History Headscratchers / RatchetAndClank

* Regarding Orvus's creation of Clank... granted, Orvus being responsible for his creation is an obvious RetCon, but going along with it and assuming that he caused the computer in the Blarg robot factory (Clank's "mother") to make him the way he was rather than just make another soldier robot... why did he go about it in such a manner? Did he ever state any reason for having Clank made in a factory in another galaxy rather than just make him at his home and keep him at his side in the Great Clock? The closest we ever get to an explanation is his line to Nefarious that Clank was safe, far from him, which implies he wanted his heir to be far away and presumably only know his heritage in case Orvus himself needed to step down, but if that's the case... why make Clank in a Blargian soldier factory? Looking at the intro to the first game, Clank is literally just a few seconds old when the other soldiers recognize him as an anomaly and try to destroy him. So why, just ''why'' did Orvus make Clank in such a contrived manner that put him into such blatant jeopardy, if the whole purpose was having an heir far away from potential threats?

* According to Darkwater's log in Quest for Booty, the leader of the Zoni gave him the Fulcrum Star so he could contact them again. Darkwater was the original captain of the SpacePirates, who were designed by Tachyon to forage for ore so he could build his army. ''Why'' would Orvus trust him with a Fulcrum Star?

** Considering that Gadgetron also made a ''Black Hole Gun'', robot suicide drones and whatever else, the {{Mega Corp}}s of RatchetAndClank are basically [[ResidentEvil Umbrella]] played for laughs.

** Orvus didn't create Sigmund, he recruited him.

* Why does Orvus treat Clank like he's Orvus' only son, Sigmund was born the exact same way? What kind of asshole father is he?

** If you got to All 4 One's final cutscene after the credits rolled, Lawrence mentions one of those weapons systems and that they have to go pick it up from somewhere. Odds are the butler got his boss functional but not entirely battle-ready in the time between games.

* [[{{BagOfSpilling}} Whatever happened to the abilities Nefarious had]] in the [[spoiler:second-to-]]final battle in A Crack in Time? Surely those would have come in handy in All 4 One, especially in the [[{{ThatOneLevel}} Polar Sea.]]

** Maybe he's just got a synthetic skin on top of the parts. Did we ever see Al as a cyborg later than Deadlocked? (Sorry, it's been awhile since I played through the entire series.) It's doubtful that he would have been able to get anything but the bare minimum on [=DreadZone=] so maybe it just took time to get the cosmetic stuff done. The comic takes place after the Future trilogy, after all, so that's plenty of time to adjust to the parts and work around the problems they present.

*** I think it's also do do with causality. The original version of events on Zanifar and Gimlick Valley had nothing to do with Ratchet, so changing them had no effect on him or the events that resulted in him being there. Changing the fate of the Lombaxes would have a huge personal effect, and create a paradox (Lombaxes are safe, so Ratchet wouldn't try to save them) unless they could create some sort of StableTimeLoop. On the other hand, he could still probably go back and find out what really happened, so long as he didn't try to meddle with events.

** He probably lived with foster parents or in an orphanage. The latter seems more likely since he was seen living on his own in the original game. In his cameo in Jak X, he's 18, so if we treat that to mean that he was 18 in Deadlocked-- the closest title to X-- then he probably would've been around 15 in the first game. Still pretty young to be on one's own, but you never know what age means what in the [[CrapsackWorld R&C universe]].

** Yes.

* Near the end of Deadlocked, Big Al was fitted with cyborg-like parts since his body was damaged beyond repair, and it seemed like they would be a permanent thing. But when he shows up in hologram form in the comic series (not sure if it's issue 5 or 6), he looks normal. As in, before he was given the cyborg parts. What happened?

** FridgeLogic, best not to overthink it.

* It's probably pretty dumb to be vexed by this, but I just have to say it. I can understand destroying things like crates and generators and the like, and getting bolts in return... but some of the destructible items have no business housing the stuff. The ice crystals on IRIS were pushing it, but ''mushrooms''? That was in [=ACiT's=] Valkyrie Citadel, too, where it wouldn't have been too strange to see some type of machinery or something...

** Perhaps Ratchet fended for himself on Veldin, or he was adopted until he grew up and started his own garage.

* I'm rather curious as to who took care of Ratchet after the Lombax/Tachyon war. Before ''A Crack in Time'', anyone would have figured his father had looked after him. But now that we know Kaden was one of Tachyon's last victims, it begs the question of who raised Ratchet all these years. I can only guess that maybe that question will be answered in the next (final?) trilogy.

* I know it can be chalked up to release order, but the fact that Ratchet's character seems to reset for Size Matters after Deadlocked (which is probably where [[NotSoDifferent a lot of it came from]]) drives me up the wall-- particularly since it's just that one game, and he's back to normal again, once Tools of Destruction starts up. Maybe it's intentional, since he was acting pretty much the same as the first game, and there were an awful lot of throwbacks to it, but that doesn't really change much.

* Why does Gadgetron continue to develop new RYNOs if every one since the first is considered illegal and banned in several galaxies?

* The newly announced All4One game looks like it won't carry on from the story set up by the SequelHook at the end of ACIT. This just looks like it will be a side story.

** That's because the hypershot functioned as both a swingshot and a dynamo. After ''Up Your Arsenal'', it only functioned as a swingshot, which is probably why they called it a swingshot instead of a hypershot, despite the appearance. Maybe the swingshot just upgraded its image or something-- the omniwrench changes from game to game, too, without anyone commenting on it, so it may be something like that.