! Crate

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! Crates turn ghost crates into other types of crates, often iron crates, creating a bridge that allows the player to cross gaps, and regular crates containing wumpa fruit. Occasionally, they have other purposes, such as in The Lab, where they activate doors and platforms. With the exception of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, ! Crates don't count toward the box count as they are indestructible.

There are many variants of the ! crate. In many games, there is a green variant- the nitro switch crate, used to detonate all nitro crates in a level. In Crash Nitro Kart and the Nitro-Fueled remake of Crash Team Racing there is a wooden variant which activates traps after being broken. In Crash Bash, there is a purple variant found in many Pogo Pandemonium mini-games that turn a player's squares into points. This variation also appears in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled as an alternate skin for the Iron Checkpoint Crate (albeit resembling a Basic Crate). They are also blue in the mobile version of Crash Twinsanity.

Appearances

Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Crash Bash
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (as "switch boxes")
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Crash Nitro Kart
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage (As a Card)
Crash Twinsanity (as "switch crates")
Crash Twinsanity (mobile)
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

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Crates

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Crash Bandicoot
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Tawna
Levels	N. Sanity Island: N. Sanity Beach \| Jungle Rollers \| The Great Gate \| Boulders \| Upstream \| Rolling Stones \| Hog Wild \| Native Fortress Middle Island: Up the Creek \| The Lost City \| Temple Ruins \| Road to Nowhere \| Boulder Dash \| Whole Hog \| Sunset Vista Cortex Island: Heavy Machinery \| Cortex Power \| Generator Room \| Toxic Waste \| The High Road \| Slippery Climb \| Lights Out \| Fumbling in the Dark \| Jaws of Darkness \| Castle Machinery \| The Lab \| The Great Hall
Items	Crates (Basic Crate \| Aku Aku Crate \| Bounce Crate \| Arrow Crate \| ? Crate \| ! Crate \| TNT Crate \| Big TNT Crate \| Crash Crate \| Checkpoint Crate \| Iron Crate \| Iron Arrow Crate \| Wumpa Fruit \| Gem \| Key
Enemies	Crab \| Turtle \| Skunk \| Venus Fly Trap \| Monkey \| Tribesman \| Flying Fish \| Bat \| Snake \| Spider \| Hog \| Holo-Projector \| Robot Turtle \| Spiked Saucer \| Slim \| Fat \| Evil Hand \| Lab Assistant \| Rat \| Blob
Bosses	Papu Papu \| Ripper Roo \| Koala Kong \| Pinstripe Potoroo \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Doctor Neo Cortex

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Coco Bandicoot \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Polar
Bosses	Ripper Roo \| Komodo Brothers \| Tiny Tiger \| Doctor N. Gin \| Doctor Neo Cortex
Items	Crates (Basic Crate, ? Crate, Bounce Crate, Aku Aku Crate, Checkpoint Crate, Crash Crate, Arrow Crate, Locked Crate, TNT Crate, Nitro Crate, Nitro Switch Crate, ! Crate, Iron Crate, Iron Arrow Crate) \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystal \| Gem
Levels	First Warp Room: Turtle Woods, Snow Go, Hang Eight, The Pits, Crash Dash Second Warp Room: Snow Biz, Air Crash, Bear It, Crash Crush, The Eel Deal Third Warp Room: Plant Food, Sewer or Later, Bear Down, Road to Ruin, Un-Bearable Fourth Warp Room: Hangin' Out, Diggin' It, Cold Hard Crash, Ruination, Bee-Having Fifth Warp Room: Piston It Away, Rock It, Night Fight, Pack Attack, Spaced Out Secret Warp Room: Totally Bear, Totally Fly
Enemies	Armadillo \| Bee \| Cyborg Lizard \| Porcupine \| Electric Eel \| Gorilla \| Lab Assistant \| Lizard \| Mechanical Piranha \| Mole \| Monkey \| Orca \| Penguin \| Polar Bear \| Possum \| Rat \| Robot Walker \| Scrubber \| Seal \| Sparky Tentaclebot Unit \| Spike Rat \| Spiked Saucer \| Spitter Plant \| Tiki \| Turtle \| Venus Fly Trap

Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Coco Bandicoot \| Pura \| Penta Penguin \| Baby T \| Polar \| Fake Crash
Antagonists	Tiny Tiger \| Dingodile \| Doctor Nefarious Tropy \| Doctor N. Gin \| Doctor Neo Cortex \| Uka Uka
Items	Crates \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystals \| Gems \| Relics
Super Powers	Super Belly Flop \| Double Jump \| Death Tornado Spin \| Fruit Bazooka \| Crash Dash
Levels	First Chamber: Toad Village \| Under Pressure \| Orient Express \| Bone Yard \| Makin' Waves Second Chamber: Gee Wiz \| Hang'em High \| Hog Ride \| Tomb Time \| Midnight Run Third Chamber: Dino Might! \| Deep Trouble \| High Time \| Road Crash \| Double Header Fourth Chamber: Sphynxinator \| Bye Bye Blimps \| Tell No Tales \| Future Frenzy \| Tomb Wader Fifth Chamber: Gone Tomorrow \| Orange Asphalt \| Flaming Passion \| Mad Bombers \| Bug Lite Hidden: Ski Crazed \| Area 51? \| Rings of Power Secret Levels: Hot Coco \| Eggipus Rex
Enemies	Bandifish \| Scarab \| Snake \| Arsonist \| Crocodile \| Eel \| Goat \| Lab Assistant \| Monkey \| Pufferfish \| Scorpion \| Seagull \| Shark \| Triceratops \| Pterodactyl \| Wave Lab Assistant \| Giant Lab Assistant \| Wizard Lab Assistant \| Frog

Crash Bash
Aku Aku's Team	Crash Bandicoot \| Coco Bandicoot \| Tiny Tiger \| Dingodile
Uka Uka's Team	Doctor Neo Cortex \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Koala Kong \| Rilla Roo
Others	Fake Crash (Japanese version only)
Items	Anvil \| Arrow \| Balloon \| Block \| Bomb \| Crystal \| Electro Stun Beam \| Force Field \| Gem \| Gold Relic \| Homing Energy Orb \| Hover Boots \| Jewel \| Lightning \| Locked Crate \| Mine \| Missile \| Mushroom \| Nitro Crate \| Padlock \| Platinum Relic \| Pogo Stick \| Powder Keg \| Purple ? and ! crate \| Shock Wave \| Sonic Ring \| Speedy Boots \| TNT Crate \| Trophy \| Vacuum Cleaner \| Wumpa Fruit \| Z
Minigames	Crate Crush: Jungle Bash \| Space Bash \| Snow Bash \| Drain Bash \| Tie Breaker Polar Push: Polar Panic \| Tilt Panic \| Melt Panic \| Manic Panic Ballistix: Crashball \| Beach Ball \| N. Ballism \| Sky Balls Pogo Pandemonium: Pogo Painter \| Pogo-a-Gogo \| El Pogo Loco \| Pogo Padlock Tank Wars: Desert Fox \| Metal Fox \| Jungle Fox \| Swamp Fox Crash Dash: Dot Dash \| Toxic Dash \| Dante's Dash \| Splash Dash Medieval Mayhem: Ring Ding \| Dragon Drop \| Mallet Mash \| Keg Kaboom
Bosses	Papu Pummel (Papu Papu) \| Bearminator \| Big Bad Fox (Komodo Brothers) \| Oxide Ride (Nitros Oxide)

