List of Ratchet & Clank Characters - Species

Species

Agorians

A proud race of reptilian creatures with an often-changing Code of Honor, first appearing in A Crack in Time. They have never evolved and love to engage in warrior lifestyle, so far as to create the Agorian Battleplex to fight in contests and invaded several peaceful planets. They have both antagonized and allied Ratchet and Clank during their adventures in the Polaris Galaxy.

Amoeboids

Green slimy creatures that inhabit sewers in at least four planets. They appear attacking Blackwater City in Ratchet & Clank, in the sewers of planet Pokitaru (probably created from the toxic waste that the Blargs were dumping into the ocean), in a secret area on planet Novalis, and in the sewers of Aquatos. In Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal it is revealed that Dr. Nefarious is actually the one who created the Amoeboids and planned to use them to destroy Blackwater City because its inhabitants called him insane. They later return in Secret Agent Clank, thriving in the acid-filled canals of Venantonio. That game also introduced red variants that can explode (Clank says "Someone must have altered their chemical compositions") It was also mentioned that there was a self-deodorizing variant being created; whether this was successful is unknown.

Blarg

These are the main enemies in Ratchet & Clank. Their home planet was once Orxon, but the constant pollution forced them off. They come in many different shapes and sizes, ranging from foot soldiers to monstrous Snagglebeasts. The Blargs are technologically apt, but have really only focused on advanced warfare-technology. They have also built a large space station for research purposes. They are an orange-pink in colour. Their leader is the tyrannical Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek (who is defeated by Ratchet at the end of Ratchet & Clank). They also built the first R.Y.N.O (Rip Ya a New One), the most powerful series of weapons in the Ratchet and Clank galaxy. Planet Orxon reappeared in Ratchet: Deadlocked. They are mentioned by Lawrence in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (of which case, it was spelt "Blaarg") when he is referring to the paradox effect, and enquires if they will co-operate. They are also mentioned several times in Ratchet: Deadlocked where at the beginning of the game, Ratchet is angry at Al for putting him in his combat suit and calls him a "Blarg-headed frak monkey" and in the description of the challenge "Heavy metal" it says: "If it is bigger than a Blargian toaster, Ratchet will fight it" and again on the challenge on Orxon, "scorin' with the Blarg", Dallas calls it "blargian turkey shoot" In a cinematic, Gleeman vox is making a commercial for Dreadzone saying "Is your 'Blargs gone wild' video scratched from overuse?"

Cazares

So far only two have appeared in the series - Sasha ( which appears in the games Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and at the beginning of Ratchet: Deadlocked. She is also mentioned in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction ) and her father, Mr. Phyronix, the Galactic President who appears in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and mentioned in the game Secret Agent Clank. They are humanoids with brown fur and a look slightly similar to that of a fox. Apparently the males are twice as big than the females and Sasha is the same size as Ratchet. There was originally confusion that Sasha was a Lombax like Ratchet, but Insomniac has since cleared it up.

Cragmites

A brutal race of reptilian/insectoid creatures that lost the Great War to the Lombaxes, of which Emperor Percival Tachyon is the last. The Cragmites terrorized the Polaris Galaxy, but the Lombaxes fought back and banished the Cragmites into another dimension - effectively ridding the universe of them. Tachyon managed to summon the Cragmites once more with the Dimensionator, before having his army stopped by Ratchet. The Cragmites are a deep-purple color, much like the terrain of their barren homeworld. Whilst Tachyon is relatively small, true Cragmites are considerably larger - standing much higher than either Ratchet or Captain Qwark. Cragmites seem to possess teleportation abilities and incredible strength.

Drophyds

A race of fish-like aliens originating from Planet Zaurik. According to Aphellion, Tachyon bought out their loyalty with raritanium. Their armor is based on Lombax engineering and built from materials scavenged by the Space Pirates.

Fongoids

They were trusted with the power of time travel by the Zoni. But when a huge space rift is created due to their constent time travel the Zoni take away all technology. It is a Fongoid planet, Zanifar, where Dr. Nefarious's asteroid crash lands. He quickly brainwashes the Fongoids there to build the outpost on Planet Zanifar. Their first appearance is in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Grummels

Grummels are race of aliens found in the Polaris galaxy. They are the operators of Grummelnet, the leading weapons and armour manufacturer in the galaxy (analogous to Gadgetron and Megacorp in other galaxies). Grummels are green-skinned and often fat, with a single antenna on their heads. According to the IRIS supercomputer in Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, an attempt to restore the dying Grummel population through cloning left many of the clones lacking in intelligence. Despite this, they are shown to be very proficient at manufacturing weaponry.

