| “ | I'm not as black and white as Carmelita. I know what a menace those Clockwerk parts are, and I don't want the likes of the KLAWW Gang putting them to use. | „ |
| ~ Neyla explaining her motivation to Sly while hinting at her true nature. |
| “ | You make it sound easy, Cooper. I had to carry your pathetic gang through that first set of heists. I was overjoyed when Arpeggio let me toss you in jail. I could finally go after the parts myself. | „ |
| ~ Neyla revealing her true feelings for the Cooper Gang. |
| “ | I HATE you, Cooper Gang! I will find you in your sleep and I will DESTROY you! You'll never know a moment's peace for the rest of your short miserable lives! The Clock-La will know revenge... I am revenge... I am the Alpha and the Omega. CLOCK-LA! | „ |
| ~ Clock-La expressing her absolute hatred for her enemies. |
Neyla is the secondary antagonist of the Sly Cooper franchise, serving as the main antagonist of Sly 2: Band of Thieves and one of the two overarching antagonists of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (alongside Clockwerk).
She is a treacherous Indian tiger and an agent of INTERPOL who initially served as an ally to both Carmelita Fox and the Cooper Gang, working with them to obtain the Clockwerk Parts and foil the KLAWW Gang's plans. However, it is later revealed that she is actually a member of the KLAWW Gang seeking to obtain all the parts for herself in order to achieve immortality. After betraying Arpeggio, she unified the parts together to become the monstrous Clock-La, before being defeated by the Cooper Gang and Carmelita. She is Carmelita's archenemy.
She was voiced by Alésia Glidewell.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Neyla was an anthropomorphic tigress with violet fur with curving purple stripes, black hair and green eyes. She wore a red hijab with golden markings, head jewelry, dark blue tank top, brown shorts with a blue belt and gold buckle, and brown boots with a sheathed dagger hanging from the left boot. During Starry Eyed Encounter, she wore a more formal dress.
Upon becoming Clock-La, Neyla gained Clockwerk's appearance of a large, robotic owl. When her beak is pried wide open, a hologram of her original face is shown, but with blank eyes.
Personality[]
Neyla has an extremely poisonous streak, and could sweet-talk anyone into doing her bidding, which she had exploited during her life. She tricked Carmelita and the Cooper Gang into thinking that she was out to help them, only to betray them all afterwards. After her betrayal, Neyla showed a strong obsession in collecting the Clockwerk parts before anyone else could, which was revealed to be because she was in league with Arpeggio to reconstruct Clockwerk. However, she then betrayed and murdered her mentor so that she could take Clockwerk's body for herself, showing that she no true loyalty towards anyone-else.
After becoming Clock-La, Neyla renounced her deceptive ways in favor of outward rage and hatred towards everyone around her. This is likely due to Clockwerk's true essence controlling her mind. She was especially hateful towards Sly and his gang for getting in her way so many times.
Abilities and Powers[]
Like Sly, Neyla had an impressive array of gadgetry and equipment, such as a paraglider and whip. She was also afforded a high-tech air vehicle, and had an intricate knowledge of machinery, as evidenced by her alliance with Arpeggio. She also had the same acrobatic skills as Sly, having the ability of running across ropes, and has the same sweet-talking ability.
As Clock-La, she had a powerful robotic bird body which was practically ever-lasting due to being powered by her hatred. She can fly with her wings, lift heavy objects with her talons, shoot lasers from her eyes and had a wide arsenal of missile and radioactive rings to fire upon her enemies.
History[]
Past[]
Neyla grew up a poor child in New Delhi, India. After some time, she left her old life and scammed her way into a British university. While there, she used her strong powers of persuasion to get other students to do her work for her. Eventually, this "homework ring" was discovered and she was caught. Rather than arrest Neyla, however, the authorities were impressed by her abilities; they believed she could get into the mind of the criminal and subsequently offered her a job at INTERPOL.
Sometime before the events of Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Neyla met with Arpeggio, chief inventor of the Klaww Gang. She gained Arpeggio's trust, and he named her his protégée. The two then formed a plan to gather the parts of the ancient robotic owl known as Clockwerk for themselves; both of them were well aware that the Clockwerk parts were the keys to immortality. However, Neyla had a plan of her own that would leave Arpeggio with nothing and her with immortality.
Sly 2: Band of Thieves[]
With Neyla's strong position in INTERPOL and her trust within the Klaww Gang, she could gather the Clockwerk parts one by one. After the parts were stolen and divided among the Klaww Gang, Neyla joined Carmelita Fox at the Museum of Natural History in Cairo, Egypt. While Carmelita was there to bust Sly Cooper, Neyla was there for a different reason. After Carmelita accused Sly and his gang of stealing the parts, Neyla indirectly hinted to Sly that the modus operandi pointed to the heist being a Klaww Gang job. Carmelita disagreed and Neyla stalled her with a counter-argument so that Sly was able to escape with the information.
Neyla ended up in Paris where both the Cooper Gang and Dimitri Lousteau, the first member of the Klaww Gang, were set up. She intercepted Sly as he traveled around Paris and told him that he needed to "keep up." She led him to the back door of Dimitri's nightclub and gave him the key, claiming that she couldn't enter without a warrant, but that Sly's gang was not held to such standards. This eventually led to Dimitri being jailed and his part of Clockwerk, the tail feathers, were collected by the gang.
Both Neyla and the Cooper Gang ended up in India at Rajan's party. Working undercover with Carmelita and the Contessa she was seemingly conspiring with them to expose Rajan's spice trade; a pivotal component to the Klaww Gang's plans. Neyla remained in the crowd until Sly needed her help: under his advisement she danced with him in order to make Carmelita jealous, which therefore caused her to accept his offer for a dance sometime later. This dance acted as a distraction to all those in the room and allowed Murray to cut the Clockwerk wings free and get them to the Cooper Van. Neyla then helped Sly collect half of the Clockwerk heart in Rajan's spice temple and accepted his offer to go on a date to Bollywood. She ended up betraying Sly, Murray and Carmelita by imprisoning them in the Contessa's estate. She couldn't catch Bentley, who eventually rescued his fellow team members.
After the Contessa was exposed as a member of the Klaww Gang, she fled to her castle. As Neyla was closest to the case, INTERPOL provided her with the means to take the Contessa down. Neyla saw this as an opportunity to obtain the Clockwerk eyes, and she established her headquarters in an old bank near the castle. She used her cash allowance to hire an army of local mercenaries and precipitated a small war in Prague. She later hired a team of aerial bombers when she believed that the Contessa had infested her headquarters with ghosts. Unbeknownst to her, it was actually the Cooper Gang who had done so. Despite all her firepower, Neyla was unable to get the Contessa to leave her re-education tower (or the Clockwerk eyes). It was not until the Cooper Gang freed Carmelita during "Operation: High Road" that the Contessa finally left the tower. Neyla took this opportunity to enter the re-education tower and stole one of the Clockwerk eyes.
Sly chased Neyla to get the eye, and at some point during the chase, she ran into a web and got stuck. Sly took the Eye. Neyla demanded that Sly give it back to her, but she was promptly thrown off the building by the Contessa. The Contessa then engaged in a fight with Sly but was defeated. Neyla took the credit for defeating the Contessa and was promoted to Captain as a result. She followed the Cooper Gang to Nunavut Bay, Canada and used her newly acquired airplane to attack Sly while he was on Iron Horse train #3. She was defeated by Bentley, who used his RC chopper to severely damage Neyla's plane. Before losing control and flying off, Neyla declared that no one would stand in her way of obtaining the Clockwerk parts. Later, Neyla ordered a manhunt on the Cooper Gang and Carmelita (who had also followed the Gang in an attempt to capture them and clear her name).
With the final phase of Neyla's plan nearing, she took shelter on board Arpeggio's air fortress, where they both waited for the Clockwerk parts. Jean Bison, a member of the Klaww Gang operating the Canadian camp, knocked the Cooper Gang out during their attempted heist, raided their supposed Safe House and sold all of the Clockwerk Parts to Arpeggio. Whilst the Cooper Gang came to terms with their massive loss and sneaked aboard the blimp, Neyla and Arpeggio began constructing Clockwerk.
