Ratchet & Clank
Clank had been created by his father, Orvus, at the Great Clock, with a Zoni soul. However, he was born on a production line in a factory producing sentry-bots on planet Quartu. The sentry-bots were built for Chairman Drek, who Clank's mother, a computer on the production line Clank was created from, harbored ill will towards. Shortly after his birth, Clank viewed an infobot that uncovered Drek's plan to extract a portion of planet Novalis and use it for his new planet, causing fled the factory immediately and steal an escape shuttle. In his attempt to escape, Clank was chased by two blargian robots who shot his ship down, causing him to crash-land on Veldin.
On Veldin, Clank was initially immobilized and rescued by a lombax named Ratchet, who took Clank to his garage. Clank awoke to see Ratchet working on a new homemade ship, which impressed Clank. The two became acquainted, and Clank discovered Ratchet was unable to fly the ship, as he lacked a robotic ignition system. As Clank was equipped with the latest in robotic ignition systems, he was able to provide Ratchet a way to fly the ship.
The two then resolved to search for galactic hero Captain Qwark to help them defeat Drek. Their quest led them to Al's RoboShack in Metropolis on planet Kerwan, where Al outfitted Clank with the Heli-Pack after recognizing Clank's compatible XP-18 sisterboards. Eventually, the two caught up with Qwark on Umbris, who had sprung a trap for them, Clank fell for the trap and dragged Ratchet along with him. This caused Ratchet to fall out with Clank and declare his own agenda, focused entirely on vengeance against Qwark. Clank was confused by Ratchet's behavior, believing it unlike Ratchet, and tried to appeal to him as to the innocent lives at stake from Drek. Though they were at an impasse, Clank provided Ratchet an ultimatum: if Ratchet agreed to help fight Drek, he would provide Ratchet the robotic ignition system needed to fly starships.
Clank holding onto the Deplanetizer with a broken arm.
Following the exchange, Ratchet continued to argue bitterly with Clank at times, Clank became frustrated whenever Ratchet was distracted and making a point to insist that Ratchet focus on Drek. However, he continued to believe, and noticed signs to indicate, that Ratchet did care deep down. Along the way, Clank received the Thruster-Pack upgrade from Bob, and the Hydro-Pack upgrade from Edwina, before the two caught up with Qwark in pursuit of Drek. After Qwark was defeated and after subsequently viewing an infobot showing the devastation Drek caused on Oltanis, Ratchet apologized to Clank for his selfish attitude and admitted Clank was right, to which Clank reminded him it was not too late to stop Drek, and the two continued their adventure.
Upon returning to Quartu, Clank met the Ultra-Mech Scientist, who was attempting to destroy his Ultra-Mech Pad after learning Chairman Drek was responsible. Instead, Clank offered to use it himself and destroy the other Ultra-Mech Unlimited robots, and after destroying them as Giant Clank, the scientist recalibrated it to only accept Clank's circuitry. On Kalebo III, Clank also met and flirted with the HelpDesk Girl, who took a liking to him. Clank then returned to Quartu once more and reunited with his mother at the factory where he was made. Sge released an infobot detailing that Drek next planned to attack Veldin, and expressed her pride in Clank. Ratchet and Clank then defeated Drek and destroyed his new world, after which Clank assumed the friendship was over. To his surprise, Ratchet called out to him, and took him back to the garage to fix his arm, after which the two remained lifelong friends.
Going Commando
Clank appeared with Ratchet in an interview for Behind the Hero, discussing their activities since Drek's defeat. During the interview, Clank's admirer, a female infobot, was hiding behind his chair. Midway through this interview, both Ratchet and Clank were teleported away by Captain Qwark disguised as Abercrombie Fizzwidget,[20] who offered Ratchet a job as a commando for Megacorp in the Bogon Galaxy to hunt down the Unknown Thief. Clank was ambivalent about this at first, but Fizzwidget offered him an apartment in Megapolis on planet Endako, with a job as Megacorp's head accountant.[21] His admirer followed him there to deliver him flowers, shortly before being scared off by the Thief, who came to kidnap Clank.
