Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time: Difference between revisions

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* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|The initially harmless-seeming Fongoids}} caused a Class X-3 in the backstory, destroying 83 star systems. Dr. Nefarious' plan to misuse the Great Clock for his own benefit would instead have caused a Class X-4. {{spoiler|General Azimuth very nearly DID cause one.}}

* [[Art Shift]]: [[Flash Back|Flash Backs]] and photographs are typically drawn rather than CG rendered

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Via the "six minute rule" as mentioned by {{spoiler|The Plumber}}, Clank is able to briefly use the clock to prevent {{spoiler|Azimuth from killing Ratchet}}.

* [[Bag of Sharing]]: {{spoiler|While wandering the Great Clock, Clank can destroy boxes and repair things to earn bolts. That Ratchet can use to buy things.}}

* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: "So much for clean underwear."

* [[Captain Space Defender of Earth]]: Captain Qwark.

* [[Eternal Engine]]: The Great Clock.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Azimuth.}}

* [[Fantastic Rank System]]: Alister Azimuth is a "Four Bolt Magistrate".

* [[Flip Flop of God]]: Angela Cross apparently IS a Lombax now, reversing the writers' decision from earlier in the series.

* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: Qwark somehow tames a War Grok.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Vorselon's message to Ratchet: {{spoiler|"Only one lombax need perish tonight. If you'd be willing to take his place..."}}

* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the Agorian Battleplex - while Qwark is trying to woo the audience, in the background Ratchet is being mauled by the War Grok.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: Parodied. According to a radio broadcast, the season finale of [[Soap Within a Show|Lance and Janice]] was one of these. [[Ruined FOREVER|Doctor Nefarious is not happy.]]

* [[Game Within a Game]]: "My Blaster Runs Hot - The Game". It's a twin-stick shooter that has Qwark facing down hordes of robots.

* [[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face]]: To quote Lawrence: "Might I suggest engaging the safety, so as not to kill any more troops?" Qwark also majorly fails gun safety when he gestures to his "intelligence" by pointing a gun to his head.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When first asked why he didn't leave with the Lombaxes, Azimuth wistfully answers: "''Sometimes the universe has a cruel sense of humour''". At the end of the game, Orvus concludes his final message to Clank by saying: "''The universe has a wonderful sense of humour. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|The trick is learning how to take a joke.]]''"

'''Ratchet''': Well... now we know what he went with... }}

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: This game features an impressive deathcount of important characters: {{spoiler|Clank's father Orvus, Alister Azimuth, Lord Vorselon, Cassiopeia, Carina and Libra, Pollyx, and even Ratchet.}}

{{quote| '''Qwark:''' This Lombax is young. He does not understand that being a hero is 45% strength, 60% bravery, and 10% raw intelligence.<br />

'''Ratchet:''' That's 115%!<br />

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: {{spoiler|Azimuth's pocket watch becomes one after his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}. The hoverboots Azimuth gives Ratchet were originally Kaden's.

* [[More Dakka]]: The 'Rapid Fire' mod for the Constructo Pistol. Shoots so quickly even tapping the fire button for a split second will fire off 2-3 shots.

* [[My Brain Is Big]]: Terachnoids. Loading screen trivia implies that they actually house ''multiple'' brains in their massive skulls, as the smartest was born with seven and a half.

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|A big plot point in ''Tools of Destruction'' was that Tachyon was able to defeat the Lombaxes and conquer the galaxy due to having improved Lombax technology. ''Crack in Time'' reveals that Azimuth was the one who gave Tachyon access to the tech. (Ironically, he did so because he believed that Tachyon's improvements would help defend the galaxy.) This mistake weighs on Azimuth so much it drives him a bit insane, which comes to a head in the climax of ''Crack''.}}

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: {{spoiler|Clank, more or less. Not a very standard one, but his backstory certainly fits.}}

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Azimuth figures out that Ratchet's a real Lombax instead of a holo-guised assassin due to his striking resemblance to his father, Kaden.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]].

* [[Too Many Halves]]: In one of his many boasts, Qwark explains to Ratchet that "being a hero is 45% strength, 60% bravery and 10% raw intelligence". Ratchet doesn't fail to lampshade that something doesn't add up.

* [[Two D Space]]: Played straight to a ridiculous degree when there are force fields in a narrow ring around a planet that you can't get by without disabling.

** More generally the space sections play like this - in comparison to the free-flying in ''Going Commando'' and the on-rails sections in ''Tools of Destruction'', ''Size Matters'' and ''Secret Agent Clank'', you can only fly on a flat, 2D plane.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: All Fongoid males have one. The loading screen trivia mentions that scientists have no idea why it's the case, but also that the leading theory of time travel as the cause was dismissed as "both laughable and impossible" by the scientist who came up with it.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Libra, one of the three leaders of the [[Amazon Brigade]], sounds suspiciously like [[Venture Brothers|Dr. Girlfriend]].

* [[The Walls Are Closing In]]: Happens at the beginning of the last mission, but Qwark can brace the walls forever, and all you have to do is just blow up some [[Mook|Mooks]] in the enclosed space before the trap is released.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Dr. Nefarious's response to [[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face|accidentally killing his minion with an "unloaded" gun]] is to simply press a [[Big Red Button]] to call in the next (completely terrified) minion.

** It is never revealed what happened to Talwyn's father, Max Apogee, and in fact, [[Brother Chuck|Talwyn doesn't appear in the game at all]].

** Actually if you listen in on the radio you can catch a report that seems to imply that {{spoiler|Max teamed up with Angela from [[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando|the second game]] (now apparently confirmed to be Lombax), and docked on Kerchu where they used the Dimensionator to flee to wherever the Lombaxes were.}}