Nefarious

"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!"

- Nefarious to the Solana galaxy

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

- 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, he 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. Nefarious angrily screamed at Lawrence, freezing up and triggering the soap opera signal in his brain again.

Breegus Nebula
"LAWREEEEEEEEEEEEENCE!"

- Nefarious after tripping on a feather duster carelessly left on the floor by his butler

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. The signal was immediately lost and Ratchet set out to defeat Nefarious, vowing to rescue Clank.

Ratchet &amp; Clank Future: A Crack in Time
"Nefarious: This is your home, a CLOCK! A marvellous science of scorcery, in the exact CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE! Give or take fifty feet."



Dr. Nefarious will appear in A Crack in Time as the main antagonist 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.

Abilities
After being turned into a robot, Dr. Nefarious acquired a vast array of powers that greatly contributed to his fighting skills. His hands were made into sharp metal claws for close-quarters combat, and he could also fly with a pair of antenae-like wings. In recent Crack in Time images, he was seen without these wings, despite having them in Quest for Booty. This suggests that they were retractable. Nefarious' superpower-resembling abilities included dark blasts of energy that he could (as seen in the Qwark vid-comic fight) rain down in a continuous stream to hit targetted areas, raise up from the ground in a pattern of damaging walls, and move toward a target in a ball-shaped vortex.

In his fight with Ratchet, he could also project holograms of himself that would protrude from him and then charge directly at Ratchet, trying to slash him with a claw. Further abilities during the fight included lobbing energy balls into the air that created shockwaves when hitting the ground and projecting a blue dome shield while firing a constant energy beam that followed Ratchet when flying. At the final stage of the fight, Nefarious could project several holograms of himself all over the battlefield at a time and project the following energy beam and then leave it in place while going back on the ground. Nefarious could place a number of these beams in different spots in the air and Ratchet would have to run from all of them. He could also go into the air and, in similar fashion to the beams that follow Ratchet, project several missiles that would rain down and target the Lombax.

All throughout the fight, it seemed that doing such attacks exhausted Nefarious, as after launching holograms or shockwave balls, Nefarious would leave an opening for an attack by stumbling backwards and holding his head for a brief moment. His following beam and rocket bunch attacks launched while in the air also seemed to take quite a bit of power, as when performing them, Nefarious let out a loud, vicious shout. The doctor also had skills with guns, as during the fight, he wielded two pistols that fired beams Ratchet needed to jump over. Also, in the Comic Con trailer, he was seen holding a green pistol, and his toy also came with another gun. The Robo-Nefarious suit created by Klunk also had its own abilities that seemed to be based off of and were similar to the actual Nefarious' attacks.

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. This has made fans consider him the main antagonist, a belief backed up by his longtime rivalry with Qwark and desire to rule Solana. He was arguably opposed in this position by Percival Tachyon, the one villain with the most connection to Ratchet personally.
 * Nefarious' armor plating was red in Up Your Arsenal, but in his A Crack in Time image, it is dark yellow. In the Comic Con trailer, it is red again.
 * During one brief instant in the Comic Con trailer, Nefarious can be seen with a scar on his face, going from around his right eye to his green dome, which was also slightly cracked. This suggests an intense battle sequence, though is for now unknown.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked (cameo)
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (cameo)
 * Secret Agent Clank (mentioned only)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (cameo)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

YouTube videos

 * Dr. Nefarious Boss Battle.
 * Dr. Nefarious Introduction.
 * Nefarious' fate.
 * Nefarious' cameo.
 * Nefarious returns.