Ratchet

Ratchet was a Lombax native to the planet Fastoon, and was born in the year 1987 in our time, and was later sent to Veldin. He was the protagonist of the Ratchet & Clank series. Ratchet is 5 feet tall, and, as of Ratchet: Deadlocked, weighed 97.5 lbs. (44.3 kgs.). Ratchet was also the son of Kaden, who was killed by Emperor Tachyon shortly after Ratchet's birth.

Ratchet & Clank
Before Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet was born on Fastoon but was later sent to the Solana galaxy by his father due to Tachyon attacking the Lombaxes.

Before the beginning of the first adventure, Ratchet was finishing the construction of his ship. Dreaming of wild adventures in the galaxy, the Lombax was quite disappointed when HelpDesk informed him that he would need a robotic ignition system to start his ship. However, Ratchet noticed a ship falling from the sky which crash-landed onto the Kyzil Plateau, and upon exploration of the debris, found an unconscious Clank. The diminutive robot showed (after startling the Lombax by suddenly waking up) Ratchet an Infobot video of Chairman Drek's plans of destroying the planet Novalis to make a new planet for his species, the Blarg. Clank helped Ratchet start his ship in return for a trip to Novalis, where the little robot began looking for the hero Captain Qwark, in order to stop Drek's plans. Ratchet decided to go along for the adventure.

Ratchet's ship crashed on Novalis, but according to the official statement in the game's Sketchbook feature (in the Goodies menu), nobody really knows why. They got to talk to the planet's chairman in order to borrow his Courier Ship and obtained coordinates for the capital city of the planet Kerwan, Metropolis. After talking to the Plumber, they also received an Infobot of Skid McMarx and his agent being shot down over the planet Aridia.

Ratchet completed Captain Qwark's physical fitness course on Kerwan and should have won a Swingshot from Helga for his efforts, but after "disgracing" the course, she made them pay 1,000 bolts for it. After finding out from Big Al that Captain Qwark was no longer on Kerwan, Ratchet received an Infobot for planet Eudora.

The pair had several adventures together and generally got along well, until they met Captain Qwark at his base on Umbris. Ratchet felt that something wasn't quite right, but Clank was eager to trust the Captain. Qwark betrayed them and left them to be food for his pet Blargian Snagglebeast. After defeating the Snagglebeast, Ratchet became increasingly bitter and hostile towards Clank for leading him right into a trap, and obsessed with getting revenge on Qwark. After fighting Qwark in a Blarg ship at the Gemlik Moonbase and seeing the devastation of a nearby planet at Drek's hands, Ratchet finally realized that Drek had to be stopped and made amends with Clank. Upon learning that Drek planned to move his new planet into the space now occupied by Veldin, which he planned to destroy with the Deplanetizer, he became determined to stop the greedy psychopath.

After fierce battles at Drek's starship fleet and on Veldin's surface, Ratchet sent the Chairman flying up to his newly-created planet and destroyed it. Flaming chunks hitting the Deplanetizer's control pad knocked Ratchet and Clank off, and only Clank's quick thinking stopped them from hurtling down to the Plateau below. However, the servos in his arm were broken from supporting Ratchet's weight and they both fell. Once again, Clank saved Ratchet's life by using his Thruster-Pack upgrade (installed by Bob on Pokitaru) to break the Lombax's fall. Ratchet then started to walk on home (thinking Clank would follow), but Clank, disappointment walks away thinking otherwise until Ratchet returned, stating that he needed to repair Clank's broken arm. Ratchet and Clank headed home much to Clank's delight.

Later, the two watched an advertisement for Qwark's Personal Hygenator; horrified and disgusted by its effects, Ratchet shouted at Clank to turn the TV off.

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
In the beginning of Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet and Clank were doing an interview with Behind the Hero, talking about what had happened after Drek was defeated. Ratchet said there were parades, press conferences, "fancy dress balls" while Clank mentioned the wiener roast at Al's. After that, Ratchet said, everything returned to normal. Suddenly, he and Clank were teleported to the Bogon Galaxy by Abercrombie Fizzwidget, the president of Megacorp. Ratchet was offered an opportunity to undergo training to become a Megacorp commando, while Clank was offered an apartment in Megapolis on planet Endako and a job as an accountant.

