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1* In ''A Crack in Time'', Ratchet won't let Azimuth use the Great Clock to alter history and prevent Tachyon from destroying the Lombaxes because it could potentially destroy the universe and because it wasn't meant to alter time, only keep it. But Ratchet and Clank ''do'' use the Great Clock to travel in time on multiple occasions and even alter history significantly by helping the Fongoids win the battle of Gimlick Valley, with no negative side effects. So why couldn't they allow Azimuth to do the same to help the Lombaxes?
2** I think it's got more to do with using the Great Clock in such a way - as said repeatedly by Orvus, the Great Clock isn't a time machine, it's simply the universe's internal clock. Azimuth wanted to reverse time for the entire universe by at least 20 years - considering that the Great Clock exists to hold the fabric of space/time together, this would be cataclysmic for the universe. When Ratchet and Clank went back in time to the Battle of Gimlick Valley, they were not using the Great Clock, or reversing time - they traveled through cracks in space/time to reach the past/future. The only time that the Great Clock is used by anyone is when Clank goes back to save Ratchet's life - but that was only by a few minutes, and he did it based on the Plumber's hint, so no harm was done.
3** This doesn't change the fact that they had an efficient and apparently safe way of traveling through time and alter history with no ill consequences. Why didn't they tell Azimuth he could use that? I know it could be argued that they just decided they didn't want to mess with the timeline, but when they went to the battle of Gimlick Valley, they did it purely out of convenience, because they needed a new space ship. Also, there is no indication that Ratchet and Clank forget about having fought in the battle, so presumably they wouldn't have forgotten about meeting each other like Azimuth suggested.
4** This bugged me too, though I have some theories. 1) It was all about a matter of scale. At Zanifar Ratchet only interacted with a few people and destroyed a few robots, and failed to do anything noteworthy. Gimlick Valley was a bit larger, but as only one conflict wouldn't effect more than a few thousand people. Azimuth stopping Tachyon would have affected millions of Lombaxes and the entire Polaris Galaxy, not to mention being a shift of twenty years as opposed to just two. 2) The other explanation is that those portals were a one time thing, only able to be created due to the already existing damage of the Great Clock.
5*** Lemme sum it up: the first time-travel in Zanifar was just to find Orvus and stop Nefarious [[spoiler:and failing.]] The second portal on Gimlick Valley was an excuse to find a ship to get back to the Nefarious Space Station before he could leave for the Great Clock.
6*** I think it's also to 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.
7** I don't think it's a matter of scale. For Gimlick Valley, 10-years is not a short time and there could be more than hundreds of casualties including civilians; they are not small numbers. Considering that the Great Clock's time-slipping ability is for 6 minutes maximum, the Clock could be damaged by turning time back for even more than few hours or days. Changing the past of Gimlick Valley could damage the Clock with similar scale of saving the Lombaxes back. I think it's just a [[PlotHole plot hole]], in my personal opinion.
8*** I think that the battle of Gemlick Valley was done out of desperation, since at that point Lawrence could get back and deliver Nefarious to the Great Clock at any moment, where he'd then proceed to willingly and deliberately cause hundreds of time paradoxes until the universe ultimately suffers cataclysmic events, so at that point risking the same once in a single battle is their only option.
9* Why was Clank a real secret agent in the ''Secret Agent Clank'' game? In the rest of the series he's only an actor who plays a secret agent but in that game he becomes one for real and no explanation is given at all. Before the game was released, I always assumed it would take place in the continuity of the in-universe [[ShowWithinAShow Secret Agent Clank holo-films ]], but the game has some clear [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] to the other games and Ratchet doesn't seem to be playing Clank's chauffeur.
10** Firstly, Ratchet was FIRED from his role as the chauffeur and replaced by Skrunch, remember? Second...more of a "what if" game maybe?
11** It could still take place in the holo-films. If the "writers" of the ShowWithinAShow based it on "real" events and characters, then its perfectly plausible for them to reference past events. (Keep in mind that I haven't played the game though.)
12** The game mentions the events of ''Size Matters'', however, making the ShowWithinAShow theory more difficult. Both games, however, are in an AlternateContinuity.
13* On the matter of time travel...why did Ratchet just simply hesitate and witness Orvus's death instead of intervening and rescuing the poor dope, like he was told to do?
