ALL Crash Bandicoot Games Are CANON! 

As someone who enjoyed twinsanity, I am fine with the franchise going a different direction from 3, it makes the most sense with Neo Cortex being sent to the past at the end of 3, I just hope we see the return of characters like Crunch Bandicoot and Nina Cortex

Let's be honest most of us saw this coming when they announced the premise of the game. The multiverse is an easy option to keep everyone happy. I'm guessing though if crash 4 is a different universe to the original trilogy, the the events of the first three games play out exactly the same in this universe. Future games will probably follow on from crash 4 and this will become the new main timeline. The multiverse only exists to keep fans from wrath of cortex and onwards happy. Either way Happy for a new crash game.

Tetsuya Nomura: *ties Kingdom Hearts games he has been working on together using a mobile game and several other spin offs* Paul Yan to Nomura: Hold my beer

Crash: Into the Bandiverse

I’m imagining the Og Tiny beating up Titans Tiny.

So that would also explain Tiny's big difference in Crash of the Titans (of course much more)😮

I wouldn't have minded if this had been a complete reboot. The old games still exist, and that's good enough for me. The fact they're acknowledging them, even better. I think trying to categorise them into different timelines (other than old and new) is going to be futile though, and Crash has never really been about the story. It's going to be even more complicated if you start taking into account Spyro appearing in Crash Purple and Twinsanity (Which Spyro games are canon? Does Skylanders count? The Netflix show features Crash from during the events of Crash 1, but he talks. Which versions of Crash met which versions of Spyro?)

I'm honestly hoping we see all of the Titans/mutants from COTT/CMOM because I loved those games when I was younger.

Nitro Fueled features characters from all the different timelines though. So the game can be considered Earth prime

Hence the multiverse in it's about time.

Notice how it said “new playable characters”. Not just one but multiple. Are we going to be able to play as all the other crashes? 😲

Imagine how cool it would be for there to be multiple Crashes and Cocos. For example Classic Crash meeting Twinsanity Crash or Mind over Mutant Crash.

Now we need a "Crash into the Crash-verse" game XD

I knew all the games were canon to begin with. Here they are in chronological order in my opinion - Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot: Warped (all constituting the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy), Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, Crash Team Racing, Crash Bash, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Twinsanity, Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced: Crash Nitro Kart, Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, Crash Tag Team Racing, Crash Boom Bang!, Crash of the Titans, Crash: Mind over Mutant, Crash Nitro Kart 2, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, Crash Bandicoot: Mutant Island, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2, and the Grand Prix of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.

This video makes no logical sense now basically there’s three timelines Original, New and Tawnaverse. In original timeline we have original games, 99x, CTR, Bash, Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, Fusion, XS, N-Tranced, CNK, Boom Bang, Tag Team Racing, Titans, Mutant Island, Mind Over Mutant, Nitro Kart 3D, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2, Thumpin Wumpa Islands and Crash On the Run. New timeline N. Sane Trilogy/Flashback Tapes, It’s About Time and CTRNF. Tawnaverse pretty much connects to New timeline as Tawna moves to that universe and Crash and Coco were killed by female N. Tropy.

(My opinion) Timeline 1: - Crash Bandicoot - Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - Crash Bandicoot: Warped - Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Timeline 2: ... - Crash Team Racing Timeline 3: ... - Crash Bash Timeline 4: ... - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex - Crash Twinsanity Timeline 5: ... - Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure/XS - Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced - Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage/Fusion Timeline 6: ... - Crash Nitro Kart Timeline 7: ... - Crash Nitro Kart (GBA) Timeline 8: ... - Crash Tag Team Racing Timeline 9: ... - Crash: Boom, Bang! Timeline 10: ... - Crash of the Titans - Crash Bandicoot: Mutant Island - Crash: Mind Over Mutant Timeline 11: ... - Crash of the Titans (GBA) Timeline 12: ... - Crash of the Titans (DS) - Crash: Mind Over Mutant (DS) Timeline 13: ... - Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D Timeline 14: ... - Crash Nitro Kart 2 Timeline 15: ... - Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 2 Timeline 16: ... - Skylanders Academy Timeline 17: ... - Skylanders Imaginators (Thumpin' Wumpa Islands) Timeline 18: ... - Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Timeline 19: ... - Crash On the Run!