Two weeks later, Ratchet headed to planet Aranos to infiltrate a Flying Lab, and then attempted to retrieve a stolen Protopet, an experiment of Megacorp's, from an unknown thief. The thief evaded Ratchet persistently, capturing Clank from his apartment and holding him hostage. The two reunited when Ratchet freed Clank from a locked room and eventually retrieved the experiment on planet Siberius. After meeting with Fizzwidget, and "accidentally" being ejected from the ship on planet Tabora, Ratchet and Clank met with the Thief to learn about the true means of the experiment, also learning that the Thief is acctually Angela Cross a Lombax. The two investigated the Testing Facility on planet Dobbo, and found more and more information, culminating into the true means on planet Todano, which the duo attempted to put a stop to in Silver City by talking with Fizzwidget. Ratchet then made the mistake of threatening a robotic copy of Fizzwidget with the Thugs-4-Less leader watching, who arrested them. After they broke out of jail and freed Angela on planet Snivelak at the Thug Headquarters, Ratchet and Clank then investigated a Distribution Center and found out that Allgon City was undergoing a disaster, and may had lived up to its name at the hands of rampaging Protopets. As well as that, they headed to planet Grelbin to find Angela, who gave them the key to get into a Protopet Factory, in the heart of the Megacorp Headquarters on planet Yeedil.

Once there, they soon found out that the Fizzwidget they knew, was really Captain Qwark.( the real one was in a suplie closet putted there by Qwark) He accidentally mutated the real Protopet into a giant monster that ate him. Ratchet defeated the Mutant Protopet, at which point it coughed up Qwark and Angela's Helix-o-Morph. She used it to cure the Protopet of the Monsterpropanase in its system, later using it to cure all the Protopets in the galaxy.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
In the beginning of Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet hastily flew back to the Solana Galaxy to help defend Veldin, where he was mistaken for a Galactic Rangers sergeant and quickly pulled into the story. Captain Qwark often placed Ratchet in the more dangerous scenarios in his Q-Force plans, although Ratchet never received any credit. Most people who had never heard of the Lombax simply remembered him as Secret Agent Clank's chauffeur.

Ratchet was occasionally slandered by Qwark over the Starship Phoenix intercom, as Qwark told him he needed to change into his "green regulation Q-Force tights" or he would write him up for a dress-code violation. For most of Captain Qwark's plans, Ratchet was the one made to do the hero work, while Qwark took all the credit for the missions, much to Ratchet's annoyance. Despite this, the Lombax felt grief and discomfort at Qwark's presumed death.

After freeing Clank from the clutches of Dr. Nefarious, who had replaced the robot with an evil, imposter clone named Klunk, Ratchet gathered enough evidence to believe that Qwark had survived the crash of The Leviathan, and was in fact hiding in his hideout in the Thran Asteroid. Ratchet, Clank and Skrunch found the fraudulent superhero, where Ratchet dubbed him as 'pathetic' and 'a coward'.

However later on, Ratchet teamed up with Qwark despite his earlier statements, to defeat Nefarious and to destroy the Biobliterator.

Ratchet: Deadlocked
Ratchet had been commended as the new captain of the Starship Phoenix, as Sasha had become the Mayor of Metropolis. Sometime, the Phoenix picked up a distress beacon from Quadrant J0713, an uncharted part of the Solana Galaxy thought to be devoid of any form of life. They travelled there at warp speed, however, it was actually a trap set up by DreadZone to capture him away from the Galactic Government's territory to avoid breaking their laws. Ratchet was kidnapped by the Vox Empire, along with Clank and Big Al, as "Subject 209" while aboard the Starship Phoenix. All three were then fitted with Deadlock Collars, which with, at the press of a button, would explode, killing them in the process. Big Al managed to salvage two old combat bots, Merc and Green, to help Ratchet in his adventures as a forced contestant in DreadZone. Ratchet and the two bots then formed the complete Team Darkstar. Later, Ratchet defeated Ace Hardlight, captain of the Exterminators, and afterward Gleeman Vox offered him the chance to become their new captain. Ratchet refused the offer, telling him that Vox was not just corrupt, but also stupid. In the final events of Deadlocked, despite Vox's attempts to kill the Lombax, Ratchet, Clank, and Big Al escaped DreadZone Station right before it exploded, destroying Gleeman Vox.

Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile
Ratchet is trapped inside a Secret Agent Clank vid-comic alongside Clank, he must defeat Maximillian to escape.

