Headscratchers / Crash Bandicoot (1996)

• In this game, you rescue Tawna Bandicoot. I don't ever recall seeing her in another game since. What happened to her?
  • IIRC, Tawna wasn't quite PC enough for a series targetted for kids, so she got shafted in Coco's favor in the second game. As far as I know, she did reappear in Crash Boom Bang on DS and some background art in Twinsanity.
    • Tawna was going to make a physical appearance in Twinsanity where she would have been having a romantic dinner with Dingodile until his shack is smashed by that snowball.
    • And as a framed picture in some of the Crash games.
    • I forget where it's said, but she ends up dumping Crash for Pinstripe. Remember that mouse/gangster thing? Yeah. Him.
      • That's only canon in Japan, but it's been accepted into international Fanon.
        • It was mentioned in early revisions of the official website in the west however.
  • Out-of-universe, a Universal marketing executive felt that Tawna was too sexist, and the developers didn't think she was worth spending political capital to defend, so she got the ax after the first game. In-universe, the Japanese manual for Crash Bandicoot 2 states that she left Crash for Pinstripe.
• There's a lot of confusion of how Cortex's lab and castle went up in flames in the first game since there was no specific cause, and in the 100% ending, it is unharmed. Some think Brio's explosive chemicals and Hulk smashing trashed it, some think Pinstripe's defeat in which he accidentally shoots out a reactor with his gun caused a meltdown, and if one looks carefully at the end of the Lab (final normal level of the game), it ends with a bridge of TNT crates next to what looks like a bunch of giant mechanical pistons for the castle.