Shib Bandicoot began life as a simple, normal bandicoot, living freely as a wild animal in the jungles of N. Sanity island. He was captured by Doctor Shib Cortex, in order to be made the general of Cortex's Cortex Commandos, as part of his evil plan to conquer the blockchain. He was mutated by Cortex and his right-hand-man, Doctor Nitrus Shib, with the Evolvo-Ray, which gave him shib sapience and made him anthropomorphic.