Say what you will about Activision, but the way they and their teams treat Crash should be used as a guideline for all long running platformer franchises. Pretty much every criticism people have about recent Mario, Sonic, e.t.c. titles in terms of world-building is addressed by Crash.
I really wish the Rampage movie was some kind of animated cartoony kaiju parody like the game itself instead of being this mediocre live action movie.