Dr. Neo Cortex

Neo Cortex is the evil scientist from Crash Bandicoot, who uses his intellect to attempt to conquer ther the world.

Story
Neo Cortex have always been a brilliant scientist. However, he was mocked by the scientific community for his absurd theories. Cast aside by them, he isolated himself in the distant N. Sanity Island, where he started to devise his plans to get revenge and rule the world. Alongside his partner Nitrus Brio, he created the Cortex Vortex, a powerful sattelite laser. But a powerful weapon requires a power source, so he discovered that the bandicoots, a species of animal who inhabited the island, were the perfect source of power for his weapon. He captures Crash Bandicoot and experiments him, but the Vortex reffuses him, because of his limited IQ of 0.1. Cortex then kick Crash out of his lab and captures Crash's girlfriend in exchange. Little he realized he had comitted his biggest mistake, as Crash met with the shaman mask Aku Aku, who helps him to make his way through the island and defeat Cortex's mutated minions. Crash finally encounters Cortex in his blimp, where the two fight each other. Crash knocks Cortex out, who falls to the ground, seemingly ending his mad schemes.

However, Cortex fell into a cave full of strange glowing crystals, taking one to his lab to study it. Along his new right-hand N. Gin, they discover that these crystals have an incredible power, enough to destroy the world. But as they are unable to retrieve the crystals by themselves, Cortex decides to trick Crash to get the crystals for him. When crash enters the Warp Room, an ancient temple built to give easy access to all parts of the island, a hologram of Cortex appears, saying that a big catastrophe will happen if he doesn't get the crystals. Unfortunately, both Crash's siter Coco and Nitrus Brio, who doublecrossed Cortex, hacked the hologram signal and unmask Cortex's true intentions, to use the crystals as a new power source for the Cortex Vortex. Crash once again defeats Cortex, and using Brio's laser device, destroy the Vortex for good.

In another strange turn of events, the pieces of the Vortex fall into an ancient sealed temple, as a Evil Laugh spreads accros the island. The evil shaman mask Uka Uka had been accidentaly freed from his confinement. Uka Uka finds Cortex and mocks him for his incompetence in conquering the world, as it turns out that Cortex were working for Uka Uka all the time. Cortex begs for another chance, so Uka Uka calls his trusted henchmen Nefarious Throphy, who brings his time machine to create portals to different times in history and retrieve the crystals from different ages. Aku Aku, sensing the danger, uses his power to enter the time machine and sends Crash and Coco to stop Cortex once again. Crash makes his way to Cortex once again, and fights his as the two masks fight each other. The batle ends with Cortex and Uka Uka being sucked into a time portal as their battle brokes up the time machine.

Personality
Cortex tends to be very arrogant because of his intelligence, which also makes him a coward, leaving the hard work for his minions.