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|image = <tabber>CB1=[[File:Crash Bandicoot game Tawna.png]]|-|Boom Bang!=[[File:Crash Boom Bang Tawna.png|140px]]|-|NST / CTRNF=[[File:Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Tawna Render.png|120px]]</tabber>
|first_appearance = ''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' (1996)
|latest_appearance = ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'' (cameo) (2020)
|species = Bandicoot
|latest_portrayal = Misty Lee (2019)
}}
'''Tawna Bandicoot'''<ref>''Crash Bandicoot'' Japan manual, p. 11</ref><ref name=crash2japanmanual>''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'' Japan manual, p. 17</ref> is a female bandicoot with blonde hair that appears in the first ''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' game as [[Crash Bandicoot]]'s girlfriend. She became absent in later entries in the series, albeit with cameos, with [[Coco Bandicoot]] serving as the female supporting character of the series in her stead. She eventually reappeared in ''[[Crash Boom Bang!]]'' as a playable character, and would later appear in ''[[Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled]]'' in the same role.

Although she doesn't appear in the game, an [[Tawna (Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time)|alternate universe counterpart]] of Tawna appears as a playable character in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]''.

==Overview==
===Games===
====''Crash Bandicoot''====

Tawna first appears in the original ''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' game as an ordinary bandicoot that was captured by [[Dr. Neo Cortex]] and [[Dr. N. Brio]] and mutated by N. Brio's [[Evolv-O-Ray]], and one of the only mutant animals not yet brainwashed by the [[Cortex Vortex]] along with her boyfriend [[Crash Bandicoot]]. After Crash is placed into and rejected by the Cortex Vortex, Crash escapes Cortex's laboratory which causes Cortex to select Tawna as his replacement for the general of his army of mutants. Crash eventually defeats Cortex and reunites with Tawna on top of his blimp as they fly into the sunset. Alternatively, once the player has collected all [[Gem|gems]], the player can access [[The Great Hall]], wherein Tawna awaits Crash on the balcony of [[Castle Cortex]], after which the two of them fly away on a large bird.

Tawna also appears throughout the game at the end of bonus levels accessed by collecting tokens resembling her face. However, she cannot be interacted with.

====''Crash Boom Bang!''====

Tawna appears as an unlockable playable character in ''[[Crash Boom Bang!]]'', which marks her first major appearance in a game 10 years after the original ''Crash Bandicoot'', and her first voiced appearance in a game, where she is portrayed by Akiko Toda. Much like the other playable characters in the game, she participates in [[Viscount]]'s World Cannonball Race in order to win $100,000,000.

Her in-game description suggests she is romantically interested in [[Pinstripe Potoroo]], who is also a playable character in the game.<ref name=profiles>[[Tawna Bandicoot#Profiles and statistics|''Tawna Bandicoot § Profiles and statistics''.]]</ref>

====''Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled''====

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Tawna makes an appearance in ''[[Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled]]'' as a Bronze Tier reward in the game's first [[Grand Prix]], [[Nitro Tour Grand Prix|Nitro Tour]] which launched on July 3, 2019. Prior to version 1.12 of the game, Tawna's Driving Style was Acceleration. She appears alongside [[Ami]], [[Isabella]], [[Liz]], and [[Megumi]] to form the [[Nitro Squad]].

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====''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time''====

While the regular Tawna isn't present in the game, an [[Tawna (Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time)|alternate universe counterpart]] of her shows up to rescue Crash and [[Coco Bandicoot]] from pirates in the [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] level. After being rescued, Coco mentions how she and Crash had lost contact with Tawna.

A cushion sporting Tawna's mugshot can also been seen at the end of the game's very first Bonus level, atop a sofa where she presumably would have waited for Crash as she did in her bonus levels from the first ''Crash Bandicoot''.

