History SelfDemonstrating / SlyCooper

Hey there, pal. Why am I here, you ask? Simple. Heard [[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} a certain electrokinetic humie]] I know from [[Creator/SuckerPunch an old gig]] decided to show up here and talk about himself. Since I'm a fun guy and good sport, I just couldn't let that sap hog all the glory, so here I am to quite literally steal his thunder away. [[note]]'''Cole:''' Terrible pun, Sly. Just the worst. Not to mention I lost the fuckin' page 'cause the morons who run this site think their opinions matter over everyone else's! '''Me:''' Oh. Sorry 'bout that. '''Cole:''' It's all good. I've gotten over it.[[/note]]

Hello there, pal. Why am I here, you ask? Simple. Heard [[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} a certain electrokinetic humie]] I know from [[Creator/SuckerPunch an old gig]] decided to show up here and talk about himself. Since I'm a fun guy and good sport, I just couldn't let that sap hog all the glory, so here I am to quite literally steal his thunder away. [[note]]'''Cole:''' Terrible pun, Sly. Just the worst. Not to mention I lost the fuckin' page 'cause the morons who run this site think their opinions matter over everyone else's! '''Me:''' Oh. Sorry 'bout that. '''Cole:''' It's all good. I've gotten over it.[[/note]]

Let me start at the beginning, back I was just an eight-year-old kid, and it was the night I was supposed to inherit from my father our family's greatest treasure, the Thievius Raccoonus. It was an age-old encyclopedia of thieving knowledge my ancestors had passed down through the ages, and with it in hand, young-me hoped he'd learn everything he needed to be especially sneaky in his future career.

Thanks to the combined efforts of our gang, with even Carmelita herself [[EnemyMine stepping in for a bit]], Clockwerk and his Death Ray were taken out of commission. My parents were finally avenged, I gave the lovely Ms. Fox [[KissOfDistraction a little token of my gratitude]] as we soon returned to our usual game of cat and mouse, and the Thievius Raccoonus was returned to its rightful state. It was finally time for me to write my own tales in the book.

So Carmelita and I were finally able to enjoy each others' company as a result of what happened at Kaine Island, and I pretty much retired from thievery. It was a nice break. But I suppose you still can't make a raccoon change his stripes that easily, so after a while I secretly began plans to pull off one last heist. But just as I was about to make my move, Bentley appeared in order to tell me that [[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesinTime entries in the Thievius Raccoonus were starting to disappear]] as a result of something affecting history. He, Murray and I soon reunited and, using Bentley's newly-finished time machine, made it our mission to travel to different eras in time (such as the Old West or even the Ice Age), save each of my ancestors and find out just who the culprit messing with them was.

And that's the last thing I remember happening before waking up alone in ancient Egypt along with what was left of Le Paradox's time machine. As of now, I still don't know when my friends are finally going to find and rescue me, and [[LeftHanging I dread that it might not be any time soon]]. So, getting comfortable here and maybe seeing if I can meet up with one of the Slytunkamens is probably the best option for now. Besides, I think the endless view of sand from every direction is actually starting to grow on me.

* AmnesiacLover: Faked it after the [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves Cooper Vault job]] to be with Carmelita. When she figured out the truth, she, er, didn't take it very well.
* AncestralWeapon: My trusty cane, inherited from my father. All Coopers had a cane of their own, but a lot of them varied in shape and size. Rioichi from feudal Japan had a bamboo cane, Sir Galleth from Medieval-era England had a sword shaped like a cane, the list goes on.

* BlueIsHeroic: I love to wear blue and my ancestors have a blue hue to them and I'm the star of my line of video games. Ever notice that heroes like me love to wear blue and how some villains like Mugshot or Grizz wear purple? You could even say that purple is the new black for villains!

* {{Flanderization}}: I think that during that time-travel adventure I may have gotten a little ''too'' excited to get back to the grind. Jokes got cracked in such record time that they got a bit sloppy, and [[UnusualEuphemism I probably forgot to eat breakfast during our last day in Arabia.]] Regardless, I still trusted in my pals like always.

