Sly 2: Band of Thieves

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Sly 2: Band of Thieves is a 2004 platform game developed by Sucker Punch and a sequel to 2002's Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus made for the PlayStation 2. The game was critically acclaimed and considered as one of the best PS2 games of all time. The game was followed by Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves on September 2005.


Tropes used in Sly 2: Band of Thieves include:
  • Above Good and Evil: The Contessa says this to Sly.
  • Aesop Amnesia: Carmelita warms up slightly to Sly and comes to somewhat enjoy their game of cat-and-mouse like he does. In the third game, she's back to her old hard nosed self.
    • To be fair after Cooper escapes her helicopter in the epilogue she does scream out, "I'll get you Cooper"
    • Likewise between the first and second game, although that time, it was justified by Sly using the learning moment as an opportunity to covertly handcuff her to something so he could escape.
  • All Up to You: The Prague mission has Bentley take the lead, as the only team member not then in prison.
  • Anti-Air: Bentley also has a few missions where he has to do this. Why there are anti-air defenses on a train, though, is anyone's guess.
  • Big Bad: Neyla.
  • Bittersweet Ending: The gang manages to destroy the Clockwerk parts and foil the villains' plans, but Bentley is crippled, Murray has quit because he was unable to deal with what they had to go through and the team van is missing.
  • Breaking Out the Boss: In the Prague level, Bentley's first major objective is to help Sly escape.
  • Canada, Eh?: Jean Bison and his moose talk like this.
  • Darker and Edgier: The game has a bit of a darker tone given that the Klaww Gang are essentially drug dealers.
  • Decoy Antagonist: Arpeggio.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: Really puts the "Anti" in Jean Bison's Anti-Villain status.
  • Everything's Worse with Bears: Both Canada levels have missions where you have to manipulate local bears to your advantage.
  • Evil Brit: Arpeggio is a British parrot and leader of the Klaww Gang. Also Neyla, who is actually Indian but spent a portion of her childhood in Britain.
  • Evil Plan: Neyla. She helped Interpol chase down criminals with the Clockwerk parts and helped Sly steal them back specifically so that they'd be given to Arpeggio, who'd assemble them for her and then she could backstab him and take the Clockwerk parts for herself.
  • Face Ship: Bentley's RC chopper.
  • Final Boss: Neyla/Clock-La.
  • Fish Out of Temporal Water: Jean Bison's forest-clearing actions, as noted by Sly, would have been heroic 150 years ago when he was frozen, making him a sympathetic villain.
  • Five-Bad Band: The Klaww Gang:
  • Gotta Catch Them All: The Cooper Gang's objective is to collect Clockwerk's body parts.
  • G-Rated Drug: Illegal spices are basically narcotics for a kids game.
  • High-Class Glass: Arpeggio.
  • Hijacked by Ganon: Nicely averted, even though the plot was just asking for it. While the game revolves around Clockwerk's mechanical body, the owl himself never actually appears. True, you fight the body at one point, but Neyla's the one possessing it, not Clockwerk.
  • Human Popsicle: Jean Bison was buried from an avalanche in 1852 and thawed out 120 years later because of global warming.
  • I Like Those Odds:

Murray: Outnumbered...fighting impossible odds...it's perfect!

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