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A list of the side characters in the Ratchet & Clank series.
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Ratchet & Clank (2002)
The Plumber
Plumbers don't just go jumping down pipes all willy-nilly! That'd be ridiculous!
English voice by: Neil Flynn (PS2 games and Secret Agent Clank), Jess Harnell (Future games onwards)
Japanese voice by: Katsuhisa Hōki
An eccentric waterworker with a tendency to pop up anywhere Ratchet and Clank go, no matter how improbable it seems.
- Almighty Janitor: He can fix anything and will go anywhere where such a job is available.
- Ascended Extra: Downplayed since he still only makes minor appearances. Originally only a minor character, he now utilizes Offscreen Teleportation, sees into the future, and is medium aware.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- The 3 3/4 centicubits hexagonal washer in Tools of Destruction.
- In A Crack In Time: "I wouldn't risk any more than six minutes."
- Characterization Marches On: He's fairly grumpy in the first game, being one of the many minor characters who demand money from Ratchet and Clank. In the following games, he's noticeably nicer to the duo and by the HD games it's rather jarring to remember that he demanded payment from the main characters when he's now a pretty affable, generous, and ultimately helpful character. His first appearance also revolved around him needing money to get off the planet but now he's capable of Offscreen Teleportation.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: He is obsessed with plumbing and is collecting sewer crystals to give his wife a necklace of them, said crystals being formed from something he says we're better off not knowing what it is.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His real name is never known.
- Fourth-Wall Observer:
- In "Future: Tools of Destruction".Plumber: Almost didn't recognize you in high-def!
- And also in the PS4 game: "See you in the next reboot!"
- In "Future: Tools of Destruction".
- Nice Guy: Is a friendly and helpful guy, always happy to give Ratchet and Clank cryptic but helpful advice.
- Phrase CatcherRatchet: Look, the plumber's back!
- Recurring Traveller: Takes this to extremes in A Crack in Time, where he appears inside Clank's subconscious.
- It goes even further in the reboot where he implies that he's not a reboot version of the Plumber, but is actually the same Plumber from the original games, meaning that he somehow traveled to an alternate universe just to keep showing up in the game.
- Sequel Hook: Done not-so-subtly in Going Commando.
- Spirit Advisor: In A Crack in Time, see above.
Big Al
English voice by: Chris Hatfield
Japanese voice by: Yasuhiro Takato
A mechanic and inventor who occasionally assists Ratchet and Clank in their adventures.
- Ambiguously Related: He and Bob, who both upgrade Clank over the course of the first game, are brothers. Another character who gives Clank an upgrade, Edwina, looks rather similar to them and appears with them in the final cutscene of Up Your Arsenal, but whether she's a relative of theirs or not isn't stated.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He really is very intelligent and skilled with computers and machines.
- Hollywood Cyborg: After being blasted by Ace in Deadlocked.
- Nice Guy: Occasionally obnoxious, but a helpful guy nonetheless.
- Not So Above It All: Even Al falls for one of DreadZone's slanders towards Ratchet, when they claim that he crashed a tanker into Aquatos and killed baby seals. Al responded to the horrific images by grabbing Ratchet and asking him "What did Little Coco ever do to you?".
- Robosexual: Implied. Al is shown to have feelings towards Helga (who likes him in return), and once told Merc and Green that he married Courtney Gears.
- Shared Family Quirks: His older yet shorter brother on Pokitaru, Bob, is also a mechanic and has a distinguising resemblance to Al in some ways.
- Techno Babble: An example so big, that Ratchet is unable to get through to him, requiring Clank to help, as he "speaks nerd".
Helga von Streissenburgen
English voice by: Mona Marshall
Japanese voice by: Kujira
Qwark's fitness trainer, known for her "sensual powers of seduction".
- Acrofatic: Despite being quite fat (for a robot), she's still apparently quite fit and can be seen doing jumping jacks effortlessly.
- Brawn Hilda: She's a robot built for service and for training.
- Informed Attribute: Both her reputation for being physically fit and her "sensual powers of seduction" — she's not only physically obese, but she's also got quite an unpleasant personality.
- Jerkass: Universally looks down on the heroes as pathetic weaklings, even though they've proven themselves heroes time and time again.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: However, Helga will comment on a few items Ratchet obtains with positive manner, and is shown to hold positive feelings towards Big Al and Qwark. Heck, when Qwark seemingly dies in Up Your Arsenal, shes completely heartbroken and sentimental about him.
