Nash

""I need to get moving!""

- - Nash, Crash Nitro Kart

Nash is a shark-like alien from the planet Barin. He is one of Emperor Velo XXVII's champions that Team Bandicoot or Team Cortex must face in the Galactic Circuit to earn the 2nd Champion Key.

Crash Nitro Kart
Nash is a cybernetically enhanced shark creature who is the champion of Barin. In the beginning of the cutscene, Nash is seen boxing with himself saying "Put em up, put em up!" He becomes antsy and begins yelling at Velo but backs down when Velo starts to lose his temper with him. At the end of Team Bandicoot's victory, he asks if he may have his key back, but gets denied. He gets angry but suddenly faints when Coco hacks his brain to put him to sleep. At the end of Team Cortex's victory, N. Gin talks to Cortex about having cybernetic sharks as slaves, but Cortex points out how easily they can be beat. Much like in Team Bandicoot's victory, Nash is a sore loser and demands his key back from the team. He is eventually scared off by Velo. On the track, Nash uses shark teeth and joke teeth as weapons.

In the Game Boy Advance version of the game, he is unlocked by beating his boss challenge in Deep Sea Driving.

Stats:

 * Speed: 7/7
 * Acceleration: 7/7
 * Turning: 7/7
 * Difficulty: Intermediate

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
Nash returns in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as an unlockable character. He is an Acceleration-class racer and is unlocked via purchase in the Pit-Stop.

Stats:

 * Speed: 4/7
 * Acceleration: 7/7
 * Turning: 3/7
 * Difficulty: Intermediate

Personality
Nash seems to be very bad tempered, high strung, and has a very bad attitude and a violent behavior. He's cocky and was so hyperactive, that it was impossible for him to even sleep, until Coco hacked his brain and put him into his first slumber.

Appearances

 * Crash Nitro Kart
 * Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled

Trivia

 * Nash is the only champion to not be warped away in a flash of light after losing to Team Cortex. Instead, he simply runs away when Velo's hologram appears.
 * Nash is somewhat similar to Hannah Barbara's Jabber Jaw. They're both sharks, say "Put em up! Put em up!" when they feel like fighting, and right before Coco puts him to sleep, he says "neh-eh-eh" like Jabber does.
 * Nash's name comes from a different spelling of the word gnash, which describes grinding or biting down with one's teeth, referencing the character's huge shark jaws.
 * Parodying real life diving gear used by humans, Nash's scuba goggles and breathing apparatus carry out the exact opposite function; keeping oxygen out and water in. Being that Nash is an aquatic creature who breathes water rather than air, it makes sense as well.
 * According to Velo, Nash "never stops or even sleeps". This is most likely a play on the rumor that sharks need to constantly move or else they'll suffocate and die.
 * In Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, he has the same stats as Coco, N.Gin, and Pinstripe.
 * In Crash Team Racing:Nitro-Fueled, his victory podium animation involves him shooting lasers from his scuba goggles, a possible reference to the Austin Powers movies in which Dr. Evil requests sharks with laser beam devices attached to their heads.

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