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All villains in the Crash Bandicoot franchise.

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• Crash Bandicoot Villains: Scientists
• Crash Bandicoot Villains: Evolved Animals

Evil Masks

In General

• Evil Mask: Well, duh.
• Floating Mask: Like Aku-Aku, they're all shown to float under their own power.
• Mask of Power: Uka-Uka plays this role in the racing games, acting as an Invincibility Power-Up for Cortex and his goons. There's also the Elementals, who empower Crunch with various elemental powers in The Wrath of Cortex.

Uka-Uka

"I have heard enough of your shallow wisdom. It is I who is the strongest, and it is evil that will ultimately prevail!"

Voiced by: Clancy Brown (1998-2003), Alex Fernandez (2004), John DiMaggio (2007-Present)

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (1998)

Doctor Cortex's overseer and the evil younger twin brother of Aku Aku. Long ago, he was sealed away in an underground prison by Aku Aku due to his incredibly malicious nature. However, this prison would be destroyed many centuries later by the wreck of Cortex's space station, setting him free and allowing him to carry out his plot for world domination.

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• Arch-Enemy: To his brother, Aku Aku. The two have locked in a cosmic feud for centuries, with no sign of stopping.
• Asshole Victim:
  • In Mind Over Mutant, Cortex finally gets sick of Uka Uka and betrays him by overthrowing, capturing, and torturing the mask for his latest scheme. This is downplayed, though, as the "torture" in question involves being force fed cake all day until he gets sick of it forever.
  • Played straight, however, at the beginning of It's About Time. After spending who knows how long attempting to escape from the past alongside Cortex and N. Tropy, Uka Uka finally succeeds in tearing open a portal back to their proper time. However, he collapses from exhaustion after the effort, and his two long-abused employees decide to leave him for dead.
• Bad Boss: He threatens to kill Cortex for his failures, and even replaces him with Nina in Crash of the Titans. In the later games, being unreasonably harsh to his subordinates is arguably Uka Uka's defining characteristic, to the point most of them betray him at the first opportunity.
• Beard of Evil: Has a reddish-brown beard.
• Big Bad: Fittingly as the opposite to his brother, Aku Aku, Uka Uka takes on this role upon his debut in Warped. Although he returns to this position in a few other games, Uka Uka generally takes a backseat to Cortex and N. Tropy, and largely stays in the background as their benefactor.
• Bottomless Pit Rescue Service:
  • He can work as this in the racing games, bringing evil racers back on track if they fall into a pit.
  • He also serves as this to Cortex in the final battle of Warped, where he'll pick him up from the bottomless pit Crash knocks him into.
• Cain and Abel: Cain to Aku Aku's Abel, since he is Aku Aku's evil brother.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Became shamelessly boastful about his evil nature starting with Crash Bash.
• The Comically Serious: Wrath of Cortex onwards. While Uka Uka is still taking his plans for world domination relatively more seriously than his henchman, he comes off more as a grouchy Pointy-Haired Boss, and even has some value for management factors like budgets for company stationary and meeting numbers for evil doing. Mind Over Mutant mocks him trying in vain to play his role as an evil force of nature totally straight...despite all the degrading cartoony scenarios he has to endure.
  Cortex: Talk about your two-dimensional villain.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: As part of his revenge coup in Mind Over Mutant, Cortex strapped Uka to a device that drained him of his Mojo energy to power his mutants. It also force fed him cake ceaselessly just to be a dick. Amusingly his On The Run bio mentions that Uka still hates cake because of this.
  Cortex: You'll never want to eat cake after this. *mockingly* Imagine. Life without cake.
  Uka: You fiend!!!
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Played for Laughs. Not only is Uka Uka is the one behind Cortex Industries, but he also treats his evil plans like a business, with him expecting a certain evil quota from each of the scientists.
• Deal with the Devil: It's implied that Cortex, N. Tropy, and all of the other Mad Scientists in the series came under Uka's employ by striking a bargain with him to aid in their schemes.
• Demonic Possession: In the N. Sane Trilogy version of Warped, Uka Uka's habit of attaching himself to Cortex's face is expanded to him being able to take complete control over Cortex's body, though the only time he demonstrates this is before the final boss fight and he only does it to show off.
• Demoted to Extra: In It's About Time, Uka Uka is taken out trying to open the rift between the universes in the opening. He doesn't appear in the rest of the game unless the 106 percent ending is achieved.
  • Downplayed in On The Run, as he's just one of many bosses to deal with before reaching Cortex.
• Enemy Mine: Begrudgingly forms one with Aku Aku in Twinsanity to keep the Evil Twins from destroying the world… because that's his job, not theirs.
• Energy Weapon: In Warped, he can shoot lasers from his face, which he uses to hold off Aku Aku in a Beam-O-War. He also acts as the satellite substitute in Crash Bash's Melt Panic, with his beams being able to melt the ice stage and, if you get hit by them, always does negative effects.
• Evil Counterpart: Obviously, to Aku Aku. Aside from literally being twins, both are the guardians of the series' two most important characters and both are powerful mask spirits with mysterious origins. The difference is that while Aku Aku uses his powers to protect others, helps to save the world, and genuinely sees Crash as a friend, Uka Uka uses his powers to abuse others, plots to Take Over the World, and sees Cortex as nothing but a tool to advance his own goals.
• Evil, Inc.: While Cortex's enterprise always had shades of this, it is with Uka Uka's introduction (and particularly his later Denser and Wackier portrayal) that the main villains' dynamic gets converted to that of a comical Card-Carrying Villain business, of which Uka is often the Pointy-Haired Boss complaining about meeting quota for evil productivity.
• Evil Sorcerer: He's a powerful being with magical powers that uses in his attempts at world domination.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Though he sounded progressively less deep with each game. N. Sane Trilogy restores his menacing deep voice.
• Evil Twin: He is Aku Aku's twin brother and is for all intents and purposes his villainous equivalent.
• Expressive Mask: Bonus points in that he is a mask. Though that factor kinda decreases with his Radical Entertainment redesign as he lacks a lower jaw in those games. It does get a bit strange though, since his upper jaw moves as if the roots of his teeth are actually an under bite rather than a forced overbite. The N.Sane trilogy brings back this trope for him in full force, AND THEN SOME.
• Foil: A perfect one to Aku Aku. While Aku Aku is a Nice Guy who cares deeply about Crash and Coco, Uka Uka is an utter Jerkass who constantly abuses his minions, particularly Cortex.
• Foreshadowing: To compensate for his sudden introduction as the series' Greater-Scope Villain in the original version of Warped, the N. Sane Trilogy adds new "game over" screens to the first two games that feature a shadowy Uka Uka, thus clueing new players in on who is pulling the strings of Cortex's operations.
• Game-Over Man: He appears on the Game Over screen in Warped. In N. Sane Trilogy, he becomes one for all three games, though since his presence until 3 is meant to be a secret, he's hidden by shadows until the third game, where he's properly explained.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Played with- while Uka Uka never once takes the wheel on any karts in either Team Racing or Nitro Kart, he does assist evil characters by giving them tips and acting as a power-up that makes them invincible, not to mention putting them back on the tracks when they fall off.
• God of Evil: Pretty godly in terms of power, and most certainly evil.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He's this in the first and second game due to him not appearing there and being revealed as the one behind Cortex the whole time. In the third game he's more closely involved, talking directly to the bandicoots; Crash Bash also plays the same way. The Wrath of Cortex onward brings him back to this.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Titans, Uka Uka reveals Mojo, a power source of the masks, to Cortex as a means to make new more powerful mutants. This, along with a failed attempt to replace the latter with Nina, ultimately leads to Cortex utilising Mojo to create experiments capable of overpowering Uka Uka, allowing him to overthrow him and drain his own Mojo as an energy source for his new army.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Debuts in the third game and becomes a prominent character afterwards.
• Invincibility Power-Up: In the racing games he can become this to the evil characters, protecting them from attacks and hazards as well as speeding them up.
• I Shall Taunt You: He shows up as a Game-Over Man in the N. Sane Trilogy to laugh at and taunt the player for their failures.
• Jerkass: Even more so than Cortex as he constantly bosses other bad guys around and is generally quite arrogant, unlike his brother, who is just as powerful as him, but much more humble and gentle.
• Knight of Cerebus:
  • In Warped and Crash Bash, Uka represented a far more sinister and powerful enemy that terrified even Cortex. Toned down in later games, where he plays more the role of a comedic Bad Boss, though is still generally playing his villainy more straightfoward than the other openly goofy bad guys.
  • The N. Sane Trilogy amplifies this aspect of his character. On top of remaining the serious threat he already was in Warped, the trilogy also adds new "game over" screens in the first two games that show a menacing, shadowy Uka Uka laughing at and taunting the player, Foreshadowing his arrival in the third.
  • Although his presence in the game is brief, It's About Time cements him as this when he returns in The Stinger, complete with an Evil Laugh and a terrified expression from Cortex.
• Large Ham: Always talks loud and over-dramatic. Somewhat toned down in later games, but still present, especially when he gets angry.
• Machiavelli Was Wrong: Cortex and the other bad guys fear Uka Uka and are surbordinate to him, though proved to have no loyalty to him the moment he was no longer a threat to them. In Mind Over Mutant, Cortex and Brio betray and torment Uka Uka once they had the resources to overpower him, while in It's About Time after Uka overexhausts himself freeing them from their time prison, Cortex and Tropy leave him to his fate without a second thought.
• The Man Behind the Man: The main evil behind the machines of Cortex.
• Mask of Power: In the same way as Aku Aku, he's a magical Floating Mask with lots of mystical powers. In Warped, he occasionally attaches to Cortex’s face to speak directly to Crash, but it’s unclear if this makes Cortex any more powerful or not.
• Morality Chain: In a rather twisted way, he is this to N.Tropy in It's About Time. Without his influence, N. Tropy increases his ambitions to the point that he has no problem betraying his allies and crushing anyone who stands in his way.
• Never My Fault: He constantly blames Cortex and the other scientists for failing to defeat the heroes, despite the fact that they're almost always following Uka Uka's own commands, while Uka himself does little to help them out.
• No Indoor Voice: Clancy Brown gave Uka a progressively loud, perpetually yelling voice. John DiMaggio toned this down with a more calmer depiction though still has tendencies of this. N. Sane Trilogy has him back to almost screaming every word with pure hatred for the do-gooding Bandicoot siblings.
  Uka Uka: WHY!? WHY MUST YOU CONTINUE TO BE A THORN IN OUR SIDE!?
• Non-Action Big Bad: Despite being one of the most powerful entities in the series, Uka Uka largely takes a backseat and has Cortex and his other minions carry out his plans for him.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Under no circumstances is anyone else allowed to destroy his brother or conquer the world. This leads to him outright teaming up with Aku Aku when the Evil Twins threaten the world without his permission.
• Orcus on His Throne: In many of his later appearances, Uka contributes very little to the villains' schemes, letting Cortex or some other crony take over. He becomes more active again in Titans, though still has Nina take the lead.
• Pay Evil unto Evil:
  • Ends up on the receiving end of it in Mind Over Mutant when Cortex straps him to a mojo-milking machine for what's implied to be a long time and has him fed cake all the time to make him lose appetite for him. Given he spent most of the previous games plotting evil schemes and abusing Cortex, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
  • The same happens at the beginning of It's About Time, when Cortex and N. Tropy leave him for dead after having to put up with his abuse for decades.
• Platforming Pocket Pal: At least in Twinsanity, anyway. He takes the place of Aku Aku when playing as Cortex or Nina, floating behind them and granting them invincibility (except for explosive crates) if they collect three of him.
• Power Echoes: In N. Sane Trilogy, his booming voice now echoes whenever he speaks. In It's About Time, he actually loses the echo effect when his power is drained to fuel the Rift Generator and he ends up put out of commission. The 106% secret ending shows that he has regained it along with all his power.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Uka Uka's primary goal is to Take Over the World. As such, when the Evil Twins threaten to destroy it in Twinsanity, he briefly puts aside his rivalry with Aku Aku and Crash and forms an Enemy Mine to stop them.
  • Disturbingly, It's About Time implies that Uka Uka's drive to conquer the world rather than destroy it was the only thing keeping N. Tropy from attempting to do the latter himself… on a multiversal scale.
• Rage Breaking Point: In the intro for It's About Time, the bickering between Cortex and N. Tropy is the point when he finally snaps after being trapped with them in another dimension for decades, shouting so loudly that he tears a hole in the space-time continuum (although somewhat downplayed in that he wasn't paying much attention to them at the time).
• Remember the New Guy?: He's introduced like this on Warped, retconning Cortex as to always have been his underling and working to help him escape his prison. Yet, neither Aku Aku nor Cortex made any mention of this in the previous two games.
• Remote Body: Just like Aku Aku, Uka Uka is capable of distributing lesser copies of himself for his underlings and those affiliated with him to use as protection. This ability is only rarely used, however, since the villains are rarely playable in a capacity that would allow for it.
• Satanic Archetype: Being the powerful mastermind behind the series' events and the one who constantly either tempts or outright forces Cortex into villainy, Uka Uka is about as close to the Crash Bandicoot version of Satan as one can expect.
• Sdrawkcab Name: His name is the name of his older twin brother Aku Aku but reversed.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was locked away in an underground prison by Aku Aku many eons ago until the prison was destroyed by Cortex's space station debris at the beginning of the third game.
• Skewed Priorities: Immediately after his defeat in Twinsanity, he tries to leave until Aku Aku informs him about the Evil Twins' intent on destroying the world. His response?
  Uka Uka: NOOOOOOOOOO!!! That's MY job!!
• Small Role, Big Impact: Uka Uka only appears in the intro to It's About Time, but him creating the rifts awakens the Quantum Masks and helps Cortex and N. Tropy escape and create the Rift Generator.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He overexerts himself in the It's About Time opening and is left for dead by Cortex and N. Tropy. Subverted in the 106% secret ending which shows that he's alive and well, having found Cortex at the edge of the universe after recovering from his energy being drained, approaching the now-terrified doctor with an Evil Laugh and a Slasher Smile.
• Take Over the World: This is his ultimate goal, and he uses Cortex as his primary method achieving it.
• The Unfought: He didn't get an actual boss fight until Twinsanity and Crash of the Titans, despite being one of the main villains before then. He does, however, assist Cortex in Warped.
• Villain No Longer Idle: After using Cortex as a pawn in the first two games and watching fail repeatedly, Uka Uka finally steps in as the Big Bad in Warped.
• Vocal Evolution:
  • In the original version of Warped, Clancy Brown's voicework for Uka Uka was pitched down to give him a more booming baritone. This effect is ceased in his later roles as Uka Uka, likely to match his goofier persona from that point on.
  • John DiMaggio's Uka initially sounded more like a deeper-pitched Dr. Drakken. For N. Sane Trilogy, DiMaggio imitates Brown's sinister baritone.
• Was Once a Man: The original game's production bible and The Crash Bandicoot Files reveal that Aku Aku was once a human Witch Doctor before having his spirit sealed within a voodoo mask for unknown reasons. Given that Uka Uka is his twin brother, it's highly likely that this is the case for him as well.
• When He Smiles: He makes a genuine smile during his "I am feeling...generous" line in the N. Sane Trilogy version of Warped.
• Witch Doctor: Can be assumed to be one, considering that's how his brother ended up becoming a mask as well.
• Worf Had the Flu: In the intro for It's About Time, using up all his power to open a rift has left him completely drained, so Neo Cortex and N. Tropy end up leaving without him. By the 106 percent ending, he's back and far from happy with Cortex (in a way he wants anyway).
• You Don't Look Like You: He was one of the characters to get a massive design change in Crash of the Titans to the point of looking entirely different than before. In both Crash of the Titans and Mind over Mutant, he resembles a brown, sharp-toothed skull with no lower jaw, and had four horns with bones dangling off of them.
• You Have Failed Me: He threatens to punish Cortex for his failures all the time. Most are empty threats, though he did make a bungled attempt on his life in The Wrath of Cortex, and has non lethally replaced him with another villain more than once (only to bring him back after they fail in turn). Also, his first threat on Cortex was a subversion of the trope; while he was angry with Cortex for messing up twice before, he let it slide since Cortex's failures indirectly freed him.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Surprisingly, N. Tropy ends up pulling this on him when he convinces Cortex to abandon him at the beginning of It's About Time.
  Cortex: (concerned) Is he dead?
  N. Tropy: Leave him. He's served his purpose.

