Who Is Penta Penguin? (Crash Bandicoot Theory)
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- With only a couple of cameo appearances under his belt, Penta Penguin makes one contemplate about how he really came to be. In this fan theory video, we analyze the facts & brainstorm about how the little penguin became part of the franchise.
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So..
I fell in love with this channel
z4NDR3W me too!
Shame he doesn't post anymore :( :( :(
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Funny enough, it was Beenox who remade CTR, and they included both fake crash and Penta. Penta still being unlockable by button code (awsome)
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Penguin Yay 1.
Penguin Yay 2.
And Penguin Yay 3.
*Penguin yay 3*
4 YAEY NUIGNEP
Penguin Yay 5
Penguin Yay 6
Penta is a character from Parodius, Naughty Dog staff loved this game. He is a parody of the character Pentarou, that's all ! XD
Well, Penta saw the light of day again with the CTR remake.
sharon v and he makes some right cute funny noises 😆
@@TyroClint And he even say penguin yay 1 and penguin yay 2
sharon v he only says penguin yay 1
Penta is most likely male, according to his CTR: NF voice. By the way, the line played when unlocking him makes him say "Yay, Penguin yay 1!", a reference to the test line from the NTSC line of the original CTR. Even though I played the PAL version where he was essentially completed and those lines were removed, it's still a really cool reference!
I also see Penta most likely being male, because in the manga shown, he is addressed Penta-kun by his girlfriend.
"The trophy name doesn't imply anything concrete"
Doesn't it, though? The implication is definitely there, even if it's wrong. Or perhaps, just as Beenox made 'Penguin yay one' a canon quote, maybe the devs retconned that penguin to be Penta in NST: Warped.
You didn't even talk about whether Penta Penguin is a good or a bad guy? Is Penta an anti-hero? He Uses Aku Aku but gets Uka Uka!
I believe that was only due to the game being in an unfinished state (aka beta). It was fixed in some versions for sure.
yea, I was just trying to have fun with rampant speculation...
Also for some reason his stats are different in NTSC-U compared to PAL and NTSC-J. In NTSC-U he has the same stats as Pura and Polar, but in the other versions he has the same stats as Oxide (all maxed out).
@@jeremyabbott4537 I was really hoping he would on the NTSC-U version. :(
And in Nitro Fueled he uses both masks
There is also a very old MAME game called Penta! Where you play as a penguin who pushes blocks. I'm sure it was a nod to either that or the konami game
Thank you for the cool fact man!
Is it called "Penta!", or "Penta"?
Gotta respect my man's research for this channel.
Props
Thank you boss!
if penta knew the hard work you did to make this video, maybe then he will come back ;D
Haha, thank you so much for your appreciation!
He did!
I'd like to add that the Crash Bash penguin *is* called Penta, it says so in the level instructions.
It's also worth noting that, as you showed in the unseen CTR Penta's ending, and remembering his winner/loser poses in the CTR podium, his model is the exact same as the one used in Crash 2 and 3, and he doesn't have his scarf either. I'm not siding with the Crash 2 clone theories, those are all different penguins imo. But I do believe the one in Crash 3 is him.
Of course this is just my opinion combined with some facts that weren't shown in the video, but still, great job! It's good to see some love for these unknown fellas. Cheers.
Thank you so much for pointing that out, I gotta look more carefully!
No biggie, you researched a lot and there are always some little things that get overlooked.
5 years late 😅but I did noticed the same thing as you pointed out with the win/loss scene at the podium with no scarf at ctr
In Nitro-Fueled, Penta gets to keep his Aku/Uka-mask Glitch - and not only that, is seen rubbing his hands sinisterly after finishing a race - though looking now and then back as to ensure none sees his "true self". Could this call back to his "self-serving greedy merchant"-character he's seen in "Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken."? He also sold jetpacks to Cortex and Crash before they can fly to space.
He feels kinda like Wario-esque character, along with bit of "canon immigrant" on him this way. Kinda sad Beenox didn't seem too aware of the manga though, since they could have referenced his girlfriend and all.
