Characters of Crash Bandicoot - Minor Characters

Minor Characters

• Polar is Crash Bandicoot's pet polar bear cub. He lets Crash ride him in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, helping him through some snow levels and helping him escape from a larger polar bear. There was a secret easter egg in Cortex Strikes Back, that if Crash continuously bounced on top of Polar for a short while in the second warp room it would award the player multiple extra lives. He appears in the opening sequence of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped as a resident of Crash's home and is a playable character in Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart. In Crash Team Racing, he is seen in the options screen, reading an upside-down racing manual. He has been hypnotised by N Trance in Crash Nitro Kart. The epilogue of Crash Team racing says he became an ice cream tester. He appears in "Crash Bash" in the polar push minigames where characters ride on him. He also makes cameo appearances in Crash Twinsanity as a guest at Crash's "birthday party" (during which he stands upright and wields a baseball bat) and in Crash Boom Bang! in the "Silhouette Quiz" minigame. Polar is voiced by Debi Derryberry in Crash Nitro Kart and by Satomi Kōrogi in the Japanese versions of Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash.
• Pura is Coco Bandicoot's pet tiger cub. Originally, Pura was going to be a panda but Naughty Dog decided to make him a tiger to show a clear difference between Polar and himself. He made his debut in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, helping Coco across the Great Wall of China. He is a playable character in Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Boom Bang!. He makes a cameo appearance in "Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex" as a resident of the bandicoot's house. Pura is voiced by Paul Greenberg in Crash Nitro Kart. He is voiced by Taeko Kawata in his Japanese speaking appearances excluding Crash Nitro Kart, and by Asuka Tanii in Crash Boom Bang!.
• Ripper Roo is a boss character in the first and second games in the series. He is a kangaroo who was mutated by Doctor Neo Cortex and now has a demented personality (emptily wide-open eyes, hanging tongue, bound to a straitjacket) and distinctive laughter. He mainly attacks through the use of his razor-sharp toenails and laying down TNT and Nitro tiles. As of the second game, he has a second personality that is much more sane than his dominant one; however, an explosion is enough to get him back to his old, hopping mad self. He has additional appearances in "Crash Team Racing" as a boss character and "Crash Bash" as an obstacle. In "Crash Twinsanity", he appears with the rest of Dr. Cortex's minions just before Crash starts battling against Dr. Cortex. Ripper Roo is voiced by Katsumi Suzuki in the Japanese version of "Crash Team Racing". His laugh was taken from a hyena laughing in Lady and the Tramp; the laugh was voiced by Dallas McKennon.
• Nitros Oxide is an extraterrestrial who claims to be the fastest racer in the galaxy. He is named after the anesthetic gas nitrous oxide. Oxide is non-playable boss character in Crash Team Racing and starter playable character in Crash Nitro Kart, attempting to turn Earth into a concrete parking lot. After being thwarted in this plan, he fled back to his native Gasmoxia and only returned to racing after years of seclusion and therapy. He subsequently appears in Crash Bash as the final boss of the game's story mode. He returns as the main antagonist in Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D in which he teams up with Doctor Neo Cortex and Ripper Roo in an attempt to banish Crash Bandicoot and his friends from N. Sanity Island. Oxide made a brief cameo in the beginning scene of the menu in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and in the beginning of Crash Twinsanity at Crash's birthday party. Oxide is voiced by David Anthony Pizzuto in Crash Team Racing and by Quinton Flynn in Crash Nitro Kart. He is voiced by Junpei Takiguchi and Chafurin in the Japanese versions of these respective games.
• Papu Papu is the obese chief of the native tribe of N. Sanity Island. He is neither on Crash's nor Cortex's side, but will capture and/or eat anything that steps into his territory. He possesses a large staff which he tries to defeat Crash with. He first appears as the first boss in the original game, and later as a boss in both Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash, where he uses the staff to summon miniature versions of Crash. In Crash Twinsanity, he captured Cortex. Papu Papu is voiced by Michael Gollom in Crash Team Racing and by Dwight Schultz in Crash Twinsanity. He is voiced by Yū Shimaka in the Japanese version of "Crash Team Racing".
• Pinstripe Potoroo is a Sicilian boss character in the first Crash Bandicoot game. He is a mutated potoroo who wears a red pinstripe suit and wields a fully loaded Tommy gun. The game's last non-human boss, he is perhaps the most intelligent of Cortex's early creations, CEO of his corporation on Wumpa Island. After Crash defeated him, he began his own nuclear power plant and industrial corporation, replacing Cortex as the island's top man. He also won the heart of Crash's former girlfriend Tawna. He also acts as a boss character in Crash Team Racing. He also appeared in Crash Twinsanity as a cameo at Crash's fake birthday party. Pinstripe is voiced by Brendan O'Brien in all of his speaking appearances.