Bentley located Arpeggio, and it was there that the Cooper Gang discovered that Neyla had been in league with him the entire time. The Cooper Gang attempted to stall Clockwerk's construction by reversing the polarity of the magnetic inducers holding Clockwerk together. However, their efforts, funnily enough, worked to Arpeggio and Neyla's advantage: Bentley's plan backfired and locked Clockwerk's parts into place. Sly revealed himself after Neyla and Arpeggio came out to investigate the crash of the Clockwerk parts falling. Neyla let Arpeggio compose a diatribe about his master plan and waited quietly until the time was right. Once Arpeggio finished revealing his master plan to Sly, he ordered Neyla to hold Sly down while he began to enter the Clockwerk frame.
However, Neyla betrayed Arpeggio, knocked his actuating apparatus to the floor, and finally revealed her own plans. She called Arpeggio stupid for not knowing she would double-cross him (like she did with the others) and entered the Clockwerk frame herself, becoming Clock-La. Arpeggio tried to threaten her, but she was far more superior than him and crushed him with her beak, killing him. While taking flight she proclaimed, "Behold, Clock-La is born!" and escaped from the blimp.
Clock-La was now on the last stage of her plan. Using the Klaww Gang's plans, she would gain immortality through Clockwerk's powers. Dimitri had fed almost all of Paris a special spice which engendered a strong hatred, while Arpeggio had created a large hypnotic light ray to hypnotize all of Paris to power Clockwerk into immortality using the collective hatred of the Parisian citizens as an energy source. Carmelita returned and realized that, in order to defeat Neyla, she and the Cooper Gang had to put their differences aside and work together.
To initiate Clock-La's downfall, Sly and Carmelita teamed up in a dog fight against Clock-La, who used most of Clockwerk's powers to her advantage. Sly and Carmelita had the upper hand until Neyla flew directly into the core of air fortress and blew it into fragments. Afterwards, Clock-La became angry, and then grabbed the hangar that Murray and Bentley were in and began flying away, knowing that Sly would follow her to rescue his teammates. Sly jumped out of the helicopter and made his way over to Clock-La using his paraglider. When he managed to actually land on Clock-La herself, he matched her in personal combat. Sly easily gained the upper hand, as Neyla was heavily limited in her attack options. Sly delivered a final blow, and Neyla crashed into Paris. Now unable to move, Neyla began speaking in her own disbelief (much like Clockwerk in the first game). She then summoned lasers all around her to defend herself, possibly so she could heal (akin to what Clockwerk attempted to achieve two years earlier).
Now with the upper hand, the Cooper Gang began tearing away at her main power source. Bentley was about to deactivate Clock-La's main power source — the hate chip — when Clock-La's beak fell on him, paralyzing Bentley's legs. As Murray picked up Bentley and ran, Clock-La exploded. Minutes later, Sly realized that even after the long drawn out battle, Clock-La's parts was in perfect condition, despite her body being fragmented.
Carmelita showed up, angered at missing Clock-La. She destroyed Clock-La's Hate Chip as it was the only thing on hand. As it was the main source of her power and immortality, the Clockwerk Parts rusted and deteriorated as time finally caught up to them, ending both Neyla and Clockwerk, eliminating their threat for good.
Though Neyla was defeated, her actions permanently damaged the Cooper Gang as Bentley lost the use of his legs during the battle, leaving him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. This left Murray psychologically scarred for quite some time, leaving the gang for a few months for some deep pacifist training under the Guru's teachings. Eventually, Bentley and Murray got past that dark chapter in their lives although they would never quite years ago: "Cooper! You will never be rid of me!"