- Ladies and Germs: Helga herself invokes this. When Qwark addresses the Q-Force as "ladies and gentlemen...", she glares angrily at him (and perks up again when he hastily name-checks her), implying that she considers herself neither.
- The Load: While every other member of Q-Force provides aid at some point, all Helga does is force you to run a tutorial to "earn" the gadgets she's supposed to just give you.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She and Qwark are implied to be an item, and at Qwark's funeral in Up Your Arsenal, the normally tough, no-nonsense Helga completely breaks down in tears while delivering his eulogy.
- Pet the Dog: Grew close to Captain Qwark, to the point the two are implied to be an item, and is crying at his funeral.
Skid(d) McMarx(x)
English voice by: Neil Flynn (2002-2004), Jess Harnell (2016-2021)
Japanese voice by: Wataru Takagi
A professional surfer-dude type hoverboarder with "nerves of steel".
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: In Rift Apart, an alternate universe Skidd serves as the leader of the rebellion in a universe ruled by Nefarious.
- Distressed Dude: After completing both Blackwater City and Holostar Studios, Skidd will be kidnapped by Courtney Gears, taken into her lair, and used as a test dummy for a Biobliterator prototype, leading to her boss battle.
- The Ditz: He knows nothing except the ways of the hoverboard.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Serves as one in an Escort Mission in Aquatos.
- Inconsistent Spelling: See the parenthesis in the folder name? His name has been spelled "Skid McMarx", "Skidd McMarxx" and "Skidd McMarx".
- Leeroy Jenkins: Despite his cowardly, he also has a tendency to blunder into bad situations.
- Lovable Coward: He's afraid to show up for the race, so he sends Ratchet to to do it for him.
- Miles Gloriosus
- Nice Guy: An idiotic coward, but he's a nice, supportive guy outside of that.
- Punny Name: His name invokes skid marks, as in those left by a skateboard. However, "skid marks" is also the term for a variant of Bring My Brown Pants.
- Sacrificial Lion: Skidd is the first victim of Dr. Nefarious' Biobliterator.
- Screams Like a Little Girl
- Surfer Dude
- Totally Radical: Like, Skidd only talks in surfer slang, dude.
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
Abercrombie Fizzwidget
English voice by: Jim Ward
Japanese voice by: Yu Shimaka
Owner, founder, and CEO of Megacorp.
- Big Bad: For the second half of Going Commando until we learn from the infobot that he's really Captain Qwark pretending to be Fizzwidget.
- Bound and Gagged: Spends the entire game tied up in a supply closet.
- Delusions of Eloquence: Peppers his speech with malapropisms which, while sounding fancy, make absolutely no sense at best and are legitimately made-up words at worst. Subverted when it's revealed that the Fizzwidget in-game was actually Qwark in disguise; the real Fizzwidget seemingly lacks this trait completely.
- The Ditz: Subverted. It turns out all his malapropisms were Captain Qwark trying to sound like the genuinely erudite Fizzwidget.
Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito (or all we get to see of him, anyway).
English voice by: James Horan, Patrick Seitz (2016 game)
A shady character (literally, all you see are his eyes) who deals with illegal modifications in the Bogon Galaxy. He shows up in the Solana Galaxy in Up Your Arsenal after "accidentally" selling a mod for a Suck Cannon to a minor. It's probably best that we not know anything more.
- Black Market: He runs these in Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal. In the former he sells aftermarket ship upgrades from his Ship Shack and weapon mods from a truck-like ship, while in the latter he sells Old Save Bonus weapons.
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: All we ever see of him are a pair of eyes peering out from the darkness of wherever he resides in, be it behind a wall or out of the back of a ship.
- Composite Character: His name is used for the RYNO dealer in the re-imagining.
- Conspiracy Placement: Slim has a commercial for Slim Cognito's Ship Shack, where he sells dubiously legal ship upgrades, despite asking in the commercial if you're "worried about getting caught" modding your ship and claiming that he'll "hook you up, quickly, cheaply and, most importantly, quietly".
- Fell Off the Back of a Truck: Slim never elaborates on where he finds all his products, but he's always suspicious of getting caught dealing in it.
- Friend in the Black Market: Slim's established a good rapport with Ratchet. The Lombax has no ethical qualms about the shadiness of Slim's businesses and can regularly buy from him, and in Up Your Arsenal Slim will even call Ratchet when new stock becomes available.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: His stock and trade is illegal weapons sales, yet he went unpunished for this until Secret Agent Clank, where he's incarcerated in the same prison as Ratchet.
