into a sheep using the Sheepinator, one of his favorite weapons, and assuming direct control of the Deplanetizer. Nefarious also creates a weapon nicknamed the RYNO (Rip You a New One), the most powerful weapon in the galaxy, which causes him to be struck by an energy blast when Ratchet hits him near the end of the film, causing him to disintegrate as he plummets to his death. In a post-credits scene, Nefarious is shown to have survived the disintegration, albeit with near-fatal injuries, before a few of his own repairbots searching the Deplanetizer's wreckage for survivors find and convert him into a robot to save his life. The game, meanwhile, is more concrete, apparently killing Nefarious by having him vaporized within a dwarf star. However, since the story is narrated by Qwark, it is likely that he survived without his knowledge. He was the main antagonist of the Ratchet and Clank animated short Life Of Pie, where he builds a Portalizer (similar to the Dimensionator) to travel through other dimensions but it gets stolen by Ratchet and Clank. Reception Johnny Liu of Game Revolution said that "Doctor Nefarious' psychotic babbling [...] strikes the right balance between threatening and comical". He was included in GameSpot's "All Time Greatest Video Game Villain" contest and reached the "Round 1a" before losing to Dr. Wily. Dr. Nefarious was listed as the sixth best videogame villain on PS3 by PlayStation Official Magazine. IGN ranked him 65th on their list of "The Top 100 Videogame Villains", saying "he is evil, but evil in the most loveable way" and that "one of Dr. Nefarious' most charming quirks is his tendency to blow a fuse and stop mid-sentence, occasionally picking up soap opera radio waves in the process when he is under stress" (especially since it's always a Lance and Janice episode). GamesRadar listed Nefarious as one of "Gaming's maddest mad doctors". He was ranked seventh in the "Top Ten A.I. Characters of the Decade" article by Matt Miller from Game Informer, who wrote "Dr. Nefarious is just the villain that this sci-fi series needed. [...] A great villain can make a story, and Nefarious hits all the right notes to fit the franchise." References Further reading Dictator characters in video games Extraterrestrial characters in video games Extraterrestrial supervillains Fictional dictators Fictional extraterrestrial robots Fictional henchmen in video games Fictional inventors in video games Mad scientist characters