Clank

Clank was a robot created at the Robot Plant on the planet Quartu. While Clank's serial number is B5429671, the name "Clank" emerged when Ratchet made his handmade ship rock while flying to planet Novalis, causing the small robot to hit the side of the ship and making a clank sound. This became his nickname throughout his adventures with Ratchet, his longtime companion. The Zoni reffered to Clank as the "Chosen One"

Creation
Originally, Clank had been part of a production line of sentry-bots at the Robot Plant on planet Quartu, sentry-bots that were meant for Drek's assistance. However, due to what was believed to be a mishap, but may actually have been the manufacturing robot gaining a conscience, Clank appeared on the conveyor belt as a small, harmless robot, instead of a large, dangerous sentry-bot. Clank watched an Infobot video of Drek's plans to create a new planet using other planetary components, and was then forced to rush off Quartu - sentry-bots had begun chasing him, classifying him as an production error. Clank seized control of a spaceship and took off in space, but was shot down and crashed on the Kyzil Plateau of planet Veldin, where Ratchet found and took him back to his handmade ship. Clank showed Ratchet the infobot video of Chairman Drek and informed him that he wanted to contact Captain Qwark - Clank believed that only the famous Captain would be able to stop Drek's menace over the galaxy. Clank proposed to start Ratchet's ship using his latest robotic ignition system, in exchange for a ride to planet Novalis where he would begin tracking down Captain Qwark.

Overview
After crashlanding at the Tobruk Crater of planet Novalis, Ratchet and Clank were forced to go looking for a new ship together. They acquired one from the Planetary Chairman, who gave them a courier ship and an Infobot that showed Captain Qwark advertising Al's Roboshack on planet Kerwan. This becomes the duo's next destination. However, Big Al informs them that he had not seen Qwark since the video. Nevertheless, he fits Clank with a special Heli-Pack upgrade. Ratchet and the robot eventually find Captain Qwark at Blackwater City, where he hands them out a brand new Platinum Zoomerator for winning the Hoverboard Race. Then, at his trailer, the Captain told Ratchet and Clank to come to his headquarters, where they would become a team to stop Drek. However, Captain Qwark betrayed them by setting his Blargian Snagglebeast on the duo. From this point on, Ratchet became slightly hostile toward Clank, who he blamed for taking them into the trap. Ratchet wants to chase after Qwark, but cannot start his ship. Clank agreed to start it for him but only if he agrees to fly to planet Batalia instead, where they would be able to help out a commando who was having trouble with Blarg attacks. Clank, due to the lethal levels of pollution in the atmosphere, had to go out on his own on the Blarg homeworld Orxon. He found a pair of Magneboots there and an Infobot for the planet Pokitaru. There, he was fitted with a Thruster-Pack upgrade by Bob at the latter's Roboshack. The duo made up after shooting down Captain Qwark at the Gemlik Moonbase, after which Ratchet and Clank watched an Infobot video depicting news of yet another planet being ravaged by Drek's troops. Ratchet agreed that they shouldn't lose sight of what is important after seeing the destruction of Gorda City. They later proceeded to planet Quartu, where a scientist was able to transform Clank into Giant Clank. Ratchet and Clank also encountered Clank's creator on this planet, after sneaking by sentry-bots using the Hologuise to eventually arrive at Clank's original place of creation. Clank was deeply moved by this, and vowed to make his mother proud. Unbeknownst to him, however, the words appeared on the screen: "You already have." Ultimately, Ratchet and Clank came back to planet Veldin and fought Drek on the Deplanetizer. When he was defeated and the Deplanetizer was fired at the Chairman's artificial planet, however, debris fell down from the sky to Veldin, and the two were propelled over the edge of the Deplanetizer. Clank managed to hold on to it, and Ratchet grabbed his leg. However, the impact of grabbing the ledge damaged Clank's servos in his arm, meaning that Clank couldn't pull both him and Ratchet up to safety. The duo fell, but Clank used his Thruster-Pack to catch Ratchet and break both of their falls. Exhilarated by the survival of his planet, Ratchet nearly left Clank behind, wounded, but then came back and told the robot he'd fix his arm. Then they both left off in the Veldin sunset. After the game credits end, they are both seen watching a video of "Steve McQwark" advertising the Personal Hygenator. The video proves to be too gruesome to watch, however, and they turn off the screen.

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
After Chairman Drek's defeat on Planet Veldin Clank slowly slipped into everyday life with Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, the only remotely interesting things he did were flush out his radiator core, and attend the grand opening of Groovy Lube.

During an interwiew with Behind the Hero, Clank was wisked away to the Bogon Galaxy by Abercrombie Fizzwidget. Since Clank did not want to take part in another adventure, he decided to reside in a luxourious apartment. Not long after moving in, Clank was kidnapped by The Thief, but Ratchet eventually rescued him, Clank had no choice but to join Ratchet.

