History Main / PantyThief

** Chamo's reputation as a PantyThief was subverted in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'': One chapter involves Negi chasing a small PantyThief throughout Mahora academy, and many a reader expected it to be Chamo. [[spoiler:It was a cat.]]

* One ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' story concerns a highly sophisticated PantyThief -- who strangely enough is a parody of Billy The Kid from ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': he is sewing a blanket out of the pants he steals, "and then it will be like I am sleeping with all the girls at once!". After the girls catch him, they break him of his habit by informing him that one of the pairs he stole belonged to a WholesomeCrossdresser on the anti-Chikan squad.

* ''Manga/MazingerAngels'' featured a PantyThief who somehow managed to acquire a [[RoBeast Mechanical Beast]] ([[BadSanta Satan Claus P10]]) from Doctor Hell and employed the giant robot to commit the dastardly deed of stealing the underwear of all the women on the city to fill an Olympic pool and then swim on it.

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* One of the many pranks pulled by the Lambda-Lambda-Lambdas in ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds''. The actual raid, which is blatantly obvious (it's even kicked off by a Pi Delta Pi opening her closet door to reveal Lewis, who cheerfully announces "Panty raid!"), is actually a diversion while two more Tri-Lambs secretly install a spy camera in the Pis' changing room.

** Jack Rakan deserves special mention. In one manga chapter, he ends up having to fight two girls. He {{Flash Step}}s behind them, flips up their skirts, and ''steals the panties off one of them before they knew what happened''[[note]]and the only reason that he didn't steal the panties off both of them is because one was GoingCommando to begin with.[[/note]] Said panties end up ''being a crucial element in [[TheNoseKnows locating]] and [[DefeatByModesty defeating]] them''. Then he does it again later...[[http://mangadoom.com/Mahou-Sensei-Negima/259/5/ to ALL of Fate's minions simultaneously,]] [[DefeatByModesty then flips up their skirts repeatedly until they concede defeat]] ([[WouldntHitAGirl so he won't have to fight them]]).

* One ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' story concerns a highly sophisticated PantyThief -- who strangely enough is a parody of Billy The Kid from ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': he is sewing a blanket out of the pants he steals, "and then it will be like I am sleeping with all the girls at once!"

* "In the Middle of the Night" from the ''Music/OneStepBeyond'' album by Music/{{Madness}} is about a sixty-three year old newsagent who just so happens to be an underwear thief. He sees his own picture in the newspaper and books it.

** Black Base is exact opposite, by having a preference for only stealing black panties and lingerie. But he also seems determined to share his interest by setting traps so the victims have to change clothing so he can steal them. Then leaves only black lingerie for the victims to wear afterward.

** Applies to the members of Gathered Fabric as a whole, since their engage in ero-terrorism as a ruse to indulge their fetish for stealing underwear. Their leader, White Peak, garbs himself in an entire bodysuit of white panties that have been sewn together and sips wine with another pair soaking in it.

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Martha Minerva is a rare ''[[MysteriousWaif and unusual]]'' female example, who has an obsession with other girls' breasts and panties. They're safe so long as she [[EyesAlwaysShut keeps her eyes closed]]. But, once she opens them, she can freely open and close [[spoiler dimensional gateways]] at will, which she uses to instantaneously steal other girls' panties while they're ''wearing'' them! Which is why Haruko, Inaho, and Azuki wound up spending chapters 22-24 [[GoingCommando without theirs.]]

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has a whole episode about this. There was much violence.

* ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'': [[StalkerWithACrush Mitsuru]] has made it a habit of breaking into Misaki's apartment and has [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/ghost-talker-s-daydream/v1/c1/3-5 repeatedly stolen all her underwear]] [[spoiler: so he can sniff them.]] Then [[RefugeInAudacity adds insult to injury]], by leaving her money so she can buy more undies that he intends to steal, later... ''after'' she's worn them.

** In the OVA 1, Ban tried one on Elaine. It failed: apparently she didn't wear any.

** Ban tried one on Elaine. It failed: apparently she didn't wear any.

* The title character from Music/PinkFloyd's single "Arnold Layne", a transvestite whose primary pastime is stealing women's undergarments from washing lines and wearing them in secret.

** Although in one case, he might have [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/those_are_the_rarest saved everyone from evil]].

* Website/TheOnion describes why panty raids are a poor idea at [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/six-dead-in-west-point-panty-raid,1130/ certain colleges]].

