Ratchet And Clank Emperor Nefarious

Emperor Nefarious is a dimensional analogue of Dr. Nefarious and the main antagonist of Rift Apart. He is the supreme ruler of the Nefarious Empire and all of the known universe in his habitation dimension.

History

Pre-Rift Apart

While information technology is not known if this Nefarious has a history in common with his main-dimension analogue, it is hinted at towards the stop of Rift Apart that his home dimension is merely less resilient than that of his counterpart's. Coupled with his increased sense of pragmatism, this Nefarious managed to conquer near of his home dimension with minimal problem.

What is known virtually his past is that like his analogue's 2016 reimagining, he likewise had a falling out with his dimension'south version of Chairman Drek, leading to a war betwixt the Nefarious Empire and the Blarg, with the Emperor's forces somewhen emerging victorious. With the decision of the disharmonize, the Emperor personally turned Drek into a sheep with a Sheepinator.

Many years ago the Kerchu were workers under the Nefarious Empire, harvesting Gelatonium at their factories on planet Sargasso. On one such occasion, they misspelled the Emperor's name on their tax returns and in retaliation he had them wiped out. Afterward, a race known as the Morts migrated to the planet and took over the Kerchu's jobs.

After his armies conquered Corson Five and Nefarious City was synthetic, his rule every bit emperor became threatened by a newly formed Resistance strength; information technology's most troublesome member of which existence the Lombax rebel Rivet. Her chief compatriots in the movement existence Phantom, MoyDoy, Captain Quantum and Clatchkey. Years ago however, Quantum grew dissatisfied with his life in the Resistance and left to join the Infinite Pirates. At some point subsequently Breakthrough had first joined the pirates, he managed to place a surveillance bug on the Emperor'southward Banana, enabling him to mind in on the Emperor's personal plans and always remain one step ahead of his efforts to destroy them. This invaluable tactical advantage allowed Quantum to quickly work his way up the ranks and eventually get captain himself, earning him the pirates' adoration and assuasive them to flourish for many years. The pirates accept continued to be a thorn in the Emperor'due south side, plundering his ships and looting his bases. Despite beingness enemies with Rivet, Emperor Nefarious hoped she would eventually bring together his side and synthetic armor for her in the event she did.^[ane]

Some fourth dimension years ago, at the sub-aquatic Kedaro Station on planet Cordelion, the Emperor noticed a foreign creature swimming through the oceans and had it captured. Using the creature's extreme amounts of bioelectricity, he had information technology forcibly used as a living battery for the facility's powerful Rubion Forge to create many of his army's troopers, boxing mechs and armors.

The Emperor's literal iron-fisted dominion of the universe has lasted many years, since before Rivet was a kid. His reign was aided by an oppressive army of Nefarious Troopers and Seekerpedes. To aid in the defense force of his Imperial Capital on Corson V, Emperor Nefarious created KT-7461; a heavily armed robotic enforcer not unlike his counterpart's own Klunk. She was oftentimes hailed past Emperor Nefarious as being his greatest weapon, a mark of praise she took great pride in. Unlike the other robots fabricated to serve the Empire notwithstanding, KT-7461 was naïve and had a sense of empathy. When she attempted to end a insubordinate in the Regal zone and ended up blowing off their arm, she discovered the extent to what beingness a weapon to the Empire truly meant and fled her part in great shame, exiling herself to the remote planet Savali to keep others safe from her own subversive capabilities. She dedicated her efforts to preserving cognition with the monks who live there and chose to utilize a more diminutive fashion compared to her hulking warbot form. She somewhen realized herself how brutal and self centered the Emperor truly is and how she was fooled like many others into serving him.

Rift Autonomously

The Infobot containing the Emperor's hitlist operations being escorted through Nefarious Metropolis.

