
First impressions matter; it's always going to be hard to win someone over when you perform torturous experiments and kidnap their girlfriend on the first meeting. It's fair to say that Dr Neo Cortex and Crash got off on the wrong foot, and maybe the bandicoot has a good reason to dislike his sworn enemy. But is Cortex really all that bad? Sure, he's done a few wrong things in his time, but he's almost too much of a bumbling buffoon to be a real threat, always fumbling over inventions that typically blow up in his face, and with no real control over his so-called minions.

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