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Cooper & Sandiego: Thieves United (Fanfic)
"Call it, Honor Among Thieves."

Cooper and Sandiego Thieves United is a crossover between Sly Cooper and Carmen Sandiego written by Hero Central.

After his final battle with Le Paradox, Sly Cooper finds himself transported to a world both similar and vastly different to his own. There, he joins forces with Carmen Sandiego and together they work to stop the evil forces of V.I.L.E from plundering the world of its history. But unbeknownst to the heroes, an old foe from Sly's past has long since joined forces with V.I.L.E: the diabolical Dr. M.


This fic displays examples of:

  • Adaptational Badass:
    • Carmen's team becomes this once Sly, and eventually Bentley and Murray, join up, with Sly teaching Carmen the techniques from the Thievius Raccoonus.
    • VILE also becomes this with Dr. M providing their Agents with advanced tech and recruiting many of Sly's past enemies into their ranks.
  • Adaptational Expansion: There are some original chapters in this fic, notably one that has Bentley and Murray, along with Carmelita, arriving in Carmen's dimension and reuniting with Sly, before the former two join up with her and latter joins up with ACME.
  • Adaptational Heroism: Invoked. Sly is at best an Anti-Hero, but he ends up crossing this territory while running with Carmen's crew, due to being under her rule of no stealing for personal gain. But as the fic goes on, he starts to truly embrace this role.
  • Adaptational Modesty: Also invoked. On the insistence of Carmen and Ivy, Sly ends up wearing grey cargo pants.
  • Affectionate Nick Name: Like his name, Red, for Carmen, Player often calls Sly, Blue.
    • Like how he calls Carmen Le Famme Rouge, Chase Devineaux calls Sly Blue Racconus.
  • Big Damn Heroes:
    • Murray makes his debut into the story by saving Zack and Ivy from some VILE goons who were about to attack them.
    • Also Bentley reunites with Sly by knocking out El Topo and Dash with his sleep darts.
  • Big Damn Reunion: "Sly Nights on the Riveria" has Sly reuniting with Bentley and Murray.
  • Birds of a Feather: Characters from both Carmen Sandiego and Sly Cooper have many things in common with each other.
    • Carmen and Sly, naturally, both are honorable thieves who only steal from other thieves. In fact, Dr. M claims Carmen to be Sly's dimensional counterpart.
    • Bentley with Player as both are the brains and technical support of their respective teams and are both loyal to Sly and Carmen.
    • Murry, Zack and Ivy. Both he and Zack are Badass Drivers, both he and Ivy the team muscle, and all three are The Heart.
    • Inspector Carmelita Fox and Agent Julia Argen are Reasonable Authority Figures and have/implied romantic attractions to the two titular thieves and are willing to hear them out and work with them on occasion.
    • Dr. M and Sira Bellum get along well due to them both being a Mad Scientist.
  • The Bus Came Back: Using his own portal tech, Dr. M brings back many of the villains the Cooper Clan has faced in the past to join in VILE's ranks and have their revenge on Sly.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: Panda King is briefly called in for "The Do as the Romans Did Caper".
  • Human Disguise: Sly, his crew, Carmalita, and others from their dimension naturally have to disguise their appearances in a world full of humans.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • Sly's first encounter with Chase Devineaux is heavily based off the inspector's first meeting with Carmen Sandiego.
  • Not a Mask: Everyone who first sees him assumes Sly is a man dressed in a raccoon costume. It isn't until Tigress makes him bleed does everyone realize that he's an anthropomorphic raccoon.
  • Not Quite Dead:
    • Dr. M managed to survive the events of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
    • LeFwee is revealed to have survived getting eaten by the sharks from the same game.
  • Opening Narration: Each chapter has a inner narration from Sly, Carmen, and other characters.
  • Point of Divergence:
    • Instead of ancient Egypt, Sly ends up in Carmen's dimension after the events of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.
    • Dr M takes Shadowsan's seat on the VILE faculty instead of Roundabout.
  • Positive Friend Influence: Sly was an Anti-Hero at most, but working with Carmen is changing him to the point that he's starting to embrace her values of returning the things they've stolen.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Carmelita does not enjoy working with Inspector Chase Devineaux, due to his incompetence. She gets along better with Julia Argent.
  • Wham Shot:
    • The end of Chasing Paper has the Cooper van appear in Carmen's dimension, with Bentley and Murray searching for Sly and closing in on his location. It also reveals that Carmelita has stowed away on the van, also wanting to find Sly as well.
    • The 14 Carat Gold Caper ends with Dr. M revealing that he didn't just bring in El Jefe, but more of Sly's enemies!
    • Penelope is revealed to be working for VILE at the end of The Bermuda Triangle Caper.
  • You Remind Me of X:
    • Sly jokingly compares Chase Devineaux to Carmelita.
    • After learning about Professor Melstrom, Sly mentally notes that he could be the Contessa's long lost relative and is just as cunning as General Tsao.

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