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
In Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, Ratchet and Clank took a holiday on Pokitaru when a little girl asked if Ratchet could do something heroic. After the presentation, Ratchet, Clank and the girl met Qwark who told them that he never met his parents. Soon after that, robots attacked the beach and kidnapped the girl. Ratchet said that he and Clank had to help the little girl. Clank noticed that the girl left an object behind and said that it was Technomite technology, but Ratchet believed that Technomites were only just a myth, and told Clank that "There are...no....TECHNOMITES!!!" Ratchet persuaded Qwark to tell him where the Technomite artifact could be used. In return, Ratchet loaned Qwark his "super-computer" to search up his ancestors. As they sought the girl, they found out that Technomites might have been real. Afterwards, they found the girl, who introduced herself as Luna, and taunted the heroic duo. Ratchet saw a very strange dream in a medical surgery station, with memories of his past adventures, showing recurring characters in the Ratchet and Clank series and also bosses and friends. Clank then woke up the Lombax and later escaped. They then went to planet Challax, where they found a shrunken Technomite City. While exploring the city, they found out that Luna was a robot. On the Dayni Moon was where the heroes met Luna again, where she told them about the Technomites kidnapping Ratchet so they could have his DNA to create Ratchet Clones via cloning. They defeated Luna. While Clank was searching for information in Luna's head, he got electrocuted, and the Technomites entered Clank. Ratchet went inside Clank, using a Shrink Ray, and saved his friend. Clank said that the clone factory was on planet Quodrona, so they agreed to fly there. At Quodrona, the Lombax and the robot met Emperor Otto Destruct. The emperor told his plans to suck every brain-power of intelligent beings of the galaxy to become the most intelligent being in the whole universe. Ratchet and Clank defeated the emperor and once again, saved the galaxy.

This game is noteworthy for being the first in which Ratchet appears in a hand-held game. It is also the first he is seen in his original attire since the very start of the second game. In this case, it makes sense that he would not be dressed in much while at the beach, although he acquires armor before very long in this game.

Secret Agent Clank

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In Secret Agent Clank, Ratchet was captured and framed by Klunk via a mind control device hidden on his helmet for stealing the Eye of Infinity from the Boltaire Museum. He said that the Eye was taken to a location where no one could find it, and then was taken to the Solana Galaxy's Ultra High Security Prison. Clank saw when Ratchet committed the crime and tried to prove that he was innocent by searching for the Eye. Clank also helped Ratchet by sending weapons to him. In prison, Ratchet woke up and didn't remember anything about the crime he had committed. He then met the Prison Warden who said that he gave him no protection against other prisoners that Ratchet had conquered in his last adventures. Then he had to battle old enemies like Thugs and Tyhrranoids. After he had defeated the attackers, the Prison Warden came to him and said that his old friend wanted to see him. The Thugs-4-Less Leader, who also had been captured, stepped in and ordered his groups to attack. Ratchet had to defeat a group of enemies in a cafeteria to survive. Later he walked in the Prison Yard and saw Slim Cognito who also had been captured in prison. Slim showed Clank's message in which he asked for a code for Le Paradis Des Tricheurs Casino's High-Stakes Room. Slim said that he knew the code but only gave it if Ratchet protected him from his villains. Ratchet then defeated all enemies who tried to eliminate Slim, and he then gave Ratchet the code that he transmitted to Clank. Later on, Ratchet was relaxing in the showers and the Plumber came in, and he said that he was here to fix the cold water pumps. He accidentally destroyed the pumps, which the Thugs then thought that Ratchet destroyed them. The Plumber left, leaving Ratchet to defeat another set of enemies. After he defeated all of the attackers, he walked in the yard and suddenly went crazy, then sent a message to Clank. He said that he had set up a laser that would destroy the whole galaxy. After the message had been sent, the Prison Warden walked up to Ratchet and struck him on the back, which returned Ratchet to normal. The Warden said that his message just caused a Prison Break and if Ratchet couldn't stop it, he was responsible for all of it. Ratchet stopped the Prison Break and Clank contacted him. Ratchet didn't remember his formerly sent message at all and Clank realized that there was something wrong with him. Later Clank met Klunk who had put a mind control device in Ratchet's helmet which made Ratchet act so strange. Clank defeated Klunk, and Ratchet was released from the Prison with full pardon.

