Electric Lab Assistant

Electric Lab Assistants (Japanese: ビリビリ研究員、発電人間ビリビリ宇宙研究員) are variants of lab assistants that appear in Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, N. Sane Trilogy, and Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!. They will shock Crash if he runs into them while they are sparking.

Crash Bandicoot
Their only appearance is in The Lab. They appear on platforms with pits surrounding them and will run after Crash and attempt to electrocute him. When the lab assistants are not electrified, they can be spun back until they fall into the surrounding pit while screaming. Crash can also avoid them by jumping around them.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
These lab assistants appear in Rock It and Pack Attack. Unlike the previous game, they now resemble a cyborg, and no longer approach the player. They must be spun into a fiery force field in order to continue, and will scream just as they did in the previous game.

Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy
Both types of electric lab assistants reprise their roles in the N. Sane Trilogy remasters of the first and second games, respectively.

Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!
Electric Lab Assistants (referred to as an Electro Lab Assistant in-game) are members of a boss's gang, and must be fought as well as with other henchmen in the gang before the boss itself can be fought. Their main method of attack is to either lob electrical orbs at Crash or Coco or send an electrical wave at them. Like all henchmen, The Electric Lab Assistants are defeated by simply avoiding obstacles to reach them and using the Portal Weapons crafted beforehand to send them back to their own dimension.

These variants appear to use a combination of the original electric assistant from Crash Bandicoot, using electricity from their hands, as well as having half of their faces exposing a metallic exoskeleton like the ones from Cortex Strikes Back.

Appearances

 * Crash Bandicoot
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
 * Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
 * Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!