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Doctor Neo Cortex
Crash Bandicoot character
Cortex as he appears in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
First appearanceCrash Bandicoot (1996)
Last appearanceCrash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020)
Created byAndy Gavin
Jason Rubin
Designed byCharles Zembillas
Voiced by
English
Japanese
In-universe information
Full nameNeo Periwinkle Cortex[2][3]
OccupationMad scientist
WeaponRaygun
FamilySharon (mother)[4]
RelativesNina Cortex (niece)
Nationality United States

Doctor Neo Cortex is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot video game series. He has appeared in every mainline game in the series as Crash Bandicoot's archenemy, as well as a playable character in several spin-off titles. Cortex is an egomaniacal mad scientist who seeks to achieve world domination with the use of the Evolvo-Ray, a machine capable of creating genetically enhanced soldiers from ordinary animals. Crash was one such subject and was intended by Cortex to be the general of his army, but was rejected as a failure preceding his escape and subsequent thwarting of Cortex's plot, for which Cortex is determined to eliminate Crash as an obstacle in his path to world domination. Cortex was created by Naughty Dog founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin, and was originally designed by Charles Zembillas. Voice actors who have portrayed Cortex include Brendan O'Brien, Clancy Brown and Lex Lang. Cortex has been positively received by reviewers, with much of the praise going to Brown's and Lang's vocal performances as well as the character's portrayal in Crash Twinsanity.

Concept and creation

File:CortexSketch.gif
Charles Zembillas' original concept art for Doctor Neo Cortex

The idea for Cortex was conceived by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin while eating near Universal Interactive Studios with Naughty Dog employee Dave Baggett and Universal Interactive president Mark Cerny. Gavin came up with the idea of an "evil genius villain with a big head" who was "all about his attitude and his minions". Rubin, having become fond of the animated television series Pinky and the Brain, imagined a "more malevolent Brain" with minions resembling the weasel characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. After Gavin performed a "silly villain voice" depicting the attitude in mind for the character, he and Rubin instantly came up with the name "Doctor Neo Cortex". Gavin and Rubin described Cortex to character designer Charles Zembillas as "[having] a huge head but a tiny body, he’s a mad scientist, and he dresses a bit like a Nazi from The Jetsons". Jason Rubin owns the original sketches of Cortex by Zembillas.[5]

Cortex was kept stationary in much of his early appearances because his game model was unable to walk properly due to the short length of his legs.[5] For Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, artist Nicholas Kole adjusted Cortex's proportions to be more "debonair". However, this resulted in Cortex's animations turning out "too handsome", which Kole considered to be a "really funny problem". To preserve Cortex's characterization as the "evil doctor who always gets defeated", the art team created an expression sheet to maintain a range of expressions that felt more "classically Neo Cortex".[6]

Cortex is voiced by Brendan O'Brien in the first Crash Bandicoot game,[7] and by Clancy Brown from Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back up to Crash Nitro Kart.[8][9][10][11][12] Brown eventually left the series due to his dissatisfaction with the video game industry's financial compensation for voice actors.[13] For Crash Twinsanity, Lex Lang was called in for an audition to replace Brown,[14] and was given an explanation that Vivendi Universal Games considered Brown's performance to be "too mean".[15] After voice director Chris Borders described Doctor Cortex to Lang and had him listen to signature samples of Brown's performance,[14] he encouraged Lang to play Cortex as more flamboyant and self-absorbed.[15] Lang eventually created a depiction of Cortex that was "master evil with a bit of a childish feminine side that leaks out in his tirades" that had everyone laughing at the lines and the character.[14] Monty Python's Flying Circus was an additional influence on Lang's delivery as Cortex.[16] Lang voiced Cortex from Twinsanity onward.[17][18][19] In a flashback to Cortex's childhood in Crash Twinsanity, he is voiced by Debi Derryberry,[17] while Corey Burton voiced Cortex when he is momentarily turned into an infant in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.[19]

Description

Cortex's most distinguishing physical traits are his large head, yellow skin,[5][20] pointed goatee and the N tattooed onto his forehead.[21][22] Cortex is near-bald with the exception of a few areas on his head; Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin jokingly explained that Cortex only uses Rogaine on those select areas,[23] while Joe Pearson's production bible suggests that Cortex had been prematurely balding since his infancy.[24] Cortex stands 1.6 meters (5'3") and weighs 59 kilograms (130 pounds).[25]