PlayStation Move Heroes

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Ratchet and Clank are captured and sent to the galactic hero games, along with Jak and Sly Cooper in .[1] As the competion went on, it seemed that Ratchet got along with Jak and Sly. Also, Ratchet appears to be the "leader" of the three heroes. Whenever Jak and Sly had a disagreement on what was going on, Ratchet would be the one to break up the fight. As his primary outfit, he maintains a similar outfit to what he wore from Tools of Destruction. His alternative skins were: Convict Ratchet, Mustachio Furioso and the downloadable Trillium Armor.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
In Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet and Clank were finishing work on a hoverbike in Metropolis, only to be interrupted by Captain Qwark calling from the Planetary Defense Center. Qwark informed them that he was under attack by thousands of heavily armed robotic commandos and requested assistance from the two heroes. After being personally hunted down by the invaders, Ratchet met the main villain in the game, Emperor Percival Tachyon who claimed that he was only interested in killing him. Ratchet then managed to escape along with Clank using one of the Emperor's ships. After escaping Tachyon's troops in an escape pod, Ratchet managed to set foot on his real homeworld, Fastoon. Although the pair managed to obtain a ship named Aphelion, no Lombax was to be seen. Throughout the course of the game, Ratchet would keep hearing references about a war between his race and another species called the Cragmites. At some unspecified point, the Cragmites simply vanished and led people to believe something called the "Lombax Secret" had vaporized them. Shortly after that, the Lombaxes had vanished themselves. Ratchet and Clank proceeded to investigate a moon base in the Nundac Asteroid Ring where it was thought to have key information about the Secret. Inside the base, Ratchet met a girl named Talwyn and her two war bots Cronk and Zephyr who was surprised to see that Ratchet was indeed a Lombax. After some initial distrust involving a threat to jettison the duo out the airlock, Talwyn agreed to assist Ratchet in his travels to track down the Secret. On Rykan V, the group found a room inside an old Lombax bunker that contained an old holo-vid player showing a video about a device called the Dimensionator. It was revealed by the IRIS Supercomputer that the device was capable of ripping a hole in the fabric of time and space into other dimensions and the Lombaxes sent the Cragmites to the X2-49 dimension instead of vaporizing them with a weapon as previously thought. Ratchet then managed to find this device, but only to have it taken away by the space pirate Captain Slag. After defeating Slag, Qwark then snatched the Dimensionator to try to become a superhero once again, but was then captured by Tachyon, leaving the device in the Emperor's hands. Tachyon then started to bring back the Cragmites from their other-dimensional prison with the Dimensionator and then traveled to Fastoon to open more portals. Ratchet and Clank followed him and then confronted the Cragmite emperor where mystery of the Lombaxes disappearance was revealed. After Tachyon had risen to power and invaded the planet, the Lombaxes used the Dimensionator to flee and escape to another dimension. All of them went, except for one. Ratchet's father stayed behind to hide the device along with his then infant son, Ratchet. Shortly after sending Ratchet to Veldin, his father was killed by Tachyon. Tachyon then offered Ratchet one chance to leave the universe and join his race in the other dimension, but Ratchet refused, knowing that no one would be safe if he did. He then proceeded to defeat Tachyon on an asteroid in the middle of deep space after accidentally triggering the Dimensionator. Before Tachyon fell into a black hole, he exclaimed that only he knew Ratchet's "true name" and that his kind would never be safe. After using the Dimensionator to escape their dimensional battlefield, Ratchet started to question his true purpose, but Clank reassured him that he had already fulfilled it. Afew seconds later Clank gets abducted by the Zoni which greatly upsets Ratchet to the point he'd sob.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
In Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, Ratchet, aided by Talwyn, set out to find Clank by heading to Merdegraw where Captain Darkwater was. After harassing a gang of pirates they run by a pirate named Sprocket, Ratchet got shot out of a cannon and ended up on Hoolefar Island, which was inhabited by a friendly race known as the Hoolefoids. After meeting the mayor, Ratchet repaired five wind turbines as well as the supply beacon, and the mayor then showed Ratchet the Obsidian Eye. Ratchet then headed to Morrow Caverns, to look for the Fulcrum Star and a map. In the cave, Ratchet saw a shadow figure, and asked Rusty Pete what that was, and he lied, stating that they were shadow puppets. He got double-crossed by Pete in the cave, where Pete stuck Romulus Slag's head in Darkwater's body that caused Undead Pirates to appear, which meant Ratchet had to fight his way back out. Ratchet defended Hoolefar from the pirates, and then headed to Darkwater Cove, where he tried to grab the star but fell through a trap door, opened by Slag/Darkwater. He fought his way out of the cave, and eventually defeated Darkwater, causing Slag's head to get blown off. Ratchet claimed the star, and powered the Obsidian Eye, where he saw Clank being surrounded by the Zoni. He then saw Dr. Nefarious walk down the steps to the room and trips on a feather duster, where Ratchet declared that he would save Clank.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Ratchet would continue his adventure which started in Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty trying to find Clank, with Qwark helping along the way.