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Coco Bandicoot
Antagonists	Doctor Neo Cortex \| Crunch Bandicoot \| The Elementals (Rok-Ko \| Wa-Wa \| Py-Ro \| Lo-Lo) \| Uka Uka \| Dr. N. Tropy \| Doctor N. Gin \| Tiny Tiger \| Dingodile
Items	Crates (Basic Crate, ? Crate, ! Crate, Activation Crate, Outline Crate, Crash Crate, Locked Crate, Invisibility Crate, Iron Crate, Iron Arrow Crate, Checkpoint Crate, Arrow Crate, Nitro Crate, Nitro Switch Crate, TNT Crate) \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystal \| Gem \| Relic
Super Powers	Tip Toe \| Double Jump \| Death Tornado Spin \| Fruit Bazooka \| Crash Dash (Super Power) \| Super Belly Flop
Levels	First Chamber: Arctic Antics \| Tornado Alley \| Bamboozled \| Wizards and Lizards \| Compactor Reactor \| Boss: Rumble in the Roks Second Chamber: Jungle Rumble \| Sea Shell Shenanigans \| Banzai Bonsai \| That Sinking Feeling \| H2 Oh No \| Boss: Drain Damage Third Chamber: The Gauntlet \| Tsunami \| Smokey and the Bandicoot \| Eskimo Roll \| Fahrenheit Frenzy \| Boss: Crashes to Ashes Fourth Chamber: Avalanche \| Droid Void \| Crashteroids \| Coral Canyon \| Weathering Heights \| Boss: Atmospheric Pressure Fifth Chamber: Crash and Burn \| Gold Rush \| Medieval Madness \| Crate Balls of Fire \| Cortex Vortex \| Boss: Crunch Time Secret Chamber: Knight Time \| Ghost Town \| Ice Station Bandicoot \| Solar Bowler \| Force of Nature
Enemies	Seal \| Penguin \| Narwhale \| Lab Assistant \| Bat \| Lionfish \| Anglerfish \| Koi Fish \| Crane \| Salmon \| Monkey \| Parrot \| Crab \| Donkey \| Inflating Cactus \| Scorpion \| Knight Lab Assistant \| Ninja Lab Assistant \| Skiing Lab Assistant \| Gold Miners

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Coco Bandicoot
Bosses	Dingodile \| Doctor N. Gin \| Tiny Tiger \| Doctor Neo Cortex \| Uka Uka \| Mega-Mix
Items	Crates \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystals \| Gems
Levels	First Chamber: Jungle Jam \| Shipwrecked \| Temple of Boom \| Frostbite Cavern \| Just in Slime Second Chamber: Snow Crash \| Rocket Racket \| Just Hangin' \| Shark Attack \| Ruined Third Chamber: Snow Job \| Ace of Space \| Sunken City \| Down the Hole \| Blimp Bonanza Fourth Chamber: Star to Finish \| Air Supply \| No-Fly Zone \| Drip, Drip, Drip \| Final Countdown
Enemies	Electric Eel \| Frog \| Jellyfish \| Lab Assistant \| Moray Eel \| Penguin \| Polar Bear \| Pufferfish \| Rat \| Scrubber \| Seal \| Shark \| Sparky Tentaclebot Unit \| Spike Lizard \| Squid \| Sewer Mech \| Venus Fly Trap \| Yeti

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku
Antagonists	Doctor Nefarious Tropy \| N. Trance \| Uka Uka \| Crunch Bandicoot (Under Hypnosis) \| Coco Bandicoot (Under Hypnosis) \| Fake Crash (Under Hypnosis)
Items	Crates \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystals \| Gems \| Gem Shards \| Super Slide \| Rocket Jump \| Death Tornado Spin \| Crash Dash
Levels	First Chamber: Island Intro \| Prints of Persia \| Lagoony Tunes \| Globe Trottin' \| Pharaoh's Funhouse \| Runaway Rug Second Chamber: Tiki Torture \| Hoppin' Coffins \| Barrel Roll \| Flockful of Seagulls \| Magma Mania Third Chamber: Run from the Sun \| Now It's Istanbul \| Mister Lava Lava \| Water Logged \| Slip-N-Slidin' Sphinx Fourth Chamber: Rocks Can Roll \| Rock the Casaba \| Eruption Disruption \| Spaced Out \| King Too Uncommon Fifth Chamber: Wild Nile Ride \| 101 Arabian Kites \| Fire Walker
Enemies	Arsonist \| Scarab \|Crocodile \| Lab Assistant \| Monkey \| Scorpion \| Seagull \| Shark \| Snake