Ratchet and Clank soon retreived the Protopet for Fizzwidget, but not after learning from the thief (now revealed as Angela Cross) that the protopet posed an immense threat to the galaxy.

After much exploring and turning into Giant Clank he and Ratchet were kidnapped and put in the Thugs-4-Less Prison, but with help from Clank's admirer a Female Infobot, Clank escaped and freed Ratchet.

After much more exploring, rescuing Angela,turning into Giant Clank and facing the Protopets temselves, Clank with Ratchet, infiltrated Megacorp HQ, returned the Original Protopet to a non-feral state, and humiliated Captain Qwark once again. The galaxy was saved and Clank had some time to relax.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Clamk's social well-being rocketed, due to his brand new TV show Secret Agent Clank, with him starring in the main role and Ratchet starring as his chaufeur.

When Ratchet & Clank returned to the Solana Galaxy, Clank was often treated like the main hero, even though he was strapped to Ratchet's back most of the time. The Galactic President was the most frequent person to treat Clank like this.

Shortly after becoming a member of Q-Force, Clank found out that evil genius Dr. Nefarious the person the Q-Force was battling against, was Secret Agent Clank's biggest fan(which Clank found disturbing.).

After filming an episode of Secret Agent Clank, he was kidnapped by robot popstar Courtney Gears and taken to Nefarious, who gave him two choices: join him and rule the galaxy or die with the squishies(organic life-forms.) Clank chose the latter and Nefarious placed him in a cage and replaced him with an evil clone named Klunk.

Clank was eventually freed by Ratchet in Metropolis. On the Planet Zeldrin, Clank discovered evidence that Captain Qwark had survived the crash of the The Leviathan earlier. After saving the Starship Phoenix, he and Ratchet travelled to Koros where the Biobliterator was docked. With Ratchet's help, Clank made it to an Ion Cannon, and saved the lives of countless people bu destroying the weapon.

Ater receiving word of a second Biobliterator on Mylon, Ratchet & Clank fought through the Command center, defeated Nefarious and destroyed the second Biobliterator with Captain Qwark's help, who was motivated by Clank's earlier words of encouragement.

Ratchet: Deadlocked
Clank was aboard the Starship Phoenix when DreadZone agents came to kidnap Ratchet, and was kidnapped himself along with Big Al. He was fitted with a Deadlock collar and became the Mission Engineer for Team Darkstar. He also acquainted with the female robot known as Venus, who helped Big Al and Clank to disable the collars and to formulate a plan to escape DreadZone Station. In the final events of Deadlocked, Clank helped rescue Dallas, Juanita, and DreadZone contestants in time before the station exploded. This is the only game in which Clank is not a playable character, although there is an "Alpha Clank" skin, which has a robotic red body with Clank's head which was proven to be Clank's brother and Clank's HelpDesk messages were actually recordings.

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
Clank plays his role as always: the faithful sidekick. Yet, somehow through the developments of the various games, Clank has developed into his own hero, and now in Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, he's out to prove his metal (pun definitely intended). At several points in the game, Clank takes on the main role and has to fight his own battles. At one point in the game, after the duo finds out that their so-called ally is part of the Technomites (verifying Clank's ongoing suspicions), Ratchet ends up getting kidnapped, and Clank must put on his best, shiny, metal, robot shoes to set out and save his buddy. Then, later on in the game, after defeating Luna, Clank tries to get the clone factory coordinates from Luna's head. However, he gets zappified and Ratchet is forced to go inside Clank using his shrink ray. Clank takes his part of action while fighting against Emperor Otto Destruct too. The first battle with him is fought as Giant Clank.