Ratchet met another Lombax named General Alister Azimuth on Torren IV and learned that his father was named Kaden. Kaden was, according to Azimuth, 'a good Lombax, smart as they come' and was good friends with the General. Kaden was also the first one to theorize of the existence of the Great Clock and he did many other great things.(Ratchet was given the hoverboots of Kaden by Azimuth who also taught him how to use them)

Ratchet had been apologized to by Azimuth for not having another Lombax to know and talk to, but was told that he could now find his family with the General. On planet Lumos, Ratchet learned of Azimuth's plan to bring back the Lombaxes by using the Great Clock to undo his actions which he said were responsible for Tachyon's attack on Fastoon. Ratchet agreed to it knowing it was a chance to get his family back despite being told that the effects of the Clock would mean he would never meet Clank in the new timeline.

Ratchet traveled all over the Breegus Sector, traveling back in time to learn the fate of Orvus and finally finding Clank in the Valkyrie Citadel. After finally being re-united with Clank, he realized that the risk of using the Clock was too great and that it wouldn't be worth saving the Lombaxes if there was a chance reality would be destroyed as a result. He separated from Azimuth and went on to battle Nefarious with Clank.

Once Nefarious had been defeated, Ratchet & Clank were saved by Azimuth at the last minute and the three of them returned to the Great Clock where Clank said that it was his duty to protect the facility. Ratchet hugged Clank close to him as a farewell, knowing he couldn't talk Clank out of it. Ratchet then started to walk Clank inside the building when Azimuth questioned why they were not going to use the Clock to save the Lombaxes. Ratchet said that they would find them, but altering the past to do so would not be right. Azimuth snapped, enraged, he fired an energy blast directly at Ratchet from his wrench. Ratchet was struck in the chest and he fell backwards off the platform before Clank could reach him.(resulting to his death)

Fortunately, Clank managed to seal off the Orvus Chamber from Azimuth. Clank faced a difficult choice- go back in time and save his best friend, or follow his fathers rules. Luckily, he remembered a piece of advice from The Plumber- "I wouldn't risk anymore than 6 minutes." Clank reversed time for the 6 minutes, and was able to prevent Ratchet's death.

Ratchet and Clank then fought Azimuth in the Orvus Chamber to prevent him from destroying the universe. After Azimuth's defeat, Ratchet saw that the time shift the General initialized was tearing the Clock apart and attempted to stop it. Realizing his error, Azimuth gave his life to repair the damage himself and stop the time shift. Ratchet then took Alister's pocketwatch and Praetorian OmniWrench near the General's body as a memento to his former mentor.

Ratchet then proceeded to help Clank with the additional repairs and returned the Zoni to the clock, before telling Clank to "take care of himself" and leaving sadly. However, just as Ratchet was closing the cockpit on Aphelion to leave, Clank suddenly jumped in, refusing to leave his Lombax friend until he found his own family. Ratchet smiled and promptly took off into the stars, in search of another adventure.

Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One


Ratchet returned in Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, but he landed into a trap by an evil machine along with Clank, Qwark and Nefarious, after one of Nefarious' evil plans backfired in Luminopolis.

Ratchet arrived at planet Magnus and teamed up with Clank, Qwark and Nefarious so that they could escape the planet.

They travelled around discovering the planet's history and the dark times that were coming. After defeating many monsters and Commander Spog, Ratchet went to meet Croid, a scientist, though their meeting was not fruitful.

Ratchet and his team then went to Ephemeris to confront Nevo, but when they got to him they found that he was not the true mastermind and that the true enemy was the Loki Master and they fought and defeated him. Afterwards Ratchet, Clank and Qwark left the planet, while Nefarious escaped with Lawrence.

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
Ratchet is the main protagonist in Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault.

