History Characters / CrashBandicootVillains

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/StarWars C-3PO]], both of them being humanoid robots with gold-coloured plating and fusspot

* MadScientist: What they all are (with the exception of Nina), with each one having a specialty in a certain field; Cortex specializes in neuroscience and brainwashes animals into doing his bidding, N. Brio specializes in biology (namely, evolving the aforementioned animals) and chemistry, N. Gin specializes in engineering and mechanics (as evidenced by the HumongousMecha that he pilots in his boss battles), N. Tropy's main specialty is quantum mechanics (as evidenced by his clockwork armour) and the Lab Assistants... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin are lab assistants]].

* MadScientist: What they all are (with the exception of Nina); Cortex specializes in neuroscience and brainwashing animals into doing his bidding, N. Brio specializes in biology (namely, evolving the aforementioned animals) and chemistry, N. Gin specializes in engineering and mechanics (as evidenced by the HumongousMecha that he pilots in his boss battles), N. Tropy's main specialty is quantum mechanics (as evidenced by his clockwork armour) and the Lab Assistants... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin are lab assistants]].

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/StarWars C-3PO]], both of them being humanoid robots with gold-coloured plating and fusspot personalities.
* FantasticRacism: Absolutely ''despises'' all organic forms of life.
* FriendlyEnemy: He'll clean anything. Even his opponents. Neither Tiny or Crash seem that objective to it either.
* FlunkyBoss: 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 [[ImprobableWeaponUser cleaning stuff]] like rolls of scrub that flattens the racer that gets hit.
* MachineMonotone: 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.
* MoodSwinger: Switches between a cold, ruthless combatant to a neurotic fusspot that likes cleaning in a flash, and back again.
* NeatFreak: His defining trait.
* {{Nerf}}: Once a MasterOfAll like the other Champions, his stats were lowered in ''Nitro-Fueled'' to be on the same level as balanced racers like Crash and Cortex.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes go red whenever he gets serious about racing.
* RobotHair: The way he's modeled gives the impression that he's balding on top.
* SoreLoser: Zigzagged in his podium loss animation for ''Nitro-Fueled''. He constantly swaps between having an enraged outburst in his ruthless personality, and respectfuly clapping to the winner in his fussy personality.
* SuperOCD: About cleaning.
* {{Tomorrowland}}: His planet, Teknee, has this theme as shown on its tracks.
* YouHaveFailedMe: From Velo, who orders him to clean both the trophy room and ''the entire colosseum'' as punishment.
* YourSizeMayVary: In ''Nitro Kart'', we was comparable to Tiny in height, but ''Nitro-Fueled'' makes him a lot smaller, being roughly the size of Crash.
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!!Unaffiliated Villains:

[[folder:Papu Papu]]
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->''"Bunga boom!"''
-->Voiced by: David Siller (1996), Brendan O'Brien (2000), Michael Gollom (1999), Creator/DwightSchultz (2004-Present)

