Clank

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Background

Clank (real designation XJ-0461, serial number B5429671) is the titular deuteragonist and the secondary main playable character of the Ratchet & Clank series. He is a robot created by the Zoni, possessing a Zoni soul as a result, and is Ratchet's best friend.

Clank was created by Orvus, the leader of the Zoni, in the Great Clock. He was produced in a blarg robot factory on Quartu that created sentry-bots, but upon acquiring an infobot and learning about Chairman Drek's plans, he fled the planet in a stolen starship, crash-landing on Veldin. There, he met Ratchet, who became his lifelong best friend afterward, as they would partake on many adventures. When the two visited the Polaris Galaxy in their mission to defeat Emperor Percival Tachyon, Clank was met by a race invisible to the others known as the Zoni, who referred to him as the Chosen One. The Zoni helped Clank defeat Tachyon and afterwards, abducted him from Ratchet to take him back to the Great Clock, where he was supposed to take up his true destiny as Senior Caretaker of the Clock with Sigmund. However, after stopping Dr. Nefarious from trying to use the Clock to his advantage, Clank made Sigmund its caretaker and returned to his place at Ratchet's side.

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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.

General Information

Name: Clank, XJ-0461

Origin: Ratchet & Clank

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Robot, Intergalactic Superhero

Species: Zoni

Occupation: None

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Clank is a good nature hero from the very beginning, with his very goal from the first game having him look for a hero to stop Drek from his evil schemes)

Codex Statistics

Key: Base | Giant Clank

Tier: 9-B | 9-A

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (Potency) (Can destroy robots and cause them to explode) | Room level (Potency) (Can harm Drek's super mech which is of this size)

Durability: Wall level (Tanked a ship crash and explosion). Regeneration makes him difficult to kill (Whenever Clank sustains injuries, the Gadgetron's patented Nanotech system will rebuild his body from the inside out, allowing him to passively regenerate from all injuries) | Room level. Regeneration makes him difficult to kill

Striking Strength: Wall Class (Potency) | Room Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Should be comparable to Ratchet) | Superhuman (Through sheer size, should be able to more this fast)

Attack Speed: High Hypersonic, Speed of Light with Clank's Geo-Laser (Clank's Geo-Laser is directly noted to be a laser that shoots in a straight line and leaves burn trails) | High Hypersonic, Speed of Light with Clank's Geo-Laser

Reaction Speed: High Hypersonic (Comparable to Future Ratchet, who could avoid missiles while free-falling, which average missiles travel at 7 km/s) | High Hypersonic

Stamina: Limitless

Range: Standard Melee, Planetary with Gadgetron Sensors (Gadgetron can sense if there are objects on a planetary scale), Universal with Time Abilities (Has the power to slow down time. Can record moments in time to effectively "duplicate himself" on a temporal level), Multiversal+ with the Dimensionator (With the Dimensionator, can open wormholes to any of the infinite universes)

Intelligence: Supergenius Intelligence (Clank is an intelligent robot who was noted to take over Orvus role of watching over the Great Clock, the item that allows one to watch over the universe, has solved temporal puzzles that give even Orvus some difficulty, noted to be smarter than Ratchet)

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Like Ratchet, Clank is a warrior that saves the galaxy and at times even the multiverse)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Inorganic Physiology (Non-living Object), Immortality (Ageless; Robots in Ratchet & Clank live forever regardless of how many years they've been around), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Looks at the camera along with Ratchet), Acrobatics & Multiple Jumps (Displays acrobatic backflips when avoiding an attack from two incoming small ships. Physics Defying; Clank is capable of double jumping), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory, Nutritional, & Respiratory; Due to being a robot, unaffected by environments that require oxygen masks for organic lifeforms), Technology Manipulation (Equipped with the latest in robotic ignition systems, allowing him to start any ships he chooses), Flight (With the heli-pack, has a glide feature. With the thruster-pack, has a built in jet. With the Levitator, can fly freely), Electricity Manipulation (With the Clank Zapper, can shoot electricity from the top of his head. His wrench has a kintetic tether), Energy Manipulation (Clank in his giant form can unleash a charged atomic energy blast), Can detect when someone is lying

Energy Projection (Given a Geo-Laser, which is used to cut through natural surfaces), Enhanced Senses (The Geo-Laser comes equipped with a directional indicator to locate weak walls), Information Analysis (Clank can scan lifeforms and give Ratchet a holo-guise based off their scan. Can detect hostiles within range), Cosmic Awareness & Dimensional Travel (Was given a transdimensional software upgrade that allows Clank to detect dimensional rifts and be able to travel through them), Time Manipulation (Has the power to slow down time. Can record moments in time to effectively "duplicate himself" on a temporal level).