- Noodle Incident: Between the second and third games, Slim fled for Solana because he got in trouble with the Bogon police for selling a Suck Cannon mod to a child. Note that Slim has no problems doing business with minors, as Ratchet himself is 15 in Going Commando and 16 in Up Your Arsenal.
- Punny Name: Slim's name is a play on the word "incognito". As someone who sells aftermarket gun and ship modifications and dubiously-acquired weapons under the table, it'd be in his best interest to remain as such.
- Put on a Bus: He's not present in the Future trilogy and beyond except for the reimagining, with his role being given to the Smuggler. His absence is at least handwaved in Tools of Destruction: he's currently incarcerated in Zordoom Prison for showing his Class-B Gravity Cannon to a group of female Tumfoids during a rock concert in Meridian City.
- The Unseen: In Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal, all you ever see are his eyes. In the re-imagining, however, his character is merged with the aesthetic of the RYNO dealer from the first game, who can be seen in full (aside from his eyes, ironically, which are covered by goggles).
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Skrunch
English voice by: Jim Ward
Japanese voice by: Shiro Saito
Qwark's one-eyed Floranian monkey.
- Big Brother Instinct: We don’t know her age, but he gets on Qwark's case for doing…something with her that took place in mating season.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Certainly more competent than Qwark, anyway...
- Team Pet: He's this to Captain Qwark long after his exile.
Galactic Rangers
English voices by: Michael Bell and Chris Hatfield
Cowardly robots who protect the Solana Galaxy. They think Ratchet is their sergeant.
- Arm Cannon: They have a plasma cannons built in their left arms.
- Art Evolution: The Galactic Ranger robots appear in the 2016 reimagining as backup to the main Rangers, but they are so heavily redesigned, that they're unrecognizable from how they appeared in Up Your Arsenal. They basically look like a mass-produced version of Cronk.
- Big Damn Heroes: During the boss battle with Dr. Nefarious.
- Casting Gag: Michael Bell is probably best known for his work voicing Prowl, so to again hear him voicing robotic soldiers-cum-police officers is no coincidence.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Assist Ratchet throughout various planets, including Mylon.
- Lovable Coward: They have a tendency to fall back, call for backup, or just freak out in general, but they still stand and fight when there are innocents who need to be protected.
- Redshirt Army: In the 2016 reimagining, they assist the Rangers during the Aleero City assault. They're mostly there to give the bad guys something to blow up.
- Southern-Fried Private: In Arsenal at least, they all have Texan accents.
- Took a Level in Badass: They manage to bravely take out some of Dr. Nefarious's strongest robot mooks with just a few hits on Mylon.
Ratchet: Deadlocked
Dallas and Juanita
Dallas on the left, Juanita on the right
Juanita Voiced By: Nika Futterman (English)
Announcers for DreadZone and Vox News who appeared in Ratchet: Deadlocked. Known to mock and slander Ratchet throughout the game.
- Cry for the Devil: A negative and in-universe example. They sympathize with Courtney Gears being attacked even though she had helped out with an attempted galaxy-wide genocide. It is unknown if their reactions are genuine, however.
- Dub Name Change: In the French version of the 2016 movie, Dallas is voiced by French-Greek journalist Nikos Aliagas. As a result, his name was changed to "Nikas Aliagos" in the French dub.
- Good All Along: They actually respect Ratchet, but have to slander him because Vox will kill them otherwise.
- Karma Houdini: Juanita is indirectly responsible for Captain Starshield's death, as she was the one who smuggled the illegal one-hit kill weapon Ace used to shoot him into his locker. This is never brought up.
- Ship Tease: A very non-subtle one.
- Those Two Guys: Constantly appear to report and commentate, but don't really do much for the plot.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: It turns out that even Dallas and Juanita are being held against their will by Vox towards the end, being forced to slander anyone who isn't an Exterminator (especially Ratchet), and when Vox forces Deadlock collars on them too, they stop slandering and outright encourage Ratchet to save them.
Eugene, Vernon and Lucy
Eugene, Vernon, and Lucy, wearing their superpowered pajamas.
Eugene and Lucy Voiced By: Mona Marshall
Vernon Voiced By: Nika Futterman
Three children who are used by Vox for his commercials for DreadZone. They're all big fans of the show, and especially Ratchet.
