Angela Cross

"Wow, she's got a few bolts loose."

- Ratchet

Angela Cross, also known as The Unknown Thief, was one of the few Lombaxes who did not escape into the Lombax dimension. She was a former Megacorp employee, and a friend of Ratchet, Clank, and later, Max Apogee. Angela was prone to having minor, clumsy accidents, such as tripping over rugs.

Protopet Crisis
Angela used to work at Megacorp in the Bogon Galaxy in the Genetics Department. She worked on the original Protopet, but was kicked off of the team after Megacorp decided to release the Protopet before its flaws were corrected. With the Protopet on the loose, Angela assumed the role of a thief. Wearing a mask integrated with a voice-distorting device and a hooded cape, she stole the Protopet in hopes of obliterating it before it could be mass-produced. Now the Unknown 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. Following these events, Abercrombie Fizzwidget, owner of Megacorp, hired Ratchet and Clank to retrieve the experiment. After her first encounter with Ratchet, Angela temporarily abducted Clank from his apartment, who was later rescued by Ratchet. On planet Siberius, Ratchet defeated Angela and returned the Protopet to Fizzwidget. Later, Angela approached Ratchet on planet Tabora, demanding the experiment, not realizing that Ratchet didn't have it anymore.

Unmasked
As she fell from her ship on Tabora, Angela's mask fell off and her true identity was revealed. She immediately informed Ratchet and Clank that the Protopet could ultimately doom the galaxy and joined the duo in hopes of warning Fizzwidget about the experiment's deadly potential. She later sent a Galactic Greeting 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 the Helix-O-Morph to control behavior, but Qwark stole it to control the Protopets himself. However, Qwark put the batteries in backwards, mutating the Protopet to a enormous size. After Ratchet defeated the Mutant Protopet, she kissed Ratchet and Clank. She then de-mutated the Protopet, making it harmless. Later, she visited the duo in Clank's apartment, and told them that Qwark started working at Megacorp.

Escape from Tachyon
Max Apogee eventually found out about Angela and traveled to the Bogon galaxy to save her from Tachyon. She was last seen fleeing the Cerullean Sector in the Polaris galaxy in Max Apogee's starship. The starship was later recovered by galactic authorities, who discovered Jasindu was its point of origin. Max Apogee left the Dimensionator in Kerchu City on Jasindu.

Behind the scenes
A huge disagreement among fans, and arguably the biggest one, was whether Angela Cross was a Lombax. The dispute was finally resolved six years after the release of Going Commando, when Pirate Radio news announcers confirmed that Angela was a Lombax in A Crack in Time, and that female Lombaxes don't have tails. Kip Darling, one of the announcers, questioned this fact, referencing the disagreement among fans.

Trivia

 * Despite her being a very important character, Angela was not featured in the end cutscene of Up Your Arsenal, even though other more minor characters like Abercrombie Fizzwidget and The Hypnotist were. This may have been to avoid spoilers.
 * It is possible that her Theif coustume was a holo-guise. When her mask fell off there was no trace of her thief costume, suggesting it was only a holo-guise.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
 * Ratchet & Clank: Issue 5: Multiple Organisms