History Main / BankRobbery

* The first stage of both ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' game, where you take on robbers in a bank, leading to a massive CarChaseShootout in the first game.

** Season 1's "Rain" involves a plan to rob a bank's safe-deposit boxes of their contents. It's in an Asian neighborhood and the number 8 is considered lucky by many of the bank's patrons, so the robbers strategically place explosives to open boxes containing that number, thinking that they'll have the most valuable items.
** The season 4 finale, "Hostage," sees a bank robber arrive at his target only to find that he's been beaten to the punch -- and the manager was shot to death in the vault in the process. He takes everyone there hostage and demands that a CSI be sent in to prove his innocence. Mac volunteers and is eventually forced to drive the man away from the scene. His fate was left hanging all summer, not that any viewers actually feared for his life.
** Season 6 has "Unusual Suspects" which revisits the same bank/two robberies idea, but with a twist. The bank is actually robbed by a 14 yr old, with his 12 yr old brother as his accomplice, on their way home from school. Another guy was planning on robbing it, but saw them and decided to snatch their haul instead. He confronted the boys in an alley & when the older one wouldn't hand over his backpack he shot him, which freaked out his little brother who made up a story that threw the detectives off their trail for quite a while. Turns out, they had asked the teller for just enough money to pay that month's rent ($933) because the 12 yr old overheard their widowed mother telling the landlord she didn't have it.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' ended up being built around, the audience was reminded more than once, "robbing a bank during a robbery".

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2273582 Makes Us Stronger]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia]]'' bank robbery. One villain has a force field quirk that makes it hard for heroes and police to get in and the leader has a quirk that forces others to activate their quirks. Aizawa is shot and forced to keep using Erasure far too much for his body to take. Midoriya and his mom are also there and Shinsou. There is a bomb under the bank too. The villains eventually make a run for it with Aizawa but between Midoriya, Shinsou, Present Mic and All Might, they’re caught and Aizawa is rescued. Sadly several people are killed though.

* ''Film/HoldUp'': Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo plays a clever rascal who plans to rob the most secure bank in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} with a clown disguise and his bravado and the help of his girlfriend (played by Creator/KimCattrall) and his best friend (played by Guy Marchand).

* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': A bread-and-butter trope – Hazzard Bank is seemingly the target of a weekly attempt by someone, and given the lax security and Boss Hogg's connections, the bank is often seen by criminal groups as an easy target. (The bank and/or armored cars making deliveries to Hazzard Bank is robbed in at least half of the episodes.) As a plot device, Boss always seems to try to shift the blame from his associates to his nemeses, the Duke family, particularly Bo and Luke – and did so in various ways, whether by trying to discredit their alibi, claiming that a Duke family friend was working with them, hiring actors to rob the bank disguised as Bo and Luke ... the list went on. All attempted and successful robberies at Hazzard Bank are bloodless, with nary a shot fired, although sometimes the armored car drivers were knocked unconscious. In plots where criminals were spending the night at the Hazzard County Jail – where Hazzard Bank may or may not be a new target – it is sometimes implied there were casualties in other unseen (but noted) robberies, and at least one on-screen robbery at the Capital City Bank (in Capital City) did involve shots fired but – at least on screen – nobody getting wounded.

* Midway through ''Film/{{Joker}}'', the mentally ill protagonist (Arthur Fleck) loses his job as a local clown-for-hire ''because'' of a gun that he wasn't supposed to have, has a live-in mother to support, dons a hood, uneasily walks through the city as the suspenseful music builds, [[spoiler:loses his nerve at the exterior of the bank itself and leaves without anyone knowing he was there]].

-->'''Kwinto''': Because that's where the money was.
* The FakeActionPrologue of ''Film/Vice2015'' is a high-octane bank robbery that turns intro a HostageSituation and then a BlastOut as the robbers shoot their way out through the cops.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2273582 Makes Us Stronger]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia]]'' bank robbery. One villain has a force field quirk that makes it hard for heroes and police to get in and the leader has a quirk that forces others to activate their quirks. Aizawa is shot and forced to keep using Erasure far too much for his body to take. Midoriya and his mom are also there and Shinsou. There is a bomb under the bank too. The villains eventually make a run for it with Aizawa but between Midoriya, Shinsou, Present Mic and All Might, only one person actually dies in the whole thing and Aizawa is rescued.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2273582 Makes Us Stronger]]'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia]]'' bank robbery. One villain has a force field quirk that makes it hard for heroes and police to get in and the leader has a quirk that forces others to activate their quirks. Aizawa is shot and forced to keep using Erasure far too much for his body to take. Midoriya and his mom are also there and Shinso. There is a bomb under the bank too. The villains eventually make a run for it with Aizawa but between Midoriya, Shinsou, Present Mic and All Might, only one person actually dies in the whole thing and Aizawa is rescued.

* In ''Film/TheLiveByNight'', T-Dub and Chicamaw specialize in robbing banks, and recruit Bowie as the third man in their operation after they bust out of prison.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' contains a rather long and involved bank robbery mission.
** So does ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'', which is the focus of around one quarter to a third of the game.
** You also do this in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]].
** It also shows up in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2''.

%%* ''Film/{{Heat}}'' has a particularly memorable bank robbery in the middle of the film. Its aftermath is regarded as one of the most intense and breathtaking shoot-outs in movie history.

* The Wise Old Man in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' robbed the Draynor bank, killing some guards and Player Characters ([[spoiler:Not actual players, it was a cutscene]]) and stealing an item worth millions of Gp.

* ''Film/NiteTalesThemovie'': "Karma" opens with four young thieves robbing a small-town bank and leaving several bodies in their wake.