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  • Actor-Shared Background: Three members of the Nitro Squad are voiced by the actress of the appropriate ethnicity and nation; Isabella is voiced by the Italian Melanie Minichino, Liz is voiced by the British Victoria Atkin and Megumi is voiced by the Asian Stephanie Sheh, despite not being Japanese. Additionally, Sheh also voices Yaya Panda.
  • Approval of God: Some Naughty Dog alumni ran a stream for the game and enjoyed playing it, notably praising how its life got extended with additional content after the launch.
  • Ascended Fanon:
    • N. Tropy originally had no home track, but many fans considered Out of Time to be his, even though it's used for Big and Small Norm's boss fight in Crash Nitro Kart. The Crash Bandicoot Twitter account gave him a profile that officially confirmed Out of Time to be his home track as well.
    • The Daily Bonus, a limited-time 5x multiplier to Wumpa Coins at the completion of a race, was often referred to as "Wumpa Time" by fans. As of the Spyro and Friends Grand Prix in late August 2019, it has been officially renamed to Wumpa Time in-game.
    • An old fan rumor surrounding a datamine for Crash Team Racing and artwork for an unrelated hippo pilot mascot called Trippo led to the myth of "Fasty", a racer that was believed to be cut. When the Winter Festival Grand Prix was unveiled in December 2019, it brought in Hasty, a moose racer that's directly inspired by this legend and whose silhouette and pilot jacket are almost identical to Trippo.
  • Blooper: Gregg Berger's name is mentioned in the credits, even though there isn't any character voiced by him. This is present even after new content addition for the game stopped. It was suspected that he would have voiced Ripto in a future Spyro pack.
  • Colbert Bump: The inclusion of characters from many post-Naughty Dog games has gotten a lot of the series' newer fans curious about their origins, which has led to increased exposure for those games.
  • Content Leak:
    • After the first Grand Prix, Nitro Tour, went live, a dataminer named BetaM managed to find a list of all the characters who were coming at that point, including those from the Spyro and Friends Grand Prix, and further down the line. However, certain characters that appear on this list, namely Ripto and the Sorceress, aren't in the game.
    • BetaM managed to reveal the content for the Spooky Grand Prix a few weeks before it launched, although most of it was not clearly identified.
    • A month before its official unveiling, the downloadable Firehawk plane kart promoting the Call of Duty Endowment had its model ripped by hackers, with the placeholder name "Veteran".
    • Just like before, BetaM had leaked the Neon Circus Grand Prix's content a month before it launched, including the character skins,note  the new Ring Rally mode, and the existence of King Chicken.
    • Once again, BetaM datamined the contents of the Winter Festival Grand Prix a month ahead of time. This includes Chick and Stew, Rilla Roo, as well as two unexpected characters; Yaya Panda, and another character tagged as "Hasty". The datamine also revealed there would be more Grand Prixes all the way up to May, but this was later changed to have them end after February in favor of a new format.
    • Yet again, BetaM datamined content for the Rustland Grand Prix in advance, though it's much less detailed; only Megamix and Apo-Apo were clearly identified. On the other hand, some secret details that weren't implemented yet, like a new promotional kart, were sighted.
    • As always, BetaM datamined the content for the February Grand Prix a month in advance, but with unidentified skins and even its only star is hidden. Fortunately, thanks to a datamine for the stickers done by COGMONKEY, it revealed an overall space theme and the arrival of Emperor Velo.
    • As usual, BetaM datamined the planned content for the ninth season of DLC, a month before the fact. Surprisingly, it finally confirmed the presence of Baby Cortex and Baby Tropy, as well as the Lab Assistant. While the Crate was found to be in there, it had a file name that was extremely long to fool people as to who it was. The Champion kart also appeared to receive a new method to unlock it.
  • Cross-Dressing Voices: Downplayed. Misty Lee voices Pura and Polar, who are both considered male by animal standards. However, both are unevolved, so it's understandably a bit difficult to tell.
  • Dueling Games: Fittingly with Team Sonic Racing as Nitro-Fueled comes out a month after it.
  • Fake Nationality:
  • Follow the Leader: The Pit Stop in-game store is basically Fortnite's store, right down to having the exact same layout and a similar method of categorizing items based on rarity.
  • Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: A Nitros Oxide Edition was released alongside the game's vanilla edition. It automatically unlocks Nitros Oxide (alongside his hovercraft vehicle), Zem, Zam and Crunch as default playable characters, though all of these can be unlocked in the base version through regular means. Exclusive to the Nitros Oxide Edition are space suit costumes for Crash, Coco, Cortex and Oxide, a robot skin for Crunch, a set of space-themed stickers for kart customization, and a special decal and paint job available for Oxide's hovercraft.
  • Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": An example that applies to skins, of all things; the brainwashed Coco and Crunch skins are the first time that Crash: Mind Over Mutant content has ever appeared in a Japanese published release for a Crash game, since that particular game was never exported over there alongside Crash of the Titans.note 
  • Meaningful Release Date: Papu Papu's downloadable pirate skin was revealed on September 19, 2019, for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
  • Milestone Celebration:
    • The game was released 20 years after the original CTR first came out. As such, there is plenty of content referencing the entire franchise up to this point, including the return of several characters who had been Put on a Bus for a very long time.
    • With the addition of Megamix via the Rustland GP, Beenox celebrated it being the roster's 50th racer.
  • No Export for You:
    • The Firehawk plane is not officially distributed in some countries, including Japan and rather bizarrely, Canada, Beenox's country of origin. This was semi-addressed when the Pit Stop gained the Neon Hawk, a reskin of the Firehawk that was originally used as a background element in the Koala Carnival track.
    • The parts for the Cove Cruiser and the Xfinity Flash Kart are a more complex matter. Obtaining the codes could only be done in the United States, via codes on specially-marked packets of Sour Patch Kids and Trident Gum for the Cove Cruiser parts, or by using your Xfinity log-in credentials for the Xfinity Flash. However, you redeemed the codes on a completely different website, where you linked it up with your Nintendo/Xbox/PlayStation account: that worked anywhere in the world.
  • No Port For You: There is no word of Nitro-Fueled getting a release on PC or next-gen platforms, despite the N. Sane Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time getting released on PC nearly a year after the console versions, and neither Beenox (who also made various PC ports to Activision games in the past) nor Activision seem to be interested in giving Nitro-Fueled a PC port.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • Polar and Pura were originally voiced by Debi Derryberry and Paul Greenberg, respectively. Both of them are now voiced by Misty Lee, who replaces both Satomi Koorogi and Taeko Kawata as their respective voice actresses in the Japanese version.
    • Ripper Roo is now Andrew Morgado, rather than Jess Harnell, who now only does Crash and Baby Crash's voices. In the case of the Japanese version, Morgado replaces Katsumi Suzuki as the character's voice due to his voice clips remaining unchanged in that version.
    • Jess Harnell is credited as Pinstripe's voice, but he was actually voiced by Robbie Daymond, who also voices Small Norm, Hunter, and Hasty.
    • Fake Crash's voice is no longer Dwight Schultz as in Nitro Kart, despite Schultz being present as Papu Papu, Nash, and Geary, and is instead voiced by Andrew Morgado.
    • Crunch is no longer voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson or Chris Williams, despite the former being present as the voice of Stew. Instead, Crunch is voiced by Ike Amadi.
    • N. Trance is now voiced by Michael J. Gough rather than Tom Bourdon, with Gough also voicing Gnasty Gnorc as well.
    • Andrew Morgado now voices Krunk instead of Marshall R. Teague.
    • Billy West did not reprise his roles as Nash and Zam. Nash is now Dwight Schultz and Zam is Andrew Morgado.
    • Despite being replaced as Dingodile and Fake Crash, Dwight Schultz replaces Paul Greenberg as the voice of Geary.
    • André Sogliuzzo replaces Steve Blum as the voice of Emperor Velo XXVII and Real Velo.
    • Chick and Stew are no longer voiced by Quinton Flynn and Duane Shepard, respectively. Instead, Roger Craig Smith plays Chick while Kevin Michael Richardson, who previously voiced Crunch in Nitro Kart, voices Stew.
    • Nitros Oxide was originally voiced by the late David Anthony Pizzuto in the original Crash Team Racing and by Quinton Flynn in Crash Nitro Kart. This time, he is voiced by Corey Burton.
    • Tawna was voiced by Debi Derryberry in the N. Sane Trilogy, although her voice was minimal in that game, limited only to a few grunts and a quick "Woohoo!" when Crash reached the end of a bonus stage. Now she has fully voiced dialogue provided by Misty Lee.
    • In the Japanese version, Fred Tatasciore replaces Chie Kojiro as Penta Penguin.
    • Tom Kenny now voices N. Brio, replacing Maurice LaMarche, who voiced him in Mind Over Mutant and the N. Sane Trilogy.
    • Debi Derryberry replaces Amy Gross as the voice of Nina Cortex. This also doubles as a Role Reprise due to Derryberry voicing her in the Nintendo DS version of Titans.
    • Debi Derryberry also replaces Shanelle Workman as Pasadena O'Possum.
    • John DiMaggio replaces Danny Mann as Ebenezer Von Clutch.
    • Another bilingual example with Andrew Morgado, who replaces Frank Welker as Rilla Roo in the English version and Mitsuru Ogata (who does reprise his roles as N. Gin and N. Brio) in the Japanese version.
    • Stephanie Sheh is now the voice of Yaya Panda, replacing the uncredited voice actress who portrayed her in Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2.
    • In the Golden Ending of the N. Sane Trilogy version of Warped, Baby Cortex was voiced by Corey Burton, but this time he's voiced by Cortex's regular voice actor Lex Lang.
