History Characters / SlyCooper

* GentlemanThief

* PhantomThief
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules

* DullSurprise: As a ninja is "never surprised," and given everything else that was going on at the time, he instantly believes that Sly is his descendant.

** Played straight regarding his "courtship" of Jing King. More specifically, he had her abducted, then locked her in his palace and wouldn't let her out until wedding night, despite her tearful pleas. When Sly points out that she doesn't ''want'' to marry him, well...see PoliticallyIncorrectVillain.

* KickTheDog: In his first appearance, he [[YouHaveFailedMe executes his own Captain of the Guard for being not alert enough to possible danger.]]. While promoting his former second mate to the deceased Captain's position, he mentions he's off to the dungeon to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] his prisoners.

->'''Voiced by:''' Kevin Miller (games); [[{{TheOtherDarrin}} Ian James Corlett]] (film)

A Canadian [[CaptainObvious Bison]] and former prospector and woodsman at the time of the Wild West. He was frozen in a freak avalanche for 100 years and unfrozen by global warming, bringing his [[TheLordOfTheRings Saruman]]-like aspirations of taming the wild north into the modern age.

* SpeciesSurname

* {{Hypocrite}}: His introduction involves him giving a welcoming speech to the various aviators of the ACES Dogfighting Championship, centered around the previous competitions' rampant cheating amongst the participants. The Baron states that this year will be a fair competition. But he himself has armed zeppelins to attack anyone who looks like will beat him in the dogfight finals, and calls in heavy backup (who also bring a huge replacement plane) when Sly blows him out of the sky.

An Italian lion and former opera singer who turned to a life of crime after rock and roll supplanted his career just as it was getting off the ground. While the new music took away most of his fame, Octavio retained fans in the Italian Mafia. They initiated the old singer into the business out of respect of his talent. Octavio now runs a powerful Mafia operation in Venice, virtually controlling entire neighbourhoods just based on his reputation.

* Le Parkour: Even at his age, he's able to scale buildings with ease. And one of his attacks in the boss battle has him turning backflips.

* TheMafia: They took him in after opera fell out of popularity, and now he's a high-ranking don, himself.

An Italian lion and former opera singer who turned to a life of crime after rock and roll supplanted his career just as it was getting off the ground. He runs a powerful Mafia operation in Venice, virtually controlling entire neighbourhoods.

* MsFanservice

%%Carmelita doesn't do enough in the 3rd game to qualify as the Big Bad.

* FriendlyEnemy: With the Cooper Gang outside of Sly. When she manages to catch Murray in the second game, while she kept him a cage as bait for Sly, she also brought him food to make sure he didn't starve.

** Even before that, she saved him being killed by Dr. M, twice.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: When Sly wears the jailbird outfit in Sly 4, he can use a huge ball and chain as a weapon. The ball is nearly as big as he is, and yet he's able to throw it far and with enough force to break things. You'd think if he were this strong, he'd be able to grand-slam enemies with his cane.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: With Carmelita. Not only does he like having her chase him, he states that his thefts wouldn't be as fun without her.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He comes off as a BenevolentBoss at first on his P.A. announcements to his flunkies...before lapsing into berating them for various screw-ups and threatening to "flog them for an entire fortnight" if they can't catch the thief prowling around his lair.

* BerserkButton: She HATES rock and roll. She also hates anyone who criticizes her music, or steals from her supply of [[TrademarkFavouriteFood peanut butter]].

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Peanut Butter, according to the conversations you can listen in on after bugging her office.

** These might not seem like much, but think about the end of the [[spoiler:second]] game. [[spoiler:Even if Clockwerk's [[SoulJar Hate Chip]] was destroyed, even if the reign of terror he's held over the Cooper Clan is finally over…he was directly responsible (well, technically Neyla) for Bentley's paralysis. So no matter what, whenever Sly sees his dear friend in a wheelchair, he will be reminded of that mechanical owl. Sly will never be rid of Clockwerk. FromACertainPointOfView, TheBadGuyWins.]]

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's seen as a well respected hypnotherapist until the Cooper Gang busts out of her prison and Neyla declares open war on her.

* EvilIsHammy: When he finally steps forward and challenges Sly, he isn't just ChewingTheScenery...he practically ''inhales'' it!

* VillainousBreakdown: When the Cooper Gang floods his temple hideout, he comes charging out and starts ChewingTheScenery, [[LargeHam hamming it up]] with such terms as "Black Clouds and Thunderbolts," "Clockwerk's Black Heart," and the BadassBoast: "This place is mine! ''*growls*'' Here, I am king!". Considering that he primary objective of Episode 3 is to aggravate him enough so that he comes out of hiding, this was fully intended.

Sly's eternal opponent. An Interpol policewoman and Hispanic fox, his relentless pursuer (in more than one sense) and frequently the one to bust the episode's villain and take the credit.

* ActionGirl: Sure, she needs to be rescued by Sly once or twice in each game...but she makes up for it by kicking some serious tail the rest of the time.
* [[spoiler: [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the 50-Foot Vixen]]]]: [[spoiler: Carmelita in Sly 3 after the Mask of Dark Earth latched onto her face]].
* [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Aww, Look, She Really Does Love Him:]] She's often dismissive of Sly's charming advances and chases him relentlessly...but when things have counted, she's often willing to work with him, and shows a much more receptive side to his attentions.
** Believe it or not, this is noticeable in ''Thieves in Time,'' as well--while she's giving Sly a hard time [[spoiler: for faking amnesia in the last game]] (and perhaps reasonably so), we see signs that she still cares--giving him an "almost-compliment" in the Ice Age, pushing him out of the way of a crashing castle gate in the Middle Ages, and so on. [[spoiler: And then she and Sly share a genuinely heartwarming exchange before the final battle...not to mention that when he ends up missing in action, she takes his disappearance even harder than [[TrueCompanions Bentley and Murray.]] ]]

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy]]: [[spoiler: Nearly happened in Sly 2 under the Contessa, but was freed by Bentley. In Sly 3 when the Mask of Dark Earth latches itself on her face]].