- Hero-Worshipper: The trio become fans of Ratchet as the game advances, even cheering for him after Ace is defeated. Aside from the Lombax, Vernon is also a fan of Reactor (and even appears alongside him in an advertisement), and Eugene is a Secret Agent Clank fan. Lucy, on the other hand, holds Villain-Worshipper status towards Courtney Gears, though it is unknown if she is aware that Gears is an Evil Diva.
- Those Two Guys: These three kids appear in interludes and in commercials. The only thing they do for the plot is confirm that Ratchet is gaining popularity despite all the marketing and merchandise for Ace Hardlight.
Shellshock
English voice by: Jim Ward
The first of the Exterminators that Ratchet faces in DreadZone.
- The Ahnold: He's a big guy with a deep Germanic accent. Take your guess as to who he's supposed to be a parody of.
- Deadly Euphemism: Used in reference to him, rather than by him.Ace Hardlight: Shellshock was too slow and too stupid to be an exterminator. He should have been retired years ago.[Vox glances at the vid-screen showing Shellshock's smoking, mangled remains]Gleeman Vox: Well, he's retired now.
- Fallen Hero: The manual states that he used to be a war hero, and he has a mid-battle quip about a dishonorable discharge.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Like the other members of Exterminators, he's a pretty normal guy outside of the arena.
- Villainous Friendship: With Reactor, they used to carpool together and worked together to design one of the arena challenges.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Shellshock's ultimate fate is left unknown after his battle with Ratchet. The board classifies him as "Deceased", but given Ace was also listed as "Deceased" and revealed to be alive afterwards, along with his "body" being very much in one piece when Ratchet is through with him, it may be possible that Shellshock survived and eventually escaped DreadZone. The same goes for Reactor and The Eviscerator.
- Would Hit a Girl: Defeated the Omega Twins, who were teenage girls, and was proud of it.
Reactor
English voice by: Phil Morris
The second of the Exterminators that Ratchet faces in DreadZone.
- Affably Evil: He's actually a pretty nice guy despite his status as an Exterminator (and no less enjoys the thrill of combat like the others).
- Dating Catwoman: According to his documentary, Reactor once dated Courtney Gears, but she was appalled by his Nice Guy personality, and only starts to pay attention to him when he became an Exterminator. Though it is unknown if he's aware of her alliance with Dr. Nefarious.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: In the advertisement for the tradable cards, Reactor tries to high-five Eugene, but accidentally knocks him aside.
- Nice Guy: Outside of the arena, Reactor is quite humble and was a teacher in his past.
- Punch-Clock Villain: His documentary confirms that he's not really a bad guy. For example, he does love children.
- Token Good Teammate: He's the only Exterminator to be caring of others than himself, as shown with his kindness towards children and his ex-girlfriend.
- Villainous Friendship: With Shellshock. The two used to carpool together, and they worked together to design one of the arena challenges. Strangely, he does not show any anger toward Ratchet for defeating Shellshock.
The Eviscerator
- Hidden Depths: He does not get much backstory compared to the other exterminators, but it's stated that he's a very skilled chef.
- Evil Chef: Though less "evil" and more "Punch-Clock Villain" chef.
- Silent Antagonist: The manual states that when asked a yes or no question, he disembowels a robot for yes and makes a robot eat its own left arm for no.
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The Smuggler
"We're just a couple of humble smugglers, unfairly hunted and persecuted wherever we go!"
English voice by: Jess Harnell
Japanese voice by: Hiroshi Shirokuma
As his name implies, he's a somewhat shady type with access to all sorts of weapons and gadgets. Despite his criminal leanings, he's there to help Ratchet - for a price, of course. Only appears in the PS3 adventures.
- Affably Evil: Is pretty polite and helpful to Ratchet…as long as he has the bolts, of course.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Never given an actual name.
- Eyepatch of Power: Although he's been shown to have two functioning eyes.
- Mr. Exposition: Besides selling Ratchet gadgets and the like, he helps fill on some of the backstory in "Tools of Destruction".
- Pirate Parrot: His parrot actually belonged to Captain Slag, before the Smuggler won him in a card game.
- Recurring Traveller: Not to the extent of the Plumber, though.
Zurkon Family
Click here to see their dimensional counterparts.
