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Clive Handforth is a supporting character that appears in LittleBigPlanet 2, and LittleBigPlanet 3: The Journey Home. He is the Creator Curator of The Factory Of A Better Tomorrow.
Appearances[]
LittleBigPlanet 2[]
Clive is the founder and owner of The Factory of a Better Tomorrow, a facility where he and his co-workers printed calendars and construct huge spaceships. Things were rather well for them until the factory was invaded by The Negativitron.
He is first seen in a portrait in Da Vinci‘s Hideout, which depicts him with Avalon Centrifuge and Dr. Herbert Higginbotham graduating from school.
When the player arrives in The Factory Of A Better Tomorrow, he is seen sitting in a can, and then proceeds to tell the player how he ended up in the situation he is in. He then tells the player to rescue all of the Sackbots held captive. Aiding Sackboy and making him company through most of The Factory Of A Better Tomorrow, and then joins him in his trip to Avalonia.
When Huge Spaceship crash lands on Avalonia, Clive is sent by The Alliance to go with the player to Eve's Asylum to find Dr. Higginbotham. Soon, he meets up with the rest of The Alliance and joins amongst them to defeat The Negativitron. As creativity is welcomed back to the imagisphere, he and the rest of the Alliance head on a journey back to Craftworld.
LittleBigPlanet 3: The Journey Home[]
Clive makes a comeback in LittleBigPlanet 3: The Journey Home as the Creator Curator of the second level and the survival challenge it's tied to. He explains to Swoop that the factory was on lockdown until the power was restored from both sides of the place. He is later seen at the party welcoming Sackboy, Toggle, OddSock and Swoop back to Craftworld.
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Appearance[]
Clive has a blue calendar as his head with darker blue sketches on the front to represent a face with short eyes and big moustache. His torso is a white and grey eraser, with paper clips connecting to his head, hands, and feet, which are just square paper bits, with the same colour as his face.
Beta Appearance[]
This appearance can be seen in the reveal trailer of LittleBigPlanet 2.
Clive's calendar body was more obvious and thicker, with his head and torso being the top and bottom of a calendar, his face and moustache being way more smaller, with a paper clip being attached to his head, rather than connecting his body parts, which has changed into paper strips. Another detail is that the calendar actually has something an actual calendar, something the final appearance lacks in.
Personality[]
Constantly gloomy and depressed, Clive is pessimistic to a fault. He can be melodramatic, and is always complaining about something or other. Despite this, Clive is the most ”normal” of the Alliance members. He is very perceptive, with the other Alliance members being too crazy or naive to spot a simple flaw in a plan. In the end, during the battle against The Negativitron, he performs an act of bravery by confronting the giant vacuum cleaner, evidencing his development.
Relationships[]
Eve Silva Paragorica[]
When he first meets her, he doesn't seem to trust her, although that changes quickly. She expresses gratitude to him due to the fact that he was one of the only Alliance members who hadn't given up on Herbert, and throughout the levels in Eve's Asylum, the two are shown to be good friends, although they don't talk much after Herbert is cured of his infection.
Avalon Centrifuge[]
Clive's most negative relationship in the Alliance appears to be with Avalon. When Clive finds out that he has to travel to Avalonia and meet Avalon, he replies in a rather sarcastic-sounding manner, implying that he hated the idea of speaking to him. When he arrives, he mockingly calls Avalon "Science Face", prompting an angry remark from Avalon. Avalon also mistreats Clive and treats him like a servant rather than a teammate.
This changes in The Cosmos, however, as Clive is determined to help him when he is abducted by the Negativitron and they both team up to help you in Into The Heart of The Negativitron, implying that they may have gotten over the supposed feud.
Larry Da Vinci[]
Larry's most negative relationship in the Alliance seems to be with Clive. In Clive's introduction, Larry acted impatient with Clive, getting rather irritated by him. In Bang for Buck, if you wait by the entrance without moving, he says "Clive's no good on his own" - showing that he undermines Clive's competence. However, the two still seem to get along normally, so it's unclear if Larry actually dislikes him.
Dr. Herbert Higginbotham[]
It is implied that these two may be close friends, as they likely spent time together often, shown by how Herbert was in Clive's factory when he was infected by a meanie. Clive is shown to care rather deeply for Herbert, blaming himself and starting to cry when talking about how Herbert was attacked and infected, and he was determined to go to Eve's Asylum with Sackboy to help save him.
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Trivia[]
- He has a Lancastrian accent.
- His facial animation is similar to that of stop-motion or a flip-book, with the style of flipping pages.
- In Full Metal Rabbit, after you've been informed that the Alliance is trapped in a force field, one of the evil sackbots, or meanies say, "Your friends are dead meat and dead...calendars!", referring to Clive's calendar head.
- In the final battle against the Negativitron, he drives the bounce pad platform in the 2nd stage along with Avalon.
- It is often rumored in the fandom that Clive has depression, due to him always looking miserable. Although this isn't proven, in the Strategy Guide description for the Factory of A Better Tomorrow, he is referred to as "manically depressed", potentially implying that he suffers from bipolar disorder (similar to Victoria Von Bathysphere).
- Clive states that, previous to The Negativitron's attack, his life was at it's worst when he found out about saturated fats.
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