History Monster / RatchetAndClank

* [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 First game]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek]], at first seemingly well-intentioned in finding his species, the Blarg, [[FightingForAHomeland a new home]], [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is revealed]] to have been the one who [[ToxicInc polluted]] their homeworld in the first place. Drek's real motive is to [[PlanetLooters loot and destroy numerous planets]] due to the fact that he gets paid for every square inch of the new Blarg homeworld, with plans to begin polluting the new homeworld to start the process over again. Needing a place to put the new planet, Drek attempts to destroy Ratchet's home planet of Veldin, with the implication that he does so just to spite Ratchet for interfering in his plans.

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* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek]], at first seemingly well-intentioned in finding his species, the Blarg, [[FightingForAHomeland a new home]], [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is revealed]] to have been the one who [[ToxicInc polluted]] their homeworld in the first place. Drek's real motive is to [[PlanetLooters loot and destroy numerous planets]] due to the fact that he gets paid for every square inch of the new Blarg homeworld, with plans to begin polluting the new homeworld to start the process over again. Needing a place to put the new planet, Drek attempts to destroy Ratchet's home planet of Veldin, with the implication that he does so just to spite Ratchet for interfering in his plans.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Should a contestant become uncooperative or worse, boring, his or her collar can be detonated at any time with the push of a button."]]

* ''[[VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked Deadlocked]]'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gleeman Vox]] is the greedy owner of Vox Industries who came up with the idea of ''[[ImmoralRealityShow DreadZone]]'', a game where he kidnaps heroes across the galaxy and forces them to [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath fight for survival in gladiatorial combat]]. Even before then, Vox was a [[BadBoss cruel boss]] who had fed his weapon design team to a leviathan after they disagreed with a weapon proposal and used the Fusion Rifle on his employees if he was ever interrupted. Vox keeps the heroes imprisoned with [[ExplosiveLeash Deadlock collars]] that will shock them or explode if they don't participate or try to escape, and makes them participate in challenges such as putting the entire planet of Stygia in danger by sabotaging the force fields that protect it from meteor storms. When Ratchet declines his deal, Vox personally tries to kill him brutally and reveals he had a self-destruct device that would blow up the station with everyone on it. Finally, when everyone except him and Ratchet manages to escape, Vox gloats to Ratchet on how he will die along with him and get the highest ratings ever on television.

'''Emperor Nefarious:''' Oh no! The thankless, uninspiring dimensions are collapsing?! Oh, how could I?! Enough! I will collapse every dimension into nothingness! A vapid, empty void! Say goodbye!

* ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal Up Your Arsenal]]'': [[{{Fembot}} Courtney Gears]], [[EvilDiva pop sensation]] of the Solara Galaxy, doubles as TheDragon to Dr. Nefarious and is the one carrying out his goal of [[FinalSolution destroying all organic life in the galaxy]]. Courtney Gears operates Nefarious's Biobliterator--a device that subjects any organic to UnwillingRoboticisation, reducing them to mindless murder-bots--and tests it out on Skidd. Not only intending to use to Biobliterator on a much larger population, Courtney turns her latest hit into a sensation to encourage her loyal fans to kill any "squishies" that Nefarious doesn't convert with the Biobliterator.

* [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Original game]]: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek]] may at first come off as a [[LaughablyEvil humorous villain]] who is trying to find a home for his people by extreme means, but by the end of the game, there is no mistaking him for anything but an [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist unrepentant maniac]]. To begin with, he is the one who [[ToxicInc over-polluted]] his own home planet and got his kind, the Blarg, into this situation, and proudly boasts about it and how he did it on purpose. His real motive behind [[PlanetLooters tearing apart planets]]--populated planets--to build his new world, and eventually trying to blow up planets with bombs and superlasers, is the mother of all money-laundering real estate scams; he's been paid for every square inch of the new Blarg homeworld, and makes it clear once the people settle in, he'll repeat the whole polluting and planet looting cycle all over again. In addition, he almost blew up Ratchet's home planet with a superlaser so he could move his new world into its perfect orbit, and it's implied he also chose Veldin just to spite Ratchet for getting in his way.