The Elementals

Clockwise from the top left: Rok-Ko, Wa-Wa, Py-Ro, Lo-Lo.

Rok-Ko voiced by: Thomas F. Wilson (2001)
Wa-Wa voiced by: R. Lee Ermey (2001)
Py-Ro voiced by: Mark Hamill (2001)
Lo-Lo voiced by: Jess Harnell (2001)

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001)

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. Consists of Rok-Ko the Earth Elemental, Wa-Wa the Water Elemental, Py-Ro the Fire Elemental, and Lo-Lo the Air Elemental.

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• Agent Peacock: Lo-Lo, whose flamboyant personality deeply contrasts with just how destructive his powers over the weather are (not to mention giving Crunch one hell of an imposing transformation in their boss battle).
• All There in the Manual: The instruction manual for The Wrath of Cortex notes their backstory as enemies to the Ancient masks several thousands of years ago and how the crystals are used to imprison them.
• Ax-Crazy: Py-Ro with how obsessed he wants Crash to succumb to a fiery death. Compared to the other Elementals who mainly taunt him, he's the one who gives him mostly what are essentially death threats. Its almost as if Mark Hamill's inner Joker is transmitting into him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: They are incredibly goofy looking spirit masks that shoot endless puns at the player. They also have power over natural elements, and quickly reak havoc on the planet the moment they are released. Several levels in Wrath of Cortex are devoted to the bandicoots fleeing for their lives from the destruction they cause, such as full scale tsunamis and avalanches.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  Wa-Wa: Leave my levels alone!
• The Bus Came Back: After nearly two decades of absence following their only appearance, they finally came back as mini-bosses in On the Run.
• Cat-and-Mouse Boss: Py-Ro the Fire Elemental, who turns Crunch into one of these. You have to lead him to a certain water-shooting mech in order to douse him, in which case the tables turn for Crash and Crunch.
• The Cameo: Carvings of them can be seen in the prehistoric levels of It's About Time
• Classical Elements Ensemble: All of them control one of the four elements of nature. Rok-Ko controls earth. Wa-Wa has power over water and can also control ice. Py-Ro has power over fire. Lo-Lo controls the wind and can also shoot lightning.
• Demoted to Extra: While they had important roles in Wrath of Cortex, you only see them at the end of some levels in On the Run.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Wa-Wa certainly acts the part, courtesy of the honorary R. Lee Ermey. Rather odd trait for a living, sentient aboriginal mask.
• Godzilla Threshold: They are said to be extremely unruly and immediately use their powers to set the natural forces of the planet into chaos, causing tsunamis and volcanic eruptions among others. It is implied that the only reason the villains dared release them is because they had become that desperate to get rid of Crash by this point.
• Informed Attribute: Aku Aku warns Uka Uka that they are far too unruly for him to keep control of, implying they are chaotic forces who would ultimately betray him. To their credit however, they never act upon this and do his bidding throughout the duration they are released. It is Crunch that gives Cortex and Uka problems.
• Jerk Jock: While Rok-Ko doesn't look like it at first, he makes childish taunts towards Crash and acts like an overall ruffian. Helps that he's voiced by Thomas F. Wilson, who played another one in the form of Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future series.
• Knight of Cerebus:
  • Py-Ro was originally to be the last Elemental faced and his more brooding and manic disposition, along with his terrifying molten transformation of Crunch, really sells it. Zigzagged in the final game where the final Elemental is Lo-Lo, who is far more flamboyant but offers an even more imposing transformation for Crunch.
  • This is further demonstrated in Wrath of Cortex's levels, which are often revolved around their powers laying waste on the area around you and have a much more ominous, high-stakes air than the series' usual. While the Elementals' characters are silly and comical, their threat level is taken quite seriously.
• Large Ham: All of them have loud and expressive dialogue.
• Mask of Power: They're a group of masks that contain elemental powers. They're never stated to be formerly witch doctors like Aku or Uka were, although they likely were.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Rok-Ko has a clear reference to rocks in his name.
  • Py-Ro, obviously, sounds like pyro, the Greek word commonly associated with fire.
• Monster of the Week: Every mask except Rok-Ko turns Crunch into one of these (he just encases Crunch in a stone Atlasphere).
• Pun: All of them make at least one in their intermissions.
  Rok-Ko: Oh, don't even think about getting those Crystals, runt! 'Cuz if you do, I'm gonna bury you alive!
  Wa-Wa: Ah, get over here you little orange sponge!
  Py-Ro: Hope you brought your sunscreen, 'cause you're gonna burn.
  Lo-Lo: Is there a draft in here?
• Pyromaniac: Py-Ro, being an Ax-Crazy fire elemental mask, fits this, as he enjoys the idea of setting things, living or not, on fire.
  Py-Ro: Hmm, is it getting hot in here, is it safe to be wearing that fur? It looks FLAMMABLE!
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Much like Uka Uka, the Elementals where sealed away for causing mass devastation with their powers, including earthquakes, floods and "that little Ice Age a few centuries back."
• Sissy Villain: Lo-Lo who's easily the most flamboyant of the bunch, contrasting with his destructive powers over storms and wind itself.
• Unexpected Shmup Level: The fight with Lo-Lo is this, unlike the others, with Crash battling the transformed Crunch on his plane.

Aliens

In General

• Aliens Are Bastards: Most of the aliens encountered so far either want world domination, are working for other aliens wanting the same, or are coercing Earthlings to do evil for them. However, a few of them are shown to be genuinly nice and/or humble (such as Krunk, Big Norm, and Geary to an extent).
• Aliens Speaking English: The only one who can't speak is Zam, who's the alien equivalent of a dog.
• Badass Driver: Considering that they most frequently show up in racing games, they're all this by default.
• Invincibility Power-Up: In Crash Nitro Kart, all of them are protected by an unnamed green mask who resembles Velo. This includes Nitros Oxide, who was protected by Uka Uka in his debut game, and also extends to the characters brainwashed by N. Trance, both good (Polar and Pura) and evil (Dingodile).
• Master of All: With the exceptions of Zam, Zem and N. Trance, they were all this in their respective games when they were fought as bosses.
• Nerf: For the reason above, they were all nerfed when they became playable in Nitro-Fueled.
  • In Nitro-Fueled's boss fights against him, Oxide no longer merely skids when attacked by most items, instead tumbling like any other racer when hit with missiles or bombs.
• Planet of Hats: It seems like the aliens in this series are big fans of kart racing, since they appear most frequently in racing games.
• Purple Is Powerful: The bosses in Nitro Kart all drive purple-coloured vehicles and are champions of their respective worlds. Oxide also gets a purple paint job himself in Nitro-Fueled's Nitros Oxide edition.

Nitros Oxide

"Get ready to race for the fate of your planet!"

Voiced by: David Anthony Pizzuto (1999), Quinton Flynn (2003), Corey Burton (2019-present)

First appearance: Crash Team Racing (1999)

An extraterrestrial from the planet Gasmoxia who claims to be the fastest racer in the galaxy. He is best known as the Big Bad of Crash Team Racing, though he has had other appearances in the series.

