Rivet

**Rivet** (リベット, *Ripetto*), is both a fictional character and protagonist of the *Star Ratchank* series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and David Guertin. She is a female lombax member of the resistance from a distant timeline, fighting Dr. Nefarious' great-grandson in the future.

When Clank and Slippy gets separated from the others, she takes them with her after finding him in Nefarious City, following the accident with the dimensionator gone wrong and later teaming up with the original Star Fox to help them stop a space-time cataclysm.

While just as knowledgeable about machines and gadgets as Ratchet, she's more sour and jaded than he is.

"*Out here, things never go according to plan. Improvisation is a skill you learn very fast.*"

—Rivet, to her possible father.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Jennifer Hale (English), Rina Honnizumi (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)

### Appearance

Rivet is a lombax with white fur with pigeon blue stripes, thin dark eyebrows, a small light pink nose, and light blue eyes. The fur on her forehead resembles a tuft of hair. She wears a pair of black goggles with blue lenses on her head, silver hoop earrings in each ear (two on the right and one on the left), a black and gray jumpsuit with a silver belt, an orange scarf, a black left glove with two orange stripes almost at the end, and black boots with an orange detail. She also has a yellow bionic right arm. Unlike the only other known female lombax, she has a long bushy tail similar to that of a raccoon’s and noticeably different from those of Ratchet and Alister Azimuth, who both have tails similar to that of a lion. This may be because of her being from a different dimension, giving her anatomical differences. She also uses a hammer as her main weapon.

* Fur Color: White, Dark, and Pigeon Blue
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Green
* Age: 18
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Like Ratchet, Rivet is heroic, adventure-loving, sassy, quick to act, and prone to making witty jokes in tense situations. In addition, much liker her counterpart, Rivet is willing to put her life on the line to protect the downtrodden and help those in dire need. She is described as being a secret softie but attempts to hide it with a tough exterior. However, being a loner has left her socially awkward, skeptical, sour, jaded, and being unacquainted with teamwork.

Despite claiming of being used to working alone and preferring to not have a partner, Rivet is very lonely, at least until she meets Slippy, Clank, Ratchet, Star Fox, and Kit. Throughout the story, Rivet manages to break through the barriers of loneliness to the point of accepting Kit as her partner and become the leader of the future Star Fox consisting with Marcus, becoming a happier individual.

Rivet suffers from some degree of PTSD due to losing her arm on a mission. Further, the loss of her arm to a warbot and constantly fighting the robotic empire of Emperor Nefarious or the robotic Space Pirates has left Rivet very distrustful towards robots, not exactly hating them but is suspicious of them, as she didn't believe Clank's story about being from a different timeline until seeing his memory bank. Clank noted that her wariness towards robots is a key difference between Rivet and Ratchet.

Despite this, Rivet's journey with Clank would lead them to develop a friendship almost similar to Clank's with Ratchet, with Rivet building Clank a new arm at the end of their adventure. When she found out that Kit was the one who took her arm, Rivet was very angry that she kept this from her, even believing that Kit had lied to her about being her friend. Although Clank convinced Rivet to try to forgive Kit, Rivet only got even angrier when she realized that Kit just wanted to go back into hiding instead of helping in stopping Emperor Nefarious.

When Kit finally returned to help defeat Emperor Nefarious, Rivet forgave her and the two developed a true friendship. Similar to Ratchet, Rivet is naturally excited and awed at the prospect of meeting another Lombax. She expresses a desperate want to find other lombaxes and kinship with others of her kind and is shocked to hear of Ratchet's hesitance to go to the lombax dimension, with her saying she'd happily go in his place.

In contrast, Ratchet is happy with the life he has in his timeline with Clank and Talwyn and doesn't consider finding the other lombaxes to be as important to him as Rivet. Rivet has lived a different life from Ratchet, fighting the Nefarious Empire for so long and losing friends in the many fights, she doesn't have the kind of relationships he has and as a result feels rather lonely, with her hope of finding others of her race being a great driving force for her.

However, upon getting closer to the point of meeting Ratchet, Rivet showed a more clumsy and nervous side, becoming uncomfortable about finally being able to meet another Lombax, having never met another her whole life. Once they do meet, both Rivet and Ratchet felt a little embarrassed in each other's presence but got along well enough quickly, simultaneously saying the same words a few times. Even when they briefly argued when Ratchet accused Rivet of being too scared of Kit while Rivet claimed Ratchet was too scared to find their kind, the two Lombaxes were quick to forgive each other.

## Relationships

### Friends

* Present Star Fox
	+ Fox McCloud
	+ Clank
	+ Slippy Toad
	+ Falco Lombardi
	+ Peppy Hare
	+ T-Bone
	+ Krystal
	+ Miyu
	+ Fay
* Future Star Fox
	+ Kit
	+ Marcus
	+ Slippy's Son
	+ Peppy's Granddaughter
* Captain Quantum
* Gary

### Rivals

* Star Wolf
* Pierre Le Fer (rival)

### Enemies

* Emperor Nefarious
* Dr. Nefarious

## External links

* Rivet *Heroes Wiki*
* Rivet *Ratchet & Clank Wiki*