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|image=[[File:Neo Cortex C4IAT artwork.png|250px]]<br>Artwork for ''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time!'' | |image=[[File:Neo Cortex C4IAT artwork.png|250px]]<br>Artwork for ''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time!'' | ||
|first_appearance=''[[Crash Bandicoot (game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' (1996) | |first_appearance=''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' (1996) | ||
|latest_appearance=''[[Crash on the Run]]'' (2021) | |latest_appearance=''[[Crash on the Run]]'' (2021) | ||
|species=[[Human]] | |species=[[Human]] | ||
|affiliation=[[Uka Uka]] | |affiliation=[[Uka Uka]] | ||
|voice_actor=[[Brendan O'Brien]] ([[Crash Bandicoot (game)|1996]])<br>[[Clancy Brown]] ([[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back|1997]]–[[Crash Nitro Kart|2003]])<br>[[Lex Lang]] ([[Crash Twinsanity|2004]]–present)<br>[[Debi Derryberry]] (child; [[Crash Twinsanity|2004]])<br>[[Corey Burton]] (baby; [[Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy|2017]]) | |voice_actor=[[Brendan O'Brien]] ([[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|1996]])<br>[[Clancy Brown]] ([[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back|1997]]–[[Crash Nitro Kart|2003]])<br>[[Lex Lang]] ([[Crash Twinsanity|2004]]–present)<br>[[Debi Derryberry]] (child; [[Crash Twinsanity|2004]])<br>[[Corey Burton]] (baby; [[Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy|2017]]) | ||
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{{Redirect|Cortex|Dr. Neo Cortex's niece|[[Nina Cortex]]}} | {{Redirect|Cortex|Dr. Neo Cortex's niece|[[Nina Cortex]]}} | ||
{{Quote|Finally, after all these years of abuse, the tables have turned! Who's the little guy now?|Dr. Neo Cortex|Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure}} | {{Quote|Finally, after all these years of abuse, the tables have turned! Who's the little guy now?|Dr. Neo Cortex|Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure}} | ||
'''Doctor Neo Periwinkle Cortex'''<ref>'''Ebenezer Von Clutch's words''': "''The world-renowned evil-doer Doctor Neo Periwinkle Cortex! I have all your games." - Crash Tag Team Racing''</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/CrashOnTheRun/status/1326192995641815041?s=20 "Friendly reminder that, yes, his full name is Neo PERIWINKLE Cortex. You’re welcome. 🤪"] - ''Crash Bandicoot: On the Run''{{'}}s official Twitter account.</ref> (also known as '''N. Cortex''', '''Neo Cortex''' or simply '''Cortex''') is the main antagonist of the ''[[Crash Bandicoot (franchise)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' franchise. | '''Doctor Neo Periwinkle Cortex'''<ref>'''Ebenezer Von Clutch's words''': "''The world-renowned evil-doer Doctor Neo Periwinkle Cortex! I have all your games." - Crash Tag Team Racing''</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/CrashOnTheRun/status/1326192995641815041?s=20 "Friendly reminder that, yes, his full name is Neo PERIWINKLE Cortex. You’re welcome. 🤪"] - ''Crash Bandicoot: On the Run''{{'}}s official Twitter account.</ref> (also known as '''N. Cortex''', '''Neo Cortex''' or simply '''Cortex''') is the main antagonist of the ''[[Crash Bandicoot (franchise)|Crash Bandicoot]]'' franchise. He is a mad scientist bent on world domination. He is the creator of [[Crash Bandicoot]], and vows to eliminate him for repeatedly foiling his plans. Neo Cortex serves under the command of [[Uka Uka]], although he also leads his own army of villains, including [[N. Gin]], [[Tiny Tiger]] and [[Dingodile]]. | ||
Neo Cortex is a short human with yellow skin and a big head with green tattooed "N" on his forehead. He is half bald, and has black hair and a goatee. Neo Cortex wears black clothes with a white lab coat on top, rubber gloves, and rubber boots. His name is a pun on "{{wp|neocortex}}", a part of the brain. | |||
==History== | |||
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===Early history=== | ===Early history=== | ||