Ratchet & Clank Manga
In the Ratchet &amp; Clank Manga, Ratchet saved Clank at the end of the story due to him being attacked several times.

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 1: Ears of War


Ratchet and Clank returned to Veldin and after fixing up Ratchet's garage they attempted to restore a Skyburst 8000 speeder. Ratchet accidentally criss-crossed some of the wiring and shot up into the air. Clank saved him from exiting the atmosphere by activating a stabilizer.

At this point the Galactic President of Polaris, Qwark, arrived in his ship to ask for help from Ratchet and Clank about an issue of loosing planets. Ratchet appeared to be tired of saving the universe and refused to help saying that he had work to do. Ratchet explained to Clank that he wants to go back to the way things were before he became a hero; fixing space ships. Ratchet then fell asleep on a nearby rock.

Ratchet soon woke after a green light from Artemis Zogg's teleportation device hit Veldin. Spherical transportation capsules were sent down and landed around Ratchet, almost crushing him in the process. Artemis Zogg's robots stepped out of these devices and sent Ratchet flying through the wall of his garage. Ratchet used his Skyburst 8000 to crash into the Robot in his garage and told Clank to run. Ratchet used his Wrench and Blaster to fight of the Robots after telling Clank to get to the Planetary Defense Center on a hoversled. Ratchet soon ran out of ammo and was saved from one Robot by Clank who crashed into it with the sled. They were soon surrounded by Robots and captured. They were taken up to his ship.

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 2: Friends with Benefits
After a short Conversation with Artemis Zogg Ratchet and Clank were taken by Zogg's warbots to the Vartax Detention Facility, a prison space ship. They attempted to escape the very night the arrive, but are unable to escape for about three months.

Ratchet and Clank were in the mess hall waiting in line when Ratchet bumped into General Glahm, an Agorian who attacked Krell Canyon in A Crack in Time. Glahm and his minions started a fight. Ratchet defeated both when Glahm elbowed Ratchet to the ground. Klink entered, broke up the fight, and had them sent to the airlock to be ejected for breaking Zogg-Statute 35-77, regarding expected prison behavior. They were about to be ejected into the airlock when Cronk and Zephyr (on cue from Glahm) blasted into the ship. Zephyr gave Ratchet his hoverboots and a gun, and all four fought their way out of the prison. Clank happened to enter through the same door that Ratchet was trying to open and joined the fight. General Glahm, in order to save the others. stayed behind to hold off the attacking prison bots. With the bombs set to blast, Ratchet, Clank, Cronk, and Zephyr flew out of the prison ship and blew up the the loading bay. Zogg, greatly displeased with Klink's failure to keep Ratchet and Clank imprisoned, shot him out the airlock and began planning a new way to lure Ratchet and Clank back.

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 3: Lost and Spaced
Cronk and Zephyr led Ratchet & Clank through the Apogee Space Station. Talwyn joined them and explained the current situation. Talwyn then "introduced" Ratchet to Sasha. Ratchet immediately yelled at Qwark, who was already getting yelled at by Sasha, for not telling him and Clank the truth about the Helios Project. As the Galactic Rangers prepared to fire an EMP at Zogg's warship, Ratchet spoke to Talwyn about why he had left after the events of A Crack in Time. After the EMP failed, due to Artemis moving his warship and planet, Zogg gave Ratchet & Clank an ultimatum: Either Ratchet and Clank would turn themselves into Zogg, or Zogg would let Veldin, and all life on it, freeze to death without his sunlight.

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 4: Thanks for the Armories
Ratchet and Clank agreed to Zogg's terms and teleported to his ship. After having his OmniWrench Millenium 12 confiscated by guards, Zogg had them untied and began explaining that he would not save Veldin as he had promised. Ratchet then ordered Clank to throw the grenade he had hidden, and the duo escaped amid the chaos. They began searching for the bridge of the ship while giving Talwyn, Sasha, and the Galactic Rangers orders to attack the ship. After finding the Surinox Shard, Ratchet ordered Clank to break the plan and start the warp sequence. Zogg shot and destroyed the geo-shift sphere with his Plasma Coil just as the sequence was about to finish. Right before he could shoot Ratchet and Clank, Talwyn crashed her ship into Zogg's. Ratchet grabbed the Shard and fled into an escape pod as Talwyn was captured by Zogg's troops.