True that. I saw it too.
what's next, who is farmer Ernest? who is Good Cortex?
also, he's referred to as penta-kun at 1:47 which is an honorific for boys in Japan, so he must be male for that reason
Thanks for the cool fact and the suggestions!
there are so many things cut from twinsanity that could easily fill up a whole video, but if you legitimately make a video just on farmer earnest I'd laugh my ass off. save it for next april fools, lol
Haha, great idea!
here's a much more serious suggestion: the freaking origins of coco, because there is a LOT of room for speculation and debate there and it's obviously much more important to the series. I think it makes the most sense that she was caught with crash and Tawna, was evolved, and escaped all before the events of crash 1 and then found her brother again later (or was possibly evolved by brio after crash 1, but its incredibly unlikely that he would just happen to find the sister of crash out of all the random bandicoots in the world)
it would make sense because if Coco was the first bandicoot to be evolved and she turned out to be so smart, that would explain why cortex had such high hopes for crash to lead his army. additionally the "past failures" Brio mentions could refer to her since every other animal they evolved seems to be properly doing their bidding (except for ripper roo maybe)
she clearly must have not been present during the events of crash 1 because A, cortex refers to Tawna as "THE female bandicoot" implying she is the only one they have, and B, why the fuck would Crash just leave her behind when rescuing Tawna?
well, we are in April now
Do a theory on why N.Tropy's CTR role. He was the only secret character to be in the end credits, time trial records and a stain glass cameo in adventure mode.
Thanks Thomas!
I still think Penta is the same penguin whos jumping on Dingodile after Crash defeating him. Penta and Dingodile are fastest characters in orginal CTR. This must mean something. "penguin yay one!"
Same It makes it more funny and interesting that Penta was the one who jumped on Dingodile. They have a bit of a rivalry
I would want an episode about Pinstripe Potoroo. He’s a critically underused character that’s great and has a neat story.
For sure, I jotted down your suggestion!
Ive heard "penguin yay 1 and 2" !!
On my PSP i believe ... O.o
You probably have.
"Penguin Yay 1" and "Penguin Yay 2" were placeholder sound effects for Penta Penguin, but they forgot to replace their files with proper sounds, so they are still in the game.
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@@AS42100 He even says "Penguin yay 1!" occasionally in the CTR remaster.
@@ms046 Awesome! I hope they have a "penguin yay 2" in there as well. Sadly, it doesn't look like it will though. :(
Penta Penguin was a very random character to add in CTR. I get he was kind of a character in Cortex Strikes Back, Warped and Bash as well as in the manga, but they should have at least shown his character to the people who haven't read it. After people unlocked him, it would be a littler weird why he was there since there was no backstory about him.
Indeed, I always wondered who he was myself!
Actually it's confirmed the one in Crash 3 during Dingodile's fight IS Penta in the remake, where beating Dingodile gives you the Acheivment "Penta Penguin's Revenge"
LOVE these character theory things dude, you should do more on like the evil doctors maybe? that'd be hella
Thank you for the feedback man!
I think he was put in CTR based on his appearance in the manga because of his "anime eyes" in that game and was then retconned into Crash 3 by Vicarious Visions, but his character might have been based on the penguin from Crash 3. All the other penguins are not Penta obviously
Penta Penguin is from a Konami classic Antartic Adventure, followed by Penguin Adventure, he also appeared in the Parodius games.
Thanks for making this because Penta is one of my favorite characters;D
Personally i think the Penguin we see in Dingodile boss could be Pentas ancestor because the battle takes place in Ice age and i dont think Penta is using Timetwister.
That's a very cool guess!! And I'm glad you enjoyed.
5:18 Kojima, you did it again!
Legend!
please make more videos like this. I'm really loving them. Maybe you could also do history of characters who already have backstory.
Thank you for the comment and the suggestion, Tyler!
Its just a placeholder that they didn't put anything in,Galvin James who did the placeholders for all characters voices
He appears in the manga and helps Crash :P
All I know is that he gets both Aku Aku and uka uka in Nitro Fueled.