Quotes[]
| “ | It might not have been him, Carmelita. The method of entry and guard casualties all point to this being a Klaww Gang job. | „ |
| ~ Neyla intentionally giving Sly the information he needed. |
| “ | I'm just saying there are other criminals in the world, other than-(Carmelita: Sly Cooper! After him!) | „ |
| ~ Neyla before Carmelita interrupts her as Sly Cooper gets away. |
| “ | Now, legally, I can't enter Dimitri's Nightclub without a warrant...but I happen to have obtained the key to his backdoor. which a person, like yourself, can use however he pleases. | „ |
| ~ Neyla leading Sly to Dimitri's nightclub. |
| “ | This is it. And if push comes to shove, I never showed you this door...and we're on for that date in Bollywood. | „ |
| ~ Neyla planning to date Sly. |
| “ | That man is an illegal spice trader. He should be brought to justice. | „ |
| ~ Neyla referring to Rajan as a criminal. |
| “ | Actually, Contessa, there's a good reason why Inspector Fox never caught the Cooper Gang...she's been in league with them the whole time. | „ |
| ~ Neyla framing Carmelita. |
| “ | Hey, Cooper! Thought I might find you here. Just can't stay away from the Clockwerk parts, can you? | „ |
| ~ Neyla flying in her aircraft. |
| “ | If you'd like some excitement, why not climb up on top of the train? I'm sure to get your heart pumping, maybe even show you my new ride. | „ |
| ~ Neyla telling Sly to face her. |
| “ | What's the matter, poodle? Afraid you can't take me on? Have to call up your little friends for help? | „ |
| ~ Neyla mocking Sly. |
| “ | Come on, Cooper. Let's play. | „ |
| ~ Neyla before Bentley's RC chopper arrives. |
| “ | Sly Cooper!? Of course this'd be your doing. | „ |
| ~ Neyla seeing Sly on the blimp. |
| “ | Stupid Arpeggio. I double-crossed the Cooper Gang, Interpol, and Carmelita. What made you think I wouldn't do the same to you? | „ |
| ~ Neyla betraying Arpeggio before entering Clockwerk. |
| “ | Behold! Clock-la is born! | „ |
| ~ Neyla upon becoming Clock-la. |
| “ | You want a piece of me? Don't worry, there's plenty to go around. | „ |
| ~ Clock-la when Sly faces her. |
| “ | Be brave while you can, Cooper. I might not have the immortality born of pure hate, but I feel something... some power growing within me. | „ |
| ~ Clock-la to Sly before they fight. |
| “ | Die insects, die! My hate will smash you! | „ |
| ~ Clock-la surviving her fight with Sly. |
| “ | I still have my hate chip! You will not defeat me...EVER! | „ |
| ~ Clock-la's last words. |
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Trivia[]
- Like Sly, she has a paraglider. It is identical to her hijab and emerges/retracts from where this sits, implying that this was intended to be her means of paragliding itself; however, while paragliding, it is still on her head, likely an animation oversight.
- Neyla is one of five female villains in the series, the other four being Mz. Ruby, The Contessa, Penelope, and Miss Decibel, but she is the only female final boss and the only one to be deceased.
- Neyla is the first female main antagonist. She is also the only main antagonist in the series who doesn't have a vendetta against the Cooper Clan.
- Neyla is also the first main antagonist to be killed or defeated by Carmelita rather than Sly, the second being Dr. M.
- While Neyla was inside of Clockwerk's body calling herself Clock-La, she boasted to Sly: "I might not have the immortality born of pure hate... but I feel something... some power growing within me!" This, along with her sudden drastic change in personality, suggests that Clockwerk's mind and soul were still alive in the frame and gradually took over Neyla's.
- Jean Bison is the only character whom Neyla never backstabbed, or put an end to their operation, though she likely tried to do so.
- Her whip can kill guards in a single hit, making it one of the most powerful attacks in the game.
- Neyla is the only non-Cooper Clan member who is seen walking across tight ropes.
- She did run quickly across them, implying she could not remain on them indefinitely like Sly or any other Cooper.
- In Anatomy for Disaster, Neyla becomes the third villain to refer to Sly as an insect after Raleigh and The Contessa, however Raleigh prefers to use the term "bug."
- She is the only mini boss in Sly 2.
- Neyla was originally designed to be Rajan's daughter, though this had to be changed to simplify the story. This also explains why they are the same species of tiger. Her name was also originally supposed to be spelled "Neela" instead of "Neyla."
External Links[]
- Neyla on the Sly Cooper Wiki
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