Angela Cross

Angela Cross, also referred to as The Unknown Thief, was a character in Going Commando, where she disguised herself as a thief for roughly the first half of the game. She was prone to having minor, almost clumsy or nervous accidents, such as tripping over rugs and other things of the like. It was believed that she was a Lombax, but the storyline of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction proved this theory wrong. Also, she had no visible tail (though she could have been hiding it due to not trying to give herself away in the first half of the game) and her ears were not fashioned in the same manner as Ratchet's. Her true species is unknown, and it was also unknown if she would ever appear again.

Employment
Angela used to work at Megacorp in the Bogon Galaxy in the Genetics Department. She worked on the original Protopet, but was kicked off the project after Megacorp decided to release the Protopet before its flaws could be corrected.

Thief
With the Protopet on the loose, Angela assumed the role of a thief, when she wore a mask integrated with a voice-distorting device and a hooded cape. With this disguise, she stole the Protopet in hopes of obliterating it before it could be mass-produced. Following these events, Abercrombie Fizzwidget, owner of Megacorp, summoned Ratchet and Clank to retrieve the experiment. Once Angela assumed the guise of a thief, she hired Thugs-4-Less for assistance in her ventures to retrieve the Protopet (but was later betrayed by them once they had a better paying employer). After her first encounter with Ratchet, Angela temporarily abducted Clank from his apartment. However, Clank escaped and rejoined Ratchet. Later, on planet Siberius, Ratchet was able to defeat Angela and take hold of the Protopet, returning it to Fizzwidget. Later Angela approached Ratchet on planet Tabora, demanding the experiment, not realizing that Ratchet didn't have it anymore. As the thief, Angela served as the game's main antagonist for the first half of the game, until her true indentity and intentions were revealed, and Qwark was unmasked as the real main antagonist.

Unmasked
Falling from her ship on Tabora as she talked to Ratchet, Angela's mask came off and her true identity was revealed. She immediately informed Ratchet and Clank that the Protopet may ultimately doom the galaxy and joined the duo in hopes of warning Fizzwidget about the experiment's true potential.

She later sent a Galactic Greeting as a message to Ratchet and Clank, requesting help on her home planet of Grelbin, where the Protopets had begun to infest the facility where she lived.

Angela invented a Helix-O-Morph to control behaviour, when Qwark stole it to control the Protopets himself. After Ratchet defeated the Mutant Protopet, she kissed Ratchet and Clank. She then demutated the Protopet and made it harmless. Her final apperance was in Clank's apartment; telling her friends that Qwark started working at Megacorp.

Behind the scenes

 * Angela was voiced by Kath Soucie.
 * The main antagonist of Going Commando, was thought to be the thief (Angela), until Qwark was unmasked as the real villain behind it all.
 * A news radio broadcast in Ratchet's ship in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time ostensibly confirms Angela's species as a Lombax, claiming that female Lombaxes do not have tails and that she fled the galaxy in Max Apogee's ship during the earlier phases of Percival Tachyon's plot to eliminate the remaining Lombaxes in Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction. Whether this is canon or teasing on the part of the developers has yet to be revealed.

Trivia

 * Ratchet may have had feelings for Angela, because his actions on Aranos after learning she was kidnapped by the Thugs-4-Less was incredibly concerned for her; and perhaps more than usual, as Clank found Ratchet's reaction odd.
 * Despite her being a very important character, Angela was not featured in the end cutscene of Up Your Arsenal, even when other more minor characters were, such as Abercrombie Fizzwidget and The Hypnotist.
 * On the radio in Ratchet and Clank:A Crack in Time they talk about Angela's fate and do state she is a Lombax because female Lombaxes have no tails.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando