Sly Cooper Reboot Series

Sly Cooper is a platform stealth-action video game franchise owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is developed by Sanzaru Games and Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5 consol. It is a rebooted reimagining of the original series with three stories rewritten, and it is referred to as a "new beginning" for the Sly Cooper trilogy.
==Setting==
The world is populated by anthropomorphic animals, with film noir and comic book motifs. 
The story focuses on Sly Cooper, an adult raccoon and the latest descendant from a long line of master thieves who pass down their thieving techniques from generation after generation and written their records in the "Thievius Raccoonus," an ancient tome that has been handed down from parent to child and contains all records of the Cooper Clan's secrets, thieving skills, techniques and accomplishments. While the Cooper family has accumulated a massive amount of wealth through their thieving ways, Sly has greater value on his friendship with Bentley a turtle and the brains of the group, Murray a hippo who is the muscle and the getaway driver and Lexi, a leopard who both the wildcard and flirtatious relationship with Inspector Carmelita Fox. As a quartet, they form the Cooper Gang, perform elaborate heists all over the world, often for the purpose of taking down large and dangerous groups of criminals and villains, as the golden creed of the Cooper Clan; is to only steal from other thieves because there's no honor, value nor fun stealing from innocent people. The gang pulled off many heists in their careers as well as face many criminals and villainous organizations
==Games==
=== Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus ===
Sly and his friends, Bentley the turtle, Murray the Hippo and Lexi the Leopard must recover the "Thievius Raccoonus", a book accumulating all the special thieving skills and techniques Sly's ancestors, the Cooper clan have recorded over many centuries which was stolen by, the Fiendish Five, a villainous gang led by Clockwerk, a giant immortal robotic owl with a deep burning hatred for the Cooper Clan.
=== Sly 2: Band of Thieves ===
Two years after defeating the Fiendish Five, Sly Cooper and the Gang break into the Cairo Natural History Museum to steal the disassembled parts of Sly's fallen archenemy, Clockwerk and permanently destroy them to end the threat to the Cooper Clan. Only to discover that the parts have already been stolen by a new villainous collective known as the Klaww Gang. Each member has a different piece of the metallic owl and it's up the Cooper Gang to hunt down each member of the Klaww Gang and steal back the Clockwerk parts.
=== Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves ===
One year later, after a reunion with McSweeny and Emile, Sly learns of a fugitive war criminal by the name of Drako is searching the Cooper Vault, a vast cave system that contains the cache of wealth and fortune of the Cooper Clan built and stored for centuries. However, the vault's location can only be revealed with the use of the Cooper Legacy Stones, twelve specific crystals that would reveal the Vault's geographic coordinates. Sly also learns of Drako has assembled a villainous entity known as the Syndicate. Sly, Bentley, Alexis and Murray set out to stop this new villain, but they can't do it alone. For the first time in the gang's history, they need to strengthen their ranks to find clues the Cooper Vault before Drako and the Syndicate.
== Characters ==
=== Main Cast ===
==== Sly Cooper ====
Sly Cooper (Kevin Miller), The main protagonist of the series and the leader of the Cooper Gang.Sly is a young adult anti-heroic Raccoon and a gentleman master thief who is descendant from a long line of Master Thieves known as the Cooper clan. On his tenth birthday, Sly was ready to inherit the Thievius Raccoonus from his father, Connor Cooper to carry on the family name when, five criminals, the Fiendish Five launched a siege on Sly's family mansion. Sly hid in the closet while he watches his father fight the five but was overpowered. Sly was noticed and founded by Muggshot and threatened to harm him if Connor doesn't reveal where he hid the Thievius Raccoonus. Sly was then rescue by McSweeney and M who were instructed by Connor to take his son and his Cane to safety while he held of the Five and the last thing he saw, was thier cloaked leader, Clockwerk killing his father and the Thievius Raccoonus was torn apart by the Five. McSweeney and M manage to drive Sly at the Happy Camper Orphanage where he will grow up safe and hopefully someday be the master Thief he's destined to be. During the past few days Sly was still reeling of losing his parents and the Thievius Raccoonus and was very lonely and bullied then he'd met other orphans, Bentley and Murray and later Alexis, who became his trusted friends, team and family. They would band together and become the new Cooper Gang in later life and Sly would resume his training to become a great thief even without the book. After honing his skills enough, he and the gang set out a journey to track down the Fiendish Five, avenge his father and steal back the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus from them. His ancestors were great thieves, but Sly was the first one to get the chance to earn the book opposed to having inherited it.His signature color is Blue.
