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{{Quote|Nobody touches that turtle... but me!|Penelope defending [[Bentley]] from [[Captain LeFwee]]}}
  
 
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|species = Mouse
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|species = House mouse
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|affiliation = [[Cooper Gang]] (formerly)<br />[[Cyrille Le Paradox]] (formerly)
  
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|alias = [[Black Baron]]<br>Agent Heartthrob<br/>[[Black Knight]]
  
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*[[Black Baron]]
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|weapon = RC vehicles<br />Machines<br />Swords
  
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*Agent Heartthrob
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|caption = Artwork of Penelope from Thieves in Time
  
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*[[Black Knight]]
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|appearance = ''[[Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]''<br/>''[[Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time]]''
  
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*Radio Control
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|voice = Annette Toutonghi
  
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|relationship= [[Bentley]] (ex-boyfriend)
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'''Penelope''' is a mouse from Holland who founded the [[ACES Competition]]. She flew and fought under the alias "Black Baron" during her career, as whom she gained both fame and infamy. She was later exposed by the [[Cooper Gang]], after which she joined them as their RC specialist up to and during their mission to access the [[Cooper Vault]]. During this time, Penelope developed a relationship with [[Bentley]] and the both of them constructed a time machine shortly after, where then Penelope secretly joined forces with [[Cyrille Le Paradox]], giving him access to the time machine that they created in an attempt to sever all of Bentley's ties to the Cooper Gang and unlock what she believed to be his full potential, which was implied to be world conquest. She was the main antagonist of [[Episode 3: Flight of Fancy]] of [[Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]] and [[Episode 4: Of Mice and Mechs]] of [[Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time]].
  
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*[[ACES]] <small>(formerly)</small>
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'''Penelope''' is a mouse from Holland who led a double-life as an infamous pilot known as the [[Black Baron]]. She was the founder and fulltime champion of the [[ACES competition|ACES dogfighting competition]]. She was later unmasked by the [[Cooper Gang]], after which she joined them as their RC specialist up to and during their mission to access the [[Cooper Vault]]. During this time, she developed a relationship with [[Bentley]].
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After the Cooper Vault job, they both began constructing a [[time machine]]. During which, however, Penelope disappeared and joined forces with [[Cyrille Le Paradox]]'s [[Le Paradox's gang|gang]] in an attempt to sever all of Bentley's ties to the Cooper Gang and unlock what she believed to be his full potential, which was implied to be world conquest. She was defeated by the Cooper Gang and imprisoned, but later escaped and remains at large as a fugitive.
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She was voiced by {{va|Annette Toutonghi}}.
   
 
==Biography==
  
==Biography==
 
===ACES===
  
===ACES===
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Little is known about Penelope's early life other than her apparent enormous wealth and her Dutch nationality. As her interest in plane fighting grew, she invented a disguise that she called the "Black Baron" to get past the competitions' strict age limits. She still identified herself online as Penelope, but no one was the wiser about her double life.
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Nothing is known about Penelope's life before she attempted to join the dog-fighting league. When she tried to join the league, she was denied due to her young age. In order to bypass the age restriction, she created a false identity called the [[Black Baron]], an infamous dog-fighter.<ref name="FOFG">{{Cite|SC3-3|Cinematic: The Getaway}}</ref> Online, she still identified as Penelope, but no one was the wiser about her double life.<ref name="FOFS">{{Cite|SC3-3|Cinematic: The Setup}}</ref>
   
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The Black Baron soon became a celebrity, and Penelope found herself wearing the costume and assuming the alias more and more often. At some point, Penelope wanted a challenge to her expert skills. So, she set up a yearly international competition called [[ACES Competition|ACES]] in an effort to attract worthy opponents. Every year she would win the competition, either by shooting down everyone else or getting her gunships to shoot down anyone who was about to win.
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As the Black Baron, Penelope became a celebrity in the dog-fighting world. She was a skilled pilot, and eventually created the annual ACES competition in an effort to attract more worthy opponents.<ref name="FOFS"/> Every year she would win the competition by normal means or, in the event of her near loss, by using her large gunships to shoot down the near victor.<ref name="TDE">{{Cite|SC3-3|Job: [[Operation: Turbo Dominant Eagle]]}}</ref>
   
