History VideoGame / SlyCooperThievesInTime

** 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? Clockwork's eye can also be found in the past despite the fact that in the ending of Sly 2, all the clockwork parts dissolved after the hate chip was destroyed. So it couldn't even be brought back to the past.
** Bentley states that Henriette Cooper, Sly's pirate ancestor, found Sinbad's hoard of treasure in 1616. In real life, however, UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy didn't begin until the 1650s and lasted until the mid-1720s. Going by how elements people most associate with {{pirates}} such as the Jolly Roger flag were most prominent in the early eighteenth century, it would've made more sense for ''17''16 to be the year she found Sinbad's hoard instead.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** After several years out of the game, Sly decides to pull off a heist, with the help of his friends. During the attempt, it turns out that a few of his skills, and those of his friends, are rusty, due to lack of practice.
** Sly wanted to give up his life of thieving to be with Carmelita, but at the start of the game, it's revealed he's been considering going back to it and isn't all that upset when it cost him his relationship with her. Turns out you can't just give up something you've spent almost your entire life doing and were encouraged in your upbringing.
** As Sly's ancestors found out, going after someone with better technology than yourself is generally a bad idea. This is especially the case for Sir Galleth, who didn't even have a plan for his attempt, or rather attempts. Everyone else had something of a plan beyond just attacking, or were caught by surprise or a trap at the very least.

* ArtShift: The interlude cutscenes often swap between all sorts of art styles, including crayons, cave paintings, and traditional animation.

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* PainfulAdhesiveRemoval: In the animated companion short Sly Cooper: Timing is Everything, Carmelita Fox is captured and restrained in a supply closet by Mugshot and his men. Sly Cooper finds her and pulls of piece of tape on her mouth. Cue in her loud scream followed by her growling at Cooper for being well Cooper.

** Sly wanted to give up his life of crime to be with Carmelita, but at the start of the game, it's revealed he's been considering going back to it and isn't all that upset when it cost him his relationship with her. Turns out you can't just give up something you've spent almost your entire life doing and were encouraged in your upbringing.

** When Carmelita discovers Sly was faking amnesia for the entirety of their relationship, she pretty much dumps him on the spot, and it takes nearly the whole game for them to reconcile.

** Sly wanted to give up his life of crime to be with Carmelita, but at the start of the game, it's revealed he's been considering going back to it and wasn't all that upset that it cost him his relationship with her. Turns out you can't just give up something you've spent almost your entire life doing and were encouraged in your upbringing.

** Sly wanted to give up his life of crime to be with Carmelita, but at the start of the game, it's revealed he's already been considering going back to it and isn't all that upset that it cost him his relationship with her. Turns out you can't just give up something you've spent almost your entire life doing and were encouraged in your upbringing.

*** This isn't the first time that [[spoiler:Penelope went under an alias with the word "Black" in the title. The last time was in the third Sly game under the alias "The Black Baron".]]

** Multiple times throughout the game, [[BigEater Murray]] turns down food. At first, he does it in Chapter 3 after Bentley sends in Bob to climb an ice wall despite Murray's insistence that he can do it himself, and he later does so in the cutscene after Chapter 5. In the final cutscene of the game, Murray turns down a few bowls of ice cream [[spoiler:after Sly's disappearance]].

** After several years out of the game, Sly decides to pull off a heist, with the help of his friends. During the attempt, it turns out that a few of his skills are rusty, due to lack of practice.

* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** In Chapter 3, Carmelita realizes this between her and Sly. After all, they do both fight crime, they just do it from different sides of the law.
** Later in the game, in Chapter 4, 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]].

* ShowSomeLeg: Carmelita takes one for the team by doing a belly dance to distract some guards in Arabia. Shes not happy about it either. Seeing how the rest of the guys [[EatingTheEyeCandy take a glance to see the show]] they're not as upset as she is.

* NotSoDifferent:

* MoralDilemma: Bentley is truly torn between sitting out the fight with the Black Knight [[spoiler:aka Penelope]], and assisting Sly and his gang in the Knight's defeat. In the end, Bentley shows up just in the nick of time, and remarks he realized that his family is more important to him than his personal problems, and they could have been hurt by his inaction.

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* BadassInDistress: 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.