Venus Fly Trap

The Venus Fly Trap is an enemy seen in the games Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, CTR, Crash Twinsanity and has a cameo appearance in the first Jak and Daxter game.

Crash Bandicoot
The Venus Fly Trap first appears in the first Crash Bandicootgame. There are three kinds; one that is obviously on land, and two on the water's surface. The land-trap's head is colored red with white spots and its stem and leaves are green. The water-trap acts like a lily-pad. There are two kinds for the latter - one with green leaves, and another with blue leaves. They also had red heads like their terrestrial cousins. The green-leaved VFT keeps his mouth open until it has the opportunity to eat his prey, namely Crash (if you stayed there too long). The blue-leaved VFT keeps opening-and-clamping his mouth every 3 seconds, so you will have to time your jumps to avoid getting eaten. The Land-Trap usually appears in Jungle Levels like Jungle Rollers or levels like Native Fortress, while the Water-Traps appears in river levels including Up the Creek.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
The Venus Fly Trap reappears in Cortex Strikes Back, but his looks change a little; his stem and leaves are still green, but his head color has changed from red to purple. Why this change was made is currently unknown, however it is most likely due to it being too similar to Nintendo's Piranha Plant. It was often seen in levels like Hang Eight, Air Crash and Plant Food.

The VFT has a relative, a plant that, instead of trying to bite Crash, shoots seeds like bullets at long range. When at close quarters, the bullet-shooting plant will lower his head and raise spikes to defend himself. However, Crash will simply have to belly flop him to defeat him.

Crash Twinsanity
The VFT appears in Twinsanity in the levels Jungle Bungle and Totem Hokum as a much larger relative of him and the plant goes back to it's old design (red headed with green stem and leaves). They will bite at Crash when he is in their range. If they are spun or defeated, they will screech and green fluids will fly from them and it will fall down and stay there throughout the whole level. Crash encounters one just before he reaches "Coco" and he humorously gets his head squashed by two logs that swing down from the sides.

Crash Team Racing
The Venus Fly Trap was also seen in Crash Team Racing, but only in the Papu's Pyramid track. If you drive too close, the plant will swallow you whole and spit out only the wheels, causing you to lose precious seconds and letting enemies overtake you. His colors are the same as in Cortex Strikes Back.

Crash Tag Team Racing
The Venus Fly Traps appear in some of the Crasinator Challenges in Tag Team Racing. These are probably the ones that have gone through the most drastic changes as they are all green and their heads are flat looking more like a real life Venus Fly Trap.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2
Venus Fly Traps reappear on the track Myan Mayhem, where they repeat their role from CTR.

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Venus Fly Traps appear in the jungle levels in this the game and retain their basic attack from previous games. They have a light purple colour head, more similar to the ones in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
Venus Fly Traps are common enemies in the first world and Wumpa Village, still repeating their basic attack.

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
The Crash 2 Venus Fly Trap can be seen in Samos Hagai's hut.

Trivia

 * The Venus Fly Trap is very similar to Nintendo's Piranha Plant in appearance, etc. Fans sometimes prefer to call it a Piranha Plant as well, or, because the games it appears in are on the PlayStation console, a PlayStation Piranha Plant.
 * It's head-color change could be so as to tell the difference between Crash Bandicoot's Venus Fly Trap and Nintendo's Piranha Plant.
 * It is unknown whether or not the Venus Fly Trap was one of the creatures affected by the Evolvo-Ray, made by Doctor Nitrus Brio. It's more ferocious appearance than its real-life counterpart could be evidence that it evolved via the Evolvo-Ray.
 * In Lilo and Stitch: Trouble in Paradise on the Sony Playstation, some carnivorous plants make appearances as enemies. They bear a big resemblance to Crash Bandicoot Venus Fly Traps
 * It's possible that the Venus Fly Traps could be a reference to Audrey II from the 1986 flim Little Shop of Horrors.
 * In the Unused Uka Tree Level from Crash Twinsanity there was going to be an Unknown Walking Fly Trap enemy, it would most likely had been a smaller, mobile relative of the Venus Fly Trap. The plant can be seen in a purple Gem showing concept art of the level itself.
 * In the prototype of Crash Bandicoot 1, in one of the cut levels that can be played, a VFT is present, but it's head is smaller for some reason.