English voice by: Marc Graue (Mr. Zurkon); Ali Hillis (Mrs. Zurkon/Into The Nexus; Rift Apart [Ratchet's universe]); Courtenay Taylor (Mrs. Zurkon/Rift Apart [Rivet's universe]) Nika Futterman (Zurkon Jr./Into the Nexus); Sam Riegel (Zurkon Jr./Ratchet & Clank 2016 game); Richard Steven Horvitz (Zurkon Jr./Rift Apart)
Japanese voice by: Yutaka Aoyama
A recurring character and weapon who debuted in Tools of Destruction, who in later games is accompanied by a wife and child. Best known for his sadistic comments whenever he is in play.
- Ax-Crazy: Mr. Zurkon loves killing things, as does his family. Subverted by his Alternate Self Zurkie, who is a pacifist who does not tolerate fighting in his bar.
- Ascended Extra: Mrs. Zurkon, or at least an alternate counterpart from Rivet's universe, becomes a key character in Rift Apart, acting as the games weapon vendor. Zurkon Jr. is the announcer for the Battle Arena as well as voicing the previews for the weapons while Zurkon himself (known as "Zurkie") runs the Good-Guy Bar.
- Actual Pacifist: In contrast to the one in the mainline universe, "Zurkie" is a pacifist who forbids any fights within his bar and demands troublemakers to take it to the Battle Arena right below the bar.
- Attack Drone: Mr. Zurkon and his family are Synthenoids, similar to the weapon of the same name from Going Commando. Just like that weapon, using them simply requires selecting them from any of the weapon menus; from there, they'll fly or teleport into battle and assist you themselves.
- Badass Boast: About half of Mr. Zurkon's comments consist of these, and the rest of his family is just as fond of them."Ha! Mr. Zurkon needs no measly nanotech to survive! Mr. Zurkon lives on fear."
- Badass Family: Mr. Zurkon gets to bring his whole family alongside him in Into the Nexus, and Mrs. Zurkon and Zurkon Jr. are just as badass and sadistic as he is.
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: The reboot features enemy Mr. Zurkon units that are far weaker than the one you use. In return, the Mrs. Zurkon you fight as a boss is a Humongous Mecha.
- Killer Robot: As Zurkon himself is wont to say, "Mr. Zurkon lives only to kill."
- Intrepid Merchant: In Rift Apart Mrs. Zurkon sells weapons to the protagonists across planets and dimensions, replacing the vending machines of the previous games.
- Large Ham: Constantly boasting, threatening, or hurling insults with some level of dramatic flare.
- The Nicknamer: He addresses Ratchet as "furball".
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Usually smaller than Clank, but about as strong as him and five times as bloodthirsty.
- Robo Family: Though it's unclear whether they're just marketed as such or actually consider themselves some sort of family.
- Third-Person Person: Mr. Zurkon requires no pronouns.
- Took a Level in Badass: Can be upgraded to Zurkon the Destroyer in A Crack in Time.
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Pollyx
English voice by: Richard Steven Horvitz
Japanese voice by: Yuichi Nagashima
A Terachnoid introduced in A Crack in Time. Originally working for Dr. Nefarious to help with the creation of the Hypersonic Brainwave Scramblers, and reappears in Into The Nexus.
- Evil Genius: While allied with Dr. Nefarious.
- Greed: According to the trivia, Pollyx Industries was founded to research the Zoni, but Pollyx himself sold the knowledge to Dr. Nefarious for money.
- Heel–Face Turn: Pulls an Enemy Mine with Ratchet in Into the Nexus.
Jarvis
A Terachnoid who serves as an ally to Azimuth. Only appears in A Crack in Time.
- Noodle Incident: All we know is that Azimuth saved him from becoming food for the Agorians in the past. Why this happened, we do not know.
- The Mole: Jarvis works for Pollyx, who's allied with Dr. Nefarious, but helps Azimuth out in the Battle of Axiom City.
- Techno Babble: Not as bad as Big Al, though.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Phantom
English voice by: Jess Harnell
Japanese voice by: Unknown
"Nice work, new guy."
"So you made it after all. Impressive."
The version of Skidd in Rivet's dimension, who fights alongside her in the Resistance against Emperor Nefarious.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Unlike the mainline Skidd who's typically an incompetent coward, this version is far more competent and proactive.
- But Now I Must Go: He plans to pull this after the final battle with the Nefariouses.
- Gadgeteer Genius: While he does share some of Skidd's mannerisms, he's the one who upgrades Ratchet's Omniglove to let him Phantom Dash and Phantom Run.
