History ComicBook / RatchetAndClankComic

* TheBusCameBack: The comic brings back a number of characters from both the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and Future eras of the series, having them interact for the first (and so far only) time:

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Surprisingly, ''not'' PlayedForLaughs. When Qwark lists off the planets that have disappeared, he lists three from Polaris and one from Bogon. This is a plot point.

!!Nothing is impossible! Tropes are merely a matter of time and will!

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Ratchet refuses to believe that the "[[spoiler:Artemis]] Galaxy" exists, despite being told about planets going missing all across the universe and having been on one of those planets himself. Did we mention in the moment he is talking to the man that is clearly responsible for said planets disappearing? Fortunately, it's not focused on too much.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover artwork for each issue almost never represents anything that actually happens within the comics themselves. The closest they come are with Issue 4's cover depicting Ratchet reaching for Zogg's [[spoiler:comet shard]] (which only vaguely resembles the actual scene from the comic) and Issue 5's cover showing [[spoiler:Zogg capturing Talwyn]], an event that not only happens off-screen but also happens ''in the previous issue''.

** The weapon Ratchet uses against the robots in the first issue is the Blaster from [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 the first game]], although here it fires beams instead of bullets.
** General Glahm-- an Agorian-- recognizes Ratchet from [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime the battle in Krell Canyon.]] This ends about as well as you'd expect.
*** Speaking of General Glahm, he references "Jargonian Needle Torture", which was first mentioned by Rusty Pete in ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Tools of Destruction]]''.
** For some reason, there's a [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal Courtney Gears]] poster in Ratchet and Clank's cell.

** "[Planet Veldin] will soon become [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 even more useless than it was]] [before]."

* MisplacedRetribution: Zogg's plans to take revenge on Qwark for [[spoiler:invalidating his campaign for presidency and shutting down the Helios project]] is to kill Ratchet and Clank and leave planets from across the Solana, Bogon, and Polaris galaxies [[spoiler:to freeze to death in the middle of space.]]

* IveComeTooFar: While not said directly, this is definitely the implicit reason why Zogg [[spoilers:rejects Vorn's attempts to get through to him at the end of the story.]]

** In issue 3, [[spoiler:Zogg]] tells Qwark about [[spoiler:the shurinox comet shard, specifically what class it is and its orbital period.]] The good captain's response?

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover artwork for each issue almost never represents anything that actually happens within the comics themselves. The closest they come are with Issue 4's cover depicting Ratchet reaching for Zogg's comet shard (which only vaguely resembles the actual scene from the comic) and Issue 5's cover showing [[spoiler:Zogg capturing Talwyn]], an event that not only happens off-screen but also happens ''in the previous issue''.

** While Ratchet and Clank are looking for the comet shard aboard Zogg's ship, they crash through the bathroom and into another room. Vorn, who was ''in'' the bathroom, can be seen reading a newspaper with Nefarious on it.
** Going back to [[spoiler: Azimuth's wrench]], Ratchet uses the same energy blast that [[spoiler: Azimuth killed him with]] to drive back Zogg's army. Not two pages later, [[MundaneUtility it's used to block the shelter's hatch closed.]]
** At the very end of the last issue, when we see what happened to Zogg, [[spoiler: Tachyon]] uses one of the same lines to introduce himself that he did in [[spoiler: Tools of Destruction: "Conqueror of space and time".]] He also [[InsistentTerminology insists]] on being called [[spoiler: EMPEROR.]] You can practically ''hear'' him shouting it.

* CutawayGag: During the [[spoiler: escape from Vartax]] Ratchet wonders where all the guards are. Cue cut to the mess hall, where the pirate that helped Clank is inciting a riot, wearing trays like armor with a pan on his head.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Artemis Zogg imprisons and later tries to outright kill Ratchet and Clank, teleports entire planets out of their galaxies, enslaves the inhabitants of said planets, and later outright threatens [[spoiler:leave them to freeze and die out entirely]] all because Captain Qwark [[spoiler:took the galactic presidency for himself]] and ([[DumbassHasAPoint rightfully]]) shut down the [[spoiler:Helios project]] for being too dangerous.

* HeroWorshipper: Not to an ''incredible'' extent, but [[spoiler: Zogg]] being a fan of Ratchet and Clank's is why they were only sent to prison. With an omniwrench.
** [[spoiler: Zogg]] is also revealed to have been a fan of Captain Qwark's. [[FanDisillusionment Unsurprisingly,]] [[BrokenPedestal the good Captain mucks this up.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Zogg is defeated by Qwark recalling what he told him about the surinox comet shard reacting to negatively-charged energy and having Ratchet strike the shard with Azimuth's wrench, causing an interdimensional portal to open up and pull Zogg in.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Despite being the one who [[spoiler:goads Qwark into dropping his endorsement of Zogg's campaign and instead running for galactic president himself, thereby starting Zogg's StartOfDarkness]], [[spoiler:Cyrus]] is never seen again after Issue 3 and never receives any comeuppance of his own.

-->'''[[spoiler: Artemis Zogg]]:''' I'm sorry, Ratchet. I truly am one of your greatest fans. But I cannot let any of you remain alive to stop me from completing my galaxy.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Qwark going back on his offer to endorse Zogg for Galactic President and running himself.]]