• Tawna was the former girlfriend of Crash Bandicoot. She made her debut on the first Crash Bandicoot game, being trapped for observation on Neo Cortex's castle after being experimented on. Crash then invades Cortex's castle, defeats him and saves her. The marketing director of Universal Interactive Studios objected to Tawna's initial design on "basic sexist principles". The director's behavior concerning the issue unnerved the president of Universal Interactive so much that he requested Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin to change the character to the director's specifications. The incident proved to be such an unpleasant experience that Tawna was omitted from future Crash Bandicoot titles. Tawna would later make cameos in Crash Bandicoot 3 and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, at a photo on Crash's house; in Crash Twinsanity, at the sign of Cortex-owned nightclub Moulin Cortex; and at a poster on Crash's house in Crash: Mind over Mutant. But it was not until Crash Boom Bang! that she became a playable character. Crash Boom Bang! is the only game in which she speaks, being voiced by Akiko Toda.
• Koala Kong is a boss character in the first Crash Bandicoot game. He is a mutated koala who tosses around boulders using his superhuman strength. He was defeated by Crash at the summit of Wumpa Island's volcano. After his defeat, he became a Hollywood movie star. He is a playable character in Crash Bash. He also appears in Crash Twinsanity at Crash's fake birthday party thrown by Cortex.
• Fake Crash is a clone of Crash Bandicoot with thick eyebrows and an overbite. He is a hidden character in much of the games beginning with Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. He is a playable character in Crash Team Racing and the Japanese version of Crash Bash. Fake Crash is voiced by Michael Connor in Crash Team Racing and by Dwight Schultz in Crash Nitro Kart. He is voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi in the Japanese versions of the games up to Crash Nitro Kart, and by Makoto Ishii in Crash Boom Bang!. In Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, Dr. N. Tropy attempts to abduct Crash Bandicoot, but Aku Aku intervenes and Fake Crash is abducted instead.
• The Komodo Brothers, Joe and Moe, are a duo of anthropomorphized Komodo dragons who dress in ancient Turkish-like outfits and attack with scimitars. They initially appeared as bosses in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. Joe is the thinner brother, being the smartest and the fastest of them. Moe is the fatter one, and although he is not very smart, he is considerably stronger and more violent than Joe. Joe appears, alone, as a boss in Crash Team Racing. The two Komodo Brothers then appeared together as bosses in Crash Bash. Joe is voiced by David Anthony Pizzuto in the English-speaking version of Crash Team Racing, and by Wataru Takagi in the Japanese version.
• Evil Crash is an evil and ferocious version of Crash Bandicoot from the Tenth Dimension. He first appeared in Crash Twinsanity, acting firstly as a villain (kidnapping Nina Cortex and chasing Doctor Cortex), but ironically ends up a hero, devouring the Evil Twins. He has a cameo appearance in Crash Tag Team Racing as an alternate costume called Nega Crash. Evil Crash has a cameo appearance in the "Silhouette Quiz" minigame in Crash Boom Bang!
• The Elementals (consisting of Rok-Ko the Earth Elemental, Wa-Wa the Water Elemental, Py-Ro the Fire Elemental, and Lo-Lo the Air Elemental) are a group of evil masks revived by Uka Uka in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex to act as a power source for Crunch Bandicoot. They were sealed away once more by the efforts of Crash Bandicoot and Aku Aku. Rok-Ko was voiced by Thomas F. Wilson in the English version and by Toshiaki Kuwahara in the Japanese version. Wa-Wa was voiced by R. Lee Ermey in the English version and by Kappei Yamaguchi in the Japanese version. Py-Ro was voiced by Mark Hamill in the English version and by Toshitaka Shimizu in the Japanese version. Lo-Lo was voiced by Jess Harnell in the English version and by Masaru Ikeda in the Japanese version.