Eventually, it came the time to put down their leader, a giant owl [[VileVillainSaccharineShow horrifying beyond all reason]] who had replaced his body with cold robotic parts: Clockwerk. He revealed to me that he had achieved eternal life through his pure jealousy and hatred against the Cooper Clan, and dedicated his existence to wiping us out since the beginning of time. He nearly succeeded with me and my parents, but [[CruelMercy chose to leave me alive]] as proof that our legacy was worthless without the Thievius Raccoonus.

Thanks to the combined efforts of our gang, with even Carmelita herself [[EnemyMine stepping in for a bit]], Clockwerk and his Death Ray were taken out of commission. My parents were finally avenged, I gave the lovely Ms. Fox [[KissOfDistraction a little token of my gratitude]] as we soon returned to our usual game of cat and mouse, the ''Thievius Raccoonus'' was restored, and it was time for me to tell my own stories.

And now for the backstory you've all been waiting for. It all started when I was just an eight-year-old kid, on the night I was supposed to inherit from my father our family's greatest treasure, the ''Thievius Raccoonus''. It was an age-old encyclopedia of thieving knowledge my ancestors had passed down over the centuries, and with it in hand, young-me hoped he'd learn everything he needed to be especially sneaky in his future career.

Though fate had something different in mind. A band of power-hungry crime lords called the Fiendish Five broke into our home, struck down my parents, tore out the pages of the ''Thievius Raccoonus'', and scattered them to the… ''five'' corners of the earth. After I lost just about everything that night except my cane and the clothes on my back, I was shipped off to the Happy Camper Orphanage.

But hope was not lost, since it was there I met two new companions: [[GadgeteerGenius Bentley]], resident turtle boy who does machines, cracks codes and serves as the strategy behind our operations, and [[TheBigGuy Murray]], our getaway driver, and who's grown all the way from a [[TheLoad ham-fisted burden]] to our ''[[LargeHam ham-preaching]]'' [[BoisterousBruiser enforcer]] over the course of our adventures. And ever since that first meeting at the orphanage (and a premiere cookie-stealing heist), the three of us have been close in a way that words just can't do justice.

Ten years after my parents' death, we finally found a lead on the Fiendish Five (thanks to Carmelita having a file with as much info on me as she could find) and started [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus our big mission to hunt them down and take back the]] ''[[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus Thievius Raccoonus]]''. Outwitting each member took some split-second skill and strategy, but we managed to take them down one by one and began restoring my family's treasure back to its rightful state. Eventually, it came the time to put down their leader, a giant owl [[VileVillainSaccharineShow horrifying beyond all reason]] who had replaced his body with cold robotic parts: Clockwerk.

He revealed to me that he had achieved eternal life through his pure jealousy and hatred against the Cooper Clan, and dedicated his existence to wiping us out since the beginning of time. He nearly succeeded with me and my parents, but [[CruelMercy chose to leave me alive]] as proof that our legacy was worthless without the ''Thievius Raccoonus''. I made sure to prove him wrong.

Thanks to the combined efforts of our gang, with even Carmelita herself [[EnemyMine stepping in for a bit]], Clockwerk and his Death Ray were taken out of commission. My parents were finally avenged, I gave the lovely Ms. Fox [[KissOfDistraction a little token of my gratitude]] as we soon returned to our usual game of cat and mouse, and the ''Thievius Raccoonus'' was restored. It was truly time for me to tell my own stories.

Now, I'm sure some of you more seasoned guys and gals don't need any real introduction from yours truly, but if you do... I should probably start ''right'' at the beginning.

