Tawna Bandicoot

Tawna is a character from the Crash Bandicoot series. She is Crash's girlfriend. She appears prominently in only two Crash games, being Crash Bandicoot and Crash Boom Bang!, she has cameo appearances in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Twinsanity, Crash Team Racing, and in the recent Crash: Mind Over Mutant.

History
In Crash Bandicoot, she was another evil genius creation of Dr. Neo Cortex and Dr. Nitrus Brio. When Crash escapes, falling out a window, Cortex uses Tawna as a hostage, in order to get Crash to come back and fight Cortex. In then end, she is rescued by Crash and are standing on Cortex's blimp, and later after completing the game totally, are seen riding away on the bird that is found in Sliperry Climb.

Trivia

 * According to Naughty Dog, Tawna's design was based off celebrity Pamela Anderson, for her blonde hair and buxom physique.


 * Tawna is shorter in Crash Boom Bang, possibly half the size she was in Crash Bandicoot.


 * After Crash Bandicoot, Naughty Dog removed her from the Crash series. The reason for this was said to be because she was found to be innappropriate for young children, since it was a family game. The real reason, however, was because Naughty Dog were not happy with her forced redesign, as she did not closely resemble her original intentions.


 * Tawna is seen in the Intro and ending part of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped as a cameo appearance in a picture hung up in Crash's house on top of his fireplace and next to his Crash 2 items.


 * Tawna also has a cameo appearance in Crash Twinsanity, where she is seen on a poster for a place called Moulin Cortex.


 * A picture of Tawna can be seen inside Crash's house near inside the front door in Crash: Mind Over Mutant and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, possibly suggesting they still have a relationship.


 * Tawna, along with Koala Kong, Dr. Nitrus Brio, Komodo Moe and Baby T are the only known characters of the Crash universe before Crash Bash that were not playable characters in Crash Team Racing.


 * A picture of Tawna is seen in Twinsanity in the Slip Slide Icecapedes level. She is seen when Crash and Cortex enter the house with the penguins. It is a picture of her in a magician outfit.


 * In Japan, a comic created in the instruction manual for Cortex Strikes Back shows that Tawna left Crash for Pinstripe Potoroo not long after the events of the first game. This is usually also largely accepted as being the case in Western countries.