History Main / CaperCrew

** [[KnifeNut Spades Slick]] is the Mastermind, the leader of the Midnight Crew, and the one who came up with the caper in the first place. Notably, he's also keeping tabs on which Felt members have they already killed, and consults with a map of Felt Mansion at one point.

** [[LovableTraitor Duutholmel]]/[[FanNickname Oscar]] is the Mastermind, he uses his connections among devils to assemble the crew and he's their ''de facto'' leader.

** Lee: The Mastermind and also the main character, in another words ''you''.

** Eris Huang: A DemolitionsExpert e The Gadget Gal.

!Roles in the Caper Crew:

!!The Bosses:

!!Tech Skill Roles:

!!Thieving-Skill Roles:

!!Labor-Oriented roles:

!!Other Roles:

* ''Series/MoneyHeist'': For his first plan to rob the Spanish Royal Mint, the people recruited have defined specializations: Berlin and Tokyo are thieves, Rio is a hacking whiz, Nairobi is a forger, Oslo is a machinery expert, and Denver, Oslo, and Helsinki are muscle.

* The Insurgent Generals from ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'''s HeistEpisode "The Big Job," with team leader General Outrage, SmartGuy hacker Brainz, additional hands Wild Card and Clipper, and Sylvia, aka "Smash 'n' Sass," as the muscle. They're joined by Wander, who largely serves the New Kid role and is tasked with guarding the door, at which he [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]].

* '''{{The S|neaky Guy}}earcher''': Basically the one who gets the ball rolling for the actual job. Unlike the Inside Man, and despite possessing some such capacities, they do not work for TheMark. They infiltrate the target quarters ahead of the crew, often [[MasterOfDisguise in disguise]], identify its key areas and hot spots, and inform the crew of what is likely to await them as they go to pull off the job. May influence the Mastermind's plans. TheMark may never ever see this particular member.

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** Dominic Cobb: the Mastermind
** Saito: the Backer
** Arthur: Partner in Crime, the Coordinator
** Ariadne is the New Kid as well as a Coordinator - being The Architect
** Yusuf is the Gadget Guy
** Eames is the Con Man
** Yusuf, Arthur, and Eames mostly share Distraction duties, though that's more a function of how the movie's particular heist is set up than a general role thing.

* WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego:
In the 2019 reboot, the following people take up the following roles:

Compare CommandRoster, TheCaper. A subtrope of BadassCrew.

Just like the good guys have a CommandRoster, when your {{Villain Protagonist}}s are involved in a [[TheCaper Caper]] (or your everyman protagonists in a HeistEpisode), characters tend to fall into a number of roles. Unlike the CommandRoster, however, some of the roles really depend on what kind of heist is going on, so the actual number of members and which jobs are included in the BadassCrew, are somewhat more variable than in the military example. Characters are also more likely to have more than one specialization, or some of the more specialized roles are farmed out to {{Satellite Character}}s who aren't really part of the main crew. Sometimes the crew will fall into a FiveManBand, if it has the right amount of members.

* '''The Mastermind''': {{The leader}}, who found the target, calls the shots and thought up the plan. Usually the most experienced in the business as well, and very respected by their crew otherwise they wouldn't be able to keep all these amoral people in line. Compare TheChessmaster, TheCaptain, the BigBad. May or may not have been the one to put the team together.

* '''The Gadget Guy''': The GadgeteerGenius who builds all the special stuff you need to break into the vault security or whatever it may be. In a smaller crew he will often overlap with The Hacker, or the crew may simply outsource the job to someone else they know offscreen. Sometimes overlaps with The Fixer.

* '''The Legendary Thief''': Basically the OldMaster of the mastermind, he's the go-to-guy when the crew gets stuck. He's been around forever, knows everyone and is the absolute best at that game. Usually retired and sipping cocktails on the beach whenever he is approached. Often pulled into the caper for OneLastJob.

* '''The FallGuy''': On occasion, the team may have one of these, who sometimes falls under the NaiveNewcomer or NewMeat category. This person is someone that the team finds useful but also expendable, and willingly give up to the police in exchange for either their own immunity, or to buy them some more time if the plan goes awry.

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** Jigen: Lupin's right hand man and lifelong Partner In Crime. Also serves as the Driver and the Muscle.

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** Yusuf, Arthur and Eames mostly share Distraction duties, though that's more a function of how the movie's particular heist is set up than a general role thing.

** Pepsee and Julie: The Burglar (safecrakers)

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' main cast evolves into an elite Caper Crew over the course of seven movies (although no two movies feature exactly the same crew), most prominently in the fifth and sixth movies. '''Everyone''' is The Driver at some point and almost everyone is capable of serving as The Muscle, with other roles sliding around as needed but mostly as follows:

** Han: The Fixer, orginially set to be The Roper.

* ''Film/{{Rififi}}'' has Tony as The Mastermind as well as The Driver, Mario as The Partner In Crime, Jo as The Muscle (he's the one who hacks through the ceiling of the jewelry store) and César is The Burglar (he's the one who actually cuts through the safe).
* If you consider ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'' a Caper film, everyone (given the subject topic of the film) gets to be The Distraction, but overall -- Daniel is the Con man, and supposedly The Mastermind (though it is later revealed the true Mastermind is [[spoiler:Dylan, on top of being the Inside man and Legendary Thief]]), Henley and Meritt split both Roper and Partner in Crime duties, Jack is the Burglar, the Pickpocket and the Muscle, Arthur is the Backer, and Thaddeus is [[spoiler: the fall guy]].

