Venus Fly Trap

The Venus Fly Trap is an enemy seen in the games Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, CTR, Crash Twinsanity and has a cameo appearance in the first Jak and Daxtergame.

Crash Bandicoot
The Venus Fly Trap first appears in the first Crash Bandicoot game. There are three kinds; one that is obviously on land, and two on the water's surface. The land-trap's head is colored red with white spots and its stem and leaves are green. The water-trap acts like a lily-pad. There are two kinds for the latter - one with green leaves, and another with blue leaves. They also have red heads like their terrestrial cousins. The green-leaved VFT keeps its mouth open until it has the opportunity to eat its prey, namely Crash (if he stayed there too long). The blue-leaved VFT keeps opening-and-clamping its mouth every 3 seconds, so Crash will have to time his jumps to avoid getting eaten. The Land-Trap usually appears in jungle levels like Jungle Rollers or levels like Native Fortress, while the water-traps appear in river levels including Up the Creek.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
The Venus Fly Trap reappears in Cortex Strikes Back, but its looks change a little; its stem and leaves are still green, but its head color has changed from red to purple. Why this change was made is currently unknown, however it is most likely due to it being too similar to Nintendo's Piranha Plant. It was often seen in levels like Hang Eight, Air Crash and Plant Food.

The VFT has a relative, a plant that, instead of trying to bite Crash, shoots seeds like bullets at long range. When at close quarters, the bullet-shooting plant will lower its head and raise spikes to defend itself. However, Crash will simply have to belly flop it to defeat it.

Crash Twinsanity
The VFT appears in Twinsanity in the levels Jungle Bungle and Totem Hokum as a much larger relative of previous ones and the plant goes back to its old design (red headed with green stem and leaves). They will bite at Crash when he is in their range. If they are spun or defeated, they will screech and green fluids will fly from them as they fall down. Defeated traps will stay there throughout the whole level. Crash encounters one just before he reaches "Coco" and he humorously gets his head squashed by two logs that swing down from the sides.

Crash Team Racing
The Venus Fly Trap is also seen in Crash Team Racing, but only on the track Papu's Pyramid. If a racer drives too close, the plant will swallow them whole and spit out only the wheels, causing the driver to lose precious seconds and letting opponents overtake them. Their color scheme is the same as in Cortex Strikes Back.

Crash Tag Team Racing
The Venus Fly Traps appear in some of the Crashinator Challenges in Tag Team Racing. These are probably the ones that have gone through the most drastic changes as they are all green and their heads are flat looking, more like a real life Venus Fly Traps.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2
Venus Fly Traps reappear on the track Mayan Mayhem, where they repeat their role from CTR.

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Venus Fly Traps appear in the jungle levels in this the game and retain their basic attack from previous games. They have a light purple color head, similar to the ones in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
Venus Fly Traps are common enemies in the first world, Wumpa Jungle, where they still repeat their basic attack.

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
The Crash 2 Venus Fly Trap can be seen in Samos Hagai's hut.

Trivia

 * The Venus Fly Trap is very similar to Nintendo's Piranha Plant in appearance, etc. Fans sometimes prefer to call it a Piranha Plant as well, or, because the games it appears in are on the PlayStation console, a PlayStation Piranha Plant.
 * Its head-color change could be so as to tell the difference between Crash Bandicoot's Venus Fly Trap and Nintendo's Piranha Plant.
 * It is unknown whether or not the Venus Fly Trap was one of the creatures affected by the Evolvo-Ray, made by Doctor Nitrus Brio. It's more ferocious appearance than its real-life counterpart could be evidence that it evolved via the Evolvo-Ray.
 * In Lilo and Stitch: Trouble in Paradise on the Sony PlayStation, some carnivorous plants make appearances as enemies. They bear a big resemblance to the Crash Bandicoot Venus Fly Traps.
 * In the Unused Uka Tree Level from Crash Twinsanity there was going to be an Unknown Walking Fly Trap enemy. It would most likely had been a smaller, mobile relative of the Venus Fly Trap. The plant can be seen in a Purple Gem concept art of the level itself.
 * In the prototype of Crash Bandicoot 1, in one of the cut levels that can be played, a VFT is present, but its head is smaller for some reason.