History PlayingWith / KleptomaniacHero

* '''Zig Zagged''': Perhaps it's just removing a middleman. There might be a point where, in the story the hero says "Say, we're on a quest to save the world, could we borrow something for our quest?" And the people living there say "Sure, honey, have an [[VendorTrash antidote]]". Taking the item is just avoiding something that slows the pace down.

** Pro is a dragon, and he believes that a DragonHoard is mandatory tradition.

* Pro is a dragon, and he believes that a DragonHoard is mandatory tradition.

** Pro gets robbed by every single person he meets.

* '''Parodied''': While warned to not open the box, the contents are actually completely worthless (like a shriveled mushroom) or gross (Boxer Shorts).
* KleptomaniacHeroFoundUnderwear

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Straight''': [[MeaningfulName Peter]] [[StephenUlyssesPerhero "Pro" Tagganist]] habitually goes inside people's houses and loots treasure chests inside.

** Peter is a VillainProtagonist, or a professional thief.
** Peter is an AntiHero who reasons that, for all the trouble he goes saving the world and all that jazz, he's entitled to some compensation.

** Your character is a VillainProtagonist.

** towns are a menu screen, your only choices are the armory, the hotel, save, hit the road, and maybe the town dungeon.

** '''Untwisted''': Pro gives something useful to the other person for something useful to him from the other person's house.

** '''Exaggerated UpToEleven''': Pro ''hauls people's houses'' to his hideout.

** '''Untwisted''': Pro gives something useful to the other person for something useful to him from the other person's house.

* '''Deconstructed''': Pro enters a new town, begins to duck into every house and loot everything he can find... and learns the hard way that burglary is taken seriously in the area as the local law enforcement suddenly corner him and haul him off to jail.
* '''Reconstructed''': After the arrest, the law enforcement realizes that only Pro can save them from an upcoming menace, so they release him and promise a pardon if he can save them all.

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': Pro can't leave a house without taking everything inside, including the wall curtains, the carpeting, the furniture, and the light fixtures.

* '''Justified''': The setting is AfterTheEnd or an equally desolated place; no one lives in those run-down houses anymore.

* '''Inverted''': Pro gives something to every single person he meets.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Pro, stop that! Are you an adventurer or a thief?" "I thought they were the same thing."

* '''Exploited''': The VillainWithGoodPublicity spreads rumors of a no-good brigand who goes around stealing things from people's houses wherever and whenever he can. Naturally, when Pro comes to town...

* '''Defied''': Whenever Pro walks through a house's door, the interface changes to something similar to a VisualNovel to interact with the inhabitants, so he can't walk around checking cabinets.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Straight''': [[MeaningfulName Peter "Pro" Tagganist]] habitually goes inside people's houses and loots treasure chests inside.

** The inhabitants attack him if he reaches for their treasure or prevent him from doing so somehow.

** Well aware about Pro's sticky fingers, a character [[BatmanGambit plants an item in a place he would loot for him to take it]]. (Possibly an ArtifactOfDoom if the character is an antagonist, or a ChekhovsGun if he's an ally.)

* '''Reconstructed''': After being arrested, local law enforcement realizes that only Pro can save them from an upcoming menace, so they release him and promise a pardon if he can save them all.

* '''Reconstructed''': ???