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The series' logo.

Secret Agent Clank is a holovision series featured in Up Your Arsenal, Deadlocked, Going Mobile, and the game Secret Agent Clank. The show is a spy thriller starring Clank as Agent Clank, an operative for the secret Agency, and typically pits him against the crime boss named Maxmillian, his archnemesis. It has also cast many other characters in various roles, including Ratchet as Secret Agent Clank's bumbling chauffeur Jeeves, Skrunch as Clank's ally, and Courtney Gears as the baroness. It aired throughout the Solana and Bogon galaxies. The series is a spoof of James Bond.

Find Nefarious' Office cutscene 3

Ratchet looks through Nefarious' Secret Agent Clank collection.

The series began airing sometime prior to the events of Up Your Arsenal. Many characters, including President Phyronix and Dr. Nefarious, were fans of the show. In order to find more information from Courtney Gears, Clank filmed an episode starring her as a favor. After Dr. Nefarious was defeated, a Secret Agent Clank movie then premiered.

The series was the main setting of both Going Mobile and the game Secret Agent Clank. Going Mobile takes place within a Secret Agent Clank vid-comic, while the events of the game Secret Agent Clank is actually an episode of the show, but starring Ratchet and Captain Qwark as themselves, and pitting Klunk as the main villain instead of Maxmillian.[a]

History[]

Before Up Your Arsenal[]

The first episode of Secret Agent Clank filmed sometime prior to the events of Up Your Arsenal. In it, Clank defeated the mind-stealing snotbeasts that hailed from Dimension X. Dr. Nefarious followed the series since this episode, and believed it was real.[3] President Phyronix was also a huge fan of the show, and acted as a crazed autograph hound.[4][5]

A large number of episodes aired since, amounting to a collection of holo-vids.[6]

Up Your Arsenal[]

Intro Movie 2

An episode of Secret Agent Clank.

Ratchet and Clank watched an episode of Secret Agent Clank in their apartment in Endako. The episode took place in the Maktar Casino. In it, Secret Agent Clank, with a posse of hotbots, beat Maxmillian in a gambling match. Maxmillian then identified him as Agent Clank, and dispatched two ninja bots to fight him. Agent Clank grabbed a plate tossed to him by one of the hotbots, deflected the ninja bots' on weapons into them, and then tossed it to hit the chandelier just above Maxmillian. This caused the chandelier to fall and electrocute him. After this, Agent Clank, with a hotbot in tow, returned to Jeeves, reminding him to this time mind the ejector seat.[7]

Film a Secret Agent Clank Episode cutscene 1

The Director fires Ratchet.

Before traveling to Aquatos for "Infiltrate the underwater hideout", the director called Clank while traveling in the Star Explorer, expressing frustration that Clank had been absent from filming. When Clank tried to explain his absence, the director simply offered a bigger trailer and a daily oil massage to convince him to return, though Ratchet simply ended the transmission.[8] Later, after meeting Courtney Gears at the Annihilation Nation a second time, Clank agreed to star her in an episode. This led to "Film a Secret Agent Clank Episode", in which Clank filmed an episode titled "Maxmillian Strikes Back", starring Courtney Gears as a character known as the baroness. Ratchet was to appear in the episode, but he was fired after accidentally hitting the ejector seat, and replaced with Skrunch, Clank's sidekick.[3]

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Clank defeats the Terror of Talos.

In "Maxmillian Strikes Back", Clank defeated Maxmillian's mini-ninja henchmen then chased Maxmillian out of a bar and through rush-hour traffic. After this, Clank had to put aside his differences with Skrunch to work together with a group of gadgebots to chase Maxmillian over several rooftops. Following this, Clank transformed into Giant Clank to defeat the Terror of Talos and some giant ninjas around a cityscape, and rescue the baroness. The director was extremely pleased with the episode, believing that it would be "box office raritanium" that even the critics would love.[3]

Agent Clank's Next Mission 3

Maxmillian in an Attack-Copter.