==== Bentley ====
Bentley (Matt Olsen), The deuteragonist and the brains of the gang.Bentley is a diminutive green box Turtle with green eyes that are almost always hidden behind thick brow-line tortoiseshell glasses. Bentley is very skilled with hacking computers, gadgets, explosives, and ciphering data. Bentley was delivered to the orphanage as an egg, he grew up friendless until Sly and Murray came into his life, defending him from bullies, and became their lifelong friends and later Alexis. Over the past 12 years, Bentley's small legs grew too weak for him to walk normally, which he now uses a highly advanced-modified wheelchair of his own design to make him faster and more mobile as well as equipped with his own gadgets. His signature color is Green.
==== Murray ====
Murray (voiced by Chris Murphy), The tritagonist and the muscle of the Gang.Murray is a round pink Hippopotamus with brown eyes, who is the heart of the team and getaway driver. Sly met him at the Orphanage where he grew up from. Due to his size and sensitivity, other orphaned children often bully him. He realized this and used his girth to protect Sly and Bentley, his new friends from bullies then adopted his alias "The Murray". Murray had great love for wrestling and would train himself in the art of fighting/brawling, becoming the brawn on the team. He is a strong, muscular but slightly dim-witted and a fun loving, happy-go-lucky guy. He often goes onHis signature color is Pink.
==== Alexis ====
Alexis "Lexi (Voiced by Eden Riegel), A new character introduced to the rebooted series that is the acrobat and gymnastic wildcard of the Cooper Gang.Lexi is a tall and athletic female Leopard with golden yellow fur, orange rosettes with black outlines, amber eyes and long blond hair with two strands at the front and in a ponytail. She met Sly with Bentley and Murray at the orphanage when she he first arrived. She was involved with Slys first heist of stealing Ms. puffin's cookie jar from her office while she was distracting Hebner the Janitor by letting her use the girl's bathroom before he could enter the office unbeknownst to the trio. Thankful for her help, Sly allows her to join in on their celebration. Lexi is the second nimblest yet most athletic member of the team next to Sly with years of training in acrobatic gymnastics as she is cable of climbing. She sees Sly as not only just her friend, but rather a brother figure.Her signature color is Gold Yellow.
==== Carmelita Fox ====
Carmelita Fox (Laura Bailey): A police inspector of Interpol and the main love interest of Sly Cooper.Carmelita is a Latina vixen with orange fur, brown eyes and dark bluish hair. Carmelita has almost always inconstant pursuit of the Cooper gang, therefore Sly Cooper.Her signature color is Gold Orange
==== Savio ====
Savio (Phil LaMarr): A new character introduced to the rebooted series.Savio is a mysterious and elusive Burmese Python who is a traveling merchant and black-market trader that follows the Copper Gang and Carmelita's exploits, provides Sly and his friends rare various power-ups along with unique numerous gadgets and special upgrades that cannot be found on ThiefNet. Savio is shown to be a very suave, cunning, charismatic, humble, resourceful and knowledgeable serpent who aligns to neither side but his own and sticks to the shadows to avoid attention. Despite being a neutral character, he always honors his end of the bargain, as any merchant should be, and he does attend to many events in public. He has great interest in Sly Cooper as values him as his "favorite" customer and is willing to provide him and his any gadgets and information with the right price. He has a great knowledge of the criminal underworld as he is shown to share Sly and the gang further information on each member of the Fiendish Five and their criminal activities (with the exception of Clockwerk.) Savio is a tall slender python with yellow eyes, indigo scales w/h a lighter underside and purple spots patterned across his back. He wears a black high collar trench coat and a fedora with an oversized brim.
