Ratchet

Ratchet was a Lombax native to the planet Fastoon. In Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet is voiced by Mikey Kelley. In the following Ratchet & Clank games, he is voiced by James Arnold Taylor. Ratchet was 5 feet tall and, as of Ratchet: Deadlocked, weighed 97.5lbs (44.3kgs).

Ratchet & Clank
Before the beginning of his 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 needed a robotic ignition system to start his ship, something he did not have. However, Ratchet noticed a ship falling from the sky and crash-landing onto the Kyzil Plateau, and upon exploration of the debris found Clank. The diminutive robot showed Ratchet an Infobot video of Supreme Executive Chairman Drek's plans of destroying 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 would begin looking for the hero Captain Qwark, in order to stop Drek's plans. Ratchet decided to come along for the adventure. The duo were shot down over Novalis and talked to the planet's chairman in order to borrow his Courier Ship and obtain 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 and won a Swingshot from Helga for his efforts. After finding out 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 for Blargian Snagglebeast food. Ratchet was furious at Clank and only came with him to the besieged planed Batalia because it was his only way off the planet. Only after fighting Qwark in a Blarg ship at the Gemlik Moonbase and seeing a Channel 2 News report of the devastation on planet Oltanis caused by Drek did Ratchet realize the importance of stopping the chairman and reconcile with Clank. On planet Quartu, the duo found another Infobot showing a video of the Deplanetizer preparing to destroy planet Veldin. Enraged, Ratchet flew home with Clank to stop Chairman Drek. After a fierce battle, Ratchet sent the chairman flying up to his newly-created planet and destroyed it.

Going Commando
Ratchet and Clank were doing an interview with Behind the Hero talking about what had happened after Drek was defeated. Ratchet said their were parades, press confrences, "Fancy dress balls," and then Clank mentioned the wiener roast at Al's. After that, everything returned to normal. Suddenly he and Clank were transported 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 along with a job as an accountant. Two weeks later, Ratchet headed to Planet Aranos to infiltrate a Flying Lab and retrieve the stolen experiment. The thief evaded Ratchet persistently, capturing Clank from his apartment and holding him hostage. The two reunited when Clank frees Ratchet from a locked room and eventually retrieve 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. The two investigated the Testing Facility on Planet Dobbo and found more and more information, culminating into the true means on Planet Todano and attempted to put a stop to it 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 investigated a Distribution Center and found out that Allgon City was undergoing disaster and may live 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 Testing Laboratory in the heart of the Megacorp Headquarters on Planet Yeedil, finding out the Fizzwidget they knew was really Captain 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.

Up Your Arsenal
In the beginning of Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet hastily flies 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 places Ratchet in the more dangerous scenarios in his Q-Force plans, although Ratchet never received any credit. Most people who have never heard of the Lombax simply remember him as Secret Agent Clank's chauffeur. In this game, Ratchet became romantically involved with the Galactic President's daughter Sasha, who was also the captain of the Starship Phoenix.

Ratchet was occasionally slandered by Qwark over the Phoenix intercom, Qwark telling him he needs to change into his "green regulation Q-Force tights" or he'll 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, he felt grief and discomfort at Qwark's presumed death.

After freeing Clank from the clutches of Dr. Nefarious, who had replaced Clank with an evil 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 find the fraudulent superhero, and Ratchet dubbed him pathetic and a coward.

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

Deadlocked
Before the beginning events of Ratchet: Deadlocked, Ratchet had been commended as the new captain of the Starship Phoenix, as Sasha had become the Mayor of Metropolis. However, he was kidnapped by the Vox Empire along with Clank and Big Al. All three were then suited with Deadlock Collars, which with, at the press of a button, could explode, obviously killing them. Eventually, Al finds two combat bots, Merc and Green, to help Ratchet in his adventures as a forced contestant in DreadZone, The two bots and Ratchet 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 all those left behind, including Gleeman Vox himself.

Throughout Deadlocked, Ratchet was continually slandered by Vox News anchormen Dallas and Juanita, who depicted Ratchet as a malicious villain who had little to no moral decency. However their attitude towards him changed by the end of the game, when Vox locked both of them and the rest of DreadZone fans in a Battledome that was meant to explode, leaving everybody's fate in the hands of Ratchet.