    • Also in the Japanese dub, Spyro is now voiced by a male voice actor instead of Akiko Yajima. [Spyro was voiced by another male actor in Skylanders]
    • In a loosest sense, Jess Harnell replaces Dwight Schultz and Maurice LaMarche as the Lab Assistant, in a way of reusing pitched-down voicelines of Harnell's performance as Crash.
  • Permanent Placeholder: In the first datamine, King Chicken's name seemed to be a placeholder, with the initial Neon Circus GP leak having "King Paul III" as his apparent finalized name. In the end, the first name was picked for the GP's launch.
  • Pre-Order Bonus: Pre-ordering gets you Electron skins for Crash, Coco and Cortex, which resemble Powered Armor with Tron Lines. Judging by the unique podium animations that come with them, they also seem to grant their wearers enhanced speed. However, a number of people who bought physical copies of the game early into its release period reported that they had come included with the codes to download the skins as well.
  • Refitted for Sequel: In the original game, Oxide's confession to being responsible for the extinction of life on Mars was Dummied Out; the prequel comic for Nitro-Fueled shows that it is indeed the case.
  • Role Reprise:
    • André Sogliuzzo is back as Big Norm, Zem, and Sparx, and is also currently the voice of Real Velo.
    • The majority of cast members from the N. Sane Trilogy reprise their characters here, meaning Debi Derryberry, John DiMaggio, and André Sogliuzzo also reprise their roles as Coco, Tiny, Zem, and Big Norm from the original Nitro Kart. Curiously, Kevin Michael Richardson (Crunch) and Dwight Schultz (Dingodile and Fake Crash) also return to provide voices, but do not reprise their original characters, while Maurice LaMarche (N. Brio) doesn't even return at all, being replaced by Tom Kenny.
    • In regards to the Japanese version, the majority of voice actors from the original CTR and Nitro Kart return as their respective roles sans the aforementioned replaced actors.
      • From Spyro the Dragon, Hiroaki Hirata (Hunter) and Katsuhisa Houki (Gnasty Gnorc) both reprise their roles after twenty years. However, Spyro is now voiced by an unidentified male voice actor.
      • Returning seiyuu from Crash Tag Team Racing include Mitsuru Ogata as N. Gin, Masafumi Kimura as Crunch, Yoshiko Kamei as Nina, Iho Matsukubo as Pasadena, Hiroshi Otake as Von Clutch, Keiichi Takahashi as Chick, and Keiji Himeno as Stew.
    • All four voice actors that were involved with the Spyro Reignited Trilogy reprise their roles for the characters appearing in the Spyro GP (Tom Kenny as Spyro, Robbie Daymond as Hunter, Michael Gough as Gnasty Gnorc, and André Sogliuzzo as Sparx).
    • Debi Derryberry reprises her role as Nina from the Nintendo DS version and one of the promotional shorts of Titans, fully replacing Amy Gross in the process.
  • Teasing Creator: As it turns out, Stephanie Sheh had subtly teased her role as Yaya Panda over a month before her official reveal on a Twitter post about pandas.
  • Trolling Creator:
    • In a datamine for the Rustland Grand Prix, an unidentified racer labeled "DriverWhoAmI" appeared in the ones for the next two GPs, respectively renamed to "DriverWhoCouldIBe" and "DriverIAmAsImportantAsTheBandicootSoIShouldBeTheMainCharacter", showing that the developers at Beenox were aware of BetaM's actions and messed with the fanbase's expectations. In the first post-GP update, this racer was revealed to be an Iron Checkpoint Crate. The kicker? The very next datamine shows its Driver file to be "HereIAm".
    • After months of nothing but silence following the Beenox Pack update, a lot of players concluded that the Beenox Pack was the final content drop for the game, though others have argued that, if the Beenox Pack were the final update, they would have said so. Instead of offering a bit of clarity in regards to if the game will be receiving any further updates or not, they've made announcements of new bundles hitting the Pit Stop... that contain items that, if you've been playing the game from the start and have been keeping track of the items introduced through the Grand Prixs, odds are more than likely you've already gotten these items. And while the bundles are helpful for new players, it riles up the players that have already cleared out their pit stop, and have been waiting for the appearance of characters like Ripto, Willie Wumpa Cheeks, and the Sorceress, the only three characters from the original datamine. Beenox would later confirm that the March 2020 update was the last update.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Early datamines suggested that a track based on Motorworld from Crash Tag Team Racing was planned at one point, only to be replaced with Koala Carnival.
    • Early datamines had shown such characters as Willie Wumpa Cheeks, Ripto, and the Sorceress as being potential racers. However, they aren't in the game. Oddly enough, Ripto's voice actor, Gregg Berger, appears in the credits.
    • The earliest known iteration of the initial roster datamine suggested that "Fasty", a.k.a. Trippo the Hippo, was going to be included at one point, until official info in regards to that fan myth racer came to light throughout the Internet, so it's likely that he was replaced with the conceptually-similar Hasty to avoid possible legal conflicts with Bob Rafei and/or the airline price website he was originally designed for.

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