Team Bandicoot

Team Bandicoot is the friendship between Crash Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot and Crunch Bandicoot from the Crash Bandicoot fandom.

Canon
For most of the franchises early years, it was simply a family friendship between Crash and Coco. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex introduced a new character named Crunch Bandicoot, who would at the end of the game join the bandicoot siblings. Since then, Crunch has been a part of what has now become known as Team Bandicoot.

The name Team Bandicoot originates from Crash Nitro Kart, where the team name for Crash, Coco and Crunch in Adventure Mode is called such. In this game, the bandicoots are relaxing while Coco works on a new kart for racing when they are suddenly abducted by Emperor Velo XXVII. Along with Team Cortex, Team Bandicoot are forced to race in Velo's Galactic Circuit for their freedom. At the end of the game, after defeating Velo in a race, they are sent back home for a a chance to relax.

While Team Bandicoot don't appear as a team again, they are shown all together in Crash Tag Team Racing, Crash of the Titans, and Crash: Mind Over Mutant. In the case of the former, they are on friendly terms with the park owner Von Clutch and his hired racer, Pasadena.

Fanon
Since Crunch Bandicoot's inclusion in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Team Bandicoot has become a popular friendship in the Crash Bandicoot fandom. Most fans also like to include Aku Aku into the group as he is an ally and close friend of Crash Bandicoot. It is also common for fans to group Tawna into Team Bandicoot as well. This is likely due to the popularity of the CrashxTawna ship and/or how she is the only other main character that is a bandicoot. As Tawna has never met Crunch in any canon sense, all interactions between them in fanon are transparent and up to interpretation.

Fandom
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Variations

 * CrashxCoco - the family ship between Crash and Coco
 * CrashxTawna - the ship between Crash and Tawna