Board Thread:Sly Cooper film discussion/@comment-27370337-20160304234754/@comment-1845428-20160410205943

Yamimarus wrote: A tad off-topic from what has been discussed in this thread recently, but I'd like to point out something:

The only time (as far as I remember) we've seen what Clockwerk "looks like" under his armor was in an animated cutscene, which are always told from the perspective of a single character, in this case Sly.

It's basically impossible for Clockwerk to only become mechanised while Sly was alive, so Sly has never seen what Clockwerk looks like without his armor. What Clockwerk looks like in this cutscene is very likely just Sly's imagination and an assumption that he really is an owl under there.

I'm not saying that Clockwerk isn't an owl for certain, but it's something to consider. You can't exactly use that one cutscene as solid proof of Clockwerk's species or size. Sly could be completely right about what Clockwerk looks like, or he could be completely (or slightly) wrong.

Plus, I'm not sure if this was mentioned or not because I only skimmed the thread, but if Clockwerk's real body is really only slightly smaller without the suit, and that it's nothing but a coat of armor, then how exactly was Neyla able to just jump inside it and control it no problem? Could Arpeggio have modified the design to fit a user of a much smaller size? He did plan on using it for himself, after all.

Yeah, I'm sure that Arpeggio modified the "suit" in some way to take a different form of input other than direct biological "bridging." However, ever since the theories of Clockwerk being Penelope or Le Paradox in a robotic suit started cropping up right around Thieves in Time's release, I thought they were absolutely absurd. Just my opinion, but I think that Sucker Punch was right when they said that Clockwerk was exactly as he seems to be; a giant freaking owl with replaced body parts a la "Bicentennial Man."