Emperor Nefarious

**Emperor Nefarious** was a secondary character in the Nefarious Franchise. He was the Emperor of Nefarious city.

He is also Empress Nicole's Father.

## Appearance

While superficially he and the Doctor are similar in silhouette, the Emperor is far taller than his counterpart, additionally sporting a glossy white chassis adorned with orange highlights, a much smaller cranial dome, and more rounded features. At the center of his brow sits a somewhat teardrop-shaped crest and the inside of his orange cranial dome contains three protruding transmitters, compared to Dr. Nefarious' own mass of moving machine parts.

## Personality

While this Nefarious is an egomaniacal, sadistic, arrogant, and downright evil villain like his other-worldly counterpart, the key difference among them is that this Nefarious is much more pragmatic in his ambitions. In contrast to Dr. Nefarious, the Emperor's rule is swift and sure without the apparent need for a superweapon like a Biobliterator, control over a machine that affected time itself or a device to launch his enemies into space on an asteroid, only the strength of his armies. He isn't even concerned about gaining any extra riches or beneficial advantage, mainly only interested in the primary objective of seizing power for powers sake and continuing to win. Dr. Nefarious considered his counterpart's plans lacked a sense of elegance and flair. Despite this, Emperor Nefarious is relatively yet undeniably more knowledgeable and cunning, having managed to expand his empire over the whole universe when his counterpart hadn't even come close, proving the Emperor to be both a better strategist and a more formidable conqueror. The Emperor doesn't seem to be scientifically minded like his counterpart and is instead simply an extremely powerful and efficient tyrant.

Being so confident in his own superiority and ability to never lose, the Emperor opts to keep his greatest enemies alive to make examples of them for others and subject them to despair at his own success from his prisons. This hubris would prove to be his greatest weakness. Other beings that simply annoy him or he finds insulting, he will instead choose to have them destroyed. When the Kerchu had misspelled the Emperor's name on their tax returns, he was so insulted that he quickly had them wiped out. Also after finding out about the destruction of the Rubion Forge at the Kedaro Station, he declared that all the staff at the facility that did not prevent it from happening would all be killed.

Similar to his counterpart, however, Emperor Nefarious is extremely self-absorbed and narcissistic, having statues of his likeness surrounding his lair, having a city named after him and even music made by him played at clubs bearing his name. In addition, Emperor Nefarious can be just as hot-tempered as Dr. Nefarious, though while the doctor would simply shout and yell at those who infuriate him, Emperor Nefarious is more likely to resort to physical violence as he nearly used the Dimensionator on Dr. Nefarious for pretending to be him. He is also seemingly incapable of showing gratitude, even grudgingly, as when Dr. Nefarious used the Dimensionator to save him from Kit in her battle mode, he rudely snatched it back, and continued to abuse his counterpart as if the doctor was just a lackey to him.

Though Emperor Nefarious teamed up with his counterpart, he nonetheless viewed Dr. Nefarious as incompetent and a failure due to his numerous defeats in his own home dimension, even telling his counterpart outright that he knew nothing about success, resulting in their partnership to be very tumultuous. He appears to not have an absolute contempt for organic life like his counterpart and is content subjugating both robots and organics alike, allowing them to exist purely at the service of his empire. However robots do appear to still be considered in a higher class over organics, with his robotic followers referring to them as "squishies" and gleefully boasting total robot domination. When Rivet was spotted on Corson V abducting and escaping with Clank by Nefarious troopers, the troopers pursued and ordered her to "release the hostage" implying that robots are indeed considered a higher class of citizen than organics and a priority.

Unlike his counterpart, he seems to have grown so used to victory, that even the seeming total subjugation of the galaxy after he banished Rivet to a pocket dimension and sealed Captain Quantum in Zordoom Prison, he did not feel satisfied at all - as Dr. Nefarious points out, without something to reach for, he feels life has no meaning (although he promptly ignored Dr. Nefarious' commentary and decided the real reason was that he was not the ruler of all dimensions yet, preparing a plan to conquer Ratchet's own universe).