 
===Joining the Cooper Gang===
  
===Joining the Cooper Gang===
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[[File:PenelopePhotoshop.png|thumb|left|Penelope's ThiefNet image.]]
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When the Cooper Gang met Penelope online, they expressed their interest in a specialist with remote-controlled inventions, something that Penelope was also very adept with. She gave false information, claiming to be one the Black Baron's mechanic, but told the Gang that if they wanted her on the team, they'd have to beat the Black Baron in the upcoming ACES competition. She did not anticipate them to potentially win, as she had full trust in her piloting skills as well as her tricks. The Gang accepted her challenge and traveled to [[Holland]].
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When the Cooper Gang met Penelope online, they expressed their interest in a specialist with remote-controlled inventions, something that Penelope was also very adept with. She gave false information, claiming to be one the Black Baron's mechanics, but told the Gang that if they wanted her on the team, they'd have to beat the Black Baron in the upcoming ACES competition. She uploaded an edited image of herself, to match Bentley's fake image, igniting Bentley's romantic interest in her. The Gang accepted her challenge and traveled to [[Kinderdijk|Holland]].<ref name="FOFS"/>
   
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Some time before the [[ACES Semifinals]], [[Bentley]] contacted Penelope via ham radio requesting her help to defend the Cooper's Hangar from Muggshot's team of pilots' attempt to destroy their plane. Penelope, who was extremely against any forms of cheating between teams (even as the Black Baron), fully supported the Gang in defending the hangar.
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Some time before the [[ACES Semifinals]], Bentley contacted Penelope via ham radio and requested her help in defending the Cooper Hangar from Muggshot and members of the Baron's staff whom he had bribed, as they attempted to destroy their plane. Penelope, who was against cheating between teams (and even more infuriated at the betrayal of her coworkers), fully supported the Gang in defending the hangar.<ref>{{Cite|SC3-3|Job: [[Cooper Hangar Defense]]}}</ref>
   
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During the Finals of the competition, [[Sly Cooper|Sly]] managed to nearly destroy the Black Baron's biplane, and the latter called in his gunships and a passenger plane for backup. Bentley, having anticipated the gunships, utilized the nearby windmills to destroy them, and Sly battled the Black Baron on the left wing of the plane. The costume was destroyed and Penelope was revealed to be inside it. She later explained the purpose of the suit, and joined the Cooper Gang without hesitation.
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During the Finals of the competition, [[Sly Cooper]] managed to nearly destroy the Black Baron's biplane, so the Baron called in his gunships and a passenger plane for backup. Bentley, having anticipated the gunships, utilized the nearby windmills to destroy them, and Sly battled the Black Baron on the left wing of the plane. The mask of the costume was destroyed and Penelope was revealed to be inside it.<ref name="TDE"/> She later explained the purpose of the suit, and joined the Cooper Gang without hesitation.<ref name="FOFG"/>
   
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===The Cooper Vault Heist===
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===Cooper Vault heist===
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Between her joining the Cooper Gang and the heist itself, Penelope assisted in recruiting two more members to the Gang - the [[Panda King]] and [[Dimitri]] - through the use of her RC devices. First, she was captured by General Tsao's dragon, which Sly managed to free Penelope from. Then she was captured by [[Captain LeFwee]], who had planned to make Penelope his wife until the Gang intervened. Penelope even demonstrated her ability in sword dueling against LeFwee on his ship's mast, the latter of whom lost and fell to the ocean. She also realized that she held strong feelings for Bentley, leading her to heroically save him and becoming his girlfriend.
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Between the events of joining the Cooper Gang and the Vault heist, Penelope assisted in recruiting two more members to the Gang—the [[Panda King]] and [[Dimitri Lousteau]]—through the use of her RC devices.
   
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[[File:Penelope and Bentley hold hands.png|250px|thumb|left|Penelope and Bentley begin a relationship.]]
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As part of the heist, Penelope was crucial to eliminating the threat of guards in Sly's path as he climbed his way towards the [[Cooper Vault]]. After the heist failed, Penelope utilized her RC car to destroy the nearby radar towers; had she not, Sly - who later used his biplane to clear the skies of enemy fire - would have been under attack by homing missiles.
  
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In China, she showed early signs of attraction towards Sly and his athletic ability. Bentley recognizes this and it causes some resentment between him and his oblivious friend. While recruiting the Panda King, she was captured by [[General Tsao]]'s [[Stone Dragon]], which Sly managed to free Penelope from, causing her feelings to grow.<ref>{{Cite|SC3-4|Job: [[Operation: Wedding Crasher]]}}</ref> She was later captured by Captain [[LeFwee]], who had planned to make Penelope his wife until the Gang intervened. Penelope even demonstrated her ability in sword dueling against LeFwee on his ship's mast, the latter of whom lost and fell to the ocean. She also realized that she held strong feelings for Bentley, leading her to heroically save him and become his girlfriend.<ref>{{Cite|SC3-5|Job: [[Operation: Reverse Double-Cross]]}}</ref>
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As part of the heist, Penelope was crucial to eliminating the threat of guards in Sly's path as he climbed his way towards the Cooper Vault. After the heist failed, Penelope utilized her RC car to destroy the nearby radar towers; had she not, Sly—who later used his biplane to clear the skies of enemy fire—would have been under attack by homing missiles.<ref>{{Cite|SC3-6|Job: [[Bump-Charge-Jump]]}}</ref>
   
