Tawna

Tawna
'Crash Bandicoot' character
File:Tawnadn9.png Render of Tawna from Crash Bandicoot.
First game	Crash Bandicoot
Created by	Naughty Dog

Tawna (タウナ, Tauna) is a character in the Crash Bandicoot series.

Overview

According to Naughty Dog, the original idea for Tawna was "Pamela Anderson with a brain."[1]

She was formely Crash Bandicoot's girlfriend and the damsel in distress in the first installment. While the player's main objective is to rescue Tawna from Cortex, Tawna also appears in the end of certain bonus rounds which are only accessible after the player collects three "Tawna" icons. She has been omitted from further installments because of her exaggerated sex appeal (which was already toned down considerably from her original concept design) for what is supposed to be a family series. Naughty Dog replaced her with Crash's sister Coco in the second game and has appeared in every Crash game since as the series' heroine. Tawna was written off from the series for awhile, as having dumped Crash for Pinstripe.

Tawna returned as a playable character in the Nintendo DS game Crash Boom Bang. She still remains in a relationship with Pinstripe, as stated in the characters selection screen.

Trivia

• She makes her first cameo in Crash Bandicoot, where she is seen in a picture at Crash's home.

• Tawna is once again seen as a picture at Crash's home in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex.

• In Crash Twinsanity, during the scene in the Slip Slide Icecapades segment where Crash and Cortex crash (pun unintended) through a building titled Moulin Cortex, you can find Tawna dressed in a fancy costume next to the logo.

• Tawna is one of the few Crash charaters who has many cameo appearances.

• She is a unlockable character in Crash Boom Bang

Voice actors

She is voiced by Akiko Toda in Crash Boom Bang!.

External links

• An illustration of Tawna in Moulin Cortex attire.
• Crash Mania's Crash-O-Pedia article on Tawna
• http://wurlitzeramad.proboards99.com/index.cgi