Doctor Nefarious

Dr. **Nefarious** (ドクター・ネファリウス, *Dokutā Nefariusu*), is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *SKB's* *Star Ratchank* series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and David Guertin. He is a psychotic and sadistic mad scientist and self-proclaimed supervillain.

He plans to wrong all the rights in the galaxy and rid it of all organic lifeforms so he can rule over a robotic utopia with an iron fist. Though not his sole motive, he acted mostly out of vengeance, and has formed partnerships with many whom he would soon quickly betray.

He has used entire armies of soldiers in a war to invade planets, such as the amoeboids, the tyhrranoids, and his various robotic forces.

"*What do you know about winning?*"

—Dr. Nefarious, to his future grandson.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Armin Shimerman (English), Fubito Yamano (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Biography

Dr. Nefarious. A vile, evil, ruthless supercriminal who put multiple galaxies in jeopardy. His most notable offense was his attempt to misuse The Great Clock for his own twisted purposes. Dr. Nefarious's current whereabouts are unknown, and he remains at the top of the Galaxy's Most Wanted list.

#### Organic

As an organic life form, Dr. Nefarious was a humanoid, with a similar cranial structure and utilized a similar bodysuit, but was equipped with decorative wings on his back, as well as red-tinted accessories such as a large node strapped to his forehead, a glowing red sigil on his chest, and a button on his belt to summon a robotic exoskeleton; this version of him had green-ish skin. These features would roughly carry over into his robotic form in both cases.

#### Robot

Dr. Nefarious' typical robotic form is that of a tall, humanoid robot. He has a green, transparent, egg-shaped head-dome featuring gears and cogs inside, and brightly colored red eyes. Nefarious has red highlights across his torso, a pair of mechanical wings attached to his pauldrons, hydraulic pipes on his chest and back, and diamond-shaped guards on his legs and arms.

* Hair Color: N/A
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Green
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Dr. Nefarious is characterized as a deranged, eccentric, egomaniacal scientist, sadistically showing no remorse for his actions and pleasure in villainy. He is also very conceited, with many of his creations being made in his own image, and many of his robotic servants resembling him or sharing his mannerisms, suggesting narcissistic traits. He has an extreme hatred for organic life, referring to organic life forms as "squishies", and seeking to exterminate them or transform them into robots.

Even when putting aside his hatred towards them in order to further his goals, he vowed to eventually destroy them again once he was finished. Nefarious has proven to be cunning, able to manipulate many to work for him. He was able to fool the fongoids, the terachnoids, the Valkyries, and the Zoni to ally with him, before betraying them all. While working with them, however, he has often shown a complete impatience towards them when they fail him.

While he normally betrays his allies once he has obtained his goal, when it seems clear that they will no longer be useful or co-operate with him, he will betray them prematurely. Towards the end of *All 4 One*, Nefarious' companionship with Ratchet, Clank and Qwark appears to have changed him, being close to tears when looking at a photograph of the four of them.

However, in *Rift Apart*, Nefarious seems to have reverted to his evil supervillain ways but has grown tired of losing to Ratchet and Clank and sought to make them know what it feels like to lose by going to an alternate dimension where he always wins. After successfully entering the dimension where an alternate version of him reigns supreme, Nefarious was exuberant at the thought of actually succeeding and didn't hesitate to take his counterpart's throne. Nefarious engrossed himself in the power his new position as emperor, almost enjoying it too much.

However, in front of those such as Andross, Nefarious showed an uncharacteristic submissive side, begging for his life to work for/team up with them to save himself and almost regret from impersonating. Though team up appeared decent it was ultimately a very tense one, as those like Andross and his future grandson overshadowed and dominated over Dr. Nefarious the entire time, bullying him, leaving the doctor to be quiet and subdued, things Nefarious never is.

Nefarious would try to advise them and make suggestions, but he would be ignored and belittled, leaving the doctor despondent and sullen. Nefarious would ultimately feel outraged and betrayed after his grandson announced his plans of invading his past timeline, as he believed that was *his* era to rule.

He would, however, get his own form of payback as he watched with amusement as Emperor Nefarious struggled in defeating the heroes and rebels that united against his grandson, stating all along that the heroes besting him wasn't because of him but because the heroes and people of his time were stubborn. After Emperor Nefarious was completely beaten and defeated, leaving him begging Nefarious for help, the doctor would simply use his grandson's own cruel words against him and abandon the emperor to his doom.