Penta is actually the penguin from Crash 3. I know because not only is his name in the trophy for beating Dingodile in N. Sane Trilogy, but because if you play a cup in Crash Team Racing as Penta Penguin and you win. During the end when you're on the podium. You can actually see Penta Penguin without his scarf.
Penta Penguin shows up as enemies in the main series & sometimes a playable character in the CTR series.
just watched your rilla roo video and this one is great too
Thank you!
Penta Penguin is basically a loosely canon fan character
Hmm, you can say that!
Achievement "Pentas revenge" can correct that penguin in Dingodile Boss battle is Penta.
It was always my thought that Penta (and his girlfriend Gurin) were meant to be call backs to the Konami game Penguin Adventure (Dream Continent Adventure: 夢大陸アドベンチャー ) considering the fact there are two penguins and the female is shown as lighter/pink in colour.
As one comment mentioned, "Naught Dog staff loved Parodius (パロディウス)", which was also created by Konami in 1990 (7 years after Penguin Adventure), and there is a character named Pentarou (ペン太郎), with the first half meaning 'Penguin' and the second half, 'Tarou' being used in folktales such as Momotarou (桃太郎 - Peach Boy), and Pentarou is the son of Penta (ペン太).
So we can assume that Penta (ペン太) was originally an even shorter version of Pentarou (ペン太郎) when Parodius (パロディウス) was released, but the name didn't really get the message across and so Penta (ペン太) was given a son with the full name Pentarou (ペン太郎).
So either way it was the same penguin, regardless of whether the game was 'Penguin Adventure' or 'Parodius' that inspired Crash Bandicoot's Penta Penguin.
But Andy Gavin actually said that it was a Universal Studios staff member who liked to play Sexy Parodius (セクシーパロディウス) which was released in 1996.
"[...]This task had been assigned to our nominal producer at Universal, a gentleman who mostly sat in his office and played Sexy Parodius."
It's highly likely that they all played the games and were aware of the character.
But considering that the Manga, with 'Penta', was drawn by Ari Kawashima in 1998, potentially before work began on CTR that was announced May 1999 and didn't enter alpha until August 1999 (and that Penta was a late addition, evidenced by his lack of stats and real voice files in the NTSC release), we can assume the character was invented by either Ari Kawashima or someone at CoroCoro Comic (コロコロコミック) at least. It would also make more sense for a Japanese artist to be more aware/interested in paying homage to a Konami character.
I can guess that because they wanted to pay tribute to Konami and use the name 'Penta' they couldn't use a similarly looking penguin, and so added the scarf to distinguish their character and Konami's, avoiding lawsuit.
CTR is essentially an unfinished game, which is why the Beta version shows Fake Crash/Penta with placeholder models in the credits, that had to be cut, and why Penta does not have his own larger model built/custom animation on the podiums and thus has a normal penguin.
Waiting for this channel to blow up just keepin it real at that 500 subs
Thank you for the support!
Also are you planning on just keeping these character theory's to crash bandicoot or to other franchises because i think these types of videos are really interesting
I'll definitely try to branch out in the future.
Oh wow Penta now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time i remember him from team racing and i had a friend who owns the Crash manga your theory holds some truths here you sir are amazing
Massive thank you bud!
The Pawn Shop Hero you're welcome friend anytime
It’s simple. He’s just from the penguins on crash 2. So they made him a playable racer. And they know that gamers find him cute
I'm loving your theory videos
Thank you so much pal!
I find it funny that Penta isn't wearing the scarf in the CTR beta credits. Doesn't this give Crash 3's appearance more of a chance of being him?
Note that the normal penguin color in crash 2&3 is blue but penta is black
Good eye!
i must say i like the obvious research you put in
Thank you so much! I try my best, but I do miss some details occasionally.
5:17
Fun fact: That was the first game Hideo Kojima worked on. He was assistant designer.
Year: 1997.
Consoles: PS1 & PS4.