** Dane, his old Partner In Crime, makes plans, researches the building's technical drawings and doubles as The Gadget Guy and the technician in working out how to disable the alarm system,

** Moks and Nuta, described by Dane as "zealous shoplifters", are The New Kids and also Drivers (their day job is at a car repair shop). Their task is tailing Kramer during the preparation phase, driving, fetching and carrying.

** Lola: The Distraction. Fills in whenever the crew neds a fenale role. [[spoiler:But her primary role is keep Nicky from cottoning to Crunch's real plan.]]

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** Kaz is the Mastermind, the Pickpocket and the Conman.
** Inej is Partner in Crime, the Hacker (in a world before computers, her spying fulfills a similar purpose) and the Burglar. Kaz also makes her act as Acquisitioner of odd items (several of which become Chekhov's gun).

* The Franchise/StarWarsLegends book ''[[Literature/StarWarsScoundrels Scoundrels]]'' features this kind of set-up. Han is the Mastermind, Chewie is the Partner in Crime, twins Bink and Tavia are the Burglar and the Hacker (respectively), stage magician Zerba is the Gadget Guy and Pickpocket, and Lando is the Con Artist. Dozer was brought on as Con Artist, but gets relegated to Driver when Lando shows up (a little to his disappointment). Winter and Rachele assist in the Hacker and Coordinator roles, and Kell is the New Kid and explosives specialist. The Backer is a rich guy whose family estate was ruined by gangsters [[spoiler: but it turns out that he's actually Boba Fett in disguise, who's basically using the entire rest of the crew as a Distraction to get his mark]].
* ''Literature/{{Swindle}}'' does this with some variation because the characters are all eleven-year old kids. Griffin is the Mastermind, his best friend Logan is the Partner in Crime, and Pitch is the Hacker. Logan, who is an actor, plays the part of the Conman and bully Darren is the Muscle. Pitch, who loves to climb takes the role of the Burglar. Since the main security of the comic shop they plan to rob is a vicious Doberman, instead of a Safe Cracker they recruit "Animal Whisperer" Savannah to deal with it.

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* As the page image indicates, ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has a Grifter (Conman+ Distraction), Hitter (Muscle and Driver), a Thief (Pickpocket and Burglar), a Hacker (Hacker and Gadget Guy) and The Mastermind who doubles as The Backer. Nate doesn't seem to really have any more money than anyone else -- he does the "paying for everything" thing, but it almost seems like the client-of-the-week is Leverage's Backer (as they're the ones who set the overall mission constraints). Also, Nate and Hardison generally share the Coordinator role, and Hardison is probably more likely to be the Distraction than anyone but Sophie.

* ''Series/HumanTarget'': Ames (acting as The New Kid and The Burglar) gets roped into one of these; her job is to snake her way through the airducts & disable the security system. Chance goes in too, taking the place of [[LocationThemeNaming "Mr. Chicago"]] -- who he later discovers is the "cleaner." It's his job to kill everybody involved with the heist so the Mastermind doesn't have to pay them anything.

** The Partner In Crime - since the whole crew is involved, they all fit. Miles O'Brien and Dr. Bashir stand out, since they were there when the mob arrived.

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** ''The Muscle:'' ''Film/DieHard'''s John [=McClane=][[note]]fresh off his 2008 run for President[[/note]] serves as the main source of firepower in the heist. He gives Catwoman the time she needs to get into the vault, and knowing him, probably blows the entire building down with C4.
** ''The Reserve:'' When the heist goes wrong and all seems lost, the three Masterminds have little choice, but to call in [[GodzillaThreshold their most dangerous pick]], the only Christmas character with [[TheUnfettered no sense of morality to slow it down and no reluctance to take a human life]]. Worse than that, it has parasitic abilities that allow it to cause "ego death" by overriding of anyone it touches and controlling them, most often to force its victim to kill him or her self. It has no name, but it did once possess an inanimate object, one with a name befitting a monster with a heart cold as the abyss: [[spoiler:Frosty the Snowman.]]

