Fake Crash

Fake Crash (ニセクラッシュ) is a mysterious bandicoot who is known to appear in very random places. As the name implies, he looks like an imitation of Crash Bandicoot, though there are some key differences (such as the huge eyebrows and teeth). He also has a rather goofy voice.

Fake Crash, originally created by Naughty Dog, was inspired by a cheap Crash toy originated in Japan, with huge eyebrows and teeth. The team started calling it "Trash Bandicoot," and later, "Fake Crash".

Naughty Dog decided to include him as a goofy extra in Warped and CTR. He can be unlocked in CTR by winning the purple Gem Cup in adventure mode, or by holding down L1 and R1 and pressing circle, down, down, up, circle, circle, down, left, and right, in that order, at the main menu. Fake Crash was probably intended to replace Nitrous Oxide in unlocking order in order to both irritate and humor the gamers.

Soon he became more than a random easter egg when he played a major role in N-Tranced.



Fake Crash also appears in Crash Nitro Kart. In the console version, he is unlocked by getting 50 or more consecutive boosts on adventure mode as Team Cortex, and off-road on the track Out of Time in the GameBoy Advance version.

In Crash Purple he appears In Dragon Castles where the player talks to him, and he gives his card. After Crash collects his card he is playable In the multiplayer Mini -Games.

Biography
Not much is known about Fake Crash. According to Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced though, Crash and Fake Crash are equal in power (if the instantanious death upon touch does not count) Fake Crash has a better connection to the Japanese games than the North American ones. In CTR, he has a voice slightly lower than Crash's. He also has his own dance, like Crash.

Crash Team Racing

 * Speed: 3/5
 * Acceleration: 3/5
 * Turning: 3/5

Console versions

 * Speed: Average
 * Acceleration: Excellent
 * Turning: Good

GBA version

 * Speed: Excellent
 * Acceleration: Excellent
 * Turning: Good

Sightings in Warped
Fake Crash can easily be spotted in:


 * Level 1, Toad Village, in front of the house next to the puddle, on the right side of the stage.
 * Level 5, Makin' Waves, after having passed the pirate ship and some of the ramps, on an island placed on the right side of the stage.
 * Level 8, Hog Ride, seen dancing on the left side of the road (This sighting is not present in the US version for unknown reasons).

However, to see these the player must first get 100% or more on the player's save file.

Trivia

 * In Crash Team Racing, Fake Crash and N. Tropy are the only two characters not to have their own race track based on themselves.
 * Fake Crash is the only character that has been evil, good, and neutral. He is evil in CTR (as evidenced by Uka Uka being his invincibility mask) and in Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced before being defeated. He is good in Crash Nitro Kart and in N-Tranced after being defeated. He is neutral in Crash Bash and Crash Boom Bang!, as there is no proof for what side he's supposed to be on in Bash, and because no playable character is meant to be good or evil in Boom Bang. He also appears in Crash Purple in a dungeon in Spyro the Dragon's world, presumably captured before Crash and Spyro teamed up. He seems to hold no malice towards Crash in this so again is neutral.
 * Despite being an established character, he was given entirely different origins in Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced.
 * Fake Crash's look was greatly modified for the "Racing" series of games. In CTR, his racing sprite was not only shorter than Crash, but also had a Unibrow and teeth that covered his entire mouth, although his N-Tranced look is seen upon his victory dance. He also sounds younger in CTR, sounding around Coco's age, and also speaks in a southern-like drawl. In CTR, all he could do was laugh, while in CNK, he simply spoke Crash's lines replaced with his own accent. In CTR, some players may mistake one of his laughs for the word "Wall," which it isn't. In CNK, however, he went through a drastic overhaul. He now wears green shorts, has bigger and bolder eyebrows, abandoning the unibrow. His eye pupils are also very small, to give him a more menacing look. This however, contradicts any malice in his heart, since he was on Team Bandicoot, and thus, a good character, in CNK.
 * Some Crash Fans think that Fake Crash's voice is "irriatating", or "annoying". It is actually meant to be that way due to the fact that Crash's whole body didn't go through N. Tropy's cloner, so it did make changes to Fake Crash.
 * In the game Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced for Gameboy Advance, while Fake Crash has black eyebrows in the cutscenes; there are grey eyebrows on his face in the warp zone.