Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-26516813-20150922132030/@comment-1845428-20151027165157

I think a lot of fans want Clockwerk to come back, and thanks to time travel, this is possible.

I don't know how many Sly fans remember this, but before the major Sucker Punch website update in 2008, they used to host "official" fan fiction. It did not technically add to the Sly Cooper mythology, but was instead hand picked by Sucker Punch. I remember one taking place after Sly 3, and in it, Bentley had built his time machine. Clockwerk had already built a time machine in the past, but had no future portal to connect it to until Bentley built his. This, of course, released Clockwerk back into the future. The gang then went throughout time and borrowed each of Sly's ancestor's canes and beat their respective Clockwerk before beating the new future Clockwerk. Pretty cool, I thought.

And yeah, once the Sly 4 teaser appeared in the Sly Collection, I started thinking about the gang's future. Sadly, Bentley's time machine can only go to the past, since it needs an already existing object to carbon date. Originally, though, if you remember, Bentley wondered what the future held, and that "time would tell... literally; I'm building a time machine to find out" meaning that he would be able to go forward. Very Doctor Emmett Brown circa the end of Back to the Future.

Bentley apparently gave up on this once he found out that the Thievius Raccoonus was being destroyed, though Penelope, while working under Le Paradox, did figure out how to go forward and back without using a carbon dated object. I guess the funding from illegal wares trading can really help when developing insanely complex devices, though Bentley did do most of the work...