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Courtney Gears Oops I Did It Again

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Courtney Gears is an antagonist in Upward Your Arsenal, with cameo appearances in Deadlocked, and mentions in after entries. Renowned for her looks rather than her musical power, she is a robot pop star sensation, selling a large amount of trade across the Solana Galaxy. She as well gave out m prizes on the holovision show Annihilation Nation.

Unbeknownst to the galaxy, she became a shut marry of Dr. Nefarious, profitable in his cause to plough all organic lifeforms into robots. She recorded a popular song, "Robots of the Galaxy", as propaganda for his crusade. She also used her hideout in Obani Draco to test the Biobliterator, a device that could transform organic lifeforms into robots. Her popularity declined due to her association with Nefarious. Post-obit her defeat past Ratchet, she was repaired by Gleeman Vox, leading to her comeback.

Contents

  • 1 History
    • 1.i Before Up Your Arsenal
    • 1.two Upwardly Your Arsenal
    • 1.3 After Deadlocked
    • 1.4 Deadlocked
    • 1.v Subsequent appearances
  • 2 Characteristics
    • 2.i Appearance
    • 2.2 Personality
    • 2.3 Abilities
  • three Backside the scenes
  • four Citations
  • 5 References

History

Earlier Up Your Arsenal

Qwark fantasizing about Courtney Gears.

Courtney Gears was a highly successful pop star in the Solana Galaxy, her popularity deriving from her status as a sex symbol rather than whatever musical talent.[1] [2] She recorded music videos in her hideout on Obani Draco,[3] the tertiary Obani moon. Captain Qwark, another of the galaxy's biggest celebrities, was her fan, having a affiche of her in prison[four] and fantasizing about her while incapacitated in Nefarious' lair.[v] Dallas Wanamaker, anchor at Vox News, was too a fan, claiming he would dance to her songs at 3 AM in pink frilly underpants while his mother yelled from upstairs to turn it downwards.[6]

Qwark claimed to at one betoken accept been involved in an intimate relationship with Courtney Gears, though it is unclear if this was true or simply an endeavor to taunt Dr. Nefarious.[7]

Courtney performing the "Robots of the Galaxy" music video.

In improver to her music career, Gears gave prizes on the holovision prove Annihilation Nation. She also secretly worked with Dr. Nefarious. Though most were unsuspecting of her due to a sweet and innocent public persona,[1] there were prior allegations, damaging her career.[6] Courtney Gears also had an acting career, starring in a flick named Mandles, Sandles for Men. The Saga Continues? with Jet Baxter. The picture was commercially unsuccessful, but was Al's favorite movie.[8] At some point, Gears recorded a pop song, "Robots of the Galaxy", which was actually propaganda for Dr. Nefarious, as it called for the extermination of all organic life and proclaimed robots must be "free".[9] The music video was edited in a high-security computer on Daxx, where the Biobliterator had been created.

Upwardly Your Arsenal

Ratchet and Clank first met Courtney Gears during the mission "Win the Tyhrra-Guise". Subsequently winning the Annihilation Nation challenge "Grand Prize Tour", Gears presented them with the Tyhrra-Guise for their victory.

Ratchet and Clank notice Gears' music video.

Ane day before Ratchet and Clank's arrival on Daxx, the Biobliterator was sent to Gears' hideout on Obani Draco for testing.[ten] When Ratchet and Clank arrived on Daxx, in "Explore the Docks", they found the security reckoner where her music video was edited. Ratchet was eager to picket the video, and was surprised that Gears was working with Nefarious. The two then agreed to win another prize at the Annihilation Nation for a chance to learn more.[1] Meanwhile, they also found the high-security computer with plans for the Biobliterator in "Infiltrate the Weapons Facility". They tracked it to the Obani moons, unaware that it was heading to her hideout on Obani Draco.

In "Meet with Courtney Gears", Ratchet and Clank competed in two Anything Nation challenges for the third Qwark vid-comic, Shadow of the Robot, given to them past Courtney Gears. When they tried to talk to her, Gears was utterly uninterested in Ratchet, only told Clank she would be very happy to appear in his holovision show, Secret Agent Clank. Clank agreed on the status that she hope to provide information nigh Dr. Nefarious, a bargain Gears agreed to. Ratchet and Clank besides traveled to Obani Gemini and Obani Pollux with Skidd McMarx, but were unable to break the omega-class disintegration field effectually it,[xi] and left Skidd to break the lock after receiving a distress phone call from the Galactic Rangers.

Courtney with Nefarious.

In "Film a Underground Agent Clank Episode", Gears starred as the baroness in an episode named "Maxmillian Strikes Back", in which Clank rescued her from the monster Terror of Talos afterward battling information technology as Giant Clank. Later filming the episode, Gears incapacitated Clank before delivering him to Nefarious, where he offered Clank a identify at his side. When Clank refused, the ii instead kept him prisoner, and sent Klunk to take Clank's place and spy on Ratchet.

Courtney Gears testing the Biobliterator.

Meanwhile, Gears returned to the Obani moons in a space limo, and met Skidd McMarx. Unaware that she was with Nefarious, McMarx asked her to autograph his t-shirt, before she kidnapped him.[12] Gears took him to the Biobliterator testing laboratory on her hideout on Obani Draco, and transformed him into a robot.[thirteen]

In "Discover Skidd", Ratchet and Klunk traveled to Obani Draco in search of him, only to find that Gears had transformed him into a robot. Gears and then teleported Ratchet into the arena where she films her music videos for a boxing, promising that he would enjoy being a robot and the transformation would not exist as well painful.[xiii] Ratchet defeated her there, leaving her damaged.[six]

Gears had a cameo in the Qwark vid-comic, The Shaming of the Q, in which Qwark fantasized about her while in Dr. Nefarious' torture chamber.[5]

After Deadlocked

Due to the allegations near her conspiring with Nefarious, Courtney Gears' record label dropped her in favor of Skidd McMarx's spoken give-and-take poesy.[6] Despite this and the contents being propaganda for Nefarious, the song "Robots of the Galaxy" caught on,[six] [14] and her merchandise was withal pop among young girls[15] and teenage robots.[6]

Gleeman Vox, owner of a media empire based in the Shadow Sector, recovered her damaged body. Despite her reaching a low in her career, Vox personally oversaw the careful reconstruction and rehabilitation of her damaged trunk by his own squad of specialist robotic surgeons. In return for funding her recovery, Vocalism required she sign over to him all past and time to come rights to her music, her paradigm, her name, her likeness, and her personal collection of Hush-hush Agent Clank memorabilia. Vocalism News, in a segment of Galactic Glamour, spun this every bit a favorable deal, also spinning the boxing against her by claiming she had just been "minding her own business organization" in the "privacy" of her Biobliterator testing facility.[half dozen]

Gears then went to the Kronos School for the Inept doing market research for her latest album,[xvi] titled Oops, I Got Vaporized Past A Level 7 Shock Blaster!,[6] where she met a math teacher, Dull Bookworm. The ii entered a relationship, brought together by their equal beloved of deli food. All the same, it faded afterwards a month due to Bookworm'southward slow and boring life. Bookworm then traveled to the nearest personal enhancement middle, where a live nuclear explosive was surgically implanted in his chest, rebirthing him every bit Reactor.[16] Gears and then made her cinematic debut starring alongside Reactor, one of the Exterminators at DreadZone, in the movie Reactor: Ascent of the Sociopathic Bloodlust.[6]

Deadlocked

Courtney Gears after she recovered from Upward Your Arsenal.

Gears offset appeared in Deadlocked when Al, a member of Team Darkstar, danced to the "Robots of the Galaxy" music video. Spitting his coffee in surprise, he hurriedly turned it off when Ratchet entered to talk to him.[17]

Gears was later discussed in a news segment by Vox News, in which they reported she fabricated a full recovery following a "near-decease experience" when she was attacked past "ii psychotic fans", showing a falsified prototype of Ratchet and Clank.[eighteen] Later on, she appeared in a DreadZone promotional video documenting her relationship with Dull "Reactor" Bookworm, in which she had first rejected him until he brought fame and fortune being an exterminator.[nineteen]

Subsequent appearances

Courtney Gears' subsequent appearances include posters in Size Matters and Hush-hush Agent Clank, her "Robots of the Galaxy" music video played aboard the IRIS supercomputer in Tools of Destruction, and a poster in the Friends with Benefits comic book. She was mentioned in Quest for Booty and A Crack in Time, in which Cassiopeia mentioned that she was still one of Nefarious' subordinates, implying she stayed aligned with him when he resurfaced in the Polaris Galaxy.