## Abilities and Powers

Dr. Nefarious, a self-proclaimed genius, is incredibly intelligent, demonstrating his engineering abilities when he designed and built the Nefarious Space Station (a super-laser weapon powered by a hypernova), the Biobliterator (a superweapon that converts organic matter into robotic material), and legions of robotic soldiers. Nefarious was even able to create weapons that could combat the Zoni, a godlike race with manipulation over space and time, notably the Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler that could defeat them and destroy their equipment, and a Zoni vessel that kept Orvus captive.

Nefarious also demonstrates his intellect as a strategist, coming very close to winning a galactic win in Solana with the President practically surrendering, cunningly manipulating many races to help him achieve his goals, and successfully tricking Clank and Sigmund into opening the Orvus Chamber for him. Nefarious is extremely resilient, able to take large amounts of damage before being incapacitated. Despite the strength of Ratchet's weapons, Nefarious has never been heavily damaged beyond repair, and has always been able to escape with the help of Lawrence.

In combat, Dr. Nefarious has a vast array of powers and abilities. To attack opponents, Nefarious is able to control and release forms of energy from his hands, which among other things, can rain down rainbow-like streams of energy to hit targeted areas, raise walls of energy from the ground, project holograms of himself that slash his foes with a claw, and lob explosive balls of energy creating shockwaves when hitting the ground. He can fire a large barrage of explosive missiles from his body to cover the battlefield.

Nefarious also has great agility, able to perform flips and powerful jumps (most notably with his Cloak & Dagger technique in *All 4 One*), and fly with booster jets in his feet and using wings on his back to keep balance (and also fire at opponents mid air). In Rift Apart he has been shown to possess some degree of telekinesis, having the ability to pull objects in the envrionment towards him and push them back at his enemies with great force to damage them and has a large retractable blade in his right forearm, that he uses to lunge and slash at his opponents with.

### Equipment

While Nefarious rarely used equipment himself as his robotic form already capable of dealing damage, many of his minions wielded powerful weaponry. He still made use of some weapons himself, often invented by him. In his first battle with Ratchet and Clank he utilized two guns to perform a laser sweep. A notable weapon is the Biobliterator, which doubled up as a vehicle that he at one point piloted to fight Star Fox, Ratchet, Clank and Qwark. The Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler was used by him throughout the Great Clock, as it was able to damage Zoni and their equipment.

He also possessed a blaster with ricocheting bullets that could take a Nefarious Trooper down with one shot. During *All 4 One*, Nefarious used a large arsenal of weapons, including his own RYNO VI Protosuit. Nefarious equipped himself with the **Annihilator Blades** as his regular melee weapon; which he would use to attack with a slash from each claw, followed by a third strike with both. Nefarious also used it for his Comet-strike, where he would detach it from his arm and launch it at an opponent.

His special weapon was the Cloaker, which allowed him to turn invisible, and while attacking with it he would execute the "Cloak & Dagger" maneuver whereupon he jump incredibly high and slam his Annihilator Blades into a foe.

## History

### Past

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. Nefarious nonetheless considered him a friend.

In the later events of his adulthood, Nefarious became a member of the Galactic Rangers, a team led by Captain Qwark and commissioned by President Phyronix and General Pepper. He designed and invented most of the weapons used by the other Rangers, though his budget was frequently cut. Due to his mistreatment by Captain Qwark, Nefarious betrayed the team, and attempted to atomize Kerwan's Aleero City. Qwark stopped him, and he was promptly imprisoned.

He later escaped and, with his new 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. General Pepper, after being notified about the attack by the president, dispatched his forces to defeat the amoeboids. They defeated them, causing Nefarious to flee Blackwater City in disgrace, swearing vengeance on the city.

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 alone. Nefarious found this laughable, but allowed Qwark in anyway as he believed his security forces would defeat Qwark. Qwark instead confronted Nefarious, and in an attempt to give him a wedgie for old time's sake, he accidently knocked Nefarious off the catwalk and fell into the deepness of his base.

Qwark assumed Nefarious was finished and left, unaware that he had survived. Nefarious began working with Andross and hisarmy, having a key role in designing much of the weaponry and equipment for Chairman Drek Industries and the blarg, 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 Andross and Drek's quests, 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 and Andross were nonetheless using Drek for their revenge against Qwark and the General Pepper: by helping them destroy planets, Nefarious was ruining the reputation of the Rangers in a bid to destroy as many planets as possible.

## External links

* Dr. Nefarious *Ratchet & Clank Wiki*
* Dr. Nefarious *Giant Bomb*
* Dr. Nefarious *Villains Wiki*