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• Absurdly High-Stakes Game: If he beats Earth's best racer, he promises to terraform the whole planet into a concrete parking lot and enslave all its inhabitants. Unused dialogue also reveals that he's the reason there's no life on Mars.
• All Your Powers Combined: He utilises every weapon from the previous race bosses:
  • Ripper Roo's Nitro Crates.
  • Papu Papu's green and red beakers (Tossing them in bundles of two).
  • Komodo Joe's TNT Crates (Tossing them to skip the countdown).
  • Pinstripe's Bombs (shot backwards).
• Astral Finale: Given that he's an extraterrestrial, it's only fitting that his boss race takes place in a space station. He's also fought in space and then on his planet in Crash Bash as the final boss. In addition, Nitro-Fueled's final race track is set on two Gasmoxia fast food chains.
• Badass Driver: He's billed himself as the faster driver in the galaxy, and decides the fates of planets based on whether they can beat him in a race.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of Crash Team Racing.
• Butt-Monkey: Within Crash Team Racing, at least. Not only does he get a rather humiliating fate in the epilogue, his podium victory theme for Nitro-Fueled isn't the one associated with the scientists and other major villains, but the one for goofier characters like Ripper Roo, Penta and the Norms. He also suffers from misfortune in two of his legendary skins: namely, getting blown away by laser gun backfire and suffering a Teleporter Accident in his Star skin's podium victory animation and having a Naked Freak-Out in his Showercap skin's. It gets worse in later games; It's About Time features Dr. N. Tropy kidnapping him for his navigational knowledge, forcing him to sit there while he flirts with another version of himself from another dimension, and the 100% ending reveals that after the events of the game, he develops a caffeine addiction and becomes a sports drink spokesman. The overall experience leaves him in rehab, and reveals that through all this, he had a wife who has now divorced him.
• The Cameo:
  • He can be seen among the gathering of villains from previous games in the cutscene prior to the first boss fight in Twinsanity.
  • He appears very briefly, flying through space in his hovercraft, in the vanity logo sequence of The Wrath of Cortex.
  • His appearance in It's About Time is also this. While he has a role in the story, Oxide only appears in a single scene. He can be heard speaking over the space station's PA system in "Stowing Away", but disappears afterwards.
• Car Fu: One of his attacks in On the Run has him charge his hovercraft at Crash or Coco with the intent to run them over.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: More so than the other bosses in Crash Team Racing. Not only does he drop the constant barrage of traps, but he actually starts the race before the green light. In the rematch, his item spam gets even worse. The track is going to be littered with traps if you let him get too far ahead. He also spins (as if he's hit by beakers, thus losing only a little time) rather than tumbling if he's hit by rolling bomb or missile etc, though he will tumble if hit by the bubble shield, Aku Aku/Uka Uka and TNT.
• Cyborg: Oxide has metal exhaust pipes coming out of the back of his head and smaller ones on his back, indicating that he has some kind of cybernatic enhancements. These exhaust pipes are never used in any way and in gameplay terms seem to be purely cosmetic (other than igniting in his Hot Rod and Metalhead costumes in his podium victory animations).
• A Day in the Limelight: Despite already being the main villain of Team Racing, he ends up taking over the title screen and CTR TV report for the final Grand Prix in Nitro-Fueled, downplaying Emperor Velo's addition in the process. No wonder, since the Drive-Thru Danger track is set on Gasmoxia.
• Deliberately Jumping the Gun: His boss race in CTR and Nitro-Fueled involves him starting before the green light.
• Demoted to Dragon: He's shown to merely be one of Velo's lackeys in Crash Nitro Kart, and doesn't play any role in the Adventure Mode outside of being an occasional AI opponent. He's also forced into this role against his will in It's About Time by the N. Tropys.
• Drives Like Crazy: Not surprising, considering how he's obsessed with speed and racing and such.
• Evil Old Folks: It's impossible to tell just by looking at him, but he's apparently old for a member of his species, and blames his loss against the racers of Earth on getting slower in his old age. Nitro-Fueled makes it more apparent by having the markings on his head look rather worn out.
• Evil Versus Evil: In most of his appearances, he is as much an enemy of Cortex's team for trying to steal his ambitions. That said, he'll also gladly team up with him if it means getting rid of their mutual enemy (i.e. Crash).
• Final Boss: He's the fifth and last boss in Crash Team Racing, as well as the last opponent in Crash Bash.
• Fish People: It's About Time delves further into Oxide's species for background setdressing, with the concept art showing that they're amphibous reef-dwelling organisms.
• Flying Saucer: His kart in Crash Team Racing is a big green round saucer with lots of exhaust pipes. It's more resembling a plane in Crash Bash, though. In Nitro-Fueled, it can be unlocked for everyone else to use either by getting 100% in Adventure mode or by buying the Nitros Oxide edition.
• Fragile Speedster: To become playable in Nitro-Fueled, Oxide was nerfed into an Acceleration-based character.
• Green and Mean: Has green-coloured skin, and is a right asshole in more ways than one. His hovercraft is also green-coloured.
• Hidden Depths: It's About Time reveals that Oxide has a wife and keeps a virtual diary above his space station, where he complains about his rashes.
• Hostile Show Takeover: For the final Grand Prix of Nitro-Fueled, he hijacks the CTR TV report to announce one last challenge, and pulls Crash away from his post in the title screen, so that he gets to hold the trophy for once.
• Hufflepuff House: Despite being from Gasmoxia alongside Zem and Zam, his homeworld's only visited in Bash, featuring a fairly unremarkable futuristic city. It later gets a proper visit in the final Grand Prix of Nitro Fueled, where it’s revealed the planet has two rival fast food chains.
• Huge Holographic Head: In Nitro-Fueled, he now directly addresses Crash, Coco and Cortex in this manner, explaining his plan to them and not simply to the player.
• I Gave My Word: Should he be defeated without collecting the time relics, Oxide will reluctantly agree not to destroy Earth and enslave all its inhabitants, as per the terms he set. However, he won't outright leave Earth until the player collects every time relic and defeats him a second time. Sure enough, for the final Grand Prix in Nitro-Fueled, he continues to ignore Earth and suggests a rematch on Gasmoxia instead.
• Interrupted Bath: His goofiest skin in Nitro-Fueled, "Shower Cap" has him with this "look", clad in nothing but a Modesty Towel, shower cap, flip flops and carrying a brush.
• Jack of All Stats: In Nitro Kart and Nitro-Fueled he has average stats with an emphasis on acceleration in the latter.
• Jerkass: When your modus operandi is to challenge planets to a race against you and turn them into parking lots if they lose while mocking them about it, as well as cheating and displaying Unsportsmanlike Gloating, then you pretty much qualify for this trope.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: More like multi-legged, but still.
• Noodle Incident: After his hovercraft gets stolen by Tawna in It's About Time, Oxide laments that that's the sixth kart he lost over the years.
• One-Steve Limit: His first name sounds identical to that of Nitrus Brio's first name. Depending on how it's spelled, it is also one or two letters off.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: Sometimes refers to his opponents that they're "slower than a Bermugulan Slagvork". Whether it's an expression or such creature actually exists in his home planet is up to interpretation. It's About Time finally reveals that Bermugula is a planet (possibly a neighbor of Gasmoxia) and a Slagvork is one of its inhabitants^note The enemy databook for Crash 4 shows slagvorks as an eel-type creature.
• Perpetual Frowner: Oxide always has a grumpy facial expression, even when laughing, making him an alien Grumpy Old Man. It's About Time epilogue is the first time he actually smiles in the series.
• Promoted to Playable: He made his debut as an unplayable boss in Crash Team Racing, but he becomes playable in Nitro Kart. Nitro-Fueled, as a remake of Crash Team Racing, also turns him into an unlockable character.
• Punny Name: He shares the name of a turbo fuel.
• Revenge: He develops an intense hatred for Earth in general as a result of the Champion succeeding in defeating him, and is heavily implied he informed Emperor Velo about Earth's existence in Crash Nitro Kart in order get Revenge by Proxy for his defeat in CTR.
• Sacrificial Planet: He is the reason why there's no life on Mars. He raced against the inhabitants of Mars before he raced Earth and Mars lost, leaving it as a desolate, barren planet (this is said in scrapped dialogue).
• Secret Character: In Nitro-Fueled, defeating him once in Adventure mode will unlock him. Buying the Nitros Oxide edition will also unlock him from the get-go.
• Shout-Out:
  • He throws out the infamous Charles Darwin line "survival of the fittest", modified to fit his racing theme of course.
    Oxide: It's a little game I call Survival of the Fastest. Here's the way we play: I challenge the best driver of your world to a race for the planet. If your driver wins I'll leave your miserable little rock alone. But if I win I'll turn your entire globe into a concrete parking lot and make you my slaves^*("Minions" in Nitro-Fueled.) . HAHAHAHAHAHA!
  • His spaceship heavily resembles the Klingon K'Tinga-class battlecruiser◊.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In Crash Nitro Kart, he plays no role other than being one of the common AI opponents. However, it's implied that he's the one who informed Emperor Velo of Earth's racing prowess in the first place, hence kickstarting the entire plot of the game.
• Smug Snake: He boasts about being the best racer in the universe and throws out as many taunts as he does traps in the final boss race. However, he's also an enormous cheat and a Sore Loser.
• SNK Boss: And much more blatantly so than the other bosses in Team Racing. See The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard above.
• Sore Loser: He throws a mighty tantrum on the podium whenever he loses. The first time he's defeated, he also refuses to leave and tells the player to get relics to challenge him again.
• Unexpected Shmup Level: In Crash Bash you have to chase after him on a space plane, trying to shoot/avoid obstacles along the way. It also doesn't fit into any minigames of the game.
• Unexplained Recovery: The credits to CTR says he was in a unicycle accident so gruesome that it couldn't be described in detail. He shows up in later games looking no worse than he did before.
• Villain Team-Up: He has joined with Cortex a couple of times. He teams with him to get the bandicoots banished from N. Sanity Island in Nitro Kart 3D and gladly accepts an invite to Crash's "birthday party" for some revenge in Twinsanity. In Nitro Kart, Oxide and N. Trance together tell Velo about Crash and Cortex, causing the game to happen. Nitro-Fueled has him invite Velo to join the roster for the Gasmoxia Grand Prix.
• The Unfought:
  • In It's About Time, aside from Uka Uka (who is taken out in the prologue), he is the only villain who is not fought. Then again, he is essentially forced to do Tropy's bidding and doesn't even know that he is facing the Bandicoots.
  • He's this in the first season of On The Run, which he hosts. He returns as host for the fourth season however, where he does face the bandicoots in a boss fight this time round.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:

  • In CTR, he ends up becoming a bitter alien. After some years of therapy, he goes back to the fray, but his choice of vehicle (a unicycle) leads to an accident too gruesome to be detailed.

  • In It's About Time, he becomes a sports drink spokesman, albeit due to him developing an addiction to the stuff. This eventually leads him to go into rehab, while his wife divorces him.
• You Don't Look Like You: He appears in the mobile game Crash Nitro Kart 3D looking a lot more like an entirely green version of Pumpkinhead and without his iconic purple suit. His character icon still retains his old appearance, however.
• Your Size May Vary: He appears larger than any other character when you actually race him, but when you see him in the winner's circle, he's suddenly much smaller, being taller than Crash and Cortex but definitely shorter than Tiny. Nitro Kart and Nitro-Fueled avert this, where he's around the same size as the rest of the cast.

N. Trance

"I'm a tough egg to crack!"

Voiced by: Tom Bourdon (2003), Michael J. Gough (2019)

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced (2003)

An egg-like being from the Fifth Dimension and the self-proclaimed master of hypnotism. He aids Uka Uka in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced at the recommendation of Dr. N. Tropy. In Crash Nitro Kart, he along with Oxide informs Velo about Crash and Cortex, kickstarting the plot.

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• Bald of Evil: Due to being an egg-like alien.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: N. Trance's modus operandi is doing this to his foes. He brainwashes Crunch, Coco and Fake Crash to work for him in his debut, and in Crash Nitro Kart, he does the same to Polar, Pura and Dingodile.
• The Bus Came Back: After Nitro Kart, he's absent from the series until Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled 16 years later.
• The Cameo:
  • It's About Time shows him racing against Oxide in the epilogue.
  • Inevitably he gets referenced in Crash Team Rumble's "N-Tranced" Mode, where the mobile dancefloor projects his visage.
• Cephalothorax: He's an egg-shaped alien being, with a mechanical body to help him move. Oddly, despite the arms being able to bend, the legs cannot, and so, when he returns in Nitro-Fueled, he has to spend the entirety of the races standing up.
• Cyborg: His body is entirely mechanical, and without it, he wouldn't be able to move.
• Egg Folk: He is essentially a sentient egg inside a cybernetic suit with limbs.
• Final Boss: He's the last opponent in the main game of N-Tranced. While there is an area after him with more levels and a fight with N. Tropy, that has to be unlocked.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Inverted upon his return in Nitro-Fueled. While everyone else went back to having four fingers sometime after N-Tranced, N. Trance retained his five fingers.
• Fragile Speedster: In Nitro-Fueled.
• Giggling Villain: Quite a bit of his sound bites in Nitro-Fueled involve him laughing. He even does it when you pick him!
• Green and Mean: Drives a green-coloured kart in Nitro Kart (as does his brainwashed cohorts) and is undeniably a villain.
• Jack of All Stats: Like Oxide, N. Trance is this in both Nitro Kart and Nitro-Fueled with an emphasis on acceleration in the latter.
• Left Stuck After Attack: In his first phase, he might sometimes get stuck after his chain watch is lodged in the ground, leaving him open to attack.
• Non-Standard Character Design: A minor example, but he has five fingers on each hand while everyone else has four. This wasn't much the case in his debut game, where five fingers in the series were standardised during the early-to-mid 2000's.
• Pungeon Master: Nitro Kart and Nitro-Fueled have him make numerous cracks about eggs.
  N. Trance: One kart sunny side up!
  N. Trance: Scrambled again!
  N. Trance: You must be yoking!
• Servile Snarker: In N Tranced, he appears to be The Dragon between him and N Tropy. When a frustrated Tropy starts blaming him for their plans going wrong however, he has no problems snapping back at him and reminding him of his own misgivings.
• Villain Team-Up: His debut game had him working alongside N. Tropy. Then, he and Oxide seem to be working together in Nitro Kart despite being on different teams.
• Waddling Head: He has no organic limbs underneath his armor as seen in Nitro-Fueled.
• Who Needs Their Whole Body?: In the second phase, he's reduced to his head compartment that can fly around and shoot Energy Balls. Crash has to spin him towards the lava pool where Fake Crash will activate the lava falls to damage him.
• Your Size May Vary: He's roughly twice Crash's height in his first form in N-Tranced, in Nitro Kart he takes up most of the space in his kart and grips the sides of it, and in Nitro-Fueled he's now considerably smaller and has to stand upright in his kart's seat to drive. Even his podium model is now only about the same height as Crash.

