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The later games make Clank much more passive in terms of personality. He was always nice, but he talked back at NPCs almost as much as Ratchet did when it called for it and actually had a spine. It makes him so much more forgettable as a character, compared to how half the first game involved Clank basically forcing Ratchet to play the hero and them playing around with turning him into a womanizer in the later PS2 games.

Also making him your helper fairy in some of the later games was a bad move because it just makes him annoying. They should have never stopped doing the helpdesk voice.