~ Ratchet's new tagline for Bigweld Industries and his most famous quote.
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This is the last day any outmode will ever see!
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~ Phineas preparing to kill Rodney Copperbottom and the other outmodes.
Phineas Thomas Ratchet, also better known as Ratchet, is the secondary antagonist of Blue Sky's 2nd full-length animated-computered feature film Robots.
He is the new head of Bigweld Industries who plots with his mother, Madame Gasket, to wipe out outmodes from existence and turn them into upgrades for profit and empowerment over the population of Robot City. He is also Rodney Copperbottom's arch-nemesis.
By his own admission, he told lies and ruined lives to achieve his position as the new head of Bigweld Industries.
He used the Sweepers from the Chop Shop to collect spare parts and outmodes for his and Gasket's illegal operation, with the spare parts and outmodes being mutilated by the Chop Shop's workers before being dumped in a gigantic furnace where they are melted down into upgrades.
When a robot worker said that the employees would see Bigweld at the Bigweld Ball because Bigweld always attends, Ratchet fired him by using a telecommand to open a trap door beneath him and throw him out, possibly killing him, just because he suggested Bigweld would return one day.
When Rodney demonstrated Wonderbot to Ratchet, he cruelly kicked Wonderbot out of the window, saying he is showing Rodney what it can do, before having Rodney kicked out by magnetization, causing him to be chased by metallic debris.
Under Gasket's orders, he disposed of all of the spare parts in Robot City, causing millions of robots to be outmoded because they cannot afford upgrades, which would mean all the outmodes in the city would become "nothing but scrap metal" in a couple of days.
One of these victims was Herb Copperbottom, Rodney's father, who became an outmode who has "only a few miles left" if he can't find any more spare parts to sustain himself.
Outside of Gasket's orders, he invented a Super Sweeper, which is more dangerous, as it is designed to shred any outmodes and spare parts in its path.
Though he finally agreed to Gasket that he'll crush and destroy Rodney, while calling on the phone, he told her he is going to carry out their plan the way he himself wants it done.
When confronted and fired by Bigweld himself in the board meeting room, he whacked him unconscious with a microphone twice before having his bodyguards apprehend him before Rodney came in and save him.
What is worse is that him hitting Bigweld twice was hard enough to cause the latter brain damage, as he starts to act childish, which forces Rodney to fix his brain while being chased by Ratchet and his guards.
When the outmodes and Gasket's workers clashed inside the Chop Shop, he and Gasket attempted to kill the outmodes all at once using Super Sweepers.
Even after losing all his upgrades, being chained to the ceiling with his father, and the latter reciting Bigweld's motto to him, Ratchet demanded he stop the recitation, thus refusing to change his ways.
Although he has a crush on Cappy, it's just lust as he sees her as his possession, and when she turns on him and joins Rodney and Bigweld, he has zero qualms with her being melted down in the Chop Shop's furnace.
While he did have comedic moments, such as getting a massage before being interrupted by Madame Gasket, him realizing he was becoming just as crazy as his mother after beating Bigweld with the microphone, and losing all of his upgrades as he gets chained to the ceiling with his father, they don't detract from his villainy.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
He cares for his parents, which is shown when he reacts with horror to seeing Gasket fatally exploding in the furnace, as well as him kindly saying goodbye to his father despite getting angry with him reciting Bigweldās motto near the end of the movie.
Trivia[]
Ratchet is one of the two characters from Robots to be Near Pure Evil, the other being his mother Madame Gasket. Coincidentally, their counterparts, Rodney Copperbottom and Bigweld respectively, are Pure Good.
Robots is also the only Blue Sky Studios production to have more than one Near Pure Evil.
His Novelization counterpart canāt qualify as he only committed them out of fear and being abused by his mom, making him too tragic.
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Near Pure Evils
