Courtney Gears

Courtney Gears (コートニー・ギアーズ: Courtney Gears) is a pop star who serves as one of the main antagonists in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. She is extremly loyal to Dr. Nefarious, unlike Lawrence and Cassiopeia, and is willing to help in his goal for galactic domination.

Gears is voiced by Melissa Disney in the English version, and by Chigusa Ikeda in the Japanese version.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Gears first appears in Annihilation Nation, where she hands out the Tyhrra-Guise to Ratchet.

Later on, after seeing one of her music videos, Ratchet and Clank complete in a Grand Challenge and win a Qwark Vid comic in hopes of being able to talk with her. Gears requests a part in Clank's Holo-Vid series, Secret Agent Clank, and Clank agrees to give her a role, provided that she tells them what she knows about Dr. Nefarious. Gears agrees and meets them at Holostar Studios.

After the episode was filmed, Clank asks Gears for her knowledge. However, she betrays him by knocking him out and taking him dirrectly to Doctor Nefarious. In the meanwhile, she sends a bunch of Tyhrranoids to attack Ratchet (who was fired from the set earlier for ejecting Clank out of a car by accident).

Gears later kidnaps Skidd McMarxx and takes him into her lair, which is within the Obani Draco, and uses a prototype laser to transform him into a robot for a test. Ratchet views the recording of the experiment, but Gears teleports him into her ballroom and attemps to murder him, saying that he'll "enjoy being a robot". Ratchet manages to defeat her, leaving her nothing but a pile of scrap on the ground.

It is currently unknown if anyone else other than the Q-Force learned of Gear's treason.

Ratchet: Deadlocked
During a newsflash, it was revealed by Dallas and Juanita that Gears survived her battle with Ratchet, and that she is a former girlfriend of one of the Exterminators.

What happened to Gears after the events of Deadlocked is unknown, other than her new album Don't Hurt Me Like That. Some fans say that she either was arrested and put into the Prison Planet, joined Tachyon over his rule of Polaris, rejoined Nefarious, or that the newsflash was a fake and that she was really killed in the Obani Draco battle.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Gears herself does not appear in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, but she is mentioned by Cassiopeia during an argument with Dr. Nefarious.

Secret Agent Clank
Some fans say that Gear and the Countess are the same person.

Personality
Through she appears to be sweet and innocent on the outside, she is actually cold, sadistic and murderous, thoguh she does care for her goons. She is Dr. Nefarious's biggest supporter.

Gears uses her fame to insure her own evil deeds are well hidden, explaining why she appears to still be popular even after she is revealed to be a Nefarious supporter (and possible henchman).