====Other appearances====

A portrait of Tawna appears on the fireplace of Crash's house in ''[[Crash Bandicoot: Warped]]'', and later ''[[Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex]]''. Crash's ending in the Japanese version of ''[[Crash Bash]]'' has Crash mistake a hologram Coco created, modeled after an imaginary future version of herself, to be Tawna. Tawna also appears on the sign of Moulin Cortex, a burlesque club, in ''[[Crash Twinsanity]]'''s [[Slip Slip Icecapades]] level.

Although she doesn't appear in ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'', internal game data suggests that Ami, Isabella, Liz, and Megumi were all based on her.<ref>[https://tcrf.net/Crash_Team_Racing#Trophy_Girl_Internal_Names ''Crash Team Racing'' article on ''The Cutting Room Floor''].</ref>

===Other media===
====''Crash Bandicoot'' (manga)====
====Japanese ''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'' manual====
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While Tawna is completely absent from the game, the instruction booklet for the Japanese version of the game provides additional details as to what transpired after the first game; namely, Tawna leaves Crash and the [[Wumpa Islands]] for Chigago, USA in order to be with [[Pinstripe Potoroo]].<ref name=profiles/><ref>''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back'' Japanese manual. p. 3. 「恋人のタウナは、ピンストライプと仲良くなって都会へ行ってしまったのです。ガックリしたクラッシュは「モテモテ トレーニング」を始めたのですが……大丈夫でしょうか？」 (''"Crash's girlfriend, Tawna, has travelled to the city after befriending Pinstripe. Gutted, Crash begins his "Attractive Training"... is he alright?"''). Translation by [https://crashbandicoot.fandom.com/wiki/User:thaswordster thaswordster].</ref> The events described serve as the backstory for the manga ''[[Crash Bandicoot: Dance! De Jump! Na Daibouken]]'', released around the same time. These tidbits are completely absent in any other version of the game, and are only mentioned in the ''Official Strategy Guide'' for ''[[Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex]]'' and in ''[[Crash Boom Bang!]]''.

====''Crash Bandicoot: Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken''====

==General information==
===Appearance===
===Personality===
===Creation and early development===
===Relationship with Crash Bandicoot===

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Crash Bandicoot''===
*US manual

"Love of Crash's life, this unfortunate she-bandicoot is next on the list for experimentation by the nasty Doctors. What's a bandicootess to do (other than pout convincingly) to let her hero know he'd better hurry if he wants somebody to come home to."

===''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back''===
*Japanese manual

お兄ちゃんの元恋人。せつかく助けてあげたのに、お兄ちゃんのおバカなところに愛想がつきてタスマニアから出ていってしまったの。ウワサでは、囚われている間に仲良くなったピンストライプという男を追っかけて、アメリカのシカゴに行ったらしいわ。<ref name="crash2japanmanual"/> (''Crash's ex-girlfriend. Even though he saved her, she grew tired of his silliness and left [[Wumpa Islands|Tasmania]]. Rumor has it that she travelled to Chicago, USA, in pursuit of a man named [[Pinstripe Potoroo|Pinstripe]], whom she befriended during her time as a prisoner.''<ref name=crash2japanmanualtranslation group=note>Translation by [https://crashbandicoot.fandom.com/wiki/User:thaswordster thaswordster].</ref>)

===''Crash Boom Bang!''===
*In-game

"Tawna, the blonde bombshell, is crazy about Pinstripe."

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=タウナ
|JapR=Tauna
|JapM=Tawna}}

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[[Category:Bandicoots]]
[[Category:Playable characters]]
[[Category:Crash Bandicoot characters]]
[[Category:Crash Boom Bang! characters]]
[[Category:Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled characters]]

While Tawna was designed to be Crash's love interest in her first appearance, following games have altered or not made reference to this aspect of her character; as a way to explain her disappearance in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]'', the Japanese manual of the game states that she broke up with Crash, being romantically interested in [[Pinstripe Potoroo]] afterwards. This is later referenced in ''Crash Boom Bang!'', wherein her character profile states she is "crazy about Pinstripe." Other games in the series don't reference Crash or Tawna's relationships.

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