* [[spoiler: BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Her relationship with Sly in ''Thieves in Time'' amounts to this--she all but breaks up with him in the beginning, but in the finale, she and Sly finally make up.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Sly 4 once found in the Wild West, she was still sour about Sly and started ranting in her narrative about how she wants to cause bodily harm to him, then relents, saying maybe she should finish her story first.

* DistressedDamsel: Was put into this in the first game by Clockwerk to lure Sly in a trap. Had to be saved from [[spoiler: the Contessa]] in Sly 2. In Sly 3, she was this without realizing it (Sly and Bentley secretly taking out the hitmen hunting her while she was on patrol, then the whole incident with [[spoiler: the Mask of Dark Earth]], but then again she was hardly distressed there). In Sly 4 she was taken hostage by Toothpick. [[spoiler: And then a second time by Le Paradox.]]

* FriendlyEnemy: With the Cooper Gang outside of Sly. When he manages to catch Murray in the second game, while she kept him a cage as bait for Sly, she also brought him food to make sure he didn't starve.

* GetBackToTheFuture: Her primary motivation for hanging around with the Cooper gang during ''Thieves in Time'' is that she needs a ride back to the present. [[spoiler: However, thanks to her internal monologue in "Clan of the Cave Raccoon," we learn that she and Sly have a common enemy in Le Paradox.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: She's angry towards Sly during ''Thieves in Time'' for [[spoiler: lying to her about having amnesia,]] except ''[[spoiler: she]]'' [[spoiler:lied to]] ''[[spoiler:him]]'' [[spoiler:about being her partner,]] giving her little room--if ''any''--to point fingers.

* {{Jerkass}}: She treats Sly and his friends very coldly [[spoiler: prior to her team up with them in the fourth game]], especially in [[{{JerkWithAHeartOfJerk}} the third game]].

* KickChick: In the animated short "Timing is Everything," Carmelita uses some deft kicks to take out Muggshot's flunkies. In Sly 4, we see it again [[spoiler: during the ending, when she beats up a criminal after returning to Interpol.]]

* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: In Sly 3, she may show some initial impatience with her BookDumb hired mercs, but when they get caught up in a fight, she'd quick to come to their aid, and commends their efforts afterwards.

** Later seen in the ending of Sly 3--she's finally got Sly cornered, but since he [[spoiler: supposedly]] can't remember anything about who he is (courtesy of TakingTheBullet for her), she decides to reform him as her partner instead of arresting him.

* PrinciplesZealot: Her view on crime and how it should be dealt with. [[spoiler: Working with Sly and his gang in ''Sly 4'' makes her acknowledge that they ''do'' stand for justice, albeit on the other side of the law.]]

* {{Stripperific}}: She complains about being forced to wear a bellydancer outfit - not just the dancing, but the outfit itself. Quite hilarious, given her usual outfit covers nothing more, ''especially'' given that for the duration of ''Thieves in Time'' she was in a miniskirt instead of her old jeans.

** [[spoiler: Subverted by "Clan of the Cave Raccoon," where she privately admits that she and Sly are NotSoDifferent, and that they have a common enemy in Le Paradox.]]

** And that's not counting the climax of Sly 3, when she pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment to rescue Sly from one of Dr. M's giant mutants--shortly before going into battle, she quietly urges Sly to hang on.

** In the ending of Sly 4,[[spoiler: after Sly vanished without a trace, Carmelita may not show it in public, but she took his disappearance even harder than Bentley and Murray. Her expression when she finds the photo of her that Sly carried around just says it all]].

* WomanScorned: In ''Thieves in Time'', she's...er...a little ''[[{{Understatement}} upset]]''...that Sly's taken up the family tradition again. Throughout most of the game, she gives Sly a hard time because he [[spoiler: wasn't truthful about the whole "amnesia" bit]]. Oddly enough, she shows courtesy to the Cooper ancestors despite being related to Sly, and being thieves themselves. [[spoiler: She gets better by the game's end, and is deeply distraught by Sly's having become TrappedInThePast]].

A wily Indian tigress who acquired a scholarship in England after being discovered to have set up a ring of her friends to do her work for her. A powerful opponent, with both strength and guile. [[spoiler: In truth she's Arpeggio's protege and is helping him get all the Clockwerk parts, but only so she can betray him and take them for herself.]]

--> '''Neyla:''' [[spoiler: "Stupid Arpeggio. I double crossed Interpol, The Cooper Gang, and The Klaww Gang, What made You think I wouldn't do the the same to you?"]]
* [[spoiler: DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Initially pretending to help Sly to gain his trust, up until he tries to take the Clockwerk heart from Rajan, in which she lies to him and lures him right up to Rajan and lets him get [=KOed=]. And then after Murray's fight with Rajan, ambushes and knocks him out, easily catching all three of them. Which then gave her a serious boost in authority with Interpol, so she then can get Carmelita locked up in the Contessa's care!]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: She starts out friendly and sociable to the Cooper Gang, even helping Sly in his missions because she claims to understand the threat Clockwerk's parts pose. After double-crossing the Cooper Gang after they beat Rajan, she quickly reveals the true monster behind the mask.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Foreshadowing}}: Her helpful hint to Sly at the beginning not just indicates The Klaww Gang was responsible for the stolen parts but also foreshadows her involvement in all of it.]]

* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: As Clock-La]]

* GreenEyedMonster: He apparently turned evil because he felt marginalized out of his role in [[spoiler: the previous Cooper Gang]].

* MadeOfIron: Is still standing at the end of the game, despite a defeat from Bentley and Murray, which in fact barely even phased him, and his fight with Sly and Carmelita. [[spoiler: Instead he does himself in.]]

* NotMeThisTime: When he realizes that Sly learned about the vault from Jim McSweeny, Sly assumes he set McSweeny up to have Sly go through the events of the game to try and break so he could follow him. Dr. M denies this, however, only revealing that he was part of the previous Cooper gang. There's no way of telling whether or not he's lying.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Justified, the Cooper Gang, chronologically, didn't even try to break into the vault until late in the game, and as far the player knows, he wasn't even aware they were planning to. If he's truthful about the NotMeThisTime above, this would make him the BigBad with least involvement in the main story in the series so far.

* VillainousBreakdown: In the ending, [[spoiler: with the whole vault coming down]], Dr. M starts screaming and pounding his chest. Before that, when Sly insists he's his own person, and not just the latest in the Cooper line, Dr. M refuses to accept it, proclaiming him to be nothing more than an attention-grubbing thief. It's the way he delivers the line that showcases his last ounces of restraint slipping away.

* BadassGrandpa: His mafia control's all of Venice. And despite his age, he's still able to go toe-to-toe will Murray.

* CutYourHeartOutWithASpoon: He has a rather…interesting threat when he [[spoiler: briefly kidnaps Bentley]]
--> ''Octavio'': Oh, I know all about [[spoiler: you and your cracked little gang. You ain't nothing without this-a little guy's brains!]] So, I figure I just scoop 'em out real slow and use them to fertilize my tomato plants!
--> [[spoiler: ''Bentley'']]: "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm allergic to tomatoes!]]"

* Le Parkour: Even at his age he's able to scale buildings with ease. And one of his attacks in the boss battle has him turning backflips.

* OnlyOneName: Only his last name is given to us; "Don" is just a title,.

An ancient and evil spirit mask than can possess its victims, enlarging them and giving them super strength while giving the mask control over them.

* EldritchAbomination: There is no backstory for the Mask. Accordingly we also have no idea how it became sentient and capable of making people into [[AttackoftheFiftyFootWhatever giants]].

** And then made literal with [[spoiler: revealing that Penelope is the boxing champion]].

A northern Chinese rooster from an ancient line of powerful warlords, with command over dark magic. His aspires to merge his bloodline with the Panda King's through marrying his daughter, Jing King...despite the fact that she doesn't want to marry him.

* NoodleIncident: What sparked Dr. M's downfall, which is never properly explained. The closest thing to an explanation comes when M [[spoiler: subtly implies that Sly's Father wasn't above leaving friends behind, meaning that the former gang probably weren't as tight-knit as the current three. This is [[FridgeLogic what may have sparked the incident. Of course, one can only speculate for now.]]]]

* TheRival: Apparently [[spoiler: Le Paradox considers him something like this to his father, causing him to hate the Cooper Clan. What makes this hilarious is that the Cooper Family doesn't even know about them]].
* PlotHole: A minor one. One has to wonder whether Sly's Father [[spoiler: actually created the laser trap in his own portion of the Vault Gauntlet, or simply coined up the design; because if the player looks closely, the Cooper insignia is displayed on the computer monitor. This implies competency in hacking skills, despite Dr. M being the established SmartGuy of the former gang.]]
** This, however, could constitute to FridgeBrilliance, [[spoiler: having Sly's Father be a whiz with computers may have sparked Dr. M's feelings of not being needed in the group, causing an argument and inevitable breakup in the gang]].

* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]

* DistressedDude: [[spoiler: When Carmelita fights the Moat Monster]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tries to unplug the robot dragon that was the "Moat Monster"...only for the dragon to activate and eat him.

* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]

* HighlyVisibleNinja: He's supposed to be a ninja who uses his sushi shop as a front. Rather than dressing like a sushi chef, he dresses like a ninja - including, of course, ''when he's running his sushi shop''.

* UnexpectedInheritance: While out pirating she actually found a lot of lost treasures her ancestors had stolen years ago. She put it all in the Cooper Vault, for future generations.

* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]

* DualWielding: Formerly. In ''Thieves in Time'', Bentley alludes to him having possessed two revolvers at one time, before he cuts the turtle off by admitting he just carries the one now putting as having "upgraded" to his new WeaponOfChoice, a long-barrel, six-shot rifle.

* HearingVoices: Sly tells him he has "something in [his] ear that lets [him] talk to [his] friend." Since Tennessee was born about a hundred years before wireless communications were developed, he just agrees that he hears voices in his head telling him to blow stuff up, too - and they're usually right!

Sly's Ancestor from Ancient Arabia. said to have the Stealth of 40 Thieves in the first game, and is a playable ancestor in Thief of Time. In fact, he was actually part of the original 40 Thieves, but by the time in the game, the thieves are heading off into retirement.

* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]

* [[spoiler: {{Retirony}}: Non-lethal, but still depressing version. He decides to back out during the final job in Arabia, and Sly sends him off to a well-earned retirement... only for him to get [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]] by Le Paradox and Ms Decibel offscreen and lose his cane.]]

* TeethClenchedTeamWork: With Bentley. They simply do not get along well, though in the end they're willing to work together for a common goal - not without some complaining from Salim, of course.

* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: Has a special roar that causes all guards closeby to flee in terror.

