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Villain Overview

Clockwerk: Sly Cooper, you have escaped my gas chamber and destroyed my death ray. Remarkable. You Coopers always find a way to beat me!
Sly: Always?! So that was you in the background of all those old pictures in Thievius Raccoonus! How old are you?
Clockwerk: Perfection has no age...
Sly: What? You're immortal?
Clockwerk: Revenge is the prime ingredient in the fountain of youth. I've kept myself alive for hundreds of years with a steady diet of jealousy and hate, awaiting the day when I would finally eclipse your family's thieving reputation.
~ Clockwerk to Sly Cooper, revealing the extent of his presence over the Cooper family.
Enough, Sly Cooper! It ends here. I'll finish you like I finished your father. Then the Cooper line will be erased and the only master thief will be... Clockwerk!
~ Clockwerk

Clockwerk is the main antagonist of the Sly Cooper franchise. He is a highly intelligent Eurasian eagle-owl who was consumed by immense jealousy for the Cooper Clan's thieving reputation and sought to destroy them completely and prove himself as the superior thief, to the point of replacing his organic body with machinery, turning himself into a immortal robot. He is the arch-nemesis of Sly Cooper and the entire Cooper family as a whole.

He was voiced by the late Kevin Blackton, who also voiced the Panda King, Muggshot, and Sir Raleigh in the same series and by Naomi Kusumi in Japanese.

Appearance[]

Clockwerk is a giant robotic owl with yellow eyes, three talons on each foot, and a large brow. In battle, he also has plasma shooters on his feet and back, and electric ring shooters on his head and at the tips of his elbows.

When he was organic, Clockwerk was light brown with bright red eyes and three white talons on each foot.

Personality[]

Clockwerk. He was consumed with jealousy for the Cooper clan's thieving reputation. Is it inappropriate to refer to him as a monster? No, not at all. What kind of person stays alive for hundreds of years with the express intention of wiping out a rival's family line? Imagine the hatred fueling that first decision to replace his mortal body with soulless machinery. Ultimately, it did the trick. Clockwerk lived on.
~ Sly Cooper on Clockwerk and his obsessive desire to eclipse the Cooper family.

Clockwerk is a cruel, remorseless, and above all envious owl who was obsessed with eradicating the Cooper Clan to overshadow them as the better thief, even transforming himself into a mechanical and soulless monster just to keep up with them as time went on. He also displayed psychopathic and sadistic tendencies, openly mocking Sly at every chance he got and calling empathy a weakness. He has proven to be very serious criminal mastermind and inventor, creating numerous traps and advanced technology to capture the elusive raccoon.

However, his one true weakness was his arrogance. With his one and only goal to exterminate Sly and his entire family, Clockwerk believed that his robotic form would be perfect for granting him immortality, only for it to be destroyed by standard police equipment from Carmelita. He also thought that the Cooper family was worthless without their family book, forgetting about the fact that the book itself was made by them, not the other way around, and sparing Sly ultimately gave him the chance to return as an adult years later to avenge his family.

Overall, Clockwerk is a completely evil and heartless fiend who sought to kill an entire family out of spite due to his own bitter obsession of proving himself superior.

Biography[]

Background[]

The Cold Heart of Hate 1

One of Clockwerk's silhouettes in the Thievius Raccoonus' biographies.

Clockwerk's origins are unknown, but it's shown that he has been hunting the Coopers since ancient times, speculated to be in the ice age. He sought to eliminate them for centuries, with his hatred growing every time he failed to do so. In order to ensure he would be able to continue his pursuit, Clockwerk decided to replace every part of his body with advanced cybernetics so he could live forever off of his own hatred.

Eventually, during Sly's childhood in the present time, Clockwerk formed a group of dangerous crime bosses known as the Fiendish Five, which consisted of Sir Raleigh (the chief machinist), Muggshot (the chief enforcer), Mz. Ruby (the chief mystic), and the Panda King (the demolitions expert). When Sly was to inherit his family's book, the Thievius Raccoonus, the gang invaded his home, where Clockwerk would then kill his father, Conner Cooper, along with his wife offscreen. The Five then subsequently split the book, with each criminal obtaining the Cooper's secrets and skills, to enhance their own schemes before parting into their own territories.

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus[]

Soon passed, Sly as an adult and took on each members of the Fiendish Five and leaving them to be arrested by the authorities but not before retrieving the lost pages of the book. Afterwards, Sly and the gang then headed to Krakarov Volcano to defeat Clockwerk. During the trip, he found a silhouetted bird in the background of pictures featuring four of his ancestors, and noticed the similarities and wondered what could it mean. While the Cooper Gang took his minions at his headquarters, Clockwerk at some point kidnapped Carmelita Fox and used her as bait to lure Sly in his chambers. As Sly was knocked out by the poison from inside of the gas chamber, he taunts him for giving in to his emotions, calling empathy a weakness of the Cooper Clan. Sly, however, manages to survive and escapes with Carmelita from the impending trap after Bentley successfully hacked into the inner networks of the hideout. Just then, Sly's cane gets snatched by one of Clockwerk's minions and they work together to retrieve it while Sly reached to the top of Clockwerk's death ray (which was destroyed during his advance) to get Carmelita's jetpack she smuggled before her capture. After obtaining it, he flies up he to await his final confrontation with Clockwerk. After revealing himself, when Sly started to notice the identical silhouettes, Clockwork confirms this by stating that he has been keeping himself alive for many years with a "steady diet of jealousy and hate," for the sole purpose of eliminating the Cooper bloodline before engaging in battle.

