History VideoGame / SlyCooperThievesInTime

The game is notable for having a ''very'' controversial PlotTwist and [[GainaxEnding ending]], so beware of spoilers.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Has multiple examples on the [[Radar/SlyCooper series' overall page]].

The game is notable for having a very controversial PlotTwist and [[GainaxEnding ending]], so beware of spoilers.

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

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

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:The montage at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Ww1T-qaQM Bentley's promotional animated short]] showed the picture of Penelope he keeps in his binocucom defaced, spoiling her HeelFaceTurn as well as the outcome of it.]]

* BadBoss: Toothpick, who shoots one of his mooks by accident and threatens another mook when he tells Toothpick to watch where he is pointing his weapon. To say nothing of [[KickTheDog cutting their benefits]] and forcing them to work overtime.

* CallBack: In Bentley's fight against [[spoiler:Penelope]], he will sometimes taunt, "That mech design is so 2005!", which is the year of release of Sly 3.

* DifficultySpike: All of the bosses, save for the first [[spoiler:and the last one]].

* FaceHeelTurn: Turns out the Black Knight is [[spoiler:Penelope, who believes Sly is wasting Bentley's potential]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Carmelita with the belly dancing, plus certain camera angles.
* FatFlex: One of Murray's [[IdleAnimation idle animations]] has him flex to a fitter body shape...before his stomach plops out, causing his belt to fall off and pulling it back up in embarrassment.

* 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.]]

* SoftWater: [[spoiler:The only reason why Le Paradox didn't die was because he conveniently fell into a river.]]
* StealthPun:

* StormingTheCastle: "Of Mice and Mech" ends with the Cooper Gang storming a castle occupied by the Black Knight in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. This is because the Black Knight is [[spoiler:Penelope, now a homicidal GoldDigger and {{yandere}} who wants Sly and Murray (and probably anyone else close to Bentley) dead]]. Sly has already made it clear to Sir Galleth after TheReveal that [[spoiler:he intends to kill her, while Galleth points out that Penelope's crimes would warrant execution in the 14th century for treason, and they should be the ones to do it]].

* WhamEpisode: "Shell Shocked Heart". Bentley is following the Black Knight, only to discover 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.]]

* BossOnlyLevel: The final mission of Chapter 4 consists of only a three-stage boss battle against [[spoiler:Penelope]]. Justified, as it's a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her for [[spoiler:selling them all out to [=LeParadox=], breaking Bentley's heart, and plotting to murder Sly and Murray [[{{Yandere}} out of jealousy]]]].

* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:Bentley points out to Penelope that [=LeParadox=] is just using her, and would cut her strings when finished, clearly trying to convince her to rejoin the people who care about her. She refuses spitefully and attacks him in her VillainousBreakdown, leading to the Cooper Gang kicking her out in retaliation]].

** Some of the collectible treasures screw around with this, too. In the Ice Age, you can find "Slytunkhamen's Vase." How it existed thousands of years before said Cooper was born is just plain baffling. In Cotton Mouth Bluff, you can find Muggshot's Coin, the last remnant of his Mesa City empire... before said empire even existed. In Ancient Arabia, you can find Puffin's Cookie Jar, which is stated to be the one Sly, Bentley, and Murray stole when they were at the orphanage, 1,000 ''years'' before they were even born. Was the cookie jar passed down for that long?

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

* MatrixRainingCode: In the little loading screens that appear before and after Bentley's hacking minigames.

** The '''Black''' Knight, who is the false identity of [[spoiler:Penelope, who also was the '''Black''' Baron]].

* MisplacedWildlife: "40 Thieves," set in Ancient Arabia, features [[SinisterScimitar Siamese]] [[BedlahBabe Cats]], a native breed of Thailand, as Guards. This can be explained away, as "the Orient," while commonly referring to Asia, can include UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast. The [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Grenade]] Baboons are less dubious, for baboons can be found in both Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

* SceneryPorn: Dear lord, Sanzaru Games is really worked hard on the backgrounds.
* 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]].

