Aku Aku
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| Game series | Crash Bandicoot |
| First game | Crash Bandicoot |
| Creator(s) | Naughty Dog |
| Voice actor(s) (English) | Brendan O'Brien Mel Winkler |
| Voice actor(s) (Japanese) | Kenichi Ogata |
Aku Aku (アク アク Aku Aku?) is a fictional character from the Crash Bandicoot series.
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[edit] Overview
[edit] Crash Bandicoot 1-2
Aku Aku is the ancient voodoo mask spirit of an old witch doctor, who looks over the southeast Australian islands as if he was its god. When he sensed Crash's and Coco's journey to ruin Doctor Neo Cortex's plan for world domination, he befriended them and scattered copies of himself to aid them. Ever since, he has appeared in every Crash Bandicoot game, the only character besides Crash to do so. Copies of him are hidden in marked crates, and when broken, the mask will be released, and will protect Crash from one enemy attack. Collecting three in a row without getting hit will result in Crash becoming temporarily invincible from anything except deep water and bottomless pits.[1]
[edit] Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Unlike the first two Crash games Aku Aku talks and has an important role in the storyline as the leader mentor and father figure of the bandicoots in Crash Warped. When Uka Uka is freed from his jungle prison, it is revealed that Uka Uka is Aku Aku's evil twin brother, who he constantly opposes and has the same amazing strength and power. Long ago, he locked him there to protect the world from his malice. But now that he is free, he must be stopped at all cost.[2]He then leads Crash and Coco to the Time Twister machine so that they can gather Power Crystals scattered across time. Near the end, he holds off Uka Uka's attacks while Crash battles Neo Cortex.
[edit] Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
When natural disasters start ravaging N. Sanity Island, Aku Aku goes to see what his evil twin brother Uka Uka is planning. When he does, he rushes to the Bandicoots with an urgent message[3] and demands that Coco get her new Portal Chamber working so that they can gather Crystals and stop the Elementals. He serves his usual role as a protecter from this point on.
[edit] Crash Twinsanity
Aku Aku once again serves as Crash's protector in this game. After Uka Uka's defeat to the hands of Crash and Cortex, Aku Aku convinces Uka Uka to join him and defeat the Evil Twins. However, both are easily defeated by the Evil Twins, and the masks continue their roles as Crash's/Cortex's protector.
[edit] Other appearances
- Aku Aku acts as the protector of the "good" characters when the invincibility powerup is activated in Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart.
- Aku Aku is the leader of the Good Side, made up of Crash, Coco, Tiny, and Dingodile, in Crash Bash
- Aku Aku has a cameo in Crash Tag Team Racing as the tiki men's masks in the "Tiki Turbo" track.
- Aku Aku serves as the tutor of the player in Crash Boom Bang!.
[edit] Voices
- He is voiced by Brendan O'Brien in the first and second Crash game.
- In Crash Bandicoot: Warped onwards, he is voiced by Mel Winkler.
- He is voiced by veteran seiyu Kenichi Ogata in the Japanese dubs of the games.
[edit] Trivia
- In nearly all of the games, he is seen having his usual 4 feathers on the mask, with the exception of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, in which he has 7 feathers.
- Tiki is a mythological figure in Polynesia
[edit] References
- ^ Aku Aku: It is I, Aku Aku! My duty is to protect you. You may summon me by breaking open these crates. Call me thrice, and I shall grant you special powers. (Crash Twinsanity)
- ^ Aku Aku: After many eons, my evil twin Uka Uka has been freed from his underground prison. Long ago, I locked him there to protect the world from his malice. Now, free he's once again! He must be stopped! (Crash Bandicoot: Warped)
- ^ Aku Aku: Crash. Coco. It is just as I feared. Uka Uka and Doctor Cortex have unleashed a group of destructive masks known as the "Elementals". We must find a way to stop them before they destroy the Earth and all of its inhabitants. (Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex)
[edit] External links
| Good Guys | Crash | Tawna | Aku | Coco | Polar | Pura | Rex | Trophy Girls | Crunch | Pasadena | Penta | Fake Crash | Ernest | Chick | Stew | Von Clutch | Park Drones | |
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| Neutral | Brio | Papu | Velo | Krunk | Nash | Norm | Geary |Viscount |
| Uka Uka and His Villains | Cortex | Ripper Roo | Kong | Pinstripe | N. Gin | Komodo Bros. | Tiny | Uka | Tropy | Dingodile | Rilla Roo | Elementals | Trance | Nina | Rusty |
| Other Villains | Oxide | Evil Crash | Amberly | Tikimon | Zam | Zem | Evil Twins | Bearminator | Ripto | Willie |
| Enemies | Tribesmen | Lab Assistants | Piranha Plants | Ants |
| Items | Crystals | Gems | Wumpa Fruit | Relics | Gem Shards |
| Areas | N. Sanity Island | Cortex Castle |
