Cyrille Le Paradox

A sneaky individual in his own right, Cyril Le Paradox (known in promotional materials as The Collector) is the main antagonist of Sly 4: Thieves in Time. He is shown traveling to different periods in time in order to gather the canes of various Cooper ancestors for his ultimate goal of triumphing over the Coopers.

Pre-Game Bio
Like Sly, Le Paradox descends from a family of thieves and also particularly tried to follow in his thieving father's footsteps. His father attempted to steal a massive diamond during a major heist, for which he would frame Sly Cooper's father for stealing. Sly's father beat him to the punch and Le Paradox's father went to jail. In the meantime, Le Paradox attempted to engage in thieving himself, but was immediately arrested in his first heist. However, he gradually influenced his way into becoming an art thief with his prison connections, all while maintaining the image of a refined rich art collector.

In the beginning of Sly 4, Sly investigates into Le Paradox's art theft activities and arranges to pull a heist. When Bentley approaches Sly about the disappearing passages of the Thievius Raccoonus, the Gang arranges to steal a Feudal Japanese sword from Le Paradox's art museum to power the time machine.

Sly 4: Thieves in Time
Throughout the game, Le Paradox hires five individuals (El Jefe, Sheriff Toothpick, The Grizz, Penelope, and Miss Decibel) to steal the selected Cooper ancestor canes for his purposes while piloting his massive time-traveling blimp. Initially, he does not appear aside from brief silhouettes, and instead has his gas mask-wearing rat minions attack and retrieve the respective items.

In the fifth chapter 40 Thieves, Le Paradox fully physically appears alongside Miss Decibel to check up on her process. He arranges for her to produce fake documentation from the Ancient Arabian era in order to create a faux royal lineage to further boost Le Paradox's image, wealth, and status. He defeats Sly's ancestor of the era Salim Al Kupar and takes his cane for himself while leaving Miss Decibel to be arrested. He declares he will return to Paris in the present day in order to establish his "lineage", with Carmelita as a hostage.

In the final level of present day Paris, Le Paradox seems to have succeeded as banners of him are seen all over town and a sculpture of his head adorns the Eiffel Tower. Sly and the Gang, now accompanied by Sly's five ancestors, make their way into Le Paradox's blimp and retrieve the ancestors' canes, thus repairing the time anomalies caused by Le Paradox's theft of their respective weapons and returning them to their time periods. Before returning to his time period, "Tennessee Kid" Cooper shoots Sly and Carmelita free from the glass chamber Le Paradox used to imprison them. However, Le Paradox opens a time portal in the process, causing the blimp to tear apart.

Sly moves to confront Le Paradox and duels with the skunk as the blimp breaks apart.