Banduckoot

Just a side blog for Crash Bandicoot musings, and maybe the occasional reblog. Owned by melissaduck.

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How does M. Press feel about the evil twins: Victor and Moritz respectively, considering their ties to some of the earliest stages of Cortex’s scientific endeavors? Does she perhaps feel some sort of sympathy towards them given that they were indirectly sent to the 10th dimension by Cortex whilst serving as his test subjects and had to experience the severe radiation that shaped them into the duo as we know them as now or does she view them as enemies thanks to their now hostile dynamic with Neo? For some reason, I think that dynamic has a lot of potential to be rather interesting. 

M. Press does feel some degree of empathy towards Victor and Moritz. After all, they were innocent parrots who didn't ask to be experimented on, or sent to the Tenth Dimension, or to have their fragile egghell minds warped. M. Press didn't have the greatest dad in the world growing up, so she kind of understands where the twins are coming from.

However, M. Press also recognizes that with all the intellect Victor and Moritz have gained, they could have used said intellect to UN-warp their minds, or perhaps spend time making the dimensions a better place. But no. They're power-hungry and hopelessly focused on vengeance against Cortex, and have become more effectively evil than him.

M. Press sees The Evil Twins as a threat. If they ever somehow came back, she already has Evil Crash on speed-dial.

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Does M. Press regularly interact with Uka Uka considering that she‘s Cortex’s secretary, who is already a frequent student of the mask I figured that the two of them would share quite a lot of interactions with each other. If so, how do they interact with each other?

M. Press is only known as M. Ployee to Uka Uka. He isn't aware of her past history, at least not initially. He does find out before Cortex ever does, however.

M. Ployee and Uka Uka interact frequently because of their associations with Cortex.

M. Ployee is highly respectful towards Uka Uka, calling him "Lord Uka Uka" and "Mighty Uka Uka". She doesn't dare anger the mask any more than she does Cortex. She also does genuinely respect Uka Uka as a person, knowing full well he used to be a living human. However, she'd be lying if she said she didn't resent him a little for taking advantage of Dr. Cortex so much, as well as outright abusing the mad doctor.

As for Uka Uka, he sees M. Ployee as a highly efficient worker, even if he doesn't understand her apparent attraction to Dr. Cortex. He does appreciate her loyalty to him, however, as it has often come through for the N-Team in a pinch. When he finds out she's actually M. Press, however, he becomes more wary of her, as he can't accept that someone as powerful as M. Press would willingly stop being a supervillain just to become a secretary for CORTEX, of all people! He is, however, pleased that she seems to be on their side for now.

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Completely random but I just realized I have one complaint about Chick and Stew from Crash Tag Team Racing:

Apparently, both characters have wives, but neither of them are in happy marriages. Chick's wife is implied to be terrifying, and Stew apparently cheats on his wife with other hens. Ew.

... I know Chick secretly dislikes Stew, but I can't help but feel maybe Chick and Stew should divorce their wives and just be with each other. Frankly, they deserve each other.

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I know dying over and over again is part of the Crash Bandicoot experience, but...

... I died over 100 times to N. Gin in Crash Bandicoot 4 and let me tell you, that alone put me off from playing the game ever again.

I tried many times to go back to it, but I keep remembering that N. Gin fight and saying to myself, "Fuck no. I'm not about to make my blood pressure skyrocket again. I'm not about to come close to breaking my Playstation 4 again. Fuck that."

So I never finished the game. I probably never will. I'm a fraud, I guess.

I understand why old video games were so hard, but making them hard on purpose nowadays? There's no reason for it other than the fact that some gamers are just masochists looking to scratch an itch. Games and their stories should be accessible to everyone regardless of skill.

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I want to blather about my Crash Bandicoot self-insert OC for a second

Melissa Ployee, or M. Ployee, used to be a supervillain named M. Press who became Dr. Cortex's secretary and love interest. She is basically what would happen if you gave an adult character the ability to save and reset like in Undertale and plunked them onto N. Sanity island. Her determination in the presence of the strong magic of the N. Sanity islands makes M. Ployee able to rewind time and reset entire timelines just by (A) being close to death and (B) willing herself back to life.

M. Ployee has died multiple times around the castle, and it's given the entire N. Team many cases of deja vu even N. Tropy wasn't able to explain initially. Speaking of Tropy, he is darkly fascinated with M. Ployee's time manipulation abilities when he does find out about them, and even once tried killing her as an experiment. That resulted in Melissa resetting time successfully, but it also resulted in Cortex brutally murdering Tropy in cold blood in the old timeline.

In every timeline where M. Ployee dies somehow, Cortex goes mad with grief and rage, and ends up destroying the entire world. Many timelines have fallen as a result.

Honestly, M. Ployee's power started out as a stupid joke on Twitter when I was roleplaying. I was - and still am - an Undertale fan and a Sans fanboy. I often threw ideas around for the hell of it and tried to find out what stuck. I realized having Undertale powers would be really interesting in the Crash universe... so yeah, I made a very self-indulgent OC.

[n-hance]

4 color palette challenge. Secret to doing these? use blending layers; Multiply, Add, Overlay, Screen etc. Plan on making more limited palette pieces with other crash characters and my own ocs

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Part of the reason I never really got into Crash Team Rumble is because, as much as I try not to, I suck at team-based online games. The social aspect makes me too scared to even try.

Crash Team Racing wasn't a problem because it was me versus literally everyone else.

I don't work well on a team. I have severe social anxiety and social trauma. Plus, multi-player games are extremely hectic for me as it is. If I say or do something wrong, I'm afraid of getting dogpiled. Or worse, I'm afraid of someone being an asshole to me for kicks, because I might curse out their entire bloodline over voice chat in response.

