why is there so much disproportionately messed up crash lore. cortex's family was a group of physically and verbally abusive circus performers that tatooed an n on his head as a child. n brios head screws were installed so cortex could punish him by tightening them whenever he messed up. nina's hands were removed by her uncle and replaced with metal prosthetics so she would stop being nice to animals. in the fourth game tawnas friends were killed in front of her. btw the main character of the series looks like this