Secret Agent Clank
This time is Clank's turn to be the main protagonist (although Ratchet, Qwark and Gadgebots are playable characters, too). He has to prove Ratchet innocent after being framed for crime he didn't commit: the theft of the Eye of Infinity! In this game Clank transforms into Giant Clank once, uses a snowboard, as well as other vehicles in many, many challenges, and even use agent-like weapons. Everything starts in Boltaire Museum. Clank comes through the roof silently and sees Ratchet stealing something. The Lombax steps to a laser beam and the guards manage to catch him. Clank retreats, and returns to his ship, given him by the agency. Clank's contact in the agency calls him about local news. She patches the news through about Ratchet going to jail (with a very strange attitude) on the ship's screen. She tries to comfort Clank for what happened, but he denies it all. After a specific identification it occurs that it was no one else but Ratchet. Clank leaves the ship to go look for clues inside the museum. He manages to find a clue that leads to Asyanica, to Number Woo. Clank got his background information from the agency, and went to look for the dragon-and-ninja-like gangster. He landed in the the city under Woo's command, but as soon as he stepped out of his ship, he went unconscious due to a water bucket waiting him to fall in. He woke up in front of Number Woo and a few of his servants. Once the villains left Clank alone, he contacted to three of agency's well-trained Gadgebots, which managed to rescue Clank. Clank runs after Number Woo, and after several ambushes and defeated ninjas he finds Woo and corners him. He tells Clank that he had the Eye, but gave it to a rich countess, Ivana Lottabolts who lives on a former-comet planet, Glaciara. Clank lands on Glaciara and enters the palace of the music-loving countess. She seems to know exactly who Clank is. The countess asks him to dance with her on a dancefloor full of traps, in order to get information of the whereabouts of the Eye. Clank manages to dance masterfully and to avoid the traps, making the countess to get herself burned etc. Ivana tells Clank everything he needs to know, and he drops her on the floor. He escapes, but the countess sends the guards after him. Still, Agent Clank was too fast for them.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The series first next gen installment begins with Clank at Ratchets side helping him with a new high speed vehichle on Planet Kerwan. Captain Qwark then contacts the duo and tells them about heavily armed robotic commandos attacking Planetary Defense Center. At the Defense Center, attacking Drophyd walker's sensors identify Ratchet as a lombax and Clank as a toaster. After being taken on the high-jacked Emperor Tachyon's ship to the Polaris System, Clank meets race of interdimentional aliens, called the Zoni, that only he can see. Ratchet discounts Clanks mentioning of invisible aliens only he can see as Clank, becoming broken in the crash landing on Cobalia. And suggests that Clank should see Big Al after this adventure is over. Throughout their travels in the Polaris Galaxy, the Zoni grant Clank with more devices to help Ratchet with on his quest, the Geo Laser and Robo Wings. When Clank is sent off to venture without Ratchet in smaller places the Zoni also show up to help his similar to that of the GadgeBots from past games. Clank also gains the abilty to slow time and can command the Zoni to Manipulate their surroundings to help Clank progress, Levitate Clank to glide across gaps, to Energize machinery (causes the energizing Zoni to disappear), and to Follow him. The main difference between past games is that the Zoni automatically attack enemies with very powerful blasts of energy. At the end of every alone outing the Zoni give Clank a vision of the future. It is strange that anytime Clank meets with the Zoni they refer to him as "Sire". After Ratchet has defeated Emperor Tachyon and destroyed the Dimensionator the Zoni appear again, - and this time they are visible to everyone - and putting Clank into a trance and take him away telling him that he has an important purpose which is probably a trap as he was taken to Dr Nefarious as seen at the end of Quest for Booty.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
Clank makes only two appearances in this game, with first one at the time when Ratchet was washed up on the beach and clank appeared and asked him if he was alright but then disappeared. The second time was in a dark room with the Zoni when he is saying wierd things things, the Zoni then said the Doctor would fix him and tht he was the "Chose one". Shortly after that a Dr. Nefarious steps into the room and then falls down the stairs.

Personality
Clank often acted as Ratchet's choragos, acting as the voice of reason against Ratchet's brash personality. He was quite knowledgable in a variety of subjects, which he never hesitated to show.

Appearance
Clank was diminutive in size 2'2" and 17 lbs according to an Insomniac personal. He had green "eyes" and is made entirely out of metal.

Girlfriends
First in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Clank had a Girlfriend which helped him and Ratchet escape through Aranos. Ratchet teases Clank. She gets badly injured by Qwark but is fixed by Ratchet. Clank gets another girlfriend, Venus, in Ratchet: Deadlocked. She helps Ratchet and Clank to save the captured heroes.

Powers and Abilities
Clank was a standard model 7.66 robot and ran on XP18 sisterboards. He was fitted with the Heli-Pack, Thruster-Pack, and Hydro-Pack upgrades. He seemed to have some sort of device for shrinking devices in his torso. He got an ability to transform into Giant Clank using an Ultra-Mech launch pad. He was upgraded with a weapon called the Clank Zapper which allowed him to damage enemies from his place on Ratchet's back. Shady Salesman Billy sold Ratchet the Levitator, a device which enabled Clank to fly using boost pads. The Zoni gave Clank the Robo-Wings, an ability to slow down time and the Geo-Laser.

Clank's Soul and the Zoni
In Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Clank is visited by the Zoni and they reveal that he has a soul. The Zoni are mystical, ghost-like robots that only he can see. Once the Zoni reveal that he has a soul they begin to give him special abilities.

Zoni Commands
This is a list of commands that Clank can order to the Zoni:


 * Follow
 * Manipulate
 * Levitate
 * Charge

Behind the Scenes

 * Clank is voiced by a man named David Kaye, who also voices a character named Blondie and Megatron.
 * Clank seems to have had a love romance with a local robot in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, however she is nowhere to be seen in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Perhaps it wasn't meant to be.
 * Clank's sprockets are told by him to be responsible for laughing (especially when being teleported).
 * Clank made only two very small appearances in Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest For Booty even though his name was in the title.
 * Clank is refered to as the "Chosen one" by the Zoni, this is possibly a cameo reference to Star Wars where Anakin Skywalker is thought to be the chosen one.

Appears in

 * Ratchet & Clank
 * Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
 * Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked (Supporting Role)
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
 * Secret Agent Clank
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (Cutscenes only)