Penelope/Trivia

Trivia relating to Penelope.

Trivia

• Penelope is the only member in Sly 3 who doesn't finish a job with her 'Job Complete' screen in the episode she joins the Cooper Gang in, although her 'Job Complete' screen can be seen after completing the Master Thief Challenge "Defend the Hangar".
• She is the only member of the Cooper Gang to later betray it.
  • Neyla, although she helped the gang and betrayed them, was not an official member, so she does not count.
  • However, with what was established about her character and overall personality in Sly 3, her betraying the Cooper Gang does not feel properly justified in the game's story and contradicts so much of her moments in the previous "final game" of the series.
• Penelope's signature color is lavender.
• Her relationship with Bentley can be considered ironic since turtles can eat mice.
• She is one of two characters positively known to have escaped from prison (along with Dimitri Lousteau).
• According to some concept art for Thieves in Time, Penelope was supposed to remain a protagonist at one point in development, as confirmed by the scrapped mole character and Penelope's revamped original design.
  • In that same piece of concept art, there is a crazier version of the evil Penelope alongside her current design.
• Penelope's Thieves in Time outfit bears a striking resemblance to the famous yellow suit. All of the members of Le Paradox's gang, except for Toothpick and Miss Decibel (whose designs were changed sometime during development), wear similarly designed clothes.
• In the Japanese version of Sly 3, Penelope is voiced by Ryouko Shiraishi.
• In the Finnish dub of Sly Cooper series, Penelope and Carmelita Fox have the same voice-actor, Elise Langenoja.
• Inside Le Paradox's blimp, to the right of Le Paradox, Penelope's emblem is on one of the pieces of the time machine. If players can catch a glimpse of this emblem in Go West Young Raccoon, it would potentially act as a spoiler for her role in Of Mice and Mechs.
• Penelope is the only other female character besides Carmelita to appear in more than one main game.
• Much like how the Panda King and Dimitri turned from evil to good, Penelope is the only character to be a member of Sly's gang also to turn from good to evil. However, her personalities suggest her to be more in line of an anti-hero since she was just using Cyrille Le Paradox.
  • Jean Bison and Dr. M also turned from good to evil, but they were never allied with Sly's gang. Dr. M was allied with Conner's gang, and Bison was just a miner fifty-twoer participating in the Gold Rush before he became a villain.
• Penelope is actually programmed in Sly 3 to be a fully playable character (outside of the Lefwee boss battle of course) in some hub worlds and missions much like the rest of the Cooper Gang. This implies that Sucker Punch originally intended for Penelope to be a playable character much like Sly and the others. However, in the final game, she only appears playable in Operation: Reverse Double-Cross and for the rest of the game you only control her RC Car or her RC Chopper. Due to this, she was the only playable character in the series to only be directly controlled once.
  • In early prototype versions of Sly 3 and by hacking the game, you can actually revive this unused playable Penelope state but she will appear to be unfinished. As she has no visible health bar unlike the other characters, and attacking a guard will make her switch into her pirate outfit from Episode 5. She also doesn’t have a binocucom either, so pressing the right stick does nothing.
  • If you walk up to a trap switch using Penelope, you can see her Icon appears much like it normally does for the other characters.
  • Pressing the right stick in the Lefwee fight also does nothing. Which makes Penelope the only member of the Cooper Gang to not have a binocucom.
• Penelope seems to like the color and/or the word "black" for her disguises, i.e., Black Baron and Black Knight.
• She is one of three heroic characters in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves to have a somewhat antagonistic role by one or more points in the game, along with Carmelita and the Panda King.
• Penelope is one of three characters to be engaged in a boss fight as both a protagonist and an antagonist, along with the Panda King and Dimitri.
  • If the job Operation: Trojan Tank counts, this brings the total to four, with Murray being the fourth, as he can attack Sly in this job. But this occurs only because Murray is brainwashed.
• She is the only member of Le Paradox's gang not to currently be arrested, as she has already broken out of jail and not been recaptured.