Ratchet and Clank (characters)
| Ratchet | |
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| 240px This file may be deleted after Wednesday, 1 August 2007. Ratchet and Clank in Going Commando | |
| First game | Ratchet & Clank |
| Created by | Insomniac Games |
Ratchet is one of the main characters in the Ratchet & Clank series. He is a Lombax, a fictional species that resembles a bobcat. At the start of the series, he is a mechanic bored with life and longing for adventure, but in later games is renowned as a pan-galactic hero. Ratchet weighs 97.5 lbs, and is three feet tall. He travels with his robot friend Clank.
Ratchet & Clank [PS2]
Ratchet is a mechanic on the backwater planet Veldin. He dreams of leaving his planet and setting off on an adventure. He works on a home-made starship, although he knows there is no hope of it working without a robotic ignition system which he doesn't have. When a robot named Clank crash-lands on his home, they are forced to team up to defeat the evil Chairman Drek.
Halfway through the journey, Captain Qwark, the superhero Ratchet and Clank are searching for ends up betraying them and explains that he's working for Drek before departing, leaving his pet Snagglebeast to kill them.
Consumed by the need for revenge, Ratchet vows to stop Qwark at any cost. Eventually, they meet on a space station, engaging in a fierce battle but Ratchet triumphs, shooting down the disgraced hero.
However, his victory is short-lived as he finally realises that Drek is killing and destroying lives to get what he wants. Finally, after a long and dangerous journey followed by Drek's downfall, Ratchet becomes a hero, remaining friends with Clank
Going Commando (aka Locked & Loaded) [PS2]
Ratchet is summoned to the new Bogon Galaxy and trained as a commando for a retrieval mission related in the story. He has matured a lot more since the first game, but is still rather gullible. Even after all the telltale signs he believes 'Abercrombie Fizzwidget' is still to be trusted. He is also still nervous around women, especially the lombax Angela Cross.
Up Your Arsenal [PS2]
Ratchet hastily flies back to the Solana Galaxy to help defend his homeworld of Veldin, where he is mistaken for the Galactic Rangers' sergeant, and quickly pulled into the story. Captain Qwark often places Ratchet in the more dangerous scenarios in his plans (albeit partly out of revenge) and Ratchet never receives any credit for accomplishing them. To most people who don't know him in the third game, he is remembered as Secret Agent Clank's chauffeur. Ratchet also falls in love with the Starship Phoenix's Captain Sasha, who is also the daughter of the Galactic President.
Deadlocked (aka Gladiator) [PS2]
Ratchet is now the new captain of the Starship Phoenix from UYA due to Sasha being the new mayor of Metropolis, but is kidnapped alongside Clank and Al by Gleeman Vox for his combat sport show Dreadzone. They are then attached with Deadlock Collars, designed to self-destruct on Vox's command, and Ratchet is given a Combat Suit and two Combat Bots named Merc and Green (taken from a fallen contestant). Clank is now Ratchet's Mission Engineer while Al is his Technology Engineer.
Throughout the game, Ratchet has to survive challenges from Dreadzone, many of which hosted on various planets and satellites. Vox regularly sends one of his 4 exterminators, Shellshock, Reactor, The Eviscerator and Ace Hardlight, to destroy Ratchet.
Throughout the game Ratchet is continually slandered by Dreadzone Announcer/"News" Reporters Dallas and Juanita, who depict him as a malicious villain who has little to no moral decency (supposedly this is Vox's way of building Ratchet's "Bad-Boy Image"). However they change their attitudes towards him in the end of the game, when Vox tries to blow up the Battledome, locking Dallas, Juanita and the fans of the show with their own Deadlock Collars and their fate in Ratchet's hands.
Size Matters [PSP]
Ratchet goes on vacation and meets a little girl named Luna. Soon after he meets her, she gets abducted. The enemy leaves behind an artifact which Clank calls a "Technomite" artifact. Ratchet wants to save Luna and does not believe in Technomites. He also gets annoyed with Qwark a lot.
Later in the game, Ratchet's DNA is extracted so they can make clones of him. When Ratchet awakes, he discovers this and gets angry, as he sets off to seek vengenance on Luna, and Otto.
Tools of Destruction [PS3]
Ratchet begins this adventure on Metropolis, and is soon targeted by Emperor Percival Tachyon of the Cragmites, who wants to eliminate every last Lombax in the universe.
Ratchet & Clank Future allegedly explores Ratchet's origins, and begins a storyline that may span over multiple games.
Guest appearances
- Ratchet is an unlockable monkey in Ape Escape 3, (European and Japanese version only.)
- In Jak II, Ratchet and Clank appear on some of the walls in Haven City.
- Ratchet is a secret racer in Jak X: Combat Racing
- In Hot Shots Golf Fore!, Ratchet, Clank, Jak, and Daxter appear as additional characters.