Polar



Polar is a polar bear cub from the Crash Bandicoot series, who debuted in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
In Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Polar makes his first appearance in the winter-themed warp room. If a player jumps on Polar several times, their lives count will increase. Polar also appears as Crash's transportation in the eighth level, Bear It.

Crash Bandicoot: Warped
In Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Polar only appears in a beginning cutscene next to Crash.

Crash Team Racing
In Crash Team Racing, when Nitros Oxide attacked Earth, threatening to turn it into a parking lot, Polar stopped his dream of being a literature genius (which he was not accomplishing by reading his books upside-down), and decided to race against the villainous. Polar is a playable character in his Kart. His home track is Polar Pass. His Kart can handle tight corners, much like Pura.

Crash Nitro Kart
Later, in Crash Nitro Kart, Polar was brainwashed by N. Trance, along with Dingodile .He was on the alien racing team. However, in the ending, he is turned back to normal and is friends with Crash again. He drives a green kart in the game. Polar for some reason has a VERY high pitched voice, many might mistaken it for Velo's pet, Zam.

Crash Twinsanity
In Crash Twinsanity, he seem upset at Crash for some reason. He is at Cortex's gathering holding a baseball bat to hit him with. Because Crash is jumping on him in previous games.

Power Rangers Samurai Mutant of Destiny
He was allie with Crash and the others. In Crash universe, He decided to battle the main antagonist Albedo and his Mutants.

Trivia

 * Polar's name is clearly a reference to the fact that he is a polar bear.
 * A small joke that runs throughtout the series is that even though Polar is a polar bear, he barks like a dog.
 * In Crash Bandicoot 2, he sits outside the warp portals and isn't shown going in them after Crash, but yet he still arrives in the level before Crash does.
 * Polar along with Dingodile is character who was good ( CTR, Crash 2 ) bad ( Twinsanity ) and neutral ( Crash Nitro Kart )
 * Polar is also an Ice Cream tester as revealed in the epilogue of CTR.