 
===Betrayal===
  
===Betrayal===
 
{{Quote|If only Bentley hadn't been brainwashed by Cooper's "honorable thief" nonsense! We could have made billions in weapon design!|Penelope talking to herself.}}
  
{{Quote|If only Bentley hadn't been brainwashed by Cooper's "honorable thief" nonsense! We could have made billions in weapon design!|Penelope talking to herself.}}
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After the heist was a success (even though Sly had disappeared) and the Gang disbanded, Penelope remained with Bentley and the two formed a relationship. They worked on a number of inventions, the most notable of which was a time machine. After just finishing the time machine, Penelope just vanished, much to Bentley's dismay. Bentley later discovered that the [[Thievius Raccoonus]] was beginning to disappear right before his very eyes, so he had to put off searching for Penelope to get Sly and [[Murray]] back together to save the Cooper legacy.
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After the heist was a success (even though Sly had disappeared) and the Cooper Gang disbanded, Penelope remained with Bentley and worked with him on a number of inventions, the most notable of which was a [[time machine]]. Sometime near its completion, Penelope vanished, much to Bentley's dismay. Bentley later discovered that the ''[[Thievius Raccoonus]]'' was beginning to disappear, so he had to put off searching for Penelope to get Sly and [[Murray]] back together to save the Cooper legacy.<ref>{{Cite|SCTT-P|Cinematic: Bentley's Lab}}</ref>
   
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As it turns out, Penelope's disappearance was somehow intentional; [[Cyrille Le Paradox]] had somehow hired her at an unknown point in time to steal Bentley's time machine plans and to create a completely separate (and slightly superior) time machine. Bentley's suffers from a tragic flaw: it requires an item from the era the user wishes to travel to. Penelope's version does not - the year itself can just be input. Le Paradox also entrusted Penelope to steal [[Sir Galleth Cooper]]'s cane and stand guard over [[Medieval England]], using a new suit, [[The Black Knight]], do achieve this goal.
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As it turns out, Penelope's disappearance was intentional; [[Cyrille Le Paradox]] hired her to steal Bentley's time machine plans and create a completely separate time machine.<ref>{{Cite|SCTT-4|Job: [[Shell Shocked Heart]]}}</ref> While Bentley's machine suffered from a tragic flaw—it requires an item from the era the user wishes to travel to—Penelope's machine did not; the year itself can just be input. Le Paradox also entrusted Penelope to steal [[Sir Galleth Cooper]]'s cane and stand guard over [[Medieval England]], using a new suit, the [[Black Knight]].<ref>{{Cite|SCTT-4|Cinematic: The Time is Now}}</ref>
   
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Penelope's intention was to double-cross Le Paradox and convince Bentley that the two of them could be the greatest minds in the world, using their combined intellect to make millions in weapons designs. Bentley, however heart-broken he was at Penelope's betrayal, stuck by his friends and their code of honor. Disgusted by her greed and rudeness to him, he realized the truth that she was completely blind to--that Le Paradox was the one calling the shots, not her.  He defeated Penelope and her suit with his own (made from parts of the [[Moat Monster]]), and by the end of the game, she was sent to Paris' highest-security prison...only to escape sometime later, no doubt using her mechanical prowess to do it. But recently, Bentley has been receiving some very strange postcards, with Penelope's symbol (a pink mouse face) on the picture.
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Penelope's intention was to double-cross Le Paradox and convince Bentley that the two of them could be the greatest minds in the world, using their combined intellect to gain money and power. Bentley, however heart-broken he was at Penelope's betrayal, stuck by his friends and their code of honor.<ref name="OMT">{{Cite|SCTT-4|Job: [[Operation: Mousetrap]]}}</ref>
   
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[[File:PenelopeinPrison.png|250px|thumb|Penelope in prison.]]
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==Personality==
  
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Bentley confronted Penelope and she explained her motives. Bentley tried to inform her of the truth: that she was just being used by Le Paradox to do his dirty work and was nothing more than his puppet. Penelope refused to hear it and declared their relationship over as she attacked him with her Black Knight suit.<ref name="OMT"/> However, she was defeated by Bentley's own mech suit (made from parts of the [[Moat Monster]]) and sent to Europe's highest-security prison. She escaped rather quickly, and sent Bentley mysterious postcards with her symbol spray-painted on the photographed locations.<ref>{{Cite|SCTT|End credits}}</ref>
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Penelope initially comes off as a nice and outgoing person. She enjoys utilizing her RC talents against enemies, and while doing so she can get a little excited. While Penelope had only been a member of the Cooper Gang for a short time, she was dedicated and loyal to her new-found friends, eagerly supporting them whenever they needed help. Unfortunately, her lack of physical prowess and abilities makes her rather timid when actually confronted by an enemy, but when someone she loves - namely Bentley - is threatened, she becomes a powerful combatant.
  