14** CutsceneIncompetence. Of course, Ratchet didn't know Orvus would suddenly disintegrate. I think the implication was that Orvus committed suicide to prevent Nefarious from finding out about Clank.
15** Per word of [[WordOfGod TJ Fixman]], [[spoiler:Orvus isn't dead. He simply vanished to ensure Nefarious couldnt exploit his knowledge.]]
16* In the first game, your trek on Oltanis makes a big deal of the fact that Clank can't step outside the ship lest he risk getting struck by lightning. Thing is, we clearly see Gorda City is ''loaded'' with killer robots and machinery that aren't affected by the weather at all. And Clank wasn't even seriously harmed by the lightning, just momentarily stunned. Was Ratchet just jumping to conclusions by assuming Clank was in danger of being an inherent lightning rod?
17** Ratchet was only trying to protect him. The fact that Clank is small and yet was easily struck by a bolt of lightning shows that he is vulnerable. The killer robots and machinery are much larger and stronger and have probably got used to the constant lightning affecting the city, whereas Clank is an outsider, and could have easily been struck by a worse bolt of lightning and suffered far worse damage as a result.
18** Another possibility is that the other robots and machines in Gorda are heavily lightning-proofed, while Clank... isn't. Ratcher may simply have concluded that letting Clank get repeatedly struck by lightning (which seems to have a similar effect as getting smacked in the head by a blunt object) might not be the best idea.
19* In the first two games, we see the Blarg and Thugs-4-Less using helicopters in a setting where spaceships--and thus propolsion and hover technology--are as common as cars. The first game at least had the excuse of the crude nature of its tech (although the Blarg having access to flying saucers does make you wonder why theyd really need helicopters), but the sequel--which clearly shows the Thugs having access to hovercraft technology like the Attack Ships on Notak and the Hovertanks on Snivelak--has even less of an excuse. And then theres the precense of Hoverships in the next two games. So why would the Blarg and Thugs even bother using a form of flight thats completely superannuated by common technology around them?
20** It could be that hovercraft and star-fighters simply replaced fixed wing aircraft and VTOLs, not helicopters. Helicopter blades are still utilized throughout the series for gadgets like the helipack and various drones, meaning that Thugs-4-Less and the Blarg used them out of ease of cost and convenience.
21* In Ratchet and Clank 3, Ratchet receives the hypershot - a combination of the swingshot and dynamo from Ratchet and Clank 2, and instead of shooting out a rope, the device shot out a tether of green energy. From Ratchet: Deadlocked onwards, it's referred to as a swingshot but retains the look of the hypershot.
22** 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 Gadgetron 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.
23** Gadgetron probably wants to keep the Swingshot fresh; like we make cars sleeker and better looking, Gadgetron upgrades the Swingshot so it still looks cool and functions well.
24* A nitpicky [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic]] issue - After the Lombaxes left, Fastoon was only populated by Nanophytes scavenging for scraps of Lombax technology. And hello? What is Aphelion? Chopped liver?
25** It could have been that Aphelion was simply too tough a nut to crack. She is, after all, a space-worthy combat vessel, and the Nanophytes just couldn't take her apart, despite her plowed-into-the-ground status. Why they didn't collect her missing pieces that were just floating around I don't know.
26*** Because otherwise then you wouldn't be able to fix Aphelion, and Tachyon would catch up to you and blow your head off. End of story.
27*** Ah, sure you could. You'd just have to get them from the Nanophites instead of finding them randomly (which seems a bit more logical, actually).
28** The Nanophytes seem to have concentrated on Lombax cities for the most part. That's actually kind of logical, since the abandoned buildings would have held more intact technology than any crashed star fighters like ''Aphelion''.
29* Why does Gadgetron continue to develop new [=RYNOs=] if every one since the first is considered illegal and banned in several galaxies?
30** [[ForScience Guess]].
31** Considering that Gadgetron also made a ''Black Hole Gun'', robot suicide drones and whatever else, the {{Mega Corp}}s of Franchise/RatchetAndClank are basically somewhat-benign versions of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Umbrella Corp.]] played for laughs.
32* The newly announced ''All 4 One'' 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.