Cortex's basic characterization was conceived by Gavin and Rubin as "A villain, all full of himself, unable to conceive of ever doing anything the simple way, but constantly (in his eyes) betrayed by the incompetence of his henchmen".[5] Cortex is depicted as a mad scientist who is ruthlessly and obsessively motivated to dominate the world by the desire to exact vengeance upon a humanity that spurned and humiliated him.[26][27] He possesses an outrageously high intelligence quotient, which he believes makes him the logical choice to control the world, and he is frequently frustrated by the inferior mentality and failures of his underlings. In awareness of his diminutive build, Cortex avoids physical combat and rationalizes his cowardice by claiming that such engagement is beneath him. Cortex is exceptionally skilled in the fields of engineering and mechanics, which allows him to create a wide variety of devices and machines. Although he is prone to wild mood swings, his single-minded determination keeps him functional. He is highly self-confident and views himself as perfect, which convinces him not to subject himself to the Evolvo-Ray. Cortex is a lifelong loner whose sole friend has been his assistant and childhood associate Doctor Nitrus Brio, whom he treats with contemptuous affection. As a result of his traumatic childhood experiences, Cortex flies into an hysterical rage at imagery of clowns, laugh tracks, seltzer bottles and bananas.[27] Crash Twinsanity artist Daniel Tonkin observed that Cortex is "massively egotistical" and has "a real insecurity complex",[28] while voice actor Lex Lang summarized Cortex's character as a "maniacal narcissist".[15]

Backstory

Cortex's full backstory was written by Joe Pearson as part of the concept bible for Crash Bandicoot.[29] Cortex was born as the youngest son in a large family of traveling clowns; his birth occurred within a gypsy wagon fleeing Peoria, Illinois after a particularly unsuccessful show.[24] While his parents and twenty brothers and sisters were naturally extroverted comedians, Cortex was highly introverted and sickly, and preferred studying and practicing science.[27] When Cortex was two years old, his family was faced with expulsion from Smilin' Jimmy's Travelin' Side Show. In desperation, Cortex's family dragged him from the wagon, dressed him in clown makeup and presented him to Jimmy. The sight of Cortex entertained Jimmy so much that he made Neo the star of the show under the stage name "Lit'l Idjut".[24] Cortex's withdrawn nature made him the butt of numerous cruel jokes at the hands of his family and the performers; when Cortex was three years old, they tattooed a large "N", for "nerd", onto his forehead. At the age of five, after years of torture as an unwilling participant in the family act, Cortex wiped out his family and the circus by setting off an explosion of the circus's fireworks supply.[27]

The orphaned Cortex took refuge in an abandoned bean factory in the nearby town of Sunnyville, living off a diet of canned beans and collected rainwater.[27] At the age of six, Cortex enrolled in Oliver North High School,[24] where his youth, arrogant attitude and large head made him a target for bullies and some of the teachers. However, Cortex found a friend in the subservient and equally intelligent youth Nitrus Brio. Cortex's high school education lasted for two years until Cortex and Brio created a nuclear explosion that wiped out much of Sunnyville; at the time, Cortex and Brio had taken refuge within the abandoned G. G. Liddy Marine Munitions Depot Property just outside of the radius of destruction.[24][27] Cortex and Brio spent the next several years in vagrancy, and were ridiculed and ostracized from such locales as Himalayan monasteries, Congolese villages and Los Angeles nightclubs; wherever Cortex and Brio went, explosions and catastrophes would inevitably follow.[24][27] Following the pair's involvement in the Chernobyl disaster,[24] the pattern of disasters caught the attention of various international law agencies, and the two were branded as wanted criminals by every country in the world.[24][27] Seeking refuge, Cortex and Brio took advantage of a shady advertisement in an Australian tabloid and secured a secluded island 300 miles west of Tasmania as their base of operations.[24][30] Over the next five years, Cortex and Brio constructed a castle over the foundation of an ancient Lemurian palace,[27][30] and Cortex began using the Evolvo-Ray to create a mutated army of animals that would aid him in his quest for world domination. Prior to Crash, he created the boss characters Ripper Roo, Koala Kong, the Komodo Brothers, Pinstripe Potoroo and Tiny Tiger.[31]

A series of collectible "Flashback Tapes" in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time detail Cortex's training of the then-unnamed Crash prior to his initiation into Cortex's army,[32] and the final tape featuring Crash includes Cortex christening him with the name "Crashworth Cortex the First", or "Crash" for short.[33] In the subsequent tapes, which take place following Crash's escape from Cortex's castle, Cortex trains Crash's sister, whom he codenames "Coco",[34] hires former defense industry physicist Doctor N. Gin,[35] and creates Dingodile as a potential substitute for Coco,[36] who ultimately escapes Cortex's castle under the guise of undertaking another trial.[37] Paintings of Cortex's family members can be seen throughout the game's final level.[38]

