Clank

Clank was a small robot, progammed with artificial intelligence, and Ratchet's long-time companion and friend. He was 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. 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 had even told him that he would sell Clank for scrap metal afterwards, also offering him for spare parts to a man with a drill. 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. Clank also will appear in a new game in 2009 called: Secret Agent Clank: Revenge of the Evil Turkey! In the Game Clank uses over 60 weapons and gadgets including Slingshot (similar to the swingshot and hyper shot but made for clank) It Even Includes a R.Y.N.O but this time it stand for (WHY DID THEY CHANGE IT) Really.Yuk.Nasty.Oblivion This Ryno is like the Plasma coil, Zodiac, and bouncer morphed together it shock the enemie and then breaks up into mini shock waves. In This Game Clank is the size of Rachet (He's Not in Giant Clank Size)   REMEBER GAME 2009 : Secret Agent Clank: Revenge of the Evil Turkey    (European name: Secret Agent Clank:Just deserts)

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 themselves, Ratchet and Clank 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
Clank'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, showing himself to be guilt ridden about being captured in the first place. 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
At several points in the game, Clank took on the main role and fought his own battles, expanding his personality. These were known as Clank Challenges, and happend on Metalis and Dayni Moon. They were similar to the Arena challenges Ratchet encountered in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal except that they're played with Clank. He also took over the job of leading Gadgebots. At one point in the game, after the duo found out that their so-called ally was part of the Technomites (verifying Clank's ongoing suspicions), Ratchet ended up getting kidnapped, and it was up to Clank to rescue him. Then, later on in the game, after defeating Luna, Clank tried to get the clone factory coordinates from Luna's head. However, he was attacked by some technomites and Ratchet was forced to go inside Clank using his shrink ray. Clank took his part of the action while fighting against Emperor Otto Destruct too, the first battle with him was 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 dancing floor 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. Later on Rionosis Clank manages to follow the Kingpin. Later Clank tried to knock out the Kingpin but got blocked by the Jack of all Trades. Up at the gondola station Jack confronted him again but soon, he was no more a threat. Clank finds a playing card, an ace of spades, which leads him to his next location: the High-Rollers Casino, showing that Jack is not the only one with an ace up his sleeve. At the casino he enters by disguising himself by asking one of the workers to sign for the display case for the box the Eye was in. The guy commented on the delivery's size and giving Clank an idea. He pretends that he got hurt by the guard's words and makes him sign the delivery. Once inside the casino he is able to use his Holo-Monocle to disguise himself by taking pictures of random guards and kitchen staff workers and sneak through the casino as the guards are hunting for him and follows one of the workers since he is carrying the Eye in a crate to the High-Stakes Room. As soon as he gets there he contacts Ratchet through Slim Cognito (who was also in prison) telling him to find someone with the room's access code. Slim happens to know the code, but insists Ratchet to protect him for it. After Clank gets the password he disguises himself as a cowboy and gets into the room. There he meets a mysterious lady robot. Clank said he will put the deed to his ranching planet for "whatever" she has in the crate that was just brought there. After a long and dangerous game of poker he finds out the Eye has been taken to Venantonio "where it will be reunited with its rightful owner". Once on Venantonio Clank searches the secret labs full of Amoeboids and finds the Blowtorch Briefcase. As moving along, he rescues a scientist from the Kingpin. At the end of the canal the scientist thanks him for the rescue and warps out of there. His next clue leads him to the Bolt Foundry on Fort Sprocket. After exploring the foundry he is locked in a room by one of the bad guys and his trusty Gadgebots have to free him out. After getting out he tell his contact that they made it look like he broke into the foundry which was probably really Klunk. His next destination a space ship grave yard in outer space. At the grave yard in space Clank finds out the is behind the eye's theft it is Dr Nefarious's robot invention Klunk who steals his ship forcing Clank to transform into giant Clank and fly through The Quaser Fields of space fighting enemy ships. he then arrives on the half ocean, half desert planet of Hydrano where he chases and nails he same guy who locked him in the room on Sprocket and demands to know where Klunk is. The guy then tells him he's got an under water lair on the planet. He amused by Clank's ship making him think he's working on the wrong side. Clank infiltrates Klunk's lair where he confronts Klunk who reveals the plan, a laser using the eye of infinity as a refractor is poised at the edge of the galaxy ready to blow up every planet with a single shot, everyone thinks ratchet is responsible for it, He will quickly destroy Clank which he thinks shouldn't be to hard since he thinks Clank fights like little girl, he will then broadcast his dismantling of the satelite disguised as him, every one will think he the hero while Ratchet will stay in jail forever, after that he fights Klunk and half way through the battle he activates the laser count down breaking the remote and says he will be victorious either way because only he knows how to disarm it. After Clank defeats Klunk he goes to the laser to put a stop to it. After disarming it with a code Captain Qwark walk in with his under wear on startled to that Clank was there and gets warped into the satelite Clank tells him to take the eye out of the laser and he does just in time. After that Qwark pretends the eye got blown up but he doesn't fool him, he then return the eye to the museum and frees Ratchet once and for all. Back at the apartment Klunk becomes a vacuum cleaner making Clank say it sucks to be him making Ratchet laugh.

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 blubbering weirdly; the Zoni then said "the doctor" would fix him. Shortly after that a Dr. Nefarious steps into the room and then falls down the stairs ending the game.

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 was visited by the Zoni and they revealed that he had a soul. The Zoni were mystical, ghost-like robots which could decide who could see them. Once the Zoni revealed that Clank had a soul they began to give him special abilities. They are the ones that kidnapped Clank in Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet searches for him in Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty.

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.
 * Clank's sprockets are told by him to be responsible for laughing (especially when being teleported).
 * Clank made only two very small appearances in Quest For Booty even though his name was in the title.

Trivia
A character from Invader Zim ressembles Clank in several episodes.

Appears in

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