33** Insomniac openly stated that the ''Future'' games were ''just'' a trilogy. I'm assuming that you meant the whole "Until Ratchet has found his own family" thing, and it's annoying that they didn't close a couple of plot points from ''Tools of Destruction'' (Tachyon's "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", Max Apogee, etc.) but we were never promised any clarification. If you look at ACIT's ending as saying "They're still out there, looking for adventure and blowing stuff up!" then it seems a lot more promising...
34** My theory was that the developers TRIED to do a deep-story type game with many plotlines, but couldn't handle it and just wanted the two back together as soon as possible (and preferred Qwark over Talwyn, hence her absence in A Crack in Time). Yes, I was slightly disappointed too, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it (and nabbing that Platinum trophy, hehe).
35* In Tools of Destruction, the cinematic introducing the Dimensionator references the "dimension of the Zanifarian Death Weasels"...but we visited Zanifar in A Crack in Time...in the ''same galaxy''. Did the Fongoids mess time and space up so badly that their local fauna was sent to another dimension...?
36* The final cutscene of Tools of Destruction had Tachyon yelling various things at Ratchet, before dying. Among them was something to the effect of "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' purpose in this dimension! Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", and Ratchet references this later in the same cutscene, before the whole Zoni thing. In A Crack in Time, though, we meet Alister, who was the best friend of Ratchet's father. Of ''all'' the lombaxes we could have met, one would think ''he'd'' know something about the "name" situation, but it's never mentioned, and he seems to have no qualms with using the name we're familiar with. I understand that Ratchet's got his own name now, but it's a little confusing to think back on.
37** Maybe he just never got the chance to ask.
38** Or maybe Alister lost contact with Kaden before Ratchet was named.
39** Or maybe he just was lying.
40* In Tools of Destruction it's commented that if Emperor Tachyon had seen what the Cragmites were like, he wouldn't want to bring them back. He also had quite a bit of a LawfulEvil slant, to their literal AlwaysChaoticEvil. It really seemed to be setting up for an EvenEvilHasStandards moment, but it was never mentioned again.
41** Maybe he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumped Off The Slippery Slope]]?
42** It's possible that he only met the grunts, and had not yet gotten the chance to summon the real Big Bads of the Cragmite race. Creepy, crazy, semi mindless minions can be ignored, but who is to say that actual Cragmite leaders might have made Tachyon look like a saint compared to them?
43* The O2 mask. How does that thing work? There's no visible tank or anything to supply Ratchet with air and he's just fine when he goes out into space or underwater (polluted areas I can understand because of the filtering and all that). And the bottomless pits that exists on every planet ever in the Solana, Polaris and Bogon galaxy. Ratchet must've gotten his bravery from living on Veldin, which is a deathtrap. One can only wonder where the locals of Veldin went..
44** Adding on to the whole O2 mask thing, has anyone noticed that he only uses it in certain situations? In ACIT, he uses it on every moon he visits, but in Tools of Destruction, he runs around without it!
45*** I read on some site that the air in it is recycled indefinitely with special technology that ensures that it's always breathable. I'm very jealous that this series posses such an awesome gadget that would be very popular if it really existed.
46** The air tank is stored in the [[HyperspaceArsenal same place his weapons are]].
47* This sounds incredibly random... but Ratchet has no holes in his ears. They're just... flaps of fur on the side of his head.
48** [[SarcasmMode My good man, programmers are an extremely lazy bunch]]...
49** The holes are probably just covered by the fur.
50** [[BizarreAlienBiology Or else they're not really ears...]]
51*** Nah, they are ears. It's mentioned lots of times throughout the series. Don't forget that lombaxes are "animals"...
52* Regarding Chairmen Drek's new planet- it was completely finished by the end the game. That means he succeeded in tearing up huge chunks of planets, many of which were probably inhabited, and sending them spiraling out of orbit to their doom. Not only that, but Ratchet blows up the new Franken-Planet, eliminating any chance they might have had to repair the planets that the pieces originally belonged to. Even if the original planets weren't inhabited, now the Blarg have no place to call their new home anymore. Sure they attacked you, but if you look at it from their perspective, they were simply obeying orders from their leader (whom they probably had no idea was the one who actually wrecked their homeworld in the first place) to protect their new home.
53** And...this bugs you how?
