Editing Nitro Squad

[[File:Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Promotional Image Nitro Squad.jpg|thumb|300px|''(left to right)'' [[Isabella]], [[Ami]], [[Tawna]], [[Liz]], and [[Megumi]] in ''[[Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled]]''.]]
The '''Nitro Squad''' is a group of characters that appear in ''[[Crash Team Racing]]'' and its remake, ''[[Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled]]''. The group is formed by [[Ami]], [[Liz]], [[Isabella]], and [[Megumi]], with [[Tawna Bandicoot]] being associated with, but not a part of, the group in ''Nitro-Fueled''.<ref group=note>Even though the Nitro Squad is always shown with her, Tawna is mentioned separately from the Nitro Squad in official Activision blog entries for ''Nitro-Fueled'', with the Nitro Squad likewise only being mentioned to be composed by Ami, Liz, Isabella, and Megumi.</ref>

The Nitro Squad first appears, with no official name, in ''Crash Team Racing'' as non-playable characters in the game, being [[wikipedia:Promotional model#Motorsports model|motorsports models]] present at award ceremonies often seen whenever a player gets a trophy; Thomas Wilson, the creative director of ''Nitro-Fueled'', mentions in an official Activision blog entry for the game that these characters used to be called the '''Trophy Girls''',<ref name=trophygirls>{{cite web |url= https://blog.activision.com/crash-bandicoot/2019-06/Get-Ready-for-the-Grand-Prix |title= Get Ready for the Grand Prix: Beenox Introduces Post-Launch Content for Crash™ Team Racing Nitro-Fueled |date= June 12, 2019 |first= Thomas |last= Wilson |website= Activision |archive-url= http://web.archive.org/web/20190720113405/https://blog.activision.com/crash-bandicoot/2019-06/Get-Ready-for-the-Grand-Prix |archive-date= June 20, 2019 |accessdate= zam}} "Together, they are now known as the Nitro Squad (formerly known as the Trophy Girls in the original CTR) and are now characters that you can race with!"</ref> with this being a term that had never appeared in official ''Crash Bandicoot'' media. The Nitro Squad name was created for the group in ''Nitro-Fueled''; the name is derived from ''Nitro-Fueled''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Nitro" theme, which references the [[Nitro Crate|Nitro Crate]]s seen throughout the [[Crash Bandicoot (series)|''Crash Bandicoot'' series]] as well as [[wikipedia:Nitrous oxide|nitrous oxide]].

In ''Nitro-Fueled'', the members of the group are stated to be from different parts of the world each,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://blog.activision.com/crash-bandicoot/2019-06/Get-Ready-for-the-Grand-Prix |title= Get Ready for the Grand Prix: Beenox Introduces Post-Launch Content for Crash™ Team Racing Nitro-Fueled |date= June 12, 2019 |first= Thomas |last= Wilson |website= Activision |archive-url= http://web.archive.org/web/20190720113405/https://blog.activision.com/crash-bandicoot/2019-06/Get-Ready-for-the-Grand-Prix |archive-date= June 20, 2019 |accessdate= zam}} "These global bandicoots hail from all over the world and are ready to compete!"</ref> with Ami, Liz, Isabella, and Megumi being suggested to be from the United States of America, United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan respectively;<ref>according to their voicelines i guess</ref> this is likely due to the namesakes of the former characters, and to tie with the theme of the [[Nitro Tour Grand Prix]], the in-game event for ''Nitro-Fueled'' during which the characters first became available to play as, being based on internationality.

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