Bentley (Sly Cooper)

Bentley is one of Sly Cooper's two allies and the deuteragonist of the Sly Cooper video game series. He is an highly intelligent anthropomorphic turtle who is the core assessment and reluctant ally of Sly Cooper, he is nicknamed the "Brains" of the Cooper Gang, devising plans to steal artifacts from high ranking criminals. after suffering a devastating injury in the second game, becoming a cripple and is paralyzed from the waist down. He is then confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. With his intellect though, he manages to put a positive spin on things. And he constantly made modifications to his wheelchair which have actually him even more powerful and capable then when walking.
He was voiced by Matt Olsen.
==Appearance==
Bentley is a very short turtle with green skin and a brown shell. In the first game, very little of him is actually seen. In the second game, he wears a wooden hat and carries around a harpoon gun. In the third game, he ditches the wooden hat and replaces it with a blue helmet. No longer carrying the harpoon gun, he always sits in a wheelchair due to the events of the end of Sly 2. And in the fourth game, he ditches the helmet for a different brown hat. In every game, he can be seen wearing large circular glasses.
==Personality==
Bentley is incredibly intelligent, and serves as the chief planner, the demolitions expert, and the computer hacker of the Cooper Gang. As such, he tends to use big words and over-explained phrases and sentences which can go over the head of others, including Sly and Murray. In the first and second games he tended to get scared very easily, worrying deeply about Sly when he's out in the field, and being frightened when he himself is out in the field. However, he always means well and always has the wellbeing of his friends in mind. By Sly 3, he had gained a lot more confidence, to the point where Murray and Sly even called him devious at different points. This also carried over into Thieves in Times.
==History==
===Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus===
Bentley interacts virtually to Sly through the Cooper Van, helping on missions to steal other valuable pages of the raccoons from other Thieves from around regions, ever since meeting Sly the first time, Bentley was an orphan picked after his blind sight, which following the death of Sly's father, he began his long time friendship with Sly along with Murray, quickly forming their own pact and became a professional trio of thieves. throughout the Game, Bentley acts as Sly's "Eyes and Ears" giving bios onto other villains whenever it's the call of need to start breaking into heavily guarded security while avoiding the authorities but at the same time. Helping through defeating them, when he plays a major part at saving both Sly and Carmelita Fox's life when he hacked into Clockwerk's mainframe in his virtual avatar, where he fires through and destroy any active components stabilizing any traps, which led to Clockwerk's first defeat.
===Sly 2: Band of Thieves===
Bentley appears once again, having aiding Sly along with Murray onto preventing the rebirth of Clockwerk by an fanatical organization known as the Klaww Gang led by Arpeggio, Bentley help Sly to travel to numerous landmarks in the hopes of onlooking the scattered remains. In the near end of the game, after Neyla betrays Arpeggio and becomes Clock-La, Bentley swoops in and disarms her lasers and getting the opportunity to extract the central working part of the original Clockwerk - His Hate Chip. after going inside and putting the mechanical Bird's vendetta at a halt however it came at a cost, Bentley suffers from a strong enclosure of the Beak, resulting himself being greatly paralyzed. in a response he was fearfully rescued by Murray who picked up his fallen friend, blacking out upon the scene, thus finally destroying Clockwerk the second and last time. which the Chip was then destroyed by Carmelita. afterwards Sly volunteeringly turns himself for his companions to escape, but as a result Sly escapes with one last help from his buddies.
===Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves===
After recovering from his injuries, Bentley (now a paraplegic) then grew the Cooper gang with new highs by arranging individuals such as Panda King, Penelope, Dimitri and the Guru in their way of infiltrating Kaine Island to retrieve the Cooper Vault. Bentley is now much active and braver in the fields, helping Sly to fight thugs in operations and stopping the mask of dark earth from possessing anyone and returning it to the Guru and befriending him. meanwhile while Carmelita is at their tale, Bentley started to search for members for his plans for weeks, while anonymously chatting with someone he met on the internet that understands his intellectuality and proposed that she would be recruited only if they stop the Baron. The Gang travelled to Holland to beat the Dogfighter, Bentley hacks into the computers to sabotage the competition for Sly to face the undefeated Pilot, The Black Baron, however it was revealed to be Penelope. Shortly afterwards the latter discarded her identity after winning and noticed Bentley for the first time, face-to-face in a confused state. next Bentley proposed Panda King would be next and recruited him in the Kunlun mountains and helped awaken his senses, and helped rescue his daughter by sneaking into General Tao's temple under the guise of his services, Bentley then instructs sly into pinpointing a way in, leaving Carmelita to arrest the Chicken. Next was Dagger Island, to help Dimitri obtain his father's treasures from Black Spot Pete, Bentley gives Penelope coordinates into locating the island with the help of Murray and the Panda King. throughout Bentley became much closer and closer with Penelope each time, through making their conversations and sharing. in current whereabouts in Kane Island upon assembling the team, Bentley's team instructs them to take on the goons in pairs to help defeat Dr. M, while he goes in the Vault with Sly with Murray to fight through to get to his friend, Bentley narrates after the defeat of Dr. M explaining how the latter refuses to leave the treasure behind, sealing his fate. Bentley escaped along with his teammates the island as it was destroyed, however he then discovered a discovery made by Sly's father, leading to a greater treasure in another cave. After Sly suffering a concussion from the battle against the evil Monkey, which Bentley along with his teammates parted into their separate ways for the time being without their leader, Bentley let Murray continue his spiritual training and ended up working with Penelope to act as his assistant as they both worked on projects together.
===Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time===
Bentley first visits Sly in the spark of midnight for a long while revealed to have been faking his supposed amnesia, while Bentley having been busy constructing a Lab with the help of Penelope and their time building and working on secret projects, however she ended up vanishing under mysterious circumstances, afterwards Bentley witnessed a surprising upbringing to the Thieves Raccoonus had suddenly started to fade from time after time, which led to Bentley onto recruiting the gang once again and installed a time machine within the Van to help unravel the mystery. Bentley along with the gang travelled through centuries of the Cooper family, recruiting ancestors and following masked Henchmen led by Le Paradox around periods, hacking into computers and blasting any hazardous malware into help defeating many criminals. In the Medieval Level “Of Mice and Mechs”, Bentley began leading his team to face one of Le Paradox's minions where he made a devastating discovery, whereas The Black Knight had taken on sir gallery Cooper and his men while guarding the castle, realizing Penelope was an agent trying to pull Bentley into dominating the weapons manufacturing in an attempt to get rid of Sly from unawakening his potential. Bentley became distraught over the fact that took a toll with the saddened fact, but overcame it by defeating the moat monster which he then reprogrammed to get back at Penelope for her betrayal. Bentley succeeded at defeating her and saving Sly from near death and overcame the difficulty with his inner demons, feeling better than ever. Bentley then helped during Sly's fight with Le Paradox in his ship while retrieving the canes from the Cooper's ancestries, which the Temporal rave sends them back to their respectful periods. afterwards the Ship crashed, sending Le Paradox away into the rivers to be found by the authorities and arrested for his crimes, however Bentley is left with the speculation over his dear friend's whereabouts and continues to look for him and never giving up for the slightest. believing he is alive somewhere in time and still figuring out how to reach him with the time machine. He is last seen looking from the Eiffel Tower along with Murray and Carmelita, wondering where Sly had ended up at, Bentley narrates the credits on the aftermath of the fates of the individuals involved in their long journey.
==Trivia==
*Matt Olsen based Bentley’s voice off of a record store employee he knew.
*His quote “Jump and press the circle button” became an Internet meme due to how repetitive it is throughout the games.
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