Appearances

Main series

File:Neo-cortex-crash-bandicoot-2.jpg
Doctor Neo Cortex as he appears in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

In Crash Bandicoot, Cortex prepares Crash for the Cortex Vortex, which will supposedly brainwash Crash into becoming the general of Cortex's army of "Cortex Commandos".[39] After the Vortex rejects Crash, Cortex chases Crash out of his castle and prepares a female bandicoot named Tawna for experimentation.[40] Cortex is eventually confronted and defeated by Crash, who escapes with Tawna on Cortex's airship. In Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Cortex lands in a cavern where he discovers a large Crystal that he believes will aid him in controlling the world. However, he soon learns that 25 smaller Crystals are needed alongside this "Master Crystal" if the newest version of his Cortex Vortex is going to work.[41] To remedy this situation, Cortex abducts Crash and fools him into believing that he is working to save the world from an upcoming solar flux by gathering the Crystals. Cortex is later forced to flee when Coco discovers Cortex's real plan and reveals it to Crash. In Crash Bandicoot: Warped, the ruins of Cortex's space station crash into Earth and release his master Uka Uka. Cortex takes part in Uka Uka's plan to gather the Crystals in their original places in time by using Doctor Nefarious Tropy's Time-Twisting Machine. Upon Cortex's defeat, the Time-Twisting Machine implodes on itself, trapping Cortex, Tropy and Uka Uka in a prison outside of time and space.

In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Cortex creates Crunch Bandicoot in another plot to destroy Crash, and unveils him at a meeting inside Cortex's new space station. After Crunch fails to defeat Crash, Cortex and Uka Uka flee into an escape pod after Uka Uka accidentally causes the space station's catastrophic failure. Their pod lands in a frozen Antarctic wasteland, stranding them both on a large sheet of ice for three years.[42] In Crash Twinsanity, Cortex returns and attempts to eliminate Crash. After another failure, Cortex and Crash encounter a pair of interdimensional parrots named the Evil Twins, who announce their plans to destroy Crash's island and devastate Earth. Cortex temporarily teams up with Crash to defeat the Evil Twins with the aid of the Psychetron, a machine that will allow them to travel between the infinite dimensions. Cortex eventually realizes that the Evil Twins are his childhood pets Victor and Moritz, who were sent to the Tenth Dimension following Cortex's first experiment with the Evolvo-Ray.[43] Cortex sets out with Crash and his niece Nina to the Tenth Dimension, where they confront and defeat the Evil Twins. After the trio return to their own dimension, Cortex attempts to eliminate Crash, but the malfunctioning Psychetron teleports Cortex into Crash's brain, where he is trapped with a crowd of dancing Crash duplicates.[44]

In Crash of the Titans, Cortex kidnaps Coco and steals a large quantity of Mojo from an ancient temple, planning to use it to create an army of "Titans", which will aid him in the construction of the Doominator, a giant robot capable of destroying the Wumpa Islands.[45] After failing once more to eliminate Crash, Cortex is lambasted by Uka Uka, who replaces him with Nina Cortex.[46] Incapacitated for much of the game, Cortex is denied the opportunity to watch his Doominator in action.[47] At the end of the game, Cortex rescues Nina from the collapsing Doominator and praises her for her treachery, but nevertheless promises retribution.[48] In Crash: Mind over Mutant, Cortex deposits Nina at his Evil Public School, then reconciles with his old colleague Nitrus Brio to invent the NV, a personal digital assistant that controls whoever uses it by transmitting negative Mojo; the Mojo is forcibly extracted from Uka Uka after Cortex takes him captive.[49] Cortex later engages in a fight with Crash inside his new Space Head space station, empowering himself with the use of N. Brio's original mutation formula.[50] Upon losing the fight, Cortex throws a tantrum, causing the Space Head to plummet towards Earth. Cortex returns to normal and escapes the Space Head in a smaller shuttle.

