Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-24359967-20140530212422/@comment-24137779-20150529180528

Alchemist21 wrote: You may be right about the timeline alterations. My thinking in this is that, if she is Clockwerk, then she never heard about his past defeat, created the Clockwerk body to defeat Sly, but somehow got trapped in the past and sought to destroy the Cooper clan throughout the ages.

As for the male/female issue, I don't think Penelope would have a problem changing into what could be considered a male form. The Black Baron persona suggests she has no problem taking on male appearances and roles, and she seems to do this again with the Black Knight. I know she still had a female body in these persona because they were just mech suits she wore, but with Clockwerk she would be replacing her entire natural body with machinery, getting rid of her female form. I just had a thought. What if she went back to slowly kill all of them [coopers] but couldn't operate the time machine once entering the clockwerk frame (for whatever reason) she then kills the real clockwerk and takes his name then begins the long revenge quest up until he/she/it becomes the clockwerk we know today???? (Edit I forgot to add that at some point either do to a malfunction or just due to time (people aren't meant to live forever) she ended up forgetting everything except destroying the coopers and their legacy)) of course she made the frame either before time traveling or brought what she needed back.