! Crate

“These boxes may cause something in the background to change.”
—Crash Bandicoot manual

! Crates usually turn the outline crates into other types of crates, often iron crates, creating a bridge that allows the player to cross gaps, and regular crates containing wumpa fruit. Occasionally, they have other purposes, such as in The Lab, where they activate doors and platforms. They don't count toward the box count because they are indestructible.

There are many variants of the ! crate. In many games, there is a green variant, which is the nitro switch crate, used to detonate all nitro crates in a level. In Crash Nitro Kart there is a wooden variant which activates traps after being broken. In Crash Bash there is a purple variant found in many Pogo Pandemonium mini-games that turn a player's squares into points. They are also blue in the mobile version of Crash Twinsanity.

Appearances

• Crash Bandicoot
• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
• Crash Bash
• Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (as "switch boxes")
• Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
• Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
• Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage (As a Card)
• Crash Nitro Kart
• Crash Twinsanity (as "switch crates")
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Gallery

Crates
! | ? | Aku Aku | Ammo | Arrow | Basic | Big TNT | Block | Bounce | Checkpoint | Copter | Crash | Detonator | Freeze | Infinity | Invisibility | Iron Arrow | Iron Check Point | Iron | Locked | Magic Carpet | Nitro | Nitro Switch | Breakable Nitro Switch | Outline | Pants | Slot | Spike | Time | TNT | World | X

Crash Bandicoot
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Tawna
Levels	N. Sanity Island (N. Sanity Beach • Jungle Rollers • The Great Gate • Boulders • Upstream • Rolling Stones • Hog Wild • Native Fortress) | Wumpa Island (Up the Creek • The Lost City • Temple Ruins • Road to Nowhere • Boulder Dash • Whole Hog • Sunset Vista) | Cortex Island (Heavy Machinery • Cortex Power • Generator Room • Toxic Waste • The High Road • Slippery Climb • Lights Out • Fumbling in the Dark • Jaws of Darkness • Castle Machinery • The Lab • The Great Hall) | Removed (Stormy Ascent • Cavern Level • Cliff Level • Waterfall Level • Cut Lava Level • Cut Test Level • Cut mineshaft level)
Items	Crates (Basic Crate • Aku Aku Crate • Bounce Crate • Arrow Crate • ? Crate • ! Crate • TNT Crate • Big TNT Crate • Crash Crate • Checkpoint Crate • Iron Crate • Iron Arrow Crate | Wumpa Fruit | Gem | Key
Enemies	Crab | Turtle | Skunk | Venus Fly Trap | Monkey | Tribesman | Flying Fish | Bat | Lizard | Snake | Spider | Hog | Holo-Projector | Crawling | Robot | Spiked Saucer | Machine Gunner | Barrel Thrower | Bird | Evil Hand | Lab Assistant | Rat | Blob
Bosses	Papu Papu | Ripper Roo | Koala Kong | Pinstripe Potoroo | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Doctor Neo Cortex

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot • Aku Aku • Coco Bandicoot • Doctor Nitrus Brio • Polar
Bosses	Ripper Roo • Komodo Brothers • Tiny Tiger • Doctor N. Gin • Doctor Neo Cortex
Items	Crates (Basic Crate, ? Crate, Bounce Crate, Aku Aku Crate, Checkpoint Crate, Crash Crate, Arrow Crate, Locked Crate, TNT Crate, Nitro Crate, Nitro Switch Crate, ! Crate, Iron Crate, Iron Arrow Crate) • Wumpa Fruit • Crystal • Gem
Levels	Intro, First Warp Room (Turtle Woods, Snow Go, Hang Eight, The Pits, Crash Dash) • Second Warp Room (Snow Biz, Air Crash, Bear It, Crash Crush, The Eel Deal) • Third Warp Room (Plant Food, Sewer or Later, Bear Down, Road to Ruin, Un-Bearable) • Fourth Warp Room (Hangin' Out, Diggin' It, Cold Hard Crash, Ruination, Bee-Having) • Fifth Warp Room (Piston It Away, Rock It, Night Fight, Pack Attack, Spaced Out) • Sixth Warp Room (Totally Bear, Totally Fly)
Enemies	Armadillo • Bee • Bird • Cyborg Clamidosaur • Echidna • Electric Eel • Gorilla • Lab Assistant • Lizard • Mechanical Piranha • Monkey • Orca • Penguin • Polar Bear • Possum • Rat • Robot Walker • Scrubbing Bubbletron • Seal • Sparky Tentaclebot Unit • Spike Rat • Spiked Saucer • Spitter Plant • Tiki • Turtle • Venus Fly Trap

