Dr Neo Cortex

Dr Neo Cortex. The main mad scientist of the whole series... and the one who helped started it all, along with his left hand man Dr Nitrus Brio. He, Nitrus and N.Gin have been friends ever since their days at the Academy of Evil. Neo was always the ring leader though, of their antics. All three got picked on though, while at school and wanted to one day get revenge on everyone who gave him misery and made fun of him.

He actually really disliked animals too, because they always hurt and attacked him! Especially wild bandicoots, for some reason... he only seemed to get along with pet birds.

As he got older though, after graduating from the Academy of Evil, and getting through University with ease (besides the constant verbal abuse from his peers) something really devastating happened... while him, Brio and N.Gin were deep underground in their secret little base. One of their chemical experiments back up on the surface exploded (possibly got in contact with fire or somewhat), and destroyed the whole entire town. That included his family, though for some reason he wasn't too shocked (maybe because his family was never really nice to him)... he was in his twenties at the time. But he realized he was on his own now, and only had his two friends left. Now he truly wanted to get back at the world for messing with him...

When he got even older, he finally bought some private islands off the cost of Tasmania, somewhere between Australia and New Zealand. The Islands were very much deserted, besides some tribes folk on the smallest island. He and his crew (even robots) started building the castle, power stations, etc. They discovered many interesting things on these islands, such as strange power crystals, which were a very good source of energy. Soon his schemes were expanding more and more, and it wasn't very long until he started to get into evolution with animals... with the bright neon green crystals (because he needed a large amount of energy to work the Evolvo-ray).

It also wasn't very long until he discovered he had one relation left in existence... the one and only, Nina Cortex (one of his brothers daughters, who he never knew of until now). He decided to get her from the orphanage and he instantly had a soft spot for the little 3 year old. So she came to live with him and the others at Cortex Castle Island.

This was during the time he finally got into evolving various exotic Australian wildlife. He ordered his minions to capture the most rare and exotic species they could find around Australia, Tasmania or even just the Islands. He finally tested some of them on the Evolvo-ray, the Evolvo-ray was his creation ever since the Academy of Evil but he was never able to master it... it always had flaws, and never evolved animals properly... but that's until Dr Brio created the master version, though Neo ended up taking full credit for it anyway.

Soon he had quite a few evolved animals... including Crunch (in year 1992). He didn't really take much notice of Crunch during this time, and thought he was just 'another failure' (because he and Brio evolved him to be really obsessed with exercise, but he didn't seem to be at all! Though he was only very young at the time...) he really thought Koala Kong was the best creation so far, because he was very strong... despite having almost no brain.

Neo was still working on his Cortex Vortex during this time, he hoped to have it done one day, so he can use it on 'freshly evolved' minions, to brainwash them with it, to make the minion loyal to him... it doesn't work on minions that have been evolved for too long though, because they start to get a clear mind on what is right, and what is wrong (thus the reason he never used it on Tani, Crunch, etc). Cortex was becoming frustrated with Nina being too kind though, especially to the minions. He wanted Nina to grow up to be evil, like himself and the rest of the Cortex family... so he decided to turn Nina's hands into Steel-trap deadly hands, and now she wasn't able to hug just anyone, unless she wanted to give them pain... she was much too young to understand how cruel this change was, but Neo thought it was for her own good, and never thought anything was wrong with it.

It was years later, and not long after he was first defeated by Crash... one of his very own creations, in fact. He decides to head into space, where his newly built Space station awaited him. He rounded up all the best anthros he could that were left on Earth, including many of Dr Brio's minions! (like the Komodo brothers, and Tiny). he also captured Crunch, but wasn't able to capture Tani.

He carries on his schemes to try and defeat and destroy Crash bandicoot, for defeating him in 1996. This carries on for quite some time... until around 1998, he catches some of his minions trying to escape through the escape pods! This angers him, he then found out it was all Kris roo's plan... and goes to punish him by using him as a test subject on his new 'Secret Weapon' (which was actually not complete at the time.)

It was now around 3 and a half years later, and Cortex was busy working on his newer and more upgraded Secret Weapon. He wasn't sure which minion to use on it, but decides to evolve one more really strong (but not stupid) minion... by the name of Kuvo Tasmanian Devil. Kuvo was really wild though but was able to speak like normal, very aggressive... but did follow Cortex's commands, cos he didn't want to get hurt by him, and Cortex liked it.

But shortly after he soon discovers that Crunch was alive! Just staying in N.Gin's area of the Space station all that time... though at first he was spooked and wanted to exterminate him immediately. But then N.Gin shows Neo how Crunch has grown, and he gets quite amazed at how powerful he looks, and is surprised he's reasonably smart (since almost all the tough anthros were unintelligent) so he decides to put a mind controlling device on Crunch, it wasn't easy at first though, and he almost gets killed by Crunch! But luckily the sleep darts stopped him on time.

It had been quite a while since Cortex has appeared, but he somehow managed to create a small lab while out in the middle of Antarctica (where the Escape pods landed). Uka uka and Cortex both created the Iceberg lab out of the Space station wreckage, to try and get back at the bandicoots... though along the way, Uka uka ended up being frozen, again. And Cortex gets rather relieved! Now he didn't have that mask bossing him around...

He arrives back near the Islands, and quickly goes to his Castle, and is shocked to see Brio in charge! He quickly overpowers him and gains power, yet again. He creates another minion.... the Bearminator. (one of the giant polar bears living on the island).

Pretty much saw him in Crash Bandicoot 2, since it was the first Crash game I played. Always thought he was funny looking, and me and my friends made fun of him often back in our young kiddy days.

So now he's got a big role in my OB series, mostly OB1 though... he's a lot more darker and sinister in this. But he's still funny now and then, I just can't just poke fun at his fear!

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