• The Evil Twins, Victor and Moritz, are mutated parrots who formerly belonged to Neo Cortex as a child. During Cortex's first experiments with the Evolvo-Ray, the parrots were accidentally sent to the Tenth Dimension, a gloomy and twisted mirror universe version of the Earth. The ultra-dimensional radiaction gave them psychokinetic and reality-warping powers. In Crash Twinsanity, they act as the main antagonists. The Twins leave their dimension in order to get their revenge on Cortex and destroy the Wumpa Islands. However, with the use of the Psychetron, Crash Bandicoot, Neo Cortex and Nina Cortex travel to the Tenth Dimension in order to stop the Twins' plans. They attack the trio with a mech, but fail. They flee, but are eaten by Crash Bandicoot's Tenth-Dimensional counterpart, Evil Crash, soon after. Victor is the most serious and sinister-looking of the duo, while Moritz serves as the duo's comic relief, and is seen constantly asking for food. Their names derive from a fictional scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and his family friend, Junstine Moritz, from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein. Both of the Twins are voiced by Quinton Flynn in the English-speaking version of Crash Twinsanity; however, in the Japanese dub, Victor is voiced by Shinpachi Tsuji and Moritz is voiced by Setsuji Satō.
• Madame Amberley is the headmistress of the Academy of Evil, and the former teacher of Neo and Nina Cortex. She is a humongously obese, monocle-wearing German-accented woman who needs iron cables attached to her back to locomote, and has a letter "A" tattooed on her forehead, in a way similar as Neo and Nina do. She also has the ability of manipulating electricity. In Crash Twinsanity, she serves as the penultimate boss of that game. Cortex returns to his former school in order to fetch his niece, and meets Amberley at her organ room. After being mistaken for a barber by her, he has an emotional breakdown and decides to get his revenge for the constant verbal abuse he suffered from her during his student days, and, with the use of his raygun, destroys the iron cables attached to Amberley's back, making her plummet into a green toxic substance. It is unknown if she survived the fall or not, since she only appeared in Twinsanity. She was voiced by Susan Silo in the English dub of the game, and by Noriko Suzuki in the Japanese version.
• N. Trance is a subordinate of Doctor Nefarious Tropy. He is an egg-like being who is the self-proclaimed Master of Hypnotism. He first appeared in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, in which he brainwashed Crash's comrades and forced them to battle Crash. In Crash Nitro Kart, he brainwashes Polar, Pura and Dingodile into racing for his team. He is voiced by Tom Bourdon in the English version of Crash Nitro Kart and by Setsuji Satō in the Japanese version.
• Rilla Roo is a hybrid of a gorilla and a kangaroo. His only appearance is as a playable character in Crash Bash. Rilla Roo is voiced by Mitsuru Ogata in the Japanese version of Crash Bash.
• Emperor Velo XXVII is the organizer of the Galaxy Circuit. He appears as a hologram for much of Crash Nitro Kart, and only appears in person for the final race against him. His true form, The Real Velo, is exceedingly short, and is a playable character. Both forms are voiced by Steven Blum in the English version of Crash Nitro Kart. Emperor Velo is voiced by Haruo Satō in the Japanese version, while the Real Velo is voiced by Kōki Miyata.
• Krunk is a mandrill-type animal who is the Champion of Terra and a native himself. The first time Krunk is seen he is confident in his racing ability. Upon seeing any team he tells Velo to send them back to earth but Krunk soon accepts them and races. When losing, Krunk is seen with is head down telling them that Terra actually copied Earth instead of Earth copying Terra. On his Home Track, Jungle Boogie, he uses Spike Fruits as weapons but in the GBA Version he uses TNT Crates. Krunk is voiced by Marshall R. Teague.
• Norm is a book-loving mime who is the Champion of Fenomena and A Demon On The Racing Track. Norm is first reading a book quietly when Velo orders him to split in half releasing his inner half known as Big Norm. Big Norm's appearance shows a tightly wearing stripped shirt, gloves, and a little red hat. After both are defeated Big Norm shows his nice side by congratulating both teams and says they can win the Galaxy Circuit if they stick together. After that Velo orders both to merge again. When he comes face to face with Norm he suggests new ways to motivate him by taking his books away. Both Norms home track is Out Of Time. When racing the Norms use mimecrates as weapons but in the GBA version they use TNT Crates. Big Norm is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the English dub.
• Geary is the, as Velo puts it pinnacle of robotics and the Champion of Teknee. Geary is described as a cleanfreak and on the track, races with some of his cleaning robots. When losing to either teams in adventure mode he punished by Velo to first clean his trophy vault and them clean the entire coliseum. In the Game Boy version Geary is unlocked by beating him on his home track Android Alley. When racing Geary use Cleaning items as weapons. He is voiced by Paul Greenberg in the English version of Crash Nitro Kart and by Hiroshi Isawaki in the Japanese version.
