Crash and Eddie in Ice Age: Who They Are and Who Voices Them

Crash and Eddie are possum brothers who first appear in ice age the meltdown, where they turn out to be the adoptive family of Ellie, a mammoth who was raised by possums and believes she is one. So, if you are asking what kind of animals they are, the answer is possums, even though their sister is a mammoth.

The pair joined the series in Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), directed by Carlos Saldanha, and they are credited in every film after it, including the Disney+ spinoff ice age buck wild. They do not appear in ice age 2002, the first film. The credits list them as "Crash (voice)" and "Eddie (voice)", and the films usually treat them as a double act rather than two separate characters.

Who played Crash and Eddie in Ice Age? Seann William Scott voices Crash and Josh Peck voices Eddie in The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). In The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), directed by John Donkin, Vincent Tong takes over as Crash and Aaron Harris as Eddie.

How do you tell them apart? The simplest answer is the voice cast: Crash is the brother voiced by Seann William Scott (or Vincent Tong in Buck Wild), and Eddie is the brother voiced by Josh Peck (or Aaron Harris in Buck Wild). The films sell them as a matched pair. Are they twins? The films introduce them as Ellie's possum brothers, and whether they are twins is unconfirmed.

Crash and Eddie begin as passengers on someone else's journey and end as the leads of their own film. That is quite a climb for two characters who start out as an extra pair of voices on the road to the boat.

In Ice Age: The Meltdown, the valley is about to flood, and the herd has about three days to reach a boat at the far end. Ellie and her brothers join that trek, and the group learns that Ellie was an orphaned calf adopted by their mother. When the dam bursts, Ellie and her brothers are trapped in a cave, and Manny rescues them.

In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Sid is dragged into a lost jungle beneath the ice by the mother of the dinosaur eggs he adopted. Crash and Eddie go down with Manny, Diego and Ellie to get him back, and they meet Buck, the one-eyed weasel who guides the group toward Lava Falls.

Ice Age: Continental Drift and Ice Age: Collision Course both credit the brothers in the voice cast, but the stories belong to others. Continental Drift follows Manny adrift at sea, Captain Gutt's pirates and Peaches. Collision Course follows the asteroid threat, Buck's discovery of the stone pillar and the wedding of Peaches and Julian. In both, the brothers sit in the wider ensemble.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild moves them to the center. Crash and Eddie accidentally cause an avalanche that ruins the herd's summer habitat, and when Manny, Sid, Diego and Ellie doubt the two can look after themselves, the brothers leave camp to prove them wrong. They stumble into the Lost World, where raptors chase them until Buck rescues them. They then team up with Zee and a Tyrannosaurus called Momma to stop Orson, a small Protoceratops who has returned with a raptor pack and wants to rule the land.

The most important relationship in the brothers' story is with Ellie, their adopted sister. Ellie is a mammoth raised by possums, and the brothers' mother adopted her as an orphaned calf. Manny and Ellie grow close in Ice Age: The Meltdown and are expecting a baby when Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs begins, so Crash and Eddie become part of Manny's extended circle. Ellie gives birth to her daughter Peaches at the end of that film.

Their link with Manny starts as a practical one. In The Meltdown, Manny hesitates over Ellie because of the family he lost long ago, and the brothers come as part of the package when he chooses to stay with her. By Dawn of the Dinosaurs they are on the rescue team that follows Sid, which shows how far the herd treats them as full members.

Sid and Diego fill out the day to day circle. In The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Manny, Sid, Diego and Ellie are the older members who doubt the brothers, and the whole plot grows from that doubt. Buck, whom the brothers first meet in Dawn of the Dinosaurs, is the one who saves them from the raptors in the Lost World.

Crash and Eddie are alive at the end of their latest film, and their last confirmed scene sends them to live in the Lost World. In The Meltdown, Manny saves Ellie and her brothers from the flood. At the end of The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, fire-breathing lizards turn Orson's raptors against him, which ends his attempt to take over, and the brothers decide to stay and make the Lost World their home. Manny, Sid, Diego and Ellie say they will visit often.

That ending matters for the question fans ask most: are Crash and Eddie going to be in Ice Age 6? Ice Age: Boiling Point, the next film in the franchise, is in production for a US release on February 5, 2027, according to TheWrap and Box Office Mojo. John C. Donkin is the announced director and Batu Sener the announced composer. No source has confirmed a return for Crash and Eddie.

As such, the brothers' status is open. They are alive, they are settled in the Lost World, and the herd knows where to find them.

In my opinion, the brothers work best when the story lets them act on their own ideas, and that is why The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild gives them their strongest material. The opening avalanche is a good example: the damage to the summer habitat is entirely their fault, and the plot then asks whether two characters who spend most of the series at the edge of the herd can carry a film. The climax answers yes, when they use the fire-breathing lizards to turn Orson's raptors against him. That is a clever piece of improvised problem solving, and it pays off the doubt the older animals show at the start.

Their best earlier moment, it could be argued, is the plunge into the lost world in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. They follow Manny, Diego and Ellie into a jungle full of living dinosaurs to bring Sid home, and that is where the herd first meets Buck. In Buck Wild, Buck is the one who rescues the brothers from the raptors, so the two films share a character who links them.

The Meltdown remains their debut. Being trapped in a cave with Ellie as the dam bursts gives them a real stake in the plot, and Manny's rescue ties them to the main emotional line of that film.

If you want to meet them for the first time, start with ice age the meltdown. If you want the film where they are in charge, go straight to ice age buck wild. For the order of all the films, see ice age movies in order, and for the rest of the herd, see ice age characters.