Neo Cortex | Neo Cortex was the youngest son of a clown couple, he was different from his parents in spending his time reading science books. At the age of 3, started to be ridiculed by a particularly cruel group of performers and they tattooed on his head an '''N''' which means '''Nerd'''. Be cause this, Cortex causes a mysterious explosion in the circus that lived and his sinister goal that he was assigned is rule the world for this.<ref name=guide>''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'' Official Strategy Guide, page 134</ref> The survivors is some brother who would generate [[Nina Cortex]].<ref>'''Neo Cortex's words''': "''Nina! My adorable young niece!''" - ''Crash Twinsanity''</ref> | ||
At the age of 6, Cortex enrolled in a high school where he meets [[N. Brio]] and the pair were bulled by students. Be cause this, the pair cause an explosion destroing the high school affecting a part of town and the both took shelter in an abandoned plutonium mine.<ref name=guide/> | At the age of 6, Cortex enrolled in a high school where he meets [[N. Brio]] and the pair were bulled by students. Be cause this, the pair cause an explosion destroing the high school affecting a part of town and the both took shelter in an abandoned plutonium mine.<ref name=guide/> | ||
At the age of 8, Neo along with N. Brio enrolled at the [[Academy of Evil]] where mostly Cortex was overwhelmed by director [[Madame Amberly]] and was where he met [[N. Gin]]. It was here that Cortex developed the Evolvo-Ray and used his pet parrots [[Evil Tiwns|Victor and Moritz]] as animal experimentations sending to the [[10th Dimension]].<ref> | At the age of 8, Neo along with N. Brio enrolled at the [[Academy of Evil]] where mostly Cortex was overwhelmed by director [[Madame Amberly]] and was where he met [[N. Gin]]. It was here that Cortex developed the Evolvo-Ray and used his pet parrots [[Evil Tiwns|Victor and Moritz]] as animal experimentations sending to the [[10th Dimension]].<ref>'''Neo Cortex's words''': "''It was my first experiment with the Evolvo-Ray, Phase One in my plan to create an army of superanimals! The test subjects: my two pet parrots Victor and Moritz, the only creatures I didn't loathe or eat. The experiment was proceeding as planned, when, suddenly... my parrots were gone! Lost among the infinite dimensions!''" - ''Crash Twinsanity''</ref> | ||
In adulthood, Cortex served in the Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War | In adulthood, Cortex served in the Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War.<ref>'''Neo Cortex's words''': "''Ha ha ha! Just like back in Da Nang!''" - ''Crash Tag Team Racing''</ref> and worked in a community scientific where he is mocked by his colleagues for his outlandish theories and became motivated by the desire to silence his opposition.<ref>''Crash Bandicoot'' instruction booklet, PlayStation, 1996, p. 19</ref> For their criminal activities, Cortex along with Brio were wanted by military forces and they were forced to take shelter on one from [[Wumpa Island|3 islands]].<ref name=guide/> In one of the [[Cortex Island|islands]] that is his base operations, he knows Uka Uka where he gives instructions on how to take over the world.<ref>'''Uka Uka's words''': "''From deep inside my temple prison, I sent you simple instructions to follow!''" - ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped''</ref> So he establishes his facilities and capture various animals from the 3 islands to create an army of superanimals. | ||
===''Crash Bandicoot'' series=== | ===''Crash Bandicoot'' series=== | ||
====''Crash Bandicoot''==== | ====''Crash Bandicoot''==== | ||
In ''[[Crash Bandicoot (game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'', Cortex | In ''[[Crash Bandicoot (video game)|Crash Bandicoot]]'', Cortex created a [[bandicoot]] called Crash Bandicoot to be the [[Cortex Commandos]] general until failed by [[Cortex Vortex]] defects and intends to test [[Tawna Bandicoot]]. After Crash ruin his world, Cortex decides to personally eliminate him on his hoverboard atop his [[Cortex's Airship|airship]] shooting 3 types of plasma until be hit by green plasmas countless times. When it crashes on his own island, he finds a crystal mine where he would begin his new plan. | ||
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====''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back''==== | ====''Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back''==== | ||