Emperor Velo XXVII (SPOILERS UNMARKED)

^{Click here to see his true form.}

"I am Emperor Velo XXVII! Ruler of this galaxy! My subjects hunger for entertainment."

Voiced by: Steve Blum (2003), André Sogliuzzo (2019)

First appearance: Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

The extraterrestrial emperor of an unnamed empire who only appears in Crash Nitro Kart. He is confident and dominating to the point of being a bully and showing contempt for his lessors, and kidnaps the best racers on Earth (namely Crash, Cortex and the rest of the cast) to prove his own skill in racing.

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• Aliens of London: He has a thick Russian accent.
• Aliens Speaking English: Albeit in a Russian accent. He also speaks in English to all of his champions, who come from different planets.
• Arm Cannon: His Captain skin has an arm that can turn into one, displayed in his victory podium animation.
• Astral Finale: Although the entire game takes place in space, Hyper Spaceway - Velo's track - takes it up a notch.
• Attention Whore: Implied in Nitro Fueled, as his winning podium animation has him gesturing to the crowd for applause, going so far as to make a listening gesture.
• Badass Boast: "You savages will learn fear... just as millions have before you." He also gets to belt out another one in the Gasmoxia GP's intro:
  Velo: As ruler of this galaxy, I'll OWN this Grand Prix!
• Bad Boss: The world champions are not treated kindly for losing.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of Crash Nitro Kart.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": The letter "V" appears a lot in his citadel, especially on his throne. Even his beard is shaped like a V.
• The Bully: He isn’t too nice to his henchmen.
• The Bus Came Back: His real form returned in Nitro-Fueled as part of the base game roster, while his more imposing form returns in the same game later as part of the Gasmoxia Grand Prix.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He practically savors the sound of the crowd booing him in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: While he's not as spammy as Crash Team Racing bosses, he has two Mooks who race with him, dropping energy orbs in your path, that Velo absorbs when he drives into them. He also can use items far quicker than even the fastest-reacting human.
• Cool Bike: As a boss, his ride resembles one, but without wheels and it hovers with boosters. It's also used by the other bosses. His name even means "Bike" in French. It returns in Nitro-Fueled's Gasmoxia GP as the "Velo Chopper" and can be unlocked for everyone else to use in the Pit Stop.
• Crutch Character: On his true form, Velo is a turn based character.
• Defeat Means Playable: Double Subversion. When you beat him, regardless of whether you play as Team Bandicoot or Team Cortex, you won't be able to play as him. Instead, you need to complete the game as both teams to unlock him. And even then, which vesion of him you get to play as depends on which version of the game you're playing:
  • In the Playstation version, you'll only unlock his true form.
  • In the GBA version, you can only play as his more imposing form.
  • As of Nitro-Fueled's Gasmoxia GP, both forms are now playable in the same game.
• Evil Laugh: The Velo Mask laughs in Emperor Velo's voice when activated in Nitro Kart. In Nitro-Fueled, it shouts Real Velo's higher-pitched "Ya-ha-hah!" instead.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He speaks with a husky, commanding voice of Steve Blum. Subverted, as his real voice is much more high pitched.
• Evil Versus Evil: In Team Cortex's story.
• Fake King: According to this post on Activision blog, Velo is not the emperor of the galaxy, the true titular of the title being... King Chicken!
• Fat Bastard: And unlike Big Norm and Krunk, there's no soft center to speak of. However, he does subvert it in his own way, as he’s actually a much smaller alien in a Mini-Mecha.
• Final Boss: He's the champion and ultimately races the winning team.
• Flunky Boss: Like Geary before him, he'll be accompanied with 2 of his underlings in his boss race. They're mostly there to drop traps on the track.
• Fragile Speedster: In his big form, Velo is an acceleration based character, as it fits his ace driver reputation better than his real form's class.
• Galactic Conquerer: Is described as being the ruler of the galaxy Nitro Kart takes place in.
• Graceful Loser: While he's mostly a Sore Loser instead, if he's beaten properly in the Team Bandicoot ending of Nitro Kart, he does offer his scepter and cede rule over his planet to Crash, and does send them back home properly once he's allowed to keep his scepter.
• Heel: His characterization in Nitro-Fueled portrays him as constantly acting smug while racing, and he loves playing to the crowd at any given opportunity.
• Hover Bike: He has a purple one in his debut game, that is also used by his champions. In Nitro-Fueled, it's larger and named "Velo Chopper".
• Huge Holographic Head: Emphasis on huge. He communicates with both Earthlings team this way before properly showing himself once Geary is defeated.
• Invincibility Powerup: Much like the racers of Earth have Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka, Velo and his minions have their own in the form of a mask made in Velo's likeness.
• Karma Houdini: In the Bandicoot's story, the players have no interest in taking his power and leave on affable terms despite capturing them for entertainment. Cortex's team on the other hand, have nothing against dishing it back, attacking him and nabbing his scepter.
• Large and in Charge: He's noticeably much taller than his gremlin-like subjects. Or so it seems at first.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Initially a huge plot twist in Nitro Kart, Nitro-Fueled makes it common knowledge that Velo's large, imposing body is actually a robot and his true form (referred to as "Real Velo" in the latter game) is a tiny gremlin.
• Little Green Men: The citizens of his galaxy, and him, too.
• Magic Staff: His scepter has some degree of magic power: it seems to be the instrument he used to drag both Teams Bandicoot and Cortex to his planet, as the latter ending shows Cortex using it to go back to their home. Unfortunately, it then Goes Horribly Wrong as it gets broken.
• Master of All: His playable version in the console and handheld versions of Nitro Kart has maxed stats.
• Meaningful Name: Velo, as in velocity.
• Moving the Goalposts: When he loses his first match, he refuses to send the victorious team home until they win his time relics and grant him a rematch. He had only promised them "freedom"; since by technicality they're refusing to race, thus by the rules Earth must be destroyed.
• The Napoleon: The picture above is not drawn to scale, but his true form is a tiny gremlin not much different from his subjects.
• Nerf: For balancing reasons, Real Velo is made into a Turn-class character in Nitro-Fueled instead of having almost max stats. Likewise, his Emperor form is made into an Acceleration-class character.
• Offered the Crown: After he's defeated, he offers the scepter — and thus his entire galaxy — to Crash, who declines. He's much less gracious towards Team Cortex, who resort to mugging it from him.
• Robotic Reveal: The big body he has turns out to be a Mobile-Suit Human for the real him, who's as small as his subjects.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: This emperor is an accomplished racer, and he claims to never lose.
• Scripted Battle: Elements of his race are scripted:
  • For instance, the energy orbs are always in the same place on the track when you encounter them.
  • He'll always get a missile as his first item - and proceed to use it in ludicrously quick time if you're leading.
• Secret Character: He (well, his true form) is unlocked in Crash Nitro Kart by fully completing Adventure Mode with both teams. In the handheld version, he just needs to be beaten once by any team to unlock him.
• Secret Underground Passage: Hyper Spaceway is literally built under the Citadel, and works by virtue of portals connecting it to other parts of the galaxy.
• Sissy Fight: In his real form, he has a somewhat anti climatic scuffle with Cortex in the final ending. Tiny quickly breaks it up.
• Smug Snake: Moreso in Nitro-Fueled where he's always acting smug while racing and gets downright pissy over losing in his podium loss animations.
• Sore Loser: Gets very angry about losing, to the point of exploiting a loophole in his previous agreement to make Team Bandicoot or Team Cortex remain in his servitude until he can beat them. Of course, when they do beat him again, he becomes so furious he literally explodes. In Nitro-Fueled, his real form even throws a temper tantrum when placing lower than first in the podium.
• Trrrilling Rrrs: For his return in Nitro-Fueled, he's given this trait for his lines.
• Villain Team-Up: In the opening cinematic, it's shown that Team Oxide and Team N. Trance stand near his podium, waving to the spectators. It's implied that Velo has both teams as a means for competition for the Earth racers. Also shown with how both teams get a "Velo Mask" instead of Aku Aku or Uka Uka. Nitro-Fueled has a more explicit case, as it's revealed in the Gasmoxia GP intro that Oxide personally invited him to "keep things fair".
• Worthy Opponent: Subverted. When racing, he's rather gracious - "finally, some competition!". When he loses, though, he is a very Sore Loser.
• You Have Failed Me: He dispenses these with the same clockwork regularity as Darth Vader. Of the family friendly sort of course, as his tantrums end on Cool and Unusual Punishments rather than killing his subordinates:
  Velo: *to Geary* As punishment, you must clean the trophy podium. And when you're done with that, you will clean the entire colosseum. *Evil Laugh*

Zem and Zam

Left: Zem. Right: Zam.

"Like taking candy from a baby!"

— Zem

Zem voiced by: André Sogliuzzo (2003-Present)

Zam voiced by: Billy West (2003), Andrew Morgado (2019)

First appearance: Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

A large, vulgar creature and a dog-like alien who race alongside Nitros Oxide in Crash Nitro Kart.

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• All Animals Are Dogs: Zam tends to act like a dog, despite resembling a small dinosaur. It's more apparent in Nitro-Fueled, where he wags his tail in his podium animation and pants like one as well as having a costume that outright turns him into a bulldog.
• Big Eater: Zem's trash talk mostly concerns his appetite.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Zem's a large, overweight alien while Zam's a small, dog-like creature.
• The Brute: While a bit smaller than the other big guys, Zem still plays this role for Team Oxide.
• The Bus Came Back: Both return as playable in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
• The Cameo: Zem appears in Oxide's picture in It's About Time.
• Characterization Marches On: Downplayed. As Zam and Zem were simply created to give Nitros Oxide two teammates to race with, didn't get any development through cutscenes, then vanished from the series (and even were absent from the GBA version), Beenox had to shape them a bit to make them more likeable in Nitro-Fueled. Zem notably becomes a Metalhead with some Boisterous Bruiser tendencies, Zam is more fleshed out as the weirdly cute Team Pet of Team Oxide, and both of them have skins that reveal other facets of their characters.
• Crunchtastic: Zem thinks that big turbo chains are "Boostalicious."
• Crutch Character: Zam in both Nitro Kart and Nitro-Fueled.
• Evil Counterpart: Zam could be seen as this to Polar and Pura, on account of them being Team Pets for their respective teams^note though it should be noted that both Polar and Pura were brainwashed into racing for N. Trance at the time of Zam's debut. Zem meanwhile serves as this to Crunch (and probably Tiny to a lesser extent) on account of them being The Big Guys for their teams.
• Fat Bastard: While not so much fat as just a big guy in general, Zem still fits this trope to a T.
• Fat Slob: Though more just beefy than fat, Zem fits the title to a T.
• Gasshole: Zem burps often while racing. His podium animation in Nitro-Fueled is him giving off a massive burp and laughing it off afterwards.
• Gonk: Zem is, to put it bluntly, hideous-looking. At least Nitro-Fueled makes him a bit more pleasing to the eye (though not by a whole lot).
• Green and Mean: Both are green-skinned, and both are bad guys.
• Metalhead: Zem is given some punk rocker atributes to help deepen his character when he was brought back for Nitro-Fueled, such as throwing devil horns when he wins and having a Quincy Punk-looking outfit available. Zam also gets in on the action a small bit with his Bulldog costume giving him a wavy blue mohawk.
• Mighty Glacier: Zem in both Nitro Kart and Nitro-Fueled.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Zam; looks like a small dinosaur, acts like a dog. He also has some frog traits, as shown in one of his Idle Animations in Nitro-Fueled where he sits down and starts croaking as he spots a fly before snatching it up with his tongue and eating it. To top it off, one of his win quotes has him squeal like a pig.
• Satellite Character: To Oxide, as they only exist for the sake of giving him teammates to race alongside.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: In Nitro-Fueled, Zem sometimes says "Vrrooo-hahaha!" while speeding up or boosting.
• Secret Character:
  • Both of them are unlocked by winning certain cups in CNK's Adventure Mode: Zem is unlocked by winning the Green Gem Cup while Zam is unlocked through the Purple Gem Cup.
  • In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, they are default racers in the Nitros Oxide edition, and unlockable in the standard edition.
• Stout Strength: Zem looks like a fat slob, but his biceps tell another story. This is more noticeable in Nitro-Fueled, as he is more toned.
• Team Pet: Zam is pretty much an alien dog, but he more greatly resembles a small dinosaur.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Despite being a gassy alien who constantly talks about eating, Zem has a large upper body, even having visible muscles in Nitro-Fueled.
• Villainous Glutton: Zem constantly talks about eating in his quotes and is a villain with some very, very crude humor.

