History Headscratchers / CrashBandicoot

** I always assumed that Crash is either in his late teens or an young adult, while Coco goes from a child or a pre-teen to a teenager. Meanwhile, most of the scientists always looked like they are in their 50s ( especially Cortex, who is balding and generally looks old, but is still agile enough to fight Crash ) and Nina is probably around Coco's age.
* In the first Crash Bandicoot, you rescue [[{{DistressedDamsel}} Tawna Bandicoot]]. I don't ever recall seeing her in another game since. What happened to her?
** IIRC, Tawna wasn't quite PC enough for a series targetted for kids, so she got shafted in Coco's favor in the second game. As far as I know, she did reappear in Crash Boom Bang on DS and some background art in Twinsanity.
*** Tawna was going to make a physical appearance in Twinsanity where she would have been having a romantic dinner with Dingodile until his shack is smashed by that snowball.
*** And as a framed picture in some of the Crash games.
*** I forget where it's said, but she ends up dumping Crash for Pinstripe. Remember that mouse/gangster thing? Yeah. Him.
** That's only canon in Japan, but it's been accepted into international {{Fanon}}.
*** It was mentioned in early revisions of the official website in the west however.
** Out-of-universe, a Universal marketing executive [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110210005748/http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/07/making-crash-bandicoot-part-6/ felt]] that Tawna was too sexist, and the developers didn't think she was worth spending political capital to defend, so she got the ax after the first game. In-universe, the Japanese manual for ''Crash Bandicoot 2'' [[https://crashbandicoot.fandom.com/wiki/Tawna states]] that she left Crash for Pinstripe.

* In ''Crash Bash'' the fight between Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka is to be settled by contests because they're not allowed to fight. Even though they already did in Crash 3... Even worse though, the game gives you two hero characters, and six villain characters. This wouldn't be so bad, as the series' characters are a bit lopsided on the villains side when this was made (only five characters in CTR had Aku-Aku as an invincible cast, of a cast of fourteen), but what makes it annoying is that of the villainous characters, one was on the side of good in Crash 2 (N. Brio), and one had never been seen before (Rillaroo). And yet confirmed villains Tiny and Dingodile are moved from the side of evil to good.
** To be fair, Brio wasn't really on the side of good in Crash 2, he was on the side of [[EnemyMine Not Cortex]].
** In a more development excuse than story wise one, it was likely easier to use N Brio and Kong due to their proportional similarities to Cortex and Tiny, which allowed for easy model and animation programming. Rilla Roo was arguably created to resemble Dingodile for similar methods.
** Again, depending on who you ask, RetCon or FanonDiscontinuity.
** Could be that they were forbidden from fighting BECAUSE of their fight in Crash 3.
** [[EnemyMine While Brio did fight against Cortex in Crash 2, it's implied that he did so first because he didn't want to live in a world where Cortex ruled it all and second because he was pissed off at Cortex for stealing the credit for the mutagenic techniques and technology that Brio created, including the Evolv-O-Ray.]] Also, while he was fighting Cortex and guiding Crash to the truth concerning the gems, he made a note of telling Crash that as long as he was collecting crystals, Brio would do everything in his power to kill him, which included creating mutants and sending them out to kill Crash, including all of the anthro bosses Crash fights. He's still a villain in his own right, he's just the lesser of two evils who [[EvenEvilHasStandards isn't above saving the world if he's saving it from someone he hates.]]
** Still he and Koala Kong, who had previously defected and even temporarily retired, were still more likely to be pragmatic choices than [[TooDumbToLive Tiny]] (who defected from Brio to be Cortex's loyalest henchman) and [[SlimeBall Dingodile]] (who is treacherous, but [[TheStarscream not in a promising sort of way]]).
* OK, in ''Warped'', Uka Uka states that Cortex lost the gems and crystals (i.e. after his defeat in ''Cortex Strikes Back'', they were left in the warp tower). How then, did they get out for the "future" levels?
** I recall reading in the instruction manual that the crash of the space-station somehow shot the crystals and gems through time and space. [[VoodooShark Doesn't really make sense though]]
*** In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' book ''Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader'', the explosion of the Death Star II created a wormhole than pulled debris through space/time... I doubt this is what Naughty Dog was going for, but there is a precedent, especially given the Crash franchise's loose grasp on science.
** [[RuleOfFun For the fun of visiting space themed levels]]. Honestly, who travels through time and doesn't want to see the future? In any case, isn't there something paradoxical about collecting crystals from their original points in time and bringing them to the present? I mean, how did they appear in Crash 2 if they were removed from the timeline? Unless the Time Twister's malfunction somehow sent them back, I can't see how it'd work.
** [[FridgeBrilliance The crystals are there in the future because Crash already recollected and rescattered the crystals by that point in time.]] Aside from that, it's implied that there are more Power Crystals in the world than the basic twenty-five[[FridgeLogic ...Which raises the question of why Cortex and Uka-Uka didn't just go for those...]]
* Crash Bandicoot 2 had too much of an elaborate location for the Crystals and Gems, could have a hidden character positioned them?
** Not unless AWizardDidIt. These are floating crystals, not your average buried-in-the-earth precious stones. Besides, who says someone put them there?
*** Over time I speculated that someone who "knows" Crash positioned them. Outside of Cortex because that would be too easy.