Characteristics

Appearance

Courtney Gears is a feminine robot with a slender hotbot body type of a silver metal alloy. She has brown metal hair held by a ruby headband, and glowing yellow eyes with dark grey eyeshadow. Her outfit consists of a long-sleeved crop top and blackness mini-shorts underneath a scarlet mini-skirt, with red wedge boots for her anxiety.

Her fame is attributed to her looks rather than to her acting or singing ability, as corroborated and stated by the frequent mentions of her attractive appearance past other characters, including Ratchet,[i] the Anything Nation journalist,[20] the manager,[21] and Qwark.[5]

Personality

Courtney Gears is a manipulative graphic symbol, hoodwinking others into believing she is on their side, oft by feigning innocence or attraction. Due to this and her duplicitous tendencies, her motives are often unclear. Though she did believe Ratchet (and presumably other organics) would savor being a robot, she also stated in her lyrics she can't stand organics and called for their extermination.[9]

Gears is very conceited and aristocratic. The room in which her music videos are filmed is total of pictures of her, and she shows disdain towards those she sees as below her, including Ratchet and McMarx. During her battle against Ratchet, Gears called Ratchet a "nappy little rat" who would brand a nice fur coat, and likened the unabridged boxing to a trip the light fantastic toe-off while taunting him. She expressed frustration at him for messing up her hair or nails, rather than for necessarily causing harm. Later losing to him, she bemoaned her fans would be lost without her.[13] When vying for the favor of someone, Gears acts cuter and more flirtatious, calling Clank a "hunk of titanium alloy", and referring to Nefarious as "snooky wookums".[21] Yet, she appears to conduct this way only towards robots.

Gears is surrounded by a posse of backup dancers, including her best dancer named Melissa,[13] who hang out with her in her hideout[3] and appear in her music videos. While Qwark claimed to have had an intimate relationship with her to taunt Nefarious,[vii] and she was implied to crush on Nefarious during Upwards Your Armory, the simply confirmed relationship she had was with Reactor. Though the relationship began genuine, it faded subsequently merely a week; her return motivated simply by money, just lasting until his death.[xvi]

Abilities

Courtney zapping Clank.

Courtney Gears is a deceptively tough and powerful fighter, who often fights aslope her backup dancers which have similar abilities. She is active, able to teleport curt distances mid-combat, and can perform spinning kicks. She can fire free energy blasts, throw spinning free energy discs at foes, and fire electric shockwaves. Outside of combat, she has a powerful static shock from her eyes that could incapacitate Clank.

Though she is a very successful pop star, Gears' acting and singing talent are disparaged by several characters, including Ratchet on 2 occasions,[1] [13] and even including the Anything Nation journalist who refers to her as "in-talented".[two]

Behind the scenes

Concept art of Courtney Gears from Upward Your Arsenal.

Courtney Gears' name is a parody of existent-life pop star Britney Spears. She references Britney's song "Oops!... I Did It Again", both in a line during the boss battle in Upwardly Your Arsenal,[13] and in the News Update segment made available on the Insomniac Games website promoting the game, with the album title Oops, I Got Vaporized By A Level seven Shock Equalizer!.[half-dozen]

Courtney Gears was originally voiced by Melissa Disney in Up Your Armory. The backup dancer Melissa, whom she refers to as her all-time dancer,[13] is likely a reference to the voice actor's name. In Deadlocked, she was voiced by Nika Futterman. Futterman went on to voice Juanita Alvaro, Vernon, and Vendra Prog, and other characters in the serial. TJ Fixman, writer of Into the Nexus (in which Vendra Prog is the primary villain), compared the ii prior to release in a tweet, hinting that Vendra was much more than evil.[22]