Krunk

"They will race me? They look slow! Send them back!"

Voiced by: Marshall R. Teague (2003), Andrew Morgado (2019)

First appearance: Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

The racing champion of the planet Terra who appears in Crash Nitro Kart. He challenges Earth's racers on the grounds that Earth is a copy of his Terra. When he races, he leaves out sticky fruits that slow down the player if they hit. When he loses to Crash's team, he confesses that Terra is actually a copy of Earth. He returns in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as a Turn-class character.

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• Acrofatic: Despite his large build, he's nimble enough to do a handstand in his podium victory animation in Nitro-Fueled. He also has Turn-class stats.
• Amazing Technicolour Wildlife: He's a blue-furred baboon/mandrill, though it's justified since he's not actually from Earth.
• Berserk Button: Seems rather tetchy about Earth's similarities to Terra. Velo very easily convinces him to race the players when he mentions where they came from.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns as playable in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
• Crutch Character: In Nitro-Fueled, Krunk goes from having maxed-out stats to being a Turn-class character, similar to Polar, Pura, and Zam.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Crash offers him his iconic yo-yo as a gift from his world.
• Defeat Means Playable: Only in the handheld version of the game.
• Fat Bastard: Subverted. Though he initially comes off as hostile towards anyone from Earth, he ultimately turns out to be a Graceful Loser who's fine with admitting his planet ultimately copied Earth.
• Graceful Loser: Sadly but willingly gives his opponents his world key. Crash offers him a gift out of sympathy.
• Heel–Face Turn: Starts off hostile towards Crash and friends, but apologizes when Crash gives him his yo-yo, and admits that the people of Terra actually copied Earth instead of the other way around. While he plays fair with Cortex's team as well, they merely mock him in response, clearly angering him.
• Jungle Japes: His planet, Terra, seems to be filled mostly with jungles and some temples.
• Killer Space Monkey: He's a blue ape-like alien from another planet. However, the "killer" part is ultimately subverted when he turns out to be one of Velo's more level-headed champions.
• Noble Savage: He may be proud of his planet, but he's also honorable and a Graceful Loser.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Okay, it's of the racing variety, but he takes both his heritage and his competition seriously. This shows how quickly either can change his stance:
  Krunk: They will race me? They look slow. Send them back.
  Velo: *coy* But Krunk, they're from a planet just like yours. It's called Earth.
  Krunk: Earth! I have heard of this planet. It is a copy of my Terra. I will race them, and show them who has better planet!
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In Nitro Kart, he acts as a replacement for the role Papu Papu had in Crash Team Racing, being a fat tribal chief who occasionally skips articles and acts as a boss with a jungle-themed home track and adventure mode area. He even looks like a furry Papu Papu. Amusingly, both he and Papu Papu are playable in Nitro-Fueled. His Jurassic costume from Back N. Time gives him his own magic mask which appears to possess him similarly to Uka Uka and Cortex in Warped; it is likely a Terran counterpart. The smaller Terrans throughout Tiny Temple also wear Aku Aku-looking masks.
• Tribal Face Paint: Both he and many other Terrans have this, to go along with their tribal nature.
• You No Take Candle: A minor example. He doesn't refer to himself in third-person, but he occasionally skips articles.
  Krunk: Earthling has lucky shot!
  Krunk: You must try faster than that!
  Krunk: I will stop giving you easy time now!

Nash

"I'm no small fish!"

Voiced by: Billy West (2003), Dwight Schultz (2019)

First appearance: Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

The racing champion of the planet Barin who appears in Crash Nitro Kart. He is a cybernetic shark-like alien engineered to always move, never stopping to even sleep. In his race, he throws out snapping shark teeth and fake teeth as traps that slow down the player. He is finally put to sleep when Coco hacks into his helmet. He returns in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as an Acceleration-class character.

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• Badass Boast: In Nitro-Fueled upon winning a race:
  Nash: I'm engineered to be... superior.
• Bullying a Dragon: Gets snappy with Velo during his introduction. Also threatens Cortex after losing, beckoning an angry Tiny. Nash tries to start a fight until Velo yells at him to knock it off.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns as playable in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
• Crippling Overspecialization: He was engineered to always be on the move, never even stopping to sleep. Great for racing, not so much for doing other stuff off the track. This might also explain his bad attitude, on the grounds of it coming from lack of sleep.
• Cyborg: Well, he certainly looks the part what with all those tubes on him. Heck, Coco was even able to hack into his brain and make him fall asleep.
• Defeat Means Playable: Only in the handheld version of the game.
• Expy: He's a walking shark with some mannerisms that invoke Jabberjaw.
• Fragile Speedster: Nash becomes an acceleration-focused racer in Nitro-Fueled. It suits him well.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: His goggles function as an opposite to what goggles are supposed to do: keep water out of your eyes. His goggles are actually filled with water in order to keep his eyes wet since he never blinks.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Doesn't really wear anything else other than a pair of swimming trunks and a hi-tech helmet with goggles.
• Human Cannonball: Gains such a costume during Neon Circus and is actually shot out of a cannon in his victory animation.
• Jerkass: Is basically this compared to his fellow champions.
• Keet: He's engineered to never sleep, making him very edgy and hyperactive.
• Sharkman: He's clearly a humanoid shark, although with an unusual body proportion.
• Shark Tunnel: His home track, Deep Sea Driving, is set in one.
• Shout-Out: He is a shark with a frickin' laser beam attached to his head, although he is never shown actually firing lasers from it until Nitro-Fueled.
• Sore Loser: He demands his key back when he loses.
• Spoiled Brat: He gives off this vibe. He even yells straight in Velo's (holographic) face to start the race, only backing off when it's clear he made Velo mad. After the race, he just walks up to the winners and asks for his key back.
  Nash: I need to get moving!
  Velo: Soon, Nash. Soon.
  Nash: Not soon. NOOOOOOW!
  • And after he loses the match:
    Nash: Oooh, hello there. Do you think... I could get my key back? (beat) Come on, hehe!
    Crunch: You lost, buddy.
    Nash: I don't CAAAAARE!
• Stepford Smiler: He always seems to be in a hyperactive, upbeat personality, but this is the result of him being cybernetically programmed to never stop moving, to the point of being physically unable to sleep. Coco notices this, and hacks his brain to let him get the rest he deserves.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Coco hacks his brain to make him take a nap out of sympathy.
• Threatening Shark: Subverted. He's a rather small shark, is fairly cute, and ultimately pretty harmless (threats of violence notwithstanding).
• Token Evil Teammate: He is by far the worst sport of Velo's champions and is the only one of them to threaten violence on the protagonists after losing to them.
• Weaponized Headgear: His helmet is mounted with a miniature laser, which he fires a few times during his victory animation in Nitro-Fueled.
• You Have Failed Me: Velo threatens this later on for losing to Cortex and arguing with the competitors.
• Your Size May Vary: Nitro Kart depicts him as being as big as Tiny, able to look at him eye-to-eye. Nitro-Fueled shrinks him down to being around the size of Dr. Cortex.

Norm

Left: Small Norm. Right: Big Norm.

"Ooh, a race! Count me in!"

— Big Norm

Small Norm voiced by: Robbie Daymond (2019-Present)

Big Norm voiced by: André Sogliuzzo (2003-Present)

First appearance: Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

The racing champion of the planet Fenomena who appears in Crash Nitro Kart. He is a book-loving mime who can split into his normal self and a larger, more obnoxious version of himself to race. His normal self drops box-shaped traps that act like the ice traps, while his larger self spams energy bubbles backward that slows down the racer. Both of his forms return as separate characters in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Small Norm being Balanced-class and Big Norm being Speed-class.

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• Aliens of London: As noted below, Big Norm has a Brooklyn accent.
• Badass Bookworm: Small Norm certainly counts, since he's an accomplished racer in his own right who enjoys reading in his spare time.
• Bash Brothers: The way they race evokes this with Big Norm acting as Little Norm's shield by harassing their opponents while Little Norm uses his superior driving skill to take the lead and leave traps to trip up the competition and make Big Norm's job easier.
• Berserk Button:
  • Attacking Little Norm seems to be the easiest way to piss Big Norm off.
    Big Norm: You'd better not touch ONE HAIR on his little head!
  • Big Norm also gets pretty mad, to a somewhat lesser extent, if he is called a clown.
    Big Norm: Where do you get off calling me a clown? With your big head and your stupid springy hair!
• Big Brother Instinct: Big Norm seems to have something resembling this for Little Norm when you race them.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Big Norm in spades. You can just hear how much he loves being on the track, especially in Nitro-Fueled.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Regular Norm doesn't actually seem to like racing, preferring to read, but he's not Fenomena's champion for nothing. It's shown in how he always drives better than Big Norm does.
• Brooklyn Rage: Big Norm's return in Nitro-Fueled adds a bit of Brooklyn flavor to help put emphasis on his thuggish attitude. He even sometimes gets off a "Fugeddabadit" when you select him.
• Burglar Wear: In Nitro-Fueled both Norms are given alternate outfits that change their mime outfits into burglar outfits, complete with Domino Mask.
• The Bus Came Back: Both Small Norm and Big Norm return as racers in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
• Death Mountain: His home track is in Out of Time, situated on mountainous slopes. His home planet, Fenomena, seems to be dry and hostile in general.
• Defeat Means Friendship: For Crash's team. The clown-hating Cortex tells him to get lost.
• Dual Boss: You'll be racing both of them in their boss race. You only count as taking the lead if you pass Small Norm.
• Enemy Mime: Though Small Norm is less antagonistic than the other bosses in the game, and Big Norm only wears the mime outfit so Small Norm will race.
• Face of a Thug: Big Norm looks like an intimidating lout, but is pretty relaxed and friendly despite his competitive streak.
• Fat Bastard: Subverted with Big Norm. He looks the part and is cocky about winning, but when defeated he's probably the most level headed and friendly challenger in the entire circuit and he cares deeply about his other half despite the annoying mime getup.
• Force and Finesse: While Big Norm is certainly more skilled than most of the other racers in the circuit, he tends to lag behind Little Norm skill-wise and relies more on size and aggression. Little Norm on the other hand is significantly more skilled than his larger counterpart when it comes to core driving, but is lacking when it comes to offense. Made more apparent in Nitro-Fueled where Big Norm is classified as a fast-but-unwieldly Speed driver while Little Norm is a Balanced driver.
• Graceful Loser: Big Norm admits he doesn't like to lose, but despite this he's very jovial after being beaten and heartily congratulates his opponents. Nitro-Fueled has him even remove his beret out of respect, when coming in any position other than first, although his podium loss animation still has him sulking.
  Big Norm: Well, you can't have 'em all, right?
• Jack of All Stats: In the transition from Nitro Kart to Nitro-Fueled, (Small) Norm became a balanced character.
• Literal Split Personality: There's the normal, small Norm that's mute and likes reading, and the big, fat talkative version of him that actually wants to race.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Anytime Big Norm gets struck with an explosive weapon, he'll give out this line:
  Big Norm: Ooh, that tickles!
• Mighty Glacier: In Nitro-Fueled, Big Norm became a Speed-class racer to show his love for the sport.
• Nice Guy: Small Norm is a bit anti-social, but Big Norm is actually a surprisingly good sport. He admits that he hates losing and gives the racers some trash talk before the race, but that doesn't stop him from complimenting them. When race time comes, Big Norm is INCREDIBLY supportive and protective over Small Norm.
  Big Norm: You know, you did good out there. You got a real shot at winning this thing, cause you work together!
  Crunch: Both of you make a good team, too.
  Big Norm: (to Small Norm) Hey! Come over here and make nice!
  Small Norm: (glances over at them angrily, before ignoring them)
  Big Norm: Yeah, he pretends not to care, but he's just like me; He hates losing.
• The Noseless: They look mostly human apart from this and their Pointy Ears.
• Not So Above It All: While you may have to pull Little Norm's arm a bit to get him in a racing mood, once he's on the track he has surpisingly smug body language with him driving laid back and one-handed in 'Nitro Kart' and having very little interest in his own victories when he wins.
• Pointy Ears: This and their lack of noses are their only really alien traits.
• The Promise: The only reason Small Norm races. He refuses and sulks at first, but Big Norm sternly reminds him:
  Big Norm: I don't wanna hear it. The deal was that you race in return for me wearing this dumb getup.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Big Norm has red eyes with black sclerae, which Small Norm lacks. Since he has skins that give him regular eyes, it isn't clear whether they are part of his mime getup.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Small Norm is the blue while Big Norm is the red. Note the colors of their caps.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Small Norm's the sensitive guy who prefers to read books as opposed to racing, while Big Norm's the manly guy who actually wants to race.
• Sore Loser:
  • After being beaten in Nitro Kart, Small Norm prefers to read. According to Big Norm, that's because he hates losing. His podium animation in Nitro-Fueled shows him trying to cope by reading a book before throwing it on the ground.
  • In Nitro-Fueled again, Big Norm looks like he wants to kick the winner's ass. This may be because he likes to play the Heel role like he does in Nitro Kart.
• Suddenly Voiced: Small Norm makes whistling noises in Nitro-Fueled, but grunts audibly if he is struck by walls or power-ups.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Big Norm has a huge gut and beefy arms, but short, skinny legs.
• Voice for the Voiceless: Going through Small Norm's voice clips in CNK reveals them to all be Big Norm reacting to what's happening to Small Norm.
• The Voiceless: Small Norm is committed to his mime act. In Nitro-Fueled he instead makes whistling noises. He'll even cover up his mouth when doing a particularly high jump to keep himself from screaming. Big Norm isn’t nearly as committed to being a mime and thus talks freely.
• You Have Failed Me: Velo threatens a Cool and Unusual Punishment after he loses:
  Velo: Perhaps I need new ways to motivate you, like...*grins evilly* taking your books away.