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 5: Multiple Organisms
Ratchet and Clank's escape pod landed on Veldin, which has been turned into an icy wasteland due to the lack of sunlight. They are soon attacked by Zogg's troops, who were in pursuit of the escape pod on its voyage. Clank discovered that the duo had luckily landed near Ratchet's garage and they rushed to it as quickly as possible. Ratchet grabbed Alister Azimuth's Double ended wrench and used it in order to defend them as long as he could. After being overwhelmed by the robots, they hid in a very small bunker located just under the garage. Clank then enabled the GrummelNet Flux Compression Generator, which emitted electromagnetic radiation that knocked out every robot in its blast radius for an hour. Ratchet fastened Clank onto his back and heads to the Planetary Defense Center.

Upon arriving at the Defense Center, Ratchet encounters General Glahm, who had apparently escaped the battle at the Vartax Detention Facility. Although Ratchet begged him not to, Glahm fired the Defense Center's missile barrage at Zogg's ship, destroying it, and presumably killing Zogg, Vorn, and Talwyn. Clank awoke to find Ratchet silently mourning Talwyn's death.

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 6: Bros Before Foes
Sasha, Cronk, and the Galactic Rangers soon arrived on Veldin to rescue Ratchet & Clank. After reminding him that they needed to save Veldin, the group returned to the Apogee Space Station. Almost immediately upon arriving, an escape pod crashed into the Station. As it opened, Vorn came running out, followed by Zogg, who was holding Talwyn at gunpoint. Zogg then unleashed an army of 100 Zurkons on the Station. While Ratchet and the others were fighting the Zurkons, Talwyn was able to escape from Zogg's clutches by biting him. Zogg then fled in search of the Surinox Shard. Ratchet, Talwyn, and Vorn jumped into the aqueduct in order to swim to a hidden teleporter that would help them catch up to Zogg.

Upon finding Zogg, Ratchet sped toward him using his hoverboots and tackled him into the docked ship (where Clank and Qwark were attempting to escape with the Shard). In that room, Zogg held Ratchet at gunpoint, as well as Clank and (a taped-up) Qwark. Before Zogg could kill Ratchet, Qwark, noticing Ratchet's double-ended wrench, remembered something Zogg had said months earlier about what a negatively charged energy blast did to the Shard, and kicked the wrench into Ratchet's hand. The shard began sucking everything into another dimension, but only Zogg was actually taken with it as it disappeared.

Shortly afterwards, a second version of the Helios Project placed the planets of the Artemis Galaxy back into their correct orbits. Ratchet mentioned that he and Clank decided to move back to Polaris instead of staying in Veldin.

Appearance
It is strongly noted that Ratchet's appearance has changed throughout the series. For example, Ratchet's arms and legs have become longer. Ratchet now wears a shirt and shoes whereas in the original games he wore jeans and was careless of what he wore elsewhere. In Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Ratchet continued to carry Clank on his back.

It is possible that, after the first game, it was necessary to give Ratchet a more sophisticated appearance, as all he had on were his pants, cap, gloves, and a harness which Clank was carried on. Shoes only appeared in the form of Grind Boots or Magne Boots. As the games progressed, Ratchet was given additional armor over time.

It also should be noted that his body proportions were changed for the Future series. For example, Ratchet's hands have been shrunken down, and his head is a bit smaller. He also grows a bit taller in some games.

Personality
"From the start, Ratchet was a "shoot first, ask questions later, and then shoot again" kind of Lombax."

- Description of Ratchet in the official e-guide

Ratchet is a street-wise, wrench-swinging guy who always liked to get into an adventure without really thinking about the risks or odds. He made many sarcastic comments or jokes and sometimes doesn't take things personally, but over the series of the games, Ratchet has matured and become more serious. He enjoyed swinging down Zip-lines and using his Swingshot.

Ratchet, like many Lombaxes, is also known to have invented some items, some were more successful than others. These items included Stunderwear, for example.

Personality change
In the first game, Ratchet was very selfish, arrogant, and self-absorbed and Clank had to talk him into helping other planets. Throughout the course of the game, however, he became more dedicated and serious to stopping Drek's plans. After that, he became a less selfish person, and a more likeable character. He became very selfless, and at the end of Deadlocked was willing to give up his life for all the captured heroes that he eventually saved. In A Crack in Time, Ratchet was seen as more of an intelligent, humble and serious character. This personality has also been seen in All 4 One, as he has shown a compassionate side as well.