   
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==Characteristics==
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{{Quote|Time to make this breakup official!|Penelope to [[Bentley]] right before their robot battle}}
  
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===Physical appearance===
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Penelope is a light lavender mouse with long blonde hair (which in ''Thieves in Time's'' animated cutscenes is a strawberry blonde shade) in a braid and brown eyes. In ''[[Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]'', she wears an orange shirt, blue overalls, brown shoes and gray gloves. She has round glasses and has a red bandana over her hair leaving her forelock exposed.
   
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In ''[[Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time]]'', Penelope wears a yellow jumpsuit with black gloves, shoes and belt. On the right side of her jumpsuit is the Le Paradox logo. She still wears a red bandana on her hair, but her glasses are changed for either orange tinted safety glasses or oval glasses. In her left ear is a gold earring. Her hair is no longer in a braid, but instead is a long ponytail. She is also slightly taller in this incarnation. In prison, Penelope's yellow jumpsuit is replaced with a standard orange jail jumpsuit.
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Unfortunately, at some point during her relationship with Bentley, despite the events that took place during Sly 3, she somehow became possessed by the belief that Bentley was being held back and controlled by Sly's morals. She began to develop a similar mindset to [[Dr. M]], despite once being a moralist herself when she was an extremely firm opponent of cheating during the ACES competition. Of course, it's possible that her dislike for cheating and her violent reprisal against those who betrayed her Black Baron persona were a result of them going against rules she had set for the tournament, but only added to the point of her being moralistic. This is also backed up by her thinking in a way that Sly is evil and that his thieving capers are nonsense and for his own selfish gains, drawing a parallel to [[Carmelita]]. With their combined intellect, Penelope started to believe that she and Bentley could have made billions in weapon design, and they could have ruled the world; she shares the trait of greed for money with the other Le Paradox subordinates, who all went to the past not just to follow Le Paradox's orders but also for personal monetary gain. She began to use and betray anyone to get what she wanted; in some cases, drawing a parallel to [[Neyla]]. She also began showing a more aggressive and angry side of herself, prominently when trying to finish off Sly and then, after a failed attempt to reason with her, tried to waste Bentley as a means of making their breakup official.
  
   
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Despite being a mouse, Penelope lacks a tail in ''Sly 3''. Her design has a tail in ''Thieves in Time''.
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She also became surprisingly cruel and gained a dark sense of humor as she even went as low as to torture Sir Galleth physically and mentally by putting him in the circus, and even joking about making a rug out of what was left of Sly once the [[Moat Monster]] was done with him, or turning the [[Cooper Van]] into a clown car, even saying behind his back that she finds Bentley "cute when he's being dumb".
  
   
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===Personality===
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At this point, Penelope's true character is a mystery. She also seems to be huge on masking her identity. Whether these are her true colors that were hidden from the Cooper Gang for a period of time or that they were somehow newly-developed is unknown, and disguises like the Black Baron or the Black Knight may not have been her first. Some might even think that Penelope might not be her original name. Even how she obtained her skills is a complete mystery. Who Penelope really is may be unknown for quite some time meaning it is completely possible the personality she had in thieves in time may also be fake as well. her actions however in thieves in time suggest more of an anti-heroine than an actual cold blooded villainess since she openly admitted she was just using le paradox for her own personal gain.
  
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Penelope initially comes off as a nice and outgoing person. She enjoys utilizing her RC talents against enemies, and while doing so she can get a little excited. While Penelope had only been a member of the Cooper Gang for a short time, she was dedicated and loyal to her new-found friends, eagerly supporting them whenever they needed help. Unfortunately, her lack of physical prowess and abilities makes her rather timid when actually confronted by an enemy, but when someone she loves—namely Bentley—is threatened, she becomes a powerful combatant.
   
