Tiny Tiger
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| Tiny Tiger | |
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 Tiny Tiger as he is seen in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped |
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| Game series | Crash Bandicoot |
| First game | Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back |
| Creator(s) | Naughty Dog |
| Voice actor(s) (English) | Brendan O'Brien John DiMaggio (Crash Nitro Kart) |
| Voice actor(s) (Japanese) | Fumihiko Tachiki |
Tiny Tiger (タイニー タイガー Tainī Taigā?, erroneously named "Taz Tiger" in Crash Bandicoot 2) is a fictional video game character and secondary villain from the Crash Bandicoot series.
Tiny is a Thylacine that was subjected to the Evolvo-Ray, and is usually seen serving under the series' main antagonist, Doctor Neo Cortex. Like his spiritual predecessor, Koala Kong, Tiny is incredibly powerful and muscular, but overall unintelligent. He is one of Doctor Cortex's two main mutant followers, alongside Dingodile.
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[edit] Personality and appearance
In much of the games that he appears in, Tiny is depicted to be a fierce but unintelligent creature. He is extremely loyal to Doctor Cortex, following his every whim without question, but often ends up injuring someone in the process, as shown in Crash Nitro Kart, in which he flattens Dingodile while rushing to assist Doctor N. Gin. Despite his lack of intelligence, Tiny is capable of speech (unlike Crash, who is apparently smarter than him), but often speaks in the third person, as to reflect his low intelligence. It can be assumed that Tiny is not truly evil, but is only doing what he is told by Doctor Cortex because of his unintelligence (and apparent lack of ability to think for himself), as evidenced in a statement made by Doctor Cortex after Tiny's defeat in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped.[1]
Tiny appears to be an orange, muscular, cat-like creature (supposedly a Thylacine due to both his lack of stripes and Neo Cortex's tendency to mutate Australian wildlife) with sharp fangs and pointed nails. He is often seen wearing spiked shoulder pads, metal bracelets, a green leopard-spotted loincloth, and red sneakers. In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, due to the circumstances of the boss fight against him, his attire is updated to include a gladiator helmet, an armored left arm, two belts criss-crossing his torso, and a trident at hand. For an unexplained reason, Tiny also dons this attire in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. Despite his ridiculously skinny legs, Tiny is known for his incredible jumping prowess, as evidenced in the boss battles against him.
[edit] History
It is generally believed that Tiny was created by Doctor Nitrus Brio, as the first three bosses of Crash Bandicoot 2 are serving under Brio, who is trying to stop Crash from gathering the Crystals for Cortex.[2][3] It is unknown how Tiny became an ally of Cortex after the events of the game.
Tiny made his debut in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back as the third boss in the game. Under the orders of Doctor Nitrus Brio, Tiny attempted to destroy Crash Bandicoot inside a space station by crushing him under his feet. There is no floor in the room they fight in, but rather an endless chasm, with 9 mechanical platforms set up in a three-by-three fashion to save both of them from falling to their doom. However, all of these platforms are faulty, eventually malfunctioning and deactivating. Crash uses this to his advantage, and tricks the gullible Tiny into jumping into the resulting gap that is created by these faulty platforms. However, it is revealed in Crash Bandicoot 3 that Tiny suvived the fall. Here, he is seen serving under Uka Uka and Doctor Cortex, attempting to take whatever Crystals Crash and Coco have gathered and bringing them to Cortex in the Colosseum under his orders.[4] Crash encounters Tiny in the Colosseum chained to two columns (a la Samson), which he snaps free from with ease. Tiny then proceeds to try and crush Crash under his feet, just as he did in their last encounter. When Tiny tries to impale Crash with his trident, the trident becomes stuck in the ground, leaving Tiny open for attack. Tiny then summons numerous lions to try and eat Crash. After this cycle is repeated two more times, Tiny succumbs, making Crash victorious.
Tiny has minor roles in both Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. In Huge Adventure, Tiny serves as the third boss. He once again dons his gladiator attire and fights Crash near a large waterfall. His fighting style here is much like that in Crash Bandicoot 3, leaving Crash to beat him into submission whenever his trident is stuck to a platform. He is later merged with Doctor Cortex, N. Gin, 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. In Wrath of Cortex, Tiny 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, literally standing in Crash's way in an attempt to hinder him.
Tiny is a playable character in Crash Team Racing, Crash Bash, and Crash Nitro Kart. In Nitro Kart, Tiny is seen playing checkers with himself (and later, attempting to assist N. Gin) when the tower they're standing in is abducted. At the end of the "Team Cortex" side of the story, he, Cortex, and N. Gin are teleported to Terra, where Tiny gains the respect of the inhabitants. Tiny also has a cameo in Crash Twinsanity in Crash's "birthday party" (which is really a gathering of past Crash villains). The latest game in which Tiny is a boss character is in Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, in which he attempts to obliterate Crash in a frozen tundra with a tank.
[edit] Voice
In all of his appearances, Tiny is depicted as having a deep, rumbling voice, as to reflect his large and intimidating appearance. During the Naughty Dog era, this voice is provided by Brendan O'Brien (though Tiny doesn't actually speak until Crash Bandicoot 3). In Crash Bash, Tiny's voice consists of both samples of his roar in Crash Bandicoot 2 and Komodo Moe's laugh in the same game. In Crash Nitro Kart, Tiny is voiced by Futurama star John DiMaggio. He is voiced by Fumihiko Tachiki in the Japanese dub of the series.
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[edit] References
- ^ Doctor Neo Cortex: Tiny was a good fellow. He hated everyone and everything, but a good heart nonetheless. (Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped)
- ^ Doctor Nitrus Brio: Until then, I will use my forces to stop you from gathering Crystals! (Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back)
- ^ Doctor Neo Cortex: Crash, I have discovered that the opposition is being masterminded by Doctor Nitrus Brio, the inventor of the Evolvo-Ray. (Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back)
- ^ Tiny Tiger: Uka Uka and Cortex want Tiny get Crystals, and bring them to big Coliseum in Rome. Crash!! Leave them for Tiny, or Crash get crushed!! (Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped)
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| Heroes | Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot | Crunch Bandicoot |
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| 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 |