Shortly prior to Dr. Nefarious' theft of the Dimensionator and journey to Rivet's dimension, the Emperor had vacated his throne and left on a series of surreptitious missions to finally rid himself of the final threats to his rule in the Resistance and Infinite Pirates. Plans for this operation were stored on an Infobot that the Resistance had tracked down and was stolen by Rivet as it was beingness escorted through Nefarious Urban center by troopers and the Emperor'due south Banana. Upon arriving in Nefarious City, the Doctor was mistaken for being the Emperor by his followers and happily seized control of the Empire without the latter'due south knowledge.

The Emperor makes his return and seizes the newly built Dimensionator for himself.

Much later, Dr. Nefarious seizes the newly built Dimensionator and battles Rivet and Kit at Zurkie's Battleplex. The quickly spread news that the rebel Lombax was fighting the Emperor himself, defenseless Emperor Nefarious' attention and he immediately went to Zurkie's to run across for himself. Once the Doctor was defeated, the Emperor made his entrance and stole the Dimensionator afterwards having enjoyedly spectated the aforementioned battle. To spite Rivet, he shoots a rift and sucks in the audience who were cheering for the emperor'due south defeat. After incapacitating Ratchet and Rivet with his telekinesis-like abilities, he confronts his injured analogue and aims the Dimensionator at him. The Md pleads for an alliance between the two and the Emperor accepts before the two disappear into a rift.

The two Nefariouses taunt Rivet and Kit'due south efforts to salvage Sargasso.

With his new marry, the Emperor immediately takes his efforts to Rivet'southward domicile planet Sargasso and orders his troopers to brainstorm exterminating all life on the planet in a ploy in draw the Lombax in. Sometime shortly after first meeting, the Emperor interrogated the Doctor for answers and learned of the reason for his journey to this dimension and his woeful history of defeats, leading the Emperor to regard him with contempt for being his counterpart. Whilst Rivet and Kit are fighting off the invasion, the two Nefariouses appear as holograms and taunt their efforts repeatedly. The Emperor somewhen orders his battle cruisers to activate their Destruct-o Beams to destroy the planet. Rivet however uses the assistance of her Pterafoid Flyer friend Trudi and Gelatonium bombs created past the Morts to destroy the cruisers in time, simply earlier their beams can breach the planet's core and obliterate it. Although Rivet and Kit's efforts manage to salvage the planet from the Emperor'south advances, he unceremoniously banishes them to a pocket dimension before leaving, unaware that Rivet had the means to escape.

The Emperor contacts Kedaro Station after his return.

Back in Nefarious Urban center, the Emperor announces his render and addresses his subjects to telephone call out Dr. Nefarious every bit a "Bumbling Dishonest with notions of grandeur" who tried to replace him. He too declares he will bargain with his citizens soon, having deduced that they were and so devoted to him to the signal of not noticing the difference. Afterward hearing about what had happened earlier at the Kedaro Station when Ratchet and Kit infiltrated it to build a new Dimensionator and accidentally destroyed the Rubion Forge, the Emperor contacted the facility. Over a hologram, he addresses the station'due south staff and remarks with curtained anger and disbelief that this would happen after he vacated his throne for such a short fourth dimension. He then laughs dryly earlier flatly uttering that they are all going to die.

The Emperor sends Quantum to Zordoom Prison house.

After, afterward Ratchet and Clank had successfully tracked downward Quantum on planet Ardolis and saved him, the Emperor had besides finally establish the captain and opened a huge rift beneath his ship to send the 3 of them to his prison house. Although unbeknownst to him, Quantum had tossed Ratchet and Clank to safety and sacrificed himself so the two could escape with the helmet device he uses to spy on the Emperor.

The Emperor finds a renewed want to go on achieving success and decides to conquer the dimensions.

With the apparent defeat of both Ratchet and Rivet, alongside the confirmed capture of Phantom, Captain Quantum, and the robot pirates, the Emperor begins to celebrate his universal conquest, only to suddenly be stricken with a feeling of emptiness. Speaking from the robotic heart, his analogue suggests that the Emperor feels the way he does considering he has finally achieved total success, which means there is no longer anything to strive for. The Emperor and then angrily retorts such notions and instead believes that he merely needs to enslave every dimension in society to feel happy. First however, he needs the coordinates to travel to every dimension and so, the 2 of them ready off to Savali in search of the Lombax Dimensional Map within the Interdimensional Athenaeum. Ratchet, Clank, Rivet and Kit listened into his plans using Breakthrough's helmet and the four headed to Savali after him.

