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The implication of cannibalism (Or at least the spirit of it)?! In my E for Everyone nostalgic classic? It's more likely than you think!
What she says: I’m fine
What she means: In Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Jean Bison says everyone knows that all turtles are stupid/useless– showing there’s anti-turtle prejudice in the Sly Cooper universe. But the rabbit hole goes deeper. While we never see non-Cooper raccoons or other hippos, we do see other turtles in Mz Ruby’s level, and that’s where things get Creepy. In the Sly Cooper universe there’s always a clear divide between “human animals” and “animal animals”- but not for these turtles. One of the guards is an undead turtle who throws his head at you, but he doesn’t wear clothes like “human animals” do and cowers in fear when you approach him, like a cornered animal. Mz Ruby has a turtle servant named Chumley escort you to her– and while he has a name, the ability to understand English, and the human role of a servant, he looks/acts just like an “animal-turtle.” The level is also full of ropes that have dead turtle “decorations” on the ends. There are even moments when Bentley says he’s too disgusted and can’t bear to watch Sly go through this mission– he makes general comments about how the level is “unsanitary” but was that the Real reason?? How does this world treat turtles??? What happened to the turtles in the Sly Cooper universe????????
Shoutout to these 🤓 ahh characters that people (including me) sure do love to woobify and talk about as if they’re just these smarty pants cinnamon rolls when we actually know damn well that if they existed fr they would be an absolute menace to society and/or also the most insufferable person alive to be stuck in an elevator with
They’d give us a Dimitri game the fanbase would eat it up like a donut powdered in coccaine- jokes aside, I’d throw in for Bentley making the most sense. He has protagonist material that Murray (bless his heart) just doesn’t. Unless it was a driving game, or, a game focused on Murray where Bentley was still there to give guidance/direction.
OH, or, unless it involved his side arc with finishing his Dreamtime training with the guru. Now THAT would be an interesting (and respectful to Murray) title, even if pretty different from a traditional Sly game.
But seriously, Bentley has shown he can continue Cooper Gang operations in sly’s absence without skipping a beat. Completely renovated and took over Dr.M’s fortress and was implied to still be up to criminal stuff with Penelope in between checking in on everyone and working on the Time Machine post-Honor Among Thieves. He’s been going through more character development than Sly himself and he has his hands involved in everything from hijacking the dark web criminal market to watching over the Cooper vault.
I still can’t believe the audacity of him to just start chronicling his OWN section in the Thievius Racconus without Sly’s permission.
But the fact that the series treats this as completely ok carries a fascinating implication- that if Sly was going to step down from his mantle, it was just the logical next step for the torch to be passed over to Bentley, in a way, making him the honorary next Cooper and keeping the master thief legacy alive. Even without Sly having a child and raising them to inherit the cane, the clan still has a viable successor.
It’s almost like everything Dr.M could have dreamed of, except Bentley actually understood, respected, and earned that honor. 🥲
And ngl, I think that’s unironically beautiful and it highlights how their bond goes so much deeper than just friends. Sly and Bentley (and Murray) are literally family to each other in all but actual blood.
I think I’m trying to get at that a Bentley spin off wouldn’t have just been a nice add on to the series, it could have even made a continuation of the main narrative in place of The Sly 4 we actually got. But I am just popcorning ideas here.
Today i have mustered up the courage to ask you:
If Sly got a sidekick spinoff like Daxter and Secret Agent Clank, would it be a Bentley or Murray game?
Bentley the kind of criminal to take a puff off his asthma inhaler in the middle of torturing you for information.
The fact that a lot of Bentley’s character development across the original trilogy was just becoming a more ruthless criminal mastermind with increasingly unhinged and devious actions/plans while still being Bentley(🤓) is…. freaking hilarious.
you're so right. full name bentley "i became more evil if you're curious" the turtle
Top five Bentley plans:
5. Provoking the cops by desecrating some witch’s tomb, kidnapping a bunch of ghosts, and dropping them down the chimney of an interpol HQ
4. Creating a “moon spirit costume” for Murray by covering him in radioactive crude oil
3. Dynamite fishing in order to attract a blind grizzly bear in order to destroy some oil mains in order to create massive fires in order to steal an eagle egg in order to put said egg in Jean Bison’s pocket during the Lumber games so that an eagle would attack him and mess up his axe swing
2. Rigging the upcoming aerial dogfight tournament in the team’s favor by drugging and hijacking a feral dire wolf and using it to just slaughter the competition in broad daylight.
1. Taking a saltwater croc and intentionally turning it into a maneater in the hopes that one of the people it ends up attacking at random happens to be wearing the evil mask the gang needs to destroy
"Bentley's plans are quite frankly insane when you take a step back to look at them; Pulling down a large peacock sign over a nightclub to destroy a fountain, flooding a spice production facility, launching high-speed trains into prison walls, destroying ferris wheels, using windmill blades as shuriken to destroy blimps, outsmarting a seasoned pirate captain by taming a kraken, just to name a few. This turtle is an absolute mad lad, and a force of nature."
Confessed by: Anonymous
"That was real subtle, Bentley." -Sly, to this absolute mad lad.
Bentley during the prison break