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot | Pura | Baby T | Polar | Fake Crash
Bosses	Tiny Tiger | Dingodile | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Doctor N. Gin | Doctor Neo Cortex | Uka Uka
Items	Crates | Wumpa Fruit | Crystals | Gems | Relics
Levels	First Chamber (Toad Village, Under Pressure, Orient Express, Bone Yard, Makin' Waves) | Second Chamber (Gee Wiz, Hang'em High, Hog Ride, Tomb Time, Midnight Run) | Third Chamber (Dino Might!, Deep Trouble, High Time, Road Crash, Double Header) | Fourth Chamber (Sphynxinator, Bye Bye Blimps, Tell No Tales, Future Frenzy, Tomb Wader) | Fifth Chamber (Gone Tomorrow, Orange Asphalt, Flaming Passion, Mad Bombers, Bug Lite) | Sixth Chamber (Ski Crazed, Area 51?, Rings of Power) | Secret Levels (Hot Coco, Eggipus Rex)
Enemies	Bandifish | Beetle | Snake | Arsonist | Crocodile | Eel | Goat | Lab Assistant | Monkey | Pufferfish | Scorpion | Seagull | Shark | Triceratops | Pterodactyl | Wave Lab Assistant | Double-Headed Lab Assistant | Wizard Lab Assistant | Frog

Crash Bash
Good	Aku Aku | Crash Bandicoot | Coco Bandicoot | Tiny Tiger | Dingodile
Evil	Uka Uka | Doctor Neo Cortex | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Koala Kong | Rilla Roo
Others	Doctor N. Gin | Ripper Roo | Fake Crash
Items	Anvil | Arrow | Balloon | Block | Bomb | Crystal | Electro Stun Beam | Force Field | Gem | Gold Relic | Homing Energy Orb | Hover Boots | Jewel | Lightning | Locked Crate | Mine | Missile | Mushroom | Nitro Crate | Padlock | Platinum Relic | Pogo Stick | Powder Keg | Purple ? and ! crate | Shock Wave | Sonic Ring | Speedy Boots | TNT Crate | Trophy | Vacuum Cleaner | Wumpa Fruit | Z
Minigames	Crate Crush (Jungle Bash, Space Bash, Snow Bash, Drain Bash, Tie Breaker) Polar Push (Polar Panic, Tilt Panic, Melt Panic, Manic Panic) Ballistix (Crashball, Beach Ball, N. Ballism, Sky Balls) Pogo Pandemonium (Pogo Painter, Pogo-a-Gogo, El Pogo Loco, Pogo Padlock, cut minigame) Tank Wars (Desert Fox, Metal Fox, Jungle Fox, Swamp Fox) Crash Dash (Dot Dash, Toxic Dash, Dante's Dash, Splash Dash) Medieval Mayhem (Ring Ding, Dragon Drop, Mallet Mash, Keg Kaboom)
Bosses	Papu Pummel (Papu Papu) | Bearminator (Bearminator) | Big Bad Fox (Komodo Brothers) | Oxide Ride (Nitros Oxide)

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot • Aku Aku • Coco Bandicoot • Pura
Antagonists	Doctor Neo Cortex • Crunch Bandicoot • The Elementals (Rok-Ko, Wa-Wa, Lo-Lo and Py-Ro) • Uka Uka • Doctor Nefarious Tropy • Doctor N. Gin • Tiny Tiger • Dingodile
Items	Crates (Basic Crate, ? Crate, ! Crate, Activation Crate, Outline Crate, Crash Crate, Locked Crate, Invisibility Crate, Iron Crate, Iron Arrow Crate, Checkpoint Crate, Arrow Crate, Nitro Crate, Nitro Switch Crate, TNT Crate) • Wumpa Fruit • Crystal • Gem • Relic
Super Powers	Tip Toe • Double Jump • Death Tornado Spin • Fruit Bazooka • Crash Dash (Super Power) • Super Belly Flop
Levels	First Chamber (Arctic Antics, Tornado Alley, Bamboozled, Wizards and Lizards, Compactor Reactor) • Second Chamber (Jungle Rumble, Sea Shell Shenanigans, Banzai Bonsai, That Sinking Feeling, H2 Oh No) • Third Chamber (The Gauntlet, Tsunami, Smokey and the Bandicoot, Eskimo Roll, Fahrenheit Frenzy) • Fourth Chamber (Avalanche, Droid Void, Crashteroids, Coral Canyon, Weathering Heights) • Fifth Chamber (Crash and Burn, Gold Rush, Medieval Madness, Crate Balls of Fire, Cortex Vortex) • Boss Levels (Rumble in the Roks, Drain Damage, Crashes to Ashes, Atmospheric Pressure, Crunch Time) • Sixth Chamber (Knight Time, Ghost Town, Ice Station Bandicoot, Solar Bowler, Force of Nature) • Cut levels (Cut Chinese harbour level, Cut scooter level, Cut Glider level, Cut oriental level, Fire Island)
Enemies	Seal • Penguin • Narwhale • Lab Assistant • Bat • Fish • Lizard • Koi Fish • Crane • Salmon • Robot • Monkey • Parrot • Crab • Donkey • Inflating Cactus • Scorpion • Knight Lab Assistant • Ninja Lab Assistant • Skiing Lab Assistant • Gold Miners