The two Nefariouses ambush Ratchet and Clank and steal the Dimensional Map.

Gary and the Savali Monks nevertheless had hidden it inside of a dimensional bibelot and guided Ratchet and Clank to find the Map before the Emperor tin. Even so, whilst Clank was inside the anomaly, the Emperor defenseless up with them, demanding the map as before long every bit Clank had reclaimed it, in substitution for sparing Ratchet's life. After receiving information technology, the ii of them were promptly banished to the prison house. Rivet and Kit show up too late and Kit attempts stop the Emperor herself in her warbot form but his life is all of a sudden saved by Dr. Nefarious with the Dimensionator, who sends her to Zordoom aswell.

The Emperor broadcasts his declaration to conquer every dimension in existence.

With their success all just secured, Emperor Nefarious officially announces his plans to conquer the multiverse, starting time with Ratchet's dimension, which inadvertently causes a rift in his human relationship with the Doctor. Using the Dimensionator, complete with the dimensional map, he transports himself, alongside Dr. Nefarious, and his army to Ratchet's dimension, where he begins attacking Megalopolis. Unbeknownst to him, Rivet had lead a prison house break, enabling herself, Ratchet, Clank, the resistance members, the robot pirates, Breakthrough, Gary, the Savali Monks, and the Goons-4-Less to all follow afterwards and engage the Emperor in a massive final battle.

The Emperor unveils his Royal Power Arrange.

He and Dr. Nefarious pilot the Majestic Power Accommodate to permanently retire this dimension'due south heroes and begin battling Ratchet, Rivet and their allies. The Emperor's confidant façade slowly begins to crumble however as the heroes gain the upper hand. His counterpart gradually becoming more and more fed upwards with his treatment at the easily of the Emperor and outraged at his conclusion to invade the Doctor'due south habitation dimension equally he feels it is rightfully his to rule. The Emperor begins becoming enraged while Dr. Nefarious relishes at his struggling. He shouts in bewilderment as to why they will not simply submit to him. Dr. Nefarious illustrates that this slap-up tenacity from his enemies is the truthful reason his dimension is so hard to take over and not the notion that the Doctor was incompetent as the Emperor had believed.

Rivet battles Emperor Nefarious whilst Kit holds back his ground forces of troopers.

When his mech is destroyed, the Emperor flies into an intense rage and proclaims he will bring in every last 1 of his armies to forcefulness Rivet to bow before him. He then begins wildy firing the Dimensionator, creating several rifts in the sky and farther fragmenting the already crumbling dimensions. Thousands of Nefarious Troopers cascade out of the rifts, laughing and surround Rivet with their weapons trained on her, only for Kit to come to her aid, forcing the Emperor to engage Rivet in direct gainsay whilst Kit holds back his army. Whilst fighting Rivet, the Emperor begins hysterically pronouncing that he is loved by everyone and is the destined ruler of every dimension. Rivet attempts to reason with him and cries out that he has gone too far with him fierce reality apart and needs to stop or all of beingness volition be destroyed. The Emperor still mocks her pleads and sarcastically demeans the dimensons as existence thankless and uninspiring. Later sustaining damage, the Emperor attempts to hide backside the wreckage of the Power Suit and orders his troopers to assail Rivet to protect him. Rivet in turn ridicules his cowardice and that everyone tin meet him now for what he actually is. Kit helps Rivet with the attacking troopers and Nefarious remarks that she would come back after so long just to betray her Emperor. Kit however fully denounces her previous life to him and that he is not her Emperor.

Rivet stops the Emperor from overclocking the Dimensionator and destroying the dimensions.