The name's Sly. [[VideoGame/SlyCooper Sly Cooper]]. I'm an art lover, a ''bon vivant'', and as you all should know, an internationally famous master thief. In fact, us Coopers ourselves are a long, ''long'' line of master thieves dating back thousands of years. And if you're concerned about the whole "self-admitted thief" thing, I can assure you my family line's always followed a code to [[KarmicThief only steal from other thieves]]. No honor, challenge or fun can be found in stealing from the common man, so you can consider your wallet safe. For now.

And now for the backstory you've all been waiting for: it all started when I was just an eight-year-old kid, on the night I was supposed to inherit from my father our family's greatest treasure: the ''Thievius Raccoonus'', an age-old encyclopedia of thieving knowledge. With it in hand, young-me hoped that he'd learn everything he needed to be especially sneaky in his future career.

But fate had other plans. A band of power-hungry crime lords called the Fiendish Five broke in, struck down my parents and tore out the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus, before scattering them to the four... er, five corners of the earth. As I found out later, they were headed by our family's greatest arch-nemesis: Clockwerk, a giant, ancient owl who achieved immortality through a twisted combination of replacing his body with machinery and fueling himself with malicious envy for my family line. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Yes, he WAS that monstrous, thank you.]]

After that incident made me lose just about everything except my cane and the clothes on my back, I was shipped off to the Happy Camper Orphanage. But hope was not lost, since it was there I met two new companions: [[GadgeteerGenius Bentley]], resident turtle boy who does machines, cracks codes and serves as the strategy behind our operations, and [[TheBigGuy Murray]], our getaway driver, and who's grown all the way from a [[TheLoad ham-fisted burden]] to our [[LargeHam ham-preaching]] [[BoisterousBruiser enforcer]] over the course of our adventures. And ever since that first meeting at the orphanage (and a premiere cookie-stealing heist), the three of us have truly been as close as brothers.

Ten years after my parents' death, we finally found a lead on the Fiendish Five and started [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus our big mission to hunt them down and take back the Thievius Raccoonus]]. Outwitting each member took some split-second skill and strategy, but we managed to take them down one by one and restored the Thievius Raccoonus to its rightful state. Even Carmelita herself [[EnemyMine stepped in for a bit]] when it came to putting Clockwerk and his Death Ray (whatever that was for) out of commission, but after that was over and I gave her [[KissOfDistraction a little token of my gratitude]], we soon returned to our usual game of cat and mouse.

Hello there, pal. Why am I here, you ask? Simple. Heard [[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} a certain electrokinetic humie]] I know from [[Creator/SuckerPunch an old gig]] decided to show up here and talk about himself. Since I'm a fun guy and good sport, I just couldn't let that sap hog all the glory, so here I am to quite literally steal his thunder away. [[note]]'''Cole:''' Terrible pun, Sly. Just the worst. Not to mention I lost the fuckin' page 'cause the morons who run this site think their opinions matter over everyone else's![[/note]] Oh. Sorry 'bout that. [[note]]'''Cole:''' It's all good. I've gotten over it.[[/note]]

-->And that's pretty much everything, pal. By the way, if you just so happen to have a time machine on you, would you mind helping a guy out? I kinda lied about the whole "sand growing on me" bit. [[note]]'''Cole:''' Don't worry, Cooper. I'm hoping I get that time-travel power Kessler had. You'll just have to wait.[[/note]] [[note]]'''DarthWiki/DarthVader:''' I cannot help but sympathize with you, raccoon.[[/note]]

* StaticCharacter: Not that much, but compared to Bentley and Murray I've mostly kept it all the same. I guess my confidence and skill might've inspired them a little.

And now that you've heard about my exciting career, you might as well stay to take a deeper look at my endearing quirks and tools of the trade when it comes to the fine art of thievery. Just don't forget that this place is almost as good at [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife stealing your time]] as I am at stealing everything else. Have fun, pal!

''(For any English-speakers who like to keep it real, it's best to read me in the voice of [[http://thekevinmiller.com/ Kevin Miller]]. For all you folks over in Japan, try Creator/TomokazuSeki or Creator/TakeshiKusao. And before you ask, '''all spoilers are unmarked'''.)''

