Sly and Bentley and Murray are literally the most ride or die for each other, they would literally do anything for each other. Bentley saved Sly's life during a panic attack in the first game. The only thing that snapped Murray out of his depression spiral in the third game was Bentley getting hurt and pleading for his help. Bentley launched a train through a wall to break his buddies out of jail. Sly and Murray risked everything to break Bentley out of a hospital when he was being held there by the police. They love each other so much and they're brothers your honor.
(honorable mention to the other cooper gang members who join in the third game: the Guru, Penelope, the Panda King, and Dimitri. I didn't include them in my submission because I wanted to focus on the core three but they all count and they're valid members of the found family. Shhhh we don't talk about the fourth game)
Pulptober 14th: Gentleman Thief - Sly Cooper and the Cooper Gang
Since I’m largely responsible for the esteemed raccoon getting a spot in the pulp roster, it’s only fair that I pick him again. I don’t believe I introduced the other two members of the OG Cooper Gang last year, so the large pink fellow is THE MURRAY, who went from a fairly pathetic wobbly comic relief character whose only skillset seemed to be ‘can drive a van’ to the gang’s brawler, with an outfit that firmly draws from the pulps and a right hook that can lay out vampires, gangster dogs, and incongruously old-tech pirates alike. The wee turtle is Bentley, the Q to Sly’s Bond, gadgeteer extraordinaire and bundle of nerves.
Managed to find some early concept art of a fairly different energy....
Which has a very old cartoon charm to it, but I can understand why it was ultimately discarded in favor of what we got.
All art by Dev Madan.
Does anyone else think about Sly Cooper and his gang just...Being bros? Like you got them just dicking around gaming and taking in the local sights, or joking about what they've done over the years?
One of my Cooper gang headcanons is that the Murray has dyslexia, and he is also the youngest of the gang. He was born in December, while Sly was born in September and Bentley in October.
The Sly Cooper Gang! (Sly, Bentley + The MURRAY!) by Mast3r-Rainb0w
I truly miss this legendary franchise I grew up with so dearly, and I hope one day it makes a proper comeback. Plus, I wanted to make some fanart for the main cast. The gang's all here! Enjoy!
Hey! I’m alive, so here’s another torchwood detail:
In They Keep Killing Suzie, the team has to go into a locker with all of Suzie Costello’a belongings. Everything has been shoved into boxes or on top of the boxes in a haphazard manner. Who packed away Suzie’s life? Who had to go through her belongings and hide it away?
I doubt there’s a Torchwood moving team, so it’s possible that Tosh, Owen, Ianto, and Jack had to pack away her belongings themselves. This could be why no one else was surprised (other than Gwen) that Suzie’s belongings had been packed away in such a manner.
Something I noticed is that at the front of the storage unit, there’s a doll on top of one of the boxes instead of being thrown into one of the myriad boxes in the unit.
The thought of Tosh, Ianto, Owen, or Jack holding Suzie’s doll to their chest and mourning their corrupted coworker right before they shut the doors on Suzie’s life forever is a heartbreaking one.