On the final legs of the fight, he attempts once again to call in his troopers, only for nobody to announced. Seeing his defeat as an inevitability, the Emperor of a sudden however starts to lose his mind and admittedly refuses to have it. He goes mad and begins overclocking the Dimensionator to collapse every dimension in existence into nothingness. Rivet jumps into Kit's manus and the bot hurls her through the air towards Nefarious, where she strikes the Emperor with a powerful blow to the face with her hammer.

Dr. Nefarious deals the terminal blow to the Emperor.

The heroes reclaim the Dimensionator and utilise it to summon a kraken who attempts to drag the Emperor to his doom. Clinging to his mech, he begs his analogue to help him. Despite Dr. Nefarious' attempts to form a legitimate partnership with the Emperor, he however had felt nothing but loathing for his self-obsessed analogue in the time he came to know him and hands sees through him. Using the same words the Emperor had used against him previously; the Md coldly asks "What practice you know about winning?" and and so kicks his mitt off the edge. The Kraken drags the terrified Emperor into the portal, leaving him to his presumed doom and ending his reign of terror.

The record cover for "Join Me at the Top".

In the catastrophe credits, Ratchet, Clank, Rivet and Kit are present in Nefarious City as a giant statue of the Emperor is beingness pulled downward to marking the liberation of the planet. Later on in the credits; in Nefarious Belfry, Rivet and Kit get through the Emperor's record drove, comprised entirely of music created and sung past himself for the sole purpose of feeding his own self-absorbed ego. Rivet laughs and shows Kit the recent record cover for "Bring together Me at the Meridian". Erstwhile before the Emperor's invasion of Megalopolis, he forced Dr. Nefarious to sing this duet with him and had it released to the public. In the song, the Emperor sings about how he is solitary as the unmarried well-nigh overwhelmingly successful beingness in the universe and that he is everything the Doctor is not. His offers of request others to join him at the meridian are quite insincere however and he is happy occupying this position exclusively for himself.

Characteristics

Your Nefarious—he looks a lot like mine. Evil like him, too.

Rivet speaking to Clank after seeing Dr. Nefarious in his memory banks

Appearance

While superficially he and the Doctor are like in silhouette, the Emperor is far taller than his analogue, additionally sporting a glossy white chassis adorned with orange highlights, a much smaller cranial dome, and more than rounded features. At the centre of his brow sits a somewhat teardrop-shaped crest and the inside of his orangish cranial dome contains 3 protruding transmitters, compared to Dr. Nefarious' ain mass of moving machine parts.

Personality

While this Nefarious is an egomaniacal, sadistic, arrogant, and downright evil villain like his other-worldly counterpart, the key difference among them is that this Nefarious is much more pragmatic in his ambitions. In contrast to Dr. Nefarious, the Emperor'southward dominion is swift and sure without the apparent need for a superweapon like a Biobliterator, control over a car that afflicted fourth dimension itself or a device to launch his enemies into space on an asteroid, only the force of his armies. He isn't fifty-fifty concerned about gaining any extra riches or benign reward, mainly only interested in the chief objective of seizing ability for powers sake and continuing to win. Dr. Nefarious considered his counterpart's plans lacked a sense of elegance and flair. Despite this, Emperor Nefarious is relatively yet undeniably more than knowledgeable and cunning, having managed to expand his empire over the whole universe when his counterpart hadn't fifty-fifty come close, proving the Emperor to be both a better strategist and a more than formidable conqueror. The Emperor doesn't seem to be scientifically minded similar his counterpart and is instead simply an extremely powerful and efficient tyrant.

Beingness so confident in his own superiority and ability to never lose, the Emperor opts to continue his greatest enemies live to make examples of them for others and subject them to despair at his ain success from his prisons. This hubris would prove to be his greatest weakness. Other beings that simply badger him or he finds insulting, he will instead cull to have them destroyed. When the Kerchu had mispelled the Emperor's proper noun on their taxation returns, he was so insulted he quickly had them wiped out. Also after finding out about the destruction of the Rubion Forge at the Kedaro Station, he declared that all the staff at the facility that did not prevent information technology from happening would all be killed.

