At last, our heroes have reached an accord. With the fate of the galaxy at stake, they have an evil corporate executive (or, as I call them, regular corporate executives) to stop.
So let’s stop ‘im.
As the threat is made clear, and Ratchet’s own home planet gets caught up in the crossfire of Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek’s capitalist real estate venture, he finally sees what he’s been ignoring in the name of his own hedonistic impulses. And at last, he pushes them aside in order to do the right thing. I believe that’s the intended interpretation of the scene in which Ratchet flies into an indignant rage.
However, looking at this same scene from a 2022 lens, I can’t help but draw parallels to the people who don’t care about issues like gun violence, Covid-19, racism in the courts, and so on until they are personally affected by them. Sure, Drek’s been attacking and destroying countless planets in the galaxy for his new planet, but that’s someone else’s problem. Only now, once his own home and garage are under threat, does Ratchet decide that he needs to actually take action. It’s even worse because it’s consistent with his previous hedonistic and antagonist behavior towards anyone who ever slightly inconveniences him.
Needless to say, I understand why Insomniac went through so much effort rehabilitating him in the sequels.
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