* There's a lot of confusion of how Cortex's lab and castle went up in flames in the first game since there was no specific cause, and in the 100% ending, it is unharmed. Some think Brio's explosive chemicals and Hulk smashing trashed it, some think Pinstripe's defeat in which he accidentally shoots out a reactor with his gun caused a meltdown, and if one looks carefully at the end of the Lab (final normal level of the game), it ends with a bridge of TNT crates next to what looks like a bunch of giant mechanical pistons for the castle.
* In CTR, one of Oxide's taunts is to say "You're slower than a [what he says here is unclear]." What is he supposed to be saying?
** Oxide's taunt in question is "You're slower than a boat, you human scagwart!"
* In Crash Nitro Kart why was N. Trance & N. Oxide racing, are they there to help Team Bandicoot & Team Cortex win or is Oxide and N. Trance there to enslave the whole planet and brainwash them or did Velo abduct them?
** The manual only says Velo abducted Team Bandicoot and Team Cortex. The profiles for N. Trance and Oxide both mention them wanting revenge, so they do seem to be willing participants. They are also protected by a Velo mask in-game, so they seem to be on his side, as well.
* In Crash 2, are the bears that chase you in "Un-Bearable" supposed to be Polar's parents?
** Not likely; there are three bears. If they are supposed to be Polar's parents, what role is the third one supposed to have?
*** Mommy, daddy and their friendly neighbour that comes to see mommy when daddy is at work.

* Why didn't Victor and Moritz use their reality-warping abilities to turn the tides in the final battle of Crash Twinsanity?

* Why oh why did Crash help Cortex by collecting the crystals for him in the second game, even ''before'' Cortex pulled the "I'm trying to save the world" deceit?
** Adding to that, why did Coco travel back in time to help Crash get the crystals and gems ''even faster'', knowing her past self was working frantically to expose Cortex's scheme, and Brio's revenge would lead to the release of Uka Uka?
* What time period are the underwater levels in ''Warped'' meant to be? Every other level theme has a somewhat obvious time period, even the subtler ones (The jetski levels are during the pirate ages, the motorcycle levels take place in a 60s biker gang theme, and the plane levels are during one of the World Wars), but not these ones. It can't be the Cambrian explosion, because there are animals like pufferfish and sharks here.

* I've always found it strange that Crunch wasn't involved in Crash Twinsanity except for his small cameo. I get that they were focusing on Crash and Cortex, but they do give Coco at least a few lines of dialogue and a small role in the story. Why would they exclude Crunch when previously he was a part of the main cast? In Twinsanity it feels like he was an after thought.

** It's said in one of the manuals for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, which due to the BrokenBase is FanonDiscontinuity for some. Perhaps he can't, because YouAlreadyChangedThePast and YouCantFightFate would conspire against him. Crash and Coco used the Time Twister in Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped with no apparent ill effects.

* I've always found it strange that Crunch wasn't involved in Crash Twinsanity except for his small cameo. I get that they were focusing on Crash and Cortex, but they do give Coco at least a few lines of dialogue and a small role in the story. Why would they exclude Crunch when previously he was a part of the main cast? In Twinsanity it feels like he was an after thought.

* Is there any reason why Coco aged throughout the years while Crash and the others remained the same? We see her go from a child to young adult, but crash and Cortex don't look like they've aged at all.

* What time period are the underwater levels in ''Warped'' meant to be? Every other level theme has a somewhat obvious time period, even the subtler ones (The jetski levels are during the pirate ages, the motorcycle levels take place in a 60s biker gang theme, and the plane levels are during one of the World Wars), but not these ones. It can't be the Cambrian explosion, because there are animals like pufferfish and sharks here.

** Adding to that, why did Coco travel back in time to help Crash get the crystals and gems ''even faster'', knowing her past self was working frantically to expose Cortex's scheme, and Brio's revenge would lead to the release of Uka Uka?

* Why oh why did Crash help Cortex by collecting the crystals for him in the second game, even ''before'' Cortex pulled the "I'm trying to save the world" deceit?

* Why oh why did Crash help Cortex by collecting the crystal for him in the second game, even ''before'' Cortex pulled the "I'm trying to save the world" deceit?

* Is N. Brio [[KilledOffForReal dead?]] His secret ending segment narration explained that he was captured and put in Ripper Roo's Curious Cabinet of Curiosities in the Art of Taxidermy section.

** They don’t. It’s basically a ContinuityReboot, except instead of going back to the very beginning, it resets to a point after some of the things from the original timeline happened.

* If Crash 4: It's About Time takes place after the third game Crash Bandicoot: Warped, How can all of the Crash Bandicoot games in the franchise take place all together?

* What exactly are the Komodo Brothers supposed to be dressed like? Their earlier designs make their outfits more clearly Japanese-inspired, but in the series it seems rather like a mix of various different cultural outfits.

** Video game logic. Also, he uses underwater equipment in underwater levels.