DK House Donkey Kong 64 Rare / Nintendo Nintendo 64 1999

Sanzaru looked at the silly one-off joke in Sly 3 where Penelope badly photoshops herself into a sexy femme fatale, and were like….‘what if we did that but For Real’

Here’s your intermittent reminder that Penelope the mouse

is introduced as explicitly a better RC specialist than Bentley

a top-tier engineer and mechanic

so good at dogfighting than when she became a combat pilot “at a young age” she was instantly elevated to celebrity status

very convincing at pretending to be a different age and gender???

apparently wasn’t lying about being a trained boxer

can hack pretty good

easily matches and contends with Bentley’s intellect and could, therefore, plan heists pretty good

just fuckin picked up a sword and used it to murder a guy who had dedicated his life to being an old-timey pirate captain, and, by extension, swordfighting.

Penelope could kick the ass of the collective Cooper Gang at any point and the only reason she doesn’t is to be polite

I’d like them to be friends

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For context, we see this happen midway through the El Jefe boss fight.

Before the boss fight, Penelope ran off towards the blimp without anyone seeing her. She has a decision to make when she sees Sly and El Jefe having their duel...

Yes, she does end up doing the right thing. She provides aerial support for Sly.

The others are fully aware she's gone missing. Yes, she does get scolded for running off when she comes back... primarily by Bentley. Though she is partially let off the hook for helping Sly.

The fact that she's being targeted by kidnappers doesn't help her case in the slightest.

At least she's only scolded for running off. That definitely beats getting reamed for the act of betrayal... That secret is still safe, BTW.

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I couldn't resist.

Penelope is going to go through a lot in this story. While simultaneously keeping a dark secret of betrayal, she learns to like Sly, Bentley, and Murray all over again.

She ends up having a change of heart, and finally starts to see the boys as her family... only for Le Paradox's reveal at the end of Episode 5 to nearly rip that away from her, and right when their trust in her is at an all time high.

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Sly, Bentley, and Murray after the events of the story...

Too bad the second half didn't happen in canon...

Man, Sanzaru really saw my man Bentley get some bitches and said "absolutely not".

BENTLEY & PENELOPE: AFTER LEFWEE’S DEFEAT

I have to keep drawing dramatic/kissy scenes of the LeFwee battle’s aftermath. Because someone has to make up for the fact that Sanzaru decided to take Penelope’s Crowing Moment of Romantic Badassery and sh!t all over it.

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You knew he'd try again...

And maybe zoom out to reveal Sly and Murray also not amused...