Geary

"Why try? Machines will ALWAYS win!"

Voiced by: Paul Greenberg (2003), Dwight Schultz (2019)

First appearance: Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

The racing champion of the planet Teknee who appears in Crash Nitro Kart. He is a robot who is as much obsessed with cleaning as he is with winning, causing him to switch between personalities from time to time. He races with two cleaning drones that drop rolls of scrub which slow the player down. He returns in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as a Balanced-class character.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: His voice is more aggressive in Nitro-Fueled, and many of his more polite lines and mannerisms are left out, or otherwise harder to spot.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
  • Tries to be serious about racing, but often gets distracted by cleaning.
    Geary: Only a robot can achieve perfection in motion! I will demolish anyb- (Sotto voice) Oh, what a mess! Can't have that now, can we? (vacuums, then switches back to normal) Now... where was I?!
    Geary: My key! How did I lose? I know Teknee like the back of my- MY HAND! IT'S DIRTY! This whole place is filthy! (begins vacuuming, eventually getting to cleaning up Crash or Tiny)
  • Interestingly, all his dialogue is edited to omit his Neat Freak personality in the portable version, meaning he finishes every sentence properly.
• Badass Boast: Whenever he wins a race in Nitro-Fueled:
  Geary: Why try?! Machines will always win!!
• The Bus Came Back: Returns as playable in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled. He also makes an appearance as a miniboss in Crash: On the Run.
• Camp Straight: Acts quite feminine, if only because of his high-pitched voice and obsession with cleaning.
• Defeat Means Playable: Only in the handheld version of Nitro Kart.
• Dishing Out Dirt: His main method of attack in On the Run with his Nitro variant, where he shoots out giant balls of dirt from his vacuum.
• The Dragon: Velo introduces Geary as "his finest racer" in his introduction, and is the final champion you face before going up against the Emperor himself.
• Endearingly Dorky: Geary occasionally lapses into this in his green-eyed mode; especially evident when humming as he vacuums, or awkwardly doing the Robot dance with a chuckle when he wins in Nitro-Fueled.
• Expy: Of C-3PO, both of them being humanoid robots with gold-coloured plating and fusspot personalities.
• Fantastic Racism: Absolutely despises all organic forms of life.
• Friendly Enemy: He'll clean anything. Even his opponents. Neither Tiny or Crash seem that objective to it either.
• Flunky Boss: You'll race him along with his two cleaning drones. The drones aren't actual racers, they're just there to assist him by throwing cleaning stuff like rolls of scrub that flattens the racer that gets hit.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: He's a gold-coloured robot who also happens to be Velo's finest champion and requires being beaten before facing the Emperor himself. If you squint his normally-purple kart also gains a goldish hue in Nitro Kart's version of Android Alley due to the lighting.
• Jack of All Stats: Once a Master of All like the other Champions, his stats were lowered in Nitro-Fueled to be on the same level as balanced racers like Crash and Cortex.
• Machine Monotone: Averted in Nitro Kart where he is quite an emotional bot despite being built up as a cold, calculated racer. Nitro-Fueled adds a heavy metallic filter to his voice that plays it closer to this.
• Mood-Swinger: Switches between a cold, ruthless combatant to a neurotic fusspot that likes cleaning in a flash, and back again.
• Neat Freak: His defining trait.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes go red whenever he gets serious about racing.
• Robot Hair: The way he's modeled gives the impression that he's balding on top.
• Rocket Punch: He can launch these as Beenox Robot Geary.
• Sore Loser: Zigzagged in his podium loss animation for Nitro-Fueled. He constantly swaps between having an enraged outburst in his ruthless personality, and respectfully clapping to the winner in his fussy personality.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: His Beenox Robot DLC skin fully upgrades him into this, giving him a jetpack and an assortment of weapons.
• Tomorrowland: His planet, Teknee, has this theme as shown on its tracks. His home track, Android Alley, has this trait emphasized in Nitro-Fueled.
• You Have Failed Me: From Velo, who orders him to clean both the trophy room and the entire colosseum as punishment.
• Your Size May Vary: In Nitro Kart, he was comparable to Tiny in height, but Nitro-Fueled makes him a lot smaller, being roughly the size of Crash.

Unaffiliated Villains

In General

• Lone Wolf Boss: All the bad guys shown below aren't affiliated with Cortex and his cronies, although there are some who are at the very least connected with him.^note Madame Amberly was Cortex' old teacher at the Academy of Evil, while the Evil Twins were once Cortex' pets before being thrown into the tenth dimension. Additionally, Megamix is a fusion of Cortex and his minions, but does not qualify as a scientist or an animal due to the fact that it has traits of both.

Papu Papu

"Bunga boom!"

Voiced by: David Siller (1996), Brendan O'Brien (2000), Michael Gollom (1999), Dwight Schultz (2004-Present)

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot (1996)

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.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Not Papu Papu himself, but his tribe. In the Skylanders Imaginators level based on Crash Bandicoot, Papu Papu's tribe makes an appearance as friendly Surfer Dude types who want to help the player out, rather than being enemies.
• Adaptational Villainy: Normally, Papu Papu is unaffiliated with neither Crash nor Cortex and just wants to rule his tribe in peace. In Crash Team Racing and its remake however, he's protected by Uka Uka, putting him squarely on the bad guy side.
• Adaptation Personality Change: The original games tended to put emphasis on him being fat and lazy, but in N. Sane Trilogy and Nitro-Fueled, while he still has those qualities, he also acts a lot more aggressive and looks almost constantly angry.
• Adaptational Ugliness: N. Sane Trilogy adds noticeable moles to his skin.
• Bad Boss: Downplayed in Nitro-Fueled. In his intro cutscene, he carelessly knocks out all of the tribesmen that carried him in. However, he still makes sure not to hit any as he drives into the portal.
• Big Eater: In case you couldn't tell by his massive gut, he blames his loss in CTR on not eating a big enough breakfast, and his name means "Pass that dish again, mate" in his native tongue.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: CTR shows that despite being a lazy tribe chief, Papu Papu is an acomplished driver who can give a good challenge to those who confront him, and he (apparently) designed a long and technical race track.
• Depending on the Artist: His headdress never stays consistent in between games.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: While he can speak English, it's clearly not his first language, which would be his tribe's own made-up language.
• Fat and Proud: He mocks the player character in Crash Team Racing for being so small, and considering that you can play as Tiny, who's objectively bigger than him, he's probably talking about how none of the characters are as fat as he is.
• Fat Bastard: While technically neutral, Papu Papu is a short tempered grouch who constantly impedes the protagonist and didn't get the moniker "Mister Bad Belly" in Crash Team Racing for nothing.
• Flunky Boss: In Crash Bash he can summon mini-Crashes that fights for him. They easily die in one hit and their AI aren't as good as normal CPU for the Crate Crush type game.
• Gonk: He was never exactly a good looking guy, though N. Sane Trilogy makes him even uglier, with a gap between his top front teeth and a bunch of of moles on his skin. It's telling that his bonus pirate skin in Nitro-Fueled actually makes him look better by giving him a beard and more clothes.
• Graceful Loser: In Crash Team Racing, he takes his loss fair and square compared to the other bosses, complimenting your driving and contemplating his own performance.
• Ground Pound: In Crash Bash he can cause the tiles you're standing on to flip in a wave, causing substantial damage, by smashing his scepter on the ground.
• Hollywood Natives: He's a stereotypical depiction of an overweight Pacific Island tribal leader.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: The Nitro-Fueled tie-in comic shows how he earned his boss key; he successfully blew up one of Oxide's flying drones carrying the keys with a Blow Gun.
• Jiggle Physics: His belly and butt are animated constantly jiggling.
• Kaizo Trap: A minor one: when he falls down after he's defeated, you better stay away as his falling can hurt Crash.
• Land, Sea, Sky: In Crash Team Racing, he fits the Land part alongside Komodo Joe, as Papu's Pyramid is set on the ruins of an old temple and surrounded by carnivours plants.
• Large and in Charge: He's large and fat and he's the chief of the tribe.
• Lazy Bum: According to the old bible, Papu Papu is known for being very lazy which is why Aku Aku goes to Crash for help instead of his old tribe. The same bible also says Papu Papu fights Crash because he was woken up.
• Lone Wolf Boss: While Papu Papu is not a good guy and is protected by Uka Uka in racing games, he has no connections to Cortex (he even sells the ruins of the castle at the end of the first game). He just wants to eat, slack off, and rule his tribe in peace.
• Magical Native American: Papu Papu has demonstrated magical capabilities, summoning crates and evil copies of Crash and surrounding himself in a shield of fire in Crash Bash.
• Mayincatec: Papu's Pyramid is a mix between this and Ruins for Ruins' Sake, as it mixes various temple levels ambiences in one single track.
• Meaningful Name: In his native tongue, Papu Papu apparently means "Pass that dish again, mate", a name fitting for someone as fat as he is.
• Mighty Glacier: In Crash Team Racing, he focuses on speed. This doesn't handicap him at all on his home track.
• Put on a Bus: His village returns in Crash: On the Run!, but he and his tribesmen don't, due to Uka Uka scaring them away.
• Repetitive Name: Two "Papu" one after another.
• Retcon: In the epilogue of the first game he's mentioned to have sold the Cortex Castle to a resort developer to help raise money for his tribe's welfare, but the subsequent games show that the castle is still there; in the second game Brio sets a set of teleporters at the top of the ruined tower, and in CTR and games after Naughty Dog the castle remains intact.
• Secret Character: In Crash Team Racing, he's unlocked by winning the Green Gem Cup. Nitro-Fueled changes it to defeating him in his boss race in Adventure mode instead to unlock him.
• Smarter Than You Look: He's surprisingly smart for a native, being able to speak English and drive a race cart.
• Spin Attack: In the first game he primarily attacks by spinning around with his scepter and then smashing it down. It's not really fast and simple to avoid.
• Third-Person Person: In Crash Team Racing.
• Tribal Face Paint: Papu Papu has two red stripes on each cheek. Taken a lot further in his redesign for N. Sane Trilogy, where he has tribal patterns covering his cheeks, eyes and chin, as well as tribal tattoos on his shoulders and stomach.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: He's this in CTR due to his top speed, his choice of weapon (the beakers) and the track he's fought in. The game has been pretty simple before his boss fight, and after that, the Adventure Mode starts becoming tricky.
• Warm-Up Boss: He's the first boss in both the first game and Crash Bash. He's at least slightly harder in the latter game.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Aside from the resort bit above, in CTR, he becomes a wrestler under the name "Mister Bad Belly". His signature move "Bad Belly Bounce" gets banned after a few wrestlers suffered severe rope friction burns. Nitro-Fueled changes it so his signature move ignites a worldwide dance craze.
• Your Size May Vary: Papu is made significantly smaller while racing. This is even more noticeable in Nitro-Fueled, especially if you have Papu Papu race himself in Adventure Mode, since he's depicted at his normal size in the boss cutscenes.