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot
Bosses	Dingodile | Doctor N. Gin | Tiny Tiger | Doctor Neo Cortex | Uka Uka | Mega-Mix
Items	Crates | Wumpa Fruit | Crystals | Gems
Levels	First Chamber (Jungle Jam, Shipwrecked, Temple of Boom, Frostbite Cavern, Just in Slime) | Second Chamber (Snow Crash, Rocket Racket, Just Hangin', Shark Attack, Ruined) | Third Chamber (Snow Job, Ace of Space, Sunken City, Down the Hole, Blimp Bonanza) | Fourth Chamber (Star to Finish, Air Supply, No-Fly Zone, Drip, Drip, Drip, Final Countdown)
Enemies	Bird | Eel | Electric Eel | Frog | Jellyfish | Lab Assistant | Lizard | Penguin | Polar Bear | Pufferfish | Rat | Scrubbing Bubbletron | Seal | Shark | Sparky Tentaclebot Unit | Spike Lizard | Squid | Steam-Powered Hover-Spike-O-Trons | Venus Fly Trap | Yeti

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot | Aku Aku | Coco Bandicoot | Crunch Bandicoot | Fake Crash
Antagonists	Doctor Nefarious Tropy | N. Trance | Uka Uka | Evil Crunch | Evil Coco
Items	Crates | Wumpa Fruit | Crystals | Gems | Gem Shards | Super Slide | Rocket Jump | Death Tornado Spin | Crash Dash
Levels	First Chamber (Island Intro, Prints of Persia, Lagoony Tunes, Globe Trottin', Pharaoh's Funhouse, Runaway Rug) | Second Chamber (Tiki Torture, Hoppin' Coffins, Barrel Roll, Flockful of Seagulls, Magma Mania) | Third Chamber (Run from the Sun, Now It's Istanbul, Mister Lava Lava, Water Logged, Slip-N-Slidin' Sphinx) | Fourth Chamber (Rocks Can Roll, Rock the Casaba, Eruption Disruption, Spaced Out, King Too Uncommon) | Fifth Chamber (Wild Nile Ride, 101 Arabian Kites, Fire Walker)
Enemies	Arsonist | Beetle |Crocodile | Lab Assistant | Monkey | Scorpion | Seagull | Shark | Snake

Crash Twinsanity
Protagonists	Crash Bandicoot | Doctor Neo Cortex | Aku Aku | Nina Cortex
Minor Characters	Nitros Oxide | Polar | Crunch Bandicoot | Doctor N. Gin | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Ripper Roo | Tiny Tiger | Farmer Ernest | Evil Crash | Pinstripe Potoroo | Koala Kong | Papu Papu | Rusty Walrus | Cortex's mother | Spyro the Dragon | Mecha-Bandicoot | Coco Bandicoot | Removed: Evil Coco | Good Cortex | Capu Capu | Evil Capu Capu | Fake Crash | Komodo Brothers | N. Trance |
Bosses	Doctor Neo Cortex | Mecha-Bandicoot | Tikimon | Uka Uka | Doctor N. Gin | Doctor Nefarious Tropy | Doctor Nitrus Brio | Dingodile | Madame Amberly | Evil Twins | Removed: | Ant Leader | Rusty Walrus
Items	Crates (Crash Crate - Bounce Crate - Basic Crate - ? Crate - Locked Crate - Iron Crate - Iron Arrow Crate - Arrow Crate - Ammo Crate - Nitro Switch Crate - Nitro Crate - TNT Crate - Checkpoint Crate - World Crate - Aku Aku Crate - Detonator Crate - Activation Crate - Outline Crate) - Wumpa Fruit - Crystal - Gem - Weak platforms - Sequence platforms Removed: Unused Robot Crate - Relic - Unused Crate
Levels	N. Sanity Island (Jungle Bungle, Cavern Catastrophe, Totem Hokum) | Iceberg Lab (Ice Climb, Slip Slide Icecapades, High Seas Hi-Jinks) | Academy of Evil (Boiler Room Doom, Classroom Chaos, Rooftop Rampage) | Twinsanity Island (Rockslide Rumble, Bandicoot Pursuit, Ant Agony) | Removed: Gone a Bit Coco, Megalomaniac Mind Mania, Harbor level, Uka Tree level, Lava Caves, Rehab Lab, Security Insanity, Cut Rollerbrawl level, | Train Express | 9th Dimension | 11th Dimension | Canyon Level | Wumpa Island | Komodo Bros. Race | Space Dimension | Temple Level | Ocean Dimension (Coco sub level, Ocean Commotion ) Cut UFO level | Cut Ant lab level | Cut Sport level
Enemies	Crab | Fish | Chicken | Tikimon's Minions | Monkey | Skunk | Venus Fly Trap | Worm | Ant | Rat | Bees | Bear | Tribesman | Hog | Bat | Penguin | Hologram Probe | Barrel Throwing Rhino | Guard Dog | Hall Monitor | Robot Dummy | Robotic Janitor | Experimental Frog | Beetle | Gargolye | Removed: Ant Pet | Flying Swordfish | Greyscale Ant | Pink Elephant | Flowers | Teddy Bear | Robots | Lizards | Pigs | Turtles | Solid Rock Bee | Walking fly trap | Fire-Breathing Creature | Striped Snake | Lab Assistant | Twin Tech Robotic Snake | Lion | Ostrich | Snake Pirates | Pirate Platypus | Piranhas | Sharks | Sea Monster