===Recurring ===
====Cooper Gang====
*Dimitri Lousteau: Traveling forger.A purple French Iguana
*The Guru: Mystic
*Penelope: RC Operator
*Panda King (Paul Nakauchi): A Pyrotechnician and a former unwilling member of the Fiendish Five.Born from poverty, Panda King was fascinated with Fireworks on every New Year celebration. After spending decades of learning the art, the Panda King became a successful Fireworks craftsman and was adored by everyone. He later fathered a beautiful daughter, Jing King, whom he deeply cared for. One night, Panda King was forced to join Clockwerk and the Fiendish Five for his expertise after he kidnapped Jing King. Either Panda King aids Clockwerk to steal the Thievius Raccoonus or he'll lose his daughter forever and with no other choice, he accepted his offer. Even after stealing the book, Clockwerk went back on his word to Panda King then placed a mind control device on his head and forced against his will to guard his sections of the Thievius Raccoonus for the past 15 years. The records were on Otto Van Cooper, 
*Krom 
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====INTERPOL====
* James Barkley (Fred Tatasciore): The director of INTERPOL.Barkley is an elderly badger that is a senior member of INTERPOL, mentor and father figure of Carmelite Fox.
* John Shepard (Troy Baker): Police captain.A German Shepard who is love rival to Sly Cooper. Jonathan had always known Carmelita for a long time
* Stan (Patrick Warburton): A police officer of Interpol that serves as a comic relief in the series.An over-confident Golden eagle with a muscular build. Stan is arrogant, gullible and stubborn; he often proclaims himself as the "greatest undercover cop on Interpol". He is a strong flyer but is overall dimwitted.
*Chloe Noire (Katie Lowes): Interpol Data broker.A Rough Collie who is a criminal profiler at Interpol. She works with Penny to provide Carmelita intel from the national criminal database. So, while Chloe gives Carmelita intel, Bentley’s faster data broking makes sure that Carmelita is far behind. Unlike Carmelita, Chloe is more soft-spoken and calmer as she tends to get the workaholic Inspector Fox to relax. In Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus, she aids Carmelita in her pursuit of Sly and the Gang when she suspects a pattern of Sly's attacks on members of the Fiendish Five then learns of the Cooper clan.
*Penny Holland (): Interpol Profiler A female lynx who is tech wiz and a data cruncher and inventor for Interpol, having to developed Carmelita's shock pistol. She is skilled, but not as Bentley. She works well with Chloe as they both do their best to support Inspector Fox. While Chloe gives Carmelita intel, Penny provides her with Interpol equipment such as the jetpack. Despite that she still tries her best to support Carmelita.
*Winthorp (Jack McBrayer): Police Detective
*Lt. Gronk: Mercenary Leader. Gronk is a squad leader of gorilla mercenaries who were hired near the end of Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus when Carmelita hired them as backup before her departure to 
===The Cooper Clan===
*Conner Cooper (Brian Bloom): The late father of Sly Cooper and the leader of the original Cooper gang. He perfected the laser walk/slide technique from using Tennessee's technique. 
*Eliza Cooper: The late mother of Sly Cooper and a sole female member of the original Cooper gang.
*Rioichi Cooper (): Sly's ancestor from Feudal Japan circa 1570 AD.
*"Tennessee Kid" Cooper (Sam Riegel): Sly's outlaw ancestor from the 1880's.
*Henriette "One Eye" Cooper: Sly's pirate ancestor circa 1603.
*Slaigh MacCooper: Sly's ancestor from Celtic Scotland circa 1400 AD. He perfects wall edge slide technique 
*Slytunkhamen Cooper I (James C. Mathis III): Sly's ancestor from ancient Egypt circa 1350 BC.
*Thaddeus Winslow Cooper III (Jeff Bennett):  Sly's ancestor from Victorian-era London of 1839. Her performed the chain pickpocket technique.
*Sir Galleth Cooper (): Sly's ancestor from medieval England circa 1280 AD.
*Salim al-Kupar (): Sly's ancestor from Arabia circa 960 AD.
