History VideoGame / CrashNitroKart

* TheManBehindTheCurtain: [[spoiler:The alien who controls Velo, after he is revealed to have been a robot all along.]]

** Electron Avenue is a very long track which starts by a long jump before a corridor with boost pads, a long anti-gravity section, a loop with two electric barriers, a shorter but still extreme anti-gravity section, then a long zigzagging area which ends on a third electric barrier before reaching the finish line.

-->'''Big Norm:''' Who are ''you'' calling a clown? With ya big head and ya stupid springy hair!

** The first, Terra, is a tropical forest/beach that bears resemblance to N. Sanity Island and by far the least scary-looking one. There is only one level (Tiny Temple) that features an anti-gravity section and it is a short one.
** Moving up to the second, Barin, while still believably Earthlike, is a frozen wasteland with resource extraction engines, and it properly introduces anti-gravity in Deep Sea Driving.

* TitleScream: "Brace yourself...for CRAAAAASH NITRO KAAAAAAART!"

* FaceHeelTurn: Polar and Pura, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy against their own will]]. Dingodile is technically this, too, since despite being one of Cortex's cronies, he is also brainwashed and thus races against Earth's victory.

* FinalExamBoss: Emperor Velo is raced on an ''[[MarathonLevel excruciatingly long track]]'' that you haven't seen up to this point, with the same infinite item gimmick the other bosses have...plus two minions riding alongside him to help!

* GainaxEnding: The Team Cortex true ending counts as this. [[spoiler:Cortex steals Velo's scepter and attempts to bring themselves back to Earth, but instead get teleported to Terra where they are nearly attacked by natives. Tiny fixes the scepter just in time and ends up revered as king. Cortex, out of annoyance, does a SkywardScream and...the end. It's never explained how they get back to Earth in future games.]]

* HugeHolographicHead: Emphasis on huge, Velo communicates with racers by using a gigantic holographic head before appearin in person once you defeated his four champions.

* AlienSky: Thunder Struck and Assembly Line have green sky.

* ShoutOut: Dingodile has a few among his soundbites, including to ''The Crocodile Hunter'' ("Cuh-RI-key!") and to ''Film/CrocodileDundee''

* SortingAlgorithmOfThreateningGeography: The four worlds' progression fits this, especially if you measure it by how much it implements the anti-gravity mechanic. The first, Terra, is a tropical forest/beach that bears resemblance to N. Sanity Island and by far the least scary-looking one. There is only one level (Tiny Temple) that features an anti-gravity section and it is a short one. Moving up to the second, Barin, is a frozen wasteland that properly introduces anti-gravity in Deep Sea Driving, though it is still believably Earthlike. The third world, Fenomena, is where things start to get threatening, what with desert looks like TheWildWest mixed with MedievalEuropeanFantasy and AncientGrome, mythological creatures, and weird clockwork motifs abounding and liberally uses anti-gravity (e.g. a large chunk of Thunder Struck). The final world, Teknee, is a technologically advanced, robot-populated city where every level has an anti-gravity section.

* HugeHolographicHeads: Emphasis on huge, Velo communicates with racers by using a gigantic holographic head before showing himself once you defeated his four champions.

* ScreenCrunch: The N-Gage port would have been a PolishedPort of the GBA version...if it wasn't for the screen size. Its nearly impossible to see anything to the side of you, including the race track. In a misguided attempt to fix this, the camera is much more jumpy which only makes things worse.
* ShoutOut: Dingodile has a few among his soundbites, including to ''The Crocodile Hunter'' ("Cuh-RI-key!") and to ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' ("You call that racing? This is racing!").

** Dingodile and Polar also count, since while they're still playable (albeit unlockable) characters in all other modes, neither play any role in the story aside from being non-playable racers on N. Trance's team. Pura gets it even worse, as he doesn't appear in the story at all, won't appear in races unless someone's playing as him, and the onlysign of his presence is Jungle Boogie's loading screen. He's also completely absent from the GBA version, being replaced by Spyro.