Abilities
While fairly short Ratchet is a capable fighter, utilizing weapons and gadgets, that allow him to traverse many enviornmets, and defeat very large groups of enemies by himself. Ratchet can also evade enemy fire, often jumping, or back flipping out of the way. Ratchet is also handy with some tools, usually seen fixing a multitude of machines, most of all his wrench, which he can use to turn bolts to extend bridges, open doors, and other functions. Ratchet can also use his wrench as a close quarters weapon. In addition to his natural talents, Ratchet has received a training as a commando by Megacorp, ranging from martial arts and outdoor survival, to origami..

Trivia

 * Original ideas for Ratchet were to be a reptilian creature, but it quickly progressed into a cat-like creature. Original sketch ideas contained typically cat-like features - Ratchet was a lot bulkier in these drawings as well. Then ideas came to make a dog like character, a lot taller and thinner. At the end, the two ideas were combined to create Ratchet, with these features then to become the standard for all Lombaxes.
 * Ratchet had a dramatic change of personality between the first and second Ratchet & Clank game. This is due to Insomniac getting bad feedback about Ratchet - for example Gamespot said that Ratchet is an unlikeable character. This is also quite likely to be the reason for the change in voice actor.
 * The game guides often referred to Ratchet as 'fuzzy' or 'furry'.
 * In Captain Qwark's plans, he often referred to Ratchet as 'Dead Meat'.
 * According to Insomniac personnel, Ratchet stood 5' with his ears and weighed ninety-seven-and-a-half pounds.
 * In a few brief shots of Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, Ratchet's eyes were aqua.
 * Ratchet, (and later Clank) lived in a garage on Veldin. After Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Clank was given an apartment in Megapolis. And later, another place to be considered their home was the Apogee Space Station, wich is also where Qwark lives in the Polaris Galaxy. Totalizing, Ratchet and Clank have three homes, with one being in the Solana Galaxy, one in the Bogon Galaxy, and one in the Polaris Galaxy.
 * In Ratchet's early concepts he didn't have eye brows or stripes, however the projects japanese animators suggested adding them, saying that the game might not sell very well in Japan.
 * Ratchet is the only character to be playable in every single Ratchet & Clank game.
 * Ratchet was also very good at using tools and making things by scratch.

Guest appearances

 * In Jak II, Ratchet and Clank appeared on some of the walls in Haven City.
 * Ratchet was an unlockable golfer in Hot Shots Golf Fore! (known as Everybody's Golf in Europe). Clank also appears in this game as a caddie.
 * In Jak 3, Ratchet and Clank appear as targets in a secret gun course, along with Tyhrranoids.
 * Ratchet was a secret racer in Jak X: Combat Racing. Clank was the antennae for his car.
 * Ratchet and Clank appeared on a billboard in Sly 2: Band of Thieves; in the same game, one could unlock a demo for Up Your Arsenal.
 * A secret that could be found unlocked a Ratchet mask that Daxter could wear in Daxter.
 * In Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 Lombax equipment could be unlocked in Multiplayer, based on Ratchet.
 * In LittleBigPlanet 2 a Ratchet costume is available as downloadable content.
 * Ratchet, along with Clank, appear as a DLC Mod characters for the racing game Modnation Racers, They came paired together at the cost of not having their own personalised Kart(s) for the game. Ratchet's mod is based off of his appearance in Tools of Destruction.
 * In Ape Escape 3there was a monkey wearing a Ratchet outfit that was equipped with Ratchet's wrench and a Clank backpack.
 * In Jax X, the menu will say that Ratchet is eighteen years old.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank
 * Challenge Clank (mentioned and picture)
 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
 * Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked
 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
 * Secret Agent Clank
 * PlayStation Move Heroes
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
 * Race Through Time (Picture)
 * Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
 * 8-Bit Mini Mayhem
 * Ratchet & Clank: Clone Home
 * Ratchet & Clank Manga: Volume 1
 * Ratchet & Clank Manga: Volume 2
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 1: Ears of War
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 2: Friends with Benefits
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 3: Lost and Spaced
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 4: Thanks for the Armories
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 5: Multiple Organisms
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 6: Bros Before Foes
 * Hot Shots Golf Fore!
 * Jak X: Combat Racing
 * ModNation Racers
 * PlayStation Home  (Figure only)
 * Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale