Sly Cooper/Trivia

Listed below is trivia relating to Sly Cooper.

Trivia

• Sly Cooper bears a striking resemblance to Jojo the Raccoon from Sucker Punch's first title, Rocket: Robot on Wheels.
  • The two main differences are that Sly is fully clothed, whereas Jojo only wears a necktie. Sly also has grey fur, but Jojo has brown fur.
• Sly's signature color is blue. Unlike Bentley, Murray and most characters, his is not based on his skin or fur, but off of his attire.
  • Curiously, both Bentley and Murray have worn blue as part of their outfits.
• Sly wears an actual mask over the mask-like fur around his eyes.
• Sly is often shown smoking in concept art.
• Concepts shown in a "making of" movie in Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus show that Sly's early designs ranged from him wearing nothing more than his hat and shoes to even being chubby.
• Sly Cooper won "Best New Character" at the Game Developer's Conference in 2003, and the Best Stealth Character by DragonAx in 2011.
• Sly is of multi-racial descent (American, Caribbean, Panamanian, English, Scottish, French, German, Dutch, Middle Eastern, Egyptian, Japanese, and Australian in particular) based on his ancestry.
• His friendship with Bentley is ironic for his species, as raccoons are known to prey on turtles, as well as eat turtle eggs.
  • His relationship with Carmelita is reflective of how real life raccoons and foxes share the same ecological niche (though foxes attack raccoons). Sly and Carmelita have similar roles of vigilance but are not on the same side of the law.
• Sucker Punch originally planned Sly's name to be JT, not Sly, accompanied with a different voice actor. This can be found in in the "The Evolution of Sly" bonus video in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
• Sly, like Bentley and Murray, cannot swim because he never learned how to when he was in the orphanage, in contrast to real-life raccoons who are excellent swimmers.
  • In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, the player can obtain the Water Safety technique. This does not carry over to the second and third games, but collecting Sir Raleigh's Frog Hat from the safe in Of Mice and Mechs of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time gives the ability to every playable character.
• Sly uses two signatures throughout the series; in Sly 2: Band of Thieves, when he sends Carmelita some postcards, he uses a capital "S" as his signature, but other times, he uses his whole first name.
• Sly's last name, "Cooper", can mean "barrel-maker" in the English language. This is possibly a reference to how, in the first two games, Sly is able to hide in barrels to avoid being seen by his enemies.
  • His name is also likely a reference to real-life criminal D.B. Cooper, who in 1971 famously parachuted out of a plane to an uncertain fate over Southwestern Washington after extorting $200,000 in ransom money. And, in fact, the ending of Sly 2 sees sly paragliding out of an airplane in a possible reference to this event.
• During cutscenes in Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly appears to have entirely yellow gloves and black shoes. During gameplay, he has blue gloves and shoes.
• In Thieves in Time, there is a Sanzaru Games logo on Sly's backpack.
• Sly is three years younger than Carmelita.
• In the Thieves in Time episode, Turning Japanese, Sly passes himself off as "Major Muggshot," as a reference to the member of the Fiendish Five.
• As the Sly Cooper series has released all over the world, there are many voice actors for Sly Cooper in different languages.
  • In Japanese, Sly was voiced by Tomokazu Seki in the first two games. Takeshi Kusao eventually took over as of the third game and in his appearance in the Japanese dub of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, as well as re-recording Sly's dialogue in the Japanese version of the The Sly Collection.
    • Likewise in Japanese, Sly uniquely has 2 different pronouns he interchanges between for the usage of the word "you", being either "kimi" or "anta".
  • Sly was voiced by Rais David Báscones in Spanish, later replaced by Cholo Moratalla in PlayStation Move Heroes. Sly was voiced by Javier Naldjían in the Latin American dubs of Thieves in Time and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
• In Sly 2, Sly is the only member of the gang who does not serve as the starting character for the heist of an episode. However, in Sly 3, he is the starting character for every heist.
• Sly is one of few Coopers without a known section in the Cooper Vault, along with his mother, Slytunkhamen Cooper I, Bob Cooper, and the minor Coopers mentioned only in Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.
• Sly is the only character in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale unable to block attacks. If the player hits the block button, he will turn invisible until either he is attacked or they let go.