Including CTRNF and CNK, Bash, Crash XS, N-tranced and Purple: Ripto's Rampage are all canon

I kinda came back after some people still didn't got the message that every title in the series is canon.

I mean they already told us that there will be 100+ level on this game. My goodness 🤯

So if Spyro shows up in Crash 4, as was teased in the interview, then will this lead into where the next Spyro game starts? I'm picturing Crash showing up and breaking something that releases a bunch of chaos in Spyro's world. Crash doesn't need to be a big part of Spyro's game (definitely wouldn't want that) but he could be the catalyst. Since Toys for Bob did both, and another Spyro is a give at this point, this seems like an easy way to cross promote and give a tease for the next Spyro game.

As good as this revelation is, I just realized a downside to this... People will most likely bicker about which timeline is the best, which, as far as I am aware, also happened with the Zelda multiverse. I mean, Crash DID debut in the same generation as Ocarina of Time did, so maybe it was just meant to be.

Crash 4 could just be placed between 3 and Wrath Of Cortex, kind of like how Sonic Mania is set after 3 & Knuckles but before Adventure despite being made years after both of those games.

I feel like the games like The Wrath of Cortex and Twinsanity takes place in an alternate universe which is fitting since Twinsanity is about travelling to another dimension, also I feel Crash of Titans and Mind Over Mutant takes place in another reality. In other words there are three Crash realities: *Naughty Dog trilogy with It's About Time as a sequel. *Post Naughty Dog games like The Wrath of Cortex and Twinsanity. *Crash of Titans and Mind Over Mutant. What do you think?

I always thought of it as just putting Crash 4 inbetween Warped and Wrath of Cortex. Cuz obviously time passed between Warped and WoC right? This multiverse plan is obviously gonna go haywire and by the end of it, the group of villains will be sitting around the table about to make Crunch. (I could be totally wrong about this but oh well lol)

You should also make a video about Which is the Best Crash Bandicoot Era, The Naught Dog era (1996-1999), The Post-Naughty Dog era (2000-2004), the most controversial era, the Radical Era (2005-2008) and the N. Sane or Revival Era (2017-present) since there’s so much debate on which Crash games are the best just like how people argue with the Sonic games and timelines.

I was thinking about a "spiderman no way home" inspired crash bandicoot game called "crash bandicoot no way home", there's 3 crash bandicoots, the original version, the titans version, and the current version, all teaming up to defeat a bunch of villains (also there's 3 aku akus with each crash bandicoots, and also doing the talking part), also do you like my idea?

Here's my thought for a Crash Bandicoot story CRASH BANDICOOT: Worlds Collide The characters in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, and their worlds (based on the Crash Bandicoot games) across the multiverse, are about to collide. Two masters of the multiverse (Alternate versions of The Evil Twins from Crash Twinsanity) utilize an powerful inter-dimensional source with the ability to converge universes, as part of their plan to defeat their creator, and arch-nemesis, an alternate and much more successful version of Dr. Neo Cortex, and his army of super animal mutants, led by an alternate and villainous version of Crash called, Thrash Bandicoot.

Based on what you said, I believe now that Crash and Spyro share a Multiverse. It is evidenced by the gba timelines of each character, the skylanders timeline, and twinsanity in the wrath timeline. This means that Spyro had to have met Crash in 3 separate timelines. Now that one of the directors of this new Crash game established the multiverse, It is also possible that Spyro may be in the same canon as Crash. Only TIME will tell if my theory comes true.

This throws the whole crash timeline out of wack, but I love it!!! More room for theories and speculation!

The thing is, a guy at Toys for Bob can claim whatever they want about the timeline, at the end of the day this whole "canonicity" problem isn't really worth solving, since there is no definitive answer. So many companies have worked on Crash, and I doubt all of them have had the same ideas in mind when it comes to multiverses and what-not. A timeline is much more relevant with series like Zelda, when they're all being overseen by the same people, even if the developers are different people on occasion. Crash isn't a series unified enough for timelines to be an actual issue. All that matters is if the story's fun, not whether or ties into other games of the series.

You say they're all canon... How many of them will be integral to the series in the future? I'm still betting you we will never see characters like Crunch, Nina or Pasadena ever again. (Which also means my dream of seeing Yaya Panda become main-series is shot. THANK YOU, TOYS FOR BOB!)