Like to his counterpart, however, Emperor Nefarious is extremely cocky-captivated and narcissistic, having statues of his likeness surrounding his lair, having a city named after him and even music made by him played at clubs bearing his name. In add-on, Emperor Nefarious tin be merely as hot-tempered as Dr. Nefarious, though while the md would only shout and yell at those who infuriate him, Emperor Nefarious is more than likely to resort to concrete violence as he near used the Dimensionator on Dr. Nefarious for pretending to exist him. He is also seemingly incapable of showing gratitude, even grudgingly, as when Dr. Nefarious used the Dimensionator to save him from Kit in her battle mode, he rudely snatched information technology back, and connected to abuse his counterpart as if the doc was just a lackey to him. Though Emperor Nefarious teamed up with his analogue, he nonetheless viewed Dr. Nefarious as incompetent and a failure due to his numerous defeats in his own domicile dimension, even telling his counterpart outright that he knew goose egg about success, resulting in their partnership to be very tumultuous. He appears to not have an absolute contempt for organic life like his counterpart and is content subjugating both robots and organics alike, allowing them to be purely at the service of his empire. Nonetheless robots do appear to still exist considered in a higher class over organics, with his robotic followers referring to them as "squishies" and gleefully boasting total robot domination. When Rivet was spotted on Corson Five abducting and escaping with Clank by Nefarious troopers, the troopers pursued and ordered her to "release the hostage" implying that robots are indeed considered a higher class of citizen than organics and a priority.

Dissimilar his counterpart, he seems to have grown and so used to victory, that even the seeming total subjugation of the galaxy after he banished Rivet to a pocket dimension and sealed Captain Quantum in Zordoom Prison house, he did not feel satisfied at all - as Dr. Nefarious points out, without something to achieve for, he feels life has no meaning (although he promptly ignored Dr. Nefarious' commentary and decided the real reason was that he was not the ruler of all dimensions yet, preparing a plan to conquer Ratchet's own universe).

Most of all, Emperor Nefarious possess a powerful superiority circuitous. He is generally unconcerned with threats to his reign, oft finding them amusing or annoying. Even when the Resistance or heroes similar Rivet and Ratchet managed to fight back and gain a victory, Emperor Nefarious considered them little more than a setback or temporary victory. Nevertheless, upon attempting to conquer Ratchet's dimension and finding its people refusing to surrender and bow before him, Emperor Nefarious couldn't fathom it. Even when he appeared to exist winning and the heroes refusing to quit the fight, Emperor Nefarious struggled to comprehend the reality of it. As a result, Emperor Nefarious began to lose his composure and deny that he couldn't attain what his analogue could not. Emperor Nefarious apparently began to lose his mind when the heroes managed to defeat all of his armies, leaving him with nothing, driving him to attempt to destroy all dimensions with the Dimensionator. This reaction caused Dr. Nefarious' existing dislike of his counterpart to become outright antipathy, accusing Emperor Nefarious of beingness his ain worst obstacle in his schemes.

Much similar Dr. Nefarious, Emperor Nefarious has proven to be a whiny coward when faced with true defeat, begging his counterpart to help him when being dragged by an aroused kraken, but to exist mocked and betrayed by using the same words he used on the medico. He as well has a penchant like the Doctor to use verbs in the style of "annihilate", "obliterate", "eradicate", "eliminate", "exterminate" etc. in the context of destroying things. They also appear to have a similar sense of sense of humor, every bit Dr. Nefarious has attempted to brand Lawrence express joy in the by past loudly reiterating if he heard him after saying something he thought was funny/witty, leading Lawrence to instead subtly insult him without the Doctor realizing it or merely ignore him. The Emperor instead actually has laughed forth with him. On Sargasso when they were attempting to destroy the planet, the Doc remarked it needed to "Sargass-go", eliciting a laugh from the Emperor which he shortly attempted to stifle with a cough. The only other person apart from the Emperor to share his sense of humor is his belatedly Valkyrie girlfriend Cassiopeia.

