Across Devsisters' many games, theCookie Runseries has garnered a rather big following in the last 12 years. While the series started out small, initially known asOvenBreak, it has seen new life with several new titles over the years. The games that current fans should be most familiar with areCookie Run KingdomandCookie Run OvenBreak, with the latter being a spiritual successor to their first title.
While theCookie Runseries started small, it has since grown to become a series known for unique character designs and a spawling amount of lore. From details such as leaving the Ninja Cookie’s ingredients a secret to fit his nature, tothe story of Twizzly Gummy Cookiedealing with time travel and alternate dimensions, theCookie Runlore runs surprisingly deep. With all of this information at fans' fingertips, though, one Cookie’s lore is scattered across all of the game’s titles. Many players may be wondering just who GingerBrave is, and what his story is like.
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The First Cookie in OvenBreak
Across allCookie Rungames, GingerBrave has always been the first Cookie players start off with.TheOvenBreaktitlesbegin with GingerBrave being baked in the oven belonging to witches, who have used magical recipes to make Cookies like him who are alive. When GingerBrave comes to life, he’s in the process of being baked in a hot oven, and quickly becomes afraid. This leads to him quickly taking a chance to run out of the oven away from the witches, and that becomes the start of the original titles, as well as GingerBrave’s story throughout all of the titles.
While this is how GingerBrave started out as a character, it also tells the story of the Cookies that came before him, before the world ofCookie Runbecame as Cookie-filled as it is in the current story across the games. While many games credit GingerBrave to be the “first Cookie to escape the witch,” it was only one witch in this instance, as many more have made other Cookies before he was baked, such as the legendary Cookies likePure Vanilla Cookiethat were lost in the war seen inCookie Run Kingdom’sprologue.
About Cookie Run’s Protagonist
While GingerBrave is in many different titles as the first Cookie, he doesn’t necessarily perform well in comparison to other Cookies. In the newest smartphone version ofOvenBreak, GingerBrave sits at a meager B-tier in regards to his strength. InCookie Run: Kingdom, he’s relegated to only being good for his ability in things such asthe Kingdom Arena, which can stun enemies and is easy to raise. He also tends to be seen as bad luck by many players in that game, as only GingerBread appearing when fans are spending gems for new Cookies tends to mean the pull has a low chance of any Cookies being in it.
As GingerBrave has been the face of the franchise, there’s been some interesting trivia regarding the gingerbread Cookie. For a few years since his creation and the start ofthe English translationof the Korean-made series, he was known as Brave Cookie, which matches the other Cookies' naming themes. He also had a brother known as Dozer in the second iteration ofOvenBreak, but he was caught and eaten by the witch. This brother isn’t mentioned in any otherCookie Rungames, so he’s most likely been written out of the story.
GingerBrave may seem like a good protagonist to lead a series about talking Cookies, but the opinion players have seems to be that they either love him or hate him. They either love him for his innocent and adventure-loving personality, or hate him for how he tiers so low in the games or curses players when they’rewhaling in the gacha portion of the games. Despite how fans feel, however, Devsisters has celebrated his inclusion in the games many times, including making June 12th his birthday. As the poster boy forCookie Run, he’s most likely sticking around as long as the series keeps running.
Cookie Run KingdomandCookie Run: OvenBreakare available now for iOS and Android devices.
