After defeating him, he gives you the first of four keys needed to race Oxide. When racing him, he is constantly drops TNT crates onto the track. Ripper Roo made another appearance in Crash Team Racing as the first boss and an unlockable character. As it turns out, Ripper Roo's favourite food is a mixture of mouldy cake, rotten chicken and fish bones, which makes Crash and Aku Aku run away in disgust. He soon turned back to normal and decides to make them some food.

After a brief battle with Crash, a chandelier drops onto Ripper's head, knocking him out. Ripper goes crazy with anger, attacking Aku Aku and bouncing around on his cane demanding them to hand over the Power Stone. Unfortunately, Crash flattens his books and destroys his research. When Ripper Roo finds out that they have a power stone, he becomes obsessed with snatching it from them and asks them to do some chores in return for some food and shelter. In chapter 5, Furious Ripper!, Crash and Aku Aku arrive at his house on the hunt for food. He speaks perfect English and acts as a normal citizen with no indications of Dr. His design is based on his Cortex Strikes Back look and wears a long sleeved shirt instead of a straitjacket. Instead of Crash and Aku Aku calling him 'Ripper Roo' they just call him 'Ripper'. Ripper Roo appears in Dansu! De Jump! Volume 1, where he is a doctor who spends his time researching. After the fight, Ripper Roo collapses onto the ground and is never seen again in the game.Ĭrash Bandicoot: Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken When Ripper Roo is tricked into blowing himself up once again, Crash can swoop in to deliver the final blow. Crash tricks Ripper Roo into blowing himself up with the TNT squares, which is enough to transform him back into his old insane self. Ripper Roo tries to attack Crash, this time by placing TNT and Nitro tiles on the ground. Once again, Crash intrudes on Ripper Roo, interrupting him in the middle of his studies. He had renovated his ruins home into a library, installing bookshelves along the walls, a desk by the waterfall, and replacing the 9 stone platforms over the water with one large one with his face engraved on it. Brio, and is known as 'Doctor Roo' because of his newly obtained doctorate in psychology. In Cortex Strikes Back, Ripper Roo reappears as the first boss in this game. This is the reason for 'Doctor' Roo's change in character between the first and second game.ĭoctor Roo's promotional design in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back In the alternate ending to the original game, it's revealed that after Cortex disappears, Ripper Roo undergoes intense therapy and eight years of higher education, after which he writes a well-received book: Through the Eyes of the Vortex: A Study of Rapid Evolution and Its Consequences. He is last seen passed out on the ground. Ripper Roo tries to attack Crash, only for Crash to defeat him with the use of Big TNT crates floating by. He was quickly straitjacketed and abandoned, and came to reside in some ruins on Wumpa Island.ĭuring the events of the game, Crash stumbles upon Ripper Roo on his journey on the way to Cortex Castle. After being captured, he was zapped at least twice by Cortex's Evolvo-Ray which caused his fur to turn blue and for him to go insane. In the original Crash Bandicoot game, Ripper Roo was one of the many animal test subjects of Dr.

3.2 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.

1.12 Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.

1.3 Crash Bandicoot: Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken.1.2 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.

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