** Dingodile and Polar also count, since while they're still playable (albeit unlockable) characters in all other modes, neither play any role in the story aside from being non-playable racers on N. Trance's team. Pura gets it even worse, as he doesn't appear in the story at all and won't appear in races unless someone's playing as him. He's also completely absent from the GBA version, being replaced by Spyro.

** When Norm is first summoned, both teams will laugh at Norm's size. Velo stifles his laughter for a moment then follows suit, then assures the teams that despite his size, Norm is a demon on the race track. This is two-fold foreshadowing of [[spoiler:Velo's true nature as a short alien who's TheNapoleon - he laughs at short people despite his own height and is a demon on the race track even in his small form.]]

* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Crash Team Racing'' IN SPACE! Well, subverted in that ''CTR'' ''did'' feature an alien as the main antagonist, but his track was the only one that took place in space, where in this game every track takes place on Velo's planet.

* TeamBasedTournament: The plot of the game is that Team Bandicoot or Team Cortex are competing in a racing tournament where they will be enslaved if they lose. [[GamplayAndStoryIntegration During the story mode, having one of your teammates get first place counts as a victory for the player]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing''. ''VideoGame/CrashTagTeamRacing'' serves as one to this game.

''Crash Nitro Kart'' is a kart racing game. It's the second MascotRacer spinoff of the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series after ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'', and the first console title to be developed by Vicarious Visions, who had previously worked on the [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheHugeAdventure two]] [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2NTranced handheld]] titles. It was released for the Platform/PlayStation2, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, and UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2003 and the Platform/NGage and mobile devices in 2004.

''Crash Nitro Kart'' is a kart racing game. It's the second MascotRacer spinoff of the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series after ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'', and the first console title to be developed by Vicarious Visions, who had previously worked on the [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheHugeAdventure two]] [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2NTranced handheld]] titles. It was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, and UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2003 and the UsefulNotes/NGage and mobile devices in 2004.

* OffModel:
** Several of the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/crw43q/cnks_character_icon_oddities/ NTSC-U PS2 character icons]] look off in one way or another, though the Xbox, [=GameCube=], and PAL [=PS2=] releases [[https://www.crashmania.net/en/games/crash-nitro-kart/console-differences/ would correct]] some of these errors. N. Gin's mechanical eye is white instead of black, Polar, Pura and Dingodile's [[MindControlDevice mind-control helmets]] are grey instead of purple, Nitros Oxide's eyes look oddly small to the point where the game's image compression basically hides them altogether, and Zem had an oddly yellow (instead of green) portrait in the GBA version before he was scrapped altogether.
** Tiny's model lacks his shoulder pads.
** Promotional materials consistently depict Coco as driving a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink version of Team Bandicoot's kart]] even though her kart is identical to the other Team Bandicoot karts in-game. The Team Bandicoot kart would later come back as part of the kart customization system in ''Nitro-Fueled'' [[CallBack with Coco's default paint job basically being 1-1 with the old promo art.]]

** '''Team Trance''': [[{{Cephalothorax}} N. Trance]], [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Spyro the Dragon]][[note]][=GBA=] version only[[/note]]

* GuestFighter: VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon appears as a secret racer in the Game Boy Advance version.

* SortingAlgorithmOfThreateningGeography: The four worlds' progression fits this, especially if you measure it by how much it implements the anti-gravity mechanic. The first, Terra, is a tropical forest/beach that bears resemblance to N. Sanity Island and by far the least scary-looking one. There is only one level (Tiny Temple) that features an anti-gravity section and it is a short one. Moving up to the second, Barin, is a frozen wasteland that properly introduces anti-gravity in Deep Sea Driving, though it is still believably Earthlike. The third world, Fenomena, is where things start to get threatening, what with desert, mythological creatures, and weird clockwork motifs abounding and liberally uses anti-gravity (e.g. a large chunk of Thunder Struck). The final world, Teknee, is a technologically advanced, robot-populated city where every level has an anti-gravity section.

* AllLovingHero: The three bandicoots are pretty gracious winners for most of their boss fights. Crash has some particularly sweet moments towards [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Krunk]] and [[spoiler: the real Velo]].