Ratso
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[edit] Actors
Voice Actors:
- English: Clancy Brown
- Japanese: Jin Urayama
[edit] Character Profile
Ratso is a somewhat dimwitted but basically easy-natured strongman who displays child-like fears and desires, like a love for toys and grilled cheese sandwiches. He is always seen wearing a bandage across his nose as a fashion statement. Although he's the team's seemingly least intelligent member, from time to time he does reveal bits and snippets of higher education; he even studied theoretical physics before joining the Enforcers. After Tohru and Hak Foo, he is the primary muscle of his team.
As a running gag, when the monkey talisman affects him, he is usually turned into a rat (fitting, because of his name). For family, he has an unnamed sister and her son, Rocko.
[edit] History
Ratso and his compatriots Finn and Chow appear as the first Dark Hand members Jackie encounters, at the same day Jade arrives from Hong Kong. When they threaten Jackie and attempt to damage several of Uncle's antiques (an attempt which Jackie's martial arts training easily foils), they spark Jade's attention and she decides to accompany her uncle henceforth on his quest for Shendu's talismans. Despite a long string of failures (and the accompanying bruises they sustain from Jackie, Jade and compatriots), they remain largely faithful to their boss, Valmont, even after his organization goes down the drain following Shendu's release and Valmont's subsequent (if accidental) possession by Shendu's spirit.
In the second season, however, after the talismen are safely sealed in Section 13, there is one point at which the Enforcers split up and attempt to go their seperate ways. After Finn suffers another nightmare - in the form of Jackie Chan spoiling even his more legit pursuits -, he tries to open his own crime syndicate. Ratso and Chow join him (after Valmont has turned down a demand for a pay raise), but their attempt at their own career is short-lived, as Finn has foolishly decided to hunt down a cursed Irish emerald which brings its possessors bad luck.