In ''[[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]'', | In ''[[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]'', set one year after the events of the previous game, Neo Cortex establishes a space station where is accompanied with N. Gin to enslave the world with Cortex Vortex. He has a master [[Power Crystal|crystal]], but needs slave crystals to execute this plan and then he needed the help of an enemy that is the Crash. He asks Crash to get all the crystals in [[Warp Room|warp rooms]] with good intention to stop the planets aligning until his farce is revealed by [[Coco Bandicoot]]. He tries to escape with crystal, but is taken from his hands by Crash. But his final defeat was the destruction of the space station caused by N. Brio. | ||
====''Crash Bandicoot: Warped''==== | ====''Crash Bandicoot: Warped''==== | ||
In ''[[Crash Bandicoot: Warped]]'', | In ''[[Crash Bandicoot: Warped]]'', his tutor Uka Uka is released from prison where he gets scolded for failing twice and gets help from [[N. Tropy]] which is summoned by Uka Uka. Cortex begins production of [[Lab Assistant]]s and call his goons to capture gems and crystals over time periods. When Crash and Coco defeat their henchmen, Cortex try attack Crash with plasmas and time bombs to be defeated for being thrown into a vacuum. But his final defeat was swallowed whole by distant past warp sphere turning into a baby and disputing the Uka Uka with N. Tropy. | ||
====''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''==== | ====''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex''==== | ||
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====''Crash of the Titans''==== | ====''Crash of the Titans''==== | ||
In ''[[Crash of the Titans]]'', Cortex kidnaps Coco and | {{wikipedia|section=yes}} | ||
In ''[[Crash of the Titans]]'', Cortex kidnaps Coco and steals a large quantity of Mojo from an ancient temple, planning to use it to create an army of "Titans", which will aid him in the construction of the Doominator, a giant robot capable of destroying the Wumpa Islands. After failing once more to destroy Crash, Cortex is lambasted by Uka Uka, who replaces him with Nina. Incapacitated for much of the game, Cortex is denied the opportunity to watch his Doominator in action. At the end of the game, Cortex rescues Nina from the collapsing Doominator and praises her for her treachery, but nevertheless promises retribution. | |||
====''Crash: Mind over Mutant''==== | |||
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====''Crash: Mind | In ''[[Crash: Mind over Mutant]]'', Cortex deposits Nina at his Evil Public School, then reconciles with Brio to invent the NV, a personal digital assistant that controls whoever uses it by transmitting negative Mojo; the Mojo is forcibly extracted from Uka Uka after Cortex takes him captive. Cortex later engages in a fight with Crash inside his new Space Head space station, empowering himself with the use of Brio's mutation formula. Upon losing the fight, Cortex throws a tantrum, causing the Space Head to plummet towards Earth. Cortex returns to normal and escapes the Space Head in a smaller shuttle. | ||
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====''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time''==== | ====''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time''==== | ||
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===Racing games=== | ===Racing games=== | ||
====''Crash Team Racing''==== | ====''Crash Team Racing''==== | ||
In ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'', Cortex is | In ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'', Cortex is owns a hub called [[Citadel City]], his home track is Cortex Castle and his protector is Uka Uka. | ||
====''Crash Nitro Kart''==== | ====''Crash Nitro Kart''==== | ||
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===Party games=== | ===Party games=== | ||
====''Crash Bash''==== | ====''Crash Bash''==== | ||
In ''[[Crash Bash]]'', | In ''[[Crash Bash]]'', Neo Cortex is on the side of the evil team. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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Neo Cortex.png|''Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy'' artwork | Neo Cortex.png|''Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy'' artwork | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Villains]] | [[Category:Villains]] | ||