse to acknowledge any of the games ''not'' made by Naughty Dog and ''hate'' the later games, the fans who embrace the series as a whole, and those who only like the newer games and constantly hate on the Naughty Dog games.
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: The series receives this treatment a lot. Ever since Naughty Dog quit developing the games, people all over the internet have been saying "[[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|LOL CRASH SUX NAO!]]", but most of those people haven't actually played any post-[[PS 1]] era ''Crash'' games and are just complaining because the new games look different from the originals.
** Although it doesn't seem to suffer nearly as much from this as [[Spyro the Dragon|certain]] [[Banjo-Kazooie|other]] [[Tomb Raider|3D platformer]] [[Sonic the Hedgehog|franchises]]... especially among people who considered the original games average in the first place, and thus have lower expectations.
* [[Contested Sequel]]: As noted in [[Broken Base]] above, pretty much every post-[[Naughty Dog]] ''Crash'' game is this ''at best''. Now possibly averted with the ''N. Sane Trilogy'' being a faithful remake and the two DLC levels "Stormy Ascent" (where the Bonus Round was created entirely by Activision/Vicarious Visions) and "Future Tense" being seen as a good show of later possibilities.
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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: ''Crash Twinsanity'' deserves special mention, as the entire soundtrack was done ''a capella''.
** [[But Wait! There's More!]]... Josh Mancell has outdone himself more than once, but what may be his greatest [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] is when he composed "more-videogame-like" (as they had to be) tracks for the Japanese version of the first game ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOTi5nBxjgQ these]) ''within'' '''''ONE''''' ''effin' day!''
** I personally believe no Crash song can top [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsvHQCTgHvg this
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ig-Hd8tczU&feature=related This can
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thr1xb9bv8g The ''Crash 2'' Tiny boss music would certainly apply]. Maybe we shouldn't provide examples for this trope and just say "yes".
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: Bats showed up in later levels of the original ''Crash Bandicoot'' game in one of those really tricky, walls coming-in-and-out and floor-disappearing at random moments, side scrolling levels. Fortunately, these enemies were pretty much limited to the game's [[Scrappy Level]]s.
** Sludges in ''Crash of the Titans''. They are fast, do tons of damage, and do a near-impossible to avoid counterattack nearly every time you hit them, and they usually come in groups.
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* [[Fandom Berserk Button]]: Calling the wumpa fruits "apples" or "peaches" is the bane of any Crash fan's existence. Except Japanese ones, as in Japan, they are officially called "apples".
* [[Friendly Fandoms]]: With ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' understandably. There's a friendly rivalry at worst.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: ''The Wrath
* [[Iron Woobie]]: Crash is a cheerful little nut considering all he puts up with throughout the series. Where do we begin? Mutated torturously by Cortex and then branded a failure and kicked out, went through hell to rescue Tawna in the first game (who abiding by official bios, coldly dumped him for Pinstripe, ironically one of Cortex's loyal minions shortly after). Led on a wild goose chase by Cortex in the second game, victim to endless revenge schemes afterwards, often with his beloved baby sister as a pawn, and often put in the middle of any conquests by other evil doers in-between. All with a ton of cruel and unusual cartoon slapstick abuse throughout.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Japan Loves Crash Bandicoot]]: And ''how''.
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*** [[Non Sequitur Scene|... who was never mentioned again, at that.]]
**** Perhaps more a [[Base Breaker]], as some consider him a [[One-Scene Wonder]].
* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: While Coco herself is a fairly popular character with fans, her playable appearances (which mostly play as a weaker variant of Crash) tend to be rather underwelming. Fixed somewhat in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'' even if you have to activate (and/or deactivate) the game's co-op mode to play as her, and playing the story makes a lot less sense.
** A fair few of ''The Wrath Of Cortex'
* [[Shipping]]: Crash/Pasadena. [[Ensemble Darkhorse|It does seem to make a large part of the character's fanbase]].
* [[That One Boss]]: Wa-Wa the Water Elemental in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'', Doctor Nefarious Tropy in ''Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced'', Doctor Neo Cortex in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'', Madame Amberly in ''Crash Twinsanity'', Uka Uka in ''Crash of the Titans''.
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** ''Crash Nitro Kart'' and ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'' are often seen as watered-down [[PlayStation]] 2 versions of ''Crash Team Racing'' and ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'' respectively. Ironic for ''The Wrath of Cortex'', which [[What Could Have Been|was originally to be a more innovative free roaming platformer]] before remaking it in fear of the changes not recieving well.
* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: The plot of ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' is very much this. Aside from making little sense by itself, the plotline has practically nothing to do with ''Crash'' aside from having several returning characters in it . The plot also ignores some things previously established in the series by having several [[Talking Animal]] characters running around for no reason whereas all the animal characters in the series are supposed to have been experimented upon and mutated by Cortex and other scientists. Oddly, the game seems to inspire less [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] complaints than Radical's later games, ''Crash of the Titans'' and ''Crash: Mind over Mutant'', which are in every way much more faithful to the series.
** This is arguably owed to the Radical games following a [[Rule of Funny]] depiction much more than the earlier titles. ''Crash of the Titans'' is slightly more story-centric though ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'' takes the random comedy [[Up to Eleven]]. All three games have met critism for such changes however, especially concerning the redesigns of the cast.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]:
** Crunch Bandicoot seemed all set to be a cool powerhouse for the bandicoots following ''The Wrath of Cortex''. However, his appearances in most games after were minor, playable only in racing and party games (and the Atlasphere stages in ''N. Tranced'') which play identically for every character. In the ''Titans'' games, he exists as little more than a gag character and is pretty easy to forget he even appeared.
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