Titles: Crash 2: Cortex Strikes Back! & Crash Bandicoot: N Sane Trilogy.
Info: There was regular penguins serving as enemies & after a short while, they spin attack, much longer than Crash.
How about "Where did Yaya Panda come from?"
Yaya's an obscure character from Nitro Kart 2.
On mobile.
And she has pretty much no backstory... Interesting, hm? A theory would be cool.
You put tonnes of effort into these videos, and you totally deserve more subs. I'm subbing just because of the nice content ya do.
Just trying to find an Apple device to play and record from, haha. I'm an Android guy.
Hah, same.
BTW, by Nitro Kart 2 I meant Nitro Kart 2 on Java Mobile Handsets, like, Pre-iPhone versions. So if you ever need footage of the original Nitro Kart 2 (or any other trashy Crash mobile game... and believe me there's a lot) then a Java emulator would be your best bet.
Thanks mate!
I'm inclined to believe that Penta Penguin was among the penguin enemies in Crash 2, but since they all look exactly a like, it would be impossible to know which penguin is Penta. But it was confirmed in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy that the penguin from Crash 3 is Penta, even though Naughty Dog never confirmed this. But with Naughty Dog having moved to other things, Vicarious Visions were totally within their right to do this.
theory: how did n gin get a rocket in his head or will crunch return in a man series crash game
Thank you Matt!
no problem just giving you suggestion for videos
Game Theory: Is Penta Penguin secretly Elijah Wood from Happy Feet?
Nice,but in the N.sane trilogy, the ps trophy you get for beating Dingodile is called Penta's Revenge,so it MUST be him
Who knows, who knows! Thank you for watching!
What even IS Penta Penguins character?:
Well, stand up, so you can sit down because your probably already sitting down, if your walking, good for you your probably a normal person, if your in a car, turn your phone off and keep your eyes on the road, anyway lets get onto what I think Penta's character is, since his character is all kinds of
*F U C K E D*
So I basically think he was a test character, or a unfinished character, or a scrapped character that was left in by accident, and I have many pieces of evidence to support this: First off, one of the obvious ones,
*P E N G U I N Y A Y 1*
*P E N G U I N Y A Y 2*
Almost all of Penta's voice lines are by a goose, but these ones were probably placeholders for the unfinished "yay" sounds, second piece of evidence is how you only get him from a cheat code, most developers will do this to get characters that are for experiments, and sometimes they forget to get them out, (I think this is actually how the first cheat code was invented) And another thing, whenever you get a mask as Penta, the little box says you have Uka Uka, but you get Aku Aku when you use it instead of Uka Uka, I cannot explain why this is in, maybe a glitch they didn't fix because it was a test character or something, ANOTHER thing is his model, you can see that his eyes...Are VERY close together, I don't know if this is me but they look very off, so maybe that might be because they didn't plan for this character to be out, but I'm not going to look at this one too much, but my FINAL point is his winning thing, it is basically the penguin without the scarf, it may have just been a test to see what it would look like, but I wont look at this too much like the last point, because I cant really explain this, BUT that ends my theory on what Penta Penguin's character in CTR is, hopefully people like this.
This definitely isn't a generic comment!
yeah, to be fair its not.
The eyes being close together is a result of the downscaled graphics during races, actually.
These videos are really interesting! Your voice is actually quite nice to listen to, too! I can't figure out where your accent is from, but I love it! ^_^
Really nice video, man!
Keep it up!
Thank you so so much!
this is a good theory man keep it up
Big thank you man!
Your welcome?
Mic Clank why'd you put the question mark?
The only thing i dont understand of Penta is if he is a good or a bad guy. I said that for the invulnerability of Uka Uka whit the Aku Aku sound. By the way, good video, pal. (And sorry for my bad english 😂).
Thank you Tomas!
8:07 Ayy Stepbrothers!
damn that Penta konami game has to be the pioneer of the running genre, way before even pepsiman.
For real!
Penta wears no scarf at 7:59
Can you make video about fake crash origin?PLZ
I definitely will asap, thank you!
