Dr. Nefarious

Doctor Nefarious is the primary antagonist of the *Ratchet & Clank* series, being the main antagonist of *Up Your Arsenal* and *A Crack in Time*, the secondary antagonist of Rift Apart, an antagonist in both the 2016 *Ratchet & Clank* game and the tie-in *Ratchet & Clank* movie, one of the four main protagonists of *All 4 One*, and has appearances in other titles. A robot scientist and self-proclaimed supervillain, he is the nemesis of Captain Qwark, and has a distinct hatred for organic life forms.

Dr. Nefarious is a psychotic and sadistic mad scientist. Though not his sole motive, he acted mostly out of vengeance, and has formed partnerships with many whom he would quickly betray, though with the Three Lords Alliance, Lord Rottenday, who had previously worked with him, anticipated this and cast him out, leading Nefarious to create Team Nefarious. He has used entire armies of soldiers to invade planets, such as the amoeboids, the tyhrranoids, and his various robotic forces. Of his allies, the only one who has stuck with him throughout his career is his butler, Lawrence, who still has a disdain for the scientist. Nefarious is an extremely powerful robot that is deadly in combat, though he is prone to malfunctioning, during which he will freeze up and play either an episode of *Lance and Janice* or a random song before being whacked by Lawrence and someone else.

By the events of *Rift Apart*, Nefarious appears to have been fixed thoroughly, as he no longer malfunctioning upon getting angry in said game.

## History

Note: Most of this history will be blended with the history of the Punch Time Exploders.

### Early History

Nefarious went to high-school with Qwark, and despite Qwark's attitude towards him there and the fact Nefarious wished death upon them, he nonetheless considered him a friend.

Nefarious began as an organic lifeform and attended the same school as Qwark. The two met in Mr. Bozell's ninth-grade biology class. Nefarious hated the class, in no part due to how Qwark, who was three times Nefarious' size and twenty-six years old at the time, would bully him by doing things such as calling him "that freak with the headgear", pouring chemicals on his head, cleaning the chalkboard with his pants (while he was still wearing them) and giving him wedgies.

After the ninth grade, Nefarious used his scientific knowledge to create a memory-rewriting device that he used to erase all memory of Qwark.

During his adult years, he had joined the Galactic Rangers, a team led by Captain Qwark and commissioned by President Phyronix. He designed and invented most of the weapons used by the other Rangers, though his budget was frequently cut. Over time, Nefarious had gotten the memory of his torturous high school years back, inadvertently thanks to his mistreatment by Captain Qwark, after which he betrayed the team, and attempted to atomize Kerwan's Aleero City. Qwark stopped him, but after the battle, Nefarious had disappeared.

Later, Nefarious, with his new robot butler Lawrence, created a biological menace known as the amoeboids, which he unleashed upon Blackwater City on planet Rilgar, with the goal of exterminating all life on Rilgar. Captain Qwark, after being notified about the attack by the president, led the Rangers to Rilgar and defeated the amoeboids, causing Nefarious to flee Blackwater City in disgrace, swearing vengeance on the Rangers.

He returned to his base on planet Magmos, arriving six days later, with Qwark clinging onto the side of Nefarious' ship. Qwark attempted to disguise himself as a pizza delivery woman to infiltrate Nefarious' base. Nefarious found this laughable, but allowed Qwark in anyway as he believed his security forces would defeat Qwark. Qwark instead confronted Nefarious, gave him a wedgie for old time's sake, and promptly imprisoned him. Nefarious was assumed to have then died in a subsequent prison escape, though he had survived.

### Enter Ratchet and Clank

Nefarious began working with Chairman Drek and the blarg, and later on Lord Rottenday, having a key role in designing much of the weaponry and equipment for Drek Industries, including the XK-81 Jetpack, RYNO, and Sheepinator. Chairman Drek had begun work on creating a new planet, New Quartu, built using the parts of planets he destroyed. Nefarious helped Drek's quest, constructing the Deplanetizer, which used an artificial supernova to power its laser, an idea Nefarious had in jail. He also created an army of warbots on Quartu's Skorg City, used to invade planets, of which one of the warbots created in Nefarious' factory was a defect, Clank. Nefarious was nonetheless using Drek for his revenge against Qwark and the Galactic Rangers: by helping Drek destroy planets, Nefarious was ruining the reputation of the Rangers in a bid to destroy as many planets as possible.

Drek sent Nefarious' warbots to invade Quartu, though Ratchet and Clank destroyed the Class G Dreadship and ended the attack, leading to their recruitment as Galactic Rangers. Nefarious then suggested that in order to defeat the Rangers, Drek persuade Qwark to come to his side instead. After attacking Quartu, Drek managed to persuade Qwark to betray the Rangers, without revealing that he was working with Nefarious. Nefarious then convinced Drek that his next target would be planet Umbris, a planet with an unstable core, meaning that its destruction at the right moment could destroy a nearby dwarf star, and thus an entire system, with it.

Before Drek destroyed Umbris, Qwark confronted Drek about the destruction of Novalis and the attack on the Rangers, which Drek had promised would not happen. Nefarious then revealed himself to Qwark to still be alive, mocked him for betraying his friends, and ushered him away. He then used the Sheepinator to morph Drek into a sheep, thrust him into a shuttle to New Quartu, and blasted him away, effectively betraying him and taking control of the Deplanetizer himself, using it to destroy Umbris. While the Galactic Rangers used the Mag Booster to throw the Deplanetizer off, Ratchet and Clank infiltrated the station. After beating Qwark to his senses, Nefarious fought the three of them, using an Alpha Disruptor, and tried to fire the Deplanetizer laser without them. He successfully fired the laser, but it destroyed New Quartu instead of Umbris.

Nefarious then tried to kill Qwark himself using the RYNO, but Ratchet knocked him into the Deplanetizer with his OmniWrench, leading him to crash on Umbris, where several repair bots, mistaking him for a robot, replaced his body with a robotic one.

### Before Up Your Arsenal

Nefarious later attempted to join the Three Lords Alliance, but Rottenday refused his offer because he didn't want to have to go through the same thing as Drek did. Nefarious stormed off to form his own villain team, but not before stealing back the Tech Elemental Skylander Crystal.

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