Dingodile

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Dingodile
Game series Crash Bandicoot
First game Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Creator(s) Charles Zembillas
Voice actor(s) (English) William Hootkins (Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped)
Dwight Schultz
Voice actor(s) (Japanese) Keisuke Ishida

Dingodile (ディンゴダイル Dingodairu?) is a fictional video game character and secondary villain in the Crash Bandicoot series.

Dingodile is a hybrid of a dingo and a crocodile (his name is a portmanteau of the two words), and a henchman of the series' main antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex. As commonly stated, Dingodile enjoys reading Shakesphere, playing croquet, and roasting orange bandicoots with his flamethrower,[1][2] which he is often seen with. He is one of Cortex's two main mutant followers, alongside Tiny Tiger.

Dingodile was created by character designer Charles Zembillas when employee Joe Labbé asked for a character that was a cross between a dingo and a crocodile.[3]

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[edit] Personality and appearance

Dingodile's personality isn't explored as thoroughly as the other villains in the series, but it is apparent that Dingodile is a cruel and pyromanic individual, frequently sporting a large flamethrower and willing to kill anything weaker than he is (as evidenced in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, where Dingodile is seen preparing to kill a small penguin during the Ice Ages before Crash's intervention). Dingodile is also known to have his greedy side, willing to betray Doctor Cortex to obtain the Evil Twins' riches in Crash Twinsanity.

Dingodile is generally portrayed as a mutant with a dingo's body, and a crocodile's stomach and tail. His lone article of clothing is a pair of large, tan (blue in Twinsanity), baggy pants, which are traded for sky-blue trunks with a flower design in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure due to the boss fight against him being underwater. His flamethrower resembles a large cylinder with a red-and-yellow checker design on it. This flamethrower is traded for a yellow torpedo launcher (which also doubles as an air supply tank, as a tube can be seen going from the tank to his glass helmet) in The Huge Adventure, as a flamethrower cannot function underwater.

[edit] History

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Doctor Neo Cortex and Doctor Nitrus Brio have both been credited for the creation of Dingodile,[4] though Naughty Dog has never stated who they intended his creator to be. Having said that, he has only ever been shown in service of the former, otherwise working on his own accord.

Dingodile made his debut in the video game Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped as the second boss of the game. Here, he is seen serving under Uka Uka and Doctor Cortex, attempting to take whatever Crystals Crash has gathered and bringing them to Cortex during the Ice Ages under his orders.[5] Crash encounters Dingodile as he is about to kill a penguin, who runs away upon Crash's arrival. In retaliation, Dingodile surrounds himself with large, rotating stalagmites, and shoots small bursts of flamethrower ammo into the air, causing fireballs to rain down from the sky. When Dingodile fires at Crash directly in another attempt to kill him, he ends up destroying the stalagmites that have been protecting him, allowing Crash to attack Dingodile, causing his flamethrower to malfunction and explode. When Dingodile admits defeat, he warns Crash of the more powerful enemies he will face ahead as the penguin he tried to kill earlier hops up and down on his charred body.[6]

Dingodile serves minor roles in both Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. In Huge Adventure, Dingodile serves as the first boss. He fights Crash in a shark-infested underwater cavern, and fires torpedoes at the cavern ceiling in an attempt to impale Crash with the falling stalactites, but eventually manages to impale himself, leaving him open for attack. He is later merged with Doctor Cortex, N. Gin, and Tiny, and becomes Mega-Mix. After chasing Crash down a space station hall, Mega-Mix is left inside the space station, which explodes with the villains in it. In Wrath of Cortex, Dingodile is an attendee in Uka Uka's bad guy convention, not speaking a single line in the entire game. He later serves as an obstacle in certain levels, firing spurts of flamethrower ammo in an attempt to stop Crash.

In Crash Nitro Kart, Dingodile is seen assisting Doctor N. Gin when the tower they're standing in is abducted. The next time he is seen, he is brainwashed by N. Trance and racing under Trance's team, which drives green vehicles. His flamethrower is not seen in the game, and he dons a strange device on his head, presumably a brainwashing/control helmet. In Crash Twinsanity, Dingodile is seen as one of the attendees of Crash's "birthday party" (which is really a gathering of past villains in the Crash series). Later, he is seen inside a small shack reading a green book (originally, he was having a date with Tawna, but this was omitted due to time constraints),[7] but is interrupted when a large snowball crushes the shack with him in it. As Cortex laments his humiliation, Dingodile learns of the Evil Twins' treasure,[8] and secretly follows Crash and Cortex to the boiler room of Madame Amberly's Academy of Evil, where he tries to kill Crash for the treasure, believing he already has it.[9] However, with the help of the boiler room's emergengy sprinkler system, Crash is able to disable Dingodile's flamethrower and beat him into submission. Dingodile is last seen laying unconscious in the boiler room.

[edit] Voice

During the Naughty Dog era, Dingodile had a raspy, Broad Australian accented voice, which was supplied by the late Batman star William Hootkins, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on October 23, 2005, the first, and so far, only Crash Bandicoot cast member to pass away. Dingodile sports a similar voice in Crash Team Racing, but Hootkins' name is not seen in the credits, nor is the role of Dingodile credited to anyone. In Crash Bash, Dingodile emits an uncharacteristically deep laugh, and a sound clip of a dog whining can be heard when Dingodile is injured. From this point on, Dingodile doesn't have a speaking role until Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Twinsanity, where he is voiced by The A-Team star Dwight Schultz. Shultz's rendition of Dingodile gives his voice a Steve Irwin-esque feel, eliminating the raspy quality in his voice, and making his Australian accent thicker (this is more noticable in Twinsanity during a cutscene before the boss fight against him).[9]

Keisuke Ishida voices Dingodile in the Japanese dub of the games.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex NTSC Nintendo Gamecube manual, page 17
  2. ^ Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure NTSC manual, page 19
  3. ^ Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Gallery. Retrieved on March 20, 2007.
  4. ^ Crash Bash PAL Playstation manual, page 29
  5. ^ Dingodile: G'day, mates! Dingodile's the name, and Uka Uka and Cortex gave me orders to bring the Crystals to them during the Ice Ages. So gimme the goods, and shove off! Or I'll roast yaz! (Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped)
  6. ^ Dingodile: You thrashed me, mate. No worries, but soon you'll be up against much worse... (Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped)
  7. ^ A Traveller's Tales employee reveals removed content in Crash Twinsanity. Retrieved on March 20, 2007.
  8. ^ Doctor Neo Cortex: I've never been so humiliated! No amount of treasure would ever be able to compensate.
    Dingodile: (emerging from the ruins of his shack) Treasure, eh? Bonzai! (Crash Twinsanity)
  9. ^ a b Dingodile: Cozy, ain'it? Rumors are you two chumps have go'n yer mits on some treashah, and I wanna piece of dat pie!
    Doctor Neo Cortex: I have no idea what you just said. (Crash Twinsanity)

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