After defeating Dr. Nefarious, the Secret Agent Clank movie premiered. In this movie, Clank used a hoverboard to glide across the slope on the side of a snowy mountain, while fleeing ninja bots also using hoverboards. The two ninja bots attempted to ambush Clank, though Clank jumped over one of them to cause them to knock the other, while allowing the other to be torn apart with a Y.E.T.I.. After this, he reached the end of the slope to find Maxmillian in an Attack-Copter. He fired the BGAMD at Maxmillian, who caught the banana from the weapon and continued to gloat, only for Skrunch to lunge towards Maxmillian's Attack-Copter, causing it to crash.

The movie was watched by many of Ratchet and Clank's allies.

Going Mobile[]

Going Mobile is non-canon.
As Going Mobile was never installed as part of the main series, its events are considered non-canon. Please see Project:Bulletin board/Canon for the wiki's coverage of canon.
Going Mobile cutscene 6

Meeting Maximillian.

The events of Going Mobile took place within a Secret Agent Clank vid-comic, in which Ratchet and Clank were transported into a vid-comic on the phone you are holding in your hand[9]). This happened through an accidentally triggered bio matter converter device, and they had to make their way back out to the real world. With help from Al they managed to build a device to restore them to normality, but ran into Maximillian who was trying to use it for the same purpose to escape the vid-comic, until they managed to stop him.

Deadlocked[]

Prior to the events of Deadlocked, a Secret Agent Clank film titled Androids Are Forever was postponed, due to Clank's mission on board the Starship Phoenix.[10]

Secret Agent Clank remained a popular series while Clank was held captive. During market research to sell Ace Hardlight merchandise, Vox Industries brought in several children to test Ace Hardlight merchandise against other products. Subject 135 expressed interest in a Secret Agent Clank bobble head, while utterly rejecting the Ace Hardlight action figure.[11]

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A scene from For Your Optical Sensors Only.

Following the events of Deadlocked, a film titled For Your Optical Sensors Only was filmed. The episode starred Clank and Venus.[12] Little is known about this episode.

Secret Agent Clank (game)[]

The events of the game Secret Agent Clank are an episode in the series, in which Ratchet plays himself rather than Jeeves.[a]

Ratchet, Up The River

The Warden visiting Ratchet in his cell.

In this entry, Ratchet was framed for a crime he didn't commit, stealing the Eye of Infinity, the galaxy's largest, most pristine gem in the known universe, from Boltaire Museum. The galaxy held Ratchet responsible and imprisoned him on the Prison Planet, while Clank was determined to free his name. His Agency operative Ms. Cute Anastasia Bot disagreed, but the two aligned on investigating the Eye's theft believing it to be part of a bigger plot.[13] In prison, Ratchet was taken to Ultra-High Security Lockdown, among other inmates whom he was responsible for putting there, and watched over by a warden who had been bribed to keep Ratchet's stay unpleasant.[14]

Qwark Tales Suck and Jive

Clank after finding the card.

After infiltrating the museum and finding a fortune cookie from Asyanica,[15] Clank traveled there, only for Number Woo to have laid an ambush for him and require the gadgebot mk.IIs to be called. When he caught up to Number Woo, Woo revealed that he had been told to take the Eye to Ivana Lottabolts on Glaciara,[16] where Clank engaged in a deadly dance with her and learned the Eye had been taken to a mysterious crime boss named the Kingpin Rionosis. Clank was unable to catch the Kingpin, but learned from taking down his henchman, the Jack of All Trades, that it had been taken to Le Paradis Des Tricheurs Casino. After playing a rigged card game for the Eye,[17] he found out that the Eye was taken back to the Kingpin on Venantonio.[18] Meanwhile, Captain Qwark, writing his autobiography, followed Clank around the galaxy, telling bogus to his autobiographer, Barney, taking credit for Clank's actions, while Barney reported to the Kingpin.[19]

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Klunk revealing himself to Clank.