Heliogrubs

Heliogrubs are small bug-like animals that live in the caves on Planet Merdegraw in Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty. Ratchet can pick them up and throw them with his wrench. Ratchet uses their natural bio-light to navigate through the caves as well as to scare away Cave Thwogs which swarm and attack so relentlessly that they are too difficult to defeat. In the end credits there is a final message stating that "no Heliogrubs were harmed in the making of this game".

Kerchu

The Kerchu are small, furry creatures that are very skilled in building weapons. Their home planet is Planet Jasindu. According to the Smuggler, the Kerchu are the most dangerous race in Polaris (behind the Cragmites) and there is no being that is not allergic to Kerchu fur.

Loki

A race of malevolent spirits that survive by possessing the bodies of other creatures. There were defeated long ago by a Cragmite hero. They are eventually revealed to be the main antagonists of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One.

Lombaxes

A race of bipedal felinoid creatures that are known for their natural affinity with gadgets and machines, though female Lombaxes do not have tails. Their home planet is Fastoon in the Polaris Galaxy. The Lombaxes are hailed in the Polaris Galaxy as the saviors of the universe for defeating the Cragmites. However, when Tachyon's Drophyd army attacked Fastoon, the Lombaxes teleported out of the universe to escape them. Ratchet, Angela Cross and Alister Azimuth are the only known Lombaxes to have stayed behind. As of the conclusion of A Crack in Time, Azimuth is dead and Angela has gone missing, leaving Ratchet as the last known survivor of his kind.

Markazian

Talwyn Apogee, Artemis Zogg, and Vorn are Markazians. Talwyn's species is certified in the game Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty when Ratchet makes a promise to her that they will make it out of the Morrow Caverns together and Rusty Pete mocks Ratchet by singing "Lombax and Markazian sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-s-i-n." They appear mostly human, only with pointy ears and a tail.

Protopets

The Protopet was an experiment created by MegaCorp to manufacture the perfect pet. There was a fault in the duplication process, however, and all of the Protopets turned out to be carnivorous and savage beasts which had evil characteristics. Angela Cross, then working for Megacorp, tried to fix their flaws, but before she could succeed, Captain Qwark, disguised as Mr. Fizzwidget, pushed up their release date. Angela, disguised as a masked thief and intending to stop those monsters from being sold to the public, stole the original protopet so that it could not be cloned into more protopets. Ratchet and Clank were hired by MegaCorp to retrieve the experiment. Later, Angela explains the Protopet's nature. This is shown in a Megacorp commercial were a child, Billy, is meant to play with one, but instead acts scared upon seeing it and gets attacked by it. Ratchet, Clank, and Angela break into Megacorp HQ and attempt to destroy the original Protopet. Qwark spoils their plans by zapping it with Angela's Helix-O-Morph (with the battery in backwards), turning it into a giant mutant. The mutant protopet is defeated by Ratchet and it and all of the others are made harmless with the Helix-O-Morph. Billy and his now harmless Protopet are seen at the end of Up Your Arsenal in the cinema audience.

Snagglebeast

The Blargian Snagglebeast is a colossal being with the appearance of an ogre. Even though the Snagglebeast was apparently an arch-enemy of Captain Qwark, the game reveals that it was actually his trained pet, which he sics on Ratchet and Clank. It has many barbaric characteristics, and is presumably used by Qwark to devour his unwary enemies. The Snagglebeast was capable of emitting a fiery laser beam from its helmet, releasing powerful shock waves with its feet when jumping and creating funnels of intense wind its mouth. The Snagglebeast's brawn was no match for Ratchet's brain, and the creature met its demise by falling into a pool of lava.

Space Pirates

A faction of spacefaring robots that terrorize the Polaris Galaxy and serve under Captain Slag and Rusty Pete. According to the IRIS, they were engineered by Emperor Tachyon in order to gather materials for the Drophyds' nanotech armor, but abandoned them when they completed their task. Captain Slag's Space Pirates relentlessly attack any ship that enters their territory, but there seems to be a mutual co-operation between Slag's crew and several other space pirate fleets that Ratchet encounters in Tools of Destruction

Technomites

Tiny intelligent creatures who are responsible for the existence of technology. Because they are nearly microscopic, very few people have seen them and they are considered nothing more than a myth. Led by Emperor Otto Destruct, the technomites attempted to create an army of Ratchet clones using his DNA. They were also responsible for creating Luna, hacking into Clank, and tricking Qwark into thinking he's Otto's son. According to Clank, Captain Qwark's real parents were killed by defective Technomite technology. Whether this was intentional or not remains undisclosed.

