Ratchet

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Ratchet is a Lombax mechanic, who, after a series of extraordinary events, finds himself saving the universe with the help of a robot friend, Clank.

Overview

Ratchet is a main character in Insomniac Games Ratchet and Clank series for both the PlayStation 2 andPlayStation 3.He is the sole surviving member of the Lombax species with in his universe.  Ratchet discovered his accomplice, Clank, after the small robot crash landed on the planet Veldin. Ratchet does most of the fighting for the pair, and instead relies upon Clank as more of a sidekick.

Traits

Ratchet is a very humerous being, one that always looks at events lightheartedly and with no sense of danger or worry. He is quite small, but also very athletic, as evidenced by his running and jumping abilities. It is said that his species is very comfortable with technology, and Ratchet seems to echo this. The Lombax relies on his friend Clank to do most of the intellectual work throughout their adventures. This may not be because Ratchet is unintelligent, but rather because he often makes spontaneous decisions, and is focused on combat.

Ratchets personality underwent a massive change from the first game to the second after being critizised for Ratchets cocky attitude making him an "Unlikable Character". Insomniac took this to heart and changed everything about him from his appearence and attitude all the way to the coice actor of Ratchet.

Game Appearances


Ratchet and Clank
Ratchet on his first adventure
Ratchet on his first adventure


The first scene featuring Ratchet sees him on his home planet of Veldin, working on a faulty ship. After watching a small escape pod falling from the sky, Ratchet makes his way to the crash site to investigate. While there, he recovers a small robot, which he later names Clank for short. He then proceeds to show Ratchet an infobot detailing Chairman Drek’s plans to destroy certain planets throughout the Solana galaxy. Although he doesn’t seem keen to help initially, he agrees to help out, if Clank can get his ship running.

Its clear the ship wasn’t fully fixed as they were forced to crash land on Novalis. While on the planet, Clank suggests they find Captain Qwark, the famous super hero, hoping he would help them. They manage to get an infobot with a clue to Qwark’s location, aswell as a new ship.

They travel to Blackwater City, meeting up with Qwark, who suggests they tackle his specially designed obstacle course on Umbris. They successfully complete it, and Qwark offers them a reward. Ratchet initially is suspicious of Qwark, but Clank convinces them to accept the prize. This turns out to be a trap, resulting in them fighting a Blargian Snagglebeast. When they escape, Ratchet becomes infuriated with Clank, angry that he had trusted him and Qwark. Clank says they must continue to try to stop Drek, Ratchet however seems more interested in getting revenge by killing Qwark. His inner anger leads him to track down Qwark and defeat him in a space battle. After this, Ratchet sees a nearby planet being destroyed as a result of Drek’s Deplanetizer. He then realises how selfish he has been, focusing on getting revenge, rather than trying to prevent anymore destruction. This determination to do the right thing is heightened when he learns of Drek’s plan to destroy Ratchet’s home planet of Veldin. He agrees to fully co-operate with Clank in an attempt to save his home. After a prolonged battle, they manage to defeat Drek, who accidentally destroyed his new planet in the process. Ratchet manages to escape unharmed, though Clank receives minor injuries. They then walk back to Ratchet’s shack where they lived until their next adventure.

Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando
Ratchet gets serious
Ratchet gets serious


As a result of saving the galaxy from Drek, both Ratchet and Clank become famous, however, in an interview on ‘Behind the Hero’ Ratchet reveals they aren’t really in demand and that the galaxy doesn’t seem to need a hero. Not long after this, the pair are teleported to the Bogon galaxy, as the owner of Megacorp, Abercrombie Fizzwidget, requested them to find his stolen Protopet. To prepare him for the upcoming combat, Ratchet is put through his paces in an obstacle course.

Once his training is complete, he begins tracking down the Thief, without Clank who decides to stay behind. Ratchet finds out the Thief has hired Thugs-4-Less as protection, but when he returns to Megacorp, Clank has been kidnapped. Fortunately, he manages to track down where Clank is been kept and frees him.

Piecing together the information they both had gathered, they discover where the Thief is in hiding. At Siberius they face up to the Thief in a battle, where Ratchet escapes victorious and with the stolen Protopet, which he then returns to Fizzwidget.

Later on, the Thief returns to find the pair demanding the Protopet, not knowing that he had already handed it over. The Thief’s mask falls off, revealing it to be a her. This also raised a few questions about Ratchet, as he had previously claimed to be the only Lombax in the galaxy. Angela proceeds to warn them of the destruction the Protopets could cause, after which, they agree to help her.
However, their plans are thwarted as they are all captured and put in prison for allegedly trying to kill Fizzwidget. Ratchet manages to escape and frees Clank and Angela, before tracking down the now mutated Protopet to destroy it completely. After a major battle with the Protopet, Ratchet defeats it, allowing Angela to shrink it back to its original size. A romantic relationship between Ratchet and Angela is hinted at, but isn’t expanded on in later games.

Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Even more serious
Even more serious


At the start of Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet seems to have been relegated to Clank’s sidekick. The relative gulf between the pair’s popularity is highlighted with Clank’s own TV show, Secret Agent Clank, where Ratchet only has a minor role. One day, while flicking round the channels trying to avoid watching Clank’s show, Ratchet happens across a news report of the invasion of Veldin by Tyhrranoids, as commanded by Dr. Nefarious. Soon, Ratchet is contacted by the Galactic President, who requests their help to find the only person who has ever defeated him, Captain Qwark. Once they have found him, they return to the Starship Phoenix, where Qwark forms the Q-Force, of which Ratchet is a part of, along with Clank, Skidd McMarxx, Big Al, Helga and Skrunch.

Later on, the team work together to find Nefarious’ whereabouts. With the directions of Big Al, Ratchet finds the computer containing the plans for the Bio-Bliterator.  He also manages to find where Skidd McMarxx has been taken to, and defeat Courtney Gears who was holding him, though it was too late, as he had already been turned into a robot.
As the game progresses, Ratchet becomes more suspicious of Clank’s behaviour, before realising that Nefarious had previously replaced him with the evil Klunk. After Ratchet defeated Klunk, he managed to find Clank and free him before he was destroyed. Soon, the pair find out that Captain Qwark, who they previously thought was dead, had actually been in hiding. Completely furious, Ratchet goes into a rage, suggesting he was never a real hero.

Later, Ratchet and Clank manage to track Nefarious down, and appear to have defeated him with relative ease, with him begging for mercy at Ratchet‘s feet. This is a trick, however, allowing Nefarious to re-group launch another attack on him. Eventually, Ratchet, with the help of Qwark, does defeat Nefarious, saving the galaxy in the process.
Ratchet also appears in the final scene with a number of previous characters from previous games, at the Secret Agent Clank movie premiere. Like with Angela in the previous game, Ratchet seems to have feelings for the President’s daughter, Sasha, even receiving a kiss at the screening of the film, though this is not elaborated on in subsequent games.

Ratchet: Deadlocked
Ridicuolously serious
Ridicuolously serious


At the start of Ratchet: Deadlocked, Ratchet, along with Clank and Big Al are captured while on the Starship Phoenix. It is soon revealed that they were kidnapped by Gleeman Vox, the founder of the DreadZone TV series, to be contestants in the game show. They are transported to the Shadow Sector, on the edge of the Solana galaxy, and have Deadlock collars installed to prevent them escaping.
Together, they formed Team Darkstar, with Ratchet taking part in combat with the help of two robots, while Clank and Big Al offered information and technical support.
Ratchet gains success and popularity quickly, especially after defeating Ace Hardlight, the previous #1 ranked contestant, who also warns him of the danger Vox posed. Despite being heavily criticised by Vox news hosts Dallas and Juanita, Vox claims he always meant to make Ratchet a star, claiming the negative comments were only being used to build up his ‘bad-boy image’. As a reward for his performance, Vox offers Ratchet the chance to become Captain of the Exterminators, requiring him to kill other contestants for bolts. He rejects the offer, disgusted with the idea of destroying other heroes.

Predictably, this causes Vox to become furious, demanding he take part in the Gauntlet of Doom, and later claiming on Vox News that he had taken performance enhancing drugs.

After Ratchet successfully completed the Gauntlet of Doom, Clank claims to know how to shut down the Deadlcok collars, requiring Ratchet to go on  a certain death mission at the central DreadZone computer. When he arrives at the station, he discovers Vox waiting for him, threatening to blow up the entire DreadZone area. This results in a final battle with Vox, and although Ratchet manages to injure him, he still sets off a timer, hoping to gain revenge.
Just before the station exploded, Big Al helps Ratchet escape in a small shuttle, saving his life in the process. In the final scene, various contestants who had escaped death phone Ratchet, thanking him for defeating Vox, and for no longer having to take part in DreadZone.

Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters


In Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, the pair are on holidays in Pokitaru. They run into a young girl called Luna, who just happens to be writing a report on heroes. Not long after, she disappears, leaving Ratchet and Clank to find her. In a role reversal, Clank is wary but agrees to begin the search, much like in the very first game, when Ratchet was suspicious of Qwark.

Clank’s fears were confirmed when they found Luna to be controlled by Technomites. Ratchet is ambushed by the Technomites, who knock him unconscious taking hi away, leaving Clank to fight for himself.
Later, the leader of the Technomites, Otto Destruct, extracts DNA from Ratchet, hoping to use it to build an army of cloned super soldiers. Clank manages to rescue him and tries to find the location of the clone factory, but receives a virus. Ratchet is then required to shrink in size so that he can enter Clank’s body to remove the program causing damage.