Most of all, Emperor Nefarious possess a powerful superiority complex. He is mostly unconcerned with threats to his reign, often finding them amusing or annoying. Even when the Resistance or heroes like Rivet and Ratchet managed to fight back and gain a victory, Emperor Nefarious considered them little more than a setback or temporary victory. However, upon attempting to conquer Ratchet's dimension and finding its people refusing to surrender and bow before him, Emperor Nefarious couldn't fathom it. Even when he appeared to be winning and the heroes refusing to quit the fight, Emperor Nefarious struggled to comprehend the reality of it. As a result, Emperor Nefarious began to lose his composure and deny that he couldn't achieve what his counterpart could not. Emperor Nefarious apparently began to lose his mind when the heroes managed to defeat all of his armies, leaving him with nothing, driving him to attempt to destroy all dimensions with the Dimensionator. This reaction caused Dr. Nefarious' existing dislike of his counterpart to become outright contempt, accusing Emperor Nefarious of being his own worst obstacle in his schemes.

Much like Dr. Nefarious, Emperor Nefarious has proven to be a whiny coward when faced with true defeat, begging his counterpart to help him when being dragged by an angry kraken, only to be mocked and betrayed by using the same words he used on the doctor. He also has a penchant like the Doctor to use verbs in the style of "annihilate", "obliterate", "eradicate", "eliminate", "exterminate" etc.

in the context of destroying things. They also appear to have a similar sense of humour, as Dr. Nefarious has attempted to make Lawrence laugh in the past by loudly reiterating if he heard him after saying something he thought was funny/witty, leading Lawrence to instead subtly insult him without the Doctor realizing it or simply ignore him. The Emperor instead actually has laughed along with him. On Sargasso when they were attempting to destroy the planet, the Doctor remarked it needed to "Sargass-go", eliciting a laugh from the Emperor which he soon attempted to stifle with a cough. The only other person apart from the Emperor to share his sense of humour is his late Valkyrie girlfriend Cassiopeia.

## Abilities

Despite their differences with success and achieving victories, Emperor Nefarious and Dr. Nefarious share many abilities in combat, though the Emperor is superior to his counterpart in physical strength. Both possess the ability to fly using propulsion thrusters on their bodies, fire powerful lasers or energy projectiles and use telekinesis-like powers that allow them to levitate/push objects/people. The Emperor's telekinesis-like abilities appear to be a good margin greater than the Doctor's however, being able to toss large boulders and explosive crates with a wave of his hand at his enemies. Dr. Nefarious in comparison, required the use of both arms to perform the same feat. Even with their many similar abilities, they have different fighting styles when using them; with the Emperor opting in close quarters to perform a flying punch and the Doctor; a flying slash with a blade.

He is a rather proficient military tactician and successfully conquered any opponent he had ever encountered with his armies. Over many years however he has become overly complacent in his victories and no longer takes his enemies seriously as threats and rather considers them as inconveniences that he will eventually overcome.

Throughout the years in his free time, the Emperor has fancied himself as an artist and musician, although this is done specifically to feed his own ego as the art is of his own image and the music is about himself. He has created many art pieces of himself in the form of paintings and statues heavily resembling the famous works of artists such as Rodin and Botticelli. He has also created many tracks featuring excerpts from his own theme music and sung songs about his own greatness. The reception to these are quite mixed as when Kit heard the tracks played at Club Nefarious, she remarked that the music had somehow gotten even worse there. Likewise, when Clank heard the same music himself, he commented that it had a fascinating rhythm. Any citizens criticizing his works however are sent to be rehabilitated at Zordoom Prison.

The Emperor also has taken to being a designer of various sorts and of course uses features of his own likeness in their creations. The Imperial Power Suit was designed by himself in his own image, and he chose the prominent white and orange colour palette for the Kedaro Station. Also, in the event that Rivet had joined the Emperor's ranks, he himself designed a full Lombax suit of armour fashioned after his own appearance.