With Clank captured, the Thief had him strapped to a metal board and electrocuted him while repeatedly managing to avoid Ratchet. Ratchet then arrived in Endako and to rescue Clank, who in turn freed Ratchet since the Thief had trapped them both. Clank then joined Ratchet on his quest to find Megacorp's "Experiment". Later on, the two discovered that the Unknown Thief was a lombax named Angela Cross, and the Megacorp Experiment was to be mass-marketed as a pet named the Protopet, despite being a killer threat that had not passed safety checks.[22] This prompted them to instead work with Angela against Megacorp. When imprisoned by the Thugs-4-Less mercenaries in their prison on Aranos, while they were under Megacorp's employment, Clank's admirer assisted them by breaking through an air duct, providing their only means of escape.
Towards the end of the adventure, in the Protopet Factory on Yeedil, Clank's admirer arrived to show them a video revealing that Qwark planned to use the Bogon Galaxy to stage a comeback by manufacturing the Protopet menace so that he could save the galaxy from it and restore his tarnished reputation. At that point, Qwark appeared, revealing that he had been disguised as Fizzwidget the entire time, and filmed a broadcast to depict him saving the galaxy from the Protopet while framing Clank, Ratchet, and Angela as the "masterminds" behind the Protopet. He tried to use Angela's Helix-o-morph to cure the Protopet, but his plan backfired as he morphed it into a Mutant Protopet. Ratchet and Clank defeated it, and Clank diagnosed that the Helix-o-morph was not working due to the battery being inserted backwards. Ratchet, Clank, Angela, and Clank's admirer were later seen enjoying time together in Clank's apartment.
Up Your Arsneal
Sometime prior to the events of Up Your Arsenal, Clank became a star in his own holovision show, Secret Agent Clank. The show had many fans, including President Phyronix and Dr. Nefarious.
The two sprung into action when learning from a Channel 64 News report that Veldin was under attack by an alien race known as the tyhrranoids, masterminded by Dr. Nefarious. Clank objected to using Ratchet's gravimetric warp drive, as the device was untested and built from blargian scrap metal, but was proven wrong when they arrived safely and on-time to stop the invasion. President Phyronix recognized Clank from Secret Agent Clank, and recurited him to the war effort against Nefarious. Clank joined the Q-Force, a team formed by Captain Qwark, located on the Starship Phoenix, and was introduced to Skrunch, Qwark's monkey, who he directed on the field using the Banana-Guided Autonomous Monkey Device to fire bananas. Clank made use of this during "Find Nefarious' Office", directing Skrunch and several gadgebots to infiltrate Nefarious' office on Aquatos. Al also entered Clank in the Robowars cage match toasterweight division, for which Clank would be required to swap out his arms for a blowtorch.
When Ratchet and Clank learned that the pop star Courtney Gears was producing propaganda for Nefarious, Clank met with her in Annihilation Nation. Gears flirted with Clank, and offered to share more information about Nefarious if he gave her a role in Secret Agent Clank. Clank agreed and returned to Holostar Studios, where he filmed an episode known as "Maxmillian Strikes Back". The episode featured Skrunch, after Ratchet was fired from the cast, and involved a chase scene against Maxmillian, before Clank transformed into Giant Clank to defeat the Terror of Talos and rescue the baroness, played by Courtney Gears. After the episode, rather than give Clank information, Gears incapacitated and took him to Nefarious, who encouraged him to join his cause. Clank refused and was thus replaced with Klunk, a replica that would spy on Ratchet.
Nefarious took Clank with him to Metropolis to witness the Biobliterator transforming the city into robots. Ratchet defeated Klunk and found Clank, following which Clank blamed himself, though Ratchet responded that Nefarious was to blame. Later, Ratchet and Clank found Qwark in hiding in the Thran Asteroid Belt, having resigned from the war; Ratchet berated Qwark, though Clank motivated Qwark to return. On Koros, Ratchet helped Clank reach the control panel for a cannon, allowing him to destroy the Biobliterator, only for the two to learn Nefarious had constructed a second Biobliterator in secret on Mylon. Ratchet and Clank defeated Nefarious and, with the help of Qwark, destroyed the second Biobliterator. Clank celebrated alongside Ratchet and many of their allies from previous adventures by watching the premiere of the Secret Agent Clank movie.
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