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Ratchet: Get off of me you Idiot!
Captain Qwark: Ha, ha ha. I love it when a plan comes together!
Clank: What do you mean?
Ratchet: What do you think he means genius? He's not gonna help us; he's gonna kill us!
Captain Qwark: You catch on quick. Although, there is one problem with your hypothesis, I'm not going kill you.
Ratchet: You're not?
Captain Qwark: No, he is!
Clank: But why?
Captain Qwark: [mimics Clank] But why? It's really not that difficult to decipher. I'm the offical spokesman for Drek's new planet. I can't have you two getting in the way of my comeback.
Ratchet: This isn't over, Qwark!
Captain Qwark: No, but it will be soon!
~ Captain Qwark revealing his true colors to Ratchet and Clank.
All I need now is a new galaxy, with a new fanbase, so I can rescue them... FROM A NEW DISASTER!
~ Captain Qwark's reveal in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando.

Copernicus Leslie Qwark, better known as Captain Qwark, is the tritagonist of the Ratchet & Clank franchise. To the public, he appears to be the greatest superhero in the universe, but in reality is a fraud that will do whatever it takes to maintain his fame and reputation or for money. Initially, he is an antagonist in the first two games, but in the third one onwards he became a tritagonist, despite still being a coward and an imbecile.

He was voiced by Jim Ward in all games up to Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, with Scott Whyte taking the role in Rift Apart. Jim Ward also played Emperor Otto Destruct in Size Matters, as well as Torrance in Disney's Treasure Planet, Sheshou in Disney's Mulan, and Krackus in My Life as a Teenage Robot.

Biography[]

Ratchet & Clank (2002)[]

Qwark is the secondary antagonist in the original Ratchet & Clank. Ratchet and Clank travelled the Solana Galaxy trying to find the hero, believing that he will help them save the galaxy from Chairman Drek's evil plans. They find him in his trailer in Blackwater City, and he tells them to meet him at his gauntlet on Umbris. They pass the course, but are betrayed by Qwark, who reveals he is the highly-paid spokesman of Drek's new planet. Qwark attempts to kill them with his Blargian Snagglebeast, but then failed to do so. Drek reprimands Qwark over his failure to kill the duo, but gives him a second chance.

Drek eventually told Qwark to go to the Gemlik Base and confront them personally using a Blarg starfighter, and Qwark battled Ratchet through space but was defeated and shot down on the planet Oltanis, which resulted in Drek firing him. Ratchet then meets Qwark again on the heavily bombed planet, and Qwark sells him the P.D.A. under the name Steve McQwark.

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando[]

Qwark returns as the main antagonist in the sequel Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. After his defeat at the hands of Ratchet and Clank, Qwark tried to gain fame by selling a device called the Personal Hygenator; however, the device caused harm to its users, and Qwark was forced to pay six billion dollars to the users. Qwark tried to escape to planet Pokitaru, but was arrested and placed in jail. He escaped again by flushing himself down a toilet and wasn't seen for 6 weeks. Qwark wasn't seen until the end of the game where it is revealed that he had used his alter-ego (Steve McQwark) to help finance his big comeback by selling the Personal Hygenator. He then managed to gain control over Megacorp by pretending to be CEO Mr. Abercrombie Fizzwidget and locking the real Fizzwidget in a broom closet.

Fizzwidget

Qwark disguised as Fizzwidget

Qwark then hired Ratchet and Clank to recover the "Experiment" that was stolen by Angela Cross, and abandoned the two after it was returned to him. He then released the experiments across the galaxy, leading to them violently attacking their owners and citizens in general. Mega Corp eventually became wary of "Fizzwidget"'s abnormal behaviour and hired Thugs-4-Less to protect him. The Thugs framed Ratchet and Clank for an attempt on his life and imprisoned them. Eventually, he revealed his true identity and went live on holovision where he tried to fix the Experiment, now called the Protopet, to make himself look like a hero and incriminate Ratchet for starting the crisis. However, the Helix-O-Morph he took from Angela backfired, and the Protopet turned into a giant monster and ate Qwark. The duo managed to defeat the beast, and Qwark was spat out. In the final cutscene, he is seen working at Megacorp as a test subject for the Crotchitizer. Following this, the next few games state that Qwark has a strange addiction to the Crotchitizer.