Crash of the Titans was a soft reboot to the series. That's why Crash's origin was changed. Even though I always figured Crash was a normal bandicoot mutated into a cartoon version

"Wait, so this means that there is a Universe out there where Tawna left Crash for Pinst-" *NO, that one is the only exception...*

So that’s means Tawna was a showgirl at the Moulin Cortex (twinsanity)

What they have to do is explain why crash looks different and all these timelines. If it’s a different universe that’s fine but at the same time they have to explain why the art style changed again from all the remakes we just got. If they are from a timeline where they look how they look now but all the same events have happened from the original trilogy I’m totally fine with that. If they decided they just look different because they wanted them to that’s just a huge glaring pothole. It’s just as much of a plot hole if they decided to change the character design every cut scene or have different voice actors every cut scene. It would be inconsistent within one game and it’s inconsistent between a continuation of games. I understand when you go from the PlayStation one to the Xbox one you were going to have better graphics and over 2 1/2 decades you may change your art design. Just changing it every other game is inconsistent. It’s like if they recast all the Marvel cinematic universe actors and then expect you to think that still in the same universe and just as reasonable

This is kind of like arguing how every Marvel movie could be considered part of the MCU through the Multiverse Theory

A multiverse is a subtle way to say fuck all those shitty mistake games in the franchise they happened in another dimension. This is the main timeline

I'm getting pretty sick of every series going the "multiverse" route. It's a lazy tool that's being overused a lot lately. The worst part is that nothing has consequences. Oh, did a character die? No problem! Let's just travel to multiverse 14605 and bring over that version of the character.

I just can't understand why couldn't simply be a game in between Wrath of Corted and Twinsanity

When you think about it, the first 3 games have differences between the N Sane Trilogy with cutscene and gameplay

PS1 Crash Bandicoot 1996 - PS2 Crash Twinsanity - 2004 Original timeline Crash Insane Trilogy 2017 - Crash 4 about time - 2020 New Timeline Thats how i saw it but this new everything cannon works fine

Just because they happened in an alternate timeline does not mean they are canon. For example DC Comics have multiple universes for Superman and the like, but they are not all canon. The canon timeline is the "main" timeline and Crash 4 is a direct sequel to Crash Warped, hence it's part of the main timeline and is canon while the other games from the PS2 era and the like are non-canon.

Well then, Since Tawna said she came from another universe with a different look, I believe that post CB3 games are another universe as you said.

Hang on... About the jorts not in this universe... Actually! Remember the 22-year timeskip? Yeah, there is one possibility that Crash's original jorts got worn off and that these pants are simply new ones.

I see it like this, multiple timeline theory: -Original Trilogy, Wrath of Cortex, Huge Adventure (GBA), N-Tranced (GBA), Twinsanity -Mind Over Mutant, Crash of the Titans -Orange/Purple (GBA) -Kart Timeline -N Sane Trilogy + Its About Time

Just like opra "Hou get a canon, and you get a canon, and you get a canon, and you get a canon and you get a canon, and you get a canon.

Which mean that all spyro game are also canon? (Including Skylanders)

As someone who liked all the crash bandicoot games, this is amazing news

I would say that Crash 4 is a sequel to the N Sane trilogy but not the original one. It would fit your description that what happened before Crash 4 was very similar to what happened in the original trilogy.

Crash Bandicoot: Into the Bandi-verse? Yes.

So basically only the trilogy is canon and now 4 while the other games are in other side multiverses

The multiverse is the golden excuse for retcons

Crash Bandicoot timelines gonna end up like The Legend of Zelda.

This is like what happened in lengend of zelda Ocarina time when Zelda split timeline !!!!!

Imagine them doing something similar with Spyro

But I think bottom line is they shouldn’t meddle with the characters design/style and the series lore. It cheapens everything, makes the characters less iconic, and it’s just plain confusing. And now toys for bob are switching up designs AGAIN after history has already shown people don’t want that and it fails. I don’t even like some of the aesthetic changes in nsane trilogy and almost wish the series was never revived because no one knows how to be faithful to Naughty Dogs original aesthetic and style and insists in meddling

I actually like WoC and Twinsanity. And Huge Adventuee and the other GBA 2D platformer Crash game is underrated

Soooooo.. that means the final battle will be a You and what Army kind of battle?

Sooo... if all Crash games are canon does that include Crash Purple? Is Spyro therefore part of this same multiverse? What about Skylanders? Crash appeared in one of those games too.