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* ''VideoGame/{{Payday 2}}'' has five main classes, though all playable characters can qualify as the Muscle since most heists usually involve massive firefights. The Mastermind's role is to support his teammates and control hostages and cops, the Enforcer is even more of the Muscle whose role is to be a heavy-duty damage dealer, the Technician focuses on using gadgets and explosives, the Ghost focuses on infiltration and stealth and the Fugitive is a generalist who is simply focuses on close-range combat. Outside of that, Bain serves as the group's primary handler while Twitch is the designated getaway driver.
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', one of the things you do while planning heists is hiring crew members for specific roles (at least one gunman, a driver and a hacker). Crew members vary in skill, with more competent ones demanding higher cuts. Instrumental to each heist are Michael de Santa, who masterminds each caper; Trevor Phillips, who provides muscle as well as being an aircraft pilot; Franklin Clinton, a gifted driver in his own right; and Lester Crest, who assists with the logistics of each heist. Inevitably however, all the playable characters will play the role of a gunman sooner or later.

* The cast of ''VideoGame/Persona5'' form one as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Joker is the Mastermind, Mona swaps between the Partner In Crime and the Burglar, Skull is the Muscle, Panther is the Conman, Fox is the Gadget Guy (albeit a supernatural version), Queen is the Coordinator, Oracle is the Hacker, Noir is the Inside Man, [[spoiler:and Crow is a combination of the New Kid and the Mark.]] Their Personae collectively function as the Legendary Thieves, as they are all famous historical, mythical or fictional entities who lend their skills to their summoners and inspire them to become thieves.

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** [[KnifeNut Spades Slick]] is the Mastermind, the leader of the Midnight Crew and the one who came up with the caper in the first place. Notably, he's also keeping tabs on which Felt members have they already killed, and consults with a map of Felt Mansion at one point.

*** [[McNinja Jeff]] is the Burglar, putting that that good ninja stealth and acrobatics to good use.

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* ''Literature/{{Swindle}}'' does this with some variation because the characters are all eleven-year old kids. Griffin is the Mastermind, his best friend Logan is the Partner in Crime, and Pitch is the Hacker. Logan, who is an actor, plays the part of the Conman and bully Darren is the muscle. Pitch, who loves to climb takes the role of the Burglar. Since the main security of the comic shop they plan to rob is a vicious Doberman, instead of a Safe Cracker they recruit "Animal Whisperer" Savannah to deal with it.

* '''The Mastermind''': {{The leader}}, who gathered the crew, found the target, calls the shots and thought up the plan. Usually the most experienced in the business as well, and very respected by their crew otherwise they wouldn't be able to keep all these amoral people in line. Compare TheChessmaster, TheCaptain, the BigBad. Likely to be The Legendary Thief to any New Kid who becomes The Mastermind.

* '''The Backer''': [[TheTeamBenefactor The Client who is paying for everything]]. Sometimes he has a deadline or is fussy in some other way that influences the crews actions. Usually only The Mastermind and his Partner interact much with him. There isn't always a backer though, sometimes the crew front the money themselves and fence it hoping to make back enough for a profit.

* '''The Gadget Guy''': The GadgeteerGenius who builds all the special stuff you need to break into the vault security or whatever it may be. In a smaller crew he will often overlap with The Hacker, or the crew may simply outsource the job to someone else they know offscreen.

* '''{{The S|neakyGuy}}earcher''': Basically the one who gets the ball rolling for the actual job. Unlike the Inside Man, and despite possessing some such capacities, they do not work for TheMark. They infiltrate the target quarters ahead of the crew, often [[MasterOfDisguise in disguise]], identify its key areas and hot spots, and inform the crew of what is likely to await them as they go to pull off the job. May influence the Mastermind's plans. TheMark may never ever see this particular member.

*** [[FourStarBadass Admiral Graves]] is the Partner in Crime, deferring to Robin's greater heist experience in general, as well as TheRoper, drawing Kalybus [[spoiler:(actually just Kalybus's Changeling minion pretending to be Kalybus)]] into a direct confrontation.

* '''TheRoper''': {{The bait}}, who tells the tale to TheMark and puts them into position to be conned. May be a female seductress or other form of Distraction.

* '''TheRoper''': {{The bait}}, who tells {{the tale}} to TheMark and puts them into position to be conned. May be a female seductress or other form of Distraction.

*** And [[RedShirt Red]] and [[HappilyMarried Cindy]] are the {{Fall Guy}}s; the whole plan hinges on them getting captured and taken to the cells, so they can escape and then liberate the targets from their cell.

* '''The Distraction''': This role has a lot of versatility in how it is achieved, but it just comes down to distracting the dupes while their pals run off with their money (or whatever it is). May be a FemmeFatale seductress, or a really loud obnoxious guy, or even a bomb specialist. Sometimes overlaps with The Roper or The Conman.

* '''TheRoper''': {{The bait}}, who tells {{the tale}} to TheMark and puts them into position to be conned. May be a female seductress or other form of Distraction.

* '''The Conman''': The guy who usually does most of the conning, acting and people manipulating using confidence tricks. Sometimes they are referred to as a Grifter. May also act as TheMole if it's necessary.

** Natalie is The Roper - an actress who plays a cute socialite to keep Kramer safely out of the way and provide him with the "alibi", crucial to the FrameUp of him that the group has planned (which also, in a way, makes Kramer The Fall Guy, though the entire point of the exercise is actually to frame him),