Crash Bandicoot / クラッシュ バンディクー

Crash Bandicoot
Voiced by: Brendan O' Brien/Kappei Yamaguchi (Japan)

The original Crash model.

Crash 2/3/CTR/XS/N-Tranced/Fusion
Voiced by: Uncredited (CTR)/Kappei Yamaguchi (Japan)

This is a much more detailed model, and one of the most well-known of the lot due to how many appearances it made. Crash has gotten much more expressive and more well-defined in general. His eyebrows appear different and smaller and his eyes are more detailed, now with green irises. Crash's nose is smaller, but his belly button is bigger. His arms and legs are thicker and his feet are smaller. Crash's shoes have less laces.

Note 1: In CTR, Crash's eyes and shoes have gradients, making them look less plain.

Note 2: The Crash sprite in XS, N-Tranced and Fusion uses animation frames ripped from this model (see more below).

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

Crash is even more detailed than before. The insides of his ears are furry and they're not dark anymore (same colour as the fur around his mouth). The eyebrows are fuzzier and the nose has gotten bigger again. His teeth are now individual, rather than a white stripe for each row. Crash's shoulders are noticeably wider, a fact that makes his lack of a neck even more evident. Crash's belly button is now gone for good. Gone, but not forgotten. Crash's jeans are now folded at the ends and they have a label on the back, much like real-life jeans.

His facial expressions in this game make him look a little too confused most of the time.

Note: The Xbox version of the game uses a technique that gives Crash realistic fur.

Crash Twinsanity

Crash has been modernized for this game, much like everyone else. His hair has gotten much spikier and pointy, and now it's brown instead of the previous red. Crash's eyebrows are less dense than ever before. The inside of his ears is dark again. Crash's pupils are rounder, smaller and shinier. The nose is back to being smaller yet again. He has visible gums along with most characters in this game. Crash's fur is a bit lighter (especially the fur on his belly, which now connects directly to his muzzle - something that would stick for subsequent games).

His wardrobe has changed a bit: the gloves now have openings on the back; he's wearing a belt; his jeans have more realistic textures applied to them and are no longer folded at the ends; there are metallic knee-pads attached to the jeans; the shoes are remarkably similar to All-Stars (a real-life brand), but with a "C" on the sides instead of the All-Stars logo.

Like all the other characters in this game, Crash has 5 fingers instead of the usual 4 (if you consider thumbs fingers).

Crash has gotten much dumber in this game, which adds to comedy relief. He also almost constantly and is completely silent during the entire game.

Crash Tag Team Racing
Voiced by: Jess Harnell (voice samples also kept for Japan)

This model seems like a mixture between the original Crash and the Twinsanity one. His hair is back to the old style and colouring and his eyes aren't shiny anymore. Crash's head is smaller, changing the overall body ratio. Most changes, however, apply to his clothes.

The gloves lost the openings (but still have holes in the middle). The jeans are folded at the ends, resembling the ones from The Wrath of Cortex, and are generally blander than in Twinsanity. The shoes look like those from Crash 2, but the laces are different and there are purple stripes on the soles.

He seems less dumb and more expressive than in Twinsanity and he speaks gibberish now. He's also become an immature bully, tormenting chickens and innocent people all the time for no reason other than because he can.

Crash of the Titans
Voiced by: Jess Harnell

Crash went through a massive design overhaul, along with everyone else in this game.

Crash is now considerably shorter in height, because of the smaller legs. His head is slightly bigger when compared to his body. Instead of the usual red high mohawk, his hair has become a brown longer ridge that partly extends to his back. Speaking of which, Crash is noticeably much furrier than before, with jagged tips around his muzzle, elbows and his entire front. His ears are smaller and dented on the sides. The eyes are bigger and sport brown eyebrows instead of black ones (they're also floaty like in many animated cartoons). A fang is present in each side of his mouth (a somewhat late addition, not visible in this early picture). More noticeably, Crash gained mystical-looking tattoos on his arms, and for the first time ever, he is not wearing gloves. The fur on his palms is now cream-coloured, just like the fur on his stomach. His clothes changed slightly; there is a new belt, different jeans and a new pair of shoes that have paw prints on the bottom. Overall, Crash looks much younger.

There are also a few notable personality changes. This Crash combines the gibberish introduced in Tag Team Racing with the light-hearted nature from before, and he prefers to save people rather than bullying them again. He is also much stronger, which is evident in his new combat techniques. This makes up for a more heroic Crash.

Crash Mind Over Mutant
Voiced by: Jess Harnell

Crash's fur is considerably brighter, and his hair and whiskers aren't as spiked as before, though his shoulders are jagged now. His head is a bit smaller. His legs are taller and much thicker. The tattoos on his arms seem watermarked and less spiral-like. He has slightly visible nails underneath the fur on his fingers. His clothes and shoes are slightly different as usual, and because of the longer legs, his pants look like shorts now.

Crash Tag Team Racing (Japan)
Voiced by: Jess Harnell
CrashTTR is the first Crash game to introduce a different character model for Crash in the Japanese version. He looks like what he always has in Japanese art (resembling the guy in the suit from the Japanese Crash ads). He also has the famous Crash Dance animation, which the Japanese love (it was originated there).

Though the body proportions are a lot different, he has the same height as the model from the original version of CrashTTR.

Crash: Boom, Bang!
Voiced by: Makoto Ishii
Much like Crash Tag Team Racing, CBB gave Crash a second model for the game, to better accommodate countries that are used to a particular appearance (in this case though, the Japanese model was the original one). Crash's model outside Japan is heavily based on the Twinsanity model, with the exception of the different body proportions (which seem to be the same as Japanese Crash's) and, of course, a much lower polygon count.

Like all CBB models, it is cel-shaded, giving it cartoony visuals (not visible here).

This was Crash's prototype look in Crash of the Titans. The final model is quite a bit different (see here), and in comparison to that one, this model has some notable differences: for starters, his eyebrows are just rectangles with one almost always higher than the other one. His eyes aren't the same and his face in general is different. Curiously, Crash was rarely seen showing his teeth with this model, something that happens a lot in Crash of the Titans. The pants are light-blue and the shoes are black and red. More noticeably, Crash had no tattoos at this point yet.

The prototype look was at one point used in all three versions of Crash of the Titans. A few screenshots of the main version showing this model were released. The same goes for the DS version, which is a more curious case - though they did eventually change Crash to resemble his final look, they did so from the model they had already created. This is quite evident when you look at the eyebrows, which were unchanged. The GBA version, on the other hand, was finished so early that it actually uses sprites based on the prototype model in the retail game (which is where the picture on the left comes from).