Skid McMarx
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- "How Skid gets his "altidude"."
- —Hover Boarder magazine[[src]]
Skid McMarx, more commonly spelled Skidd McMarxx, was a professional hoverboarder. He was a stereotypical skateboarder/surfer-dude, possessing a laid-back attitude and intelligence (or lack thereof) that matched this persona.
[edit] Ratchet & Clank
Skid let Ratchet take his place in a big hoverboard race because his ship crashed on Aridia. Skid needed Ratchet to kill the sandsharks so he can make it to his ship. When asked why he won't kill the sandsharks himself, Skid claimed to had "sprained his ankle," yet he can walk to his ship once the sandsharks were dead. He also had an agent of the same race, before he crash-landed.
[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Skid was chosen for the Q-Force for his "nerves of steel," despite chickening out and letting Ratchet do the work in the original game. His claimed specialty is Black Ops, and he volunteered to help Ratchet with his quick skills with the Hacker on Aquatos, where he requested that he is referred to by his code name "Shadow Dude." Later on in the game, he was kidnapped by Courtney Gears and taken to her home planet on Obani Draco. He was then used as a dummy to test the Bio-Bliterator, which turned him into a robot. How he was changed back from his robot state at the end of the game is not revealed, but earlier on Big Al had said that it may be possible to reverse the transformation. Skid can be seen in the end cutscene, at the Secret Agent Clank premier, back to normal and sitting with his agent from the original Ratchet & Clank".
[edit] Trivia
- After the demise of Courtney Gears in R&C: UYA, Skid went into the music business, when his latest pieces of word poetry had proven to be more popular than Courtney's works due to accusations that she was one of Dr. Nefarious' accomplices. Courtney's managers even dumped her for him, but remained popular to some degree, and harbored a dislike for Skid and his work.
- Skid's name (and surname) might be a wordplay on the expression "skid marks".
- Skid was obviously based upon a typical Rastafarian. According to the magazine promo image, Skid smoked cannabis - a tradition in Rastafarianism.[1]