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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* AdaptationalHeroism: 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 SurferDude types who want to help the player out, rather than being enemies.
* AdaptationalVillainy: 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.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: 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.
* AdaptationalUgliness: The N. Sane trilogy adds noticeable moles to his skin.
* BadBoss: Downplayed in ''Nitro-Fueled''. In his intro cutscene, he carelessly knocks out all of the tribesmen that carried him in. Then he subverts it by making sure not to hit any as he drives into the portal.
* BigEater: 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.
* DependingOnTheArtist: His headdress never stay consistent in between games.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: While he can speak English, it's clearly not his first language, which would be his tribe's own made-up language.
* FatAndProud: 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.
* FatBastard: 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.
* FlunkyBoss: 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.
* GracefulLoser: In ''Crash Team Racing'', he takes his loss fair and square compared to the other bosses, complimenting your driving and contemplating his own performance.
* GroundPound: 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.
* JigglePhysics: His stomach, as well as his butt.
* KaizoTrap: A minor one: when he falls down after he's defeated, you better stay away as his falling can hurt Crash.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's large and fat and he's the chief of the tribe.
* LazyBum: 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.
* LoneWolfBoss: Papu has no connections to Cortex or Crash, he just wants to eat and rule his tribe in peace. He is, however, protected by Uka Uka in racing games, planting him squarely on the bad guy side.
* MeaningfulName: In his native tongue, Papu Papu apparently means "Pass that dish again, mate", a name fitting for someone as fat as he is.
* RepetitiveName: 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.
* SecretCharacter: In ''Crash Team Racing'', he's unlocked by winning the Green Gem Cup.
* SpinAttack: 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.
* ThirdPersonPerson: In ''Crash Team Racing''.
* TribalFacePaint: 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.
* WakeupCallBoss: 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.
* WarmupBoss: He's the first boss in both the first game and ''Crash Bash''. He's at least slightly harder in the latter game.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: 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.
* YourSizeMayVary: Papu is made significantly smaller while racing. This is even more noticeable in ''Nitro-Fueled'', especially if you have Papu Papu [[MirrorMatch race himself]] in Adventure Mode, since he's depicted at his normal size in the boss cutscenes.
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[[folder:Bearminator]]
A giant polar bear in a ship captain's hat who acts as a boss in ''Crash Bash''.
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* BossArenaUrgency: 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.
* DubNameChange: The Japanese version renames him "Papaguma", literally meaning "Papa Bear", implying that he may or may not be Polar's father.
* FlunkyBoss: His submarine fires mechanical bears that the player needs to knock into the water.
* NiceHat: Wears a blue naval captain's hat.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He 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''.
* SubStory: Rides around in a submarine for the duration of his boss fight.
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[[folder:The Evil Twins]]
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->''"Cower, you fools, before the awesome might of... the Evil Twins."''
-->Both twins voiced by: Creator/QuintonFlynn (2004)

A duo of highly intelligent twin parrots who act as the main antagonists of ''Crash Twinsanity''. Their real names are Victor and Moritz, [[spoiler:and were formerly the pet parrots of Doctor Neo Cortex, whose experimental Evolvo-Ray sent them to the Tenth Dimension and mutated them into the villains they would become. They are eaten by Evil Crash at the end of the game.]]
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* AndShowItToYou: With Cortex's brain instead of the usual heart.
* BigBadDuumvirate: They are the main antagonists of ''Twinsanity''.
* CardCarryingVillain: They openly refer to themselves as the Evil Twins and don't even try to hide how nasty they are.
* DimensionLord: As they put it themselves, they are "Masters of the infinite dimensions." Considering [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu 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!"
-->'''Victor:''' "Riches? What's wrong with you?! Always bringing up the riches!"
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: They were able to defeat both [[BigGood Aku-Aku]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Uka-Uka]] offscreen, and deriding both masks as "party toys". [[spoiler: Later they are on the receiving end of this courtesy of Crash, Cortex, Nina, and especially Evil Crash.]]
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:Evil Crash ate them at the end of Twinsanity.]]
* EvilVsEvil: They attack Earth specifically for revenge on Cortex. They aren't against making enemies with resident good guys such as Crash for interfering however.
* FinalBoss: They pilot a giant mecha at the end of ''Twinsanity''.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Moritz is the foolish sibling, Victor is the responsible one.
* ForTheEvulz: They love sucking the goodness out of dimensions and filling them with chaos and misery. Just for the heck of it.
* FreudianExcuse: They ended up becoming insane dimensional warpers because [[spoiler: 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.]]
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: 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.
* IncomingHam: Their featured quote earns them a mention.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: See DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu above.
* RealityWarper: See their quote under DimensionLord above. At one point they pulled Cortex's brain out of his head.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When they realized they [[spoiler:ended up in Evil Crash's home, and he's looking at them with MeatOVision.]] Followed by GoryDiscretionShot.
-->'''Moritz:''' "Oh boy, I love roast chicken!"
-->'''Victor:''' ''"Well... '''this''' is one heck of an ending."''
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:In Victor's words, the severe "reverso-radioactivity" in the Tenth Dimension "sharpened our skills and warped our fragile eggshell minds".]]
* TheWorfEffect: They effortlessly [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeated both Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka offscreen.]] On the other hand, they're on the receiving end of it [[spoiler:when Evil Crash ate them.]]
* VillainousGlutton: Moritz is obsessed with food, to the extent that he often brings it up at random times.
-->'''Victor''': Oh, nuts!
-->'''Moritz''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint There's nuts?]]
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[[folder:Evil Crash]]
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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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* AxCrazy: This Crash knows nothing but killing and eating people.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: After Crash, Cortex, and Nina deal with the Evil Twins, they're later eaten by Evil Crash.
* EvilCounterpart: He's just as stupid as the main Crash, but while that Crash is ultimately [[NiceGuy a brave and selfless hero]], this Crash is a [[AxCrazy psychotic monster]].
* SapientEatSapient: He eats [[spoiler:the Evil Twins]].
* TheUnfought: He's never directly confronted in a fight. He instead chases Cortex and kidnaps Nina in two different sections.
* TheVoiceless: He doesn't speak at all aside from roaring and grunting sounds.
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[[folder:Madame Amberly]]
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->''"You... are in detention!"''
-->Voiced by: Susan Silo (2004)

