Worm

Worm
Artwork of a Worm from Crash Twinsanity
First appearance	Crash Twinsanity (2004)

Worms, also named Greedy Worms, are a type of enemy in Crash Twinsanity. They are large, mutated green worms with a pair of teeth and red eyes. Worms are only found on N. Sanity Island, where they poke out from holes in the ground, so Worms are only ever shown by the upper half of their body. They have a white underbelly and small, white appendages, although both are depicted as green in their artwork.

If Crash gets near a Worm, it tries to bite him. Crash can sometimes bounce on a Worm to reach higher areas. If he Body Slams a Worm, it retreats underground and pops out from a nearby hole. After a few seconds, the Worm moves back to its original hole. Crash cannot defeat Worms by himself, but only by using Twin Slam, in which he slams them using Neo Cortex's head.

A Worm is first encountered in Jungle Bungle. Here, when Cortex does a Body Slam on a Worm, the screen briefly displays some text showing a brief tutorial on how to perform a Body Slam. After this, the Worm pops back out of its initial hole. Crash can bounce on the Worm to land on top of a tall stone pillar and collect the level's Green Gem. He must then Body Slam the Worm and bounce on it followed by three more Worms.

In Totem Hokum, Crash must Body Slam a Worm through many holes in the tribesman's village to rescue Cortex, who has been tied to a totem pole by Papu Papu. Once Crash has got the Worm to appear from the hole next to the totem pole, he must bounce on it to reach Cortex. Later, many Worms are encountered at Farmer Ernest's farm where the Worms have caused the Wumpa Trees to stop growing. Ernest requests them to defeat the Worms and offers a Power Crystal as a reward. This triggers a short minigame in which the objective is for Crash and Cortex to use Twin Slam on 15 Worms, which appear from five holes placed next to one another, within 39 seconds. Once every Worm has been defeated, a few Wumpa Trees grow from the ground.

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  Crash jumps over a Worm in the level Jungle Bungle

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  Crash and Cortex attack several Worms in Farmer Ernest's farm in the level Totem Hokum