Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-27386026-20151212120651/@comment-27415945-20151219175848

It does make sense though if we consider the bootstrap paradox and the closed loop time system, which does in fact make it possible for Sly to be Slytunkhamen (presumably the first one) and then be born thousands of years later, making Sly his own ancestor.

Here is a brief example: http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/loop.gif