Ratchet successfully restores Clank, and track down Otto Destruct’s location and face up to him and eventually defeat him. At the end of the story it was revealed that all of Ratchet’s clones were made into life-size action figures.


Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet goes back to light-hearted adventurer
Ratchet goes back to light-hearted adventurer


The pairs first outing on the PS3 opens with a scene similar to that of the original game on the PS2 with Ratchet working on a ship with his wrench. They receive a distress call from Qwark, who is  being attacked by  Drophyds. Although Clank is unsure the ship is ready, Ratchet convinces him its safe to fly, though only minutes into their journey, they crash.

While on Metropolis, the duo become surrounded, allowing Emperor Tachyon to enter. He then reveals he has been trying to find Ratchet to destroy him, as he is the last known surviving Lombax. They manage to escape, but find out Captain Qwark was working for Tachyon. He persuades them he was doing it to help them, and even created Ratchet a disguise for when  he was taking part in Tachyon’s Arena Challenges, where he went under the name of Mustachio Furioso.

They begin searching the galaxy for the Lombax secret which they learn to be the Dimensionator. As the story progresses, they encounter Talwyn Apogee, whos father spent his life working on the Lombax secret, before going missing. They find out that Tachyon wants revenge on the Lombaxes after they destroyed all other Cragmites. He also begins to argue with Clank over the ‘Zoni’, which Ratchet can’t see.

Later, Ratchet flies to Kerchu city to recover the Dimensionator, but are confronted by space pirates led by Captain Slag. Once Ratchet defeated Slag, Rusty Pete declared Ratchet as the new leader of the space pirates.

Not long after this, Qwark takes the Dimensionator, but loses it to Tachyon. Ratchet is also knocked unconscious, waking up to find Clank missing. He panics, believing Clank is dead, but his fears are allayed when he finds Clank alive and well, promising to believe him about everything.

They find out Tachyon is based on Fastoon, where he plans to use the Dimensionator to bring all Cragmites back into the galaxy. When Ratchet confronts him, Tachyon reveals that the only two Lombaxes stayed in the Solana galaxy, one to guard the Lombax secret and his son, which turned out to be Ratchet. Tachyon admits to killing his father, but was unable to destroy Ratchet when he was young, as his father had managed to send him to Veldin before they were captured.

Tachyon then offers Ratchet the chance to use the Dimensionator with him, allowing him to bring back other Lombaxes meaning he wouldn’t be alone any longer. Ratchet realises that Tachyon will always be a threat, not only to him but to the whole universe and so rejects the deal. This results in a final showdown with Tachyon, which sees them both sucked into another portal, before Ratchet eventually manages to force him into a black hole. After this, Ratchet wakes up to see Talwyn, with her robots, Cronk and Zephyr, standing over him, to find out that Clank had been taken away by the Zoni

Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest For Booty


Quest for booty is a direct sequel to tools of destruction starting with ratchet beginning his search for Clank. This time Ratchet is grounded on a single planet with a bunch of Pirates. Ratchet soon realise that he has to find the Obsidian Eye in order to locate Clank.

This sends him and Talwyn on a chase to find the body of Angstrom Darkwater, the greatest space-pirate in the galaxy before being backstabbed by the vile Captain Slag. Ratchet gets double-crossed when Rusty Pete uses Angstroms body to bring Slag back to life unfortunately resulting in disturbing the souls of the dead pirates filling the planet with Ghost-Pirates.

Ratchet eventually manages to defeat Slag and the Pirates and uses the Obsidian eye to find where Clank is. And so Ratchet flies off to find Clank in Ratchet and Clank Future: A  Crack in Time

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Name Platforms Developer
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
released on Oct. 27, 2009
PS3 Insomniac Games
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
released on Aug. 21, 2008
PSN, PS3 Insomniac Games
Secret Agent Clank
released on June 17, 2008
PSN, PS2, PSP Sanzaru Games, High Impact Games
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
released on Oct. 23, 2007
PS3 Insomniac Games
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
released on Feb. 13, 2007
PSP, PSN, PS2 High Impact Games
Ratchet: Deadlocked
released on Oct. 25, 2005
PS2 Buzz Monkey Software, LLC, Insomniac Games
Jak X: Combat Racing
released on Oct. 18, 2005
PS2 Naughty Dog, Inc.
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
released on Nov. 2, 2004
PS2 Buzz Monkey Software, LLC, Insomniac Games
Hot Shots Golf Fore!
released on Aug. 17, 2004
PS2 Clap Hanz Ltd.
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
released on Nov. 11, 2003
PS2 Insomniac Games


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