Size Matters
Ratchet and Clank take a holiday on Pokitaru when a little girl asks could Ratchet do something heroic. After the presentation Ratchet, Clank and the girl meet Qwark who tells that he never met his parents. Soon after that, robots attack to the beach and kidnap the girl. Ratchet says that he and Clank must help the little girl. Clank notices that the girl left an object behind and says that it's Technomite technology but Ratchet thinks that Technomites are only a myth. Ratchet persuades Qwark to tell him where the Technomite artifact could be used. In return Ratchet loans Qwark his "super-computer" to search up his anscestors. As they seek the girl they find out that technomites might be real. Afterwards they find the girl, who introduces herself Luna and taunts the heroic duo. Ratchet sees 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 wakes up the lombax and they escape. They then go to planet Challax where they find a shrunken tecnomite city. While exploring city they find out that Luna is a robot. Next stop is Dayni Moon where the heroes meet Luna again and Luna tells them about the technomites kidnapping Ratchet so they can have his DNA so they can clone  him to create a huge army. They defeat Luna. While Clank is searching information from Luna's head he gets electocuted. Ratchet goes inside Clank - using a shrink ray - and saves his friend. Clank says that the clone factory is on planet Quodrona, so they agree to fly there. At Quodrona, the lombax and the robot meet Emperor Otto DeStruct. The emperor tells 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 defeat the emeperor and once again save the galaxy.

''Secret Agent Clank
In Secret Agent Clank Ratchet is captured for stealing the Eye of Infinity from Boltaire Museum. He says that the Eye has been taken to a location where no one can find it. He is taken to the Solana Galaxy's Ultra High Security Prison. Clank sees when Ratchet commited the crime and tries to prove that he is innocent by searching the Eye. Clank also helps Ratchet by sending weapons to him. In Prison Ratchet wakes up ans he doesn't remember anything about the crime he did. He then meets the Prison Warden who says that he gives him no protection against other prisoners that Ratchet has captured in his last adventures. Then he must battle old enemies like Thugs and Tyhrranoids. After he has defeated the attackers, Prison Warden comes to him and says that his old friend wants to see him. The Thugs-4-Less Leader, who also has been captured, steps in and orders his groups to attack. Ratchet must defeat a group of enemies in cafetaria to survive. Later he walks in the Prison Yard and he sees Slim Cognito who also has been captured in Prison. Slim shows Clank's message where he asks for a code for Le Paradis Des Tricheurs Casino's High-Stakes Room. Slim sais that he knows the code but gives it only if Ratchet protects him from his villains. Ratchet then defeats all enemies who try to eliminate Slim, he then gives Ratchet the code that he transmitts to Clank. Later on Ratchet is relaxing in the showers. Plumber comes in and sais that he's here to fix the cold water pumps. He accidently destroys the pumps and the Thugs think that Ratchet destroyed them. Plumber leaves and leaves Ratchet to defeat another set of enemies. After he defeats all of the attackers he walks in the yard and suddenly he goes crazy and sends a message to Clank. He says that he has set up a laser that destroys the whole galaxy. After the message has been sent the Prison Warden walks up to Ratchet and hits him at the back. That returns Ratchet to normal. The Warden sais that his message just caused a Prison Break and if Ratchet can't stop it. He takes Ratchet as responsible for all this. Ratchet stops the Prison Break and Clank contacts him. Ratchet doesn't remember his formerly sent message at all and Clank relizes that theres something wrong with him. Later Clank meets Klunk who had put a mind control device in Ratchet's helmet witch made Ratchet so strange. Clank defeats Klunk and Ratchet is released from a Prison with a full pardon.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
In Tools of Destruction Ratchet was once again the lead character. Ratchet and Clank started off working on this hoverbike-like object, only to be interrupted by Captain Qwark calling from the planetary defense center. Qwark informed them that he is under attack by thousands of heavily armed commandos. Ratchet crashed his vehicle on the way there forcing them to go on foot. He then met the main villain in the game, Emperor Percival Tachyon, but as usual managed to escape. He then found out about something called the "Lombax Secret" and went to the moonbase where was thought to hold key information. At the moon base Ratchet meets a girl named Talwyn and her two war bots Cronk and Zephyr. They then find a room on a lava planet the contains an old holo-vid player showing a video about the Dimensionator (the Lombax secret). Ratchet then managed to find this device but only to have it taken away by a pirate named Captain Slag. After defeating Slag, Qwark then snatches the Dimensioner to try to be come a superhero once again but Tachyon winds up with it. He then starts to bring back the Cragmites (Tachyon's race) using the Dimensionator, which was used in the Great War to vanquish them from their universe. At the end of the game he finds out that his father was the only Lombax not to flee but stayed behind to hide the Dimensionator. Tachyon then offers Ratchet one chance to join him, but Ratchet refuses knowing that no one will be safe if he does and then defeats Tachyon. Ratchet then starts to question his true purpose but Clank reassures him that he has already fulfilled it. Finally, Clank is taken away by the Zoni (little robots only Clank could see until the final cutscene where Ratchet saw them too) saying that it is time to come with them.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
After Ratchet lost Clank in Tools of Destruction he set out to get him back by heading to Merdegraw where Captain Darkwater is. After harassing a gang of pirates run by a pirate named Sprocket, Ratchet gets shot out of a cannon and ends up on Hoolefar Island, an which is 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 shows Ratchet the Obsidian Eye. Ratchet then heads to Morrow Caverns to look for the Fulcrum Star and a map. In the cave Ratchet sees a shadow figure and asks pete what that was and he lies saying he was doing shadow puppets. He gets double crossed by pete in the cave as pete sticks Slag's head in Darkwater's body causing undead pirates to appear and has to fight his way back out. Ratchet defends Hoolefar from the pirates and then head to Darkwater Cove where he tries to grab the star but falls through a trap door opened by Slag/Darkwater. He fights his way out of the cave and eventually defeats Darkwater causing Slag's head to get blown off. Ratchet claims the star and powers the Obsidian Eye where he sees Clank surrounded by the Zoni. He then sees Dr. Nefarious walk down the steps to the room and trip on a feather duster, and Ratchet declares that he will save Clank.

