Captain Qwark

Captain Qwark
Ratchet & Clank character
Captain Qwark as he appears in the Future series between 2007 and 2009
First game	Ratchet & Clank (2002)
Voiced by (English)	Jim Ward
Voiced by (Japanese)	Kenji Nomura

Captain Qwark is a fictional character from Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank video game series. He first appeared in the 2002 video game Ratchet & Clank as one of the main antagonists. He then became the main villain of the second game. However starting with the third game onward, he switches sides and now assists the protagonists. In the series, Qwark is a selfish, deluded coward willing to do daring acts in order to gain money and publicity. He also has been known to temporarily side with the villains and betray his allies in order to save himself. However, as of the end of the third game, he has become much more moral, though he still remains a coward. Video game commentators have provided different opinions regarding the character; some criticized his personality calling him an "idiot" and "coward", while others praised his role as a villain.

Captain Copernicus Leslie Qwark was renowned throughout the Solana Galaxy as a superhero at the time of the first game. At the same time, Qwark was also egocentric and materially-driven to the point he made a deal with Chairman Drek to be the spokesperson for the new artificial planet Drek was building. After Ratchet and Clank started interfering with Drek's plan, Qwark attempted to kill them by forcing them to battle a Blargian Snagglebeast; after the duo defeated the Snagglebeast, Qwark travelled to the Gemlik Moonbase and used Drek's starfighter in an attempt to shoot Ratchet down, only to be shot down himself. Having crash-landed on Planet Oltanis, Qwark adopted the alias "Steve McQwark" and began selling gadgets which he claimed were genuine Gadgetron products.

Following the discovery of key defects in one of his bogus Gadgetron products, the Personal Hygenator, Qwark was revealed to be a fraud and was eventually arrested. After escaping during the events of the second game, Qwark travelled to the Bogon Galaxy and re-adopted his alias as Steve McQwark before continuing to sell more of his bogus products. Determined to recover his identity as a hero, Qwark kidnapped Megacorp founder Abercrombie Fizzwidget and disguised himself as Fizzwidget in order to hire Ratchet to recover the Protopet, which had been stolen by Angela Cross so she could destroy it. After recovering the Protopet, Qwark intended to neutralise the Protopet's destructive tendencies and blame these on Ratchet and Clank; his plan failed after the Helixamorph gadget he had taken from Angela amplified the Protopet's tendencies, causing it to eat Qwark. After Ratchet defeated the Protopet, Angela fixed the Helixamorph and used it to neutralise the Protopets; as punishment, Qwark joined Megacorp as a test subject including on a new device, the "Crotchitizer".