Resistance to Time Manipulation (Clank's quantum accuator provides temporal immunity towards time manipulation)

Multilingualism (The Tyhrra-Guise allows one to speak Tyhrranese), Nanotechnology & Regeneration (Low-Mid, higher with more Nanotech. With Nanotech, whenever Clank sustains injuries, the Gadgetron's patented Nanotech system will rebuild his body from the inside out. Noted that the more nanotech he has, the more damage he can take), Time Manipulation (With Chronoscepter, can throw time bombs that create stasis fields that slow time. Striking objects with the chronoscepter reverses time), Dimensional Travel (With the Dimensionator, can open wormholes to any of the infinite universes)

Telekinesis (Zoni can telekinetically control objects and repair them), Invisibility (The Zoni can make themselves invisible to others)

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Equipment

• Chronoscepter: The Chronoscepter is a powerful Zoni scepter wielded by Clank in A Crack in Time. It is over a hundred million years old, and is used by Senior Caretakers of the Great Clock. It runs on quantum energy, and grants the wielder limited power to manipulate time. Its known powers include the ability to reverse time on targets and repair objects or reverse projectiles, to fix time anomalies on planets, to create temporal recordings from time pads, and to throw Time Bombs. It can also be used as a simple melee weapon.

• Heli-Pack: The Heli-Pack, occasionally known as the Helipack, is a recurring gadget in the Ratchet & Clank series. It is a robot upgrade manufactured by Gadgetron, but installed by RoboShack dealers. Big Al installed the upgrade on Clank after Ratchet purchased it from him. The Heli-Pack grants Clank helicopter-like propellers in his hands and antenna, allowing Ratchet to use him to glide, boost jump, stretch jump, and reach otherwise inaccessible areas. It became a mainstay after it was first acquired.

• Hydro-Pack: The Hydro-Pack is a gadget in Ratchet & Clank, Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Tools of Destruction, and Ratchet & Clank (2016 game). It is a black market upgrade for Clank not endorsed by Gadgetron, due to licensing issues with company Minton Incorporated, that grants him jets to propel Ratchet underwater and swim faster (by holding L1 or Shoulder R). In the original Ratchet & Clank, the player must obtain the Hydro-Pack from Edwina on Hoven. It is used to swim against currents and reach otherwise inaccessible areas. In subsequent releases in which it appears (including the 2016 re-imagined release), it is initially available with Clank, and is not mandatory.

• Robo-Wings: The Robo-Wings are a gadget granted to Clank by the Zoni in Tools of Destruction. They allow Clank to fly in the air for an unlimited time once activated at a gelatonium fuel pad. The Robo-Wings are granted to Clank in Stratus City on planet Kortog, and function using zeptotech ("zepto" being smaller than "nano") more advanced than the Polaris Galaxy.

• Thruster-Pack: The Thruster-Pack, occasionally spelled Thrusterpack, is a gadget in Ratchet & Clank, Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Tools of Destruction, and Ratchet & Clank (2016 game). It is a rocket upgrade for Clank installed at Bob's RoboShack, that allows Clank to change his feet to rocket boosters and his arms to wings. Like the Heli-Pack, this allows Ratchet to glide, hover above the ground, to boost jump, and to stretch jump.

• Time Bomb: A Time Bomb is a time-slowing gadget that can be thrown in A Crack in Time. It is Zoni technology used by Clank, both on his own and when reunited with Ratchet. Time Bombs are thrown by a Chronoscepter user, and create a large sphere of blue quantum energy which slow down anything inside the sphere, aside from Clank due to his temporal immunity. Only one Time Bomb can be active at a time due to the amount of quantum energy released.

• Zoni: The Zoni are mystical beings of energy in Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, and A Crack in Time, and are also mentioned in other following entries. They are powerful beings of bio-energy who can manipulate time and space to their will, as 117,000 Zoni operate and maintain the Great Clock, the universe' keeper of time. While neither organic nor robotic, they require metal suits to survive in other dimensions. The Zoni are a hive-minded race, who are much more powerful in groups, and whose power multiplies the more are present. They are led by the creator of the Great Clock, Orvus.

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Notable Techniques

• Clank Zapper: The Clank Zapper is a weapon manufactured by Megacorp in Going Commando. It is an enhancement for Clank that, once selected, allows Clank to release a bolt of green electric energy from his antenna at enemies within a range of Ratchet. The Clank Zapper can be purchased upon reaching challenge mode for 1,000,000 bolts from any Megacorp vendor. It can be upgraded to the Clank Shocker with use, which would also emit a red laser beam from Clank's eyes at enemies behind Ratchet. Despite being upgradeable, it is also the only weapon next to the Sheepinator that has no corresponding Mega upgrade.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Clank's form of battle involves more puzzle solving and using items such as the Chronoscepter.

Weaknesses: Clank is often very gullible being able to be tricked easily.

Note

• Even though it seems in game-play Clank is tanking hits, this is actually Gadgetron's patented Nanotech system rebuilding his body from the inside out, this is why when he runs out of nanotech, he dies.
• The Ratchet and Clank 2016 game is not a reboot or a separate timeline, is the events of the first game told by Captain Qwark, thus feats from the game can be used on Ratchet's profile with some scrutiny due to Captain Qwark's personality.
• No feats from Secret Agent Clank be used as it's a TV Show/ Movie in-universe.

Explanations

Before attempting any upgrades, please read this blog.

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