A French skunk and leader of his own crime syndicate, Le Paradox poses to the public as a wealthy art collector. [[spoiler: He is actually the descendant of a rival, but unsuccessful, family of thieves, and seeks to steal the Cooper canes and ruin the Cooper family's reputation through time travel in order to have revenge on them because Sly's father indirectly caused Le Paradox's father to go to jail.]]

* BatmanGambit: Much like Clockwerk, he used Carmelita as bait to lure Sly into a trap as he knows Sly will try to rescue her.

* DisproportionateRetribution: His whole plan was to [[spoiler: erase the Cooper Family Line from existence. Why? Because he blames Sly's father for his own father's arrest (when ''he'' tried to frame Father Cooper for a theft he himself tried to commit), which lead to his own failing career as a criminal. That's a bit too much, don't you think?]]
** [[spoiler: Sly even points out how stupid this is. He had a great cover as a art collecter in which he managed to amount a great fortune with no one the wiser, with skills he learned in prison that probably far surpass his father. Thus there was no need to go after the Cooper clan. He just did it because of his own ego and in the end it wound up costing him everything. Le Paradox himself even explicitly says that he doesn't really care about what happened to his dad; he just wants to prove he's better than the Coopers.]]

* EvilCounterpart: To Sly. He uses a very similar fighting style, and [[spoiler: they both come from different lines of master thieves.]] His boss fight shows that he's capable of doing the Spire Jump and the Rail Slide.
* [[spoiler: EvilIsPetty: As Sly points out, he went after the Cooper line and exposed his operation to Sly because of his own ego.]]

* [[spoiler: IHaveYouNowMyPretty: His kidnapping of Carmelita has some shades of this, especially when he's pointing out to Sly that she doesn't have any wings (he threatened to throw her off his blimp if Sly pursued him)...]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: He doesn't care about anyone except himself, often ignoring his allies' requests for aid in their own schemes...[[{{Hypocrite}} even though he expects them all to play their parts in ''his'' plan]].
* [[spoiler: ISurrenderSuckers: He manages to steal Sly's paraglider at the end of the game this way. Thankfully, karma kicks him pretty hard.]]

* KickTheDog: ...Especially [[spoiler: regarding Ms. Decibel, who was in love with him]]. He even goes out of his way to mock [[spoiler: her,]] pointing out that [[spoiler: her music stinks, she's overweight, and that he already has Carmelita as his captive.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He doesn't seem like much, you say? Remember that this guy managed to build a vast criminal syndicate while posing as a law-abiding art collector, put together a cunning plan to use time travel as a means of achieving wealth and royal status, and can even fence with Sly on relatively equal terms. [[spoiler: He can even do the Ninja Spire Jump and Rail Slide! And he's notable as the only BigBad to actually ''survive'' a fight with Sly (If only by sheer dumb luck]], a feat not even Clockwerk can claim. If it weren't for his massive ego and selfishness, he might well have gotten away with his scheme.
* PrideBeforeAFall: As [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech pointed out by Sly]], he [[spoiler: ended up blowing his cover to both Sly's gang and Interpol because of his ego]].
* [[spoiler:{{Revenge}}: His main motivation for going after the Cooper clan. Subverted though when he admits he didn't care about the grudge, just wanted to prove he's the best thief ever.]]

* SmugSnake: He's a cunning mastermind who managed to establish an impressive criminal network while posing as an art collector, and his master plan [[spoiler: to establish himself as French royalty]] is pretty clever. However, his massive ego and underestimation of his enemies proves to be his undoing.

* StupidEvil: [[spoiler: As Sly points out, if he had just learned to control his pride, he would have gotten away with everything.]]
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: His master plan [[spoiler: not counting revenge on the Cooper family line]] was to forge documents in the past that would establish him as a figure of royal ancestry in the present, allowing him to become the most wealthy and powerful figure in Europe.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Implied. During the "Tiger Tail" mission, he makes several really obvious [[SayingTooMuch slips of the tongue]] regarding the way in to his fortress, but when you later break in he's right there waiting, [[spoiler: and later manages to get the drop on [[{{Ninja}} Rioichi]] and steal his cane]]. While Sly does manage to take him down, El Jefe still essentially [[TheBadGuyWins completed the job he was assigned to]], leaving the episode with a BittersweetEnding. It's highly likely he leaked that information on purpose to lure you in. Justified in the Le Paradox probably briefed him on the Coopers' MO before sending him back in time.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He may spend most of his boss fight running from Sly, but when forced to fight he holds his own quite well.

* PungeonMaster: When Sly's chasing him, he makes such cracks as "Feeling the heat?!" when hurling fireballs at Sly, and "How do you like my ''crane'' style?!" when cutting through the supports of a nearby crane to drop it on Sly (who actually stops to wonder if El Jefe's {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s are scarier than the man himself.).

* LaughablyEvil: He's an arrogant, greedy, self-centered, violent, ego-maniac, but anytime these qualities are shown he manages to make them hilarious.
* MadeOfIron: Getting trapped in a train's furnace ((''repeatedly'')) only seems to ''stun'' him. Then again, it ''does'' soften him up to the point where Sly's able to deal some serious damage with his cane. And even then, when he's charred by the train's furnace at the end, the only thing that hurts is his ears from the sound of the train whistle.

* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:His epilogue shows that unlike the other villains, he remains stuck in his time period, and gets put into a chain gang, goes deaf, and gets his by a train that he didn't hear coming.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: His PA messages during the final mission of the episode slowly get more and more crazy. But the time you reach him, he's pretty much snapped.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Became part of a chain gang and was sent to working on railroads, eventually losing his hearing, [[spoiler: which apparently led to his death because he couldn't hear a train coming while he was working on the track]].

