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Sly Cooper 4 Plothole

So quick question, and this is a rhetorical one, HOW DOES TIME TRAVEL WORK IN SLY COOPER?

Yes I understand that the Cooper Gang uses a Time Machine in Murray’s van, what I mean is that the end of the gang leaves us on the huge cliff hanger that Sly is lost in Ancient Egypt, and my question is “Why should he be?” Here’s what I mean, in the final mission, we get to play as all of the members of the Cooper Clan one last time, retrieving their canes one by one, and as they do, Bentley says that the timeline begins “correcting itself” basically, sending them back to their respective time periods, after only being temporally displaced for a solid few minutes. So if Sly was sent way back to Ancient Egypt, why wasn’t he shot back to the future like his ancestors were?

FURTHER MORE: How were the Cooper Gang even able to remain in one time period for as long as they did? By the previously established logic, they should’ve been sent back to the future not long after they set foot in Feudal Japan to save Rioichi.

God, I prefer watching Sly 4’s cinematic like I did when I was a kid. Just turning my brain off and not thinking too hard about it.

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Bigger Bodies Smiling Critter’s Fates

So assuming that there was a bigger body version of every Smiling Critter, Ollie did say there used to be eight of them, and Leith did mention DogDay & Picky Piggy by name, exactly what did happen to them?

Since the lines from DogDay’s cutout fit what happened to the Bigger Body DogDay, let’s make the safe assumption that each cutout holds some kernels of truth as to what happened

Bubba Bubbaphant - DEAD: Hearing that Bubba “remembers” us, it could be that he, like the rest of the critters are talking to the player, like DogDay’s cutout, or to someone else, say, another Smiling Critter. If the latter is the case, then maybe he witnessed Picky making a meal out of Kickin’. He later confronted Picky about it, and she “seared” him to keep him quiet.

Kickin’ Chicken - DEAD: Kickin’s cutout is all about him wanting to go outside as he had never been before (maybe he was one of the babies in Home Sweet Home?), unfortunately his efforts were unsuccessful (we know he died, since his cutout ends with him screaming, just like DogDay’s), and was most likely killed by CatNap or the Prototype for trying, and later cannabalized by Picky.

Picky Piggy - ALIVE(?): Picky’s cutout treats the player to Picky treating herself to EATING her fellow Smiling Critters (DogDay said that the Critters tried fight off the Prototype’s control, operative word being TRIED). Most likely scenario is that when food started to run out, the Prototype influenced her to cannabilize (or maybe even KILL) her critter companions (we know for a fact she ate Kickin’, Bubba, and Crafty, in that order?). Personally, seeing as she offers her friendship at the end, I can totally see this symbolizing MOB planning to bring her back as a playable monster in Project Playtime. Though it can also be that she’s dead by the time of Chapter 3.

Hoppy Hopscotch - DEAD(?): Hoppy’s cutout details her desire to hop to the moon (comparing her hopes to escape to a Herculean feat.). Maybe she was being chased, or maybe she was killed in a failed escape, and maybe she tried escaping with Kickin’, we don’t know. We also don’t know is she’s even dead (though it’s most likely.) since we don’t hear a scream at the end of her cutout, just her dialogue glitching.

Bobby Bearhug - DEAD(?): Bobby’s cutout shows her becoming more and more desperate to not be alone (asking to not be left alone and that she is lost without somebody). Maybe she found companionship in her fellow Smiling Critters, and as they began dropping like flies, it eventually became a dependency. A dependency that led to her being killed. (Headcanon time: since DogDay is the last known good-hearted Smiling Critter left alive, maybe they tried to stand up against CatNap or tried to escape, but ended in failure, resulting in Bobby being killed and DogDay being captured, maimed, and presumed dead by Ollie.)(Personal note: I think she’s my favorite SC 😄😅)

CraftyCorn - DEAD: Crafty, we know was eventually killed by Picky, and while her audio does suggest that she went mad (wanting more “red”) and I’m not disputing the theory, HOWEVER, notice that she was also the third known Critter eaten by Picky, OPERATIVE WORD BEING THIRD. Maybe what happened is that Crafty found out Picky was feeding on the others, and the fear and rage (and maybe some influence from the prototype?) drove her to attack Picky. You can guess who came out on top, given that her cutout screams for a second as well. The only thing that throws me though is that her last line of audio is “Ah! Now that’s much better.” Maybe she found peace on the other side?