* SmellySkunk: Le Paradox. A lot of characters have brought up his odor problem.
** And yet, he uses it to his advantage, providing... ammunition for the gas guns his mooks carry.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** There are several suggestive signs outside the geisha house (such as a fox with cleavage) and inside (the pictures of what is presumed to be the real Madame Geisha), there's also the fact that El Jefe ''slaps Murray's butt when he walks into the place as Madame Geisha''.
** Not to mention that the door that El Jefe and Murray enter has a picture on it of Madame Geisha putting a chicken leg into her mouth... what's a four letter word for a male chicken?
** The Siamese Cats in Arabia are all wearing belly dancer outfits, there are drawings of belly dancers in the level, and Carmelita dresses as one for a distraction in the final mission of the level.

* EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes: Played for Laughs in "Of Mice and Mechs". There's a mission where you have to spy on enemy Mooks for information, and said goons constantly talk about their married lives, taking their children to the park, and even ask for advice on how to meet women. What makes it funny is said mooks are ''[[MechaMooks clattering wolf robots]]''.

The fourth game in the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series, and the first not to be done by Creator/SuckerPunch. Instead it was done by Creator/SanzaruGames, who were the head of the ''Sly Collection'' (a HD port of the original trilogy).

The fourth game in the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series, and the first not to be done by Creator/SuckerPunch. Instead it was done by Sanzaru Games, who were the head of the ''Sly Collection'' (a HD port of the original trilogy).

* LoadsAndLoadsofLoading: While the first three games had very short loading times, Thieves in Time can occasionally get painfully slow while loading. The game has a LoadingScreen that tracks your progression and gives some hints or lore, but it gets boring quick.

* 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, some of the collectible treasures screw around with this, too. In the Ice Age, you can find "Slytunkhamen's Vase." How it existed thousands of years before said Cooper was born is just plain baffling. In Cotton Mouth Bluff, you can find Muggshot's Coin, the last remnant of his Mesa City empire... before said empire even existed. In Ancient Arabia, you can find Puffin's Cookie Jar, which is stated to be the one Sly, Bentley, and Murray stole when they were at the orphanage, 1,000 ''years'' before they were even born. Was the cookie jar passed down for that long?

* ContinuityNod: In rescuing one of the Forty Thieves from Ms. Decibel's hypnosis, Bentley mentions that he once saw a device just like it [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves in Prague]] once. Upon rescuing another, Bentley then outright mentions how Murray was briefly made BrainwashedAndCrazy by The Contessa's PsychicPowers.

* BossOnlyLevel: The final mission of Chapter 4 consents of only a three-stage boss battle against [[spoiler:Penelope]]. Justified, as it's a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her for [[spoiler:selling them all out to [=LeParadox=], breaking Bentley's heart, and plotting to murder Sly and Murray [[{{Yandere}} out of jealousy]]]].

* StormingTheCastle: "Of Mice and Mech" ends with the Cooper Gang storming a castle occupied by the Black Knight in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. This is because the Black Knight is [[spoiler:Penelope, now a homicidal GoldDigger and {{yandere}} who wants Sly and Murray (and probably anyone else close to Bentley) dead]]. Sly has already made it clear to Sir Galleth after TheReveal that [[spoiler:he intends to kill her]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Le Paradox. He doesn't treat his men well such as not paying The Grizz, likely planning to get rid of Penelope, [[spoiler:not letting Ms. Decibel on the ship near the end of the game]], and furthermore just being a snobbish jerk to Sly Cooper's friends and ancestors by ruining time and trying to kill them.

** All the Cooper Ancestors [[spoiler:except for Salim]] 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]].

* IndyPloy: In Chapter 4, the mission briefing is pretty short [[spoiler:since Bentley is inactive]] and nobody has really come up with a plan other than "storm the castle". The team decides that they'll have to make up the plan as they go along.

* TheCameo: [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank Clank]] appears as [[http://slycooper.wikia.com/wiki/Medieval_Metal_Man one of the treasures]] found in the game, and [[Franchise/JakAndDaxter Daxter]] [[http://slycooper.wikia.com/wiki/Lutrela_Nivadensis also appears.]]

* HistoryRepeats: A member of the Cooper Gang [[spoiler: who's a technological genius deciding to go rogue because of growing resentment towards their leader? Yep, it looks like Sly now has his own Dr. M]].