Pura

Pura is a tiger cub who was first introduced in Crash Bandicoot: Warped. In the levels of Orient Express and Midnight Run, Coco Bandicoot can ride her like Crash Bandicoot rides Polar in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, meaning she is Coco's pet. He helped Coco during her fight against Doctor N. Gin, making her spaceship more powerful.

Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Pura made her debut in Warped. Coco rides her through levels of Orient Express and Midnight Run, both of which are set in ancient China along the top of the Great Wall of China while it's still under construction. She then helps in the battle against N. Gin on the moon, backing up Coco and making Coco's ship more powerful. She can also be seen in the ending inside Crash's house with Coco.

Crash Team Racing
In Crash Team Racing, Pura is seen resting with Coco when Nitros Oxide came to Earth. Pura drives an indigo/purple coloured kart. Her garage, where he keeps her kart, resembles an ancient ruin featuring carvings of her face and large, green, leafy plants. When the player chooses to play as an unlockable character in Arcade Mode, Pura is the character out of the original 8 racers that's not included in the race. In the epilogue, Pura joined the Las Vegas tiger show of Zigfield and Floyd. Her role came to an end when she closed her mouth "a tad bit too early" on Floyd.

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Pura made a small appearance in The Wrath of Cortex, taking a similar role to Polar in Warped. She is seen in the opening cutscene building a sandcastle on the beach beside Aku Aku. She is also seen in the Bandicoot House when Aku Aku returns from a meeting with Uka Uka, and she enters Coco's lab with Aku Aku and the bandicoots. Like Polar in Warped, Pura disappears from the game after the intro and does not feature in any of the levels. Her final appearance is in the true ending when Crash, Aku Aku, Coco and the reformed Crunch return home after escaping Cortex's space station.

Crash Nitro Kart
Pura would later be a racer in Crash Nitro Kart. In this game, N. Trance kidnapped and brainwashed her along with Polar and Dingodile to race for him as a member of Team Trance. Pura can be unlocked as a playable character by performing 50 consecutive turbo boosts in adventure mode with Team Bandicoot. In the handheld versions, dhe is removed and replaced with Spyro the Dragon.

Pura isn't acknowledged or seen in any story cutscenes, though it can be assumed that she was released from N. Trance's control just like Polar at the end of the game.

Crash Tag Team Racing
There was going to be a costume for Coco in Pura's likeness, but it was cut and replaced with her Princess outfit.

Crash Boom Bang!
Pura made an appearance in Boom Bang! as a playable character. She is one of the four playable characters unlocked by default. She doesn't play a significant role in the game's story.

Crash of the Titans
Originally, Pura and Baby T were going to get kidnapped in Crash of the Titans, but they were replaced with Coco and Aku Aku in the final game.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2
Pura makes an appearance as a racer in CBNK2, wheres he is a playable racer. She is unlocked by obtaining 8 mission points. Oddly, she can be heard speaking in this game, saying "Strike!" when she hits another player with a weapon.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Pura reprises her original role as in Warped.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
Pura's retains her role and stats in the remake of the game. While she epilogue remains relatively the same, after her role in Zigfield and Floyd met its abrupt end, she instead opts to debut as a solo act in the next month instead.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Pura has a cameo in It's About Time, appearing as a balloon float in the level Off Beat. Shee is atop a blue Classic Kart, and has a pink bow on her tail.

Personality
Pura is an energetic, playful tiger cub. Being a normal, non-anthropomorphic tiger, Pura usually isn't portrayed as sapient, having a similar level of intelligence as a domestic house cat. She can be very affectionate, licking Coco's face to cheer her up after wiping out in her levels.

Physical Appearance
Pura is a small orange tiger cub. She is patterned with brown/black stripes, and a cream muzzle, underbelly and paws. The insides of her ears are dark, and hier nose and paw pads are black. She has green eyes (golden brown in N. Sane Trilogy and Nitro-Fueled) and black claws (white in WOC). In Wrath of Cortex, N. Sane Trilogy and Nitro-Fueled, she has black whiskers. In CNK she wears one of N. Trance's Helmets due to his brainwashing by N. Trance in the game's plot.

In Boom Bang! her design is significantly different; she is now anthropomorphic and bipedal. She wears blue denim shorts and her eyes were made blue. Her paw pads are brown and the insides of her ears are pink. She also lacks a tail in this design.

Coco Bandicoot
After helping Coco across the Great Wall of China and beat N. Gin, Pura became Coco's pet and the only one who's not under Crash's care. The two are very close, with Pura being shown to be very affectionate in her animations in the N. Sane Trilogy.

Crash Bandicoot, Aku Aku, Polar, Crunch Bandicoot, Baby T
Even though Pura has not had any proper cutscenes with any of the other heroes, it is definite that she has a good relationship with them all. In all racing games she uses Aku Aku as his guardian mask (except for in CNK, when she was hypnotised into racing on Team Trance and therefore uses the Velo Mask).

N. Trance
In CNK, N. Trance kidnapped and hypnotised Pura into racing for him along with Dingodile and Polar, due to a racing team being required for the galactic circuit. Due to the fact he was brainwashed throughout the game and doesn't appear in any cutscenes, her true opinion of N. Trance is unknown. N. Trance seems to like or at least respect Pura, seeing as she selected her for his team.

Appearances

 * Crash Bandicoot: Warped
 * Crash Team Racing
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
 * Crash Nitro Kart (Console Version Only)
 * Crash Boom Bang!
 * Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2
 * Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
 * Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled
 * Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (Cameo)

Gallery
See: Pura/Gallery

Trivia

 * Contrary to popular belief, Pura is female.
 * Pura was originally intended to be a panda bear in Warped, but she was too similar to Polar who is a polar bear, so Pura instead was made a tiger.
 * Pura's name may come from the word "pura", meaning "temple" in Indonesian.
 * Even though Pura is a tiger, he meows and makes noises like a cat; just like how Polar barks like a dog. Pura's sounds are more sensible than the latter, as tigers can usually only meow rather than roar at Pura's age.

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