"The Rift Generator has capabilities beyond your meager imagination. You were content to simply rule over space and time, but I'd rather start from scratch. Erase it all. Wipe the slate clean. I'm going to reset the timeline and rebuild it to my liking. I will become a god. Which means YOU won't exist, and neither will those featherbrained masks, or those meddling marsupials!"
— Dr. Nefarious Tropy
- Whatever that spirit... thing is that chases Crash at the beginning of the game. Crash's and Lani's Oh, Crap! faces are pretty appropriate.
- The game opens showing that, even though it knocks him unconscious due to the exertion it puts on him, Uka-Uka is so powerful that he can single-handedly rip space-time apart if he wanted to (granted, it took him 22 years to do so, but still, that’s no small feat). It's not hard to imagine why it's important he not be handed the Crystals or the Gems anymore.
- The rather graphic way the T-Rex dies in "Dino Dash", trying to jump at you over a lava flow, misses and slips into the lava. Least they don't show it burning to death but still, yeesh.
- The T-Rex itself also counts, as it's a Super-Persistent Predator (it chases you three times in total) that's constantly roaring and screeching, and it's difficult to put much distance between you and it, especially in the last chase which adds crumbling rocks and lava flows for a frantic chase. Worst of all, it jumps for you at the end of the third chase and can catch and kill you by doing this. A nasty surprise for Crash veterans who will be used to the various chasing boulders or monsters giving up the chase once Crash gets too far away.
- Upon meeting Tawna, it's very implied that Crash and Coco in her dimension are dead by the way she fidgets when talking to the current Crash and Coco. Eventually, it's confirmed they were indeed killed by her dimension's N.Tropy, and it's made worse by the fact she killed the pair right in front of Tawna. It is implied to have happened during alternate Tawna's universe's events of Warped.
- An all-new Crash adventure! Which means, naturally, all-new new ways to die, and surprisingly, they're much more violent this time around in comparison to the previous games.
- Trying to jump over a gap when a Sand Shark jumps up results in you getting snagged right out of the air.
- If you let N.Brio catch you while he's in monster form, he'll break your character's back and throw them aside.
- Get caught by one of the plants in the prehistoric level, and they snatch up your character and devour them. Still chewing on them before fading to black for your next try.
- There are a LOT of bandicovorous plants and animals in this game! Three different variants of plants, sharks and eels. If being eaten alive is one of your personal fears, you're in for a treat.
- If the T-Rex catches you, he'll chomp in it's maw. Mitigated at least that he doesn't swallow you and you can still see the character his mouth still in one piece if he opens it.
- Alternatively that's even worse. It has eggs and chicks, and could well keep you intact and helpless to feed to them!
- There are multiple ways to get Impaled with Extreme Prejudice, which despite being Bloodless Carnage are still disturbing and sometimes fall squarely into Mortal Kombat territory. Besides the obvious spiked walls while rail grinding, there are the ice fishers who will impale the bandicoot on their wheel and then roll around on it, or the rats in Cortex's basement that jump on top of the Bandicoots after pinning them with a spiked shield.
- Tawna's death animations, due to her having more realistic proportions and less of a silly side than Crash himself. Seeing her getting tossed into a robotic recycling bin or Swallowed Whole by an Eel pirate can feel a bit disturbing.
- N. Tropy's speech after you defeat Cortex for the first time, in which he reveals his real plans for the multiverse in detail. It really goes to show how unfettered he's become.
- After the first encounter with the N.Tropy's, Crash and Coco have to make their way back to the Rift Generator by sliding on one of the quantum lines. If you manage to get all of the Bumpa Berries along the way, you're treated to images of the "Whoa" meme popping up through the screen. While a nice Easter Egg, it can likewise be a bit jarring since it happens right out of the blue.
- Once the heroes arrive at the Rift Generator, they arrive right as the N.Tropies were getting ready to finish Tawna off. And it's clear they curbstomped her as well.
- While the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue is humorous as usual, we get one hell of a Surprisingly Creepy Moment moment in the form of N. Brio's fate. Specifically, we learn that he couldn't escape his pteranodon form, and a professor mistook him for a flying-squirrel, so what did he do to the crazed doctor? STUFF HIM AND PUT HIM ON DISPLAY IN A TAXIDERMY EXHIBIT! Even worse? The professor who did it was Ripper Roo! Meaning N. Brio was done in by one of his own creations! The best the poor bastard can do now is hope these endings don't stick, otherwise...
- Oh, by the way, Uka-Uka is still alive, as the secret ending suggests. Poor Cortex, just wanted to find some peace in isolation only to have Uka-Uka come back to presumably take his manically laughing revenge...
- During one of the Flashback Levels, N. Gin talks about how he replaced the blood in his body with fossil fuel just ugh.
