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Dingodile is a hybrid of a dingo and a crocodile (his name is a portmanteau of the two words), and a henchman of the series' main antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex. As commonly stated, Dingodile enjoys reading Shakesphere, playing croquet, and roasting orange bandicoots with his flamethrower,^[4][5] which he is often seen with. He is one of Cortex's two main mutant followers, alongside Tiny Tiger. Trinomial name Canis lupus dingo (Meyer, 1793) Dingo range Breed standards (external link) ANKC The dingo (plural dingoes or dingos) or warrigal, Canis lupus dingo, is a type of wild dog, probably descended from the Indian Wolf (Canis Indica). ... Genera Mecistops Crocodylus Osteolaemus See full taxonomy. ... An ... Doctor Neo Cortex, often shortened to N. Cortex, Doctor Cortex, or just simply Cortex, is a video game character and main antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot series. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... For the Smalltalk based 3D software platform, see Croquet project. ... Riverboat of the U.S. Brownwater Navy shooting ignited napalm from its mounted flamethrower during the Vietnam war. ... Tiny Tiger , erroneously named Taz Tiger in Crash Bandicoot 2) is a fictional video game character and secondary villain in the Crash Bandicoot series. ...

Conception and creation

Dingodile was created by character designer Charles Zembillas when employee Joe Labbé asked for a character that was a cross between a dingo and a crocodile.^[6]

Actor portrayal

During the Naughty Dog era, Dingodile had a raspy, Broad Australian accented voice, which was supplied by the late Batman star William Hootkins,^[1] who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on October 23, 2005,^[7] the first and so far only English Crash Bandicoot cast member to pass away. Dingodile sports a similar voice in Crash Team Racing, but Hootkins' name is not seen in the credits, nor is the role of Dingodile credited to anyone. In Crash Bash, Dingodile emits an uncharacteristically deep laugh, and a sound clip of a dog whining can be heard when Dingodile is injured. From this point on, Dingodile doesn't have a speaking role until Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Twinsanity, where he is voiced by The A-Team star Dwight Schultz.^[2] Shultz's rendition of Dingodile gives his voice a Steve Irwin-esque feel, eliminating the raspy quality in his voice, and making his Australian accent thicker (this is more noticeable in Twinsanity during a cutscene before the boss fight against him).^[8] During the boss battle against him in Twinsanity, Dingodile can be heard making warthog-like grunts and snorts upon attacking and losing a life point. It is unknown who will voice Dingodile in the DS version of Crash of the Titans. Most linguists consider there to be three main varieties of Australian English. ... Batman is an American Academy Award-winning superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. ... William Hootkins as Porkins in A New Hope William Hootkins (July 5, 1948 – October 23, 2005) was an American actor probably best known on film for his roles as the cult favourite Red Six (Porkins) in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and as the crooked Lt. ... Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumour within the pancreatic gland. ... is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crash Team Racing , Crash Bandicoot Racing) is a racing game for the PlayStation, made by Naughty Dog. ... Crash Bash , Crash Bandicoot Carnival) is a party game developed by Eurocom, the first Crash game not to be developed by Naughty Dog. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... Crash Nitro Kart is a racing game for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox consoles that was released in 2003. ... Crash Twinsanity, released in Japan as Crash Bandicoot 5: Eeee Crash to Cortex no Yabou?!? , lit. ... For the 2008 movie, see The A-Team (film). ... William Dwight Schultz (born November 24, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American stage, television and film actor. ... Stephen Robert Steve Irwin (February 22, 1962 – September 4, 2006), nicknamed The Crocodile Hunter, was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. ... Binomial name (Pallas, 1766) This article is about the animal. ... Crash of the Titans is an action-adventure game published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by Radical Entertainment for the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable video game consoles; the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions of the game were developed by Amaze Entertainment. ...

Keisuke Ishida voiced Dingodile in the Japanese dubs of Warped, Crash Team Racing, and Crash Bash, with Hajime Iijima voicing Dingodile in all the subsequent games. Hajime Iijima ) (April 29, ???? - ) is a male seiyÅ« from Kanagawa Prefecture affiliated with Office Osawa. ...