Ten Seconds 11

Clockwerk revealing himself to be alive at the end of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.

When Sly and Carmelita managed to shoot him down once, Clockwerk rose from the lava as Sly questions why he chose to spare him if he knew Conner had a son, to which he replied that he wanted to prove a point to the world that the Coopers would be worthless without their book containing the family's accomplishments. But after Sly points out the flaw in his thinking, Clockwerk refuses to acknowledge his words and swore to kill him and erase his family for good, and become the sole master thief in existence. After one last battle, Clockwerk was shot down and plummeted into the lava a second time, screeching and rambling, while attempting to escape the ravine, while Sly would climb across many of Clockwerk's shattered parts and tore through the evil bird's head before the latter could auto-repair himself. However, in his final moments, Clockwerk vowed that Sly would never truly be rid of him and he will always remain superior before finally being defeated, with his head being thrown into the volcano. However, as his remains floated in the lava, one of his eyes emitted, hinting that Clockwerk was not finished just yet.

Sly 2: Band of Thieves[]

Two years after his defeat, his remains are held in the Museum of Natural History where they began a project to put the pieces of the metal bird back together. However, after they were stolen by the Klaww Gang for their own criminal activities, the Cooper gang worked on gathering the parts to prevent the possibility of Clockwerk being restored to come back and torment the Coopers once more.

Despite their efforts, Clockwerk's remains end up in the hands of Arpeggio who plans to reassembles the bird completely with the intent of claiming his robotic body to be become immortal. Before he can do so, Neyla double-crosses and kills him and takes full control of the robotic shell, infusing herself with the mechanical bird to become Clock-La. However, Clockwerk's influence started to change Neyla's behavior, growing more hateful of Sly (due to Clockwerk's deep hatred for the raccoon). When Clock-La was brought down from the skies thanks to Sly and Carmelita's helicopter, afterwards Bentley goes in to grab the main source of Clock-La's, and by extension Clockwerk's own immortality - The Hate Chip.

The Clockwerk parts rusting away into dust

Clockwerk's second and final defeat.

He manages to snatch the main piece from inside the shell, only for it's beak to forcefully slam on top of Bentley's legs, crippling him for the rest of his life. Murray picked up his fallen friend and the gang fled as Clock-La exploded throughout the area. At long last, when Carmelita, in an ironic twist, destroyed his Hate Chip by stomping on it, the ancient bird's parts had finally decayed after countless years, killing both Neyla and Clockwerk and putting an end to his reign of terror over the Cooper family once and for all.

Legacy[]

Though Clockwerk was destroyed, his actions left a permanent mark on the Cooper Gang, with Bentley having to stay at a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Murray blamed himself for happened to his friend, and temporality left the gang for some spiritual training with the Guru in Australia. Though they eventually got past through that dark chapter in their lives, Clockwerk's final words ultimately proved how weight they have since he still continues to haunt Sly and his friends during their adventures.

In Thieves in Time, Clockwerk can been seen spying on the Coopers and the Cooper gang in the background of every level. In the ice age level, Sly found one of his eyes in a safe that survived the destruction of his own Hate Chip, which also proves truth on his words that Sly will never ever see the last of him.

Quotes[]

Aha ha ha ha ha! You sentimental fool! Empathy has always been the downfall of the Cooper clan.
~ Clockwerk's first line.
My skills are superior.
~ Clockwerk
My intellect is refined, my experience is greater.
~ Clockwerk
You're the weakest Cooper I've yet encountered.
~ Clockwerk mocking Sly Cooper.
You cannot escape me, Cooper raccoon.
~ Clockwerk
You can't dodge me forever.
~ Clockwerk
Sly: I don't get it. You're so familiar with my family, you must have known my father had a son. If you hated the Coopers so much, why did you let me live when you stole the Thievius Raccoonus?
Clockwerk: Because I wanted to show the world that without your precious book, the Cooper line was nothing.
Sly: Ah, well, there's where you're wrong. The Thievius Raccoonus doesn't create great thieves... It takes great thieves to create the Thievius Raccoonus.
~ Sly disproving Clockwerk's views about the Cooper bloodline.
COOPER! You will never be rid of me! Clockwerk is superior!
~ Clockwerk's last words.

Trivia[]

  • In real life, owls are natural predators of raccoons, thus Clockwerk's position as arch-enemy of the Cooper Clan makes sense.
  • Unlike all the characters in the franchise, Clockwerk is the only character not to be anthropomorphic, although members of his species were never mentioned long before his robotization in order to live forever and in the cinematic that Raleigh, Muggshot, Mz. Ruby and the Panda King tear the Thievius Racoonus with their hands, Clockwerk uses it with his claws. Those he makes him one of the best-found antagonists of the franchise.

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           Sly Cooper Logo Villains

Fiendish Five
Sir Raleigh | Muggshot | Mz. Ruby | Panda King | Clockwerk

Klaww Gang
Neyla | Dimitri Lousteau | Rajan | The Contessa | Jean Bison | Arpeggio

Honor Among Thieves
Dr. M | Octavio | The Black Baron | General Tsao | Captain LeFwee

Thieves in Time
Cyrille Le Paradox | El Jefe | Sheriff Toothpick | The Grizz | Penelope | Ms. Decibel

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