The Contessa

The Contessa was hypnotist who worked for INTERPOL but was a secret member of the Klaww Gang.

Appearance
The Contessa is a spider, possibly a Black Widow spider due to the recurring theme of an hourglass symbol associated with her character.

She has the upper body of a human woman where the spider head should be and has claws instead of hands. She wears a red dress and also has a pocket on the back on her abdomen.

It was assumed Contessa was Italian in origin, given her name means Countess in Italian, but further research showed she is of Czech origin, given the thickness of her voice and locations in which she chooses to live.

Personality
Aside from Arpeggio, The Contessa was the most malevolent Klaww Gang member, firmly believing in "humanity's" baser, primitive instincts, and that good & evil were insipid, emotional illusions.

Selfish, fearful and sadistic, Contessa cared solely about her own desires and believed it foolish that anyone should do any different.

She had no quarrels about her corruption or ruining the lives of others for her own gain, be it minor or massive.

This included poisoning her husband to gain his wealth.

Contessa was very driven and intelligent and had a history of high education, probably in criminal psychology or criminology.

Though less intelligent than Bentley, she could at least challenge and knew certain things that rattled him.

Also quite overweening, Contessa coerced treasure locations from criminals via hypnosis simply out of greed.

As a warden, she was intimidating and psychologically abusive, especially to Murray.

For all her pride, Contessa was only confident if her adversaries were restrained or incarcerated.

Once the Cooper Gang and Carmelita were free, Contessa chose to flee.

Though fleeing from the former could be due to her knowing she was no match for them.

She was, however, moderately respectful of Sly's physicality and will.

Additionally, even after Contessa's release from prison, she hypnotized her real estate customers to ensure her sales, indicating her presumably indefinite lack of morals & ethics.

Powers, Skills & Abilities
The Contessa is highly intelligent and manipulative, able to trick INTERPOL into sending her criminals who she then steals from.

She is also an accomplished hypnotist, able to hypnotize criminals into revealing where they hid their treasure.

She is able to spawn spiders that can explode or attack her enemies.

Her hypnosis is also increased by the Clockwerk Eyes, although strong minds like Sly and Carmelita are able to resist her.

She is also skilled enough in fighting to temporarily hold her own against Sly, before being defeated.

Weapons

 * Clockwerk Eyes (Formerly)

Family

 * Unnamed Husband (Deceased)

Voice Actress
Gloria Manon.