Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-1961216-20150621014743

CONJECTURE START

Clockwerk did not originate in prehistory. He's sent there by the Cooper Gang after the events of Sly 4.

The original Clockwerk, close to Sly's father's age, recruits Penelope to use her time travel technology to find ancient civilizations. He intends to steal artifacts straight out of the past and sell them in the present in pristine condition, which is a chrono-no-no. To stop Clockwerk from screwing up time forever, the Cooper Gang realizes they have to send him to prehistory with his own time travel device, and thus Sly is forced to knowingly doom his own ancestors / father to preserve the timeline.

The combination of Coopers all throughout time thwarting his heists and being marooned in prehistory by Sly makes Clockwerk really really hate the Cooper clan. In addition, the manner in which he is sent to the past (e.g. blowing his time machine up) is quite... imprecise and takes a huge chunk of his base with him.

Thus, Clockwerk re-appropriates the wreckage into a new robotic body and becomes a metallic eternal god terrorizing Coopers through the ages. The extreme length of time causes him to forget specific names and faces, but he despises all ringtailed thieves equally. 