But fate had other plans. A band of power-hungry crime lords called the Fiendish Five broke in, struck down my parents and tore out the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus, before scattering them to the four...er, five corners of the earth. As I found out later, they were headed by our family's worst arch-nemesis: Clockwerk, a giant, ancient owl who achieved immortality through a twisted combination of replacing his body with machinery and fueling himself with malicious envy for my family line. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow And yes, before you ask, he was THAT monstrous.]]

As the years went on, our outfit—the Cooper Gang—truly began to take off, and despite humble beginnings, we started pulling some daring heists in big-name places all over the world. Paris, Bombay, you name it. And how could I forget about my first run-in with the especially lovely and passionate [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Interpol inspector]] [[DatingCatwoman Carmelita Fox]]? Ah, those were the days.

Apparently I was also supposed to [[WesternAnimation/SlyCooper2016 get my big-screen debut]] a while back, but thanks to some backlash, [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 the aforementioned cat-creature]] [[BoxOfficeBomb messing everything up]] and a few other things, it's more or less been swept under the rug. But a few say I might have better luck as a TV star, so who knows what'll happen next? When it happens. …Hopefully. And I'm not counting the time when ''two'' of those cat-creatures [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart kidnapped me and my friends to use as decoys]].

* {{Flanderization}}: I think that during that time-travel adventure I may have gotten a little ''too'' excited to get back to the grind. Jokes got cracked in such record time that they may have gotten a bit sloppy, and [[UnusualEuphemism I may have forgotten to eat breakfast during our last day in Arabia.]] Regardless, I still trusted in my pals like always.

Apparently I was also supposed to [[WesternAnimation/SlyCooper2016 get my big-screen debut]] a while back, but thanks to some backlash, [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 the aforementioned cat-creature]] [[BoxOfficeBomb messing everything up]] and a few other things, it's more or less been swept under the rug. But a few say I might have better luck as a TV star, so who knows what'll happen next?

* BlueIsHeroic: I love to wear blue and my ancestors have a blue hue to them and I'm the star of my line of video games. Ever notice that heroes like me love to wear blue and how some villains like Mugshot or Grizz wear Purple? You could even say that purple is the new black for villains!

* BlueIsHeroic: I love to wear blue and my ancestors have a blue hue to them and I'm the star of my line of video games. Ever notice that heroes like me love to wear blue and how some villains like Mugshot or Grizz wear Purple? You could even say that Purple is the new Black for Villains!

* AesopAmnesia: When at the brink of death, you might wonder if you should cut out the cat-and-mouse game and embrace your foxy police lady, and after the vault job and the "amnesia" that's more or less what I did. With enough time, though, the thief in my blood began screaming to get going again, and... well, yeah, I kinda got ahead of myself a little. [[https://twitter.com/thekevinmiller/status/1100851265603424256 The guy behind my voice thinks]] it might be because I wanted to bring Carmelita into my lifestyle since she already brought me into hers.

* CantStayNormal: While my downtime with 'Lita was fine and all, I just couldn't let go of my family's legacy of thievery and ''needed'' to pull another job. And to think, it nicely segued into our time-travel adventure.

-->And that's pretty much everything, pal. By the way, if you just so happen to have a time machine on you, would you mind helping a guy out? I kinda lied about the whole "sand growing on me" bit. [[note]]Cole: Don't worry, Cooper. I'm hoping I get that time travel power Kessler had. You'll just have to wait.[[/note]] [[note]]Darth Vader: I cannot help but sympathize with you, raccoon.[[/note]]

* {{Flanderization}}: I think that during that time-travel adventure I may have gotten a little ''too'' excited to get back to the grind. Jokes got cracked in such record time that they may have gotten a bit sloppy, and [[UnusualEphemism I may have forgotten to eat breakfast during our last day in Arabia.]] Regardless, I still trusted in my pals like always.

