Editing Catbat

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|image = [[File:Catbat Crash Team Rumble Screenshot Crop.png|200px]]
|first_appearance = ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'' (2020) (cameo)
|latest_appearance = ''[[Crash Team Rumble]]'' (upcoming)
|species = Cat and bat hybrid
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'''Catbat''' is a playable character in the upcoming game ''[[Crash Team Rumble]]'', having first appeared as a cameo in [[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]. They are a fusion of a cat and a bat. 
 
<!-- NOTE: This section is speculation and will eventually have to be revamped when the game comes out. -->It seems they may be a foil of [[Dingodile]], as cats parallel with dogs (which dingos are a species of) in pop culture, as well as Dingodile having feuded with the bats of [[Mosquito Marsh]] during the events of ''Crash Bandicoot 4''.

==Overview==
===''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time''=== 
[[File:Crash4Coco100End.png|thumb|left|Catbat as seen in [[Coco Bandicoot]]'s section of the 100% ending in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'']]
Catbat appears in the 100% ending of ''[[Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time]]'', where they tease [[Dr. Neo Cortex]] as [[Coco Bandicoot]] triumphs over [[Nina Cortex]].
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==General information==
===Appearance===
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Catbat is a slim cat-bat hybrid with light blue-green fur. They have yellow eyes with catlike slit pupils and heavy eyebrow ridges, surrounded by dull pink markings and a scar over their right eye. They have a small pink nose, large fangs and long pointed ears with three silver piercings in the left ear. They also have a long thin tail and large spiked bat wings with pink webbing. They wear a black leather jacket with a tall, studded collar, dull blue jeans with a tear over the right knee, a black leather belt with a skull-shaped buckle, and a silver spiked ring around their tail. They don't wear anything under their jacket, showing purple stripes on their chest. They have bare feet with large brown claws.
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===Personality===
With their limited appearances, their personality has yet to be properly demonstrated. At the very least, their body language conveys a cocky, confident punk-rock attitude.
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===Creation===
Designer and artist [[Nicholas Kole]] has stated that the character was originally designed as nonbinary and uses gender neutral pronouns,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/FromHappyRock/status/1601073092297895936 |title=I was being silly and referring to a video- actually when I was designing them they were canonically NB |first=Nicholas |last=Kole |date=December 9, 2022 |publisher=Twitter |archiveurl=https://archive.is/aOnY6 |archivedate=December 23, 2022 |accessdate=December 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/FromHappyRock/status/1601087069409153025 |title=I can’t be sure of what the finished game includes, but they/them when I was designing! |first=Nicholas |last=Kole |date=December 9, 2022 |publisher=Twitter |archiveurl=https://archive.is/VnTtL |archivedate=December 23, 2022 |accessdate=December 24, 2022}}</ref> although this change in the final release of ''Crash Team Rumble''. Since they are a playable character, they were designed to look more legible and appealing than monster-y.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/FromHappyRock/status/1601285505026781185 |title=Not really constraints so much as balancing a playable design as something legible and appealing instead of too monstery- also if you take away the nose it’s all bat and no cat |date=December 9, 2022 |publisher=Twitter |first=Nicholas |last=Kole |archiveurl=https://archive.is/efB4k |archivedate=December 24, 2022 |accessdate=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Florian-coudray-coco.jpg|Variant of ''Crash Bandicoot 4'''s 100% ending found on [[Florian Coudray]]'s portfolio.
Crash Team Rumble Christmas 2022 Promo Art.jpg|Promotional ''Crash Team Rumble'' artwork for Christmas 2022
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==Trivia==
*[[Nicholas Kole]], Catbat's designer, has responded to a Tweet asking if they played in a band, saying they would play in a goth or glam rock band.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/FromHappyRock/status/1601074814898556928 |title=Goth/glam rock for sure! |date=December 9, 2022 |publisher=Twitter |first=Nicholas |last=Kole |archiveurl=https://archive.is/lGnoX |archivedate= December 24, 2022 |accessdate=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Anthropomorphic animals]]
[[Category:Mammals]]
[[Category:Playable characters]]
[[Category:Crash Team Rumble characters]]