Ratchet & Clank is one of PlayStation's most beloved franchises, and fans can't wait to play Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in June of 2021. The game is looking to continue many of the things that made fans fall in love with the buddy adventure featuring a wily Lombax and adorable robot companion.
A defining part of the franchise is the collection of original weapons that range from dangerous to hysterical. With so many games released in the series, there are more than a handful of weapons that leave the player laughing as they torture any and all enemies in their path.
10 Omni-Wrench
Now, the Omni-Wrench is a pretty sophisticated piece of gear that shouldn't be laughed at, but the idea of whacking enemies with a wrench is pretty funny. It's no different than the ancient caveman protecting itself with nothing but a wooden club. Ratchet often has some of the most advanced and whacky weapons at his disposal, but the most reliable piece of gear on him at all times happens to be a metal wrench he can either swing or throw at enemies. How demoralizing does that have to be to experience?
9 Pixelizer
In the most recent Ratchet & Clank game which happened to be a re-imagining of the original, it introduced the Pixelizer. Not only does it turn living enemies into 2-dimensional beings, but if they happen to die while under the influence of the weapon they'll break apart like a LEGO set someone knocked over. It's funny in the sense that the player is playing a video game in which the laws of reality can be affected, but thinking about it too much will have people overcomplicating the ramifications of such a weapon.
8 Groovitron
Dancing is a rather common hobby, but it's not a hobby everyone enjoys doing. Even then there are plenty of people who love dancing but would never do it publicly. The Groovitron, which made its debut in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time as a weapon and not a device allows Ratchet the ability to force people to dance.
It shoots a disco ball that floats in the air and music emanates from its location causing anyone within the affected radius to dance against their own will until they're defeating or the music ends and the effect expires.
7 Bee Mine Glove
If someone was in a firefight the last thing they'd likely expect to be fired at them was a living swarm of bees. That's why the Bee Mine Glove is such a funny weapon when it comes to what's available to use in the Ratchet & Clank series. The idea of an enemy reporting to their boss that they failed because they couldn't fend off a swarm of bees is rather hysterical. Thankfully Ratchet isn't allergic to bees or this weapon could seriously backfire on the very hero who's using it to overcome evil.
6 Suck Cannon
Suck Cannon seems more like a weird middle school insult and less like a weapon in a game, which makes it that much funnier. Someone can be told about the weapon and the name alone would incite laughter of some sort. The gun was a part of the original Ratchet & Clank game and appeared as well in both Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal and Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. It was a vacuum on steroids that sucked up anything in its path, causing death and misery for anything unlucky enough to be affected by it.
5 Sheepinator
What's funnier than turning terrible people into sheep? It's hard to find something that causes more laughter than people becoming animals. Not only does it eliminate their ability to fire a gun or fight back in a meaningful way, but it crushes the spirit in a way few things can.
The Sheepinator is a weapon capable of exactly that and was usable by players in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. An upgraded version called the Black Sheepinator made it so those transformed by the gun would also explode in sheep form.
4 Winterizer
It's one thing for a weapon in Ratchet & Clank to turn things into animals, but turning them into inanimate objects with no sentience takes the cake. The Winterizer from Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus not only turned enemies hit by its beam into snowmen, but it also played a version of "Jingle Bells" that added an extra layer of misery to those affected. Players looking to infuse their experience with the Christmas spirit will love using this gun to create the winter wonderland of their dreams.
3 Qwack-O-Ray
The Qwack-O-Ray is simply another weapon in the line of guns that morphs things into other things. This one, as the name would imply, turned things into ducks. It can never run out of ammo which is useful considering not all areas of the games are kind with providing ammo. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal is the title in which this gun appeared and could be upgraded twice, allowing for additional abilities involving the ducks. It's still unclear why the word quack was spelled incorrectly during the development of the weapon in-game.
2 Nightmare-In-A-Box
Villains tend to be individuals who enjoy using fear as a leadership tactic. By instilling fear in others they plan on leading and ruling unopposed. The Nightmare-in-a-box allows Ratchet to induce the same haunting fears and nightmares enemies do on unsuspecting innocent civilians back onto the perpetrators. It was featured in Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus and was great at distracting enemies in the path of the player. In terms of strategy, it was best utilized in short-range combat due to its low rate of fire and terrible range.
1 Chimp-O-Matic
On the surface, the Chimp-O-Matic may seem like just another morphing gun that allows Ratchet & Clank fans to turn enemies into wacky animals. Though that's an accurate sentiment, there are additional layers of comedy at work here. Organic enemies will turn into chimpanzees, but robotic ones will morph into toy monkeys playing cymbals. In canon, the gun was made by engineers at Grummel Net Industries as a way to pass the time when they were bored. Now it's the cause of existential crises across the galaxy.