Board Thread:Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves discussion/@comment-25091239-20160619001518/@comment-1845428-20160619135441

I don't necessarily think he is "evil," but he seems to be mentally unstable. Do you really think that Conner treated Dr. M poorly? It was more likely his broken interpretation of what was going on.

For all we know, Conner didn't even have that much money (OK, maybe he did). When you arrive at his "shrine" in the Cooper Vault, you can see piles of gold, but those are actually part of a lower level that Sly had already been past (I'm not sure what part, but you can see another shrine below the first laser that you slide across).

There's backstory that we don't have relating to Dr. M that would likely explain all of this. To speculate: maybe, as a doctor, he had a lot of schooling debt and that's what drove him to thievery. When he learned of the Cooper Vault and all of the riches it possessed, you can bet your bottom dollar that he wanted it. When Conner - being the respectful person we know him to be (thanks to all of the words of wisdom we have gotten vicariously from him through Sly) - didn't allow him (or Jim McSweeney, who did not talk ill of him) into the Vault, Dr. M must have thought it was betrayal.

We know that Dr. M has a warped mind thanks to the conversation between him and Carmelita in "Carmelita to the Rescue." I don't remember it word for word, but it was something along the lines of her saying not to hurt Sly, Dr. M scolding her for her obvious feelings for him and that he has every right to kill Sly since he's on his territory (a double lie right there, but it seems he believes it), Carmelita threatens to arrest Dr. M and then he decides to kill her as well.

He may not have been evil, but he was a criminal, and he brought about his own downfall by refusing to leave "his" treasure. And I think he absolutely deserved what he got.

Man... Sucker Punch can create really good villains in just a single game. This was the main villain of Sly 3, and he really felt like he was worth that title, even with only a single episode to focus on him and very little backstory.