- Surfer Dude: Like Skidd, he talks in typical surfer lingo.
Gary
English voice by: Brent Mukai
Japanese voice by: Unknown
"Would you like to help me fix the dimensions?"
Click here to see his dimensional rift appearance
"If there's one thing I've learned from my father, it's that acting like you know what you're doing can get you everywhere in life. That and carrying a plunger."
The All-Seeing Cosmic Prophet of Inter-Dimensional Sector 2-2-5-5, Phase Omega and leader of the monks on Savali. Also the Plumber's son and filling in for him while he's on vacation.
- Asleep, Not Meditating: This exact joke plays out in the middle of a jailbreak in a high-security prison.
- Astral Projection: Uses this to communicate off-world. He appears as a floating purple spirit in the dimensional anomalies, and claims he was out of his body (despite snoring) when Rivet finds him a prisoner and wakes him.
- Badass Pacifist: Like his fellow monks, he swore a vow of non-violence and is able to rip apart dimensions with his mind. This makes him a key player in the final battle of the game.
- Gentle Giant: Like the rest of the monks, being an alternate-universe Snivelakian, he's crocodilian, muscular, red-eyed and nearly twice the size of Ratchet and Rivet when standing. This doesn't stop him from being a soft-spoken, optimistic pacifist.
- Great Big Book of Everything: Constantly carries a book that contains his father's knowledge on the universe, and adds to it throughout the game. Downplayed as while it contains a lot of information, it doesn't provide New Powers as the Plot Demands and has no bearing on the story at all.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: His character gallery and lines about being named Prophet imply a humble, if slightly timid, personality. Considering who his adoptive father is, it's hardly a surprise.
- Improvised Armor: Wears scavenged scrap metal, including a pauldron and a cap decorated with magenta leaves.
- Interspecies Adoption: Implied, as the Plumber is a different, humanoid race compared to the lizardlike Gary. Not outright confirmed, of course, because the Plumber is omniscient.
- Levitating Lotus Position: In this pose in the rift anomalies and credits.
- Lovable Lizard: Like his fellow monks, he's depicted with shinier, rounder eyes than their Goons-4-Less dimensional counterparts, probably to invoke this.
- Nice Guy: Is kind and helpful to Clank right off the bat.
- Not So Omniscient After All: According to himself, Gary recieved the title of Prophet purely by identifying things like foreign phone books and love poems for the monks.
- Power Floats: Averted. He takes this pose but he is being lifted up by his tail.
- Special Person, Normal Name: Hard to believe that the all-seeing leader of a group of cross-dimensionally traveling monks is named Gary, isn't it?
- Surfer Dude: Subverted. Despite being the leader of the monks, which talk like this, Gary speaks relatively normally.
- Technical Pacifist: Swore a vow of non-violence when joining the monks, so he won't actually fight anyone. Nevertheless, he doesn't mind creating dimensional rifts in the finale to help Ratchet deliver violence himself.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: In the character gallery, it's said he is "doing his absolute best to live up (...) to the expectations of his dad", among others.
Pierre Le Fer
English voice by: Rafael Petardi
Japanese voice by: Unknown
"Did you follow me here? Another fruitless attempt to win my affection?"
"My name is Pierre Le Fer— pirate extraordinaire."
The version of Rusty Pete in Rivet's dimension, who she knows from experience to be more of an annoyance and obstacle than a fearsome pirate leader.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Acts as if he and Rivet are star-crossed lovers, with him sadly declining her affections as if she constantly fawns over him; needless to say, it's one of many ways in which he differs from Pete.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Unlike Rusty Pete, who was the bumbling sidekick of Captain Slag, Pierre is a competent pirate who is not afraid to get his hands dirty.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Claims to be more "lover than fighter", and takes a safe leadership position at the rear during the skirmishes at Zurkie's and Molonoth Gulch, even feigning a sprained ankle so he can summon a warbot to fight in his stead. His willingness to give up his own command ship and bombard it just to get away from Rivet later almost gets him executed on Ardolis for violating the Pirate Code. During the final boss, he ultimately proves his mettle by leading the pirates' charge into battle alongside Quantum.
- The Dandy: He's very flashy and takes great pride in his appearance, as evidenced by his reaction when Clank realizes who he's the counterpart of.Clank: ...Rusty Pete?