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Unfortunately, at some point during her relationship with Bentley, Penelope became corrupted by the opportunity for power as she realized that she and Bentley could make billions in weapon design. Growing possessed by the belief that Bentley and herself were being held back by Sly's ideals, she chose to abandon her code of honor, despite once being a moralist herself when she was an extremely firm opponent of cheating during the ACES competition. Of course, it is possible that her dislike for cheating and her violent reprisal against those who betrayed her Black Baron persona were a result of them going against rules she had set for the tournament, but only added to the point of her being virtuous. However, she did not consider herself in league with the bad guys, justifying her selfish actions on the grounds that what she did was no different from what thieves do and that she only had Bentley's best interests at heart.
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==Powers and Abilities==
  
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Other than boxing or sword fighting, the latter of which she probably had to self-teach quickly in order to fight LeFwee, Penelope does not have much in terms of physical abilities. This makes her a potentially easy target when out in the field, shown by her constant capture by certain enemies in ''Sly 3''. To make up for this shortcoming, she has multiple fields in technology, including piloting, using remote-controlled devices, and machinery. She is also capable of using disguises to get through certain bumps in the road. In her debut, she mostly only utilized her RC capabilities, using the RC Car and RC Chopper. Where she acquired any of these talents is unknown.
  
   
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Having abandoned her honor, Penelope started on a dark, downward spiral. She began to use and betray anyone to get what she wanted, growing more aggressive, arrogant, proud, vain and dominating, prominently when trying to finish off Sly and then tried to defeat Bentley as a means of making their breakup official. She believes herself the greatest genius, but knows—though refuses to admit—that she falls second to Bentley. She would also come to hate admitting when she had been outsmarted. She became surprisingly cruel and gained a dark sense of humor, torturing Sir Galleth physically and mentally by putting him in the circus, and even joked about making a rug out of what was left of Sly. She once considered turning the [[Cooper Van]] into a clown car, and even said behind Bentley's back that she finds him "cute when he's being dumb." She was unaware that Bentley watched and listened to her while hiding.
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==Status==
  
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Penelope is currently a fugitive at large, and her whereabouts are as of yet unknown. Neither Bentley (occupied by searching for Sly, who has disappeared once more) nor [[Carmelita]] (occupied by her own investigation into Sly as well as other criminals) seem to be spending any time in searching for her; they may not consider her an immediate threat. However, she has spray-painted a symbol bearing similarity to her features - a calling card of sorts - in various parts of Paris. She's sent postcards with images of these calling cards to Bentley, likely either to taunt him, keep him thinking about her, or to tell him that it's "not over yet".
  
   
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After the Le Paradox incident, Penelope's true character is a mystery, as it has been hinted that she came to regret her choices and still holds feelings for Bentley. She also seems to be huge on masking her identity. Her actions, however, suggest more of an anti-heroine than an actual cold-blooded villainess, since she openly admitted she was just using Le Paradox for her own personal gain.
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*''[[Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]''
  
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Other than boxing or sword fighting, the latter of which she probably had to self-teach quickly in order to fight LeFwee, Penelope does not have much in terms of physical abilities. This makes her a potentially easy target when out in the field, shown by her constant capture by certain enemies in ''Sly 3''. To make up for this shortcoming, she has multiple fields in technology, including piloting, using remote-controlled devices, and machinery. She is also capable of using disguises to get through certain bumps in the road. In her debut, she mostly only utilized her RC capabilities, using the RC car and RC chopper. Where she acquired any of these talents is unknown.
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**[[Flight Of Fancy]]
  
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**[[A Cold Alliance]]
  
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**[[Dead Man Tell No Tales]]
  
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**[[Honor Among Thieves]]
  
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*''[[Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time]]''
  
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**[[Paris Prologue]] (cutscene)
  
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**[[Turning Japanese]] (mentioned; picture in Bentley's Binocucom)
  
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**[[Go West Young Raccoon]] (picture in Bentley's Binocucom)
  
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**[[Episode 3: Clan of the Cave Raccoon|Clan of the Cave Raccoon]] (mentioned; picture in Bentley's Binocucom)
  
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**[[Episode 4: Of Mice and Mechs|Of Mice and Mechs]]
  
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**[[Forty Thieves|40 Thieves]] (mentioned; picture in Bentley's Binocucom)
  
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**[[Paris Epilogue]] (cutscene)
  
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*''[[Bentley's Hackpack]]'' (appears on treasures)
  
   
 
==Gallery==
  
==Gallery==
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{{See|Penelope/Gallery}}
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''For more, read [[Black Baron]] or [[The Black Knight]].''
  
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penelope close-up.JPG|Penelope
  
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en garde.png|Penelope ready to fight Lefwee.
  
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winner pennelope.png|Penelope after defeating Captain Lefwee.
  
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watercolored penelope.JPG|Penelope art
  
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old penelope.JPG|Smaller idea of Penelope.
  
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weasel penelope.JPG|A weasel-like idea of Penelope.
  
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penelope.JPG|Pirate Penelope drawing
  
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Bandicam 2013-02-28 01-42-43-390.png|Penelope at the end of Thieves in Time
  
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PenelopeVariousPoses.jpg|Various Penelope Designs for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
  
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KnightPenelope.png|Penelope steals Sir Galleth's cane.
  
