Doctor Nefarious

Doctor Nefarious is a male video game character who features in Ratchet & Clank.

Biography

Origin

Doctor Nefarious was originally an organic lifeform who came to attend the same high school at Qwark. The pair met at Mr. Bozell's ninth-grade biology class which Nefarious hated which stemmed from Qwark bullying him constantly.

Years later, he created a biological menace known as the amoeboids which he unleashed upon Blackwater City on planet Rilgar with the goal of exterminating all life there. Captain Qwark came to be notified of this incident by the President leading him to help secure a victory over the creatures. This forced Doctor Nefarious to flee Blackwater City in disgrace where he swore vengeance on the city.

Driven insane by the experience, Nefarious soon resurfaced and unleashed a swarm of robotic insects on the city of Metropolis on planet Kerwan to get revenge on Qwark who confronted and defeated him again.

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, and in an attempt to give him a wedgie for old time's sake, he accidentally knocked Nefarious off the catwalk and fell into the machinery of his base. Qwark assumed Nefarious was finished and left, unaware that the machinery transformed Nefarious into a robot.

One of his most notable offense was his attempt to misuse The Great Clock for his own twisted purposes.

Remake

Nefarious began working with Chairman Drek and the blarg, 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.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Doctor Nefarious took the form of a tall, humanoid robot with a green, transparent, egg-shaped head-dome featuring gears and cogs inside along with brightly colored red eyes.

Nefarious was characterised as being a deranged, eccentric, egomaniacal scientist who sadistically showed no remorse for his actions with him showing pleasure at his villainy.

He was known for being a vile, evil, ruthless supercriminal who put multiple galaxies in jeopardy. This led to him being placed at the top of the Galaxy's Most Wanted list. It was shown that he was not above having a whole planet exterminated for daring to call him insane.

One of his most dominant traits is his overwhelming anger, always freaking out when his plans start to fail, and having no tolerance for failure. By the simple fact that Qwark is responsible for his transformation into a robot, Nefarious has developed a deep contempt for organic beings, calling them "squishies" and swearing to turn them all into robots.

It was shown that he was very conceited with many of his creations being made in his own image.

Doctor Nefarious was assisted in his schemes by his butler Lawrence. He was once shown to had granted his aide paid paternity leave.

Later on, Nefarious had 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. When he succeed, he is incredibly happy, which is rare, when he briefly became the Emperor of the Alternate Dimension, engrossing himself in the position and almost enjoying it too much. When his counterpart, Emperor Nefarious finally came in person after being defeated by Rivet, Nefarious became so afraid of him and almost regretted it that he pleaded his life by offering his help to the other Nefarious, becoming a right-hand man. However, by dint of being mistreated and pushed around by Emperor Nefarious, Nefarious had enough and took the opportunity to deliver the final blow for the heroes by pushing the Emperor through another dimension without showing any fear this time around. After the Emperor's defeat, he seemingly gives up on the prospect of trying win, having learned that it's not all that it is hyped up to be. Instead, he returns to his butler Lawrence, meeting his new family and showing fondness towards their new child.

Powers and abilities

Among his creations included:

• Nefarious Space Station : it possessed a superlaser that was powered by a hypernova.
• Biobliterator : a superweapon that converted organic matter into robotic material.

Notes

• Doctor Nefarious was created by Insomniac Games where he featured in the setting of the Ratchet & Clank universe.
• IGN came to list Doctor Nefarious as 65th in a list of Top 100 Videogame Villains.

In other media

Films

• In Ratchet & Clank, Doctor Nefarious appeared in the setting of the 2016 animated film where he was voiced by actor Armin Shimerman.

Appearances

• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: (2004)

External Links

• Ratchet and Clank Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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