Crash Nitro Kart
Racers	Team Bandicoot: Crash Bandicoot \| Coco Bandicoot \| Crunch Bandicoot \| Fake Crash Team Cortex: Doctor Neo Cortex \| Doctor N. Gin \| Tiny Tiger \| Doctor Nefarious Tropy Team Oxide: Nitros Oxide \| Zem \| Zam \| Velo Team Trance: N. Trance \| Polar \| Dingodile \| Pura GBA Only: Krunk \| Nash \| Norm \| Geary \| Spyro the Dragon
Bosses	Krunk \| Nash \| Norm \| Geary \| Emperor Velo XXVII
Supporting characters	Aku Aku \| Uka Uka
Race tracks	Terra: Inferno Island \| Jungle Boogie \| Tiny Temple Barin: Meteor Gorge \| Barin Ruins \| Deep Sea Driving Fenomena: Out of Time \| Clockwork Wumpa \| Thunder Struck Teknee: Assembly Lane \| Android Alley \| Electron Avenue Velo's Citadel/Velo's Vault: Hyper Spaceway \| Gem Cups
Battle Arenas	Temple Turmoil \| Frozen Frenzy \| Desert Storm \| Magnetic Mayhem \| Terra Drome
Collectibles	Wumpa Fruit \| ? Crates \| Trophies \| Crystals \| Gems \| Relics \| CNK Tokens \| Keys
Power Ups	Missiles \| Bowling Bombs \| TNT Crates \| Static Orbs \| N. Tropy Clocks \| Turbo \| Ice Mines \| Power Shields \| Invincibility Masks (Aku Aku/Uka Uka/Velo Mask) \| Tornado Tops \| Invisibility \| Super Engines \| Red Eye Missiles \|

Crash Twinsanity
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Doctor Neo Cortex \| Aku Aku \| Nina Cortex
Minor Characters	Nitros Oxide \| Polar \| Crunch Bandicoot \| Doctor N. Gin \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Doctor Nefarious Tropy \| Ripper Roo \| Tiny Tiger \| Farmer Ernest \| Evil Crash \| Pinstripe Potoroo \| Koala Kong \| Papu Papu \| Rusty Walrus \| Cortex's mother \| Spyro the Dragon \| Mecha-Bandicoot \| Coco Bandicoot
Bosses	Doctor Neo Cortex \| Mecha-Bandicoot \| Tikimon \| Uka Uka \| Doctor N. Gin \| Doctor Nefarious Tropy \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Dingodile \| Madame Amberly \| Evil Twins
Items	Crates (Cortex Crate \| Crash Crate \| Nina Crate \| Bounce Crate \| Basic Crate \| ? Crate \| Locked Crate \| Iron Crate \| Iron Arrow Crate \| Arrow Crate \| Ammo Crate \| Nitro Switch Crate \| Nitro Crate \| TNT Crate \| Checkpoint Crate \| World Crate \| Aku Aku Crate \| Detonator Crate \| Activation Crate \| Outline Crate) \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystal \| Gem \| Weak platforms \| Sequence platforms
Levels	N. Sanity Island: Jungle Bungle \| Cavern Catastrophe \| Totem Hokum Iceberg Lab: Ice Climb \| Slip Slide Icecapades \| High Seas Hi-Jinks Academy of Evil: Boiler Room Doom \| Classroom Chaos \| Rooftop Rampage Twinsanity Island: Rockslide Rumble \| Bandicoot Pursuit \| Ant Agony
Enemies	Crab \| Chicken \| Tikimon's Minions \| Monkey \| Skunk \| Venus Fly Trap \| Worm \| Ant \| Rat \| Bees \| Bear \| Tribesman \| Hog \| Bat \| Penguin \| Hologram Probe \| Barrel Throwing Rhino \| Guard Dog \| Hall Monitor \| Zombot \| Robotic Janitor \| Experimental Frog \| Scarab