54*** I think the first troper was commenting on the WhatTheHellHero aspect of the ending-- Drek had already destroyed a bunch of planets to form the new one for the Blarg, but there was nothing to be done about that. All Ratchet and Clank had to do was get rid of Drek and his plan to pollute the new planet would have been a bust, but they destroyed the planet instead, leaving the Blarg with no homeworld at all... and (presumably) nobody to lead them. Kind of makes you feel sorry for them...
55*** Really? I thought the Blargs went back to Orxon in Deadlocked.
56* Is that G-shaped gearish thing supposed to be an ampersand?
57** [[BluntYes Yes.]]
58* 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 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.
59** It's a spin-off that doesn't appear to be canon. It and it's sequel are mostly a poorly-written story with mostly call backs to the other games. If they wanted to bring back Ratchet's original personality, why not bring back his original voice actor...?
60*** It's not canon, as ''Into the Nexus'' confirms. And also, if we take a good look at the newspaper Clank was reading, it takes place after the third game, implying that the game takes place between [=UYA=] and ''Deadlocked''. But ''Secret Agent Clank'', it's official sequel, does not mention the events of ''Deadlocked'', either. So, it's an alternate continuity.
61*** Size Matters IS canon, as Insomniac Games bluntly said on their Twitter account, and Size Matters takes place after Deadlocked. Secret Agent Clank is an in universe holofilm, possibly a reboot of the Secret Agent Clank series (which is why we have things like Ratchet playing himself instead of Jeeves).
62* 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.
63** Perhaps Ratchet fended for himself on Veldin, or he was adopted until he grew up and started his own garage.
64** Possible, but then that would imply he was old enough to live on his own, which should logically then mean he would have had some memory of his family.
65** 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]].
66** It's explained in the 2016 [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 game]] and [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 movie]].
67*** Except that exists in it's own canon.
68** While we're on the topic of Ratchet being pretty much an orphan, how old was he before being sent away? Why didn't he learn Lombax before the in-universe Common/English?
69*** I always thought Ratchet was 14 in the first game. Well, I can say that Ratchet was no older than 2 when he was sent to Veldin. This makes sence, as very few people have memories from even the age of 3 (and if we remember the [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxter rival series]], the hero was barely 3 when he was sent to safety, but does remember "the light").
70* 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...
71** FridgeLogic, best not to overthink it.
72* 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?
73** 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.
74*** In Up Your Arsenal, Skid [=McMarx=] was turned into a robot by the Biobliterator and Al said he would find a way to change him back. If Al was able to do that, he probably did the same thing to himself after Deadlocked.
75* [[{{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.]]
76** 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.
77* 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?
78** Orvus didn't create Sigmund, he recruited him.
79* 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?
80** Zoni are shown to be a little naive, and prone to making somewhat stupid decisions. (Remember giving time travel to the Fongoids, and working with Nefarious?)
81* 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?
82** Well, it could be fate, as I see Orvus as a living {{God}}. He knew that Ratchet was a lombax (and the only one left in Solana), and he foreseen the plots of Chairman Drek, and [[spoiler:Qwark]], and Dr. Nefarious, and Gleeman Vox, being foiled by a lombax (well, he IS a Zoni, and it's possible that they can [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 see into the future]]). He wanted his heir to be with a lombax, so that's why he caused Clank to be created in Quartu. If you read the trivia in A Crack in Time, Orvus actually ''went'' to Quartu, around the time Clank was created.
83* In ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus Into the Nexus]]'', there's a museum detailing some locales from the series. But how did they get photos of the ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime Great Clock]]''? Last time I checked, it was the best kept secret in the galaxy!
84** One cam blame Dr. Nefarious for that. He's probably let the universe know of the clock from Axiom City.
85* In ''Into the Nexus'', after you [[spoiler:meet up with Neftin]] on Planet Thram, you get a call from Talwyn saying that the Thugs are attacking Meridian City. But... ''why'' are they attacking? Thugs-4-Less was working for Neftin, and at this point in the game, [[spoiler:he's done a HeelFaceTurn and started helping Ratchet]], so what are they doing in the city? [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse And how come no Thugs appear at all when you actually go there?]]
86** Maybe before Ratchet arrived, someone else made them a better offer. That was how they abandoned Angela for [[spoiler:Qwark]] in the second game.
87** Replaying, and [[SelfDeprecation I completely whiffed]]; that conversation was about Nethers and I forgot. [[VoodooShark However, this has now led me to the question of...]]