That's like saying superman Red Sun is Canon. Sure, it exists in some world of the universe, but the Canon is what The company focuses on. In DC, thats The prime universe. In marvel, The 616. IN CRASH, ITS THE FIRST 3 GAMES AND THIS NEW ONE

What happened after twinsanity then did cortex just magically warp out of crash's head and started chasing after him in a car and that's how tag team started lmao

I want Megamix to be a boss again. Huge Adventure was my first Crash game, and using him in CTRNF is amazing.

Honestly, I liked Wrath of Cortex

The Wrath of Cortex is my all-time favorite Crash game (it was my first one, too, so it really means a lot to me due to it being my introduction to the orange guy). When word got out about Wrath of Cortex being retconned, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a tad upset. Given Wrath of Cortex’s already negative stigma (being shunned by most of the Crash community), it made me feel insecure about my love for the game, since, at the time of It’s About Time’s reveal, it was reported to have been outright _replacing_ The Wrath of Cortex. That conclusion was jumped to entirely because of It’s About Time being numbered as the fourth Crash game, which was a title previously held by Wrath of Cortex, due to it originally being the fourth main series platformer released after Warped, and even being titled “Crash Bandicoot 4” in Japan. I’m really happy to know that The Wrath of Cortex is confirmed to still be canon, and is still very much an important piece of Crash Bandicoot history, being the very first Crash game to hit the sixth generation (PlayStation 2). Wrath of Cortex, as a game, means much more to me than you might think, and I’m glad to see that It’s About Time won’t be invalidating it in any way, shape, or form.

I feel like the timeline theory works in this sense: there's the OG timeline (including Crash 4), the Wrath timeline (including GBA games and Tag Team Racing) & the Mojo timeline (with the reboot type of thing) The whole reason they probably said "not in this universe" was probably just to act hip an cool with it's marketing since Crash will visit the broken time rift and also because again, this game is called Crash 4, but that's just my opinion 👌👍

This is amazing, i couldn't believe they would do all of this. I hope they make us see each multiverse with their own design like crash the Titans with the tatoos etc. I'm excited

I hope they make a sort of 'another timeline' bundle with a remake of twinsanity and Woc

So, Ratchet & Clank AND Crash Bandicoot are doing the multiverse thing both at the same time.

So we're basically getting a timeline like Zelda? That's pretty cool

Ever since Coco said “three” in the Crash 4 trailer and the fanbase has turned into a warzone.

Well, you got the original timeline, some other with a Cortex that goes completely nuts, the tenth dimension with evil doubles and some edgy teenage cringy dimension with the titans characters... Huh, neat

I'm so relieved. I was afraid we done forgot about crunch.

Oh thank god twinsanity still exists

Well, I wish I could add timelines about Crash Bandicoot canon story timelines. Crash Bandicoot Trilogy like Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped are canon. But I could add... Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is canon and a true sequel to Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is maybe probably canon to Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Crash Team Racing is maybe probably canon to Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. Crash Bash is maybe probably canon to Crash Team Racing. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex is maybe probably canon to Crash Bash. Crash Twinsanity is canon and a real sequel to Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. Crash Nitro Kart is maybe probably canon to Crash Twinsanity. Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced is maybe probably canon to Crash Nitro Kart. Crash Tag Team Racing is maybe probably canon to Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced. Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage is maybe probably canon to Crash Tag Team Racing. Crash Boom Bang is maybe probably canon to Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage. And Crash of the Titans and Crash Mind Over Mutant are maybe probably canon to Crash Boom Bang or maybe it could be a reboot series to Crash Bandicoot mainline series. I don't know. I just said maybe and probably, because I am not really sure that these are canon in main story timelines of Crash Bandicoot series. I'm not really sure that I made the canon in the main story timelines of Crash Bandicoot series right. Because it confused me too. 🤔 But I still can't wait for Crash Bandicoot: It's About Time on PS4 by October 2nd. I'm still very excited! 🙂

This makes my think WOC takes place after crash 4

i disagree that the Multiverse concept is a new thing in Crash-verse, it already there since Twinsanity, although it didn't really expanded the concept beyond Crash Dimension-10th Dimension (and the other scraped one due to rushed production), and possible N. Trance's 5th dimension. Good theory though

I think this is the same as the N sane universe but not the 90’s trilogy as the original. The old timeline was said to have jorts (from what I’ve been told) and the new one doesn’t have those

Behold, the ridiculousness that is time travel. Everything happened even though it makes no sense that it did.

