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kidcooperart · 7 months

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Happy 21st Sly! The mood for this is based on the fic "It takes and it takes and it takes" by elinadsy on ao3, it's basically a novelization of Sly 3, and their tag lines slays my whole existence

"A single, traitorous thought: would his father be proud?"

#sly cooper #sly 3 #suckerpunch #Sony #playstation

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necroticdelay · 3 months

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back in 2018-2019 i was obsessed with that one picture of ben affleck smoking and i would send it whenever i was fucking done with something

#sly cooper #sly cooper fanart #sly 2 #sly 3 #sly 2 band of thieves #sly 3 honor among thieves #my art #moes art

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ms-scarletwings · 8 months

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Fun “mission failed” screens from Sly 3

:)c

#sly cooper #sly 3 #sly 3 honor among thieves #video game nostalgia #job failed!#lol #context what context

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danscarf · 4 months

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On the 9th day of Christmas my band friend gave to me, Octavio looking for some CDs!

Made for the Coopercharactergauntlet and one of the best pieces I think I made this year. from all the silly references in the background, to the cool perspective I chose, and even the nice colors! I really love it!

#12artsofchristmas #coopercharactergauntlet #9 #sly cooper #sly 3 #octavio #lion #playstation #fanart #music #hope he found something he liked!

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toastyeggy · 6 months

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Hi, I spent 687 years on this piece. And now I will go back to bed before I complete this series of painting Sly in Renoir paintings

Reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_-_Suzanne_Valadon_-_Dance_at_Bougival.jpg

#sly cooper #sly raccoon #carmelita fox #sly cooper fanart #marc draws #sly 3 honor among thieves #sly 3 #slyfox

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malithiae · 9 months

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"hang in there, cooper!" | sketch piece from this ♡

#sly cooper #carmelita fox #sly 3 #fanart #slyfox

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sleuth-hounds · 7 months

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Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves turns 18 years old today!

Just a romantic scene between Sly and Carmelita.

A nice boat ride in Venice likely a few months after the events of the game in their mid twenties, or maybe in the present day (2023) while Sly is 39 and Carmelita is 42.

Up to interpretation, but I like to imagine it's the former.

#sly cooper #carmelita fox #slyfox #sly 3 #sly 3 honor among thieves #fanart #furry art #my art

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blackautmedia · 7 months

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Sly Cooper: Bentley, Asylums, and Disability Representation in Video Games

Revisiting a Classic old series, we analyze the portrayal of Disability in the #SlyCooper series and how it portrays Bentley who uses a wheelchair as of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.

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There are two villains I want to discuss people might not think of in the context of disability--The Contessa and Arpeggio.

The Contessa's levels are my personal favorite in Sly 2, so anything I say here is with love but these ideas don't come in a vacuum. Aesthetically it's a mix of a prison level, a haunted ghost setting with mystical elements, and most importantly is an asylum drawing on a number of tropes surrounding the allure of a haunted asylum.

The next villain I want to talk about is Arpeggio. He runs into a common pitfall in that he's the disabled villain. He's an engineering parrot who cannot fly and seeks to reassemble Clockwerk's body to claim it as his own and achieve the immortality that comes with it. The important element is how Arpeggio's villainy is intrinsically linked with his body and his disability.

Oftentimes, able bodied writers will write a villainous disabled character where the concept of being disabled is so burdensome and awful to the eyes of an able-bodied audience that they will do anything and immediately jump to evil in order to not be disabled. You can see this in how a lot of the dialogue about or with Arpeggio reviles in how pathetic he is and how the story frames his inability to fly.

There was a promotional comic that came out as a midquel between the events of Sly 2 and 3.

Throughout all of Sly 2: Band of Thieves, things spiral badly out of control, the Cooper gang's plans fall apart, and they often have to improvise, barely succeeding in several of the levels and flat out failing in others. This game is a ride.

Many articles, discussions, and posts about Bentley as a disabled character often reinforce a harmful and ableist belief that he is a good disabled character because he is a genius able to engineer a solution that doesn't allow his disability to "slow him down." Whether explicitly mentioned or not, the discourse surrounding Bentley repeats this narrative in some way and falls into a line of trying to exceptionalize Bentley's actions.

Sly 3 does reserve its most overt ableism for its villainous characters in Don Octavio, Muggshot and Captain Lefwee. But scenes like this are still reliant on the helpless disabled person trope at Bentley's expense, where he's literally kicked to the ground and stripped of his autonomy to center the agency of an able bodied character.

The game doesn't try to act like Bentley can do better if he just pushes more and tries harder. There are things he can't do and it's frustrating, but they celebrate his strengths in what he does.

It doesn't tokenize his disability and the final villain has a confrontation with him entirely because of his relationship to the Cooper family, a fight that Bentley is initiating, not Dr. M.

If nothing else, I hope this video gave some food for thought regarding how a lot of disabled people are portrayed. I don't claim to be the arbiter of all things disability, but hopefully it'll give more insight into what games and media in general can do to improve in its storytelling.

It's a shame that the Sly movie or a TV series never came to fruition because it'd be a great opportunity to portray a disabled character, actually consult and include disabled people in the creative process and make something really memorable.