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This is the creature who keeps sabotaging your master plan? HA! You gotta be kidding! I'll exterminate this field rat in no time!
~ Crunch's first quote in Wrath of Cortex.
Don't worry, Doctor Cortex. Now that my Elemental powers have reached maximum capacity, this little geek is gonna wish he was never created.
~ Crunch
Cortex: Congratulations, Crash! You should be proud of yourself. Not only have you collected all the crystals in record time, but you also defeated The Elementals. Let Crunch and me be the first ones to congratulate you...

Crunch: ...By pummeling your sad bandicoot frame into a pulp! Come and get it...

~ Crunch before the final battle
Crash, Coco, Aku Aku... I'm grateful to all of you. If it weren't for you, I'd still be under the control of Doctor Cortex. Thank you for believing in me, guys...
~ Crunch redeeming himself.

Crunch Bandicoot is the tritagonist of the Crash Bandicoot franchise. He is a genetically-enhanced bandicoot super-warrior created by Dr. Neo Cortex for the sole purpose of defeating Crash Bandicoot. After being released from Cortex's control, Crunch became a member of the Bandicoot family, but was still prone to getting captured and/or brainwashed by various villains.

In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Crash Nitro Kart; he was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who also voices Goro in Mortal Kombat, Gantu in Lilo & Stitch, Heihachi Mishima in Soulcalibur II, in Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Sarevok Anchev in Dungeons & Dragons: Baldur's Gate, Darkseid in Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, Joker in The Batman, Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank, Willem Viceroy in Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja, Ammag in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), PandaBubba in Xiaolin Showdown, Shadow King in Wolverine and the X-Men, Vladimir in My Life as a Teenage Robot, Mammoth and Trigon in Teen Titans Go!. In Crash Tag Team Racing and following games, he is voiced by Chris Williams. In Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, he is voiced by Ike Amadi.

Biography[]

Past[]

At some point before The Wrath of Cortex, ever since the last time Crash defeated Dr. Cortex in battle, Cortex had started working tirelessly on a new secret weapon to finally eliminate his nemesis: another bandicoot mutant with phenomenal strength which he named Crunch. However, he was unable to bring such a being to life, and apparently tried to keep it a secret from his cohorts, though Doctors N. Tropy and N. Gin managed to learn of it.

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex[]

During a staff meeting presided by Uka Uka, who is quite upset about his minions' constant failures due to Crash's meddling, Tropy and N. Gin bring up Cortex's new weapon and Uka Uka suggested that they release the Elementals, four ancient destructive masks that terrorized the world long ago, to use their power to giving it life, which Cortex agreed to. Upon being awakened and properly brainwashed, Crunch devotes himself to his purpose of serving Cortex and destroying Crash once and for all.

When Crunch first meets Crash through a monitor, he becomes overconfident that he could easily eliminate his prototype before he could gather enough Power Crystals to seal the Elementals away again. However, he was proven otherwise when Crash manages to defeat him twice, even though he was empowered by one of the Elementals each time. Afterwards, he began to grow tired of relying on their powers and wanted to try defeating Crash alone, but Cortex refused him and even used mental manipulation when Crunch started to show more independence. Despite that, Crash still defeated Crunch when the latter was powered by the last two masks.

In the final battle, Crunch used all of the Elementals to fight Crash on Cortex's space-station, but with help from Aku Aku, Crash was able to temporarily free Crunch from Cortex's control, allowing him to defy his creator and punch him away, allowing Crash to strike at the evil doctor, but then ended back under his control. After enough times, Crunch was finally able to obtain total free will and planned to punish Cortex for his abuse, but was forced to flee along with Crash on Coco's ship when the space-station started to blow up due to Uka Uka's temper. Upon reaching Earth, Crunch expressed his gratitude to Crash and Coco for freeing and joined up up with them as the newest member of their family.

Crash Bandicoot: N. Tranced[]

Crunch was captured along with Coco and Fake Crash by Dr. Nefarious Tropy and brainwashed by N. Trance to help the pair achieve world domination. Crunch was outfitted with a shield, gun and jetpack before facing off against Crash in an aerial battle. Crash managed to defeat Crunch and free him from mind control once again. Crunch would then aid Crash in foiling the villain's plans.

Crash: Mind Over Mutant[]

Crunch became one of the unfortunate victims of the NV entertainment devices. Transforming him into a monstrous version of himself under the control of Dr. Neo Cortex and Dr. Nitrus Brio. When Crash and Aku Aku confronted N. Brio at the junkyard, the doctor orders Crunch to destroy them. But the heroes take control of Crunch and make him attack N. Brio instead. After N. Brio's defeat, Crash managed to pull off the NV device from Crunch's head which reverted him back to normal and restored his free will again.

Other Games[]

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled[]

Evil Crunch reappears as a skin for Crunch and is based off his design from Crash: Mind Over Mutant. The skin can be unlocked during the Spyro N. Friends Grand Prix by earning Nitro Points.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • The original developers and creators of the Crash games from Naughty Dog had stated that Crunch did not fit the universe and style of the game for some reason.
  • It is unknown why Crunch has a mechanical arm, but it seems the arm can be modified to fire projectiles, as seen in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced and Crash: Mind Over Mutant.
  • In concept art for Crash Twinsanity, there appears to be a little island with Crunch and Fake Crash being surrounded by sharks. The two were originally going to be part of a minigame involving Crash fighting off the piranhas while riding Papu Papu's boat, with the fish landing on the island Crunch and Fake Crash were stranded on.

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Humans
Dr. Neo Cortex | Dr. N. Tropy (New Timeline | Female) | Dr. N. Brio | Dr. N. Gin | Nina Cortex | Tribesmen (Papu Papu) | Madame Amberly

Mutants
Crunch Bandicoot | Dingodile | Tiny Tiger | Ripper Roo | Evil Twins | Fake Crash | Koala Kong | Komodo Brothers | Mega-Mix | Pinstripe Potoroo | Rilla Roo | Rusty Walrus | Evil Crash | Viscount Devil | Titans (Scorporilla)

Aliens
Nitros Oxide | Emperor Velo XXVII | Norm | Zam and Zem | Krunk | Nash | N. Trance

Others
Uka Uka | Mr. Crumb | Thorn Thing | Louise | Ant Drones | The Elementals | Geary | Lab Assistants | Mecha-Bandicoot | Tikimon | Willie Wumpa Cheeks

Crossovers
Gnasty Gnorc | Riptocs (Ripto | Crush | Gulp) | Kaos | The Noid

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