Doctor Nitrus Brio

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Nitrus Brio
Game series	Crash Bandicoot
First game	Crash Bandicoot
Creator(s)	Naughty Dog
Voice actor(s) (English)	Brendan O'Brien
Voice actor(s) (Japanese)	Mitsuru Ogata

Doctor Nitrus Brio (ドクター ニトラス ブリオ, Dokutā Nitorasu Burio^?), or N. Brio for short, is a character from the Crash Bandicoot series. His name is a play on the word "embryo".

Brio is voiced by Brendan O'Brien in all of his speaking appearances, and by Mitsuru Ogata in the Japanese dubs of the games.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Crash Bandicoot 1.2 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back 1.3 Crash Bash 1.4 Crash Twinsanity 2 Weapons 3 Theme song 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Overview

[edit] Crash Bandicoot

Dr. Nitrus Brio is the first person Doctor Neo Cortex swayed to his side. Brio, like Cortex, studied at Madame Amberley's Academy of Evil where the first Evolvo Ray was designed. Prone to random fits of stuttering and giggling, his lack of self-esteem let Cortex take credit for the Evolvo-Ray that Brio perfected. While he is initially loyal to Cortex, he does have his doubts over whether Cortex's plans can actually work.^[1]He was the penultimate boss in the original Crash Bandicoot. However, the uncredited creator of the Evolvo-Ray is betrayed by Cortex and resigns from his position. Afterwards, he (according to the epilogue) rediscovered his true passion for bartending. No reference has been made to this epilogue in later games.

[edit] Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Nitrus Brio reappeared in Crash 2, hiring and creating The Komodo Brothers, and Tiny Tiger to assassinate Crash Bandicoot to keep him from gathering the Power Crystals. Once Crash has collected 42 gems, Brio destroys Cortex's space station and disappears, even though he asks Crash to activate his ray gun.^[2]

[edit] Crash Bash

In Crash Bash, for the contest between good and evil, Brio is summoned by Uka Uka to play for the side of evil. It is hinted in the PAL version of the instruction manual that he may have been the creator of Dingodile.

[edit] Crash Twinsanity

Brio did not return again until Crash Twinsanity when he teamed up with Nefarious Tropy to defeat Cortex and gain the Evil Twin Treasure. He appears alongside Tropy in a boss fight, immediately following Crash's escape from N. Gin's battleship, in which Brio (after being instructed by N. Tropy to "get changed") drinks a potion to transform himself into a large, green frog-like monster. He then appeared (in his human form) alongside N. Tropy and N. Gin again in the Evil Twins' fortress, claiming the treasure for themselves. However, they were thwarted by Spyro, who had been trapped in the Twins' vault.

In this game, he remains mute, and his only response to another character is nodding in reply to N. Tropy.

[edit] Weapons

In most games, Brio used beakers as projectiles (which later reappeared as weapons in Crash Team Racing, despite his absence from the game), as well as potions to transform himself into a Frankenstein-esque monster, as well as a giant mutant frog. In Crash Bash, Brio used a blue ray gun, similar to Cortex's red one.

[edit] Theme song

Brio's theme tune in Crash Bandicoot was mostly made up of many syntheisized sounds, and included some sort of electric piano. His theme tune was reused in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back when a hologram of his head appears in the Warp Room.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• A sketch of Brio by Naughty Dog.

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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