88* Where did the Thugs go in [=ItN=] after Silox? And before you say "well, Neftin rescued Vendra and released Mr. Eye so he probably took them off the payroll", when Ratchet and Clank go and steal the OG Dimensionator from the Meridian City museum, Neftin retrieves it from them by firing a Thug with a rope tied to him through a nearby window (so that they can slide it down the rope). [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter I totally would've been down to hang out with Thugs and fight off Nethers together, but they all just vanished.]]
89* In the first game, the servos in Clank's arm are broken at the end. One of the magazines in the Goodies Menu has Helpdesk Girl "showing off her servos" in it. So what are servos in the context of the game?
90** Well, the first case is plainly literal -- the servomotors in Clank's arm need repair.
91* Did the Zoni de-modify Aphelion in between ''All 4 One'' and ''Full Frontal Assault''? You may recall that in the intro to ''[=A4O=]'', Aphelion still has the blue paintjob and fancy patterns, but then the ship looks like it did in ''Tools of Destruction'' when you see it in ''FFA'' and ''Into the Nexus''. What happened there?
92* In Size Matters, Otto Destruct's plan is to record the fighting styles of Ratchet and steal his DNA in order to create an army of Ratchet Clones. He explains that he is going to use them to capture every intelligent lifeform in the galaxy and transfer their intelligence to himself. However, for some unknown reason, he tricks Qwark into believing that he is his father. Not only does this not help his plan, but it eventually leads to his downfall. In short, why did Otto Destruct want Qwark to believe he was his father?
93** I would suspect it is for either publicity, or having a dimwitted superhero be his bodyguard through manipulation. One must remember that when Qwark announced to Ratchet and Clank that he's an orphan (which is not true, since his mother is alive in UYA), [[TheMole the Luna puppet]] was present with them. It probably would've told Otto about Qwark's parents, and lead to his manipulation.
94* How exactly does Gaspar, a volcanic planet filled with oceans of lava, have ''life''? As far as we know, life can only exist if conditions are just right for liquid water to exist, and life needs water to survive. Gaspar is totally devoid of water and is really, really hot, so the presence of complex life like plants and animals that can live just mere ''inches'' from the lava is really baffling.
95** Gaspar doesn't have any animals. All the enemies present are just robots, and the only living beings there are temporarily staying for projects or to pick up a gadget. No idea about the plants, though. Maybe they aren't actually plants?
96* In the beginning of Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet and Clank manage to get all the way back to Solanna using something called the 'Gravimetric Warpdrive'. Obviously, it's just a one-off plot device to explain why they're in Solana again, but Clank explains that the GW was built using Blargian scrapmetal. Here's my question: Where did Ratchet get the Blargian scrapmetal in the Bogon galaxy when the Blarg are still all the way over in Solana?
97** Maybe the RYNO Salesman sold them to Ratchet? After all, the Levitator blueprints were in Blargian. Alternately, Ratchet might've started on the warpdrive before heading for Bogon, and finished it there. Remember that [=MegaCorp=] allowed him to bring some of his old gadgets (such as the swingshot and graveboots) into Bogon.
98* In Deadlocked, why does the Harbinger clearly have missiles in it if it's supposed to be a KillSat?
99* In the original game, who shot down Skidds ship and why? Hoverboard match fixing?
100* Why did the Zoni resort to abducting Clank to bring him to the Great Clock? And what did they do to him to make him say "Yes. Time to come with you?" And why couldn't Ratchet come along? Shame on you, Zoni, shame on you!
101* What's with Orvus' ambiguous fate? He just vanished to prevent Nefarious from exploiting his knowledge (as stated above), and we never hear of him again. Not even a hint of where he went, or how he pulled that off. That's a strangely inconclusive send-off, especially considering A Crack in Time was meant to be the last game in the series. Even more baffling, Ratchet doesn't mention this to Clank, and when he apologizes to him for failing to save Orvus, he acts as if he had died.
102* In the prologue to "Up Your Arsenal", Ratchet and Clank were playing some sort of chess in which the latter defeats the former since Blargian Snaggglebeasts are allergic to swamp flies but how is that possible since these two species are from two different Galaxies?
103* You would think people would be mad at Qwark after he sold out everybody to ally with Drek? Giving him in charge of the Q-Force to stop Nefarious seems kind of like a slap on the wrist?

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