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Crash Bandicoot
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Tawna
Levels	N. Sanity Island: N. Sanity Beach \| Jungle Rollers \| The Great Gate \| Boulders \| Upstream \| Rolling Stones \| Hog Wild \| Native Fortress Middle Island: Up the Creek \| The Lost City \| Temple Ruins \| Road to Nowhere \| Boulder Dash \| Whole Hog \| Sunset Vista Cortex Island: Heavy Machinery \| Cortex Power \| Generator Room \| Toxic Waste \| The High Road \| Slippery Climb \| Lights Out \| Fumbling in the Dark \| Jaws of Darkness \| Castle Machinery \| The Lab \| The Great Hall
Items	Crates (Basic Crate \| Aku Aku Crate \| Bounce Crate \| Arrow Crate \| ? Crate \| ! Crate \| TNT Crate \| Big TNT Crate \| Crash Crate \| Checkpoint Crate \| Iron Crate \| Iron Arrow Crate \| Wumpa Fruit \| Gem \| Key
Enemies	Crab \| Turtle \| Skunk \| Venus Fly Trap \| Monkey \| Tribesman \| Flying Fish \| Bat \| Snake \| Spider \| Hog \| Holo-Projector \| Robot Turtle \| Spiked Saucer \| Slim \| Fat \| Evil Hand \| Lab Assistant \| Rat \| Blob
Bosses	Papu Papu \| Ripper Roo \| Koala Kong \| Pinstripe Potoroo \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Doctor Neo Cortex

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Coco Bandicoot \| Doctor Nitrus Brio \| Polar
Bosses	Ripper Roo \| Komodo Brothers \| Tiny Tiger \| Doctor N. Gin \| Doctor Neo Cortex
Items	Crates (Basic Crate, ? Crate, Bounce Crate, Aku Aku Crate, Checkpoint Crate, Crash Crate, Arrow Crate, Locked Crate, TNT Crate, Nitro Crate, Nitro Switch Crate, ! Crate, Iron Crate, Iron Arrow Crate) \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystal \| Gem
Levels	First Warp Room: Turtle Woods, Snow Go, Hang Eight, The Pits, Crash Dash Second Warp Room: Snow Biz, Air Crash, Bear It, Crash Crush, The Eel Deal Third Warp Room: Plant Food, Sewer or Later, Bear Down, Road to Ruin, Un-Bearable Fourth Warp Room: Hangin' Out, Diggin' It, Cold Hard Crash, Ruination, Bee-Having Fifth Warp Room: Piston It Away, Rock It, Night Fight, Pack Attack, Spaced Out Secret Warp Room: Totally Bear, Totally Fly
Enemies	Armadillo \| Bee \| Cyborg Lizard \| Porcupine \| Electric Eel \| Gorilla \| Lab Assistant \| Lizard \| Mechanical Piranha \| Mole \| Monkey \| Orca \| Penguin \| Polar Bear \| Possum \| Rat \| Robot Walker \| Scrubber \| Seal \| Sparky Tentaclebot Unit \| Spike Rat \| Spiked Saucer \| Spitter Plant \| Tiki \| Turtle \| Venus Fly Trap

Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot \| Aku Aku \| Coco Bandicoot \| Pura \| Penta Penguin \| Baby T \| Polar \| Fake Crash
Antagonists	Tiny Tiger \| Dingodile \| Doctor Nefarious Tropy \| Doctor N. Gin \| Doctor Neo Cortex \| Uka Uka
Items	Crates \| Wumpa Fruit \| Crystals \| Gems \| Relics
Super Powers	Super Belly Flop \| Double Jump \| Death Tornado Spin \| Fruit Bazooka \| Crash Dash
Levels	First Chamber: Toad Village \| Under Pressure \| Orient Express \| Bone Yard \| Makin' Waves Second Chamber: Gee Wiz \| Hang'em High \| Hog Ride \| Tomb Time \| Midnight Run Third Chamber: Dino Might! \| Deep Trouble \| High Time \| Road Crash \| Double Header Fourth Chamber: Sphynxinator \| Bye Bye Blimps \| Tell No Tales \| Future Frenzy \| Tomb Wader Fifth Chamber: Gone Tomorrow \| Orange Asphalt \| Flaming Passion \| Mad Bombers \| Bug Lite Hidden: Ski Crazed \| Area 51? \| Rings of Power Secret Levels: Hot Coco \| Eggipus Rex
Enemies	Bandifish \| Scarab \| Snake \| Arsonist \| Crocodile \| Eel \| Goat \| Lab Assistant \| Monkey \| Pufferfish \| Scorpion \| Seagull \| Shark \| Triceratops \| Pterodactyl \| Wave Lab Assistant \| Giant Lab Assistant \| Wizard Lab Assistant \| Frog

DLC Content

Crash Bandicoot: Stormy Ascent
Crash Bandicoot: Warped: Future Tense

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Appearances

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