Nefarious

Dr. Nefarious is the main antagonist in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. He is a robotic mad scientist who hates "squishies" (organic lifeforms), despite formerly being one himself.

Overview
"Soon, all robots will bask in the liberty and equality of my benevolent, iron-fisted rule! And, as for you filthy organic life forms, you can look forward to being disintegrated!"

- Nefarious on Supervillain Weekly

In high school, Dr. Nefarious had been constantly bullied and humiliated at the hands of Captain Qwark, who was 26 years old at the time. Later, Nefarious launched an amoeboid invasion on Blackwater City. Captain Qwark eventually caught Nefarious and badly injured him, causing the latter to become a cyborg. Dr. Nefarious has sought revenge against his hated enemy ever since, and also acquired his hatred for organic lifeforms.

Some time later, Dr. Nefarious attacked Metropolis with a massive hoard of Robotic Bugs that consumed various forms of matter. However, Qwark once again defeated him. However, Nefarious captured Qwark after Lawrence saved him, and they imprisoned him at a secret facility. Qwark managed to escape to his hideout on the Thrann Asteroid, where he hid until Nefarious allegedly disappeared. He was secretly making plans for his next attack.

In the events of Up Your Arsenal, tagging with Courtney Gears (who seems to be in love with him) and tended to by his servant Lawrence, Nefarious hatches a plan to turn all organic life into robots using the Bio-Bliterator, to convert everyone under his "benevolent, iron-fisted rule." He even tried to turn Clank over to his side, as he was a fanatic of the Secret Agent Clank series and believed them to be real. He even rejected Clank's assurance that the series was just an act. When Clank refused to join, Nefarious created Klunk, a sadistic look-alike who made things difficult for Ratchet. Eventually, however, Ratchet and Clank are able to defeat the mad scientist by destroying the 2nd Bio-Bliterator, which was a pilotable mech, causing Nefarious and Lawrence to end up stuck on an asteroid. In Deadlocked, the duo make a cameo appearance after the destruction of DreadZone Station, where they had hoped to land.

Nefarious is mentioned in Tools of Destruction when in the Arena of Planet Mukow. Captain Qwark can be heard over the loud speaker saying: "Will a 'Dr. Nefarious' please report to the concession stand, we recovered your wallet."

At the end of Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, in the Zoni dimension, Dr. Nefarious appears in the room where clank is being held captive. The Zoni refer to him as "The Doctor".

Overload
Dr. Nefarious often has the strange habit of overloading in times of extreme stress, causing him to freeze up and pick up random signals of a soap opera in his head. He freezes 3 times in the game. Each time getting whacked in the head by either Lawrence or Courtney Gears. According to Lawrence, whacking Dr. Nefarious is "the best part of his day."

Galactic Idol
Dr. Nefarious entered Galactic Idol with a song titled Crushin' on Squishies. He was eliminated on the first round and the single sold one copy which was used to torture prisoners on Ebaro.

Trivia
he is also mentiod by computer voice on viceron as he vas put there in prison
 * Armin Shimerman, voice of Nefarious, played a character named Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
 * Nefarious appears in the Dreamtime level as a memory in Size Matters.
 * Nefarious makes a brief but hilarious cameo in Deadlocked at the end. See "You make me feel like a young boy again!" below
 * He appears on some of the monitors in the IRIS supercomputer.
 * At the imperial fight festival, Captain Qwark puts over the PA Systen, "Would a Dr Nefarious report to the office, we have recovered your wallet.
 * Dr. Nefarious may end up being the main villan in the next "Ratchet & Clank Future" game.

External Movies

 * Nefarious on Supervillain Weekly
 * Nefarious' fate
 * You make me feel like a young boy again!

Appearances

 * Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
 * Ratchet: Deadlocked (Cameo)
 * Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (Cameo)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Mentioned only)
 * Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (Cameo)