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==Trivia==
  
==Trivia==
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{{See|Penelope/Trivia}}
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*Penelope is the only female character in the series that has been flirted with and admired by more than one male character in the Cooper Gang, namely Bentley and [[Dimitri]], though at first she only had eyes for Sly.
  
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*Due to the lack of a tail in ''Sly 3'', some fans were confused as to what kind of animal Penelope was. It was confirmed by [[Sucker Punch]] that she is a mouse, and this became more obvious with her tail added along with her new redesign in the next game. To be more precise, Penelope is technically a Dutch Mouse.
  
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*Penelope's signature color is lavender. Ironically, her aliases consistently begin with the word "Black." There is a very good possibility that these are her two favorite colors. However, it is most likely that her signature color is the way it is because it's her fur color.
  
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*Due to Bentley's picture of her in his Binocucom, Penelope appears in every single time period in ''Thieves in Time'', making her the only boss character to do so.
  
   
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==Appearances==
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*In ''Thieves in Time'', her hair color appears to have been changed from full-blond to a light-orange color, at least during cutscenes, but it is still full-blond during gameplay, however. This could be because her jumpsuit would've blended in with her hair, making it harder to animate her movements. While other characters have some manner of change like this, such as Sir Galleth Cooper, Penelope takes this a step further by having glasses in gameplay and a visor of sorts in cutscenes, changing her appearance a bit more drastically in this regard.
  
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*''[[Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]''
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*In ''Thieves in Time'', Penelope looks like Sailor Venus from Sailor Moon.
  
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**P. "[[Beginning of the End]]"
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*She is the only member of the Cooper Gang to later betray it. Constable Neyla was the first person to betray the Gang, but was never an official member.
  
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**3. "[[Flight of Fancy]]"
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*She is one of two characters positively known to have escaped from prison (Along with Dimitri), whereas [[Muggshot]]'s possible escape is unconfirmed and unknown.
  
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*** "[[Cooper Hangar Defense]]" <small>(playable)</small>
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*According to some concept art for ''Thieves in Time'', Penelope was supposed to remain a protagonist at one point in development, as confirmed by the scrapped mole character and Penelope's revamped original design.
  
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*** "[[Operation: Turbo Dominant Eagle]]"
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**In that same piece of concept art, there is a crazier version of the evil Penelope alongside her current design. This was scrapped because she looked too obvious, and the developers needed a design that made it hard to tell she had become a villain.
  
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**4. "[[A Cold Alliance]]" <small>(playable)</small>
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*Penelope in the Japanese version of ''Sly 3'' is voiced by Ryouko Shiraishi.
  
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*** "[[King of Fire]]"
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*Annete Toutonghi, the voice of Penelope, also voices her Black Knight alter ego and the computer voice during Bentley's [[Hacking|hacking minigames]] in ''Thieves in Time''.
  
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*** "[[Tearful Reunion]]"
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*In the Finnish dub of Sly Cooper-series, Penelope and Carmelita Fox has the same voice-actor, Elise Langenoja. In Penelope's boss fight in Thieves In Time, it's hard to tell their voices apart. But Penelope has a softer voice, when Carmelita has a much stronger, womanly voice.
  
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*Inside Le Paradox's blimp, to the right of Le Paradox, Penelope's emblem is on one of the pieces of the time machine. If players can catch a glimpse of this emblem in Go West Young Raccoon, it would potentially act as a spoiler for her role in Of Mice and Mechs.
  
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*** "[[Operation: Wedding Crasher]]"
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*it is commonly assumed by fans that because penelope escaped from jail in thieves in time that penelope will be the next main villain in the next sly game if this turns out true she would not only be the 2nd female final boss after neyla she would also be the the 1st main villain who originally started out as a hero
  
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Latest revision as of 07:07, 18 February 2024

Penelope is a mouse from Holland who led a double-life as an infamous pilot known as the Black Baron. She was the founder and fulltime champion of the ACES dogfighting competition. She was later unmasked by the Cooper Gang, after which she joined them as their RC specialist up to and during their mission to access the Cooper Vault. During this time, she developed a relationship with Bentley.

After the Cooper Vault job, they both began constructing a time machine. During which, however, Penelope disappeared and joined forces with Cyrille Le Paradox's gang in an attempt to sever all of Bentley's ties to the Cooper Gang and unlock what she believed to be his full potential, which was implied to be world conquest. She was defeated by the Cooper Gang and imprisoned, but later escaped and remains at large as a fugitive.

She was voiced by Annette Toutonghi.

