History VideoGame / SlyCooperThievesInTime

* [[{{BadassInDistress}} Badasses in Distress]]: Sly, Bentley and Murray are captured by Toothpick at one point in ''Go West Young Raccoon''. The trio are eventually saved by Carmelita Fox and "Tennessee Kid" Cooper.

* CallBack: The music during the side-scrolling version of Bentley's hacking sequences uses the same music as his one hacking game in the first game.
* TheCameo: [[RatchetAndClank Clank]] appears as one of the treasures found in the game
* ChekhovMIA: [[spoiler: Penelope vanished at the start of the game. She returns in the fourth episode as the Black Knight]].

** The Samurai armor lets him deflect fireballs back at whatever shot at him.

* ContinuityNod: In rescuing one of the 40 thieves from Ms. Decibel's hypnosis, Bentley mentions that he once saw a device just like it [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves in Prague]] once.

-->'''Sly:''' How does this sound for a stage name? [[JustAStupidAccent "The Amazing Cooperoni!"]] Eh? Eh? Right? It's good.
-->'''Bentley:''' It sounds like bad Italian takeout.

* DifficultySpike: All of the bosses, save for the first [[spoiler:and the last one.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Subverted with Le Paradox, thus making him the first FinalBoss in the Sly series to not die.]].

* DistressedDude: All the Cooper Ancestors [[spoiler: except for Salem]] are captured at the beginning of each episode. Sir Galleth, though, is the only one who really deserves this trope, as [[spoiler: he gets captured by the Moat Monster and has to be saved by Carmelita, much to his humiliation]].

** [[spoiler: Clockwerk can be seen in various areas in ''every'' episode]] as shown [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Z6vzxelZ8 Here.]] Also related to this is the "Dragon Claw" item which has a short message scratched into the bottom of it: [[spoiler: "Clockwerk was here"]].
** Sanzaru's monkey-head logo design can be seen as a decorative emblem for attentive players to spot, including a streetlight in Paris, Toothpick's belt buckle, and Sly's backpack.

** The tutorial mission has a few good ones. Villains encountered later in the game are chatting with the museum owner in Sly's infiltration, the big blueprint for [[spoiler: Le Paradox's time blimp]] seen much later in the game just before Bentley's hacking tutorial...
* GasMaskMooks: [[spoiler:Le Paradox's]] rat guards.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The entire Rioichi Cooper section is titled "Turning Japanese", a reference to an 80's pop song about the joys of [[ADateWithRosiePalms er... never mind.]]
* GuestStarPartyMember: While Sly, Bentley, Murray [[spoiler: and [[EnemyMine Carmelita]], [[SixthRanger eventually]]]] can be selected in each era, each of Sly's ancestors can only be played in the era they're specifically from, for obvious reasons.
* HeroicBSOD: Bentley falls into this [[spoiler: upon realizing that the reason Penelope had vanished in the beginning was because she IS the Black Knight in the Middle Ages episode and had sold out the Cooper Gang to Le Paradox. Needless to say, he took it really hard, tucking inside his shell]].
* HypocriticalHumor: Near the end with [[spoiler: Tennessee Kid of all people commenting on how [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Sir Galleth]] has a strange way of speaking while using one of his [[AmericanAccents "southern"]] expressions.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: [[spoiler: the Black Knight has the same coloured subtitles as Penelope did in the last game.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Sly's friends refuse to believe he is dead when he disappears at the end of the game. Of course, this is an example where the character is ultimately revealed to be alive in the same game]].

* NotSoDifferent: This sort of thing happens again, [[spoiler: between Bentley and Penelope, who's working for Le Paradox because she believed that Bentley had so much potential wasted on Sly.]]
* PressXToNotDie: [[spoiler: The Le Paradox boss fight relies on quicktime commands during the [[SwordFight sword/cane fight]] portions.]]
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The piano piece Ms Decibel plays during "Heavy Metal Meltdown" contains snippets of 'Rule, Britannia'.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Towards the end, Sly tells Le Paradox that he's a complete idiot for messing with his ancestors in the first place, and that he could've avoided ''everything'' bad that happened to him in the game and lived his life in peace in the present as a billionaire thief]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: You can see Clockwerk in various points of each in the hub worlds; he has absolutely nothing to do with the plot, and is basically an EasterEgg.]]

* SequelHook: The ending has [[spoiler: Sly missing, and everybody in the gang trying to find him. The secret ending reveals that Sly is still alive, but because of the rift in time that Le Paradox created, he's trapped in Ancient Egypt]], not to mention [[spoiler: Penelope escaping prison in the end credits and sending postcards to Bentley]].
* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Penelope JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leads to her and Bentley breaking up for good.]]
* SnapBack: If you choose to go back to a previous time period, the respective Cooper from said time period is not only still playable. [[spoiler: But still HAS his cane despite it being stolen in an earlier cutscene]]
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: At least half the dialogue between Bentley and Sly.
* SoftWater: [[spoiler:The only reason why Le Paradox didn't die was because he conveniently fell into a river]].

