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| Catbat | |
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| First appearance | Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020) (cameo) |
| Latest appearance | Crash Team Rumble (upcoming) |
| Species | Cat and bat hybrid |
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.
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[edit]
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time[edit]
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.
General information[edit]
Appearance[edit]
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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.
Creation[edit]
Designer and artist Nicholas Kole has stated that the character was originally designed as nonbinary and uses gender neutral pronouns,[1][2] although this may 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.[3]
Gallery[edit]
Variant of Crash Bandicoot 4's 100% ending found on Florian Coudray's portfolio.
Promotional Crash Team Rumble artwork for Christmas 2022
Trivia[edit]
- 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.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ Kole, Nicholas (December 9, 2022). "I was being silly and referring to a video- actually when I was designing them they were canonically NB". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2022 .
- ↑ Kole, Nicholas (December 9, 2022). "I can’t be sure of what the finished game includes, but they/them when I was designing!". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2022 .
- ↑ Kole, Nicholas (December 9, 2022). "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". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2022 .
- ↑ Kole, Nicholas (December 9, 2022). "Goth/glam rock for sure!". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2022 .