Biography

ACES

Nothing is known about Penelope's life before she attempted to join the dog-fighting league. When she tried to join the league, she was denied due to her young age. In order to bypass the age restriction, she created a false identity called the Black Baron, an infamous dog-fighter.[1] Online, she still identified as Penelope, but no one was the wiser about her double life.[2]

As the Black Baron, Penelope became a celebrity in the dog-fighting world. She was a skilled pilot, and eventually created the annual ACES competition in an effort to attract more worthy opponents.[2] Every year she would win the competition by normal means or, in the event of her near loss, by using her large gunships to shoot down the near victor.[3]

Joining the Cooper Gang

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Penelope's ThiefNet image.

When the Cooper Gang met Penelope online, they expressed their interest in a specialist with remote-controlled inventions, something that Penelope was also very adept with. She gave false information, claiming to be one the Black Baron's mechanics, but told the Gang that if they wanted her on the team, they'd have to beat the Black Baron in the upcoming ACES competition. She uploaded an edited image of herself, to match Bentley's fake image, igniting Bentley's romantic interest in her. The Gang accepted her challenge and traveled to Holland.[2]

Some time before the ACES Semifinals, Bentley contacted Penelope via ham radio and requested her help in defending the Cooper Hangar from Muggshot and members of the Baron's staff whom he had bribed, as they attempted to destroy their plane. Penelope, who was against cheating between teams (and even more infuriated at the betrayal of her coworkers), fully supported the Gang in defending the hangar.[4]

During the Finals of the competition, Sly Cooper managed to nearly destroy the Black Baron's biplane, so the Baron called in his gunships and a passenger plane for backup. Bentley, having anticipated the gunships, utilized the nearby windmills to destroy them, and Sly battled the Black Baron on the left wing of the plane. The mask of the costume was destroyed and Penelope was revealed to be inside it.[3] She later explained the purpose of the suit, and joined the Cooper Gang without hesitation.[1]

Cooper Vault heist

Between the events of joining the Cooper Gang and the Vault heist, Penelope assisted in recruiting two more members to the Gang—the Panda King and Dimitri Lousteau—through the use of her RC devices.

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Penelope and Bentley begin a relationship.

In China, she showed early signs of attraction towards Sly and his athletic ability. Bentley recognizes this and it causes some resentment between him and his oblivious friend. While recruiting the Panda King, she was captured by General Tsao's Stone Dragon, which Sly managed to free Penelope from, causing her feelings to grow.[5] She was later captured by Captain LeFwee, who had planned to make Penelope his wife until the Gang intervened. Penelope even demonstrated her ability in sword dueling against LeFwee on his ship's mast, the latter of whom lost and fell to the ocean. She also realized that she held strong feelings for Bentley, leading her to heroically save him and become his girlfriend.[6]

As part of the heist, Penelope was crucial to eliminating the threat of guards in Sly's path as he climbed his way towards the Cooper Vault. After the heist failed, Penelope utilized her RC car to destroy the nearby radar towers; had she not, Sly—who later used his biplane to clear the skies of enemy fire—would have been under attack by homing missiles.[7]

Betrayal

If only Bentley hadn't been brainwashed by Cooper's "honorable thief" nonsense! We could have made billions in weapon design!
― Penelope talking to herself.

After the heist was a success (even though Sly had disappeared) and the Cooper Gang disbanded, Penelope remained with Bentley and worked with him on a number of inventions, the most notable of which was a time machine. Sometime near its completion, Penelope vanished, much to Bentley's dismay. Bentley later discovered that the Thievius Raccoonus was beginning to disappear, so he had to put off searching for Penelope to get Sly and Murray back together to save the Cooper legacy.[8]

As it turns out, Penelope's disappearance was intentional; Cyrille Le Paradox hired her to steal Bentley's time machine plans and create a completely separate time machine.[9] While Bentley's machine suffered from a tragic flaw—it requires an item from the era the user wishes to travel to—Penelope's machine did not; the year itself can just be input. Le Paradox also entrusted Penelope to steal Sir Galleth Cooper's cane and stand guard over Medieval England, using a new suit, the Black Knight.[10]

Penelope's intention was to double-cross Le Paradox and convince Bentley that the two of them could be the greatest minds in the world, using their combined intellect to gain money and power. Bentley, however heart-broken he was at Penelope's betrayal, stuck by his friends and their code of honor.[11]

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Penelope in prison.

Bentley confronted Penelope and she explained her motives. Bentley tried to inform her of the truth: that she was just being used by Le Paradox to do his dirty work and was nothing more than his puppet. Penelope refused to hear it and declared their relationship over as she attacked him with her Black Knight suit.[11] However, she was defeated by Bentley's own mech suit (made from parts of the Moat Monster) and sent to Europe's highest-security prison. She escaped rather quickly, and sent Bentley mysterious postcards with her symbol spray-painted on the photographed locations.[12]

Characteristics

Physical appearance

Penelope is a light lavender mouse with long blonde hair (which in Thieves in Time's animated cutscenes is a strawberry blonde shade) in a braid and brown eyes. In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, she wears an orange shirt, blue overalls, brown shoes and gray gloves. She has round glasses and has a red bandana over her hair leaving her forelock exposed.