The lyrics for Courtney Gears' song, "Robots of the Galaxy", were written by Up Your Armory writer Brad Santos. An early version of the song, recorded by Paul Mudra to teach Melissa Disney the lyrics, has a few small-scale differences in the lyrics, with unlike ad libs and slightly different timing.[23] The dominate battle confronting Courtney Gears was designed by Colin Munson, and programmed by Jerrod Putman. Munson's original pattern for the boss fight was as a rhythm game, in which the player had to match what Gears was singing. This could not be achieved, every bit in that location was no time to write another song for the battle, though the developers were even so happy with the design.[24]

Courtney Gears' "Robots of the Milky way" music video is in English language in all localizations of the game, with the exception of Japan, for which it is translated. In the Japanese version of Tools of Devastation, the Groovitron has a different playlist, and one of the possible tracks is a remix of the chorus of Courtney Gears' "Robots of the Galaxy" song, sang in English.

A poster of Courtney Gears appears in the cell that Qwark, Zed and Shiv Helix are within in the 2016 re-imagined game.

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.one 1.2 1.three one.four Up Your Arsenal script § "Explore the Docks (gameplay)"
  2. ↑ two.0 2.1 Upwardly Your Arsenal script § "Run across with Courtney Gears (gameplay)"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Upwards Your Arsenal guide, p. 108
  4. ↑ Ratchet & Clank (2016 game), poster in intro cutscene
  5. ↑ v.0 five.1 5.2 Up Your Arsenal script § "Redecorating the Torture Bedchamber"
  6. ↑ vi.0 half dozen.one 6.2 6.3 six.four six.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Insomniac Games official website 2005
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.i Upward Your Arsenal script § "Detect Nefarious"
  8. ↑ Deadlocked menu § "Bounty Hunter"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.i Up Your Arsenal script § "Courtney Gears Music Video"
  10. ↑ Up Your Arsenal script § "Infiltrate the Weapons Facility (gameplay)"
  11. ↑ Up Your Arsenal script § "Explore the Second Moon"
  12. ↑ Up Your Arsenal script § "Escape the Tyhrranoid Deadfall (gameplay)"
  13. ↑ 13.0 xiii.1 xiii.two 13.three 13.4 13.v xiii.6 Up Your Arsenal script § "Beat Courtney Gears (gameplay)"
  14. ↑ Deadlocked, Al dancing to the video in a cutscene
  15. ↑ Deadlocked script § "Ace Toys Suck"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.ane 16.2 Deadlocked guide, p. 8
  17. ↑ Deadlocked script § "Tutorial (gameplay)"
  18. ↑ Deadlocked script § "Shellshock and the Twins"
  19. ↑ Deadlocked script § "Reactor: Introspective"
  20. ↑ Up Your Arsenal script § "Win the Tyhrra-Guise"
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.ane Upwards Your Arsenal script § "Film a Clandestine Amanuensis Clank Episode"
  22. ↑ Fixman 2013
  23. ↑ uselesspodcasts 2012, xi:00
  24. ↑ uselesspodcasts 2012, four:20

References

Video games
  • Insomniac Games (2004). Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal [Game]. PlayStation 2.
  • Insomniac Games (2005). Ratchet: Deadlocked [Game]. Sony Reckoner Amusement. PlayStation 2.
  • Insomniac Games (2007). Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction [Game]. Sony Computer Entertainment. PlayStation three.
  • Insomniac Games (2009). Ratchet & Clank Time to come: A Crack in Time [Game]. Sony Estimator Entertainment. PlayStation 3.
  • Insomniac Games (2016). Ratchet & Clank [Game]. Sony Interactive Entertainment. PlayStation iv.
Bibliography
  • Greg Off (2004). Ratchet & Clank Upward Your Arsenal Official Strategy Guide [Book]. BradyGames. ISBN 0744005000.
  • Greg Off (2005). Ratchet Deadlocked Prima Official Game Guide [Book]. Prima Games. ISBN 0761552049.
Websites
  • Insomniac Games (2005, October 24). "Entertainment News - News Update". From Insomniac Games. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019.
  • Fixman, TJ [@TJFixman] (2013, July x). If you thought Courtney Gears was evil, wait until yous run across Vendra Prog. #IntoTheNexus [Tweet]. Twitter.
Videos
  • Stout, Mike; Garcia, Tony [uselesspodcasts] (2012, June xi). Ratchet and Clank 3 - Developer Commentary - Ep 15 [Video]. YouTube.
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