History VideoGame / SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRAccoonus

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: A couple of the Thievius Raccoonus pages are required for Sly to do ridiculously trivial and specific things, like rolling and swimming. The rest of the books benefits are specific enough to avert this, though.

The first game of the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series, released in 2002.

Sly must recover his family's "Thievius Raccoonus," a book listing all the special thieving skills his family has collected over several centuries, which was stolen by a rival gang, the Fiendish Five, led by Clockwerk. Meanwhile, Sly and his gang must keep ahead of Interpol Inspector [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Carmelita Montoya Fox]], who promises to one day capture Sly and put him away for his crimes.

** The Game Over [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist is basically a formality in this game]], and only sets you back in the level you died in last and allows you to keep what you already collected. ** Theres some minor DynamicDifficulty at play in some levels, making certain enemies vanish if the player is failing too many times on one level.
** Some of the Theivious Raccoonus pages provide some very convienient gameplay bonuses, such as not losing a horseshoe from falling into water or a bottomless pit or being able to move like staying invisible.

* LawfulStupid: Sly [[WhatTheHellHero actually calls Carmelita out]] on her dogged pursuit of him through the China stage, ignoring [[spoiler: the large-scale, illegal fireworks factory and how the Panda King ''destroyed a village'']] because [[InspectorJavert she's so fixated on arresting him]].

* RunningGag: Every time you beat a boss and Carmelita arrests them, the headlines of the newspaper make a crack about how attractive she is, referring to her as "Hot Stuff With Badge" or "Hot Chick With Gun" or the like.

-->'''Bentley''': To land safely upon small points, leapeth lively and press the triggering device with a round geometrical object emblazoned upon it.\\
'''Sly''': So... jump and hit the circle button to land on narrow spots.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: A couple of the Thevius Raccoonus pages are required for Sly to do ridiculously trivial and specific things, like rolling and swimming. The rest of the books benefits are specific enough to avert this, though.

The first game of the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series, released in 2002.

* FiveBadBand: The Fiendish Five:
** Clockwerk: The BigBad
** Sir Raleigh: The EvilGenius
** Muggshot: TheBrute
** Mz Ruby: The {{Dark Magical|Girl}} [[DarkChick Chick]]
** Panda King: The DemolitionsExpert

* FiringInTheAirALot: Muggshot's flashlight guards do this if they manage to hit you.

** Carmelita is an out-right AntiVillain [[spoiler:for most of the game]].

** It plays like a more traditional platformer, where you simply have to get to the end of the stage and [[GottaCatchThemAll collect as many bottles as you can,]] compared to the later games where you have to complete jobs to set up a big heist (while still collecting bottles).

** Sir Rayleigh: The EvilGenius

%%* MeaninglessLives

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Sir Raleigh Frog only wears a hat.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: A couple of the Thevious Raccoonus pages are required for Sly to do ridiculously trivial and specific things, like rolling and swimming. The rest of the books benefits are specific enough to avert this, though.

* DropTheHammer: The weapon of choice for the mallet-wielding walrus guards, a.k.a "Thor McCracken", from "Tide of Terror".

* DVDCommentary: Level commentary, actually, for those who beat the speed runs.

* GreenEyedMonster: Clockwerk's motivation is that he is driven by jealously and hatred of the Coopers being more famous thieves than himself. [[UpToEleven So much so that he willingly turned himself into a robotic owl so he could live long enough to overtake their reputation]].

* GreenEyedMonster: Clockwerk's motivation is that he is driven by jealous and hatred of the Coopers being more famous thieves than himself. So much so that he killed Sly's father, stole the Thievius Raccoonus and allowed Sly to live to prove that the Coopers were nothing without their book of secrets.

** Mz Ruby: The {{DarkMagical|Girl}} [[DarkChick Chick]]
** Panda King: The Demolition Expert

** Mz Ruby: The [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Magical]] {{Dark|Chick}}
** Panda King: The DemolitionExpert

* BeastInTheMaze: Mz. Ruby's giant snake, which is contained in a magically sealed area. When Sly had to traverse the swamp it resided in, the final third of the level involved [[AdvancingBossOfDoom him needing to keep a head of it]] once it appeared onscreen.

* BigBad: Clockwerk.

* ExpositionFairy: Murray serves this role to Sly, communicating advice to him from far off.

* BeastInTheMaze: Mz. Ruby's giant snake, which is contained in a magically sealed area. One level appropriate titled "Lair of the Beast" involved Sly sneaking through a swamp where one of the Fiendish Five was housing a giant serpent, with Sly [[AdvancingBossOfDoom needing to keep a head of it]] once it appeared onscreen.

* BeastInTheMaze: Mz. Ruby's giant snake, which is contained in a magically sealed area.