Hello there, pal. Why am I here, you ask? Simple. Heard [[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} a certain electrokinetic humie]] I know from [[Creator/SuckerPunch an old gig]] decided to show up here and talk about himself. Since I'm a fun guy and good sport, I just couldn't let that sap hog all the glory, so here I am to quite literally steal his thunder away. [[note]]Cole: Terrible pun, Sly. Just the worst. Not to mention I lost the fuckin' page 'cause the morons who run this site think their opinions matter over everyone else's![[/note]] Oh. Sorry 'bout that. [[note]]Cole: It's all good. I've gotten over it.[[/note]]

Later into our adventure, we caught up with Carmelita (who was definitely ''not happy'' about the whole "lying about amnesia" thing, but I ''think'' I make things up with her), as she was also thrown through time by the same mastermind who started this whole mess—Le Paradox, an egomaniacal art collector and the latest member of his own lineage of master thieves. We learned that [[FaceHeelTurn Penelope]] had sold us out and gave Le Paradox a time-traveling blimp of his own so that he could topple my ancestors' legacy and steal their canes to use as his own personal trophies. After we fixed all the damage he and his cronies did to Cooper history, I finally confronted him on said blimp as its time machine finally broke, [[SuddenDownerEnding but at the last second he escaped with my paraglider and left me on the blimp for dead]].

''(For any English-speakers who like to keep it real, it's best to read me in the voice of [[http://thekevinmiller.com/ Kevin Miller]]. For all you folks over in Japan, try Creator/TomokazuSeki or Creator/TakeshiKusao.)''

Hello there, pal. Why am I here, you ask? Simple. Heard a certain electrokinetic humie I know from [[Creator/SuckerPunch an old gig]] decided to show up here and talk about himself. Since I'm a fun guy and good sport, I just couldn't let that sap hog all the glory, so here I am to quite literally steal his thunder away. [[note]]Cole: Terrible pun, Sly. Just the worst. Not to mention I lost the fuckin' page 'cause the morons who run this site think their opinions matter over everyone else's![[/note]] Oh. Sorry 'bout that. [[note]]Cole: It's all good. I've gotten over it.[[/note]]

Now, I'm sure some of you more seasoned guys and gals don't need any real introduction from yours truly, but if you do...I should probably start ''right'' at the beginning.

The name's Sly. [[VideoGame/SlyCooper Sly Cooper]]. I'm an art lover, a ''bon vivant'', and as you all should know, an internationally famous master thief. In fact, us Coopers ourselves are a long, ''long'' line of master thieves dating all the way back to the Ice Age. (No joke!) And while this revelation may concern you on a personal level, I can assure you my family line's always followed a code to [[KarmicThief only steal from other thieves]]. No honor, challenge or fun can be found in stealing from the common man, so you can consider your wallet safe. For now.

And now for the backstory you've all been waiting for: it all started when I was just an eight-year-old kid, on the night when I was supposed to inherit from my father our family's greatest treasure, the Thievius Raccoonus. It was a trusty guidebook of thieving knowledge that the Cooper Clan had passed down to each generation, and with it, young-me hoped that he'd learn everything he needed to be especially sneaky in his future career.

But fate had other plans. A band of power-hungry crime lords called the Fiendish Five broke in, struck down my parents and ripped out the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus, before taking them to the four...er, five corners of the earth. As I found out later, they were headed by our family's worst arch-nemesis: Clockwerk, a giant owl who achieved immortality through a twisted combination of replacing his body with machinery and fueling himself with pure jealousy and hate for my family line. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow What a jerk.]]

After that incident made me lose just about everything near and dear to me, I was shipped off to the Happy Camper Orphanage. But hope was not lost, and it was there I gained two new friends and lifelong partners in crime: [[GadgeteerGenius Bentley]], resident turtle boy who does machines, cracks codes and serves as the strategy behind our operations, and [[TheBigGuy Murray]], our getaway driver, and who's grown all the way from a ham-fisted burden to our loud and proud enforcer over the course of our adventures. And ever since that first meeting at the orphanage (and a premiere cookie-stealing heist), the three of us have truly been as close as brothers.

