Nefarious

"Robotic citizens of the Solana galaxy, the hour of your liberation is at hand!"

- Nefarious

Doctor Nefarious was a robotic mad scientist who hated organic lifeforms, despite formerly being one himself. He was also the arch-enemy of reknowned intergalactic superhero, Captain Qwark. Nefarious was the main antagonist in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and it has been confirmed by Insomniac Games that he will return in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time.

Early life
In high school, Nefarious had been constantly bullied and humiliated at the hands of Captain Qwark, who was 26 years old and three times Nefarious' size at the time. Later, Nefarious launched an amoeboid invasion on Blackwater City. Qwark confronted Nefarious on a narrow catwalk overlooking churning gears and machinery. Qwark accidentally knocked him off of the catwalk, after recognizing him from high school, into the spinning gears below. As Qwark made his escape, a robotic hand made its way out of the rubble.

Attack on Metropolis
Some time later, Dr. Nefarious attacked Metropolis with a massive hoard of Robotic Bugs that consumed various forms of matter. However, Qwark once again defeated him. But Nefarious captured Qwark after Nefarious' butler Lawrence saved him, and they imprisoned him in a secret facility. Qwark managed to escape to his hideout on the Thrann Asteroid, where he hid until Nefarious allegedly disappeared. He was secretly making plans for his next attack.

Bio-Bliterator threat
"Soon, all robots will bask in the liberty and equality of my benevolent, iron-fisted rule! And, as for you filthy organic life forms... you can look forward to being disintegrated! Mwahahaaa!"

- Nefarious

Nefarious was first seen on the news where the Tyhrranoid attack on Veldin was believed to be his. Later on Starship Phoenix that fact was confirmed when Ratchet and Clank recieved a message from him where he said that he is going to destroy all the organic life forms. Nefarious then launched an attack in the Capital City of Marcadia what Ratchet and Clank managed to stop. Later on Clank explored Nefarious' Office and found out that he was a huge fan of the Secret Agent Clank series. Nefarious was then seen on planet Daxx on Supervillain Weekly. Ratchet and Clank explored Daxx and found out that Nefarious had created a Bio-Bliterator but its purpose was unknown. While on Holostar Studios, it was revealed that Courtney Gears, a famous pop star had joined Nefarious on his evil plan. Countrey Gears was able to capture Clank while he was filming a Secret Agent Clank movie. Nefarious then tried to turn Clank over to his side, as he was a fanatic of the Secret Agent Clank series and believed them to be real. He even rejected Clank's assurance that the series was just an act. When Clank refused to join, Nefarious decided to replace Clank with Klunk, a robot Nefarious had created which looked just like Clank. Later on, Nefarious launched an attack on Blackwater City which was also stopped by Ratchet. On Zeldrin Starport When Ratchet, Klunk and Qwark found Nefarious activated a self-destruct for the ship and teleported out so they had to run to their ship defore the spaceship blew up. While on Metropolis, Nefarious used the Bio-Bliterator to transform the whole city into robots. Later in the city Ratchet found out that the robot on his back was Klunk and Clank had been captured by Nefarious. Ratchet fought Klunk on a Hover Train and managed to defeat him and save Clank. Nefarious then launched another Tyhrranoid attack on Aridia which was again stopped by Ratchet and Clank. On Koros Clank used the ion cannon to destroy the Bio-Bliterator while Nefarious was screaming in a video screen. Then Nefarious decided to use his second Bio-Bliterator, which was a pilotable mechanoid, and fuel it on Mylon but Ratchet and Clank were able to defeat Nefarious and his second Bio-Bliterator causing Nefarious and Lawrence to accidetly teleport to an asteroid and leaving them stuck there.

On the asteroid
Nefarious and Lawrence remained on this asteroid until they arrived near the DreadZone Station, where they hoped to land. Before they could reach the station it was destroyed by Ratchet during his escape leaving Nefarious and his butler still stranded on the asteroid.

Breegus Nebula
After Clank was taken by the Zoni he was sent to the Breegus Nebula. Dr. Nefarious appeared in the room where Clank was being held, the Zoni refered to him as "the doctor" who would apparently fix Clank. His familiar silhouette walked down the stairs into the room, but then he sliped on a feather duster which caused him to fall down the stairs. He then angrily called Lawrence.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Dr. Nefarious will appear in A Crack in Time, with his trusty butler, Lawrence at his side. He was also the reason Clank was kidnapped, with help from the Zoni. It was not known how Nefarious got off the asteroid he and Lawrence were stuck on, or how he met the Zoni.

Overload
Dr. Nefarious often had the strange habit of overloading in times of extreme stress, which would cause him to freeze, and simultaneously pick up radio signals about a soap opera via his head. He froze at the end of The Shaming of the Q and each time this happened he was whacked on the head by either Lawrence or Courtney Gears to send him back to normal. According to Lawrence, whacking Dr. Nefarious was always the best part of his day.

Galactic Idol
According to the IRIS Supercomputer, Dr. Nefarious entered Galactic Idol with a song titled Crushin' on Squishies. He was eliminated on the first round and the single sold one copy which was used to torture prisoners on Ebaro. However, before the battle with Giant Klunk on Metropolis, Nefarious accidentally activated a hologram recording of his original entry, which was a song called You Are My Robot Lover.

Trivia

 * Armin Shimerman, the voice of Nefarious, played a character named Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and voiced Andrew Ryan In Bioshock.
 * In Tools of Destruction when in the arena of planet Mukow. Captain Qwark could be heard over the loud speaker saying: "Will a 'Dr. Nefarious' please report to the concession stand; we recovered your wallet."
 * Nefarious referred to organic lifeforms as "squishies".
 * Nefarious appeared in the Dreamtime level as a memoir in Size Matters.
 * He appeared on some of the monitors in the IRIS supercomputer.
 * Clank fought a copy of Dr. Nefarious with Klunk inside having it controlled in the end of Secret Agent Clank.
 * Since Qwark appeared in the young Nefarious' 9th grade biology class, it suggested that Qwark was older then Nefarious (Nefarious claimed that Qwark was twenty-six at the time).
 * His name was similar of 'Dr. Nefarious Tropy', a character from Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot: Warped.
 * Because of the Ratchet & Clank series' trend of rarely having recurring villains, Nefarious is the only one to have appeared with at least one speaking part in three games, soon to be four upon the release of A Crack in Time, and has also had at least a cameo in every game since his introduction.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked (cameo)
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (cameo in Dreamtime background)
 * Secret Agent Clank (only as a suit of Klunk for the final battle)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (cameo)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

YouTube videos

 * Video of the Dr. Nefarious boss battle.
 * Nefarious on Supervillain Weekly.
 * Nefarious' fate.
 * You make me feel like a young boy again!