* The M.U.G.E.N series, ''PantyThiefMysteries'', by [[http://www.wenoo.net/user/chimukun chimukun]] is built around a group that steals panties. Interestingly it does not even contain one male perverted villain, in an all female cast. A 1 episode sequel titled ''Anime/ASetsukoChristmasTale'' was later released, also with a case of a different panty thief.

Usually this is an anime trope, but Western culture has independently produced the college prank of panty raiding (which has been out of fashion since the sexual revolution of the sixties). Panty raids are usually perpetrated by ''groups'' of perverted young males, rather than just one guy.

* In the second case in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', one of the witnesses gets involved when it's discovered he steals panties. This leads to the odd situation of Apollo having to present multiple pairs of panties as evidence in court (not to mention Apollo can keep both of the panties afterwards for some hilarious commentary).

* Happôsai from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is the patron saint of all panty thieves. This OldMaster even developed some martial art techniques around panty-thieving and peeping.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''
** Chamo-kun, though only rarely. Notable in that he's an ermine, and not even a transformed human. He seems to want the panties to make a nest. His love of panties was ''really'' confirmed when [[spoiler:his share of the Rainyday sisters's LotusEaterMachine has him dreaming that he ''swims'' in panties.]]
** Jack Rakan deserves special mention. In one manga chapter, he ends up having to fight two girls. He {{Flash Step}}s behind them, flips up their skirts, and ''steals the panties off one of them before they knew what happened''[[note]]and the only reason that he didn't steal the panties off both of them is because one was GoingCommando to begin with.[[/note]] Said panties end up ''being a crucial element in [[TheNoseKnows locating]] and [[DefeatByModesty defeating]] them''. Then he does it again later...[[http://mangadoom.com/Mahou-Sensei-Negima/259/5/ to ALL of Fate's minions simultaneously,]] [[DefeatByModesty then flips up their skirts repeatedly until they concede defeat]] ([[WouldntHitAGirl so he won't have to fight them]]).
** Chamo's reputation as a PantyThief was subverted in ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'': One chapter involves Negi chasing a small PantyThief throughout Mahora academy, and many a reader expected it to be Chamo. [[spoiler:It was a cat.]]

* One of the "Orphans" in ''Anime/MaiHime'' is a lingerie thief. HilarityEnsues when one of the victims is [[ButtMonkey Natsuki]], who has to [[GoingCommando go around panty-less.]]

* Onsokumaru in ''Manga/NininGaShinobuden'', though he steals panties by proxy (dispatching Shinobu to do it under the premise of ninja training).

* ''Manga/ZatchBell'' has a character named Momon, who looks like a cross between a rabbit and a monkey. When Kiyo meets him, he's holding a bra for some reason. When Momon meets the others, he spends countless attempts to see Tia's panties, and somehow manages to steal another pair from her house. Needless to say, Tia ''rages''.
* The Elder does this at least once in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', as part of his DirtyOldMan gag.
* The StalkerWithACrush Kuroko from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. It's only shown in the anime counterpart of the spin-off ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', though. On one occasion, she somehow stole Misaka's swimsuit from a locked container. While she IS a teleporter, it's not clear how she managed to get past the lock. A few minutes after revealing her theft of the swimsuit, Kuroko took the trope [[PowerPerversionPotential to its logical extreme]]: using her ability, she ''teleported Misaka's underwear right off of its owner''.
* One ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' story concerns a highly sophisticated PantyThief -- who strangely enough is a parody of Billy The Kid from ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': he is sewing a blanket out of the pants he steals, "and then it will be like I am sleeping with all the girls at once!"
* Koragashi of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'' can easily steal the panties off ''the entire female population of a high school without them noticing'' but doesn't do so for perverted reasons. Instead, he is trying to identify a suspicious person and the only clue he has are her unique panties. His partner, Fubuki, tells him that he didn't have to go to such extremes though and promptly punishes him via remote-controlled explosion.
* In ''LightNovel/GargoyleOfTheYoshinagas'', there's a scene in which Kaitou Hyakushiki literally steals the undies off of two people in front of a crowd.

* One RunningGag in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' is Tadakuni's sister's underwear kept being stolen by her brother and his two friends Hidenori and Yoshitake. Hidenori's older brother got in at some point as well.
* ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'': [[StalkerWithACrush Mitsuru]] has made it a habit of breaking into Misaki's apartment and has [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/ghost-talker-s-daydream/v1/c1/3-5 repeatedly stolen all her underwear]] [[spoiler: so he can sniff them.]] Then [[RefugeInAudacity adds insult to injury]], by leaving her money so she can buy more undies that he intends to steal, later... ''after'' she's worn them.