Personality
Ratchet was a fun-living, wrench-swinging guy who always loved to get into an adventure without really thinking about the risks or odds. He made many sarcastic comments or jokes and could take things personally, but over the series of the games Ratchet seemed to mature and become more serious. He enjoyed swinging down Zip-lines and using his Swingshot.

Ratchet, like many Lombaxes, was also known to have invented many items, some of which were more successful than others. These items included Stunderwear amongst many others.

In the first game Ratchet was very selfish, arrogant, and self-absorbed. Clank had to talk him into helping other planets. Throughout the course of the game, however, he becomes more dedicated and serious.

Other Information
In Captain Qwark's plans he often referred to Ratchet as Deadmeat. Also according to Insomniac personnel Ratchet stands 5' with his ears and weighs 147 pounds. Ratchet is also not his real name as you find out in "Tools of Destruction". Ratchet is also possibly 18 years old in Deadlocked due to a translation in Jak X, which would make his age in the first game 15, and his age in Future: Tools of Destruction and Future: Quest for Booty 21. He has rumoured to had several relationships including Angela Cross and Sasha Phyronix.

Ratchet (and later Clank) lived in a garage on Veldin, but after "Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando" Clank was given an apartment in Megapolis, which is where the two are seen living from then on (The garage was also seen destroyed at the start of Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal)

Guest appearances

 * In the flash video called The Decline of Video Gaming, Ratchet is mentioned as another character who is voiced by James Arnold Taylor. The characters in the video mention that Clank should not be mentioned in the title Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, as he was proclaimed as "Useless."
 * In Jak II, Ratchet and Clank appear on some of the walls in Haven City.
 * Ratchet is an unlockable golfer in ''Hot Shots Golf Fore! (known as Everybody's Golf in Europe).
 * Ratchet is a secret racer in Jak X: Combat Racing
 * Finding a secret unlocks a Ratchet mask that Daxter can wear in Daxter.
 * In Resistance: Fall of Man, Lombax equipment can be unlocked in Multiplayer, based on Ratchet.

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank
 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
 * Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked
 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
 * Secret Agent Clank
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty