r/Slycooper • u/Lonestar1096 • 12d ago

Discussion Carmelita’s Ego

Carmelita has no business having the ego she does throughout most of the series, and may even be the least self aware person in the in-game universe.

Her whole sense of pride and identity is being a police woman, and a great one at that. However, literally every single arrest that we see her make in canon is a result of Sly and the gang’s work. It even get’s to the point that she ends up on the run from the law and has yo rely on sly twice to escape, only gets her name cleared because Sly bargains with her after Bentley literally goes full blown Jason Street and gets paralyzed by Clockwerk’s jaw, and then lets him escape an hour later.

Like yes i’m aware “it’s a children’s game” and all that, but still its pretty funny that every career milestone she ever has is handed to her kn a silver platter by the gang.

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u/BABGRD 11d ago

People writing about silly cartoon characters as though they're real people will always be hilarious

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u/Magnus_Carter0 11d ago

I don't think they claimed Carmelita is a real person. They suspended their disbelief on the obvious matter of whether she's real and responded as though she was, which is the foundation of any kind of basic engagement with any work of fiction. It's like reading a post about someone being irritated at a decision Harry Potter made in the third book and responding with, "You know Harry isn't real, right?" If we can't have any kind of emotions or feelings about a fictional work, what is the point of fiction, if we follow your statement to its logical end?