Coco Bandicoot

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Coco Bandicoot
Coco Bandicoot in Crash of the Titans
Game series	Crash Bandicoot
First game	Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997)
Created by	Naughty Dog
Designed by	Charles Zembillas Joe Pearson Raine Anderson (2007)[1]
Voiced by (English)	Vicki Winters (1997) Hynden Walch (1999)[2] Debi Derryberry (2001-present)[3][4]
Voiced by (Japanese)	Haruna Ikezawa (1997-2000) Ema Kogure (2001-2004) Satomi Arai (2005) Risa Tsubaki (2006)

Coco Bandicoot is a fictional video game character and secondary protagonist in the Crash Bandicoot series.

She is depicted as Crash's brainy adolescent sister, with an IQ of 164 (according to Crash Tag Team Racing). Although based on her many intellectual prowess and inventions, it seems that her IQ is much higher. When she was younger, her face was almost always glued to a laptop screen. But recently, she developed teenage mannerisms, and she can often be found practicing Hong Kong martial arts, but she is still interested in technology.

In her first appearance in Crash Bandicoot 2, Coco was voiced by Vicki Winters, one of her only known acting roles. While not all of Crash Team Racing 's voice actors were credited with roles, it is widely believed that Hynden Walch voiced Coco in the game, as she is the only female in the cast.^[2] In all of the games starting with Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Coco is voiced by Jimmy Neutron star Debi Derryberry, her voice bearing more of a resemblance to her former character as the series continued.^[3][4] In the Japanese dubs of the games from Crash Bandicoot 2 to Crash Team Racing, Coco is voiced by Sgt. Frog seiyū Haruna Ikezawa. Afterwards, she was voiced by Ema Kogure from Wrath of Cortex to Crash Twinsanity, and by Satomi Arai from Crash Tag Team Racing onwards. In the spin-off game Crash Boom Bang!, she is voiced by Risa Tsubaki. If both English and Japanese voice actresses are counted, Coco has had seven voices, the greatest number of any character in the series.

Contents 1 Conception and creation 2 Characteristics 2.1 Personality 2.2 Appearance 2.3 Abilities 3 History 3.1 Past history 3.2 Present history 3.2.1 Naughty Dog era 3.2.2 Traveller's Tales era 3.2.3 Radical Entertainment era 3.3 Other appearances 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Conception and creation

Coco was created as a substitute for Crash Bandicoot 's Tawna, as the latter was deemed to have too much of a sexualized figure for a family video game series.

[edit] Characteristics

[edit] Personality

In her debut game, Coco is shown to be somewhat bossy, ordering Crash to perform certain errands whenever she sees fit. This behavior would resurface in Crash Tag Team Racing, in which Coco is shown to have given birth to an unexplained hatred towards Nina Cortex, often accusing her of stealing important parts she needs for her vehicles.^[5] This doesn't mean she is incapable of a more caring temperament; in Wrath of Cortex and Twinsanity, Coco shows concern for Crash when he is in visible danger, and, in the latter, even goes as far as physically attacking Cortex for supposedly "kidnapping" Crash. In Crash Tag Team Racing, though still interested in technology and martial arts, Coco developed more her "teenager" behavior, for example her new liking for beauties, shoppings and in her speech. In Crash of the Titans, Coco is shown to be more confident and appears as the stereotypical damsel-in-distress.

[edit] Appearance

In contrast to Crash's cartoony physical appearance, Coco's figure is more svelte and realistic. In all of her appearances, she is shown to have a full head of blond hair, usually tied up in a ponytail and with a flower stuck on the side. From her first appearance up to The Wrath of Cortex, Coco is seen wearing a white shirt, light-blue overalls (with one strap undone) and pink shoes. Coco is seen in this attire in storyboards for Crash Twinsanity (which can be found as unlockable extras in the game), though she isn't in the final product. In later games, Coco is seen wearing blue jeans and a white T-shirt with a red star on it. An unlockable costume in Crash Tag Team Racing has Coco dressing up in a blue and pink princess attire. In Crash of the Titans, Coco's attire is very similar to what she wore in Crash Tag Team Racing, though the sleeves on her T-shirt have become a light-blue color. Coco no longer wears her hair in a ponytail or wears a flower in it in this installment, instead having her hair straight down and wearing a blue headscarf.