At Venantonio, Clank saw a kidnapped scientist, who said he had been told to build a laser for the Kingpin to infiltrate the Bolt Foundry on Fort Sprocket.[20] Clank found the Bolt Foundry overtaken by doppelgangers, and when he tried to stop them, was locked in the vault, only for the gadgebots to break him out. After following the Kingpin to the spaceship graveyard, the Kingpin revealed himself to be Klunk using a suit, and stole Clank's ship, though Clank was able to transform to Giant Clank and follow Klunk to his lair on Hydrano.

Not Quite Win-Win

Klunk about to activate the laser control device.

In his lair, Klunk revealed he had used a mind control helmet to frame Ratchet for the Eye of Infinity's theft, and built a laser using the Eye of Infinity as a refractor to destroy every planet in the galaxy. With this in place, after defeating Clank and taking Clank's place, he could dismantle the laser, and frame himself as a hero.[21] Clank fought to stop him, and so Klunk revealed a backup plan: by activating a countdown on the laser, if Clank did defeat him, every planet would be destroyed anyway.[22] Clank defeated Klunk and, with the help of Qwark, stopped the laser. Ms. Cute Anastasia Bot then gave her debrief to President Phyronix: explaining the mind control device, she recommended a full pardon for Ratchet, and explained that Barney had been hired by Klunk to keep tabs on Clank through Qwark, knowing that Qwark would be trailing Clank for stories. Klunk was then released into Ratchet and Clank's custody and turned into a vacuum cleaner.[23]

Characteristics[]

Intro Movie 3

Maxmillian.

Secret Agent Clank is a spy thriller series that is a spoof of James Bond. It features the titular character, a womanizing spy, in many situations in which he overcomes odds simply by being lucky.[7][24] The series has cheesy dialogue, with Agent Clank having one-liners after defeating Maxmillian, and Maxmillian often giving monologues and gloating before getting the chance to strike Clank.[7][24]

Holostar Studios 2

Part of the fake city in Lot 43.

Many of the episodes take place within Maktar Casino, a location within the Maktar Resort. These are seen modeled as a movie set in Lot 42 and Lot 43 of Holostar Studios. The series has seen several other settings, including a cityscape also modeled in Holostar Studios, which features a variety of skyscrapers and buildings, as well its own army with tanks and Attack-Copters. Many other locations are visited in the game Secret Agent Clank.

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Agent Clank, a hotbot, and Jeeves.

The cast mainly includes the titular character, a spy who works for the Agency, and his nemesis Maxmillian, a crime boss with ninja henchmen. Ratchet also played Jeeves, Clank's bumbling chauffeur, but was fired after repeatedly pressing the ejector seat during filming,[7][3] and replaced with Skrunch (which the former was all too happy to accept, as he found his role to be demeaning). Several hotbots also form Clank's entourage, and the series featured Courtney Gears as a guest star playing the baroness in "Maxmillian Strikes Back".[3] The entry serues in the game Secret Agent Clank showed a wider cast of characters, including Ms. Cute Anastasia Bot as leader of the Agency, Clank's gadgebot mk.II allies, Ratchet as himself rather than Jeeves, and another series of villains including Klunk.

Behind the scenes[]

Mike Stout, who designed the Clank gameplay for Up Your Arsenal, was required to use elements from Secret Agent Clank when designing the segments. [25] Stout considered the Holostar Studios Clank segment to be his best, as the story of filming the movie made it interesting, and allowed him to get away with giving the level cheesier mechanics that were hard to explain in story otherwise.[26]

Notes[]

Annotations[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 A PlayStation Blog accompanying the release of Secret Agent Clank suggested that the fictional Secret Agent Clank in-universe holovision series was in fact a cover for Clank's double-life as a real secret agent for a real Agency in the Solana Galaxy.[1] However, Insomniac Games stated that the events of Secret Agent Clank were another episode of in-universe fictional series.[2]

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