Gleeman Vox
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Gleeman Vox is the villain of the video game Ratchet: Deadlocked. He is a greedy merciless shark-like creature whith a robotic arm, and the owner of a HV channel called Vox, a parody of Fox Broadcasting Company. There is no limit for what Vox will do to increase his ratings, even destroy an entire planet and sacrificing his own life.
[edit] Part in the game
Vox runs an illegal gladiator show called DreadZone. Unknown to most fans, very few of the heroes that take part of the show are willingly competing. Vox kidnaps more and more heroes to take part of the show, until one day he kidnaps Ratchet, along with his friends, Clank and Al. Vox tells Ratchet that if he'll complete all DreadZone challenges he'll win his freedom. There are no means of escape, since all contestants have collars around their neck that shock them if the contestant goes to a restricted area or explode if the contestant becomes uncooperative or boring, so Ratchet accepts. Ratchet beats more and more of the challenges, while the Vox news reporters keep slandering him. As Ratchet beats more challenges, the more Vox comes to realise that Ratchet is more popular than any of his champions, the Exterminators. When Ratchet beats all the challenges, and the grand champion Ace Hardlight, Vox offers him to replace Ace as the captain of the Exterminators. Ratchet refuses, making Vox send him to a final challenge, the Gauntlet of Doom, which had been proven to be unbeatable. Ratchet beats it, though, and when he returns to Vox's battledome Clank finds a plan to blow up the power generators and turn the collars off. When Ratchet arrives there it turns out that Vox had set a trap for him, making the station blow up if he didn't manage to destroy the generators. Ratchet manages to destroy them, however, but Vox returns in a big mech and battles Ratchet. Ratchet defeats Vox, though. When Vox sees he's defeated he activates the self destruct on the station. Luckily, Clank arrives in an escape shuttle and saves Ratchet, leaving Vox alone in the station which blows up to his appearent death.
