Ant Drone

The Ant Drones(Japanese: エビルアンツ) are robotic enemies in Crash Twinsanity, led by the Evil Twins and reside on Twinsanity Island, specifically in their home base, Ant Agony. They are the main enemies of the game. Like the Lab Assistants, they come in several varieties.

Normal Ants
Normal Ants have no means of protecting themselves other than hand-to-hand combat. They attack by charging at the player and usually attack in groups of three or more. They are garbed in blue armor like Soldier Ants. These types of Ants rarely appear in comparison to the Soldier Ants. They first appear along with the Soldier Ants arriving on N. Sanity Island using a portal from Twinsanity Island and a large ship-like drill in the level Cavern Catastrophe after the boss battle with Dr. Neo Cortex and Mecha-Bandicoot and after Crash and Cortex's first Rollerbrawl. Here, they are seen taking Crates into their drill (why they do so is unknown) but do not attempt to fight Crash unless he goes near them. Although they are the rarest of Ants, they appear in Cortex's airship on Crash and Cortex's way to the Academy of Evil and later in Ant Agony, where all of the Ants reside. It only takes one spin or slide to kill Normal Ants. They can also be defeated with a Belly Flop.

Soldier Ants
Soldier Ants are the toughest and most abundant Ants in Crash Twinsanity. They are garbed in blue armor and are equipped with a short plasma sword that shocks players when attacked. The plasma sword is similar to a lightsaber. The Soldier Ants attack using vertical slashing motions towards the player. They appear in almost every part of the game; N. Sanity Island (during Cavern Catastrophe), the Iceberg Lab (in Cortex's Throne Room), the Academy of Evil (during Rooftop Rampage), and Twinsanity Island (in Ant Agony). They also appear during Rockslide Rumble on the rocks next to drills similar to the one in Cavern Catastrophe. Because of their toughness, abundance, and aggressive nature, they are considered the main force in the Evil Twins' army of Ants. They are also considered the Evil Twins' personal guards, because whenever Crash and Cortex encounter the Evil Twins, the Soldier Ants are the ones to attack them. For example, in the Iceberg Lab Crash and Cortex encounter the Evil Twins and after the cutscene, a group of Soldier Ants attack them. Not to mention as well, Soldier Ants assist the Twins during the final battle. Unlike the Normal Ants, it takes two attacks to kill Soldier Ants.

Drill Ants
These special Ants have light brown armor, sort of like a camouflage resembling rocks, and a drill on their head. The Drill Ants attack in groups and by chasing the player on foot and attacking them with their drill, or by digging into the ground like a mole and popping up where the player is to attempt to drill them. They are first seen at the end of Rockslide Rumble in the cave and are later seen in Ant Agony, in the caves inside the stronghold filled with lava. It takes two hits to kill Drill Ants.

Fire Ants
Fire Ants are first seen on Twinsanity Island and are independent, as they are almost always alone. They are mostly found in levels with caves like the Drill Ants, and have numerous posts in Ant Agony. Garbed in red armor, the Fire Ant, hence its name, has the ability to breath a lengthy fire out of its mouth. During Bandicoot Pursuit, Fire Ants are found in front of Cortex's way and breath fire repeatedly. Later on that same level, a lone Fire Ant stands under a crusher that Crash can flatten the Fire Ant with. Fire Ants aren't tough, as one spin can kill them, but since they are breathing fire all the time, it is very difficult to do so.

Jet Pack Ants
This other special type of Ant is seen only in Ant Agony (considered Ant Agony's patrol team) and have jet packs on their backs that allows them to fly through the air. They also have a special type of gun modeled after Cortex's gun that shoot similar blasts of energy. The Jet Pack Ants use their jet packs to fly high enough so that the player cannot attack them and then they shoot. If the player manages to attack them before they fly high enough, however, the Ant will fall. It takes two attacks to kill a Jet Pack Ant, however, if it is attacked in the air and is knocked off a platform, the Ant cannot recover and will fall to its death.

Bomb Ants
These types of Ants are like normal ants but they stand near bomb spawns and throw the bombs which will explode after a few seconds, or will explode if they come into contact with the player.

Scientist Ants
These ants had visible bulbous brains and would throw flasks at the player, similar to N. Brio. They were nearly complete by the time Twinsanity released and were planned to make an appearance in Ant Agony, but were cut due to time restraints.

Small Ants
Originally, in Crash Bandicoot: Evolution, the ants were going to come in three different sizes. While the small ants did make it into the final game, their design, along with all the other ants, was originally different; they had four arms and their mouths were vent-like instead of their teeth showing. Some of the small ants would be also be riding vehicles called "Mite Mechs" that Crash could take control of by knocking off the driver.

Medium Ants
The middle size of the ants. They were more muscular and much larger than the small ants and could apparently give orders to the smaller ones. 3D concept models of them can be seen in Twinsanity's unseen gallery.

Large Ants
The largest of the ants that were said to be massive. They were fully animated and modeled but only concept art of them exists. They appeared in a stealth section in a prototype "spaceport" level, where they would be situated in the middle of a room on a pillar, turning 90 degrees every few seconds while Crash had to avoid their gaze.

Other

 * Greyscale Ant - These ants were going to be in the greyscale Tenth Dimension. They appear in concept art of the early grey 10th Dimension where they can be seen planning an attack on Crash.

Appearances

 * Crash Twinsanity

Trivia

 * All of the Ants besides the Fire Ants work in groups. Why the Fire Ants are independent could be because they can breathe fire and hurt each other badly. As proof, during Bandicoot Pursuit, two Fire Ants are found back to back shooting fire left and right.
 * Fire Ants are the only types of Ants to be seen in Bandicoot Pursuit.
 * Normal and Soldier Ants are the main force of the Evil Twins' Ant Army.
 * If the player can manipulate the Ants' movements, they can be made to attack each other.
 * Soldier Ants can jump just as high as Crash can double-jump (as proven in Ant Agony).