Neo Cortex

''"You fool! Do you think I'm unaware of this situation? If we don't have any friends left on the surface, then we need to find... an enemy..." - Doctor Neo Cortex; Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back''

Doctor Neo Cortex is a professional scientist and the main antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot series. He is known as the creator of his nemisis: Crash Bandicoot. In Crash Bandicoot, he is voiced by Brendan O'Brien, along with all the other characters. From Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back to Crash Nitro Kart, he is voiced by Clancy Brown. And from Crash Twinsanity through to Crash: Mind over Mutant he has been voiced by Lex Lang. In almost all games Cortex is usually the final boss.

Personality
Cortex is very impulsive and obviously wants to get rid of Crash Bandicoot. He is also cruel to Doctor N. Gin, as shown in Crash of the Titans when Cortex spits scalding tea in N. Gin's eyes. He seems to be very grumpy and grouchy in his mutant form in Crash: Mind Over Mutant. At the beginning of the Crash series, he was a pure evil genius, but slowly turned into a clumsy failure. In Crash Twinsanity he is shown to be a coward and is not very bright as he seems. He seems to be easily startled, as seen in Crash Tag Team Racing when Willie Wumpa Cheeks pops out for the first time and Cortex hides behind N. Gin.

Appearance
Unlike normal humans in the real world, Cortex has yellow skin. His head is also hammer-like in shape that became useful in Twinsanity. He has an N stamped on his forehead standing for his first name Neo. He also has a small stature which he does not like. In the series he wears a lab coat, gloves and boots that change colour throughout. In Tag Team Racing Cortex thinks he is pretty and wants to know how his backside looks.

Crash Bandicoot cortex heeft geen haar
haar is weg

cortex haar 2: Cortex haar Strikes Back
een jaar later had hij zijn haar weer terug maar toen dr. ngin hem kaal geschooren

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
It is revealed that Cortex was working on the orders of Uka Uka, a legendary powerful witchdoctor whose soul was placed in a mask much alike his brother Aku Aku. Cortex is joined by Doctor Nefarious Tropy, who bends time in order to gather crystals. Crash and Coco Bandicoot intervene however and destroys the Time Twister machine in the process.

Crash Team Racing
Cortex later joins the good guys to fend off Nitros Oxide, a racer who plans to turn Earth into a giant parking lot. Oxide is defeated and Cortex returns to working for Uka Uka. As told in the credits, he returned to scientific research and he found the 117. element "Cortexrulestheworldium". His speed, acceleration and turning is intermediate like Crash.

Crash Bash


Cortex is later (in the middle of a new scheme) forced to participate on the bad side in a battle of good and evil by Uka Uka and Aku Aku. Cortex is also joined with old henchmen, N. Brio, Koala Kong and newcomer Rilla Roo. In the minigames both the doctors have great stats but also have their weaknesses. In the Crate Crush minigames, whilst Cortex has a terrific throw with the boxes as he has his Ray Gun his kick is very poor. In the Polar minigames, Cortex has a jetpack which pays off nicely but he can only use it once at a time and it takes a while for his boost meter to fill up again. He has the fastest weapon in the tank minigames which is a laser.

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex
Straight after the events of Warped (Crash Team Racing and Crash Bash do not count), he is seen at a meeting with the villains in the series. It is decided that Crash Bandicoot must be eliminated. Cortex unveils his perfect bandicoot warrior, Crunch Bandicoot. However, Crunch is defeated by Crash at every turn even with the assistance of The Elementals on the evil side. Crunch Bandicoot is taken to the good side after Cortex's defeat.

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
In a space station orbiting the Earth, Uka Uka is upset with Doctor Neo Cortex for failing him once again, but Cortex promises a plan that will bring Earth's inhabitants down to size. Cortex then introduces his Planetary Minimizer, which he immediately uses to shrink the Earth down to the size of a grapefruit. The situation is brought to Aku Aku's attention when Cortex taunts the now-microscopic people of Earth. Crash eventually manages to return Earth to its normal size, foiling Cortex's plans once again.

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
Doctor Neo Cortex and Ripto from the [http://spyro.wikia.com/wiki/Spyro_2:_Ripto's_Rage! Spyro the Dragon series] joined forces to rid themselves of their respective nemesis Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, by genetically modifying Ripto's "Riptoc" minions and disguising them as Crash and Spyro, leading the two protagonists to believe they are against each other. The two heroes eventually discover this and work together to defeat the two evil-doers. Spyro eventually ends up tagging Cortex with a transmitter which leads both Crash and Spyro to Cortex and Ripto's headquarters in outer space where they are defeated.

Crash Twinsanity
Cortex was forced to team up with Crash to help stop his demented former pets Evil Twins: Victor and Moritz (two parakeets he tested his early Evolvo-Ray on, which not only hyper-evolved them into criminal masterminds, but dimensionally displaces them). He often ends up in embarrassing situations, cross-dressing as Coco (and apparently enjoying it), having his brain forcibly removed from his head (while still alive), being captured by Papu Papu, used as a snowboard (and later a skateboard), getting into a pay dispute with former henchmen, trapped in a pipe (before farting in it) and being chased by bees, a bear and Evil Crash.

Crash Of The Titans
In Crash of the Titans, Cortex uses Mojo to mutate the island's residents into Titans. After the Yuktopus failed to kill Crash after the first boss fight, Uka Uka replaces him with his niece, Nina Cortex. At the end of the game, Nina is defeated and Cortex "forgives" Nina for what she did.

Crash: Mind Over Mutant
In Crash: Mind over Mutant, Cortex has sent Nina to Evil Public School as punishment for betraying him, then reconciles with his old colleague Dr. Nitrus Brio to invent the NV, a personal digital assistant that controls whoever uses it by transmitting bad Mojo, unwillingly supplied by Uka Uka through the use of a milking machine. He later engages in a fight with Crash inside his new Space Head space station, empowering himself with the use of a mutagen formula stolen from N. Brio. Upon losing the fight, Cortex throws a tantrum, causing the Space Head to plummet towards Earth. Returning to normal, he escapes the Space Head in a smaller shuttle with an unnamed Znu.

Alignment

 * In most games he has been the main antagonist. There has been exceptions, most noticably in Crash Twinsanity.


 * After the player defeats him in Twinsanity, he becomes (by force) an ally,. However, he is still evil and this is only temporary.


 * The N on his forehead could possibly stand as the first letter of his name which is Neo.

Trivia

 * Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced is the only game not to feature Cortex because he failed to stop Crash again.


 * Cortex appeared in all Crash games as a final boss except Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced, Crash Twinsanity, and Crash of the Titans.


 * His name is a pun on the neocortex, a part of the brain.


 * Cortex's middle name has been revealed to be Periwinkle.


 * Some fans speculate the N on his forehead is supposed to be reference to the Nintendo 64 logo. Many of these fans believe the team behind the original trilogy and CTR would've preferred to create games for that console instead. It took until wrath of Cortex for a Crash game to appear on a Nintendo console.


 * Cortex is one of the few characters to ever break the fourth wall during the series, Tiny Tiger, Ebenezer Von Clutch, and a certain Crash of the Titans enemy type being the only others.

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