The headmaster of the Academy of Evil and former teacher of Neo and Nina Cortex, N. Gin and Nitrus Brio.
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* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: 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.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Falls down a bottomless shaft after her last cable disconnects from Cortex giving her the final blow, screaming all the while.]]
* EvilTeacher: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that shes literally teaches students to be as evil as her.
* FatBastard: She is hugely obese, requiring cables attached to her back to move around, and teaches her subordinates the ways of evil.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Account of her having a monocle instead of a standard pair of glasses.
* GreaterScopeVillain: 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.
* HighClassGlass: Again, wears a monocle.
* LargeAndInCharge: 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 AcademyOfEvil.
* PsychoElectro: The head of an AcademyOfEvil and can fire lightning from her fingertips, what's more to be said?
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-->"FOOLS! You thought these two party toys could defeat US?! We're masters of the infinite dimensions, with power over reality itself!"
-->"And riches beyond imagination!"
-->"Riches? What's wrong with you?! Always bringing up the riches!"

-->"Oh boy, I love roast chicken!"
-->''"Well... '''this''' is one heck of an ending."''

-->"FOOLS! You thought these two party toys could defeat US?! We're masters of the infinite dimensions, with power over reality itself! ...And riches beyond imagination!"

* SoreLoser: 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. [[spoiler:In ''Nito-Fueled,'' his real form even throws a temper tantrum when placing lower than first in the podium.]]

* SoreLoser: 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.

* CoolOldGuy: 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.

* FatBastard: And Unlike [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Big Norm]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk there's no soft center to speak of.]]

After his defeat at the hands of Crash, he moved to Chicago to work at a sanitation company and was working his way to becoming a state governor. Like Ripper Roo's situation, it didn't take too long to return back to his old gangster shenanigans. According to the

* FlatCharacter: Both of them. Much like Rilla Roo, they appear out of nowhere, don't get any character development through cutscenes, and then vanish from the series. Their only real purpose is to give Nitros Oxide two teammates to race with, since he was never shown with any accomplices, and can't simply brainwash pre-established characters like N. Trance. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome They're even absent from the GBA version altogether]].

* MadScientist: His specialty is creating machines. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of ''Crash Team Racing'', he's opened a custom auto parts store in Toledo, Ohio, which closed after his "Clear-the-Road" missile system was recalled when it caused havoc on many freeways.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: The Velo Mask acts as this for Teams Oxide and Trance in ''Crash Nitro Kart'', filling the same role as Aku Aku and Uka Uka for Teams Bandicoot and Cortex.

* GreenAndMean: Drives a green-coloured kart in ''Nitro Kart'' (as does his brainwashed cohorts) and is undeniably a villain.

* MeanAndGreen: Drives a green-coloured kart in ''Nitro Kart'' (as does his brainwashed cohorts) and is undeniably a villain.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Well, more like red and gold, but that's what they ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tiny]]) drive with in ''Nitro Kart'', and they're bad guys. Cortex also drives a red kart in ''Crash Team Racing''.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Well, more like red and gold, but that's what they ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tiny]]) drive with in ''Nitro Kart''. Cortex also drives a red kart in ''Crash Team Racing''.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Well, more like red and gold, but that's what they ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tiny]])) drive with in ''Nitro Kart''. Cortex also drives a red kart in ''Crash Team Racing''.

* TheVoiceless: Regular Norm is committed to his mime act. In ''Nitro-Fueled'' he instead makes whistling noises.

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