* SmartBall: Qwark, ''[[IdiotHero of all]]'' ''[[DumbMuscle people]]'', actually takes a firm grasp on the ball in the final issue [[spoiler:where he is not only able to perfectly remember what Zogg had told him about the shurinox shard nearly a year ago, but was able to correctly guess that Azimuth's Omniwrench used negatively charged energy and coherently ask Vorn Garblack about it to confirm, all before finally kicking the wrench to Ratchet so he could hit the shard with it. Please keep in mind that on the ''exact same page'' that Qwark is told about how the shard reacts to differently charged energy he tells Zogg his "words are very sciency."]]
* SmoothTalkingTalentAgent: [[spoiler:Cyrus, who appeals to Qwark's ego in order to get him to drop his endorsement of Zogg so he'll run for Galactic President instead.]]
* StartOfDarkness: Artemis Zogg was an endearing [[spoiler: Presidential candidate]] before Qwark... [[BrokenPedestal well, before Qwark.]]

** Qwark, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero who was responsible for]] Zogg's StartOfDarkness.

* WithMyHandsTied: The press assumes that Qwark [[spoiler: defeated Zogg]] this way, since he was tied up with duct tape at the time.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Zogg really intended to help the galaxy... until Qwark [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn turned around and ran for the presidency, instead of supporting him.]]]] What makes this particularly jarring is the fact that, in the [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 original game]], the same ([[spoiler:minus the 'presidency' thing]]) happened to Ratchet.

* TrueCompanions: It doesn't seem that Ratchet and Talwyn are romantically involved, but they do love each other like family.

* [[DumbassHasAPoint Dumbass]] / JerkassHasAPoint: Qwark has [[spoiler:the Helios Project]] shuttered because he believed it to be too dangerous to actually use. Let's say that again: '''Captain Qwark''' - the same man that [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando caused a galactic incident simply to try and regain his popularity]], [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal considered letting the galaxy be forciby transformed into robots so he could stay hidden]], and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction confiscated a device capable of interdimensional travel leading him to unintentionally deliver it to the one individual who wanted to use the device to take over the universe]] - shut something down '''because he''' '''''(correctly)''''' '''[[EveryoneHasStandards assumed it to be too dangerous]].'''

** This line from Qwark in Issue 3, which foreshadows multiple events:

* ShoutOut:
** [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Clank, I don't think we're in the Solana Galaxy anymore."]]
** The name of the first issue is "[[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Ears of War]]," and the name of the third is "[[Series/LostInSpace Lost and Spaced]]."
** Probably unintentional, but there is this:
--->'''Zogg:''' [[SarcasmMode Have you any]] ''[[SarcasmMode more]]'' [[SarcasmMode good news?]] Perhaps you'll tell me next that my parents were eaten by [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} wild Carnivines]]?

* ArtEvolution: While never getting to same level of stylization as the games, Adam Archer's artwork across the miniseries got refined significantly and visibly got more stylized with each issue. Just compared Ratchet in [[https://imgur.com/a/pEWC8JT issue 1 compared to issue 6]].
* ArtShift: The comics' covers are drawn by [=CreatureBox=], which has affiliated with Insomniac on art for the Future trilogy. The actual comic is decidedly less stylized.

* OffModel: While the comic's artwork is by no means bad, Adam Archer's less cartoony art direction causes most of the characters to look somewhat odd compared to their designs from the video games. Clank gets affected the most by this, with the shape of his head and the size and positioning of his eyes fluctuating from issue to issue and sometimes even panel to panel.
** One non-character example is with Ratchet's Omniwrench. In the first two issues it's mistakenly designed to look like the [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Omniwrench 3000]] albeit with a blue neck, however by the fourth issue it was corrected to the Millennium 12 model he's been carrying since ''Quest for Booty''.

** Said word-for-word in issue 4, after Ratchet chooses the wrong direction in Zogg's ship.

* ContrivedCoincidence: There was no real reason for Zogg to take planets from the Solana or Bogon galaxies nor for the Galactic Rangers to return outside of fanservice. [[TropesAreTools Tropes are not bad]], however, as the execution of the comic is done rather well and because it allows characters from two different eras of the series to reappear and interact.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Artemis Zogg]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Zogg's initial plans were simply keep Polaris safe from intergalactic disasters, but by the end of the miniseries he's created an intergalactic disaster of his own out of petty vengeance. That's not even getting into his enslavements or attempted murders, either.

** Qwark, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero who was responsible for]] [[spoiler: Zogg's StartOfDarkness.]]

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Artemis Zogg]] was an endearing [[spoiler: Presidential candidate]] before Qwark... [[BrokenPedestal well, before Qwark.]]

** We learn that [[spoiler:Zogg is enslaving the inhabitants of the planets he's been teleporting, which now includes President Phyronix.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Zogg really intended to help the galaxy... until Qwark [[FaceHeelTurn turned around and ran for the presidency, instead of supporting him.]]]] What makes this particularly jarring is the fact that, in the [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 original game]], the same ([[spoiler:minus the 'presidency' thing]]) happened to Ratchet.