Ten years after my parents' death, we finally found a lead on the Fiendish Five and started [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus our big mission to hunt them down and take back the Thievius Raccoonus]]. Outwitting each member took some tricky maneuvering and split-second thinking, but we managed to take them down one by one and used all the pages they stole to restore the Thievius Raccoonus. Even Carmelita herself [[EnemyMine stepped in for a bit]] when it came to putting Clockwerk and his Death Ray out of commission, but after that was over and I gave her [[KissOfDistraction a little token of my gratitude]], we soon returned to our usual game of cat and mouse.

After a lot of twists and turns in our crusade against our new foes, including me and Murray getting captured for over a week, Neyla framing Carmelita for conspiring with us, and all the Clockwerk parts we nabbed from the Klaww Gang getting stolen back at the last minute, we found out that two-bit cockney liar was in league with them from day one. Having already backstabbed everyone else along the way, she hijacked Clockwerk's body and its immortality for herself. Against all odds, we managed to stop her "Clock-La" form and end Clockwerk's reign of terror for good this time, [[PyrrhicVictory but Bentley's legs were crushed as a result of the scuffle.]] When Carmelita showed up to arrest us just after all was said and done, I knew how much my friends went through during this very long journey of ours, so I agreed to turn myself into Interpol on the pretense that they would be let go. But they managed to give me a little help before leaving, and I in turn managed to give her the old slip yet again.

Sometime in the following year, I broke into a high-security prison to have a word with a guy named [=McSweeney=], the retired muscle of my father's own outfit. Through him, I learned about a place called Kaine Island and the Cooper Vault full of my family's treasure hidden on it. We soon found out that a mad scientist named Dr. M (who I'd later learn was the estranged brains of my dad's old outfit, incredible, isn't it) had already spent years trying to break into the vault himself. With the vault being hard enough to get into even without Dr. M's personal fortification of the island, Bentley and I knew that it would take more than just us three to pull off such a tough caper.

So it became [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the goal of our next adventure to find other world-class thieves]], recruit them, and pull off our toughest heist yet, with Carmelita hot on our tail as usual. Murray was our first recruit, having spent the last year trying to find himself after the Clock-La incident. Next, we recruited his mentor in the mystic art of Dreamtime, [[EthnicMagician the Guru]]. We then completed our gang with RC expert [[WrenchWench Penelope]] (who got together with Bentley during that caper) and two of our [[HeelFaceTurn former foes]]: [[DemolitionsExpert the Panda King]] of the Fiendish Five, and [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman Dimitri Lousteau]] of the Klaww Gang. With our gang finally assembled, we all set off to Kaine Island for the grand heist.

So Carmelita and I were finally able to enjoy each others' company as a result of what happened at Kaine Island, and I pretty much retired from thievery. It was a nice break. But I suppose you still can't make a raccoon change his stripes that easily, so after a while I secretly began plans to pull off one last heist. But just as I was about to make my move, Bentley appeared in order to tell me that [[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesinTime entries in the Thievius Raccoonus were starting to disappear]] as a result of something affecting history. He, Murray and I soon reunited and, using Bentley's newly-finished time machine, made it our mission to travel to different eras in time (such as the Old West and the aforementioned Ice Age), save each of my ancestors and find out just who the culprit messing with them was.

Later into our adventure, we caught up with Carmelita (who was definitely ''not happy'' about the whole "lying about amnesia" thing, but I was still able to kinda make things up with her), as she was also thrown through time by the same mastermind who started this whole mess—Le Paradox, an egomaniacal art collector and the latest member of his own lineage of master thieves. We learned that Penelope had sold us out and gave Le Paradox a time-traveling blimp of his own so that he could topple my ancestors' legacy and steal their canes to use as his own personal trophies. After we fixed all the damage he and his cronies did to Cooper history, I finally confronted him on said blimp as its time machine finally broke, [[SuddenDownerEnding but at the last second he escaped with my paraglider and left me on the blimp for dead]].

