Nina Cortex is an antagonist in the Crash Bandicoot series. She is Neo Cortex's beloved niece (or daughter),[1] a gothic girl with bionic hands made for grappling and crushing soft objects. Since Crash Tag Team Racing, she has developed a fierce rivalry with Coco Bandicoot. Prior to the game's events, Nina had an unnatural love for cute furry animals and was also generally kind-hearted. Doctor Cortex did not approve, so he replaced her hands with bionic steel fists so that she would be unable to
