Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-4013721-20150112174007/@comment-25371179-20150112220757

Before I reply to your theory, I just wanted to post a popular one. Many people theorize that Clockwerk was not able to achieve the technology he got from such a long time ago. After Sly 4, they think that Penelope, using her time machine, created the parts and gave them to Clockwerk, hence how he achieved his immortality. However, this makes no sense to me. Penelope was introduced in Sly 3. She didn't even come to "hate" the Cooper Gang until the events of Sly 4. She may have known about the Cooper Gang before Sly 3 (in the universe, because they are worldwide famous, right?), but I don't think she ever had a personal vendetta against them. As cool as the Penelope theory sounds, I hope that's not what ultimately happens in the canon.

Ok so back to the topic oops. So I might be a little biased about it, and that's because I never really enjoy the fantasy parts of anything; only a little bit. Like I found the Contessa cool and all (and of course I think Clockwerk is awesome), but Mz. Ruby's "army of the dead" kinda made me uneasy, and Tsao's black magic. To me, Clockwerk is a technological genius, and it just adds onto his villanious persona (another reason I don't like the Penelope theory). Since he was around a time period when he couldn't achieve that technology (and, of course, we can't achieve it today in real life and the characters in the Sly Cooper universe don't know how so it seems, other than Clockwerk), there probably was some magic or something of that nature involved (but maybe they'll be able to think of another way? who knowssss).

Still tho, cool idea, no hate or anything.