Mr. Crumb

"Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today to jiggle that sweet meat off your bones!"

Voiced by: Sebastian Aav (2021)

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot 99X (1998)

An evil ghost that fiercely guards a lost treasure and therefore acts as the main villain of Crash 99X.

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• The Bus Came Back: After twenty-two years of wallowing in obscurity, Mr. Crumb makes an appearance in the mobile game Crash on the Run.
• Canon Immigrant: He was created only for a Tiger Electronics game till he was brought back.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike the usual mad scientists using their creations to try and take over the world, Mr. Crumb relies solely on magic and the supernatural, for the much more personal goal of protecting a fortune.
• Crazy-Prepared: Mr. Crumb went to the trouble of dabbling into black magic and summoning monsters, just to make sure no one would ever dare to take away his treasure after his passing. He also sticks around as a ghost, for good measure.
• Dance Battler: In On the Run, Mr. Crumb is rarely ever not bobbing to the beat.
• Dem Bones: It was hard to make out due to the low quality of the pixel dot graphics in his first game, but his face has a skeletal appearance.
• Enemy Summoner: One of Mr. Crumb's attacks in On the Run is to summon three Lab Assistants dressed as mummies, likely a nod to one of his Crash 99X minions, Grumbler.
• Expy: Was inspired by Count Bloodcount from the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Transylvania 6-5000".
• Final Boss: He's the final obstacle that Crash has to deal with before he can obtain his treasure.
• Fog Feet: Obviously, being a ghost, though his On the Run design makes it more clear.
• Greed: His primary motivation. He guards his fortune away from intruders to the point that he does it even long after he straight-up died!
• I Have Many Names: Depending on the version of 99X, he's either referred to as Mr. Crumb, Mr. Croon or Mr. Crool.
• High-Class Glass: His design in On the Run gives him a monocle.
• Interim Villain: Since Warped wasn't released yet at the time, he acts as this.
• Lone Wolf Boss: Taken to its logical extreme. Not only does he have the distinction of being the first final boss in the series to replace Cortex, he also had no involvement with any of the series' recurring elements, settings and characters except for the crates, Wumpa Fruit, Crash and Aku Aku.
• The Man Behind the Monsters: He's the one who summoned up the monsters Crash has to fight.
• Oddball in the Series: Besides being the villain of what was the only portable entry of a console game series (in the 90s), in a cast filled with mutants, aliens, cyborgs and mad scientists, a ghost stands out as being especially odd since that's of a supernatural origin rather than scientific (sentient voodoo masks notwithstanding).
• Some Call Me "Tim": His full official name is Crooncrool Crumb, but is referred to as Mr. Crumb, for short.
• Tom the Dark Lord: Upon hearing of Mr. Crumb's name, you wouldn't think he's that much of a threat, but he proves it.

Grumbler

Grumbler is one of Mr. Crumb's servants and the first boss of Crash 99X.

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• The Bus Came Back: Like his boss, he reappeared in On the Run during the Halloween event.
• Canon Immigrant: Much like Mr. Crumb and Thorn Thing before him, He was created only for a Tiger Electronics game till he was brought back.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: He's described as wanting friends, but hugs them too hard.
• Expy: Of Looney Tunes Gossamer (To be precise, it's the raise arms pose and the fact both were shoes. Though in Grumbler case, he's wearing slippers).
• The Minion Master: In 'Crash On The Run' he can summon miniature versions of himself to attack the players.
• Mummy: He has the trope down to a T.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Thick arms, check, broad chest, check, skinny legs, check.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: More yellow than gold but he does have these.

Thorn Thing

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot 99X (1998)

Thorn Thing is another of Mr. Crumb's servants and the second boss of Crash 99X.

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• Barrier Warrior: On the Run shows him summoning huge wooden barrier covered in thorns.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Which appear to look as if their made from bark.
• The Bus Came Back: After twenty-two years of wallowing in obscurity, he along with his employer Mr. Crumb make an appearance in the mobile game Crash on the Run.
• Cephalothorax: Even while wearing his armor you can tell he's this.
• Canon Immigrant: Much like Mr. Crumb he was created only for a Tiger Electronics game till he was brought back.
• Defeat by Modesty: His defeat animation in On the Run has the wood covering his body get knocked off, and he grabs one piece to cover himself, complete with a Wolf Whistle in the background, as he is sucked into the ensuing vortex.
• Expy: His character is inspired by Monster Tweety, from the Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird cartoon "Hyde and Go Tweet".
• No Mouth: When strip of his wooden armor it's reveal that he has no mouth.
• When Trees Attack: His wooden armor gives the illusion as such.

Digger

Digger is the last of Mr. Crumb's servants and the third boss of Crash 99X.

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• Calacas: It’s said he has a Mexican moustache, which would make him this.
• Dem Bones: He’s a horned skeleton who fits well with the spooky ascetic of Mr. Crumb's mansion.
• The Generic Guy: The devs never thought of a personality for him.

Bearminator

First appearance: Crash Bash (2000)

A giant polar bear in a ship captain's hat who acts as a boss in Crash Bash.

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• Bears Are Bad News: His entire schtick: being an enormous polar bear in a cannon-equipped armored submarine who sics missile-armed robotic bears on you.
• Boss-Arena Idiocy: If Bearminator didn't provide the player(s) with missiles after each time you defeat his mechanical polar bears, they would literally have no way to attack him back.
• Boss Arena Urgency: Upon losing his health, he'll fire a big bomb towards the arena that reduces it to 3/4, and then 1/2 of the initial size, both times with more enemies on it than before.
• Dub Name Change: The Japanese version renames him "Papaguma", literally meaning "Papa Bear", implying that he may or may not be Polar's father.
• Evil Laugh: Lets out a wicked-sounding growling laugh if he knocks you off the platform.
• Flunky Boss: His submarine fires mechanical bears that the player needs to knock into the water.
• Having a Blast: His favorite weapons seem to be explosives: going by how he uses enormous bombs to blow up parts of the arena each time you hit him, and how his mechanical bears are armed with missiles.
• Remember the New Guy?: Bearminator wasn't around in any of the previous games, although he is at least based on the giant polar bears that would chase Crash in Cortex Strikes Back.
• Rule of Three: It takes three direct hits from his own missiles to knock him out.
• Sub Story: Rides around in an armored submarine for the duration of his boss fight.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Has these in his official portrait, but not actually in-game. There, he has Black Eyes of Evil instead: both versions being accompanied with a huge Slasher Smile.

Megamix

Megamix

"What have you done to us? You will pay, little bandicoot!"

Voiced by: Lex Lang (2020)

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (2002)

A monster that is a fusion of Cortex, N. Gin, Tiny, and Dingodile, it was created when the Planetary Minimizer malfunctioned and fired a laser at the villains, causing them to combine and transform into this abomination.

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• Advancing Boss of Doom: Quite bluntly, there’s no way to harm this thing: all Crash can do is run away from it, or else it will kill him instantly.
• Badass Boast: In the Rustland GP intro:
  Megamix: I'll crush you all like bugs!
• Body Horror:
  • In Nitro-Fueled, its appearance is made more grotesque to emphasize the differences between it and the other characters. Cortex's mouth is forced into a snarling underbite, it's gained sores and boils on the organic half of its face due to tissue rejection, and one of Tiny's shoulder pads has fused into its shoulder.
  • Though its Rustland skin hides a lot of it due to being a Cyborg, the boils on Cortex's face have spread to the rest of its body, with Tiny's fur and Dingodile's lower half in particular being absolutely covered in them. Its upper jaw has also rotted away to reveal a set of realistic teeth that look oddly out of place amidst the rest of its robotic upper half, and the back of its neck now resembles Dingodile's tail instead of Cortex's yellow skin.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Other than the "N" on its head it got from Cortex, Nitro-Fueled gives it a glowing green "M" on its back between the shoulder blades.
• The Cameo: A poster of it can be seen in It's About Time.
• Composite Character: It's a literal fusion of Cortex, N. Gin, Tiny and Dingodile. In Nitro-Fueled, almost all of its animations are made up of fragments of the animations of the four characters composing it, with brief but violent twitches in-between. Additionally, some of its quotes are lifted from the characters composing it, and its win animation has it performing all four of their win animations.
• Cyborg: Megamix's Rustland skin turns it into a grotesque half-robotic monster, retaining Cortex's upper row of teeth, Dingodile's lower half and some of Tiny's upper half, the latter two of which are now covered in disgusting-looking boils.
• Fusion Dance: In Cortex’s defense, merging with his henchmen into one monster was wholly unintentional (that was Crash's fault, by the way).
• Half-Human Hybrid: Taking each character into account, Megamix is half human, one fourth Tasmanian tiger, one eighth dingo, and one eighth crocodile.
• Humanoid Abomination: Merging four guys into one is apparently more frightening than you’d expect.
• Hybrid Monster: Moreso in Nitro-Fueled, where special emphasis is put on just how wrong this guy is.
• Implacable Man: As mentioned above, this guy can plough through anything, and we mean anything: enemies, plasma gates, TNT and Nitro crates...
• Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Mega-Mix or Megamix? Who knows?
• Inelegant Blubbering: Subverted in its podium loss animation; it tries to hold back its tears, but then Tiny takes over and forces it to punch itself in the face, making N. Gin's false eyeball pop out in the process.
• Jack of All Stats: Surprisingly, he's this kind of racer in Nitro-Fueled.
• LEGO Body Parts: As befitting its name, it comprises of, among other things, half of Cortex's head, the metallic half (including the false eye) from N. Gin's head, Tiny's upper body, and Dingodile's lower body and crocodile tail.
• Lightning Bruiser: Don’t be fooled by Megamix's size, it's actually pretty fast- so much so that Crash needs to use the Crash Dash in order to escape from it.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: See above in Half-Human Hybrid.
• Multiple-Choice Past: In The Huge Adventure, Megamix came to be when the Planetary Minimizer malfunctioned and combined the four villains. The intro to the Rustland Grand Prix in Nitro Fueled instead implies that Megamix came to be due to nuclear radiation in the post-apocalyptic future in which the Grand Prix is set.
• Nuclear Mutant: Or at least that's what the intro for the Rustland GP describes it as. Heck, it even has a skin called "Toxic" Megamix.
• Ow, My Body Part!: It occasionally says this when it's hit or spinning out:
  Megamix: Ohhh, our heads!
• Promoted to Playable: Curiously, it joined the multiplayer roster in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced and was added as the sole star of the Rustland Grand Prix for Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled.
• Split Personality: Four to be exact, and all of them are fighting for control over their shared body.
• True Final Boss: Of The Huge Adventure; facing it requires getting all crystals, gems and gold relics beforehand.
• Two Beings, One Body: It's four villains all mashed up into one nightmarish abomination!
• Unstoppable Rage: This guy is quite understandably not happy over the circumstances regarding its creation, leading it to chase Crash throughout the space station in a fit of rage.
• Voice of the Legion: Implied, as the first thing it says is "What have you done to us?". More apparent in Nitro-Fueled, where it speaks with the voices of each character that makes up the fusion (with Cortex's usually being the most dominant), all fighting for control.
• Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about its existence without spoiling The Huge Adventure, really.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The only time the personalities agree about anything is when you win a race.
• Your Size May Vary: This guy was a giant, easily dwarfing over Crash in their final encounter. Nitro-Fueled scales it down to about Tiny's size so that it can fit inside its kart.

