Doctor N. Gin

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N. Gin
N. Gin in Crash Tag Team Racing
Game series	Crash Bandicoot
First game	Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Creator(s)	Naughty Dog
Voice actor(s) (English)	Brendan O'Brien (1997-99) Corey Burton (Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex) Quinton Flynn (Crash Nitro Kart, Crash Twinsanity) Nolan North (Crash Tag Team Racing)
Voice actor(s) (Japanese)	Kazuhiro Nakata

Doctor N. Gin (ドクター エヌ ジン, Dokutā Enu Jin^?, sometimes spelled N-Gin) is a fictional video game character and secondary villain in the Crash Bandicoot series.

Doctor N. Gin is a defense industry phycisist-turned-cyborg who usually acts as a boss in the series. He is Doctor Neo Cortex's right-hand man (replacing Doctor Nitrus Brio), helping him create numerous doomsday weapons and other unpleasant devices virtually without question, regardless of the consequences (although he is seen working away from Cortex in Crash Twinsanity). His personality and appearance are based on that of the stereotypical deranged henchman.

Jason Rubin is credited for the concept of Doctor N. Gin. N. Gin has a live missile in his head, which can give him a headache when it becomes active. Coincidentially, Jason Rubin suffered from chronic migraine headaches.^[1]

Contents 1 Personality and appearance 2 History 3 Voice 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Personality and appearance

Like most of Doctor Cortex's henchmen, Doctor N. Gin follows Cortex's every order without question, more so than Tiny and Dingodile, as N. Gin is Doctor Cortex's right-hand man, replacing Doctor Nitrus Brio, who turned against Cortex after the events of Crash Bandicoot. N. Gin becomes more deranged by Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Twinsanity, where he becomes prone to fits of giggling. In a deleted scene from Crash Twinsanity, it is shown that he has developed somewhat of a crush on Crash's sister, Coco, as evidenced when Cortex disguises himself as Coco and is kidnapped by N. Gin as a result, who attempts to make "her" his sea bride.^[2] No reference to this crush is made in the finished version of Twinsanity, rendering the crush non-canon. In Crash Tag Team Racing, Doctor N. Gin is depicted as a depressed, psychotic, masochistic, and somewhat effeminate madman, prone to fits of yelling, sobbing, and giggling, and making doomsday weapons out of such odd items as fuzzy slippers.^[3] He is also shown to have low self-esteem, at one point asking Crash to buy him a ballerina outfit, so that he can feel pretty.^[4]

Doctor N. Gin is a stocky, red-haired (black in Tag Team Racing) cyborg with only half a face. He wears an identical attire to Cortex, with a notable difference being a numerous amount of large bolts located all over his lab coat. A distinguishing feature of his is the large missile protruding from the left side of his head. After the incident that provided the missile, N. Gin reconstructed it as a life-support system, turning nearly half his head into metal. The missile is still live, and was only thought to activated only when N. Gin was stressed or angry, but as revealed in Tag Team Racing, he can activate the missile at will, usually to stabilize a vehicle. While the eye located on the non-mechanical side of his head is somewhat small, the eye on the other side of his face is large, circular, and with a small black pupil occupying it (although in Nitro Kart, this eye is replaced by a black electronic eye with a red pupil). In terms of height, N. Gin is somewhat shorter than Cortex, but appears to be as tall as him in Tag Team Racing. In the same game, N. Gin's skin takes on a grayish tone, as opposed to the pink/yellow of earlier games.

As a child in the Academy of Evil, N. Gin is shown to have a paper airplane stuck in his head, foreshadowing the head rocket later in his life. This is revealed in an unlockable piece of concept art in Crash Twinsanity.^[5]