* StealthPun: [[spoiler: After Penelope's betrayal is revealed, Bently falls into a HeroicBSOD, hides in his shell and won't come out. In other words, Bentley "won't come out of his shell."]]

* [[spoiler: SuddenDownerEnding]]

* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler: Penelope betraying her former allies, and breaking Bentley's heart]] was enough for Sly to [[ItsPersonal declare war]] on [[spoiler: her]].

* TronLines: A lot of these can be found throughout the game, most noticeably the giant fish ad in ''Turning Japanese''.

* WhamEpisode: ''Of Mice and Mechs'' . Bentley is following the Black Knight, only it's revealed that [[spoiler: it's ''Penelope'', his girlfriend. She's undergone a FaceHeelTurn that makes poor Bentley go into a HeroicBSOD and hide himself under his shell.]]

* AnachronismStew: Noted in Chapter 3. While mostly subverted with what Sly [[spoiler: and Le Paradox's forces]] brought along to the past, the Ice Age apparently was noted to occur merely ''thousands'' of years before the present as opposed to millions; dinosaurs were still alive; and upon first glance in the hubworld, the natives already knew how to write long before the first documented scripts from Ancient Egypt.
** Talking of which, one of the collectible treasures in the Ice Age is "Slytunkhamen's Vase". How it existed thousands of years before said Cooper was born is just plain baffling.

* ContinuityNod: In rescuing one of the 40 thieves from Ms. Decibel's hypnosis, Bentley mentions that he once saw a device just like it [[Sly2BandOfThieves in Prague]] once.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Murray's necklace ''just happens'' to date back to the [[spoiler: Ice Age, specifically in a region that one of Sly's ancestors occupied, and which has been taken over by one of the bad guy's henchmen.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Le Paradox and his crooks are arrested and sent to prison (and Toothpick is soon killed by a train), but Sly disappears and winds up in Ancient Egypt, while Penelope escapes from prison]].

* ThisIsUnforgiveable: [[spoiler: Penelope betraying her former allies, and breaking Bentley's heart]] was enough for Sly to [[ItsPersonal declare war]] on [[spoiler: her]].

** [[spoiler: Clockwerk can be seen in various areas in ''every'' episode]] as shown [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Z6vzxelZ8 Here.]] Also realted to this is the "Dragon Claw" item which has a short message scratched into the bottom of it: [[spoiler: "Clockwerk was here"]].

** The tutorial mission has a few good ones. Villains encountered later in the game are chatting with the museum owner in Sly's infiltration, the big blueprint for [[spoiler: Le Paradox's time blimp]] seen much later in the game...

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Sly's friends refuse to believe he is dead when he disappears at the end of the game. Of course, this is an example where the character is ultimately reveled to be alive in the same game]]

* SnapBack: If you choose to go back to a previous time period the respective Cooper from said time period is not only still playable. [[spoiler: but still HAS his cane despite it being stolen in an earlier cutscene]]

** [[spoiler: Clockwerk can be seen in various areas in ''every'' episode]] as shown [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Z6vzxelZ8 Here.]]

A return to the series after an eight year hiatus. Set somewhere after the events of ''Honor Among Thieves'', Sly and the gang reunite when the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus start to go blank. Someone's messing with the timeline and targeting the Cooper clan. The gang, armed with a time machine, intends to find out who and stop them.

The fourth game in the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series, and the first not to be done by Creator/SuckerPunch.

* GuestStarPartyMember: While Sly, Bentley, Murray [[spoiler: and [[EnemyMine Carmelita]], [[SixthRanger eventually]]] can be selected in each era, each of Sly's ancestors can only be played in the era they're specifically from, for obvious reasons.

* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: In ''Sly 3'' Sly and Bentley arrive in Venice only 3 days before Carnivale.

* StealthPun: [[spoiler: After Penelope's betrayal is revealed, Bently falls into a HeroicBSOD, hides in his shell and won't come out. In other words, Bentley "won't come out of his shell."

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Le Paradox and his crooks are arrested and sent to prison (and Toothpick is soon killed by a train), but Sly disappears and winds up in Ancient Egypt, while Penelope escapes from prison]].

* TronLines: Plenty of these on the giant Fish ad in ''Turning Japanese''.

The latest game in the ''SlyCooper'' series, and the first not to be done by Sucker Punch.