*Tikal Cooper: Sly's Mayan ancestor from Mesoamerica circa 614 AD.
*Valka Kooperson: Sly's female Viking ancestor and second strongest of the coopers in Norway circa 1030 AD
*Caius Coopercus: Sly's gladiator ancestor from ancient Rome circa 108 AD.
*Alexandre Cooper II: Sly's musketeer ancestor from France circa 1651.
*Felipe de Cooper: Sly's ancestor from Spain circa 1501.
*Wang Li Cooper: Sly's ancestor from Imperial China circa 232 AD.
*Bob Cooper (): Sly's cave thief ancestor from 10,000 BC.
*Otto van Cooper: Sly's European ancestor from the 1900s
===Other Characters===
*Jim McSweeny (Darin de Paul): The brawn of the original Cooper gang, Jim McSweeny is a husky Walrus who had a great close friendship with Connor Cooper and Dr. M. When the Fiendish Five raided the Cooper Mansion, Connor told Jim and Dr. M to get his son Sly to safety and take him somewhere he'll be well-taken care off. Jim and Emile take Sly to the Happy Camper orphanage where he'll be safe. He and M where later captured by Clockwerk and held prisoner in his lair for 12 years
*Dr. Emile Mandrake (Kirk Thornton): The brains of the original Cooper gang. Dr. M is a highly intellectual Mandrill that has been a good friend/teammate of Conner Cooper and McSweeney. 
==== Introduced in Thievious Raccoonus ====
*Hebner: An elderly beagle and a senior resident of Mesa City. He assists Sly and the gang to take down Muggshot and his gambling empire
*Clyde: An Old English Sheepdog and a friend of Hebner.
*Jing King: The daughter of the Panda King who was taken hostage by Clockwerk. He used Jing as a bargaining chip to force her father to cooperate with Clockwerk to help him and the rest of the Fiendish Five steal the Thievious Raccoonus.
*Cajun Joe: A Cajun accented Cuban Crocodile paid by Carmelita to take her to Haiti to go after Sly Cooper.
==== Introduced in Band of Thieves ====
* Tansen: A young adult Bengal tiger and the son of Rajan.
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===Antagonists===
====Fiendish Five====
*Clockwerk (Mark Hamill/Corey Burton): Founder and Leader of the Fiendish Five and the life-long enemy of the Cooper Clan.Clockwerk is ancient Owl that is founder of the Fiendish Five. For most of the adventure, his identity was largely a mystery, even as the most wanted criminal in the world. Interpol had no info on him, even Savio. Only after beating all the other three out of four members, Bentley deduced from certain materials and transactions he lived at the Krackaroff Volcano in Russia. Once there he nearly lured Sly and Carmelita in a death trap before making himself known. He reveals himself to be a giant, mechanical owl. He has been an enemy of the Cooper clan for centuries, fueled by his burning hatred and jealousy for the Cooper Clan and later on replaced his organic body for soulless machinery to keep himself alive, with the only intent to wipe out his rival family line. He had only let Sly live after killing his parents to show that without the Thievius Raccoonus, the Coopers are nothing. He is nothing short of a psychopath and serial killer, having killed Carmelita's mother as well simply for trying to look into him. After Sly says the book doesn't make the Coopers, the Coopers made the book. Clockwerk attacks him in rage, but with the help of Carmelita, Sly managed to damage him to a point his auto repair can't put him back together and before his demise, he tells Sly that he'll never be rid of him so easily that Clockwerk is superior to the Cooper line before shutting down and fell into the lava. It seemed he was finished...
*Sir Raleigh: Chief Engineer Raleigh was born rich and wealthy into one of England's most prestigious families. However, he quickly grew bored with his life of luxury. He tried his hands on piracy for a while, finding it to his liking. He quickly became addicted to crime and developed a knack for machinery and was enrolled in the Fiendish Five because of his technical ingenuity. He had set up in the Welsh Triangle in Britain, sinking ships with his storm machine and then looting the wreck. Out of all the members, aside from Clockwerk, Sly was the most disgusted with him as Raleigh, born rich, with everything he wants, would still go out and steal from others. His stolen entries of the Thievius Raccoonus were notes on Rioichi Cooper, Sir Galleth, Henriette Cooper and Thaddeus Cooper III. 
