YMMV / Ratchet & Clank (2010)

• Ass Pull: The retcon that Lawrence teleported Dr. Nefarious away before his space station exploded at the end of A Crack in Time did not sit well with fans, though they didn't really begin to vocalize their full grievances with it until the next game came out. Not only was it not foreshadowed in the prior game at all, it also doesn't even make sense considering it had been well-established that Lawrence held great disdain for the doctor and only stuck around to collect a paycheck. Unfortunately this was an unavoidable outcome, as series writer T.J. Fixman did write A Crack in Time's ending with Nefarious' death in mind, but Executive Meddling forced him to undo it regardless.
• Awesome Art: The covers for each issue done by Creature Box certainly qualify.
  • As the comics went on, Adam Archer's artwork became increasingly stylized in a way that better represented the games. By the end they had truly managed to translate the energy of the games in a two-dimensional form.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the last few issues of the comic, Talwyn is seemingly killed after being taken prisoner causing Cronk and Zephyr to become depressed until she is revealed to be alive. Two years later in Into the Nexus a similar scenario plays out with the roles reversed, except there the death turns out to have actually happened. In both instances, Ratchet takes the blame personally believing he failed to save them.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The comic miniseries was published by DC Comics. Come 2018 and Insomniac Games, the creators of Ratchet & Clank, would put out their first licensed game...which just so happened to be about one of DC's biggest competitor's characters.
  • The comic essentially acts as an epilogue to the Future trilogy and a bridge into the next games which were more self-contained stories. Come a few years later and we'd get an entry actually billed as the epilogue to the Future trilogy...and then that game would get a follow-up 8 years later that for all intents and purposes also acted as an epilogue. Basically, the Future trilogy was followed up by an epilogue trilogy.
• It Was His Sled: Artemis Zogg is stealing planets. Downplayed in that this plot point is revealed fairly early on, however at the time of the comic's release it was a decent twist for the series.
• Fridge Brilliance: Throughout his career as an intergalactic hero, Ratchet has encountered very few opponents he couldn't best with a gun. Or a wrench. Or a flamethrower. Or a grenade launcher, lightning weapon, mine launcher, suck cannon, boxing glove, whip, attack drones, R.Y.N.O., the literal weather, bees...you get the idea. It's no wonder, then, that he thought that THROWING a gun at someone would take them down; he is so used to being able to plow through his enemies in any number of ways that he is genuinely incapable of comprehending that an attack wouldn't work.
• Moral Event Horizon: If you didn't think Artemis Zogg crossed it at any point prior, it's clear he crosses the threshold at the end of Issue 3 where he threatens to leave Veldin to freeze and die if Ratchet and Clank don't turn themselves in. It's only cemented further when he reveals that he won't nor did he ever intend to move Veldin back to its rightful spot once the duo actually do go through with his demand at the start of Issue 4.
• Ron the Death Eater: Qwark gets this treatment when discussing the comic due to him going back on his endorsement of Artemis Zogg's presidency and instead running for galactic president himself, causing his Start of Darkness. While this was undoubtedly a dick move that kickstarted the plot of the miniseries, and he is definitely guilty since he went through with it, fans tend to place the blame solely on his shoulders and act as if his only role in the story was to cause a mess that Ratchet, Clank, and company had to clean up. What the fans tend to overlook is the fact that it was his former manager Cyrus that goaded him into running by playing into his ego, telling him about the publicity he'd generate by running himself and claiming Zogg was too old to be in charge. Before that, he was perfectly content with simply endorsing Zogg for no payment as he believed he'd be an upstanding leader. He even apologizes and admits that he made a mistake in the final issue, something Qwark has very rarely done within the main continuity.

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