[edit] History

Before teaming up with Doctor Neo Cortex, N. Gin was a well-known physicist in the defense industry. Due to a budget cut, one of his missile projects went awry and found itself lodged into N. Gin's head.^[1] N. Gin has since stabalized the weapon, and went on to become Doctor Cortex's henchman one year after the events of Crash Bandicoot, helping him study the power of Cortex's newly-found Master Crystal. It turns out that 25 Slave Crystals are needed along with the Master Crystal to harness the power of the upcoming planetary alignment and use it to enslave mankind.^[6] When Cortex recruits Crash to retrieve the Crystals for him, Doctor N. Gin attempts to take them as the penultimate boss in the game. However, the weapons on N. Gin's mech turn out to be weak points, and Crash is easily able to toss Wumpa Fruit into the weapons, causing the mech to malfunction and self-destruct, leaving N. Gin floating in the vacuum of space. He is somehow able to reach Cortex's space station before the final boss battle, as evidenced by quotes said by Cortex before the battle against him.^[7]

In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, N. Gin returns as the penultimate boss of the game. Under the orders of Uka Uka and Cortex, N. Gin is sent to eliminate the Bandicoots with his new double-phased mech, which starts out as a suit of mobile armor. When all of the weapons on the suit have been destroyed, the suit transforms into a space fighter and docks with a large weapon platform. After a battle with Coco and Pura on the Moon, N. Gin is once again sent flying into the vacuum of space. In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, N. Gin is an attendee of Uka Uka's bad guy convention, and is ultimately the one who reveals the secret of Crunch Bandicoot, Cortex's new superweapon.^[8] For the rest of the game, N. Gin serves as an obstacle in some of the levels. In Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, N. Gin serves as the second boss in the game, battling Crash in the skies with a weapon platform similar to the one he piloted in Warped. He is later merged with Doctor Cortex, Tiny, and Dingodile, 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.

N. Gin is a playable character in all three of the Crash racing titles, with his car usually being high in acceleration points. In Crash Nitro Kart, N. Gin is one of the racers in Cortex's team, which pilots red vehicles. At one point, N. Gin considers creating cybernetic sharks as new henchmen after racing Nash.^[9] N. Gin also has cameo appearances in the two Crash party games, appearing as an obstacle in a Ballistix minigame in Crash Bash, and appearing in the "Silhouette Quiz" minigame in Crash Boom Bang!.

In Crash Twinsanity, N. Gin appears during the first boss battle, piloting the Mecha-Bandicoot in an attempt to eliminate Crash. When all of its weapons are destroyed, the Mecha-Bandicoot stomps a hole into the floor, falling into a cavern. N. Gin is later seen as the captain of his own battleship. At the crows nest, N. Gin tries to destroy Crash again with a barrage of missiles, occasionally tossing a TNT Crate. This leads to the eventual collapse of the crows nest, causng N. Gin to land on his head onto a pile of TNT Crates, causing a large explosion that sinks the battleship. N. Gin is last seen teamed up with N. Tropy and N. Brio, with all of them trying to steal the Evil Twins' riches. However, they are driven out by Spyro the Dragon.

[edit] Voice

During the Naughty Dog era, N. Gin is depicted as having a somewhat nasal voice, which is digitally altered to include what appears to be a second, high-pitched voice echoing N. Gin's regular voice, creating a memorable robotic effect. During this period, N. Gin is voiced by Brendan O'Brien, who voiced a number of other characters in the series during the Naughty Dog era. In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, N. Gin is voiced by Corey Burton (who also voices N. Tropy in the same game), and the robotic effect is missing. N. Gin is voiced by Quinton Flynn (in the style of Peter Lorre) in Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Twinsanity. Once again, the robotic effect to his voice is present, but in comparison to his previous appearances, it is not as noticable. N. Gin is voiced by TMNT star Nolan North in Crash Tag Team Racing, and by Kazuhiro Nakata in the Japanese dub of the series.

[edit] See also

• Cyborg
• Doctor Neo Cortex
• Peter Lorre

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Crash Mania's Crash-O-Pedia article on Doctor N. Gin
• Sagertooth's character info article on Doctor N. Gin

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Crash series

Heroes	Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot | Crunch Bandicoot
Neutral	Doctor Nitrus Brio
Villains	Doctor Neo Cortex | Ripper Roo | Doctor N. Gin | Komodo Brothers | Tiny Tiger | Uka Uka | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Dingodile | Elementals | Mega-Mix | N. Trance | Nina Cortex | Nitros Oxide | Emperor Velo XXVII | Evil Twins
Other Characters	List of Crash Bandicoot characters