*Muggshot: Enforcer/muscle of the Fiendish Five.Muggshot is a massive Bulldog with large muscular arms. As a young pup, Muggshot was frequently bullied by other Dogs for being the runt of the litter in the neighborhood. So, the only friends he had were on the big screen in gangster films. This inspired Muggshot to be just like them to spend the rest of his childhood through intense hardcore workouts and becoming a major crime lord so he would never be pushed around again and gained newfound respect from his peers. He was recruited in the Fiendish Five, his chain of casinos being a major source of funding for them. Sly felt a bit sorry for him as he also dealt with bullying in his childhood, and wonders if Muggshot would have turned out differently, he would had friends like Bentley, Murray and Alexis in his youth, though Muggshot still had committed too many atrocities to be redeemed. He then escaped with the pages and left Muggshot to Carmelita. His entries of the Thievius Raccoonus were on Tennessee Kid Cooper, Valka Kooperson and Slaigh MacCooper
*Ms. Ruby: Chief mystic and voodoo priestess of the Fiendish Five.Ruby is a Haitian Alligator who was born into a family of voodoo mystics, she had a lonely childhood, as other kids were scared of her. He only friends are the undead she learned to summon. In her adult years, she turned her magic against the world to punish it for fearing her as a child, and her skills in the mystical arts earned her a spot among the Fiendish Five. She was hiding in the jungles of Haiti, cooking up a scheme to create an undead army big enough to conquer the continent. She was in the possession of pages on Sly's mystically oriented ancestors Slytunkhamen Cooper, Tikal Cooper and Salim al-Kupar
====Klaww Gang====
*Arpeggio
*Nyla
*Konstantin: Nightclub OwnerA Granite Night Lizard that is the owner of a night club in Paris. He takes Dimitri's place in the reboot as a member of the Klaww Gang.
*Rajan: Lord of the hillsA Bengal tiger and a spice lord
*Jean Bison
*The Contessa:
*Mandarin: A Japanese Yakuza leader and extortionist.An Emperor Tamarin that distributes illegal spice throughout Japan. is somewhat of an equal to Rajan.
====Other Enemies ====
*Vincent Pincenette (voiced by Kevin M. Richardson): A scarred black Doberman Pincher and Muggshot's right hand man. Vincent is in charge of the flashlight guards and head of security. Vincent is also a violent gunman charged with multiple armed robberies in nine small countries around the globe
*Inkspot Jackson (voiced by Jeff Bennett): A slim Dalmatian and one of Muggshot's top henchmen. Jackson is a croupier and gambler who uses playing cards as his weapon of choice. He usual operates the Boneyard Casino
*Paulie Shackles (voiced by Rick D. Wasserman): A bluish grey obese Basset Hound and one of Muggshot's top henchmen. Shackles is an escaped convict that manage to getaway during a prison riot a year ago and had been on the run then he was recruited by Muggshot. Although he got rid of his prison ragd, he kept his ball and chain then used it as his personal weapon.
*Gorgeous Lou (voiced by Travis Willingham): A French Pit Bull and one of Muggshot's top henchmen.
=== Konstantine ===
*Rooftop: Rats and Frogs
*Patrol: Leopard Lizards
*Warthogs (Flashlight)
=== Rajan ===
*Rooftop: Grey Langurs and Ibex
*Patrol: Black-necked Storks
*Flashlight: Indian Rhinos (Flashlight)
=== The Contessa ===
*Rooftop: Wolves and Bats
*Flashlight: Vultures
=== Nyla's Mercenaries ===
*Tokay Geckos and Bombardier Beetles (Rooftop)
*Lynxes (Patrol)
*Gorillas (Flashlight)
;Jean bison
*Rooftop:
==Gameplay==
To be added.
== Trivia ==
The cutscenes animations are the combines styles of Band of Thieves, Honour Among Thieves and Thieves in Time.
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