In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Penelope wears a yellow jumpsuit with black gloves, shoes and belt. On the right side of her jumpsuit is the Le Paradox logo. She still wears a red bandana on her hair, but her glasses are changed for either orange tinted safety glasses or oval glasses. In her left ear is a gold earring. Her hair is no longer in a braid, but instead is a long ponytail. She is also slightly taller in this incarnation. In prison, Penelope's yellow jumpsuit is replaced with a standard orange jail jumpsuit.

Despite being a mouse, Penelope lacks a tail in Sly 3. Her design has a tail in Thieves in Time.

Personality

Penelope initially comes off as a nice and outgoing person. She enjoys utilizing her RC talents against enemies, and while doing so she can get a little excited. While Penelope had only been a member of the Cooper Gang for a short time, she was dedicated and loyal to her new-found friends, eagerly supporting them whenever they needed help. Unfortunately, her lack of physical prowess and abilities makes her rather timid when actually confronted by an enemy, but when someone she loves—namely Bentley—is threatened, she becomes a powerful combatant.

Unfortunately, at some point during her relationship with Bentley, Penelope became corrupted by the opportunity for power as she realized that she and Bentley could make billions in weapon design. Growing possessed by the belief that Bentley and herself were being held back by Sly's ideals, she chose to abandon her code of honor, despite once being a moralist herself when she was an extremely firm opponent of cheating during the ACES competition. Of course, it is possible that her dislike for cheating and her violent reprisal against those who betrayed her Black Baron persona were a result of them going against rules she had set for the tournament, but only added to the point of her being virtuous. However, she did not consider herself in league with the bad guys, justifying her selfish actions on the grounds that what she did was no different from what thieves do and that she only had Bentley's best interests at heart.

Having abandoned her honor, Penelope started on a dark, downward spiral. She began to use and betray anyone to get what she wanted, growing more aggressive, arrogant, proud, vain and dominating, prominently when trying to finish off Sly and then tried to defeat Bentley as a means of making their breakup official. She believes herself the greatest genius, but knows—though refuses to admit—that she falls second to Bentley. She would also come to hate admitting when she had been outsmarted. She became surprisingly cruel and gained a dark sense of humor, torturing Sir Galleth physically and mentally by putting him in the circus, and even joked about making a rug out of what was left of Sly. She once considered turning the Cooper Van into a clown car, and even said behind Bentley's back that she finds him "cute when he's being dumb." She was unaware that Bentley watched and listened to her while hiding.

After the Le Paradox incident, Penelope's true character is a mystery, as it has been hinted that she came to regret her choices and still holds feelings for Bentley. She also seems to be huge on masking her identity. Her actions, however, suggest more of an anti-heroine than an actual cold-blooded villainess, since she openly admitted she was just using Le Paradox for her own personal gain.

Abilities

Other than boxing or sword fighting, the latter of which she probably had to self-teach quickly in order to fight LeFwee, Penelope does not have much in terms of physical abilities. This makes her a potentially easy target when out in the field, shown by her constant capture by certain enemies in Sly 3. To make up for this shortcoming, she has multiple fields in technology, including piloting, using remote-controlled devices, and machinery. She is also capable of using disguises to get through certain bumps in the road. In her debut, she mostly only utilized her RC capabilities, using the RC car and RC chopper. Where she acquired any of these talents is unknown.

Gallery

See: Penelope/Gallery

Trivia

See: Penelope/Trivia

Appearances

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Episode: Flight of Fancy; Cinematic: The Getaway.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Episode: Flight of Fancy; Cinematic: The Setup.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode: Flight of Fancy; Job: Operation: Turbo Dominant Eagle.
  4. ↑ Episode: Flight of Fancy; Job: Cooper Hangar Defense.
  5. ↑ Episode: A Cold Alliance; Job: Operation: Wedding Crasher.
  6. ↑ Episode: Dead Men Tell No Tales; Job: Operation: Reverse Double-Cross.
  7. ↑ Episode: Honor Among Thieves; Job: Bump-Charge-Jump.
  8. ↑ Episode: Paris Prologue; Cinematic: Bentley's Lab.
  9. ↑ Episode: Of Mice and Mechs; Job: Shell Shocked Heart.
  10. ↑ Episode: Of Mice and Mechs; Cinematic: The Time is Now.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Episode: Of Mice and Mechs; Job: Operation: Mousetrap.
  12. ↑ Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time; End credits.
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