Characteristics

Personality

Dingodile's personality isn't explored as thoroughly as the other villains in the series, but it is apparent that Dingodile is a cruel and pyromanical individual, frequently sporting a large flamethrower and willing to kill anything weaker than he is (as evidenced in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, where Dingodile is seen preparing to kill a small penguin during the Ice Ages before Crash's intervention). Dingodile is also known to have his greedy side, willing to betray Doctor Cortex to obtain the Evil Twins' riches in Crash Twinsanity. Property damage caused by fire Pyromania is an obsession with fire and starting fires in an intentional fashion. ... Modern genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For prehistoric genera, see Systematics Some penguins are curious. ... The Evil Twins (named Victor and Moritz) are the main antagonists of the video game Crash Twinsanity, the fifth platformer game of the Crash Bandicoot series. ...

While Dingodile may seem like a vicious brute, he is capable of living in a more sophisticated manner; in a stark contrast to the stupidity of Tiny Tiger or his daytime job of burning innocent bandicoots, his hobbies include reading Shakesphere and playing croquet.^[4][5] In a deleted scene from Crash Twinsanity, Dingodile is shown to be romantically interested in Crash's former girlfriend Tawna, having a romantic dinner with her in his shack before it is crushed by a giant snowball.^[9] This scene does not appear in the final project, and is therefore considered non-canon. It is also hinted at that he is almost or is as intelligent as the doctors in the epilogue of Crash Team Racing, in which he opens an animal breeding program made for the creation of hybrids like himself.^[10] This is a list of characters appearing in the video game series Crash Bandicoot. ...

Appearance

Dingodile has kept this general appearance for much of the games he's starred in.

Dingodile is generally portrayed as a bulky mutant with a dingo's body, and a crocodile's stomach and tail (tail became orange-colored instead of green in Crash of the Titans). His lone article of clothing is a pair of large, tan (blue in Twinsanity and Titans), baggy pants, which are traded for sky-blue trunks with a flower design in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure due to the boss fight against him being underwater. His flamethrower resembles a large cylinder with a red-and-yellow checker design on it. This flamethrower is traded for a yellow torpedo launcher (which also doubles as an air supply tank, as a tube can be seen going from the tank to his glass helmet) in The Huge Adventure, as a flamethrower cannot function underwater. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 138 × 188 pixelsFull resolution (138 × 188 pixel, file size: 12 KB, MIME type: image/gif) This image is an illustration of a character or characters in a comic book, video game, or animated television program or film. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 138 × 188 pixelsFull resolution (138 × 188 pixel, file size: 12 KB, MIME type: image/gif) This image is an illustration of a character or characters in a comic book, video game, or animated television program or film. ... Crash of the Titans is an action-adventure game published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by Radical Entertainment for the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable video game consoles; the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions of the game were developed by Amaze Entertainment. ... Tan can mean several things: tan is shorthand in mathematics for the tangent trigonometric function. ... The term blue may refer to any of a number of similar colours. ... Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is a platform game made by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance. ... A yellow Tulip. ... Torpedo tubes of the French SNLE Redoutable A torpedo tube is a device for launching torpedoes in a horizontal direction. ...

History

Doctor Neo Cortex and Doctor Nitrus Brio have both been credited for the creation of Dingodile,^[11] though Naughty Dog has never stated who they intended his creator to be. Having said that, he has only been shown in service of the former, otherwise working on his own accord.