Dingodile took some of Penta Penguins friends, which is the reason behind the trophy. You need to do a bit more on ur research, I've known this since the comics release. lol
It can be difficult to remember everything sometimes, but is great to learn things from the viewers. Thank you!
3:05 N Sane Trilogy's Penta trophy says otherwise
The Legend of Penguin Yay 1 and 2
Can we get the Crash manga released here please? It looks like fun.
He came back
Can you make a theory about the origin of fake crash and where he came from?
I'll definitely try my best with that!
Do you think you'll do a followup now that Pentas back?
I greatly wish I had a chance to make more of these videos. They were fun!
If it says pentas revenge than it is penta
Hmm. In CTR credits, he has no scarf.
Just like on the podium when he wins! Conclusion: lazy developers
Penta penguin might be a little blue penguin which is the species of penguin found in Australia and New Zealand
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Penguin yay 1, penguin yay 2.
At 2:10 what is that footage from? I dont remember any areas like that in the game and I'm quite curious
Thank you for asking! I borrowed this from a user named MrBean3500vr. This is his modded version of a level from Crash 2, aka it was not like this in the real game. I will put video credits in the description of the video tonight!
well...in a comment,you said that penta using aku aku and uka uka was a bug,but,now in the future,crash team racing nitro fueled was released and penta still uses both aku and uka,will you make a video about that?
That's probably an Easter egg similarly to how he still says "Penguin yay 1" in the remake
Penta is the fastest thing alive!
When he's not obsessed with eating of course.
You did great job mate. Good investigation :-) I hope Penta Penguin will come at least in DLC of new CTR.
Thank you so much pal!
Wait... is 2:11 one of those Crash 2 LEVEL HACKS? XD
7:54 Poor guy got kicked in the nuts :(
If the penguin in warped is penta then the crash bash one is defffff him. I always thougt that as a kid
Your videos are epic!
Saif, thank you so much!
Who is fake crash? A creation of cortex or brio or a glorified version but of crash from going through time?
That character is now in ctr nitro fule
That was Penta standing behind Polar. Look at the remastered version. 2019
More precisely, Beenox clarified it is Penta in Nitro-Fueled by adding a scarf to the penguin. Which is really cool. Whether that was the intention in the original game or not, is impossible to say.
That notion is not fair.
Here's a silly video suggestion: crash bootleg games. Not sure how rare they are, you could probably find some at a thrift store or online for a good price. There's a really weird one for Gameboy, and a rip-off of another game but called crash Bandicoot on SEGA Genesis. Just some examples. It'd be funny to watch. But if you don't want to or aren't able that's fine.
Thank you so much for the suggestion! I'll definitely look into it. I already saw a few of these videos here on the site, so just would not want to repeat information!
Penta's toast mate!
Who is penta? Shrek on a disguise!
You should make one of these about Willie Wumpa Cheeks
Also, I'm subscribing now!
Thank you very much!
I love it
Thabk you Ahmd!
i love Penta Penguin
that jump 2:26
ty, this is my fave char
Glad you enjoyed!
Could you do Ripper Roo/ Dr. Roo next?
Definitely on my bucket list!
7:59 he doesn't have a scarf on at the credits
i wonder if the gislrfriend is called gurin because there is that famicom game called binary land were there are two penguines gurin and malon that are acouple
I like Penta he is sweet and daft.
penta doesn't have a scarf for his celebration dance in ctr
Ur vids are entertaining now :o
Haha, I hope that's a good thing.
The manga don't involve Naughty Dog, so the trophy is canon :P
What if Penta got hurt and wears the Bandana to cover a scar?
I liked + subbed, hope this made your day.
Does the penguin in Spyro games have anything to do with Penta Penguin? And is Penta a bad guy, due to uka uka being his mask power up?
What does spyro have to do with this video
About the source file issue... there's always contacting the Original Japanese Naughty Dog Team...
If only I had the contacts!
Oh wow... You actually replied and with a nice Answer as opposed to other people as of late. Thank-you!
No problem man, thank you for your comment!