And that's the last thing I remember happening before waking up alone in ancient Egypt along with what was left of Le Paradox's time machine. As of now, I still don't know when my friends are finally going to find and rescue me, and I dread that it might not be any time soon. So, getting comfortable here and maybe seeing if I can meet up with one of the Slytunkamens is probably the best option for now. Besides, I think the endless view of sand from every direction is actually starting to grow on me.

But besides my usual capers of going on globetrotting heists, I've also had a few other excursions here and there, some good and some not. There was this one time (can't remember when) where [[VideoGame/PlayStationMoveHeroes Bentley and I were kidnapped by aliens]] who forced us to compete alongside [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank a long-eared cat guy, a robot]], [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxter an elf, and a short guy with a loud mouth]] in some weird space dimension Olympics. Me and Bentley have never really brought that incident up again. I also vaguely recall [[VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale a time when I traveled to a bunch of weird places]] and traded fists with some people while looking for a couple missing pages of the Thievius Raccoonus, eventually finding them in the hands of [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} some bargain bin treasure hunter]] who wouldn't give them up the easy way.

Apparently I was also supposed to [[WesternAnimation/SlyCooper2016 get my big-screen debut]] a while back, but thanks to some backlash, [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 the aforementioned cat-creature]] [[BoxOfficeBomb messing everything up]] and a few other things, it's more or less been swept under the rug. But some say I might have better luck as a TV star, so who knows what'll happen next?

* EveryoneHasStandards: As I said before, me and my gang only ever steal from criminals. Stealing from or harming innocents is the mark of the cruel and cowardly. [[note]][[NoodleIncident Well]]... [[AllThereinTheManual OK]], we [[CutScene don't]] ''always'' follow this way of thinking.[[/note]]

* TimeMaster: a couple Cooper techniques seem to allow me to slow down time, speed it up or even stop it. No idea as to how, but they sure were useful...and entertaining, too!

And now for the backstory you've all been waiting for: it all started, when I was just an eight-year-old kid, on the night when I was supposed to inherit from my father our family's greatest treasure, the Thievius Raccoonus. It was a trusty guidebook of thieving knowledge that the Cooper Clan had passed down to the next generation, and with it, young-me hoped that he'd learn everything he needed to be especially sneaky in his future career.

* BackStab: Not the literal kind, that would be gross, but a classic skill of mine would be sneaking up on a guard from behind and knocking them over with my cane.

* ButNotTooForeign: When the Coopers got around, they ''got around''. Even if I was born in America, I have roots in Egypt, Arabia, England, Scotland, Japan, Germany and even more.

* CriminalAmnesiac: More like ''[[SubvertedTrope Phony]]'' Amnesiac ''[[InvertedTrope Cop]]''. It didn't stick.

* EveryoneHasStandards: As I said before, me and my gang only ever steal from criminals. Stealing from or harming innocents is the mark of the cruel and cowardly. [[note]][[NoodleIncident Well]]... [[AllThereinTheManual OK]] we [[CutScene don't]] ''always'' follow this way of thinking.[[/note]]

* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Apathetic mixed with Realist.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The "Phlegmatic" kind, if you couldn't tell already.

* HonorBeforeReason: And challenge before reason, and also fun before reason. It's how I roll.

* RascallyRaccoon: And proud to be one.

* AntiHero: Make no mistake, pal. I may have stopped more than a few guys from doing terrible stuff to more than a few places, but I'm still a wanted crook. No badge of honor for me. But of course, all the people I've saved these places from were even worse criminals, and of course, what would a gentleman thief like me be without a heart?

''(For any English-speakers who like to keep it real, it's best to read me in the voice of Kevin Miller. For all you folks over in Japan, try Creator/TomokazuSeki or Creator/TakeshiKusao.)''