You like me! You really, really like me! Oh, thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Fake Crash, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

Fake Crash, alias Trash Bandicoot, is a character from the Crash Bandicoot series. As his name suggests, he is a doppelganger of Crash Bandicoot.

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History

Fake Crash makes an appearance in the manga Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken. Although the character does not physically appear, Cortex disguises himself to be Crash to trick Polar into telling him where the Power Stone is, and ironically the costume resembles Fake Crash.

Naughty Dog decided to include Fake Crash as an easter egg in Crash Bandicoot: Warped. To see him, a player must get all the crystals and all the gems, and defeat Cortex on the player's save file. Then, he appears dancing (obviously parodying Crash's Dance) in some levels.

Fake Crash can easily be spotted in:

Level 1 - Toad Village, on the lawn of the 3rd house on the right.

Level 5 - Makin' Waves, on a small island near the end of the level.

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).

Fake Crash appears as an unlockable character. He can be unlocked in CTR by winning the Purple Gem Cup in adventure mode. Fake Crash was probably intended to replace Nitros Oxide in unlocking in order to both irritate and humor the gamers because many players thought that Oxide could be unlocked with the purple gem, but instead they unlock Fake Crash with it.

The Japanese version includes a bonus video with Crash racing against his fake counterpart, in which the two bandicoots show a fierce competitive streak with one another. Fake Crash is demonstrated to be jealous of Crash's fame and success, and constantly training to race him. In the end the two racers are shown to be evenly matched, both in their speed and their bad luck.

Stats

Speed: 2/6

Accel: 2/4

Turn: 3/4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Fake Crash appears again as an exclusive secret character of the Japanese version of the game, Crash Bandicoot Carnival. To play as him, the player must press R1 + R2 + Left + Down at the same time in the character select screen. Fake Crash's icon will appear at the bottom of the screen as a netrual character. However, this only works in the Japanese version, and in Versus and Tournament modes only. His appearence is different in this game, as a slightly modified version of Crash's model.

Fake Crash shares the same abilities as Crash and Coco. His addition in the Japanese version allows a third player to choose a character of the same type, whereas the other types only have two characters available. Fake Crash cannot be selected in Adventure Mode, and the CPU will never select him.

He makes one more appearance in the Japanese bonus video, where he appears along with Crash and a live action host to show off secrets from all four previous Crash games.

Fake Crash plays a major role instead of being an extra character. He was also given a slight redesign which features him wearing green pants along with wing shaped eyebrows. When N. Tropy kidnapped Coco and Crunch, he tried to kidnap Crash, but Aku Aku saved him by pulling him out of the portal. This misdirected the portal and N. Tropy instead, kidnapped Fake Crash. Coco, Crunch and Fake Crash are hypnotized by N. Trance, with Fake Crash being mistaken for real Crash.

Fake Crash later appears as the third boss, confronting Crash in a trap-filled Egyptian tomb. In this boss fight, he has green pants, and 4 hitpoints. Crash outsmarts him by luring him into the various traps and snaps him out of N. Trance's brainwashing. After being defeated, Fake Crash becomes Crash's ally and helps him defeat N. Trance, by pouring lava on him. In the final ending, Fake Crash returns to take a group photo of Crash, Coco, Crunch, and the defeated N. Tropy.

Fake Crash also appears in Crash Nitro Kart as an unlockable character and the fourth member of Team Bandicoot. In the console version, he is unlocked by getting 50 or more consecutive boosts on a track in adventure mode as Team Cortex, and on the Game Boy Advanced version, he's unlocked by going off-road on the track Out of Time. His console version has terrible stats to reflect his status as a joke character.

Stats

Console GBA Speed: 2/7

Accel: 2/7

Turn: 2/7

Difficulty: Intermediate Speed: 10/10

Accel: 10/10

Turn: 8/10

Difficulty: Advanced

In Crash Purple he appears in Dragon Castles where in the 2nd pit of the 2nd half he is in chains. When the player talks to him he says nothing. Crash says nothing either. His card will be close by him, and has the highest card value.

Fake Crash appears as an unlockable character after completing the Desert board. Unusually, he wears a small patch on his pants in this game, suggesting they may be worn from overuse. Despite being playable in Adventure mode, his only story appearance is in the final cutscene where he's included in a reaction shot of the characters watching Crash reach the Super Big Power Crystal.

Skylanders: Imaginators

Fake Crash appeared in Skylanders: Imaginators as the main villain of the Thumpin' Wumpa Islands special level. Fake Crash hijacked Cortex's Matrix Chamber, and terrorized the Wumpa Islands by disrupting the island's rhythms, sending Bad Vibes through his odd dance moves and lack of rhythm, which threatened to tear the islands apart.

Fake Crash is shown to antagonize Crash, Cortex, and the rest of the Skylanders, battling them in a bossfight when they attempt to stop him. He uses the chamber as a robotic suit to destroy the heroes on his dangerous dancefloor. Once the player defeats him, the Cortex Matrix Chamber breaks down, putting Fake Crash's destruction of the islands to an end.

Fake Crash was included again as an easter egg in all three games. To see him, the player must earn 100% on their save file. Afterwards, Fake Crash will appear dancing in some levels.

Fake Crash returns as a playable character in the Crash Team Racing remake, complete with new skins for him to unlock. Both the Cortex Castle and Nitro Court stages now have tapestries of Fake Crash dressed as a jester among tapestries of Cortex, Brio, and Nina. As in the original game, Fake Crash be unlocked after completing the Purple Gem Cup.

Stats

Speed: 5/7

Accel: 5/7

Turn: 5/7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Driving Style: Balanced

Characteristics

Personality

Fake Crash is generally portrayed as rather clueless and dim, yet as capable as Crash when it comes to his physical abilities and skills. He's a mysterious character who tends to show up unexpectedly and usually without much context. At times he's hinted to be trying to upstage Crash, or even to prove that he himself is the real Crash. In Skylanders: Imaginators, his personality is slightly more solidified. He's a lot goofier and is shown to be curious to the point of messing up anything he comes into contact with. A more overtly sinister side of him is shown as well, as he does not hesitate to use the Cortex Matrix Chamber as a deadly weapon against any challengers. Arguably, he's shown to be more sarcastic than the normal Crash as he crosses his arms in the original Crash Team Racing game and pretends to fall asleep.

Physical Appearance

As Fake Crash's name implies, he looks like an imitation of the original Crash Bandicoot, except with huge bushy eyebrows, tiny pupils, a large round nose and big teeth (which can be either crooked or sharp). He also has a rather goofy voice. Some iterations (CNK and Crash Purple) depicted him with a green pair of pants rather than a blue pair.

Fake Crash, originally created by Naughty Dog, was inspired by a cheap Crash toy that originated in Japan, with huge eyebrows and teeth. The team originally called him Trash Bandicoot before settling on Fake Crash.

Appearances

Gallery

See: Fake Crash/Gallery