It's so stupid that Activision wanted another CTR, quite literally, but that isn't what the fans wanted at all, which is the ultimate reason Crash Team Rumble failed.

Personally, I wanted a sequel to It's About Time or a remake of Twinsanity. Getting a cash grab game that it turns out I'm too scared to play instead REALLY sucked.

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I WANNA BE A FRUITY SEXY BEAUTIFUL OLD MAN LIKE DOCTOR CORTEX

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"Nitro squad holding their champions like a bunch of cats" thing is finally complete. It started as just a silly doodle of Isabella holding Crash to cheer myself up, but I guess I had to do the others too after that

[madmacci]

in the cortex sketch dump from a couple months ago, there's one near the bottom where he has a suit on and carrying flowers... do you have a full res version to post? 🥺 ok if not. keep up your awesome art, im rooting for you <3

A real ask from an actual real person, and a lovely one, too??

Hi! Absolutely!

This is the one, right? Please do enjoy and thank you so much for your message! ❤️

[dinoridergirl]

106% ending

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Man I can’t wait for Crash 5 to open like this

[stephdragonness]

Crash Bandicoot Animated Series Reportedly in Development at Netflix

A Crash Bandicoot animated series is reportedly being developed at Netflix by WildBrain Studios, the team behind Sonic Prime and Carmen Sand

I dunno this for real but seem be buzzing on several sites this rumor.

ARe we Finally going see cb on screen!...gawd hope this not tease.

I can't keep getting my hopes up see the evil doctors and bandicooot on the screen.

😭

Please let this be for real... not anouther dead project Netflix cancels on.

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FINGERS...

... ARE CROSSED...!!

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I've sort of mentioned having this headcanon before, I think, but I wanted to bring it up again and I hope that's okay

So... my headcanon is that Cortex's parents are descendants of immigrants. Cortex's dad - name unknown - speaks fluent Spanish, while Cortex's mom, Sharon, speaks fluent Romani. Both of them learned English growing up while performing on the vaudeville circuit with their respective families. (Remember, this was a very long time ago, Cortex is an old man.)

Cortex's dad was largely detached from his son emotionally, as he was disappointed in his son's nerdy pursuits of science, feeling he would never amount to anything. He did, however, at least bother to teach Neo how to speak Spanish just as fluently as him. Cortex takes great pride in his pronunciation skills.

However, Sharon not only did NOT teach her son a word of Romani, she went out of her way to make sure he would never understand a word of it, just so she could freely talk shit about him, insult him, or hide secrets from him just by speaking Romani. When Cortex finally purchased a book on the Romani language decades later and finally learned all the nasty things his mother called him, he nearly had a nervous breakdown.

And do you know who else talked shit about him in Romani? Cortex's grandmother, Sharon's mother. Oh sure, the old lady pretended to care about Cortex, but she believed every lie Sharon told her about him. How useless and stupid he was... how ugly he was... how much of a burden he was... how much of a loser he was for reading all the time... and making silly inventions...

Is it really any wonder Cortex wanted to murder his grandmother before the events of Twinsanity, in the demo?

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I just realized Cortex has said the line, "Where are my pants?" in two different languages over the course of the series.

First, he says it in perfect Spanish in CTTR

Later, he says it in English in Mind Over Mutant right after the final boss fight

... That is an oddly specific thing to have happen twice to the same character and now I'm convinced that Cortex losing his pants is a very common occurrence.

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Headcanon: Dr. Cortex's British accent is fake, and he's been faking it since childhood. He doesn't even remember what his real voice sounds like. But then one day, he tries speaking without the accent... and he has a Midland American accent.

In case you are not familiar with that accent, think of what an American news anchor or actor sounds like when he's on screen. It's considered a "plain" or "vanilla" accent compared to other United States accents.

This would likely make Cortex feel upset, because he might feel his real voice lacks any sort of identity. I can easily picture N. Tropy mocking him for using a fake accent... until someone points out that Tropy's accent is ALSO fake.

Tropy is definitely British, but he's not an upper-class Brit like he pretends to be. He has a cockney accent that he unleashes when he's taken off-guard or especially pissed off. Tropy has humbler roots than he lets on, and he's not proud of it. That's why he hides his real accent.

And Cortex just laughs at him, even doing a perfect impression of Tropy's real voice to get laughs from N. Brio and N. Gin. As it turns out, Cortex isn't just good at faking accents... he's also damn good at doing impressions.

"Imagine how my mommy and daddy would have felt if they knew I could do impressions... OH GOD, they probably would have forced me to do stand-up comedy as a full-time career! UGH! Perish the thought!"

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I'm not even joking when I say that I want N. Brio to have a sit-down and conversation with Edwin Murray from Five Nights at Freddy's.

N. Brio works for Dr. Cortex, who stole his ideas from him - namely the Evolve-O-Ray - and claimed them as his own.

Edwin Murray worked as a contractor for Fazbear Entertainment during the 1970's, only for William Afton to steal everything that ever belonged to Edwin Murray and claim them for himself and Fazbear Entertainment, including Edwin's family home, and Edwin's wife Fiona's character designs. William may have even murdered Fiona in a fire.

Listen, what if N. Tropy was taking N. Brio somewhere in 1979 and N. Brio just happened to run into Edwin Murray in a bar sometime before The Mimic tried to kill him? And the two men just vent to each other about being wrongly exploited geniuses. That is a conversation I would love to be a fly on the wall for, no joke.

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Headcanon I'm sure everyone agrees with: every scientist on the N. Team has explored each other's bodies. Every ship you can think of between the scientists, it's happened at some point behind closed doors.