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, which erases the games following Warped from continuity,[51] Cortex and Tropy escape from their temporal prison, which creates rifts leading to different dimensions, and they begin a plot to conquer the multiverse. After another defeat to Crash, Cortex prepares to retire until Tropy announces his own plot to reshape the multiverse, which would erase both Crash and Cortex from existence. Cortex, incensed by Tropy's betrayal, teams up with Crash and his group to stop Tropy and seal the dimensional rifts.[52] Following a celebratory trip to a futuristic metropolis, Cortex kidnaps Kupana-Wa − a magical "Quantum Mask" with time-altering powers − and uses her to travel back in time to his original bid for world domination and avert Crash's creation.[53] However, he is unable to convince his past self to abandon the experiment, and is again defeated by the present Crash. The present Cortex is banished by the Quantum Masks to the end of the universe,[54] where Cortex relaxes on a beach and enjoys the peace and quiet until Uka Uka suddenly appears before him.

Other games

Cortex appears as a playable character in the racing titles Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Tag Team Racing,[55][56][57] as well as the party titles Crash Bash and Crash Boom Bang!.[58][59] Cortex is the main antagonist in the handheld titles Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy.[60][61] Although Cortex is absent from the narrative of Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, he is a playable character in the game's multiplayer mode.[62] On mobile platforms, Cortex appears as an antagonist in the racing title Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and the endless runner Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!.[63][64] Outside of the Crash Bandicoot series, Cortex appeared alongside Crash as a playable character in the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Skylanders: Imaginators.[65]

Promotion and reception

Cortex has been featured in a series of Crash Bandicoot action figures produced by Resaurus. For Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Resaurus produced a "Dr. Neo Cortex" figure bundled with a laser gun, a Wumpa Fruit and a Crystal as seen in the game.[66] A vinyl figure by Funko and a rubber duck by Numskull Designs have also been made in Cortex's image.[67][68] On July 28, 2020, First 4 Figures unveiled a 21-inch resin collectible figure of Cortex. The figure depicts a scene from the boss fight against him in Crash Bandicoot: Warped, in which Cortex wields a ray gun and a timed mine. The figure will be released in both a standard and exclusive edition; the exclusive version features a light-up hoverboard, mine and smoke trail.[69][70]

A photo of Clancy Brown
A photo of Lex Lang
Voice actors Clancy Brown and Lex Lang have both received positive critical attention for their performances as Cortex.

Major Mike of GamePro and Mark Cooke of Game Revolution both praised Clancy Brown's vocal performance as Cortex in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, with Cooke describing Brown as "hilarious" and "satirical".[71][72] In his review of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Ben Kosmina of Nintendo World Report singled out Brown's voice-acting as "great", and recalled Cortex's line "...and a woman with nice, big... bags of ice for my head" being a highlight in Crash Bandicoot: Warped.[73] Chris Carter of Destructoid, in his review of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, stated his preference of Brown's performance in the original trilogy over Lex Lang's performance in the remastered version.[74]

Cortex's portrayal and Lang's vocal performance in Crash Twinsanity were also praised. James B. Pringle of IGN noted that the game "shows a side of the evil doctor that we haven't seen before" and, while describing the game's dialogue as "solid," said that "Cortex is the one you want to keep listening to."[75] Brent Soboleski of TeamXbox believed that Cortex was "probably the best and most entertaining character of the game since players get a completely different look at his personality this time through," and felt that he was "very funny and his sarcasm and evil attitude are a perfect match for his personality."[76] Ryan Davis of GameSpot analyzed "Cortex's constant creeping and sniveling" as "a great showcase of the kinds of neuroses that might cause one to gain an interest in evil science," and added that "the strained grandeur of Cortex's speech" was the most "accomplished" voice work in the game.[77] Nick Valentino of GameZone felt that "the biggest laughs, believe it or not, come from Doctor Neo Cortex who comes off as nutty in the best possible way. He’s filled with witty observations and often pokes fun of his past encounters with Crash." He later remarked that "the twisted Doctor is one hilarious bloke and his dialogue just makes him all the more likeable."[78] Andrew Reiner of Game Informer admitted that "turning Cortex into a cross-dressing lunatic brought about a few chuckles".[79]

Robert Workman of GameDaily ranked Cortex number twenty-three on his list of the "Top 25 Evil Masterminds of All Time", stating "His twisted Wario-like hair, his pointy goatee and that big N stamped in the middle of his forehead makes him look like pure evil."[21] Chris Buffa, also of GameDaily, ranked Cortex at number twenty-one in his "Top 25 Craziest Villains" list.[22] In the Guinness World Records' 2013 Gamer's Edition, Cortex was ranked 42nd on its list of 50 greatest video game villains.[80] GamesRadar ranked Cortex 98th in their 2013 list of the best villains in video game history.[81]

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