Terachnoids

Creatures that are described as the most intelligent beings in the known universe, this is owed to their multiple brains of varying number housed in enormous craniums that far ecxeed the size of their bodies, they are crustacean-like in appearance and have four short, single jointed, pointed legs and small claw like arms, their major facial features are mustache shaped flaps that are in the location implied and very large eyebrows, they all seem to wear futuristic headwear with glowing blue circles and a yellow earphone.

Tetramites

A type of insect found in the Breegus system. They travel in swarms and, according to Azimuth, they can digest anything. They also hate water so Ratchet would need to run to a nearby body of water to avoid being eaten. They can easily be distracted by Breegus nectar, produced from Breegus Worm Roots and can also eat their way through Voltan Ivy, which is normally impervious to any munition of the known universe (Azimuth said that Ratchet would "Have to find a way to scare it"). They are based on a similar "flying swarm" enemy from Resistance 2.

Tyhrranoids

A gullible race of alien warriors who were tricked by Dr. Nefarious to work for him in the third game to destroy all organic life. The Tyhrranoids, seemingly devoid of a sense of irony, do not realize that they themselves are biological, and carry out his orders. The Tyhrranoids' home planet is planet Tyhrranosis where the "Momma Tyhrranoid" lives. The Momma Tyhrranoid was defeated and killed by Ratchet and Clank, but Qwark took all the credit for it. The entire Tyhrranoid population was transformed into robots when Dr. Nefarious used his Biobliterator (though in Deadlocked, and Secret Agent Clank, they were shown to be organic again, a possible hint that their transformation was reversed somehow). It is also believed that a few stayed robotic because in ratchet: Deadlocked, "The Eviscerator" can be seen stepping on a dead robotic Thyranoid contestant. The more powerful a Tyhrranoid, the bigger it is and the more eyes it has.

Valkyries

A race of Amazon female warriors that are hired by Dr. Nefarious to kill Ratchet and Azimuth, and keep Clank hostage. They are led by Cassiopeia, Carina, and Libra. Their home planet is Vapedia. All the males of their species were banished after the Erebus supernova destroyed their old home planet, and the males failed to ask for directions. Ever since the Space Pirates' defeat at the hands of Ratchet, the Valkyries have become the newest threat to travellers in the Polaris Galaxy.

Vullards

The Vullards are reptile-like creatures that live in wastelands to gather scrap metal and lots of it (apparently as a black market operation, as one Vullard says "we like to keep our operation from the prying eyes of galactic authorities"). Ratchet first meets them on Azimuth's hideout. In a later encounter on Planet Lumos they ask Ratchet and Azimuth to help them defeat the fleet of attacking Agorians. After the remaining ships retreat, the Vullards become grateful to Ratchet and reward him with the Omnisoaker. It explains that after Nefarious' space station blew up they travelled there to gather all the leftover scrap. Vullards can also be found in the space sectors where Ratchet can do optional side missions for them.

Zoni

A mysterious race of ethereal aliens that are capable of travel through time and space and can choose to let others see and/or hear them. They are neither biological nor mechanical, but are instead beings of pure energy that manifest on the physical plane of existence by inhabiting metal bodies. They occasionally appear, usually only visible to Clank when he is alone or asleep, to aid Ratchet and Clank on their quest. In the ending cutscene of Tools of Destruction, they make themselves visible to everyone and kidnap Clank leaving the game on a cliffhanger. In Quest for Booty, they regard Nefarious as a doctor and believe he will be able to repair Clank. In A Crack in Time, Zoni can be found and collected to upgrade Ratchet's ship.

All Zoni aside from Orvus (who is voiced by Charles Martinet) are voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz in the English version of the series and by Keijin Okuda in the Japanese version.

Zyphoids

The Fongoids fear these creatures. They are mutated viruses from the Korthos Sector. They start off as small, one-eyed creatures but as three of them combine they turn into a large, three-eyed creature that is more powerful. The three-eyed are able to split into three smaller ones.