Ben Throttle

Ben Throttle also known as Reuben Throttle is the main protagonist in Lucas Art video game Full Throttle. He is the leader of the Polecats replacing Father Torque. He is voiced by the late Roy Conrad who played Ace Merrick in Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2. 
== Full Throttle ==
Ben was first introduced with his gang the Polecats, droving over a white limo owned by Malcolm Corley Head of the Corley Motors. Later at the Kickstand owned by Quohog, while Ben and his gang enjoying themselves with beer, Malcolm arrives with Adrian Ripburger and his driver and bodyguard Nestor and Bolus, with Malcolm demanding the gang who is the responsible of droving over his car. Ben reveals that he was the one and befriending him, just as Ripburger enters and asks Ben to hire him and his gang to escort Malcolm to the meeting. But Ben declines and is knocked out by Nestor and Bolus.
Later after The Polecats, Malcolm, Ripburger, Nestor and Bolus left for the meeting, Ben awakens learning from Quohog that they left and been duped to escorting Malcolm and an ambush is planned up on the road further. Ben tries to catch up to them, but his motorcycle is been sabotaged resulting a fiery crash injuring Ben in the process. He was rescued by a photographer named Miranda, who then brings him to the town of Melonweed, where he is treated by Maureen the daughter of Malcolm Corley who then describes her father taught her about motorcycles, and repair his Ben's bike after retrieving the necessary parts and adding a booster to it as well. Ben finally catches up the Polecats in a rest area and Darren the second command of the gang asks Ben how he did was behind them and he ask where is Malcolm and Ripburger. Ben arrives too late Malcolm is been murdered by Ripburger and frames the murder on the Polecats. Miranda was able to catch the murder on film, but however Bolus snatched the camera from her. Before dying Malcolm tells Ben that Ripburger is going to take over Corley Motors and produce Minivans instead of motorcycles and orders him to kill Ripburger for him. He also reveals that Maureen is her daughter and convince her to take over his company. Bolus tries to kill Maureen, but she sees him on the toaster reflection and gets the drop off him and escapes the film from Miranda's camera.
With the Polecats in jailed for Malcolm's murder and Ben is branded as a fugitive. He returns back to the Kickstand and finds Miranda who tells him the film she took and convinces a semi-trailer driver Emmet to sneak him and his motorcycle past the police roadblock and to an abandoned mink farm owned by Maureen's uncle. Ben was stranded there, when Emmet stole his fuel line to fix his truck and Maureen stole his booster fuel. Emmet is killed by a biker gang called Cavefish destroying the bridge over Poyahoga Gorge which Ben needs to cross. Having replaced a new fuel line and gotten advice from retired Polecat leader Father Torque. Ben outwits Nestor and Bolus and battles rival gang members including the Cavefish obtaining a hovercraft, new booster fuel and a ramp which he successfully jump his motorcycle over the Gorge to the other side and reaches the Corley Motors factory.
Ben finds Maureen in her hideout a large cargo aircraft, but is captured by her gang the Vultures. Maureen believes Ben is her father's killer and ready to execute him. Ben reveals personal information that Malcolm shared with him earlier and convince to develop Miranda's film. Maureen agrees and realizes that her father's killer was actually Ripburger, not Ben and the Polecats and immediately apologizes. Ben suggest exposing Ripburger in the Shareholders meeting, but Ripburger postpones the meeting until Ben and Maureen are dead. The Vultures come up a plan to fake Ben and Maureen's death by entering in a demolition derby under false identities that obvious to Ripburger. Their cars are rigged to explode, but Ben is protected by a fire proof suit and Maureen's car eject her safety out of the stadium. The plan successfully works resulting the deaths of Nestor and Bolus, while the Vultures recovered the winner's prize a special motorcycle built by Malcolm and Maureen that contains a hidden pass code to Malcolm's safe and Ben finds Malcolm's recorded will and testament. Ben expose Ripburger during the Shareholders meeting by projecting Miranda's photos showing Ripburger killing Malcolm and playing his will to which he leaves leadership of Corley Motors to Maureen and exposes RIpburger as murderer and fugitive.
Ripburger flees in a semi-trailer truck, but as Ben and Maureen rides away, he reappears and rams them. The Vultures appear driving in their flightless cargo plane, scoops up the truck, Ben, Maureen and Ben's bike. Both the plane and truck wind up hanging on the edge of the destroyed bridge over on Poyahoga Gorge and Ripburger falls to his death avenging Malcolm. Maureen and the Vultures flee the plane, while Ben escapes at the last second on his bike by jumping on the back cargo door just as the truck explodes and it and the plane fall into the gorge. With the Polecats cleared and released from jail, members of the bike gang attends Malcolm's funeral with Father Torque deliver an eulogy. Maureen takes over Corley Motors and Ben rides away into the sunset on his bike.
==Trivia==
*Ben Throttle has a brother named Hoagie from The Day of the Tentacle and his real name is Reuben.
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