[edit] Abilities

Despite being the same species as Crash, Coco is capable of speaking fluent English, and is exceptionally gifted in terms of intelligence, claiming to have an intelligence quotient of 164 in a recent installment of the series. With such high intelligence, Coco is able to create a number of complex machines, including the VR Hub System in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and a machine capable of enlarging entire planets in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. She also has above-average computer-hacking skills, as displayed in Crash Bandicoot 2, in which she uses this talent to hack into Cortex's files and figure out his true intentions. Aside from her high intelligence, Coco is able to physically fend for herself, knowing an array of martial arts leg moves, one powerful enough to create a large shockwave. As seen in Crash Bash, she has the ability to spin just like her brother.

[edit] History

[edit] Past history

Coco's true creator is unknown, although it is stated that she was evolved by Doctor Neo Cortex.^[3] However, she did not become part of Cortex's army, and she is seen living with Crash in the jungle in her first appearance.

[edit] Present history

[edit] Naughty Dog era

One day, when the battery in her laptop runs out, she commands Crash to find a new one for her.^[6] After Crash is abducted by Cortex, she somehow finds out, and manages to communicate with him for short intervals. She becomes suspicious about trusting Cortex, and hacks into Cortex's computer to discover his true intentions, only to discover detailed schemes for a new Cortex Vortex and a suspicious-looking space station.^[7] She reveals Cortex's plan to Crash,^[8] forcing Cortex to flee into the depths of outer space.

In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Coco aids Crash in his quest to gather the Power Crystals by gathering them in 17th century China, the 18th century Pacific Ocean, and World War I Europe. She is also responsible for the defeat of Doctor N. Gin on the Moon, with her new pet tiger Pura assisting her.

[edit] Traveller's Tales era

When the Elementals wreak havoc on the Earth in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, she activates a new Portal Chamber for Crash to use. She helps Crash gather the Power Crystals needed to stop the Elementals by collecting them in a tsunami-ravaged China and an avalanche zone. She also stops an armada of Cortex's space stations from striking Earth. Near the end, she helps Crash and Crunch escape from Cortex's malfunctioning space station.

Three years after the events of Wrath of Cortex, Coco is seen chasing a butterfly on N. Sanity Island when she is ambushed by Cortex. Many moments later, Coco believes that Cortex kidnapped Crash, and travels to the Iceberg Lab to confront him. With a swift kick, she attacks Cortex and sends the Power Crystals he was holding flying into the Psychetron. The resulting chain reaction leaves Coco paralyzed until the end of the game. Coco was originally to have a Tenth Dimension counterpart (simply named Evil Coco), which was omitted from the final game.^[9]

[edit] Radical Entertainment era

In Crash of the Titans, Coco is on the verge of creating a device that will be able to recycle butter when she is captured along with Aku Aku by Doctor Neo Cortex. When Nina replaces Cortex, Coco is brainwashed and made to finish the Doominator. She ends up completing the Doominator, but is rescued by Crash and able to stop it at the end of the game.

Coco is confirmed to be a playable character in the cooperation mode of Crash: Mind Over Mutant. How she is involved in the story is yet to be revealed.

[edit] Other appearances

Coco is a playable character in all three of the Crash Bandicoot racing titles, usually driving vehicles that are high in acceleration.^[2][4]

In Crash Nitro Kart, Coco is responsible for finally putting Nash to sleep, using her signature hacking skills to do it.

In Crash Tag Team Racing, Coco discovers the sole clue to whoever stole MotorWorld's Power Gems, which is Wumpa Whip. Because of Crash's high consumption of the beverage, she briefly believes (along with the others) that Crash is the culprit, despite the fact that Willie Wumpa Cheeks is the park's lone source of Wumpa Whip. At the end of the game, Coco returns the park's deed to Von Clutch, to whom it belongs.^[10]

Coco is also a playable character in Crash Bash, in which she is summoned by Aku Aku to battle against Uka Uka's team. She is one of the fastest characters in the Crate Crush levels, but is somewhat weak in the Polar Push levels.^[11] She plays a central role in Crash Boom Bang!, in which she is invited by the Viscount to the World Cannonball Race in his search for the Super Big Power Crystal.

In Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, Coco is abducted by N. Trance and is brainwashed alongside Crunch and Fake Crash. Coco battles Crash in a large battleship inside an active volcano, with Crash attacking the craft while it is reloading its weaponry. Upon snapping out of N. Trance's control, Coco becomes a playable character, gathering two Crystals in space while escaping the wrath of a fireball created by N. Tropy.

In Crash Bandicoot: the Huge Adventure, Coco builds the device that reverses the effects of Cortex's Planetary Minimizer.

In Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, Coco and the Professor from Spyro's world are responsible for tracking down the two villains and letting Crash and Spyro in.

[edit] See also

• List of Crash Bandicoot characters

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Crash Mania's Crash-O-Pedia article on Coco Bandicoot

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