Between Going Commando and Up Your Arsenal[]

At some point, Qwark somehow returned to the Solana Galaxy and resided on planet Florana, where he was raised as a child, with cyclops monkeys.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal[]

When Dr. Nefarious attacked the Solana Galaxy, President Phyronix requested Ratchet and Clank track down the Florana Tree Beast advertised in Nature's Mysteries, which was Qwark, as Qwark was the only man to have faced Nefarious and lived. When they found the masked man on Florana, he made Ratchet and Clank walk the Path of Death, his identity was revealed and fought the duo. After he is defeated, it became apparent he had lost his memory and believed he was a monkey, leading the two to escort him back to the Starship Phoenix where he was briefly housed with his monkey friend Skrunch. After Ratchet completed a Qwark vid-comic in front of him, Qwark regained his memory and founded the Q-Force, a team consisting of himself, Sasha Phyronix of the Starship Phoenix, his former fitness instructor Helga, racer Skidd McMarx, Big Al from the Roboshack he had formerly endorsed in his career, Skrunch, Ratchet and Clank. At this point, he was no longer a threat to Ratchet & Clank, redeeming himself, but remained focused in his goal to keep his heroic reputation high.

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters[]

Qwark was noticed by Clank on Pokitaru with him pretending to know nothing about Ratchet and Clank's current adventure so Clank uses reverse psychology on him telling him "he is trailing Ratchet and Clank to see what they are doing so he can join in on their next adventure" and Qwark says that is what he is doing and then realises he has been tricked. Ratchet also appears and tells Qwark he has a nice hat but Qwark starts crying due to Clank asking does he not have a home to go back with his family as Qwark reveals he never knew his parents and was raised by monkeys since he was just a baby so Clank gives him the idea to try and find his real family.

After Luna is "kidnapped" by the robots Qwark appears after Clank picks up a galaxy map of the planets and tells Ratchet and Clank that he has heard about the species who created them named "Technomites" but Ratchet gets angry at him and says "There are no technomites!!!" but Clank convinces the two of them to follow the coordinates etched on the side on the map so they can find clues to where Luna had been taken to but Ratchet tells Qwark to stay out of their way.

Once they arrive at the planet named Ryllus, Qwark offers an exchange that he will tell Ratchet and Clank where to use the map that they acquired if they give him something in return. They allow Qwark to use their ship's computer so he can research his family history and in return Qwark tells them to "check out the big building since the most important stuff is always in the biggest buildings"

After Ratchet and Clank arrive at the coordinates for a planet named Kalidon Qwark reveals he found his new family on a site named "faux family.com" and reveals that he has to go meet them excitedly and tells them good luck on whatever it was they were doing.

Ratchet and Clank are both kidnapped and Ratchet has a nightmare that involves Qwark with multiple version of himself attempting to perform an operation on Ratchet so he escapes the surgery room while later in the level the Hypershot target plants are replaced by Qwark's head.

Qwark then meets up with Clank and Ratchet on the final level on the game that involves them battling Emperor Otto Destruct who is revealed to be the leader of the Technomites. Otto manipulated Qwark into helping him with his schemes but then is revealed to have lied to Qwark as Skrunch delivers a note that reveals that Qwark's real parents were killed due to defective equipment created by Technomites. Qwark feeling enraged that Otto manipulated him decides to shove him into the memory swapping machine and prepares to change minds with Otto as revenge. Ratchet and Clank attempt to stop Qwark from doing this as he doesn't know the side effects of the machine but Qwark says that he doesn't care causing Skrunch distract him with Otto snatching the shrink ray from Ratchet and downsizing Qwark so he wouldn't have to swap minds with him.

In the ending cutscene it is revealed that Qwark is still downsized and is bragging about his false adventures of defeating monsters using an electric gun with Ratchet remarking that while Qwark is small his ego is still big.

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