The Evil Twins

"Cower, you fools, before the awesome might of... the Evil Twins."

Both twins voiced by: Quinton Flynn (2004)

First appearance: Crash Twinsanity (2004)

A duo of highly intelligent twin parrots who act as the main antagonists of Crash Twinsanity. Their real names are Victor and Moritz, and are out for revenge against Dr. Cortex.

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• And Show It to You: With Cortex's brain instead of the usual heart.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: They are the main antagonists of Twinsanity.
• Card-Carrying Villain: They openly refer to themselves as the Evil Twins and don't even try to hide how nasty they are.
• Deadpan Snarker: They both partake in a lot of sarcastic banter with the protagonists.
• Dimension Lord: As they put it themselves, they are "Masters of the infinite dimensions." Considering they were able to defeat Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka offscreen, there's weight to their claim.
  Victor: FOOLS! You thought these two party toys could defeat US?! We're masters of the infinite dimensions, with power over reality itself!
  Moritz: And riches beyond imagination!
  Cortex: ...Riches?
  Victor: Riches? What's wrong with you? Always bringing up the riches!
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: They were able to defeat both Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka offscreen, and deriding both masks as "party toys". Later they are on the receiving end of this courtesy of Crash, Cortex, Nina, and especially Evil Crash.
• Eaten Alive: Evil Crash ate them at the end of Twinsanity.
• Evil Versus Evil: They attack Earth specifically for revenge on Cortex. They aren't against making enemies with resident good guys such as Crash for interfering however.
• Expy: They share similarities to Pinky and the Brain, with Moritz being the goofy one and Victor being the smart one.
• Final Boss: They pilot a giant mecha at the end of Twinsanity.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Moritz is the foolish sibling, Victor is the responsible one.
• For the Evulz: They love sucking the goodness out of dimensions and filling them with chaos and misery. Just for the heck of it.
• Freudian Excuse: They ended up becoming insane dimensional warpers because they were once Cortex's parrots and were teleported to another dimension thanks to his experiments. They outright try to Invoke this trope at the end, but considering all the damage they've done and how much they have reveled in their evil, pretty much no one shows any signs of sympathy towards them.
• Hates Everyone Equally: While their vendetta is with Cortex specifically, they're bitter enough to want to destroy the whole planet just to prove their point, and voice their hatred for Crash and anyone else who gets in their way.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Victor wears a black cape and Moritz a red one. Also, though it's often difficult to spot (and not evident in this picture), they also have different skin/feather colour — Victor is blue while Moritz is green.
• Incoming Ham: Their featured quote earns them a mention.
• Killed Off for Real: Due to their ultimate fate of being devoured by Evil Crash, they have the dubious honor of being the first characters in the series to officially get killed without any subtlety.
• Killer Rabbit: Cortex doesn't take them seriously at first, since both of them are parrots. They make him regret this barely a minute later.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: See Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? above.
• Reality Warper: See their quote under Dimension Lord above. At one point they pulled Cortex's brain out of his head.
• Reflexive Response: Exploited by Cortex. After remembering them, he menacingly summons them into their old bird cage for being "naughty boys". The two, still traumatised from Cortex's bullying, sheepishly hurry inside. When Victor catches himself however, he furiously tries to beat Cortex at his own psychological warfare.
  Victor: What am I doing??? Curse my regimented upbringing! That's it, Cortex! You wanna make up for lost time and play with your pets? Then so be it.... *cages morphs into a giant mech, cue Oh, Crap! response from Cortex*
• Super Prototype: They were Cortex's first attempt to mutate animals into anthropomorphic minions, but the prototype Evolve-O-Ray instead sent them to the Tenth Dimension, resulting in them developing powers far beyond any of Cortex's other creations.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When they realized they ended up in Evil Crash's home, and he's looking at them with Meat-O-Vision. Followed by Gory Discretion Shot.
  Moritz: Oh boy, I love roast chicken!
  Victor: Well... this is one heck of an ending.
• Who's Laughing Now?: Their whole motivation is to get back at Cortex, their abusive owner who sent them to the Tenth Dimension in a experimental mishap. When Cortex remembers their lowly past and tries to exploit their past trauma, the Twins begin a final showdown with him to essentially out-intimidate the other.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: In Victor's words, the severe "reverso-radioactivity" in the Tenth Dimension "sharpened our skills and warped our fragile eggshell minds".
• The Worf Effect: They effortlessly defeated both Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka offscreen. On the other hand, they're on the receiving end of it when Evil Crash ate them.
• Villainous Glutton: Moritz is Obsessed with Food, to the extent that he often brings it up at random times.
  Victor: Oh, nuts!
  Moritz: There's nuts?

Evil Crash

First appearance: Crash Twinsanity (2004)

An evil and ferocious version of Crash Bandicoot from the Tenth Dimension who appears in Crash Twinsanity (and in Crash Tag Team Racing as an extra skin, as well as in Crash Boom Bang).

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• Affably Evil: Despite being vicious and blood^note actually chicken-hungry, he still enjoys taking vacations on the Tenth Dimension's version of Hawaii, based on a picture frame in his household.
• Ax-Crazy: This Crash knows nothing but killing and eating people.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: After Crash, Cortex, and Nina deal with the Evil Twins, they're later eaten by Evil Crash.
• Evil Counterpart: He's just as stupid as the main Crash, but while that Crash is ultimately a brave and selfless hero, this Crash is a psychotic monster.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Compared to Crash's own orange fur, Evil Crash has blood-red fur and prominent black eyebrows.
• Sapient Eat Sapient: He eats the Evil Twins.
• The Unfought: He's never directly confronted in a fight. He instead chases Cortex and kidnaps Nina in two different sections.
• The Voiceless: He doesn't speak at all aside from roaring and grunting sounds.

Madame Amberly

"You... are in detention!"

Voiced by: Susan Silo (2004)

First appearance: Crash Twinsanity (2004)

The headmaster of the Academy of Evil and former teacher of Neo and Nina Cortex, N. Gin and Nitrus Brio. Notably, she is the only character in the series who has never met Crash.

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• Brought to You by the Letter "S": She has a large letter A on her forehead. It might be where Cortex and Nina got the idea of putting their first initials on their heads.
• The Bus Came Back: A picture of her can be seen on the Nina's Nightmare track in Nitro-Fueled. She was going to appear in On the Run, but those plans were cancelled.
• Disney Villain Death: Falls down a bottomless shaft after her last cable disconnects from Cortex giving her the final blow, screaming all the while.
• Evil Teacher: Justified in that she literally teaches students to be as evil as her.
• Fat Bastard: She is hugely obese, requiring cables attached to her back to move around, and teaches her subordinates the ways of evil.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Account of her having a monocle instead of a standard pair of glasses.
• French Jerk: Implied. Besides her name, she appears to have an accent.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Arguably is one of the first trilogy before Uka Uka was revealed, considering she was the one who taught Cortex everything he knows. Concept art found in the game shows that, if one considers it canon, she was also responsible for N. Brio and N. Gin.
  • This extends to her cameo appearance in Nitro-Fueled, as the mansion interior of Nina's home track is obviously influenced by her academy, despite not being playable.
• High-Class Glass: Again, wears a monocle.
• Large and in Charge: Not only (and obviously) weight wise, but also height: she could easily dwarf the tallest characters in the series prior! She's also the headmaster of a literal Academy of Evil.
• Psycho Electro: The head of an Academy of Evil and can fire lightning from her fingertips, what's more to be said?
• Small Role, Big Impact: She's only ever encountered in a single boss fight, yet she's still responsible for the academic upbringing of Cortex, N. Brio and N. Gin.

Willie Wumpa Cheeks

"Wumpa Cheeks is the name, sour juice is my game!"

Voiced by: Roger L. Jackson (2005)

First appearance: Crash Tag Team Racing (2005)

A giant talking Wumpa fruit, and the mascot and producer of Wumpa Whip in Von Clutch's MotorWorld. He only appears in Crash Tag Team Racing. He is later revealed to be the thief of Von Clutch's Power Gems (though he gives no motive as to why he did it) and is soon liquefied by Doctor Neo Cortex.

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• Anthropomorphic Food: Willie's a giant Wumpa Fruit. In a world where animals can be modified into anthropomorphic Funny Animals (Or in the case of many characters in the post-Naughty Dog games, they can just show up out of nowhere), Willie stands out as being exceptionally weird.
  Cortex: Holy cannoli! What is that thing!?
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of Tag Team Racing.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jolly and affable in his park persona initially, he finally has enough of the cast's stupidity however, and angrily reveals himself as the culprit, insulting all of them while doing so.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He appears in one cutscene in the intro before becoming an NPC in an area you'll rarely pass by. He shows up right before the final area after it's revealed that the Big Bad has a connection to Wumpa Whip. Take a guess who stole the Power Gems.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike Oxide and Velo, he's not an alien (as far as we know), he's not immediately established as the main antagonist, and he never races.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: Ultimately ends up being an elaborate one; no one knows where he came from, his reason for turning on Von Clutch isn't disclosed, and he's taken out by the end of the game.
• Extreme Doormat: Although he's the one responsible for the theft of Von Clutch's Power Gems, his in-game dialogue shows him to otherwise be a complete pushover.
  Willie: (If Crash attacks him) You meanie! I'm only sending you four Christmas cards this year!
  Willie: If seven more kids yank on my Wumpa pumpa, I QUIT!
• Final Boss: If you want to consider the final goal of the game defeating Willie.
• For the Evulz: Never provides a reason for betraying his boss. The best conclusion is that he did it because he hates his job, as a lot of his dialogue makes clear.
• Gag Nose: His nose is a long metal pipe that he uses to dispense his Wumpa juice.
• Gonk: He looks absolutely hideous, considering he's a giant, possibly-mutated Wumpa fruit. Cortex, Chick and Stew are all shown to be repulsed by him.
  Stew: Man, that Wumpa Cheeks dude freaks me out!
  Chick: Just don't let it touch you!
• Informed Species: He looks more like a giant orange turnip than a wumpa fruit.
• Jerkass: He snaps and calls the other characters idiots for not figuring out that he was behind everything.
• Killed Off for Real: Willie gets vaporized in the final cutscene of Tag-Team Racing. Then his remains are drunk by Crash, ensuring he’s never coming back.
• Mad Eye: His right eye being bigger than the left one is the first sign that he's not really nice.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice sounds campy and flamboyant like Paul Lynde.
• Obviously Evil: He has a mischievous demeanor, with a habit of giggling sinisterly to himself. Find him in the park, and you might hear him say something to directly implicate himself.
  Willie: What a lovely day for betrayal and murder. Oh! Who said that?
  Willie: Only a few more hours and victory shall be mine! (Laughs then coughs) Hi!
• Rhymes on a Dime: Willie is quite fond of reciting limericks relating to the current situation.
• The Unfought: Is one of the few characters in Tag Team Racing to never be encountered as a racer.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss him without spoiling how the game ends.
• Zero-Effort Boss: All you do to beat him at the end is pull a lever and Willie can't attack. He's then vaporized by Cortex, N. Gin, and Nina.

Louise

First appearance: Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020)

A fish/octopus-like sea monster who appears as a boss in one of the pirate levels in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.

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• Expy: Her design is very similar to Tamatoa from Moana.
• Fluffy the Terrible: A horrible sea monster with the name...Louise?
• Flunky Boss: Throughout her boss fight, the TNT-carrying rat enemies will also appear to attack you. The only way for you to damage her is by leading those rats into the way of her tentacles.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: She appears and disappears without any explanation. A bit justified since a pirate level would not be complete without some kind of a tentacled monster.
• Sea Monster: A Kraken/fish hybrid who guards the exit point of a level.
• Tentacled Terror: She hunts you using tentacles.

The Noid

First appearance: Crash: On the Run!

An old pizza mascot summoned to fight the bandicoots.

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• Freeze Ray: The Noid attempts to fight the bandicoots by firing snowballs at them with an ice gun.
• Guest Fighter: He is the mascot of Dominos pizza who is brought in as an end-of-level enemy in Crash on the Run during a limited time event.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Once the bandicoots toss their potions at The Noid, he accidentally shoots himself with his own gun before getting pulled into the portal the potions create.
• Mythology Gag: The Noid's use of a Freeze Ray in On the Run references an old Domino's commercial where he used one to make pizzas cold.

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