Ratchet

**Ratchet** (ラチェット, *Rachetto*), is both a fictional character and protagonist of the *Star Ratchank* series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and David Guertin. He is a member of Star Fox, a skilled mechanic, and one of the remaining lombax that still lives in the universe.

He was adopted by T-Bone, as had been requested by his father in the war's climax. Ratchet came to grow up as an orphaned mechanic on Veldin in the Solana Galaxy. His life was changed once he met a small robot who crash-landed and became his lifelong friend.

The two have since shared many adventures, joined Star Fox together, as they have fought and saved galaxies from any threat to the universe. During his time, he also worked for Megacorp, the Galactic Rangers, the Q-Force, and the Polaris Defense Force.

"*Another day, another death course. Is it dangerous? …Good.*"

—Ratchet, encountering a training course with his mentor.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* James Taylor (English), Makoto Tsumura (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

* Fur Color: Brown
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 5 ft. (152 cm.)
* Weight: 97.5 lbs. (44.3 kg.)

## Personality

Ratchet is an eager, headstrong, light-hearted, and astute character. He is a thrill-seeker, both having a great sense of adventure and actively enjoying danger. Ratchet's headstrong nature both allows him to fearlessly leap into harm's way, which can be to his benefit or to his detriment depending on his success, particularly when he overestimates his mechanical skills. Ratchet is fairly astute, and though not always able to piece things together immediately, he can notice he is being misled. Ratchet is light-hearted in most situations, often throwing in snide remarks at his foes, or making light jabs at his own expense to brighten the mood.

## Relationships

### Friends

* Grimroth Razz
* Clank (best friend)
* Star Fox
	+ Fox McCloud
	+ Peppy Hare
	+ Falco Lombardi
	+ Slippy Toad
	+ Miyu
	+ Krystal
	+ Fay
* Bill Grey
* Talwyn Apogee
* Katt Monroe
* Crunk and Zephyr
* Cornerian Military
	+ General Pepper
* Rivet
* Prince Tricky
* Dinosaur Tribes
* Starlink

### Family

* Kaden (father, status unknown, presumed deceased)
* Unnamed mother (deceased)
* T-Bone (foster father/mentor)

### Rivals

* Star Wolf
	+ Wolf O'Donnell
	+ Alister Azimuth (arch rival)

### Enemies

* Andross' Empire
	+ Andross
	+ Dr. Nefarious
* Chairman Drek
* Venomians
* Gleeman Vox
* Pigma Dengar
* Ace Hardlight (arch-enemy)
* Captain Shears
* Otto Destruct
* General Scales
* Clunk
* Aparoids
	+ Aparoid Queen
* Angular Emperor
* Lord Flint V
* Grax
* Emperor Nefarious
* Forgotten Legion
* Emperor Tachyon (personal nemesis)

## Powers and Abilities

Ratchet uses his skills as a mechanic, a pilot, and a combatant to protect the universe from threats. His most common weapon is the OmniWrench, which he uses in melee combat, though he has also wielded powerful weapons and gadgets from Gadgetron (such as the Swingshot, RYNO V, and Agents of Doom), Megacorp (such as the Dynamo, Plasma Coil, and Bouncer), GrummelNet (such as the Groovitron, Mr. Zurkon, and the Buzz Blades) and the lombaxes (such as the Alpha Disruptor).

## =Abilities

Ratchet is a talented and resourceful mechanic who has invented powerful devices often with limited resources available to him. He began his adventures when he built his own starship with his OmniWrench, and later built an intergalactic warp drive with scrap metal.< Among his other inventions were a nuclear-powered rocket sled, an anti-matter bathroom buddy, and electro-shock undergarments named "Stunderwear". However, his overconfidence with his skills often leads him to use his devices untested, which can have dangerous consequences.

Despite not having a pilot's license, nor having flown since his first adventure, he is nonetheless a skilled pilot. Ratchet has survived and won several dogfights in space against insurmountable odds, as well as win races against Ace Bunyon, the fastest pilot in the Bogon Galaxy. Ratchet's most commonly used starship has been the *Aphelion*, a sentient lombax vessel used since *Tools of Destruction*, though prior to that he frequently used the *Star Explorer* ship provided to him by Megacorp, among others.

Ratchet has also shown proficiency in commandeering several vehicles, including hoverboards, hoverbikes, the turboslider, and the Landstalker. With hoverboards and hoverbikes, Ratchet has competed in and won races, including earning membership of the Desert Riders for his success.

Ratchet is a skilled, acrobatic, and physically a strong fighter. With Megacorp, he underwent extensive commando training, including in martial arts, heavy weaponry, survival skills, and stealth, but also in macramé, ballroom dance, and origami. Despite his appearance, his physical strength is enough to hold off the likes of even a War Grok. However primary strength in combat however comes from his vast arsenal that he wields to wield a vast array of weapons.

### Equipment

Ratchet wields a loaded arsenal of weaponry acquired both legally and illegally from several manufacturers: Gadgetron, Megacorp, Vox Industries, GrummelNet, the lombaxes, and others. He equips weapons using a neuro-sensor in his helmet, which reads his thoughts and teleports the desired weapon in his hands. His weapons range from standard blasters (such as the blaster, Dual Vipers, or Combuster), grenade launchers (such as the Gravity Bomb, Nitro Launcher or Fusion Grenade), shotguns (such as the Shock Blaster, the Shard Reaper, or the Constructo Shotgun and missile launchers (such as the Devastator, the Minirocket Tube, or the Negotiator), to many other deployed tactical weapons (such as the Groovitron, the Miniturret Glove, or the Nano-Swarmers) and weapons that summon aid in combat (such as the Agents of Doom and Mr. Zurkon).

By far Ratchet's deadliest weapons are the illegal RYNO weapons, extremely powerful weapons that are either large missile launchers (original R.Y.N.O., RY3NO), rapid fire missile launchers (RYNO II, RYNO V, RYNO VII), dark matter launchers (RY3NO when upgraded, RYNO IV) or even mech suits (RYNO VI Protosuit). Ratchet also often wields weapons that can morph his opponents into animals (such as the Morph-o-Ray, the Sheepinator, and the Transmorpher), and tear holes in the fabric of space and time (the Rift Inducer).

As well as his arsenal of weapons, Ratchet's signature weapon is his OmniWrench, a device he uses a mechanic, but wields as a melee weapon. The OmniWrench also serves him well in interacting with his environment (typically turning bolt cranks or picking up and throwing objects). Aside from this, his most common gadgets are the Swingshot, used to swing across large gaps, the Grind Boots used to grind on rails, and the Hoverboots, a lombax invention used to quickly traverse environments.

## External links

* Ratchet *Wikipedia*
* Ratchet *Heroes Wiki*
* Ratchet *Ratchet & Clank Wiki*