Crash Bandicoot
ari webb-bryantによるCrash Bandicoot is the titular main protagonist of Activision’s franchise of the same name.
He was once an ordinary bandicoot until he was exposed to the Evolvo-Ray by his arch-nemesis, Dr. Neo Cortex, as part of his plan to create an army of mutant animals to take over the world. However, Cortex's mind control device malfunctioned, causing Crash to turn against Cortex; the two then became arch-enemies as Crash sets out to stop all of Cortex's evil schemes.
He was voiced by the late Brendan O'Brien in Crash Bandicoot, Chip Chinery in Crash Team Racing, Steve Blum in Crash Nitro Kart, and Jess Harnell since Crash Tag Team Racing.
Appearance
Crash is an orange humanoid-bandicoot with a black nose, thick eyebrows, green eyes and reddish-brown hair on his head, styled into a typical mohawk. Crash's main attire consists of a pair of brown fingerless gloves which he wears in most of his appearances, blue denim jeans that he wears over pink or white boxers (depending on the game) with red hearts on them, and a pair of red Chuck Taylor All-stars Converses. Crash can also don other attires when needed, such as scuba diving gear, a biker's jacket, and numerous others.
In the game Crash Twinsanity, Crash's hair is more brown while the color of his shoes have also changed to gray. He has also gained metal plates on the knees of his pants and wears a belt.
In Crash Tag Team Racing Crash regains his reddish-brown hair and red shoes, although his head is now significantly smaller and his shoulders are more prominent.
Crash gets a major redesign Crash of the Titans that gives him a more feral appearance. His hair is browner again and longer, running a bit further down his back. His orange fur looks jagged and unkept as portions of it stick out around his face and on his elbows (although they appear to be trimmed back in Crash: Mind Over Mutant). He also loses his fingerless gloves to reveal black tribal watermarked tattoos on his hands.
Personality
Crash's personality is hard to pinpoint, sometimes varying from game to game. Throughout the series, he has always been shown to be willing to help and is very attentive to others. But overall, he has a rather goofy, wacky, loving and cartoonish personality. In simple terms, he is a tornado. His demented behavior was, in fact, extended to actual sadism/masochism in Crash Tag Team Racing, in which he took pleasure in torturing innocent animals, park drones, and even himself (it should be noted that the game is criticized for its over-characterization or even complete change in character personalities). Despite this however, Crash is usually kindhearted, altruistic, humble and laid back. He is not known for his anger; even towards his greatest enemies he rarely maintains a great deal of contempt or grudge. Threatening his little sister seems to be among very few ways of setting off his aggression.
He also has a rather large appetite, and is, therefore, very protective of his Wumpa Fruit. Crash is a very emotional character who is quick to laugh and quick to cry. While he has a danger-loving, fearless nature and loves a good fight, he prefers relaxing in the sun and rarely seeks out trouble deliberately. To the ire of Crunch and the amusement of Coco, in the Radical games, Crash is prone to impolite personal habits such as belching or scratching his posterior. Crash is also easily distracted, as seen in Twinsanity when he fails to catch Cortex during a trust exercise. He is also fairly oblivious to his surroundings, but this could be because of his illiteracy or his failed brainwashing by Cortex Vortex.
Crash seems to be somewhat impulsive, as demonstrated in Crash Tag Team Racing's Die-o-Ramas. In one of them, Crash spins a tree making it fall and crush him, in another he stands on railings with moving gears behind him and ends up falling on them, etc. Crash's intelligence level is something of a question, since he is illiterate and Aku even made a comment that brain damage was "not much of a danger to Crash".
However, this may have been a tease, especially since he is shown to be smart enough to prevent Cortex's attempts at ditching him in Twinsanity and has been able to outsmart various bosses far more powerful than himself in the past, like Tiny or N. Tropy, or drive several vehicles, like jeeps, motorcycles, cars and planes, and manipulate some machines, robots and titans Things he does that seem dumb could best be attributed to his obviously impulsive nature. His muteness never seems to cause him trouble, since Aku Aku and Coco can understand him anyway. His sense of right and wrong is also intact, as he helps out those in need.
Things he does that seem dumb could best be attributed to his obvious immaturity and impulsive nature. His illiteracy is probably just because he sees no reason to speak English, especially since Aku can understand him anyway. His sense of right and wrong is also intact since he frequently helps out those in need, and though Cortex has tried to destroy him numerous times, Crash did not object to teaming up with him.
Crash isn´t talkative, being a mute character in very moments, but he can make some sounds, grunts, babbles, screams and moans, like "Whoa!", "Uh-oh" and "Boo-yah". In Crash Of the Titans, Crash is a very limited vocabulary, preferring to speak in unintelligible gibberish; and can say words like Nina, Pancakes, and Wumpa. In some commercials and the Skylanders show, he talks normally.