* TheStarscream: Plans to betray Le Paradox after he's done with his part of the plan. He never gets the chance though.

!!''The Black Knight[=/=][[spoiler: Penelope]]''

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The episode where the Black Knight debuts just ''loves'' to drop numerous hints, doesn't it? First off, the title is called ''Of Mice and Mechs'' (Penelope being a mouse), and the armor's chestpiece is emblazoned with the symbol of a mouse with a bandanna. He also speaks with Penelope's accent and shares her text color. Moreover, this wouldn't be the ''first'' time that Penelope took on a persona whose name started with "Black."]]
** [[spoiler: A quick bit of foreshadowing can be seen in Episode Two, just before Le Paradoxes blimp time travels. One of the dials on his time machine has an emblem of a mouse, foreshadowing Penelope's betrayal two chapters earlier.]]
** To top it all off, [[spoiler: [[VocalDissonance "his" voice is surprisingly high pitched...]]]]
** Also among the little bits of trivia that show up during the loading screens the bit about [[spoiler: Penelope using the "Black Baron" as an alias in the past]] appears surprisingly often for something that wouldn't normally seem that important or relevant, seeing how [[spoiler: she's supposed to be missing]].

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being a major antagonist, it's hard not to feel sorry for her, as when you finally confront her she's just been on the receiving end of a ''major'' [[KickTheDog Dog-Kicking]] from [[BigBad Le Paradox]]. She fights you in a desperate attempt to prove she's still useful to him. [[spoiler: Possibly why she pulls a HeelFaceTurn in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.]]

* TheDragon: To Le Paradox--she shares a more personal relationship with him than the rest of his gang [[spoiler: or so she thinks]], and was entrusted with the part of his master plan that would make him a member of France's royal family in the present day.

* InterspeciesRomance: With Le Paradox. [[spoiler: Turns out that he's just using her, though.]]

* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: In the credits, Ms. Decibel has the trumpet removed, takes anger management classes, teaches music lessons in prison, and is eligible for parole for good behavior.]]

* {{Not So Harmless Villain}}ess: She's surprisingly dangerous and compotent when finally cornered.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: See [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn ]]

* CirclingBirdies: Whenever you make a surprise hit on an enemy, or attack a rooftop guard as Murray, this is usually what happens. Though its averted in the first installment (enemies dissappear), and somewhat subverted in the forth as swirling lines, stars and other symbols indicate them being knocked out.

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Furry Mechs]]: [[spoiler: Two robotic guards in Thieves in Time have a conversation about "taking the kids to the beach."]]
* TookALevelInDumbass: Flashlight Guards were actually pretty competent in the first game, to the point where being spotted by one would lead to instant death more often than not. The developer commentary even refers to them as "smart guards". Starting with 2, they suffer from NoPeripheralVision as above, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy their projectiles are incredibly inaccurate]], can easily be outrun and are constantly depicted in-universe as DumbMuscle.
* UndergroundMonkey: The shorter rooftop guards in the second game are all skin swaps of each other. Also the Rajan's monkies are reused in General Tsao's level in the third installment.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In Sly 4, Sly give this to Le Paradox [[spoiler: when told of his revenge plan regarding the Cooper lineage--to be known as the world's greatest thief by stealing their canes. Sly calls him out on this, pointing out that Le Paradox never did the ''actual'' stealing; rather, he got his "partners" to do all the dirty work before tossing them aside and claiming credit for what ''they'' did. Furthermore, Sly also mentions and going after the Cooper line for such a petty reason--for no other purpose than to feed his ego--was just downright stupid, because it not only ended up drawing Sly's attention (and thus interference) in the first place, it also drew Carmelita's attention to his stolen treasure smuggling ring. Put straight, Le Paradox lost everything because he couldn't resist showing off]]

* SuperDrowningSkills: Ironic, even though he's a ''turtle''. However this becomes justified from ''Sly 3'' onwards.
* [[spoiler: SuperWheelChair: Due to the events of ''Band of Thieves''. He updates it with stuff like bombs and rocket boosters. In ''PlaystationMoveHeroes'', he's updated to a full-fledged hoverchair.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: Twice in the series he's offered to join the opposing faction rather than work with Cooper (In 3 by Dr. M and [[spoiler: in 4 by Penelope]]). Both times he refuses.

** In ''Thieves in Time'' he's disguised as Madame Geisha, a prominent member of the geisha house during the Feudal Japan chapter. Could be seen as AmbiguouslyGay when he seemed a little ''too'' willing to offer to disguise himself as a belly dancer when Carmelita voiced her displeasure of dressing up as one (but she was made to anyway, thank goodness).

** Oh, and let's not forget ''Honor Among Thieves''. [[spoiler: He was a total pacifist and wouldn't engage in a fight until Octavio kicked Bentley out of his wheelchair.]]

[[spoiler: However sometime in between the third and fourth game, she grew resentful of Sly's reputation while Bentley and she were nothing but support. She secretly teamed with Le Paradox to be the mole within the Cooper gang (ultimately being the cause that kicks off the plot of the game). Eventually she disappeared to Bentley's worriment and was found in the medieval era donning yet another dark armored persona, the Black Knight.]]

* [[spoiler: BlondesAreEvil]]: [[spoiler: It is revealed in Sly 4 that she betrayed the Cooper Gang to Le Paradox and was practically the one who kickstarted the game's plot]].

* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:she beats Captain [=LeFwee=]] in a sword fight right after she is freed.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: She pulls one in ''Thieves in Time''. She is in fact the true identity of the Black Knight, and is revealed to have been working with the BigBad all along to destroy Sly, because she felt that she and Bentley were being held back by him from doing greater things and changing the world. Bentley ends up despising her--as evidenced by him later scribbling devil horns on the photo of her that he keeps in his Binocucom--and she ends up a criminal on the run.]]
** [[spoiler: HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Started off as a villain, then joins the gang following her defeat only to betray them later on]].

* [[spoiler:MiniMecha: The Black Knight armor]]

* SmurfettePrinciple: Only girl in the Cooper Gang. [[spoiler: At least until Sly 4...]]

* WrenchWench: Has RC skills that equal Bentley's own. [[spoiler:She even helps Bentley reconstruct the Cooper Vault for future generations and builds the Time Machine that's used in ''Thieves in Time''...then takes the blueprints for those and gives them to Le Paradox.]]
* WrongGuyFirst: When she first joins the gang, she has a massive crush on Sly that mostly serves to drive a wedge between him and Bentley. [[spoiler:She soon decides that it's better to PairTheSmartOnes, since she has little in common with Sly. Of course, she and Bentley have seen broken up.]]

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Has one in Sly 3 with his dark half, who wants to use the alliance with Sly as an opportunity to exact his revenge for what happened in the first game. Present Panda King refuses as he had his daughter to think about.
* {{Callback}}: When Sly mind melds with Panda King in Sly 3, it re-enacts their fight in the first game, even the pre-fight dialogue (well Panda King's anyway).

* ChargedAttack: His fireworks in the third game. A fully charged attack leads to a small scale MacrossMissileMassacre.

* EnemyWithin: In the third game, he is initially trapped in a loop of his greatest loss (with some help from General Tsao), requiring Sly to go into his mind to snap him out of it. Later, before he can take part in the mission to destroy the grasshopper crypt, the Panda King must reconcile with dark side of his personality, who's exhorting him to kill Sly Cooper. He eventually placates his dark side by pointing out that following Sly will teach him humility, which will help him be a better father to Jing King. He follows up by pointing out that if strength was all that was needed, then there would be no reason to stop Tsao from marrying his daughter.

* LargeHam: More Subdued but it's there, especially when he's [[CallingYourAttacks calling his attacks]].

* MightyGlacier: In the third game, he moves slowly compared to other characters and he lacks a proper melee combo attack. Nonetheless he's quite the offensive powerhouse and his flaming chop will kill most mooks in a single hit.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: Sly's disappearance at the end of the fourth game has such an impact on Dimitri that he turns off his disco music, then slumps back in his chair with a depressed expression on his face.]]

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Dimitri as a [[spoiler: Cooper Gang Member]] actually doesn't get to use his acrobatic skills like in his first appearance. Rather, he's mainly around for aquatic missions and doesn't do any fighting outside of that.
* TheVoiceless: Applies to the fourth game. Despite being voiced in an early trailer for Thieves in Time at E3 2011 and appearing at least once in most of the cutscene between time periods, Dimitri does not speak a single line of dialogue throughout the entirety of the game. Which is very odd, seeing that he has his old voice actor in the credits.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In the 2nd game he's a dance instructor on a cruise ship, the 3rd one has him being a professional skin diver and the 4th one has him back in the diving business with a fashion line and his own reality show.

The leader of the Fiendish Five, Clockwerk is a monstrous robotic owl of unknown origin. He turned himself into a robot in order to hunt down and destroy the Cooper family, his greatest rival. He is at least 3200 years old, showing up even in the earliest parts of the Thievius Racoonus. [[spoiler:''Thieves in Time'' marks him as ''even older'', as he's visible even in the background of the ice age level]]. He possessed an incredibly well fortified hideout in the Krakarov Volcano in Russia, before being defeated by Sly and his parts sent to a museum in Cairo. But then the Klaww Gang stole his body parts and repurposed them for their criminal schemes. The Cooper Gang managed to steal these powerful components back, [[spoiler:only to have them stolen by Jean Bison after the Lumberjack Games. From there, the parts were passed on to Arpeggio, which turned out to be part of an EvilPlan to not only acquire Clockwerk's powerful body for himself, but also his immortality, all through a complex scheme involving the operations of the rest of the Klaww Gang. However, Neyla betrayed Arpeggio and took the Clockwerk frame for herself, dubbing herself "Clock-La" and engaging the Cooper Gang in battle. Clock-La was defeated, and Carmelita destroyed Clockwerk's Hate Chip, which caused his mechanical body to rust and corrode into nothingness. However, while the threat of Clockwerk was presumably eliminated forever, victory came at a great cost; Bentley lost the use of his legs due to a crushing bite from Clock-La's beak, which was a serious blow to Murray's morale.]]

* TheCameo: He shows up in [[spoiler:the background of ''every'' episode in]] ''Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time''. What's more is that there are two treasures you can find that reference him in some way, namely [[spoiler: His eye and the Dragon's Claw since the bottom has "Clockwerk was here" scratched into it]].
* CartoonishSupervillainy: This might be one's first impression of him as you ride towards his layer. A padlocked, ominous door guarding his entrance? Check. A bunch of mindlessly obedient servants? Check. A fucking ''death ray?'' Double check. But then, as you progress through his levels, you will slowly discover that he has worked very, ''very'', '''VERY''' hard to [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy show you he means business.]]

