Ripper Roo

Ripper Roo

Ripper Roo (also known as Doctor Roo) is a fictional character in the Crash series who first appeared in Crash Bandicoot. Since then, Ripper Roo has had appearances in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Team Racing, Crash Twinsanity and Crash Bash.

History

Crash 1

In the original Crash Bandicoot, Ripper Roo was one of the many animal test subjects of Doctor Neo Cortex. After being captured, he was zapped at least twice by Cortex's Evolvo-Ray, which caused him to go insane. He was sent out to destroy Crash, but unfortunately for him, he was blown up by his own TNTS.

Crash Bandicoot 2

"Doctor Roo" in Cortex Strikes Back

Ripper Roo reappeared in Cortex Strikes Back. This time he works for N Brio, and is known as "Doctor Roo". He spent a year in college to become a Psychologist. However, it's revealed that one explosion is enough to return him to his former, dangerous self, but once again he failed to stop Crash. When battling him, he hops around on his cane, turning regular squares into TNT squares. When the first square explodes, the rest lead straight to Ripper Roo, turning him insane again and giving him blonde hair. This time he creates Nitro squares. For some reason, when he's done he hops on top of the last Nitro square, detonating the entire field and leaving himself stunned and vulnerable.

Crash Team Racing

Ripper Roo made another appearance in CTR as a race boss and an unlockable character. His home Track is Roo's Tubes. When racing him, he is constantly dropping TNTs onto the track. After defeating him, he gives you the first of four keys needed to race Oxide.

Ripper Roo's kart in the game was enabled to handle tight corners with slightly lower speed than average karts, much like Polar and Pura. He can be unlocked by completing the Red Gem Cup in adventure mode or Holding the L1 + R1 buttons and pressing Right, Circle, Circle, Down, Up, Down and Right on the main menu.

In the CTR epilogue, he was elected to be State Governor (much to everyone's surprise) with the slogan "Crazy is as Crazy does!". Rumor has it he's also running for President.

Crash Bash

In this game, he made a cameo appearance in three of the Pogo Pandemonium stages in Crash Bash as his Doctor Roo self, where he creates TNT/Nitro tiles by hopping around on his cane.

Crash Twinsanity

Ripper Roo as seen in Crash Twinsanity

Ripper Roo didn't return until Crash Twinsanity, where he made a brief cameo at Crash's "Birthday Party". After Cortex and the Mecha Bandicoot are defeated, he nods in agreement with Dingodile's suggestion to go out for lunch.

As with most other characters, Ripper Roo's appearance only drastically changes in Crash Twinsanity, where his skin is more brownish, his eyes are white with red circles instead of the usual yellow with a red spiral, and is eyebrows are spikey.

Misc.

Ripper Roo's most recent appearance is as one of the 8 playable characters in Crash Nitro Kart for the iPhone. He was on Team Oxide. In Cortex Strikes Back, right before the battle starts when he is seen reading books, the top book on the stack has the word "Crash" on the spine.

Personality

Ripper Roo is famous for his insane, and somewhat dangerous, behavior. It's not suffice to say, however, that he'll always be this way. In fact, In Cortex Strikes Back, he spent a year to become a Psychologist, proof that he was still civilized in some way, but an explosion is enough to return him as his usual self. Another hint of his sane characteristic is that he wrote books, such as "Through the Eye of the Vortex" which was well received.

Trivia

• Although Ripper Roo's 2D/3D artwork from Crash 1 depicted him as having his eyes colored Yellow with Red Spirals, in the Crash 1 and 2 games he had normal eyes instead of the former even when insane. The same was true for his Hit Point pictures. This was corrected in CTR.

• In CTR, Ripper Roo was still in his straitjacket, so he couldn't drive with his hands. Instead, his left foot was used to steer the wheel, while his right foot worked the gas pedal.

• Ripper Roo was originally going to speak normal English like most of the characters in CTR, but this was later dropped and he still used his insane laughter but with subtitles. Youtube has a video of what Ripper Roo would say in CTR.

• In CTR, Ripper Roo is the only race boss that does not brag or warn about Oxide before and after his defeat, respectively, except in his normal english.

• In CNK3D for iPhone, Roo's design was given a massive overhaul. He looks like a normal kangaroo, but blue, long ears, and tiny, yellow eyes without spirals. For some reason, his character icon is a shot of his original artwork, despite not looking at all like the new model. This is also the first time he is seen without his strait jacket, and drives with his free arms rather than his legs.

• His voice is an archive recording of Dallas McKennon doing the laughter of the hyena from Lady and the Tramp.