Present history

1998

Dingodile made his debut in the video game Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped as the second boss of the game. Here, he is seen serving under Uka Uka and Doctor Cortex, attempting to take whatever Crystals Crash has gathered and bringing them to Cortex during the Ice Ages under his orders.^[12] Crash encounters Dingodile as he is about to kill a penguin, who runs away upon Crash's arrival. In retaliation, Dingodile surrounds himself with large, rotating stalagmites, and shoots small bursts of flamethrower ammo into the air, causing fireballs to rain down from the sky. When Dingodile fires at Crash directly in another attempt to kill him, he ends up destroying the stalagmites that have been protecting him, allowing Crash to attack Dingodile, causing his flamethrower to malfunction and explode. When Dingodile admits defeat, he warns Crash of the more powerful enemies he will face ahead as the penguin he tried to kill earlier hops up and down on his charred body.^[13] Uka Uka ) (sometimes referred to as The Great Uka Uka) is a fictional character from the Crash Bandicoot series. ...

2001-2004

Dingodile appears as an attendee of Uka Uka's bad guy convention in Wrath of Cortex, not speaking a single line in the entire game. He later serves as an obstacle in certain levels, firing spurts of flamethrower ammo in an attempt to stop Crash.

In Crash Twinsanity, Dingodile is seen as one of the attendees of Crash's "birthday party" (which is really a gathering of past villains in the Crash series). After watching the ensuing boss battle, he discusses lunch with Ripper Roo. Later, he is seen inside a small shack reading a green book (originally, he was having a date with Tawna, but this was omitted due to time constraints),^[9] but is interrupted when a large snowball crushes the shack with him in it. As Cortex laments his humiliation, Dingodile learns of the Evil Twins' treasure,^[14] and secretly follows Crash and Cortex to the boiler room of Madame Amberly's Academy of Evil, where he tries to kill Crash for the treasure, believing he already has it.^[8] However, with the help of the boiler room's emergengy sprinkler system, Crash is able to disable Dingodile's flamethrower and beat him into submission. Dingodile is last seen laying unconscious in the boiler room.

2007-present

While Dingodile doesn't appear in the console version of Crash of the Titans, he appears as the first boss in the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions of the game.^[15] It is unknown if he will serve any other role in the game. “NDS” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Other appearances

Dingodile appears as a playable character in Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart, driving a high-speed, low-control kart in both games.^[16] In Crash Nitro Kart, Dingodile is seen assisting Doctor N. Gin when the tower they're standing in is abducted. The next time he is seen, he is brainwashed by N. Trance and racing under Trance's team, which drives green vehicles. His flamethrower is not seen in the game, and he dons a strange device on his head, presumably a brainwashing/control helmet. Doctor N. Gin , sometimes spelled N-Gin) is a fictional video game character and secondary villain in the Crash Bandicoot series of video games. ...

Dingodile also appears in the party game Crash Bash, in which he is summoned by Uka Uka to do battle with Aku Aku's team in a tournament. However, he and Tiny Tiger are switched over to Aku Aku's team, because Uka Uka had too many players. Dingodile performs a tail whip as his default attack in the "Crate Crush" levels, and has the ability to fire two-shot volleys in the "Tank Wars" levels.^[17]

In Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Dingodile serves as the first boss. He fights Crash in a shark-infested underwater cavern, and fires torpedoes at the cavern ceiling in an attempt to impale Crash with the falling stalactites, but eventually manages to impale himself, leaving him open for attack. He is later merged with Doctor Cortex, N. Gin, and Tiny, and becomes Mega-Mix. After chasing Crash down a space station hall, Mega-Mix is left inside the space station, which explodes with the villains in it. Orders Carcharhiniformes Heterodontiformes Hexanchiformes Lamniformes Orectolobiformes Pristiophoriformes Squaliformes Squatiniformes † Symmoriida Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton [1] and a streamlined body. ...

Musical themes

In his first appearance as a boss in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Dingodile has a musical theme consisting of a drum kit, a tenor saxophone, and a didgeridoo, with the electric piano being the most prominent instrument.^[18] A variation of this theme appears in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure as Tiny's boss theme. Dingodile's boss theme in The Huge Adventure (which is a variation of N Gin's boss theme from Warped) largely consists of a drum kit, bass guitar, and electric piano, and lasts only about a minute.^[19] The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax. ... A didgeridoo. ...

See also

• Flamethrower
• Hybrid
• Pyromania
• Tiny Tiger

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