* CrazyPrepared: His base in Sly 1. The security measures were extensive on their own, but just in case Sly got past them, Clockwerk set up a deadly trap--a gas chamber with Carmelita Fox trapped inside. [[SadisticChoice It was pretty easy to tell that it was a trap, but Sly couldn't just leave Carmelita in there]]...[[BatmanGambit which is exactly what Clockwerk was counting on.]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He knows how the Coopers act from his past battles with them, so he uses Carmelita to lure sly into a death trap, which he activates right after he walks into it. When Sly and Carmelita escape his death trap, the first thing he does is send one of his robotic bird minions to steal Sly's cane; the trusty weapon and tool that's been so useful to Sly for the whole game.

* TheDreaded: A subtle one for Sly. In the second game, Sly is ''vehemently'' opposed to the idea of Clockwerks body becoming reassembled in the second game.

* EyeBeams: [[spoiler: In the second game.]]

** These might not seem like much, but think about the end of the [[spoiler: second]] game. [[spoiler: Even if Clockwerk's [[SoulJar Hate Chip]] was destroyed, even if the reign of terror he's held over the Cooper Clan is finally over…he was directly responsible (Well, technically Neyla) for Bentley's paralysis. So no matter what, whenever Sly sees his dear friend in a wheelchair, he will be reminded of that mechanical owl. Sly will never be rid of Clockwerk. FromACertainPointOfView, TheBadGuyWins.]]
* TheGhost: How he's played up until you actually meet him in the first game. He doesn't have intercom banter with his henchmen, his levels immediately progress from one to the next (unlike the "hub" worlds of the other Fiendish Five members), and until [[spoiler: Sly gets caught in the gas chamber]] you don't even here him speak. Then, at the very end as you fly above the ruins of [[spoiler: his death ray]], you think everything is all good and-'''HOLY SHIT.'''

* GuideDangIt: Since his Cameos in Thieves in Time can only be seen [[spoiler: during specific jobs in each episode]] finding them all can be very difficult.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Up until the end of the first game, he remains a silhouette and is never seen directly. [[spoiler:The same applies for his appearances in Thieves in Time since you can only see the "mini-clockwerks" watching you]].

** Even though he doesn't [[HijackedByGanon hijack the second game]], he's still this since once his parts resembled it gets much darker and [[spoiler: Neyla]] drops all comedic moments.

* NewPowersasthePlotDemands: When his body is reassembled in the second game, it displays attacks he didn't have in the original.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Contrasting with the cartoonish designs of the rest of the cast, and the artwork of him in cutscenes, in game he looks like a more realistic depiction of owl, a bit a mechanical one.

* ParanoiaFuel: In-universe reputation, if your name is Cooper. I mean, this guy could suddenly crash in and kill you and your family at any moment, and the moment you actually heard his wings, it's already far too late - [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather Sly's parents]]]] learned this the hard way.
** [[spoiler:In ''Sly Cooper - Thieves in Time'', you can actually see him in the background. He also stalks you around the map. Remember, Clockwerk outright kills the majority of Sly's ancestors sooner or later. Who's to say he's not going to kill your ancestors again off-screen?]]
** [[spoiler: The cameos also add another layer when you consider that "Clockwerk" appears much smaller than he did originally and he is completely robotic in the Ice Age, which means that either he's back and has time travel or someone started making [[FunSize "Mini-Clockwerks"]] which only appear in the past because they are stalking ''Sly's'' gang]].

* {{Revenge}}: Has lived for centuries--perhaps even millennia--with the sole intention of taking vengeance on his rivals, the Cooper family line.

* TranquilFury: Despite stated to be literally fueled by hate, he's pretty calm and composed, even when confronting Sly.
* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Vile Villain, Saccharine Game]]: '''Oh yes.''' Not just for the first game, but for the ''entire series.'' The Sly Cooper series is a cartoonish, LighterAndSofter series than most. And though it has its dark moments, its villains are either LaughablyEvil, have some alturistic qualities, and some even [[HeelFaceTurn reform]]. Clockwerk, however, is the ''exact'' opposite of every villain in the series as he has no redeemable qualities, [[KnightOfCerebus is never played for comedy]], and is for all intents and purposes, a SerialKiller played competently, completely, and horrifyingly straight on a kids game.

-->'''Sly''':"Is it inappropriate to refer to him as a monster? '''No. Not at all'''."

** Also can't even pronounce "Thievius Racoonus" and didn't care about his section of the book because it had too many words. He instead fights Sly since he messing up his gambling operation.

* TopHeavyGuy: His lower body is so small in comparison to his torso that he has to walk around on his knuckles. In the "Timing is Everything" shorts however, he is capable of using his legs, though is still fairly sluggish in a fight.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Wears a top hat, gloves and spats, but no other clothing.
* {{Jerkass}}: At least the other members of the Fiendish Five had some sort of FreudianExcuse for turning to a life of crime. Him? He simply became a criminal because he was bored. For him crime started out as a hobby and turned into an addiction.

* DrivenByEnvy: Being bitterly envious towards other birds because of their ability to fly is a major reason behind his desire to [[spoiler: use Clockwork's parts to become immortal]].

* HighClassGlass: He's rocking a stylish monocle. [[spoiler: Which is flung away when Clock-La crushes him; it ends up rolling over to Sly's feet.]]

* GenreSavvy: Outside some his TooDumbToLive moments (such as not instantly recognizing the Cooper gang stealing the outfits of his judges), he's surprisingly competent. When trying to keep the last his Clockwerk parts powering his trains from getting stolen, he guards it himself in addition to his other security measures, and after [[spoiler: he manages to catch the Cooper gang, he finds their hideout and steals the Clockwerk parts they found]].

* SoreLoser: In the Lumberjack Games that he holds. Admittedly he's very good at them, as he is legitimately the previous champion for the previous games. But he hates losing so much that not only he hires the judges to make sure they give him the best scores, he also threatens them with bodily harm if they give him less than perfect ones.

* ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire: Well she ''is'' a [[SpiderPeople Spider-Taur]]

* GracefulLoser: When Sly beats her [[spoiler: for the second time]], she remarks that his mind is much stronger than she ever expected.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's ''completely shocked'' when Neyla betrays him to take the Clockwerk frame for herself, apparently forgetting that Neyla had double-crossed just about everyone else in the game already; Neyla even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

A Canadian [[CaptainObvious Bison]] and former prospector and woodsman who was frozen in a freak avalanche for 100 years and unfrozen by global warming, bringing his [[TheLordOfTheRings Saruman]]-like aspirations of taming the wild north into the modern age.

* [=Hypocrite=]: His introduction involves him giving a welcoming speech to the various aviators of the ACES Dogfighting Championship, centered around the previous competitions' rampant cheating amongst the participants. The Baron states that this year will be a fair competition. But he himself has armed zeppelins to attack anyone who looks like will beat him in the dogfight finals, and calls in heavy backup (who also bring a huge replacement plane) when Sly blows him out of the sky.

* Hypocrite: His introduction involves him giving a welcoming speech to the various aviators of the ACES Dogfighting Championship. The speech is centered around the previous competitions' rampant cheating amongst the participants. The Baron states that this year will be a fair competition. But he himself has armed zeppelins to attack anyone who looks like will beat him in the dogfight finals, and calls in heavy backup when Sly blows him out of the sky. The back up brings a much larger plane for the Baron, to presumably wipe the remaining fighters out of the sky.

* [[spoiler: DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Initially pretending to help Sly to gain his trust, up until he tries to take the Clockwerk heart from Rajan, in which she lies to him and lures him right up to Rajan and lets him get KOed, and then after Murray's fight with Rajan, ambushes and knocks him out, easily catching both of them. Which then gave her a serious boost in authority with Interpol, so she then can get Carmelita locked up in the Contessa's care!]]

* [[spoiler: {{Foreshadowing}}: Her helpful hint to Sly at the beginning not just indicates The Klaww Gang was responsible for the stolen parts but also Foreshadows her involvement in all of it.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: He apparently turned evil because he felt marginalized out of his role in the previous Cooper Gang.

* DiablosExNihilo

* [[spoiler: DangerousGenreSavvy: Initially pretending to help Sly to gain his trust, up until he tries to take the Clockwerk heart from Rajan, in which she lies to him and lures him right up to Rajan and lets him get KOed, and then after Murray's fight with Rajan, ambushes and knocks him out, easily catching both of them.]]

* InterpolSpecialAgent

* BersekButton: "Nobody hurts my criminal."

* BenevolentBoss: Unlike most of the villains in the series, he seems pretty nice to his men and compliments them for their work, though when the Clockwerk parts in his possession were stolen he states he had them punished according to the "Lumberjack's code."

* GenreSavvy: Outside some his TooDumbToLive moments (such as not instantly recognizing the Cooper gang stealing the outfits of his judges), he's surprisingly competent. When trying to keep the last his Clockwerk parts powering his trains from getting stolen, he guards it himself in addition to his other security measures, and after he manages to catch the Cooper gang, he finds their hideout and steals the Clockwerk parts they found.

* SoreLoser: In the Lumberjack games his holds. Admittedly he's very good at them, but he hates losing so much not only hires the judges to make sure they give him the best scores, he also threatens them if they give him less than perfect ones.

* FunPersonified: Makes an effort to have fun or make fun in any scene appears in, unless [[OOCIsSeriousBussiness he's serious for some reason]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: His grand scheme for Mesa City was to drive out '''everyone''' living there to set up his gambling ring. Shortly after Mesa City becomes a ghost town, he realizes that this leaves no customers for his casinos

** Also can't even pronounce "Thevius Racoonus" and didn't care about because it had too many words. He instead fights Sly since he messing up his gambling operation.

* BadassGrandpa: Despite his age, he's still able to go toe-to-toe will Murray, and is so fast that he has to be lured into pools of tar before Murray can even ''touch'' him.

* LightningBruiser: Murray is only able to beat him when the ground is soaked with tar, which slows him down.

The leader of the Fiendish Five, Clockwerk is a monstrous robotic owl of unknown origin. He turned himself into a robot in order to hunt down and destroy the Cooper family, his greatest rival. He is at least 3200 years old, showing up even in the earliest parts of the Thievius Racoonus. [[spoiler:''Thieves in Time'' marks him as ''even older'', as he's visible even in the background of the ice age level]]. He possessed an incredibly well fortified hideout in the Krakarov Volcano in Russia, before being defeated by Sly and his parts sent to a museum in Cairo. But then the Klaww Gang stole his body parts and repurposed them for their criminal schemes. The Cooper Gang managed to steal these powerful components back, [[spoiler:only to have them stolen by Jean Bison after the Lumberjack Games. From there, the parts were passed on to Arpeggio, which turned out to be part of an EvilPlan to not only acquire Clockwerk's powerful body for himself, but also his immortality, all through a complex scheme involving the operations of the rest of the Klaww Gang. However, Neyla betrayed Arpeggio and took the Clockwerk frame for herself, dubbing herself "Clock-La" and engaging the Cooper Gang in battle. Clock-La was defeated, and Sly destroyed Clockwerk's Hate Chip, which caused his mechanical body to rust and corrode into nothingness. However, while the threat of Clockwerk was presumably eliminated forever, victory came at a great cost; Bentley lost the use of his legs due to a crushing bite from Clock-La's beak, which was a serious blow to Murray's morale.]]