Pierre: "Rusty"?! [Gasps] Mon dieu! Your friend 'as a saucy tongue! - Dragon-in-Chief: While he's identified by Rivet as still being just a first mate, with Quantum as this dimension's equivalent to Romulus Slag, he takes an active leadership role in the first half of the game and outfits his crew in his own personal colors, just like his superior.
- French Jerk: A crowning example. So vain and arrogant that he thinks he's Rivet's greatest enemy and paramour? Such a coward that he badly fakes an excuse to avoid fighting, and later blows up his own ship in a desperate attempt to get away from her? His own Gay Paree accordion leitmotif in the game's score? Pierre is as many French stereotypes as you can get without having a France.
- Goldfish Poop Gang: Like Slag and Rusty Pete in Tools of Destruction, being a pirate, Pierre isn't so much a true villain as a ne'er-do-well who keeps running into Rivet due to their goals clashing against each other; first, she has to duel his men when she needs a signal booster for Clank's communicator that he possesses, then fight off his armada when he tries to destroy the Fixer so he can plunder the unprotected Molonoth Gulch. Naturally, having faced her many times before that, he's convinced that she and he are the greatest of enemies.
- Heel–Face Turn: After being rescued by Ratchet, he meets up at Zurkie's and joins the rest of the Resistance, just in time for the last assault on Emperor Nefarious at Megalopolis.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Selfish, cowardly and smug he may be, but he tells Ratchet the way to find Captain Quantum in exchange for saving his life, and he still decides in the end to help save the omniverse from Emperor Nefarious.
- Let's You and Him Fight: How he battles Rivet, for his braggadocia about claiming he Would Hit a Girl in her case. Once she gets through the mook waves, he feigns a sprained ankle to get out of it.Pierre: I'm a lover, not a fighter. But for you, I will always make an exception.
- Miles Gloriosus: For all the hype he shells out about him being a cutthroat space pirate, Pierre's the first to jump ship the moment things go south for him.
- Small Name, Big Ego: While being one of the most prominent space pirates in the galaxy is nothing to sneeze at, his self-image far outmatches his reputation.
The Fixer
English voice by: William Salyers
Japanese voice by: Unknown
"TO MEND IS TO ENLIGHTEN, BUT I AM NOT DESERVING OF ENLIGHTENMENT."
"I AM BROKEN. AS IS EVERYTHING. NOTHING CAN BE FIXED."
A giant robot stationed in Torren IV's Molonoth Gulch in Rivet's dimension, known to be able to fix anything. He's also going through a violent existential crisis when Rivet and Clank first encounter him.
- Alternate Self: An interesting example — his closest counterpart in the Molonoth Fields of Ratchet's dimension is the large hollowed-out robot statue that Alister Azimuth used as a home base, though his remarks reveal he's not from Torren IV originally.
- Ambiguously Bi: A local Vullard mentions he's single to Rivet and Clank "if either of them are interested."
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's enormous, to the point where it's pointless to fight him and the only thing the two can do when he begins rampaging is try to escape.
- Colossus Climb: His body has grind rails on the exterior for Rivet to slide along while trying to talk some sense into him, and avoid his gigantic hands.
- Cyber Cyclops: One red eye in a visor.
- Epiphany Therapy: Downplayed. While Clank gets through to the Fixer by relating to his plight, he initially declares that he's "fixed" Clank by solving his own problem, disorienting the giant and calming him down enough to listen to reason.
- Exact Words: The Vullard that points Rivet and Clank to the Fixer says he broke after fending off the pirates. At first, they believe he meant the Fixer was physically broken, only to discover he was emotionally broken.
- Eye Beams: On waking up he one-shots a pirate ship with the beam from his eye, before turning it on Rivet and Clank. His "fixing" uses a similar beam.
- Heroic BSoD: Thinks so highly of his duty to fix things for the benefit of all that getting temporarily put out of commission by Pierre's pirate armada shook his very worldview apart — if he, the ultimate problem-solver, can't easily repair himself, then life must have no purpose. It takes Clank revealing that he's both "broken" and fixed (meaning, he doesn't consider himself useless for his injury) to finally give the Fixer hope again.
- Innocently Insensitive: Marks Clank, or possibly Rivet, as "a fellow broken one" because of their arms (Clank's right is missing, while Rivet's is a prosthetic replacement), not realizing that they don't feel the same despair he does over it. The remark makes Rivet a little angry.
- Mr Fix It: He can fix literally anything, at least that's physically broken. In the credits he's seen fixing Blizar Prime.