• Zem is a large, vulgar creature who races alongside Oxide. He is first seen on top of the podium in the Crash Nitro kart Introduction along with Zam, and his master Nitrous Oxide. On the Track, Zem is very rude and gross by burping and laughing very sickly. Out of team Oxide, Zem has the best speed. To unlock Zem you must enter and win the Green Gem Cup. He is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the English version of Crash Nitro Kart and by Yasuhiro Takato in the Japanese version.
• Zam is a Dog-Lizard type creature who races alongside Zem, Velo and N. Oxide. Unlike Coco, Polar and N-gin, Zam has the best Speed and Turning. He is voiced by Billy West.
• Ebenezer Von Clutch is a German-accented cyborg, owner of the amusement park MotorWorld. He appears in Crash Tag Team Racing (being also a playable character), asking Crash and his friends to find the Power Gems who keep the park up and running and his own Black Power Gem, his vital battery. He is also very fond of the Crash Bandicoot series. In the English-speaking version of Crash Tag Team Racing, he is voiced by Danny Mann, while in the Japanese port he is voiced by Hiroshi Ōtake.
• Pasadena O'Possum is, as her surname says, an anthropomorphized opossum girl who speaks with a southern accent. She is an employee at Ebenezer Von Clutch's amusement park MotorWorld in Crash Tag Team Racing, and as the game's plot follows on, she starts to develop a crush on Crash Bandicoot. She is voiced by Shanelle Workman in the English-speaking dub of Crash Tag Team Racing, and by Iho Matsukubo in the Japanese dub.
• Willie Wumpa Cheeks is the mascot of Ebenezer Von Clutch's amusement park MotorWorld, and the producer of the Wumpa Whip drink in Crash Tag Team Racing. He is an anthropomorphized Wumpa Fruit with a tap for a nose, and he speaks mostly through limericks and riddles. As the game's story develops, it is revealed that he stole Von Clutch's Black Power Gem, although it is never specified why he did it. As Crash and his friends are about to discover why he stole Von Clutch's Gem and where he hid it, Willie is liquefied by Neo Cortex and his allies. Willie is voiced by Roger L. Jackson in the English-speaking dub of Crash Tag Team Racing, and by Masato Funaki in the Japanese dub.
• Chick and Stew are a pair of veteran sportscasters who serve as the tutors of Crash Tag Team Racing. Chick is the calmer of the two, while Stew is more tense, frequently changes his hairstyle, and has a frightening wife. In one of the gags, Stew squashes Crash and kicks him away. Chick is voiced by Quinton Flynn in the English version and by Keiichi Takahashi in the Japanese version. Stew is voiced by Duane Shepard in the English version, and by Keiji Himeno in the Japanese version. Chick and Stew's personalities are based on Howard Cosell and George Foreman, respectively. Reception of Chick and Stew was generally positive. Alex Navarro of GameSpot described the "woefully underutilized" pair as "great fun", and compared the two to Howard Cosell and Charles Barkley respectively. Cole and Vaughn of Cheat Code Central, also comparing Chick to Howard Cosell, said that the two not only "provide some entertaining dialogue but they also explain how to play the game which is often overlooked in many of todays kids games." Rob Byron of AceGamez praised the commentators as "a fantastic parody of the many commentary pairings that are synonymous with American televised sport. They add their own sharp wit and humour that has become a major selling point of the Crash series, as well as providing detailed in-game hints on the various controls of the game."
• The Park Drones are the gas mask-wearing laborers of Von Clutch's MotorWorld. They sell Power Crystals and costumes to Crash Bandicoot and they have mini games. The English voices of the Park Drones are provided by Bill Farmer, Chris Coppola, Charles Dennis, Jess Harnell, and Roger L. Jackson, while the Japanese voices are provided by Takaya Kuroda, Kazuhiro Anzai, Yasumichi Kushida, Keiichi Takahashi and Masato Funaki.
• The Viscount (ビスカント・デビル, Bisukanto Debiru?) is an extremely wealthy Tasmanian Devil who tricks Crash and his friends into searching for the Super Big Power Crystal for him in Crash Boom Bang!.
• Yaya is a friendly Giant Panda who appears in Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and "Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2. She teams up with Crash and Coco to help win the racing tournament Nitrous Oxide, Dr. Neo Cortex and Ripper Roo have set up.
• Penta Penguin is a penguin that makes three minor appearances in the Crash Bandicoot series. The first is in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, when he makes a brief appearance before the Dingodile boss fight. The second appearance is in Crash Team Racing, where he is unlockable by a special code, and his third appearance is as a sleeping penguin in the center of a snow level, on Crash Bash.