The way I looked at the timeline was like this: Crash Bandicoot, Cortex Strikes Back, Warped, and Wrath of Cortex are canon. Possibly Twinsanity as well (didn't play too much since my copy wouldn't work) CTR, CNK, and CTTR felt more like spin offs of the era of Crash at that time. Their stories didn't seem too plausible with the first 4 games. Gameboy games obviously had their own continuity but I only played a few so I'm unsure of which are in the same. Bash and Boom are full spin offs. CotT and MoM are soft reboots that may continue the original storyline but I always felt like it was more of it's own thing. With Crash 4 I really hope Crunch and Nina and a few others aren't just erased. As much as people hated Wrath of Cortex I enjoyed it because of the inclusion of a new Bandicoot.

Crash of the Titan's crash: *comes out from the dark corner* "I'm cannon?!"

Man it's just a soft reboot. A developer says everything is canon with this multiverse excuse so nobody gets angry. It happens a lot in movies, comics etc. But practically speaking the other game's events don't care anymore here. And it's ok.

Twinsanity is cannon? Heck yeah. Where is our remake? XD

since this game has a multiverse plot i hope each game get's reference in this game.

Forget timelines and canon. Are they going to get Kevin Michael Richardson to voice Crunch or Mr. T?

What drove me nuts was people assumed that the games after the OG Trilogy are no longer canon just because of this conversation in the trailer: “How many times have you beaten this clown anyway?” “3.” “Really? Only 3? Funny. Feels like more.” Guys. They didn’t say the other times never happened or are retconned. This game takes place after 3. Wrath of Cortex didn’t happen YET. Of course Coco would only say 3. The new mask dude was just implying he felt that they already beaten Cortex more than that, considering these new masks look like they handle the timelines. The conversation was just a reference of what’s to come, aka the other games.

I mean, Twinsanity did touch up on the world they lived in having alternate dimensions, Twinsanity Island was just the exact opposite of Crash's world. So it's cool that they decided to go with that instead of being like "just forget about all the other games"

Crash fans: *argue Canadian Guy Eh: "Hold my beer"

Personally, I've always considered every Crash game that wasn't mobile-exclusive to be canon. Also, I'm pretty sure the bandicoot in the Crash of the Titans intro is actually Carbon Crash, the player 2 character.

WOOO!!! CRASH BOOM BANG IS CANON WOOOO!! lol would be cool to see I dunno a Viscount boss battle though

Jorts...... So basically Jeans and Shorts

I swear to god if crunch and nina arent in the game im gonna lose it 😭

I feel like you just described what I understood when I was a teenager 15 years ago, it's great they are all now considered canon by default but I feel this concept applies to almost any franchise e.g. Spyro with Skylanders or Mortal Kombat with their failed games, all depends what you grew up with and what you enjoy :)

Developers when there's too many loopholes in the plot: It's multiverse! Also, no hate to other game than the trilogy, every one of it has it's own charms to it no matter how quirky it is.

good to know this,I was wondering this since crash 4 came out,I was starting to wonder if the other games are still canon,this answers my questions,thanks dude

So i guess the Crash and Zelda franchise have something in common... Ocarina of Time had the timeline split in 3 ways and Crash 3 follows sorta the same way, starting with Crash 4?... Im still confused!...😫

Coco: What is up with these multiple dimensions? Crash: *Confused noises* Spider-Man: First time?

So.... Should we really care about it? Like, founding a multiverse is just a cheap way of saying that anything happened. Calling it canon then doesn't mean a thing because there is no Non-canon content. And on top of all. It's about sonic's ass game.

I'm actually surprised they're going this route, but as a fan of timeline speculation shenanigans, I love this. One thing I will say though. When it comes time for Spyro 4, I really hope Toys For Bob, or whoever makes it, take inspiration from your Spyro timeline theory.

The reason the old games were special is cuse they were well made flushed out, and had NO DLC MICROTRANSACTIONS OR JUNK just a nice wholesome game

You know, the main thing that concerns me in all of this is that if crash ever enters death battle again, people might have an issue with using feats from the other timelines, or just ignoring them and only focusing on one. Is that weird?