- Straw Nihilist: Begins ranting in anguish that "nothing can be fixed" when he's reactivated, and that it's pointless to try; he even tries to crush and incinerate Rivet and Clank, just to spare them the pain of living while broken.The Fixer: FIXING IS A VAIN AND FLEETING MEASURE. DESTRUCTION IS OUR NATURAL STATE.
Rivet: What is he, the Breaker now?!
Captain Quantum
English voice by: Zeke Alton
Japanese voice by: Unknown
"So "Captain" What, what brings ye here?"
Click here to see him unmasked
"So this "Captain Qwark", is he a pirate in your dimension too?"
Feared throughout Rivet's Polaris Galaxy as a dreaded space pirate and a thorn in Emperor Nefarious's side, in reality, the "robotic" captain is her dimension's version of Qwark in a less-than-convincing disguise.
- All in the Manual: His Gallery bio reveals what drew him to the Space Pirates and that his full name is Carl Lepton Quantum.
- Ambiguously Brown: He has visibly darker skin as well as a wider nose and more accented lips, suggesting he's either black or at least black-coded.
- Badass Boast: He’s quite bold in his words to Emperor Nefarious in the final battle.Quantum: Emperor Nefarious, your campaign of destruction, cruelty, and wanton snobbery is over! (Glances at Qwark) How's that?
Qwark: I have goosebumps! (shivers)
Ratchet: You nailed it. - Cowardly Lion: May seem like an absolute coward, but upon learning more about his counterpart and seeing how dire the greater situation has turned out, he helps Ratchet and Clank escape capture by Emperor Nefarious at cost to himself without hesitation.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: When his crew spots him holding the bucket, they think he's beheaded the real Captain. Quantum tries to do the logical thing by putting the bucket back on his head and doing the voice to show them the truth, but they see it as desecrating his corpse.
- The Ditz: More perceptive and not nearly the airhead that Qwark is, but he still has his moments. When Ratchet (who he thinks is actually named Captain "What") points out he's not a robot, Quantum takes a swing at him, misses, trips, and scrambles across the deck desperately trying to put his fake head back on; when the pirates discover him having "decapitated" their leader, he smiles and hides it behind his back. Near the end of the game, he reveals that the brilliant plan he's come up with to draw their enemies out is another robot disguise, but this time "with a really big" something, just as Emperor Nefarious interrupts.
- Foreshadowing: If you look at the picture of Rivet with her Resistance friends closer, you can see a Qwark-lookalike alongside her and two others.
- Good Counterpart: Mirroring how Qwark started off as a villainous, self-aggrandizing "savior" who only managed to redeem himself after a long fall from grace, he isn't really a bad guy despite being a pirate captain. When hearing what his counterpart's done in the past, he's bewildered that Qwark is still considered a hero.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Non-fatal variant, but he still tosses Ratchet and Clank to safety, getting captured as a result.
- Never My Fault: Shows a little bit of his Qwark side after his crew turns on him, saying it's all Ratchet's fault and fearfully demanding the duo save him.
- Nice Guy: To say he is a lot nicer then Qwark is a massive understatement.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: While he antagonizes and plunders the Nefarious Empire, he does so because he's a pirate, not out of allegiance to the Resistance — per the space pirate way, anyone that stops them from pillaging is to be fought. His Gallery bio reveals that he was a Resistance member at one point, but the romance and adventure of the pirate lifestyle (including the space shanties) lured him away. When the fight comes to Ardolis and he finally sees just how bad things have become now that Emperor Nefarious has the Dimensionator, he decides it's the "perfect time for a career change", and he and his crew sign up with the heroes.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: To the point that Ratchet was able to easily tell he wasn't a robot when he first saw him. However, the disguise worked very well with his robot crew.
- "Super Sentai" Stance: In the end credits, he and Qwark are shown making hero poses which coincidentally looks like they're dancing as well.
- Unrobotic Reveal: He masquerades as a robot pirate by wearing a set of pauldrons, a bucket (albeit one equipped with a holographic projector) that has a skull face painted on it, and chest armor that barely covers up the insignia on his suit. Ratchet sees through it instantly, but his crew is so fooled that they declare war on him for killing Quantum when they see him with the disguise off.
- Wrong Side All Along: Not only does he have a brighter future as a hero than a pirate, but hero stuff turns out to come naturally to Quantum — after he delivers a grand declaration that Emperor Nefarious's reign is over, Qwark gushes that he has goosebumps and Ratchet tells him he nailed it.
