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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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lurensa · 9 months

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Jean Bison! For the Cooper Character Gauntlet on twitter! (or X LMAO)

#Sly cooper #Jean Bison #Sly 2 #Sly 2 band of thieves #fanart #illustration #digital art #playstation #ps2 #a quick one because I needed to finish it in time #my excuse for the colouring not being good #other than I can't colour well anyway lol #lurensadraw

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skullval-2000 · 1 year

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Sly Cooper - Paris [redraw]

sly cooper (c) sucker punch productions and sanzaru games

#sly cooper fanart #slycooper #sly cooper #sly 2 #sly cooper and the thievius raccoonus #fan art #fanart #digital art #videogames fanart #videogames

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werewolfpirate · 10 months

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#carmelita montoya fox #carmelita fox #sly 2 band of thieves #sly cooper #sly 2 #gifs

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cruzadodraws · 11 months

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Here's a piece i'm particularly happy with, It's everybody's favorite ring tail, SLY COOPER!!! ok maybe he's just my favorite, but still.

Brownie points up for grabs if you can tell me what stage this is supposed to be set in! hint: it's a stage from Sly 2.

Yes i'm aware the color selection and starry background are reminiscent of yknow what. drop it >:^(

#fanart #retro #my art #sly cooper #sly 2 #sly 2 band of thieves #raccoon furry #ps2 games #ninja spire jump

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arpeggio-the-parrot · 4 months

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The irony of Jean Bison owning trains and railroads when IRL the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad nearly led to the extinction of bison (in the U.S. not Canada where he resides but STILL)

https://www.nps.gov/gosp/learn/nature/where-the-buffalo-roamed.htm#:~:text=Trains%20shipped%20bison%20carcasses%20back,less%20than%201%2C000%20bison%20remained.

#sly cooper #jean bison #i always loved comparing little details like that in the games to real life #sly 2 #sly 2 band of thieves #theory

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johnnyandplankburner · 4 months

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“This is too easy”

Sly 2: Band of Thieves Beta

#sly cooper #sucker punch productions #sony playstation #ps2 #ps2 classics #sly 2 band of thieves #sly 2 #my gif

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shinigami-striker · 1 year

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Sly Cooper Comics | Saturday, 04.15.2023

Can't find nor read those Sly Cooper comics online? Here's a link for them!

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ms-scarletwings · 2 months

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#sly cooper #dimitri lousteau #sly 2 band of thieves #sly 2 #sly cooper clips #your honor i love him #rent free in my head for over 15 years

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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.