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===Main series=== In ''Crash Bandicoot'', Cortex begins using the Evolvo-Ray to create a mutated army of animals that will aid him in his quest for world domination. When he ejects a mutant named Crash Bandicoot out of his castle, he prepares to experiment on a female bandicoot named Tawna. However, he is soon confronted and defeated by Crash, who gets away 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 his new "Cortex Vortex" device is going to work.<ref name="MasterCrystal">{{cite video game|title=Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back |developer=Naughty Dog |publisher=Sony Computer Entertainment |date=1997-10-31 |platform=PlayStation |version= |level=Opening sequence |isolang= |quote='''Doctor N. Gin:''' But Doctor Cortex, to reach full power, we need not only your "Master Crystal", but also there are as many as 25 "Slave Crystals" on the surface.}}</ref> To remedy this situation, Cortex abducts Crash Bandicoot a year later 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 Bandicoot discovers Cortex's real plan and reveals it to Crash. When the ruins of his space station crash into Earth and release his boss Uka Uka in ''Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped'', 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. When Tropy is defeated, the Time-Twisting Machine implodes on itself, trapping Cortex, Tropy and Uka Uka in a strange time prison. Preceding the events of ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'', Cortex began laboring over a genetically-advanced superweapon that'll supposedly wipe Crash Bandicoot off the face of the Earth forever. The project is kept a secret until it is inadvertedly revealed by N. Gin and N. Tropy during a bad guy [[Convention (meeting)|convention]] inside Cortex's new space station.<ref name="SecretWeapon">{{cite video game |title=Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex |developer=Traveller's Tales |publisher=Sony Computer Entertainment America |platform=Multiplatform |level=Opening sequence |quote='''Doctor Nefarious Tropy:''' There must be something we can come up with! Say, Doctor. Haven't you been tinkering with some kind of new secret weapon in your laboratory? / '''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' I don't know what you're talking about, N. Tropy! / '''Doctor N. Gin:''' Doctor Cortex! I think he's referring to the super-secret weapon you've been laboring over day and night since the last time Crash defeated you!}}</ref> He claims that the superweapon is unbelievably strong, but it is still missing a power source.<ref name="PowerSource">{{cite video game |title=Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex |developer=Traveller's Tales |publisher=Sony Computer Entertainment |platform=Multiplatform |level=Opening sequence |quote='''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' Well, in my scientific endeavors, I've been able to create a superweapon of unbelievable strength. But the power source... is the final missing crucial element.}}</ref> He soon decides to use the Elementals as the power source, which successfully bring the secret weapon, Crunch Bandicoot, to life. When Crunch fails to defeat Crash, Cortex tries to explain himself to Uka Uka, but soon finds himself dodging Uka Uka's subsequent energy blast, which hits a vital part of the space station. During the resulting critical overload, Uka Uka and Doctor Cortex flee into an [[escape pod]], which lands in the frozen wastes of [[Antarctica]], stranding them both on a large sheet of [[ice]]. In ''Crash Twinsanity'', Cortex ambushes Coco, disguises himself as her, and lures Crash over to the [[bay]] where he attempts to eliminate Crash with the forty-foot-tall Mecha-Bandicoot piloted by Doctor N. Gin, which Crash easily disposes of. Angered, Cortex viciously attacks Crash in an underground [[cavern]], his rage only calmed with the discovery of a Power Crystal. When two mutated parrots named the Evil Twins suddenly appear and announce their plans to destroy Crash's island and devastate Earth, Crash and Cortex temporarily team up to destroy these two upstarts with the aid of the Psychetron, a machine that'll allow them to travel between the infinite dimensions. However, it soon becomes apparent that the Evil Twins are from Cortex's past. Recruiting his niece, [[Characters of Crash Bandicoot#Nina Cortex|Nina Cortex]], the trio set out to stop the Evil Twins, with Cortex also aiming to steal their vast treasure. After finally confronting and defeating the Evil Twins, Cortex returns to the Iceberg Lab, where he attempts to dispose of Crash with the Psychetron. Unfortunately for him, the Psychetron malfunctions, sending Cortex into Crash's mind. In ''Crash of the Titans'', Cortex kidnaps Coco and Aku Aku (Crash rescues Aku Aku), and proceeds to steal 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 a giant robot dubbed "The Doominator".<ref>{{cite video game |title=Crash of the Titans |developer=Radical Entertainment |publisher=Sierra Entertainment |date=October 4, 2007 |platform=Multiplatform |level=Episode 4: The Temple of Zoom |quote='''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' I will use the stolen Mojo to create a huge army of loyal mutants, not rejects like you guys. / '''Coco Bandicoot:''' You jerk. / '''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' But best of all, I will use this army to construct a mighty robot. The largest doomsday device I've ever built. I will smash Wumpa Island, then take over the world! And I shall call this robot... the Doominator!!}}</ref> He then attempts to eliminate Crash with the aid of his patented Yuktopus, but fails to do so. Heading back to his base, Cortex is lambasted by Uka Uka for failing to kill Crash, and is replaced by Nina Cortex. Inactive for much of the game, Cortex is denied the opportunity to watch his Doominator in action. At the end of the game, Cortex rescues Nina from the collapsing Doominator, and praises Nina for betraying him, as it is the vilest thing she could've ever done, although he still decides to "spank [her] stupid" for it. At that moment, Cortex vows to be more villainous and horrible in the future.<ref>{{cite video game |title=Crash of the Titans |developer=Radical Entertainment |publisher=Sierra Entertainment |date=2007-10-04 |platform=Wii |level=Episode 20: Revengeance 2 — The Revengicide |quote=Why did you rescue me? I betrayed you, took over your evil plan... then failed. / '''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' Oh, Nina. Betraying me is the most vile, evil thing you could've ever done! You're a skank. I'm... just so proud of you right now. / '''Nina Cortex:''' Hooray! / '''Doctor Neo Cortex:''' I promise. From now on, I'll be more evil, more villainous, more horrible! Horrible! Oh, and go kill bandicoots too. I'm still going to spank you stupid for this. / '''Nina Cortex:''' Ohhh...}}</ref> In ''Crash: Mind over Mutant'', Cortex drops Nina off at the Evil Public School (which he apparently owns) as punishment for her betrayal, 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, unwillingly supplied by Uka Uka through the use of a milking machine. He later engages in a fight with Crash inside his new Space Head space station, empowering himself with the use of a mutagen formula stolen from Nitrus Brio.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Crash: Mind over Mutant |developer=Radical Entertainment |publisher=Activision |date=October 7, 2008 |platform=Multiplatform |level=Fists of Orange Fury |quote=Doctor Neo Cortex: Oh. Did I forget to mention I was going to cheat? I've got some of N. Brio's mutation formula here to even the odds.}}</ref> Upon losing the fight, Cortex throws a tantrum, causing the Space Head to plummet towards Earth. Returning to normal, he escapes the Space Head in a smaller shuttle with an unnamed Znu.
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