Abilities

Emperor Nefarious using his telekinesis in battle.

Despite their differences with success and achieving victories, Emperor Nefarious and Dr. Nefarious share many abilities in combat, though the Emperor is superior to his counterpart in concrete strength. Both possess the ability to fly using propulsion thrusters on their bodies, burn powerful lasers or energy projectiles and use telekinesis-like powers that permit them to levitate/push objects/people. The Emperor's telekinesis-like abilities appear to be a proficient margin greater than the Doctor's still, beingness able to toss large boulders and explosive crates with a moving ridge of his hand at his enemies. Dr. Nefarious in comparison, required the use of both arms to perform the same feat. Even with their many like abilities, they take unlike fighting styles when using them; with the Emperor opting in close quarters to perform a flying punch and the Dr.; a flying slash with a bract.

He is a rather capable military tactican and successfully conquered any opponent he had ever encountered with his armies. Over many years even so he has get overly conceited in his victories and no longer takes his enemies seriously as threats and rather considers them as inconveniences that he will eventually overcome.

Throughout the years in his free time, the Emperor has fancied himself every bit an artist and musician, although this is done specifically to feed his own ego equally the art is of his ain prototype and the music is nearly himself. He has created many fine art pieces of himself in the form of paintings and statues heavily resembling the famous works of artists such equally Rodin and Botticelli. He has as well created many tracks featuring excerpts from his own theme music and sung songs nigh his own greatness. The reception to these are quite mixed every bit when Kit heard the tracks played at Gild Nefarious, she remarked that the music had somehow gotten even worse there. Too when Clank heard the same music himself, he commented that information technology had a fascinating rhythm. Any citizens criticising his works however are sent to exist rehabilitated at Zordoom Prison.

Lombax Imperial Armor designed by the Emperor.

The Emperor also has taken to beingness a designer of various sorts and of course uses features of his own likeness in their creations. The Royal Power Suit was designed by himself in his ain image and he chose the prominent white and orangish color palette for the Kedaro Station. Also, in the event that Rivet had joined the Emperor's ranks, he himself designed a total Lombax suit of armor fashioned after his own appearance.

Behind the scenes

During Rivet and Kit's final battle against the Emperor and his army in Megalopolis, he decries Kit for coming back later on so long only to betray him. Here he incorrectly names Kit as KT-7416 rather than KT-7461. The reason for this is non a script fault but an aspect of the Emperor'due south character. In an earlier piece of optional dialogue on Savali, Kit mentions some of her history with the Emperor to Ratchet and illustrates how she; similar many others, were manipulated and fooled by the Emperor into believing he cared for them. Only later did Kit realize how vicious and self-centered he truly was and that his marks of praise for her were conniving lies. The Emperor misnaming Kit here exemplifies his egoistic and duplicitous nature as he did not truly care about her or fifty-fifty take the attempt to properly larn her name.

In the ending credits sequence when Rivet and Kit are going through the Emperor's art and music collections of himself, a painting of the Emperor equally all the characters in the famous painting "The Birth of Venus" was pitched to appear hither only unfortunately did not brand the cut and was non shown on-screen. This was confirmed by writer Nick Folkman.

Signs in Nefarious Urban center depicting the Emperor in one of his earlier designs.

The propaganda images of the Emperor on various signs around Nefarious Urban center utilize multiple different designs of him from his concept fine art stages. A plausible caption in-game for this is that due to the Emperor himself being chronically self-absorbed in regards to his own charisma and looks, he may accept repeatedly altered his appearance over the years and gone through multiple different phases before eventually settling on the ane he is shown with in Rift Autonomously.

Art of the Seekerpede shows Emperor Nefarious as the pilot.

Development art

Citations

↑ Rift Apart, Majestic Helmet and Nefarious Breast armor descriptions