Skrunch

Skrunch is a supporting character in the Ratchet & Clank series. He is a cyclophic monkey native to planet Florana, who befriends Captain Qwark before his first appearance in Up Your Arsenal. He makes a subsequent appearance in Size Matters, and is mentioned briefly in All 4 One. 
==Biography==
===Up Your Arsenal===
Some time after the events of Going Commando, Captain Qwark moved to Florana for some time, befriending Skrunch. Over time, he would lose his memory and distanced from his personality, believing he was a Florana tree beast. As Ratchet and Clank arrive and run into Qwark unknowingly, Skrunch is first seen hanging on Clank, who is on Ratchet's back. As Qwark confronts them, Skrunch then hops onto Qwark's back, who forces the duo to run the path of death.
Ratchet and Clank fight and defeat Qwark in battle, who extract Qwark from the planet, and Skrunch follows them. Following the formation of the Q-Force, Skrunch is assigned as a member. He mainly spends his time in the cockpit of the Starship Phoenix, but assists in the plan to infiltrate Nefarious's base on Aquatos. He joins Clank as he splits from Ratchet, and Clank uses a Banana Guided Autonomous Monkey Device (BGAMD) to direct Skrunch across obstacles, and allowing Clank to cross them.
He continues to assist the Q-Force, as he joins Ratchet and Clank during their base on the Korgon Base, controlling the turret on a turboslider vehicle. When Ratchet is fired from the Secret Agent Clank holofilm set, the role is reassigned to Skrunch. The rewritten script revolved around the two putting their differences aside to make their way through a chase sequence, with Skrunch once again crossing obstacles for Clank using the BGAMD.
Skrunch is next seen at the Zeldrin Starport, who is with Qwark as they wait for Ratchet to arrive. Here, Skrunch confronts Qwark over their past in the jungle, and once Ratchet arrives, they proceed to infiltrate Nefarious's starcruiser. When revealed to be a trap, Nefarious activates a timed countdown to blow it up, and Qwark splits from the others to retrieve a datadisk. Skrunch sticks with Ratchet as they try to wait for Qwark to arrive, but he doesn't. Believed to be dead, a funeral is held for Qwark, which Skrunch attends.
As Ratchet and Clank investigate the crash site where the starcruiser landed, Skrunch follows them, and together they find a hint that Qwark did in fact not die. He also watches Ratchet play the final Qwark vid-comic that hinted the location of his hideout, and requests to accompany the duo to search for him. When they reach Qwark himself, Skrunch assists Clank in deactivating the forcefield leading to his bedroom. Qwark has seemingly given up in the mission, and Skrunch expresses his disapproval over that decision.
After the defeat of Nefarious, Skrunch appears on the premiere of the upcoming Secret Agent Clank holofilm. As Clank shoots a banana at Maxmillion, leading Skrunch to attack his helicopter and defeating him. During the applausal, seeing Ratchet get kissed by Sasha, Skrunch attempts to imitate by pouting at Clank, who immediately rejects a kiss from him.
===Size Matters ===
It is presumed that Skrunch had stuck with Qwark during the events of Deadlocked, who were not kidnapped and forced to participate in DreadZone as Ratchet, Clank and Al were. As such, he makes his next appearance afterwards, with a reduced role. When Ratchet and Clank are double-crossed by Luna, who was originally believed to be a kidnapped damsel, the duo is separated. Skrunch tracks Clank down to planet Metalis to deliver a message, informing him that Ratchet was located on Medical Outpost Omega, showing video footage of him unconscious on a bed.
He does not appear again until Emperor Otto Destruct is defeated by the duo, informing them who Qwark's real parents are. When Qwark attempts to use Otto's machine to switch intelligence with him, Skrunch intervenes, causing his intelligence to be transferred to Otto himself, ending his threat. It's unknown whether Otto's intelligence was transferred to Skrunch as a result.
=== All 4 One===
He is briefly mentioned at the start by Captain Qwark, now president of the Polaris Galaxy, to have been nominated as his Vice President, and his photo appears on the table in Qwark's office. 
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